I agree. There's nothing like putting the onus of safety exclusively on the other person. Classy move.

Honestly, I think that it's better shorthand than some of the more accurate terminology.

Honestly, there could be a lot of differences between how and when you ask and how and when he asks.

Yeah, it definitely sounds like "Alan" is either asking for the STD testing wayyy too soon or asking in an insulting way.

"Honestly, I have no idea why this 1996 TV movie based on the Marvel comic isn't available on DVD yet."

As soon as I saw "Myth of the Uncontrollable Boner," I immediately clicked to set the record straight. The article . . . was not about what I expected.

"Courtney, with the logic of a 17-year-old, has her own understanding of what constitutes a 'tasteful' nude: black and white photography"

"Phew. I cry with relief to know that the grad school applications of the students involved are now safe."

A few devil's-advocate-y thoughts:

To be fair, they look much more like zombies in the actual calendar, where they've photoshopped the "white-out" effect over all of their eyes. The difference between "zombie" and "girl with serious road rash" is apparently those creepy, milky eyes. Of course, none of that is apparent in the video, where it just…

"Jesus saves...on brand-name electronics."

No offense. I just feel silly copying and pasting the same response to multiple, identical comments. With Gawker's (terrible) commenting system, it just causes me to have tangential conversations on the same exact topic with a ton of different people. If it's happened to you, I'm sure you can agree that it gets…

Sorry, I responded to nearly identical comments already. I'm not ignoring your point, but if you feel like reading my response, you'll have to look elsewhere on the thread.

No! Not on Black Friday, the most sacred of all Christian holidays!

I'm more or less copying and pasting my response to someone else who made a similar comment about it not being funny:

Go nuts.

Humor is entirely subjective. Some people like their humor dark, morbid, malicious or sarcastic. Some people like knock-knock jokes. Some people like observations about airline food. Some people just want to see Dad get hit in the nards by a whiffle ball.

Is it mean-spirited and in poor taste? Definitely. Is it funny? Kinda. Is all of that beside the point? Probably.

On the one hand, I understand the author's attitude on the subject. For an atheist, or even an agnostic, being told that the quality or nature of your medical care (or any law that impacts you directly, really) is being influenced by someone else's religious beliefs isn't far off from being told that your birth…

That lead graphic makes it look as though Daniel Craig is posing for a MySpace profile picture while the disembodied head of Colonel Sanders looks on disapprovingly...