You seem really, genuinely confused, so I’m going to try to explain why people didn’t like your comment. The problem is not that you think she’s pretty. The problem is the “fishing for compliments” line.

He’ll probably shave if he ends up going before a jury. Right now, it’s just a judge.

I don’t actually own any pets at all, and the quiz called me a cat lady. Apparently just liking cats is enough.

Just yesterday I watched a mother squeeze about half a bear-bottle of honey into a small coffee that appeared to be for her child (8-10 years old).

Just because the customers in the story turned out to be genuinely awful doesn’t mean the server can’t be a nasty piece of work too.

Yes, there are legitimate reasons to be wary of the way Monsanto does business.

I wasn’t doubting the existence of this sheep. I was doubting that anyone was ignorant of why modern sheep have more wool than would be practical in the wild.

I feel a bit sad too. I guess it’s no wonder so many people are terrified of GMOs if they don’t realize that we’ve already been creating new and ‘unnatural’ species for all of human history.

Anyone who has ever learned anything about domestication?

Yeah, I was about 90% sure it was a joke, and I thought people were going to be annoyed at me for being weirdly humorless about it, but I just had to make sure. Now I don’t know what to think.

The title is just a joke, right? We all understand that domestic sheep have been selectively bred over millennia in order to have way more wool than they would have had in nature...right?

I could only interpret it to be suggesting something like, “Kids these days don’t have summer jobs anymore. Back in my day, we worked after school and all summer.” But that seems out of tone with the rest of the story.

Let’s not get carried away. There’s a reason I said I’m not trying to diminish Briard’s work. Just because something seems intuitive doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be studied with scientific rigour. That’s how we discover which of our “common sense” ideas really hold water, and which are just superstition and old wives’…

If it makes you feel better, I was sort of an unwilling participant in horse culture. My mom and my older sister loved horses, so a huge amount of the family’s time and disposable income was diverted to them. I resented that my regular chores included mucking out stalls, hauling around bales of hay, and other…

Anyone who has actually spent time around horses knows this. Not trying to diminish Briard’s work, since I’m sure her insights extend beyond this, but it’s painfully obvious that horses are bitchy, clichy creatures if you watch them for about five minutes. My 4H friends always used the term “mare-ish” as a stand-in…

That’s really not how pre-nups work, at least not in the United States. They don’t have any bearing on custody arrangements, and most states do not allow you to factor fidelity into the agreement. Prenups are really just about the division of assets, and they usually only pertain to property that you already own prior…

You’re assuming that all agents work through their backlog in a perfectly systematic way, always starting with the oldest submissions first. It just doesn’t always work that way, especially with email submissions. I interned for a literary agent, and when she set me loose on the emails, she didn’t care which ones I…

Name one real, published writer who could be described as “weak-willed” and “fears real work.” It’s literally fucking impossible, because the act of writing a novel requires a tremoundous amount of willpower and hard work.

You’re the type of commenter who makes me wish Kinja had a down-vote feature. What a condescending ass.

I agree that the article was really patronizing, as if Sam Biddle thought we were all too dumb to understand what advertising is until he helpfully informed us that it was not actually intended for the good of society at large!