GRRM is married now, but lived with his current wife for a long time (I think over a decade or two) prior to getting officially hitched. I think his negative experience with a previous marriage may have turned him against them.

I know, as soon as I hit the publish button I remembered but it was too late.

Yep. We knew/know a lot of people. There’s a period in your mid-late 20's when everyone gets hitched. We went to a lot more than 17, that was just the record for a single 12 month period. We were aghast. This was back in the roaring 90's. 

I’ve been told my wedding was the most fun a lot of people had but I barely remember it.  I do remember the frantic weeks before it and the stress of the damn thing and my bank account remembers the money I spent, even 15 years later.   We should have eloped and used that money to go towards a house down payment

My wife and I went to 17 weddings in one year. I was in 6 of them, she was in 4. They were not all local.

You think GAA was reee-dic-u-lous? I still remember watching a film strip in third grade (Google it kids) in which a girl jumped off a roof cuz she was high...high on what you ask? High on the reefer.

nasty calluses that would take a cheese grater to grind off.

As a (former, haven’t done it in years) Massage Therapist I can tell you without qualification that people who habitually wear sandals (usually flip-flops) have the grossest feet!

Or when I wanted to study abroad, they told my parents I’d be kidnapped and raped even though they’d been abroad many times alone when they were teenagers.

I lost straight male friends when I came out as a bi woman. Friends who I felt safe around because they never once brought up fucking me got upset that they could “no longer” fuck me (again, bi, never said I wasn’t into dudes, just that I want platonic male friends who I’m not fucking as well).

I think this is definitely a cultural thing. AOC just has the unfortunate job combination of being a leftist WOC in this country so it’s amplified all the more.

damn she knows it and i love her calling it out.

I think it depends on what kind of person you are - my electrician is in his 70's and works where and when he wants because he loves the work and doesn’t need to work full time to sustain himself. If you’d need to be working a full time electrician job to make ends meet, I’d make sure you’ll be physically capable of…

“I know plenty of folks making 90k+ a year in jobs that would be 30% less outside of the government.”

My cops retire after 25 years of service with no minimum age and receive 60% of their final salary as their annual pension. They also get free health benefits for life and can cash in their unused sick and vacation days (they call that “boat money” because the retirees purchase a boat with that six-figure check).

“Government job” covers a LOT of territory. Most of your everyday phone-answerers and form-fillers are, after YEARS of service, just barely going to reach “enough money to buy a house” salary. If you have some absurdly specialized knowledge or work your way up to a position of genuine power, maybe you could get to 6…

I have certifications for Product Ownership and Scrum Master and I agree. They’re not entirely necessary jobs, and many companies get along perfectly fine without having anyone in either role.

80k to be a lineman in a small town would be a much higher standard of living than 100k to be a scrum master in the city. Like 5 bedroom house vs. 1 bedroom apartment different.

I’ve worked with a couple hundred different sales people over my career between 4 companies. Nearly all of the good ones were about the same. There’s a talent or personality trait there that just doesn’t exist in all people.

Scrum Master. Lol. When a company downsizes, the first to go are