I met him! He was super nice! He called me "dude"!

Sure, but that's a very wide net. Checking the box "I want my spouse to celebrate Passover and to understand the importance and centrality of ritual memory in the Jewish heritage," on the other hand, is frankly unlikely to turn up many Black or Asian matches. And there are far less quantifiable boxes, like "I want…

Right, but I'm saying that — again, statistically speaking — a person who hits all the checkboxes on your list is more likely to share your racial and/or ethnic background than not. We're talking 25 million accounts. I guarantee there were lots of users who, due to the tools you mention, ended up dating someone not…

I'm almost embarrassed to admit my extreme, bordering-on-irrational hatred of all Crossfitters, because they are everywhere in my social circles and they are all like that. And then they flood Instagram and Facebook with photos covered in hashtags like #wod #personalbest #everydaybetter #lovemycrossfitfam, and it's…

Andy Dwyer won't get cast in blockbusters because the people who finance, produce, and cast blockbusters don't believe that audiences want to see Andy Dwyer on the big screen. Hollywood doesn't think that anyone who doesn't diet and work out constantly is attractive, and thinks that an "ugly" or "frumpy" girl means…

Not to downplay the fact that actual racism and white-centric socialized standards of attractiveness probably play into this, but dating — particularly when you are looking for a life partner — is a little different than interacting with a stranger, hiring someone for a job, or even becoming friends. Most people,…

She's an amateur Mariah impersonator, it looks like: https://twitter.com/mariahlookalik…

...a sentence that should be so troubling all on its own. HOW TO KEEP THEM ALL STRAIGHT

Right?!?! And Jill seems to have conceived on her first sexually active ovulation ever. It's frankly impressive.

Nope, pregnant. Confirmed last week, though the due date lines up with a honeymoon baby.

Basically. It was a patently ridiculous pronunciation and the more I reflect upon it, the less convinced I am that it wasn't complete bullshit. On the other hand, he legitimately did have an almost impenetrable drawl. THE PECKIN MYSTERY LIVES ON.

Not sure how serious you are about wanting to know the justification, but Catholic doctrine isn't based on Biblical literalism and there are lots of teachings that don't have a verbatim scripture verse to point to as justification. A short explanation is, the Catholic prohibition on birth control is one corollary of…

CA born and bred here, and we really feel the lack of y'all or its equivalents. It generally ends up being "you guys," which is functionally gender-neutral but still non-ideal.

I had a friend in college from the Florida panhandle who pronounced it "PECK-an", with the second syllable almost completely swallowed. To this day I have yet to see this idiosyncratic pronunciation represented (or repeated) anywhere, so maybe he was just messing with us? I don't know. But we all found it…

Last summer I was in a wedding at which: first, the best man gave a rambling twenty minute speech (bad enough); next, two friends of the couple spontaneously got up to give an additional fifteen minute speech — mystifyingly, this was with the best man's approval and nobody objected; and finally the bride's father got…

When you're watching for them, the prevalence of gratuitous Renner butt shots in that film is quite striking. But I'm not complaining.

Yikes, thanks for the memories — mine wasn't Simba as a kid, but the literal fox Robin Hood. I had no words for the feelings I at the time but they made me distinctly uncomfortable. I recently rewatched the movie while babysitting, too, and IT ALL CAME FLOODING BACK. Apparently I have not moved on from lusting…

Definitely one of my top three episodes EVER. I find the actual fight even funnier than the interviews. Leslie's enraged "EXCUSE ME" to some innocent girl who has to walk between her and Ann to get to the bathroom slays me every time. Mmm, irrational drunk anger.

100% in favor of nude/semi-nude Pratt gifs for every occasion.