The singular 'they' has been around for centuries and is absolutely standard English. Just like split infinitives and ending sentences with prepositions, the singular they was the victim of the in-fated proscriptivist movement around the turn of the 20th century.

Because fuck all the sane people who live in Arkansas.

All the other students in the room are paying customers, too, and showing up late disrupts their experience. Everyone there deserves to be treated as a respected professional, and when they're not, they have the right to say so.

You, like most anti-academics, seem to have no idea what goes on in academia and instead rely on using strawman arguments to make yourself feel better. It's too bad that you feel the need to attack the hard work of others in order to justify your own life choices.

Yeah, the comment threads are all but unusable - and even worst on the iPad, where the lightest brush of the right side of the page makes you scroll away from what you where reading, but scrolling back requires hitting the left button precisely.

"Sorry if you can't navigate our new opaque commenting system!"

Newsflash: people are going to tell you how to live your life until you're dead.

It doesn't have to be ruder than his to be rude. The world would be better if we held ourselves to a higher standard that "Don't be the rudest person in the room". Publicly calling you out is pretty low, but then men on OKC will never look at the profile of another man on OKC, so who really cares? He might as well be…

"Her efforts serve more than just her tribe, however. Long after the female has moved on, the picked-over remains of her catch continue to provide vital sustenance as click-bait for 3rd tier media sites."

I've had the experience of discovering that someone I thought I knew wasn't who I thought I knew. Or wasn't anymore, anyway. I'll agree with those who say to dump her, but I'm sympathetic to how hard it is to be betrayed by someone you've spent 15 years cultivating a relationship with.

"Is it the exact same thing? No..."

> "Many of my friends do not like the police," she said.

Not that I care about Bieber, but it seems a little unreasonable that he be fined for a tattoo he presumably didn't charge for or present himself as a tattoo artist while doing.

If this is true I'll eat my hat.

My ex once threw up in an alley after a totally normal Friday night fish fry with friends. Another time she started crying when I failed to get shitfaced on her night to drive, because it meant I'd squandered an opportunity for she to get shitfaced.

I thought the clip was funny, and I'm pretty sure it was planned. Unless she's on a LOT of drugs.

I love the word moist, because I like making people squirm.

By my count there are 13 British princesses and zero kings.

Not true:

According to the article you're commenting on, nothing.