Agreed!

I actually think he's talking about this thing, which is not a chain. It seems not to have a name, other than "swing-type lock." Does anyone know if it has a name? This is going to drive me nuts:

Older folks do have a lot of accidents, though—lots of falls. And people driving past the point that they should be put themselves at risk of car accidents. And then there are all sorts of other non-impact events that would qualify as accidents, depending on how "accident" is defined here—like accidentally taking too…

Yes, it is asking so much. If your attention is irretrievably pulled away by something a fellow student is wearing, then perhaps you should consider a field of study that holds your interest better.

Wonder if Duck Dynasty's loyal fans will notice that he slipped that bit about idolators in there, or will think about what that might mean?

This site is for anyone who wants to be here. Including you, unpleasant as you may be.

That's true, and it's a fair point—he's putting her in an emotionally fragile state and then asking her to break up with him. Sort of like putting a piece of furniture in her house, and saying "you totally don't have to keep this, but if you don't want it, you need to carry it to the curb."

I think the point is that he doesn't owe it to her to be with her, so him suggesting that he may NOT want to be with her as things are isn't ipso facto a shitty thing. Basically a request to open up a monogamous relationship is asking to change the terms of the relationship—he's saying "I don't want to be in this…

Well, as long as they're keeping the graffiti under control, order will reign.

That photo highlights the most remarkable fact about Frances Sternhagen, which is that she's been the same age for the last 30 years.

Well, that doesn't mean that he'd traveled the whole mile by the time she noticed he was gone. More likely he was much closer at the time she realized he was missing, and he continued wandering for awhile over the course of the time people were searching for him.

Oh God, I'm so sorry. Can you go on an antibiotic in the meanwhile to try to address the underlying infection/shrink the abscess, or will that not help?

Ah, I guess that makes sense. I was thinking of it as some kind of generic charity allowance, but your version is much more logical.

He gives her money to give to charity?? Even when I was 5 years old and my father handed me $1 to put in the collection basket at church as it breezed by, something struck me as a little artificial about that system.

ha—thanks. Seriously, though, that left one....

That's how ours was, but I've attended other events where the so-called "open" bar was structured slightly differently. For example, I remember one wedding where the hosts paid in advance for a set number of pours, and then beyond that, people had to pay per drink. That's the sort of thing you see most often at…

Yeah, I mean...my wedding took a lot of time to plan, I put a lot of effort into it, and it was expensive. And I guess I would have been a bit annoyed if some crashers had shown up to cadge free food & booze, but if I understand correctly, these people didn't cause any kind of actual disruption whatsoever, right? I…

There's absolutely no earthly way she's worked in food service. Her claim that her response to impossible customer requests was "I said no, and that was that" pretty much completely exposes that lie. Her "no" is so effective that customers are powerless against it, and just back down? HA.

...no, they're not acting that way.

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