I think he just chose a really piss-poor example to explain a basic premise that I think most (sane) people would agree with – that even if one thing could be judged as "worse" from an external perspective, it doesn't invalidate the experience of the person who experienced what might be judged externally as "not as…

Ya, I have a feeling that a large part of Cosmo's readership is of the under-experienced teenage variety. We used to read these at summer camp when I was a counselor (age 16-17), which basically involved a lot of giggling, "IT SAYS WHAT?!!", and inevitably bombarding various members of the male staff with demands to…

And that is her decision to make. She considered that maybe he needed another shot. That's on her.

As an atheist, I sometimes think agnostics are the most enlightened. It takes a big person to be comfortable with admitting "I/we don't know". I'm not sure why some people feel the need to deconstruct this into some sort of pseudo-atheism. I'm very comfortable with my own beliefs, but I don't have this urge to impose…

Agnosticism isn't a developed belief system, so quizzing someone like this is pretty pointless. I don't understand why so many atheists have this superiority complex that compels them to bully everyone else about what they "get" to believe. Why do you care so much? Is there some atheist creed circulating that I missed…

I have to ask: are these legit questions of interest, or are you just trying to demonstrate some logical fallacy with agnosticism?

...I feel like your time and excellent sense of humour might be wasted on ellenjane, who seems to be leaning to troll side of life in this thread.

Ugh, too late for me too. I always find it so much more depressing when the idiots spouting irrelevant tripe in the comments sections are clearly educated and well spoken. Makes it so much harder to pretend that they're just undereducated weenies with zero life experience outside of their mother's basement.

I'm not familiar with the legal system in Texas (or the US over and above the odd Law & Order marathon), but isn't this difference in development basically built into the system, i.e. the minor would receive a lesser charge than an adult convicted of the same offense?

Ugh, talk about making shopping unnecessarily complicated. You would think that for the male shopper brands would champion convenience over vanity. I know if my Dad has to try multiple somethings on, he'll just say screw it and buy nothing. I've been somewhat spoiled living in Europe for the past 5 years because most…

I wonder if it has anything to do with the preferred style/fit of the time? I wear the same size I did in high school, but back then it was the early 00's and my jeans barely cleared my buttcrack. Now I tend to wear high-waist skinny jeans so even though I grew some hips and ass in the in between, I wear my jeans…

No worries, it's not like the picture made any sense in the July 4th context anyway (or it did, but only in a really black humour approach to patriotism)

I'm just torn over which is worse? Maybe they're equally bad scenarios.

My cousin did. She was 40, so the chances of natural conception were low (even if there was a man in the picture). But she has had tremendous financial and emotional support from her parents, without which it seems like a pretty difficult mountain to climb alone.

Oh, definitely stupid. I think we can all safely agree on that. I actually have this nagging idea that this person possibly knew what it was and for whatever reason thought "American Patriotism! They'll love it!" I currently live in Denmark, and I could totally see that falling under their beloved black humour (which…

All I'm hearing is "America America AMERICA", which assures me the world is still spinning on it's axis.

I find things like this fascinating. I've always thought it would be interesting to compare how a major historical event like WWII has been taught in the history textbooks/school curriculum of the different countries that participated, especially since as a kid you think of textbooks as the one and only authority,…

I agree. It's unfortunate that the original article casts the entire story in terms of a generational problem, as opposed to a single person not doing their job (for whatever reason).

I'm sure he would, like (I hope) most people. Although for the record, the only one who has labelled this as a supposed "fireworks" picture is the Jez article ("a picture of a firework explosion cloud thing"). There doesn't appear to be any mention of fireworks in connection with the photo, just those two hashtags.

Funny thing is, I don't even think we are disagreeing. I think we're just having two different conversations. You seem to making the point that someone responsible for social media of an American company shouldn't being fucking up like this, regardless of their nationality (I agree. AA clearly needs to rethink their…