"Sir, have you ever had someone go home with you a second time? or on a regular basis?.... That there hasn't, might be a sign that you are/have a serious problem."

I can imagine the stupid idea is "well she must NOT have meant actual NO because she went back to his place, and cooperated with kissing, so like, anything else must be OK too, no matter WHAT she says or if she changes her mind. It's not like we can seriously expect men to control themselves."

ARRRGGGH....

Wilburn doesn't seem to be even IMPLYING there's a metaphor.

The judge is so clearly deciding to ignore a blatant and obvious NO, that was heard by witnesses, to the victim.

That this is almost a confession that he's ok with the behavior because he does the same thing. We don't know who he's raped, we don't know…

Wilburn is actually saying, "At some time in the past, this judge raped someone... and just made excuses in his head (like every other rapist) for why his rape of someone who thought they knew him, who trusted him, was not, somehow rape."

He's so dismissive of this victims very clear and loud and evident to the…

Oh gods that is creepy.

especially to outpalgeous. (hope I didn't mangle that too badly)

there's always some excuse for why the "not a stranger" rape, can't be rape....
He is someone she knows and trusts, so it can't be "rapey rape" ("it was just a misunderstanding."

Or "Everyone knows he's a nice guy"
or "He bought her dinner/drinks" or…

They changed the rule about manufacturing, NOT because it would help their user base (the sellers and buyers looking for handmade & vintage items)... but so that they wouldn't have to, or be expected to police "resellers" anymore.

Now a "designer" can pick a dress out of a factory catalog, say "I need a shipping…

Because it was a tool that wasn't broken, that helped buyers find the work of sellers who weren't the "usual" 200 or so constantly featured on the FP and promotional emails... and gift guides.

Because it worked for the actual handmade, and unusual quirky items that Etsy originally was about, they had to take it…

Oh and now it's OK with Etsy to outsource work for mass production and drop shipping.

So now there could, theoretically, be reseller shops selling Cody Foster ornaments ON ETSY, and it's fine with Etsy that they mass produce/drop ship/resell.... well until the artist finds out and files an official complaint.

Unfortunately, if I saw the ornaments online or in a shop FIRST I'd be thinking "How cool, an artist has gotten a contract with the ornament company..."

It's so obvious that it's not just an accidental "opps animals in similar nortic motif jackets" but it's a direct copy with *changes made in an attempt to look 10%…

Inspiration would be "ornaments of animals in jackets with nordic motifs"
not "Ornaments with drawings that almost seem traced from the source material, and with identical jackets with THE EXACT SAME MOTIF in the the EXACT same colors".

Inspiration means you can show the two images side by side and a…

As hilarious as this is, I had a classmate years ago, who when I said "I'm from Indiana... " decided I REALLY meant "India"... and insisted on continuing to ask stupid questions about wildlife for the rest of the semester.

I'll admit to sometimes looking "exotic" but there's no way to really mistake me for someone…

I was in High School at the time... (Northern Indiana, larger town) and OMFG... the comments not just from classmates but things overheard that ADULTS were saying.

Some were just GIDDY when the nude photos came up.

If she's a Church going girl, they'll be "OOOH she's such a good girl, she goes to CHURCH." (provided it's a big popular one) IF they aren't going "what about 'Ms <insert anglo contestant here>... ?" Pretty much the same kinds of things we were hearing the first time an African American girl won the prize.

If…

I'm imagining the awkwardly racist tweets of the same "nativists" when it's a First Nations gal who wins the pageant. (Even better if she's simply anything except Christian too... I suspect "Atheist"/"Agnostic"/ or "None of your business" would cause coronaries.)

...and here I am aghast...
Because when I've gone to historic homes and seen the libraries full of hundreds of old out of print books, I wish I could stay there a few weeks to read them...

However, I DO realize that sometimes the collections of Classic Literature and fancy bound encyclopedias often were as much for…

Can't say about much else, but the oral surgeon who took out my wisdom teeth, with in office surgery, when I was over 30...
was more than an hour from the nearest hospital at the time.

There's also a friend who got outpatient surgery on his hand "the hand clinic" more than an hour from the nearest hospital. (actually…

THIS!

Examinations of the other skulls show that they were made using POWER TOOLS, probably sometime between the late 1800s (1890s) and early 1900s (perhaps as late as just shortly before the "find" was announced). Probably in Germany or Austria where artful crystal cutting/carving was becoming very popular. There are…

I need to amend my comment slightly... I was in the same patient position, came to the ER in pain, some bleeding... and though the Catholic hospital (in the US) initially thought, lets see if it takes care of itself. Within a few hours I was in surgery and on antibiotics and getting appropriate care. About a year…