The thing is that socialism has been tried, and it didn't work. Living conditions in the USSR were awful. The system was plagued with the same kind of systemic corruption we see in capitalism, but there were even fewer outlets to deal with said corruption. I think capitalism is the worst economic system ever devised —…

I mean common sense as in if someone doesn't want to run with a certain number because of a superstitious believe, let them change the number. Thus far you've brought up blind-folded driving and tax exemption status, which are completely different than changing of a race number, because they directly and negatively…

Ok, but paying taxes actually matters. What number people have in a race doesn't matter. I advocate a common sense approach — compromise where it doesn't hurt anyone involved, but maintain a hardline on things that actually affect others. So letting a contest change a number or not labeling the 13th floor with the…

Eh, I understand what you're saying, but we do make all kinds of concessions for various cultural superstitions. They even changed an area code in Canada because the area code featured the number 4, which a large part of the Asian population thought was unlucky. Also, the game League of Legends totally redid the art…

In a competitive race, your name is assigned to your number. You can't just switch numbers with someone, you would have to get permission from the race officials, which they denied.

Yeah, it's a little weird. Wanting to date Ryan Gosling = perfectly normal. Wanting to date some kind of fictional female version of perfection = sexist and evil? I don't get it.

Exactly, but we aren't supposed to root for his character while he does these things. That's why I think the creators went to such extremes with that scene (which I absolutely agree is the equivalent of rape). In some movies, like 500 Days of Summer, the protag does things that are annoying and clingy, but not…

I feel like you and I should just tag team all over this comment section and extol the greatness of Paul Dano.

Hmm, I had a totally different take on the ending of that movie. Whether or not he "gets" her in the end is left wide open. The only thing he does realize is that she's a human being, not just some dream of his that he can control. The entire point of the movie is that we have this image of people in our heads that we…

Agreed! I love him. His performance in Little Miss Sunshine was phenomenal.

But as Lazlere pointed out in the minority report of the APA study, all the research we have is correlational. The only way to actually test whether the specific act of spanking has direct negative effects after controlling for every possible environmental aspect would be a double blind twin study, but no review board…

The only way to actually prove that physical discipline is ineffective or bad would be to use a double blind format to control for outside variables. Such a test would never be approved by any review board, because it would be wildly unethical. So all we have is a jumbled mess of subjective data with an incredible…

So how were those studies run? Because I have a PhD in Horribleness, and I've never heard of them.

There is a difference between spanking a child and spanking an adult. I'm not advocating belts or beatings, and I don't think Dlzlet Sma is either, but it's ridiculous to call someone a terrible adult for spanking a child.

"No one suspected a thing?" Either your friends are idiots, or I'm pretty sure someone suspected something.

Ha! I was going to say the same thing. It's such a bad default option, too. I shudder when I see that blue line and horrible grey bars.

Same! I'm asthmatic and incredibly OCD about cleanliness, so smokers always bother me on both accounts.

I've always wondered the same thing. 30 Seconds isn't my all time super favorite band, but I definitely like them. They have some really good stuff, like Kings and Queens and 100 Suns.

I was just wondering the same thing. The author mentions once that women do the same thing, and then goes on to ignore that, saying things like "if you want your manfriend to stop forgetting things like your birthday and anniversary, write it on your tits."

Whattttt? Get out of here! That exact picture is actually my desktop background. It's one of my favorite movies.