“The property owner has the right to tell someone who is to leave, and if they refuse to leave, he is not allowed to just open fire on them.”

Everyone will hate me for this comment, but if this were about Christians, nobody would care because everyone likes making fun of us.

I care, but people make fun of me if I complain. I really wish people wouldn’t, y’know, use my deity’s name as a swear word. Can’t people use “fuck” and “shit” like anyone else?

You seem like you just really want to do this, and you want an echo chamber for your utter lack of decorum. If you don’t have any scruples about the matter, okay, you’ve clearly made your decision.

He’d be there for the ceremony but duck out for the afterparty. I mean, is there really no middle ground between “he’s going to be there til the break of dawn while everyone else parties and gets drunk and is going to be miserable while others have fun” and “fuck you, don’t have a wedding”?

I’ll admit to me, a formal marriage is about legal benefits and a huge celebration, because he and I are basically married right now just without the technical papers. Everyone recognizes that this is a big forever thing and we’ve bought a house and everything.

Jezzies, help! I need wedding advice. (Holy shit I never thought I’d write that.) It’s going to be weird.

I’ve read this whole thread and am convinced you’re being a phenomenal cock about this.

Probably I have to be Instinct because I’m an electrical engineer, and Zapdos.

Joke’s on them, nobody ever looks up. Truth. If you want to hide from someone, hide above head level.

I’m not really okay with assuming slippery slopes. Drones in general can be precise enough to take out a person without having line-of-effect to bystanders by being on the same altitude as they are.

Crime is down, lethal sickness is down. Your child is coming into the world at the best possible time in history.

Do you also hate one-pieces like I do?

We, as a culture, need to figure out how we want to treat sexual crime. Right now it’s being considered by many of the lay folk to be on the level of murder, except it’s way, way, WAY more common than murder. Because we think it’s the Most Impossibly Evil thing to do — which it obviously isn’t, given the sheer number…

Yeah I have to pick really carefully, as I’m your dimensions and I need something that doesn’t scream LOOK AT ME WEARING FATTY MIDDLE-AGED MOM SWIMSUIT.

OK, first, none of those. Because they all look like granny panties. High waist is one thing, but “up at your tits” is another. Hate to say it, but if it covers your navel entirely, that’s the point where a tankini is what you’re looking for. Because you want the proportions of a one-piece with the freedom to take a…

It was an exaggeration for effect. I just think Shkreli deserves nothing in life ever.

Because through most of human history, people from Far Away coming to rape and enslave and steal your women was a huge deal, and cultural biases change really, really slowly. Basically second only to evolution and tectonics and that whole category of speed.

The number of popcorn buckets we’re all going to go through watching the Convention shitshow is uncountable.

First news story I was aware of/still remember? Whichever of OJ Simpson and the Clinton Lewinsky scandal came first. I forget which it was.