Can we please stop calling him “Submarine Inventor”? He didn’t invent anything. He built something that was conceptualized by Da Vinci, the first practical example of which was built in 1620, and which has been in active military service since the revolutionary war.

That sub has a suicide rate rivaling that seen among Russian dissidents.

Once again, can we please quit referring to this tool as a “submarine inventor”- he’s a hobbyist with an obsession not an inventor.

And even more examples of them not going to jail for bizarre crimes. Robert Durst was a free man. Harvey Weinstein raped people and prosecutors didn’t even press charges. OJ Simpson got off. Bill Cosby is a free man. It took years for Phil Spector to be convicted.

“The most determined case of suicide I’ve ever encountered, your honor!”

This is so very strange and awful.

But if he’s never been questioned on his BS before how would he know that limit?

The nutjob’s defense is that she somehow mysteriously died of carbon monoxide poisoning on a tiny submarine he was in while being unaffected himself and that the most logical response to that wasn’t to seek help but to dismember her body and then lie about her fate.

Classic for a reason!

He’s a wealthy white man who is accustomed to nobody questioning him.

Ah, the old she must have dismembered her own corpse defense.

The whole original fact pattern to this story was super fucking bizarre.

But how will he complete his sex addiction rehab now? Oh noes.

I work in a municipally owned building, and when it first opened, within days we had our first complaint about our (fully accessible) elevators, because the voice that tells you what floor you are approaching (“Second floor, going up”) is a female voice. A computerized female voice. Not even a real person.

The police officer said to the American that if he used the n-word again, that he would be arrested. That’s when the American went into his rant about his First Amendment rights. As I understand it, in the US, the First Amendment would not allow someone to be arrested for using racial slurs.

Apparently he doesn’t understand the law in the US, either, since the First Amendment means that the government can’t tell you what to say or not say. Individuals and businesses can tell you to STFU and remove you from their property if you are rude or racist. Free speech does not mean, “I can say anything I want…

Moules frites are delicious and the beer is lovely, too. I could happily sink into a life of genteel decrepitide in Bruges.

If anyone needs me, I will be in Belgium.

The Alabama of Europe is somewhere in the deep east. Bulgaria and Romania come to mind.

I remember being a 15 year old boy and feeling I was “competing” with 30-something men for 15 year old girls. I’d be talking up a girl my age, then some older guy would come along with promises of booze, clubs, having a car and not being a adolescent doofus.
At the time, I just presumed it was normal because 1) At 15…