Or you can just use it to further relax, guilt-free, and help yourself reboot. Whatever works for you!

Well, I'll explain why I say it's not advice I like to give: it is wise, but my advice (and the way in which I live my life) is much more along the lines of openness and emotional honesty whenever possible, and not keeping things from others OR yourself. No doubt it IS sensible to pick and choose who you tell things,…

Wise.

"Not paying for a service being used" is not harm, sorry. The fact that you're unable to actually discern what constitutes harming another person speaks volumes about your character.

What's everyone got planned for NYE? What are your New Year's Eve resolutions — the things you want to get different this NYE to make it less miserable than previous years?

When dating younger people, don't lie to them, don't use them, and if the relationship gets one-sided or the power dynamic gets iffy, break it off.

Just posting to say I have no idea, man! Hah.

I do have a small amount of sympathy for that — losing the person hurts the same amount, but the blow to your self-esteem would be pretty different. If she leaves him for a girl, he can always rationalise that she wanted a girl and he couldn't satisfy that need. If she leaves him for another guy, he was clearly…

Congrats! It's awesome to be able to leave the year and start the next on a high note. Too rare.

"It can't get any worse" is only ever said by those who lack the requisite imagination.

I''m biting the onion to get out of the pattern of letting myself get sucked into other people's hurricanes. It took me years of therapy and heavy self-examination to get to a fairly emotionally steady place in my life, and to be able to weather my own storms without falling apart. But now it frustrates me when people…

I've been in a similar situation! A girl who massively lied to me for the entire duration of our three-year friendship had some bad stuff happen to her a few months after the dissolve of our friendship and came to me for sympathy. Very different vibe to dad-dying though. I hope you feel good about whichever approach…

Hello!

I was wondering if anyone else was going to remark on that.

Like I said upthread, Grapes of Wrath is probably the most endlessly quotable episode. Every moment and subplot is iconic BB.

NO NOT ANYTHING GOES I SAID NO RULES.

Probably the most quoted episode of BB ever, if my anecdotal experiences are to be believed. It has the drinking sequence sequence ("like staring… into the eye of a duck" "and sucking all the fluid from its beak"); the disgustingness of Bernard's apartment ("I'm eating scrambled eggs, with a comb, from a shoe!") and…

You've been asserting all over the place with nothing like citation, so, no, I don't really feel the need to appease someone as obnoxious as you. You are simply incorrect on a number of fundamental levels, and if you care about being right rather than yelling at people who are committing literally zero harm because…

This is laughably, hilariously untrue. Apart from the fact that it's been consistently shown that access via illegal piracy massively increases something's exposure so more people are willing to spend actual money directly on it (e.g. buying Game of Thrones blu-rays, like I do every year, rather just paying…

Your stance on this is — apart from being breathtakingly irrational — astonishingly emotional. Again I ask who you are that you have this reaction. Are you a bankrupt studio executive? Did your father cut himself on a cease and desist letter in the age of Napster and bleed to death?