"belittles Me as a fetishist"...? Whaaat?

I think the age difference is probably less of a big deal when you're in your 30s, though. People in their early 20s are often very restless and hyper no matter what gender they are.

And there are those awful youtube videos where people dress up like clowns and then jump out at people with axes and chainsaws as a "joke." How are innocent bystanders supposed to tell the difference between the prank scary clowns and the real criminal clowns?

Seriously. When I wrote that comment, I was having flashbacks to when I was young and single and old dudes used to try and prey on me. Sometimes I would genuinely find an older man attractive, but I was young and enjoying myself and they could never keep up for long.

Imagine having to have sex with someone who mewls like that! I wouldn't know whether the laugh or cringe.

I seriously think it's because he's boring. Just look at him. Or worse, listen to him mewl while playing his guitar.

I find his music very boring myself. But in any case, Lawrence is the one who ended it, not him.

Sadly, most of you are going to continue to slow down and become even more boring as you get older. Like most people of any gender.

Surprise! Not. Sorry for all the MRAs out there desperate to convince everyone that younger women are biologically programmed to go for older men, but the truth is that old dudes can get boring really quickly.

Not really. What people say in these situations is "intent is not magic." In other words, it doesn't matter what the artist intended. Once their piece of art is out in the world, it is beyond their control and it's going to be read by critics, who will possibly find meanings the artist didn't intend.

"Appropriation" just means borrowing. You need to context of said borrowing to figure out if it's a positive, neutral or negative example. When people talk about "appreciation vrs. appropriation" what they are talking about is positive or neutral appropriation vrs the problematic kind.

Ok. worse quarantine story than this one. A woman originally from Nigeria went into a doctor's with the flu. She didn't have very good English. They quarantined her. After, they figured out that she didn't have Ebola, just a flu. Which makes sense because she hasn't been back to Africa in ten years (They simply…

I know people who have gone to Ebola-stricken areas in Africa to help out. These are health care professionals volunteering with MSF. And when they return, they put themselves into quarantine for 15 days. They put arrangements in place before they ever leave. I think that's fair.

It's all very postmodern when the product itself is an ad for other products.

My dad is built like an elf and in his 60s and the ladies still love him.

"Chivalrous" and "geeky" set off more alarm bells than his height, but being told to get over my heightism is also a red flag.

Port na bPucai. You're in luck. It's on youtube. This is what randy seals sound like apparently.

There are a lot of weird things here that are unexplained by science, but I think they will eventually find a non-supernatural cause. The lights in the middle of fields is one of them. Then there is a "hum" that happens at random times and can go on for a few days and suddenly stop. They've sent in scientists to find…

I just looked that up and there's actually a wikipedia article on which family names are associated with the bean si and my husband's name is one of them! How about that? I've never heard any of his family mention the bean si except when the wind is blowing through the hills and making that moaning sound, but his…

I'm stuck in the greys! :(