Yeah but...surely that is exactly the kind of “talking about your travels without sounding like a dick” that the author is talking about?

Real talk: might it not be worth it for the opportunity to shapeshift into a komodo dragon?

Assuming you don’t feel smug or superior when you talk about it, and you’re not telling people about it just to impress them, you’re probably fine.

I don’t think this article was saying, “Never talk about travel or you are an asshole” so much as, “There is a particular way of talking about travel that is both common and annoying/smug.”

Right? People are so snotty about tourists, and, like...that is what we all are the second we leave our home cities. It’s just not that bad to be excited about seeing a new place.

Part of the (first world) problem is that most people don’t have much of an eye for photography (definitely including me, to be clear), so instead of a gorgeous photo of a foreign locale, or even a mediocre photo of an interesting subject that conveys something about the culture, my news feed is a lot of signs with…

Yeah I liked Danny a lot. The Doctor’s dislike of him was weird, and I definitely wish he could have stuck around as a full-time companion. Danny was kind of endemic of the last series’ (and Moffat’s in general) tendency to introduce something great and then kind of flop around with it and not deliver. There were so…

I know a couple of girls named Ryan, and I like it.

Well yeah, now I would definitely hope that I would step up and stand up for others/get them out of bad situations. I’m talking, like, when I was 9 and someone was being mean about another person in my class, and I felt uncomfortable but didn’t say anything. Or when I was 5 and let my sister get in trouble even though…

It is crazy how often I forget that about Jimmy Page. I know that he did that, and I am horrified every time I think of it, but I still forget about it. Like, if someone brings his name up to me in a week, the first thing I think will not be, “Disgusting human who kidnapped and abused young women.”

Hahaha, that’s awesome. I learned when I was very young from my dad, so I can’t guarantee that I could properly cut down a tree today without a little refresher, but I never would have expected YouTube to be quite so useful. I mostly use it to, like, take apart old computers and cook stuff - nothing that could result…

You have never been a passive bystander? Not necessarily in a rape scenario; to claim that “everyone” has done that would be insane. But you’ve never looked back on a situation and wished you’d, like, said something wasn’t cool, or told your friends to stop talking shit about someone behind their back, or not let a…

Right, but now we have a situation where, once again, people are not talking about the rapist, but instead the women around the rapist who “let” him do it.

I think you and I might not disagree on this as much as it originally seemed. Of course for more complicated things in any area, you might need to take a class or watch a tutorial. But that is not this class. This class is combing hair, ponytails, plaits, and then ONE thing that could conceivably be viewed as…

Yeah, but...what if she was there and she really vividly remembers Jackie consenting? If something like that is the case, word salad is kind of her best bet to obscure it so that she is not undermining Jackie but also not lying about what she remembers. Even if her thought is, “Hmm, I really remember Jackie…

It’s possible that they had an arrangement whereby he could have extramarital sex as long as he was discreet. I don’t have a problem with her being fine with that.

Martha Jones drove me crazy, but I know what you mean. I spend a lot of time confused about Clara’s motivations, which is weird, because they keep trying to sell her as this outspoken, strong character who knows what she wants. Instead it comes across to me as her being loud and outspoken, but for no reason and about…

In addition to what everyone else is saying about the coded language about body types, I think “teen” porn has a dynamic of virginity and seduction - like, one teen is often a virgin and has to at least nominally be persuaded into it. Whereas most other porn (at least from what I’ve seen) is like, “Oh, you have…

Oh god, we used to write letters to the Tooth Fairy imploring her to leave our teeth. I kept mine in this little enameled tortoiseshell box with a latch. It was tiny and thus filled to the brim with teeth - some of which had been pulled and still had their roots.

YES. THANK YOU. The eagerness with which people are attacking Joan Jett instead of Kim Fowley is disheartening and upsetting.