Felice,

These are all good, but the useless comment I see too often is:

Lest we forget, Kristen has had relationships of one kind or another with Tom Sandoval, Jax Taylor, James Kennedy and Brian Carter. Her jedgment is not great, and any dating experience she might share should only be taken as a warning of what not to do.

Came for the Animal Farm references, leaving more equal than others.

Maybe it’s just me, but in the top photo, President Niinistö looks like a slightly-less perturbed clone of Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker, and I was holding onto a slim hope that the meeting would end with a hearty “fuckity-bye”. Well, the version playing in my head did not disappoint.

Manipulating people by “negging” so they seek your approval isn’t just for pick-up artists, although one could argue that he’s the pick-up artist-in-chief. It’s gross to watch people debase themselves for a position in his hierarchy.

I came back to add: thanks for sharing your story, which confirmed my impression of Huell Howser - sincerely fascinated by whatever California topic he was covering, and eager to share it with his viewers.

CA native here: I miss Huell Howser. I also regret that we had an avocado tree on our property, whose gifts I did not appreciate until I was much older and had moved away.

If I’d known Pissing Contest was going to have a Dirty Frank’s story, I would have commented a week ago. I live around the corner from Dirty Frank’s, like Ex-Wife of Bath and RandMart37 apparently used to, and now I won’t be able to walk by without thinking of your story, so thanks for that!

Was going to post this but I’m a day late. People knew 25 years ago! When Age Ain’t Nothing but a Number dropped, I was like, did R. Kelly come up with that album title? He was already telling on himself.

Came here to note your unique use of “turduckened”. That was truly the most disturbing scene of the film to my younger self. Thanks also for sharing the background information on the franchise, of which I was unaware.

That’s correct.  Other than food, we get on just fine.

1. Thank you!

I am able to eat almost anything so this has been genuinely hard for me to understand, but from personal observation and reading this website and its comments, I’ve learned that pickiness is just a bridge that many people can’t ever cross - whether it’s to do with the taste, texture, smell, or appearance of food, or…

Thanks, Kate! And thanks, Laurie, for one weird date!

This will probably stay in the grays forever, but I hope not. I was set up by a friend in college to go out with her sorority sister. Upon arrival, I gave my date a gift of potpourri - scented leaves, flowers, wood shavings in a small box. The meal itself was forgettable, but we had a nice time at Griffith Observatory…

It was 100% the one in Rittenhouse, as NBC reported. I personally never had a problem in that store, but that might be due to my privilege. I’m sorry that happened to you, but it sounds like you saved yourself even more hassle by showing the intent to record your interaction. It also hasn’t gone unnoticed that this…

I guess I remember that decade differently, because the Niners and Cowboys met nine times in the ‘90s and they split the games 5-4. The Cowboys had the edge when it mattered, winning two of the three match-ups that were NFC championship games. But it was a genuine rivalry.  Dallas in the ‘70s, however...

Seriously, this would have died quickly and quietly if he’d let it go. Instead he went full Streisand Effect with this e-mail. The one good thing he did was quit Twitter. But foresight isn’t a bedbug’s strength, because they hunt by CO2 and body heat.

I lol’d too, because this comment is on point, and also at the idea that The Astronaut’s Wife, a boring flop released exactly 20 years ago today, is a “classic”.  Don’t @ me.