I like that basically every Jamboroo now begins with a lengthy screed on why football is fucking awful.

This is also frequently the case in the northeast. We’ve had a bunch of ridiculous super-freezes and super-snows over the past few years even while the global average has risen. It sucks.

Good thing he wasn’t playing at Santa Anita

The lesson of this gif is always, always, always make eye contact before you go for the high five

I think it will depend very heavily on whether he gets destroyed in 2020 or not.

I’ve been married to a French woman for 11 years (together for 13) and have spent roughly a year of my life in the country during that time, so I’m aware of France (and Europe’s) political shortcomings, their troubles with racism and nationalism, and the like.

Trump’s proven an immensely useful idiot for the GOP to advance their agenda, I agree. I do not think at all that the party will become one of “reasonable conservatives” when he leaves office. In all honesty, the vast majority of current Democrats are the reasonable conservatives in Washington. The unreasonable…

Doesn’t directly impact the Presidential election that much - though it can have an effect on voter turnout, among other things (eg: districts gerrymandered to be “the liberal district” are then regularly given fewer polling places, and those that are there are regularly understaffed).

Has a lot of impact on the…

The thing with Cruz is that atrocious as he is, he’d be much more likely to work via established governmental processes. It still wouldn’t be great, but it’s unlikely he’d do shit like rolling back decades of EPA protections for really no real reason. I don’t even know why Trump is doing some of what he’s doing except…

Don’t get me wrong: I have hope. We didn’t see the “blue wave” I wanted in the mid-terms, but mid-term turnout always sucks. I think there’s a decent chance the American public, by November 2020, is so utterly sick of Trump’s shit and convinced he is indeed a criminal, that they may just pour in to vote for “fucking…

I couldn’t sleep on the night he was elected. It was one of the worst night’s sleeps I’ve ever gotten. I wouldn’t have felt that way about, say, Cruz or Rubio, despite how disgusting they are. Trump’s election spoke in a singular manner on how broken and fucked up our country and its political systems are. It’s deeply…

I am absolutely not denying, for one second, that women in this country prefer taller men. It is, as you said, statistically backed up. That said: they’re gonna figure it out when they meet you, so lying about it seems weird.

Fair enough. I’m laying a lot of gross behavior I saw while working there, and on the internet in general, at the feet of your friend without knowing him or the situation!

It’s super weird. Lying on your dating profile in general, about anything, is SUPER WEIRD. Like ... they’re going to eventually talk to you and perhaps meet you. You’re going to be found out. It’s inherent in the whole situation.

re: the weight thing - it’s mildly startling how many guys there are out there who have exacting standards for what they want in a woman while simultaneously wondering why women won’t just accept them as they are.

“She needs to be a brunette, size 4 or below, at least a C-cup, with tiny feet, or I’m not interested.”
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You should read the article. It’s heartbreaking but also a really interesting look into a the effects of toxic masculinity on a person’s self-image.

mildly related: my wife is not from the US, nor did she live here when we first started talking on the site, so my “five foot eleven” meant nothing to her. Turns out it’s fairly tall for France, though two of her sisters married guys who’re significantly taller than me, both of whom are French, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

There was a sizable portion of women on the site who would not consider a guy under six feet, and an additional sizable portion who would not consider a guy who wasn’t at least a few inches taller than them. Why people are so into enforcing sexual dimorphism is probably a question better answered by pyschologists or…

People are weirdly picky about height. It’s never something I’ve given a shit about - before meeting my wife I’d dated girls who were barely over five feet and girls who were the same height as me. But it is a factor for a LOT of people, both men and women. I’d guess 6'8" is tall enough that it intimidated a lot of…

Fun fact: I worked for a couple of years at OkCupid when it was in its early stages (employee #4!) and possibly the most-lied about thing on a site that was, by nature of what people were trying to accomplish there, full of lies was guys saying they were 6' tall. I forget the exact numbers but the number of guys…