Well, it's kind of all over social media - which a lot of young people use. I remember when the trend towards women removing pubic hair began. I remember that a lot of the men were saying stuff like: "Yeah, I won't go down on a woman unless she's bald." and "I don't want a hair in the back of my throat." Just crude…

Serious. People act all surprised that there's this push in women's grooming habits when it's all through popular culture (I remember Kim Kardashian saying that the only hair a woman should have is in on her head). Even here on these threads occasionally, you'll have women who will admit they find it gross when a…

Not to make you sad or nothin', but I always used to hate the way my mom would play into it - like, she'd always be playing the passive-aggressive victim to his aggressive dictatorship. Blah. I mean, they complimented one another in this deeply rigid and combative way. I'd prefer equality, honesty and joy. Still…

Ha ha ha! We might have had the same dad!

Whaaaa? When I was married I was the sole and only breadwinner.

True. I'm divorced. For certain it was easier to marry than to divorce - though I live in New York State and they recently created a new "No Contest" divorce which is amicable in nature and only requires a filing fee. It does require for both parties to enter into an agreement Before they even go to court though.

Yeah, but I've heard and seen so many versions of this in the patriarchy so as to make your head spin - "The old ball and chain", "Tie the knot", "Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great woman standing behind him", all the nagging wife jokes, etc...

So being married would be being trapped.

Well, I just don't agree with you is all. Just to be clear - Person A) Rich family passion for piano, goes to Julliard.

Yeah, I had to hustle. Was in central europe. I met a few guys who wrote for some of the wire services and you're right - they were older and had been in the business a long, long time. And yeah, the name means a lot. That's what I was referring to when I mentioned ex-pats. I remembered at the time the trend was first…

"Overseas postings, particularly in hot zones, are highly sought after."

Can I ask what the reasoning is in using foreign journalists? Or at least those who aren't ethnically afghani in this case?

When you go for the music - and truly the music - and not for the drugs, the fashion or the celebrity, you're almost always guaranteed a good time!

Yup. This is how I feel. And I was a teenager when lollapalooza was still run by Jane's Addiction and you could go catch Sound Garden on a side stage. I even went one year. It was more than $100 for the ticket, tents, questionable hygiene and too much drinking/drugs without enough water - all to be jammed next to…

It's not a matter of the world being a duller place without creative industries... that's a really odd way of looking at it. Everybody is creative at least to some degree. I personally see little differences between the process it takes for a really good writer to change preconceptions and a really good physicist.

Sure, but the guys are looking for that, too. They want hot girls who aren't interested in them beyond the chance to party. I mean, yeah, for me and my set - it's one step above prostitution. But I'm sure for these people it's just NSA fun.

Yeah, who knew that it was so difficult to get laid when you're a celebrity - that you're trying to hit up barely legal girls visiting from Scotland with their mom for sex?

Well, see now you are changing your tone so I don't have to be "emotional" - your term. It also wasn't an ad hominem attack, per se. I was more making the example that I've seen people going in droves for an MBAs as part of a continuing ed program or from these little boutique institutes, or online or whatever else -…

Do not throw around your bullshit generalized figures in an attempt to glamour me. Figures do not scare me. I know very well what a bell curve and that is exactly what I am referring to. There are tons of "respectable" professions that have just as bad odds as "underwater basket weaving." You are not concerned about…

You're full of shit and you're only looking at a very narrow definition of "making it". There are tons of photographers that make as much as a mid-level IT specialist by doing weddings, portraits, school photography, real estate and food photography for restaurants and advertisements.