For someone who purports to be rational, you are oddly obsessed with cat shit.

There's a first time for everything!

You're right, in this article at least the author is being pretty clear that she's speaking about Americans, except where she says "blacks" (which is problematic for a bunch of different reasons). It's probably something I'm a little over-sensitive about because American news outlets and Gawker in particular tend to…

I was legitimately confused when I first read this story, but now that I've re-read it 3 times I just... Yeah, I'm not sure that disappointment covers it.

Um, what is a "black event"?

I know - WTF is up with that "blacks" sentence? And yeah, I'm in the UK too so I hate it when people use "African Anerican" to mean black people in general, including those who aren't in any way American and may not be African. But this is a pretty specific African American thing, it seems to me - there is no…

I love the taste of Quorn but unfortunately I've developed an allergy to it over the past five years. It's... unpleasant. And now I'm that annoying asshole who people hate to have over for dinner!

Hahaha, GoodTimeGuy (a Texan) said the same exact thing!!

Actually, the UK is 87% white according to the 2011 census and it's very racially homogenous outside of London and some larger cities like Leicester, Manchester and Birmingham. In Scotland, the population is over 96% white and we still have more social and economic inequality and racism than any of Scandinavian…

Argh, one of my pet peeves is people who know nothing about Detroit talking like they have a clue.

I don't smoke - I have severe asthma and am allergic to cigarette smoke. My whole 30+ years of life I've had to make accommmodations for smokers, and it used to be a lot harder than it is now.

I think it's impractical and unfeasible to ban either cigarettes or pot from all apartment buildings. Individual apartment buildings can become smoke-free, and I think that's a great idea (as I said in my post above, it's generally not practical to do so in the UK where it's less common for apartment buildings to be…

Well, of course you did. I would do the same if I lived in a non-smoking building (non-smoking buildings are not very common here in the UK because apartment buildings don't tend to be owned by a single person/company the way they are in the US). I have no problem with that at all because in that case people voluntaril…

Not pushing you out of the discussion, but your allergic reaction needs to be weighed against the general population. I'm highly allergic to cigarette smoke and am severely asthmatic, but it's a fact of life that smokers can smoke in public and I'm okay with that because my needs have to be balanced against their…

I met mine on FetLife as well. He's both sane and full of common sense. But I think Fet (which I'm still a member of!) can be incredibly warping for people new to the scene, depending on your location. In my area the majority of kinky people on Fet are poly or in casual relationships and there's a lot of performative…

I'm pretty much the same. I'm more sexually attracted to women but more romantically attracted to men, so I identify as bisexual but hetero-romantic. For now.

Exactly. I probably leaned a little more pansexual earlier in my life but now I identify as bi because I'm primarily attracted to cisgender women and men.

Yeah, that happens a lot. I am bi, but not properly poly, and when I first met him it was difficult to get my (normally very progressive and LGBT-friendly) boyfriend to understand that if I was going to be playing with women, he wasn't going to get to watch. FetLife in particular is really bad for instilling that…

Like everyone's saying, that's a huge improvement over the clunky old UI.

That definitely varies by region, even within the UK. It's common in cities to have people believe that cats should be indoor-only due to traffic and the fact that they kill birds (since cities already have a hard enough time keep any kind of bird species that isn't either pigeon or seagull). You can't really win if…