For the reals? Your sentence literally makes no sense, completely negating your non-point. Please go away.

To preface, TL;DR: everyone who has a gun or handles guns or lives in a household with guns should have to take a safety course (this type of safety course is usually more theory than practice, so no gun necessary, actually) so that they don't stupidly drive with a loaded gun and shoot their jaw off, like an idiot.…

I loved her books when I was younger! Even though a lot of them were written in the 60s and 70s, they aged very well.

Are you Mr. Dforce in disguise? Because that would be his *precise* reaction, and I've had to talk him down from such things in the past :P

Shit is absurd, right? I used to have the same problem as Misfit...except throw on the fact that I grew up in the Southwest where there is sun all the time, and 2/3 of the residents of my small town were either Native American or Hispanic. I got a lot of shit for being china-doll pale, but I also observed a lot of…

Because people choose and say words purposefully. Sure, there are words that mean nothing ("like", "um", "totally," especially when overused), but just because a word is an expletive doesn't mean it is devoid of value or meaning. Especially in younger generations, even cultured and highly-educated people swear, so I…

Oh man, the OED. I was too lazy to look it up, but thanks for letting me know! That's one of the bad things about these pending comments; a zillion people said the same thing as me, and I didn't know it at the time.

Totally is! That's one of those books that I read when I'm at my mom's house, even though I've read sixteen thousand times.

Aw, yiss. That cracks me up! I mean, it's just as logical for it to refer to status among other rooms as status of the person sleeping in the room.

I wonder if the association of master bedroom with "slave master" instead of "fancy rich boy with a big house and a butler but not actual slaves" is geographically based. The survey was given to DC based architects and published in a Baltimore-based publication. I grew up in AZ, where I was not physically surrounded…

I feel like a dipshit because it never occurred to me that the term "master bedroom" was referring to *that kind* of master... I suppose I've always associated it with English manor houses. I think I read too many 19th century English novels when I was a child ("Master Colin" and "Mistress Mary," anyone?)