Is this brand of 'respect' for 'life' totally unhindered by the idea of quality of life? Because I respect life so much that I want it to be of a meaningful quality, and therefore am opposed to needless suffering.

Shout out to couples divided on this Vday by their obligations to the service industry. May the tips be generous, the patrons be reasonable, and the fake Vday you have scheduled for the next mutual day off be filled with booze and chocolate and sextimes, or whatever you're into.

YUUUUUP.

Is anyone else startled today to look at their social media feeds, see all the valentine's day couples' pics, and notice how many romantic couples you know look so much alike they could be siblings?

Is it weird that I am more than comfortable with sex at any time, even on a first/only date, but feel dick pics should be reserved for committed relationships? I feel like unsolicited dick pics from someone i'm casually dating come off as way too aggressive.

Oh I did. Still though, it's a rough situation and a totally understandable lie.

I'm sorry you went through that, and I'm glad you seem to be in a safe, good place now.

I think you did the right thing. You didn't hurt anyone, and everything turned out fine.

Sometimes I feel like lies don't count as lies when the truth is nobody's business anyway.

I am so afraid of birds but I want to high five that bird right now.

Hello. You are correct.

Television writers: Not every sitcom needs a pregnancy/baby story line. Babies are cute but pretty boring, for real.

And in fact, almost none of them.

And in fact, almost none of them.

I would like to take this moment to say: what this delivery driver did was unprofessional and uncool and so shitty.

They didn't base their decision on that argument. It's just dicta.

Uh, my hair is infrequently brushed, but I would never pull this kind of shit.

Sometimes things like this pile up and I get to this weird state that's a combination of like, compassion fatigue and nihilism and numbness and its not that I don't care, it's like I can't really react with any kind of emotional response. And it's at those time that all I can think is just:

When I click on stories like this and read that paparazzi are involved, I get a sharp twinge of guilt for reading sites like this one that create demand and value around dangerous invasions of privacy.

Yes. The teachers may assign more weight to the boys' efforts toward a correct answer, or make more favorable assumptions about what boys "meant" where the work shown is incomplete or unclear.