My house was burglarized a couple years ago — the perp left a perfect muddy footprint on my kitchen tile. I did not even bother calling the cops. I called my boss to report the stolen company-owned laptop. Corporate security made me call the cops so I’d have a police report for them to file with the insurance claim.
Also a j-school graduate and I agree with your assessment completely.
I was thinking of exactly this.
That is one of the worst possible ways to try to silence women’s voices. Maybe that anger and vitriol is there because the other poster maybe feels you aren’t listening. Maybe it has nothing to do with you at all. Maybe the poster you’re telling to calm down has been fucking told to calm down on the daily her entire…
I went from long, flowing locks to short bob, to pixie and now I’ve grown out my bangs to my chin and undercut/shaved the rest. The long bangs are teal and purple right now. I can’t decide if I want to stick with being a peacock at my next appointment or go with another set of colors. I’m thinking of going blue and…
See, I think this is a poor fighting tactic. Guys are conditioned for the obvious reason to protect their balls and it’s the first thing most women think of when they feel inclined to inflict violence on a man. Men look for it and most women are not fight- or combat-trained and don’t know how to not telegraph their…
At least humans opt in and can opt out if they want to. I’d much, much rather see people voluntarily sign up for this sort of thing than see dogs be thrown into a fighting pit against their will, their instincts, and best interests. Fighting dogs do not have a choice. People do and if this sort of thing is what people…
I did join the Satanic Temple. After visiting their website, and carefully reading their tenets, I signed right up! I have no problem with any of this. At all. I note there is nothing about god or satan or the flying spaghetti monster or Thor or anyone else, in here at all:
So. Am I the only one who blames the trope that “women secretly want to be raped” on this literary genre? The only reason I clicked to read this article is because I thought the discussion would be about how these “bodice rippers” contribute to rape culture and look what we’ve done to ourselves. If someone grabbed me…
Absolutely. Why is it you think no politicians anywhere ever, ever talk about education? Sure, GW started NCLB and now we have this big assessment fiasco because testing the shit out of kids doesn’t improve education at all. Politicians WANT the general public to be ignorant and uninformed because it benefits them…
I also blame YouTube, which people seem to think is god’s gospel truth, nevermind that any video can be biased, faked, slanted, whathaveyou. Anyone who cites a YouTube video as a corroborative, verifiable source of truth has absolutely no critical thinking skills whatsoever. 90% of YouTube is some nutter spouting…
Right?! But one thing the crazy-eyes lady said was that voting is a privilege. No. It’s a goddamn RIGHT.
Your post makes The Cider House Rules look like a cakewalk. I’m so sorry it has to be so awful for the employees there.
I worked with a woman whose parents were/are Pentacostal missionaries in India. They sent her and her two sisters off to some American-based boarding school in the Himalayas. She didn’t seem to have much trauma associated with it and is still friends with her schoolmates, who are now scattered all over the world. She…
How does that explanation about the pageantry of the Oval office meet & greets explain why “nobody bones” there? This makes no sense. Eventually, the WH closes for business and people go home and such. So you’re telling me no Pres + Wife ever snuck down there at 2 a.m. for a little desktop boning?
I’m in the grays, so this story will never be appreciated but here goes anyway...
I’ve been a member of the Straight Dope Message Board for years — more than a decade, almost two already — and that has always been my go-to site for discussing complicated shows. Until Westworld. Redditors are SO much better at this than Dopers. I’ve been very disappointed with the SDMB discussions. The current…
If all the techs are hosts, then seeing the butchers wheel Maeve around wouldn’t look like anything to them. I think when Maeve got her hands on the console, she learned what we don’t know yet -- I think all the techs and possibly also Ford are all hosts.
Never underestimate the power of evangelical brainwashing.