Disagree. While it is pertinent that England wanted to continue, it should not be on individual teams to enforce the UEFA’s anti-racism policy. First of all, if you’re asking athletes, who are notorious for getting tunnel-visioned about competing and trying to win (even at their own expense) to shut down a competition…

No such thing as a ‘reasonable exception’ to “Mom, we discussed that we would agree before you posted.” I am totally anti the “let’s coddle the kids and let them do anything they want,” but this isn’t that. Apple is old enough to understand what she’s asking of her mom, and old enough to suffer consequences of what…

If you ‘get it from the kid’s perspective,’ then how do you not also agree that GP was wrong to have posted it?  Not saying GP deserves to be dragged into next week, but Apple’s reaction was completely reasonable. Not sure I understand your position...teens can be surly sometimes so no harm, no foul?

Yeah, I realized as I finished the post before that I was using you as an outlet for my frustration with apple...again, I apologize. Apple *is* out here selling defective products, but that’s obviously not your fault :-) It’s just that it’s sliiiiightly humiliating to go to apple to replace a product that broke…

As I said, there are many hundreds of reviews *on apple’s website* decrying the dongle’s fragility. I spent an hour reading some of them just yesterday afternoon - put in “apple dongle review” into the search engine of your choice, click on the one that takes you to apple, and behold.

Correct, no dongle included with my XR. “If you want to use those headphones with this phone, it’s up to you to find a solution.” But...there is no solution. The dongle is crap, and apple has actively changed the iOS such that no 3rd party dongles can be used. It’s bullshit that apple is not out there actively saying…

This.  I’m actively coming to terms with the fact that I basically need a dongle subscription service.  It sucks.  But, as you say, I’m a willful sucker. 

The dongle is bullshit.  Fragile as hell. 

I’m sorry, the apple dongle is utter bullshit.  They need to be replaced every few months.  I just upgraded to XR about a month and a half ago and my dongle is already malfunctioning.  Went online to apple to replace it, lo and behold, 90% of the >700 reviews describe dongles malfunctioning the exact same way, within…

Can literally feel my adrenaline going as I sit here imagining this happening to my nephew in front of me.  I would turn into a literal wolverine.

Legit LOL @ “Smoking Jay”

This. I’m constantly making this point. The rest of the world hasn’t progressed past racial arithmetic, but they laugh at us as we make mistakes doing linear algebra. Call us when you get past long division, rest of the world.

This. Everything I’ve read about the reason Brits of *all* races get cast in roles as Americans is that they’re cheap. It’s not just black Americans vs. black Brits, but it’s particularly annoying when it is because...well, I’m black American (Nigerian-American, to be exact).

This is the smartest comment/angle about stand-your-ground shootings that I’ve read in a while. Thanks!

LOL

This. Switched out managers in a theoretically non-rebuilding, let’s-just-move-one-or-two-chess-pieces-and-win-it-all-next-year offseason, and yet...#notwinningyet. Hmm. Maybe it *wasn’t* the manager?

Thanks for this!!!

Huh? Cosmetic surgery is not BDD (I assume you are referring to body dysmorphic disorder?) An excessive amount of cosmetic surgery can be a sign of BDD. But equating the two is nonsense. Furthermore, we *treat* BDD...because it’s a mental illness. So not a benign thing to “let that man live” with. We also wouldn’t…

The movie was awful.  The worst movie I’ve made the mistake of seeing at theater in years.

This, nailed it.  Before a first date, I usually go get a fresh blowout - $50.  Use expensive makeup, shave, spend at least an additional hour getting ready...I know I’m a little extra, but a) it’s nice to look my best, and b) I feel like it’s a nice thing to do for the guy.  But, fair or not, it definitely makes me…