I submit to you that often, the people involved know full well they look like fools, but just stay because that is a pain they have learned to tolerate, and the fear of being alone (and a failure, loser, worthless, all the other lies) is too overwhelming to consider.

I was in my 30s before I could stand to be alone - long string of really unhealthy relationships to prove it. Long story short, broke up, got laid off, went back to school, got therapy (critical part there), learned to be alone for a while which enabled me to finally find someone really good for and to me, which took…

+1 for Thomas reference. Just because it gave me feels for when my daughter was little.

I appreciate the advice!

All the stars - I live in Nashville now, and when people complain about traffic, it is 400 I invoke when I correct them. I don’t miss that asphalt game of Russian roulette one bit.

Enjoyed this post a lot - I love a good buddy story.

Do people not have vasectomies because of the pain, or because of some perceived loss of manhood associated with (even unwanted) virility?

More than anything else, this kind of crap is why I am a vocal atheist.

Far be it from me to tell you not to post, but how will you ever top this? Maybe just drop the mic and go out a damn legend, seriously.

I know I’m supposed to take the high road, but seriously - the stuff I hope happens to him in prison would get you banned from 4chan. There are few things more despicable than abusing the tremendous power of invested public trust and authority, period - to do this with it, I have no words. Damn this reporter too, for…

I appreciate your vivid and accurate metaphor. But I’m sort of pissed at you for making me read that sentence. Misplaced anger I’ll admit, but there it is.

How does this not have more stars? It is a meta-kinja commentary.

Not just the labor to assemble it, but the labor in designing it, engineering it, testing it, marketing it, transporting it to the end user - all of which do directly apply to games as well, even if ‘assembly’ in the conventional sense is at most burning the discs.

I’ve got to say there’s a theme often running through the arguments defending piracy, about the inflation of game prices through DLC packs, etc. Many advocates use this pricing to justify piracy as some kind of democratized resistance - like it’s a public service. It’s usually framed in this sort of breathless “evil…

Thanks! That added so much to the discussion!

So you came here, to a post about shit stories, to make a backhanded swipe at someone’s parenting?

Two kinds of dirty dancing . . .

Don’t I have the right to tell Amazon that their employment of Clarkson affects my willingness to do business with them? Is that not what the petition represents, at its heart?

So exactly what the hell are you making your comments with - did you solder up a motherboard out in the garage to make your 50 redundant posts into this thread? Or are you on a ‘slave labor’ produced piece of electronics just like the rest of us?

We have tons of legendary Bourbon and Tenneesee whisky producers in this area - the vast majority of us know how to have a proper drink.