But that’s what I like about him? Like take me to your Shire, Ed.

Now I feel guilty for thinking about his looks, but I think he’s adorable.

I dunno man- something about his Hobbity face. That’s a goddamn Shire mug right there.

THANK YOU. I am an editor and this is my number one English language pet peeve. And it’s becoming more and more common. I used to mark the use of “female” with “??? Human? Baboon? Pufferfish?.” The writers I was editing for were not amused.

This comment deserves a Pulitzer.

That’s not funny or clever, and I don’t care if George Carlin said it in the 80s. He’s dead and times have changed.

I chortled.

Female is for animals and plumbing. Women is for humans.

Right? I hate people who tell their partners what their friends say about them. I have one friend who does that. Not only is it a betrayal of your friend, it’s mean to tell someone that someone else said something bad about them. My friend can complain about her husband all she wants but I ain’t saying shit but…

Overall, bride seems very immature. She admits that she let her anger at fiancé pile up without telling him, which led to a temporary breakup. She seems to be letting her irritation at the cousin fester as well, and by letting fiancé in on a conversation that happened while they were broken up (which isn’t fair to…

I was at the doctor’s today and I’m a little loopy. On the way out dandilyn saw a sign for “Dr Lipshitz”. With the facial expression of a 6 year old boy, he blurts out “Well if his lip shits, do you think his ass whistles?” I laughed for about 10 minutes. Now that you mention talking out of your ass, I’m off again.

I am very curious if Engaged Monster spent the two weeks they were broken up bitching to her cousin about her fiance. I have been in the position with friends in on again off again relationships and they expect you to just forget all the bad shit they decided to unload on you and act like you’re an asshole if you ever…

Yeahhhh, it is never a good idea to include someone who hates your fiance — and called you up to tell you! — in your wedding party. You’re, like, triple-dog daring them to keep their mouth shut through a lot of celebrating and task mastering. I don’t care what facade she’s putting up now, there’s a better chance than…

When people bitch about their family or their partner (present or recently past), you nod. You can agree but you can't go adding new grievances. That's just the rule.

I don’t think this is that difficult of a question. The cousin shouldn’t be in the wedding because one of the people doesn’t want her to be. The cousin can come to wedding and be a part of it, but not in the wedding party. The cousin doesn’t owe the fiance an apology because she was speaking to the bride, not him. The…

“Male” and “female” are adjectives; “men” and “women” are nouns. Plus, “female” tends to be used in a degrading fashion, IMO.

This is true. I sometimes get itchy to say my piece while consciously not letting myself interrupt somebody, that’s how ingrained it can become as a thing that’s ok for you to do (if you’re a guy, anyway). I’ve also had several moments of saying “JESUS FUCK LET HER TALK” to other guys who are generally quite…

My boss is a woman, and in one of her first staff meetings when she first started at my office, she was interrupted by a male engineer (who, as it happens, is under her management and not the other way around). I don’t remember exactly what she said, but it was something to the effect of, “Please do not speak over me…

Then I suppose there is no refuge left for us white men in conversational bonding. The time of our people is over; we shall fade into the West.

Totally agree. One of my friends broke up with her cheating boyfriend (like multiple, random craig’s list “casual encounters” kind of thing). We were all supportive, like, “Yeah, he’s a loser and a skeevy perv, good riddance, he always creeped me out anyway.” Annnnddddd....then she married him the following year. To…