I'm with you. Going back to update every year is ridiculous and crazy, but the actual offense of making a paying, drinking customer also pay for bottled water? Screw them.

Sorry, I'm on Team Hydration here. They should have given him a free glass of water. Now, updating every year for years afterwards is ridiculous, but the original crime? I wouldn't go back either.

It is possible to marry and ignore the BS, and just have a fun party. Really!

I think basically everyone commenting here hopes and actively supports - and may be actively fighting for - that to change and for everyone to have the option.

Is there a reason why you didn't...not do that? Leave the decorations up and let them deal with the consequences?

Depends - if you are alone and you don't want to be, then getting married doesn't mean "missing out on being alone" in the way that it would to someone who enjoys their solitude. I have single-by-choice friends who would miss out on that if they got married...whereas I don't feel that I am, being married. But not…

Personally i think marriage is great. It's all about who you're married to and why. A typical marriage with typical gender roles, while appealing to some, is not appealing t0 me (or my husband)...but if you're married to someone because you love them, and are dedicated to them, so much that you basically consider them…

I really agree with the part of this where you point out that single people who want to marry don't want to get married just to "be married" - I totally disagree with the societal narrative that insists that people (mostly women, but also men) who want marriage want it only for its social cachet, or the fancy party…

this is also why I like A Song of Ice and Fire - a lot of people hate Sansa, but she's an actual person who reacts pretty much how you expect most people would - by being hurt and doing the best she can. And Arya, for also reacting in a way you could imagine (a pre-teen seeing all that carnage upon her family turning…

Even if the rate IS lower, that's more likely because women aren't as likely to marry the shitty abusive guys. If more women get married, it'll be more likely that some of them will be married to shitty abusive guys (or the # of shitty abusive husbands will go up in accordance with the marriage rate, at least). So…

Blasphemy is not real, but people do have strong feelings on their own faiths and it's rude - even if it's legal - to refuse to acknowledge that. I don't think "secular society" means what you think it means, and just because something is technically legal doesn't make it polite. I'm basically the least godly person…

I don't think GoT is making those things mainstream and acceptable.

It has nothing to do with Asian women's attractiveness. Women of all races have attractive qualities because people have attractive qualities in general (perhaps some more than others in the eyes of various people depending on their individual tastes and sociocultural preferences).

Agree completely. If you appreciate it, have studied it, believe in it, know a lot about it, own and display those images respectfully etc. I think it's fine. It's just when it's all "look at this Tibetan thangka that I am using as a bedspread...haha that's like a Buddhist thing lol" that I get all OH HELL NO. And I'm…

I feel like liking an art form and decorating with it is not the same as "decorating" with someone else's religious symbols. And you probably know more about the Japanese art you like than one of those "I'm sooooo into like Hinduism and yoga, I decorated my whole house with Vishnus and Buddhas" types (who DO exist)…

I have trouble telling plastic-surgeried We Look Like TV People people apart.

I think the difference is in what attracts you, and how you project that. If you're attracted to one race because you just are, because a constellation of looks-based things really does it for you...or just pheremonally it works for you, well, okay. As long as you're not writing off millions of people based on THEIR…

Haa! Love it.

Oh, the first time I got high I think the goods were laced with something, because I "kept seeing the galaxies on the lampshade move" - - there were no "galaxies" on the lampshade. Then on the way home I shouted "I'M SO HIGH" near the cops, to my friend's mortification. But they were cool. She eventually forgave me. I…

One time I visited my friend in another state. She didn't smoke, but her brother...whoa. So he and his girlfriend invite me into his room and we do several bong shots in a row, which is far more weed than I'd ever smoked at once at any point (I was generally a one-or-two-bowls-with-friends type before). Well, this…