I'm a little confused about this one. I get that Mary was annoying, but what did her annoyingness have to do with gross rapey Tyler? (I believe they were related but I don't see how?). And by 'hazy' do you mean 'drunk' or like he roofied you? Either way it's still rapey though...and what does that have to do with why…

...why?

I have taken overnight train rides alone in India...not so bad. Really! I was booked in a compartment with a nice family who basically adopted me and gave me snacks for the duration of the 1.5 day ride from Chennai to Bhubaneshwar.

And Indonesia (not Bali where bikinis are a thing, more like southern Sumatra) is NOT a place where you want to show off your buttcheeks and inner thigh.

Apparently "nauseous" means "makes people nauseated", not feeling sick yourself.

And fuck him for saying what he said in the first place.

I once met a guy like that - the type who thinks 'friendly conversation' means 'saying snarky or attack-y things to you'. His deal was all 'there is never any reason to be anonymous on the Internet, you lose your credibility' and refusing to believe that some women are anonymous online because hello rape threats and…

No, best parenting moment. I don't plan to have kids but I would probably say something like this.

There's another one I have to tell. I love my dad, but, he is...well, unabashedly himself. Which comes with some good points but one of the bad traits he has is he tends to expect other people to wait on him. Could be the generation, but probably just him. This was not made better by the fact that mom always did (side…

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I have that hair too. On the day I get a haircut it looks great, otherwise it looks like crap all the time and nothing helps. And I buy the really good stuff, like Aveda.

I did something similar on a hiking trail in Indonesia. The way up was fine, the way back, the guide took us down the wrong trail, which was far too muddy to walk comfortably, and added like 1.3 miles to the hike after we were exhausted and the sun was basically set.

A dead fish or two, maybe some ambergris.

Can I tell a nice one?

I was teaching every day at this week-long English (as in ESL) business skills "camp" for accountants in Taiwan in some hotel. Every day was a new seminar on English-language business skills, like presentations, socializing, meetings etc. I was getting sicker and sicker with a nasty chest cold…

I'm with JBForum, that whole "but free market because free! and market! and we can do it and the guvmint can't! Because free! GIVE US YOAR MONAY DOLLARZ NAO!!" is a pile of bull. You major telecom companies had years to make things better, and you have not delivered. There is no reason to trust that you will now. Burn.

Then it is a terrible sounding bit o' shorthand. Sometimes it just doesn't pay off to do this. WeHo sounds terrible. When will the madness end?

"WeHo?"

Maybe you ho, daahling, but *we* do not ho.

Walking around randomly singing lines and snippets from songs for no good reason. Which would be fine if they were all like well-known Top 40 crap or something like that, but we're talking things like the Rob Cantor "Shia LaBoeuf" song (especially "Wait he isn't dead, Shia surprise!") or the "You've Got AIDS" song…

When I was single I would sometimes spend a good half hour or so curled up in bed (so I could be in a comfy position with good reach) with a tissue...

Not sure I agree about that. A New Yorker would probably tell you to straight up fuck off. A New Englander would say nothing at all, might not even throw shade when you're away, but you know by their thin-lipped silence and lack of further social entreaties beyond what is necessary not to cause a ruckus in one's…