That’s sort of my takeaway from this. If you take the idea of the actual proposal out of it, it’s just a boyfriend buying a ring for his deceased girlfriend to be buried with. I think few people would object to that, and I know of numerous instances where relatives/loved ones have bought tokens of love to slip into…

I think the only thing that bothers me is that we know about this. If the boyfriend had a good relationship with her parents and quietly went to them and asked if he could buy a ring, and they were ok with it, and if they had planned on engagement, ok. I just don’t know why it has to be on social media and in the…

San Francisco is paying for it because its voters elected representatives who decided they wanted their jurisdiction to pay for it. That’s democracy at work. They could have also chosen to build a monument to a prominent local citizen or to Goldilocks and the Three Bears if they thought that was fitting.

In addition to the points made by Vulcans and Provost, I'll also point out that Asian-Americans are, in fact, tax paying citizens, and so using tax funds to pay for something important to their communities isn't really misplaced. This is a part of American history because they are part of America.

Or if Israel had a monument to the victims of the Holocaust? If there’s a large concentration of people who experienced something awful, even in another country, I don't think it's unreasonable to recognize their shared past.

She made us feel like our home was invaded by strangers, and she made us strangers to it.

Obvs. She is a “on the cheap” tourism city-backpacker, you are a backcountry-type backpacker. Isn’t it cool how in the english language one word can have two different meanings?

If you really don’t understand why that kind of thing doesn’t work for everyone, you’re really kind of clueless. There are a LOT of people who would ideally like to do that kind of thing, and can’t for a host of reasons. (Did you see Lauren’s note about what you’re saying being a firey hot take?) People’s reasons for…

Just gotta say as a former wedding photographer...these things are godsends when it comes to brides who can’t articulate with words what kind of ‘look’ they’re going for in their photos.

I read downthread someone complaining about a survey a wedding photographer gave them asking about ‘what kind of bride are you’.…

Hi, Lauren! It’s really fun reading about your wedding-planning progress - I love hearing about real bride’s feelings as they try to plan their days. As a gown designer and the owner of an independent bridal salon, I have to jump in and defend inspiration shoots. We wedding pros know that shoots are often…

Um, I’m okay with MRAs narrowing their chances of marrying/fucking any women at all. This sounds like risk reduction.

So many of their complaints are centered on the fact that the kid/his parents/the media/Obama didn’t talk to them first or whatever. It must be really tough to have your actions speak for themselves and not get the chance to give some bullshit non-apology excuse.

If you stripped the microwave down to its component parts and used them to turn the housing of your oven into a working microwave, that would in fact be pretty cool. And if you did it at 14, it would be exceptionally cool. And more to the point, it wouldn’t be anything any reasonable adult could investigate and think…

I’ll tell you right now, we’ve heard more from the media than the child ever released to the police when we were asking him questions. He told a lot more to the reporters than he ever told to the police.

Ok, I’m going to be objective here. Sure, if you just glanced at the clock, I could see how you’d wonder if it was a bomb.

I’ve posted this here multiple times, but it’s worth repeating;

Because we live in a civilized society and do not lower us to the level of the people we prosecute? It’s also a formal requirement for the accused to be healthy enough to stand trial.

Oh, My God. This guy.

At the moment or when I win my Emmy? Right now I’m wearing the ripped up tee shirt that Kim K was wearing with a leather skirt the other day. (but in grey, not baby caca brown). If I was there, probably this: