I always guess that they're Canadian. Americans don't get offended by being mistaken for Canadian (and will sometimes go with it), Canadians tend to get annoyed at being called American.

The whole concept of Asia is weird in anything other than a geological sense.
"Lets lump together Syrians, Sri Lankans, Japanese and Philipinos! That totally makes sense! They have heaps in common!"

Hang on, so it's okay to insult people a small number of people? By that logic it'd be fine to mock children who have some rare and horrible disease, as long as there's only a few hundred of them in the world. Or Grenfel Towers fire survivors, because there's not many of them either. (I assume this is not what you're…

Yeah, I thought about making an additional point that just because you think a relationship is exploitative, doesn't mean it is. One of the arguments used against legalisation of gay sex was that predatory homos would be able to exploit vulnerable young people, for example. Whether something is inherently exploitative…

"Mr Snrub has been sexulating with his living human subjects again."
"Goddamn it, can we cut his grant?"

Any guy in his 30s who wants to get involved with teenagers is not desirable in my book.

That's not a fetish or a kink, that's the mainstream standard of female attractiveness.

I'm pretty relaxed about any age difference as long as both people are in at least their mid 20s. I assume your relationship sometimes has difficulties that similarly-aged couples don't, but lots of couples have unusual things to deal with, and if it works well for you then that's great. Not that you need my approval…

There's a big difference between 'this is weird because it will dilute the purity of the master race' and 'this is weird because it makes one of the people vulnerable to exploitation'. But yes, if someone is judging a relationship as weird without even questioning why they think it's weird, or why the weirdness…

I actually had to look at their other posts to be sure. But identifying as communist was a bit of a giveaway.

It's not sad to want to have sex with someone you actually like - I would hope that that's normal.

Here in NZ there's been a big debate about that in relation to prison staff. (Google 'no pride in prisons' if you're interested, you might need to add 'new zealand' if it's an international thing.) I think the compromise that's been reached is that they can take part if they can show that they've made clear progress…

"I mean, sure, I could have dated Lucy from Accounts, but she's kind of got a monobrow."

For a few horrible seconds I thought you were serious.

These discussions always go to sounding fairly quickly.

Yeah, I'm always suspicious of anyone aged about 30 or more who wants to get involved with someone who's 22 or younger. I'm sure there are exceptions, but it seems like it's usually at least one of the following scenarios: 1) the older person is emotionally immature and relates best to other emotionally immature…

Thanks. I can see why it would be annoying - there's nothing worse than someone who comes on the boards and basically tells everyone that they're wrong to like the thing they like. (I watch The Americans, we get that a lot.) Anyway, I did try not to be *that* person, but I can see why you thought I was.

Because your post was directed at me specifically, and I thought it might turn into an interesting conversation. So far your side of it has mostly been insisting that I've somehow done you wrong by posting a question you don't like on a public internet forum. So that hasn't lived up to expectations. You don't have a…

I'm sorry you find it exhausting to click on the little 'minimise' icon when you encounter posts that annoy you. Have you seen a doctor about that? It sounds debilitating.

Ahh. The Game of Thrones one is the only one I've played, and I was badly distracted by how weird all the characters looked.