Could you explain the issue to me? I read the letter and it seems they are upset that there was an association with HIV/AIDS (and i understand the problem with that connection), but also that their heads are cut off in the picture? (plz correct me if i’m wrong). it seems like with the latter, wouldn’t it be more…

True. I think his faux outrage about the bugs is a manifestation of the deep denial he’s in about the true horror of what he’s done.

A friend of mine wanted to major in computer science, but when she visited the computer science department at the college she’d gotten in to, the (male) professor she met with said, “You don’t want to be in this department. It’s all guys. Women just don’t have what it takes. You’d be miserable and then you’d fail out…

“She’s not the worst person on the planet” is hands down the greatest compliment you can receive from a person you like. Calvin Harris’ next step, probably, is to get surgery to carve his pupils into heart shapes to fully express his love.

Filling up a joint? You get horny when you make jazz cigarettes?

This is true, but it’s not like movies where we’re somehow oblivious to them. We’re aware of each and every one of our “wtf, why even?” random boners. Pop one hand in a pocket, suck in the tummy, and it’s disappeared into our waistband. This is a problem that doesn’t exist.

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...I might have to invest in this.

I show wood at board meetings to display dominance.

Maybe if Bruce wouldn’t post about it on facebook every hour.

I think it’s easier for everyone to turn this into a question of whether Joan Jett — a famous person we’ve all heard of — did something ethically/humanly questionable back when she was 16. But what we really need to be focusing on is the grown man and rapist who committed these atrocious acts. Not only did he…

The weirdest porn I ever saw was just some middle-aged bloke masterbating while crying. Then I realised I’d not turned my tablet on.

I may have searched for it once... when I was like 14, and a 25-year-old porn star seemed super-old.

Westworld would be a more fun premise from the other point of view... follow the AI characters as they awaken into a world in which they are unreal.

Aaand that would be Spider-Man before his Uncle Ben is shot. Amirite?

I kind of took that as, “Whatever you do, don’t half-ass it. Either be Superman or don’t.”

A Pannibel, if you will.

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