Shitty Boom Ops caused those dents.
Source: I had some on my A-10.

Worst boarding experience while also being the most thrilling? Boarding a 747 in Beijing in the early 2000s. Plane was late, so they wanted to go fast...some kind of bell rung at the ticketing counter and there was an immediate mosh pit of a few hundred jammed up to get through the door. Go through the ticketing,…

They're actually not distinguishing like that. You follow a pretty distinctive script with survey questions and the response choices were"often, sometimes, rarely, or never" later dichotomized into any/none. It really blurs the lines with studies like this - what you're talking about is more in open ended question…

Boobs for one night? Can we please please please start referring to this procedure as "Cinderella Tits"?

The copying of rap imagery and attitudes is not the most graceful thing ever (and, wow, that second Toyota ad was much worse than the original), but I welcome the fact that parenting by fathers is being presented as cool and fun and goes-without-saying, because, in my culture, dads were distant and mothers did all the…

Here is a gentleman, probably white (I can't honestly confirm that), carrying a gun, who can spew out every legal and constitutional protection possible. They let him go his way, and take his gun with him. I may not like guns but I do like people who know their rights. Cops fear people who know their rights. But…

I had this dude on the street ask me if he could talk to me. It was the most refreshing thing ever. I was immediately aware that he was interested, but it felt like I was in control of the exchange. Maybe it was his tone as well as what he said, but I was like, boys, take note. This is what works.
The best part? …

Yeah, that's the problem, is that the women who complain about getting complimented in grocery stores (like myself) aren't looking to strike up a conversation and meet a new soulmate. We just need some groceries. We don't want to be picked up, we don't want to make some small talk and see if personalities click.…

I would totally go for the carrot-conversation-man, that situation sounds adorable.

Except that your third paragraph presupposes that we can tell people who won't take a cue apart from people who will, before giving the cues.

You shouldn't judge someone for being at Taco Bell if they're drunk. You should only judge them for being at Taco Bell if they're sober.

I totally agree, and I would also add that teenagers learn a LOT from working shitty, minimum wage jobs. Maybe not about their potential career, but about how to be in the workforce. I was a grocery store cashier all through high school, and that taught me more about accountability and personal responsibility than any…

Oh please. I was everyone's 'worst roommate ever.'

L'Oreal giveth, and L'Oreal taketh away. So it is, and so shall it ever be.

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I'd rather be someplace with a few rational enclaves and then vast wildernesses of jackasses than live somewhere that is just All Jackass, All the Time like sweet home Alabama here. Spend a few weeks down here and you'll be pining for a place that at least looks good on paper. I'd love to look good on paper!

Same for Oregon. Portland is liberal*, but you get outside the metro areas and it gets real conservative real quick.

My gut reaction is to say whatever location has me in it. I'm kind of a big deal asshole. I kid, I kid. I'm not sanctimonious. I'm a holier-than thou, self-righteous narcissist. It's a totally different thing.

Democratically elected government =/= regime. No argument that the US has done some horrid things, but we're still not a dictatorship.

Just to add: An Yin's hypothesis on how Valles Marineris formed is only one explanation, and not very widely accepted by planetary geologists. For example, Jeff Andrews-Hanna (Colorado Schol of Mines) just wrote a trio of well-researched papers in Journal of Geophysical Research arguing that the formation of Valles…