Meek Mill sounds like a sleepy English town.

What is it with people that randomly flip on the “IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, LEAVE” mentality when people criticize America? I guarantee you that people don’t flip out like that in Canada, for instance.

Pack yourself up and leave, you asshat. I’m not any less an American than you are, just because I would like our country to be a decent place to live.

They don’t HAVE TO take the leave, but if they don’t, those months are forfeited. It’s a “use them or lose them” deal, but no one can force anyone to go on leave. They’re earmarked for the parent who takes the least leave (yes, the benefits apply to same sex couples too) In cases of single parents, those months are…

Ew dude. Ew. You really went there?

I’m a flight attendant that flies for United Express. *that being said, i do not represent United** I have never heard or read any policy about no unopened cans because danger. If someone requests a full can of soda and we have plenty of the product we give it to them. Usually opened and poured over ice but that’s…

Yeah, I’ve had similarly bad experiences on United. I’m white, so I get a pass from them, but I was flying from Dubai once and seated next to a woman from India. She didn’t speak English, but her son who she was flying to meet, had instructed her to show her itinerary to someone near her and a notebook with his…

he flight attendant told her that she could not give her one but then handed an unopened can of beer to a man seated nearby. Ahmad questioned the flight attendant.

The locks are actually threatening the whole structure, because the bridge wasn’t built to accommodate that kind of additional weight in extended periods of time. So the locks are not only really expensive to the city of Paris because railings are crumbling regularly and new ones have to be bought, but they're…

I’ve been hearing about the dangers and structural damage concerns for at least 3 years and there have been several expensive public campaigns to stop it, so yeah, I think there’s a certain amount of frustration that it’s an ongoing issue. People tried this shit on the Brooklyn Bridge and NYPD was like “hell nah,…

Sure, that’s a reasonable concern, and if I were a Parisian government official with this knowledge, I’d enforce a ban in the interest of protecting the bridge. But folks are practically spitting bile over this and it’s weird.

Lol, but London is definitely one of the cleanest cities I’ve ever seen. I’ve lived there for 8 years and now any time I go back to my hometown of San Francisco I’m viscerally struck by how filthy it is in comparison.

So, you’re suggesting that people have been able to experience and enjoy romance in Paris without purchasing, placing and leaving behind as structurally compromising litter, a mass produced padlock (the longstanding, international symbol of the the truest of true loves)?

Bridges are structured to handle certain weight loads, rated for foot and/or vehicle traffic. The extreme weight of the locks compromises the structural integrity of already old bridges. Expecting the Pontes Des Artes, a 213 yr old pedestrian bridge, to hold upwards of ~28 tons of additional weight seems...unwise. It…

Excuse me but have you ever been to the pont des arts in Paris? Losing part of the fence is a problem. It’s over a swiftly moving river that has a decent amount of traffic. Saying it’s no big deal would be like saying it’s not a big deal if a section of the Brooklyn Bridge rail caved in.

Paris is beautiful. Cheap padlocks en masse, not so much.

Wait. The smoking, totaled car didn't catch her eye but a couple little bracelets did?

“While it’s a great story and all, Beyonce has the best light-up bracelets of all time.”

It is a huge problem if it breaks and drops on a passing boat, or while people are leaning against it. It’s a hazard.

Stuff like this always reminds me of the time when I went to London. I wanted to visit Abbey Road and did and saw all the messages written on the gates outside and then thought, you know, why don’t I take my shoes off and walk across the road.