Most arguments are dominance moves, started by a person who believes they can easily overcome the other simply for fun and to make it more easily repeated later on.

Don’t add to inflammatory rhetoric.

Don’t plant the idea. Just speak out in cases of gratuitous violence no matter what the context.

So don’t go to the movies or buy the DVDs.

I scarcely recognized her, and then only by elimination.

Echos Dylan’s song “I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now...”

Still sounds like doing it wrong.

The problem isn’t giving a tip, it’s not having a standard system for arriving at it. You don’t want to look either stingy or extravagant.

How can anyone be so stupid as to text stuff like that in public transport?.... But then he does look kind of pinheaded.

Wait’ll he’s dead and bury him there anyhow. What’s he gonna do about it then?

What will she do now?

I have the same right.

Your last paragraph is based on self-hatred. It has been cultivated for years with the purpose of undermining confidence.

I have no control over what goes on in any of those countries. I don’t need to be flogged with faux guilt about them because I didn’t set those countries up and can’t do a thing about them.

Then those countries need to get it together and make people want to stay home.

If the Mexican government would fix their country so that people born and raised there want to stay there the problem would be largely solved.

Looming in their own backlit shadows, evil intimations of eyeslits, silent in their rage and hate....

Next stage: blaming foreigners for driving people crazy.

It’s something to do.

I don’t remember every hearing of her, and, yes, I was around in the 80s.