@mustlovebooknerd: Just an update - I got a response from MTA about the subway platforms. It is below:

@NefariousNewt: Just another reminder why you are so very much hearted. :-)

@dirtnap: But as this discussion points out, if both parties were intoxicated, then technically neither of them are able to give consent and rape charges based solely on intoxication fly out the window. That's what the point of this whole discussion thread has been.

@dirtnap: Yes, but the issue being discussed in this subthread (my response to BlueJeans) of a thread is about whether you can call it rape when two people who are both intoxicated have sex. She said there should be a line (say Person A is a little intoxicated while Person B is falling down drunk - Person A should be…

@BlueJeans: But how do you draw the line? Does there have to be a 2-drunk difference between Person A and B? And how do you prove how drunk each person was, especially if the accuser was so blackout drunk they might not even be able to remember how drunk the other person was?

@nibnycgrrl: Well that makes me feel a little better. Haha! At least we're all miserable together.

@doit2julia: The main street I live off of has been plowed multiple times. So much so that there is a WALL of snow blocking my street. So there is really no excuse for the plows not to make the turn and come down my street.

@hfree: Yeah, the whole thing is ludicrous. I just sent an angry letter to the MTA via their website about snow on the aboveground platforms. It's SO dangerous that they haven't shoveled there and now the snow is getting packed down into a slope that is pointed right onto the tracks. Someone is going to slip and…

@proletarian_tenenbaum: There is a big difference between a 30 year old and a 22 year old, and sometimes that can be predatory as well, but both of those people are adults and free to make their own choices. That's the difference. I'm completely sex-positive and I get that not every 13yo girl/15yo boy situation is…

@jemandtheholograms: Yeah I'm pretty pissed. I was just commenting above that my street in Astoria hasn't even been plowed and there is a wall of snow blocking it at the corner so cars cant even get through to drive on the unplowed snow. My subway platform, which is aboveground, is PACKED with snow that hasn't been…

Yeah, I'm pretty pissed at the City of New York right now. I'm in Queens and my street isn't even plowed. Not only that, but the main street has been plowed so much that there is a WALL OF SNOW blocking my street. No cars can get through. I am sickened by the level of neglect that I'm seeing. I know it's a…

@CurtCole: Livin' it up at the Roach Motel California. (They check in, but they don't check out)

@graciousplum: Ok, you have fun with your giant spiders. I'd rather trudge through snow for a few months than live somewhere with giant insects and arachnids. ::shudder::

@dahliacactus: I am in the EXACT same place as you. I'm not yet 30 and have given myself 5 years to have kids. Only my plan has no "or not" in it. MUST HAVE BABIES! My fauxvaries are out of control.

@takeiteasy: I agree the charges are too high, but ultimately my argument was that I don't think they're unethical. If you think the charges are too high, don't buy them and let your money do the talking for you. If enough people stop paying for these ridiculously expensive gift cards, they'll have to drop their…

@proletarian_tenenbaum: Yes, I laughed that people were shocked that 13 year olds might be having sex, considering I lost my virginity that young about 17 years ago and considering I was the nerdy kid who barely had any friends and whose parents talked to him about sex, I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one doing it. …

@madelinesunshineee: She's a porn star. Is it really TMI when most people reading her tweet have seen the area that's being shaved?

It kinda makes me laugh reading all the shocked comments about how young these kids are. I lost my virginity when I was 12 back in the early 90's. Luckily I was gay so there was no risk of pregnancy, but still...I'm not as shocked when this happens and it doesn't squick me out. What does squick me out is when some…

@Penny: You had the baby? CONGRATS! Seems like such a morbid comment to respond to with such joy (esp for a stranger on an internet site), but I knew you were pregnant and hadn't seen the good news, so I had to say something.

@thehouserules: I get what you're saying, but I don't see this particular situation as unethical. They're providing a service to people who don't want to give cash (or who want their gift-recipients to be able to use their gift-money online). What is the point of them making the cards if they neither profit nor lose…