I want to believe you’re correct, but even the Brits are showing their entitlement issues these days.

Studying to be a lawyer? I bet she hasn’t taken “idiotic wastes of a court’s time 101" yet.

Yep, I used to ride in the overhead sleeper of our truck camper - a thinly constructed 2x2, plywood, and aluminum. Hell, I was small enough back then to climb through the window up there.

It’s still staggering how many people are ignorant of basic physics regarding ejections.

Come over here, and I’ll belt you right up...

It’s extremely rare these days for the seatbelt to jam. In the late 60's and early 70's it was less rare but still required a seemingly unusual set of circumstances. My father was trapped inside a burning cab-tank pickup after the truck had been t-boned and thrown into a pole - something about the forces involved…

Yup.

How about “I had an objection to this behaviour that, on thinking it through, I realized was irrelevant to the issue. Further, I mistakenly assumed that folk would read the comment and see a not-so-hot starting point that still finishes in the right place.”

Taking issue with someone’s rude response is hardly “really…

He’s put you in a shitty position, you’re not weak. A scumbag who’ll use you and doesn’t deserve your confidence.

While being in someone’s confidence is a position of trust, I’m reminded of another common meaning of the word: “full trust; belief in the powers, trustworthiness, or reliability of a person or thing”

This…

Oh, nice. Guys can’t help sending a dick picture - she’s a model and just too hot for them to exercise any self discipline at all. They had to send an x-rated response. Not just sexual, but x-rated.

Please think before using such bullshit arguments.

“I am sure she will be celebrated by a lot of the man haters on this site but I think there is something hateful about her and her reaction to male attention (however sleazy it might be.)“

The problem here is your last five words. What you see as hateful, others see as perfectly justified given the unwanted and…

Not notice an unflushed toilet when taking a selfie? Sadly believable.

No worries, I’m only quibbling because the consensus seems to be that I shouldn’t write down my process of getting to my conclusion, whereas I actually appreciate seeing how people arrive at their conclusions. A matter of taste, I think, in this respect.

I simply started from the most accepting and positive…

*snork* polyamorous couple? when poly relationships work, they’re often more than a “couple.”

Despite being correct that poly and open relationships are far outnumbered by monogamous pairings, you missed the point of my comment. Well done you.

I hear you on this. I was a playground monitor for a year while teachers were striking and encountered a child who so reminded me of myself (and a whole bunch of buried/manipulated memories) that I ended by quitting my job, taking a year and change off, and starting truly effective counselling for the first time, as I…

Those people are screwed. Totally. The boomer generation (I’m at the early end of the Xers) were typically spanked, and they’ve sure as hell not got respect for others down pat. That shining stereotypical sense of entitlement didn’t come from nowhere.

My father used to throw things. Never to hit, mind; his aim was to…

I want to add stars. Many, many stars. Thank you for sharing this.

I’ll take a hit for being naive enough to think that writing my thoughts, initial and conclusion, would actually be read in full before anyone flew off at me. I’ve read enough folk being bitten for similar that I should’ve known better.

Can you read? That’s the same conclusion I came to - just without your rudeness.

Reading this I felt conflicted...