Thanks for your opinion, Mr. Banker.

"No true Scotsman" is an informal fallacy along these lines: Speaker A) No Scotsman would put sugar on his cereal. Speaker B) I'm Scottish and I put sugar on my cereal. A) Well, no true Scotsman would put sugar on his cereal.

Getting your "no true scotsman" in early, eh?

The world did not just become shitty overnight. It's always been shitty. It's better than it has been, in fact. 70 years ago, for example, young Americans were dying by the thousands every day in Europe and Asia. 80 years before that they were dying by the thousands up and down the eastern seaboard. And if you don't…

I don't see how investigators investigating interferes with mourners mourning. They're different sets of people.

a. He forgot to pull out (?)

That too.

Border. A boarder is someone on a snowboard or surf board.

Do you know Mia? No? Then shut up.

I think at the club we all get consolation prizes. Anyway, there's a significantly higher chance that the hot chick will be relatively awful, so there's that. I think The Streets sums up the ambivalence nicely in "Fit but you know it" http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/streets…

Hey, they take nines!

"Wouldn't text one from a burner." I like it. It's like the cell phone equivalent of "I wouldn't fuck them with your junk."

(nb this might come across as mansplaining but it's not on purpose). You might be underestimating the extent to which the average (probably somewhat insecure) man would rather approach an average-looking woman than a hot woman. The worst are "hot and they know its" — women like that, who have been hot since grade…

Or fictional states like New Jersey.

The second picture likely isn't Mirabel. The second language on those signs is Spanish, not French (and in Montreal the first language would have been French).

Yeah, well he sued in the US. And "putting aside the negative things" he did? Why would you put them aside? He's an asshole. Who cares if a game makes fun of him.

Agreed. I'm a Canadian and I have never once wanted to call myself American. Though some people have asked "aren't you mad that Americans call themselves that. Canada is in America too..." "Yeah, I guess, but who cares..."

I would think there's a difference between you as a private citizen and a public figure like Noriega. Mocking public figures is fairly time-honored in the US.

So a 14-year-old who kills himself over his embarrassment is too young to be culpable for his actions, but someone the same age should feel 70 years of unrelenting guilt? Let me guess, you're in the "try them as adults" crowd.

Jeez, I would rip a strip off grandma if she decided to buy a cell phone for my imaginary 9-year-old without asking. There's something to be said for calls to children being filtered through the house line.