I’ve always been a big Holmes fan - I’ve read the entire collection 3 times, and many individual stories far more often - and I’ve been to the “museum” (which is kinda weird because it pretends he was a real person lol) - I even read other Doyle works like the weird turn of the century version of Jurassic Park - but…

Perhaps they could be actually hiring all the prisoners who’ve been released (now and in the past) who are fully qualified to fight fires, but were expressly barred from the job because of their criminal record...

SERIOUSLY. He was a COP while he was committing his crimes, too. He even worked on the burglary unit or something for a while in his early career. While he was burgling homes and raping people. He knew it was wrong, he knew how the process worked, he knew how to get away without being caught.   He didn’t care at all…

It is fucked up on both a symbolic and a practical level.

Well, maybe the reason I can’t pick up women is that I’m awkward, have low self-esteem, and could do some work on myself

His target market would probably dismiss him in an instant if he was conventionally good-looking. The whole incel culture is founded on the idea that 90% of women only care about looks and you need “game” to overcome that.

Their core problem is not getting laid. And it’s my understanding that a significant part of PUA is indeed “working on oneself” to be less awkward and build up self-esteem — by approaching women they would normally be too intimidated to talk to, breaking down their fear of rejection through increased socialization,…

(Chris Person who ran Highlight Reel was laid off because fuck how this place is run by these blood sucking jack asses.)

People don’t like Carole Baskin, so they’ll likely look for a way to laugh this off, but she’s not wrong. The animal entertainment industry is pretty fucked up and has very poor standards for animal welfare. The big cats in that video are likely from an animal entertainment company that makes money buying/selling cats…

Why are you trying to justify abuse someone suffered?

For a second there I thought the officers had been the ones to seek asylum, and I was very, very confused.

It is nice that El Salvador holds their police to a higher standard the city of Louisville,Ky holds their police.

I watched this as a teenager who was also growing up in New York City at the time, and I remember being terribly confused because my life involved zero sex or violence or drugs and I wondered if I was doing it wrong.

Agree. Way back in the day, I worked for a very rich person and came to know other very rich people, society people, entertainment people (not Jerry-Nederland-level people, but I was hit-on by a fetid, disgusting Bernie Cornfeld once and did watch a hugely popular/successful country music star at the time, sitting in…

If the intent is not to lower the other person’s self-esteem so that they don’t feel they can “do better”, then it’s not negging.  Most people in relationships or who are attracted to someone they are on a date with will kid around or jokingly tease the other person. That’s not negging. That’s flirting.

Her death really has stuck with me.

My favourite line was this:

The BRITS was established specifically to promote British and Irish acts in the face of American hegemony of the music industry, hence the rule. If they didn’t restrict it by nationality then loads of Americans would get nominated, and possibly win, thereby negating the whole point of the awards.