This is like 90% of my friends. Guys, I listen to you talk about video games I've never heard of and people I don't know, you can be polite and listen to me talk about football for 5 minutes instead of making sure I know how little football interests you.

So are you arguing that if the public is "impacted" by (what a vague, noncommittal word you used) the memorial, the family should mourn in the way your friend did because it worked for her?

As far as "fatter than most girls I know", I've noticed that's very much a class thing. I go to a very fancy expensive college on a full ride and there are very few girls above a size 10, although the average in the country is a size 14. I told a few girls that once when they were complaining that the school doesn't…

So what you're telling me is you don't have any grasp of the law, just some wild speculation that happens to agree with the point you want to make, got it.

So you're aware your friend's situation is irrelevant? Then why are you still arguing? You just said you agree with me. Wtf's your point?

Was anyone asking that woman to maintain it? No? Then why are you talking about maintenance? The people that made the memorial were maintaining it. Her only job was to not steal it.

Put it this way: say your friend mourned by screaming into a pillow. It would be inappropriate for you to tell her "you can mourn without doing that because my father mourned by throwing a party, so you should stop because it makes me uncomfortable." That's just the way she mourns and your discomfort with it is…

They didn't take over a public space "so completely". They didn't block anyone from doing anything or do anything other than decorate it. When you start saying "other people have the right to forcibly remove things from public spaces if they dislike them enough", you get into very slippery territory - there are plenty…

I'm very sorry about your friend's child. Her grieving process, however, isn't relevant to everyone else's grieving process. A grieving process of one person is not comparable to a grieving process of another person, and to hold one up as the "standard" of how to properly process and display your grief is very wrong.

So are you going to be going to all the parents that have lost children and telling them to "move on" a week after the funeral? I can only assume you are also a parent that has lost a child as well.

Keep in mind when you're trying to draw a line between Americans and "everyone else" that this is an American company. For heaven's sake, it's called American Eagle. There are very few more appropriate places to talk about the norm as it related to Americans.

Whoops! Wrote a long reply and then you deleted yours so I'll delete mine accordingly. :)

the more you defend calling size 4s not thin, the worse you look.

The average American woman is size 14. So your definition of thin is not "deviated from the norm", because if so it would be a more reasonable definition like most people's. Someone size 4 is not the norm.

That is insane. I hope you don't pass on that standard to impressionable kids.

Jesus, what are your standards when that's not thin? To you, what size is thin? I'm honestly wondering.

Well, considering all you did was insult someone, you did not make the point you thought you were making. All you did was insult someone. Maybe in the future you should work on actually making the points you're trying to make instead of insulting people without any context.

You realize your argument began and ended with an insult to the person you were replying to, right? How in the world did you think anything good or worthwhile was going to come of that? On a pragmatic level, you're not going to have any kind of positive response from calling someone a crap photographer. On a…

It's more like saying "I have bad knees, so I'm not that good at running." She didn't say she couldn't do it, just that she's not that good at it and attributed it possibly to a trait of herself.