People: it doesn’t look like a verb in English because this is in Swedish. In Swedish plenty of verbs look like this. That also make me feel like our opinions on what it sounds like are irrelevant, because 90%+ of us are looking at it with English biases and it wasn’t made for English.

A man that’s anti-Jezebel pretending to be a woman to up his credibility does not mean that Jezebel commenters find women’s opinions more credible - it means that the anti-Jezebel man has a classic anti-Jezebel opinion, that he thinks we find women’s opinions more valuable. In reality it’s often shown to be the…

I do want to point out that this person you’re talking to is a Gawker commenter that is, in fact, a man based on his past stories on his life. 1, 2, 3, 4. You can choose to believe the “I use a masculine name and have a detailed, consistent backstory for my male persona because I don’t want to be creeped on but I’m…

I just wanted to thank you for responding as much as you did because it took until this response for me to understand the difference between “I’m silently judging you based on how gay I think you are” and “if you’re doing it for this reason you should stop”.

This highlights the real problem with our two-party system, it just happens to work in the favor of Liberals in this instance - their hatred of some policies of the Republicans causes them to vote Democrat, even if they don’t agree with them on social issues, causing those social issues to be voted in regardless.

Yes, and if we were discussing which bookmarks smell the least like peppermint, it would be a confusing conversation.

The point of the initial post was probably an offhanded conversation about he’s probably lying about his height, amusingly packaged into a serious journalistic-sounding package. Probably inspired by the fact that he looks short in the pictures in the initial post, but not about “LOL HE’S SHORTER THAN THE GIRLS”.

Okay, let’s be fair, she’s in high school.

That didn’t answer my question, unless your response was “It wouldn’t disqualify nearly as many people because the court only cares if you got a disease”.

This agrees 99% exactly with what I was saying. It shows the age of consent, the only difference being 33 states instead of 31, and says that there are sometimes exceptions to the age of consent and shows how many years apart people can be to be exceptions to the age of consent. The rest of the people in the world…

Why are you talking about disease and pregnancy when we’re talking about jurors and trials?

It is generally, actually. When they say the age of consent, they’re talking about the age of consent in which it is legal to have sex with anyone else over the age of consent. In the majority of states that is 16 (31 of them). The laws you’re thinking of are usually to protect people in places where the age of…

I’m sure he has friends that we don’t know about publicly. I would assume that first.

This is really what it comes down to. Human beings sometimes need to do things that might inconvenience you, but you allow them to do it anyway because you’re going to need that allowance yourself one day. Maybe your kid gets to the Little League World Cup and you need to be able to sneak out for a few hours to see…

For real it’s bad for morale. Yeah, maybe she left during the lunch rush and the restaurant had to scramble for a few hours one day, but it’s no different than a situation in which the employee actually can’t come in. The restaurant clearly didn’t close because of it. It’s a one-time situation in which just a tiny bit…

Her appointment was June 15th (this Monday), she moved it up to last Monday.

The appointment was this Monday, the 15th. She instead went this past Monday, the 8th. She left during the lunch rush, although I can’t find any facts on what time she asked to leave (i.e. was there time to call in more people or adjust the restaurant to accommodate one less employee). She learned of the opening the…

The fact that “they found this to be unreasonable” is insane, that’s what you’re not getting here. Yes, this is what happened. No, that does not make it okay, “friendly”, or “positive” to tell a woman that she has to live with the bone-shaking fear of cancer over her head when she could go get tested right then.

Because it’s unlikely they’ll give the show a fair shot afterwards - this is their only chance at a reboot and it seems to suck. It’s not like if it does badly the producers will be saying “let’s try again next season!”

Yeah, you need it. Good luck in high school!