Agreed. Ok, so if your wife is a doctor and there are legitimate legal reasons you shouldn’t be on her work computer fine, but a lot of these commenters doth protest too much.

Getting married does not mean surrendering private autonomy.

Netflix - yes

Yes . . . “CNN,” is certainly the site most guilty of this. . .

My feeling as well. Getting trapped/lost/invested in an unfamiliar world is almost a category of story unto itself. Just because the new “worlds” people are familiar with are MMOs, doesn’t mean the stories are the same. By that logic, Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, Lost in Space, and certain parts of the bible…

Yeah, that was a little weird. Seemed really out of left field and apropos of nothing to randomly call out white men. I choose to believe the author was just sort of shoehorning in a comic they found funny, rather than just insulting a whole group for the hell of it.

Anyone who is offended by my offering my seat to them can go ahead and get over it. I got it drummed into my head as a kid that you stand up and offer your seat to a lady, and that’s what I will continue to do. Hell, it took me till my mid twenties to stop standing when a woman came up to a table where I was sitting,…

Excellent point, unless you’re in a weird genre. I love anime, and a lot of it gets trashed because of tropes that Americans don’t like; my brother loves horror, and even “good” horror ends up with a 4.5, so having the option to toggle IMDB filter on/off is a great idea.

Absolutely not defending the guy, sounds like he’s a horrible human being, but these days I know a lot of people who can lock all the doors in their house with their phone, their voice, or in some cases a button; myself included.

Nailed it with the strawman comment.

Hey Patrick, fluid signer here. Just wanted to give you a heads up that “hearing impaired,” is considered a little offensive these days. Deaf or hard of hearing are better terms. Of course, you should always let the deaf individual take the lead on their prefered term.

There’s a form of meditation like this, only the goal is to be as sedate as possible without ever dropping the balls, or whatever you are using as your “bridge,” as it was explained to me. We used to use a beaded chain.

Georgia O’keeffe tribute at 13:05 . . . ? Maybe I just have a dirty mind.

yes . . . yes it is.

Thanks for pointing out that dogs don’t actually need meat, they need solid sources of complete proteins. It gets old seeing article after article where the writer basically declares dogs de facto wolves and presses you to feed them like they’re patrons at a steakhouse.

As Jim Davis said (via Garfield): Eighty-seven percent of spiders are harmless; one-hundred percent of dead spiders are harmless.

You have me there. I did use the wrong version of “your,” which is great, because now you get to learn ad hominem in addition to relative privation.  

• Fallacy of relative privation (“not as bad as”) – dismissing an argument or complaint due to the existence of more important problems in the world, regardless of whether those problems bear relevance to the initial argument. For example, First World problem.

It’s funny how many of these seem to be designed to compensate for a lack of basic skills with a kitchen knife. I make no claim to zoro esque control, but I have zero doubt I could prep a pineapple as quickly as that weird handled corer.

I don’t really find this to be a female issue. What people do and don’t find appropriate in these situations is completely dependant on the person and as a male I find it just as taxing.