Completely. I lived in Berlin and my stairwell was basically a toilet for the drunk man on the lower floors. And I was a student from a major Scottish city with pee all over the place.

Oh come one, this has nothing to do with that.

As a German having read the actual article, I think you are missing the point. It is not really about peeing standing up or anything, it's about a landlord keeping almost 2000 euros because of stains in the bathroom. So, this could have been anything really, the judge simply decided that it is normal for an apartment…

It was in the corner near the balcony door, so my only guess is that smart kitty was trying to get outside to pee, and owner didn't want to risk the 6-floor fall. Kind of a stale-mate, but like, come on. Get a box.

Right? Like even if you wanted to argue that it's a god given right of all men to piss upright, it sure as hell isn't a god given right not to run a wet paper towel around the floor afterward. This isn't about urinating sitting down vs. standing, it's just about being a lazy slob.

Honestly, if people kept asking me about my ex husband I would have been a million times less gracious than she has been.

No. The control to say yes or no is pretty passive, and it's like Louis C.K. says, men (realistically) fear women will hurt their feelings, while women (also realistically) fear that men will physically hurt them.

That sounds just like my experience of college. Ugh. People were so horrified that I asked them out when I was A. female and B. unattractive. It was like they thought I was robbing them of power and agency by doing the asking. They were so certain that only men should do the asking — even when they were complaining…

I wasn't fat, but shy and brainy, with unfashionably curly, non-blond hair and glasses, so I got labelled ugly. I was accordingly the least popular girl in the entire damn school during seventh grade, and not much better the year after that, or the year after that. Guys are INCREDIBLY cruel at that age to anyone…

i asked a guy out who turned me down. a very short time later, he was with a bunch of mutual friends, espousing how no women ever asked men out; that the dating world was so unfair because the onus was all on the men; that in his life he had never been approached by a woman.

This. Jewelry is sooooo risky. I'd almost rather buy my girlfriend a car. At least I would know what the hell I was getting for my money.

I don't like getting jewelry from boyfriends, because once you break up, you can't wear it. But I can still use the waffle maker purchased by my ex.

YUP. A big romantic gesture towards someone who has not previously expressed interested in you means that you are thinking only about what YOU want, not what THEY want.

Yes. Really. It isn't because the kids didn't understand relationships and went to a weird place. I also did similar types of things as a young man. It was awful, but it's being a kid.

Actually, I don't think it's just that a woman finds the guy attractive and that saves it. In my opinion, making a grand romantic gesture without some sort of romantic relationship (or at the very least, mutual interest) already being established is a sign of bad judgment (hence why most of these posters' stories are…

Guys who feel a need to "impress" are already doing everything wrong. What you see over and over in these stories is a complete inability to read any kind of social cues and a total refusal to communicate with women as human beings. What about seeing if a woman seems to be interested in spending time with you or is…

Have you never been hit on by someone you aren't attracted to? It's awkward and nerve-wracking, and it puts you in a bad position. There is no right answer, just a series of increasingly wrong ones.

Wow. You might want to go see a therapist.

For the record, you should never do stuff like this for someone you aren't currently dating. So: not for crushes, not for exes you're trying to win back, and not for people you've just started dating either.

Otherwise it just sorta screams "I'm creepily obsessed with you and have no sense of personal boundaries."

Alternate Take:

Guys are really bad at not weirding out women.