Also, Michael outing Oscar and apologizing for calling him “faggy”. Also forcing him to kiss (which was apparently improvised). Also the porn.

The last 2 seasons of the office killed it dead already. I can’t even watch them, they are so, so bad.

Oh Jesus, please god no.

Very good point. We “learned how” to fight long before we got married. For several years, we drove to work together, and that 20 minutes ended up being “fighting time” every now and then. Which, yeah, sounds like an awful way to start the day. But it was actually cathartic, and efficient. It was time limited, it was…

These are not the White House portraits that the Obamas will get in a few years - these are for the Smithsonian. The White House will also commission portraits in a few years that will also be unveiled, but that’s usually several years after they leave. For example, Obama invited Bush to come back to the white house…

insisting that official portraits aren’t the place for changes like this or some-such.

There’s more color than is being shown in the press photos, which are really washing things out. There’s a lot more color in Michelle’s portrait than it seemed like on TV:

Just curious, how old were you though? Things are different and probably work a lot better for getting married when you’re older (late 20s, early 30s and beyond). Dating for a long time also means you’re both getting older and more mature (a good marriage success indicator), which you can also accomplish by simply...…

Well, I just got married a year and a half ago. But we dated for 3 years, and then lived together for 5 years, before getting married. We’re both 29 now (yes, do the math... we met in college at age 19, got married at age 27).

I don’t see anything wrong with this (I live in Arizona and, you know, eat eggs).

Yeah, among everything else horrifically wrong with this project - it also looks so sloppy as to be... fishy? I have a hard time believing a kid with a vocabulary of “approximator” and “disproportionate” would just slap something like this together.

Well... I actually think there’s a third component in there affecting the other two: amount of time the people (and their families) have known each other before the wedding. Less time dating = more money spent = poorer relationship outcome.

Well, it’s both a lot smaller than the ISS and doesn’t appear to have solar panels. The reason you can see the ISS so well is that it’s one of the biggest things up there, and has massive solar panels that reflect a lot of light.

It’s just the bottle. The gin is clear and colorless, and delicious if you like to drink liquor. Virtually all classic liquors are either clear and colorless (vodkas, gins, non-aged rums, and non-aged tequila) or clear and brown / gold (whisky, scotch, cognac, aged tequilas and rums).

Agreed. My husband and I were together, with separate accounts, for 7 years, before we knew we were headed for marriage and just combined accounts (we got married in 2016, after about 8 years).

+1 for YNAB, it’s been life changing for my husband and I. We used it for years before we were married, and use it now that we have all joint accounts. (We are two guys BTW).

Another tip: always, ALWAYS check both Google Flights (and other aggregators) and the airline’s website independently of each other. It doesn’t matter which one you start with, but you won’t always see the lowest prices or all the flight options on Google Sites. You also might not see flights on the airline website…

and he has no obligation to solve all the worlds problems.

I know, right? Are these people balancing their checkbooks in a paper ledger, doing all the math by hand? (“Carry the one, add to 8...”)

Kansas somehow has a much higher score than Arizona, including having a score for anti-discrimination protection. Which makes no sense, as neither state has strong statewide set of protections, but both have local-level protections (Arizona’s cover far more people), and Arizona having a statewide state-employment…