You are applying modern standards to a figure from over 1000 years ago but are unable to apply your own ahistorical standards to things that grew out of your fetid waste of a crude culture

You are going back to Mohammad and the Ottomans? Because other religions and empires were such a great group of people. It was “civilization” that committed the Holocaust. It was Christianity and Europe that did the WWI and WWII, it was Europe that did the most barbaric of colonial regimes. It was the United States…

Before the Islamaphobes and racists show up (two groups that practically overlap for all intents and purposes), ISIS has about as much to do with Islam as AUM has to do with Buddhism and Peoples Temple to Christianity.

It looks like a video game at this point if the picture above is anything to go by. Uncanny valley shouldn’t be applicable to actual people.

SJP is Kuja?

Wait, the taxi driver is viewed as less risky in a country like Egypt? In Syria (and Jordan) it was pretty much a given that many taxi drivers are secret police or informants. It is great cover - you get to see where people come and go, glean tidbits of information, etc.

But with such silky smooth skin!

For the past decade, CDG has not been bad especially when compared to American or other European airports. I remember there being outlets for laptops, not expensive Internet, and decent amenities. I speak decent enough French but even when I’m lazy and use English I haven’t had any issues especially compared to…

I’m a bit surprised at any reaction to the reality that porn actors prostitute themselves. In the gay scene (and the straight one also to a lesser extent), porn films are the vehicle to advertise the wares so to speak. They reach a mass market via tube sites and whatnot that then gets them gigs as dancers, hookers,…

Could be worse

Your inability to understand that at times being a WHITE WOMAN can be "better" than being a BROWN (WO)MAN [and this is not to enter into other issues of cis/economic/immigrant/able/sexuality/religious/etc] just shows how blind white feminism is and why so many WoC and other PoC do not want to be your ally. You are…

Wait that is vintage as in I can sell it to some 21 year old Bushwickian for way too much? I grew up with the damn thing and still have it at my parents. Does speak to its quality that it never broke unlike pretty much any electronic item of the last two decades or so.

Maybe this is part of the valiant effort by the royal family to try to make attractive offspring. They nearly got there with William and Harry but those Windsor genes are strong and eventually caught up with them.

American Sniper is the distillation of a long-running anti-Arab and anti-Muslim discourse in the United States that is now, long after 9-11, taking on a violent tone again. That this movie is high grossing and being nominated for awards should end any talk of "liberal" Hollywood. The movie industry is just as racist…

This has been an issue in the gay community. The fetishization of bareback coupled with fading memories of the 80s and better meds has seen HIV cases rise in younger generations. It is fascinating on the different positions taken by 20 year olds, 30 year olds, and 40 year olds. Obviously it isn't always translatable…

No. It is cool. The sick twisted fuck that was Chris Kyle is dead. Thank fucking god for that. I can only hope that if hell exists, he will suffer torment for eternity.

I wish they published the name of the woman who wrote the letter about being upset at seeing a black man wearing her sorority's shirt. Fuck her and anyone else that acts like a racist shit. I don't care that she is 18-22 - by that age she should know that actions have consequences. Then again, this is America where…

Why does American Sniper appeal to people in the United States? Is glorifying a mass murderer who is a racist psychopath that enthralling for people?

Yup, that is my stance on the etiquette for this - unless the act that led to the dismissal from the wedding party was friendship ending - for reasons you listed - I can't see how it be can done without ending a friendship. I mean, I have no clue what it means to be a bridesmaid (or a groomsmen - the latter which I've…