Ah, ok. I get that. I caught myself wondering if this was all some kind of ploy to get his name in the headlines.

Ignorance really does solve all ethical quandaries.
Your mom is an idiotic twat.

This is actually interesting. Thanks for the data :$

I don’t even like Matt Damon but I can’t find fault with what he said here. Plus there’s plenty of context right there in the text-text.

she does not keep the corpses in her office

I don’t get the outrage at all. It was painful to see his friend misunderstood in the media during a certain phase in his life... burn him!!!

I say this all the time, it’s the word itself people have a problem with, not because of what it means, but because of how it sounds. It’s inherently gender biased in its etymology, phonetics and spelling. Change the name and more people will get it, I would bet my house on it.

katy perry is such an idiot. really she is dumber than hair. and she brings a breathless, ecstatic fan up on stage just to ridicule her name and ask if there’s a Portugese word for ‘pizza’? I think people are taking the wrong side on this one.

The publisher was full of shit, your friend can share the original photo as much as she likes and it is still protected, as long as she hasn’t specifically specified that it is in the public domain (eg by posting it to wiki commons or posting it with a Creative Commons disclaimer).

Lettering is an artform.

ah, found guilty of skimming. I plead distracted by the headline.

Well to us, Internet strangers who would have never heard of this girl if this engagement didn’t happen, sure, she’ll be remembered as the dead chick who got engaged.

Preach (about cotton)!

They’re not actually engaged and they’re not having a post-mortem wedding. There’s nothing to consent to and no more person to consent. So, except for intellectual property, trusts, and estates, consent does stop with death.

Parents ok’d it, friends ok’d it, girlfriend is dead, boyfriend is sad. But no, wait, Kara Brown says it’s not ok.

True on that cotton; cotton kills.

Yeah, I can see the confusion. It can also be confusing because a small subset of the people who say they are "backpacking in Europe/Asia" actually do mean a combo of camping/hiking/hitchhiking/hosteling through Europe/Asia.

That was a really interesting article, thanks for posting. As a city dweller that sometimes likes to go “hiking” (read walking on trails through a state park) I’ll keep some of those tips in mind. I also now understand why Summer in L.A.+cotton=disgusting swamp crotch.

I think you & the author are using “backpacking” to mean two different things here. Pretty sure the author means backpacking as in “backpacking through Europe/Asia/etc.” - i.e., traveling on the cheap between a bunch of different locations & staying in hostels. Whereas, you & the OP seem to be thinking of backpacking…

I love getting ticks embedded on my feet and sap and shit on my cashmere.