There's gas on the road, they're in the middle of an intersection on a highway late at night. I'm not saying he made the best choice to get her out of the car, but an understandable one given the circumstances.

I hate to point it out, but the lady in the Corolla exits the car with a lit phone in her hand, which makes me wonder if she was texting or on the phone at the time. I can't imagine it would be easy to find a loose phone in a car that's just crashed, and I'm not sure how easy it is to maneuver in a fully-deployed…

Agreed, but looking at the footage there seems to be a lot of liquid on the road and the guy says something about not wanting her in the car if a fire starts, so I wonder if one of the gas tanks ruptured and there was enough gas around that he didn't want to risk it.

It kills me that this is the exact guy who will make "Food stamps under the name SHANI'QUA!" style jokes.

Surely "marginalized populations" is an acceptable way to group, well, marginalized populations rather than listing by name every group that isn't white and male?

I go with obliviousness, as though he was speaking in an alternate universe where I didn't hear it. Then you either use that shocked silence as an opening (ideal) or you have the boss step in for arbitration, which can go either way - either you get supported or "Well, I think Tom had something to say about that..."…

Yeah, I've never felt like I came away a winner when I say "Excuse me, I was talking" or the more passive-aggressive loud sigh and eyebrow raise (and occasionally, the completely murderous look). Then, somehow, you're "making a big deal out of it".

It's rarely interrupting once in a long-winded sentence, it's serial dismissal and interruption during a collaborative conversation. Imagine this happening to you every week:

It kills me that in their interviews, they keep talking about New York and comparing NZ to New York, as though they are from here. And now I have a sinking feeling they'll flee NZ and land here.

He called her a "cunt" in a bakery! Like, he snarled at her in the parking lot, they went into the bakery, and then before leaving he called her a cunt! And then promptly denied it when called out in letter form, while calling her a cunt. And his wife joined in.

I am pretty reliable about giving children the grimmest possible interpretation of a fairy tale, so human remains works for me.

Wait, what happens at Troll Castle? I read one version that very specifically indicated the good people in the next apartment were imprisoned Christians, but don't remember any grim stuff.

I have not! I just have it in a big anthology. But I'll track that one down, I have a nephew who could do with an intro to some awesome heroic girls.

It is the best. A girl is the youngest and most beautiful child of a very poor family, and a bear strolls by and asks the father if he can have the girl and in exchange the family will be "as rich as they are poor". The father asks the girl, the girl says no, and the dad tells the bear that she says no but to come…

I want someone to film "East of the Sun, West of the Moon". That girl is kickass: rebels after being married to a bear (sounds about right) and then when she realizes she might have been too hasty (turns out the bear is a hot prince, and he really was very polite and nice while being a bear) she goes on an epic trek…

I'd just assume he's referencing the BBC as the dino that should go extinct.

I am dying to go back and edit " the stars had aligned and I was ready to meet my fate" to " the stars had aligned and I was ready to meet my cake. I mean fate. Ready to meet my fate."

I once had a total weeping, enraged meltdown at a college boyfriend for eating the two-day-old remains of dessert from the Cheesecake Factory.

In another thread of this discussion, I said that if there were a commercial level of this game and the Zulu empire suddenly struck up a slave route sourcing in Western Europe, and someone said "Payback, you white sons of bitches" I still think I'd see it as humorous. The phrase just seems like a flourish to me,…

Well, they also say she was breastfeeding, so this might be one of those cases where a child was stillborn and seriously terrible decisions ensued.