Re Ryan Seacrest: No.

Truth so pure. Men should have pride enough to pretend to know even when it's not clear.

Because it's irrelevant.

"...practice, familiarity and exposure means that partners we know better know us better and are more familiar with our physical anatomy, idiosyncrasies, likes and dislikes."

That will make whatever atrocity occurs there next, greatly ironic.

NO!

I suppose what the real point is: Can you make whatever your PhD is interesting to someone with no PhD/educated in a different area? The higher the qualification - the more recondite the field of expertise, the higher the risk.

+1000 words.

Commentators should be allowed a maximum of three F-bombs per event.

" That is the consequence (well, one consequence) of the fetishization of dead women."

Don't talk about your PhD on a first date. That is basic stuff. Basic.

Counterpoint: Don't do this.

This is so making me want to shoot up a school.

NOT SHOWN: Kitteh being beaten with a baseball bat upon incorrect selection.

Why would someone watch that boring-ass shit?

That's so weird. Cuz he looks like an average dude in his mid-30s.

Unqualified ad hoc 'reckon': "The premise doesn't call for boss battles."

Thanks Captain Aspergers.

No, you said EXACTLY "This game's premise doesn't call for it". Then you went on to make a series of assertions based on that unqualified ad hoc 'reckon'. And now you're getting shirty because I'm didn't treat your whining with the respect you think it deserves.

No!