I guess it depends on how "non-surprising" it is. My bf and I have talked about being together for the long haul, so we'd be getting engaged sometime within the next couple of years, but I would be surprised if he asked, like, next Tuesday or something.

Cornering someone in public, in front of a crowd, and hitting them with a surprise marriage proposal is not romantic. It is cruel, and a little bit manipulative ("they'll totally be less likely to say no in front of all these people!"). I really wish this would become A Thing That Never Happens Again.

Heh. I eventually told him "I KNOW ACTUAL SOCIALISTS. THEY HATE OBAMA."

Obama is the worst socialist ever. The Dow's at record highs, the upper crust is reaping all the financial rewards, no banksters went to jail.

It is probably worse - there is a tremendous amount of hidden salt in their food, for starters. And their portions tend to be very large which compounds the problem. I'm pretty sure you are better off eating a jar of Prego and a box of Creamette than ordering basic pasta and sauce at Olive Garden.

Exactly! Dudes, if you have an opinion about someone else's body and get the urge to express said opinion without it first being solicited from you, take a few minutes to carefully reconsider that idea. If, after rethinking it, you still believe it's a good idea, think about it again. Think about it REALLY hard. After…

Um, actually it's not about his penis. It's about ethics in journalism.

"I better hurry and tell all the ladies in the world what my penis thinks of them, so they can base their self-worth around it! You're welcome, ladies."

I believe 'fantasised' would actually be the correct spelling if you live in the UK/commonwealth

True, if it's done in a non-pressuring way, it's great to have that info from the first date.

Why the hell do you need 485$ worth of ANYTHING to shave with??? Is the razor forged from the One True Ring or something??

I mean, you are allowed to be sad that someone doesn't like you back. You are allowed to complain a little! But in a "man I really like so-and-so and I feel like we'd be good together; it really sucks that she doesn't feel the same way" sense, not a "what a bitch that one time she passed out drunk and I didn't even…

Eleanor took that friendzone mess like a champ!

It was being discussed yesterday in my coffee shop too, in Montreal (and Jian Ghomeshi isn't francophone, so a lot of the people in the discussion—regulars like me, so I know a little about them—probably never listened to Q).

Anna Maria Tremonti and Carol Off are both amazing.

I love As it Happens. My favourite radio show ever. I missed it last night, though :(

If anything bad comes out about Anna Maria Tremonti, my faith in Canada will be destroyed forever.

Two of the women have granted interviews to the CBC, and they are stomach-churningly horrible to listen to.

Now, for all you kids out there, the proper way to treat a lady is with respect. You see Dougie Gilmour out there? He always used to ask what his lady friends were into before he got them to agree to it. But that's just the way we did rough sex in Kingston, I tell ya. This John Gomechi is going to have someone take a…

Kate Harding wrote a fantastic article about this over on Dame Magazine. It's worth reading but I want to quote one part that made me practically jump out of my chair and yell in agreement: