Very cool! I don't know that poem, but I'll have to look it up :)

It looks so accusatory--”YOU DID THIS TO MEEEE”

Because I’m at work, I’m biting my lip to keep from laughing and yet my eyes are still filling with tears. The header image and your gif are truly things of beauty. 

I guess that’s the end of manningface.com. (not that it really updated much in the last few years anyway, but still.)

I respect you guys a lot, you people a lot.

Not only is it racist, talk about toxic masculinity. That little boy has lovely hair, and would have thought nothing of others having long hair until this jackass decided to tell him boys can’t have long hair. Signed too.

The only thing that surprises me about these stats is the age of the perpetrator being about 27. I would have expected the average to be early 20s, but I think my expectation was coloured by my own experiences.

Good god, you’re a condescending ass.

An ex of mine swears that he saw a guy fisting his girlfriend in the crowd at a DMB show. A filling experience, if not fulfilling. YKINMK(ATO).

Or maybe we just like a beer and a book and are too fucking lazy to go to a shop to buy some beer. Either way, it should be no skin off your nose that someone might want to be out by themselves, and your judgmental attitude is pretty shitty.

I didn’t realize it was a saying! I’m going to have to go hunting for the etymology of it :)

I apologize—I thought you had said that, but that was USPS, not you. My bad.

I wonder if the title is a play on the song by Elbow.

Really? I do it pretty often (and I’m in Ontario). If I don’t have beer at home and I don’t want to go to the LC, I just go to the pub around the corner. Especially if the patio is open. They’ve got some nice Muskoka chairs I can curl up in. But hey, I guess that makes me sad and performative.

They all are! It’s so weird. Even that first dude has one tied around his waist. Not a great sartorial choice. Those wrinkles will never come out!

“arrive at a parking place in Palo Alto, from which they will be transported to the event.”

Agreed. That would make an actual political statement. This...this is just, as Samantha says, commodification. Gross, and a real wasted opportunity.

Even a well-applied rubber one would be pretty satisfying.

I think so, but I’ll defer to cgo. They’re a far better tomato-spotter than me.

So much of what you describe about your childhood feels familiar to me. My first grade teacher actually took my mom aside to talk about my anxiety. I’m pretty sure my mom had some OCD spectrum tendencies, and her mom definitely self-medicated, and I got front-row seats to how that affected my mom in my first five…