OMG, trains! I was on the light rail at 1:30 am in Denver a few months ago and a guy was playing his music out loud on his phone speakers. It took 3 stops for me to decide that I didn’t need to be concerned about some train asshole and move down the car where, another asshole starts making jokes to me about annoying…

I’m glad you weren’t (aren’t?) a murderer!

Yeah, it’s my continual failing (or greatest strength?) in dating is that I’m very aware of all of the situations which could lead to my murder. Which is a pity because the guy seemed pretty cool, but once I had that death narrative in my head I couldn’t get it out.

#enoughmentoestablishapatternwhichservestoprotectagainststalkingrapeormurder

We’ve been taught to assume that all men are creepers and that married men are just creepers who are trying to cheat. It would be more pleasant to assume the opposite, but you hit the target more often assuming they’re creepers.

Eh, it’s not like she doesn’t already have a girl and it’s unlikely to start a wave of people having sex selective implantations. Sex selective abortions are a much steeper slippery slope, this is more of a slippery flat surface.

Thank you. I’m just so used to be people not knowing anything about women’s soccer I thought he was serious. I haven’t followed much of Sepp or the FIFA debacle.

Yes, I do understand the concept of a joke and that this is one. I don’t understand what the joke is in this case.

I don’t get it.... :(

Olympic Gold Medalist, starting forward for the Portland Thorns (Get Thorny!), 52 goals for the USWNT.

I loved it! Congratulations on your fictional/imaginary/prank wedding! <Sincerity (which is a thing I feel like I have to say because everything on the internet seems to be taken as sarcasm). That’s a pretty good prank which is of course lost to the internet age.

So they don’t cast Ryan Reynolds as the main character?

Not at all. Just this every expanding trend to have a million pre-events which a guest must bring a gift to. I understand I have the option not to attend, or to bring cash or something, but I’ve gotten side eye in the past for not wanting to go to all the events. It’s really the sheer number of gift giving events that…

So we should all pare down the amount of shit we invite people to. :)

I’m sorry. :(And on the other side you’ve got assholes like me screaming “I can’t afford to be your friend!” There’s no winning.

I’m talking about there being three or four events before a wedding all with a gift list and the fact that at this age (mid-20s) people are getting invited to four or five weddings a year. That shit adds up. I get being broke and not having the household decked out to your pinterest dream board standards, but who…

That people shouldn’t have seventeen different pre-wedding events, each with it’s attached guest list and the general snark directed at people who don’t bring gifts, even though people continually say that gifts aren’t mandatory.

Preach! And with every event a mandatory tithing! Registries made sense when people weren’t living on their own/ with their spouse before the wedding, but these days? Everyone I know getting married has lived with their significant other for years. They have apartments full of crap, why do you need a crystal punch…

I’m shocked when this happens in a regular news story (not prompted by a racially motivated terrorist attack) but this? Don’t you have anyone in your office looking at shit going “eh, that’s gonna look bad, lets pump up the diversity on this one”. And it’s not just NBC, it’s all over the place, like idiots who fill…

It really is. Guys here keep talking about starting a “Society of White Male Engineers” because they feel so marginalized.