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• Commented on Video game wedding: a letter and photos from the bride and groom
  "If he really wanted to stir up some controversy, he could marry a corporation- which could surely find a lawyer to argue that they are a legal person, and so can marry." Something in me actually likes this idea....
• Commented on Abstinence-only rappers sing about the "Christian Side Hug"
  With you on that. What's next for them, special blinder goggles, a bubble suit? I love how they like references to violence but hate sex though....
• Commented on Video game wedding: a letter and photos from the bride and groom
  I'm with you. I just think this is quirky and funny. The guy is kind of adorable. I'll bet they decide to have an open marriage anyway, I've heard she gets around. He doesn't seem ill to me, just off-beat....
• Commented on Video game wedding: a letter and photos from the bride and groom
  I find this so cute. I wish I didn't, but really who cares anyway? I can't help but think this is some kind of big PR stunt though. Meh but if the man loves his video wife, well, good for...
• Commented on Two curious antique Oddfellows items
  I always wanted to join one! I love joining things. But I'm a girl. A lot of my family was in eastern star though. I don't know much about it....
• Commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
  Speaking as one who was once an 11 year old girl that book's drawings are cool, and honestly no drawing ever corrupted or twisted my poor little mind the way that the "good intentions" of the people around me did....
• Commented on How-to make yourself look like Sailor Moon
  Aww that was so cute. Yeah girls read here too :P I went to a party as Faye Valentine once, but it didn't hurt that I already had the haircut. I'm too old to dress up like sailormoon. That would...
• Commented on Was Demi Moore Ralph-Laurenized on "W" mag cover, with missing hip-flesh?
  Woah. Now that's just messed up. No even if her left knee was bent and raised while she was thrusting her right hip up it wouln't be like that. That's just a complete fail. It looks almost like the legs...
• Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
  Oh yeah, but seriously thank god you don't work in law! Those aren't synonyms for a reason....
• Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
  I guess my issue is that without the first mistake the second would never have happened. It's not that I think Jame sounds like a great employee, but rather the whole altercation there could have been prevented by the first...
• Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
  Perhaps it's a matter of perspective. I didn't see her as lying I saw her as genuinely clueless and desperate. I've honestly never encountered a sales person who didn't act like that so it doesn't strike me as unusual. The...
• Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
  Ha! A paraphrase of my recent conversation with apple tech support: Me: X just happened with my computer when doing Y Tech support: Wow. That doesn't happen. Me: Well it does now. Tech: I don't know why. Me: Do you...
• Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
  As some one who worked for that company (I'm a little afraid of saying that although I worked in their corporate headquarters and not in sales/CS) I can vouch that this is the best method. Return the whole thing. Get...
• Commented on Graph compares rock music quality with US oil production 1949-2007
  "Capitalism and empire aside, popular music back then was absolutely and measurably more dope than music today." I think the key here is "popular" music. In general I think better music is being made today although most contemporary pop is...
• Commented on Graph compares rock music quality with US oil production 1949-2007
  Meh. RS idolizes music from a particular period in US history. Some how it doesn't surprise me. I bet you'd see a similar coorelation if you overlayed any data points from something that emerged during the boomer generation's heyday in...
• Commented on Purses made to look like book covers
  ...besides she probably doesn't have one for Blood Meridian, The Painted Bird, or Place of Dead Roads anyway :(...
• Commented on Purses made to look like book covers
  Cute idea, but for over 1k I think if I want one I'll just whip out the embroidery thread and buy a purse form....
• Commented on Study suggests women's illness leads to partner abandonment more often than men's
  Anyway, I'd venture to say perhaps because of these social perceptions -- rather than any real innate quality -- many women feel more compelled to act out these roles as mothers and caregivers, and suppress their own instincts and desires...
• Commented on Study suggests women's illness leads to partner abandonment more often than men's
  Hmm... I'm always skeptical of those kinds of studies. Yeah, it doesn't really go into abandonment vs. separation. While I see lots of guys being jerks because there's always unsick women and one's as good as any other, I also...
• Commented on Inebriated woman falls in front of oncoming train
  My experience has been that people tend to assume it's none of their business until it is absolutely obvious that the other person is going to die without help. I saw a man in Berlin do almost the same thing....
• Commented on Duke University official concerned that sex toy study will make students want to "just sit around and masturbate"
  But... what's wrong with masturbating? I mean. Really I'd rather do that then hit the singles club trying to trap a husband. LMAO! The more I think about it the more funny it gets. It just... wow do some people...
• Commented on Teen sex belongs in teen lit
  I guess what I'm trying to say is not all teens are horny and not all teens are ready to deal with or think about sex. Some are. Some aren't. It's abusive to force either on a kid....
• Commented on Teen sex belongs in teen lit
  I don't know. I didn't have sex as a teen and didn't want to hear/think about it. So it depends. I liked Dostoevsky back then. That does have some sex in it, or rather yes... sex is a part of...
• Commented on Insta-Beard
  I have to say I do not get it. But that's ok. I don't have to. Obviously some one does....
• Commented on Photos of a furless bear
  Hmmm... I don't know about bears but a human I know contracted a fungus that made all his hair fall out. It was an atypical reaction to it, but it still happened. The hair didn't seem likely to grow back....
• Commented on Wu-Tang album covers redesigned as Blue Note album covers
  Holy crap those are great!...
• Commented on More on Supreme Master TV and vegan restaurants
  Well I'll be in Houston next weekend so I guess I'll have to give it a try....
• Commented on 20-year old Iraqi woman dies; father ran her over for being too Westernized
  Thanks Tamu. Yes, this is about violence against women and it is in "western" culture looking no less ugly....
• Commented on Portraits of child beauty pageant participants
  "It's a mistake to think pageant girls are more sexualized than other girls-- from their point of view" It is a mistake to think molested girls *think* they are more sexualized while they are still children as well. That's the...
• Commented on Portraits of child beauty pageant participants
  A lot of little girls dream about it and like looking fancy, but to actually look like this it goes way way way beyond an intricate updo. They like to look like movie stars, princesses, and fantasize about what it...