I think even this sort of compliment will be creepy to many (perhaps most) women. Am I wrong?

I can’t officially diagnose her with BPD but ramping up emotions constantly was her thing.

I wonder how much overlap there is between people who think it’s wrong to oppose the construction of low-income housing nearby and people who live near low-income housing.

A shameful day to be an American.

No need to be sorry for me - I think my story is of the “learning what really matters” sort and my family is much more important to me than where I live is.

Nah he ran off with mine and the two of them are happy together.

I divorced her after six months of marriage a long time ago. I’m embarrassed by that, but my mistake was in marrying her, not in ending the marriage so quickly. I’m proud that I had the courage to leave.

I do wonder if there was anything I should have done differently which would have made the marriage work, but I’m more confident about my decision to leave after a more recent ex of hers found me so that he could tell me that she was a “horrible psychopath” who ruined his life. Apparently he knew my name because she told him how bad I had been to her, and after their breakup he suspected that she had been lying.

As for right now: I’m single but it’s 100% true that being single is better than being in a bad relationship.

Relationship tests are toxic.

Hah. The woman I was briefly married to really wanted me to be jealous, but I didn’t realize that at the time. I was just happy for her whenever she told be about her great friends who happened to be men.

This culminated when she told me it wasn’t fair that I had had other sexual partners in my life but she had not. I replied that if she was asking me for an open relationship and it was really important to her, then it would be something we could discuss. That was not what she wanted to hear.

She was not a nice person (to put it mildly) so I don’t regret being so clueless.

When I visited India, there were people who spoke English to me with such a strong accent that I didn’t even realize that they were speaking English. Bias against people speaking with an Indian accent is real, but so is the need to facilitate communication.

I want to live in the woods in New Hampshire again some day. It’s a beautiful place and also a place where the state and local governments don’t make me grind my teeth in frustration all the time*. I would have a house, a lot of land, and no neighbors except for pine trees.

I had most of that already and I left, because I was very lonely - I think I talked to another person face to face about once every few weeks. I thought I would be OK with that because I was used to being alone, but having no family, no friends, and a 100% remote job was too much for me. Apparently even I start going crazy if I am that isolated. Now I live somewhere I really don’t like (New York City) but I’m close to my family.

*New Hampshire is a rather libertarian state. Taxes are low but the town where I lived (population 15,000) didn’t provide water, sewers, or garbage collection. Many things are legal that aren’t legal in most other places. For example, you can drive without insurance, set off fireworks, and do almost anything with a gun except shoot another person. The state motto is “Live free or die,” and I would tell my guests that as long as they did one or the other, the state’s duty to them would be satisfied.

I want a version of that appropriate/inappropriate meme but with the guys coughing up blood and both pictures labeled “inappropriate”.

I clicked the link in your post because I thought you meant that that phrase was in the Creative Commons license and I was disappointed.

I certainly don’t intend to defend Stalin. There was famine in parts of the Soviet Union even before the war and he was responsible for it. Arguably he did more harm to the people of the Soviet Union than even Hitler. I mean only to express some sympathy for the ordinary people of the Soviet Union. I think they weren’t indifferent to children’s hunger but there simply wasn’t enough food.

To be fair, 1946 and 1947 were not easy years in the Soviet Union.

My grandfather’s mother had to send him to an orphanage during the war because she couldn’t feed both him and his baby sister, and he wasn’t fed enough at the orphanage either. He survived by stealing crops from the fields of nearby farmers. Bad things would have happened to him if they had caught him, and it’s hard to blame the farmers because everyone was hungry (except for the “vanguard”).

I don’t know when she was able to take him back. His father had been killed during Stalin’s purges so she didn’t have support and I doubt that the food supply was restored instantly after the war ended, especially for the children left without a family to advocate for them.

(Don’t get me wrong - I think a lot of the blame should fall on Soviet leadership, but any country so devastated by war would have experienced hunger.)

You can hang on to the penis of someone who’s climbing.

Hallucinating while murdering his roommate.

The fact that the salute is so offensive, they did it so blatantly, and their denial was so disingenuous is the point. It’s a demonstration of power. They can do a Nazi salute and their opponents can’t punish them. They can deny that they did a Nazi salute and their opponents can’t control the narrative. If they did something more subtle, then people might think that they weren’t facing any consequences because their opponents were giving them the benefit of the doubt. With the Nazi salute there is no doubt. The only explanation for why they aren’t facing any consequences is that their opponents are powerless.

It’s trolling. That’s not to say there aren’t people who seriously want this, but even those people are putting up this sign primarily to harvest the liberal tears.

Skin heals, but grease stains might never wash out.