Preferably when his SO, children, or parents are not around.
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Hell, ask him when they are there and watch the reaction and you might get a better answer.
In my experience, men tend to be more shy/close-mouthed than women about such potentially embarrassing personal details.
Usually because a lot of men are afraid they are the only ones to be experiencing whatever it is. âOh my god, I canât let anyone know about this.â
Women are more likely to consult with other women. âDoes this happen to you, too?â
Apparently, it is not only Christmas merchandising that gets earlier every year.
I was seeing âback to schoolâ sales a month and a half ago.
Iâve seen Easter stuff in the supermarket in January. And Christmas stuff in October.
Why donât we just combine all the holidays into one and then we can have a Happy HanakaChristmasRamadanEaster day and get all that crap out of the stores?
Well, several schools around here went back to school at the end of July so thatâs only half a month early.
It was the âBlack Friday in Julyâ commercials that got me.
Maybe we should have specialty holiday stores, that sell all holidays all year, and keep the crap out of grocery/ clothing/ big box stores.
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If only!!!
Doc, youâre a genius! That would be awesomesauce.
I saw Halloween candy yesterday. While I was shopping for school stuff - but our school starts tomorrow, at least. Amusingly, there was 4th of July merchandise on discount right next to itâŚ
Another example of a Social Justice Warrior carrying the shield and sword of social justice as a method of self enrichment? The hypocrisy of the average SJW really kills me. Manbearpig making millions of dollars on hedge bets on green energy venues that he knew the federal govt was going to back, then selling out to big oil as soon as it got big enough. The Clintons being held up as huge womenâs rights supporters, despite a sexually harrassing Bill, and a horribly dismissive Hillary of a 13 year old rape victim.
Sheâs quoted in the article as saying that a womanâs sexuality being public is whatâs going to ruin everything. No you stupid shit, itâs your hypocrisy, lying, cheating, holier than thou bullshit thatâs going to ruin everything.
You slept with your boss, and several members of the press that covered your piece of shit game to get it greenlighted on Steam. And then slept with more people to keep it quiet. If itâs false, answer the allegations, or tell people itâs none of their business, donât try to get back on the Social Justice horse and say some bullshite that this is because you are a woman.
Iâve noticed something over the last few years that is kind of interesting, and I wonder if anyone else has been in this situation themselves.
I keep getting solicited to be womenâs husbandâs friend. Not just a âhey meet my husbandâ but a âHey, you guys should hang outâ! I get the feeling with a couple of them they think Iâm a good influence.
Anyone else find themselves used as psychic sandpaper? Like Iâm going to rub the rough edges off your neanderthal husband. Make him a better conversationalist, or is it more of a âplay dateâ kind of thing? Ohh, here is someone safe, go play with him honey.
The Jennifer Lawrence saga has thrown up a lot of interesting things - most of it I imagine the writer frothing at the mouth with spittle flying everywhere as he pounds angrily on his keyboard (and yes, Iâm pretty sure that most of them are male).
One comment Iâve seen seems to sum up the attitude pretty well (illiteracy included).
If you donât want your money stolen, donât leave it lying around. If you donât want your car stolen, lock it. If you donât want your personal information on your phone accessed if it is lost, put a pin on it. If you donât want your nudes leaked, donât put them on the internet. Cyber-crime happens, thereâs no two ways about it. just luike crime happens in real life. These images were sttolen because the people who took them mistakenly trusted an online service witth their security. This service was not hacked, the people in question were dumb enough to have either VERY weak passwords, or used securoty questions that anyone could Google. You canât expect people NOT to take advantage of these flaws - It would be nice to live in a world where people donât go around trying to steal each others posessions and private information, but we donât.
This would be like someone refusing to get anti-virus, then blaming the virus creator when their machine gets infected. Yes, if the created hadnât realease the virus, it would have not infected their machine. But if the user had purchased an AV package, they wouldnât have been infected in the first place.
Flip side - If the celebrities in question had taken the plethora ofadvice on the internet on hot to protect their data, it wouldnât have been leaked. Better yet, if they hadnât uploaded it to a cloud service it wouldnât have been leaked.
Okay, first thing is to address the analogies and get them a bit more accurate.
If you donât want your money stolen, donât leave it locked in a vault. If you donât want your car stolen, donât leave it locked and parked on the street. If you donât want your nudes leaked, donât put them on a personal, secure site. This would be like someone having anti-virus software and then blaming the virus creator when their machine gets infected.
Alternately (and this seems to reflect another common attitude):
If you donât want your money stolen, donât have any. If you donât want your car stolen, donât have a car. If you donât want your nudes leaked then donât take any. If you donât want to get a virus then donât have a PC.
As for the comment about the service not being hacked and calling the users dumb, Iâm pretty gobsmacked at that one. I havenât heard anything about them using weak passwords or security questions so I think the commenter made that up to bolster his pathetic argument.
The fact is that Jennifer Lawrence is a crime victim and as such she is entitled to be outraged and expect that the perpetrators be punished. Blaming the victims is stupid, arrogant and really deserves a good slap in the face with a clue stick.
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9/11
To my youngest daughter itâs something like the Titanic. It happened a long time ago and it was sad. Some of the people involved have been punished, and nothing like it has happened since. She is 7 now so there is today and last year, and then everything else.
My oldest is 21, sheâs become a very conservative person who believes we should turn the whole area into a glass parking lot. At her age I believed much the same thing, hopefully sheâll mellow out of that like I have. And believe me, I have. She is doing her best to be as self sufficient as she can be, and with this guardianship is trying to do the best she can for other people as well. I worry about her sometimes because she doesnât bend.
To my middle child at 17, the world has always been a dangerous place. She believes that it is so much more dangerous than it really is often. Itâs not like she is running around cowering in fear, but she doesnât see a light at the end of the tunnel so much. Sheâs very self oriented, will work hard, but doesnât see the value in hard work for itâs own sake. Satisfaction for a job well done doesnât do much for her. Sheâs my Libertarian, a hawk on fiscal policy who believes much like I do that people should be able to carry guns, grow pot, and marry whoever the hell. I think once she sheds some of the naivety sheâll do ok, I just hope it doesnât hurt her too much to realize that hard work can be itâs own reward.
For me, I never bought into the âthey canât hurt usâ mindset. I am not going to say I wasnât surprised, or shocked, or whatever, but I never had this image of the US being invincible in the first place. I didnât see a world topple before my eyes since that world never really existed in the first place. I had read my history, and more importantly, I had read my Clancy. I think the government (R or D) has done very little since 9/11, or really before, that was competent and effective to address the issue. Most of the active issues since 9/11 have been found and stopped by concerned citizens, not people being paid to do so. Because of this Iâve become even more of a constitutionalist. The federal government is controlling to many things and controlling it badly. The people in DC have no idea how the rest of the people think or live.
The world feels more uncertain today, but trying to look back dispassionately .it has always been uncertain. The communists were going to kill us all in a nuclear blast, the Chinese were going to come over the ocean at us, we were all going to starve to death in a new dust bowl, the Nazis were going to kill us all, the Kaiser was a madman, the South was going to release a slave army on us, the Redcoats were coming back, we were all dying of the black plague, etcâŚ
All I can do is be the best I can and take care of the people I can. Donât sweat the petty stuff, and donât pet the sweaty stuff.
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Yeah, I never bought into that mindset either. We had a lot of examples previously of terrorists doing things to other countries and to American citizens in other places. It was only a matter of time before those two merged.
But I have never bought into nationalism of any kind. The idea that this country is somehow better than all the others âwell, because!â never held much water. I can look at it pragmatically and see things other countries do better than the US does in different areas. No country is perfect, every one of them has their own issues and faults. And there are few that are as bad as biased media sources would like us to believe.
One reason I found the âV for Vendettaâ character Prospero totally believable. Touting his nation as perfect, while taking part in activities which disprove it.
Yeah, I remember that day. I remember my then-mother-in-law crying âhow could this happen here?â I told her flat out that it was inevitable. She was a blithering idiot.
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Thatâs because the answer isnât âWell, becauseâ. Enough people believe that you can be anything here. And enough people donât care where you are from or who you are to make the melting pot work.
Foods, fashions, cultures, speech, languages, everything is absorbed by Americans. The Ketchup/Salsa/Sirrachi progression is a good example.
I have a friend from Poland whoâs daughter was 4 when she left that can identify peopleâs nationality by facial structure and build. And her and her mother think itâs amazing that all these different âracesâ can do things together. In Europe, Iâm German, and Iâm expected to act as a German would, as much as we complain about discrimination here, I suppose we at least base it on something you can see from a football field away, not the size and slope of a nose. (Still stupid, but anyway)
Being different in some countries is a death sentence, and in other countries is installing your own handicaps. Yes, being different in the US can suck, but try being Japanese in China, or white and poor in South Africa, or gay in half the planet.
There are some class issues in the US, but itâs still easier to go rags to riches in the US than anywhere else. Some of our poor people are fat, and have air conditioning, TVs, and cars, and internet access.
In general the US media publishes the worst of America, and the best (Or total worst) of other countries. In a lot of other countries the media publishes the best of their country and the worst of others.
The experiment is still going, for every Detroit there is a Houston, for Chicago there is Atlanta, hell for every Cincinnati there is Indianapolis. Each town, city, and state has been able to choose their own path, some work, some donât, but there arenât many places that can do this.
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Am I in the same reality? Woodman and ClockWork are discussing the same topic and so far theyâre both making sense and seeming to agree.
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They do that every now and then.
Some of the really old timers will remember the Hasufin vs Weaver95 debates. Woodman and CX are tame by comparison. 
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Was that worse than the flame war with Jawa?
Jawa was an entirely separate issue. Flaming was one of his gifts, but not really what heâs known for.
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