(There are rules for young people, too, who should watch out that in recommendation letters, black students tend to be described as "friendly" and women are described as "easy to get along with," while white males are "intelligent.")
I will verify that this also applies to women who teach. It's not that my college students don't think I should be teaching, but they seem to think the highest compliment they can pay me is that they don't literally fall asleep while I am talking because I'm "so crazy" or "hysterical." Some of them will occasionally acknowledge that they think I'm smart, but I hear "crazy" ten times for every "smart." I'll take it, I guess. I think the assumption here is that older men get credit for knowing exactly what they're doing, but if an older woman (I'm 31, which is apparently "older" nowadays) is interesting, it must be because she's nuts.
Yes, this is exactly the sort of movie I want Gabe to watch so that I can insult it in a more informed way without actually having to endure it myself.
Make this guy a white engineering student and you basically have every dude I went to college with. It all sounds like bags-of-sand* to me.
* inadvertent verbal proof that you have never actually been anywhere near a human woman
(She almost said "my husband" but stopped herself when she realized there was an abyss of still more public embarrassment at her baffling decision-making to plunge into.)
Sea captains do have it pretty rough. I got pretty drunk in a bar with a sea captain last summer, but who did I take home? That's right, a lawyer (less likely to cut me into bits and dump me in international waters).
To be fair, there's only so much you can say about even a truly cool dog other than "cool dog," and the other things are creepy.
Yesterday I was holding a friend's dog's leash while the friend went in a shop, and in five minutes, half a dozen people stopped to tell me I had a cool dog. (It's a really cool dog!) But when I acknowledged the compliment from one lady, she bent over closer to my face and said, "We must remember that all dogs are precious. All dogs."
My stereotype of Dutch people is that they speak every language without an accent, and aren't even assholes about it like the Germans are, so you don't even feel good resenting them for it. Also, they own so many bikes.
Totally true! I had a parallel experience with Waffle House in Tampa. All the other food was so terrible, and we thought, well, at least there's always Waffle House! We didn't know we had accidentally stumbled into the Waffle Halfway House [for Floridians Destroyed by Meth]. After giving a precise and cleanly delivered breakfast order for two, the waiter blinks and says, simply, "Uh, egg?" It went downhill from there. Florida sucks!
Also that morning I went for a run and was oinked at.
Also later that day I sat on the beach next to a German woman loudly complaining in German about her itchy vagina on a cell phone.
I watched the clip of Brad noticing the fangs, and it looked a lot like Dean Pelton saying "This better not awaken anything in me." Fang girl has this one in the bag.
I saw that too. Watched the whole thing. Somehow it seemed really ideal, those two sitting there banging a bongo and talking about how rad each other is.
I have long held the theory that Guy Fieri is the tragically perfect example of what emerges when traditional masculinity (rape, violence, wit) has been dissolved, with mostly good riddance, but nothing has yet taken its place except homophobia and eating shit. Quick, dudes, come up with some other way to remind us you have penises!
For some reason, I used to misread Cute Overload as Cute Overlord, and thought, without seeing the site, that it was a commentary on how we are all rendered helpless idiot drones by cute things, and I thought that was pretty deep. And then I eventually clicked through and saw my error.
I dunno. You gotta be in the mood for this sort of thing.
Truly awesome. If I were a writer for a cat-fanciers magazine, I would occasionally slip in polls like "Do you wonder if maybe you love your cat more than you love God?" or "If you could sell your soul and your cat would live forever, would you do it?" And I'd publish articles about how science has discovered that, when you sleep, your cat just cries and cries because he thinks you're dead.
Every time I see a picture of this kid, I immediately react as if he is a ridiculously hott transboy/babydyke. Then I remember it's just some dude-child/date-rapist. Sigh.
Seriously, Community might be too funny. It's disturbing, and it makes other shows seem sad and desperate. Community is the boy in school who you wish had a little acne or wasn't so bright or something because you know you'll never get to hit that. Not that I know what it means that I want to have sex with a sitcom, but.
At the end of this movie (**SPOILER**):
Everyone: We are idiots. People die and it's a normal part of the circle of life. Also, teen sex isn't particularly interesting. Use a condom, kids!
I'm not sure why, but looking at Ryan Reynolds's face makes me embarrassed. He seems like someone I would meet and end up dating despite being fully aware that I hate him.
When I was your age, Rage Virus, I started dating a man 20 years older than me. Now that I'm 31, I cannot imagine what he was thinking. But I'm not saying you'll feel different when you're older, because apparently plenty of people don't.
If you want to get over dads, therapy won't help, but having a relationship with someone who will never make you a priority (and if he did, you wouldn't respect him anyway) will get you past it!
I must have really despised this movie, because I hated it on an airplane and I love everything I see on airplanes (except The Last Station, ugh). Instead of "characters," we have attempts at making everyone into "regular people," but none of the people involved with this film have ever met a human being before, or, apparently, had phone sex. Write what you know!
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Delurking because Milan Kundera loves Fight Club so much.
I vaguely remember taking my mom to see it and we both rather enjoyed it. Other people who enjoyed it in creepy ways made me stop saying so.
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