Right, don't fuck around with Dachshunds...

I would be pissed if they didn't. Getting surprised AFTER the purchase with an extra... whatever percentage Trump has settled on this week, would be absolutely infuriating.

I think this is the main one. That song (as performed by Whitney) is absolutely iconic and absolutely transcendental. The Dolly version is good, but if it weren't for Whitney it would be just another Dolly Parton song.

"Am I Evil" by Diamond head, covered by Metallica, and done so much cleaner and better that I got into a full-on argument with somebody (pre-google) about it it not being an original Metallica song.

Also, I have nothing but respect for Roberta Flack and think "Killing Me Softly" was a fantastic song when she performed it, the Fugees absolutely crushed that song. Listening to the original shortly after makes it fall a little flat.

In the reverse of this, when I mention "Wagon Wheel" and somebody mentions Darius Rucker I get upset. Oh, you took a solid song with great harmonies and instrumentation, and you swapped it out to be a generic country song? Way to make it "your own" bud.

Well, I'm in America, so...

I guess I'd prep the natives to help put up a proper fight. Find a way to teach them that white people (like myself) carry diseases and to stay away and keep them away. If they land on your shores, drive them back. Never let them get a foothold. I'd try to convince them that I was a demon that got away from the other demons to warn of our coming.

I'd do my best to make it so nobody remembered the name Christopher Columbus except as the idiot that died because he thought the world was much smaller than it is and never returned from his voyage.

Funny enough, she actually really likes Detroit Pizza. But yes, she thinks Chicago pizza is trash (I tend to agree, I hate the way chicago pizza is made... it's messy, has too much sauce, and requires a fork which, to me, defeats the point of the pizza).

And I lived in New Jersey for awhile, and the pizza there, with a few exceptions, was some of the best pizza I've had (and I'm not talking that wide flat greasy stuff you get at NY street corners, I'm talking the pizza made at the restaurants run by Italians that are about half Italian restaurant, half pizza joint).

So no joke, I talked shit about pineapple on pizza for years. Then, I can't remember why specifically, but we had someone over and asked what type of pizza she wanted, and she said Hawaiian. And there was some leftover. I grew up poor, and we do not waste food, so I decided it was worth trying it.

It was amazing. I immediately felt silly for being so against it.

My wife still refuses to try it on principle (she did grow up near NYC, so she has STRONG opinions on pizza).

Y'all are crazy. Grown adults going on about silly ponies.

The real G.O.A.T. (and I don't mean Grogar) is Pinkie Pie. She's fun, chill, suprisingly powerful, and got real backstory depth.

Your entire rant should be required reading for kids entering high school in the age of social media.

There is a huge difference between "you're pretty and that's the only thing I know about you, want to go on a date?" And "Hey, we share a few similar interests and you are pleasant to talk to, and attractive, would you like to go on a date?"

You should have a baseline beyond simply looking at them. A date is where you get to know them beyond that baseline. If it's a stranger, it isn't unreasonable to say you should have at least a few minutes of conversation before asking them out.

It's pretty simple. If they can't just walk away and choose not to talk to you, don't shoot your shot.

If they are going through security to get on a scheduled flight, and you are security, do not shoot your shot.

If you are their boss, in your office, do not shoot your shot.

If you are purchasing something from them, do not shoot your shot.

If you are at a bar, and you are polite, shoot your shot. And accept a no graciously.

If you are at a park, and you are both walking your dogs, try to start up a conversation (not shoot your shot). And accept a no graciously.

If you are the President of the United States, and you have a 19-year-old intern in your office, DO NOT shoot your shot.

Seems pretty simple to me. I'm a man in my 40s, have started plenty of conversations with women (and men) in public, and have never had any negative experiences from it (other than coming across some VERY strange people). Weird.

Huh, that comic and the responses makes me realize how much people can't notice their own blind spots, including within the comic itself.

Like in this section with people saying it's exaggerated or nobody actually talks like that (because they don't ever perceive it in real life and it seems to ridiculous to be real), and the comic referenced in your link where she says if men were responded to that way, because she apparently can't see that it is how men are responded to for many of those things, because she's so used to seeing women as the victims of that stuff perpetrated by mostly men (which is reasonable! What situations would she see the opposite?). What's telling, though, is the way one side pegs her as a misandrist for it and shit on her work and herself for it, and the other side pegs those for being misogynist for taking issue with her (though, in fairness, some are and will hate on anything by a woman discussing problems for women).

Basically, I feel like this is two groups yelling past each other and being upset about the same issue: gender-based mistreatment. But another key thing is... well, the guys who happen across her comics should recognize that it's a comic equivalent of TwoXChromosomes from Reddit: it's by a woman, largely for women, and you should either skip it or read it for a glimpse of a perception you normally don't experience, not something to argue over. And the women, just like with 2X, should take this stuff with a grain of salt (especially when someone presumes to know what men's experiences are). Stuff is exaggerated to pinpoint an issue, but you shouldn't let it poison your view of the world (or men).

Basically, I feel like there's value in comics like PizzaCake's, but the heavy commenting should be expected, not hated on. The most value people can get from it would be hearing other perspectives without insulting them for having a different one than your own. Except the actual misogynists (and misandists), they can fuck off, but I think it's worth giving the benefit of the doubt to start.

I am convinced that vegans today will be like we look at abolitionists like Alexander Hamilton back during the 18th century. People will be horrified that we treated animals so abysmally for convenience, and some will say it was a normal and accepted practice, and people didn't realize how horrible it was, and others will point to the vegans of today.

Thoughts like those make me a little more understanding of people like George Washington. He recognized it was bad, tried to mitigate it, but still perpetuated the practice. Just like I switched to Impossible Beef and chicken, do my best to buy local family eggs, but buy cheese and milk and ice cream from big name companies like Tillamook and Ben & Jerry's.

The base Ender series didn't seem to have a lot of issues, and I was surprised when one of my friends said he had nothing to do with Card because he was Mormon.

Then I read the Shadow series (side story in the Ender universe), and whooooo-boy. There was a section with one of the most brilliant genetic scientists of the age talking about how, despite being gay, he chose to marry a woman because the most important thing, the only way to really participate in humanity, is to make babies. Beyond the homophobia, beyond the absolute what-the-fuck about life being meaningless without having kids, he had a genetic scientist in the future who lacked the imagination to figure out how a gay man could have biological children while being married to a man. Something that gay married people are completely capable of doing right now.

"We need Jesus in schools!"

No joke, I've heard people say that exact thing in response. That taking God out of schools is what started all this, so if there was more prayer in school, we wouldn't have shootings.

Yeah, because nobody does mass shootings in religious places.

I have been exceptionally lucky by being in the military because our housing allowance matches the local area (generally slightly behind big market changes, though) or am just given housing with utilities paid and they take the allowance away. Also, VA loans allow for 0% down loans, which means for the same as (or in my experience, less than) rent, you pay mortgage. And the house I bought in 2017 for 180k sold for 300k in 2022 and I did little more than live in it.

Now I'm buying a house where I will be retiring, and it's 750k. Vicious, but doable. I don't know how other people live here (VERY high cost of living location in Alaska).

Edit: forgot to add, I'm 41, so working on buying my second house. Hopefully I'll still be able to afford it in 4 years when I retire.

Her kegels could probably crack walnuts. You're lucky you walked away with your dick still attached.

Seriously, it does way more harm than good giving the impression that condoms are a one-size-fits-all thing. An uneducated guy could buy a box, use the whole package getting soft every time because his dick is getting put in a mild sleeper hold, and come to the conclusion that he can't have sex with a condom.

Proper health education for boys and young men should include talking about "finding the condom that works for you." Women don't usually do one set of birth control and just go with it forever no matter how shitty it is, they try different things until they find one that works, sucks the least, or find an alternative. They don't just try a pill, have side effects, and give up on the idea of birth control because some ignorant teacher suggested that all birth control is the same because (makes some inane demonstration).

So... I'm curious why you think gang shootings shouldn't count or is a bit disingenuous to include.

You're focusing too much on the "rights" and not enough on the "Mah." Not "Our rights."

It was never about universal rights. They were pretty clear about them caring specifically and only about their rights.