Hey, just because I’m a degenerate doesn’t mean I don’t care about maintaining healthy relationships with my friends!

I don’t think your parents not intervening necessarily reflects badly upon them; I can only imagine being parents of a sapphic nature comes with its share of difficulties, much as I imagine being the child of such parents would make you a target to teachers and schoolmates alike. It’s quite understandable that they should not want to add the burden of being the “confrontational” parents, both to you and to themselves.

Still, it is odd to denounce a parent standing up for their child as “threatening”. I agree that the other person’s initial comment came off as possibly being the rantings of a deranged helicopter parent. However, if their second comment, to which you replied, is to be believed, I find their objections to be just and right.

I have many friends who teach as their trade; I’ve no doubt that the plight of educators at the hand of undignant parents is more oft than not of a ridiculous nature; parents being very protective of their offspring. Yet we must not perceive this tendency as eternally true, as yet some are amongst the educators who should abuse the trust of old between master and pupil.

(Sorry I’m stoned and have been reading a lot of Tolkien recently; so I started replying, a bit subconsciously, in his style. I put too much into it to delete it, so please forgive my indulgent follies)

I’m glad you called them out on it because that’s an insane thing to say to someone when you’re about to get married.

Yeah, if someone truly wants your bike, they can get it. Locking a bike somewhere in a city is about making the would-be thief look for an easier target. Outrunning your hiking partner, not the bear.

Fucking smartphones and their malfunctioning alarms

I got got by this too many times, so I bought a digital alarm clock at the thrift store, a cheap old thing from the '80s. It reliably blares FM radio at me every morning and I haven’t missed an alarm since.

I think more cops should commit suicide to be honest.

As I read it, their argument is that fascism can only be sustained if a sizable number of people who would suffer under fascism actively support it.

If only the tiny minority of elites that benefits from fascism actually supported it, it wouldn’t be near the level of popularity necessary to be sustainable.

It’s not Nazi unless it’s from the Rhine basin area, otherwise it’s just sparkling genocide.

This is what you’re arguing about. The intent in calling them Nazis isn’t to insinuate they’re members of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei and no one would assume that’s the intent.

“Nazi” is common parlance as a shorthand for genocidal fascists because the Nazis are by far the most well-known genocidal fascists.

The meaningless semantic argument you’re putting forth is either a useless distraction, or you’re simply purposefully arguing in bad faith to derail the conversation.

I can’t really not go to work just because it’s raining. Not only would it fuck over my coworkers; I need the money.

It’s not like I’m made of salt, anyways :P With a raincoat and rain pants it’s really not that bad.

Thanks, I’ll make sure to pass the compliment onto her!

My city is kinda shit for cycling, bike theft is pretty bad and there’s a severe lack of cycling infrastructure. I always carry both the folding lock visible in the picture and a u-lock. It’s also a rather large bike, anyone under 6 feet tall would struggle to ride away with it.

The cruiser bars allow for a really upright riding position, which I prefer for visibility purposes with how dangerously people drive here.

Despite being a bike dedicated to urban riding, she’s been known to venture down the odd rural route or ATV trail.

If you think bacon on ice cream is weird enough to cancel an order, I can only imagine you’ve never worked a customer service job.

Sure buddy, that must be why car insurance is more expensive for men than for women.

Sorry for not enjoying the casual sexism!

tucking specialist

Is this a type of drag queen? I agree you probably wouldn’t need one to pump gas.

This reminds me of my local “$CITY’s Worst Drivers” Facebook group, where every single post has a bunch of racist comments saying that every bad driver is an immigrant.

As someone who almost gets killed by drivers on a weekly basis (yay commuting by bicycle in North America!) I confirm everyone sucks at driving. All genders, races, ages. It’s almost as if cars are an inherently dangerous and shitty means of transportation.

Being Canadian, I always forget that Toys R Us died in the US.

bike lanes piss me off

Agreed! Most bike lanes end up being nothing more than a painted bicycle gutter.

What we truly need is dedicated cycle paths adjacent to busy roads, and low-traffic, low-speed streets in commercial or residential areas where cyclists and pedestrians are prioritized over car traffic (see the Dutch city-planning concept of autoluw)

Only one to put out a great solo record after.

This is Ram erasure!