If you ever want your heart to break, head over to the Times' migraine blog. It is called Migraine: Perspectives on a Headache. The comments section is consistently devastating.
I'm not old either, but the typos drive me fucking nuts. Nuts!
- Calendar. Not calender.
- Strunk and White wrote "The Elements of Style," not "Element of Styles."
- Hillary Clinton is not a dude. Her first name has two Ls, not one.
(+1 if you're trying to make people think Gawker has been outsourced to Mumbai. )
@flavorflav: OK, fine. But did you ever think about the fine Mumbai-Americans whose ambitions to night-edit Gawker you've just crushed like Deep-Fried Tandori Chicken with your cruel reference?!
My BFF and his boyfriend of 6 years agreed to split up. It was fairly amicable. They toughed it out while the boyfriend looked for a new apartment, taking turns sleeping on the sofa.
I was surprised they lasted that long. The sexin' was infrequent and lousy, the boyfriend was the slob half of the Odd Couple, and they wanted different things out of life. Plus, the boyfriend cheated (and ultimately got what he deserved, as you will see.) But it seemed to work ok for a month or two.
Until! The boyfriend returned home early one night and was surprised to find candles, a used ashtray and two empty wineglasses in the sink.
My buddy (whom I still call "Helium Heels") was abed with a rather goodlooking Craigslist hookup, sexin' away with Hard Mechanics 2 on DVD a-playin'. Fortunately he was able to 'fess up, get the boyfriend to take a walk, and kick the craggy Craiggy to the curb without them actually seeing eachother.
He remains defiant. And I got him a gift certificate to The Red Roof Inn for Christmas.
Ah, quarterly Town Hall meetings. Just a guess, but I think you'll see a lot of substance-free brown-nosey questions met with vague answers and empty pontificating.
Ashley Madison is way too upscaley and fancy for me. You can tell by the two classy hooker names. I want to join a place called Moe Santiago. You schtup in the storeroom of a Dominican chino-latino restaurant on a crate of Manischevitz.
@BookishLookish: I actually know several people who have made awesome hook ups and had great affairs through Ashley Madison.
And, my lesbian friends love it because there are A LOT of "straight" girls in long term relationships with men who want one night stands with girls on Ashley Madison.
@BookishLookish: Nothing wrong with that. You also have to remember I'm currently living in a culture where married women/girls in long term relationships are expected to be unfaithful once in a while. Nobody is judgmental about it.
What I find amusing is that my partner (and several other of my female friends) have told me that if you are female and over 30 Courgared is a wonderful way to boost your ego - despite how ridiculously cheesy the site design is.
@Niko Bellic: My friend Louise just has a fetish for "straight" girls.
She seems healthy enough to me. I think she likes the married ones because she says that a lot of out lesbians often get really clingy and in general she just wants to get laid.
Beware. I have heard that private investigators can use ashleymadison as a means to gather evidence or worse, "create business". I have no idea if this is true or not, but I have dealt with a handful of PI's and this is something I would not put past them.
I vaguely remember a story in the news a few months/year ago where a woman would blackmail the men she met on a cheaters website (I believe one man was blackmailed more than once, until he had enough!).
@resipsaloquacious: This makes me glad that neither my gf nor I use Ashley Madison.
We misbehave the old fashioned way. I try to hook up with girls who comment on my blog and/or hit brothels and she just lets guys she likes know she's not in a monogamous relationship.
A variation of this happened about four years ago. One of my friends had just gotten dumped in a really, really bad way.
He was in one of those "I'm never going to be with a girl again" modes of freaking out.
So, we took him to Barcelona, got him drunk and then took him to my favorite brothel.
While he went off to one of the back rooms with a cute blond thing, my gf and I drank beer and watched the strippers/live sex show.
She then realized she had a mini crush on one of the working girls - but was too shy to approach her myself.
Being a gentleman I went up and talked to the girl for her. She explained that she didn't do girls but could suggest several other girls for my girlfriend.
I told my lady this, but she was hell bent on this girl. So, she asked if I would ask the girl I could do her while she watched - because my girlfriend really wanted to see this girl getting sexy.
The downside (and I will regret this forever) is that I'd been drinking since 5 p.m. and it was now like 3 a.m. and I was unsure if my equipment would work.
So, I passed - on the one and only time in my life that a girlfriend will ever offer to pay another girl to have sex with me.
@marcm2k7: Given that at age 40 I'm far too old for what the Cougar women are going for I can't speak from experience - only from what my friends tell me.
@drunkexpatwriter: I could be very wrong about this b/c it was explained to me by someone from the UK about the functionality of French affairs, but, they work so well b/c of discretion? i.e., the person having the affair would be mortified to learn that they had been caught out & would end the affair immediately. Family always comes before the affair and so feelings are never so badly hurt that the relationship can't recover (of course there are always exceptions). It's considered poor taste that the spouse would carry on an obvious or disruptive affair. Is this only for marrieds, just a myth, or is there any truth to it?
@BookishLookish: The founder said he chose those names because they were the most popular baby names of the year and women would feel comfortable with them.
@TroisFilles: Ah. So many of the men cheating have daughters with the same names as that of the company supplying the women with whom they cheat? That's kind of disturbing.
@once: Yes. It all works because of discretion. But it's assumed that it's happening. But if you ever rubbed it into your lover/husband's face that would be awful and the start of a blood feud.
Yes, family comes first and you do everything you can to not get caught.
The rule of thumb is "do not do anything that would embarrass your spouse."
And, yeah, the second you got caught you'd stop the affair.
And yeah obvious and disruptive affairs would not only end a marriage but would get you ostracized by your friends.
Affairs are supposed to be whispered about with your same gender friends and kept discreet.
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Also, remember when the Gawker tag "The New York Times is just a fancy blog" was like, a futuristic neg?
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- Calendar. Not calender.
- Strunk and White wrote "The Elements of Style," not "Element of Styles."
- Hillary Clinton is not a dude. Her first name has two Ls, not one.
(+1 if you're trying to make people think Gawker has been outsourced to Mumbai. )
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Also, the CBC would probably buy the blog about hockey.
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I was surprised they lasted that long. The sexin' was infrequent and lousy, the boyfriend was the slob half of the Odd Couple, and they wanted different things out of life. Plus, the boyfriend cheated (and ultimately got what he deserved, as you will see.) But it seemed to work ok for a month or two.
Until! The boyfriend returned home early one night and was surprised to find candles, a used ashtray and two empty wineglasses in the sink.
My buddy (whom I still call "Helium Heels") was abed with a rather goodlooking Craigslist hookup, sexin' away with Hard Mechanics 2 on DVD a-playin'. Fortunately he was able to 'fess up, get the boyfriend to take a walk, and kick the craggy Craiggy to the curb without them actually seeing eachother.
He remains defiant. And I got him a gift certificate to The Red Roof Inn for Christmas.
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And, my lesbian friends love it because there are A LOT of "straight" girls in long term relationships with men who want one night stands with girls on Ashley Madison.
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What I find amusing is that my partner (and several other of my female friends) have told me that if you are female and over 30 Courgared is a wonderful way to boost your ego - despite how ridiculously cheesy the site design is.
[www.cougared.com]
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She seems healthy enough to me. I think she likes the married ones because she says that a lot of out lesbians often get really clingy and in general she just wants to get laid.
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Beware. I have heard that private investigators can use ashleymadison as a means to gather evidence or worse, "create business". I have no idea if this is true or not, but I have dealt with a handful of PI's and this is something I would not put past them.
I vaguely remember a story in the news a few months/year ago where a woman would blackmail the men she met on a cheaters website (I believe one man was blackmailed more than once, until he had enough!).
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We misbehave the old fashioned way. I try to hook up with girls who comment on my blog and/or hit brothels and she just lets guys she likes know she's not in a monogamous relationship.
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And really, I'm an expat writer in Europe. I wouldn't be living up to my cliche if I wasn't in a brothel every so often.
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A variation of this happened about four years ago. One of my friends had just gotten dumped in a really, really bad way.
He was in one of those "I'm never going to be with a girl again" modes of freaking out.
So, we took him to Barcelona, got him drunk and then took him to my favorite brothel.
While he went off to one of the back rooms with a cute blond thing, my gf and I drank beer and watched the strippers/live sex show.
She then realized she had a mini crush on one of the working girls - but was too shy to approach her myself.
Being a gentleman I went up and talked to the girl for her. She explained that she didn't do girls but could suggest several other girls for my girlfriend.
I told my lady this, but she was hell bent on this girl. So, she asked if I would ask the girl I could do her while she watched - because my girlfriend really wanted to see this girl getting sexy.
The downside (and I will regret this forever) is that I'd been drinking since 5 p.m. and it was now like 3 a.m. and I was unsure if my equipment would work.
So, I passed - on the one and only time in my life that a girlfriend will ever offer to pay another girl to have sex with me.
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Yes, family comes first and you do everything you can to not get caught.
The rule of thumb is "do not do anything that would embarrass your spouse."
And, yeah, the second you got caught you'd stop the affair.
And yeah obvious and disruptive affairs would not only end a marriage but would get you ostracized by your friends.
Affairs are supposed to be whispered about with your same gender friends and kept discreet.
And, I think that's a good policy
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- "This morning at 10:30 am" is redundant. It should read "This morning at 10:30" or "Today at 10:30 a.m."
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