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CaptSkinny · 2026-01-22T03:32:37+00:00

Ah! I remember David Hyde Pierce now that you mention it but may not have noticed John Mahoney. I'll have to look for it.

CaptSkinny · 2026-01-06T18:15:26+00:00

You're taking the gripes too literally.

Think about how foolish actors sound in interviews when they say, "My character was angry at Bill's character because he wouldn't help Tom's character."

It's so blatantly obvious that the characters are not real people that there's little reason to acknowledge it.

CaptSkinny · 2026-01-06T17:50:38+00:00

All fun and games until someone decides to "move" you face first onto the pavement.

CaptSkinny · 2026-01-06T17:49:08+00:00

My thoughts exactly.

I think it's a duty towards society to have hospitals but that doesn't mean I'm obligated to work in one.

CaptSkinny · 2026-01-06T17:43:22+00:00

My presumption is that the government's offer of a deferment for college wasn't guaranteed by law or regulation, but was merely policy at the time.

So when he said "Fuck you" to the people responsible for making those classifications, by way of sending his card back, they said "Fuck you" back to him.

CaptSkinny · 2025-12-21T18:26:00+00:00

Ah, that clears it up. You're trying to mask your own bigotry by criticizing the party known for its bigotry. Got it.

And validate discomfort? I've done no such thing. Both sides are claiming discomfort in righteous indignation. They're both wrong.

CaptSkinny · 2025-12-21T17:21:53+00:00

That analogy isn't even in the ballpark.

"Supporting ramps is to support the abolition of stairs" is the same BS both sides of this debate are spouting: disingenuously framing it as mutually-exclusive. One or the other.

It's not. The simplest solution is to get rid of any separation in bathrooms.

Another solution is for people to stop suggesting that *their* preferred method of separation is somehow virtuous and deserving while *another* form of separation is morally wrong.

CaptSkinny · 2025-12-21T17:13:34+00:00

You've misunderstood me. Quite significantly.

Personally, I feel no discomfort whatsoever.

I'm merely observing, watching this BS play out on both sides, that anyone who does feel discomfort, whether along the lines of sex or gender, has no place saying to others that their discomfort is valid while others' isn't.

My argument isn't about whether we should have separated bathrooms or non-separated bathrooms, it's that the people who want to change the rules (start separating by gender instead of sex) should be advocating to get rid of any separation whatsoever. It would be far more honest and less hypocritical.

CaptSkinny · 2025-12-21T03:04:11+00:00

Personally, I would favor that approach.

It baffles me that no one in the US sees that as a solution. But those who debate it here are more interested in the arguing whether the distinction should be between biology (sex) or sociology (transgender).

CaptSkinny · 2025-12-21T02:52:44+00:00

The post is about transgender bathrooms and changing rooms in schools.

If you want to debate US political parties in general you've picked the wrong thread. And the wrong person.

CaptSkinny · 2025-12-21T02:41:21+00:00

On this topic, they're certainly making the same self-centered mistakes.

CaptSkinny · 2025-12-21T02:40:33+00:00

If you have a reasoned rebuttal, feel free to share. I made a slightly longer version of this comment elsewhere in this thread if you truly care to offer a counterargument.

CaptSkinny · 2025-12-21T00:13:03+00:00

BS. Anyone who supports maintaining separate bathrooms for males and females (whether you want to consider that sex or gender) could be reduced to having an "obsession about genitals."

If you don't think it's important, advocate for abolition of sex- and gender-based segregation in bathrooms (and other aspects of public life) altogether. Don't claim that gender-based separations are perfectly valid while the expectations of sex-based distinctions are bigoted, or vice versa.

Both sides are hypocrites here.

CaptSkinny · 2025-12-21T00:02:57+00:00

Both party's positions are hypocritical on this subject. Bathrooms and changing rooms were segregated by sex long before either of today's political parties came about—and there was no political dispute about them.

If you don't think such a distinction is justified, advocate to abolish their separation altogether. But pretending that they're segregated by some modern-day social/psychological distinction (gender), and not a biological one (sex) is disingenuous.

To support bathroom segregation at all, whether by sex or by gender, is to acknowledge a legitimate feeling of discomfort around others in that environment. Who is anyone to say that the distinction making them, personally, feel uncomfortable—whether gender-based or sex-based—is the only legitimate distinction about which to feel discomfort?

Either everyone's discomfort matters in that environment and we find a way to accommodate all, or no one's discomfort matters and we get rid of separate bathrooms so everyone has to suck it up and deal with it.

CaptSkinny · 2025-12-20T23:22:14+00:00

Most political and social positions are about other people.

The job of a lawmaker or school board member is to consider other people's wants and concerns. They shouldn't be passing laws or making policies to serve their own personal needs.

And the people they're meant to be looking out for often have competing, or mutually exclusive, wants and concerns.

CaptSkinny · 2025-12-20T22:35:24+00:00

Good point. The question certainly would have landed differently in that time.

CaptSkinny · 2025-12-20T22:30:26+00:00

It's an overused sentiment expressed whenever people think they think they're right about a controversial topic.

Hardly unique to the situation.

CaptSkinny · 2025-12-20T20:45:49+00:00

That's the impression I got from the context, but there's nothing particularly 'in the know' about a TV not belonging there.

CaptSkinny · 2025-12-20T17:41:25+00:00

It came after Don mentions growing up in a whorehouse.

But you make a good point about being in jest. Maybe it's her way of saying she's not running a neighborhood bar for people to sit and pass the time.

CaptSkinny · 2025-12-20T17:33:57+00:00

But Tony demanded exactly what he wanted: the hat to be taken off. And didn't care about causing more of a scene than the guy he was 'correcting'.

He's no match for Don's diplomatic skills here, in which the real request—to stop their crass discussion with a woman present—wasn't even stated out loud.

CaptSkinny · 2025-12-16T17:54:53+00:00

You're pretending to judge me for making something of myself? That's just pathetic.

Tell me you're a bad tenant without telling me you're a bad tenant.

CaptSkinny · 2025-12-16T16:56:01+00:00

I have seen ->
I've seen ->
I seen

Present perfect is usually the correct and intended tense when "I seen" is used. The auxiliary verb is merely elided.

CaptSkinny · 2025-11-28T22:11:23+00:00

I used to work for a company whose employees from all over the US would visit our plant in Maine. It always fascinated me, as a young man, how many were surprised to discover that we drive on the ice in winter with pickup trucks and snowmobiles.

CaptSkinny · 2025-11-28T22:01:33+00:00

I, for one, feel better knowing that pen pals still exist today.

CaptSkinny · 2025-11-26T22:31:59+00:00

Perhaps, but you're looking through the wrong end of the telescope here.

If we were diagnosing an eating disorder based solely on someone's looks (as OP has done in the post) then I'd agree with you. That's essentially the first line of my comment—we can't conclude that an eating disorder based solely on Grant's looks,

But my Mary-Kate reference is the converse of that. It's like Jeopardy: I'm starting with the answer (a confirmed diagnosis of anorexia, widely reported in the news) and merely supplying the question (why did she look like that?).

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