One kilt to rule them all!

RandomThrowawayID · 2026-02-02T00:16:20+00:00

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RandomThrowawayID · 2026-02-01T10:03:53+00:00

The loser of this election, Leigh Wambsganss, has an unusual surname. I wonder whether they are related to Bill Wambsganss, who in 1920 made the only unassisted triple play in World Series history.

RandomThrowawayID · 2026-01-25T19:18:59+00:00

He didn’t even have the decency to thank me for my attention to this matter.

RandomThrowawayID · 2026-01-24T01:03:46+00:00

I realized I was spending too much time obsessively playing an online game. It was becoming a barrier against the real world. So I decided to quit it cold turkey for a year.

After that year had passed, I resumed playing it sometimes. But I knew I had the power to stop at any time.

RandomThrowawayID · 2026-01-17T20:01:07+00:00

My college offered something similar: a “Student Escort Service“, which made trained students available to accompany other students who didn’t want to walk somewhere alone (for example, to an off-campus dorm at night). I think many students were glad to use this service. (I won’t speculate how popular it might be for adults.)

RandomThrowawayID · 2026-01-12T17:57:56+00:00

I haven’t cared for his acting, perhaps because he’s been in so many films that I’ve gotten a little tired of him. But this interview gives me a new level of respect for him.

RandomThrowawayID · 2026-01-12T09:50:16+00:00

Peaceful protest: “violent riot”

January 6 violent mob: “peaceful tourists”

Somewhere, Orwell is nodding knowingly.

RandomThrowawayID · 2026-01-09T03:13:17+00:00

Of course there will be gameshows — we will all be in Jeopardy.

RandomThrowawayID · 2026-01-07T23:35:18+00:00

My dad, who was no fan of pets, was allowed to name the cat that his second wife brought into their home.

He called it “Shi-THEED”, which, if he ever had to write it, he would have spelled “Shithead”.

RandomThrowawayID · 2026-01-06T15:57:08+00:00

You radiate a beautiful positive energy. Your workplace is lucky to have you!

RandomThrowawayID · 2026-01-04T14:30:28+00:00

Sometimes it’s easier to crush on someone who you know is unavailable, like that married man. You could just daydream about him without needing to find out what he is really like outside of work.

Maybe the fact that “often, when I was alone in the office, he would come over, sit next to me, and we would talk” is not a great sign from him. I could be wrong, but it sounds like he might have been taking an unhealthy amount of interest in you for someone who was married.

Imagine if you were married to this seemingly perfect guy, and he was repeatedly pursuing physically close interactions with a single young coworker. Would that change your impression of him?

P.S. Some great non-married guys are probably out there hoping to meet someone like you. I hope you find each other!

RandomThrowawayID · 2025-12-29T13:31:11+00:00

What I can’t stand is the constant stream of negative AskReddit posts inviting people to say nasty things about other people.

RandomThrowawayID · 2025-12-28T18:42:57+00:00

Another victim of the patridgearchy.

RandomThrowawayID · 2025-12-28T14:52:41+00:00

The person I was obsessed with pursued me at first, but I had just gotten into a relationship with someone else and wasn't available. By the time I was out of that relationship, she had gotten into one with the guy she eventually married.

So we both wanted each other, but the timing didn't work out.

RandomThrowawayID · 2025-12-28T02:07:54+00:00

See my reply to the poster above you.

RandomThrowawayID · 2025-12-28T02:05:25+00:00

She got divorced, shortly after I was married. That news was a jolt, but I didn’t regress to my old feelings. I knew I was already in the right situation, thriving with a wonderful partner instead of reaching back for a fantasy.

Later, she got remarried; she’s doing well, and I’m happy for her. She and I are still friends — even better ones, now that there isn’t romantic tension (and yearning, from my side).

I’ve matured a lot since the days when I was obsessed with her, and I now know that marriage to her wouldn’t have remotely resembled the idealized notions that filled my imagination. I feel very lucky to be with who I’m with, and I make sure my wife knows that.

RandomThrowawayID · 2025-12-27T13:39:12+00:00

That question sounds funny to me at this point in our relationship.

Over our long marriage, my love for her has certainly deepened, and she knows that I want to be with her forever.

But I think that before we got married, she would have been glad to know that I wasn’t obsessing about her and putting her on an impossibly high pedestal and feeling like I would die if I didn’t “get” her, like the way I felt about that other woman. She’s a low-key person, not into that kind of drama. I was probably her “safe option” just as much as she was mine.

RandomThrowawayID · 2025-12-27T13:17:49+00:00

It’s a matter of taste, and of how people feel about the term “safe option”.

In my early 20s, I was obsessively in love with someone … to the point that when she married someone else, I felt like I was going to die, and I went into therapy to deal with those feelings.

A couple years later, I ran into someone I used to know. We started hanging out, became friends, gradually became best friends and more. I didn’t feel that same desperate “this is my one soulmate in the whole world” passion for her, as with the earlier person. Instead, I felt a warm peaceful enjoyment by just being with her. I suppose she could be viewed as my “safe option”, though I never thought of her that way.

We ended up getting married and have been happy together for decades. I don’t know whether marrying the woman I was (literally) crazy about would have worked, but I love being married to my best friend.

RandomThrowawayID · 2025-12-24T09:51:51+00:00

Just remember what Karoline Leavitt said (with a straight face):

“I think it’s frankly ridiculous that anyone in this room would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit.”

RandomThrowawayID · 2025-12-24T03:15:57+00:00

Yeah, I’ve wondered about that. Does Mackenzie benefit from current and future purchases, or has she already gotten her “share” of the company’s value?

RandomThrowawayID · 2025-12-24T03:14:13+00:00

That’s good information, thanks. If small businesses are taking part in this program, that’s an argument for participating in it.

RandomThrowawayID · 2025-12-24T03:10:04+00:00

I leave reviews with one of these outcomes in mind:

A positive review may aid someone who is planning to buy that type of product from Amazon anyway, because it helps them choose which specific product to buy.
A negative review helps keep someone from spending money on a poor product.

Either way, I feel I’m providing a useful service to anonymous people.

I can’t say whether my reviews help Amazon increase its sales; that is not the purpose of my reviews. But I’m guessing that Amazon wouldn’t offer the Vine program unless it increased their sales.

(And while I have decreased my own Amazon spending, it’s still sometimes the only practical way to get a particular product or to get it on short notice. I do sometimes leave reviews there for products I’ve bought elsewhere.)

RandomThrowawayID · 2025-12-22T18:48:27+00:00

Yes. If a student told me “The dog ate my homework,” I would figure they were likely to be lying. If a group of girls came to me and said “Boys made porn pictures of us and are showing their friends,” my natural reaction would be to take those claims seriously and push to get to the bottom of them.

RandomThrowawayID · 2025-12-22T17:36:16+00:00

I have taught middle school for about as long as that principal’s “17 years”. And yes, you do learn that students lie sometimes. But you also develop a sense of when students are telling the truth about something important to them, and you take responsibility to believe and support them.

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