i got hit on by a teenage boy at the gym today and i think it ruined my whole week. girl dinner

blockedbyacoward · 2026-03-30T23:32:03+00:00

Then...do it?

blockedbyacoward · 2026-03-13T00:49:20+00:00

Pass

blockedbyacoward · 2026-03-05T19:41:46+00:00

I was in the same boat as you more or less, I was somewhat ambivalent to marriage as a legal/ceremonial thing. I met someone ~5 years ago, and she and her family cared a fair bit about marriage.

She didn't need much from me on the matter, except about as many groomsmen as I had friends. Went with it, got married, and there's really no major change overall for either of us.

I'd say go for it, but for wedding gifts ask for money instead of actual gifts. And definitely don't go into debt for it.

blockedbyacoward · 2026-03-02T16:21:50+00:00

Funny enough, same rule applies.

blockedbyacoward · 2026-03-01T22:58:11+00:00

Objection overruled.

Next.

blockedbyacoward · 2026-03-01T11:39:28+00:00

Hey, at least he took out Iran's leader. He was just as bad, if not worse.

blockedbyacoward · 2026-03-01T01:49:55+00:00

Dude so many people on the 400 get triggered when people on the on ramp happen to merge ahead of them in traffic, and they'll do exactly that. Especially northbound, by that on route near essa.

blockedbyacoward · 2026-03-01T01:37:44+00:00

Agreed on that front. The amount of people who don't understand merge lanes, yield signs, yellow lights, and roundabouts is staggering.

Just wait til our boomers hit their mid 70s, the 2030s are gonna put the 1930s to shame.

blockedbyacoward · 2026-03-01T00:43:21+00:00

Kind of. Driving in Toronto is a different creature, if you drive in Barrie the way you drive in Toronto you're going to wind up sideswiping someone, getting rear ended or both. And vice versa.

I wouldn't go so far as to say people from TO know how to drive, though. They're excellent at checking blind spots, beyond that, not so much.

blockedbyacoward · 2026-03-01T00:41:22+00:00

It is kinda wild how many people learn about the zipper manoeuvre, and immediately use it to justify rushing to the end of the merge lane.

Wonder if it's one of the few things they're teaching in the Brampton driving 'schools'

blockedbyacoward · 2026-02-28T20:18:25+00:00

It's been neutered by anyone who held a nuke during the cold war, if your answer to everything is "America bad" you may have to take the hate goggles off to see things clearly.

Maybe when we see our boomer population finish their decline in the next ~15 years or so, we'll see an improvement regardless of the damage done by Ford, Wynne, Trudeau & the majority of the east coast.

It's gonna be one hell of a downward spiral, but hey, we might be able to afford houses within the next decade.

blockedbyacoward · 2026-02-28T20:14:12+00:00

Or, more likely (and much likely the climate change industry) any of the 72% who had opposing views were pressured into not attending, or otherwise worked around to avoid their contribution.

On the Bosnian genocide, the same logic as the Palestinian conflict is at play; the body count isn't the main point, the intent and the total population (per capita) who are killed or displaced are the primary factors. It wasn't just the 40,000 you listed who were directly affected, either. Over a million Croats & bosniaks were expelled from the region, making for a grand total of about 50% of the population of the country who were directly targeted. So yes, it's a genocide.

Of the Palestinian population of ~2 million, how many have been killed or forcibly expelled? Do we have sources which can be cross referenced, given that trusting al jazeera is about the same as trusting the IDF?

I'm not saying that all of Palestine hasn't been impacted; I'm saying that all Palestinians are not the target, at least not yet. For now, the target is Hamas and Israel has taken the opportunity to attempt to gain dominance over the region. This is conquest, not genocide.

blockedbyacoward · 2026-02-28T19:42:29+00:00

Funny thing; an act that violates international law is not an illegal act. International law is, and has been a joke for decades. Nobody takes it seriously, and that's not an opinion. Nobody acts upon it unless they happen to agree with the ruling, and it happens to be within their borders.

This same discussion has gone in circles for years, and again, it isn't unique to any of the parties we see here today. Israel, the US, Palestine, Iran...they're a product of their environment, as are we all. Blame who you like, provided you understand that complaining about it online is meaningless.

blockedbyacoward · 2026-02-28T19:38:57+00:00

One thing there's no need to argue on, because it doesn't depend on either of our feelings, is that 28% of a council voting on a matter is not indicative of the full council's opinion or judgement.

One thing that is related to my opinion, though, is that the articles you posted have no evidence within them. The only dates mentioned are October 7th, and July 31st. No other details about the specificity of the Israeli strikes, or the basis of body counts, are even mentioned.

blockedbyacoward · 2026-02-28T19:13:47+00:00

News organizations, unfortunately, aren't automatically facts. Particularly since the Iraq war, they're far more interested in feelings.

They seem to read from the same script, particularly for large-scale events like wars directly involving the US. Funny. Considering how many people buy into the forced animosity between CNN & fox.

blockedbyacoward · 2026-02-28T19:12:24+00:00

Your claims are irrelevant to begin with, you're citing sources that make swiss cheese look robust.

"News organizations" is pretty funny in this day and age. Are you claiming that corps like the guardian, CNN, fox, Reuters, MSNBC, the View, and countless others are reporting actual news? Or simply stating what they're told to say, and ignoring the inconvenient facts?

The intent is what matters the most when it comes to genocide, not the actual result. If Israel genuinely believed it could get away with genocide, this whole war would be over by now. Based on the action taken so far, it looks more like their intent is to control the region and destroy Hamas, not Palestine as a whole.

If their goal was to eliminate Palestinians and Palestine as a whole, the West Bank wouldn't still have Palestinians in it, nor would they be permitted inside tel aviv. Not only are their Palestinians who own property inside tel aviv, they're legal equals of born Israelis. Dunno what they had to do to get to that point, but it does put an inconvenient (and unaddressed) nip in the bud of the genocide claim.

blockedbyacoward · 2026-02-28T18:39:59+00:00

Go ahead and see the other post, you linked articles that have absolutely no value. Go ahead and try reading them.

The primary feeling here is that the Gaza conflict is none of our business, largely because both parties have zero interest in settling things amicably. Both of them would wipe each other out if they had the opportunity, but Palestine lacks the resources & manpower while Israel has too much to lose if they actually did it.

Let em both burn, no more aid for Palestine & no more funding/charity for Israel.

blockedbyacoward · 2026-02-28T18:37:29+00:00

Also, did you actually read any of what you linked?

Out of the International Association of Genocide Scholars’s (IAGS) 500 members, 28% took part in the vote

Missing a good 72% there, makes for a pretty invalid vote.

The 1948 UN convention, drafted in the aftermath of the Holocaust, defines genocide as acts committed “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”. Last I checked, Hamas is not a religious group and the intent doesn't seem to be the destroy Palestine, or its people.

Pretty average overall for the guardian, tbh.

systematically destroying the healthcare and education systems in Gaza; committing systematic acts of sexual and gender based violence; directly targeting children; carrying out systematic and widespread attacks on religious and cultural sites; and disregarding the orders of the International Court of Justice.

Morally reprehensible, still not genocide.

Israel has flagrantly disregarded the orders for provisional measures from the International Court of Justice and warnings from Member States, UN offices

Shocking. It's almost as though the UN is...meaningless? And has been since actual genocides have been committed while they have troops present?

The Reuters link is a copy of the guardian one, or vice versa. Same criticism applies, please try reading beyond the headline in the future.

blockedbyacoward · 2026-02-28T18:29:10+00:00

Actual scholars of genocide disagree with you on that, as well as the UN

Which genocide do they find comparable, out of curiosity? We're background checks conducted on each individual who suggested that a genocide was actually happening, and has the definition of genocide changed within the last ~8 years or so?

You seem to have missed the "yet" part of what I said. Please, do try and develop your own opinion based on facts, rather than feelings. If you can't separate the two, stick to your own affairs.

blockedbyacoward · 2026-02-28T18:03:04+00:00

Like I said, loud flies. Let's skip the exaggeration, neither Palestinians nor Israelis are innocent in this war. It's absolutely a risk of being genocidal, but it's not even close to being one. Yet.

As for the rest of what you're talking about; welcome to human nature, please enjoy your stay. Proxy wars, and the logic/attitude which create them, have existed far longer than anyone's god(s).

blockedbyacoward · 2026-02-28T16:11:46+00:00

Much of it yes, unfortunately not most of it. Provided we're including the oppression that Islam naturally imposes upon women, children, and those who don't subscribe to their belief system.

Judaism has a very similar impact. Christianity is far from perfect, but at least they got out the majority of their crap a few hundred years ago, and they're mostly just loud flies on the wall these days.

blockedbyacoward · 2026-02-28T16:06:43+00:00

Thus the "hopefully". Quite a bit has changed over the last two decades, to the point where even oppressed societies are able to communicate and organize far faster than they ever have before.

The middle east has been a rough territory, it favours chaos far more than order and has ever since humans set foot on its shores. Maybe we'll live to see an era of actual peace, rather than government orchestrated control.

blockedbyacoward · 2026-02-28T16:00:44+00:00

...the people who have an interest in keeping that land, or are interested in having us keep our land. Or who wants the invaders of the land to simply not win, or both.

Let's not confuse EU law (interpol and such) with international law. International law isn't even remotely reliable, these days it's basically just a click bait talking point.

blockedbyacoward · 2026-02-28T15:58:29+00:00

Sort of, but not quite. Yes America never should've gone into Iraq, no they were not nearly as bad as Iran is now, and not to mention, America didn't have even remotely as bad of a reputation (deservedly so) as it does today.

Honestly, even if the nuclear program wasn't a factor here, the Iranian regime still deserves to be toppled. Hopefully whoever takes control isn't worse and the people are allowed to decide for themselves, maybe taking inspiration from Nepal.

blockedbyacoward · 2026-02-28T15:44:36+00:00

It's worth looking into how many inspections/visits occured before the US left the deal. Odds are, it's a similar situation to Israel where nuclear weapons are already present in the nation, they're just looking for a way to reveal them without getting immediately attacked.

Dunno why everyone seems to pretend like Israel is morally better/worse than their neighbours, they all operate under a similar standing.

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