Most strangers on the street don’t really say hello to one another.  Forget actually saying hello, most strangers won’t even smile or acknowledge one another.   Certainly this lack of friendliness tends to exist more in big cities.
I’ve never really been to the South, but from what I hear, people are a lot more friendly to [...]

I’m sure you know some people who have been in the same relationship for a long time, but aren’t married.  I’m talking about at least a 5+ year relationship here, if not even longer like 10 or 20+ years.
People who are in relationships like these are pretty much married, just not officially-officially.
I was recently talking [...]

Different facial hair styles on men  —- This has been a part of human culture for pretty much forever.
Facial hair can really say something about a guy.  It’s expressive, and a style can mean one thing in one century, and receive a different reception by people in another century.
Often guys will want to wear facial [...]

I was talking to a friend over the weekend, who told me a story of one of his high school friends, and how that person was convicted of DUI/DWI.
This dude ended up in prison, and my buddy passed along some interesting anecdotes about life in prison.  Many of this is obvious, or common knowledge, but [...]

I’m sure you’ve seen this at sporting events.   The stadium cameras scan the crowd looking for romantic couples.  Once the camera zeros in on a couple, it is expected that they smooch for all of the crowd to see on the jumbotron.
Well, I think it’s about time that stadiums start showing homosexual and lesbian couples [...]

Yesterday at the Indians game, a fan actually entered the ballpark in Cleveland wearing a LeBron James Miami Heat jersey.  With Cavs fans and the city still reeling after LeBron’s heartbreaking and disappointing exit from town, perhaps this wasn’t the best decision to wear a Heat jersey at a Cleveland sports venue.  Indians fans chanted [...]

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Have you ever noticed that pretty much all pilots for commercial airlines are men?  Why is this?
According to Wikipedia, “as of 2006, just over 6% of certified civilian pilots (both private and commercial) in the U.S. were women.”  I don’t think the numbers today are all that different.
However, almost 20% of the Air Force [...]

I find it a little strange in sports that male athletes are constantly patting each other on the butt to congratulate each other after a job well done.  I’m not saying that this makes the “patter” or the “pat-ee” gay or anything, but surely the congratulatory butt-pat is a bit homoerotic.
Why not just a pat [...]

There are a couple of go-to phrases you can use when you feel you may have crossed the line when making a joke.
How do you know when you’ve gone too far?  For one thing, if you’re amongst a group of people  — you make a joke, then silence follows.
Before that awkward silence lingers on for [...]