"*If a non-lesbian had said this to me, I would have shown up with the condom already on.* "I don't like condoms, so what I do is when I go out on a date, I put on two. Then we're ready for sex, I take one off and I feel like a wild man." I have it in my head that that's Dennis Miller, but it just doesn't sound like him."
- Andy Lester
petdance on How do I deal with a girlfriend who constantly puts herself down, calls herself fat, and ugly, but gets angry at me because "I'm a liar" for disagreeing? - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"The specifics of if she is or isn't fat are irrelevant. This isn't an issue of facts. If it was, you could have her get on a scale or STFU. Not that it would make her STFU. The key is that she is negative about herself. She is probably also negative about others as well. Does she trash other attractive women? Is she jealous of them? Does her negativity spill into everything else you do? When you say "Hey, it's a nice day out," does she say "Eh, it's gonna rain?" Her self-image is not something you're going to fix. She is probably in a comfort zone where she is comfortable with her self-hatred. As far as I'm concerned, being called a liar repeatedly would be enough for me to leave. That's verbal abuse. Take a look at http://verbalabuseofmen.com/ and see how many of those bullets you match. There are three options I see here: * She learns to love herself * You decide you've heard "I'm fat and ugly" enough and walk * You spend the rest of your relationship/life being miserable."
- Andy Lester
Mass-updating a dirty table: update books set upc=nullif(upc,''),pages=nullif(pages,0); Index sizes and Pg optimizer will be much happier.
"*Outsiders/Newcomers, these issues are being addressed. People like Kennedy and Lester and the 5.10 team are doing shit about it.* Who is this Lester that is dealing with those issues? It sure isn't me, Andy Lester who runs http://perlbuzz.com/ and mostly just reports news and makes Perl noise. My Perl contributions have been almost nothing in the way of code lately."
- Andy Lester
"*Outsiders/Newcomers, these issues are being addressed. People like Kennedy and Lester and the 5.10 team are doing shit about it.* Who is this Lester that is dealing with those issues? It sure isn't me, Andy Lester who runs http://perlbuzz.com/ and mostly just reports news and makes Perl noise. My Perl contributions have been almost nothing in the way of code lately."
- Andy Lester