Having gone through boot camp, I can tell you three things for certain.
1. This is common...
2. ... so common that they dug that pit specifically for that reason...
3. ... so common that the instructor is trained to have his hand on the trainee's belt specifically to get a secure grip on him to throw/pull them both down into the pit quickly.

The really rare thing here is that they actually got it on video.

It's a good thing they plan for these eventualities so thoroughly. BTW, the kill zone for a grenade is about 20-40 ft, so without that planning, they'd both be ground meat.

My wife's favorite is "But-yeah-no-um..." Even when she's the one starting the conversation.

Yeah... I have to agree about the older folks being less judgmental. It seemed like the younger ones were overly critical hipster purist types. They seemed to start from the assumption that all the food would be poor Americanized knockoffs and, because of that fact, should be disgusting.

Meanwhile, the older people were willing to admit that half the items were pretty authentic and actually tasted good to them! Authentic and tasty chow mein and hot and sour soup, for instance. And I really loved their reaction to the orange chicken. A couple right out say that even though it's an American taste, it's something Chinese people should also enjoy.

We all know that Panda Express is knockoff Americanized Chinese food already, but that doesn't mean that it's automatically disgusting or even completely different from authentic Chinese food in every dish.

All the young people seemed like folks I would not want to go out to lunch with, anywhere, at any time. They have the power to ruin the enjoyment of any meal, I suspect. The older folks, I'd enjoy their company, as long as I had a translator. And at 34, I'm probably closer to the age of the 20 somethings.

I wonder if it would have gone differently if they'd used an objectively ugly girl instead. Would these seemingly charming boys hesitate to slap a girl if it wasn't even clear that the person beside them was really a girl? I don't mean just androgynous, since that by itself can actually be quite "pretty". I mean androgynous due to severe deformity or something. It would be hard to find someone like that who'd willingly put themselves in the situation, though, so I suppose I'll never know.

Imagining myself in the boy's shoes, I think I would have reacted differently at 8-11.

Director: "Now, slap her."
Me to Director: "Do I have to really slap her or can I fake it?"
Director: "Really slap her."
Me to Director: "On the face?"
Director: "Yes."
Me to Girl: "Are you alright with this?"
Girl: "Yes."
Me to Director: "How hard?"
Director: "As hard as you can."
Me to Girl: "Are you sure about this?"
Girl: "Yes."
Me to Girl: (SLAP!)

My parents taught me that the difference between a caress and molestation, or sex and rape, or friendly fighting and abuse, is consent. For instance, if a couple boxers get in the ring and beat each other bloody, they serve no jail time, a la consent.

Of course, I probably wouldn't have asked for consent before the caress, since she's so pretty I'd want to do that anyway. I'm not exactly sure why I would assume the girl consented in the case of a caress and then double verify consent before the slap, but it might be that one will incur less of a disciplinary action than the other if done without permission. That is, if I caress a random stranger on the cheek, she may be upset, but I probably won't go to jail for it. If I slap a stranger, I might end up in jail after a court hearing. Or at 8 yo, it may be the former would mean I get a verbal reprimand at to not do that, the latter and I get severely punished (grounded for a month or w/e).

I'm gonna try this myself, but I feel it's worth noting that I'll have a couple disadvantages to overcome that the person in the video gets to bypass.

1. My gifts are all different sizes, unlike the uniform size-and-shape boxes in the video.
2. My gift wrapping paper is in long rolls that must be custom cut for each gift, unlike the pre-cut uniform shape gift wrap sheets shown here.

If I can get past those hurdles, maybe I can make this work. If only they gave us a cheat sheet for the geometry tricks used to figure out how to match up the 2D size of the cut sheet relative with the 3D dimensions of the box to be wrapped.

The "environmentalists" need to realize a simple fact here: Stray cats ARE part of the local wildlife. This is an amusement park in a big city. Anything wild here is wildlife. Rats and mice, pigeons and finches, cats and dogs and snakes, too. They are all part of the wildlife there. It doesn't matter if the breed was once domesticated, it's wild now. That's pretty much what "feral" in "feral cats" means: no longer domesticated, gone to wild.

That was beautiful. I only wish they'd shown the process through withdrawal and recovery, so that it would end with some hope instead of horror. But I guess that depends on whether the intent is to try to scare people away from drugs (which almost never works) or try to help give hope to people who are already addicted.

I feel like I've heard of this before as a legit psychological concept, something similar to "change blindness" in some way. The drivers are focused on the road and themselves and might actually, legitimately not see anything else going on.

They should, but their brains are processing it out as garbage before they realize it's there.

From an adult's perspective, given the expense of getting a seat at a table there and how far ahead you have to reserve it (about a year, last I checked), I would react the same way to what she describes. No apology for irresponsible parents here, if your kids can't behave for a few minutes at a fancy dinner setting, you and your kids are ruining the experience for everyone else at the restaurant.

There are plenty of places at WDW for kids to be running all around bopping one another with plastic wands. Teaching your kids to know when to sit still and when to run around is part of the job description when you become a parent.

My first question upon reading the spreadsheet was "What did he say or do, exactly, to initiate sex?" I suspect that around 50% of the issue is her drawing away, and another 50% or so is how he chooses to get her in the mood.

Speaking from my own marriage, I can usually tell if my wife might be receptive before I initiate anything, and I know how to initiate in a way that will make her more receptive. With this guy, we have no idea, since he only records her responses and nothing of how he chose the time and his actions in the initiation.

It makes me think this guy is probably going about it all wrong and is either hiding it or unaware of it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Egyptian men wear just as much makeup, just as often, as did the Egyptian women of 6000 years ago?

If anything, it seems the question should be "Why don't men feel it necessary to wear makeup all the time like they used to?"

All the cosmetics that are listed here, and their reasons for applying them, apply just as much to the men of that time and place as they do to the women. Unless we’re going to try to claim that men wore exactly the same cosmetics in exactly the same style, but for different reasons. That seems a bit of a stretch.

Now that I'm thinking along that line, when, and why, did men stop wearing makeup as much as women? Did the Roman Empire men wear makeup? The Egyptian cosmetic style is blaringly obvious in old paintings of the time, but maybe it was just more subtle yet still present in the male population of the Roman era.