Generally, I get a real kick out of reading everyone’s dating stories in the various threads around Crasstalk. Whether your just kicking around stories in the open threads or Betty’s giving advice about trolling Craigslist, I know I’m going to get a laugh.
Why? Well, at it’s core, dating is funny. We all have horror stories, and we can all look back and laugh at something ridiculous that’s happened to us on a date. At the end of the day, dating proves that there are people out there who are much weirder than us.
Before I get to the actual winner, though, let’s highlight a couple of outstanding nominations that landed in my box (ew, gross you guys) this week.
Over on Left Coast Lady’s music thread, a discussion centered around how far back we should reach for bands that coulda/shoulda/woulda been bigger. Arken made a pretty solid point, I think:
Sometimes, in the open threads, we get interesting discussions on politics, or rather, interesting discussions on other’s discussions of politics:
But, in reality, none of them are as fun as listening to you all discuss the pitfalls of dating. And, this week, it seems nobody captured the frustrations of modern dating better than MonkeyBiz:
Ain’t that the truth.
