Rom-coms 'spoil your love life'

Watching romantic comedies can spoil your love life, a study by a university in Edinburgh has claimed.

Rom-coms have been blamed by relationship experts at Heriot Watt University for promoting unrealistic expectations when it comes to love.

They found fans of films such as Runaway Bride and Notting Hill often fail to communicate with their partner.

Many held the view if someone is meant to be with you, then they should know what you want without you telling them.

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The university's Dr Bjarne Holmes said: "Marriage counsellors often see couples who believe that sex should always be perfect, and if someone is meant to be with you then they will know what you want without you needing to communicate it.

So that's why none of my partners ever dressed up as Scooby Doo's Velma and said things like, "Look at that clue!"

eta: It's Velma, not Thelma. That might have been part of the trouble as well....

But what about Zom-rom-com's?

Rom-coms have been blamed by relationship experts at Heriot Watt University for promoting unrealistic expectations when it comes to love.

Totally. In response to this, I have decided that love doesn't actually exist. It's a much calmer place to be.

Many held the view if someone is meant to be with you, then they should know what you want without you telling them.

But so many problems in rom-coms are based in miscommunication! The lesson to me (and the reason I almost always dislike them) is PICK UP THE FUCKING PHONE, YOU MORONS.

It's going to be tough finding black homosexual Hasidic Jews to date in central Pennsylvania

But if there are any to be found, I'll bet those kids will find them.

It's going to be tough finding black homosexual Hasidic Jews to date in central Pennsylvania.

Where did meara's sister find her husband? I'm pretty sure he's a much-older black Muslim, which works pretty well...

You know how the phrase is "hurry up and wait"? This is not my paradigm. Mine is "wait, wait, wait, HURRYFASTER Why can't you go faster?!!!"

And it is making me crankier as I sit here in the wait phase.

More fun from the religious right:

Fear and love

Here, for example, is the most recent e-mail I received from the Christian Worldview Network touting the new installment of Brannon Howse's radio program:

Topic One: Is the world on the verge of being divided into 10 regions? Rev 17:12 says that 10 world leaders will give their power and authority to the anti-christ. Iraq has unveiled plans for the creation of a regional economic and security union for the Middle East explicitly modeled on the European Union. Have you heard about the African Union, The Union of South American, The North American Union and Asia and Pacific Union? Has President Bush turned our U.S. Economy over to the European Union? Financial Times writers admits that a world government is "now plausible". Topic Two: How many of the 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto has America fulfilled thus far on our road toward socialism?

I've always thought that parents should try their proposed child's name with president in front of it. President Bambi doesn't cut it, much less president Adolf Hitler.

Jacob Coxey, who led the poor people's army march on Washington during the financial panic of 1893, named his son Legal Tender Coxey. It can't have been much fun to be Legal Tender, but at least advocating an end to the gold standard was not associated with evil.

My neighbors when I was growing up were German immigrants. His birth name was Adolf Rudolf Z and he was called Adolf. During WWII, he had his name legally changed to Rudolf Adolf and went by Rudy.

One of my wife's former co-workers had a son they named Adolf Norbert.