# Hopeless romatic or utter douchebag? Houston Press goes with the latter. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 16, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hopeless-romatic-or-utter-douchebag-houston-press-goes-with-the-latter/740612 "2015-12-16T14:50:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hopeless-romatic-or-utter-douchebag-houston-press-goes-with-the-latter/740612/21 "2015-12-16T17:35:40Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > Interestingly, the article reports “the couple” has been charged with misdemeanor obstruction of the highway…but the douchebag says there were 8 cars with him which blocked traffic. > > Unless these were self-driving Googlemobiles, when will the other participants be charged? If and when the authorities figure out who they are which may never happen. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hopeless-romatic-or-utter-douchebag-houston-press-goes-with-the-latter/740612/22 "2015-12-16T17:40:57Z")
Well they are definitely feeling the hate. They were quite contrite in their interview on the local news last night, the woman almost in tears. Still appeared clueless. “We didn’t mean to inconvenience so many people” or something like that. No lady, you did - you just didn’t care. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hopeless-romatic-or-utter-douchebag-houston-press-goes-with-the-latter/740612/23 "2015-12-16T18:08:22Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > A party where the food and decorations are in black and white and the guests all wear black, white, or black & white. And the fact that he couldn’t just say “We were going to a party.” He had to specify that he told her they were going to a “white and black party.” What a nutsack. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hopeless-romatic-or-utter-douchebag-houston-press-goes-with-the-latter/740612/24 "2015-12-16T18:17:38Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > No lady, you did - you just didn’t care. To be fair, she wasn’t involved in the planning of the event. Perhaps she should have told her boyfriend that she wasn’t going along with a public stunt like this once it started happening, but _she didn’t plan_ to inconvenience anyone. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hopeless-romatic-or-utter-douchebag-houston-press-goes-with-the-latter/740612/25 "2015-12-16T18:26:01Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Shutting down a major freeway even for a minute can mess up traffic for hours. \*\*If they had tried this in L.A. both of them would’ve been lynched, and rightfully so. > \*\* How would anyone know? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hopeless-romatic-or-utter-douchebag-houston-press-goes-with-the-latter/740612/26 "2015-12-16T18:31:13Z")
Someone apparently grabbed the video from his Facebook page and re-posted it on YouTube with the title [Idiot Shuts Down a Major Highway for Marriage Proposal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPG7P6jvb6Q). My favorite comment there is from johnny3400: > [@johnny3400](#): > > I wish was driving through there so bad. This is why I keep a fresh jar of urine in my car. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hopeless-romatic-or-utter-douchebag-houston-press-goes-with-the-latter/740612/27 "2015-12-16T18:31:49Z")
If eight cars stopped in front of me on the freeway, blocking it, and people started getting out of them, I would assume I was about to be attacked. ---
**Author:** ![CGav8r](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@CGav8r](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CGav8r)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hopeless-romatic-or-utter-douchebag-houston-press-goes-with-the-latter/740612/28 "2015-12-16T18:35:27Z")
Is that guy related to Chris Christie, perchance? ---
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hopeless-romatic-or-utter-douchebag-houston-press-goes-with-the-latter/740612/29 "2015-12-16T19:01:05Z")
I’d certainly think twice about anyone who was so clueless as to think that shutting down traffic on a Houston freeway would be wise, romantic, adorable, impressive, or any other positive attribute. I’m leaning more toward “suicidal, narcissistic jackass”. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hopeless-romatic-or-utter-douchebag-houston-press-goes-with-the-latter/740612/30 "2015-12-16T20:34:02Z")
Actually, my intention was to point out an actual example of bias in the media, but excoriating this douche nozzle is a lot funner. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hopeless-romatic-or-utter-douchebag-houston-press-goes-with-the-latter/740612/31 "2015-12-16T20:37:23Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > If eight cars stopped in front of me on the freeway, blocking it, and people started getting out of them, I would assume I was about to be attacked. What if it was 50 people? It might be a movement. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hopeless-romatic-or-utter-douchebag-houston-press-goes-with-the-latter/740612/32 "2015-12-16T21:30:32Z")
I file this in the bucket with “Look at me and my awesome proposal!” - like parachuting onto the 50 yard line during the Super Bowl in order to propose, etc. It’s more about the guy’s pathological narcissism than about the romance or proposal. I’m sure the ladies in question often think the guy is the most awesomest for doing it, but IMHO if I were her I would run as fast as I could in the other direction. But that’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hopeless-romatic-or-utter-douchebag-houston-press-goes-with-the-latter/740612/33 "2015-12-16T21:37:07Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Actually, my intention was to point out an actual example of bias in the media, but excoriating this douche nozzle is a lot funner. 🙂 Wait, how is this bias in the media? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hopeless-romatic-or-utter-douchebag-houston-press-goes-with-the-latter/740612/34 "2015-12-16T21:39:51Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > To be fair, she wasn’t involved in the planning of the event. True. Still, how is it fair that he’ll only get minor charges when she’s getting life…? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hopeless-romatic-or-utter-douchebag-houston-press-goes-with-the-latter/740612/35 "2015-12-16T21:41:27Z")
> [@Sam\_Lowry](#): > > Wait, how is this bias in the media? I mean like I said, it is an alternative weekly newspaper, it’s not aiming to be a straight, non-biased newspaper of record. They do have feature articles about big political things going on or stuff like that, but there’s a lot of more casual blog type articles. It’s much closer to [The Stranger](http://www.thestranger.com/) than the New York Times, so I’m not sure what pointing out the bias here means. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hopeless-romatic-or-utter-douchebag-houston-press-goes-with-the-latter/740612/36 "2015-12-16T22:35:07Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I hate public displays like this with a red-hot fire of hate-ness! I personally know a young woman who felt pressured into accepting a public proposal and her marriage lasted less than 2 years. And then there are the videos when the woman says no and the guy is left looking like an idiot, which is pretty much what he deserves. > > So, no, not romantic. Not in the least. Agreed. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hopeless-romatic-or-utter-douchebag-houston-press-goes-with-the-latter/740612/37 "2015-12-16T22:36:48Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > A party where the food and decorations are in black and white and the guests all wear black, white, or black & white. Or white and black. I’m not sure why making up a story about where they’re going makes him a douche?? The rest of it, yes. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hopeless-romatic-or-utter-douchebag-houston-press-goes-with-the-latter/740612/38 "2015-12-16T22:37:03Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > A party where the food and decorations are in black and white and the guests all wear black, white, or black & white. Like the cookie that made Jerry Seinfeld vomit for the first time in 15 years? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hopeless-romatic-or-utter-douchebag-houston-press-goes-with-the-latter/740612/39 "2015-12-17T13:40:15Z")
> [@Sam\_Lowry](#): > > I mean like I said, it is an alternative weekly newspaper, it’s not aiming to be a straight, non-biased newspaper of record. They do have feature articles about big political things going on or stuff like that, but there’s a lot of more casual blog type articles. It’s much closer to [The Stranger](http://www.thestranger.com/) than the New York Times, so I’m not sure what pointing out the bias here means. At the time, I didn’t know Houston Press was an indie. I mean, “Houston Press.” That sounds _important_, like “New York Times.” 🙂 It just struck me as unusual that what I thought was a newspaper article would demonstrate such a strong opinion when such articles are usually told in a matter-of-fact style. Now that I know it was from an indie, it makes more sense. ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hopeless-romatic-or-utter-douchebag-houston-press-goes-with-the-latter/740612/40 "2015-12-17T16:49:41Z")
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