I love the kids' viking helmet. Adorable!

The 1970s was an era of bad taste.

When President Ford pardoned Nixon, there was, as you can imagine, a howl of protest from every direction, with some people suggesting that this was the deal that got Ford appointed to the Vice Presidency to begin with (and who knows, that might actually have been the case).
However, as time has passed, many people (including at least some Democrats) have acknowledged that this was the right thing to do. Nixon was a crook, and everyone knew that. By giving him a pardon, Ford was acknowledging this, and by accepting it, Nixon was admitting to it as well.
By giving him the pardon, it allowed the country to move on and not get stuck in the constant circus that a trial would have brought, and it avoided making a bad situation even worse.

What, exactly, is the OP basing this on? Dress codes help maintain the proper atmosphere in a school, among other things.

I'd count this as a total win!

Is this shopped, or is this actually legit? (Given some things I have seen on here, either is possible.)

The band director was told that all students had to wear masks at all times while in the classroom. He/she was also to teach band class every day.
This is the result. It's illogical in the extreme, but it fits the parameters that the band director has been given.

No bad choices here, but I would probably go with King Cone.

I can't help but thinking that if a woman wrote this today, everyone would still laugh, but if a guy wrote something comparible about women, he would be strung up for misogyny.

Chridrin?

Easily said, not easily done. This is a conflict that goes way, way back.

We had someone do that once, except it was a 2-liter drink. No one would fess up as being the culprit, and as you can imagine, it did some damage.

Trying to get a country to change their system of measurement is more difficult than you might think. France only adopted it during the French Revolution because, prior to this, they had no national system of measurement; each province had its own system. The Metric system brought stability to trade, with its standardized units. Other countries, such as Spain, Italy, Germany (Holy Roman Empire) were in the same boat: local systems but nothing on a nation-wide basis. Implementing the Metric system made sense to those countrie
In the US, on the other hand, we had already adopted a national system of measurements, and there has never been a good enough reason to up-end everything. Changing measurements would mean changing not just road signs to km and gas prices to $/liter, but would also mean changing packaging of food items, measuring utensils in kitchens, recipe books, and countless other day to day things.
Frankly, to most of us, it just isn't worth the hassle to make the switch.

If this was real, it would rank right up there with green and purple ketchup.

Someone, please, tell me that this is a joke.
Please.
I am begging you.

That's only true if it is a rectal thermometer.

There was an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that dealt with this.

As someone who like to take walks, especially when I am having to think something through, I have run into this once or twice. The first time it happened, when I was in college, I had they called campus security, and even he acknowleged that I had done nothing wrong (we were all on a track where, you know, people go to walk, and there is a set direction that everyone goes).
After that, when I saw that I was behind a woman, I would deliberately take another route. That usually worked, until one time a woman saw me out walking and came up from behind me to ask where I lived (I refused to tell her, beyond that I did live in that town), and to tell me that I looked weird (I'm not the one accosting people).

I suppose every person's experience is different, but so many of the things that this person says men lose, I actually gained: friends, respect, sex, and a family. I found it easier to socialize when I became a part of a couple. I found that people quit looking at you weird when they see you are not married yet ("what's a nice guy like you doing still single at your age?"). I started having a regular sex life, which led to having a family of my own, and it didn't cost me the family I already had. I could go on, but getting married was one of the best decisions I ever made.
I think the problem is not marriage itself, but rather, it's that western society does not do nearly enough to prepare young people for a healthy marriage.

Careful what you ask for, you just might get it.