WHO GIVES A SHIT: Would You Want a Designer Proposal, Like These Folks?

Since so many of you singles admitted that all you want is wedding bells in your future, here's something to think about while you're busy finding the bride/groom: designer proposals. The New York Times recently ran a snippet on proposal planners, people to whom men fork over many monies for choreographed, "dream" proposals, since that simple on-bended-knee thing is so 2011. 

Why does this concern you, you ask? 'Cuz one of these gems happened right here on Fifth Avenue at Belleville in your fair neighborhood. But, uh, for some people from Pittsburgh:

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Dating in Park Slope REALLY IS Stupid [We're All Going to Die Alone]

If there's one thing we've established here at FiPS (besides the whole "babies are the devil and where's my local organic arugula, goddamnit?" thing), dating in Brooklyn can kind of suck. And in Park Slope...well, it's something of a death wish. So, naturally, as a freshly-single-holy-fuck-I-forgot-how-to-do-this-dating-thing young woman, I'm ostensbily already screwed. But stir in this post from Brooklyn Is Stupid, and I basically want to end it all.

This week, a guest blogger on Brooklyn Is Stupid posted her (incredibly stupid) tale of dating a Park Slope writer. She makes a hell of a case for why dating blows in the entire borough, "Brooklyn has an abundance of over-educated, under-employed, whiny, artsy types. They’re overly analytical and egotistical, and tend to wear skinny jeans," but adamatly throws writers on the top of the pile for the most insane. And she posts an actual email recieved from a writer she'd gone out with three times to prove it.

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Sad Etsy Boyfriends from Urlesque

Via perhaps the greatest reporter of our time—Cole Stryker at Urlesque—this compilation of dudes modeling their girlfriends' Etsy wears.

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