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Back in 2006, I was studying abroad in the UK, and almost the first news report I heard after I got there was about a girl at an amusement park (Alton Towers? My memory has not preserved that detail) got both her feet cut off by a snapped elastic cord in a tower-of-terror-type ride. Amusement parks have subsequently

There's always going to be people who are saying all the work is done after every victory, but they are also always people who weren't doing any of the work anyway.

The richest kid I knew was probably not a percent of a percent of how rich this kid's parents are, and his mom sprung for him to have a private room on the campus of the (remarkably shitty) college she had to be on the parent's board of for him to get into with his shitty grades. Dollars to doughnuts this kid will

Thanks for this insider's look. I was kind of ready to shake my head and move on in that nothing-can-be-done mood, because a LOT of things take place all the time that I think are morally reprehensible but are apparently legal, so it's deeply satisfying to hear from a professional in the field that it sounds likely

I’m going on one of my dream trips, reverse-Viking this autumn - London for a few days to hang with friends, then Orkney in Scotland to look at some Neolithic architecture, then to Oslo, Bergen, and ending in Tromso, which is the city my family came from in Norway, 300km north of the Arctic Circle. I’m dead excited to

Remember to ask them why they killed Steve Irwin.

I'm going to Oslo and then Tromso in October. I am super excited to be that far north that late in the year. WOW Air is a budget Icelandic airline that just added stops in the US, so all of a sudden flights to that part of the world just got pretty cheap.

“Catering to emotional baggage” is a pretty good definition of bedside manner, actually. She doesn’t drag the doctor on his medical expertise - she says he was cold and impersonal. If you don’t care about that, great, there are plenty of practicing doctors who are excellent practitioners of medicine and also perfectly

Also, plenty of developing countries prioritize education to an incredible standard - the middle-class Sudanese I knew were basically only happy if their children grew up to be doctors or engineers. Which can be terrible pressure to put on those kids, but does lead to a very reliable medical community.

I co-sign this. I have a friend who was in South Sudan with the UN, and she had two colleagues DIE because the malaria medication they were buying was ersatz, so they just kept getting sick over and over until their bodies couldn’t take it anymore (at least at the time, UN employees were meant to buy their medications

I once had an episode of a heart condition I had thought was cured midway through a year of teaching English in Czech Republic. I was waiting for my visa (which would have given me all those great socialized health benefits), and had an arrhythmic episode while waiting in line for a coffee. I called my boss, who

Kinja user howmanykinjasdoesittake probably has a hot scoop on this story, since Trump had better be paying them for how enthusiastically they’ve been sucking his dick today.

I’ve actually lived in Sudan, and I am here to tell you 100% that any good makeup store in Khartoum (MakNimir’s being the go-to) will be more than able to accommodate your white skin as well as it did mine.

You’ve gotten lots of answers, but I can also say that this may be a Sudanese thing. Sudanese people are generally pretty damn blunt about their descriptors - in Arabic, they will call people “black,” “blue,” or even “purple,” in that order, to describe different depths of blackness in skin. And if you ever see a very

She says she’s been apologizing, and generally people like me and you, who can’t possibly know better than the self-report of the person involved, take that at face value and move on.

Ob-, in-, or ex-, one thing is for sure, it is certainly trusive.

I remember reading a novel once where a woman character talked about only shaving her lower legs and the tops of her knees unless she was going to the beach. I looked down at my own thighs, which have thick black hairs on the inside almost all the way to the knee, and had to assume that woman was written by a man.

I am glad for the opportunity to ungrey this, most particularly because someone butted in on my Gawker comment opining the Trump takeover of the Post Office Tower to tell me that the work has been quiet and the branding unobtrusive - looking at that mess, I have to conclude that that Gawkerite wouldn't know obtrusive

I did something similar once at the New Museum in New York. Usually I have excellent museum manners, but at the time they had a room filled with neon-colored neoprene life-size animal sculptures, and the big yellow walrus just looked so puffy and inviting that I had my hand almost on his nose before a security guard

Not so far as I’m aware, although in my research it seems like most people who practice cannibalism regularly do it for reasons other than food. Also, it would be in keeping with the assumption that the reason carnivores don’t eat other carnivores is because they taste bad.