Border guards are generally just smart enough to twig that it’s not just about their charm or the allure of the uniform.

Apparently you don’t know how to click ‘show pending’ at the top of the reply chain. They’re there, and boy are they mad! It’s adorable, like a mouse missing a frontal lobe but still SO PISSED he can’t fit another piece of corn in his cheekpockets.

The shooting happened when she was 23.

If she didn’t make the school’s minimum for a certain type of class, though, it would keep her from graduating. For example, my high school required 4 years of math - I’m terrible at math, so I took statistics in senior year, which was easy enough that I passed (with a C) and fulfilled my requirements. If she was…

I always like to have one work of contemporary fiction, one Project Gutenberg find, and one nonfiction book on the go more or less simultaneously.

We’ve been a two-party system since 1850, which means Trump’s actually quicker on the uptake here than generally.

I honestly do think the “plan” if there even is one is for Trump to distract everyone from the fact that the others are just as moronic, only quieter about it. Luckily the RNC seems to have lost control enough that assuming that they have a plan at all is generous in the extreme, and even if there was one Trump is…

I would pay good money for a photo taken right at the moment of comprehension. The look on his face would give me orgasms for days.

I was gonna say - if he DID get the nomination, it’d be a race to see what shadowy government organization’s bullet would get there fastest.

The part that startles me is that the Schengen Zone has been a thing since 1990 - people making the “visa” argument have literally not updated their knowledge of European politics in 25 years? I mean, that’s fine, you do you, but I’m not going to be taking their advice or hearing opinions on any subject at all,…

Completely agree. I’m in the DC Metro area, and pilots at Reagan specifically (where airspace rules and an extremely short runway make even basic landings tricky) regularly divert to other airports when conditions get weird, even if the same conditions in another airport wouldn’t raise an eyebrow. It’s at the…

The fact that things like this happen fairly often is a symptom of poor resources and education, but that doesn’t mean that poor resources and education are a factor in this case.

This reminds me of the Christmas my mother made hot buttered rum - but my mother is a bit of a nut, and is often in the “heard of the concept, but did no research into the reality” camp, so her “hot buttered rum” was white rum, microwaved in a shot glass, with a tiny pat of margarine scraped off a butter knife against…

Exactly. If someone I was interested in had serious debt, I would be really hesitant about marrying them, the same way I would be hesitant about marrying anyone with any other serious personal problem. Not all debt is equal, as is being discussed on other threads, but for example massive credit card debt because of…

Liberals in general are convinced that maintaining the moral high ground is more important than any real-world gains they could possibly make. Which is why they can’t fight back effectively, and why despite the Republicans doing their best to ensure a Democrat in the White House in 2015, I still worry about the…

That must be it. My other theory is that because it’s at best uncomfortably hot and at worst will-literally-kill-you hot in Sudan pretty much 100% of the time, she was keeping the kid indoors all the time so he didn’t get enough sun.

People on my Facebook feed have been wailing all “selfie sticks are the downfall of Western civilization!” or whatever, but I think they’re great. I’ve been wanting to have pictures of myself cuddling with my cat when she does something cute for AGES, and before I heard of selfie sticks I thought I’d actually have to…

I can’t put my finger on what I don’t like about it, but all the pieces separately are fine - great even, I’d kill for that fur - but it’s like no two pieces actually work together. I’d say at the very least she has to go by that tired old Chanel rule and remove two things. And fix the hair, there’s nothing I hate…

I’d imagine that being a guy who a) gets his main paycheck from a show literally famous because anybody can be killed off at any time, who also b) has a visible disability, with a job in c) Hollywood, which is notoriously not filled with great roles for people with disabilities, he’s probably thinking that he should…

I also like propriety, but I actually cook maybe once a month and am terrible at doing dishes, so until I’m rich enough to pay someone else to do both those things, you’ll have to hold down the gilded cup fort by yourself.