They're pretty all over period wise. The dresses of the evil stepsisters in the stills at the end of the trailer were very 40s/50s, fairy godmother's waistline is decidedly earlier than the 1800s. It all looks lovely, but it's a mess in the accuracy department.

Shedevil, also the book, which you should read, Ruth is even more ruthless (ha!) there.

The structure of her face is very clearly still the same. It looks like no bangs (remember Zooey Deschanel? No bangs, unrecognizable) no or very little makeup on her eyes, strong lips and brows. Which is opposite to what she usually does. Her hair also looks a different colour to what she usually had before. So I'm…

It can, but it does not prevent one. Duh. A stressed body can still reproduce. Todd Akin was just this stupid ignorant piece of ball that thought that any rape is as good a birth control as a condom. So he didn't believe women who had gotten pregnant after a rape. He thought they were lying.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I remember it, in Korea, parts of China and Japan women who open their mouths wide when eating (or laughing, or talking, or just in general) are considered vulgar? Maybe the difference is because of that? To me it does kinda sounds like it could be at least.

I'd be careful about assuming method from news articles. Most news sites (but also other sources, sometimes even acedemic journals, where the writers don't write the summary) are notoriously bad at summarising studies. In this case there might also be an aditional barrier in the form of translation.

I have had the same experience! In my case my english teacher in secondary school quickly corrected me and my classmates' use of the n-word. In Dutch it doesn't have the connotations it has in America, although the english influence has shifted that a bit. It's hard sometimes as a non-native speaker to pick up on all…

I'm assuming your wife consented to that beforehand though, and then no it's not rape. Rape is sex without consent. Very simple really. As long as there is consent then everything is fine.

I think the best thing about online dating is not so much the large pool. It's the people who I would never have met. My boyfriend doesn't really go to bars or anything like that. He works in an office with two other guys. His study was small and mostly men. His main hobbies were almost all solitary. How was he ever…

I'm sure there are many sites (including one that I joined for a while) that let you ask questions and decide dealbreakers in advance to potential dates. They had a list of questions to answer and you could mark how important these issues were. Anything from favourite music to social issues. I could contact people who…

I said something about it above, so I won't repeat everything here, but my teachers actually encouraged questions, especially about the bible. Which was good, I mean, I still remember the lesson about inbreeding on Noah's ark. :P But it isn't very indoctrinating, which is something I come across a lot in stuff about…

Full disclosure, I'm from the Netherlands, where all schools are (at least partly) funded by the government, which means a standard curiculum which can be supplemented by the school itself. So apart from bible lessons and christmas/easter/etc celebrations my education was a standard one. No nonsense about creationism…

I was always bemused by the fact that my nonreligious parents (my dad actively left the church, and my mom was never raised with any faith) put me in a protestant school. So I was taught everyhting about religion in school while at home we didn't have any religion at all.

Didn't Penn and Teller do something with snails on bullsh*t that they just made up on the fly? To show that people will buy anything? Boy, did people buy it...

The usual thing is "Sorry you are offended" which is saying you're not sorry. He apologizes to the people he offended and said he is sorry for CAUSING offense by something he did. That is a completely different statement. It was an apology that not only actually apologised rather than hem and haw about, and he…

*sigh* I and my sisters are a lovely example of weird genes (and the differences are not even THAT big) we look totally alike, but I'm yellow-y tan, my middle sister is as white as a sheet and get sunburn on overcast winter days, and my younger sister is as pink as a cartoon pig. And I know for a fact that all our…

XD Oh man! I can just see that happening. I hope he was blind? :P

Heh. This is what I always think when American clients complain about the "bad" customer service, and say that because the waiters get paid well they don't need to work hard or something. Yeah, or they are perfectly fine, and these guys are being total assholes about everything. I can't tell them off, but I do like to…

The weight of the hoops is minimal, especially compaired to the weight of a wet skirt. I mean, yards and yards of fabric alone are enough, but with added moisture? Ugh. As for corsets, they are fine. I mean, as long as you don't do any longdistance running, you should be fine. I find my bras much more uncomfortable…

I regularly wear petticoats and all that jazz for reenactments. They can be super comfy as long as there's nothing cold or wet getting on your legs. The skirt acts as an insulator, trapping still air under it. But snow will not only soak everything, but also get on your legs and just freeze your ass off.