When I moved to take my current teaching position I got rid of my Tv. That was....six years ago? I haven’t been bothered once since then by that fact. The only time I’m reminded that Tv has commercials is when I’m on the treadmill watching Foodnetwork at the gym or in a waiting lobby of some sort.

Preach. I also keep a kirkland extra strength 500 count on my desk. Not sure when I got it, but they never fail.

This certainly isn’t my field of expertise so take this anecdotally. But generally speaking vitamins are packaged at 300-3000x the quantity you need per day. Your body literally can’t absorb the quantities that it’s given to you in. To make up for this, they overdose the amount that is needed so your body is allowed…

I’ve been using a bottle of allergy relief pills that expired back in 11/11/2014. It’s still perfectly effective and I haven’t grown a third arm...yet. I usually only need one or two pills per spring/fall. Also of note, it’s CVS store brand, not that that likely matters at all.

You’re absolutely correct, that’s an error on my end typing out a quick response.

Same. At least we haven’t broke 100 where I’m at yet. 99 lots of times, but so long as we stay sub 108-110 I won’t die walking from my parking lot at work to the building :)

I think it’s also important to remember that not all Greek letter organizations are frats and sororities by the standard most people think of. KDP or Kappa Delta Pi which I’m a member of, is a society for Scholars and Educators spanning 90 countries with over 625 chapters world wide. We broke from Phi Delta Kappa over…

The best way to remember lay vs lie is that people Lie, things Lay. So yea, the cat is laying down. You would lie down.

The video is just a black screen with a progression bar for me. I desire chubby cat video :(

I teach at the university level and it’s swapped here, likely due to the quantity of female instructors as opposed to males. M/W/F are standard days for most of the staff to take long lunches or call it an early day and go for drinks if they have no more classes that afternoon. So while we technically have office…

Out of curiosity, have you forward your results to John Oliver? I bet he’d be interested.

Arizona has it’s moments as well :) But that said, I live and teach in Texas. So while I don’t defend our state government I do feel it’s important to remind people there’s a lot of not-crazy here as well. All of our big cities are staunchly blue and the state itself is generally a purple state vote wise, just not…

Once upon a time in a different life I took a improv. acting class and I’ve found it extremely useful at functions/fundraisers/weddings etc.

The one thing that is the main take-away is how to setup your partner-actor. You don’t walk into the situation and attempt to interject your own views until you know you’re…

My parents are from old world Europe where there’s a mindset that anything ice cold is bad for your health, so it was never allowed as a kid. Even today as an adult I drink very few things ice cold just out of habit. Beer is better only slightly chilled as is wine and a plethora of other foods, so I just got used it…

This guy is fantastic, I think he legitimately isn’t trolling either. Working in academia I come across a lot of young people who simply haven’t been exposed to certain thought processes or topics, but this guy is all over the place. I might screen shot/blur names and use this as part of a power point :D

The amount of generalization and reaching you’re doing here to connect dots is amazing. It’s really a fine feat of mental gymnastics, it’s stunning to watch. I, as a “gypsy” have been robbed, pick pocketed and mugged on several occasions while traveling Europe. Am I to attribute this to the fact that Roma live…

Shit, now I feel bad. I should give this computer back to it’s rightful owner. BAD TRADITIONS! BAD! Why do you for me to steal!?

“But how do you know that you are not Sinti?”Family marriage records, records of where we lived, traveled, DNA testing, etc.
This “tribal” and his family kept excellent records due to our desire of not marrying into our own blood lines.

“Isn’t the whole Romani(Roma) - Sinti thing just a convention?”
Nope. The Sinti…

Here’s a couple sites I refer people to when they are initially curious about Bohemian Roma culture. They are a good jump off point to learn about current views and the historical situation of the Roma people.

While they are not professional peer-reviewed journals, they are good for a foundational anecdotal level of…

The etymology of the word gypsy itself is due to the Egyptian confusion. But, that’s an English word and it didn’t have a direct connection to any old world Roma because none of them spoke English. The “slave” connotation comes from Zigeuner, Tsigane, etc. Each European language has their version. Once the English…