Um, I’m thinking an apology is the least they can do. How about some Make a Wish type arrangements, or at least letting them meet the President, or secret service agents, or something? Talk about teaching them early that our government officials are all soulless dbags. This was pretty heartless, even for them.

That’s a very good point :) I’m guessing it could also just be a force of habit where you wear it a certain way for so long it just becomes automatic.

Coming from someone who’s hair is so curly that I rate Ariana’s hair as “barely wavy,” straight hair is so much obviously eaiser. My straight haired sister when she oversleeps? A quick ponytail and it’s good. Me? I’m calling in late to work, because while properly styling it is out of the question, a pony tail that…

To be fair, it’s really pretty expensive and more time consuming than getting your DL renewed. I have one, because I worked overseas recently, but my younger brothers don’t have them. They’re not rednecks and not poor, and would probably love to travel someday, but they don’t have a lot of vacation time.

I just had to go through the expedited passport process, and it couldn’t have been easier. The State Dept people were incredibly friendly, and got me the new passport in 3 business days which astounded me.

Absolutely! My experience with the State Department was awesome - they even mailed me back my birth certificate (they forgot to give it back to me while I was there).

Kurama from Yu Yu Hakuso was voiced by Megumi Ogata and he’s a pretty big badass. And Yuki from Fruits Basket is Voiced by Aya Hisakawa and he’s got an entire fan club of girls who will jump if he snaps his finger and girls throwing themselves at him.

Ohhhhh this is a good answer. Thanks. I UNGREY YOU BY THE POWER VESTED IN ME BY JEZ

The fiscal year for the federal government ends on Sept 30, if they can’t agree on a budget for FY16 before then the government is effectively “shut down” because it cannot spend any $$$$.

I burst into tears watching this. While I can’t relate to being assaulted at college (my experiences come from childhood) I know what it’s like being a survivor and feeling exposed and isolated when everyone around seems care free.

One particular memory was watching the brass eye episode (it was a satirical news show)…

As a survivor,this was extremely triggering, but also provided me with validation. I was the victim of rape in a situation similar to the drugged girls in the video. My anxiety and OCD reared their ugly heads like never before. I fell into a depression, I almost had to leave college. My attacker has faced none of…

What makes the story for me is that she bet all 600$ on her answer. It’s like when I didn’t know the answer on a test and I would write in something to try and make my teacher laugh and just hope I’d get credit for it, except in grown-up world with human money.

There’s a lot of bad contestants on Jeopardy (like, a *LOT*). If you’re going to go down, better to go down smiling than looking like an idiot. You are my hero, Talia.

I’m trying to imagine being enough of an anal-retentive douchefrigate to go online to complain about how an attempt at comedy “ruined” a game of Jeopardy, but I can’t wrap my brain around it.

I’m not a big fan of that researcher.There are so many problems with his methods.

I used to think that way about the gluten claims, and then was not so kindly informed and given some pamphlet about severe forms of the disease that includes reactions when it’s just in contact with the individual. If my desk weren’t such a mess, I’d take a pic and post it, but it may take me a couple of days to find…

That’s the thing. I said this on Gawker, but if anyone associated with the school had thought, for even one second, that it was a bomb, the reaction would have be massively different. The school would have been evacuated. The bomb squad would have been called. The teacher wouldn’t have put the “bomb” in her fucking…

I don’t believe the school overreacted. I believe they under reacted. If the teacher had left the clock in the classroom and the administration had immediately evacuated the school and called for the bomb squad, I’d have no problem with this story. However, since they DIDN’T take these steps, I can only conclude that…