Ah yeah, let's make up potential reactions on behalf of those asshole racist authorities, shall we?

No. The mother said she gave the girl to a friend in Greece. She's been arrested before on suspicions of selling her children. People trafficking is a huge problem in Eastern Europe. The whole "blonde, so she must have been abducted" initial reaction is problematic but ignoring children being sold or given away, (not…

Bulgaria has a myriad of birth control options.

No hemlock for you but you can have a glass of my Leopold Gourmel, which is what got me through a horrific, blow-after-painful-blow, 2011. That, and the hope that 2012 would be my year, which turned out to be true. People can be unreasonable, years can suck but circumstances inevitably turn around.

I don't get it - is this sarcasm? The word 'bitch' has been used as a slur against women for thousands of years. Earliest example I can think of is in Greek literature. And, obviously, the severity of the term is exponentially higher than 'dog'. 'Dog' is not used to shame and control people, like 'bitch' is. So, I…

You do know that the Bulgars were a Turkic tribe, right? Also, that you can't swing a cat on the Balkans without hitting an Asiatic-looking person...

You're so spot on. Curiosity, research, experimentation and obsessive practice (and maybe a bit of pride in your work) are just as successful in sex as pretty much anywhere else.

Uhm, she's 1) 28ish and 2) hitting on a guy who's 28ish. Whence the cougar categorization?

I agree with the argument that we should not sneer at low culture just because of its pervasiveness. However, culture in the past wasn't kitsch-aspirational carefully manicured and forcefully promoted crap. In many cases it was popular because it spoke to something pan-human.

"Let me spend ten minutes telling you about incentive-based regulation as a method to internalize environmental externalities in the energy sector, and realize three days later that you aren't interested in that!"

If you listen to more chalga (Bulgarian pop-"folk") as I've been forced to, you'd notice 99% of them sound the same. Chalga is more about the gaudy visuals, tawdry lyrics and repetitive, danceable easternish music.

Oh lord, chalga... If you're ever in Bulgaria, do visit a chalga club. It's a very... interesting experience.

Means "shove off" or "fuck off".

I experienced a similar phase early in college, as I'd been often told by my father as a teenager that unless my weight was equal to a certain percentage of my height I would never find anyone to date but losers. So every time a perfectly nice guy showed any form of interest, I immediately decided they were losers.…

Most of my faves have been mentioned already but if you like sci-fi at all, Red Dwarf is going to make your life. Crazy funny.

She passed away some months ago.

You ARE awesome and not because we're all unique and amazing and blah, blah, blah but because you are so balls-out about your humanity instead of sanding it out like many people choose to. Other awesome, balls-out people will appreciate that.

I went through almost the same thing this Autumn after a few months of dating (minus the sex issue and not a roommate but we see each other daily), except the thoroughly-enamoroured-to-not-talking time was just a week and I got no answer as to why. Same thing, guy is often morbid, unable to express what he wants,…

I was wondering that too. Without Alcide and Dean Winchester, I can't vote here.

Killer klown invasion? Intentional misuse of the letter 'K'? Please, Santa, tell me the rise of the Kardashians has been nothing but an outrageous viral marketing campaign for this movie. I won't want anything for the next two Christmases.