I have to ask, is this happening at an eikaiwa in Japan, by any chance? Or in China? What you’re describing sounds really similar to the stuff I used to hear about Nova when I lived/worked in Japan and the encounters I had with (so-called) English teachers when I taught there.
I actually looked at switching to PC at one point, but when I added up what it would cost to get a laptop with a form factor, memory, processing power and included software that was comparable to the Mac I was looking at, it wasn’t actually all that much cheaper. Plus there was the fact that I can very easily run…
Man, when that rumor was going around a while back that they actually were getting together, I basically died of fandom. My ghost is actually typing this right now, before it goes off to haunt them for not getting together.
If I found out that my oncologist had policies in place that encouraged employees to so much as enter the waiting room sick when there are patients with compromised immune systems all over the place, I would never, ever go back to that doctor, and I would put that information out there everywhere I possibly could.
There’s absolutely a cultural element to this that’s uniquely American. I’m currently working in Germany, and here your coworkers will get pissed at you for coming in sick, because you can infect everyone else and bring down the whole office. Shocking display of common sense right there. It can sometimes have the…
Random white lady here- the quote’s not militant. It was perfect, not only for that specific moment, but for the whole, larger conversation we’ve been having about race in this country in general and better racial diversity in movies, comics and film in particular. I thought it was a great, incredibly classy speech.
Yep- it used to be in one of the big parking lots on that side of the street, but they’ve since moved it into a sort of outlet mall-type area with some other, non-Bean stores.
I can say for a fact that my dad made a couple of late-night runs up to Bean when he realized he’d forgotten an anniversary or Christmas gift or something. I’ve stopped by fairly late myself on occasion, and the place is often surprisingly busy. Granted, when everything else in Maine shuts down at around six p.m.,…
Bean boot twins!
No, there’s one in Freeport, too- super cheap stuff, has returns, things that were mis-embroidered, et cetera. I grew up in Maine and had never heard of the place in Portland- I’ll have to see if it’s still there.
Yep, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. They might close on Christmas day, maybe? But that’s it.
I have the bison leather ones, and they are the best. Warm and comfortable and will probably make it through the apocalypse.
As a born and bred Mainer, I knew I was finally Grown Up™ when my parents bought me a pair of Bean boots, since I wouldn’t outgrow them in six months anymore. I currently have the fleece-lined, dark brown ones, and they’re the best. Accept no substitutes!
Only if you eat it with a side of coconut shrimp.
We were having this conversation in Japanese. And yes, I do understand that, but I usually said something like, “I can’t eat anything from pigs,” and still had issues. Same thing in Mandarin, although at least they have enough Muslims in China that people were more likely to put two and two together.
To be fair, the end result wasn’t a complete shock.
Ireland/France is going to be ridiculous. The Irish had better win, or I may never recover. Millennium Stadium is a really great venue, too. I was really impressed with it. Wales/Australia should be pretty crazy, too, especially in Cardiff. People are going to tear the roof off the place.
From your lips to God’s ears- I can’t stand the French. If they’re the ones to knock Ireland out, I’m going to be really ticked off.
Seriously, the struggle is real. I loved halal restaurants in China because they were the one place where I didn’t have to play “treif surprise.”