Yep, they are all about the tradition! I feel you, I have a two syllable surname that starts with an "H" and in English it's really simple but here no one even attempts to say it. On the flip side, my first name is Emma and they seem to have grasped that!

I'm in Brittany and of the 5 or so babies born since I moved here they all have old school Breton names like Gaelle and Yann. I can rarely tell the sex from hearing the name. They are crazy traditional baby namers in the northwest. I love the names Uma and Mia.

Oh god! You just reminded me... I grew up in a country town and if you ordered a snake bite they gave you a beer with a dash of red cordial. I felt pretty hardcore when I got my first beer down thanks to a giant helping of cordial. The shame!

I had an abortion when I first moved to France and they handed me a folder with the ultrasound pictures. I think it was just so I could take them from the radiologist to the appointment to get the termination but my reaction was "serious?! I don't want these". I can't say enough about how great the French health care…

I have the BIGGEST crush on him. Whenever he speaks on How Did This Get Made I demand silence and then giggle like a school girls at all his jokes. Terrible.

I am way too fucking lazy to deal with make up. I really noticed the other night when my boyfriend suggested we either get take away and go see Thai boxing or go to a nice restaurant for dinner and I chose the boxing which I have little interest in but knew it meant I wouldn't have to go change out of my super comfy…

I always do "dwahn dwahn".

I just woke up from an afternoon nap and read this article. I HAVE to get off my ass!

Good point, I sort of see the absurdity of my "it's hard" statement. I just mean their face must feel like how Rob Lowe's face looked in Behind the Candelabra but, you know, without actually trying.

I just started fake crying and talking into a mirror (I'm at home by myself today) without moving my upper lip. It's hard! These women must have the strangest sensation in their faces.

yes! It's really freaking strange to watch them all lined up like that. At first I thought it was a bit full on that no one's forehead moved but then I noticed a full 2/3 of their faces don't move. Full on!

I hear you. I'm actually not too fussy either, I've grown up with chefs that would sooner chop an arm off before letting food go to waste. Plus, I now live in France where basically my baguette has been touched up within an inch of it's life by several people before being handed to me so my stomach is made of steel.

Makes sense! I thought people were taking a leak on the vines when they were picking grapes and thought that was a bit pedantic. I buy cheap cleanskins off the internet so next time I take a risk and cop a bottle that "tastes like piss" I'll know!

I feel so stupid for asking this but I've read the whole thread and I can't work it out so... How is the wee getting into the wine exactly?

I feel so stupid for asking this but I've read the whole thread and I can't work it out so... How is the wee getting into the wine exactly?

I never got a sex talk. I got in trouble once because someone found a condom in the playground and it was the talk of the school. I think I was around 10 and I was telling another girl and she went home and asked her mother what a condom was. Her mother called my mother wanting to know why I was talking to her child…

I feel like I'm going crazy because years ago, when the Brazilian trend first "started", I distinctly remember reading an article in Marie Claire about one of the first salons in LA doing Brazilian waxing and it noted there was a signed photograph of Cameron Diaz saying something like "you changed my life". Her…

When I read "abstinence plus" I thought it was like no intercourse but maybe they'd talk about hand jobs or "alternatives". I feel pretty stupid now but not as stupid as their concept.

Yes! I was wondering if someone would point that out.

Right! What the fuck is up with all the analogies anyway? Each student has 50% of the organs they are supposedly getting educated on, how about if you put your unprotected penis in a vagina the following things may happen?