Another thing: IME the “helpful suggestions” so many people have tried to get me to change who I am so I can Get A Man — are almost never improvements in my book. They usually involve minimizing my talents, dumbing myself down, trying to conform to some fake image.

I went and watched this video (so you don’t have to) and the way she’s BITING that banana, I am surprised any man feels anything other than castration anxiety. This is the “debauchery” she is inciting.

My vote is for Ariana Grande, who went above and beyond for her fans in the aftermath of the terrorist attack.

I should have such problems.

So then Flip Wilson stole it from him as well in the 70s?

Damn, I thought the guys in Istanbul had no game to speak of.

Who was the hottie in the turban they showed for all of two seconds? maybe there will be an episode with him.

Even so he could still have been blond with blue eyes. (Source: see blond, blue-eyed Middle Eastern people almost every day over here in the ME)

And she better not be “too dark.”

Y’all aren’t even mentioning in any of this how inherently anti-black, and on a macro level just plain xenophobic many of them are. I can’t say all of them of course, and most of those I have known personally were cool with me (don’t think I would actually speak that language today if I’d had racist teachers, as…

I’m also picking up plenty of shade — which the between-the-lines analyzers spelled out above.

It’s too bad they didn’t ask you before they put this thing together — those sound like amazing rides, though I would never go on them.

Bequita

“Cosmopygian” how did I miss that before?

Now are those prices for the set or per piece?

Fredrick Douglass style

Americans are actually not considered among the worst tourists in many places.

Women — Never sit in the front in Turkey unless you want the cab driver to come on to you. (in all fairness he might not, but it’s very possible he’ll get the wrong idea)

In some of these countries you are literally eating with your hands, which takes some getting used to. There’s a whole etiquette to that that’s worth a separate article.

There was an article about that here, a few years back.