Yeah, I was being a little sarcastic.

"Don't you just love happy endings?"

But if you are low income, your are not supposed to be financially savvy. duh.

I read this story off of a reddit link, and a lot of people also came to her defense in keeping the car. The fact is, a known vehicle with a known maintenance history is a relatively smart decision over selling and getting a possible clunker. Controlling risk is just as important as controlling finances.

Have you noticed the replies from readers in the UK? It seems that there, "Asian" generally gets used to describe people from the Indian sub-continent, rather than SE Asians, and so "Oriental" isn't seen as being as negative as it is here.

Ha! I am reminded of a (lovely) American colleague who has lived over here for a couple of years now, who was initially HORRIFIED by casual office use of "cunt". (And it's almost always us ladies who are using it, which HORRIFIED him all the more.)

I'm part-Chinese, part-English, and I live in the UK, where "Asian" means someone from the subcontinent; typically, SE Asian people are not described as "Asian", and I had a schoolmate who was utterly bewildered when she went on a date with a guy who described himself as "Asian" and turned out to be from Hong Kong -…

I am Chinese. I find that a certain kind of person will use the word "oriental". Usually they are of an older generation, or just ignorant. I don't necessarily think people who use that term are using it in a racist manner.

I'm from the UK and have described myself as Oriental...never realised it's considered offensive, nor have I come across anyone using it in a derogatory fashion. I don't mind the term myself...like many other words, a lot of it depends on context.

As someone who's had to clean a lot of old lab member's abandoned shit? At least the vials were labelled =P

Eh, that study didn't really show that the virus is undetectable by the immune system. Just that the current vaccine doesn't raise protective antibodies against this specific variant. Totally feasible to develope a new vaccine that would include the variant, and would hopefully result in protective immunity.

Oh, like you Limeys, Micks, and Chavs know anything about slurs.

My running joke for a while with my friends in the program was "You have an adviser? That sounds nice. What's it like?"

Sorry, I don't do hard drugs.

Except Phil. He's the best.

the judges uniforms are pretty badass

Have they considered working from home with Google?

I just watched one of the women complete it this weekend! She was a rock climber.. And so were two or three of the men who I watched finish the course. So the moral of y story is - start bouldering!

You think you need 200lbs of muscle to do 3 pullups?