As a Hindu, it definitely feels a bit silly if not hypocritical to get so attached to the mere material representation of far more significant abstractions.

Pay some attention to the tipping habits of the people with whom you associate. If they're lousy tippers, don't waste your time getting too chummy with them.

Well said.

. . . [If] women are free to choose to whom they are married and with whom they will have sexual relations, they could... *gasp* CHOOSE ANOTHER WOMAN.

FWIW, Netflix has it.

Thank you!

Wouldn't it be great if you could have both?

I inferred that Land of Hope and Glory has some symbolic meaning in this video, presumably associated with the departed British government, but I can't really flesh it out. Was it meant to be ironic?

Thank you, this actually answers a question I had as to whether anyone found this sort of gut-renovation (you can't really call it a "make-over") attractive.

My money is on the most banal, garden-variety, joyless adultery, handled in the most immature, guilt-ridden, poorly considered manner possible.

I can't disagree.

It's a TV costume designer's idea of what a grandma's wedding dress would look like.

Love the ruffled slipcovers.

For that matter, can you think of a single rationale for keeping it illegal (e.g., "it's immoral," "it spreads disease," "it degrades women," "it's exploitive," "sex should be sacred" etc.) that isn't grossly breached by this policy?

Excellent observation.

The fact that otherwise intelligent people can't figure out that the alternative and natural "healing" businesses are, in fact, businesses, with every bit as much reason to con their customers as any other business—and, unlike real docs and real pharms, have almost zero regulation, oversight or consumer…

Is it wrong that I laughed?

"I'm an actor."
"I'm an actor."
"Yo soy un actor."
"I believe in opportunity for all. And I'm an actor."

This appears to be a much bigger deal in Korea than in the States. A few years ago, I was visiting a friend at the Hospital for Special Surgery (in NYC)—she had a chest infection, but they also do a lot of plastic surgery. On the way out, the elevator stopped next to the day room on whichever floor nose-job recipients…

Regarding gender-related perks, though: how common is stopping the tenure clock for maternity leave?