"minorities don't even get to have a voice"? As a resident of Hackney, I'd recommend that you look at the Council Members for this and other boroughs. If anything, there is better minority representation at the local levels than in the US. I'm not going to say that the UK is without fault, but you're overstating a…

I'm just saying, there's a world of difference between having issues with a few hundred or maybe thousand people in your community and have millions of people pointed at you by the internet. I'm not saying it's right, I'm not saying you didn't have a hard time too, but this should not have been an unexpected followup.

Yes, a child, who probably shouldn't have been held up by the internet to be a glorified "kick me" sign like everyone here should have known. I feel so damn sorry for the kid, respect her desire to be a role model, but there are so so so many reasons that the original story shouldn't have been splashed all about for…

"but there's nothing that really upsets the reader"

As a male player of console shooters, I have a quick response: I, too, love the mute button for the exact same reasons.

To be honest, neither was I. I guess I'm too jaded by the tons of movies where female-trans are just played by male-male actors in exceptionally good drag.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I think Balzac is a good choice of authors and probably in my "Top 10 Authors (If not on your reading list already)". However a lot of his writing was crap, his contemporaries thought a lot was crap, he thought a lot of it was crap (and tried his damnedest to not be a professional writer). …

Yes, but we're not talking about the phrase in regards to themselves, we're talking about random people on the internet using the term in regards to people they don't know and situations they don't know. Even if it was in regards to themselves, people are still capable of recognizing when people are using a term…

For me, it's not a question of how often something messes up, but how big of an impact that mess is. If something is just glitchy now and again, or even has rather large flaws, if I can easily fix it that's not much of a problem to me. A minor issue that I can do nothing about... that's just kinda infuriating.

Exactly. I'm really not a "physical contact" kind of person, and if I was in her shoes I probably would have had an assault charge of 10 by now.

Since you asked nicely, without jumping down my throat...

I'm and English minor, so with only an associates I can get away with not having read certain things (A Tale of Two Cities has been on my to-read list for... about 15 years), having read different things that people haven't (A Confederacy of Dunces, why no-one ever read you? *sad*), and saying things about…

You might be reading a little too much into it. I dunno, the most telling thing I personally got out of it was "New York City". That would explain it in and of itself.

There's not always a lot to be found out that will help you in this situation. I'll google businesses, names, phone numbers; but there generally isn't anything out there if the place isn't 100% a scam or just plain dirty business. Not finding anything negative doesn't mean that you can completely trust a positive or…

Precisely.

The problem (mostly for companies) is that awesome prospects on a webmail service are generally for people creating a new e-mail or people who don't need to regularly check a particular email. Back in college I'd bounce from service to service occasionally (usually to make a clean break from all of the annoying crap…

I can see your point.

I must know what this is from.

I have two types of socks: something like 20 pairs that are all the same, and under a half-dozen of socks for occasions where I am for some reason expected to be wearing "nicer socks". My wife is the same way; she has a ton of the same kind of little socks, a handful of "nice socks", and when it's cold she nicks…

...how many t-shirts do you own and leave on hangers long enough for this to be an issue? I've been keeping my shirts on hangers for years (I think I developed it in college, when I had limited drawer space but more than enough hanging space for everything I owned) and I've never had this problem.