It’s harder to count calories, but the added energy requirements of moving around a kitchen for 15-60 minutes every day slicing, lifting pans, etc. more than compensates for any accidental over-consumption.

More than enough time for us. Thanks!

Also known as "Baltic room temperature."

My parents refrigerate raisins. RAISINS. Along with everything else shelf stable, like hot sauce and, if I'm not misremembering, vinegar. They don't cook much.

Think about it: every rude cabbie, every incompetent manager, every layabout who has ever sat on a board or a committee, every excruciatingly slow worker, speaker, server—they're all CIA-inspired saboteurs working to undermine their own societies. The banality of paranoia.

Never mind the fact that the post is tongue-in-cheek, do you honestly think that most great artists and leaders were once out-of-control children? And that the ones who by chance were little brats succeeded because nobody ever said "no" to them?

I agree with you mostly, which is why I think they would have to stick to very basic vocabulary. Most Americans, speaking off the cuff, would use a ridiculous number of romance-derived words, acronyms, and the like. Also, I'm not really thinking of mutual intelligibility in a plop-him-down-in-the-middle-of-Ohio sort…

I want to run an experiment in which I train Dutch people to speak their own language but with an American English accent, just to see how many of the differences between the two languages have more to do with spelling and subtle pronunciation rather than a more meaningful "difference" between the two languages. It…