Here's a link to the IQ listings, because they're interesting to look at and ponder in relation to schooling and lifestyle in various cultures and how they relate in some places: http://www.photius.com/rankings/natio…

On the one hand, that's totally fair. On the other hand, people make no sense to me. I can predict about 80% of a person's behavior and reactions ahead of time once I've observed them enough, but there's a lack of logic and continuity that makes dealing with most people totally infuriating. I don't know if the blame…

Most people are just as dumb individually as they are in groups, and are merely brave enough to be more openly stupid when grouped into larger units.

I rarely see the inverse happening. Though I do see things like Rain Man held up as a mirror for autism, when Kim Peek, the man who the story was based on, was never autistic to start with. In fact, I didn't know until I was in my early 20's that people who were autistic could ever pass for normal. I thought all…

Couldn't agree with you more, and the interesting thing about Kim Peek (Rain Man) is that he actually wasn't even frigging autistic, though the character based on him was, for some reason. My husband and I both have Asperger's. Lots of people do. Darryl Hannah does, even. It's always good to see others out there…

Exactly. I love the fact that he's COMPETENT. God knows that seems to be a rarity in those left alive at this point, and I think it's probably the sexiest thing about him at this point to start with. And I can see how it could be tempting to do a gay reveal of sorts just 'because' it breaks the mold of stereotypically…

I understand the hesitation, as most of the time it wasn't on the Res, but within a few miles of it, that I was living when I was living with my father, and then to top it, my father's name isn't on my birth certificate, but the husband my mother cheated on him with, so I can't even go try to get on the rolls without…

I've always been pretty into my heritage and fully claimed it, partly I think because on my mother's side, she has little native blood, but her father was retired and while I was growing up, any time we went to visit grandpa, we'd go out hunting arrowheads and spearheads. His collection was large enough to garner…

Reminds me of growing up and having the neighbor stand out in the front yard and scream at the top of her lungs that my dad was a "sand nigger" (what is that, even, is that some kind of arabic? ugh.) and all sorts of delightful things. Think the icing on the cake was being told by half my class to 'go back where you…

That's my dad's family all day long. I have a 30 year old cousin who is a grandmother for the 3rd time this year, they grew up in the WAY backwoods in West Virginia and are now out in the forested part of the Florida Panhandle after my uncle moved down in a school bus with all the kids. Have lived there a few years,…

I never got that, and was very surprised to see it even brought up, though that could be because of the implied intimacy between first he and Carol and then he and Beth, more so than anything else. That said though, I just assume that most people tend toward some degree of bisexuality until and unless they tell me…

Playing an evil campaign, my husband's pc found a scroll of greater wish and used it to turn a bag of devouring into a bag of unlimited drugs that he could pull any drug from indefinitely. Eventually, it resulted in skipping over combat entirely on an ancient blue dragon after my husband's persuasion (thanks to insane…

She grew up into one of the best people I've ever met, and went on to study a lot about various spiritual beliefs, shamanism, and herbalism, which is how I met her years later and was a big part of our friendship. We've fallen out of touch over the past few years since we live more than 1k miles apart now, but if her…

Thank you. It's the same as saying girls can't wear pants or boys can't have pierced ears. It's very discriminatory and forces gender roles which are societally imposed on people, on top of being a disgusting example of a place double standards get a pass.

A friend of mine (albeit a much older friend, as she's actually a few years older than my mother) was actually subjected to this. It's horrifying, and it rarely talked about. Then, on the rare occasion I've brought it up here, I've been met with alternating accusations that I'm not native (my father's almost full…

Including the genetic heritage, you know, using DNA and not random color blocking. Which is what I was referring to when I spoke about the Iranian heritage involved there. But you'd have to do research instead of randomly flame and namecall people to actually get THAT information, and it's pretty apparent what you'd…

I didn't step into this with no research into what I was talking about. And would you look at that, just like one might expect of someone neighboring Iran and Turkey, there tends to be a lot of interbreeding between local populations, and would you look at where Iran and Turkey are. *eye roll*

Did not do the ice bucket challenge. An excuse to fund a woman's ability to choose though?

Yikes. Of -course- Mark Dice would have such a video. I didn't watch it, as I love watching conspiracy vids on youtube and have clicked on his 2 or 3 times on there, enough to have a deep seated loathing for him. I mean... it's one thing to be a conspiracy theorist (hey, whatevs, I am, I admit it), but it's another to…

I'm not saying I partake in the chief, as Kathy Griffin calls it. It's illegal in Alabama so I couldn't legally. But I -am- saying that I've done so in the past. And this is too true. Me and my husband never fight after having smoked. It usually ends in watching movies or giving each other a massage. :P Or cooking. Or…