Alcoholism and corruption are very serious problems in Russia, though, and the snark doesn't seem appropriate here. Making fun of the people who allow and exacerbate these problems might be okay, but, with the way I read it, that sentence comes off like pointing and laughing at someone who's tripped.

I honestly think that's what more experienced trolls tend to do. After all, not many people are going to debate with someone who's clearly a lost cause. But someone who appears reasonable yet misguided is prime bait.

I also slept in my parents bed until around 9. But my mother was (and is) really clingy, insecure, and immature and in retrospect this was definitely not a good idea. I wasn't really indulged or spoiled; she just kind of smothered me.

I eventually grew a spine, so hopefully your friend's kids will too.

My mother does this constantly. Like if she notices what I'm eating for lunch—"Oh, that's a good choice, honey." I think she's trying to be helpful, but all that really does is draw attention to the fact that she thinks I should lose "a couple pounds."

I'm not currently overweight—for about half a year I was a little…

But those are all furreigner cheeses! How can something furreign taste like Freedom?

I was hoping that it would taste like feta.

What do you think Obama cheese would taste like?

According to his own account of events, he still fucked up so badly that I have a hard time believing that it wasn't intentional. Being that foolish isn't significantly better than being malicious.

No, you're not the only one who's noticed. Salon has a good write-up on it.

U mad?

Yeah. I see what you mean.

I figure I'd be pretty irritable if I had children, and I could see myself becoming this woman if I did. That's why I've made a point of not having them.

Methinks we have found a troll.

Won't somebody think of the kittens?

I know that everyone else here has already explained exactly how you are so very, very wrong, but I'd like to congratulate you on being so profoundly wrong.

Yeah, it's pretty terrible, but it shuts idiots up real fast. There's been some discussion about whether or not this is related to the Jewess stereotype (about women with "dark, Oriental eyes, voluptuous with passion and longing"—Joyce). It seems to be par for the course—ladies that aren't part of the white majority…

You could tell them that one theory why many Ashkenazim* look "white" (that is, have pale skin, light hair, light eyes, etc) is due to centuries of white Europeans raping Ashkenazi women.

*If you're Ashkenazi, obviously.

I'm attending a university in New England, in the United States. This is the only one I've ever been to, so I don't know how typical this is. Most of my classes are 45 minutes or 1 hour and 15 minutes—there are longer classes (some go up to 4 hours!) but it seems to be a departmental thing. When I attended high school…

why did you make me remember that episode?

I'm actually really good at dealing with intense heat, and I'm pretty shocked at the callousness here. I didn't get this way through practice or hard work. I just lucked out and have always been able to work and move in 100+ degrees (which is good because I'm in New York now and the heat and humidity is positively…