Loneliness can be pretty debilitating for even a normal person, who doesn’t have to worry about preconceived notions based on how they appear to millions of people on a day to day basis . . . “doing something about it” isn’t always helpful right? Or even very easy to do.

For starters he’s a New Zealander, not an Australian, so I’d say he’s a bit more like their Tony Abbott, who was Australia’s Bush.

But look, the point is that if there was a shitty swing attached to a shitty tree in somebody’s hotel, even if the guy’s father had died, there would be some form of restitution and accountability available with regards to a negligence/wrongful death suit against the hotel.

We live on the other side of PW but I spend a chunk of time in Manassas and every time I’m there it gives me the heebie jeebies.

I’m sorry for your loss :(

I’m always so terribly late to this party. I don’t remember whether I have told my Ouija story before—well, it’s not really mine, it’s just something that’s fairly known amongst the members of my high school graduating class who were also there when we were in the 8th grade (it was a K-12 school in an international…

Where my mom comes from in southern India, women would never call out the names of their children in the late afternoon/dusk/night. It was said that there would be a particular type of ghost thing that lived in the forest and would learn children’s names by the shouts of their mothers, and would learn to mimic the…

In England our clocks changed LAST week. The week of a four rather than a five hour time difference was helpful for me to talk to my fiancé on the phone back home a bit more, but now we’re all sorted back to 5 hours again.

Respectfully I actually disagree with you. I understand that there are reasons to fear unfettered discretion—like that exercised by cops and prosecutors—but I’m actually MORE afraid of a lack of specificity in sentencing that leads to situations where punishments don’t fit crimes.

Everybody knows about Hobby Lobby but we forget the first case of its progeny—the Wheaton College case—that actually had very similar facts to this. We know what SCOTUS is going to do with Little Sisters of the Poor on the basis of the Wheaton College injunction and it’s pretty bloody terrifying.

I honestly thought for a second that you were saying that gelatin is made from vegetarians.

Hindu. Not Hindi. Hinduism is a religion and if you practice Hinduism you are a Hindu.

Ok, admittedly I do NOT understand this woman’s brand of stupid, as I too happen to be Hindu and have (almost) managed to never eat meat in my entire life, and was disabused of the notion that I could eat cheeseburgers at the age of approximately three.

This. I just moved to England and had a very minor freak-out.

Depends on the level of knowledge of the vendor, to answer your latter question.

Yeah pretty much. At the jail in the county my fiancé works, women aren’t allowed to go in skirts, because MY GOD, THEIR ANKLES WILL TITILLATE THE CONVICTS.

EDIT: Never mind. You weren’t suggesting that women *shouldn’t* feel uncomfortable which somehow is how I read what you were saying. Never mind.

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In the sense of white and gold vs. black and blue??

One of my fiancé’s best friends (who will likely be his best man too) went to ODU and while I don’t know whether he was in a frat, or even that frat, he posted this picture on FB on Sunday morning and said “I don’t know whether I should be proud or ashamed . . . what do y’all think?” (hooray, Virginia). Three guys…