I don't usually ask people about their ethnicity, but I overheard a friendly-acquaintance  in one of my lectures talking on his cell phone in what I thought was Turkish. I asked if he was from Turkey (he was), and he was really surprised and pleased I guessed correctly.

Lady Chatterly's Lover

Lady Chatterly's Lover

Definitely Italian, or some kinda Spanish.

Definitely Italian, or some kinda Spanish.

@avclub-315b70a591bfd3c281d13e458aed35fa:disqus I know what you mean. I'm mixed-race too, and people are always asking me about it. Haven't they ever seen a half-Dutch, half-German person before?

@avclub-315b70a591bfd3c281d13e458aed35fa:disqus I know what you mean. I'm mixed-race too, and people are always asking me about it. Haven't they ever seen a half-Dutch, half-German person before?

@avclub-c3420bfbd159b546b7ac7f38c6f7fa55:disqus You're right about the FCC. You can buy jammers on Ebay from other countries, but it's illegal to use them here. I've heard of coffee shops using them, and I'm not aware of anyone getting busted.

@avclub-c3420bfbd159b546b7ac7f38c6f7fa55:disqus You're right about the FCC. You can buy jammers on Ebay from other countries, but it's illegal to use them here. I've heard of coffee shops using them, and I'm not aware of anyone getting busted.

Being "super" gay is easily the best way to gay it up. I don't get how that's an insult.

Being "super" gay is easily the best way to gay it up. I don't get how that's an insult.

@avclub-29501df08e5d9ae59e432e4f188d3735:disqus Man, if it was so obvious, someone really should have said something to all those people who went to work in the twin towers on 9/11. Unfortunately, high odds that "some attack somewhere at sometime would occur" aren't particularly useful.

@avclub-29501df08e5d9ae59e432e4f188d3735:disqus Man, if it was so obvious, someone really should have said something to all those people who went to work in the twin towers on 9/11. Unfortunately, high odds that "some attack somewhere at sometime would occur" aren't particularly useful.

@avclub-5171864ab150444a2bcff2d4c52d3064:disqus It's like how Justice Thomas believes in a strict interpretation of a document which would have defined him as 3/5ths of a person and would have precluded him from being a Justice.

@avclub-5171864ab150444a2bcff2d4c52d3064:disqus It's like how Justice Thomas believes in a strict interpretation of a document which would have defined him as 3/5ths of a person and would have precluded him from being a Justice.

@avclub-5171864ab150444a2bcff2d4c52d3064:disqus Wrap your head around this one: my liberal/female Law professor disagreed with me when I said the Constitution was designed to entrench moneyed interests, because the Founding Fathers weren't "elites."

@avclub-5171864ab150444a2bcff2d4c52d3064:disqus Wrap your head around this one: my liberal/female Law professor disagreed with me when I said the Constitution was designed to entrench moneyed interests, because the Founding Fathers weren't "elites."

@avclub-a43012a332fc066e7ecf57a9b678fb51:disqus So if something happens, and my statistical model says it was unlikely, but your "gut" tells you it was actually pretty likely, in retrospect, then your gut was right and I was wrong? Have you heard of the hindsight bias?

@avclub-a43012a332fc066e7ecf57a9b678fb51:disqus So if something happens, and my statistical model says it was unlikely, but your "gut" tells you it was actually pretty likely, in retrospect, then your gut was right and I was wrong? Have you heard of the hindsight bias?

I thought Nick Kroll was nerd Nick Kroll.