@JeanneNarea: Latoya is the best and most in depth writer on Jezebel, why shouldn't she write about an important issue?
@JeanneNarea: Latoya is the best and most in depth writer on Jezebel, why shouldn't she write about an important issue?
@librariesare4lovers: Exactly! That's what shows how racist it is, he's not even saying he doesn't find black women attractive, he does! He just has never gone out with/slept with them. You summed it up better than anyone else in this thread.
Ah Kardashians. Glad to see they managed to top yesterday's TMI.
@LittleMissMarySunshine: In fairness no one can turn around up there. It's packed full of tourists, all doing the 'Christ' pose in front of the statue. It's also tiny! I imagined it would be really big before I saw it in real life.
@muzzle of bees: That's not as excellent as the twin's evil lookalike, Margo I think, who wanted to kill Elizabeth and steal her identity. Then it turned out in a later book that Margo herself had an identical evil twin, so they both tried to steal the twin's identities. This was made easier as the twins weren't…
@UGAdawg: I loved that one! She had three in that series if I recall, and they were all excellent. The first one she travelled back in time and met her mother, who turned out to have been an even bigger screw up than her when younger. I think she was named after her mother's friend!
@greydove: Oh I've heard that. I've never been to America, and everyone was telling me if you think Canada's bad wait till you go to the States. To quote my mom 'they have American flags on the altars there!'.
@greydove: When I was in Vancouver, I was amazed at the amount of CANADA everywhere, and the amount of Canadian flags. It seemed really strange to me, in Ireland flags are generally restricted to international sporting events!
@Ant Girl: Yeah he's a total ass, he really pushes for research into psychiatric conditions as well, probably for the use in screening embryos, which he supports. I remember he told the Genetics Dept where I did my undergrad that the only decent research was being done by the neuropsychiatric genetics lab, which was…
@happy macrophage: They did that with us too. I think it was because every scientist knows how much work goes into experiments, and the thought of someone using your data without your permission is terrifying.
@booter26: Sebastian is a great name, but it would be hard to live up to. You'd need to be super cool to pull it off right. Since you're on Jez, that wouldn't be hard for your hypothetical future son though :)
@NellMood: My name's Úna. I hated it when I was little, but it's my name now and I can't imagine being called anything else. Plus, I have more nicknames than anyone else I know. For a small name it lends itself to a lot of variants.
@pistachioRX: It's Una, it's an Irish name that means one or lamb. It's pretty boring!
@pistachioRX: Oh no, I want U to be my name. Since it's not really used outside of Ireland and England it won't be though.
@mondeparfait: I don't want to defend Whole Foods stupid, discriminatory programme, but since they measure other parameters besides BMI you might not qualify for the 30% discount if you have a low BMI but don't eat healthily.
@Penny: I don't think BMI should be completely discounted. At a BMI of thirty or more people are at greatly increased risk of type II diabetes, to name but one obesity related condition. Fat cells are metabolically active, and do contribute to insulin resistance. Obviously though on it's own it's an incomplete…
@Ginmar Rienne: And even if Whole Foods don't give the information to a third party, there's no guarantee whether or not they'll use the data to get rid of employees who may have higher health insurance costs. I think it's extremely unethical that corporations collect health information of their employees, and I'm…
@Penny: It might be necessary though, once you find out your pregnant, it can be too late. Also some women are more prone to the effects of low folate due to their genetic background, such as if they have one particular allele of MTHFD1, which is involved in folate metabolism. It's not just Spina Bifida, low folate…
@AllieCaulfield: I wonder if part of the lack of public outrage is to do with the media coverage. Before I read Jez, all I knew of his past was his addictions and being one of Heidi Fleiss' clients. His past history of abuse may be only known to US audiences, and 'Two and a Half Men' is sindicated worldwide. What is…
@Snowbunny: The delusions are winning!