They have pretty progressive social programs, but they can be conservative as a culture. They struggle with issues of racial integration like most of Europe. They have very strict implied social codes for how to behave in public. Also they have arctic days: total darkness and total daylight.

Their language is…

The original article was article was interesting because of the discussion around plastic surgery and beauty standards, but I don't understand why this follow-up is here with no new content. *yawn*

You also wonder, purple suits on a purple backdrop? Really people?

I hope he remains a static character of boyhood and is still rewarded!

Thats kinda how I feel about the swearing thing.... like that it should it be used infrequently. I mean you have the freedom to talk however you want, but I also have the freedom to fault you for repetitive and vague use of the English language.

I mean your kids can grow up and decide they want to swear like sailors,…

Will the washer dyes mess up my next load though? My roommates dress better than me, and I can't afford to replace any items I damage, hahaha.

Honestly I'm pretty happy with this funny stuff. Street art is so... dare I saw conservative? It's nice to see something a bit outside the norm.

Yeah, I'm kinda surprised to see this on Jezebel (I'm not a long-time reader so I don't know the history)... I feel like there might be a story here about young people and the army, but this little post is undercooked.

I think it's a bit of a Gawker thing though... foreign stories tend to be pretty fluffy. "Look, the…

How do you preserve black cotton shirts? I mean you just wash them cold and air dry only right?

Does re-dyeing work? Can I re-dye black jeans to blackness?

Ohhh- good luck! Yeah, avoid the new age-y stuff. I remember when I was looking for one, and my parents emailed me some new age sounding names (they didn't know, they just did some googling for me), and I deliberately neglected those places.

Do you have any special geographical origin? I knows its a bit old-world, but…

I go alone quite a bit: usually if I really want to see the movie and kinda focus on it; saw "Zero-Dark Thirty" alone, saw "Battle Royale" special East-Village Halloween showing with friends.

I liked the new Star Trek movie; yeah it's not brilliant or moving, but it a solid action flick. Thought it was better than…

The whole idea of a valedictorian just seems silly: we all know that highschool marks are pretty fluid and based on alot of little factors that make numerically ranking 17 year olds anything but reliable. The idea that one person could be "TOP OF THE CLASS" *thunder* is really oldschool; just do some sort of bigger…

I never lived in a fancy-pants building, but while popular opinion doesn't care about marijuana, NY pot culture is definitely more discreet. Indoor cigarette smoking is also basically not ok, so smoking in the lobby seems even belligerent.

My guess would be that she was already hated by her building for previous…

Yeah, like others have said militant definitely denotes a terror/violence aspect, but I guess some people use it to just slur an activist by suggesting they are pushy.

This is ESL though, so I'm willing to give her a pass.

Cheaper apartments can be found in Manhattan, like in Hells Kitchen (which is very safe now), but I tend to think of that area between Central Park and the East village as kinda ugh... and when you get into Gramercy or Chelsea the prices skyrocket. Really, spend alot of time apartment hunting, it's hard to find the…

I had a roommate from Australia who did exactly this- mid 30's architect, she came here and just did little jobs until she landed her dream job. It was hard, and there were 5 months of bar-tending and random little jobs, but she did it.

My advice is live farther out in Brooklyn: it's waaaay cheaper and dont get scared…

One day soon, the world will belong to us.

Dear wonderful people of England: if you keep wearing those fedoras we will keep rejecting you at the doors of our clubs. -Berlin

And then people wonder: is the problem with air-travel as a whole or just with management?

As everyone else has said, the Raid (and other Thai action films) will probably quench your "kung-fu" thirst.

"The Grandmasters" isn't an action movie or a martial arts movie though... it has a few fight scenes, but it's primarily a rather quiet romantic tragedy. It's pretty much in line with Wong Kar Wai's other…