In my Canadian elementary we brought our lunches, and then in HS there was a cafeteria but it was crummy and cost $$$ so nearly everyone still brought their own lunches. There was a "breakfast club" which was a social safety net, but if a lunch program existed it was on the down low. Is this official school lunch…

"Prayers and giving thanks" that's just the next level of code. Round 2 people.

It could just mean she's working through things... maybe she doesn't really have alot of people to actually talk to, and so when she sits with you she gets to really unload what she's been thinking about herself. I guess you just try to steer the conversation back into neutral ground with enough consistency that she…

I guess it depends on the people though... like among a few best friends totally no issue for me, but outside that it's kinda boring and often a mean conversation isn't it? It just seems like people's personality issues especially come out in these conversations, and it asks alot of someone who isn't a close friend.

The "stand your ground" of social gossiping.

She sounds self centred. :(

The conciseness of this history lesson is fantastic.

People in the world are literally dying of starvation... it's not a crime to prosper, I don't even have a problem with people who are very wealthy and make million dollar salaries running a company... but 13 billion when other people have nothing, that is a moral outrage.

If you're in Europe you really want EU citizenship if you can get it... from my experience in Germany visas aren't super difficult to obtain, but it's still nerve wracking to have your future depend on a meeting with a bureaucrat in the office. Also, I'm not sure how other cities are, but something to be mindful of is…

In most states you can actually fire someone for their political beliefs... it's really shitty, but you're able to do so. There are five states where they have included political or non-work activities as protected spaces, and those actually include California, but I don't know how the law specifically applies in this…

The amendment only applies to your interactions with the government, private citizens can totally make consequences for things you say (like for example not doing business with you).

FIRST AMENDMENT WOMAN IS ON TV.

I had a really tough week. This friday I has a big discussion with my boss over the fact that there is not another way to pass a payment if the contractor doesn't change the invoice's date. I refused several times (because that's fraud!) and she said she is going to admonish me because I "insulted" her (funny because…

Oh, this story is off the front page now it seems? Damage control!

People who police their neighbours are the worst... the worst. :(

It just seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of photography... like editing is always a part of the process, and the idea that photography, even photo-journalism is ever "objective" shows a poor grasp of history. Ultimately its just a tool: we get the result that we ask for.

I saw a German "Erotic Carp" calendar once... I can't google it because I'm at work, but it was kinda scary.

What an asshole, ahahahaha

Hoping that means more "Generation War" (Unsere Mutter Unser Vatter) and not something strange. ZDF did the previous so hopefully it will work out.

This. I don't think small issues should be dismissed, but I also don't like seeing "academic arguments" turned into trivia.

I'd also like to see Jezebel address "scandals" in the daily news without sinking to CNN levels of perpetuating it for weeks. See the Duck Dynasty reporting... I like this site because while it…