I agree with you in general, although my experience with England specifically was the opposite. Most of the men (and women) I encountered were very reserved compared to Americans. No one chats me up in America or England (my bitch face is spectacular), but I am a people-watcher and that was my take-away.

I don’t even remember. It was in London. Probably the equivalent of $20. Plus, my soul.

Exactly. In the Tudor period, sugar was the most exotic and expensive thing, so people bragged about having sugar. People who couldn’t afford sugar would blacken their teeth to make it look like their teeth were rotted from all the expensive sugar they’d been eating. This is the same thing, but substitute ‘activated…

I don’t get the damn copper cups nonsense. It’s even stupider than the mason jar garbage. I was served mulled cider in a copper cup and, duh, the cup and handle were too hot to hold for about 20 minutes because copper is conductive. I also went to a bar last year and was served a cocktail in a ‘re-purposed’ tin can.…

Time is our most limited resource, so I devote my intellectual curiosity to topics that are worth my time. Discovering what activated cashews are is not one of them. I also, to be quite honest, have a hard time finding legit info about weird foods and herbs because google results tend to be from fringe homeopathic…

Nonsense. If she had one or two food products I had never heard of, then I would look them up and learn. But someone whose entire daily diet consists of ‘stuff no one has heard of’ served in copper cups is trying hard to compose a diet solely of things no one has ever heard of. And that’s pretty mockable. I honestly…

I infinitely prefer the Kotex packaging because it’s black, not pink or baby blue. They’re pads/tampons, not easter eggs. I’m not in a pastel mood when I need them.

I saw Bei Bei last week. You guys, he was teddy bear sized and if he hadn’t been behind glass I would have tried to make a break for it with him stuffed in my coat.

That was awful, but...to be fair, they sort of had to do it as Melissa got pregnant IRL. The show didn’t last long enough afterwards for her to be showing, but if it had, then they would have needed to either had to explain her pregnancy OR hide her behind giant vases of flowers/have her always carrying dry cleaning…

I made my phone autocorrect garbage —> dean for a while, because he is a garbage person.

I found that I liked him far less when I wasn’t looking at him. Like, if I was playing Candy Crush during his scenes, and just listening to him, he was far less likable. So...yeah. If you prefer your memories untainted, don’t look too closely at his behavior.

:) Thanks.

I just graduated from King’s. I have nothing else to add to this story, but thought I would drop that in because I didn’t get to go to the graduation and wear the awesome robes because I am back in America with no health insurance and a mandatory gun/bible. Where’s my lifetime supply of chocolate? That’s how this…

anything polysyllabic.

As a heathen, I had zero clue about this. But I never made it past the begats when I tried to read the Bible. Any knowledge I’ve gleaned has come from Simpsons episodes. BUT, I’m not pretending to be an evangelical in order to win votes from people I almost assuredly despise.

I’ve been to Scotland a few times; obviously I’m no expert. But in my experience, the Scots seem a very unlikely group to be impressed by his tantrums, his money, or how big he writes his name on everything he owns.

same. The rest of this is like a weird undecoded WWII message to me. I can’t comprehend any of the proper nouns.

You are dismissive, combative, condescending, and gross. Also, just FYI, this may shock you but even some women drive manual transmission cars.

At least you would sound like a xenophobic racist, rather than pretending to not be one.

You’re assuming anyone brown is necessarily an immigrant. A recent immigrant even. Germany has large pockets of 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants from Muslim countries.