I agree with her (while not actually liking her much). My mind was made up about Bernie during the election when on International Women’s Day he chose to post on FB not a statement about women, instead choosing to ‘celebrate all people’. Yeah, no Bernie. Show some respect for us, and acknowlege us. And tell those Bros…

Kitchen and bath designer here. If you can’t pronounce refrigerator correctly, you don’t deserve one (or 5, in this case). RE-frigerator, Kim. RE-FRIGERATOR.

It was the tail-end of monsoon season and we were in a shitty neighborhood with open sewers. Memorable.

I got fingered at 3 am in the back of a rickshaw in Delhi, India after the end of a giant outdoor wedding. I will never forget the smell.

I think Dan Savage did a piece about the middle name “wayne” leading to trouble  if I am remembering correctly.

Yeah, my moment of clarity was when a friend’s wife had post-partum depression and was instructed to only heal herself with jewels and herbs, rather than anti-depressants. Told if she took them she would be in violation of Maharishi code of ethics. She killed herself.

I lived in Fairfield a few years back when my daughter was a baby, as some relatives lived nearby. It was a town divided by a real Sharks/Jets mentality, with “real Iowans” absolutely hating their Maharishi neighbors. To my eyes, it was filled with well-meaning but often disturbed and sheep-like followers. Both sides…

Aaaand this is why I don’t complain about being a solo mom to my married mom friends. Basically the only thing left for your husband to actually cover is earning a paycheck. What a fucking baby. Divorce this guy, seriously. 

Also, surprise you didnt eat beef you ate “buffalo”. 

Quick! Do as the locals do and get some probiotics fast. 

I was banned from visiting NYC with my mother at the age of four after several vacations there. I would not stop eating things off Lower East Side sewer grates and between the cushions of my godmother’s couch.

They are asking you to provide insightful and carefully edited work. You have not done that. You provided nothing more than clickbait. 

One hopes he laid off the headdress this time?

The shamer is you? Ask yourself if posting this is contributing to anything other than the vacuous void of internet trolling. 

If the language barrier is so terrible, can you take a full-immersion language course for 6 months? You can easily meet other struggling people that way. My experiences in expatville were helped by having interactions which were not immediately comfortable but became rote when I kept them up regularly (like humiliating…

Begpackers are the Worst. I almost came to fisticuffs with one I met in India who bragged to me he made a “living” selling tarot readings to people who wanted white guys at their weddings. He had no cash and tried to stay at my apartment uninvited. Then he told me he had 3 kids back in the US and how he hated paying ch…

In England, ‘new money’ automatically makes you thought of as suspect and tacky by the upperclasses. Different set of social rules. A penniless aristocrat is still regarded highly by other members of that caste. My mom is one of them (upperclass Londoner, now poor senior-citizen living in America) and it never fails to…

Yes this! I have a dog allergy and the recent spate of fake “support dog” fraudsters are making my life miserable. 

I second #Constant Colors’ comment about giving yourself a bit more time. I’m a former expat (US to India) and it took about a year and a half to feel even somewhat normal. Honestly, this country is getting scary, and if you can stay out for even 6 more months you will be able to see things more clearly. If you haven’t…

Kind of regretting my morbid curiosity leading me to their pics. I’m no food nazi, but these kids are steps away from mini heart attacks or at least diabetes. Yuck. Everything is fried and/or sweet. Otherwise the children are adorable.