I get some people have issues telling apart faces from unfamiliar ethnic backgrounds but Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is ethnically Chechen so literally Caucasian and Zayn is of mixed British and South Asian descent, I can’t see a single similarity in their faces. I’m genuinely surprised that anyone would think they look alike.

Maher made this joke intentionally because he is an islamophobic jackass and Maher knows that he is a Muslim as he spoken about him before. I never said anything about how the audience reacted and some did react with a gasp so i have no idea why you are bringing that up, all i spoke about is that it was obviously not…

Come on, bigots, you can't give businesses the right to refuse service based on beliefs of morality and then immediately try to take it away if you don't agree with their particular viewpoints. It doesn't work like that. You can't have your ca— um... ahem. Anyway, that's super hypocritical. What are you people,…

I agree with pretty much everything here, but this "corporations are sociopaths" shit is just fucking juvenile. We can and really should talk about these issues and criticize and ponder the ethical ramifications of all of this without resorting to half-baked, dramatized drivel like that. Corporations, like the…

Your numbers are way off. 18 BMI at 5’11” corresponds to 128 pounds.

BMI doesn’t require any testing. It requires a scale and a measurement of height, that’s all. You consult a chart, and boom. Which is part of the problem - it’s extremely simplistic, and a single unit of BMI can indicate wildly variable levels of individual health, so it’s not a good measure to use as when drawing an…

Ehhhhh that’s a problem. I started high school at 5’2”, 90lbs and ended it a whole 3/4” and 10lbs bigger. My BMI was well into the underweight category, but I was just a tiny kid. My stepdaughter is 5’7” and probably 100lbs because she’s 13 and she could eat all day and metabolize it all. BMI is a poor standard for…

You must have missed the day in 3rd grade when everyone else learned the difference between "wants" and "needs". You also must have missed the day we learned that the term "desire" is a synonym for "want".

It is very, very much about what you make. People aren't choosing between newish car or older car, they are choosing between car or rent. They are choosing between food or electricity. They are forced to choose which critical element to survival they are best able to go without. No one is talking about vacations or…

tomqvacy is not wrong. new cars, retirement funds, college funds... are NOT needs. they are luxuries. they are nice to have. but you can and will remain alive without them.

Well those are the things that would typically define middle class. Just being able to afford food, clothes, and a roof over your head wouldn't be considered middle class.

What you describe is toward the upper end of middle class, and the numbers reflect that. People who make less live do some combination of living in a cheaper house, driving oldish cars, not going on vacations beyond perhaps visiting relatives now and then, and not putting aside much for their children's college…

It's not what you make, it's what you spend. Newish cars, not necessary. Kid's college, hello loans! Vacations... yeah, no. I don't pretend to be frugal, I'm at a point in my life where I don't mind spending money on happy hours and dinners, but I don't pretend to think that those things are actually necessary or…

None of those things are needs.

Well, even worse, the game that SC was based on (40k) has also the Eldar as a sausage fest except the leading unit, the crazybitch unit (because Banshees) and the sing-and-dance unit because no serious macho Eldar man would go all around and sind and dance and praise Cegorach - unless you are already dead and eaten by…

It’s not the term itself, it’s how surprised he was that this ahem, urban young lady wasn’t growling like a dog or baring her teeth at the prosecutor.

I don’t have any magical ability. Not believing you is a matter of simply feeling you are feeding false information.

Guess this wasn’t in the states then. Because he or she would have an awesome lawsuit as it’s now a federally protected right.

I’m sorry, no. As you point out, we can’t see each other. We can only go by what we see posted in front of us. Your belief that not being served is some kind of minor thing really gives you away.

My opinion of your niceness is based on your insistence of violence against meltca’s identity with the flimsy justification that “I might (despite the complete lack of evidence one way or another) be right”. Your automatic assumption that this person is not what they claim because you disagree with them is odious.