Some places really do have secret menus, official or unofficial. When I worked at Jamba Juice back almost a decade ago, we had a sheet of paper with some handwritten recipes that we taught to new employees. The most popular were the “white gummy bear” and “red gummy bear” ones that were made by mixing together all the…

You can only fight in the UFC at 135 lb and under? That seems crazy to me - tons of women can’t make that weight while still having enough muscle to be at top form in a fight.

See, “keep right unless passing” makes sense for long stretches of highway in the middle of nowhere. In dense urban areas where people are constantly entering and exiting the highway, “through traffic keeps left” is a lot more efficient. If the left lane is too slow, switch to the middle lane. If they’re both too…

I get why it makes sense to try and fix locations - Montreal has a huge population of French immigrants. You can sell a lot more tickets if you arrange it so France is always playing in Montreal. But it’s not any more ethical than fixing matches to sell tickets.

If you’re using a good quality loose leaf tea (where the leaves are still whole rather than broken up), that method works fine. That’s how I drink my green tea. Though of course you can’t take the leaves out to stop the brewing, so it might end up too strong if you don’t drink quickly.

If you’re using a good quality loose leaf tea (where the leaves are still whole rather than broken up), that method…

My mother did this with me starting around middle school - as long as my grades were good, she never paid attention to my homework. If my grades started slipping, she'd step in and start setting study schedules and helping out. Which of course drove me crazy! So I was very strongly motivated to get good grades. Plus…

I know this is a bit off-topic, but... there's a lot of death in this article. Two murders, three suicides, two drunken accidents, an overdose. UVA is only about twice as big as the school I went to, and no one died while I was there. In fact as far as I can tell, my school didn't have a single death from 2005 to…

Yeah, I'm thinking if that wasn't meant to be an engagement ring, he probably dodged a bullet there. Pulling out a ring on your three-year anniversary? She's not going to be thinking "How sweet! He got me a pretty ring!", she's going to think "Oh my god, he's proposing! Oh.... wait... no? It's... just a ring? Okay…

Is that just... the exact same person repeated 5 times with different color hair?

I've always thought cosplay was an interesting word. It's nice and catchy on its own, but I've always cringed when people try and define it by saying "it's short for costume play!" as if that explains anything. I mean, I can see how "costume play" sounds good to a Japanese speaker, but it has really unfortunate…

There's a reason airlines don't use WilMA - it's great if you're traveling alone, but half the people on the plane are sitting next to their friends/family, and really won't appreciate having to split up for boarding.

I think it's because as women we're trained from a young age to fear sexual assault from strange men. (Whether that's justified is a whole different discussion, but it's definitely the case.) It's hard to get past those instincts, even if you know intellectually that this strange man is a doctor and everything is…

There are lots of people who don't really do social media. But how likely are those people to pursue online-only relationships? If someone spends all day romancing me on twitter, I'd be pretty suspicious if they didn't do anything else social online.

I think people have misinterpreted the whole "ironically" thing - it wasn't about pretending to like something while secretly mocking it. It was about liking something *for* its weirdness or uncoolness, rather than *in spite of*. It's like when the eleventh Doctor wears a fez - he doesn't like it because he genuinely…

Looks like a plot to train the dogs to pick up litter :)

I got Rosetta Stone's intermediate Japanese after having taken courses in college, and I was *really* unimpressed - there's a lot of really important aspects of Japanese that it just didn't cover at all (formality, pronoun dropping, etc). I assume because those aspects weren't a part of whatever language all the…

I got Rosetta Stone's intermediate Japanese after having taken courses in college, and I was *really* unimpressed -…

Nice. Though the funny thing is, as scary as it looks, feuilleton is actually a pretty easy word to spell if you've studied french. I watched the video and while they try to trick the kid by giving him a really americanized pronunciation, once he asks for language of origin and alternate pronunciations it's pretty…

My father ended up in a situation like that once, actually - he drove around a corner to find that a car and motorcyclist had gotten in an accident, and were stopped in the middle of the road. He didn't have time to stop, so he had to decide in a split second - do I hit the car, or the motorcycle/motorcyclist?…

Games featuring super-sexy female characters are super popular with women! It's the same reason so many women read superhero comics - it just makes them feel so sexy!

Some women DO want to be powerful even at the expense of their sexuality. If not all the time, then at least sometimes, at least in fiction. Why not?