I don't know anyone who had one, but our elementary school had all the books, and we ALL read them :)

No offense, but your comments on this article are becoming repetitive and tedious. The American way of commerce is not the only way to do things.

Dude, it's called planning and fucking time management. You know shit is closed on Sundays, so you shop some other time. Having lived in several countries with similar traditions, I can attest that it is 1. not difficult, and 2. kind of a relief to not feel pressured to buy buy buy constantly on your day off. Other…

Yes, yes, yes! It takes a smidgeon of patience and a step back from the situation to remember that (*gasp!*) is the same as the US, and that is not necessarily a bad thing. US economic imperialism and the desire to impose it on others is definitely a thing, and it's a shitty thing.

Wow, I see that you've caught a lot of shit in the comments below, but I totally agree with you. I've spent a lot of time in Europe, although admittedly not in France; I have primarily lived in various places, not traveled, for a minimum of 5 weeks and a maximum of a year over the last seven years. The insane schedule…

What has really weirded me out is that in college my friends and I all seemed to agree that keeping our own names was the best option, but now that everyone is actually getting hitched, not a single one of them has kept her own name OR hyphenated. What the whaaaa??? I understand that people change, blah blah, but the…

Maybe if you're Eastern European it would work?

Good lord, me too! Just turned 28, and I am infinitely better looking now than at 14. I was really thin then, but my face was just...soft, I guess, with kind of an awkwardly mannish nose. As I've gotten older, I grew into the nose and magically got sweet cheekbones and really shapely lips. Woo! Thank god for not being…

People always laugh when I say that, but it's totally true! We had a cat move in with us when we lived in a ground floor apartment in Hungary. Mr. Dforce turned around while cooking dinner one day, and there was the cat, sitting calmly in the doorway to the kitchen. Voila! We had a cat, and she has traveled all over…

You're right, it would have still been obvious, but it was parodying the original video which begins with the text "MILEY CYRUS" over the screen.

I agree with your first point. I think if everyone who is seriously committed but not actually married uses the term "partner," it really starts to mean just that: people who are committed no matter their gender.

I have several sets of friends who did this. For some it's still a big secret, but for others they kept it a secret for only so long and didn't mind telling people after the big wedding. They didn't want to steal the wedding thunder from a friend, but the couple was being deployed soon so they went ahead and got…

Newp. Common law marriage is a myth in most states....unfortunately. Blergh.

Don't you think his new lady-love would set him straight though?

But if his wife is a) Ukrainian but b) a native Russian speaker (like 30% of Ukrainians), it would make sense for him to appreciate Ukrainian culture but learn Russian so that he can speak with his wife and her family in their native tongue. Language =/= nationality.

Over the summer, I was working on a field project in Romania, where siesta isn't an *official* official thing, but definitely observed. We worked from 7-noon, had several hours off for having a bath, eating a big lunch, and (most relevantly) napping on and off for several hours before going back to work for the late…

Additionally, they tend to live longer if they go outside. When I was growing up, we had a parade of cats that disappeared (inside cats were not an option in my parents' house, although now my cat is inside-only). The two black cats we had possessed the most longevity, in my opinion due to camouflage.

Over the summer, I was in a field situation where most of the participants were 18-20 year old guys. I jokingly called them all babies and one guy about my sister's age (24?) responded with an unnecessary, joking-I'm-not-joking "crusty old hag" comment. I am 28. I almost cut a bitch RIGHT THERE. To call a 16 year old…

I'm not really an old (just act like one, apparently), but I agree on all but the phones. We don't have a landline, so we kind of need the mobiles in the bedroom for emergency call reasons. My dad had an on-call job when I was growing up, so I live in irrational fear of missing a phone call while asleep.

Remember, the bedroom is just for sleeping and sex and snacking.