Dude, I do too! But it's always for more formal stuff or when I'm groveling, rather than a quick note.

yeah, I live in good ol' Deutschland, where they really like formality. I use the standard German salutations and closings in German, and dear/sincerely in English unless it's a casual email to a friend.

I have a good friend like that. She is very difficult to cook for, especially because I think it's all in her head...which makes me feel like an asshole...

I sometimes wonder if my husband has some kind of OCD. He's even described himself as being "a bit deranged about cleaning". It's manageable, but I'm still getting used to some of these weird cleaning behaviors. Like, nothing can be on the floor. For example, we often have lots of barely worn clothes lying around. Say…

Yeah, one of my besties had some problems and went through the same thing. Now she's like "go! Get your pap! Now!"

Goddammit, I haven't had one in ages...I moved to Europe and the gyno said to come back in November for a pap...which I haven't done, obvi. Mostly, I haven't done it because I'm lazy and a procrastinator. They are not exactly wonderful, but you shouldn't be scared! I'm pretty low risk too, but I promise I will go for…

Your disbelief that anything bad can possibly happen in a frat leads me to believe that while you read the article, the words just skimmed over the top of your brain and floated straight out of your ears. You basically missed the primary critique—that bad things do happen everywhere, but that the priviledge and…

I suggest you quit focusing on the negative, brah, because there are an awful lot of women on this site who have loving and meaningful relationships with men, and as a result talk about how fucking awesome their dudes are. You'll be, like, a way happier person if you try to notice the positive thing around you.

It's like when the Spice Girls went on a reunion tour some years ago (2007 maybe?). I had. to. go. It was fucking glorious. Like...I can't even describe. I may or may not have been super teary AND I REGRET NOTHING.

Huh, I wonder if the articles were old. I know that it's a popular lay spelling (especially in the past), so it's no wonder that translations get it mixed up.

Great minds! But seriously, dang. 1993 Russia. Archaeology is a science that develops more rapidly in some places than in others...and you know that British excavation and analysis techniques were not making it to Russia really quickly.

FYI/ETA2 to my other comment: Poor old Ötzi was discovered in 1991, and they tried to extract him with ice picks and a pneumatic drill...but it was also not an archaeological investigation until after he was extracted from the ice. So in some ways, the "technique" of breaking shit out of the ice was similar, but in…

That excavation was in 1993. In the West, it sure as shit was NOT standard practice to do something like that, but this is in the fucking boonies in Russia. I've never worked there, but in other former Communist bloc countries, their archaeology game is still not really locked down very tightly. It's mostly a lack…

Well, I mean, Russia. In 1993. You can really only expect so much, to be honest.

It is not. It's a barely acceptable alternate spelling in American English (unacceptable within the profession), but all other English speaking countries use the British spelling. It makes sense since it derives from the Greek, and there's an "a" in there. "Archeology" is technically correct in the US, but less and…

"Trashy" and "low-class" are some of my least favorite ways that English-speaking people describe each other. Try defining "trashy" to someone's face, especially if that person comes from anything besides a wealthy and bland background, and shit gets awkward reaaaaaal fast.

My kitty's a bugger, not a mouser. I would be totally stoked if she caught a mouse! Instead she catches flies (which I appreciate, truly, since they're so annoying) and the occasional moth or grasshopper if she's outside. She seems to not do spiders, though (or maybe my whole house was so infested with spiders that…

It really comes down to quality vs. quantity for some cats. I agree with you—I would rather my former stray be happy and have a shorter life because of the dangers of the outdoors than be totally and completely miserable with health problems because I won't let her outside because *I* want her to live for 20 years.…

Oh Jesus, I think it's so much worse when they're in a garden level. I lived in a garden level apt in a quiet neighborhood for some years, and managed to keep my kitty inside because while our little block was very quiet, we were between two very busy streets and had a very agressive outside cat next door. Also, kitty…

I am of the opinion that the whole get-up would be way warmer/better than our standard winter garb today because of so many layers (everyone was wearing sweet wool stockings and boots under those skirts), and the skirts would keep all your warmth in. If you've ever worn a really long coat, you know what I'm talking…