Apparently they are TK Maxx, but I sriously had no fucking idea we had them in Europe. I also just told my husband, and he's pretty excited haha. Do they have stuff from American stores or European stores?

I don’t even care! Kohls’ sales are freaking amazing.

WAIT. Waitwaitwait. Where is there a TJ max in Germany?

I think it may be the difference between private and business phone etiquette. For example, when I talk to my German friends (I also overhear this on the streets) the call is always ended by a chorus of “Tschüüüüüüüüüüss” (bye), but during business calls, the conversation often ends with the German office person…

Shit yeah! ours sounds very cool, but not like a millionaire legacy name. One of our names is not nearly wasp-ish for it to sound like that, but I like announcing my entire name in front of people. I also have four unusual names now, so it sounds pretty fancy!

That’s what we did! I totally love it. We sometimes still go by our single last names, but we like the symbolism of having taken each other's names. My dad is also pleased as punch, because he thought he wouldn't have grand babies with his last name.

Yeah, America can fucking keep him, as far as I'm concerned :/

Oh, but I do, I really do. But, when in Rome, ya know?

Straight Talk: I am very seriously considering buying a pair of weird patterned early nineties pants...but I live in Europe, so I figure I get a pass.

As I responded elsewhere, I think the fact that McKinnon is crazy white is exactly what is so funny—any attempt to make her darker would 1. be offensive, and 2. ruin the mockery. The whole joke is that Dolezal is a white lady with elaborate black hairstyles. No dark makeup necessary.

Or do a John Boehner style ORANGE to play up the ridiculous tanning.

I think we can all agree that it would still be blackface.

But that’s the joke, as I see it. Kate McKinnon would need no makeup because she would be a white woman in a wig—exactly what Dolezal is. The whiter and more obvious, the more comical. But it depends on how you want to play it—a direct impersonation or a spoof.

(Don’t know if she ever pretended to be a mixed race woman specifically, or if we all just assume so)

But isn’t having Maya Rudolph play a white woman actually whitewashing the black part of her identity? Or were you just being facetious?

But at the same time, don’t you think it must get pretty old for her when she repeatedly hears “hey, maya! You would be the perfect mixed race person to play a woman who is literally not even a little bit black! Cool, right?” Personally, I think the joke would be even better if they were to have someone like Kate…

No prob! I don’t really remember the 92 campaign personally, either, but I think there are a lot of interesting aspects of very recent history and politics that can be discussed.

Re: the flag, I think it hasn’t been changed for a long time. It’s obviously reminiscent of the confederate flag, but one can only do so much with motifs of red/white/blue/stars/stripes—so you could also say that it’s reminiscent of the American flag or the Union Jack.

...of Arkansas?

Don’t forget the awesome stabilization clamps! And the “sounding rod” that they jab into the back of your uterus so that they know how far to insert the IUD! Fun times.