Oh fuck, skin walker stories scare me more than any others. I grew up in the four corners area, so yeah. Gah.

Oh man, you are way ambitious. Cartoon makeup sounds hard :(

Super easy! The only tricky part is Lana’s holsters, because otherwise you just look like a sexy lady in a sweater dress. I think I had everything else when I did it awhile back.

Oh no, really? You should watch Archer. It runs on FX, but they have on Netflix as well. It’s a spy cartoon for grownups.

My fave couples costume is Archer and Lana. Those guys would have to get it, right?

Satire is protected free speech, just like in the States.

I asked my friends about it, and they said that they had read it (in German, as they are Germans), and it was absolute “Dreck” (shit/rubbish) and terribly cliche. So it seems as if it wasn't necessarily just a translation issue.

The nuns at my mom’s grade school made them kneel on brooms, and my husband knew kids growing up (not in the US) who had to kneel on walnut shells at school. Brutal.

I followed my dad through Chicago on a cross country move a few years back, and I’ll be damned if I let him drive on the Autobahn while he was visiting on his last trip. I would have preferred my mom, honestly, because she is a lot more aware, but my dad drove down the center fucking lane through every major city on…

Bicyclist and driver in Germany, here. Biking here is a goddamn dream; people stop at stoplights, for the most part aren’t overly aggressive with pedestrians, and when you ring your bell, people hop right out of the way. Cars are respectful, for the most part, because nearly everyone in a car is also a bicyclist, or…

My husband is both pretty short and very narrowly built. It's damned hard to find XS men's clothing that is actually XS :(

ETA to first response: We are legit in love, and although it was a bit of a whirlwind romance, it was not a marriage of convenience. If it had been, though, most EU nations aren’t on the lookout for these situations coming from North America. It’s racist as fuck, but they scrutinize marriages a lot more carefully when…

Like, just marry an EU citizen? Sometimes there are some catches (for example, spouses of Germans have to pass a certain level of German language test), but my husband and I live here as a foreign couple (he is EU), and they practically threw a five year visa at me. It’s super easy, but it also helps if you’re a white…

Indentured servants were white, and they were not free. If one were imprisoned, one would also not be considered free.

My dad too! My dad’s version is “free, white, and over 21,” and he says it with some frequency. I had always assumed that it was something he picked up from his family in the Ozarks, as many of his more “quaint” sayings come from that area. I’m guessing he’s never give thought to how racist it is. He uses it as a way…

To be fair, he had shaved like, 3 minutes earlier, and it was a brand-spanking new grocery store. I guess they 1. didn’t recognize us yet, and 2. had overly-diligent new employees at the register. He’s fairly slight and not too tall (especially by German standards), so he does look pretty youthful. That won't stop me…

But it is shocking how much openness of financial discussions is dependent on culture. In Germany, no one talks about their own money, savings, or income, to the extent that it really knocked me off balance when I first got here. In Hungary and Romania, though, people will ask you directly about these things fairly…

Maybe they picked up that idea from somewhere and really believe it. My ex’s family felt free to take any pillows and towels from hotel rooms, and seemed to work under the assumption that it is a normal person thing. Also I had a roommate who decided she liked all the little spoons at our table at a restaurant, so…

My husband got carded for beer not too long ago. We live in Germany, where you only have to be 16 to buy beer, and I’ve literally never seen anyone carded before. He was 32 at the time.

I don’t know man, Europe has a lot of racial problems that we don’t see from the U.S...I don’t know if their treatment of black people is really so great, especially when they’re really new to the continent, like African migrants in Italy or Greece. And don’t forget the attitudes held towards anyone Roma, Roma…