Counterpoint: Peggy Sue Got Married. Would have been a delightful movie but Cage ruined it.
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Parents don’t have to resign themselves to Chuck E. Cheese or some crappy chain like Applebees. I use the same “child-friendly” indicator question to determine if children are welcome: simply ask a restaurant if they have high chairs. Yes? It’s a family-friendly restaurant. No? Save it for date night. That being said,…
My general rule is, if the restaurant supplies high chairs, then I assume children are welcome and I bring them along. If there’s no high chair, I assume kids are not welcome. However, if you’re supplying high chairs, you should offer a change table in the bathroom as well. It’s gross changing your kid on a scuzzy…
Dumbasses are so triggered by any hint of foreignness these days that I’ve been yelled at for speaking German with my 4 year old (“this is America, speak English!”). GERMAN!! My response: you can’t even do white supremacy right when you can’t recognize the language of your beloved supremacist fascist dictator Hitler?!…
Those of us living in other democracies cannot understand why (even after the 2000 election debacle) computerized voting machines continue to be used. Shady shit can happen with those machines. All other democracies use paper ballots BECAUSE THEY LEAVE A PAPER TRAIL!!! Paper ballots are really simple to use too - take…
You don’t really need to tip in Germany, because the cost of the service is included in the bill. It’s customary to round up to the nearest 5euro or 0euro number (ie 81 becomes 85, 86 becomes 90). Some people tip between 5-10%, but if you are a repeat customer tipping isn’t expected - servers would rather the repeat…
In Germany this sign with your hand means “asshole,” so if these white supremacists want to adapt it as their symbol, go ahead douchebags.
Hey now, Canadian teen shows (esp both versions of Degrassi) never advocated abstinence only. While they showed the negative effects of unsafe sex (teen pregnancy, HIV, abortion), rape/date rape, etc., they also did positive portrayals of sex between couples and portrayed sexual feelings/functions as normal. Sue Johans…
$10 says Cdn Conservatives blame Trudeau for pissing off Trump
Splinter keeps making itself look extremely dumb. Please hire someone with a stats background to explain to your writers how sampling and probabilities work. Sorry for the snark...on a day like today I really miss Gawker
In the early 2000s, the Toronto Police Service went about a huge recruitment of university students in the Greater Toronto Area. Entrance salary offers were quite generous. The problem? Most of those kids ended up getting promoted up the ladder quickly, or left for other government jobs that had better hours with…
God, I’ve seen so much ass hatery from white men on this Sarah Jeong stuff on facebook and twitter this week, it’s driving me crazy!! Men who consider themselves “progressive” crying about “reverse racism” and the “double standards” of the NYT. I’ve tried pointing out to them, that as a white woman, I will NEVER…
No don’t correct this. K-12 public education is a huge problem in the U.S. Namely, inequality in access to quality public education. Because much of the funding for K-12 schools in the U.S. comes from property taxes, you find vast differences in school funding, and ergo quality of education. To compare, almost 50% of…
You have no idea how health care systems work do you. In Canada, there’s little to no government intervention in the treatment process - provincial governments are your insurer but hospitals, clinics, etc. are all private institutions. The government isn’t going to tell you to move across the country for a fucking hip…
I cannot believe how fucking fucked up health care is in America. I moved to Germany a couple of years ago, and the philosophy of it’s health system isn’t far off from the American one (mostly privatized, insurance is provided through your employer) but it costs so much less. 2 main reasons: 1) insurance companies can…
They may have meant that the AfD is the first far-right party to hold seats in the Bundestag since the Nazis (since representation requires at least 5% of the national vote). But this is untrue as well - the last party with strong far-right tendencies to sit in the Bundestag was the Deutsche Partei, which was part of…
I think my son was outgrowing Peppa Pig until we moved to Germany. Offering to watch a show he knows well in German was a good idea. The characters speak slowly enough and the plot is simple enough that he can follow in his newfound second language. Same with Sesame Street. I feel like we extended the 3-4 age tv shows…
It should have won, hands down.
You only need to be a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)- that’s why Australia and Israel and other “not really in Europe” countries compete.