That responce is more about not giving a discount than presenting facts or quoting actual statistics.

Learning to drive is completely optional, and often pricey.

People are not taught to drive in the US.

I gotta know cause my son looks destined. Are they mercifully accepting payment schedules or something these days? Dear God that’s a down payment on a house.

I see he wore his...”formal” baseball cap.

This is actually a video about Miss Japan being Hafu. But the discussion digresses into “prideful” Asian countries and the origins of their languages. Kind of speaks to the question you have about not apologizing a bit. Although no one is ethnically Japanese making the video and it’s not sociological fact.

Confucius while pretty righteous on a lot of fronts has many Asians killing themselves over little shit. I’d imagine admitting war crimes would be tantamount to admiting you’re worthy of life on some level Sucks to hear about Sweden. I have one friend who lives there and I’m friend of a friend of Yukimi in Little…

edit: do you have any idea what it is that stops Japan from coming clean about their past war crimes? is it simply pride? saving face? keeping their own people in the dark?

First of all Abe is not beloved by most Japanese people. In fact his public approval numbers were already bad but his defense initiatives have tanked his numbers in the last 2 weeks especially. People have been protesting any move away from taking the country away from being a pacifist state.

but I think it’s worth that if it means Japan will be able to defend itself against the likes of North Korea.

so japan moving in a strong nationalist right wing direction and the PM doing his best to make sure the country can be fitted with a proper military again is a non-concern?

In his book, Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump, Harry Hurt III chronicles a ferocious assault in which Trump forcibly penetrates his wife after “[pulling] out fistfuls of hair from her scalp.”

That really is a great question. I’m guessing people who are frightened of being enlightened.

He is a POS. I’m from Boston and I grew up not far from Orchard Park where New Edition is from. I went to the same Boys Club they did. Actually Mike is the bigger POS in the group. However. Whitney was hooked on coke long before they ever met. They loved each other because they did the same drugs. Most people don’t…

I have a co worker who routinely comes in and wanders around talking to herself.

Clearly, air conditioning should be turned down so efficiency can go up. And as Dvorak suggests, men should just wear lighter clothing in the workplace, like some nice linen and seersucker. Problem solved.

“Dino Droppings”: The truth about Jurrasic Park sequels. Episode 1 the phantom screenplays

My son wants to see this so bad. Just because of the Pac-Mac scenes in the trailer. I so don’t want to take an 8 year old to an PG-1 3 Adam Sandler movie. It’s not only going to suck but I’m sure he will be exposed to language and behaviors that if he repeats out loud in school will get him sent to the office. That…

This is a stupid violent country. Plain and simple.

That’s exactly it. I was sitting here making excuses for each of them in my head in turn (because predictably, she’s not a perfect victim, but then who is?), but you put it perfectly—she was not polite. That’s all. Not being polite, even to a cop, is not a crime. While it escalates people’s feelings about the…