"and immigrants from various African countries". Have you missed that part or did you immediately have this knee jerk reaction of "I have to defend Islam!"?

Urban legends? Uh no. There are official records you can check and those records are frightening because more and more parents give batshit crazy names to their kids. Rules aren't strict enough. For one case where parents are forbidden to call thir kid "Nutella", there are dozens of other cases where names that will…

Stupidity would be my first guess.

Agree, Chinese are in my experience the worst tourists. But I don't think it's because they travel in large groups. Japanese do that as well and have been doing it for years and they don't have a bad reputation at all. Chinese are just very rude: oblivious to everything, loud, no manners whatsoever. Politeness and…

My comment was satire as well, but that flew above your head. And "threatening payback"? wow. You are angry, not me. I'm just tired and annoyed. And of course nobody made a joke about the attacks: I would hope so.

HAHA you guys are so funny. Please more shitty jokes about the French. Like, really, what a great timing. I'll come here and make xenophobic jokes at Americans the next time there's a shooting in the US, deal? Which will be quite soon because Americans and their guns, am I right? haha isn't that hilarious?

LOL that would be amazing.

Seriously. She's stunning. I've heard a similar story about her being cast in Out of Africa. Sydney Pollack apparently didn't think she was glamourous enough to play Karen Blixen. Then he changed his mind, thank god. I don't understand what these guys were looking at exactly: Meryl Streep, besides being talented, is…

Yes, I know. I'm Jewish so I'm aware of all this. I was just saying how surprised I was to learn that Muslims would shop in a kosher supermarket. Kosher supermarkets (where I lived anyway) are often located in specific neighbourhoods and Muslims in my experience tend to shop in their "own" (halal) supermarkets and…

Ok. If you say so. I highly doubt Muslims would shop in a kosher supermarket. I've never seen that happen but sure, maybe there were some people who weren't Jewish.

Hum you've heard about the situation in North Mali right? Tuareg salafists (Ansar Dine): their goal was to institute shariah in Mali.

Come on. A kosher supermarket? In all likelihood, the people shopping there will be Jewish.

Well that sociologist (or whoever he was) is right. Most of the antisemitism in France comes from French Muslims. There have been several incidents where synagogues have been attacked and it always done by muslims. Not to mention Mohammed Mera who shot three Jewish kids in 2012. Or Medhi Nemmouche who killed 4 people…

Great. Let's oppose both tragedies. That's really the way to go. Good job. It's no about white people, it's about the fact that Nigeria is a fragile state prone to coups and civil war while France is a democracy where that sort of attack almost never happens nowadays. Nigeria, sadly, has seen several of those…

Isn't it truly fascinating how people who have no fucking idea about anything (meaning the French context surrounding those events) and who on top of that don't even read, let alone speak French, use those cartoons as examples of Charlie Hebdo racism?

The Daily Mail calling them lesbian would actually surprise me. Women's relationships with other women don't tend to be taken seriously at all so two women can hold hands, kiss, hell, I'm sure having sex, and the media will still be like "oh they're such BFFs"

In several European countries (perhaps all of them, I don't know), not vaccinating your kid is illegal. To be able to put your kid through school, they have to be vaccinated. It's just common sense, really.

I can't believe you're comparing a parent's expectation of their kid's future job prospect with the fact that suddenly your son is a daughter. People like you say this sort of stuff "oh but you're not losing, you're gaining a daughter" as if that's super easy to accept.

Ah thanks! You too! Unless, like me, you've almost given up. But hey, most of the time I'd rather be watching Netflix, eating pizza and drinking beer in bed so life isn't too bad after all ;=)

I've done the same thing as you: I start super hopeful, thinking "well, I'm sure I'll meet someone great, or at least someone decent" and then losing complete hope. I feel like a snob whenever I read a profile and the person has only listed one book (out of five) and there are 10 spelling mistakes in their profile,…