. . . did we watch the same film?
This film fails as an adaptation of Persuasion (no, there’s no faithfulness to anything other than some broad plot outlines, which no longer make sense because the characters have all been parachuted in from some other story and act in ways that don’t fit the actual plot) AND it fails…

It’s not even Lizzie Bennet, it’s Bridget Jones ~ the adorkable functional alcoholic who says really inappropriate things that sometimes land as hilarious jokes and sometimes just make everyone go “yikes” 

No, what she was pretty clearly saying was, “I dress modest and don’t get harassed, so if you make other choices, suck it up.”
“Self-protecting and wise” vs whatever provocative tart-cases you other sluts squeeze yourselves into ~ this was literally in response to the Harvey Weinstein scandal, and she decided to write…

Your clue here is the PhD, not MD. PhD’s, even in neuroscience, are not doctors, do not act like doctors, and do not share the same knowledge base as doctors. They’re there to study how the brain works, they don’t treat it.
As noted here by others, this is a science degree, not a medical degree.

CW: Sexual Violence

Even in the original stories, Morgan and Morgause are the children of Igraine and her first husband, Goloris, Duke of Tingatel, while Arthur is the son of Uther Pendragon and Igraine (via magic costume rape - Merlin disguises Uther as Goloris to cause the conception of Arthur). That makes them…

Interesting, since I live in Korea and at no point have I ever heard anyone claim Koreans invented ramyeon/ramen. There’s a lot of pride in distinctly Korean varieties (all hail Shin Ramyeon!) but no, Koreans are not running around claiming they invented anything but local permutations of the dish.

RE: Turtle ships -…

Sushi is sushi because of the rice, not the raw fish. And futomaki isn’t usually raw fish, either, as you note.  But putting raw fish in kimbap to make it “fancy” is definitely an American take - Koreans have “premium” kimbap also, but it’s usually more fillings like cream cheese, candied walnuts, spicy grilled pork,…

How is that different from “seasoned” in the sense of adding sesame oil and salt, rather than vinegar and sugar?

“It could have started with the seaweed and rice wraps from the Joseon era, which lasted from 1392-1897 in the Jeolla province.”
So, who was running the rest of Korea during this time? :P

p.p.s “Ham” is more common than spam in kimbap in Korea, since Spam is actually kind of spendy and doesn’t hold together as well.…

The rice is seasoned, it’s just not seasoned the same way - sesame oil and salt instead of vinegar and sugar.

For what it’s worth, I don’t think the babymen are going to be a consistent voting block - they’ll swing liberal as soon as the next conservative government is also unable to bring housing prices down to a reasonable level, whatever dumb complaints they’re currently airing to the press.
The government did totally and…

Kind of. Or just a straight up spoonfuls of vege/marmite. It’s not that it can’t be done, but it’d definitely be something other people would remark on if they watched you do it.
I do have some really extraordinary doenjang made by my favorite (Buddhist) nuns, and I do sometimes sneak a TINY spoonful of that, but it’s…

Yeah, I live in South Korea. Making fun of the food immigrants eat may be something people do in other places, but it is by no means a survival trait, nor does it in any way excuse the truly extensive awfulness of the harassment I witnessed friends go through growing up in the US when they kept immigrant foods in…

Could be either, depends on the store/natto

Christ folks, yes.  This is a white people thing.  We even do it to each other (I took a much-beloved liverwurst sandwich to school in first grade, and never repeated the mistake) but it’s an especially vicious and cruel way that kids can mark out immigrant children as different and target them for abuse.  I watched…

Trust me, they are.
And you probably eat fermented foods all the time without thinking about it, so I really do wish Americans would get over it.  Natto is much milder than doenjang, for example.

Natto really doesn’t smell that strongly, and folks bring all kinds of other foods with odors all the time to no complaint.
Food has odors.  People need to stop thinking their sh!t doesn’t stink.

The Japanese people who don’t like it don’t make a show of how gross they think natto is, or, by extension, the eater.  Which brings us to how she’s not being condescending about Americans not appreciating it, but bringing up how lots of folks are complete jerkwads about unfamiliar foods, especially overtly “foreign”…

You keep saying this, and all it proves is that you’re either really, really wonderbread white, or that you’ve never actually had natto.

Well, then, you had some very off natto, because it definitely doesn’t smell like ammonia.