Don’t know if this is UK-specific, but it’s our exercise books we burn/shred/tear up. You don’t have to buy textbooks, they belong to (and stay at) the school. When I was at secondary school, you didn’t really take notes, you just answered textbook/worksheet questions, so the contents of your exercise book are pretty…

For sure. Better to cheat and copy than learn anything.

The Bangkok-based Apple Model Management—whose clients include transgender male and female models—

Thailand. Who could’ve guessed?

Once our daughter was ambulatory, she never came into the bathroom while I was on the toilet. The idea of having a kid talking to me while trying to go was unacceptable.

Sure they can be comfortable with nudity or whatever but how about teaching them so friggin boundaries, too? Barging in on someone in the bathroom? What if they were pooping? THAT’S MY TIME, YOU LITTLE JERKS.

Not really. Earlier this month a guy in Maine got drunk, tried to launch a firework off his head, and the explosion killed him. No one is blaming booze in his case, not even his poor mother who is busy trying to get Maine to reinstate their fireworks ban. Since no one blamed alcohol for causing the firework to blow…

He didnt die due to eating a cookie. He died because he came to a sudden stop.

I’m a history blogger on Tumblr and some history tags are unusable because, well, there are Nazi fangirls. They aren’t neo-Nazis, they just have crushes on specific Nazis. Goebbels, Himmler, and Heydrich seem to be the most popular; in contrast to those Rommel fanboys, they like guys from the SS or Inner Circle,…

I mean, I think you proved your point (don’t sell yourself short now)—I simply agreed with your position. Happy trails all the same!

Labeling it a college party or throwback to college party at least gives the veil of trying to be fun and lighten the mood. I mean I still play Beirut with my friends and we are all way past college. Frat party isn’t the only way to include solo cups and beer pong. I just had a girls only trip and both of those things…

Making stuff up by ascribing motives to a group, yes. And yes, for a career that lasts 40+ years these people are still at the front-end of the pipe.

No thanks, you’re just making crap up now - because they “they get tired of the sexist culture”.

Indians don’t consider themselves “Asian”, BTW, so save it.

No thanks. You can keep your bitching, as you still fail to cite any sources.

The same tables show that 11-19% of the underrepresented minorities are getting degrees in engineering or computer science. Let’s say 30% total. 30% of the 5% is 1.5% so they’re actually ahead of the curve with 1.6%.

You don’t cite your numbers. The government’s numbers say 5% of working STEM people nationally are black. How that is broken down by discipline isn’t stated, and you don’t state it either. I also don’t know where Twitter is located, and what the demographics are at those locations. I have no problem with Twitter’s…

What “math”? Why is it usually those not in STEM who whine about STEM percentages? I pretty much doubt that Kenny is or he’d know exactly why the percentages are so low. It’s no big mystery to anyone that is.

Yeah, a “college” theme would have been the best way to go. I feel like all the “desirable” themes and tropes that they’re going for (red solo cups, beer pong, Pabst, a keg you pump yourself) were present at nearly every party I attended in college, and I went to maybe like one frat party for as long as I was there.

But it’s not a frat. There’s no official “boys only” policy, they’re just going to play beer pong and jug beer. And probably not going to engage in any of the behaviors that make frats dangerous: racist chanting and theme parties, and rape. Would it have been better as a “Greek”-style party (i.e., inhrenetly inclusive…