Years ago, I went on an OK Cupid date with this guy; he said he was getting a Masters in Chinese literature at Harvard. He was short, thin, and pretty geeky looking in an endearing way - not usually my type but I’d just gotten out of a 5 year long relationship and he seemed nice so I agreed to meet him for dinner. He…

It’s sounds a lot like northern Canada. Black mold, TB and all.

part of what freaks me out about this story (and did when i was dealing with TB treatment myself) is that it’s so hard to treat active TB correctly even for a diligent person in comfortable circumstances — i had to take four medications every day for like nine months, couldn’t drink, had to go for tests all the time,…

There was also Girlhood which was on every film critic and their mum’s end of the year lists yet didn’t get a look in, although that might be part of the wider Oscar issue of how the “foreign language” nominations work.

The Oscar voters aren’t the only problem, though I do agree there were many great performances by POC this year that should have been recognised. But there are bigger problems - you can’t get nominated if you don’t get cast in the first place. These nominations are a symptom of the lack of opportunities for POC in all…

Like the bit wherein Chris described his neighbourhood being composed of mediocre rich white people and him, an extraordinarily successful black person, maybe he’ll even actually be listened to by the old white fucks at the Academy who decide these things.

When you litterally have nothing to compare it to on the shelves of most grocery/conveniece stores it soon becomes universally accepted.

It was, and is, made for the American working class.

The thing is, Hershey’s chocolate is wicked cheap/bad and everyone but the most clueless of Americans knows it. It sucks, we know. It’s basically made to be given away to people you’ll never see again (or really young children who don’t care). Anyone (even American) over the age of 15 who’s really interested in a good…

It’s because Hershey’s is so omnipresent in the US that it’s what most people grow up with. Hence, most Americans think that Hershey’s is good chocolate when in fact it has very little cacao in it and is really more candy than chocolate.

Well, Hershey’s may be an iconic US brand, but Hershey’s bars are basically like chocolate-flavored crayons. I don’t know anyone who goes out of their way to buy Hershey’s chocolate bars.

Because when you just want a cheap sweet piece of sugar and brown shit to shut up your screeching hellspawn you just do not give a solitary fuck. We have no grand tradition of Swiss chocolatiers or what the fuck ever you have going on in Europe. But, as others have mentioned in this thread, there are good,…

Only people who don’t know any better eat Hershey’s (or who are having a chocolate emergency.....don’t judge me!!)

This is going to sound very condescending, but people mostly just don’t know any better. Hershey’s is ubiquitous here, it’s what they ate as a kid, that’s what they think chocolate should taste like. I know a fair few Americans who have tried British and Swiss chocolate, and only one of them still prefers Hershey’s,…

I call it vomit chocolate. It literally tastes like vomit...

When I think about it logically, especially since I grew up in Ohio, the history of a lot of food business in the United States created a ‘race to the bottom’ as it were concerning amortization. The first colonizers being both puritan and having almost not survived those first winters created an environment where…

Because it is just about the cheapest chocolate bar you can buy. It’s about a buck to a buck fifty for a bar. Now if you want to go for the better stuff, you are going to be paying at least four dollars for a smaller bar to ten dollars or more for a high end one. Most people don’t care and just want something sweet.…

Why not try some various play-along-at-home workout vids on YouTube? I bet someone here can recommend a series of cardio / yoga / whatever — find something you like, then maybe sign up for a “real” class?