I would just like to thank you for standing behind your employees. I hated a lot of things about working retail, but the thing that probably made me the most angry was when I (the cashier) would say that I couldn't do something for a customer because of our store policy, the customer would demand to speak to my…

Haha, oh man. Those few minutes where they refuse to believe you really are the best. This woman had the same issue as your guy, since she'd played French cds on her US cd player and vice versa, and DVDs and CDs are both discs and should therefore work in exactly the same fashion! Oh people.

Exxxactly. I mentioned this in another thread, but I once had a woman who bought DVDs from a French branch of the store where I worked try to return them in a US branch (because her French DVDs wouldn't play in her US DVD player, unsurprisingly). I told her I couldn't take them back, even with the receipt, because she…

I used to work at a music/dvd store that had branches in multiple countries. A woman came in with a stack of about a dozen DVDs that she bought in one of the French stores, because she lives half the year in the US and half in France and wanted to bring her nieces some actual French kids movies. Even though she was…

Came to post this same thing! And "I totally paused" was a different take, too. I had no idea just how well I knew this movie until right this minute.

Yeah, framing can be super expensive. Luckily, because I had gotten all my maps for free, I just got frames I liked from Ikea and then cut the maps to fit. If they were rare or antiques (which is what I'd like to get some day), I would have to suck it up and pay to get them framed. A girl can dream.

The amusing thing about this is that my maps were out of issues of National Geographic and Scientific American, and my "real art" was stuff that I had painted. So I was snooty and pretentious, but in the cheapest, most college way possible. And it continues to this day. I found a reprint of an old NYC subway map for…

What if you were snooty and pretentious and thought that posters were for idiot college students? Only old maps and real art are acceptable in a grownup's apartment, god.

Totally. And for someone who claimed to "hate the media," she sure courted the hell out of it.

I can't believe that NO ONE in his team knew what it was. I can understand some people not knowing what it is, but everybody?

I was NYU '06 and, while I knew what Take Back the Night was, I don't remember NYU ever having any events for it. (Which is part of why I was in the everyone-knows-what-that-is camp. "My school didn't even do it, and I knew what it was!" etc. Looks like I was in the wrong camp.)

Yeah, no duh. Maybe I didn't tell the story very well because I was agreeing with you and acknowledging its perfectly acceptable use in other cultures. As a German, he recognized it as a swastika (even though, as you pointed out, they are different symbols that look very similar), and even though he knew it WASN'T a…

Here's a fun story: I have a friend who is from Germany (born and raised, living in LA now because he's super a handsome actor) and went to Thailand on vacation last year. He posted a picture on Facebook of his hotel room, including the couch with the swastika pillows. He knew the pre-Nazi history of the symbol so he…

I get super red after the smallest amount of exercise, it's so annoying! The first time I came home from a run when I lived with my old flatmate, she asked me repeatedly if I was okay because I was SO red and it takes so long for me to go back to a normal color. She was really concerned for like half an hour, haha.

I had NO IDEA this was a real thing, I just thought it was an unfortunate quality of mine. I don't have face blindness per se, but I struggle to recognize people all the time (plus I'm on the autism spectrum, and these things can sometimes be related). I have a weird combination of not recognizing people I've met…

I pretty much hated it. I love so many of the actors in that movie, but I just thought it was terrible. Although I hated Bridesmaids, too, so maybe lady-comedies-about-weddings just really aren't my thing.

I moved away at 18 for college and never looked back! I've got a really supportive family with no real problems, but I'm super introverted so I rather like being in a place where I don't know anyone. Until recently I haven't lived closer than a 2 hour flight (it was much, much longer than that when I lived abroad),…

It depends where you want to go. England and Australia are almost impossible to get general work visas for, even if you're American. But I've got friends in Germany, South Korea and Japan who all received work visas with virtually no questions asked. Each country is different! Immigration laws are all special…

I lived in London for a few years, and it's my favorite place in the whole world! After living in NYC for 8 years I had gotten so sick of it, so I applied to grad school in England and went. It is not an exaggeration to say that I would give any and everything I have to be able to live there again; my years in London…

Every time I hear about that case I am horrified and disgusted all over again.