Though Byron probably counted as some sort of plague, not quite. They were hiding out from a combination of climate abnormalities (“The year without a summer”), scandalous rumors re: Byron separating from his wife and possibly getting it on with his half-sister, and the sort of “boredom” to which only the stupidly…

Commies, socialists, Frenchie metric system atheists, all the same!

Every time one of these articles come I say the same thing: individual Catholic dioceses, found guilty of negligence that facilitated abuse, declared bankruptcy rather than coughing up money for abuse victims so they could have silly things like therapy. The drastic decision to declare bankruptcy isn’t made in a…

There are legitimate reasons for these rules, you know. What if some harlot were to show her ankle? Have you considered the ramifications??

Yup. My private Seventh-Day Adventist boarding high school did exactly the same, except for they allowed movies instead of singing at us. The school officials had a huge wig-out at the same sex hand-holding at the end of Ladyhawk, but finally allowed the movie to be shown.

First, I will need you to fuck right off with your “I will need you to send me a picture” and “once I approve... you may purchase it.” horseshit.  You are a principle who should be aware that the only thing students “need” from you is an education. Second, many families cannot afford to “purchase” a prom dress let…

I would have asked him why he was looking so closely at what teenage girls are wearing, that disgusting asshole.

I had to do this at my private evangelical-Christian school. A lot of us had to have our dresses altered with fabric inserts to cover up cleavage or low backs. And we couldn’t submit photos, we had to bring our dresses to school, try them on in the women’s bathroom, then the principal or the highest-ranking woman…

I almost got into a fight over this at the tailors. Some douchebag in front of me was staff at a local boarding school and was going on about how the girls at his school needed to bring in their dresses to be approved becasue you just wouldn’t believe what young girls concinder okay to wear.....He took a breath to…

What an incredibly invasive and creepy thing to ask. Also creepy-the principal claims there were “parents who are proud of the school for taking a stand to ensure prom is an encouraging, wholesome event.” aka parents who were totally fine with their girls being treated like objects that needed monitoring. 

Well, that’s what we have socks for.

Thank you for saying this. I didn’t think it was worth wasting my breath. I hope they never travel to Asia. We don’t need any more “ugly American” behavior. 

This is a bad take and you should feel bad. 

i have Japanese ancestry, so i have no issue taking off shoes at someone’s house and going stocking-feet or barefoot. but i’m surprised nobody has balked at this idea simply from a “wearing someone else’s shoes that X-number of other people have worn” issue. i probably wouldn’t care, but i know some people who are…

Not all Americans. We Alaskans do it the same way, and so do Hawai’ians.

I think this is because you live in a snowy wasteland.

“The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve or to think. The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. All these and security were…

I would never buy a pair of house shoes, but that’s because my mummo makes tossut at such a rate that I will never need a different kind of house slipper. These are an example of tossut (am working from home today, mine are orange but otherwise similar). I have been led to believe they are common for Finns but that…

I am less of a tyrant about it than the other person I live with, who will trail after a guest saying “Shoes off... shoes off...” until they hear her. 

I have the same problem. We don’t wear shoes indoors in our house, and I have no problem taking my shoes off in someone else’s house, but I feel weird about asking people to take off their shoes in my house.