Back when I lived in the USA, I worked in finance for 2 1/2 years.

So for 2 1/2 years I pretended to be someone who gave a shit about finance.

Wrong! Working class schmoes can always go to “Oxbridge”.

No. Brussels sprouts taste the way farts smell. I don’t mean they smell that way. They TASTE that way, even when you cook them fancily or in a new way with delicious flavorings. Their base taste is “fart”.

I have no opinion on the Abbey Road thing, except that it would be more polite to try to get it at light traffic times (I don’t really need or particularly want my picture on Abbey Road so no, not everyone wants one).

Or rather than tolerating crappy behavior people could work to put together some sort of informational campaign on how not to be a dick when visiting someone else’s city/town/place. I’m thinking brochures (in a friendlier tone than I am inclined to write) in hotel rooms and at museums and other sites or something.

To some extent you have to suck it up, but c’mon, the folks who don’t understand why stopping and standing in front of an escalator or turnstile is a bad idea (or who have their whole group meet up right in front of the turnstiles)? They could learn some basic manners for living in an urban environment.

I don’t disagree with you that it’s litter (and it’s silly and destructive) but...cmon, animals aren’t stupid. Well, some art, but most can tell metal from food.

I don’t sew :(

I asked my grandma how women then got their hair so...coiffed. Because it’s really hard to do that to one’s own hair especially if one is not a professional.

Her answer? Some women could do it themselves, but most went to the salon once a week to get their hair “set” in a certain style and kept it perky in curlers…

Yeah if you’re over a size maybe 8 or so, you can forget the thrift store for these.

I actually don’t think so...it may be taro, but doesn’t taro turn a uniform lavender-lilac purple when cooked? I always thought it was a turnip-like root. Looked up common tempura vegetables and I am fairly sure it’s burdock.

ETA: I think I’m wrong. They seem to julienne the burdock up into string fry-like shapes to…

Burdock roots! (I think)

Pretty sure the white and purple ones are burdock roots.

Also, what about lotus root, pumpkin and other squashes?

My guess? They’ll do away with the “pale mare” and it’ll be greyscale instead.

My experience: when a man in my field (I’m an ESL teacher to adults) expresses confidence in his work, he’s taken at his word that there’s something to be confident about, even if he’s not that great. If I express confidence in my work, people who don’t even really know me or my work immediately assume I’m…

I see why some people feel that way or think of it that way. Doesn’t work for me though - helping someone else earn money is not the same as earning it myself, and doesn’t carry the same cachet if I were in that situation and then needed to earn my own money.

Well, you are against giving women the choice to remain pregnant or not, to carry a fetus to term or not. You oppose women having that choice. So, in a way, you are anti-choice.

I know, I know, you’ll come back with “because we believe that fetus is a life and so killing it is no better than murder, and nobody has the…

I think usually it is better if the state makes certain decisions for children, mostly regarding health care, the right not to be abused, and education. The state is ostensibly secular so if intelligent design were taught, there is recourse in the courts for that.

But anyway, all parents, liberal conservative or…

One example about chores - which, you don’t know if the kids were well aware that there would be trouble if they expressed a preference for the chores thought of as the purview of the other gender, and so expressed a desire for the ones they normally do because any other answer would set off fireworks - doesn’t mean…