Hell try not to fly them domestically. (I realize you can only fly American carriers domestically - for me this means when I’m in the USA I travel less).

This list is not full of Asian airlines just because of MERS. Asian transport infrastructure (in developed Asian countries anyway) is cleaner overall than in the West and has been for some time. In Taiwan (where EVA Air is based), they hire people to stand at the bottom of escalators with wet cloths (I think wet with…

I just hate the way that not vaccinating is compared to “personal choice”. It would be, if you were doing it to yourself. But you’re not. You’re doing it to your kid. Your kid doesn’t get a say in your anti-science bullshit...but by definition you’re not acting out of personal choice if you are forcing it on another…

Bless his heart.

The tangential thing in this that made my eyebrows shoot up is “beautiful woman from an elite family”. Why should either of those things matter at all regarding how much one’s heart should break for her? She could be poor and ugly and it still would be terrible to be married to a guy like that.

First, no. You can’t justify “you should have expected this” with “it’s OK to treat people in a country illegally this way” and “it’s OK not to pay not only a living wage but no wage at all because it’s ‘competitive’ (bullshit) in that area”.

Hell, even if you know the language (let’s say you are a strong user, articulate with a strong understanding of the underlying systems at work in English usage) that’s no guarantee you can teach it. Plenty of people are experts at math or chemistry or whatever - actual mathematicians and chemists - who can’t teach…

Ooh me too except I was 19 and went to India, which made me REALLY an insufferable snob!

If you quit your job to travel for awhile you can defer them, because you’ll legitimately have no income.

Yeah...those people, whle I admire their gumption to go abroad and travel seriously, kind of give ESL as a profession a bad name. They usually have no training and think any native speaker can teach English, which is demonstrably not true. I’m not against the backpackers coming in and getting jobs in our profession -…

I’m kind of horrified that having a doctor’s note that one cannot physically wear heels is the focus of this whole thing.

I *can* wear heels. I’m perfectly able to, no specific health problems (well, I have plantar fasciitis, but technically if the heels have good arch support I can still wear them) that prohibit me…

And on an adjunct professor salary (I had read she was an adjunct), how does she afford it?

Can I just say I love the hair? And I’m as white as white can be (I could probably use correction fluid as a concealer) - is it even possible to, say, get the hair, but not dye it (well, I dye mine red, but I mean not like dye it to pretend to be another race) or pretend to be black or any other race, but just, like,…

Cultural capital honeymoon! Japan? Laos? Bhutan? India? Alaska? Turkey?

They are all terrible. Every single one of them. Cathay, Korean, ANA, EVA, JAL and Singapore are the best airlines and pretty much every airline in the USA sucks butt.

Well, I polished at Eton and summer* in Provence.

Just kidding you guys, I went to Lady Higginsbotham’s Ladies’ Finishing School for Ladies.

SUMMER IS A VERB

Yes, all true, but he could have been more professional about it - telling someone their idea is “tacky” is the height of unprofessionalism. A simple “I don’t do neck tattoos, I’m sorry” would have sufficed. He didn’t have to condescend to her with that stupid birthday cake analogy.

I think the author knows this...her main complaint is not that Dan won’t create art at her beck and call the way a server serves food, but that Dan was kind of a dick about it and was very unconvincing in his assertion he’d say what he said to a guy (just because someone questioned you, and you’re a guy, doesn’t mean…

I just realized you were probably reacting to my “which is already like ‘fuck you’”...not that the vodka was top-shelf, but that it was vodka. I’m not a purist, I don’t believe the only good martinis are pure gin or that they’re “shaken not stirred” or that they are made with the original recipe that included orange…

“He’s probably in his late teens now”

Unless someone’s killed him, he’s definitely in his late teens now, but I love the quiet hope in your wording.