That looks pretty normal for bread products in Asia, where it is quite popular to bake bread with added ingredients like black sesame. The point is supposed to be the taste, not the color (it wasn’t made with black sesame purely to dye it as the article implies). It even says something like “full of flavor” or “the…

...and that would be fine for that situation.

IF YOU PAID THEM for the time they were expected to keep free for you, or some portion of it.

If you don’t, I don’t give a damn about your staffing issues, you are part of the problem. If you do, good for you, you’re a decent person.

I trust Mike Huckabee not to be racist like I trust Republicans with my uterus.

Yep. I mean more like linguists know about this phenomenon, but it doesn’t take a linguist to tell a non-native speaker from a native one. Not even that native speakers are always better - on IELTS (the world’s most well-known proficiency test of English) a native speaker may not get a perfect score but a non-native…

Yup. It’s called “native-like” speech, and there are known markers but generally you know it when you see it. We call it “native like” to take away the stigma of implying it’s the only acceptable, correct or proper way to write/speak. It’s not. It’s a variety of markers that point to something having been uttered or…

Yeah using onomatopoeia to describe food is seriously weird. For sounds, yes. For certain actions, sure. But for food? “I’d like a glorp of boom-boom on the side please”? Or whatever? Weird.

“ If you don’t succeed in business, you shouldn’t be the first one to step up and complain about getting paid.”

Yeah no, the staff didn’t fail, Carly. YOU did. YOU don’t get paid. They do. They just did their jobs. Last time I checked people get paid for doing their jobs.

I hope so too but I’m still waiting for it to include women. So...

Not every violation of the rules merits such a harsh punishment. Sure, kelly green isn’t dark green, but suspending someone over the color of their shirt, causing them to miss out on learning, is massive overkill.

Poor Lane, why does she get a tiny precious stone chunk while everyone else gets huge ones?

I was shocked in a good way about how cool people were about our choices. My engagement ring cost under $1000 and was a 24-karat gold ring with curliecues and a dragon (YES A DRAGON) from a Hong Kong jeweler (we live in Taiwan so this is not so odd). Nobody - really nobody - batted an eye. Nobody judged it, nobody…

Hilarious: I live abroad, and as a permanent resident of the country where I live (Taiwan), I don’t have to show my passport to enter. Just my PR card. Yes, that’s right, I can fly halfway around the world to a small island nation on the Pacific Rim that I am not a citizen of and I DO NOT HAVE TO SHOW MY PASSPORT. I…

“Groomers”? I really hope you mean like dog groomers and not like pedophiles who groom kids.

There was totally a movie from Sri Lanka with a fairly similar, though not exactly the same, premise. A trans man who hadn’t gotten an operation (a bit harder to do in Sri Lanka I would guess) was working in an auto garage, hiding the fact that he was anatomically female, and was married to a woman who seemed to have…

For me I always hoped it could be more equal, and did prefer that, but at times when I was particularly broke kinda hoped I wouldn’t have to chip in because honestly, I just couldn’t afford it. It wasn’t a gender thing...it was an “I wanna go out with you but I am seriously living on carrots and lentils” thing. I sold…

I like this idea, except it kinda sorta makes it hard for broke people to ever ask anyone out. If you can’t pay for the whole date, you just can’t ask, and you could miss out some great dates. (Some people feel awkward asking someone out for a cheap or free date).

“In the end, when you add up the blowout, the manicure, the wax, the new dress, and the lipstick, you might as well have paid for a five-course meal.”

- - this is pretty fair if you actually do all of those things. When I was dating, however, I would happily go out on dates wearing no makeup whatsoever, brushing but…

No, I had always tried as well. I actually preferred it - it showed true egalitarianism. But nobody ever let me!

...and if there is no bus?

You have a bus. Great. Not everyone does.