I like it not because it was a good movie but because it was the *IT* movie for girls my age when it came out, and so I have a lot of good social and life memories associated with it.

I love this and would buy it with faux fur (not real fur obviously)

I like the boots. Only the boots.

is it so bad that I kind of like this?

“i eat children, also, i’m a robot”

also WTF, I wasn’t in the greys before but now I am? What on earth did I deserve to get that?

I thought potato chips and sour cream & onion dip.

I feel like this isn’t good enough to submit by email, so I’m commenting with it here only. Re McDonald’s, expats in Asia know that in certain Asian countries (India, China yes; Japan, Taiwan no) you bargain for just about everything.

Note the “just about”. You can usually get cheaper hotel rooms, goods in markets and…

It definitely is a bao bun - it even says “steamed” in chinese and is shown in a little cartoon bamboo steamer.

I really do want gua bao now.

Yep! It looks like a Westernized gua bao. There’s a store in Taipei that makes something similar, like fried chicken gua bao with Western toppings, or a mix of toppings. Not surprising - the guy who made baos famous in the US is Taiwanese.

My guess is someone in a corporate office decided “Chinese-Western Fusion Burger” didn’t sound as good so they decided to change the English. I don’t know why they didn’t go with “East-West Fusion Burger” (the closest idiomatic translation) because it’s fine in English, but in Chinese if you write that literally it…

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.