A better choice would have been someone with either a degree in Education with a concentration in Math or someone who majored in Math in college and then got a teaching license/MEd. Knowing how to teach is half the battle (of course you also have to know the subject matter, but...)

There is a very real problem of native speakerism in the language teaching world, unfortunately. A lot of people assume that the only good language teachers are native speakers of that language, which is simply not the case.

This headline does not mean what it sounds like it means.

Which is kind of nuts, not everyone *can* get a job at their level of training. Sometimes they’re just mediocre or bad at what they do, sometimes the employment opportunities are simply not there. It’s not fair to ask a doctor to make doctor-level money when the hospital is not hiring and there are no other jobs in…

As a long time resident of Asia, I can confirm that this is 100% correct. Flying in Asia (and the Middle East) is awesome. Free booze, good airports with free wifi, the food isn’t terrible and the crews are nice.

Flying in the US sucks skanky AIDS balls. Sometimes you land from an international flight and there isn’t…

Lottery tickets seem like a dumb bet until you are in such a position that you’ll take any odds for a chance of getting out of where you’re stuck.

If you’re buying staples at a convenience store you may not have a car to get to the grocery store (or you have to choose between gas and food and you’re all out of both),…

“Japan, Korea, China and beyond” - so basically you list every country in East Asia *except* Taiwan? Or does Taiwan get subsumed into “beyond” because it doesn’t rate?

It clearly can’t be subsumed into China because it’s not a part of China.

So what gives?

Kinda sick of being ignored over here even though, like, half…

I dig Taiwan because we have the most robust social and youth activism in Asia and are one of the most progressive countries in Asia (I say we...I’m not Taiwanese, but if it were possible for me to get citizenship I’d stay and make it my permanent home. As Taiwan is moving away from the old ethnic nationalism model…

I’d say they could be, yes, but it’s not as much a thing anymore. Ever since Seoul has nearly supplanted Tokyo with being the fashion and fad capital of Asia (seriously Korean fashion is THE THING right now) they seem to not be bothered at all by enjoying Japanese cultural products (also while some deep-seated ethnic…

No, just China. Koreans consume Japanese media, Japanese don’t like to admit it but they consume Korean media, the Taiwanese are open to anything (they’re a former Japanese colony who *actually like the Japanese*) and Singapore doesn’t care as much as people think. It’s basically just the Chinese market.

Also, this is…

“If designers don’t like you because you’re not thin enough you should buy yourself a dress rather than complaining stylists don’t like you” is basically what that douchehat said.

Oh no, I think Margaery just bested her own tenacious grandma.

I’m 35 and I’ve gotten more liberal every year I’ve been alive.

“Some of those puppies are slightly burnt”

I have walked by that house (I used to live in DC). I have always had a boner for that house, and others in the neighborhood.

For the life of me I can’t understand why. They’re not particularly ugly, they’re not sexy, they’re not intimate, they’re not a reproductive part. What on earth is wrong with toes?

I wear sandals (the kind that buckle in leather or fake leather, not flip-flops or anything like that) at work all the time. I don’t work…

I don’t remember what the one in Volantis looked like, but I read in like three different places that it was supposed to be.

The priestess in the market in Volantis WAS Kinvara. Same priestess.

I know I’m in the minority opinion here but The Tree of Life was legitimately crap.

Yeah, but that dress in that photo is weird. I’m not trying to bodyshame her or tell her she can’t wear it or say it’s her fault in any way other than maybe choosing it (and she does have the body for it, whatever “it” is with that weird coral Red Cross thing it’s got going on) but that dress is U.G.L.Y it ain’t got…