So that was you in line in front of me in Barcelona in October! *waves*

Dear lord. Do they not care about public perception? Or is making these cases go away the Baylor definition of a good public image?

It’s like Baylor admins figured out they’re not going to be punished to the extent everyone knows they should, so they’re taking full advantage by being as awful as possible.

I think I’ll start by skipping my daily three beers two days a week, being careful not to replace the saved calories with something else. If I survive that, I’ll cut a bit deeper.

“the Warrant is coming out of my balls.”

This was my experience as well. People were miffed at the idea of us not registering, the really didn’t want to have to spend the time and energy thinking of a gift, but wanted to send one. We were both 29 when we got married, but we still use the gifts today. Dishes, towels, sheets. Etc. I did replace crappy college…

Yes--I agree with you. Aunts, great-aunts, friends-of-my-parents--they all bugged my mom who in turn bugged me to set up a registry. It was also handy because we got married in a state that we don’t live in, so many gifts were sent directly to our home and we did not have to transport them.

I’m telling you, though, that wedding registries exist for one reason: relatives.

To me that seems like the best kind of gift to give someone on their wedding day? We’re all adults, we can buy our own stuff. What’s nicer than giving someone a great holiday?

We aren’t having an actual wedding, just an elopement now and a party a few months down the road after we’re settled into our new house. SOOOOO we went the TRULY tacky route of setting up a Honeyfund. Fight me. I don’t give a shit.

Ban the wedding registry. Seriously. With the average age of people getting married slowly getting higher and higher and a majority of women (because that’s who the registry was originally for) have already lived on their own for a number of years anyway, wedding gifts and registries are a fucking joke for all the…

THANK YOU!!!

Well-meaning marketing gimmicks are still marketing gimmicks.

Is it me or do these labels pretty much tell you nothing?

Also, please keep in mind that our understanding of how nutrition works in the body and how it results in long term health is pretty dismal. Take, for example, the demonization of eggs, then the praise of egg whites, then the demonization of eggs, then the praise of whole eggs. Nutrition, unfortunately, is subject to…

professors was a native of Beijing, but she could barely understand the local dialects in some of the more distant provinces we visited.

I dunno, I used to be quite entertained by listening to a couple fellow co-workers, one from Guatemala and the other from Puerto Rico try to hold a conversation. they told me that Spanish isn’t always the same, either, depending on where you’re from. Something I never really thought about.

Hmm I dunno about that. I’m a native German speaker, and outside of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, there aren’t that many places I can just speak German and expect people to understand me. Luxembourg (but who wants to go there, it’s boring), Netherlands, parts of Turkey and Hungary, and I’ve met quite a few people…

There’s a pretty rational economic reason why Americans tend to be reluctant to learn a second language. If you don’t already speak English, learning English as a second language tend to be large income premiums—good English skills is often a prerequisite for reaching higher earnings jobs in companies in many…

“What are the most useful languages for English speakers to learn?” “The first- and second-most commonly spoken languages.”