I understand you being appalled. I’m not sure how anyone under any circumstances would think it’s okay to get naked in public in Malaysia. I live here and there’s a police lady in the local park who polices it and makes sure couples aren’t holding hands or kissing. She will blow a whistle at you, and if you don’t…

I’m sorry, but is public nudity legal in the US? How is expecting tourists to obey public obscenity laws appeasing a “foreign ridiculous religion”?

I agree. Americans (at least in the many tourist destinations I’ve lived in) are, for the most part, very respectful. I think we’re all fed up with the stereotype and go out of our way to be polite now. Where I live now, it’s other nationalities being disrespectful as tourists.

No, the local authorities said that the local tribes believed the disrespect shown by the tourists caused the earthquake. The local authorities locked them up for public indecency - as they should have. The punishment for what they did wasn’t bad. They spent a few days in jail and paid a fine, around $1000. Try that…

When my grandfather died, the funeral was a really hard day for everyone, but something funny happened on the way there - I can’t remember what it was - but we had a laugh, because it was such a relief to laugh again. My grandmother appreciated that after losing her husband of 75 years and having one of the worst days…

What I got from the Queen of Versailles is that the woman is bat shit crazy, but she does love her kids and seems to be a caring person. I think this is just her personal way of grieving, however strange it may be. I doubt she’s in a good state and she’s only taking selfies as a coping mechanism, so she doesn’t…

Same here. My mom is the one who got me into gangster films.

That guy is truly the one who doesn’t get it. Scorcese isn’t trying to idolise the scumbags in his films, and if guys think the wise guys in his films are heroes, they don’t get it, either. You can be entertained by the criminals and mobsters, who steal, cheat, and casually murder, but not see them as heroes. I…

I re-watched Casino the other day and think she was in that, too.

Fuck that guy.

I went to a wedding with a cheese cake - blocks of cheese stacked up and decorated with flowers. They had cheese plates and tiny desserts rather than cake, which I thought was even better. Wedding cake rarely tastes as good and fresh as you’d hope.

Definitely anti-choice. There’s no other word for what they are. They want to dictate what everyone else is doing, giving them no choice in their own lives.

I totally understand tattoo artists refusing to do certain tattoos, but this guy sounds like a dick. He could have refused in a slightly less douchey way.

Maybe because you’ve been going to adoption support groups and sites for people who had traumatic experiences? I know several adopted people and not a single one wishes they had been aborted. What a terrible feeling to have about yourself.

I feel like Kaitlyn is just there because she was thinking, “Ehhh, why not?”

That’s why I’ve made it clear to my husband that if we ever move back to the US, he better get assigned somewhere that has an international school with absolutely no religious bias, because there’s no way my kids will go to public schools in America. I did and I’m okay, but I was told quite a lot of bullshit during…

Yeah, sorry, I saw that you commented about it later down the thread.

Holy shit... $15-20K??? And I’d bet that doesn’t even include the epidural!

That’s not true. We’re UK citizens living abroad and we would only be treated for free in the UK. My daughter is also a Canadian citizen, and the same is true for her. We have to hold health insurance to be treated in our country of residence and our governments would not foot the bill for our care, even if we were…

You can’t even start to compare EasyJet to any American airlines, because the equivalent doesn’t exist. The US doesn’t have super budget carriers that do the equivalent of getting you from a remote London airport to anywhere in Europe for 10 quid on what is essentially a flying, dirty drunken party bus.