yay! i'll happily go back to being ignored in the greys if it means no more terrible gifs everywhere :D

Yes, this is not uncommon in tourist areas, especially hotels. Typically, hotels will only let certain companies pick up fairs from their lobby. In return the taxi company can bill the hotel directly of the fair and will pay a small commission to the hotel concierge. Consequently, drivers are more than willing to…

First off, this is absolutely horrid. Secondly, if you murdered your mother and put her in a suitcase, would you not attempt to flee...I don't know, say out of the country and not 6 miles away to have a siesta? Put in a little effort, guys.

David Simon, the creator of The Wire, often talks about how there are really two Americas—one economically viable and mostly white, the other economically hopeless and mostly black. In my experience, no place embodies this division more than St. Louis, where I've lived the past few years. You can drive north from a…

Excellent piece Greg...wow.

Don't call her a cunt. She lacks the depth and charm.

You know what I think? I think anyone who's never stood and stared suicide in the face should shut the fuck up. I think anyone who hasn't cried themselves to sleep and wake in the morning only to find fresh tears are already falling should sit the fuck down. I think anyone who doesn't understand what it's like to be…

This is one of the worst things I've ever seen.

In this case it was (correctly) labeled suicide because he had been struggling with deep depression, was fully dressed, and had superficial cuts on his wrist (from a bloody knife found nearby).

I wonder if this will lead to the "colorblind" bullcrap that we see in the US. 'Cause that's a problem, too. Like, "Oh, I don't see you as Black*, I see you as a human!"

I think you are confusing "race" with "species".

It's not that I don't agree with these arguments. It's that they don't address the extant and real effects of racism—eliminating the word doesn't automatically eliminate the value that the word represented. Though those concepts are great in theory, if you don't consider how institutions have been warped based on…

I don't disagree with your point but at least in NYC if you are say, Trinidadian American or Jamaican American... or Nigerian American or Ghanian American... those mean different things than African American. African American is reserved for all of decendents of the US slave trade whose histories have been erased - …

I have no problem with classifying people by their ethnicity (in the US, I'm forced into the label African American while in the UK, I can classify myself as Afro-Caribbean... what I actually am) but eliminating the word will... I dunno... do nothing?

This will not end well. See: France.

Shut the fuck up.

Right now I've been watching both sides of the pseudo-intellectual "war" between feminists and anti-feminists/MRAs, and it's quite the shitshow. While the latter group loves to level the idea that all feminists are professional victims, I've honestly never seen a group play the victim more pathetically than the…

omg, hyperbole! won't someone think of the literalists?!

I've literally never worn socks going through security, because socks are for control freaks. Considering I've never picked up a fungus, I must assume airports (gasp!) wash their floors at regular intervals.

You don't usually wear socks with heels.