I meant "punishment" generally in the sense of suppressing works, creating penalties for types of protected speech, attempting to kill free speech through punitive measures, etc, which is indeed the legal definition of censorship in the US*. Either way, a private business cannot censor anyone, as they are not the…

Censorship specifically references the government punishing a person for protected free speech. A private business is more than able to choose who is and is not allowed to use their platform to sell things. If Etsy thinks that sell racist merchandise reflects poorly on their business, then they have the right to…

Naw, I'm sure the faculty are the worst. We're located in the administrative building though, so I don't see many of them.

I recognize this woman, and she's not British, she's just nuts.

I have Celiac disease, and this was told to my by my gastroenterologist. As I said, different people have different degrees of sensitivity. Different people also have different degrees of how much risk they are willing to put up with. Eating at a place with some cross-contamination once a week or once in awhile (not…

I suppose so, but if there's one thing this series should have taught us, its that people really like making things as difficult as possible.

No, this was during new student orientation, so I'm fairly sure she was a parent.

I work in a university cafeteria (mostly for employees/the public, not like a student-only one) where we have several stations—Deli, Asian, etc—which you think would be a fairly recognizable concept for most Americans. Each station has a huge, idiot-proof sign over it.

I always err on the side of more clarification rather than less. For instance, I once had a customer who got upset because I understood "chicken vegetable stir-fry" to mean "stir fry with vegetables and chicken in it" rather than "vegetarian stir fry made with the ingredients that go into the chicken stir fry" which…

Well, that's my point. Ten, even five, years ago you would never see such a thing as a GF menu. Even Dominos offers GF pizza now.

I dunno. It's a heck of a lot easier to find a restaurant that serves GF pasta these days. I'd rather be able to eat at a place but have the waiter think I'm a jerk than the other way around.

I don't think anyone has said that heterosexuality is purely socialized while homosexuality is purely hardwired. Likely (and there is plenty of evidence for this, but no definitive central cause for attraction) both are the products of a mixture of environment and genetics. No one is claiming that heterosexuality is…

"You're from Maine"

Yeah, I got the sarcasm, it just didn't seem to have a point to it.

What? No, a state college, not an online one, if that's what you're asking.

As a person with Celiac, I LOVE the fad dieters. Do you have any idea how difficult and expensive it was to find gluten-free food before?

Either actually flag them down, or ask another passing server/host if they could tell your server to come over.

That's not entirely true. There has been more than one study on gluten intolerance, and many of them conflict. Also, there are plenty of people who probably have Celiac but instead are diagnosed as "gluten intolerant" because a true Celiac diagnosis requires three markers (blood markers, inflammation in the small…

I don't know where you live, but I get lots of blank stares when I say "celiac disease" and I live in a university town.

I have Celiac's, but I tell people that I have a "gluten allergy" or "am allergic to wheat, rye, and barley" because most laypeople don't truly know what gluten/celiacs is, or are far more likely to take "allergy" seriously than "autoimmune disease."