Oh wow, I can believe that. I grew up with Lipton tea as well, till my pregnancy and resultant aversion to anything I put in my mouth... Now I stick to a nice chai, much less harsh in the mouth, if that makes sense.

A similar situation happened here in Australia. A woman in the hospital waiting room breastfeeding was asked by an apparently contract/volunteer worker (meaning minimal training) to move to a storerooom... a cupboard basically. The woman said she felt humiliated, and wasn't aware the person who asked her wasn't a…

Congrats on the sobriety! I'm 8 months sober (almost 9!), but still struggling, and I too like to remind people not to compliment or romanticize alcoholics as it gives us one more reason to hang on to the addiction.

Thank you for the support. I wanted people to be aware that sometimes fear for your own safety pre-empts swearing an oath in court, especially in a court system which would still be unlikely to help her if she told the truth.

Yeah, and it's making me a little uncomfortable at how they've sexualised the girls, especially Willow! Only because they've got baby faces and Giles is there and it's, well, weird.

The appeal for me has always been that it is a do-over, without any of the mundanity of day to day life, which often gives traditionally powerless people the chance to make their world and lives. An ordinary person becomes extraordinary by way of the removal of a vast majority of the competition, so to speak, and the…

I left my fathers house as a teen because he was abusive (not sexually) towards me. Despite that, he was still in my life, and I in his because I had younger siblings. I swore in court proceedings that he had never done more than 'smack me on the bottom or hand' for bad behaviour, during a custody hearing for another…

There was a girl in my year-group in middle school who would pay for her 'friends' shopping trips. It was the only way she could get people to hang out with her. When I found out, I felt so bad for her, so I thought I'd try getting to know her and maybe bring her into the friendship group so she wouldn't have to do…

Ah, ok. Australian. I suppose with our accent, we tend to prefer vowels to hard consonants, 'McD's' doesn't really 'flow' so to speak.

I feel there's a large portion of us who don't have regular circadian rhythms. I personally have a 26 hour cycle (approx.), which means not only do I have to adjust for that, but I have to adjust for switching between night and day shifts as well. Anomalous circadian rhythms would be just as useful to study to find…

Definitely change doctors. I've lost 25 kilos for still being investigated reasons, but the first doctor just shrugged and said "well, you're a healthy weight now, saves you dieting." Once I got a doctor that actually took me seriously when I explained that I still ate like when I was overweight, I just wasn't…

I forgot Americans don't shorten stuff. Maccas is McDonalds. Macca is a nickname for people called McDonald, so it's Macca's Restaurant, from McDonald's restaurant.

I could be completely wrong, but from memory, I think McDonalds made a lot of changes to its ingredients/cooking processes after supersize me. That could be why the calories no longer match. The bad press and regulations led to having to display calorie ratings, so they made changes to lower them eg. Changing type of…

Ok, this is the best place to ask a question I've had about Maccas for years; does Americas food standards mean you receive different (worse) quality McDonalds than say, Australia. Because everyone here treats Maccas as a 'sometimes' food, because fat, but the bread rolls, beef and veggies are all sourced and prepared…

I have my 'customer service' voice which is higher pitched than my usual voice, the same way I have my academic style of speaking and my casual style. I learnt that you appear happier when you have a higher voice, so customers view you more positively. If you can't muster up a bright smile, a higher voice conveys the…

You guys really need a system more similar to Australia (I say as an Aussie) While we have two main parties, we also have independents, and smaller (usually more extreme left and right) parties. For the last few governments on both sides, The winning Party has had to form a government (Upper house, our version of the…

I'm so sorry that you've lost so many people. I've lost friends and associates to drug and alcohol related deaths, (I'm 7 years clean!) and I too try and make sure everyone knows I cherish them all the time. Being left wondering whether an argument or stupid comment was the last thing they thought of and if it…

I don't know unfortunately; i also don't know what happens if you ask them a paradoxical question. If you smooth out your flaws, feel free to let me know :)

My Grandpa lived in a vegetative state for five years, with my Grandma visiting him every day. She died suddenly of a heart attack. We told him, knowing he probably couldn't understand us, and thinking it was for the best. He died two weeks later, suddenly, from a heart attack (of which he'd never had before).
For my…

The reason those vaccines are given to younger teens, is because it is most effective when given to those who have not been exposed yet ie. non-sexual actors, children. To protect them in the future. Question all you like, but if you're not going to engage in logical thinking, or you're going to have a puritanical…