I never met my great grandmother but I understand she could be quite a snob. She was from a wealthy family and was NOT happy to immigrate to Canada when her husband had a major financial setback. Her stubborn refusal to adjust to her new life meant my grandmother refused to teach my Dad and Aunts Norwegian so she…

That's pretty common. When I first started Japanese I'd stick the odd French word in, especially "avec" since it was hard to find the correct way to say with in Japanese especially at first. it would be all pera pera pera avec pera pera. :) I'm starting German in the spring so it will be interesting to see how that…

You too? I had taken three years of Japanese before I went to Taiwan with Rotary. It was embarrassing how often I would start sentences in Mandarin and finish them in Japanese. I finally decided to just stick with the Japanese.

"Children as young as 9 have been charged as adults."

Most births are low risk but that doesn't mean women labour at home unassisted for them. My aunt is a doctor (not a specialist in OBGYN though) and has spent her career working with low risk births. She works in a low risk obstetrics clinic and her patients still give birth at the hospital. This isn't like how thing…

I know right? I kind of want to post this video to my uncle's wall, since for years he would ask me if i'd gotten over my not eating beef thing. I recently celebrated a birthday that coincides with having committed to that decision for half of my life. Let's see how well he deals with a snuggling cow. :)

I bet he was lame. To this day, if someone tells me they were a DIK no matter where they went I always am on my guard around them. It's absolutely a red flag for me. I had a good friend in a sorority, and I heard more rape/attempted sexual assault survivour stories from them than I did as a member of the residence…

There is a rape frat at the U of A. They keep getting kicked out of the university but their house is their own and even when they are not affiliated with the university they still run, which is really unfortunate. I went to one of their parties once as a "safety in numbers" backup for some exchange student friends…

perhaps a NSFW note might not go amiss..... :)

Unfortunately, the Nobel prizes cannot be awarded posthumously. Only in the case of the the person dying between the announcement and the ceremony is it possible. (or as I recall, if the committee didn't hear about the death before the announcement.)

Perhaps it's because I just finished watching the newest episode of Sailor Moon Crystal, but I first read his name as "Prince Rubeus." So I guess he chalks up villain status in two massive fandoms!

It was a great place to live, and yes, Bernie Sanders does travel for various town halls so although I was only there for 2 years I did meet him in my town. :) it was about Single payer healthcare.

Yes they would have been anonymous but it would have been administered in class. My programming was aimed a smaller demographic, not an entire campus since my programming was aimed at meeting the unique needs and circumstances of my demographic. I was looking at a sample size of 700-800 students maximum. I was also…

How the hell did this get past an ethics board?? I wanted to do a questionnaire with students testing the effectiveness of my sexual assault mitigation programming, but my ethics board rightfully refused that piece since there was no way for a student to answer the question without thinking about their sexual history…

Let me tell you the story of the time I was plucked off the street and introduced a Nobel Laureate.

This exactly. If there are graduate students there is absolutely no possibility of it being a college in the Canadian context.

Tim Hortons isn't the same as when they baked the doughnuts fresh in store but you honestly think it's worse than DD?!! Has the overexposure to high fructose corn syrup completely addled your collective brains and/or tastebuds south of the border?

I'm trying to be very careful about not spoiling anything beyond mild expectation spoilers, so all I'll say is we will see more of Geillis and the accent isn't a poor casting decision.

Did you live near the cost by any chance? I live in the prairies and the verse as I learnt it goes like this: "Down in the meadow, eating buttercups, hush-a hush-a, we all jump up!"

Oh, the oil thing burns my cookies too. In my case I have a shellfish allergy and I had to give up eating veggie tempura and so many other fried foods since the moment a tempura shrimp or whatever goes into the oil it's cross contamination city.