I know, I know, as I was writing it I cringed but it’s true. When I moved to Australia, I got pregnant and a new job, so I wrnt clothes shopping. The quality available for price was awful, beyond awful. If I paid 3x what I’d pay in the USA for, say, a knit top, the quality of the fabric was still about comparable with…

It’s subtler for women and expressed a bit differently. A little more privately perhaps, I could tell tales... “Wilding out” is a good term for it.

I wonder what the better word wound be, you’re right it isn’t exactly racism... Nationalist is the wrong word, continentist is not a word. Is xenophobic the right word there? Like, Europeans and Americans are sorta on the same team culturally, but not those other people from the other continent? Serious question...

I...don’t not know those things. I think knee jerk reactions to any culture is stupid unless there’s blood being shed. It’s reductive to all parties. The other thing is, in this particular case it’s changing...

Totally agree. There was one good change, no more debilitating period pain. I hadn't known childbirth can get rid of that but I'm grateful.

Melbourne is a special case in Australia, the people are known to be fancier and cooler and more tuned in there, and it’s a cache they cultivate. I love it but it’s far too expensive to move there. :-( Sydney has a bit of that and Canberra too but that’s about it. I also hear Perth is civilised but have yet to visit.

He always had a girl or two after him, he’s attractive but also has a certain sweet absentminded charm. But in Japan it’s like he’s David Cassidy circa whenever it was that David Cassidy was hot.

And I thank you for it, with zero sarcasm. It took time and I appreciate that. I’m saying black Peter is a very multi faceted Dutch domestic issue that is a lot more nuanced than “blackface parade,” and that I disliked your oversimplification. That is basically all.

No, that’s not it at all. It’s the general missing-the-point-If-what-I’m-saying-ness coupled with the wall of text and your assumption that I’m being wilfully ignorant and or whatever. I’m not defending blackface, for Christ sake im saying cool your tits a bit and quit trying to make enemies of allies. Give me a…

Ok. Cool man. I can't face your wall of text through all the angry spittle but you speak Dutch so I'll give it a go after my next cup of coffee. I'm really not the enemy here.

Sure, and it’s gross. And like you, I find what was done by Belgian and french forces to be utterly repugnant and under-explored. Inhumanly deplorable.

It doesn't make it any better, but the blackface thing is because the character is beloved. It doesn't make it any better, but it's not exactly a hate filled thing directed at black people. It's just leftover cluelessness and anyway there's a growing movement to change it/make it less of a thing.

My tall, pretty, pale red headed brother studued a few times in Japan and always came home with pockets full of adorable love notes. He's basically asexual but moved there anyway, been there ten years. We joke that he loves to be worshipped.

This is fair, and I found it as an American student abroad in Europe and especially North africa. Some dudes even just called out “hey, sex and the city!” Those are cat callers but I felt like that sentiment underpinned my experiences from Marrakech to the Norwegian guy I slept with in London. And bc so much of the…

I worked at einsteins bagels in college and the manager was cool with us taking home old bagels and also leaving them bagged with dignity on a shelf beside the dumpster. He was a good egg. They fired him and quit letting us put out bagels without throwing crap on it and half the staff quit. Me among them, it was so…

Line them up and I'll pull the trigger.

Sure. He’s hot in that “definitely a bad idea, leave immediately after banging” kind of way.

Gob is such a hottie... I feel an arrested development binge coming on, thankyouverymuch!

The problem is in the research methodology. In every study I’ve read so far (I make an effort to keep up), the only times they find dangerous levels of carcinogens is when they are “doing it wrong”. For example, I read a study a few months back “proving” that vaping is harmful. But they had the vape temperature turned…

Holy mother, next time we are mixing up vape juice I’m going to aim for “blueberry unicorn vomit” as a blend. Tip of the hat to you good sir/madam.