You sure the smell isn't from dead skunks? They smell just like weed on the freeway.

With the exception of wicked, I find the slang listed for Boston to be not that common, at least not within the city itself. If you go out to many of the burbs and Southie (okay, that's a part of Boston proper), sure, you'll hear them used fairly frequently, but I rarely heard them being used otherwise. Saying that as…

I used to think the giant phones were silly until I moved to Singapore a few months ago. They are hugely popular here to my surprise. It's mostly women who own them from what I can tell, which was the oddest thing to me. In the US, all the phablets I've seen were owned by guys, and often times purely because of the…

I have always known I don't want kids. Don't like them, never have and I'd much rather have my freedom and whatnot. I'm so glad I am finally getting a hysterectomy next year so I don't ever have to worry about getting pregnant again.

Also happened to me flying from Boston to Mexico City, probably on United. I could see the blue runway lights (it was nighttime) and about to touch down and all of a sudden we go straight up. All the lights turned off in the cabin and the pilot didn't say anything for 5 minutes. The Mexico City airport is pretty much…

Yeah, I'm not excusing them of not checking the source (reverse google image search and all that jazz), but rather on not recognizing the image and its significance. Totally agreeing on you with that it's part of their job to check these things.

I think this has to do much more that it was an international employee posted this rather than them being a millennial. Growing up in South America, I *may* have heard about the Challenger disaster only in passing. I went to the international school and my mom is American which increases the chance of potentially…

It's great to have something like this out there. Trans men definitely need more visibility regardless of what is said within the community, so good for them!

unfortunately it's a lot harder to grow a penis, mostly due to its vascularity (atleast that was my understanding). It's been about 2 years since I last looked into this, but if I recall correctly, it's a lot easier to print a penis. I think they tested the printed penises on some rabbits and they functioned as…

Right, that's true and it's wasn't those inherently gendered words that I was referring to. There are other characters that use the female radical for things such as delicate/fragile/to spoil (娇), tactful/gracious (婉), envy/jealousy (妒), and wicked/traitor/adultery (奸) - all which are traits that tend to be…

Tables are actually feminine in Spanish ("la mesa")! That aside, the gendering can be somewhat random in Spanish, but mostly you can usually tell by the ending, eg. -o or -a.

Aww jeez, these got me watching my old videos and pictures since starting T (actually, it's been exactly 2.5 years since I started and I'm still seeing a lot of changes). What shocks me the most about myself isn't even how I looked pre-testosterone (okay, that still freaks me out), but how different I looked from just…

It's real, on the orange line to be specific

Go in with a question about class material, questions about homework, ways to better prepare for an exam, you're interested in their research and want to know more about it (or even better, that you'd like to get involved!), etc. The simplest way imo to get more friendly with your professor is just ask how they're…

Same. On my insurance policy, generics cost $10 or less. I think 2 of my monthly prescriptions cost me $2-3 each and I fill them at CVS... Nonprefered brand name drugs end up being < $50 as well no matter where it's filled. Maybe I just have a really good insurance plan?

Oh yeah totally, I wasn't criticizing you at all, just chiming in :) The whole label ordeal rather unfortunate, but imho not one of the greatest problems out there affecting queer folks.

I agrees this. Also, referring to the LGBTQ community as the 'gay community, or (cringe) 'the gays' is hella erasing of trans and bi/pan/etc sexualities. 'Gay' ends up conflating trans people's genders with sexuality (eg. 'failed lesbian' or some bullshit) and obviously there's many, many people who are simply not…

Eh... could be worse. I'd take the mirror and the nail files to be honest; it'd be much more useful than half the shit I get at software engineering tech talks (aka recruiting) or whatever. Last thing I got was a keychain bottle-opener thing, and a pack of shitty post-its, which would be typically great, except they…

I use my credit card for most of my purchases (not bills or recurring fees) since I get 1-2% cash back on everything. It's a year-round bonus, so it makes sense - I get ~$25 per month which adds up to ~$300 worth of savings a year. Anyways, I only purchase things I could pay for with my debit card and pay my credit…

Queer trans person chiming in here: I understand people not liking the term queer for its vagueness or potentially offensive nature. However, for someone like myself who is trans and agender, I feel like there is no other appropriate term to properly define my sexuality as well as how I interpret and present my…