It’s not just shitting outside. It’s showers and baths and sinks and every form of running water. I mean, maybe I’m assuming that indoor plumbing includes potable water, but goddamn, I’ll take periods over cholera.

I know, right? Like, high levels of radiation mean horrible, awful death.

I’m calling Indoor Plumbing for the win.

If he’s not blood related, then it doesn’t matter? I mean, even if it was by blood, then you’re at least second or third cousins once removed (I think?). First cousins is the genetic okay-ness limit for genetics. Like, it’s his uncle—not one of his parents—who is your grandfather’s adoptive brother, so there’s no…

Or Tiger (tora = tiger, ko = girl/common ending to girl’s names).

Honestly, I’d read that.

Or pediatricians can refer to a specialist who will make the right decision for each individual child. Just because some people can improve with talk therapy doesn’t mean all people can. However, money’s a limiting factor for mental health care, and it’s kinda easier to put a kid on pills than to magically make…

I highly doubt that, especially when you consider that depression (the disorder) tends to run in families.

I recognized who she was dressed as immediately? It’s one of the costumes from Last Crusade; she even has the Grail Diary. As ns930 said, it’s not the most iconic look, but it was pretty prominent in the third movie.

If you want to be pedantic, Eisenhower actually got the ball rolling regarding Vietnam. I’m not a huge fan of JFK, but you’re not really right about public opinion in the US at the time. He had an average 70% approval rating and had slipped to the ~55% (nearly the nadir) by the time he was assassinated. That is crazy…

I’m pretty sure what Kennedy had going for him was youth, looks, a picturesque family, and being tragically killed. However, he was kinda blah and almost started WWIII with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Whereas LBJ gets shit (understandably) for Vietnam, yet as you said, he’s the actual reason that stuff like the Voting…

This is the funniest thing I’ve read all week. Thank you for that brilliant joke. It has legit brightened my day.

1. “We” as in the UK doesn’t include Northern Ireland?? Really? Really???

I think it’s ridiculous that people my age throw shade about your generation when we’re the ones that don’t seem to register how inflation works or remember historical context.

Please do not bring Northern Irish politics into this comments section. Don’t. The situation is complicated and nuanced and completely irrelevant to what people are talking about here.

You’re missing the point. You keep missing the point. You yourself said you grew up rich. You clearly are having incredibly difficulty conceptualizing the dilemma the rest of us are trying to explain to you.

Because you seem to be ignoring what the others are saying, here’s a (maybe) more digestible summary:

My mother has lived in this country for decades, and she used to be one of the people who got ‘randomly checked’ at the airport due to where she was from. People still comment on her accent when they notice it, and she still gets the same sorts of comments Loose Seals has mentioned. However, the thing that infuriates…

I understand what you’re saying, but Americans in general don’t mean that they’re actually that nationality. What they are really trying to say has to do with cultural indicators and a wish to stay connected with their heritage and (ancestors’) culture. It’s complicated, and you have to remember that everyone but the…

To be fair, “when pigs fly” is a conservative estimate. HIV mutates at the speed of individual nucleotides changing or two versions of the same virus swapping homologous parts of the genome, the latter of which being fairly rare. What you’re suggesting would require entirely new genes. That sort of evolution would…