Really! That's pretty interesting. Obviously I haven't met all the Israelis in the world, but all the ones I know or have met just looked very Middle Eastern (black hair, brown skin, etc.). My Eastern European family is also Jewish, but Eastern European Jews tend to either have very light features or very dark,…

No problem! My father's family is from Italy (Bari on the mainland and Sicily) and my mother's family is from Eastern Europe (Austria, Russia, and Belarus). People will successfully guess Italian, but NO ONE gets the Eastern European. I often get Greek or Israeli as well, and people think there's some Irish in there…

Interesting! My mother's family is from Eastern Europe (Russia, Belarus and Austria) and my father's is from Italy (Northern mainland and Sicily). The olive skin is from the Sicilian side, but I got the red hair and freckles from my Belarusian grandpa. My skin only darkens in the summer, but throughout the rest of the…

I have dark auburn hair that usually looks like dark brown. In the sun it's RED, and it keeps the red color in the summer, but in the winter it gets so dark it looks brown. Same as you, people tend to see it as whichever color they prefer. My entire appearance confuses people because not only do I have dark auburn…

You're right. I'm sorry for implying that anyone who's not from NYC isn't intelligent. I really didn't think my comment through before I wrote it, and I definitely see how pretentious it came across. I don't think that anyone from the midwest is dumb or uneducated - that's obviously not true. I meant that it seems as…

From what I've gathered (and I could be off base, I only had one cup of coffee so far today) CVS isn't fining employees who are overweight. They're requesting that the employee's medical records be released to the insurance company, records which include things like weight, BMI, blood pressure and body fat %. If the…

It definitely differs from person to person, but many older people dismiss those of us in our twenties right off the bat. I'll admit that I'm far from an expert in economics, but I'm capable of, ya know, reading and doing math. And it didn't take a brain surgeon to see that Romney's numbers didn't add up. I think it…

That's my point. He absolutely deserves punishment, and peer pressure isn't an excuse, however I think there is a person hidden under the monster.

I believe you are correct. I think Richmond is the type of criminal who should be in some kind of rehabilitation as opposed to flat out prison (or in this case, juvie).

My boyfriend likes coming shopping with me, which is kind of ironic cuz I hate shopping. He gets all excited cuz he gets to pick out clothes and be like "oh this is shiny, try it on! This is a pretty color, try it on! You'll look great in this, try it on!" and it's kind of adorable but by the tenth "try this on!" I'm…

As do I, my friend. As do I.

And kittens and wine! Not everything in real life is bad :)

That's me! I'm allergic to flowers. Not just pollen - the scent of flowers triggers an insane allergic reaction. My skins gets red and blotchy (NOT common for me since I have olive skin), my eyes swell, I start choking and can't breathe, start sneezing uncontrollably. It's really bad. Anything that has even the…

I have nothing to add to this except that I love your comments and wish I was friends with you in real life.

Yup. Just looking at the trial, at the end when the boys "apologized," Mays clearly didn't give a shit. But Richmond got up, walked over to the victim and her family and started bawling and apologizing. Which is the right reaction - he SHOULD be remorseful. I don't pity him by any means, but there is a part of me…

That's where I get a bit weird. I don't pity him. But, ok, even just looking at the trial - when he and Mays "apologized," there was a huge difference. Mays obviously didn't give a shit, but Ma'lik got up, walked over to the family and started bawling and apologizing. Which, ya know, GOOD. He SHOULD feel remorseful.…

Yeah, I'm not saying he's a fucking angel or anything. I understand peer pressure to a degree, like when your friends want you to have a drink, or get high, or cut class. But 16/17 is old enough to know the line between activities that could potentially be dangerous to you personally, or activities that involve…

I'm far from a rape apologist, and Ma'lik deserves punishment for what he took part in (as do the other boys), but from what I can tell (and I could be off base), it appears as if Ma'lik might actually have some remorse for doing what he did. It seems as if the whole crime was something his friends thought up that he…

You're right. I'm friends with lots of different people, and I've realized that the men I know are just as, if not more, self-conscious as the women. They just hide it better.

Do you just hate cow's milk or any milk? What about goat's milk? Soy? Almond? I hate almond milk, personally.