Oh that’s different. I didn’t realize that was happening. I just figured that since you’ve got to hike to get to Macchu Picchu, people end up catching a bit of naked sun. What you are talking about is just weird. So it's about the selfie to show later and not about the present experience? Figures.

No her lies were totally nuts. According to the article I read earlier today, she'd claimed she lived in a teepee as a child and had to hunt for her food and then that she lived in South Africa for a while and that she has a black son. These are her lies. Her parents' clarification is that THEY lived in a teepee for a…

Usually people go to these places with guides, and usually they are not the only tour group. Plus sometimes there are locals milling around doing local things (like working, walking to their houses, etc). There is a large number of ways they could have gotten caught. Someone probably made a complaint and told who the…

I sort of get it. When you are outdoors hiking in a really beautiful hot place and the wind is blowing and the sun is shining and your backpack is making your back and hot mess, it sure is tempting to go Commando. And sometimes you think no one is around, so it's not going to hurt if you just strip and enjoy the sun…

I've found that the "ugly American" stereotype isn't really true in most places. Probably in places like London and Paris that see a lot of American tourists who would never go anywhere else. But usually the sorts of Americans you meet in places as far away as Malaysia are so accustomed to the Ugly American stereotype…

Their reasoning is absurd, but I think their punishment fit the crime. They spent three days behind bars and then were sent home. Hardly Draconian.

Likewise, if this is interesting to anyone, I have really oily skin and until my late 20s I had pretty bad acne. Not horrible acne. Some people really struggle with it and I don't think there is much they can do about it. But I had like 6-7ish pimples on my face all the time until I was in my late 20s. I'd wash my…

You can't rationalize away the crazy, that's for sure.

Yes I was going to say this. I don’t know anything about sebum production rates of different races- maybe that's a thing I never heard of! But I do know that if you wash your hair much less frequently, after you get through the gross initial phase, your hair is different and doesn't need to be washed as much. I have a…

Ha ha ha. But seriously, there is a difference between an actor pretending to be something that he's not and a professional NAACP chapter head.

Yes, me too! I would LOVE to be able to curl my hair like that. How'd she do it? I hope she tells her secret.

Great GIF. Must admit I have no idea what it means to say your hair is any of those numbers.

As for the son/brother thing, I did read in one of these articles (who knows if it's true) that she has custody of one of the brothers and is raising him. So it might not be a lie that she has a "black son" if she is the custodial guardian.

Yeah I was thinking something like that too. It's still nuts, but it makes more sense then her just waking up one day and deciding to tell this gigantic lie for the rest of her life.

Agree with everything except the job thing. That position is not necessarily better filled by a black person. There are plenty of well-educated, well-qualified white people who have legitimate personal histories of civil rights activism and black advocacy community experience who could fill that role. It's not fair to…

Yup, that's what I think too. I can't see too many ways that she profited from the lies in a con artist sort of way. Sounds more like crazy to me.

No, I didn't know that. I didn't see that in any of the news stories. Whoa, that's wrong. Maybe illegal too?

I hadn't heard that she had done this. I heard that the lies started when she was in her late 20s, by which time she'd already completed her studies.

OK so you were a young teenager only when you did that? Teenagers do all sorts of stupid things so you are entirely forgiven. But just to get into your head (knowing that teenagers don’t have fully developed brains), how far did you take the lie? Because sometimes when I travel or casually meet certain kinds of people…

Exactly. In your second paragraph, you say exactly what I’m trying to say. I probably just wasn’t saying it clearly.