I’m a “traveller” versus a “vacationer”

You need to date someone of a certain race to “broaden your résumé”? Gross.

I’ve always gone to “the pilots are experienced and don’t want to die either” when I have a moment of fear. And then that fucker crashed the plane into the mountains, so now it will have to be, “the pilots are experienced and most likely don’t want to die and they’ve probably implemented that new rule that they can’t…

Sometimes, I think my students are some of the most awesome and funny and genuinely entertaining people I’ve ever met and sometimes, I look at them and think, “you are just full of stupid today aren’t you.”

Huh. I’m a francophone American who has visited and lived in Paris (not extensively) and I can’t say I’ve ever felt this way about the city. It’s one of my favorite cities in the world, and I feel extremely comfortable while there.

I’ve lived in Paris for 15 years, am single and I get around fine on the public transport. I imagine it’s like any big city. You need to watch your stuff and some places are rougher than others. I will travel home at night by myself, even from a concert in the Pigalle area, but there are lots of people around. I try…

You know, I’ve been there twice and I never really felt unsafe there. I actually felt like I was harassed much worse in other European places (like Italy and Greece), and really the worst I experienced was pushy touts trying to slap bracelets on me in front of the Sacre Coeur and charge me 5 euro for them, but that…

It’s not just that the prices have skyrocketed, it’s that the quality has tanked. In college I would splurge on one of their cashmere v-necks a year and gradually built up a nice little collection that lasted most of a decade. Two of the last three sweaters I bought there arrived with holes in them. Also 98% of their…

What happened to getting a fucking cat when you’re an old lady? Who are this doctors helping this nut job have kids at 65? Do Germany have any rules about artificial insemination?

I’m pretty sure if Jesus was there, he’d be all like “where the fuck did all these Pharisees come from?”

Jesus would be pretty pissed about the whole Christian public prayer thing that they usually do before every session, given that whole speech he gave specifically prohibiting it. I doubt he’d be very concerned about what one Wiccan did, and more concerned about how most of his followers are getting his message so…

Oh, sister! I love dresses, but the fetishized cherry-print victory-roll pinup girl is just not for me...and I feel like it has become a shorthand for “acceptable fatness”.

I’m fat and I’m so sick of the expectation that I dress like a twee rockabilly. I fucking hate dresses some days!

When will (white) people stop being so baffled by normal ass black people?

Roger Miller's story is why I always overtip for delivery. I get pizza so hot I can't even eat it yet, and the Indian place sends a free dessert every time. Mmmm mango mousse. I don't get why anyone would be shitty to the person who is saving me from having to cook and wash dishes.

theoretically, I don't believe in torture or the death penalty but reading this I just don't know what to think. Gang raping a 70 year old nun. What the fuck? Can we just tear these guys limb from limb?

apparently this became a thing a year or two after i left france and man am i glad because i would've spent hours on that bridge with bolt cutters and a murderous look in my eyes

Middle-aged men in ill-fitting suits make me tear up. They're probably just fine but I'm projecting SO MUCH PAIN.

and she agrees to wear it

Lena Dunham has the temerity to snark on what an old dude wears? I can imagine she yells at her stylist "I SAID FRUMPIER!!! LESS FLATTERING TO MY BODY TYPE AND SKIN TONE!!!