The days he couldn't get to the same day dry cleaners were probably the "circumstances".

Ironically, given that carmine is made from bugs, the one place it should have been safe for a red dye allergic person to order red food is a vegan restaurant.

Not that Parasyte was particularly humorous, either. It pretty much pushed more gore tolerance to its limits, but I loved it too much to stop reading.

...I need to go back to bed. I honestly can't tell if you're misremembering the manga or making a "Maxim" joke.

Mine too. Noxzema is like setting my skin on fire even if I wash it off immediately, complete with hours of bright red skin.

Yes, that page I linked to is ridiculous (hence the "Amusingly"), but it's still true that you can't just become considered independent for financial aid purposes by not living with your parents and not being claimed on their taxes. This actual government page says the same thing. You need to fall under certain…

My exact first thought. Wikipedia backs us up. (Though, ya know, Wikipedia.)

Wrong. Student financial aid goes under their own very specific dependency rules, and doesn't give a damn about whether or not they're claimed on your taxes or even live with you.

Alas, no. I know a lot of people who got screwed by deadbeat parents and the like. The policy seems to be to assume that all possible parents love you and want you to go to college and can and will donate every free cent to that goal, no matter what the reality of your actual family situation is.

There are a lot of reasons, but here's one that sometimes applies to me:

Interestingly, that's the same exact response I get when I tell people I loathe chicken. I'm pretty sure that hating the taste of alcohol is much more common and socially acceptable, though.

Says someone who has obviously never added spiced rum to their pumpkin pie.

My book learnin's (a.k.a. my BS in Business) tells me this is called a "loss leader". When you see a deal that makes you say, "how are they even making money off of that," they usually aren't. They're getting you to enter the store long enough to buy a bunch of other stuff that they will make money off of. See also:…

Given that I'm not a christian, I'd be very surprised if he showed up to voice any sort of opinion.

Fair.

I'd have to think about it, and it'd probably vary on a case-by-case basis. I'd most probably take it if it was roughly equivalent to a very good coupon that they might do just as a promotion - something like $5 off of a $10 item I had been thinking of trying. Or if it was a small amount. I'd probably feel weird about…

Oh, that's a completely valid way to look it at, and I'm not judging you in any way if you do. I'm just saying that it's iffy under my personal code of ethics, which I have no expectation of exactly matching anyone else's and therefore don't ask other people to live by.

I'm iffy on this.

But what kind of meditation is that graphic from? There's more than one kind of meditation, and the "clearing your mind of all thought" version does exist. I, personally, find it easier to achieve than the mindfulness version (though I doubt that's true for all that many people; a lot of people get caught by the old…

The headline is deceptive. What the study actually shows is that cramming doesn't work as well, not that it doesn't work at all. For those of us that can recall information fairly well after a single read-through (at least for a certain period of time), reading a chapter the night before a test or reading it two…