My ex used to drop it off at a place that would wash and fold for you, I think they priced it by the pound or something. I got SUCH a dirty look the first time I showed up with him when he dropped it off, and when things got serious enough that I had occasion to put a pair of my knickers in with his laundry, I…

In fairness, the complaint was probably "someone is handing out pornography to children" in which case they have to show up to see what's going on. Upon finding out that nothing illegal was going on, they left.

High-five to her, then.

I like the use of the word "diverse" as a term to describe an individual.

"racism is illegal no?"

She's saying "we don't know" and the risk:reward ratio is pretty high. You may act like a normal human being, and the people you associate with may, but that's confirmation-bias: you associate with non-shitheads, therefore you don't se the shitheads.

Everyone hates people who went to Duke, that's just part of what it means to be an American.

What is the rate by sexual orientation of pedophilia in the adult community? I'd take a swing that its roughly equal between heterosexual and homosexual.

Is she wrong? That seems pretty on the money to me.

Meh. I got a few dates out of a guy I met at a yoga class, it was all right.

Who is this "Colton Haynes" and why is he so handsome?

At the end of the day, money talks. Social change comes about when people's cashflow is diminished. It may start because some people think its the right thing to do, but it always ends with cold hard cash. That's fine, I'll take it. It would be nice if everyone was motivated by kindness, but they're not; I'll take…

As far as the "hygiene" stuff goes, this makes me wonder what questions or issues have come up in the past, and how often, that made whoever wrote this think it was worth committing to paper.

I didn't say you compared it, I said you lumped it in with blackface — which you did. Your second paragraph is all about how there is this weird Japanese subculture that utilizes blackface, as a way of explaining the "why" of Japan having a Moomin-themed restaurant, versus (say) Finland where they have an entire…

Its in Tales from Moominvalley. The Hemulen builds the park, not Moomintroll I got that part wrong. He builds it on the condition that it be quiet — no screaming children, not shouting, no hooting, just quiet contemplation. The final description of the Moominvalley inhabitants going through the park and just…

I'm re-reading this article, and all the responses, and I have to wonder why it was even published. There is a theme restaurant in Japan. If you go into that restaurant, the staff interacts with the customers in a way that is commensurate with that theme, i.e. they give you a stuffed Moomintroll to sit at your table…

There are also Buddhist nuns.

"Celibacy". Heh. I think you don't really know many nuns.

Seconded. My aunt is a nun, and is probably one of the happiest and most fulfilled people I have ever met, as well as being very politically, spiritually, and practically progressive. Her convent is full of women who are very much like her — they don't want any priests meddling in their business, the keep the…

Moomins is like the race or breed or whatever. Moominmama and Moominpapa are the head of Moominfamily, and then there are other Moomins like Moomintroll and the Snork Maiden. There are all these other characters / races / breeds in the story too. Tove Jansson also wrote a book called Who Will Comfort Toffel which…