I thought Stepford Wives were fictional?

Does the Netherlands have any name restrictions (i.e. a list of names that parents have to choose from)?

Check out banner, Michael!

What's more, the six-year-old thinks she can run a full marathon by the time she’s 10. Girl, I'll definitely be done with Freedom by then. Probably.

That book stayed in Australia. It was unsalvageable. A pity, considering it was a science book, and thus a valuable weapon against Coulter's idealogy.

I spent 3 months in Sydney, Australia as part of a visiting scholar program and I woke up to a funnelweb spider in the bathroom one day. I shut the door on it in a panic while I tried to figure out what to do, and the damn thing crawled under the door.
I smote that bastard with my biochem textbook. Long story short:…

The resemblance is striking.

Very true! My Catalan grandma (meva iaia) would "correct" my Spanish to Catalan when I tried to practise with her. They take stubbornness to a whole new level!

For extra fun, try defining Spanish. And be very careful with applying the "Spanish" label to anyone from the Basque Country, Galicia, Catalonia, or the Canary Islands.

DAAAYYYYYMMN. I pay less than $50 most months, even during the winter.

Getting fired from your job due to asshattery isn't covered by your right to free speech. Sorry dude! (but not really)

Thank you for your thoughtful, respectful response. As I've tried to emphasize a few times, I've known many kind, non-racist or openly prejudiced Australians. I love you guys. And you are absolutely correct: the direct, confrontational nature of some of the comments that I got did rub me the wrong way. I'm of mixed…

Hey Gavin...

Not to mention the positive impact it could have on a particular industry....

Maybe it's personal preference, but I'd take a bear or a mountain lion over a gigantic (and highly venomous) spider in the bathroom any day. At least they can't squeeze under a closed door.
Holy #$%#$%, the nightmares I still have, TEN YEARS LATER.

The number of names you have for them, and how liberally even some of the most educated Australians use those derogatory names, is appalling. The number times I heard someone admonished to "SPEAK ENGLISH!!!!" was shocking. And on a personal level, the number of times I had my accent parroted back to me, along with…

We also let Arrested Development fall into the abyss. We have a lot to atone for.

Hang in there! All I can say is don't force it. Do your thing, and when the right person comes along, you'll know.

I think in a lot of ways it reveals how people want to see themselves. I think there's many fascinating theses to be written about the gap between how someone presents themselves in an online profile and who they are in reality.
(For the record, the very thought of trying to get informed consent forms for all that…

Insensitive? Perhaps. For that I apologise. In case you skipped over my greyed out comment, I've met (and remain friends with) many intelligent, wonderful Australians (one of whom made this "joke" to me over a bottle of very fine Shiraz).