no one noticed the grittiness of it?

there is nothing wrong with eating the entire shrimp head and all - especially when its been deep fried and doused in tasty sauce. tho clearly its an Asian thing judging from this string of comments...

That happens in China. No vaccination = no public education at any stage in that child's life. Also vaccines from primary school on is done by the school, the parents have no say in whether the child will be vaccinated. None of this permission slip nonsense for a vaccination.

...well I do have a british friend who had a thing for salad cream who can go through a loaf of sliced white bread dipped in salad cream in one session.

sweet bun with mayo, cheese and chocolate is a very Japanese/Taiwanese thing. I can assure you that.

sure, that works for places where winter is actually a thing.

dude you know in Japanese mythology butterflies are actually souls of those who passed away? depending on your stance on mythology/folk lore it might've been your friend coming back to cheer you up one last time...

You think geese are terrible? Try swans. I live in Sydney where every inner city pond has swans for some bizarre reason and fuck are they aggressive. AND they're bigger than geese. So of course during uni we had regular field trips to the nearby ponds/detention basins where the swans nest. And how aggressively do…

its an unique thing to baristas - some asshole coming in with a drink that no sane person would order and acts like its your fault that you've never heard of it.

Civil engineer here. I get "...so you use tools right?' once. It's mostly just blank looks from people. And once I get into "I specialize in design engineering and I work for the government so I do everything" - no one is with me.

For anyone who is curious:

1. No I do not have anything to do with your DA approvals. Ask…

I live in Sydney. Aside from a few regrettable romance novels (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1767…), nothing much is really set there.

Btw, romance novels referenced above is by someone who very obviously doesn't know anything about inner west/central Sydney but writes about it based off restaurant reviews.

dude its less we civil engineers 'expect me to get the vapors when they start laying out how many trees need to come down to make the project work' and more we have all worked with an environmental planner at some point who does get the vapors when it comes to tree cutting so as a result, we expect the vapors.

Christina Dodd! Her supernatural stuff is a bit hit and miss but her older historical stuff is awesome!

you're an asshole

Not technically food service but I used to work in the wine/liquor/food section of the main departure duty free store at a major international airport.

She writes for the daily telegraph. Its Tony Abott's favourite paper. I can think we can wince and just accept that there are bogans.

pretty sure in no dialect the word for tea is similar to urine. however the word for want is pretty close to the word for urine. have a feeling your waiter heard up to 'I want' instead of 'I want tea' and was very alarmed as it'll translate to 'I urinate'.

yep. try asking for thongs in a shoe store in the u.s.

So...for a bit of background, my parent while both decently educated (electrical engineers and a masters in software engineering), are still products of the 70s Chinese communist education system. Which means they don't talk about anything to do with the reproductive system. Ever. Like before they got married my dad…

Between all the great British urban fantasy series (Rivers of London, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere etc) and the fact that I read heaps of historical romances growing up, I spent my 3 days in London wandering around neighbourhoods like Angel/Islington or Mayfair muttering to myself like a lunatic while being ridiculously…