I’m still clinging to my wireless-charging, plastic-backed Lumia 950. I’ll have to join the ranks of non-replaceable batteries, non-expandable storage, more fragile backs and less-awesome cameras at some point, but not today. Or tomorrow.

A Ford Mustang in The Netherlands has a base price of €70,120 and the 5.0's base price is €112,340. So yes. Compared with what much of the rest of the world is paying, car prices in the US are absurdly low.

I’m following her now. Thanks for the recommendation!

I love this trilogy ridiculously. Half of me is super excited about the series, while the other half is dreading what may come out of it. 

Don’t forget her parents as an example of"chain migration".

21 year old goth me (also 1994) is asking the same question. Off to asos!

21 year old goth me (also 1994) is asking the same question. Off to asos!

We’re already headed in that direction in The Netherlands. Any time I’m at a register they ask if I’d like the receipt, and only if you request one do they print it off.

I learned Dutch in my 30s, and while I don’t consider myself fluent in “near-native” terms, I have no problems communicating in the usual forms. It would probably be easier to reach real fluency if everyone didn’t speak English and didn’t automatically switch when they hear my accent, and if I didn’t work in English…

“Pre-angel food cake” is fucking DELICIOUS. We definitely eat it.

OT, but my first car was an ‘81 Lynx, bought dead in ‘89, brought back to life and was a reliable little car up until it got rear-ended badly.

I can’t recommend Fatalii Seeds enough - they’re online, which is handy, they do all of the growing/breeding themselves, have a good overview on flavor profiles, and they ship quickly (and they’re super friendly): http://www.fataliiseeds.net/. They may have something like what you’re looking for.

Oh, God. That sounds horrible. And not like something I could enlist a friend’s small child to replace a transmission cable on. (She was small enough to fit under the car.)

Probably not (depending on the Chilton book, maybe?). I was doing the actual maintenance on the 1983 IN 1993. Does that count?

19-year-old me was able to do most of my own repairs on a 1983 Firebird (V8 305, not the 4 cylinder, though) with only the aid of my trusty Chilton book. So yeah, that space was very much appreciated.

When I got divorced in Virginia, we couldn’t file until we’d been separated for a year, as per VA law. It sucked, though I did get to stay on his (good, union) medical insurance the whole time. That was a benefit, since I was in grad school and broke.

The second one is what confuses me the most. Isn’t the job of the USPS to, umm, deliver things? They’re paid to deliver a thing from one place to another place. That whole statement is baffling.

Or the one with Wendy, where he talks big in public and begs not to go through with it in private...and then has his ass handed to him.

I had the same thought - I’m going to visit my family in the US in a couple of weeks and I’m already bracing myself for a vacation full of what’s basically brown water. My (Dutch) husband, who shuns Starbucks like the plague here at home, has figured out that he’ll drink their cappuccinos while in the US because it’s…

Go to a nice looking coffee shop (I usually take tourist friends to Abraxas, which has the added bonus of good coffee) that has sitting room and a fairly mellow vibe and talk to the people behind the counter/bar. Let them advise you. Try to go mid-afternoon on a weekday if you can so it’s not too busy and see what…

I didn’t go to HU (but I lived in Hampton) and even I knew about some of these issues twenty-plus years ago. It’s really sad to see how things don’t change over time. The leadership continues to fail the student body.