Seriously, I’m not exactly clear why I’m supposed to feel any kind of sympathy for someone who gets uncomfortable when it’s slightly warmer when I lose all circulation to my hands and feet when it’s colder (the glory that is Raynaud’s syndromes). Diseases/syndromes/whatever that cause actual issues with cold beyond…

Your last statement made me a little weepy. It’s so true - and I think a big thing here is growing up in Texas Selena always seemed like a very real person - her family seems to care about protecting her image and only using it in ways that seem in line with what she wanted... She wasn’t used as just some abstract…

Neither APD or WilCo police exactly have the best reputations for interactions with the public - but they're pretty damn far away from being near the "most corrupt" in Texas... Unless you're just avoiding thinking about alleged racially motivated speed traps and shakedowns in East Texas or all of the goings-ons in…

Wasn't this essay on This American Life? I swear I remember it from an episode that aired earlier this year.

You're not being racist, you were making a statement that was lumping one pretty damn diverse group of people (like an entire continent worth) into one homogenous group. Sorry you got slammed for it just like every time a white girl talks about the experiences of her black/chinese/otherwise non-white best friend.

Are you kidding me? We get this line of questioning pretty damn often especially if you're not super Germanic/Anglo looking - which a fair amount of us in this country aren't. I get the annoyance about the "But where are you REALLY from?" line of questioning - I have friends from various countries in Asia that where…

My friend and I have seriously been considering buying these and splitting them out of morbid curiosity.

Honestly, the biggest difference between lululemon yoga pants and target ones is the material quality... aside from recent times, lululemon definitely had higher quality material which makes a pretty significant difference in longterm wear and tear (especially if you use yoga pants for rock climbing like I do). That…

I grew up in Texas and the only group of kids that weren't particularly intermixed were the crazy white southern baptists.

I was about to make this same suggestion, I'm pretty lactose intolerant to the point even yogurt with live cultures have become troubling... but goat milk, goat yogurt, goat cheese - we get along great.

Dallas, TX also has a very, very strong gay community... primarily located in two neighborhoods depending on upon if they're singles or families (usually) - and no one cares! People always stare like me like I'm insane when I say I miss living in central Dallas.

In high school I was a ballet dancer, weighed about 85-90 lbs at 5'2" (if you whip our your BMI calculators, you'll find this put me WELL into the underweight category) and was pretty damned in shape (because, you know, ballet) - I did not have any thigh gap. I wasn't skinny fat or any of that nonsense, it's really…

I remember this... my grad school is in downtown Dallas and we actually watched tornadoes from the top 13th floor of our building... until they actually started moving into Dallas from Arlington/Irving.

Did anyone here say it inverse was creepy?

Eastern Europe has had enough hardship!

Failing to acknowledge that the communication gap falls on both sides is a little bit ignorant. Yes, scientists LOVE to discuss their ideas with people - including those that don't work in sciences. But, there's a huge difference between effectively communicating to someone what cancer is (a pretty basic idea where…

If that stuff is white and extra white then I have no idea what I am. Extra-extra white? Neon white?

This happens in many, many other areas too. It's how you separate those that are in and those that are out - by if they're up on the proper lexicon. This happens in sciences too - people decide to change names/terms/etc... from what's generally accepted and known to something "better" - it even gets to the point of…

My ex is in this group, he definitely felt like he had more in common with Millenials than he did with Gen X... it's kind of up to the person at some point.

Hey, you never know! My dad's family is massive, but people from the soviet bloc are usually just kind of awesome anyways.