Oh my god, that scene. For real.

I have no idea how Kinja does what it does, but you definitely do need to be out of the grays, because this comment is totally a great perspective from someone who, y’know, actually lives in the culture being commented upon.

I’d add The House of Sand and Fog. Holy fuckballs, that movie.

Truefax. My aunt lives in Japan, and whenever she used to send packages to anybody back in the States, she’d use the English-language newspaper as packing material, and the classifieds would have help wanted ads that said things like “Female secretary needed. Must be pretty, under age 30, and unmarried.” Keep in mind…

More neon for me! Also, thumbs up for your screenname :-P

Heh, I did see that in the “popular articles” panel, decided not to click.

It’s definitely not that I’ve never met anyone like that; my ex-husband, for example, is incredibly charming, runs to the aid of strangers in need, is kind to animals... once had to be stopped from beating me to death with a baseball bat. I’m just a genuinely sweet and good-natured person, so I tend to assume everyone…

You know what icks me out? I think he’s really physically attractive. Like, I mean, obviously, if I were offered a conjugal visit with him, I would 100% decline on account of him being an evil, soulless, monstrous skidmark on the underwear of humanity, but if I had met him before the bombing, I probably would’ve been…

I love this.

Shit, I’m 27 and I still have difficulty with recognizing that someone can be a fucking monster with the public face of a saint.

Mother. Fucking. Anders. Bering. Breivik. Worthless waste of fucking carbon is probably living at a basically comparable level of comfort as I am, and he doesn’t even have to get a job to maintain it.

This comment deserves more love than it’s gotten.

Cool, that’s good to know! Actually, the boss I spoke of would probably be annoyed with being described as North African— he was born and raised in Egypt, but he identifies as an Arab; there was this one time, he called me “my nigga”, which, being of Scandinavian-German heritage, is not something people often call me,…

Exorsnuggles!

What’s that Tolkien quote? Something like, “the treacherous are ever untrusting"?

My ex did that to me. I also have pretty exceptional autobiographical memory, if all my older relatives and several therapists are to be believed, and my ex would try to convince me that I’d forgotten entire conversations, or that fights we’d had had never happened... ugh, it was bad.

Oh wow, that’s bad. When you said RN, though, for a second, I thought your aunt might be my mom’s friend (who was also an RN): she found out her husband was cheating when their teenage son was going through a box of VHS tapes to record a school project, and, finding one that was unlabeled, he popped it into the VCR to…

Full but not too full, though. Now the beauty standard has come around to include many traits that were long considered “too black” (although it’s worth noting that, by and large, it mostly still excludes actual black women).

Isn’t there also something about men covering their heads as well? I’ve seen a lot of (I assume) Muslim men with those openwork caps, and I used to have a boss who wore a beanie during Ramadan (which was in June that year, and this was in North Carolina, so it wasn’t because of the weather), although now that I think…

They do usually still cover their hair, though, don’t they?