Because they have little access to anything else, unlike Americans or Brits? Especially if they aren't multi-lingual. I have friends from Moscow and other parts of Russia, and they all have similar stories of insane propaganda.
Pig toilets are a thing? Pig toilets are a thing? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I thought mine was a one-off, but you're telling me there are more of them out there? Fuck. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. I thought I was free of the nightmare. Now I have to live with the chilling thought that there are more of them out there! Pigs,…
A similar thing happened to me while snorkelling in Malaysia! I was scared of jellyfish, my boyfriend told me to stop being a wuss and then we stuck our heads under the water and boom, we saw a reef shark very near us. I was expecting to see at least one on the snorkelling trip later in the day (because sharks only…
Your story is hilarious and I am so incredibly jealous of your adventures. That photo, it ... I...
In Puget Sound, the shallow water we used to swim in has baby jellyfish. They're maybe 3 inches (10cm?) across, clear white, and don't sting. But my jellyfish phobia developed when my older sister decided it would be fun to THROW THEM AT ME.
I don't have a screen door on my second floor balcony and my cat likes to sit up there and take in the night air. One night at 3am I woke up to the familiar howl of a cat with a trophy. Generally these are mice that my cat has caught so she either eats them or I take them by the tail and throw them off the balcony for…
I misread chipmunk as chimpanzee somehow and had so many questions.
A few years ago, in my free-wheeling salad days, I spent a few months backpacking through China before travelling down into northern Pakistan to teach English for six months. It was such a great adventure. I spoke about ten words of Mandarin, but man, I had fun. I especially loved Xinjiang, in the far west of China,…
I am Groot!
This isn't insane, but it gave me quite the reputation. I used to work coordinating a public health coalition. We did a lot of work with local politicians. One of the things that we would do is go on "Neighborhood Walks" which was largely asshole politicians walking through poor neighborhoods writing people up for…
you're lucky!
How can I "approve" that story? I hope the dog eventually turned on his master
We did the whole big "see your country" trip when I was 14 and went out to the maritimes for a month, to relax on the lovely beaches of Atlantic Canada (seriously) and just have a generally relaxing time.
Birds, mostly poultry, hate me. I have been attacked on sight on more then one occasion.
I'm sorry, but I honestly don't remember it being so hard to find a babysitter for a few hours. My parents were pretty poor when we were kids, but they always managed to find some neighbor or friend who was willing to watch us, or worst case scenario, ask some friends to host a sleepover for me and my sister. By the…
We kept the wedding to immediate family-only because my family is huge, and I didn't want to have to invite 100 first cousins I barely know. We gave everyone ample notice to book rooms at a group rate, and 48 hours before the reservations had to be in, I got a call demanding that I get the hotel to push out the…
That is an astute observation. I think it's true of a lot of men. Being a guy myself, I get the "privelege" of hearing how other guys, married, divorced, and single / never married, actually think about women, when women aren't around. It's not pretty. It's kind of one of those things that makes me depressed about…
Exactly! Being physically attracted to women and loving and respecting women are two totally different things. In fact, I think a lot of men resent women for having sexual power over them, which is why they devalue us. We make them feel insecure as a man, so they lash out at us.