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I'm an expat and I have to say I have a hard time with women in my new country on a general basis. It took me 10 years and 6 different cities to find a group of women friends and even still the cultural differences and background make things difficult at times. Also I'm bi and I realized… Read More

Re: all of the body shaming ones: I used to be overweight from high school through undergrad. Various family members would tell me often that I was getting too fat, needed to diet, shouldn't eat so much. Then I lost the weight (for myself not for them) and started getting really… Read More

Ok so when I was an ESL teacher one of my adult students was a biochemist working in product development for a very expensive skin care company. I asked her once if it was really worth paying more for these products or if it was all fancy packaging and she explained that while the… Read More

Also in favor of e readers. I love to read but I hate reading in French and where I live in France it's impossible to find English books. My Kindle has saved me.

For the ultimate in multi tasking.

That photo, and then this whole thread. Wow.

So true. (Also the Hobbit). My first intro to ender's game was the movie, then I read the books and saw how wrong they got it. Orson Scott Card is problematic but that trilogy is brillant and has so much important social commentary.

Lord of the Rings was such a disappointment I couldn't get past the first two episodes. Either the character dev/writing was really off, and it seemed like the actors were just playing stereotypes in a plot that didn't quite know where it was going. Maybe it would have gotten better… Read More

Number 26. You can rent a Porsche. I had a professor who loved to drive and would rent super expensive sports cars for kicks from time to time. But this guy left his wallet at home? So I'm calling shenanigans. He wanted to impress but was just a poor as the rest of us.