All the women I’ve been friends with who’ve worn a hijab did it in part out of faith and in part to free themselves of the male gaze. Not the gaze of Muslim men, but of men in general. All made the choice to start wearing it on their own, as adults, and most of them eventually stopped wearing it. These were all college educated women.

I find public pools really relaxing for this reason. I’m literally blind to all the chaos going on around me.

Because what’s written only makes sense (sort of) from left to right. It says ننتظر الآن والسماح الغرب لتدمير نفسه… but backwards with every letter separated, which is typical of computers which haven’t been configured for arabic script

Tldr pls?

Saying marches change nothing is hyperbolic as well.

Ew, gross!

What… What else would I do with it?

Huh. Didn’t know that. Yeah we have these in New York.

Both of these look like hair of the dog to me

Financier

That… never occurred to me before. Wow.

This is completely broken anywhere outside the US. I’m thinking the author knows this, but if he acknowledges it, his entire point about it being easy to implement goes away. For it to work internationally, you’d have to first ask for the country, then individually point each answer to a different postal code database, down to the smallest nation, supposing that such a database is even publicly available for every nation on earth.

I honestly think it was a sign of the stress they were under. It was a private school and a lot of parents had unreasonable expectations for their children’s, especially their daughters’, performance.

If half the girls in my school were addicted to codeine, that would have been a major scandal, lives would have been ruined. This was treated more like a minor inconvenience, they all had low grade migraines they treated by popping tylenols all day long. To be honest I’d be surprised if some of them didn’t fuck up their livers a bit.

Half the girls in my high school were addicted to Tylenol

In my experience it’s more of a specifically British phobia. They have these sayings about swans breaking arms…

Fair, that’s true of golf as well if you’re driving properly. I was thinking more along the lines of ‘won’t put you out of breath’.

Walking is good for your health, but weight is overwhelmingly determined by diet

I mean, there’s plenty of low-effort, high-accuracy sports. Pool, darts, bowling, curling, bocce, pétanque, archery, shooting… A lot of them have an old-man, alcohol-fueled vibe, not unrelatedly