I needed more than a binder’s worth for a student visa turned spousal visa in Germany, I can believe a hyper specific visa needing this much documentation.

Yeah, there’s also unfortunately a difference in how a man wearing clothes that are too big vs a woman wearing clothes that are too small or too big is received. It was only a real problem for me with professional clothing, because otherwise I can get away with a dress unintentionally falling mid-thigh or sizing up and looking like I’m doing a menswear style.

Yeah, that’s got to be difficult. I’m in the opposite boat, as a 178 cm tall woman. I struggled finding dresses that were long enough in the US, but upon moving to central Europe, I have no issues at all (and my size shoe doesn’t run out within a day of being restocked anymore). I basically just don’t buy clothing made by Asian companies unless I can try it on in person first. People joke about “big bones,” but I’ve got a BMI of 20 and I have tried on XL and XXL sizes that don’t go over my shoulders.

Yes, though you would have to remember more numbers if you’re not making gendered sizes, things like the diameter of the arm hole and the distance between the neck and shoulder, but it’s not like there’s no way to do it. It’s just easier for clothing companies to gender clothes and most people don’t care enough to do anything about it.

People’s clothes would probably fit a lot better though.

Those differences actually make sense to me. If you try to sell pants with the same length inseam in Honduras and the Netherlands, you’ll either prop up the local tailoring industry or fail. Those at least have an inseam measurement, but a medium shirt is going to have to be made for different proportions as well.

I think men’s and women’s sizes could be adapted to be more focused on body shape and less on gender, but I get where they’re coming from. Women are on average smaller than men, so a women’s medium will similarly be smaller than a men’s medium.

resists ideological simplification

divine retribution for fossil capital’s greed and wanton exploitation of the natural world

I agree with the point of the meme, but come on

Well, by owning the farm.

I like working in food service, but you couldn’t pay me enough to own a restaurant or bakery. The donkey doesn’t choose to work there, nor is it compensated, so this isn’t applicable in this case, but my ideal situation would be working super hard thirty hours a week and earning enough to live comfortably off, while taking occasional vacations. That’s unfortunately not really possible, so I’m getting a masters degree instead of trying for management.

I definitely became less domesticated during the pandemic and I’m still not where I was beforehand, socially. I was even in my late twenties when the pandemic hit, so I should be less susceptible than teenagers/younger children were. It was worth it not to kill a bunch of people by spreading disease, but it wasn’t easy.

That said, I also lived alone and went over 8 months without seeing another person in the flesh, which is unlikely to be the case for younger people.

Gen X seem to be either computer people or totally unaware. Millennials seem to be generally much less knowledgeable than the former and much more knowledgeable than the latter. Obviously there are millennials who are computer people, but my conception of them is more people who got computer science degrees than the person who lives in a shack in the woods and builds his own robots. Boomer computer people are even more formidable.

I’m not saying that’s true, but it’s the stereotype I have in my head.

Long haired woman here: I use dr bronners and no conditioner and it suits my purposes. It does feel nicer with a deep conditioner, but it’s not worth the extra time imo

(Jawohl)

The first two increase your caloric needs though

Fennoscandia then

Sweden is clearly the cock and Finland the balls. Norway is only for Klingons.

Going out food is also a potential culprit for hangovers without alcohol. I used to live in a place where domino’s was the only place that delivered and it took me until about the third non-drinking hangover I got after getting pizza to realize it was the salt.

That’s also why people report headaches, nausea, and dizziness after eating MSG, imo. It’s not anything to do with the MSG itself, just dehydration from the sodium that would cause the same issues if they’d ingested it in the form of table salt.

Oh, that’s way different. I read “exposing someone to genitalia, anus, or female breast (provided it’s deliberate)” and took that literally, which would be insane. It needing to be sexual is much more reasonable.

That was the point of my comment, that sexuality should not always be assumed by the exposure of body parts.

Do infants consent to breast feeding? I’m sorry, I know you didn’t write the law

You could rework this one to make a joke that works (though it’s not hilarious or anything, just standard bad dad joke levels)

I was judging saw [it feels like unless you’re a guest on a panel show, this is a more natural way to open] a finger-counting contest, and it was incredibly close.
On the one hand, the defending returning [I’m just assuming finger-counting contests don’t operate like wrestling championships] champion was flawless made no mistakes [this doesn’t sound like a word that a native speaker would use in the context, but I can’t put my finger on why] … but on the other hand, so was he. they didn’t make any either!

Yep, I’m an American who moved to Germany and I wish it was accepted to wear sweatpants and my husband’s t shirt to the grocery store. I still do sometimes, but I don’t enjoy being stared at angrily by old ladies in public, so most of the time I’ll at least pull jeans on. I’m never getting rid of my Asidutt though.

Luckily, linen shorts are as comfortable as sweatpants in warm weather and don’t look as schlubby.

I mean, that’s not bad? I would draw a much less recognizable puffin and I assumed they couldn’t fly until an episode of qi