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I once mentioned to my dad that I didn't like going alone outside at night. He didn't interpret this as "my teenage daughter is scared of meeting shady people at night" but rather "my teenage daughter is still scared of the dark". He sent me outside at 1 am to walk the dog by myself in an effort...

"It's better to be sexy and racy than sexist and racist" - Stephen Fry I can't think of anything else that won't sound extremely cheesy. Like "Love yourself before you fall in love". I'm just gonna go with "eat your vegetables".

While the book had me moved, the film of Never let me go really made me cry. The final scene with Tommy and Kathy especially, Ruth's final scene and Kathy's one too. The most beautiful scenes I have seen are both from French films. The endings of A very long engagement (un long dimanche de...

"Nice" people do not have to tell someone that they are "nice". People will realize something like this when they talk to a person, and even if they tell said person "gosh, you're so nice!", an actually nice person won't go around telling people he's nice. I've noticed that often women like a...

I'm... Confused. I'm surprised that this is even a thing. I have absolutely no knowledge in metal, and can't say I enjoyed the minutes I heard of any kind of metal (God I'm glad this is the escapist or my house would have been nuked or something). I do respect it as a genre and don't think it's...

Can I just say that that was one of the best ways to explain someone that he shouldn't worry. It depends on the parents I think. When I tell my dad stories about the things I say and do when I'm drunk he is laughing his brains out as long as I return home without missing one of my limbs. If I...

Here in Holland we have several types of math at high school, when you get to your fourth year you choose type A which mainly revolves around statistics and probability, and type B which revolves around differentiating, equations, mathemetical proving, trigonometry. There's also type C for...

It's not that shocking really, but something that just made me really sad. At school I was talking to a new friend who is repeating a year and an old friend. I told him that there used to be a girl in our class who treated people in a bad way because she was extremely self-conscious. In the...

Of course, you want to get a job so you can have money. They know this, perhaps they want to know how badly you want the job if you tell them a beautiful lie like "I want to help the world". What I think, they want to know what made you choose their company over a similar one. For example when...

I love Guitar hero and play it at my friend's house, but I'm not very good at it. The best I can do are hard songs. Next to RPG's music games are my favourite and next to guitar hero I have played things like audiosurf and stepmania (god I was a horrible kid) and I still often play Osu!. Osu...

Thin fingered violist (if you have large hands, why not try the viola?) here. I have trouble with using my fourth finger because next to handling a big instrument, I also have tiny hands. I often can't get a proper grip on the strings, do you have the same problem with your larger fingers...

I'm still not sure if you intended to make a joke out of that or that you are entirely serious. It goes either way. I guess Jamaicans are good at sprinting while Kenyans are good at the marathon. Dutch people are good at ice-skating. Black people are great dancers. Germans love fatty foods...

Thank you. Amen to that. There is nothing wrong with attractive people in games nor with some extent to sexualization, but anime like free! is nothing compared to other things out there that are sexualizing women. I don't mind women showing skin that much. However, there is a huge difference...

WipEout 2048 is really good. I don't know good games besides RPG's, it's the genre I'm into mostly. I will not suggest fifa here because of the hatred EA gets. (I got it from a friend and it honestly was quite fun, easier to play on handheld than on console)(oops I mentioned it anyway). There is...

I understand why parents would say "it's just a phase". While (I hope) most parents love their childeren regardless of sexuality, being straight is just "easier". It's (I believe) never an issue being straight, while being gay is just simply not completely accepted by society as a whole. I would...