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as if every Democrats brain is connected to one thought center and the same with Republicans. For most Americans, this may as well be the case (or is the case already... Fox News v…

And I stand by what I said. It's tough to find statistics but the article below says that between 1993 and 2006, 23 deaths were tied to ketamine use. That to me qualifies as safe a…

Ketamine is hardly a new trend in recreational drug use and I've never heard of it being used by anyone to prevent "passing out from all the other drugs". Ketamine in high but stil…

Yep, rotten.com among others exposed me to things that I'm sure would've horrified my parents if they knew. I don't regret it though, I think it shaped me positively. I was around …

How many calories do you consume in that one meal?

I'm a white dude. Why is that creepy? Because I'm dating someone of a different race/culture? She's exactly my age, college educated, speaks excellent English, makes more money tha…

My current girlfriend is Cambodian, and we met via OkCupid. I noticed that of the ~1000 Cambodian girls using the site, none of them matched above 80% with me. I disregarded this a…

Same. I think this poll and Myers-Briggs are only interesting insofar as they are a reflection of how we want to see ourselves. I've variously gotten ENTJ or INTJ over the years.

I gave you a method for determining standard usage.

Do you know some examples of this for French, German or Japanese? I know about the French Academy, for example. I would have assumed their influence didn't extend much beyond ortho…

'them' is plural and flatly incorrect when used as a singular pronoun. Why? How do you know this?

By what authority is this the technically correct word? Some dictionary or grammar book? Where did they get their authority to determine this? Really the only way to decide what is…

"themself" follows the same pattern as "himself", "herself", "ourself", etc. As a commenter pointed out, "them" is frequently used as a singular object pronoun: If a student has an…

How do you think it would help with composition?

English has a subjunctive, but it's only ever visible in the 3rd person singular. While English may not have a dual number, a case system (anymore, though it's still seen vestigial…