Anonymous on The Toilet DilemmaMay 19, 2026
The Canadian government reliably informs me that women routinely have penises. Can't argue with that. Hence the urinals.
cliff arroyo on Just So You UnderstandMay 19, 2026
"drive everybody nuts with their demands to be assigned that particular classroom" Kids with toys. My first step in such…
Demotrash on The Toilet DilemmaMay 18, 2026
There are coed bathrooms with urinals in some parts of Western Europe (my parents encountered some while traveling decades ago.)…
random reader on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
Technically, the case I’m thinking of was not a co-teaching situation either. Some people can get very creative. I really…
Clarissa on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
No, these are two completely different classes. This is not a co-teaching situation. It's more of a "people are trying…
Random reader on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
Are they trying to get two for one here where they schedule two different classes in the same classroom at…
Clarissa on The Toilet DilemmaMay 18, 2026
People actually waste money on these weird setups. I really don't get it.
Clarissa on Quebec CityMay 18, 2026
Definitely the climate. The architecture, the layout. Some buildings are just identical. What a great place. I should come more…
Anonymous on The Toilet DilemmaMay 18, 2026
I was once at a fancy restaurant with transparent bathroom doors. But when you lock the door they supposedly went…
Anonymous on Quebec CityMay 18, 2026
I get it! It is the geography, the climate, and the general atmosphere, right? Or perhaps the food? And of…
oldcowboy3 on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
LOL, "...rather eat toenails..." Kid, for an academic, you are sometimes colourful ;-D
Clarissa on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
One of them is hoping to be hired full-time and the other wants to help her because she's his puppet…
Anonymous on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
No one ever considered flipping a coin in this whole process?
Anonymous on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
Do the people involved have OCD, or are they having some kind of status anxiety wrt to the other party?…
oldcowboy3 on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
arses ;-D
oldcowboy3 on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
Hmmm. well, I can see that a particular classroom could have some unique value to both, but the time? Nope,…
Clarissa on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
I'm very ready to cut somebody in half at this point, let me tell you.
Ed Frey on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
Sort of a academic twist on the story of King Solomon who proposed cutting a living child in half to…
Anonymous on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 18, 2026
Oh, I forgot to put at the top. My comment was a response to Walnut's question/statement. "I’ll be interested in…
Anonymous on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 18, 2026
To be fair and this is coming from me. Hitler wasn't in Spain for the Spanish, or even really to…
oldcowboy3 on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 18, 2026
Later, Orwell wrote that he went to Spain as a journalist with an idea of fighting if he figured it…
Avi on Quebec CityMay 18, 2026
But how? San Sebastián is on the Basque coast, a sea harbour with an exquisite cuisine culture and a tradition…
Anonymous on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 18, 2026
Animal Farm was 10 years later, and as some might point out many, found it to be more anti Stalinist…
oldcowboy3 on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 18, 2026
Hmmm, I rather doubt that one gets characters like Boxer and Benjamin from an author that is simply"an unapologetic communist"…
cliff arroyo on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 18, 2026
"Why is the reaction to these events so overinflated almost a hundred years later?" My guess is oppositional identity formation.…
Anonymous on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 17, 2026
Everything you need to know about the Spanish civil war you can learn by Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, though most…
oldcowboy3 on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 17, 2026
"Why did things get so extreme? Why is the reaction to these events so overinflated almost a hundred years later?"…
Anonymous on Discarded LivesMay 17, 2026
I'm reminded I need to clean out some closets... ethyl
Mitch4 on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 17, 2026
I have friends on the generalized American Left who still maintain a romanticisation of the International Brigades, and try to…
cliff arroyo on Discarded LivesMay 17, 2026
"why was the evidence of their unusual lives discarded like this" Not sure if that would be my takeaway. The…