Xiaoma cannot be counted as a half-assed effort in learning other languages.

People like it when you go to their country and try to use their language.

People who immigrate to America and are struggling to fit in and often facing issues due to their differences in appearance and language... they may not feel the same way especially if it's a half-assed effort (OP got it wrong). It can feel condescending.

The rule was always about liquids and gels. Or to be more anal,

>Any liquid, aerosol, gel, cream or paste

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/liquids-rule

My understanding is that the "liquid" explosives that airlines are afraid of are often quite viscous and more like gels or putties (or peanut butter) than water.

The TSA media person is just doing a terrible job of explaining the rationale. They could just have said that peanut butter is a paste and that's restricted.

Hey, you changed your avatar and it is no longer mauve.

Is this a joke? Cos mauve is pretty much exactly the background color of your Reddit avatar.

Then the problem is requiring men to wear full suits and ties in summer.

You actually assemble a bunch of extracts from all kinds of different plants (or moulds, or sponges, or insects or whatever), and then you license or offer it to any scientist/pharma who wants to screen your library for activity against whatever disease or enzyme they are interested in. That's how research in natural products is done.

I was replying to someone who wrote “as if blackface isn’t offensive in the rest of the world”.

Blackface isn’t really considered offensive in Asia, except by those who have learnt this from the West. It would be similar to wearing a yellow wig and powder on your face to act as a white person for comedic effect.

It happened on China’s state-owned TV and was supposed to be an African dance to celebrate Chinese ties with Africa.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lunar-newyear-china-gala-idUSKBN2AC0BK

Also many times in Japan, kind of like cos-playing black celebrities.

https://www.vox.com/platform/2015/3/17/8230783/japan-racism-blackface

For that matter, dressing up as Hitler or Nazi would also not be horribly offensive. There’s just no cultural/historical legacy there and so few of the sociological group who would be offended.

Are you sure your friend wasn't thinking that the question was how old Buzz Aldrin looks?

Umm, you're editing what they wrote.

>... the next thing I knew Naomi approached me. Paused for 5 seconds...

By omitting (for no reason) the subject before "paused", it leads to confusion because the previous sentence was both about Naomi and "me".

Ok. What’s her last name (or family name)? It’s pretty easy to figure out someone’s ethnicity from their family name.

Dude, WHO stopped and said “I’m not Chinese”? You or her?

What does someone being a Chinese national have to do with examples of student work?

How is it a joke to tell your friend that Naomi is a rich Chinese exchange student?

If Naomi is the one who said that she’s Filipino, then why did John say that she’s Chinese-Korean? If you’re the one who is Filipino, did you think that you had to tell Naomi that so she wouldn’t think that you’re Chinese like her?

> Stopped and paused for 5 seconds... before saying "I'm not Chinese" and "I'm Filipino"

Did Naomi say that or did you say that?

Aargh, I don't know why teenagers' writing is so hard to understand. The whole story from head to tail made no sense.

Go all out on costumes. Not dress up as an earthworm every year!