A student who wishes to obtain a beard exception must visit a BYU Student Health Center doctor by appointment. The doctor will fax his recommendation.

koavf · 2 years

Wait, you can't grow a beard without an exception?

Well, in most Asian universities they can't grow a beard either.

koavf · 2 years

BYU is actually a pretty good university. I know of it, and I am not even American (or a moreman or morewoman).

It is much better than most "state universities" in the USA and much better than my shithole university.

monopoleroy · 2 years

You are lucky. In my country the postal services is shit. My postman is illiterate - I usually get other people's private mail. I live in an apartment, and he delivers any mail that matches my apartment number (even though it is a different apartment complex, an actual street address, etc..). The dumb fuck can apparently not read letters.

The postal services are just happy when the mail is not dumped (literally sacks of mail thrown on the sides of the road). Amazon even stopped delivering to the country for a while because the fucking registered mail gets stolen. Oh, and it is shit expensive to send anything.

DefaultPlayer · 2 years

Are you going to do it then?

Archz714 · 2 years

It depends. If the only alternative is hunger or a vegetarian diet, then of course.

Although I would not eat Asians, since the bible clearly prohibit the eating of anything except beasts with hoofed claws.

igeldard · 2 years

Yeah, they often use foreign names to strike fear in the eyes and hearts of their opponents.

They also do it in an effort to pick up Danish girls by using a foreign sounding name and a fake American accent. According to John (whose real name is BJØRN ) Danish girls apparently love American accents. This strategy of the Danish army has however not yielded any operation successes.

John also tried to pick up girls at the Copenhagen Chapel. This led to the colloquial Danish saying of “BJØRN again Christian” (meaning someone who does something with ulterior motives).

igeldard · 2 years

Yeah, they have a Navy. It is called John, Jack and Ignar. Samuel also helps on Wednesday when he is not busy Policing the small town of Copenhagen and John takes the first Monday of the month of.

There was a severe crisis the past winter when Ignar and John got the flu. But luckily their arch enemy, Sweden, didn't attack them (they haven't attacked for the past 200 years).

This may be due to the mutual defence pact they signed with the Canadian Navy three years ago. So, once again, Swedish imperialism was thwarted.

cGt2099 · 2 years

They need to bring this back to trail.

My favourite author killed his brother and spend a few years on death row (I would have thought that they would be lenient, considering that it was his brother. Who here with brothers did not contemplate at least once in killing them?). From his book:

For the rest of the time the dozen inmates of the cell carried on a desultory conversation, a lot of it having to do with what appeared to be highly unbecoming activities on part of the plain-clothes members of the police force, who seemed to spend all their waking hours in working up spurious cases against law-abiding citizens.

He later explains how bad it felt to be the only guilty person in the whole prison.

The point being - in all prisons, everyone claims that they are not innocent, and it is often not the case.

123789 · 2 years

123789 · 2 years

Me neither. I suspect someone "let the cat out of the bag" that the future of the art students is working at McDonalds. Maybe they feel that working there will be catastrophic?

123789 · 2 years

Context: http://englishrussia.com/?p=902

Banko · 2 years

because there is an insurmountably huge income gap in China, as

The income inequality in China is better than many democratic countries. Rapidly economically developing countries generally have a high income inequality. There are many causes for this - one is the disparity of income of rural subsistence and small scale agriculture people to city workers. Another is the age difference in income - younger people tend to be better educated and have a higher income than unskilled older people.

The income inequality in China is not much worse than the USA. From WP: (CIA world factbook figures, GINI coefficient)

United States 45

People's Republic of China 46.9

Argentina 49

Chile 54.9

Brazil 56.7

South Africa 57.8

Also note that in China, cost of basic consumable is lower and there is good (and cheap, subsidised) public transportation. So the quality of life for someone with a low salary in China is much better than for someone with the same salary in other countries.

someone who is completely immersed in their role in the system, who is too poor to do anything about it,

Average and even poor Chinese are extremely ambitious. Sometimes this manifests itself through them having big dreams for their children (e.g. study, etc…).

Banko · 2 years

If I were a guest there, I might be tempted to hire them on their free time to act as an interpreter as I went out and saw the sights.

Most don't know English well. The people who knows English the best usually works at the front desk (or are the manager).

The best is if you meet college students. They know English better (though it is still a struggle) and know the local sites, good places to eat, etc...

Banko · 2 years

but the birth of socialist political ideas and long struggles by labour unions succeeded in winning decent working conditions and better pay for the average person -

Is it the "labour union struggle" or economic development? My grandfather started working to finish grade 8 (stopped with school then and started working for food). At that time, no matter how you sliced the cake, there wasn't enough money for everyone. As the economy grew, work standards improved, education improved and living standards improved.

Banko · 2 years

IMHO you are right - all of those people seem remarkably well dressed.

In many countries there are women who do physical work (such as roadworks) for a worse salary in ragged clothes.

In any case, most cities (e.g. Beijing) have large and extremely cheap subways. So it isn't like other poor countries where poor people are almost completely immobile. In China even a person doing the most menial of jobs can afford a cellphone (0.15 yuan a minute) and subway (2 yuan in Beijing to anywhere).

snakeballs · 2 years

Not really. It is better to use antibiotics early before a disease progress (e.g. bronchitis becomes a lung infection).

Hospitals have used the strategy of changing antibiotics seasonally.

Kirbyjcox · 2 years

Haha... you are an idiot! It is Sydney. What is next? The capital of Canada isn't Toronto?

armpits · 2 years

haha... unless Russia attacks again. You have gone soft since WW2. I am sure that even Canada would be able to conquer most Scandinavian countries.

chwilkin · 2 years

The Gods Must Be Crazy

ThiZ · 2 years

TB is high in South Africa (because of all the AIDS patients). People usually get sent home with medicine (not quarantined). The only time that they are quarantined is when they have MDR or XDR TB (more deadly forms of TB that is resistant to frontline drugs).

snakeballs · 2 years

It is a lot like gymnastics. The guys give points on how good they think the earthquake was. The Japanese judges thought that it only deserved a 6.9 and the American judges thought it deserved a 7.2. So the average of 7.05 will be awarded.

epi4life · 2 years

Yeah, I was kinda setting up for the joke "what do you write..." but you didn't answer it that way...

Sorry, Reddit is kinda the locker room for engineers, nerds and other social misfits. If you can't show your "street cred" then you are bound to be made fun of...

Peace out!

epi4life · 2 years

epi4life · 2 years

What are you writing? I also write for a living. Mostly C/C++...

epi4life · 2 years

I guess you also studied Economics or Philosophy?

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