Worse is when they are not even asked to pay!

That's just SAD... and super cruel.

The sad truth...

SO TRUE!! We no longer have free lunches at our school, and it’s not cheap! (Although the lunches at our school are good)

wtf is this actually happening over in America...

I think this depends on the celeb.

Dial that back JUST a bit. What we LEARNED?? No, we experienced it, and we are whitewashing the whole affair so we don't need to learn anything. Just because you can demonstrate and prove something, has no connection to us necessarily learning it.

🤔...🤨

bUt MeH rIgHts! Gods I hate people sometimes.

This is just a simple fact.

A rent payment is not a credit transaction. Try to understand the difference. The real kicker is that you might think paying off a debt would improve a persons credit worthiness ie. I borrowed money and then paid it back before I said I would. Nope, closing a credit line by paying it off lowers your credit rating. Now that is bass ackwards.

Let's all thank the Supreme Court and Citizens United. I'll believe "corporations are people, too" [Mitt Romney] when a corporation gets sentenced to death in Texas.

Someone posted a photo of their itemised maternity bill from a US hospital on another forum a while back-it included a $50 charge for "skin to skin care." Skin to skin is literally putting the naked baby onto the mother or father's bare chest. It's meant to help with temperature regulation, and is alleged to help soothe the baby immediately after birth, but its not a medical procedure. Mum picks up the baby, puts it on her chest, and the hospital charges $50 for a midwife to watch? It's utterly ludicrous. The American healthcare system is beyond a joke.

So let's do it.

But they give "thoughts and prayers" every time something happens! Isn't that enough!?!

I get my diabetes medication free. After reading all this stuff, I'm so glad I was born in the UK. It's certainly not perfect, but 1000x better than living in the 'Land of the free'.

They'll get right on that.

Because clapping and banging pots and pans is the new rental currency, obviously/s

I live in the Middle East and I could argue with you guys :)

Unfortunately, it's very American nowadays. At least our government thinks so... and the people who try to stop it are shut down or too scared to be able to make a difference.

My taxi driver today was asking about healthcare in the US and I told him about people not having money for insulin just dying. He is a dialysis patient and wondered if the cost was covered. i honestly don't know but I am not super hopeful. But imagine the poor kid and thinking you could have killed your parent via a simple mistake cause health insurance sucks

:'( The wrong people are in charge because we believe that an object has incredible value.e

Yep.

I genuinely believe homework should be banned or extremely limited

No, if we lost the cold war the cockroaches would be in charge. Maybe it's time to give them a shot...

I may be wrong here, but women choose to be nuns. If you don't want to wear a nun's habit, don't become a nun. It's the woman's decision, based not only on her faith but on her life choice (as in "work uniform"). Simple. There are countries where a woman merely going outside without hijab is punished and occasionally killed. I don't see the two as being comparable. Unless the bigotry is against women, rather than religion. Plenty of places where that's the case.

(took me far too long to work out that Christian Nun wasn't a person's name...)

A nun's habit does bother me. It represents the concealment of a person in celebration of "chastity" because christianity decided that sex was problematic. "Cut out thine eye" , "cut off thy hand", and all that. "Better to be a eunuch" as Paul says. It's really problematic. Christiantity is the reason america is OK with gross violence and not ok with sex and is so prudish. The word "puritan" just means a kind of christian but we know what it really means: sex is bad. Both hijab and a nun's habit serve to cover a woman so she can't be objectified. The meaning implicit in this is that a woman is a sex object and men have no self-control. Both interpretations are disturbing. If you disagree, engage in argument rather than downvote. Thanks.

Since too many people seem to be missing the point this person is trying to make, I have this to day. This individual seems to be referring to how in the areas that you will see both, it is much less likely to be forced in either case. The point this writer is trying to make is that the same individuals in multicultural nations whom are getting mad at hijabs, are also completely ignoring the headdresses of the other religious group which the individual follows. The point being expressed is that an individual should not be ridiculed, insulted, etc for their choice of faith and/or apparel, but that all should be accepted. They aren't arguing about history, or that the areas which use religion as a tool to force upon others a way of life, but to say that an individual should be free to follow their chosen religion without fear of being verbally assaulted for wearing an article of clothing their chosen sect involves them wearing.

The amount of people who missed the point of this and are just being plain islamophobic is sad

I've never suffered from memories of having my knuckles rapped by anyone wearing a hijab.

I read Christian Nun as a name... and I was wondering who is this Christian and what is his habit that it is so bad??? *facepalm*

in italy you can dress how you want (mostly) but you cannot cover your face.

The nuns faces aren’t covered, AND, they chose to wear it!

Sure, cos it's perfectly valid to compare a few thousand dedicated religious zealots who choose a certain lifestyle to the millions of women who are kept in subjugation by the all-male ruling and religious elite.

So true! Also take into account women who wear a hijab originally did it partly to get out of the sun. Melanoma is not fun.

I understand that nuns accept he terms and conditions first, don't they?

Nuns chose the life.

Who’s Mohammed Safa

My problem with both is they look REALLY hot!!! But hijabs are by far the prettier

Excellent point.

Amazing how many Catholics wore scarves to church in the 60's and have forgotten it. It's because of things like this, I am atheist. I was raised Catholic.

Tell me you have no clue of islam, without telling me you have no clue of islam

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there is however a - not very subtle - difference between the two: one is the consequence of a voluntary choice of an individual, the other one in some cases not

Not the same. Nuns are respected by Christianity. Women are property in Islam. False equivalency here. Nuns also don't profess to kill all non Muslims like the Koran preaches. Nuns also rarely walk around in public covering their faces - the Habit shows the face. Muslims cover their face. Different.