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People in Western countries, particularly English-speaking but also in countries where other languages are spoken are told huge lies about how by spending a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, they can attend classes and get a diploma that will let them travel the world and experience life in a new country, learn a language while making a salary comparable to the folks back in your country. The first promise is absolutely true, the second is partially true (your colleagues will be mainly other expats or locals that studied English at university level so you have to actively seek opportunities to learn the language in your free time) and the last is simply not true at all. ESL teachers either go back when they've had enough of living in a crappy flatshare or end up having lived abroad for many years without any savings.

It needs to be made clear to young adults that TESOL is not a long-term career unless they get qualifications which can be used to get a job in a public school (which can be very hard to do once you leave your own country) or have the funds and skills to start a private business and have people teach for you while you take a share of the profits. I personally live well but I am not and will never be the main breadwinner in my family. Meanwhile many are living in poverty abroad with no clear route to improving their own circumstances.

So I've heard a song played on several occasions when passing through neighbourhoods in London/Manchester with a very visible Jewish community, often being played loudly in cars or in Kosher cafés. The tune is almost identical to 'Close Every Door to Me' from the musical Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat which is loosely based on stories from the Jewish bible.

I'm guessing that the language is either Hebrew or Yiddish but I have zero knowledge of either.

I'm sorry if anything about this post comes across as ignorant or disrepectful, that isn't my intention at all.

Thanks in advance.

Title says it all. If they'd gotten together five years earlier and had children after the abdication, would the children have had a claim to the throne? Could they have had an equal/stronger claim than Elizabeth and Margeret through being the children of the eldest son of George V?

Hi guys,

One time I (christian) had a muslim friend visit my apartment and I had a huge pot of stew in my kitchen. He said it smelled amazing and I offered him a bowl, but because I added a can of beer when cooking it he said he'd have to stay on the side of caution and pass.

So my question is this: is it okay for a muslim to eat food cooked in alcohol if the alcohol content is virtually non-existent due to being cooked off and certainly nowhere near enough to cause intoxication? When making the stew I fry the meat and vegetables in butter before adding the beer, which I then cook until the acidic smell is gone then cook it for another 10 minutes or so before adding water and stock.

I'm just asking out of curiosity, I wasn't offended at all by my friend's behaviour.

EDIT: slightly changed some wording for clarity

I'm just wondering whether priests have certain rules to follow when socialising. Do you typically socialise only with family and other priests, or do you typically socialise with the lay community?

Would it be acceptable to go for a coffee with a friend that isn't a priest? Are you expected to stay away from places like bars or sports stadiums outside of priestly duties? Did you feel some distance grow between you and the friends you already had during/after seminary and ordination?

Please delete if not appropriate, this is something I have been genuinely curious about for a while.

I have a pretty severe dustmite allergy and live in an area with a lot of calima (dust carried in the air from the desert) meaning that regular cleaning of my house is essential so that I'm not coughing and sneezing constantly.

I'm looking at tbe labels on my pillows and all of the little pictures with crosses over them are there, implying that I should neither wash them by hand or in the washing machine. How do you wash them?

Would it be acceptable to allow an Anglican cleric to give a blessing to our baby? We sometimes attend events (but not mass, which we regularly attend at a Spanish-speaking Catholic church) at an anglican church with the local British/American community as there is very little English-speaking catholic presence where we live and an anglican cleric is usually present. From what I have seen they are very respectful and always ask permission from parents before giving blessings to children. Does it make a difference if the priest is male or female? And if necessary what would be the most appropriate way to respectfully refuse?

So, pretty random and probably silly question. I work at a school and got called into the IT department and told off for installing firefox on my work laptop. I was told that it's a myth that Edge is slower/less secure than other browsers and that it's the only browser allowed on work devices for security reasons. The department has a block on installing and using any other browser which hadn't been enabled on devices in my name due to an oversight.

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Does anybody have any idea why the school would do this? I've been told my whole life that Explorer/Edge is a liability and that most workplaces discourage it due to safety reasons. In fact, the last school I worked at had Firefox and Chrome installed on every device and told us only to use Edge if what we were trying to do didn't work on the other browsers.