What is your New Years Tradition?

We Always meet up with the whole Family. Loved and "unloved" Everyone just eats, no problems are discussed, no fighting. Everyone is just a Family for one evening and everything is fine.

CAN LIVING ORGANISMS SUCH AS PLANTS AND ANIMALS BE INVENTED? AND SHOULD PRIVATE COMPANIES BE ALLOWED TO CLAIM SUCH SUPPOSED INVENTIONS FOR THEMSELVES? NO!

And how does it show?

From what I've read, gay people were born with the predisposition to eventually find out they're gay (usually), and gay people don't 'become' gay. They might come out or start engaging in related behaviours.

Watching a Quebec series from 2014 called Serie Noire, one of the characters complains that his girlfriend has become a lesbian, after he finds out she's cheating on him with a woman. He remarks multiple times about how he's distraught that she has become a lesbian and it's probably played for comedic effect. Of course the issue shouldn't be that she's a lesbian (or bisexual) but rather that she's cheating on him and isn't interested in him, but he also calls it "becoming" a lesbian, describing it as a somewhat random event/decision rather than a reveal about his partner.

Just wondering, would this be considered offensive today? Thanks

e.g. listening to the breathing sound of a newborn.

You'd think it's soothing to know it's breathing but really their breathing is still kind of in development and does weird shit all the time.

I wish I could speak Finnish. But, actually, there are tons of languages I wish I could speak. All of them, really, but Finnish is the first one I thought of just now.

I'm in the US and English is my my primary language. I studied Russian but have forgotten a lot of it. I know a few words of German and French, but very few.

Edited to add: Please tell me what your primary language is. It would also be interesting to know what other languages you speak, if any, and where you currently live.

Reminder: Please specify the country you're answering for.

Reminder: Please state what country you're answering for.

I would choose the events. I like events.

I really don't want to be overly strict with the rules, especially while this sub is so small. But I think this is an important rule, and I'm considering being more strict about its enforcement.

The reason I think it's important is that this is meant to be an educational community. In many cases, I assume people don't say where they're from because they assume it's obvious to people based on their answer. It may be, to people from the US or familiar with its zeitgeist. But this community isn't just for them. The last thing I want is for this community to suffer from US-defaultism.

For that reason, I'm thinking that from here on, if I see an answer that doesn't state which country it's for, I'll give a reminder. After that, the poster will have 24 hours to edit it into their post, and it will be deleted if they have not done so.

What do you think? Too strict? Not strict enough?

I asked this before elsewhere, but I thought it led to some interesting answers.

Please remember to say which country you're from. We don't have flairs here.