Exactly! If you already have everything you need and are doing well enough to have a wedding, why do you need my money? What really pisses me off about it is the that the guests are essentially, in that situation, footing a portion of the bill for the wedding itself. Ummmmm, why??

You chose to throw an expensive party…

Totally agree. Gifts are optional, not the price of admission. And yet, in our crazy wedding-industrial-meets-entitlement culture, a person is "horrible" for not ponying up an appropriate wedding present. Which could be cash at least equivalent to the price of your plate (how do you know what that is without an…

It is very tacky to ask for ANYTHING. A gift is a voluntary item that a guest graciously gives their host in thanks for throwing a party. A host is never supposed to expect a gift. I think it is so rude to ask for either money or gifts. And Miss Manners agrees!

Here's a neat trick to counterbalance the outrageous costs of a wedding and reception: Stop fucking spending thousands of dollars on a few hours of "this is my special day, look how pretty I am." If you cannot afford a wedding and a honeymoon, maybe you should stop throwing money away like it isn't the difference…

I can totally envision and understand your breathless excitement at this moment but Chris should have his whole first name in your first graph, and it’s deep fryer …

"The kids were absolutely ravenous," remarked an onlooker. "At one point they cut the throat of a raccoon and feasted on the blood while cooing "'sweet nectar.'" Another witness noted that blood-soaked copies of acclaimed hit Country Strong were found scattered around the restaurant.

You are the coolest in this whole post. Damn.

John Amos will never die!

It's all about Good Times. Everyone knows that Good Times is the best. The piano intro, the keepin' your head above water, the TEMPORARY LAYOFF!! It's no contest.

"I did things with you that you wanted me to do!"

Well, while I agree that it's unfair to assume that everyone who drinks White Zinfandel is an amateur, I think generally that indicates that someone isn't much of a drinker, and the drinks drive the tab up which increase tips - so for many people in the industry it's a useful stereotype to conjure up. But the rest of…

Your comment was more informative than the article, and for that I thank you!

Always be the Cold Hard Science person. Please. It's a dying breed.

Thanks for calling Jezebel out—they have a bad habit of terribly biased/inaccurate "reporting" that drives me crazy.

I can't even FIND an impact factor for the "Caspian Journal of Internal Medicine", and a trial done with 84 college kids is essentially worthless for real-world use. (From Comparative effect of thymus vulgaris and ibuprofen on primary dysmenorrhea: A triple-blind clinical study: "This clinical study was conducted on…

Ok, a few things. First, don't make any medical decisions based on a single study. It needs to be replicated. Second, if thyme oil is beneficial, the next step would be isolating the compound that was creating the benefit, conducting safety trials, and manufacturing a drug, as herbal drugs are very hard to give…

Not to always be the Cold Hard Science person, but:

*puts incredulous hat on* What? That just sounds bizarre. I don't trust that essential oil herbal medicine thing at all. What the hell makes thyme better than an aspirin? That just seems so RANDOM.

A hysterectomy was just the ticket for me.

I wonder if just eating some thyme every day would have an effect. E.g. throwing a sprig of fresh thyme on your evening veggies or into your kale smoothie or whatever.