I'm inclined to agree that a trait common to many alcoholics is difficulty taking responsibility for our actions (I include myself and I've been sober for years) and that this brother is a mess, but you're still being really dickish and judgy. Plenty of crappy people are addicts, but even more are not.

Complicating the issue further is that drug/alcohol abuse can give you a lot of the symptoms of other mental health problems. I was misdiagnosed as bipolar (and borderline) when I first got sober - it turns out that fits of rage are being needy are common when you're drunk and depression is a pretty natural phase when…

Your week sounds super shitty. I particularly sympathize with your gallbladder pain (I'm in the middle of a work-up for it myself - horrible pain, nausea, cramping... good stuff) and the IRS hassles. My husband got a letter last fall telling him he owed $2700 from three years ago - he'd kept the certified mail receipt…

I'm 28 and I look 20. It sucks at work but I'm constantly hearing that I should be grateful. I take okay care of myself, but like you I worry that I'll wake up looking 70 one day soon.

And I try not to have bread more than once a day. We can all get along!

Ha!

You can gain tons of weight without eating bread and high-fiber bread is a very good, healthy choice for lots of people. And if bread makes me fat that doesn't mean I shouldn't eat it - most delicious things make me fat.

A particularly complex sort of spoiler often comes up when someone speculates - successfully - about a book/show/movie. Someone who knows the truth might be inclined to yell "SPOILER, YOU TURD," but that's the real spoiler - you've just confirmed that the other poster's guess was correct.

The Hold Steady are recording it! Awesome?

I think Ned's silence about Jon being Lyanna's is also to protect his family from Robert. Their rebellion would have gone very differently if Robert had known Lyanna wasn't all virtuous and pure or whatever.

I'm thinking Ms. Royce is stepping in for the sexy Merryweather?

The sword's not actually all that magical; his god isn't as into him as Stannis likes to think; Ned made lots of short-sighted decisions. But... he really doesn't give a single fuck. I'll grant him that.

I can see the appeal. And she's, like, 16 - smarminess is still attractive at that age. I also appreciate that he was pretty clear about what he had to offer - namely his dick.

The very idea of seeing Ramsay with Reek and his dogs ugh ugh ugh gag hack spew.

I think this person was embarrassed and decided to be an ass about it - they also didn't know just what they were being an ass about.

You have plenty of Jezzies to talk to, even if it's not the same as an in-person heart-to-heart. I know what it's like to never be able to catch a fucking break and not have anyone to talk to about it - it's awful and I'm sorry you're going through this. It won't help with the specific situations you're facing right…

That's pretty neat but I still think coconut water is totally LAAAAAME.

I had it straight from a coconut in Hawaii and it was amazing but I was starting to think it's one of those magic Hawaii things (like not feeling self-conscious in a bathing suit and eating pineapple without getting a rash) because all of the bottled ones have been so gross.

That's it exactly. VitaCoco (or whatever the fuck it is) tastes like phlegm and semen. It's horrifying.

I think that might be it. I had it straight from a coconut in Hawaii and it was great, but then I tried a few bottled ones and they were rank. I started to think I'd imagined the first one being good.