Isn't that expression ("looking like butter wouldn't melt in her/his mouth") a standard idiom in the US (I'm assuming you're American)? Genuinely curious; I'm from a UK-English speaking country, and I think of that as a pretty ordinary turn-of-phrase.

Seriously, this dress is all over Gawker, what the fuck? It's on at least 5 different Gawker sites/sub-sites. I can't remember that last time a story dominated Gawker Media the way this ugly-ass dress is doing right now.

I like to imagine that these are not monks, but a bunch of Dementors (or perhaps Nazgul) blowing off steam after a hard day of spreading suffering and hopelessness to wizard/elven/hobbit/human/muggle-kind.

I bought a couple of Demestik's skirts for myself for my birthday this year after coveting them for years, literally years. They were great,and totally worth the wait.

Yeah, that's the part that didn't sit right with me. Like, I appreciate the overall sentiment of her statement, but that part got some serious side-eye from me, honestly.

I saw a picture of her at Carnival and was like, but wait, with that Kardashian feud she has going on, I didn't realize she would have the time to be playing mas. I hope she had a blast. Did she really go on the road in those shoes though?

Yes, just on its own. Plain Milk of Magnesia straight from the bottle. All I do is give the bottle a good shake first.

Yup! Milk of magnesia straight from the bottle to my pits. Odour eliminated!

Oh, this made me want to document my daily routine too!

I tried the baking soda as deodorant thing too, and I started getting scabs and sores in my armpits. Unpleasant. What I swear by now is milk of magnesia. It is the best deodorant I have ever ever used (and I'm saying this as a person who used to be sometimes embarrassingly stinky because I couldn't find a chemical…

I don't know how well acquainted you are with the different parts of speech, but in those posts you linked, female is not being used as a noun, it's being used as an adjective to describe a noun (guard, students, bodies, silencing, activists, etc.). As the article above clearly says, it's the use of the word as a noun,…

I wash with honey too, honey and olive oil, but it was definitely the addition of the turmeric that really changed my skin. And I'm also a fan of henna! After I hennaed my hair the very first time, two of my relatives asked me, "What have you done to your hair? It looks so shiny." I've been hennnaing regularly ever…

I would love to read tips from you and your grandma! I started doing turmeric and honey masks about a year ago and my skin is pretty much the best it's been since I hit puberty. And it's definitely the turmeric that's made the difference; I used to do honey masks before and those were nowhere near as effective.…

A while back I used to go to a Chinese lady for massages (best massages ever, by the way) and she did this too, referring to everyone as 'she'. Or she would start a story with the right pronouns, but as it went on (she was very chatty) and she became more at ease, everyone would gradually become 'she'. I've studied a…

I think "cowardly" has to do with the way he left Janet Jackson high and dry out there on her own after the Great Superbowl Nipple Incident of 2004.

Hello! *waves* I always get a kick out of seeing other Barbadian (or half Barbadian) folk on Jez. Also, I did my PhD in Edinburgh and, weather notwithstanding, Scotland is my favourite place in the world after Barbados. I'm not even kidding. I miss it a lot.

I'm not trying to get into any intra-Caribbean warfare, but holy shit, this comment was hilarious. A sunshine snack packet! Dead with laugh!

Oh, I hope you make a full recovery soon! People I know who've had severe symptoms tell me the pain is like nothing they've ever felt in their lives. Even though I haven't gotten it yet, I figure it's only a matter of time before I do. I travel to a fair number of islands with my job, and ChikV was just causing havoc…

More than 2 weeks! I know people who are still aching months later.

Chikungunya has been running rampant all over the Caribbean this year. Everyone I know has either had it, or knows at least two people who've had it. It was causing quite a public health panic a couple of months ago. I think it's on the decline for now though, and I've been spared so far, despite my failure to use…