@Jetgirly: The day Sephora comes or starts shipping to Norway cannot come soon enough, I swear to god.

@ltwass: Lush does a fairly good approximation. It's a shower gel called Grass. (I've heard some people don't think it smells like grass but I can swear it does. YMMV)

@LindyLou: A nice edema should do the trick. Have you considered climbing K2?

@frozennorth: It's not just the thin that's no longer good enough for these people. It's the damn skeleton and human structure. Soon people suffering from EDs will be looking for bone density loss and cerebral edema, based on the bobbleheads that grace magazine covers.

@Swifter: I'd buy that for a reasonable, snarky price.

As soon as I figure out how to, I'm so nominating this for COTD.

@myprozacdream: After the first visceral reaction, I do start feeling very mad about how her life has been hijacked to serve a ridiculous culture. She is an otherwise smart, good person but she is wasting valuable time of the only life she'll ever get worrying about her nose, stretch marks, weight when she should be…

@ThatGirl7: Thank you. :-)

@Srynerson: If Maeby Fünke can remake "Old Man and the Sea" with Jude Law, she can remake Moby Dick, damnit.

@o0RaidR0o: Well, Day of the Triffids did it well before (and inspired a lot of) 28 Days Later.

@catmac: I've heard people get offended when called "baba" by non-grandkids because they have problems with a signifier of, yes, "crone" age. I hear it's hard when you're first addressed as "babo" instead of "lelyo" (auntie).

@BytheSea: I don't know about the Kazakhstani but Baba is literally just straightforward "grandma" in most Slavic languages. My grandma is entered as "Baba" in my sell phone.

@KungfuKid: Hahaha, Eye of Argon. I can still recite the first paragraph.

@pond-side-over: I miss Frankie Boyle. He was my filthy-mouthed sexy-accented nerd-crush eye candy on that show.

I've moved a lot. When I was younger, my family had over 9 different apartments from when I was 13 to the moment I left for the US at 17. At one point, when I was almost 16, for family reasons I lived by myself and my menagerie for a year. Then US for school and few years of work, back to Bulgaria, London and finally,…

@eatingatoms: No, moving to one of the most expensive cities in the world with barely any savings is not for the faint of heart. But it's one I've never regretted. It also makes the brave braver.

@charva10: Your sister has such a brilliant smile. And mad ukelele skills.

@Dorsal Primary Rami: I'm not entirely sure that's a bad thing. My cats snuggle each other in my wardrobe and shed all over - the floordrobe is the place where my clothes remain relatively hair-free.

@Misiula: I discovered her by chance recently when I mentioned the movie "The Company of Wolves" to a friend. (Said friend's mother is friends with Diana Wynne Jones who wrote "Howl's Moving Castle" and I think taught lit somewhere in the UK so he's read way more female writers than I have) and I fell in love with her…

@ewillse: I haven't read that one. Tepper's is in my top 20 because it's such an unusual, well-written book. I'll have to order McKinley's and give it a try.