When I was being bullied after skipping to the 3rd grade, my mother did the mature parent thing and talked to the other girl's mother.

Okay, I can understand fishing. And I can understand being around bears and watching them.

If J.K. Rowling ever writes anything more in the Harry Potter universe, I would like it to be about Dumbledore.

@girlarchaeologist: Me too! It's tearing me apart!

Are there any queer people here with crazy online dating stories?

I am unfortunately unable to change the channel when the Apprentice UK comes on. They play Sims 3 music on that show ALL THE TIME. Every episode I've watched so far has had it in the background at least once, no joke.

Am I the only one that is sort of struck by how non-stupid he sounds?

I know that Karamian is a name somewhat common in Iran and Turkey, so I'm going to assume that he's of Persian ethnicity because of his first name, which ironically means "benevolent".

@ZiggyStarPuff loves Miz Jenkins too!:

Whoa, I don't even watch this show but I'm surprise. How did Gretchen win? What were her supposed strong points?

I went to an international school where I got bullied a lot. I'm assuming it was because I skipped a grade, but in the end I don't really know why. What's worse is that I had to be "friends" with the people that bullied me mostly for social survival (they were 10 of the people out of a class of 12, including me). When…

@leftyleftylou:

James Franco as Allen Ginsburg? I am quaking with excitement in a totally non-ironic way.

@Candychelle:

I want to feel sorry for this woman.

UNwomen reminds me of The Handmaid's Tale.

OH MY GOD. I've been saying that WWE was a soap opera since I was 11.

In high school my friends and I had a theory that Venus used to be just like Earth including lifeforms, and then the inhabitants of Venus used and abused the planet until it turned on them, and became the crazy global warming acid cloud it is today.

@AllieCaulfield: ...I think I love you for saying that...

I found The Little Prince bizarre when I was a child. I really didn't like the Prince's appearance, nor the appearance of any other people in the book, but there was something so cool about his adventure and the adventure of the protagonist he met that intrigued me.