This reminds me of my crazy ass principal. Come to think of it, she was also from NYC, hmm.

@onestrawplz: I agree, though, while stripping is definitely women feeding into the male gaze or vice-versa for male strippers (as a bi girl, I don't find women or men stripping or doing sexy dances to strip-club music alluring at all), but pole-dancing is pretty kick-ass.

No. 12 has obviously never heard the truth about ponchos: it's impossible to be unhappy in them.

@buzzgirl: Totally agree. The French protest much more often and when protests get aggressive, their much worse than anything I've seen so far going on in the UK, fires started included*.

@Apricot_Poodle: I heard it was actually made, and consisted not of actual meat, but cut up toy unicorns and sparkles.

I'm not an Objectivist, but Ayn Rand's writing does/did speak to me.

This is really dumb, WHY would you think it's a good idea to send members of the royal family through a protest lead by people that are anti-tuition fee raising? This shit could have been avoided.

Somewhere in Gabarone, Precious Ramotswe is drinking bush tea with her best BITCH PLEASE face on.

I don't understand a lot of the negative comments made by some soldiers.

@The Lace Snail: That was a strange story but the effect was totally ruined by the narrator. Perhaps Ira Glass has left me with high expectations of radio commentary but GOD, this guy can't properly read a story.

Somebody in my high school's administration decided this would be the song for the school year of my graduation.

@The Lace Snail: I know it's been forever since you posted this, but I just found this thread (don't know how I missed it!), and I am totally going to steal this story. Honestly, it's the sort of freaky thing that happens to me on occasion and that would freak me out.

I go through this airport when I go between Europe and my parent's home.

@Daoudmac: You are so damn hearted right now.

@LLisCool: You can also hear it read aloud by David Sedaris on This American Life. I think the episode was called "I like being a girl, sort of" or something like that, and his sisters story was the first or second act.

@dripdrop: This is totally unrelated, but I had to keep looking at your icon because at first glance it looked like Gandalf. On closer inspection, I understand that it's a cat but every time I look away from it, it looks like Gandalf again!

Don't breast implants require subsequent surgeries to maintain them?

I want to call bullshit.

I would like to thank i09 for introducing me to the Harry Potter = Evil video, and thus the phrase "sucking the unicorn". That made my week.

I am a staunch member of Team Cake.