A thousand points to Gryffindor!

"What I learned from therapy is that I can't change my mom's behavior (and trust me talking to her about it does nothing to change it.), I can change my reaction to it."

That's pretty much the essence of tackiness. Gifts aren't just about giving you what you want. They're about giving you a nice thing that makes you think about your friend when you use it. My mom still thinks about the woman who gave her a toy for a baby shower. And she now uses it when her grandson comes around.

Though money is usually the "gift of choice" in my culture (Chinese) and my husband's (Jewish), it would never occur to me to ASK for money. We did have a registry and people on my side were more likely to purchase from it than his (I think for HK Chinese-Canadians and HKers (especially boomers, Gen X and…

My granny nagged about my weight constantly. I remember one summer, I worked at a camp and was swimming, boating, walking all day . . . and a quirk of the camp was that rather than deal with specific diets of the campers, they opted for a no-salt/no-fat/low sugar diet. I learned to love eating salads with a squeeze…

1.) Buy your rich friend a copy of Emily Post's book of manners and bookmark the page on Gift Giving and Receiving, mail it to her house, and skip the baby shower.

Dear Letter Writer 3, I have been in your shoes. I am still in your shoes. I've been in therapy because of those shoes.

In my opinion the baby-money friend is out of order. People don't buy you gifts because they think you need financial help, they buy you gifts because they're pleased for you and want to show that (or because of societal pressure). Then again I'm from the UK and to be honest I don't really get the whole baby-shower…

Listen, if I get you a baby gift, it's going to be soft and have frogs on it. End of story.

Not perfect, but also not accused of molesting children. So I'll call that a win.

Well, the school appropriated Native American imagery for its mascot, but the student isn't allowed to express his genuine heritage on an important day in his life. I think that's what was being commented on.

This doesn't sound any different than wearing an honor cord — an outstanding citizenship in the Seminole Nation "cord" — a meaningful symbol representative of what he has accomplished (academically, athletically, socially, culturally, etc) throughout his high school years.

Not featuring "teen pregnancy" as a yearbook theme is not the same as "shitting on people." And unless these pregnancies were planned (which would be unusual, but not impossible I suppose), I think the "choice" accusation is misplaced, or at least it's complicated. I don't think anyone here is arguing that the…

Yes, they shouldn't appear in the yearbook AT ALL. Not even a fucking class photo. GMAB. Amazing how there is apparently zero middle ground here.

Suck it, troll.

That's the tartan from the MacLabia clan of Scotland.

wow, fuck you. A couple people in the comments have already mentioned how much trouble they have getting glitter nail polish off, and while I've been to nail salons, they've never taken my nail polish off like that before.

It's all fun and games until you accidentally gnaw your fingernails off while eating Cheetos.

Being a man of hope, I was struck by the fact that one student himself reported it all to the school authorities, at a very high social cost, I'm sure, in this all male environment. So good for him.

You know, I may actually believe that at least some of the Jez staff thinks Solange is a bad ass for attacking JayZ.