For whatever reason, I feel like Britney is likely a person that'll only believe something like that when she actually sees it.

I believe France enacted lots of regulation after Princess Diana's death. A number of celebrities now live in France in order to get away from the paparazzi.

I recently went back to school for a career change, and I was shocked at how expensive the 'custom' books are. Annoyingly, my school also orders them only as looseleaf books (packets of pages that you insert in your own 3-ring binder). They have a strict policy about only buying back bound books, of course.

The warm-milk-and-pencil method, right? I developed a tapeworm phobia after I adopted a puppy that came with a flea infestation. It seriously took a few years to shake it.

A lot of minimum-wage jobs (fast food worker, cashier, etc) involve spending the majority of time on your feet, also. When I was working as a cashier, the last thing I wanted to do after a shift was go for a walk or to the gym. I hadn't burned a lot of calories, but I had just spent anywhere from 4 to 10 hours on my…

I feel like this is one of those times when Drop Dead Gorgeous should be required viewing: "If they tell you to take your top off, get the money first."

His self-parodying on "Extras" won me over, kind of.

I learned from a 45-year-old country song exactly why God made girls: to tell off the shaming bigots of the Harper Valley PTA.

Thanks for the correction! The incidences I'm familiar with must not have exceeded the exemption. I don't want to spread bad or incomplete information.

People are generally able to get around estate and probate stuff as it is, so there'd need to be a total overhaul of the system. If someone creates a joint bank account with their kid, for example, that bank account won't go into probate if the parent dies. The kid inherits the whole thing immediately. I know a number…

Something about that expression makes her look almost like Tina Fey.

A big part of the issue is that Target, moreso than a lot of retailers, confines their plus-size stuff to online only. They offer over 100 plus-size dresses, but only five are available in-store and one of those is actually a swimsuit coverup. Only four of their skirts are available in-store.

Not a trilogy. A thrillogy.

I feel like 'romantic comedy' is a case of a too-specific genre. Tell a good story and incorporate romcom elements. Don't devote a whole film to cliche. (For what it's worth, I kind of feel the same way about comedy and drama. Stop telling me what it's supposed to be and just tell the story. Use whatever literary…

Sometime in the past 15 or 20 years, ranch supplanted ketchup as the "smother-it-all" condiment. I don't know why, I just know that it's insidious in its ability to permeate all the menus and all the restaurants. Ranch tea is a new one, though.

I'm pretty sure Pledge has an antibacterial spray that's formulated for wood, if bleach or vinegar isn't your thing.

I think they're few and far between, especially when you take celebrities out of the mix. A credit card company a few years back had a female mountain climber, off the top of my head.

One of the things that this has crystallized about my own depression, something that I couldn't put words to, is the pure exhaustion of it all. I can imagine that this diagnosis would have been another weight thrown on the pile.

I don't disagree that it's harmful, but with that said: The majority of film and television characters are upper-middle-class or wealthy. These are also the characters that face problems. Very few people seem to blanket-equate "wealthy" with "no problems," because it's in direct contrast to the narrative of just about…

I agree entirely. Companies don't proactively change policy. It's like some weird critical mass approach: they wait until something has gotten so huge and disgusting that they can't ignore it any longer. I don't understand why, and this shouldn't have been the tipping point for them...it's something that never should…