And all the ones after it, too! Hee hee hee hee!

I´m a teacher and I´ve been using Classcraft since I heard about it after the original failed Kickstarter campaign a few years ago. I´ve used it in several situations, from teaching English Lit to 5-7 graders to an adapted version I made for an after-school activity for grades 3-7. I originally printed out the…

I was thinking that this was pretty interesting, but that I would never do this myself - I´m a terrible person in the morning and I don´t think I could handle all those colors as I´m trying to open my eyes. A single bright color might still be pretty, or a pattern with 2.

Yeah. I hate the whole concept of the Purity Ball and its surrounding rituals - blegh. I don´t know if this is the norm for all purity balls, but I´ve also heard there´s some kind of procession at the beginning or end of the dance where the dads line up with swords and the daughters walk under them, to symbolize that…

Amen, sister. It makes me think of all the stress I go through in my job and then I come home after a long day to read some story of a teacher who taped a kid to a wall or gave the boys in her class a lap dance.

According to what I was reading about this elsewhere, there is a form that one fills out to begin this process that has a simple checkbox for how much compensation you will be asking for - More than or Less than $25,000.

LOL Tourism is one of our biggest industries since the economic crash of 2008, so come on down!

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Ok, first, thanks to everyone in this thread for not making me the only one. I just find the men in the dance practice videos uncomfortable to watch! And I´m straight! I love me some sweaty male bodies!

I couldn´t even watch Magic Mike. I kept skipping over the dance scenes (and especially any scene where Matthew…

Can you tell me what you like about Adam Driver so much? I´m not going to rag on his looks the way some people do, don´t worry. I just don´t see what makes people love him.

Part of it is that I watched the first few episodes of Girls and now he´s indelibly connected in my mind with a shallow, inarticulate moron who…

Oh, my god! Are you my sister? This is my mother´s MO. She spent my childhood telling me that all the things she did (cussing, being fat, not wearing makeup or nicer clothes) would leave me old and alone. Specifically, 'You´re never going to find someone if you ...'

I´ve spent most of my 20s rolling around in a sea…

I think this kind of thing is way more common nowadays, because people are marrying older and living together before marriage much more often. By the time they walk down the aisle, they already have a 4-slot toaster and a set of mint green Egyptian cotton bath towels.

Meanwhile, plane tickets are getting more and more…

I guess. I was mostly making the comment just to express how amazed I am that other celebrities-of-the-moment have faded away (like Paris Hilton) but the Kardashians are here forever (it feels like at the moment). I don´t think they´re any better or worse than others of their ilk.

I wish it were as easy as that. But they are omnipresent in all forms of media and even if you don´t click on their articles, 'news' and various other clips, they are in front of your eyes at all times.

I think she also chose that word for the alliterative effect.

My family´s favorite story about names is that when my arrival was imminent, my brother asked what I would be named. My mother jokingly told him, 'Gertrude Mae,' and he threw such a screaming, rolling-on-the-floor tantrum that it lived in infamy. In his four-year-old opinion, this was an utterly Shit Name.

As a…

Oh, no, how awful! I´m a teacher as well and these stories just break my heart. First of all, because so many other teachers are working hard and hoping to keep their jobs from year to year, and THIS is what is in the public´s mind when it comes to education and second of all, that children should come to harm by…

I had one of these. Same situation - an older uncle who moved in with my grandmother during an extended period of unemployment.

Yeeeeeeeech! I had no idea!

Ah, CRAP. Katherine Heigl sucks. It´s nice to see her playing something other than a tight-lipped, disapproving mommy figure to an infantile 30-something male who should know better. But that´s all I´ve ever seen her do. (I´ve never seen Grey´s Anatomy, so I have no idea if she can actually handle drama worth a damn.…