Oooh, I hope they have Maleficent. :D

Diamond cartel. They knew how to market.

Different strokes, pal. Do as you please, because everyone else already is.

Ah, yeah, the mindset seems to have shifted. Even articles for men on buying a ring lately suggest prudence. Once said 4 to 6 weeks salary, though that's the only hard range I noticed. General consensus seems to be "what you can afford".

Yeah... that's why I make my boyfriend wear a collar. *nodnod*

When people stop wanting to do it. It's no law, and plenty of people forgo rings entirely, or choose ones without diamonds. Or get gold replicas of the One ring.

It's not outdated. It was never IN date. That's the diamond industry's doing. Same reason diamonds are even a "necessity" for engagement rings.

That's how it used to be done. And going to a jeweler he'd visited before so his fiance wasn't shown anything out of his price range.

I already know where my ring is coming from. My BF's mother offered him the one from her first marriage to give me. She doesn't have any bad feelings towards her ex, and I prefer a ring with some family connection.

Then neither the patient nor the doctors are too bright. Or she didn't share with the doctors that she had the procedure and was too dim to make the connection of pelvic pain -> pelvic procedure herself.

If you know you're allergic to nickel, and you don't mention it when talking to your doctor about getting Essure, I have no sympathy. A glance at a pamphlet will tell you Essure has nickel. They're very up front about it. That's like eating an omelet when you're allergic to eggs and wanting to sue the restaurant.

She waited a YEAR? Hell, I went to my doctor after having extreme pain for a week. Granted, that's a copper IUD, and it stopped after that first cycle.

ACCOUNTING SMARTS THAT WOMEN DON'T HAVE.

What I don't get: why would anyone give him MORE blackmail fodder [nudie pics]? This time stuff given deliberately [though coerced and in no way consensual, but something a defense attorney could work with]?

Why would anyone spend so much to look so frumpy?

Derek's choreography and Amber's performance?

Cheddar Bay Biscuits are from the recipe on the back of a Bisquick box. Same damn thing.

Some people have too much "fun" with their jobs. Likely this and similar incidents are due to idiot counselors getting WAY too into the roleplay. In a very harmful [for the students] way.

Late-series Marshall is my dish. Adorkable, professional, really good at what he does, and still believes in the Loch Ness Monster.

Totally with you. I'm blasting through the series on Netflix, so Ted's transition to "Dull Everydude" was very noticeable.