I had a roommate who didn't have the free cash that most of us did, so she would say at the beginning of a dinner out that she could afford to split one appetizer and only pay for her own meal and drinks. Then she'd put the exact amount of cash she'd calculated on the table and that was the end of it. If others…

I concur, be honest, then order your own entree.

"If you want to split this check equally, I'll need you to not hoover 95% of the food. Wolves."

I would be honest with them and explain the whole thing! If they're going to judge you after you lay it out the way you just did (which makes perfect sense), that would be a really shitty move on their part. Good friends should be understanding about stuff like that.

Need some advice. I am a slow-eating, impoverished female whose male friends insist on eating "family style" when we go out. As they all eat much faster than me but order a bit extravagantly with the knowledge we'll all be splitting their splurges, I often end up barely getting any food, but then have to pay "my…

On the other hand, when you're trying to explain that you're 3 years into computer engineering, and that you are quite positive that your laptop is in fact plugged in (because it's giving you a blue screen with the memory address of the failure), sometimes the 'I know exactly what the problem is, and it's not the damn…

And these entitled fucks think if you go to college you get a good job like they did when they were young, before they destroyed society by doing a bunch of coke and voting for Reagan. "This'll work fine!"

It's incredibly bizarre, but yes, that compartmentalization is definitely a thing in people's heads. You can be fat, OR you can be pretty; you can be pretty, OR you can have a great personality; you can be fat, but if you get laid, it's such a surprise and a novelty that we all have to make jokes about it! And the…

Those were actors and a stand-up comedian, whose appearance was actually a factor in their performance and accomplishments.

THE Joan Wilder!

Jacqueline Susann? The Bronte sisters?

That makes me feel hopeless for men.

During my college graduation, as the Valedictorian (a woman) was giving her speech, the guy sitting behind me said "yeah, but I wouldn't fuck her though" to the guy sitting next to him.

Being pretty and thin IS the accomplishment!

You think those are the same?

"She sure was fat and ugly, although astonishingly it appears she was valued by some people nonetheless!"

Yeah, but how's her pie recipe?

I work for the media in Australia. Not this company, thankfully, although we're all in glass houses. The "excuse" is SUCH rubbish. The only pre-prepared obituary anyone has is for the Queen or the Prime Minister. No one cares about obituaries and there are not enough newsroom staff as it is, so it would be a miracle…

Jesus H. Fucking Christ. Women could be performing brain surgery, piloting a spaceship or accepting their Nobel Prize and it really is still acceptable to qualify their accomplishments with their fucking swimsuit scores. This woman's body type is literally the least interesting thing about her, but oh how important it…

Plain of feature, and certainly overweight, she was, nevertheless a woman of wit and warmth.