It surprised me too, but one of her live performances on a big show (American Idol? So You Think You Can Dance? I'm not sure...) about two years ago was SO good... she really can sing, and she really has talent. I just hope, for her sake, she gets better management/career advice SOON before she completely destroys the…

I love this! It reminds me of a story I heard from a neighbor growing up - she was the mother of Australia's first (and only, I believe) NASA astronaut Andy Thomas, who still has an extraordinary career. He was born in December of 1951, and in March 1954, my hometown (Adelaide. South Australia) was hit by a serious…

Preach! I didn't find this out until a few years ago, but my dad was married (and had the marriage very swiftly annulled) to another woman prior to marrying my mother.

Yes. My younger brother's girlfriend recently had to bury her ex - he'd been abusive, volatile and violent during their relationship, but in his depression he'd alienated everyone in his life but her. When he heard she was traveling with my brother to our hometown, he managed to get himself into HER apartment (in…

We own our home, so we're paying a mortgage. We re-financed recently and now pay $2200 a month. That's less than one-eighth of our income - but we've paid off about 75% of our loan (28 and 32, we feel very lucky.)

Could you tell me the name of the subreddit? I have A LOT of baby clothes etc. to give away.

Did I miss his retirement, or is Lamar Odom no longer a professional athlete? I'd guess they'd test for drugs like crack or heroin.

He threw his sister all the way under the bus? Are you talking about the Superbowl nip slip or something else?

+ 20,000 points for mentioning Kanye. To this day I swear the Kanye concert I was dragged to by a bunch of friends was probably the most remarkable live show I've ever seen, and I have seen A LOT of amazing live shows by hundreds of bands and singers that are more up my alley. It was the tour where it was just him…

You deserve a lot more than 60 stars for this one, my friend.

Aussie here. I knew exactly one guy in my entire time there who would "confess" to being cut... we just don't do it as often. It was very strange moving to the US where circumcision felt like the default option.

I'm an Aussie and The University of Sydney is my alma mater... Honi Soit has come a long way! But this is a real problem in Australia. I worked briefly for a "lad's mag" (think Maxim or Playboy but with more nudity... infiltrating the enemy!) and was absolutely horrified that Australian law does not allow you to show…

Thank you. I have always been slim and I have absolutely experienced "skinny-bashing" (I got the AIDS thing too, girls making vomiting signs when I said I needed to go to the bathroom at lunch, my skinny boyfriend and I were "the Ethiopian Couple" - hey, let's double-down and bring people with HIV, people with eating…

Aussie in the US. Yes, ketchup = tomato sauce.

Yes yes yes and yes. Coming from a single-payer country with an incredibly efficient healthcare system, moving to the US and trying to get insurance - and then navigating through the system - was like one big ol' fever dream.

I'd rather read "Nostradamus for Dummies" than look up and acknowledge these people.

Ducky or Blaine was a thing? I... well, maybe it's because I missed most of the 80s, but I always thought Ducky was okay with smiling and telling Andie to go get Blaine because he wouldn't have minded a Blaine of his own. I always saw Andie and Ducky as totally platonic, he just adored her, and any hesitation he had…

Also... can we end this Catholics aren't Christians thing once and for all, please? I had a lot of fun with this at my Lutheran high school... Catholics aren't Christian? Who do you think they worship, Satan? Catholicism was the original Christian church. Catholics ARE Christian, because they believe in the New…

Thank you. This is exactly the Catholic education I received. Question the Bible! It's not meant to be literal truth; it's mostly a series of allegories and "parables" that were intended to explain big concepts to people who lived in a very small world. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were chosen from hundreds of…

I would really like this article to be edited to read "the Catholic CHURCH LEADERSHIP, which famously views birth control as basically punching God in the face" because I grew up Catholic, I know plenty of people who still "keep the faith," and I never heard a single damn word about birth control and I know a whole…