This is great. You should write a pamphlet for high schoolers or something.

Once, on a crowded subway in Chicago (Red Line, north of downtown), I got an opportunity to deliver the following monologue, as best as I can remember it:

Birkin is not a design house, it is the name of a style of bag made by Hermes, named after Jane Birkin. If she did buy two Hermes bags, the other one was probably a Kelly bag (as in Grace), which is a slightly different shape. Those are the two most recognizable Hermes bags.

I can't believe we're still discussing this. My point was that everyone doesn't use it exactly the same way. A lot of Yiddish words are like this. When you meet families from different regions, you will notice they use words in slightly different ways. Yiddish itself is a fascinating, awesome language which is spoken…

Oh this is SO true and no one ever talks about it.

Lol what is that from? It looks awesome.

Yes, I know he did* (although you misspelled "misspelled", which is funnier), and I know what it literally means, but my point is I worked for a wealthy Russian Jewish family for years and they used it to refer to any clothing, mostly their suits. Which were classy as hell.

All I see when I read this comment is "men" and "girls". I'm picturing a class photo with 3-4 rows of men and a front row of Girl Scouts in their green uniforms.

Eagle Cam! I spend half my time very close to where this cam is located, and there are bald eagles nesting across the street from my place over there. Nothing can prepare you for how large an eagle really is if you're not used to seeing them in the wild. They are way bigger than osprey or any of the hawk species that…

It's slang for "clothing". I've never known it to have a negative connotation, unless you're anti-Semitic, in which case you'd just be offended because it's Yiddish. (I don't mean "you" personally, btw.)

I had a male 4th grade teacher, he was maybe 24. No one ever hugged, until the middle of the year when a girl with Down's syndrome joined our class. Shortly after she joined us, she was at the front of the line one day to leave the classroom at lunchtime. She spontaneously hugged our teacher on her way out the door,…

I hope I look that good when I'm wasted. He looks like he's trying to sell me aftershave.

I hear you! Whenever I'm at Crunch during a spinning class, I feel like I'm glimpsing some kind of lab rat experiment. I mean, they're spinning their little hamster wheels in front of an observation window in a darkened room, while getting verbally humiliated by the "instructor". And the music is ear shattering.

My rural relatives found that a shotgun worked just fine as a deterrent.

Just a tad. I guess everyone thinks their own pet is endlessly fascinating, but I'd hate to see the videos of these people's kids.

Apparently this dude squeezes out Number 2 pencils.

"This devil… would be given birth to anally… not physically, this is more of a spiritual body…"

I think it's a pretty great analogy, actually. Hermione wanted to demonstrate the importance of being able to make your own choices. It's not something we should be cavalier about, saying "I have to wear makeup because I have no choice!" By juxtaposing that against the fucking horrifying gang rape fatwa going down in…

Yeah, I like what Jenna says about how makeup is expected, but the assertion that it isn't a choice kinda made me go, "Huh?"

I really like this statement. I am bi lady who identifies as bi or queer, and even I have caught myself rolling my eyes when I see a young woman announcing she is bi. That's right, society's dismissal of bi as a legitimate orientation is so deeply entrenched that when I see a college girl or a celebrity like Kesha…