If you grew up in a town with a dedicated health foods store, these bags are likely familiar to you—a vague memory of organic carrots and bottles of wheat germ clacking about in the back of a boxy Volvo.

Yeah, it’s definitely on my mind. I’ve seen mixed results so I’m sort of holding out until results are consistently good.

I’ve never heard it put that way but that’s brilliant.

YES! I am one of those people. I have to draw on my eyebrows every. single. fucking. day. and have since approximately 1995 or it looks like my eyebrows stop halfway across my eyes. Just the hint that this trend might come back sends me into a full on rage. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

I’m not an attorney, but I’m married to one so I have been thinking of this very thing from the start (I am a woman in advertising). I know this is a little Monday-morning-quarterbacking, but if they had just said something like “We HEARD Ralph has done this, this, and that”, would they have been within the boundaries…

I am married to a former contestant. He was super rude and called my husband “pathetic” for telling a silly story about how his college does an all male kickline at the end of an annual performance (which he was part of). It was so odd and uncalled for that the entire audience gasped and it was ultimately cut from the…

Same. I will go to New Zealand. Close enough and not everything is trying to kill you there. 

They also banned “pit bull type dogs” from flying as support animals. I will NEVER NEVER NEVER fly Delta again. 

Exactly. It reminds me of a stupid inside joke I had with a boyfriend where I would say I was practically best friends with (insert famous celebrity) because they held the door for me at Starbucks or we liked the same band. The difference is I knew it was a joke and I didn’t tell the whole world. Also I was like 24…

I mean, yeah...but in a normal world, generally, people don’t say shit like he could have been my son-in-law unless someone actually goes out with someone (and not just stepping out on their current partner). In summation, everyone in this story sucks. 

I know the truth is not that popular with Drumpf, but according to Wikipedia, this literally couldn’t have happened, unless they dated when she was in high school or were cheating on their respective partners.

It’s likely not. As long as they were reporting the honoraria (speaking) fees they were paying doctors, it’s completely legal (I’m not saying it’s ethical).  

A rep can bring in lunch for the office (under a certain pp dollar amount), have a dinner speaker program (again under a certain amount), or a doctor can be paid for a speaking engagement, but all of that must be reported. (I’m not endorsing these things, just providing insider information).

Thank you. I also work in the industry, on the agency-side. Your explanation is exactly how I would explain it. People see these big numbers, don’t know anything about the Sunshine Act, and assume the payments are pay for play. For sure, pharma would still be doing that shit if they could get away with it legally (and…

I mean, a lot of people in the US have their boys circumcised. It’s not quite the same thing, but it still seems pretty brutal. (I am not trying to start a debate about whether circumcision is right or wrong. I don’t have kids and I’m not judging folks who have circumcised theirs). 

Is that really what it is? I sat there watching, knowing that she was on or coming down from something just by the way she was messing with her hair and face, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. I’m not into coke so I’m terrible at spotting it. 

No kidding. I’ve been following the story pretty closely and yet even I was blown away seeing all those women on the stage together. So much opportunity to make this right and they didn’t. I hope the shame slowly eats them alive.

Oh yeah, I didn’t think you were blaming her, just asking the question and offering a viable explanation. It’s pretty horrifying to me to see other commenters not automatically assuming there’s an explanation, as if a daughter who cared enough to call hadn’t thought of just moving her mom in with her.

Two things.

Oh very interesting. I THINK the cream version was the one that was like clay. I don’t mind if it takes a minute to turn clear (and actually I don’t really mind looking even paler because I already am pale. It’s my husband that has the lovely southern Italian olive skin that looks like a zombie if it never rubs in).…