If we're going only on personal experience, I have never met a pitbull that wasn't a big ol' lovebug. My old roommate's pit was such a sweet scaredy-cat that she used to hide from the rain in the bathroom. Therefore, clearly nothing you say is true.

The article says the baby was lodged against her back and the pains were probably due to him trying to move but not being able to. Apparently even with the C Section they needed forceps to get him out.

A business will deduct the credit card fees on a tip from the tip itself. So in the end, it's the server paying the fees on the tip amount, not the business. Personally, I think this is shady as fuck because it's not like the server gets to choose which credit cards, if any, are accepted. But it is legal. It usually…

This is the one I thought of too!

YOU TAKE THAT BACK EMMA THOMPSON CAN DO NO WRONG

I had a tour guide in Morocco tell me (fully in jest) exactly how many dromedaries my girl-friend and myself could expect to bring in as a dowry. Apparently I was "too skinny," but I was still a catch, and worth at least seventy-five. My slightly more robust friend was worth at least a hundred. It ended with all of us…

There's a special place in hell for women who capitalize off the oppression of other women.

I may have come off as more aggressive than I meant to as well— I'd also just read a bunch of replies that are telling me I'm a HORRIBLE SELFISH PERSON FOR NOT WANTING YOUR GRANDMOTHER TO BUY YOU FLATWARE and I was a little defensive myself. I'm really only explaining my own philosophy towards the whole issue, but I…

Sooooo.... Jamie Bell is back on the market?

I was reading your post and thought the caps were some kind of strange passive-aggressive secret message. Kinja fuckups are much less interesting.

I'd try to do some way where the names were anonymous as well, and then I just write everyone a thank-you for their presence at the wedding. A wedding is just a party with people you care about in a big life moment. That's what should be important.

Smart!

Firstly: FUCK CASH BARS. The two non-negotiable expenses if/when I marry will be the dress and the open bar. (Wine and beer only. I know my friends too well.)

My plan (such as it is, we're not even engaged) is to have something along the lines of, "gifts aren't required, but if you'd LIKE to give, please chip in to a honeymoon fund!" and hopefully somehow have it set up that we can't see who gave— and then we just send thank you notes to everyone for their presence alone.

Yes! Thank you! I wasn't expecting so many replies in the first place, and I certainly wasn't expecting this much hate. :/ It's like no one has had the idea of a cheapie wedding in the backyard cross their minds. Someone up above flipped out at the idea of asking for contributions to honeymoon fund, saying to just not…

Regarding asking for money instead of physical gifts for big life moments: I'm curious what the hivemind thinks about this.

I'm in metro NYC and we had the same sorts of warnings— I'm just saying that conditions weren't so dangerous in most places. The real danger was the flooding that hit certain areas, not the actual storm itself. The flooding is what destroyed Staten Island and the Shore, and that neighborhood in Queens was decimated by…

Where I am, the storm was just a thunderstorm. Like, the wind was a little intense, but it was just raining. My across the street neighbor kept going outside to smoke on the porch and point at the trees. I'd totally have let my dog out for a poo/taken them for a (very quick) walk. It's not like it was a hurricane.

You know, I can't get too mad at Diane Keaton about this. This is what friends are supposed to do— stand by you through thick and thin, and defend you against detractors. And of course, the other side of that is that you're supposed to be truthful with your friends.

My very— VERY— first serving job, which I sort of fibbed my way into at 19, after 6 months of hostessing— I dropped a $100 bottle of red wine in somebody's lap.