Did the majority of American kids ever know who Avril was though? I know about her because I’m Canadian but it seems like some Americans who are the right age to know her still don’t know her.

Immediately after which she will be cast as a teenager’s mom. Because Hollyweird.

When I was four, I named my yet-unborn little sister. My parents wanted to give her a really odd (REALLY odd to a four-year-old) hippy-ish name. I picked a different one for her and basically insisted on it for months until they gave in. My sis has happily gone through life with a normal name that suits her very well.…

And it’s so great for academic fashion! Long jackets! Scarves! Briefcase-tote thingies! (I carry my briefcase-tote thingy all year round tho, and it’s looking a little ratty)

If you were great at taking tests, were quite popular and loved structure, I guess it’s cool.

I agree with this basically except that I would say gray-brown fall is better than the other two “bad” seasons. Mostly because where I live, those two are when you’re most likely to slip on rain-sleet sidewalk ice and end up quadriplegic/ dead.

Yea, it reminds me of elementary school when someone was your “best friend” and someone else was your “second best friend” and whatever. Like, can they all just be your good friends? Why do they have to be titled?

Her book was pretty bad. (Except the “Girl Crushes” chapter. I liked that one!) But in general, for something that was supposed to be a memoir, it showed very little self-reflection. I once read a memoir by a 22-year-old model whose writing showed significantly more internal reflection. But LD’s actual insights, when…

Apparently in some people’s eyes she’s a symbol for Everything Wrong with the Millennial Generation.

I’m only 28 but I already feel like a lot of the guys who hit on me are too young for me to date them. Like 23 or younger. I dunno, people say I look young so maybe they just think I’m their age and it’s not some “ooh look, an older woman of the world!” thing but it’s still funny when it happens.

I wouldn’t say that I regret telling people to fuck off since I’ve almost never said it in words, but I regret telling people to fuck off via my actions, i.e. writing people off too easily and either ghosting out on them or keeping them out of my life in the first place. I’ve always had this mentality of “ditch…

As a kid I generally called adults by their first names, or no names at all- I was never encouraged to use their last names by anyone unless they were my teachers. To me that’s a different thing. I would have died if anyone had ever asked me to call a teacher by their first name. With my grad school thesis advisor it…

I think she can be, it’s just that she got famous for playing the ‘hot’ girl opposite the ‘funny’ guy and cultivating that persona. Like she could have been funny herself but didn’t think that was her role, if you know what I mean? This clip kind of demonstrates what I’m talking about:

Whatevs, when I’m old I have every intention of becoming a crazy catperson. I’m moving back out of my parents’ in a couple weeks and the thing I am saddest about is leaving my kitty, not my family. Who cares about them. KITTYYYYY.

Does anyone else feel like when they go through the TSA checks, it’s like some kind of high-stakes poker/ chess match situation? I find myself strategizing and kind of automatically blanking my face/ body of any emotion, almost like I’m steeling myself to face an enemy. Does anyone else do this? I think there must be…

I also love it! And her loveliness. Gah why can’t she be playing a character who looks like her in Star Wars, and wear outfits like that through the whole movie, instead of a cgi character?? Whyyyy.

Ah yes, that was my intention. To protect a grown man’s poor little feelings. Of course. What else could it possibly have been?

I really, really don’t think he meant in any way to imply that he had started the FIRST conversation about diversity. A conversation is quite different from the conversation, which he did not say. He works in Hollywood. I’m quite sure he knows that people in Hollywood talk about diversity, have done do for some time,…

Well, I’m told that back in the day, royal couples had their own separate bedrooms and only slept in the same bed when the occasionally needed to make a prince or princess, so...clearly the rulers of olde had the right idea.

I’m a modern day woman but I only wear thin little bralets, no underwire for me! (Having small boobs helps tho)