Yep, there are tons of Sicilians. Tons! I don't know much about the Italian dialect in Sicily—I only learned the standard/Florentine version. But I think a lot of the 'Italian food' Americans know is also exclusively Sicilian, rather than the standard cuisine in Italy itself.

I think I would punch someone if I heard this.

Well, here in Philly, 9/10 Italian Americans will tell you that it IS pronounced tag-lee-a-tell and pasta fazool. There is a separate dialect of Italian words here. That particular dialect just annoys me the most because it takes beautiful italian words (ricotta) and replaces them with heinous gutteral nonsense…

I'm a size 10 US, weight 150 lbs, and you can see my collarbone and the bottom 3 or 4 ribs on each side. So, yeah. It's realistic. But mannequins aren't realistic—they're creepy tubular blobs, some without heads or arms. There's something inherently wrong about girls looking at them and thinking 'oh I wish I looked…

I get abnormally irritated by people who say chip-ole-tea, instead of chip-ot-leh. Just...say it how it's spelled. I also get annoyed by marscapone and tagliatelle (pronounced tag-lee-ah-tell). I sort of need to not be so neurotic about food pronunciation. When I pronounce bruschetta correctly (it's a k sound, not a…

I was having an Italian dinner with my dad one night—I think this was in Liverpool, but that's not particularly important. He was eating his ravioli and he looked over and said 'Who came up with this al dente thing?'. I blinked and said...'the Italians?'. He responded 'I don't like it.'

Or be forced to sell vacuum cleaners in commercials decades after your death?

Same here. I have the blonde hair, dark thick brows thing. It comes into vogue every 20 years or so. Wohoo, I'm on trend. And it requires zero work for me.

I know this is the gossip portion of Jezebel, but I'm a little disturbed by the fact that Gawker is reporting on the FGM order Isis just laid down, and not a peep from this supposed feminist website. This is an actual women's issue. J-Lo's birthday is not.

My friend got married on 11/12/13. It was a Tuesday. Whatever makes you happy I guess.

I work with nurses trying to get published and one of our authors sent us a link to a website about healing crystals. Not as a joke, either. Sigh.

Trends are like viruses. You get sick the first time, usually when you're young. When they come around again, you've built up an immunity.

I forgot how annoying Carrie Bradshaw is. I mean, she's totally right about the whole scrunchie thing, but what's with the super high voice and weird fidgeting?

you spelled chocolate wrong...

I'm a DDD-G cup and I use Shock Absorbers (UK brand). Some of them have 2 clasps at the back for extra support. There are also some that make my breasts look like weird 1950s rocket ship type breasts, but they keep everything still and supported.

Fellow swimmer! People underestimate how hard it is to be a good swimmer. Or really just how physically fit it makes you in ways that are hard to achieve in a lot of other exercise.

I watched this yesterday. I felt like Jabba the Hut afterward. And I work out 6 days/week. :-/

My boyfriend, who had never read the book, told me he didn't understand why people were laughing at some of the things Lenny said, or some of the things George said to Lenny. I explained that as nervous laughter. But laughing at the idea of a woman being brutally killed? And at everything that that action leads to?…

I heard that and it really makes me sad/angry. I mean...no one in the US is saying we shouldn't read Dickens or Austen. What's really necessary (everywhere) is to read more literature from different, underrepresented countries. But to pretend that no literature exists outside the UK (England, really) is so…

Having now read her thoughts, I came back to say they make me sad. If the audience around me thought her character deserved to die or were amused by it, then that's awful. That's definitely not what I felt! Curley's wife is lonely, to the point of recklessness, and what happens to her is tragic, though not much worse…