"I just can't even fathom the logistics of wrapping up and putting a used tampon in the trash."

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I do not understand why this is absolutely so gross for people. It's just normal to wrap up your tampon and throw it away. I think the floor being covered in poo water from the pipes being clogged by these "horrid" tampons would be much grosser. Though funny enough all this makes me think of is that dude pulling the…

Lentils!

Can you close the bathroom door?

I always used to flush them because the packaging said you could. Then I saw some water utility guys cleaning out the lift station for my street. PILES and PILES of old tampons clogging it up. Aside from the environmental aspect, I'm paying for that shit. And when the lift station clogs, that literal shit ends up in…

Ah dear. As always, the socially inept with a tendency to objectify and dehumanise women will flock to these, when what they seriously need is the ability to even know how to talk to a woman first. Who the hell hires someone to message someone else and write their dating profile on their behalf? I agree that they'd be…

Good food, good music, and booze are requirements at every wedding unless you're recovering alcoholics. The rest (flowers, venue, party favors) are pretty negligible. But since you didn't give a fuck about your guests, you probably won't care anyway.

You know, the actual wedding ceremony is totally about the bride and groom, but if you have a reception, hell yeah it should be a place to entertain your guests, have some drinks and a bit of dinner. Cash bar is fine, I think, but that depends on the means of the people holding the wedding. If they're fairly rich,…

Yeah a quick glance through the replies & the impression is quickly "NEVER SPEAK ILL OF SOMEONE'S SPECIAL DAY! IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD DON'T COME BUT UNDERSTAND IT MAKES YOU AN ASSHOLE".

Weddings are for your friends/family, not for the bride/groom. No one's stopping you from going to the courthouse and getting hitched in 20 minutes.

I definitely believe it is bad form to complain to the bride and groom - but if I had gone to your wedding, HELL YEAH I would have complained about it to everyone I know afterwards (assuming the lack of booze was not due to someone being in recovery). Guests are expected to show up to a wedding properly attired and…

I like how everyone is all, "THEN DON'T GO" as if they didn't read the part where she mentions that Andrew should decline some invites. I'm genuinely surprised at the anger people are harboring from this simple article.

I didn't get that impression from the article at all. It just seems like a reminder to be considerate and grateful of the time and effort involved for the guests. Some brides and grooms get caught up in how much money they're spending on the wedding (which is totally understandable) and don't realize that guests spend…

It's the social obligation that's the problem. My wife and I bent over backwards to make sure people didn't feel obligated to come to the wedding or give us a gift, and I think I had to reassure my friends on a budget five or six times that showing up without a gift was absolutely fine, we get it, we have student…

There are so many comments like, "oh just say no! politely decline!"

Aren't groom 50% responsible for this phenomenon? I know it goes against our cultural expectations that brides are wedding crazy and grooms just show up at the alter, but in several of my friends' weddings the bride wanted to elope and the groom was pushing for a huge wedding. Men like parties too....

To be honest I really hope that Mother Earth okay with being busted in the vagine and bouncing back anyway because we are busting her something furious right now.

blyan - First off - sorry for the Freddy Montero chants. They were in bad taste. I regret participating.