A few years ago, I got a job that required me to move to a new city where I didn't know anyone, and hence had to venture into the land of the Sketchy Craigslist Roommate. I thought I'd found a good one; she advertised herself as an older working professional and she advertised her space as a laid back houseshare,…
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@laureltreedaphne: That's a great question. All those Justin Timberlake "Cheating on Jessica!" covers never mention that he was a mouseketeer or portray him as cracking under the pressure.
marion cotillard if she could do a convincing american accent.
Honestly, if I knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that a very thin actress had an eating disorder that was comprimising her health, I can't say that I still wouldn't feel bad about my body in comparison to hers. I know for a fact that when I found out that certain beautiful girls in my high school had anorexia, I…
@cookiecutter: yeah, that's the line I got when I asked if I could put a tuna sandwich in the walk-in on a day when the air conditioning was broken and it would inevitably spoil.
yknow, after working at mcdonalds for a while, I can say that you DO feel really pressured not just to eat the free meals, but to buy the discounted meals every damn day. At the one I worked at, they didn't provide a microwave, refrigerator or anything else to make eating non-mcdonalds food any easier, unless you were…
ahh I forgot to do this but: a couple years ago I went as a Saccheri Quadrilateral (transliterated for ultimate spookiness, of course). It's an esoteric math paradox wherein, if you disprove one of Euclid's theorems about paralellism, a quadrilateral can have two right angles AND two acute angles and still maintain…
@skahammer: as a woman who's never considered breast surgery, I was really surprised, too. I think before I started coming to this site, I and most of my friends really saw plastic surgery as taboo or about vanity—this site really broadened and gave nuance to my belief that a woman's body should be a woman's choice,…
@thePrototype: I really don't think sacs of poisonous chemicals embedded inside of your body are analagous to tongue rings and pacemakers, which are either harmless or outright life saving. It's not an argument about foreign objects—it's an argument that women shouldn't be societally pressured to have an unnecessary…
jezebel should really offer some basic how-tos or at least links to how-tos for doing this stuff yourself. It's super easy and way cheap—you can get a good industrial grade sewing machine for $150, which pays for itself pretty fast once you learn how to do basic things.
@momentsofabsurdity: highest unemployment rate in the nation right now, actually, and very few professional industries to start with. many of the part time jobs that teenagers would usually capitalize are being worked by overqualified adults trying to make ends meet.
@moonbird: oh, I totally didn't mean to put them all in a category—I just meant to say that there are scholarships out there for people who are/have done literally EVERYTHING, so why not honor catelynn and tyler's particular breed of excellence and uniqueness?
@Dinosaurs and Nachos, girlfriend!: even if they don't have to sign, the FAFSA requires you to enter their financial information until you're 26, regardless of your dependent status. whatever income your parents make does count against your federal financial aid, even if your parents don't give you a dime. I was in…
@cait98: definitely. if the concern is that jezebel can't employ a lawyer to establish a trust, I'm sure they could recruit one pro bono from among its readers...
@mannequin: I don't think it does us much good to argue about their needs—they're reality TV stars, we don't know them and we can't possibly know their circumstances.
this is such a great idea. I think that Catelynn and Tyler are probably the only really good example of a functional teen relationship on TV right now—hell, maybe even the best example of any functional relationship on reality TV, period. If there are scholarships for Ayn Rand enthusiasts and amputees and people over…
@RyanB: well, she is trying—but it's to convince herself that everything's okay, that her and henry francis "have everything" that things are perfect, which is what made her "things aren't perfect" confession to Don on the finale so huge. Change, for her, seems like it only comes at breaking points, but even then,…
@SqueekSqueek: in general, I'd agree with you, but if all our presumptions are correct, I think teenage virgin to post-30 lecher is a biiiit of a stretch.