My grandfather gave his wife a refrigerator instead of an engagement ring.

@ThaLza: I totally do the same number thing. My current beau and I met on New Years Evem so instead of trying to factor in the on and offs, we just call that our anniversary. This NYE will be 5 years, and it'd be 2010-2011, and we're both 25, and that's all easy for me to remember/do math with, so I've been telling…

ok, I LOVE the idea here, but this seems unwieldy. unweldy? hard to use.

@sylphish is a heroine addict: I love that site.

@CKD1: This is what my bff did. Only 2 bridesmaids, we went out shopping all together. Her colors were pink & green so she said "one of those, whatever you want" and I think her only other thing was "tea-length" (but that was up for discussion as well, she just suggested it) We expected to find totally different…

I've been working with a wedding videographer since the beginning of May, and let me tell you, most weddings don't even do most of these things anymore. (Disclaimer: I've only worked weddings in the tri-state area, and if couples are choosing this videographer, they're not exactly all that "traditional" to begin with…

@hambonetoblerone: my family had chickens for a very short while. the rooster especially liked to ride on shoulders. I am so glad to hear this is a thing other people do!

Seriously. Rodent or Computer Part? I know the article has a "funny" photo of a rodent-mouse with censored eyes, but I am so bothered that there is no real confirmation of what they mean by mouse (and I, so far, refuse to accept the "living being" possibility and am stuck on "computer mouse")

I don't see the reason for negativity here. If it's something you want to do, I'd think it would actually be pretty empowering. We constantly complain about these unrealistic images and how can girls compare, but these kind of services put the "average woman" on equal footing: studio lights, pro makeup, retouching;…

@mirmur: "You have no idea how empowered and sexy it makes you feel, and how it shows you how you really look like."

@deleahrium: yay!

I went to a show recently and found myself distracted by this same thing. (It was far from Katy Perry though - Torche, Kylesa, High on Fire - so it's not a pop-sensation relegated issue)

@Taegre: funny story. I used to work at an Indian tv network. I'm white, most of the staff was hispanic or white. In fact, only the CEO, his assistant, and an intern or two were Indian. ANYWAY. Myself, another whitie, and an Indian intern went out to do street interviews, stopped in a shop, she had us try gulab jamun,…

@deleahrium: since Rasputin Maus has garnered a couple of fans, I will share a pho-to.

I would try to give it the respectful burial. In a shoebox obviously.

I used to paint my nails all sorts of ridiculous colors in middle school. (I was the type of girl to match my purple makeup to my purple sweater and purple hair ties, mmkay?)

gotta be honest, I've dreamt of a slo-mo femme fatale sequence set

@mnerd: I think it was a voice-recognition thing, so he wasn't

tiny corner print:

@Snarfblat: If a hurricane was classified as genocide, I'd start to question the "natural"ness of that disaster...