VOM.

I cannot second your resounding "Fuck you" enough. Seriously, things like this make me count the days until I move back to Europe. It's fucking absurd.

Bitchin. Having read the books but being somewhat behind on the show, I'm happy to see that this scene made it (I mean, HBO, so obvs, but still).

I feel like an idiot saying this, but it's just so...manly? I, too, had only been with (chest)hairless guys until recently. Fuck that noise. Give me a man.

I used to be of the same camp, but I'm seeing a guy with chest hair...let's just say I have had a change of heart ;)

I don't have many kids in my life, so I haven't walked down a toy aisle in years except around Christmas, during Toys-for-Tots time. It's too bad that you can't find the plain buckets of Legos at a regular store because they're such an excellent toy, especially for low-income kids who are the recipients of toy…

Good grief, they've gotten that expensive?! Jesus. Oh hey! I just dug around on the Lego website, and found that you can still buy a 600 brick box for $30. There's hope yet!

We had Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys, and this really cool set called Gearopolis, and we often used them to build settings for other play. I mean, I'm only 28, so it hasn't been THAT long since I was a kid, but it seems like a lot of these creative construction toys have fallen out of fashion. Even Legos totally suck now…

I was one of them until about 30 seconds ago.

I agree on all points. I had assumed that they had permission to use the song, and it really bums me out that they didn't bother. Also, I agree that the need for a toy like this is really disappointing. Even when I was a kid, my sister and I had a lot of non-gendered toys that seem to be really hard to find now :/

Concerning your aside, there has been a lot of conversation on Jezebel about Goldieblox and pinkwashing of toys. It seems like a lot of people (definitely most people on Jez, but I don't know how many in the world-at-large) are fairly disgusted at the severe pink/blue gendering of playthings. However, that's what the…

No. Cool Ranch Doritos are my number one fave drunk food, and also one of the first things I want when I get back into the States from being abroad. They are all that is glory and America. (I suspect half the ingredients are also illegal in the EU)

My sister and I had a Gearopolis set, and it was fucking amazing. We used to play with it in front of the TV when grownup television was boring. I always wanted one of those marble sets, though!

My mom has super crooked bottom teeth (just too many/too big teeth for her head in general), and she has always been extremely self-conscious about them. As a result, I was given the choice of braces because she wanted my sister and I to have perfect teeth because braces had never, ever been an option for my mom who…

You forgot:

I'm an archaeologist, and there are a few very quotable lines that have stuck in my head over the many years of my education. My first archaeology teacher told that domestication was the worst thing that ever happened to humankind in terms of health. Her statement was less about the actual domesticated foods…

I don't have any advice, but I can offer commiseration. I am involved in a relationship where I suspect that *I'm* the Manic Pixie Dream Girl! It's really kind of stressful to worry if the wacky free-spirit part of me is going to one day be less appealing. Glad I'm not the only one who feels that way (I guess?). Good…

I kind of love how big bags are handled in Europe. There is a set of lockers at the entrance to most stores, and everyone is expected to stash everything besides moderately sized purses in them. No profiling*! No being stalked by employees!

Yeah, I thought to myself, "Wait, for realsies grown-ups at this thing? Dressed up? Uuuggghhhhh :-/ " That is just upsetting.

Naw, dude, the animals are probably the least offensive part of the entire thing. I totally don't have any problems with the idea of going to an Africa party as an elephant, which, you know, totally non-offensively lives in Africa...the rest, however... *facepalm*