It does. It’s just been a hard six years friend-wise. I have one friend in the city, but we’re not best friends by any stretch, and I’m 5000 miles away from my family, so dress shopping just hasn’t happened. I had no idea when I got engaged how impossible it is to plan a wedding alone. My partner’s dad was supposed to…

Probably. If she had said “I’m not being your bridesmaid anymore because I just can’t travel cross country twice in one month” (we’d pay for her, of course) instead of “Yeah, I’m not going to stand up with you at your 15-20 person wedding because someone I didn’t really hang out with a decade ago chose to invite me to…

See, this makes me not want kids. I adore children, I’ve always wanted them at some point, but all I hear now is that it’s twenty years of being emotionally raw and unappreciated and torpedoing your relationship and career, so it sounds like fucking torture. Is it torture? are there any good things?

Can I anonymously be quite disappointed because one of the three women I asked to be my bridesmaids (best friend from college) said she probably couldn’t come to my very tiny no-batchlorette nonsense wedding because a mutual acquaintance is also getting married that month? It really hurt me that she can’t spare a…

All milder radishes should greet the world thinly sliced on nicely buttered toothsome bread. Maybe with a dash of salt. I swear I’m not a snob, it was just a cheap and yummy meal in grad school and I live on it in spring and fall.

*dies of embarassment*

I love her for who she is and what she is, but man, I hated it on the Daily Show when she'd be a dick to nice interview subjects. I've been avoiding the new show because of that, but is it it like that?

Noooooo? Do I remember she’s kind of like this, or am I mixing her up with someone else’s?

Norm!

Same. He’s a little shit based on what little I’ve seen of him on social media, and a bigoted asshole based on a couple of interviews he’s given. But I’m currently watching the whole series for literally the twentieth time, so I tell myself that it’s ok because Leeves, Mahoney, Peri Gilpin, and DHP deserve all the…

This. This^100000000000. I’d known as a kid that my mom’s abusive ex had taken her hostage after she left him. I didn’t know, until I heard from her best friend (with whom she was living back then), that he’d actually broken into BF’s home at gunpoint and taken my mom, BF, BF’s husband, and their 2 kids hostage at gun…

Rambling below due to cold meds, but essentially, it’d be great if we could treat breasts with the understanding that they’re utilitarian appendages until context makes them otherwise, kind of like legs.

My grandmother passed away late last year and I know that my cousin and his kid think they’re inheriting property, including the house my parents and I shared with my grandmother. They are not. In fact, they’re getting nothing and of my cousins, I’m the only one who was ever named an heir. Apparently, the rest of them…

I have nothing to say to this except this is an excellent story. The ending is wonderful.

1) Yes. 2) Yes, please. 3) I need it now.

This is something that doesn’t get talked about enough. It’s happened to me and it’s happened to my friends, and guys think it’s no big deal. No, it’s a big deal. Assault often is. I think, too, it speaks to the sort of behavior that escalates into what even your officemates might think of as “rape-rape”; it certainly…

For the untravelled and ignorant one here, is it limited to sunbathing? I ask because I love swimming topless but just don’t sunbathe at all and, I dunno, it’d be nice to not have to find empty (US) beaches and private pools for swimming and am planning a honeymoon and possible two year move to Spain so...

What happened with that? This is the very first episode of this show I’ve ever seen (after reading Jez coverage for years) and I had to grudgingly turn it off during the commercial break after the teaser. Tell me! I’m newly addicted!

Thank you for this. I’m bipolar and it drives me nuts when people who love me ask, when I’m sad, or excited, or nervous, or worried, if I’m off my meds. First, I’m allowed emotion outside of monotone, flat, bland agreeability. And second, maybe I fucking am, but every feeling I have off of lithium isn’t only because…

My half Siamese tortie was a terror. She chased the neighbor’s eighty pound hunting dog until she finally had it pinned down under the guy’s porch and wouldn’t let the poor thing out until I came and picked her up and dragged her home. She screamed so loudly that people calling the house would ask whose baby we were…