Oh for fuck’s sake. The attitude that you can’t go to someplace without your kid because it’s “professional” and that you need to have a babysitter or child-keeper at all times is anti-feminist to the core and supports notions that the only people who “deserve” to reproduce are the affluent.

Nope, IMHO. I’m sorry you lost someone who was so special, but if it’s the sort of thing your cousin would endorse, then it’s not “morbid” at all. It’s a way to keep a good memory and thought of him alive - like a little grace note in his name sent out in the world when he couldn’t stay here any longer. The anonymity…

A couple of weeks ago I had some randoms come in while i happened to be at the hosting desk. It was a sunday, and IM CATHOLIC BUT I WAS STILL LIKE, OH GOD NO when they started off with, “So we noticed you aren’t in church right now...”

I’m really of 2 minds about this. On the one side, I’ve been an insider, driver and asst. manager at various pizza places. Being a driver is a shitty, thankless job. So good for her, I bet this made her day, week, month and year.

It’s just like that lazy shithead Martin Luther King Jr....I mean sure, it’s great to have a dream. But if your dream doesn’t include every single thing I believe should be in a dream (see: butter scotch roller coasters) then he’s no better than a fucking Gestapo child pornographer.

I’m going to override my inclination to snark, with the fervent hope that this inspires people - “good Christians” or other - to do something awesome just because it feels great to see that kind of reaction on another human’s face.

Yeah, they’re a bit self-congratulatory about it, and maybe that grand could have been used in a “better” way—donated to a homeless shelter or something. On the other hand, that delivery woman is working a probably minimum wage job with definitely shitty tips and is a much-hoped-for grand richer, so sure, good job,…

“So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.”

YOU DON’T SAY.

I mean this is crazy...

They ate a shit load of pasta just nights before. Pasta=gluten. So therefore...? Gift basket dude thought it was okay.

You're all focusing on the fluff part of it. The basket had a lot of other shit in there too, probably gourmet shit at that. And seriously, fuck people for getting mad about fluff. I love me some fluff.

But it sounds like they went to a pasta restaurant he works out a couple weeks earlier and ate a lot of gluten. Also since he works in a restaurant, one could probably assume he's a "food person" and knows what he doing when picking out that stuff. A chef I know got us a great bottle of balsamic vinegar as an…

But he also mentions they gorged on a shit ton of gluten just weeks before with another gift he donated to be given away at their shower, that they kept for themselves. I think considered they ate a bunch of pasta he thought it was ok to give it in a gift basket. Sounds like they just used that as an excuse to make…

I agree that it is not traditionally appropriate, but perhaps he could not afford to give a cash gift. If you don't appreciate a gift someone has given you, especially if they have taken the time to arrange it themselves, why on earth would you tell them that? What on Earth could be the point? Is it really worth…

I thought the same thing, but he already got them a gift certificate to go out. We also don't know how much he spent on the wedding basket. And maybe this couple was already really well established with their home and what not and didn't have a big registry. Maybe they're both very successful and the gift giver didn't…

Foodie 8-year-olds are the worst kids on the playgrounds. Always turning off Radio Disney in favor of the Splendid Table. To make matters worse, their Cookie Monster requests biscotti.

I think you missed this part. "The man says he got to thinking, and that he realized that just a few short weeks earlier, he'd gifted the brides-to-be a certificate to the Italian restaurant he works at, and that the ladies had used the whole amount to gorge themselves on giant platters of full-gluten pasta. But…

I have to agree... I mean, it sounds like it was a fancy wedding and it's technically good etiquette to give a gift that matches the fanciness of the wedding, if you can afford to do so.

See? This is why I decline so many invitations; most of my friends are quite a bit wealthier than me, and I hate the awkwardness of disappointing them with the gift I can afford. Luckily, my friends are cool unlike these bitches, so our different lifestyles are rarely an issue day to day, but weddings are different-…