I used to work for GIA and though I was not a diamond grader, I am still a qualified gemologist. There’s an awful lot of misperceptions about reselling diamonds, including some things in that article.

Fucking what? NO IT IS A MORAL DILEMMA NOT TO REPORT SEXUAL ABUSE.

It might be more depressing, but at least it’s about you you you, now!

I like Moxie a lot. It’s a refreshing update of the tradition of naming girls “quality” names, such as Patience, Prudence, and Chastity.

I have a real soft spot for the gently eccentric names that some celebrities give their kids. I know we’re supposed to sneer and scoff, but awww, it honestly makes my day when I hear that someone’s named their kid something quaintly peculiar. The world is full of awfulness and despair, and I just really like it when…

Because they are walking on eggshells. :/

Really, how hard should it be to shut this shit down?

I guarantee you Mom is abusing Dad that way and will make all those involved suffer/take out her horrific personality on father and children. She just needs an excuse.

Mental illness and co-dependency can lead to some really fucked-up situations in a long-term relationship.

She told me at one point that her latest ploy was to always be doing the vacuuming when that friend showed up, because he’d commence to tell her she was vacuuming wrong and take over to show her how to do it right. Then she’d stand back and let him “show her” how to vacuum the entire house.

My husband and I were having dinner with two of his cousins and their spouses. We don’t see them very often so we had no idea that one of their husbands was a total asshole. When the check came, we quickly divided the check by the number of people, which was fine with everyone because we’d eaten family style.

don’t worry, he’s going to die young of diabetes after ordering and consuming that drink every day.

Imagine standing in line behind this guy...I can’t because I’ll be walking out the door to another coffee shop.

Really, nothing says you’ve really made it in the music world until you’ve sent back a Burger King burger because it wasn’t to your liking.

I would want to screw up his drink as much as possible, purely to make him pay his Asshole Tax.

I give him credit for making good on the tip. He’s probably afraid of her. Based on the kids’ reaction, they are, too.

Re: the pizza place. I was just screamed at last week at full volume in front of the circulation desk (I’m a librarian) and I figured that most people around us were thinking, “Whoa! That woman sounds CRAZY. Hey kids, don’t ever act like that.” Never dreamed that someone would back up the lunatic and give the message…

This feels like a bipolar-off-meds situation. In which case I want to buy this family a thorazine dart gun for Christmas.

We had one family friend that I just stopped going to restaurants with because he was such a tool, complaining about every aspect of the meal. (To make matters worse, he was actually a really good cook himself, which meant he could find fault with any damn thing.) My Mother would go with him occasionally, but she…

Dear dining public: