I thought that, too! I thought he'd never even make it to see the baby in the first place, but once he did and then left, I knew that was the end of him.

I was never self-conscious about mine and continue to not be, which is really saying something given my particular situation. I've got vitiligo, which means I have patches of skin where there's no pigment (and I mean NONE. I'm fairly pale to begin with, and vitiligo spots are like 30 times whiter), and one of said…

Same here! And, due to some exciting skin pigmentation down below, my lady-bits are actually a bit odd looking. But I've never once been concerned about that or had any complaints. I've always thought penises were so weird and looked like they were just stuck on, but I've never considered the relative "beauty" of one…

The foreshadowing was out of control during the whole episode. Talking about the car, Mary insisting she would go home by herself and he could drive back on his own later if need be, SO MUCH JOY without consequence, Lord Grantham talking about how he was FINALLY appreciating Matthew and all he's done for them, Mary…

It was the damned Christmas special! I missed it for awhile myself because I wasn't in the UK when it aired and I thought it would be a throwaway holiday-themed episode. It wasn't until I read about Dan Stevens leaving the show that I figured I would watch it because it was Matthew's last episode. And what a last…

Seriously. Especially something like this. It's been available online for 2 months, but I can understand if you'd rather watch it "live" when it airs here. That being said, the news that this actor was leaving the show has been around for awhile and has been discussed on THIS VERY SITE! And the headline didn't even…

Harry Potter wasn't exactly rewritten. A handful of British slang words were changed in the first book (and possibly the second?) at the original time of publishing, but nothing else was different.

But English accents make things fancy! I feel like America is constantly selecting English narrators because it sounds way better than our dumb accents. I imagine they did it because she's got a name (and voice, probably) that Americans are more likely to recognize? Maybe? Otherwise it makes NO SENSE AT ALL.

I think if he was her exact equivalent (say, Joey Essex from TOWIE, a guy who spends a lot of time on his self-tanned, highly manicured appearance), I think the response would be almost exactly the same. I think it's more about classism than sexism, and I think your theory about envy and jealousy (looksism?) is right…

A tv show, you say? (I will admit to being so blinded with rage at the thought of remaking such a wonderful movie that I didn't even bother clicking through to the article.) In a way this is much worse, as tv show versions of movies usually are, but in a different way this is much better, because it can be done very…

Ugghhhhhh. I cannot make enough sounds of disgust, frustration and weariness.

This is how I felt in high school (and ever since) as an 'NSYNC fan whenever someone wrote it as N'Sync. There are a LOT of variations on how to write it (all caps vs first letter only, an asterisk between every letter, etc) and all of them are acceptable except that one, because it's so obviously incorrect. The name…

Why are we remaking About A Boy?! WHHYYYY?!?!?!

I certainly hope so! When I told my mom about it afterwards, she said, "Well they want people who have some interests outside of their field and are well-rounded." I was like, "Not THIS well-rounded!" Hahaha.

I actually did shout "Abort! Abort!" while on a crowded NYC sidewalk when I was attempting to cross the street and stepped in what I thought was a little shallow puddle that turned out to be a very deep pool. I froze while I watched my entire shoe disappear beneath the puddle's surface. I then pivoted around and…

I'm like you, where I almost never get embarrassed (which is a good thing because I fall down a LOT). That being said, I had a moment in a job interview several years ago that was a bit like your Brit Lit one. I had just graduated college, and it was my first interview for a "real" job (one in an office, instead of as…

So many of these also happened to me! Throwing up on the bus, being accused of farting by a cute boy (probably correctly, but I can't remember), getting hit in the face with a spiked volleyball during gym class (and a badminton racquet the following year). Thankfully, I did not experience your vaginal discharge…

I never read Deadspin, but I checked it today because Robbie Rogers, an American soccer player, just announced he was gay, and I figured they would have an article about it. The comments on the article were entirely made up of gay jokes and soccer-is-lame jokes. No thoughtful commentary whatsoever. They really are the…

I went to high school in the south and hadn't heard of red velvet cake before then. They basically beat it into me that "real" red velvet cake was made with beets (that's where the red color came from), and every time someone made it or got it for a party, that's how it was made. I thought it was super gross (beets!…

Notes on a Scandal is so good! Definitely not the Notebook, though, haha.