I am SO glad you said that, re your #1 point. I mean, not glad as in, I'm glad you were abused, not at all! But glad that my experience wasn't wrong and my feelings about it being a scary and not-fun thing after abuse weren't wrong.

I was driving in a parking lot with my then-3-year-old in the car, and someone just wandered into the lane, mosey mosey, you know what I mean. So I said something about getting out of the damn way or whatever, and 3-y-o pipes up, "That's right, Mommy, we hate these fucking people, don't we?"

Ever seen the film "A Woman Under the Influence?"

I just hearted you, too, and am sending you a cyberhug (or is that uncool?).

DUDE. Are my husband and I the only ones who still, after hundreds of viewings, after knowing it's coming and anticipating it with glee every time, just totally lose our shit laughing during the episode when Bill and Dave give up smoking and caffeine, and Matthew walks in to ask a question and they just go off on him?

Ever read SHOGUN, by James Clavell?

It still stings, doesn't it?

Ha, yes, I was *stunned* when I saw the Nutella ads with the mother putting it on her kid's toast as part of her regular breakfast, or putting it on whatever other foods to get the kid to eat them. Nutella is delicious, and I have no problem giving it to my daughters, but they get it as an occasional Saturday morning…

I love that phrase!

Exactly! It's okay to eat fried macaroni and cheese at the Cheesecake Factory every day because hey, Paula Deen eats that way all the time, so obviously tons of people do! That's how people always ate before the government started lying to us about what is and isn't healthy!

Yes! I'd actually intended to mention that but forgot. Especially the way things are today, lots of people grew up eating take-out or frozen meals or whatever, or at the very least never really had the chance to see actual food being prepared. So they have no context. *I* know all kinds of tips and tricks to make…

"Riding on [my] high horse?" "Accusing [you] of being insulting and rude while [I'm] being insulting and rude and passive-aggressive?"

I don't think this is about bodysnarking or "She deserves it" or anything like that at all. And I have to disagree with those who are saying "Oh, she never said you could eat like this all the time," or "If you think it's okay to eat like Paula all the time you're just lacking sense." Most of the things I've seen her…

Thank you! The Lutherburger deserves to be known by its true name. :-)

Can you explain why on the one hand you think they're an "adults-only privilege" but on the other don't see why they're not like any other word?

Like the way the McCanns were portrayed as so loving and sympathetic and normal, whereas if a woman from a council estate had left her children unattended in a foreign country so she could go get drunk with friends, the press would have gone out of their way to take pictures of her eating or wearing ill-fitting…

*shrug* I don't think I was "crazay" at my brother's wedding when I decided my feet hurt and put on my Chucks under my burgundy satin bridesmaid gown. I don't think I was "crazay" when a couple of years ago at a publishing convention I wore my Chucks with my party dress to one of my publishers' parties, because my…

Yeah, aside from the "I demand you alter your wardrobe and personality to please me" thing...I think tennis shoes look adorable on Ellen and Janeane and would have looked adorable here, too. (I do think the toe shoes are hideous, but whatever, if she wants to wear them she's perfectly entitled to wear them.)

Yes, exactly.

Hearted. This is EXACTLY what I was thinking.