This sounds a lot like concern trolling. The idea was not "don't buy anything no matter how much you need it and how it might change your life." The idea was "don't go and buy a lot of shit you don't need from huge corporations on an artificial day that's all about consumerism."

As someone who is currently knitting a Christmas present, let me tell you that it isn't really cheaper or less consumer-y. Yarn stores/websites can suck you in and refuse to let you out, and that's not even getting in to needles or stitch counters or what-have-yous.

To be fair, the whole schtick is that she has resting miserable face.

That could well be good, but what they do to it in Cincy is emphatically not.

Dude they put fucking chocolate and cinnamon in it and then throw it over spaghetti. It's awful.

No, YOU selected friends based partly on parenting. I had far, far less restrictive parents than most of my friends and it really didn't have anything to do with who I hung out with or was friends with or what we did. The friends who had stricter parents would just be around less, or we'd go to their houses. I…

As a random commenter who has never suffered a loss like that, I don't think I have any ability to judge, so I don't know.

That's horrible and I'm so sorry your friend died. The father's behavior sounds terrible. It's unthinkable that he was actually happy his son died.

But you would be dead, and your parents would live on. What does it matter how you would feel?

Maybe, no matter how offended you feel (and it is offensive) you can give parents who just lost a child a break.

I totally understand that, and if its important you should make sure to document it! End-of-life instructions are so important! /psa But for me when you're dead you're dead and you don't care any more (I realize others believe differently). Funerals are for the people left behind, and from what I've heard losing a…

Not so sure that showing who someone "really was" at their funeral, and upsetting a family that just lost a son, is so important. Have your own friends-only memorial service and celebrate your friend's life as you see fit, but maybe don't make the death of a child any harder for the parents?

In New York, an adult man having sex with a 16 year old is rape. Drugged or not is irrelevant.

High as hell and giggling and feeling sorry not sorry.

How many wife beaters she going to give a shout out to? Is it her new thing or something?

So... Beyoncé is trying to be more like Kanye?

Clyde Frazier. This year, every year.

LOL, I dunno but now I'm having a really fun Minaj remake of 'Pour Some Sugar On Me' video in my head.

For me promoting equality and opportunity and empowerment for women is part of feminism but not all. The other part is challenging and dismantling the patriarchy.

And people laughed at me when I said Solange is more of a style icon than her sister.