Man, it’s almost like people can do whatever the hell makes them happy and it’s a-ok!

What does jewelry cleaner consist of? Does toothpaste work? I mean the lady had a lot of diamonds so if it worked for her...

You should probably still get it fixed, but find a reputable local store that is not a chain instead. Take extensive photographs of the ring prior to leaving it. Print those photos out with date stamps.

I usually prefer the Mom and Pops (or Tiffany’s. I have a weakness for Tiffany’s), Ben Bridge was just offering it while I was in the mall and I thought what the heck!

I’ve actually looked into this, but I really only have one or two items that are nice enough to actually clean, so I’m not sure how worth it it is. Maybe once I’ve amassed a larger collection :)

The paranoia of this sort of thing happening is why I hadn’t taken an heirloom ring in to get cleaned for 2+ years until this weekend. Fortunately, I did NOT go to Kay’s - I went to Ben Bridge, and they were very nice and cleaned it for free. Then they tried to sell me overpriced pearl earrings and then I politely…

If she doesn’t eventually win an EGOT I am going to be actually devastated.

I remain 100% convinced that Earth is gonna be just fine. Not Earth as we know it, but the planet in general.

...now I want it just for the bizarre tan lines.

Yeah I’ll put a green apple in just to make it tolerable (with lemon. lemon is ESSENTIAL in making green juice not taste like dirt), but it’s otherwise pretty damn healthy. Fiber has never been *ahem* super lacking in my diet, so I just ain’t that worried lol.

I work there tangentially (let’s just say that a lot of the people I interact with are Bel-Air types) and while I love my job/boss, I spend a LOT of time shaking my damn head. Solidarity, my friend.

oh yeah, but I also use juice/smoothie interchangeably. intellectually I recognize they’re different, but I use them for the same purpose so in Raptor World they’re the same ;)

.... hyperbole, my friend.

I like getting veggie smoothies if I’m at the mall and otherwise don’t have access to healthy snacks. They’re tasty, they’re easy, its a hell of a lot better for you than chomping on a cheeseburger, but I’m not gonna start spending an hour a day pulverizing veggies in an overpriced blender. I do have a juicer, and I…

Yes, you’re right about fruit juice. As delicious as it is, and it IS healthier (I mean, technically it is) than soda, it’s not actually some health food miracle. You’re still consuming a crapton of calories and sugar.

Yes, let’s make empty gestures of throwing money at people and calling it a day. Okay. Great. Super effective. *high five white people*

Y’know, they may be stilted (they are taking a formal portrait after all, they’ve probably been sitting there forever), but they all look genuinely happy to be there and together. And George is the cutest effing kid imaginable.

Point of clarification: how do you get $3.3 million per person (slave) (sorry their personhood comes first)? Because that was the value of the entire sale in today’s dollars.

To be fair, they live in Bel-Air.

I’m now supremely disappointed that my boyfriend has never got me an olive tree even though we don’t have a yard. It’s like he doesn’t want me to have nice things that I also can’t kill accidentally.