FUUUUUUUUCK!

I literally just found out my grocery store has a pay-by-the-pound jelly belly sours dispenser. WHY.

When I saw this headline I was all like "Please not Jelly Belly, please not Jelly Belly" and...damn.

I thought they were all Crotilidae, or pit vipers, and had the same treatment. Sorry about both your daughter and your pocketbook. CroFab is supposed to be the latest and greatest, so I guess I understand why it's so expensive. But still, damn.

If you think rattlesnakes aren't aggressive, you've never met the diamondback that lives in the empty lot in my neighborhood. That motherfucker does not like people.

Oh I can understand if your child was bit!

If you have like, vintage or costume shops that rent vintage pieces they can be a really cool place to go and get a one-of-a-kind look for a nice price. That's how my mom kept me stylishly but appropriately and cheaply attired for formal stuff in high school. Plus I got to go to a Home Coming at an old speakeasy in…

For my prom, I found the most beautiful dress! I excitedly dragged my mother to the store, but she insisted my dad see it before we bought it. I should have known then that things weren't going to go well. It's been many years, but I still remember the look on my dad's face when I walked out of the fitting room...in a…

I shopped with my mum who would tell me basically everything that wasn't hidous was beautiful. Basically, I brought her along for her cash. It was a great experience. I live in a big city so we went vintage, I ended up getting my prom dress which I loved the shit out of, still do. I fell in love with another dress…

My mom and I went to David's Bridal during Prom season one year for funsies, totally expecting to hate on every dress and have a hilarious time. Ended up finding my dress there and although it's dated now, I fucking loved the shit out of that dress (I still do) and so did my mom (and we picked it out to try on because…

Hey, LaComtesse, I know this is weird to just randomly respond to you on a Jez comment, but I don't have GT posting privileges and I was just MORTIFIED in a meeting where my female boss (the president of the company, also, is French and therefore thinks its ok to point out fat Americans) told me that just because I'm…

I have to ask. Does it make people feel intellectually superior to show up on articles like this and immediately declare it to be bullshit? Because what I read in this article was basically someone saying "I did this thing, and this thing had a positive effect on me." Does it really matter if it was a placebo…

I'm about to turn 56 and I find myself experiencing a new horror almost daily. I never thought I'd be that woman who asks "what the fuck is wrong with people?" all the time...but I am. It's pretty disheartening out there, but we have to keep the culture of kindness alive.

I made this comment on the original thread, but I expect it is buried in the crapslide:

Awful. Unspeakably awful. Is there an ombudsman Kris can complain to? Can the conduct of the officers be addressed by the police?

Yes. But. I would analyze that still. Not someone holding the door open for me, but you know when a man opens the door for you, but for some reason you shouldn't be going first (too far away, bulky bags, with friends, whatever) and gesture for him, and he refuses? And he stands there (for me, always with his arm over…

Seriously. I watched a performance of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" recently... it premiered in 1787, and is a story about a woman who is raped by Don Giovanni, who then murders her father. She is distraught when this happens, and EVERYONE who hears about it - family and friends and clergy and police - believes her…

Yeah, it rubs me the wrong way too. I think it is premised on the assumption that both partners are pro-woman and pro-equality and do things in a certain way because it works for them, not because those are the prescribed gender roles, even though there is some overlap between the two. However, without explicitly…