RE: Your last paragraph. Despite all the talk of saving here and there, the best way to ensure your financial security (by far, it's not even close) is to have a really good source of income. Time spent clipping coupons is better spent building a new marketable skill. You're not going to save $10K every year with…

I kept reading polish week as Polish week, in which case I imagine the prep is less manicure and more:

I think you really need to make a judgement call based on the child. I don't think it's fair to make a blanket ban but I also think it's a bad idea ot make a blanket acceptance either because they can really ruin the thing if they are poorly behaved (but so can an adult).

Ha! I tell the asshole I dated for 5 months that the only good thing I got out of it was the weight loss.

Now I'm paranoid that I'm a dick. How do I know?????

Indeed. I do not want to bone someone who inadvertently reminds me of shit.

Oh, dear. I've always thought that the measure of the relationship's strength was whether you fart in bed or not. Then again, my wife and I have been together for 35 years and there's nothing we don't know about each other's bodies, so I might be a little biased.

"I've been with my boyfriend for over 3 years and we still don't fart around each other."

Exactly. Everyone goes to the bathroom, but I'm not interested in witnessing any part of that. The guy I had who did that didn't realize it turned me off to him sexually. I'm fine with some things remaining private.

You get it. I had a boyfriend many years ago, who farted around me. He was sent packing long ago. That alone made him so much less attractive to me. An old person may not be able to help it. A young person doing it on purpose is basically saying, "Here, smell my asshole". Fucking nasty.

I've heard of what you're talking about, but W. Goldberg does this all the time (my mom watches the show), & it's in purpose. You're old & decrepit? Shit your pants all you want, you can't help it. My ire is directed at people who've done this shit their whole lives, and think it's funny. It's not. It's repulsive.

She was a nurse who was cleared to travel from the CDC and after becoming symptomatic, decided to go shopping anyway. A nurse who may have ebola should know upon becoming symptomatic that they MAY HAVE EBOLA. THEN the store had to close down for weeks to decontaminate (mind you, they never held her financially…

Oh you young whippersnappers! G-chat didn't exist when Mr Chitlins and I got engaged. (Got married in 2002.)

Yeah, I only go to baby showers if there's a lot of booze. I am a fan of 1-year-old birthday parties, because by then, the parents have turned to alcohol to cope, and the party really isn't about the child yet because they're too young to understand what's going on and why there's a big cake they get to destroy.

"After a solid five minutes of trying to figure out who it would be, we realized we were the next likely pair. The conversation ended real quick after that."

Or be an adult and acknowledge that some weddings carry religious, cultural, and family traditions that yours doesn't and keep your fool mouth shut.

I had to make the decision to end medical treatment for my dad and just stick to keeping him comfortable until he passed. It was the hardest decision of my life, but I'm glad I knew his wishes. I want to tell the whole world HAVE THAT CONVERSATION, because I can't imagine what it would be like to stand there in the ER…

One of my fondest hopes is that, by the time I'm elderly, it will be possibly to easily end one's life without stigma. My mom is 88, in pain all the time, bored, sick of everything, and has stated repeatedly that she is ready to go. I wish she could make that choice for herself.

This is me (Judd Nelson) listening to someone talking about their wedding plans.

You know, it's not ebola that's ultimately going to kill us all. It's a lack of a common fucking sense.