I try, I REALLY do, to be open-minded about it but it really goes against every fiber of my understanding of etiquette. I would never complain about it, but it just feels (to me) that you don't shift financial burdens of the event to your guests. You either have a smaller wedding, just wine/beer (totally fine) or…

Oh no, it really can. I'm having a VERY inexpensive wedding by East Coast standards for 80 people and between venue rental, food, and alcohol that's more than $8k already.

Oooh I'm glad not in mine, because I registered for the most gorgeous set of knives and have been getting them bit by bit. By far my favorite gifts so far - I'd been using the same crappy Target set for 14 years.

Ugh. If you can't afford to properly host your friends/family, don't have a wedding. This goes for cash bars too (although I know there's some regional variation there). Host properly or elope.

I'm 34. Our friends are over being in weddings. We're just having one attendant each.

One of my friends had one of these. We were both 22, recent college grads. Mommy and Daddy threw her the most ridiculous wedding I've ever seen outside the Godfather. There was a full live band AND a string quartet, for chrissakes.

Fiance wouldn't go for the courthouse elopement, but we're somewhere between the basic wedding and the budget wedding. I'll allow it. :)

All mason jars are banned from my wedding, and I've made it a point to stay away from Pinterest. Hopefully this helps me avoid too many twee pitfalls.

Thank you for saying this. This woman is clearly mentally ill and needs some serious help, not to be paraded around and laughed at more. Just because her mental illness manifests itself in such a shocking visual way doesn't make it any less real.

I can't shake the feeling this is all part of her publicity efforts. She's already planning to write a book. And as for the assault - I've looked at all the available video and there's no video that I can find that shows her being groped. In fact the one that I've seen shows her pretty clearly crouching down and…

Pretty much. And, with professors getting the adjunct treatment everywhere, in some cases you can get the EXACT SAME professor and course at a less prestigious school, or community college. Knock out those core requirements, save some cash, then transfer. Or, you know, get a perfectly good degree from a perfectly…

STATE SCHOOL?

Champagne tastes on a beer budget.

But she didn't want to deign to go to a less prestigious school, the poor dear.

"Faced with either a degree from a less prestigious school or decades of crushing debt, a few hours of work on a porn set revealed itself to be the best way to avoid getting screwed"

So where is the profit going, then? They have dirt-cheap labor costs but sell these products at exorbitant prices to well-heeled consumers. Who is getting the difference? Probably not the prison, I guess?

Go dangle your bait somewhere else.

Yep. Just plant your butt down unless there's something visibly present on the seat. Now, in southeast asia or something, hover like your life depends on it (which you probably have to since they're squatty potties) but generally in 'Murica, you're find to touch your delicate tooshie to the seat.

Even when you leave a VM, you get a text saying "saw you called - what's up"

It was very traumatizing for the people of Libya, many of whom (especially in the cities) are middle class, moderate and secular. The area in the east has had weird little pockets of extremism for a long time - actually a bunch of suicide bombers in Iraq came from one little backwater town called Darnah - but that's…