I was going to ask this. I think it’s a different business model, but based on my experience of the extremely varied quality of the stuff at TJ Maxx, I’d think they probably offer a mix of last-season, overstock, and factory items.

Chocolate is pretty much the only sweet I care for, tbh. My preferred snacks are cheese, olives, nuts, kettle chips, baguette with salted butter, then chocolate, then pie, then ice-cream.

My mam sends me and the spouse British chocolate whenever she posts something to me in the US. Yeah, I know it’s not exactly legal (fuck you very much Hershey’s) but the last couple of packages have all been gone through by customs agents and no-one gives a shit. This year for Christmas we got a full sized bar of…

Yoga is not great for weight loss. But it’s great for improving balance and posture, which helps with other exercise. I also used to do yoga once a week to supplement my cardio-heavy regime, and I found that the poses were great for working out muscle aches.

I was totally going to say this. It’s a bit kettle calling the pot, because I’ve gone up almost two pants sizes over the last 6 months and am paying for a membership I have not used in that long, but the Y is pretty much the only gym I can go to. The instructors are generally normal people who have kids and cake and…

Yeah, this is what struck me most. I have heard similar jabber from people about grades and whatnot before, but it’s mostly been from deeply insecure college kids with no actual experience of the real world or real relationships.

I agree, it is distasteful. But given that models literally embody their career in a way that’s pretty unique to their profession, there doesn’t seem to be workable alternative solution. Most working models are already used to hearing their bodies spoken of with a level of detachment- many are contractually obliged to…

Which I can understand. But I look at it as, a whole bunch of people are currently being excluded from becoming models due to sheer market forces. This legislation isn’t telling the industry they can’t hire thin people, it’s telling them they have a responsibility not to foster illness in it’s workers (note that it…

I actually think this legislation is pretty positive in that it focuses on the health of the models as well as their appearance. That BMI is only a part of the medical requirements suggests that naturally thin women will probably still get the okay and be able to work. I think this is getting closer to “don’t be an…

I’d be concerned about sexual exploitation too. Some of the girls that pursue modelling are very young and would do just about anything they’re told to get a gig.

Cultural inertia and economics. For some time now it’s been more expensive to be thin than fat. People associate wealth with slimness and minimalism, in models and in design. Also, people as a whole just aren’t that great at changing their minds about things that much.

I would look bitchin’ in that thing.

“Because I think we have the right to expect that, especially since we’re paying $50K a year for him to go to school.”

Yeah, I think this is a pretty typical problem, actually. I know in my first year of uni I sometimes didn’t call my mum for three weeks, not because I was avoiding talking to her, but because I was so busy and the time just flew by. My sister was the same; my mum would text us just to see if we were okay if it had…

My BFF’s husband has flat-out said he just finds it easier to delegate all the organizing of their social life to my friend. My husband pretty much does the same thing. Of the four of us, they have known each other the longest but it’s always me and her who orgainise our get-togethers. Now, granted both our husbands…

Yeah, the being afraid of being alone thing seems to be a HUGE factor. I would be sad if my marriage ended for some reason, but I don’t think I’d be in a huge rush to replace it. I really enjoyed being single. Love my husband to bits but we’d be lying liars who lie if either one of us said there weren’t times we miss…

It’s way too early to determine the former. Honestly, I don’t like this idea that the husband was a normal, moderate Muslim guy and then got duped into becoming a fully-fledged terrorist by his wife. It’s a bit lady Macbeth and seems too neat. My guess is that this guy was probably leaning toward radicalism before he…

Honestly, the shootings and the obvious incremental attempts to make abortion illeagle are the two things that keep me awake at night and make me reconsider my decison to stay in this country long-term. The other day at work I was idly thinking about what I’d do if we got a shooter at work (I work at a law firm, so…

“Every single person who contributed to the vilification of PP in recent months has blood on their hands. But that’s a scary thought - better to blame the “liberal media”, as per usual. The party of Personal Responsibility strikes again”

Dude, we spent $4000 on our late dog in the course of a fortnight. It was sickening. The only thing that would have been worse was not spending it and not being able to tell myself we gave our girl the best possible chance.