Ummm can we have a Pissing Contest for weirdest birthday gifts? 10/10, would read more.

Why would you paint over such lovely colors? And no, I’m enjoying them as we speak!

Well I’m only 29, so there should be no excuse for that fall! My teacher did give me a hug after class so that I would “feel safe again,” and I have to say, it was a very nice hug and a comforting gesture, so maybe another lesson is that when you need them, people will take care of and support you if you let them.

John Legend already WAS on Lip Sync Battle. I think it was the first or second episode.

I enjoyed Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica (NOT Drew). I didn’t ever listen to either of their music and had very little idea of who they actually were, but they were very cute and likeable. I still rather have a soft spot for Jessica…

I <3 Brit.

Well this is a story of my grandfather at a moment of great family sadness and pain.

It sounds like the “Could not walk or wear underwear” reviewer has/had folliculitus, a bacterial infection of your hair follicles. I got it from shaving with - i guess a not perfectly pristine - razor while camping. The heat/sweat and chafing from a wet bathing suit made it fester so badly I interrupted my vacation to…

My mom had a friend named Tangerine who had a daughter named Peaches...surprisingly enough, the poor choices in that family did not end with the naming practices.

“Rack city bitch, rack rack city bitch / Ten ten ten tens twennies and dem fiddies, bitch” = pure genius, how could I never see it before?

My guess is that the writer told the cousin some home truths about her now-fiancée. Things she wants to pretend never happened. The very presence of her cousin no doubt reminds the letter writer of the very real doubts she may have lurking not far from the surface.

My fiancee knows about the conversation I had with her before our engagement and doesn’t want her involved in the wedding at all. Or really in our lives.

I totally agree. I think the fiancé came out the worst in this story. I can’t believe the audacity of telling your partner you don’t want her family member involved in the wedding, because the family member said some bad things about you in one conversation. He sounds like a possessive dick to me.

If the other cousins are in the wedding, and this one cousin is not - everyone will notice it and it will be A Thing the rest of their lives. The cousin’s parents will wonder why their daughter is being singled out, and they may get mad (people get even more mad on behalf of their children than themselves). People…

Agree. Armchair psychologist here: It’s no excuse, but I imagine he’s kind of projecting some of his shame about his past behavior onto the cousin. I mean, the cousin just vocalized some of the things that made the bride to be break it off with him to begin with. I also suspect the bride to be may have told him what…

I also think that the fiance really needs to chill out about the cousin and accept the fact that not everyone that loves your partner is going to be 100% on board with you all the time.

I urged my bestie to break up with her boyfriend once because he was being controlling and douchey and not meeting her halfway (literally - they were long distance and he refused to visit her bc he didn’t like the city we lived in, so she spent a lot of time visiting him and not building relationships where we lived)…

With the wedding/cousin situation, the bride really needs to decide what she wants her relationship with her cousin to be. This is not about her fiance’s feelings about the cousin, this is about if the bride wants to forgive the cousin for having a moment of (too real) real talk, and resume their formerly superclose…

Maebe?

Wow y’all - that headline is awfully mean! She designed it, knitted it, it’s a sweet idea and it looks cute on Taylor!

I was just thinking that I remember when those button-up skirts (corduroy!) and ribbed poor boy tops were all the rage back around 1994-ish. I have to say I am relieved someone else on here was around for that.