Goin’ out like Elvis sure would be something, not that we’d ever know.

My money has always been on “massive KFC-fueled heart attack”

Two of my closest girlfriends are from high school, and I love that we’ve been able to maintain our friendship for the last 20 years. Just because some people can keep evolving friendships with the same people for more than a decade doesn’t mean they don’t have or don’t meet other friends in their adult years.

Oh my God. I just visited Captain Awkward and now I know I’ve found a new archive I need to obsessively make my way through. Thanks and also I hate you for ruining what little productivity I had.

Thank you, I’m totally keeping this line in my arsenal!

That is a PERFECT line!

That is a GREAT line.

I’ve quickly learned (from Captain Awkward: go there right now if you’ve never been, I have grown so much as a person and a “bitch) that having a “script” of responses takes a lot of the pressure off. Next time potential FIL says something racist, look him in the eye, let the silence become just a bit uncomfortable,…

I’m a broken record when it comes to this shit, but: yeah, he’s a textbook narcissist. I mean, here’s the DSM-5 for Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Find a box he doesn’t tick, I dare you!

Ok, I love this time of year, so forgive the new account, but I wanted to tell the story my grandmother told me. I can’t vouch for it completely, but she’s a very no-nonsense woman and I’ve never caught her in a lie (besides maybe how many martinis she’s had). Anyway, we’ll call her Betty. Betty grew up in Kansas in…

I feel like this is a solid fallback option. I’d ideally love for him to be swallowed up by a huge sinkhole together with the entire GOP leadership, personally, but if his ticker gives out on his golden can, that’ll do.

The only thing that makes FLDS an outlier is that the predators only impregnate the girls after marriage.

Plenty of arranged marriages here. I had a schoolmate who got married right after graduation, she was engaged all through high school- Eastern Orthodox, arranged by the parents.

A girl I went to high school with was married at 15. As a junior or senior, her husband was hoping she’d agree to have kids. It was super bizarre, but she acted like it was totally normal. I wonder what happened with her.

“There’s a significant difference IMO between parents giving permission for under 18s to marry, and parents arranging for it.”

And I agree with you there. I usually gravitate toward the known quantity myself. The last couple of years has opened my eyes to the world beyond.

Yep, the only difference is that romance has a guaranteed HEA* or HFN**, and Sparks seems to like tragedy. :)

The message I’ve gotten from democrats: We want people to be treated equally regardless of sex, gender, race, sexual orientation, etc., and we are not actively working to kill you. Maybe not super inspiring, but it’s a good message.

When you get whites together in groups you see the thug element. It’s in their nature. It’s rare you can get large groups of whites together without some sort of violence. When you throw in this country “music” which promotes drinking and glorifies white thugary you have what you have on Sunday.