That’s a pretty big game-changer, this should be top comment.

(Just, can you imagine it’s 11pm and your motion light keeps turning on and you hear muffled arguments, and you poke head out door, squinting, and it’s damn pesky teenagers in your yard again, trying to play their nonsensical scrabble, and you’re going to have to call the cops this time, because their parents…

I’m going to treat random xs and zs as blank pieces, make whatever damn word I want. It’ll be like “THAT’S WHAT YOU DID.”

I feel like for a short-cut to be worth while at all, it needs to save at least 3 letters. Thanx and lotsa save 1 letter. This is laziness of the highest order. I want to saw off hands piecing this together in scrabble matches.

I have a sort-of solution: online dating sites should inform new users at sign-up, and in side-columns (as they would for an ad) to not send money to anyone they meet on there without meeting in person first. “Remember, do not share money or financial data with people you have only met online” warnings sprinkled…

Totally! I wanted to fix a jacket that shredded, and no one I knew had a sewing machine!

I’m thinking it over and between you and HudsonEilleeniversity, I’m in full agreement that culture is our new problem. What is unclear to me is what would have made the middle class start purchasing out of the selection for the lower class in bulk? The other facet of my argument is who should be blamed for this…

Affluent younger people doing this is a huge part of the problem, and I believe you, there is a type who buys a shirt for the night. The culture of having well over 16 possible outfits is a huge problem. I’m just doubtful that’s what the majority does, enough to generate the whole market - the young can be poor…

Thank you, this is what I was trying to explain, but much better (and shorter!)

It is consumer led, but I don’t think it’s a problem consumers can fix: for many, shopping at the FF21/H&M/Old Navy level is not just about being drawn to cheap. It makes financial sense to save for robust items...but being poor is all about not having enough money to make sound financial decisions, even if you know…

The used clothing option is best in cities that get lots of stylish or vintage stuff turned in - in smaller places you get a lot of bad fits, worse colors, and patterns my grandma would gag at. I have this problem big time.

They have a good solution, it will just never pass. It’s to attach American labor laws to American entrepreneurs wherever they go - worker’s rights get extended to anyone working for an American who wants to do business at home (laws that reflect globalization! what an idea!). Wage would reflect “living wage” of the…

I’m going to do it, and keep on doing it, but I resent that the burden of making sure my purchasing choices aren’t TOTALLY EVIL is on me. They should have to prove they’re ethical before allowed to hit the market.

I think you’re right, but the initial cost of higher education was prompted by the government withdrawing funding in 1987 forward. Student loans is a weak contribution to levelling the playing field in comparison.

“Self-aware crazy” justifies itself quickly, like “No, it’s bad to care so much, I won’t freak them out. But then...we’re supposed to be open with each other, they even said so. And maybe keeping this secret will poison the relationship. It will! I shouldn’t even wait! I SHALL DECLARE IT ON FACEBOOK!”

I can think of lots of reasons for it, none of them are good.

Wow. That is shady.

Did anyone ever get an explanation for that weird scene Ashley stumbled onto last season? The one that was supposedly gambling on the outcomes or something, according to the host during the wrap up episode?

I’m not reading all that

I don’t want I say distorted to this degree.