Tell your 12-year-old self to buck up, aim for a career as a catalog model, and give herself 6-10 years before she gives up!

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As somebody who runs almost exclusively on the treadmill, I object to your analogy. Because the only time I allow myself to watch shitty TV is when I'm on the treadmill.

Congratulations on starting the most entertaining and respectful discussion thread ever.

Boom. Because she *never* wears lipstick.

But maybe she's the Will McAvoy kind of Republican!

Diana was about 22 in videos I was watching, and Kate is 31 and has been in the public eye for quite some time. I promise I'm not being hard on Kate, or at least I don't think I am. Obviously I don't know her or Diana, only the versions of themselves that they present(ed) to the public. In a way, they become…

Ooh, maybe there's more there than meets the eye!

I don't think it is. I think it's great that she's educated, and I think it's great that she makes William happy. I'm just a little disappointed when I see her in interviews. She seems very sweet, but I like women to have a little more spunk. It doesn't make her less worthy, just less...spunky. Or at least, less…

So many of these discussion threads are so cynical and upsetting to read! I've given plenty of homemade wedding gifts, as well as registry gifts that were under $50, and reading these discussions makes me paranoid that my gifts weren't as well received as I thought. But I suspect I'm simply blessed with friends and…

Agreed. Just don't get it.

So I never cared about Princess Di before this past weekend, when I inexplicably contracted Royal Fever and was YouTubing the shit out of William and Kate, which led to YouTubing the shit out of Diana and Charles, and so on. (In my defense, I was bedridden with the flu.) And let me tell you: I am now OBSESSED with…

I am not trying to be a punctuation/grammar/copyediting snob (re: "its" rather than "it's" in the lede), but I'm genuinely curious about whether Gawker employs copyeditors and/or fact checkers. I would love not to be distracted by errors.

Holy. Shit. Joffrey in sausage curls.

But what about when they have to move in with me?

I never learned this in school either, but once I learned it on the job (as an editor), I couldn't help noticing/caring, even outside of work. Same with not using "since" as "because," not mixing up "every day" and "everyday" (the latter functioning only as an adjective), and so on.

It sounds like you made truly wonderful gifts, and those people sound like turds.

Thanks to everybody for your feedback! @WanderlustingIngenue, you need to score the glass with a (super-cheap!) cutter, like this one. Scoring just means scratching, basically, but it's essential that the score be absolutely straight around, so I built a jig—this just means I mounted the cutter to a v-shaped block of…

Hello, friends! So I'm about to go to a bunch of weddings, and I have a question about gift etiquette.