Brooklyn Basic + Dallas Basic = Austin Basic

That's why we have Miller High Life

We have been Columbused once a-gain.

You know, I asked the hivemind not too long ago what 'Basic Bitch' meant and I was told it actually means something closer to 'champagne tastes on beer budget'.

I hate you. Sorry.

Alright Black People basic bitch is officially dead. Meet me over at #blacktwitter in 2o min to discuss new alternatives, b/c thot is also on it's way out.

Nailed DC. So much Ann Taylor. So many cardigans. Though nonprofit employees live-tweeting events using the common hashtag from their personal accounts makes me look good at the social media part of my nonprofit job, so keep up that irritating habit, please!

Jezebel Basic

After years of envying these bitches for their basic hair, I was let in on the secret.... Keratin treatments.

Otherwise known as sinking formaldehyde and other chemicals deep into one's scalp.

I don't understand this article and I'm glad I don't.

It is just like if I poorly control my diabetes - I immediately lose a few pounds. Then people start saying I look great, and I just grimace and think "Oh fuck, my poor kidneys".

I missed that lesson, but it came to me in time.

I explain being the Archmage of the College of Winterhold in Skyrim in HP terms. In his first semester at Hogwarts, Harry saves the day when Snape goes evil, Dumbledore and McGonnegal die in the process, and they make Harry the new Dumbledore.

Great advice, bro. There aren't enough eye rolls.

breath in, breath out, its Internet.

An old trucker gave me some of the best advice about staying calm while driving I have ever heard, and it also applies to life and jealousy: "Drive your own car. Just drive your own car."

I think another part is that people see that to be gluten-free, no pasta or bread... so they see it as "no carbs", or similar, and do it for that.

As a chef, we take celiac very seriously, but it is slightly under 1%. Someone says they are gluten-free, we'll fire up a pot of oil and hand cut a potato to make them…

As a "non-dieter" anti-fad, fat positive person who just got diagnosed with celiac I totally agree with you but am so freaking happy the fad exists since it allows me so many more options than I would have had 5 years ago! That said what these gluten free fadsters don't get- if you're actually intolerant and eat…

That is always cathartic when defecation meets the oscillation...

Would anyone be interested in my similarly-themed DIY article, "Everything I Fucked Up While Trying To Act Like Anthony Bourdain For Most of My Twenties"?