This has been the business model of every gym, everywhere, forever. (With very few exceptions.) Seriously. No gym/club/studio wants or can house anywhere near to their full membership at any time, ever. The amount one pays for a membership is (usually) relative to their income, so not showing up when you pay $10 per…

I worked for years at two different gyms like that - Lawlover explains quite well what these gyms offer. People didn't carry these members from machine to machine, but their premier membership status afforded them all kinds of priority access and scheduling, and would often include a number of training sessions.…

This is not unusual, it has been the nature of gyms since the beginning of time. Most people, regardless of how much it costs, use the gym only rarely, while a smaller percentage make up the "regulars" that show up almost every day. If any gym had even 50% attendance, it would be packed to the rafters.

When I was 12 I had a "relationship" with a 20 year old college student of my dad's. He was my dad's pal, and therefore was around a lot. I had a giant crush on him for years - I made googly eyes at him and he tolerated me. That was the extent of our "relationship". (We actually dated when I was 30 but that's…

I got it on the day after my wedding. :( Six weeks of hell. Still itches occasionally six years later.

My husband worked this below-the-line; he said it was nauseatingly awful, but I don't know why. I'll ask him and report back.

(He's not voguing, he's doing some stylized arm movements reminiscent of Balinese or Thai dancing - or some such dance/yoga thingamajig - and he's sitting in the lotus position. Yogaing, not voguing)

I know! I'm trying not to be spoilery for people who haven't watched it, but when she appeared for the first time in the last series was one of my favorite bits of television, ever.

Well, then, never mind.

You HAVE to watch it. If you don't watch it you won't realize how subpar the American version will be, it will be a horrible retread and it won't have RUTH WILSON, who will undoubtedly reach Judi Dench or Helen Mirren levels of greatness. Plus Idris Elba is the only Luther possible.

Do people (celebrities) actually ask to be "memed" now? Smacks of desperation borne of one's relevance declining at the velocity of falling off a high cliff.

This seems like as good a point as any to insert my irrelevant gripe about SOA - as a former resident of that area, I hate that they so obviously film this in Santa Clarita, a bit north of LA. There are few palm trees and fewer mountain ranges in the Central Valley. It's not as though the area is thousands of miles…

I was wondering what I was going to make for dinner - now I know. Thanks, kind stranger!

I'm certain this is a not-coincidental-at-all part of the anti-Hillary campaign.

It was the same in that other poster from a week or so ago where she was standing there with one arm raised. Ugggh. All she'd have to do in this one is arch her back a bit and it would look 1000 times better. This is going to be such a disaster, unless she's just really bad at being still - I doubt it, though. I think…

In every one of these photos "Peter" seems to have absolutely no awareness of how she looks - and I mean in her poses. There's no strength in any of her limbs or her torso; she seems to just be hanging from a wire with a bent leg, not even trying to look like she's flying or doing anything other than simply hanging…

I agree with you completely about Jay Leno, but Ellen used to be one of my favorite comedians - I haven't seen her doing standup for at least 10 years, but I thought she was hilarious. (Not as funny as Paula Poundstone, though, but Paula is not what I'd describe as endearing :) ) But I do agree with you again about…

I haven't watched the episode yet, but I watched the video up top and when the Jessica Lange started to sing, all I could think of was this, and I was waiting for her to lose her "r's"

writing her essay with a Black & Mild dipped in foundation