I didn't have to go through any of that, but I was super-duper depressed, and have my old diaries to prove it. It is SUCH a hard age, but I fucking love teenagers for how absolutely insane they are.

Me: *looks at all these beautiful people with perfect bodies moving effortlessly*

She's so far removed from the world I grew up in that she's almost an alien. Going hungry, seeing my Mom go without so that I could have seconds (and, sometimes, firsts), eating so many fucking eggs and potatoes, duct taping my glasses together because some idiot in school hit me in the face with a basketball and we…

whenever someone says that ("would you like fries with your order") as an insult to demean someone I cringe
what the fuck is wrong with having a job. that comment is so fucking classist and gross. get over yourself

Pet is a pretty common term of endearment in some places. It doesn't necessarily mean anything except that the guy was from the place he was from. I mean, I can see being irritated by it a bit, but it's a bit unfair to leap to the conclusion that the guy was a misogynist or whatever just because he used a term of…

More appropriate today to note one friendship in particular....

I've been watching two British shows on PBS, Vera and Hebburn. Both shows are set in the Northeast of England. The writers make a point of using the term "pet" as a form of endearment by two motherly characters. So I figured it was a popular word in the Northeastern vernacular.

I couldn't pick just one so here are a few of my handsome boy.

here is mine who hates me

Pet is a common way to call someone if you're from the north of England - see also: love, duck.

So I'm making an executive decision and we're gonna have a thread where everyone gets to see how cute our dogs are, okay?

This perfectly sums up my friendship with my parents' dog. I live 6000 miles away from them at the moment and if they don't Whatsapp me for 3 days, I'm immediately convinced the dog is dead and they don't know how to tell me.

I'm not saying it's polite or acceptable. What I'm saying is that a person with money may have subtle ways of being rude, and that it isn't any better. My guess is that this family was letting her know that she was an outsider, and she lost her cool.

It totally should rub everyone the wrong way! I literally cannot think of a single instance in which this phrase is appropriate.

It rubs almost everyone the wrong way. If I were to ever (literally ever) refer to someone who simply didn't have the opportunities I have had as an 'uncivilized' person, especially just because they're PERHAPS more blunt (though I'm not sure Asshole Commenter has ever met my aunts and uncles. Brash and blunt are two…

I know early on she was very uncomfortable with my lack of respect for money and she wasn't afraid to speak up about it.

I've found that the problem isn't in dealing with one's partner; it's integrating into one another's families that's the hard part.

"Mong" is actually quite offensive really - it's short for "Mongo/Mongoloid" and is a nasty term for folk with Downs Syndrome.

A couple of guys I know were trying to get an awareness campaign up and running to try and eradicate it, but it fell flat as the local government didn't "see the need" unfortunately.

In the same way the Inuit "famously" have several words for Snow, the people of Glasgow, Scotland have a selection of words for (a) bleak weather and (b) lunatics.

(a) Bleak Weather:

Dreich, minging, drookit, haar, sump, perishin, smirry, etc.