I once told someone that I was planning on adopting an actual child, not a reborn doll, so it was indeed gonna be "real".

When lil' Arianna is a grown-up, she will be handing out this pamphlet:

As a certified contrarian, upon seeing her I'd have no choice but to say the following:

What fucking assholes for relatives she must have, caring and asking questions. This poor girl.

Right? She is making herself sound like a total bitch.

I agree. This seemed bratty to me rather than brilliant. It's not that horrible to make polite conversation with people you see maybe once a year. So what if great-aunt Josephine and third cousin Paul ask the same questions, just answer and move on, don't act like you're too good for a simple question.

Teen snark is not as funny as teen thinks it is. People ask these questions because they want to interact with you, and this is an easy, safe way to do it. Your time would be better spent learning how to make polite conversation. I joked about doing the same thing when I was a teen/young adult, but I didn't, because I…

That was my first reaction, too. I hope she also learns about comma splices and why you shouldn't use them.

I think I found the reason her GPA isn't high enough to get into UConn.

They have to sing?

I think I have to disagree, to some extent. If someone, or even three someones accuses you of something, I don't think you should simply accept it as absolutely true. I'm black, and I've seen people pilloried for being racist in situations that I don't think they were.

agreed!

Let me be super clear about this: I think everyone should be allow to love whomever they want and be a religious person. I don't think that religious sect of any kind should discriminate against gay people. With that being said, I understand how and why a person might decide they want to live within their communities…

Considering many "wall o' texts" are immediately, and decidedly, met with tl;dr dismissals these days (particularly by the people who would benefit from the read), I'd say breaking his essay down to easily readable and digestible 140 character chunks was the better move.

Someone needs to call out Iggy Australia for her shit, but this is definitely the wrong way to do so.

It would be cooler if Google made one of these and beat them to it.

I can see the board meeting at Amazon when they dreamed this up. How do we convince people to let us bug their homes. Let's give them a speaker that can answer trivial questions and play music. Then no one will freak out when we record everything they say to each other.

I asked my Dad why Santa's handwriting was the same as his and he said they had the same teacher in school. I strained my eye muscles side-eyeing that one.

I figured it out by seeing a wrapper from a rattle in the trash and then finding the rattle in my sister's stocking a week or two later.

" BOSE name projects a little bit about who you are"