The places I have been do. But I don't think I'm the best equipped to answer that :P

I figured it might just be an ease thing. We ran into it a couple time in New York, but I can't say I've seen it anywhere else in the US. Good to know it's kind of uncommon, though!

Yeah, I have no idea! It really threw us. We thought she was joking at first, but very quickly realized- nope. Not kidding! Everywhere I have been in Canada is pretty cool with splitting the cheque, and will even give you actual separate slips rather than break it down on one big bill.

I was so used to Canadian dining that the first time I went to New York as a solo adult and three friends and I asked for separate cheques, the server was basically just like, "Um, no." Which, sure. Fair enough! I was carrying around so much actual cash by virtue of everything being in bills and not coins, that it…

Okay.
My boyfriend and I have made a joke about it. So there is that route too.

It's ridiculous how much ego can get wrapped up in cooking, too! I wasn't even aware of how proud I was of my cooking until my ex didn't like things I made. Then I was like, "No, fuck you, this is amazing! Stop eating sour patch kids and drinking Guinness for breakfast! It's ruining your taste buds."

Agreed. Luckily my boyfriend and I have spookily similar taste in food. And I'm already bad enough with the "Is it good? Do you like it?" when I cook something new. If we didn't agree on food, it'd be a huge contention.

Haha, I can only hope!
We lived in a pretty weird neighbourhood though. Guaranteed their parents knew, then high-fived my parents later.

When I was eight, I caught my parents going at it in a shitty, cheap above ground pool. While I had friends over for an outdoor sleep over. When I asked what they were doing they said "skinny dipping."
Eight year old Wombat totally bought it. And swam in that pool later that summer. Twenty-six year old Wombat is…

The way these issues get talked about is racist. They become naturalized and racialized rather than acknowledged as being a by-product of government abuse and attempted genocide that didn't end until the 1990s.

This is an Urban Farming Inatiative waiting to happen. For real.
I moved into an apartment with outdoor garden space. The prior residence had kale plants that I seriously did nothing with but leave in the garden bed. They grew too fast and I couldn't keep up with harvesting them, so they went to flower.
But if…

Every few months there is a call for new posters. If you hang around and establish a relationship with the community it's no problem to get :)
Or if you have something specific you've already drafted you can always ask someone and they'll post it for you.

I have no idea what you think a MPDG is then. That list you gave is part of MPDG, but isn't the crux of what the author who coined the term meant by it. It is a trope that spread, as tropes do, and Rabin simply coined a tern to identify it. It's not an isolated thing anymore.

No, you're misinterpreting. Any character can be "manic." There are plenty of female characters who can be like this and not be MPDG- think Jess on New Girl. The largest breakaway from this with the MPDG is that they are not fully realized characters. In the author's own words:

But, that's the point of the MPDG. She isn't a fully sledged character. She is a prop to help the protagonist "break out of his shell" and "embrace frivolity." The concept being: she is a support structure rather than a character.
You seem to be saying you don't like that people think of a MPDG as non-autonomous,…

I want to recommend this again. Amazing.

That is exactly the model I think most people follow when you say "cash bar." I have never been to a "cash bar" wedding without at least a couple drink tickets or wine for the table.
The other Canadian tradition is the "toonie bar" where mixed drinks and draft are 2$ a glass. Covers the cost, and the bartender if…

Most places with cash bar also do a bottle of wine or two for the table.
In Newfoundland there is a five hour break between the ceremony and the reception in which everyone gets together and drink on the bride's father's dime. So they show up to the dinner pleasantly sloshed. And with a bottle of wine or two…

I'm guessing you're from a middle class background? Because honestly, no one I know IRL has a problem with it, but daammmmn, the condescension that comes out online about it :P
I don't think there is a problem with you disliking that as a wedding choice, rock on with that! But insisting that people who don't have…

I know you added the caveat of "regional variation" but can we stop whipping this out on every wedding thread? Half of my family is Newfies and they drink like fish and every single one of my cousins has had a cash bar. No one complains, and its considered perfectly polite.
The idea of "properly hosting" is…