When I was about 13, I went to the beach with my parents. My mom put a picture of me from that trip on the refrigerator to show me how fat I was and how badly I needed to diet.

On the Hollywood thing, I'd like to offer this story. I have a close friend who works in business management, and she is often invited to red carpet premieres. (I used to work in business management too but it wasn't a good fit for me so I left). Anyway, my friend invited me to go to the premiere of Legends of the…

It's not even about living together pre-wedding. It's that statistically people are marrying older. If they haven't cohabitated, they need the registry even less because they own two of everything! They already have two complete households of pots, pans, dishes, flatware, toasters, microwaves and linens. The wedding…

But the article indicates that they obtained her records PRIOR to her filing her lawsuit. Doesn't that make it against the rules? I mean, even if they knew that she was considering a suit, many people consider but never file.

What do you think of Jamberry? One of my friends just started selling it.

Exactly! I think it's extremely unreasonable to expect people desperate for work to try to engage their customers in any kind of conversation, especially bleary eyed ones desperate for caffeine. I also don't see that I, as a middle-aged white woman, have anything to offer on this subject.

I wish everyone was required to publish their pay tables. There would still be different levels of pay, but management would have to justify why slacker x is paid more than star performer y. He might still get more, but it wouldn't be so very much more.

Most clergy won't perform marriages for individuals who do not belong to their faith. Will they still issue marriage licenses when they won't perform the ceremony?

Completely seconded. It's been 15 years since I worked at a company that was not intentionally understaffed.

I would like to point out that this may be what they BELIEVE, but this is not actually what the theology that they espouse SAYS. Asking forgiveness is not the same thing as repentance, and the first command of repentance is "sin no more."

My only "poor service" story that is remotely amusing was back in college days I went to a new Brazilian restaurant that had just opened in Santa Barbara. When the waiter came to take our plates, we told him that we wanted to order dessert. He then proceeded to shake the plates until the used knives and forks fell…

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I loved that book. It changed my thinking on so many subjects. I recommend it all the time.

I heard about this but not as a way to deter rapists. I heard of planting spiny thorny bushes under your windows to deter burglary when everyone is at work during the day.

I am not very pretty and never was, but when I was thin, I used to get hit on all the time. My prettier friend has never experienced street harassment. My theory is that, because I like people in general, and most everyone until they give me a reason not to, is that my posture, body language and smile all indicate…

On the makeup issue, I didn't start wearing makeup until my forties, when that study was published that said people believe you look more professional and trustworthy wearing makeup. I am allergic to many things so I have to be careful. I have bought both expensive and cheap makeup in my time. Now I buy a mixture of…

I personally think that the reason so many of my friends hate history was because it was taught as if it was all one straight line and destined to work out. No one I know was ever taught that we pretty much lost the Revolutionary War on a military level but won it politically. That when the Founding Fathers pledged…

This is unbelievable!

Hey, I can believe that America is the greatest nation on earth (so far) and still have a full understanding of all of our failings. Thinking we're best is not the same thing as thinking that we are never wrong.

She is a nitwit but historically the Academy does give out Oscars as bravery awards. Elizabeth Taylor for Butterfield 8 (she'd been really, really sick), Haing Ngor for The Killing Fields, Harold Rusell for Best Years of Our Lives...