That would definitely be true if they’d been caught for insider trading or something along those lines. But people in that world are also petty and competitive and this is a crime that makes those involved look *tacky* and very try-hard. Very hard to recover from that in fancy circles.

Other Daughter was actually just given official notice that she's going to be indicted, I believe.

Yeah I wondered if she was laughing at the question or at him trying to do that. I kinda think the latter based on the look she gave him.

My last office was filled with this! Also lots of discussion about SoulCycle, calories in general, “if I open this tiny bag of chips will you split it with me?”

Yeah... My best friend started dating my crush when we were like 16 or so. It sucked but I dealt with it because it wasn’t about me. They liked each other a lot and wanted to be together. Them’s the breaks. If it were done as a way to manipulate me though, I’d be pissed.

An anxious miniature poodle named Dorian Gray is the highlight of my night, and I just got back from a pretty good party. 

There are a lot where no crime has been committed. There are the ones that get national coverage (the black lawyer who was detained and accused of impersonating a lawyer, the family barbecuing, the family using the pool in their apartment complex, etc etc etc) but even in my local area it happens a lot. Most recently…

Ha, yeah. Getting my IUD inserted made me act like a victim of a war crime for like a month (so, very much a wimp), so I’m glad I wasn’t born when birthing was basically required and not discussed. But the gory stories, which I wasn’t aware of, feel like an uncomfortable extension of the whole “ewww, gross, vagina…

It’s so frustrating because it has so many layers and none of them are good. It shouldn’t be considered a misdemeanor to attack your partner or family member. Then, in addition, it’s clearly been demonstrated that people who do so have a much higher risk of killing either the person they’ve abused before or just…

“Just because I live a life of deep privilege based on the money I make by forcing the entire world to pay attention to me at all times doesn’t make it right for you to pay attention to me right now!”

I mean, I’m sure it sucks, but I’m the same age as Khloe so I know that when the show started airing she had the…

In the midst of a quite shitty day this was a very delightful distraction. thanks

I was soooo disappointed as a kid when I asked my parents what their proposal was like and they were like “we just talked about it and made a decision.”

I agree, but also in a weird way it’s like... progressive for conservatives? I once worked in an office that was very traditional white southern values. People getting married really young, no living together before marriage, and the rest of the women in the office losing their damn minds anytime someone got proposed…

Very fair, and I do have plenty of friends who were happily pregnant and/or had easy birthing experiences. I haven’t read any of these super frightening birth stories... just the normal stuff was enough for me. But I was very iffy on kids to begin with, and I found it really helpful as I agonized over that decision…

Yeah I don’t know their situation. It’s just hard to imagine relaxing and enjoying a meal even if the dog wasn’t making noise. I occasionally tie my dog up on the street when we’re on a walk and I realize that I need something from the bodega, and I spend the entire 5 minutes feeling guilty and worried. And I’m really…

Ha! Yes it’s actually so endearing. The muzzle has helped a lot because I use it primarily as a training device when he barks for no reason, so he’s started to learn to lay off with like 2 min or so stuck in the muzzle. But I do think it’s sweet that he wants to defend me and doesn’t have the capacity to register that…

That’s kind of what I was saying, maybe not clearly. If you take your dog on a walk, as one should, then I think you’re trying to be a good dog owner. But if you then decide to go into a restaurant, that’s pretty bad on the dog owner scale. So I don’t quite understand the mentality.

Good on them that they have that sense of humor to see the silliness in that part of the story. Laughing in the dark is I think really crucial. My uncle died in his teens and my Grandmother was never able to mention him... I think if she’d felt able to talk about the light-hearted times it would have helped her.

My dog has Napoleon complex so no matter how exercised he’s been that day, if I let him out in the yard he’ll go stand by the gate to the street and bark at all the things he doesn’t like (bicycles, children, plastic bags, etc).

So dude has a muzzle. And I have a bag of treats to convince him that coming inside is more…

That kind of behavior is so bizarre to me. I absolutely hate people who just leave their dogs tied up outside all day, but I can understand what’s happening (“You are a garbage person and you think this sentient creature is an alarm system with no feelings”). But if you took the dog to the restaurant, then presumably…