Thank God Jezebel is updating/posting today, amirite? I got exactly one email at work today, including spam

If she doesn't even take up a real adult chair, then I don't think anyone cares.

"Many" people bring their own salad dressing to restaurants? I mean... "many?" If it's Bob Evans, sure whatever (still don't think a large # of people are doing this), but if you're in any restaurant that's not serving you salad with a plastic container of dressing on the side, bringing your own dressing sounds sooooo…

Are there certain things that you can eat when out? Or at least if you can be sure they're prepared a certain way? If so it might be worth calling places before you go with your friends to see what's available, so you can at least have something in front of you to gnosh on/sip. Or if there are places you know you can…

I was impressed with this one restaurant I went to with my parents - when we said we were interested in the tasting menu, the waitress asked if there's anything we're allergic to or dislike, to determine whether we'd be better off ordering off the menu. A couple of us said we weren't fans of mushrooms, and she…

Thanks, I was about to chime in with the same point - I had an interesting conversation with a nutrition professor about people who are sensitive to gluten but generally asymptomatic, except for their iron levels. Gluten sensitivity/allergies can really run the gamut from few symptoms to debilitating. (But you're…

I've planned events for my company - and always make sure to ask about dietary restrictions when anyone registers/RSVPs. If the event is big enough, then you're dealing with a hotel/caterer who should be perfectly used to requests like vegetarian, gluten-free, kosher, etc. If the caterer can't fit the requirements,…

No, that was the story she told Finn for how she could be pregnant with his baby - it turns out she conceived the usual way with Puck. And I'm going to go hide my head in shame now for knowing the ins and outs of that plotline.

Actually, I got that part - he's the son of God. If Mary and Joseph were both the biological parents, that takes God one step out of the equation, & Jesus is his son in the same way the rest of us are, so eh, what's the big deal? And if Mary wasn't a virgin, people could suspect that Jesus wasn't the son of God or…

Thanks for indulging my question :) The situation makes a lot more sense now

Actually, something close to their letter, just, you know, more natural-sounding would probably work. "Hi Jonathan Coulton, it's so great to meet you. I'm a big fan of your work, especially [your favorite song]. [If you just saw him speak, a topic he brought up you found funny/interesting or agree/disagree with]. I…

A fair point - but the original commenter's suggestion about women warning other women that someone "might be a rapist" doesn't presume that it's true that the guy's a rapist, just that he "might" be one. If the women are warning other women because they know the guy's a rapist, then it's a true statement and not…

Couldn't he recover those legal fees in a defamation lawsuit? I admit I'm not a legal expert and am genuinely curious as to why you say he has zero chance of recovering those costs.

My mom loved that for the brief time she worked for one of JnJ's subsidiaries back in the 90s, she could get great discounts on their products - it's a little thing that made the whole working mother thing a little less painful.

Plus it's run by a Bond villain

Forever 21, H&M, Charlotte Russe are three cheap-o stores popular with youngins that come to mind.

A girl in my high school French class worked at Wet Seal - and boy did we have fun talking about her job at the Phoque Mouillé, or when we were really saucy, Wet Phoque (ah, nerdy yet juvenile French humor)

Charlotte Russe & Forever 21 are definitely options for discount... promiscuous clothes. CR in particular is ludicrously cheap

Naming the acts in legal documents means more people look them up and find out about the "edgy" stuff. It really is great advertising...

No, I want them to keep those segments in - because the interview segment just serves to highlight how superficial the contest is, and how little it matters what the contestants say (which is usually nothing, in the form of word vomit).