I agree with most of that. Some of their super-high-end jewelry is truly artwork. Some, especially in the “affordable” area, is crap. Their quality and customer service is always on point, though, and I like that. At the local branch, they let me try on anything I want and will even have things sent from New York for…

But you just told the whole internet you like PSLs. Look who’s calling the UGG basic. I agree that the OP could’ve worded his comment better, but damn! You needed to smack him down like that? Read Poe’s “Cask of Amontillado”—you need to learn about proportional responses.

I guess not! I had never thought of it, but it makes logical sense. Go for terra cotta—anything hand-thrown out of Mexico would likely be plain earth. It’s prone to breakage, but pretty. Other than that you’d have to read the labels.

That is not what I had learned. I will do some more reading. Thank you.

Bone china just means there is bone ash in the clay mix. Porcelain refers to the historic use of pig bones. I am on board for some of this. The paper cup for my pencils or paintbrushes is EXACTLY my wheelhouse.

AND Franklin Pierce! Grabby as hell, that guy!

I don’t disapprove on the basis of age, specifically, it’s that I’m so fucking tired of the same old story. Like a year ago Ewan MacGregor was talking about how much he respects his wife and finds her endlessly fascinating. Alec Baldwin and Jeff Goldblum and their creepy fetishization of bendy women. 50 year-old men…

AND, just like Goldblum, he is old enough to have very respectably fathered her. I am SO FUCKING SICK of men and their midlife crises. You heard that Ewan fucking MacGregor split with his wife of forfuckingever to dally with an ingenue?

WORMS!

I have never experienced sexual harassment in the workplace. I have been lightly hit on a few times, but nothing even hinting at harassment has ever happened to me. Now, I have been catcalled and mildly assaulted and grabbed many, many times in public places, but just not at work. I was a teacher and then a nanny and…

As long as the women aren’t fat. Bourdain has accused fat people of “using up all the healthcare” while he smokes. Pig dog.

Not an unpopular opinion in our house. We no longer support Bourdain’s career. He’s a fat-hater. He’s a sizist asshole, and nothing else he does can erase that.

As long as a woman is not fat, he feels she has rights, I guess...

Decent guys don’t hang out with Ted Nugent and accuse fat people of “using up all the healthcare.” Bordain is just a different kind of bully.

My computer has not been cooperating with posting photos here. Let’s see...

Only tangentially related, one of our cats is named SanDeE*, because of how much we loooove LA Story.

Oh, gosh! What an embarrassing typo! “You’re.” I meant “you’re.”

On a related note, invasive questions about people’s family planning can be hurtful on many, many levels. I have one precious and glorious daughter, and recently at a play place, a woman asked me several rude questions about my pregnancy until I said, “Little Miss Pinwheel was born via surrogate,” and the woman said,…

It definitively is. The characters are connected.

I think he means that guys will think you’re hot when you hit certain marks, regardless of your actual facial or bodily beauty or the quality of your intellect and personality.