Letters to the Editor
KitchenGirl
Published Letters: 638 Editor's Choice: 39
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What does this have to do with the price of rice?
[Read the article: I want a perfect wedding, but my in-laws are trashy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I mentioned to my mom that my sister's husband complained to me about the lack of sex in their otherwise perfect marriage, and my mother was very angry. AT ME.
Yeah, probably because your initial conversation with your brother-in-law was totally inappropriate, and then to mention it to your *mother* was a disturbing violation of boundaries and your sister's privacy. I'm amazed she didn't punch you in the face to get you to shut up. Why on earth would you or anyone consider that to be an acceptable exchange of information within a family?
But more importantly, why on earth do you barf up your personal grudge against women who aren't interested in you in every forum, regardless of topic? Do you have anything else to say? You're a bit of a broken record.
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More off topic ranting
[Read the article: I want a perfect wedding, but my in-laws are trashy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]he volunteered the information to me without me being so much as curious about it. Men talk, I know this bothers women because it means you cannot control us completely.
Why did you let him continue? Why wouln't you stop a conversation like that dead in its tracks? That kind of information is none of your business, and a huge violation of your sister's dignity and privacy.
How so? I want people to be happy. Blood is thicker than water, and my brother-in-law feels closer to me than my brother in fact, though my real brother and I are also close. My real brother does not get any from his wife either.
Do you not consider your sister "blood"? You discussed -- or attempted to discuss -- your *sister's* sex life with HER MOTHER. That is nobody's business but hers and her husband's. Her husband is a cad and a disgrace if he thinks telling her family about her sex life is appropriate (maybe he should consider that as a source for her problems). You're just creepy bordering on pathological for passing that along to Mom.
Is this physical abuse or threat of it another way to control men? Must be, because it breaks all semblance of civilization to have women talk about knocking around men much less doing it. No wonder I do not trust women anymore-- to hear such things is beyond the pale.
Can the melodramatics. Anyone confronted with such a discraceful and appalling violation of boundaries and lack of respect for not only the subject but the audience is going to have a visceral reaction. Perhaps "punch" was strong. "Slap" would probably have been more appropriate. You disgust me.
I don't know. Why don't you LIE to me and tell me women NEVER DISH among each other about their sex lives in the minutest detail. LIE SOME MORE and tell me the women never criticize to other women their husbands' prowess or physique or talent in bed. C'mon, I am easy to fool. If you tell me women never talk, I will believe you. (heh)
I have no idea what other women do. I don't talk like that, and I get creeped out by people who do, so I don't listen to their chitchat. If the most intimate aspect of a couple's life together are opened up to public discussion, what else is left for them to call their own?
Brightstar, I really did start to believe that you couldn't get a date because you were slightly awkward and overweight (according to you). Now I know that nobody will date you because you have zero notion of what constitutes appropriate social discourse.
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She didn't even say that the baby would be there!
[Read the article: I want a perfect wedding, but my in-laws are trashy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The LW never even said definitively that the baby would be there. What she said was, the SIL-to-be was due right around the time of their wedding, meaning she would either be at the wedding very pregnant, or be at the wedding with a baby who would be weeks or maybe even days old. DAYS! Not a one-year-old with a mighty set of lungs, not a toddler who could run around and get into everything, but a newborn babe-in-arms. Newborns are barely visible to the naked eye, for heaven's sake. They sleep, and they eat, and they sometimes cry but their cries are pretty squeaky and are easily soothed because all they want to do is nurse, and then they sleep again. I can't imagine being asked to leave my days-old infant at home, frankly, nor would I dream of asking anyone to do the same.
Yeah yeah, it's a real bummer when someone else's untidy life bubbles up into your consciousness, but that's family for you. Anyone else who looks at the infant and says "Well the brother's newborn is here, why couldn't I bring *MY* toddler?" isn't your friend and shouldn't be invited to future events. Family, especially family with brand new infants, is allowed a lot more leeway than the hoi polloi.
And to echo what a few others have stated, you were also "shacking up" with your boyfriend, so I'd be careful about slinging that around as an insult if I were you.
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How did they arrive at that number?
[Read the article: Defendant owes $222,000 for illegal downloading]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Where did they get the $9250 per song "value"?
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Bravohwaitaminute...
[Read the article: My sister is a famous designer -- and I'm not!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cary, that was fucking brilliant! "What fresh hell"? "Two ragged beggars, hiding behind the Safeway"? From one writer to another: bravo!
You should send that writerly "bravo" to Dorothy Parker, since it was she who first used the phrase "fresh hell", as in "What fresh hell is this?"
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Subtitute for petroleum?
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But there's no substitute for petroleum for aircraft power.
...yet:
http://climate.weather.com/articles/air092807.html
Early days, of course, but a good first step no?
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Will Ferrell is comedy gold!
[Read the article: "The Heartbreak Kid"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Without them, Ferrel would be deservedly unknown.
You clearly have not seen his sketch in which he plays a strung-out Neil Diamond on an episode of "VH1 Storytellers".
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I don't get any of it
[Read the article: Here's looking at you, "Kid"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The paintings...
are way cool. That's for sure.
Are they orders of magnitude more cool than any other paintings done by any other four-year-old with access to fingerpaints and nice paper?
This is what I don't get about the whole thing. What makes her paintings "masterpieces", but the equally "abstract" finger-paintings and brush paintings and teddy-bear-head sticker art by every other little kid just regular kid-art?