Mars from Chicken Dinner Candybar does her regular Fat Love Friday and includes Marie from Agent Lover.

Marie is put off by her inclusion on a "fat" list and tells Mars so.

Mars offers to take it down. Marie refuses. Instead, she proclaims on her blog, "oh haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaale no!

Chaos ensues in the comments about fatphobia, body acceptance, fashion sense (or the lack thereof), and kissing-up commentors.

Is Marie brave or is she overreacting?

(I'm in the comments and I know Natalie [the 'overreacting' link], so I am slightly involved in the wank aftermath. It's pretty obvious which side i'm on.)

bodymods is a community about piercings, tattoos, and other things people decorate their bodies with. It's a bit heavy on the snark at times - making a first post without tags will get you mocked by the mods, and new users are expected to lurk until they get a decent idea of what's allowed and what isn't. But generally it's a nice place to ask questions and share personal experience.

As it turns out, showing off your new piercing in your first post is not what the community is for. lunsanslautre does it anyway. She's told to maybe try that shit somewhere else. ZOMG OPPRESSION I'M LEAVING FOREVER! - THIS IS NOT MYSPACE, also, mod tags. - Everyone here is 15 and I'm a special snowflake! - But it's so myspacey. - Couldn't be more myspacey. - My spacey? - They aren't myspacey, I'm a photographic major. - STOP SAYING MYSPACEY.

We'll have a thread about guinea pigs instead! - No, guinea pigs are bad. :( - Fine, let's talk about how scene kids are oppressing me! - No they're not. - Okay, but I'm still going to cry about it. - We don't care. - I was joking. I don't care. This community is so cunty today.

Over at PostSecret, Frank posts a postcard from someone containing a photo of the "Lotus Boob." (For those who aren't in the know, it's a picture of a breast that was clearly photoshopped together with a lotus flower and passed around the 'net as some sort of new horrible disease. Denounced by Snopes in 19-diggity-2.)

Whingeing follows immediately. (See Frank's email picks near and around the offending secret.) Hilarious quote from front page:

"This picture has destroyed my day and will haunt me for months if not years. My hair is standing on end and I haven't been able to stop shivering. I can't concentrate on anything now, my mind always returns to that horrific image.

I am saddened that I can no longer view postsecret, but I am too worried about being assailed with another photo that will severely harm my psyche."

Hordes of young girls are scarred for life and "kept up half the night shivering!" A thread is started on PostSecret Chat to determine whether the secret should be taken down.

Some (read: most) dissenters claim that taking down secrets would completely ruin the spirit of PostSecret, and that there have been secrets that have been far more disturbing, like ones about rape and abuse. But it's a boob! With stuff in it! And now they'll never sleep again, and probably die and I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY, POSTSECRET.

Ahem... 101 pages of flouncing and crying in less than a day, and all I really have to say is, if your constitution is too weak to handle a little lotus boob, you may want to reconsider this whole "internet" thing.

ETA: Bonus LOL: The random-lettered link to the secret includes the phrase "AAAAAAAAH."

Facebook is trying on a new layout, and it blows.

Most people hate it and want the old layout back. There are comparisons to MySpace. The white space is burning everyone's retinas. Many defenders jump in with "change happens, get used to it." Everyone wants their customization back. It won't work with IE or anything older than FF 3.0. There is panic as people can't find the "opt out" link, or it won't work. Ads suck. Apps have disappeared. Etc.

Murder and mayhem roam the streets of the Intarwebs!

Some gems (last names removed for privacy):

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( William and Kevin: Defenders of Facebook! )

...And it goes on.

So, there's a country singer named Kelly Foxton who likes to dress up her pet squirrel in little outfits. Lots and lots of little outfits.

Now, Sugar Bush is no ordinary squirrel. She is a patriotic squirrel! Many of the pictures on the site are bizarrely militaristic, and frankly, just a liiiittle creepy. Here, for example, Sugar Bush inspects the gallows in preparation for Saddam Hussein's assassination.

The fun begins when the Sugar Bush Squirrel (TM!) page gets linked on Cute Overload.

fifi sums up the whole bizarre situation best:

the thing about the politics is...
really, what political message is sent by dressing up your squirrel in military garb?

It borders on the parodic, or the surreal.
Too aesthetically bizarre to be deemed mere partisanship--regardless of the conscious intentions of the artist.

It's a rodent-folk-art version of Cindy Sherman!

dracunculus directed my attention to this prime wank. This woman posts to her blog about the fun she has packing Japanese-style bento lunches for her kid. The first few comments are people saying, How cute, how fun.

Then at comment #6, some troll named Sarah makes a nasty remark about how cutting your kid's sandwiches into animal shapes will make him a laughingstock and stunt his imagination. Other people tell her to shut up and let them enjoy themselves. She continues to cuss them out, meanwhile suggesting that they try Xanax to get rid of their rage.

Someone named Victoria made the most patient responses to Sarah's spleen, inspiring someone else to announce, "Victoria, I always thought that Lesbians were mean, vindictive bitches, and you proved that for me. Is it because about 95% of the country thinks your life style is sick and that is why you all are so defensive on other issues too." I wondered if maybe Victoria's website, linked on her comment, identified her as a Lesbian, so I followed the link and found no mention of homosexuality, but at least two mentions of her husband.

Sarah has informed the blogger that she ought to erase her blog and devote her time in future to pursuits meeting with Sarah's approval. After a bit more of other people telling her where she could go, she declared this evening:

"While I stand by my original statement that this is over the top, I think it is hilarious that other people cannot allow someone else to have a differing opinion. It has been highly amusing to watch some people freak out in several places; nobody started a petition to ban food cut-outs. An opinion differing from yours was expressed and some people can’t handle it. Public blogs are going to get some different points of view, but this blog owner allowed them to be expressed and debated, which is highly commendable. You handled this in a way that most people wouldn’t, and I am very impressed. It’s refreshing that the blog owner has enough self esteem not to be upset or hurt by a differing opinion. Wendy, go on with your bad self and those cut-outs. You rock."

She's standing up for her non-sandwich-cutting principles!

in montreal, minarin feels tipping waiters is not only unnecessary, but kinda rude. surprisingly, people disagree!

Cleaning your room = srs business, at least if you're animeg3282.

She makes a post to thequestionclub that is a thinly disguised rant, asking how she can keep things neater.

People start to respond. She gets nice responses at first—telling her to get rid of whatever clutter she might have first, and then worry about cleaning, etc.

The trouble comes when someone recommends she hire a maid service. Apparently, this is a personal affront, and the poster that made the suggestion is actually telling her to drop out of school and work 40 hours a week.

And it all goes downhill from there.