Batlife
Batlife
Batlife

I hear similar stories all the time. It is rough. Every time a story comes out on Millenials who work for shit wages and live with their parents - which don't get me wrong, does suck - I think about my older friends and how incredibly bleak their prospects are, entering the workforce with zero skills in their 50's.

No kids here, no husband, I've always worked. But I have some older friends who opted out and saw their marriages fall apart in their 40's and 50's and now feel terrified and stuck. They're older, they've been out of the workforce for a while, and often their ex-husbands suffered in the economy so they can't rely on

Agreed. Season 1 was the first time in a long time where I actually got scared watching by myself late at night - for the first six episodes. Then the ghosts started seeming like annoying roommates more than anything, and I wasn't scared anymore.

That got my AA grand-sponsee sober. She thought she was sexy and outrageous and fun when she was drunk and everyone else was just trying to piss on her parade; seeing a video montage absolutely mortified her into getting sober. It's been years, too, and she hasn't relapsed.

This single person couldn't agree more. Nothing chaps my ass more than hearing someone whine, "But I already have that Kitchen Aid mixer, I need cash!" I wish these people would really look at their use of the word "need" and then ask themselves how many of their friends also "need" money. Probably quite a few.

I always thought this song seemed like it was more inspired by bisexuality. Two people flirting or dancing where one was supposed to be strictly gay or straight but wasn't acting like it. My friend and I always put in our own lyrics when we sing along like "But you're a STRAIGHT GIRL..." or something like that.

I'm Gen X but I love Millennials. I find them way more in tune with my political ideals, and I've noticed in my professional life, that I find Millennials much more pleasant to work with than a lot of older people who are still rooted in Command and Control management styles and heavily hierarchical interpersonal

I think it's been agreed upon that the traditional 20-year generation categories no longer function well, because the world is changing so rapidly. Gen Xers born in 1965 had a radically different youth in some ways from those born in 1978 - and I'd say that goes double for Millenials born in 1983 vs 1995.

I had to leave a workplace for this reason. We were forced into endless team-building things like lip synching videos, we were penalized for not being active on the internal social media network, we had to go to lunch once a week with a random coworker, and everything had to be decided in long talking group-process

My main problem with the confidence advice guys get is that many of them think appearing confident means:

Agreed. All of my cats have always been very affectionate and needy. I've met friends' "aloof" cats who adored me after I made a point of paying attention to them. Sure, they can be jerks when they thwack their tails to deliberately knock things over or pat your face at 5 a.m., but that's part of their charm.

Agreed. That is not the face of a 30something. He looks at the youngest to be in his 40s. But I think most people still associate 50 with being graying and jowly.

As a long-time person in recovery, I have seen this happen quite a bit. One of the things I really dislike about many people in AA is their dismissal of nuance and context in someone's substance abuse story; I knew one charismatic group leader who would approach meeting visitors (not sober themselves, just

Seeing this later this afternoon. It looks like perfect arty summer escapism. Hopefully Sofia doesn't let me down.

Are You Afraid of the Dark? was one of the best shows ever. I swear the 90's was a bonanza of children's television programming. Action League Now!

I'm curious what the ratio is of food/other things that PLL treats as fraught with danger - every episode involves the girls dealing with weird dolls, notes in their schoolbooks, creepy things in their lockers; pretty much anything they interact with is turned into a tool of A's. (The villain.) So I can see how just

I'm completely addicted to it. It's not high art, but it's ridiculously addictive. And the friendship between the girls and the portrayal of the gay character, Emily, is fairly unusual for TV. It's not perfect, but I can't stop watching it.

I have a young friend who thought her boobs were atypical until I showed her an old "nudie cutie" from the 60's with tons of topless women in it. She was shocked at seeing so many natural breasts - all sizes, shapes, sagging levels, types of nipples, you name it. And she was just as shocked that these women were

I dated an ex-coworker - he had left the company 5 years earlier. NBD, right? But the asshole called up his former/my current coworkers and bragged about banging me (I was one of the few women there and had to fend off a lot of advances.) And it became this hot gossip, like two single people boning was somehow