Thank you for this!

Even more incorrect: “Yup” or “Ungh”.

Try living with someone who treats you like an unpaid therapist (who’s advice they won’t take) and who just... endlessly... talks... about things you don’t care about and frankly would just as soon not hear.

If the people around you have glazed over or started looking at their phones (or physically edging away) STOP TALKING.

You can also stab them with a fork and cook them in the microwave just like a potato.

That email thing is TERRIBLE advice. Keep a paper trail of anything that isn’t talking about coffee.

I mean, hell. I took on a housemate - a gay male friend from college. He was going through a serious rough patch (several, actually) and needed affordable, no-lease housing.

Yes, that would be why I called it a “backup emergency fund” not “an emergency fund”. There’s only so much cash it’s prudent to have sitting around, loosing value to inflation.

There’s the emergency fund (cash). Then there’s the non-accessible retirement fund 401k/403b.

See, once you have 3-6 months worth of emergency fund in your bank account, you don’t want to have any more cash sitting on the sidelines. Long term, it needs to be invested. However, it’s good to have a backup past that in case things REALLY go bad. Even if you have to say, declare bankruptcy, they can’t take your…

Pardon me, I have to go weep into my lack of a functioning vaccine passport.

Pardon me, I have to go weep into my lack of a functioning vaccine passport.

A few years back, when it became a possibility for me, I started a Roth IRA as a sort of “backup emergency fund”. If something REALLY bad goes down, I can withdraw money from it and not wind up living under a bridge (hopefully).

If she’d had the abortion, she’d probably still be alive.

It is if post-pubescent female people getting to ever win at sports is something our society cares about. In sports requiring speed or upper body strength, the boys will always take every top slot, otherwise.

Ah yes, the classic Energy Vampire. I’ve known several.

The people who have to put tubes down the throats of Covid-positive patients are just as great a risk for spread, and unlike drunks, it will cost society as a whole if we lose them.

Hooray for Stacey Abrams!

... Got any advice for how to get grown-ass adults to speak in Indoor Voices?

You: “Groin strikes are useless”

Insoles, my friends.