You... you mean use tact? But that’s haaaaa-ard!

I kind of get sad when I realize names I used for family friends sound inappropriate as an adult. For example, we called my biologically unrelated to us godparents Aunt and Uncle so-and-so. Somehow, in my twenties, I was gently made aware that I can just call them by their first names. But when you’ve called someone…

Agree completely. Personally, I think it’s just easiest to teach your kid to address adults by the formal Mr/Ms and then let the adult in question tell the child to “Call me First Name” or whatever.

I’m 27 and still afraid to call my friends’ parents by their first names. I think my brain is still refusing to accept that I am an adult now and we are all adults now and I’m allowed to talk to grown-ups and I’m 27 and not 17 and I don’t have to make awkward small talk about how sixth form is going. I’m also old…

These kinds of pieces come up from time to time and they always miss the most important part: teach your kids to ask what someone wants to be called, then call them that. They prefer Mrs. Snoghorn you call them Mrs. Snoghorn. They prefer Fat Amy, you call them Fat Amy. True etiquette is not calling someone something…

“Why I Cried the Day my Child Insisted on not Being Worn on my Back at Age 7.”
“10 Uses For Essential Oils (7 Cure Cancer!)“
“Open Letter: To the Mom that Cloth Diapers Herself—You Go Girl!”

If one more stay at home mom on facebook bitches about being unrepresented and tries to sell me cheap, over priced jewelry or tupper ware, I'm going to go get pregnant AND go to nursing school AND get a teaching degree. Uhggghhh..

I feel like I could have written this. My mom is a kick ass nurse who is retired but still does some hospice care and picks up jobs from time to time. I get it’s hard and it takes a special person ect ect. But so are lots of other jobs. You don’t need to constantly pat yourself on the back on your Facebook page. I…

You must not be friends with any cops or wives of cops.

Agreed on all counts. I definitely respect both professions, but a teacher friend of mine told me one time that teachers deserve time off, which is why they have the summer off. Um, no. You have the summer off because this used to be a farming country and farmers needed their kids home to help. Nice try though.

This. But we all know who wins the Facebook martyr-off: stay at home moms.

I would like to start out by saying that I know and love many nurses (my mom was one for 30+ years), I admire and respect the job they do, and Joy Behar is an idiot. Nurses are awesome!

So, while my default setting is snark,

Plus no one with THIS FACE has the right to go after anyone else’s face. Having a shapeFULL colorless face of a blank avatar isn’t better . I get that your face is all triangles and sharp edges but it’s not improvement.

The movie was really quite bad. But nothing in it was as awful as this prose:

Is Garden State a great film? No. But it’s not a bad one either. The soundtrack was great, though (Disclosure: A friend of mine has a song on the soundtrack so I may not be impartial).

we get it, you're very cool

I guess that makes me and anyone who loves this film and soundtrack a loser then? Fuck anyone who can’t just allow other people to love a film. You want to act as though Garden State is terrible? It’s not. Is it the end all be all greatest film of all time? It’s not that either. But to act as though it’s irredeemable…

This is immediately what I thought of.

GET DOWN WITH YO’ BAD SELF LESTER!