This has always baffled me too. Why oh why do people (men or women) leave the lid up? Just aesthetically if nothing else, it looks terrible! The weirdest thing is that my dad, mom, and sister ALL do this when they come over to my house. They're my immediate family I grew up with, how can they have such crazy…

I know a lot of people have said podcasts don't do it for them, so this obviously varies from person to person, but for me switching from music to podcasts made all the difference in the world. I find podcasts so much more engaging, the time just flies by. And I have a rule for myself that I'm only allowed to listen…

Singular they actually has a long history and has only been deemed incorrect relatively recently.

Not that I don't have other thoughts about this, but they've pretty much all been expressed elsewhere in the comments, so this is the only thing I can add to the discussion. How has no one else remarked upon this phrase:

I'm glad to hear that. I hate that the people who want it criminalized have claimed the term "pro-life." I think a phrase like "anti-abortion but pro-choice" is perfectly valid and would be a good way to describe your position if you want to make it clear you're not anti-choice. (It's also a position I completely…

Just for clarification, when you say you are pro-life, do you mean that you personally have issues with abortion but still feel they should be legal, safe, and available? Or do you actually want them to be illegal?

Might be that people who don't are less likely to be interested enough in the topic to click the headline and get to the poll.

The purse itself was probably about twenty bucks. Inside:

FYI you have a typo in the excerpt ("if I ever figure out how you are" should be "if I ever figure out who you are") that makes the sentence kind of hard to parse.

Me too. It makes me wonder/hope someone talked to them about the actual reason it's offensive rather than the mere presence of the word "boobies," since I'm sure you're right that they have no idea.

Using "I heart boobies" as your breast cancer awareness phrase is pretty freakin' offensive to people who actually have breast cancer, especially those who have had to lose their breasts to save their lives.

I eat organic not for my health but because I care about the environment, sustainability, and how the farm animals are treated.* For some reason this never seems to come up in debates about organic food, it's always solely about whether it's better for you or not. Honestly it boggles my mind that what I see as the…

FYI, if you're on a Mac, "unfortunately the devs have chosen not to build in a prompt to prevent this" isn't true: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/…

Agree with all the comments on this and the general total inappropriateness of touching pregnant women's bellies without asking, but if the item being reported is not actually true that's kind of important! Recommending to try to get this out of the gray.

"Album sales skyrocketed. People were buying them just to burn them."

Another one I've just recently started to see a LOT is "breath" instead of "breathe." As in, "I'm laughing so hard I can't breath." It just sounds so ridiculous when I read it in my head.

How about when people write "$20 bucks" or ".50 cents"? NO!

initial concerns

I remember reading a pretty good debunking of the brainstorm in the New Yorker a while back. It has a lot of interesting cognitive science backing up the anti-brainstorm argument: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012…

We tried with ours when they were kittens, no go. They totally hated it.