Yep! I think this is the most likely scenerio. I’m a huge Britney fan but I struggle to pay all my bills on time and keep my kid fed. The expense of flying to Vegas, paying for a hotel room and to see her show (because that’s really the only thing I wanna do there!) will run me over $1000. I can’t justify that when I…

Hmm. I’m not sure what you were trying to say in that word scramble. But I’ll give you a pass. Clearly you’ve been off your meds for some time. I just hope that someday you’ll take them again and the parts of you that excrete the vileness and vitriol will be subsumed by compassion and empathy. If not, well you’ve got…

My mistake.

STFU. Seriously. Right now, if you don’t want to continue coming across as a compassionless, crass, ignorant, despicable parody of a human being.

My sister is a social worker who deals with behaviorally challenged kids from 5-17 years old. Part of her training prior to working with these kids was to learn non-violent means of restraint and other techniques to remove a child from a situation that is harmful or disruptive. That’s because her clients, especially…

Wow. Like, no, seriously, wow. I’m 30 with a son, and I just realized what I’d like to do for a career that combines my skills, talents and passion. But apparently I’m a bad person for not knowing ahead of time or is that only for men? I can’t even with your comment. Its asinine and condescending as fuck.

Not to mention, they seem to rearrange when transactions go through so as to hit you with MORE overdrafts! Its infuriating.

I worked at Panera as a teen. Every store has a policy of packing up any food left in the bakery and donating to local shelters every night. There was always delicious fresh bread and bagels and usually some pastries too. I always admired they did that.

I was an operations team leader for a corporate chain of craft stores, which is just to say assistant store manager. Anyway, when they were training me for interviews for hiring seasonal employees, that is exactly what I was told to look for. Completely open availability for seasonal part time jobs that would never…

Tobak lists the qualities of the “real” person, which is more about what you aren’t than what you are: not attention seeking, not people pleasing, not gullible, not insecure, not insincere, not thin-skinned, not super modest—but not super boastful either—and ultimately, consistent.

Aww. I’m sorry. I’m willing to bet that your friend didn’t mean to sound accusatory towards you. While my brother was the only one who ever slipped my sister animal products, she was routinely mocked, pleaded with, and argued with by people who were close to her. I hope you didn’t take it too personally. I’m sure if…

Okay, not drunk-vegetarian-meat-eater story but it kinda relates.

I adore MHP!

Here’s the really awful truth though.

Iowan here, can confirm.

I’m biased. I adore The Princess and the Frog. The setting, the artwork, the music, the characters... I thought it was fresh while still remaining familiar in the Disneyfied fairytale traditional. Tiana is different from most of the Disney princesses in that not only is she independent with dreams and aspirations but…

I’ve never been very good at forming deep, meaningful friendships so I cherish the ones I do have. At the beginning of this year I had three such friends.

Yeah, no. Even ‘garden variety crazy’ people are statistically far more likely to be on the receiving end of violence.

THIS. My son is 3 and old enough to choose his own costume. He wants to be a witch. People I’ve told say, ‘oh you mean a wizard, like Harry Potter.’ No. I don’t. We read a Halloween book which featured a witch in a black dress, pointy hat, green face and broom accessory. That is what he wants to be. He is very sure of…

Considering I am not a character but a fully real human woman that is formed of nothing but a poor tangle of trivial neuroses, I adore her.