I agree it was in poor taste, but I actually would have been fine with it if he just said the first part. Referencing the elevator where Prince’s body was found, though, was really shitty of him.

I know it’s creepy of me to chime in with this but if the Zohra Bakhtary mentioned here is the same Zohra Bakhtary, Esq. that is on twitter then you are correct.

Did you say ‘precious hamburgers’?

Bread doesn’t even cost $2 a loaf in Ohio. I mean you could get a loaf of wonder bread or some other glorified sponge, but generally the kind I get runs about $3, or $5 for 2 on sale.

See that’s why I can’t be a blogger. If I got numerous emails responding to a story I wrote I’d be all “PUT IT IN THE COMMENTS SECTION.”

The pranks are definitely less funny when there’s a power imbalance. Jim and Dwight were equals in the early part of the series which I think made their office warfare more palatable. Michael was always the boss, and making your employees the butt of a joke that they have to laugh off is skeevy behavior.

It took me and my friends an embarrassingly long time to learn that just because a guy gets aroused around us that doesn’t mean it’s our responsibility to do anything about it. Like when they say, “what, you’re just going to leave me like this??” Um, yes?

When he made the original statements, most of the focus, even here on Gawker, were on Elijah Wood and possible victim friends of his. It’s not Wood’s obligation or even his place to publicly name victims of abuse. Even though he didn’t, saying he was “friends with” child actors who were abused brings scrutiny on each…

Most home scales can’t accurately weigh 0.75 grams. My scale is a midprice model and it weighs in terms of grams, but not sub-grams. If you paid even more you might get to the tenths place, but home cooks regularly need to weigh closer to the 500g range, and having accuracy over that long of a weight range is an…

When I was working in industrial labs, I had a job that required me to be on my feet, but the company dress code didn’t allow sneakers. They did allow steel toe boots, but we had to wear business casual underneath our lab coats. I never did find a pair of professional shoes that were closed toed, comfortable to stand…

Delta’s lost my luggage the last two times I flew using them. It’s especially annoying when you’re going to a country with one airport about two and a half hours away so I got to drive about ten hours just between the airport and where I was staying.

There was a turning point in season 3 or so where Jim has all his “pranks” read back to him by HR and it motivates him to move to a different branch for a season.

*lights your hair on fire*

This is a meta-study summarizing 15 studies done over 25 years, so it’s a little more complicated than that. The study also compares ‘Greek’ society to general student populations, noting that the former reports more alcohol consumption, more binge drinking (5+ drinks in a day), and more frequent drinking.

I know who she is, Mad About You was very popular on Arabic cable channel MBC in the early 2000s. We also got a lot of Peter Strauss’ miniseries.

I actually watched an episode of Mr. Ed once and it was one with a weird parallel between the horse and the wife (the horse wanted a saddle and the wife wanted a new dress and both used trickery to try to get it). Anyway I’m sure he was a good man.

The biggest problem with the pharmaceutical culture in the US is that direct marketing to patients is standard practice. It doesn’t help the patients (most patients who request a drug they saw on a commercial don’t receive it), it doesn’t help diagnosis (take a symptom as common as back pain. It could have multiple…

The website where I first read about this neglected to mention that Wolf was the only one who got the amended dress code and that it was amended right before prom and I still thought the school was full of shit.

It makes more sense when you realize that xoVain is literally 100% about selling you things. Which isn’t a terrible thing in and of itself, but it gets tiring. And the two months of “costume ideas” every fall is just too much.

I’ve heard RL Stine talk before and he’s a really good public speaker. I also read his book on writing (he can’t type, apparently, so he wrote one book a month on a typewriter one letter at a time.) Really interesting person.