Are there no-see-ums (biting midges) where you live? GTMO has these insects and they seem to like new to the island blood. About once a month (when I was stationed there) I would get a bed bug complaint and would never find any in the living quarters. I would ask when they arrived and it was always within the last 30…

I don’t know if Jez is doing the annual Halloween ghost story submission this year, but this is scary enough if not.

Is anyone else itchy after reading this?

Bed bugs are fucking horrific, but I have to admit to being a little relieved after reading this article. I thought it was about how there are now FLYING BED BUGS, which would probably lead me to get one of those bubble boy things the kid from Seinfeld was in. Either way I’m going to be itchy for the rest of the day.

You hit the nail on the head with your “self-fulfilling prophecy” part. I was always like, “oh? You don’t want that table? I’LL TAKE IT.” Plus I sometimes felt bad for black people in restaurants because I could SEE them getting shittier service than the white couple next to them and, like, duh, of course they’re not…

oh yeah, that is DEFINITELY the ONLY reason I left him. It wasn’t because I work a full time job, a part time job, and go to school while he worked 15 hours a week and spent the rest of the time playing video games. And it is definitely not because he lied to me repeatedly about dumb stuff. Nor was it because I bought…

• Kristen Hadeed is the founder and CEO of Student Maid, a maid service that “only hires millennials.”

So there is theory/line of thought/whatever that all a white woman needs to be perceived as attractive is blonde hair and the appropriate hip to waist ratio. Yeah. If you take away the blonde hair, Megan’s (I know how to spell) face is verging on unattractive...she is literally just blonde...and the antichrist.

Elizabeth Heiskell revealed a skull covered in prosciutto and Bobby Finger thought, “Wow, it’s me watching Megyn Kelly Today.”

“Designers, your final challenge will be to take Megyn Kelly’s color chart and create a wearable avant-garde look, suitable for meeting to discuss her show’s cancellation with NBC executives. This is a one day challenge, as she’ll be needing the outfit by next week.”

That prosciutto skull is hella disturbing.

My brother told me a few years ago that he has a trick he uses to keep from saying offensive things — whenever he wants to say something “politically incorrect,” he thinks, “Would Ad Infinitum get mad at me for this?” and if he decides I would, he doesn’t say it.

It’s pervasive in other cultures too. My family is from Pakistan and, as is prevalent in several communities, lighter skin tones are unfortunately more preferable than darker shades. So I had to call my own mother out on that shit when she mentioned that so-and-so was too dark for other person of a lighter skin tone,…

I just ended things with my SO of five years last week. He was also this way, “jokingly” use the N-word, make off putting comments about other people and stereotypes of groups of people. He knew it made me uncomfortable but he always disguised it as “joking,” “being real,” or saying “I wouldn’t say these things if the…

I have very clear memory of my brother, shortly after 9/11, telling me about this awesome term he’d just heard — sand n***er! He was honestly baffled when I yelled at him. “It’s not racist! It has nothing to do with black people!”

Oh I dropped them. At the time I was too stunned and hurt to say anything. It’s def a slur for Native Americans. Racist assholes still think being black or compared to a black person is worst thing anyone can be.

I agree with you. While certainly there were people who knew and enabled this behavior, I’m not comfortable with labeling every single employee a liar. I work for a company with something like 80,000 employees and am so far removed from the upper echelon that I will likely never meet a single person in the “C Suite”…

Yeah, I’m a bit worried about how people seem to be conflating the two. I formerly worked in an industry where virtually everyone was cheating or had cheated on their spouse at some point. Most people had at least two divorces under their belts. A few of the guys would sleep with literally anyone who was willing.

Last night I learned a friend’s sister worked for HW. She hadn’t been working for him long before the scandal came out. This is very anecdotal but SHE and the few friends she had in the company did not know he was a rapist. They knew and experienced his temper but never sexual assault or harassment. It’s a very big…

You can be a womaniser without being a rapist. I’ve worked with womanisers before (as well as women who cheated on their husbands). I mean, it sucks for their spouses but as long as the people they’re involved with are willing (truly willing, not pressured into it), there’s nothing illegal about that. The temper is…