A million times THIS!!!! EVERY TIME I WORKED RETAIL! I’m like, I’m fallowing YOUR rules! If they really don’t matter, why do you undermine your employees and make them enforce them? Do they not understand it makes people abuse CS people because they KNOW that if they take it to the next level they’ll get their way?

Literally a Margaret Atwood quote come to life.

I’m gonna second, third, and fourth those who said The Blind Assassin. It was the first Atwood book I ever read and is still by far my favorite. It’s a pretty big departure from both The Handmaid’s Tale and Alias Grace though.

I enjoyed this book, but if you liked the Handmaid’s Tale you might want to try Oryx and Crake, which is also a dystopian novel but goes in a slightly different direction and is a more expansive story with multiple POVs (first book in a series of three).

planning to expand the country’s economy... into tourism

I can only listen to so much Dubner before I want to punch him in his face. Which makes it sound like I don’t like his content and that’s not true, but sometimes he’s such a pandering fool.

As a really big nerd.... I read “DMing” and thought a whole different thing.

The Trump boys look like a failed cloning experiment done in jars that someone didn’t sanitize properly.

Who was her handy man?

Lol, it doesn’t have a brain; it’s not suffering, but it is probably posting comments on kinja.

oh hey, someone took a video of me dancing

Josiah was my first draft pick right out of the gate. On paper, he is the perfect man for Rachel, and that’s who I would pick if she was my daughter. I loved his celebration of the spelling bee. However... Peter sends fireworks in her eyes and shivers up her spine (and mine too).  I’m good with either one of them.

I cosign all of this. Especially about Lee and Josiah.

This was exactly the right place. On the first Sunday of each month, Mormon congregations set aside an hour of their Sunday services for open-mic “Fast and Testimony Meeting,” which usually consists of everything but testimonies: travelogues, political rants, “God helped me find my key!” stories, unintelligible…

Church stops telling people who and how to fuck, people will stop bring their fucking-related issues to church.

Agree. Nerdy implies a lot of thinking is going on and I am pretty sure that Jared’s skull is 90% empty.

citation needed

The statute of limitation needs to fucking die.