Speaking to being direct and polite...people hate silence in conversation, use it to your advantage. When you’re negotiating something over the phone with a sales rep or someone similar, do not feel you need to avoid silence, it’s not a first date. Directly and curteously tell them what you want or respond to what…

Wuss

Haters gonna say it’s fake:

Haters gonna say it’s fake.

That’s not necessarily true.

Shoes: Once you find a model you like, buy last year’s version. Most popular running shoes have a new iteration released every year. With a bit of digging around on the interenet, you can usually find the previous iteration at at a good discount. If I find a good price, I’ll often buy two pairs and keep the 2nd in my…

I think 2 and 3 were flipped when I heard it in college. And the speaker finished by saying once you know what you know, you’re back to not knowing what you don’t know.

Honestly, to go along with this I would say learning how to say, “I don’t know” if you don’t know the answer to a question.

Some folks who are no longer in their 20s still need this reminder.

I think that patience is particularly good - especially if you happen to work in a large bureaucracy (as I do), and things don’t move as quickly as one might have been led to believe in college or grad school.

DIE!DIE!DIE!

I only did it back in the day using built in cheats that the game had and occasionally Game Genie or Game Shark. Single player modes are a different story and can add a different level of fun. But never for an online game on a competitive level since that’s not fair to anyone.

We are big fans of the head collars like Gentle Leader. It stops the dog from pulling and for dogs with a high prey drive (or just stubbornly excited) it makes it easier to redirect their attention back to you when they see those evil squirrels:

“we would still let other nations...” implies I live here but my government allows other nations to do so, so... yeah. We “let” North Korea do what they want, and China, and Russia, and a lot of other nations that aren’t easily conquerable for their vast reserves of oil :)

We don’t still do that? I could have sworn we did...

Does it really matter? Credible or not I think it helps to publicize this sort of stuff — both to expose this ugliness and to push sites like Twitter to improve their harassment policies.

Oh man, last Christmas I had a SUPER early flight, so when we got to the airport there was only 1 security line open. The line was SO long. But the TSA agent was nice enough to let us all know that the next security line over was going to be opening up in 15 minutes. So we just stood over there and waiting, and were…

That explains why people don’t like my celebrity impersonations. I thought that my Ahnold was spot-on...

It’s amazing, as many times as I experienced coitus interruptus in college (Dammit, Jason,* the sock was on the door...THE SOCK WAS ALWAYS ON THE DOOR!!!) and times since, I have never experienced blue balls. I always figured it was a myth, or more of a physiological rather than physiological thing. Fascinating...

Bluntly, that is terrible advice.