Really? I used to live in an area with a large student population (in Halifax) and the postman thanked us for clearly posting our names when we moved in “so I know not to deliver mail that’s not for you.” I appreciate his not filling our mailbox with other people’s junk even more now that I know it was illegal. I just…

As far as I can tell, the former tenants at my apartment did not change their address with ANYONE - their employers, their insurance company, their dentist, their doctor, the government.... I’ve spent so much time writing “Return to sender - no longer at address” on SO MUCH mail that I keep their magazines as fair…

I know I probably missed changing my address on some random minor stuff, and I also know my partner’s workplace and the federal government both fucked up changing our address and continued sending things to the old one for awhile... but even so I cannot believe how much official mail we continue to get for the former…

Are they nervous/easily frightened dogs? Gross but true - dogs’ anal sacs sometimes release some oil when they are very stressed or frightened, making them smell bad. When we first got my Jack Russell when he was a puppy (he’d been in a not great living situation beforehand) he would get his “scared” smell…

There isn’t really much more to it. My mom was a slightly crazy person, got bored of school, dropped out, got a job with a sketchy Italian family who didn’t like paying taxes and ran a flight school. She did their books, made sure they didn’t pay very many taxes, they taught her to do barrel rolls and other dangerous…

My partner is of the opinion we need two sports leagues for every sport. The clean league, and the no-holds-barred, lets-see-how-fucking-crazy-we-can-get league. League 1 is goody-two-shoes league. No rule breaking. No doping. You get caught doing illegal shit, you’re banned. Forever. But not banned from sports for…

One of the most fun/crazy people I’ve ever hung out with was an older woman in Canada who considered herself a draft dodger because “the only reason I wasn’t drafted is because of the patriarchy.” So she took off to Canada from the US just the same, and never went back.

A hairdresser from the Apprentice said that - she couldn’t really do anything about the hair because the cut and colour and styling were all done at home, and she said the long hair was matted in place (which... gross). She didn’t chalk it up to cheapness, though, but to him being inflexible and terrified of change.…

Even then, it doesn’t take a genius to shirk taxes, just someone with the will to do it. My mom dropped out of school in grade ten because she was bored, and went to work as a bookkeeper for a local flying school because she was willing to cook their books in exchange for free flying lessons. She did so successfully,…

It probably makes me shallow, but I noticed the weirdly long ties ages ago. His sons tend to wear them that way, too. I’ve always assumed it had to be an eighties thing because it seems like Trump reached a point of aesthetic stasis at the height of his success in the 1980s and hasn’t moved on.  

Yeah - it’s been my experience that dementia mostly takes the filters off and exaggerates what’s already there in terms of personality, with a heaping helping of (justified) frustration in many cases. My grandmother suffered brain injury after a stroke when she was older and continued to be sweet as pie even when she…

Seriously. We’re in an era where if an employee refers to you as “the girl boss” it would be a signal to consider whether that person should continue working with the organization. Because if a guy said that, it would make me wonder whether he was capable of working with women. So why would we apply that label to…

That’s a big part of it for me - that it seems like in many ways the whole “girl power” thing actively undermines as it pretends to empower by setting the expectations much higher for women than men - not only do you have to be competent and hard-working, but you have to do it in stilettos and a full face of makeup.…

The “girlboss” thing makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit every time I see it.

There seems to be some weird thing where a very small, extraordinarily highly paid “high-level management” caste has emerged. There aren’t that many of them, it’s unclear how people enter the caste, but the business world feels these are the only people who are qualified to be a CEO. And there are very few of them, so…

My instinct it to blame the attackers, not Kim.

Hearing problems run in my family. Both my sister and father have refused to get hearing aids, seemingly so they only need to listen to/hear what they want to. It’s actually pretty irritating. I especially feel for my mom who, despite being in her mid-60s, has the best hearing of anyone in the family, and has to deal…

I find this sort of gross. He wasn’t there. It’s pretty unreasonable to expect a bodyguard to be with their client 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Even big beefy German dudes need to go to the bathroom and sleep. And posting these tweets seems to be implicitly mocking him for seemingly not being super bright which - I…

I never thought I would feel genuine sympathy for Kim Kardashian because I tend to assume rich celebrities are untouchable. But obviously no one should have to deal with a situation like that, ever. I hope she’s okay.

That’s always been my struggle with Solange. She seems super cool and talented and I really enjoy her style and attitude, I just don’t like her music. I find pretty much all R&B irritating to listen to.