Trampolines are gods gift to orthopedic surgeons.

My father was an officer for 30+ years and he said, in all that time, it maybe happened a dozen times. So less than once a year. he’s also only fired his weapon not even half a dozen times, only one resulted in a death (the man that died was going to stab his daughter so I’m not shedding any tears). But my dad said…

Clearly officers would be safer if they didn't have a weapon for the public to lunge at.

“Yeah I don’t really do that anymore”

I am a degreed professional working in mining. I am going to say that the 27 year career has been pretty good - I have traveled the world, and am generally taken pretty darn seriously, especially now that I am an Old. I have also watched the work place morph to be more in with general work places as far as…

Just a tip for any guys reading this. When women are talking about how they’re treated (MIStreated) it really is never appropriate to tell your story. No one cares. It’s not about YOU - not this time. Maybe never.

Thanks for these posts. What I hate is behavior correction. For example, I was working in the library with a colleague, in an area that allows conversation. As two young PhD students working on a joint presentation for a workshop we were attending, we discussed rather quietly the outline of the talk. An older man (who…

He touched you without your permission. It does.

I do the same thing that I do when someone tells me a racist “joke” - look at them blankly and say, “I don’t understand; can you explain why you {said that/asked me to do that/thought that was my job/etc}?” Then they have to stammer over an excuse as to why they were an asshole to you, but don’t have any grounds to…

I work at a university, and two years ago I sat on an admissions committee. Our prospective students (this is a graduate program) are asked to submit short videos that tell us a little bit about themselves and why they want to come to our program.

I said in reply to a comment a bit further up: sometimes the whole “I’m useless at it anyway, so you should just do it” tends to feel an awful lot like manipulation. It’s not acceptable for them to slap us on our asses anymore, so they find other ways to try to demonstrate their power over us.

Wrong.

You don’t get good at something without ever having done it.

I was once asked by a boss to bring a dirty dish to the coffee room (to be washed by the maid we didn’t have, I suppose). I paused — furious — then said, “I’m sorry, that’s outside the purview of my job responsibilities.” And then I walked out, leaving him flabbergasted. Felt fabulous!

The most public was the rape and other violent images, which caused a public letter and then the changes to Kinja.

pumpingmarshmallows:

Ugh. I just can't focus on driving when the popo is behind me. I have to pull over because like 75% of my brain is like HOW FAST AM I GOING TOO FAST? TOO SLOW? ARE THEY MAD???

Maybe it's just 'cause I'm not a sports fan, but I don't get how this is cute while the Harry Potter engagement ring is tacky and a sign of unpreparedness for marriage. Not pinning this opinion on you, Jolie, just remembering that that Gawker post was cross posted to this blog.

Hate now, but one day you will find yourself birding and gardening (you’re white one day you will get old this is what happens to old white people) and look down at your feet and they will just appear and your life will be a nightmare from which you can never wake up.

No, I totally know it’s real, and I’m not ignorant and I don’t believe the conspiracy- But I find conspiracy theories endlessly fascinating, and the insanity surrounding Lyme is by far the one that fascinates me the most.