I like the advice overall, but every toxic boss I've had did not response well to even baby steps to "manage up". It may work with someone who's just kinda clueless at management, I suppose. My only experience has been with fire breathing control maniacs.

Figure out who the person likes, why they like them, what they want in an employee and do that. I did this very successfully once with a boss who was a downright psychopath, and then totally squandered it because I just hated the woman so much and couldn't stay motivated to bust my ass for her. One of my biggest…

That's funny because after I dragged my husband to it he went to my bookshelf and read all three books in five days. And yet I cannot get him to read Game of Thrones.

I'm surprised to see Prometheus on the worst list given how much this site was promoting it. I won't state my opinion since it's a rehash of many already presented. For obligatory stating of my own favorites: Cabin in the Woods had to be the most fun I've had in a theater in a long time. The Hunger Games and the…

What's awesome though is when the same person says "but who'll take care of you when you're old?" So not having children is selfish but you should have children so you have someone to take care of you huuuuuuuh?

Your last sentence sums it all up. Having children changes your life more than any other life choice you can make, and you just cannot do it for the sake of someone else. Especially since you'll be the one carrying it. You'll get fewer responses, but from more compatible people. I met my husband on a dating site after…

I don't have much of a problem since my mom rarely brings it up and my husband's mom is over it. I suppose I'm kind of bitchy, but I have no problem giving acquaintances/strangers/people at parties a death glare when they say crap like "like you're going to change your mind!" or point blank informing people that I…

The more people are killed at once the more it seems to bother people. I think Hiroshima and Nagasaki upset people so much because all those people were killed all at the same time, even though it was just a fraction of the casualties of WWII. It's just something about human psychology. But I'm with you on the…

It totally is! That's why I like the internet so much.

There's a couple things here. One is not everyone celebrates Christmas but pretty much everyone celebrates Thanksgiving. The other is that places being open on Christmas aren't feeding a mass crass consumerism frenzy, since everyone has already consumed everything.

But if he was aborted he could have been the next Einstein! All aborted babies would have grown up to change the world, didn't you know?

It also marketed here as a discount department store. Where you can get guns at low low prices!

My husband died laughing and he doesn't watch either show. It was brilliant.

The best is when you're in a small office space with one of those people and make polite grunts and just keep staring at your computer or paperwork and they still. will. not. shut. up. I don't know how to tell a coworker "please stop nattering I would like to do some actual work here".

It's kinda hard to ask questions right; you can come off as really peppering a person. I read Dale Carnegie recently and then started catching myself doing the peppering thing. Yes, people want to talk about themselves, but at some point I (and others) get sick of talking about myself. What really drives me nuts is…

At some point I learned to hold back when I wanted to tell a story and the conversation moved on. It was kinda hard (see: social awkwardness), and I get really irritated when people do that because, like, if I can stifle the urge, you can too.

Yeah, it's a subset of one-upping and I feel like I run into those people more than the positive one-uppers. They seem very intent on *proving* that their life sucks worse.

LOL at "you're not really Jewish". I once got into this argument with a girl who said all Jews have curly hair. I said "I don't." She lowered her hairbrush and in the most dead serious tone ever said "Well then you're not Jewish". This was on a Birthright Israel trip! She was one of those girls that perpetuates a…

I have mixed feelings about that book. I read it for a different perspective on parenting (full disclosure: I am militantly childfree), and I think I would have found that perspective (regret or mixed feelings toward having a child) more interesting if the kid didn't turn out to be a monster. I also had issues with…

I don't have kids, but I feel like a lot of my kid-having friends felt pressured to breast feed by both people they know and the media at large.