Your workplace may not be an average place. Many (most?) people do not have CEOs at the top of their workplaces, per se. Many places that do, do in fact have assholes as their CEOs who have been installed by assholes on the board.

Or Ted Kaczynski! Don’t even get me started on universities.

Stuff like this makes me consider the actual frame of mind of the average person before, say, 1800. Hardly a hint yet of modernity. Half your children die in childhood and half your wives die in childbirth. Mysterious diseases run rampant, unchecked and totally not understood. Most people live and die within 25 miles…

I imagine in, say, 20 years, so many time-specific references (e.g. the image of a woman with a towel wrapped around her head rushing to pick up a call on a landline telephone) will be so far out of the repertoire of the average human being that the internet will be abuzz with people poking and turning over every…

I had to google several of the jokes referred to in this article to figure out what alternate meanings people were reading into them, because the article isn’t super clear about any of it. 

Why overcomplicate things, she can just kidnap someone in one state and then kill the same person in another state. 

I don’t even have to click on your link, because my very first thought when I read that line was, “didn’t he destroy a huge historically-protected art deco facade???”

It’s more like a quarter of a hundred million dollars, but I know what you mean

To be fair, the average 9 year old does not dream of “getting paid” to do anything, per se.

I love my dad and we have a great relationship, but he is weird about gifts - there is nothing he professes to want and he receives every gift with a slight eye roll like “oh that’s what you think I need?” But he still always seems to expect something, so like, we can’t just skip the gifts. Every gift I’ve ever given…

Who on god’s green earth in the year 2020 thinks getting into a relationship with Tom Cruise is in any way a good idea. 

Can’t believe how far down I had to scroll to see this suggested. This is a situation crying out for some kind of therapy. 

I mean, men in some Islamic countries *hold hands* with their close male friends. But sure, they’re the backward ones, etc. 

A “doctorate” in theology? What do you even do with that? I don’t think this Martin King guy is really gonna go anywhere.

TO BE FAIR he is not a manager. He is in a very awkward position as the person who the entire project hinges on, yet not the person who is actually in charge of anything. I agree that screaming obscenities is not a great way to get people to do what you want them to do, but he doesn’t actually have a lot of options…

My husband and I used to live in San Francisco and we had a remarkably affordable but really nice apartment, and we felt EXTREMELY lucky to have a guest room. We had friends and guests and relatives and all sorts of people come through to stay with us. It was a genuinely big part of our lives and lifestyle that we had…

I think the attach-a-boat-and-go-to-the-lake factor (and the toss-in-some-dirt-bikes and so on) is a lot bigger than some people realize. Yes you may not do it every single weekend but it’s a big part of the appeal of these types of trucks. I think this is a less pejorative way to put it than “blue collar cosplaying”…

I am currently having a low-level conflict with my husband, who recently got a new job and has a lot more income than he did before (but still not very much!) He really wants to set a chunk of it aside to “play the stock market.”

I get that some would like to see her win an Oscar, but she won so many consecutive Emmys she told the show to stop submitting her name 

I am still incensed at the way he dismisses the title of Biden’s dissertation, as if examining the ways students do and do not succeed at community college is inherently a stupid thing to do, or irrelevant to anybody else (or, like, the country.) Absolutely in keeping with rampant anti-intellectualism but also…