or perhaps an overweight T-Rex.

this hippo is truly, very hungry. He's eating a desk.

It's not a quitting story, but right before I quit my office job we had to do performance reviews. There was some new thing we had to do as a part of it that some higher-up wankdoodle in HR made up. It was called the "career development survey" and I thought it sounded cool before I saw it.

And I could wear a micromini and not look provocative at all :(

Yeah, but people whose bodies look like crap in the uniforms because they're unflattering to that body type stand out even more starkly, creating all new insecurities for them as they can't choose to wear something that flatters their shape. So it's basically a draw.

The thing about uniforms is that no one style is going to look good on everyone. Tucked-in blouses at the waist, for example, look terrible on girls with bodies not considered conventionally attractive...just not flattering at all. And when they have no other choice, their unflattering choice of clothing stands out…

So, make kids wear clothing they feel hideous in, and don't worry at all that they'll be distracted from learning because their prison garb makes them feel insecure (especially when girls with more conventionally beautiful bodies look basically okay in your Joe Suburb suggestion, but thick-waisted girls look like crap…

OMG Sheldon is even cuter when he's dressed up.

Loved it, except for one issue. If Vanessa is speaking for all "fat girls", honestly, no, some of us would not say "I don't even need a boyfriend or a husband, I just want to hold hands with a nice guy". I'm married now, but when I was single...no. No I didn't. I didn't just want to hold hands with a nice guy. I…

That's fair - the daughter didn't do it. But the pregnancy did, or she did with the pregnancy. I'm using her word ("ruined"), but I'm sorry, I do just happen to agree with her that it looks pretty bad, just looking at it from pure aesthetics. I'm not exactly gorgeous either (I'm kind of chubby) but I'd be really upset…

I suppose yeah, beauty is subjective and human bodies have functions, too, but from that picture I really do feel the writer was getting into "objectively made worse" category, aesthetically speaking. I am usually all about the "do what you do, be who you are, love yourself inside and out, everyone is great and has…

Yup. I wasn't an asshole either. I was a rebel but not in the "I HATE YOU NOBODY UNDERSTANDS ME" way, but in the "fuck this town, Imma get out of here and be independent and travel the world and I'll come back and visit my parents but otherwise fuck it all" way. Which basically worked out for me. I definitely wanted…

some people never lose the extra weight. my mom got hypothyroidism soon after my sister was born...never did lose it. Some don't have a medical reason - their metabolisms simply never recover and the work required - more work than most others have to do - to lose even a little weight is so preposterous as to be…

well, from the photo, sure seems the daughter DID ruin mom's body. That's just a plain cruel truth.

Research apparently says that in the 1970s/80s the number of parents who said they regretted becoming parents was well nigh on half! That was back when most people had kids - they felt they were expected to, whether they wanted them or not. These days I bet that number is far lower, because those who don't want them…

Uh...it does? All I get is society trying to condition me to be a parent (and also have a great lifestyle that I couldn't possibly afford without kids, so with kids that'd be a funny joke). Society is HUGE on poppin' out crotchfruit.

NO.

Lucy looks super dumb (that whole "10% of our brains" thing is nonsense) but I'll watch it anyway because it takes place in Taipei, and I live in Taipei.

It reminds me a bit of my grandma trying super hard not to be racist once she realized racism was not okay...but this whole "we treat people like individuals now and don't make broad generalizations about individuals based on their race" was new to her at first, and she sounded about this awkward.

I agree...but I feel as you do that it could be waaaayyyy less paternalistically worded. How hard is "hey guys, there's a problem with most of the casual mentoring being directed at white guys, and new hires who aren't white and aren't guys are being left out. Not cool. How about you not do that - even if it is…