True, some companies value their workers more than strict profits, but those companies also don't tend to be as successful for obvious reasons. If you're in one, though, you tend to already know it.

So the fashion police get harsher penalties for racism than the actual police.

Ok, that's kinda funny.

Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy owns Hennessy? You don't say!

Oh! Here you are! Goody!

Oh, yay, another Thai-blended family!!! My sister in law (and all of her folks), and my wee neice, are all Thai. I look forward to spending many more wonderful trips in Thailand in the coming years.

And trust, I went to Pattaya, and got to high five the sisters working that sidewalk. I know what most of the tourists…

Well, I can tell you from having just been in Thailand for a month, they are NOT cool with public nudity (*public*, I said. Private resorts are another topic.). Several hotels I stayed in had, as part of the "hotel info" packet, tip sheets for foreigners in Thailand.

Top taboo: Women touching Buddhist monks. Don't.…

My brilliant older brother was told from age 2 + that he was a genius by everyone. His life has been one fuck up after another and he's been a mental mess since his teens. I'd always wondered if there was a correlation between mental illness and high intelligence. Now I wonder if the expectations screwed him up.

"Poor and minority kids are rarely seen as gifted, so they are rarely put through these programs."

This is hard for me. I definitely suffer from the failure-related anxiety, but I don't think it was a result of thinking I was really smart - more from thinking that I'm not when my logical brain knows I'm no idiot. So actually I feel like for me that if I had been told more that I could do things, I might have…

"My kid just wasn't doing the things other kids were doing, you know?"

Hell no. Fuck that guy. Spot-stealing bastard.

This is a story of how one of the worst days of my life ended up reaffirming my faith in strangers and in the human race in general.

Sometimes he'd say something like, "Get me the mixing bowls with the clear bottom." And I'd go, "Nuh-uh … not until 1972."

Well you people have had years to run fiber to my apartment in Manhattan which is FEET away from an internet backbone (the building google bought to be exact).

crab water, gasoline, salt water, vinegar, with hints of citrus and alcohol.

Oh come now, I've known plenty of New Englanders who could teach graduate-level seminars in passive-aggression.

All the stars to the lady entrepreneur who out-trolled Mr. Shit-on-me.

Re: the last screenshot-

"Don't spend your $20 there."