Thoroughness in instruction matters. Please, for the love of all that is holy, do not use a non-wet vac on a wet carpet.

Again, it could be either. The <i>intent</i> is not always malicious, but the phrase itself is never really helpful. So that even if people mean well by it, that doesn’t mean you have to accept it, either. Just this: the cure for a gaslighting jerk who knows it is not true but wants you to believe it (i.e., getting…

I don’t get the “five years older” part either. I mean, if your brothers friends were only a couple years older but they still tried to feel you up, did you not feel just as helpless?

It... can be. But gaslighting embodies harmful intent, and some folks just carry around a lot of detrimental indoctrination. There really are those who genuinely think it will make you feel better that other people’s lives are worse because our culture is founded in a scramble to, if not come out on top, not find yours…

“At least it wasn’t...” is one of the most unhelpful phrases in the world with regard to trauma.

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A bit of random: I once tried to call a Boeing section from my place of business to get some documentation from them for our records. All of the contacts I had had crapped out, no officials were listed on their website and their online form resulted in a whole lot of nothing happening. So I called them directly and…

Oh, they totally thought HRC getting her period was in play in 2016. How do I know this? Because a coworker touted it as the reason he would rather have Trump with his finger on the nuke button. They literally think PMS can make you blow up the world out of man-hating spite.

Hey, man, we’ve all been chug-a-lugging all the comfort food we can handle (and some we can’t) for the past four years of his bullshit. Let him eat his feelings until it fucking kills him.

And yet, I am still surrounded by people talking about her emails. :(

This is the first job I’ve had where I’ve been able to save any money. Chaps my ass I might deplete the whole wad paying rent after I have a nervous breakdown and quit for my own wellbeing.

I’m sitting here thinking if he wins again, I don’t know if I can go back to my job working among his kind. Hell, I don’t know if I can leave the house.

Yeah, on playback it is a mushy but easily discernible “go ahead.” I wonder if the particular stream people were watching when they heard it had a blip.

Also horrible: when he was asked about people worrying their health was at risk living in oil industry hazardous zones and his response was about how well they were paid. Joe’s answer that the money didn’t matter and you had to take care of your people was perfect.

I missed it myself but it’s damn believable. (There were cats in the room.)

He might be mad at Joe specifically, for being cool with the dark skinned guy and making it okay for other white guys to want to be seen hanging out with him.

omg so wrong but so good

No, sarcasm is when you earnestly ask if you can inject bleach and then people make fun of you so you didn’t really mean it.

Mmmm. with extra glycerine to give you that healthy glow.

On the one hand, I fully expect now to go to my workplace full of no-mask-wearing Trumphumping yoyos and finding at least several of them touting a headline as a cure. Again.