I grew up with a bullying sibling and the toll adds up. I’ve forgiven my parents, mostly, but I haven’t seen that sibling in almost a decade, and I won’t be seeing him again in my lifetime. I skip all family functions he’s at, and won’t sit through conversations involving him.

Audiobooks and a bit of dynamic stretching of the muscle I’m working. 

Absolutely!

Whats weird about apologies is that I have always felt that sometimes, “I’m sorry I made you feel X,” was a reasonable apology because often that is all I’m apologizing for. I never specifically want to hurt someone, and can be very sorry for how it made them feel, but stand by the action or statement.

Haha, The first time I was in college, waists were as low as possible. The term “ass cleavage,” was a real thing. Now, I’m back taking a few classes and I have literally seen girls with waistlines touching their naval.

No assumptions. I’m saying it’s literally impossible to know.

I’m saying it’s impossible to know, not that you can’t be really really sure you know. Literally any of those people could be hiding a gambling problem. For the record, I have no doubt you are right, it’s just that you can never actually be certain. It’s that whole proving a negative thing. 

Haha, I see what you did there.

You strongly believe you know, that is different than knowing. You could have a twin you live with, work with, and dress the same as and you still don’t know. There’s a difference, even if you don’t see it.

For the record, unless you are their accountant, you don’t know their financial situation. Even your closest friends could have real or aspirational costs you don’t know about. Hell, lying about finances is an extremely commonly cited factor in divorce, and that’s in a marriage. I know you love your friends and are…

This is silly. You never know anything about anyone elses finances. If you are talking about someone who expects you to pay for them, then the issue is a person who takes advantage of you, not a “cheapskate.” But, if you are talking about someone who wants the kick in to be $5 instead of $10 on the office party, or…

I’d also add: don’t share too much about your treatment and not expect suggestions. Which is not to defend the people jamming their noses in, they are still pains, but it’s a little like court procedural tv shows. Don’t open up the line of questioning if you don’t want it explored.

Meh, I think this is just sort of a linguistic “trend,” for lack of a better word. At some point just enough people disliked the word moist to make it a fun thing to dislike as a group, and bam, it was off. Now people dislike moist for the same reason waist heights on jeans go up and down every so often . . . because. …

Ugh, twitter is just not my thing. Something about it never appealed, and if people are to be believed, it just gets more toxic. I don’t get how people do it.

Agreed. I’m clearly of the older school on this one, because when someone asks to work in, I jump up and feel like a bit of a jerk for having not offered first. It was always default manners as far back as I can remember

It’s more like “second to final,” at least that is how it is used in linguistics. A “penultimate word,” is one that has its stress on the second to last syllable. An “antepenultimate word” is one with it’s stress placed on the third to last syllable. It’s more about positioning than value judgement.

“Penultimate,” is one of those words (if anyone knows a term for this, please do share), where I have never heard it used incorrectly, but I have heard a bunch of people claim they have heard it used incorrectly. In my experience 99 out of 100 times, if the word comes up it’s so someone can claim they are constantly…

I’m going to add, “most sports safety gear.”

A lot of them have an expiration date printed on them these days, after which, at least in theory, the plastic can no longer be trusted. I think I’d be comfortable with a used car seat so long as it was within that window.

I used to work for a property company and we never bought new washers or driers and rarely paid more than $100 bucks. With maybe two exceptions out of dozens, they all made it several years.