Yes, words have meaning, and the meaning is defined by how they are used, not what the individual root, suffixes, and prefixes literally mean. For instance, the term anti-Semitic literally means “against Semites”, which would included hatred of Ethiopians and Arabs, but the word itself means anti-Jewish, because the…

Imagine this. You and your partner plan a really fun thing to do with your kids. Kids are hyped up, excited, ready to go. You are ready to walk out the door and your partner is standing in front of it, droning on with a story you could care less about, and completely ignoring all your attempts to get his/her…

Ah, okay. Yeah, I totally do that.

I’m trying to imagine what aggressive-passive would be like.

Kinja Kinja Kinja. I spent 20 years in relationships like the ones you described above so give me 2 minutes please. I should mention I spent most of these relationships making passive jokes and getting hammered. Flash forward, sober 6 years and a lot less anger. So here’s my two cents based on my experience What I…

Aggressive passive = power bottom?

You know, that’s a really good question and it deserves an answer. A friend of mine literally (literally literally, not internet literally) had no idea how to confront things she found difficult within interpersonal relationships other than passive-aggression because she —like many other people and perhaps most…

Detroit’s water system routinely comes in quite clean. I used to live in Flint when I went to college there and I read the water quality reports myself as part of my analytical chemistry class. People assume it’s dirty because of the long history but the past 20-30 years of environmental regulation and restoration…

Thanks for sharing your story. I’m so glad that you got the right message at the right time that allowed you to keep on living!

Well, looking back at pictures of me, there are very few where i am not hatless and the only one i really like is when i had buzzed my hair really short(like a #2 or #3) after accidently putting on the wrong number clipper a few years ago. I then let it grow back and for a year and a half or so i was using Rogaine but…

I think it’s refreshing when men embrace going bald. I actually think it’s an indicator of confidence.

I didn’t vote for him...

Yeah, I know, although it seems to be like data in that you get variation that shows more or less awareness of the original structure. Of course, there are plenty of definite articles in loanwords that speakers aren’t aware of, like in algebra and so on.

Here’s how these people see themselves

Yeah, I can’t believe he had the nerve to tear up the backyard of a rental property without talking to his landlord first. He sounds like a nightmare of a tenant. It’s fortunate that his landlords don’t care, but JFC you just don’t do that to someone else’s property.

Totally agree. Imagine renting to someone who pulled this shit.

In regards to the Neighbor, they can shove it (as long as David wasn’t throwing mud onto their property, or doing this at some unGodly hour of the night). But he did destroy a groomed, grassed, landscaped yard without asking permission first. In a house that you rent you wouldn’t cut a hole in the wall for a new…

Yeah i mean, he pays rent to live there and clearly has zero respect for that. I was looking at the previous posts he did, and what you can see of his house, is a pigsty. He’s damn lucky he has the landlords that he does.

I was gonna say this too. Yeah, it’s cool to have a mud pit in your backyard and it’s cool your landlords were cool with it but...