So this seems like a good knot to tie if you’re likely to have force on either the standing or the working end of the rope, but what about if the load you’re tying down is likely to wiggle a little? Are there any knots that are resistant to load wiggling?

Don’t think that that exact thought hasn’t crossed my mind a million times in this process. Everything is so rigged in my favour.

Thanks for this. I’m in the horrible waiting period for my work authorization pursuant to a green card application, and I will remember to be timely about renewing my green card in the future, once it arrives, should I still be in this country and not back in the Frozen Wasteland to the North.

Suggested form of protest: wear a SARS mask to the office when sick. Claim to be doing it to “not get others sick.” Make your illness and your desire to not infect others visible.

People aren’t taught how to get consent, and douchebags argue that getting consent spoils the mood. Here’s my primer on getting consent in a sexy way:

THIS SHOULDN’T BE UP TO THE LARGESSE OF THE COMPANY YOU WORK FOR.

I really wish we could change the lyrics of the English version to the second verse:

OK so if we’re talking about lyrics to national anthems being fucked, I’m looking at you, homeland of mine:

I’d like to offer you that hug — I’ve enjoyed your work and I’m glad someone’s writing about the shadiness that the restaurant industry gets away with in the name of “small business ownership.” Let us know where your snarktivism winds up next, if you can!

Have a sober babysitter, or stay inside.

my thoughts exactly.

I just don’t get heterosexual marriage.

There’s something absurd about a libertarian crowing about anarchy....

I not only know it, but I’ve taught it. Why, when I first learned it, right-hook-v wasn’t even a symbol....

rest-uh-ra-terrs, stress on the last syllable.

Free speech isn’t the right to say whatever you want where you want. No one is preventing her from saying whatever it was she was going to say; they’re just saying “nope. Not here, thanks.”

jerk off a lot so you know what you like. You’ll be more able to ask for what you want if you know what it is....

Hey, I hope you don’t pass bicycles in their lane when they are legally taking it, or shout obscenities at them for doing exactly what the law allows them to keep them safe.

In my day we just set ‘em on the kitchen window sill to cool. Whippersnappers.

I’m not a contrarian; I’m a pacifist. There are riskier and more necessary professions.