My favorite (read, not favorite) is when one of the dipshits I work with puts their phone on hold instead of mute, and pipes hold music into the conference call until they come back, or everyone disconnects and dials back in.

What’s the best way to get off a conference call when you have to take a dump? Particularly when it’s about to end but then some asshole says something that’ll surely keep it going for another 15 minutes.

Yeah, I’m learning to live for myself right now. I truly felt like just the family grunt and I allowed myself to be absorbed with everyone else’s needs for decades. It’s hard to let go of that control, because I let it define me. Therapy has been a truly transformative experience.

Yeah, I want to hear Dennis’s story before I pass judgement on Ruth.

Happy families are all alike. Every fucked-up family is fucked-up in its own way.

one large pregnant pause in Gina’s and Jay’s lives

That was pretty overtly hostile for Minnesotans. Typically it would read something like: “Ethel heard that she got pregnant from her brother-in-law and moved to California but don’t you know her kids Gina and Jay didn’t go with her! It’s not our place to judge but something’s not right about that.”

Also abandoned: commas.

lol

I’m a size 22 English professor (meaning I’ve spent the vast majority of my life in classrooms/libraries, not on stage) and I am a WAY better dancer than this!

Aw damn, sounds like a MediaTakeOut writer is sick to death of some dude. I don’t blame anyone who is tired of men though. I’ve stopped actively looking for dates because it just became so friggin tiresome.

“She gets tired of men sometimes.”

That’s not a fucking apology, it’s gaslighting. He should’ve said nothing if he couldn’t actually find it within himself to own his own behavior.

Her response online to that one guy who reached out (half-heartedly) spoke volumes about her character. I made sure to tweet a reply of encouragement in appreciation of how she’s handled all this.

Generally I don’t follow streamers, but Annemunition is one of those that I’ve personally encountered online and left a mark on me. I was playing some Overwatch on the PTR server sometime ago, one of the builds that either included a new character or was a complete rework of another. I was playing Mercy and doing what…

They fail to realize that life isn’t like those Japanese H-games that they buy off of the internet.

It is the dumbest thing to me that online communities for gaming are so toxic that all my female friends don’t feel they can use a mic when in public games because they get attacked almost instantly. The difference is just night and fucking day since I’ve never had that problem but man do I see it a lot.

I’ve mentiond…

Asshole gamers do this so much then those incels wonder why the only female interaction they get is from the Dead or Alive Beach Volleyball body pillow they imported. What purpose does it serve to be an asshole like this over a video game, other than just to be an asshole?

Convince game companies to actually punish people for saying shit like this. Like zero tolerance policies. You do this even once perma-banned.