No, it’s not how the pain feels to them, it’s how much drama they make over it. Guys I know who get sick/hurt/whatever tend to make a huge deal about how awful it is, while I’ll see a female coworker with sunglasses on grimly getting through her work on day three of a migraine.

There is a vast difference between “censorship” and “choosing to be a nice person.” I see which option they went for.

I think the quote from NPR had it right - women are just used to having a certain amount of pain on a daily basis (pretty much all adult women I know own/carry around multiple bottles of ibuprofen) so when men experience it, it becomes The Worst Thing Ever. Kind of like when a toddler falls down and skins their knee,…

Food poisoning most definitely is not confined to throwing up - it can be quite deadly, depending on what you get, and I think “death” or “permanent organ damage requiring a transplant” kind of trumps “can’t see out of one eye.”

the estimated 45 million Americans who wear contact lenses probably aren’t going to switch over to glasses or opt for LASIK out of fear of contracting a parasitic infection

.........I never managed to wear contacts for long without having to take them out just because they would get dry and itchy. Were they monthly wear softs? Did you use eyedrops occasionally? Or are you just magic? :o

I picked up a similar brush recently and I have to say, even if it doesn’t work miracles for my hair, it certainly is nice to get a scalp massage every time I wash it.

I picked up a similar brush recently and I have to say, even if it doesn’t work miracles for my hair, it certainly…

Once upon a time, when I was working 911 dispatch, there was an art gallery in the local mall that had a McNaughton painting on prominent display at the entrance. I received a call one day from a woman requesting an ambulance because her daughter was having a seizure, and she informed me that they were standing right…

I mean, if I want to get stuck in my own head and jump at absolutely nothing, I could just go play Firewatch. I know there’s nothing actually dangerous out there but that game still freaks me the hell out when I get deep into it.

I’m at six years now and I just wish I’d done it sooner. As long as you’re reasonably careful you shouldn’t have any issues - and in a zombie apocalypse, if you’re really concerned, it’s going to be a lot easier to find/keep safety goggles around than easily breakable glasses.

I wasn’t thinking last time I had to replace a card and threw the metal one into my shredder.

Huh. That’s an interesting title for the game.

Huh. That’s an interesting title for the game.

I only wish that there had only been one workplace where that happened. :|

I was looking for a badge reel yesterday and found a lot of people selling oil diffuser badge reels. That has to be one of the worst possible ideas for a workplace.

I like perfume. I like smelling nice. But I like not creating misery for other people even more. :/

And then they leave their scents behind in the elevator for people riding it later. If I can smell your perfume/cologne after you have left the area, you are definitely wearing way too much.

Yes! Not being an asshole is so easy! I seriously don't understand people who go out of their way to act like that.

The thing is, it shouldn’t matter if someone is either wrong or lying about having a food allergy. If someone says they don’t eat gluten because they diagnosed themself from an online quiz, how does that hurt you? If someone once got queasy two hours after eating some ice cream and decides that means they’re lactose…

At my previous job we all worked very close together in a relatively small room. One of my co-workers had migraines that were triggered by exposure to strong perfumes, so reasonably enough, management announced a new policy banning perfume/scented lotion/etc. Two of my other co-workers were so absolutely offended by…

I have a friend who, upon eating anything that has even touched shellfish, will vomit repeatedly for the next couple hours and then have varying degrees of gastrointestinal distress for at least two days. This is not a life-threatening Epi-Pen allergy, but if all I need to do to help my friend not be in gut-wrenching…