But why is that rude? I just don’t think it’s rude. Why can’t you accommodate your friends’ quirks or their privacy? Maybe they don’t want to tell you about their finances, and that’s okay.

SO glad you also advocate for those of us NOT flush. My family knows I am forced to work two PT jobs and have bennies through the ACA and they still say, “Take a day off! Why do you do this hard work yourself? Hire a landscaper. Let’s go someplace NICE (read expensive) to eat brunch!” Yadda... This however is not as…

Sometimes, though, even as an adult, you don’t have that extra $20 to spend, or it’s really a big imposition on you. You might not want your friends to know the details of your finances, you know? You might have only budgeted for what you did spend, not what everyone else spent, and so the idea that it’s a wash or…

This this! Stop complaining about people who don’t want to pay for your meals. Haha. Just pay for what you bought. Sheesh. If I want to go out to eat with someone it’s because I enjoy their company but often I am broker than them (because I work in social justice) and purposefully order less. Some of my friends get it…

This is something that I really get annoyed with in pretty much EVERY article about money. I don’t understand why so many people think that you should just constantly chip in for someone elses lunch and why it’s totally okay for the other person to expect it just because you are no longer a teen.

For instance, there is an ongoing debate in our house over what lunch should cost. Is $30 for two people too much? That seems to be the going rate in these parts, and no matter how hard my husband tries, he cannot will it back down to $19. Is he cheap, or am I nuts? (Answer: We are both both.)

What I hate is that a full third of my screen is now deadspace.

obligatory.

also he needs to keep his schedule clear for the next 3536 mad max movies that i demand they make.

Many African Americans don’t know a thing about Africa, and can come off as being just as offensive to Africans as any other group. Like the NPR article points out, it’s not necessarily their fault nor Taylor Swifts, the education system sucks and media portrayals of the continent tend to focus on the sensational. But…

Karen Blixen wasn’t just Meryl Streep’s character in Out of Africa, she was the author who wrote autobiographical novels and was a contemporary of Hemingway in both time and style (and whom Hemingway stated did it better than he did.) She just wasn’t recognized as his equal until recently, because yeah. For the…

taking away the bathroom mirror and writing ‘You Look Beautiful <3” - honestly seems like the kind of thing Michael Scott would’ve done in The Office

“beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit” isn’t misogynistic enough for you?

This is good advice! I’m one of those delightful people with a lot of sexual issues, and I know that a lot of people have trouble where one partner wants sex more often than the other, and it creates tension and friction, because one partner feels pressured and the other feels distant. I often feel pressured without…

Meanwhile, on the set of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries...

Actually, Yoko, while war is destructive, the clean-up is very lucrative. As Tony Benn outlined, communism won WWII: massive state investment in the means of production and infrastructure, with a highly trained workforce of women in factories and men in the armed forces, which led to 30 years of “never had it so good”…

Also, “Now, however, ModCloth seems to be on the up and up.”

LOLOLOL first of all, there are plenty of people who either like or are indifferent toward Taylor around here, second of all, the “they’re just jealous” argument is beginner trolling. Try harder.

I can’t wait for the Think Pieces that reference it. He is more intelligent and aware than almost anyone gives him credit for. And because of his wife, people discount his sincerity. It’s sad and odd. He married a girl he’s been friend-zoned by and in love with for years.