We owe no one the position and privilege to abuse us. Saying to someone that they’re a leech and unworthy of respect etc is abuse. No person, for no reason, deserves or needs to tolerate that.

Exactly. There has to be a level of self-preservation in any relationship. This “they’re sick/need help” bullshit martyr syndrome is part of what keeps us in abusive relationships of all kinds. NO. We don’t owe anyone the privilege to abuse us.

No. Your friends are not the people to help you out of a disease. Professionals are. I can’t help you figure out your insulin or your psych meds or your rehab or your chemo. Once you decide that you’re going to get professional help, I, as a friend, can support you. That’s a valuable role. But if you are in denial…

American of Korean descent guy here who doesn’t really watch Korean TV, but my wife makes me.

My husband (from Korea) is here to explain. The mother explains to the happy couple (Chloe is in Korean traditional wedding attire) that she’s sorry she and her husband don’t have a lot of money to help them start their lives together. The groom-to-be says no matter, we can start from the bottom (my husband says he…

A former girlfriend told the Wisconsin State Journal that O’Kroley had tried to commit suicide in 2014, and that he has been seriously mentally ill for the past decade.

This is horrifying. Makes me think of the Louis C.K. skit.

Yeah. I’ve been called ‘too intense’ on multiple occasions because I happen to prefer/gravitate towards leadership positions and happen to be good at knowing what I want and going for it. I’ve started turning it into a good thing (even if the commenters don’t mean it to be), since the way I see it my ‘intensity’ is…

Oh yeah. Too aggressive often comes up for me.

But were they this drunk?

Hey I’m a little worried what Japan might do to fix the low birth-rate issue. I’m about to be cut off from my mom’s insurance back in the States but want to continue using birth control here until I am ready to have babies. It’s already really uncomfortable getting birth control here, doctors will ask if you are in…

Eh, if it’s their first time, it’s gonna be a little bang.

One company party lead off auspiciously when, within the first half-hour, I fell down the stairs of the restaurant and knocked over a candle, setting a small section of the table on fire. This, however, did not stop my urge to down expensive alcohols on the company dime.

Not a historian - but a major Roman geek (hence the avatar). A few fun (for me at least) facts:

It’s inhumane and cruel to allow women to abort fetuses living parasitcally inside their own bodies, but it’s perfectly acceptable to harass, threaten, shoot and murder real live human beings who have anything to do with performing this perfectly legal procedure. Gotcha. That’s some amazing logic right there. Fuckwads.

That’s so bizarre. Yeah, I have no idea what that would be. I’m glad you didn’t eat it though. No one needs Mystery Food Poisoning.

No ink that I saw. Tonight I went over and did a turkey autopsy - I literally ripped it to shreds, inspected all the meat, bones, fat, blood vessels, spinal cord - everything. My poor sister was traumatized back into vegetarianism ... but no blue anywhere on the bird!! The blue stuff is definitely turkey fat. It got…

Went to my sister’s one year, and forgot to take Mom.