I know what you mean. It's been a while since I've heard such vitriol, but it just stuns you into silence for a moment, and then years of being taught to respect elders and "they're just from a different time" excuses tongue-tie you.

They also only come in a medium width. That lets me out, too.

From personal experience: most people who can be described as "charismatic" should not be trusted too easily. Con artists and psychopaths are charismatic, wielding their charisma to achieve their own ends. Charisma too often goes along with selfishness and egotism. I've learned to look for and trust genuine kindness…

God I hope you are reading this comment well after you've already left.

I remember taking a training course to assist people with filling out orders of protection, and something the instructor said always stuck with me. She said "abuse is not about the abuser not being able to control himself/herself. If that were the case, the abuse would happen anywhere, any way. If the person can wait…

I dreamt about pizza toppings last night! It was weird.

I don't speak any other languages, but have been known to use the "alienese" writing from Futurama or write in Morse code in my notes.

If you add tomatoes and onions to a reuben sandwich, what's the end result? Something disgusting, obviously, but aside from that, the horror you've wrought is, while no longer a reuben, still a sandwich

Srsly, those pancakes people cannot be trusted.

FETA. You can't have roasted garlic cloves without feta to balance out the flavors.

Says someone who prefers pancakes over waffles.

There's sooooooo much of this that is an utter abomination, however, THANK YOU for calling out pineapple as being fucking disgusting on pizza. Pineapple gets too much hype as a fruit in general, much less adding it to bread and tomato sauce and cheese and acting like that's acceptable.

Anchovies are magical manna sent from heaven. If we don't eat them with great relish, we anger the Elder Gods and bring about a Cthulhu Hell-scape.

A common question asked of me "There's no milk. How do we even get milk? Can you just go and get it?"

I had a job once where a coworker would ask me to do personal assistant stuff - go buy him lunch, etc., that was completely not in my job description. He drank coffee all day long and would ask me to make another pot, and at the time I wasn't comfortable saying no. I was totally comfortable making decaf pots of coffee…

I take notes in a really weird way with lots of doodles and sidenotes that only make sense to me. Someone (a mid-level manager from another location...not my supervisor) once noticed my notetaking and rudely demanded that I make copies of my notes for everyone in the meeting. So they were all treated to my pictorial…

...I actually did when I returned back to my regular campus after that. I was exhausted, we'd been hit with a heat wave and AC isn't a standard in Finland, and I had two colleagues there who turned out to be the substance of nightmares. I'm not even kidding, I had a few nightmares about both of them after I'd finished…

Oh this...this..I support a large team and decided last year to stop being the help. We will have little celebrations with everyone participating, and all but a couple of people would stay behind and clean up the mess. After our last little birthday gathering, I left everything sitting on the table. That shit…

The consulting firm I work at used to have a mentoring program for women (i.e., senior female employees mentoring junior female employees), which died a quiet death. I had to explain to my own (male) boss why none of "us women" thought it was fair that we were required to allocate hours to mentoring/being mentored. At…

I would have let it slip into chaos.