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I once worked for the most awful human alive. She offered to buy our Puerto Rican clients lunch and throws out a couple of suggestions. She stops after the second one and asks "Oh, do you eat sandwiches?". Blank look. Because I hate her I look at him and ask "Are you allergic to sandwiches?" and he laughs and says "Oh…

Add in the fact that food is one of the few affordable, easy-to-acquire, use-anytime things that people can use to comfort ourselves, and of freaking course we're always stuffing ourselves. We can't drink booze, smoke cigarettes, or use drugs at work, and sex isn't always easy to come by, but chocolate gives you a…

I agree. This was a big reason why I never did any kind of sports as a kid because I knew I would be horrible at them. I suck at sports, but it doesn't mean I still don't like to play.

I'm with you on the pizza thing. That's good team bonding and recognition that everybody worked hard. A cheapo pity ribbon or teeny trophy is physical condescension for the kids that know they aren't the stars. Or potentially teaches some kids that they always deserve a reward for just showing up, I guess. I hear…

I remember participating in dance competitions (I say participating, not competing. Of course I wanted to win, but I didn't want to put in the effort it took to do that so...) and they would have an award session for each style of dance and every kid got a ribbon with their place on it. Sometimes there would be up to…

I have always been very open about my love for much of Reddit. There are absolutely problematic aspects to the site (like creepshots), but I spend an unhealthy amount of time on Imgur, which basically mirrors most of Reddit's front page content.

Same. That kind of pity just makes you feel worse. I'm on board with taking the kids out to pizza and stuff though. Then it's something enjoyable and not a farce.

Seriously. I'm pretty sure I got a 'participation' ribbon once during field day as a kid way back in the late 80s, and I knew exactly what it was—a pity ribbon. Which is why I always have to roll my eyes every time I hear that Millennials (I'm on the leading edge of them though I'm in my thirties) are entitled because…

Am I the only one who hated getting a "participation" trophy or ribbon as a kid? It always made me feel like more of a loser. Like "you suck, but we don't want you to feel bad, so here."

SO TORN.

1. It's Newt Scamander.

Nicki Minaj is really rubbing her ass in the faces of cultural appropriates, Taylor Swift, Lily Allen and Miley Cyrus. What a brilliant statement.

EVERYBODY knows the original song. This isn't some obscure track from 79. It's a really famous song.

I hate that my annoyance with James Franco is making me take Kim Jong Un's side in anything.

I'm not here to hold the hands of illiterate people.

I thought the same, maybe he's referring to the break-in at Gringotts, when Harry uses a curse to get the attendant to recognize Hermione as Bellatrix. But to me, that's part of the Horcrux quest, so it's not as if he's using those curses to advance himself personally. It's a far cry from the way the Death Eaters…

We're those annoying people in the middle half heartedly trying to get everyone to get along so we can go home and watch tv.

Natural sun-kissed skin... yeah, that is awful. AddingL "positively glimmered in the sunlight." First of all, this huge rock only managed to glimmer in bright light? And it "positively" glimmered? It's like saying "He was so angry he positively mumbled in response to his friend's punch in the face." Horrible writing,…

Please tell me that this is merely a typo and they mean "left arm", not that the beautiful Sofia V. has a leg arm, the possibilities of which I do not wish to consider.