DO NOT TELL ANYONE who does not explicitly need to know (i.e., doctors prescribing medication that might interact with what you're on, a spouse/lover and maybe a trusted family member). I lost dozens of friends when I was diagnosed 20+ years ago, and again recently while going through a particularly bad year,…

Yep. One good apple can't redeem the whole truckload of rotten apples. I've only ever been on the "victim" side of a crime equation, not a suspect and I will likely never ever call them again. Fucking useless at best.

Please please please let there be a 24/7 cam that we can watch. The fighting/jerking off/fucking will be endlessly entertaining!

Yes.

Additionally, we can't assume that people who are claiming the designation "American" are all necessarily of white, European ancestry. If it's an option and it's based on self-reporting, then anybody can select that choice.

I haven't been able to swallow one of those things since Ronald Reagan declared them his favorite candy.

For some reason, about six months after I started my job, there was need of a hammer. My boss went across the street to a fancy stationery store and found a little one that was covered in flowers or something. It served its purpose. However, it keeps ending up in my office. I keep putting it back in my male boss'…

I wasn't sure I caught that line in the ad—surely she couldn't have said he'd have some opinion of her cuteness vis a vis saw-using skills. I thought I had misheard (and couldn't be bothered to rewind) it was so dumb. Also, now using math is unmasculine? I thought in the world of this bourbon ad it was considered…

Ha! That was my exact thought too!

You can find them in shops in neighborhoods where there are concentrations of people from East/Southeast/South Asia. I was in Jackson Heights yesterday (very high South Asian population) and there are several different brands available. They're imports and the packaging can be kind of shocking to an American who has…

I've certainly seen them in markets in South Asian and East/Southeast Asian neighborhoods here in NYC. I was unaware that there was a market for such a product with sub-Saharan African populations as well.

Nope. Atom splitting or it's back to the mines for you! Uranium mines of course.

God, thank you. I could NOT think of that word.

But are you splitting atoms? Because apparently it is the 1950s and that is the only measure one's intelligence.

My brother and his wife have been going for some time to one of those Japanese grill restaurants (can't think of the type), where the everyone sits around the grill and the chef performs tricks while making your meal. They were there on their anniversary and another young couple was sitting at the same grill. …

Wow, you handled that really well. The woman was clearly distressed and rather than argue to no end, you reassured her that everything would be OK in her vocabulary. (I just re-read that and it sounded snarky, but I'm being sincere—sometimes people just need to know that everything will be OK. I'm guessing this…

I had a table literally bet on my ethnicity and tell me about it. I told them I didn't know, that my mama told me Elvis was my daddy, "so whatever he was."

I will sometimes feign outrage and gesture as if going to flip over the table, then order something else. There have even been one or two occasions where the item I specifically went in for is sold out and have left (politely—it certainly isn't the server's fault) because it's the only thing at that particular…

I usually ask anti-vaxxers if they are against using wheels, fire and public waste removal infrastructure because I do consider the discovery/innovation of vaccines to be right up with those others in overall benefit to humanity.

What they haven't told us is that they are actually quintuplets and they go through rotation so at least two of them are resting at any time.