Finally, life is not like they show it on TV. Manage your expectations accordingly.

Yes, it’s quite common when small business jump to being really successful. The problem is that they have limited capital and product, so when all of a sudden 10,000 orders come in within a week, there is no way that demand can be met within a reasonable amount of time. So, if you can’t fulfill people’s orders, your…

hindsight is 20/20

I read the Daily Mail article (cringe), and while they knew Kate Middleton was a fan, she wasn’t a big fashion icon until the engagement. The designer had no idea that Middleton would wear the dress in the announcement. The designer even mentioned that she could have bought it at a shop, not directly from the…

I thought the dress looked great on her, and I rented it from Rent the Runway a year or so ago and it looked like trash on me. It was super thin fabric (which rarely does anyone any favors), and the twisty panel in front didn’t sit right.

This is actually incredibly common for smaller brands who find themselves with surprise hit (ETA: Kate bought this dress off the rack—Issa didn’t know about it until pics hit the news; this was not a commission). If you have a ton of people who want to place orders, yet you have no way to fill those orders because you…

Well, yeah. If you get a flood of orders you aren’t prepared for, sometimes you just can’t fulfill the orders. And once that happens your brand gets a bad reputation.

If you are waiting, it’s a good thing. It means you aren’t about to die. The person who gets taken right in with no waiting and no paperwork is about to die without immediate help. Go back to dicking around on your phone and be thankful that you are waiting.

I once went to an ER for what was an Urgent Care issue, but I couldn’t find an urgent care center. The intake nurse apologized for the wait and cracked up when I replied “I’ve been in an ER before. Unless you hop in carrying your severed leg, you’re gonna wait. I brought a book.”

This is simply not true. Ambulance runs are still subject to triage at the ED. If you’re and ESI 4 or 5, you’re still likely to wait, regardless of your mode of arrival.

Huh? What’s “fucked up if true”? That I don’t let people sleep on my couch? Fuck that. People are gross and oily and smelly and it has taken me too goddamn long to get sober, buy nice things and build myself a cozy place to call home. Want a good night’s sleep? Go the fuck home.

It’s honestly very good.

Apparently you should have gone and acheived single payer health insurance single-handedly by spending your wedding money on a life of activism instead of compromising like the bad watered-down Feminist you are. How dare you.

“Ironically she is a model of what she proposes to criticize. Tone-deaf, superficial, and rhetorical, and doesn’t take any context or solidarity from different experiences into account.”

These people always make me think of the Dyke Police in Hothead Paisan, bullish and square-hatted, who scrutinize her under a giant magnifying-glass like a bug, then make their grim indictment: “She’s got GEL in her hair.”

I’m in a good mood and this interview pissed me off. I got married for things like health insurance and inheritance purposes, should I have forgone health insurance on the matter of principle?

Honestly? My best advice is to open your ears, open your eyes, and try your hardest to suppress the knee-jerk defensiveness that’s natural if someone criticizes you. Try to instead think openly and sympathetically about what they’re saying, ESPECIALLY if you’re American and white and the person criticizing something…

Apparently you quit your job, leave your SO, only buy fair-trade local food and clothes...and also somehow earn enough money to do so without ever compromising in any way in the capitalist system in which we all live. And if you have kids, feed them with big helpings of hearty judgement made on everyone around you.…

Exactly! Add to the “I’m a better feminist than you” a mix of half-baked pseudo-philosophical ideas stolen from real thinkers, thrown together and packaged for a book (hello capitalizing on feminism - particularly on the F-word). She offers nothing of substance.