Your Jay-Z on a bike photo isn't the best example of uncool shorts-wearing, since, as anyone who bikes know, the cuffs of non-skin-tight pants are bound to get caught in your gears, possibly throwing you from your bike and into traffic. The only solutions other than wearing shorts are to tuck your cuffs into your…

This advice was more useful before colleges began instituting online waitlists. The university I work at uses such a system, which takes the decision entirely out of the professor's hands.

I'm a guy who's always been unusually nervous asking girls out and I can still say, objectively, that the pursuer is in a much more advantageous position than the pursued. A man, acting like society expects a man to act, can go after any woman. A woman, fulfilling those same expectations, can only hope the man she…

The few name brand items they carry are almost always great deals. It seems like they use them as loss leaders to get you in the store and spending on their private label products.

For some reason, this is epidemic in people being interviewed on NPR. "So" is the "uhm" of people with advanced degrees.

MLB suspended Schott twice. She couldn't go to the ballpark or run her team, but she was not forced to sell it. She eventually sold the Reds when it looked like they'd suspend her again, but that was her choice.

Can Silver make him sell the team? I'm old enough to remember when MLB banned Reds owner Marge Schott. They suspended her twice, but they couldn't actually force her to sell her business.

MLB TV plus a $35 per year overseas VPN equals all the in market games I can watch. I can even get the international playoff package if my team makes it. MLB either doesn't notice or doesn't care that I temporarily relocate to Glasgow every October.

One more great reason to use a VPN.

I work in college admissions and this is something I always stress to new employees. The point when I admit I don't know something is often the point people stop treating me like a salesman. A side benefit is that, if you actually do follow through with an answer, you've opened a line of communication with a potential…

It's like looking into Gerald Laird's future.

In your first paragraph, you ask who cares if someone is gay. In your third paragraph, you admit that many people still care.

What everyone here has said about the assumption of heterosexuality is true, but there's also a political reason to come out. People who know gay people are much likelier to support gay rights than those who don't, so coming out to people who think they don't have gay friends, family members, or colleagues can, in…

Being disgusted by anal sex doesn't make you homophobic - I doubt you could find a single person who isn't disgusted by at least one sex act other people engage in - but being disgusted by gay men because they have anal sex does make you homophobic. Also, plenty of gay guys don't do anal. But then I bet you're just as…

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Is this really still a thing? When I get the death grip from a salesperson, it feels like compensatory macho posturing. It puts me off the person immediately. Besides, who generally have the strongest handshakes? Young, fit men. Who generally don't: the female, the old, the out-of-shape, the disabled. The only purpose…

Now I know what I'm getting Terrence Howard for Christmas.

I get 1.5 hours of comp time for every hour I work over 40. Some of my co-workers love this system, but my vacation time is already generous and, being on the lower end of lower-middle class, I'd prefer the cash in hand. The system makes plenty of sense for my employer, since the amount they spend on salary doesn't…

My impression was that the techs were selling the OEM parts for a profit. That doesn't make it okay, but they weren't swapping parts just for kicks.

Just in case this doesn't go without saying, that photo album stuff goes for any cell phone store. I used to work as a tech for Verizon and any halfway cute girl who handed over her phone was a likely victim of this sort of thing. Most of us were smart enough not to copy the pics, but we had one guy who had flash…