MrSmith

You shouldn't feel like this. Your situation is completely different. It's also understandable. If your friend can't empathize, then they suck.

My mother tried to force me to play football in high school. I refused. I would never bring the paper home she needed to sign so I could play. With all this coming out about CTE, I feel even smarter for refusing.

~~ In TV announcer voice ~~ @peacheslatour is The Voice of Reason in <pause for dramatic effect> These are the Pet Peeves of Our Lives. I play video games (typically I only have time to play a single game well). However, I make sure to spend time socializing with people at holidays. I suppose it helps that I like my wife's family and the holidays are the only times I really get to see them. So playing a video game is comparatively less attractive than spending a day (or two, when I'm lucky) getting to catch up with my in-laws.

I never said or implied she was somehow magical. However, she isn't blameless, either. She could just have easily said "No thanks. You're seeing someone." See how that works? All it takes is for one of them to have standards and act ethically. Doesn't matter which one. Thus, both are equally to blame for the situation between them. Personally, I think Brianna is particularly stupid for thinking that someone who's willing to cheat (or who's willing to break up with his girlfriend only so he can technically claim he's not cheater) is someone who would treat her with respect or be good "relationship material". Completely agree. You stated facts and the fact is that he was drunk, probably did something he could easily have done sober (sit on the handrail), lost his balance (due to being drunk) and fell to his death. It's tragic circumstances and I feel bad for his family and friends. In spite of him being drunk, I'm not of the attitude of "He deserved what he got because he was drunk", which is how I would feel if he were doing something like driving while drunk. It's sad that he passed away and that's that. I'm not even hopeful that what happened to him would be a warning to anyone else because humans just don't think like that.

No, they had not broken up before the yacht season. He broke up with her via text message after he and Brianna started flirting and he realized she'd bang him. So yes, Brianna does share equal blame in what went down because she specifically stated that she didn't care he was in a relationship. Seriously, you need to re-watch this season's episodes.

This. She set herself up for having trouble with Jen early in the season when she kept insulting her, especially when she would insult Jen in front of the guests. I'm not saying that Jen specifically worked less hard because of that, of course. I think Jen would have been just as lackadaisical, but without the insults Kate would have been able to approach Jen differently and perhaps get her to work harder and complain less.

This is how I would be! Get stuff right and adhere to the schedule I want for meals and you'd never hear a bad word from me. I get what you're saying, but everything in the post you quoted is in the article online about the situation. So the poster you quoted isn't posting some random conspiracy theory about how the brother died.

She did. There's an article on People or RadarOnline or somewhere in which he talks about how being told about something is different from actually watching it happen. Of course, he completely ignores the fact that it's as much the fact that he lied to Melissa during the charter as it is the fact he dumped her so he could bang Brianna without technically cheating. Honestly, he'd probably have had a better chance with Melissa after the season was over if he'd simply cheated on her and then been honest about it when he got home.

@BookWoman56, I gotta say you're a lot nicer than I am! And that is good advice, especially in a work environment where you're dealing with managers who can be hostile. My attitude is that the meeting is mandatory for those people who are scheduled to work. Certainly they don't expect people who are on vacation to attend the meeting. So why would they expect someone who is scheduled off for that day to attend? The only difference between vacation and a regularly scheduled day off is that the former is paid time off. If it were me in this situation, I wouldn't even bother to email them or communicate the fact there's a conflict at all. In part because of what I've already said, but also because the person who scheduled the meeting can clearly see I'm scheduled off for that day. So if they want me to attend, then they need to communicate with me and say "I know you're scheduled off that day, but we really need you to participate in this meeting." Once they do that, then I can communicate the conflict with the doctor appt. In the event I've nothing scheduled for that day, they can either provide a number I can call to join the meeting over the phone, they can reschedule the meeting, or they can elect to conduct the meeting without me. That all said, my reaction to the situation is not always going to be the healthiest from a self-preservation perspective. :D

I have a friend on Facebook that posts things like this, on average, nine times per day. I stopped "following" her so I wouldn't see all of that noise. And yes, I really did take the time to count up her posts in a seven day period and found that she averages something like 9.3 "woe is me" posts per day.

The link I posted basically proves that the IIN and its founder, Joel Schumacher, is a scam and fraudster, respectively. The IIN had managed to get a couple of colleges to affiliate with it ostensibly to give IIN "health coaches" some CEU (continuing education units, which has an internationally recognized definition and even a governing body to oversee the organizations that award the credits); in reality, of course, it was just to lend the IIN an air of credibility. If I were on my work laptop right now, I'd tweet at Janelle and STRIVE and provide the link, basically calling Janelle out for being a fraud herself at this point. Maybe I'll do that later; if I do, I'm also going to set my Twitter password to something I can remember.

At least! In the Midwest, average gym memberships are $30 to $50 a month. There aren't really any fancy gyms (that I've ever seen, anyway). Even the Rochester Athletic Club (Rochester, MN), which is huge, won't run you much more than that ($67/month for one person), and the Prairie Athletic Club (Sun Prairie, WI) is $2 more than that - and that place has a small waterpark!

Agreed. @Celia Rubenstein is absolutely spot on. I know tomorrow is Thanksgiving and all, but I can't help but wish bad things on Janelle for this one. I'm hoping she ends up getting sued into the ground over giving bad advice and incorrect information to someone. Hopefully, that someone "merely" has an allergic reaction to something and recovers quickly and easily.

I wonder if Janelle has seen this: https://www.credentialwatch.org/reports/iin.shtml Spoilers: That article's information and conclusions will not surprise you.

OK. First, sorry that I haven't been on in a few days. I've been enjoying being on vacation and not doing the usual things. Anyway, I decided to pop back onto the forums this morning while I have some time and saw this, and I had to post. I actually have a RL friend who was on the Dr Phil show. She's (still) at odds with her family, particularly her sisters, primarily because she's into the "BD" part of "BDSM" (but also in part because her boyfriend [now husband? I think they got married] has a bit of a criminal history and has been accused to child molestation [but nothing was proven, even in court] - and she has two children). From what she's told me (and I have never been able to find the episodes, even on OWN), Dr Phil and his people told her that they would help her with her relationship with her sisters. When they got on the show, it was made all about her and her boyfriend and the safety of the children, while there was little or no discussion about her relationship with her two sisters. I've known this woman a long time and she is not given to lying, which makes me comfortable believing her. So I can believe that there are guests who are manipulated into going on the show.

This is not a peeve about work, but it is about work. So I'm posting it here.... Today is my last day of work for the month of November. After I leave work today, I'm on vacation for the next 16 days. I don't have to be back at work until 4 December. It's ok if you hate me. LOL

Isn't their imagination wonderful, though? Our 8 year old nephew plays all kinds of games like that with my wife and his grandmother. It's amazing to watch, even though I don't want to engage in it. I will admit that sometimes I miss being that mentally free, though...

I agree. I've nicknamed Wal-Mart "The Evil Empire", though I should really just drop "Evil" because everyone knows The Empire is evil. It would sync up nicely with the fact that because we get no cellular signal inside our local Wal-Mart, I have named that specific store "The Death Star". We shop at Wal-Mart because we live in a little town (16k people) and the only choices are Wal-Mart or the local store that charges nearly double for everything. I've hated Wal-Mart ever since Sam died. As soon as he died, the quality of everything there went down, down, down (into a burning ring of fire). I suppose that's what you get when the founder's children have never had to want for anything in their lives; they fail to realize there's more to life than money.

Devious! I love it!

LOL. It means she's expecting a stampede of sycophants people requesting and submitting questionnaires, and that she won't have time to deal with them all. Of course, when half your day is spent eating your feelings and the other half of your day is spent feeling bad because you just spent half your day eating your feelings, there's not much time left in the day to do anything about why you're eating your feelings!

The thing is that even Hitler knew the Holocaust was wrong. That's why he and his subordinates went to such lengths to hide what they were doing. They took a significant amount of care in the language they used in writing those policies. So I think that even if Hell actually operates the way it does on this show, people like Hitler will still be there. Even Bundy knew that what he was doing was wrong...

Yes, it is! It's also incredible stupidity on the husband's part. Did he really think she's going to take the time to get anything near fair market value? Why would she? LOL

I would say she's taking it for granted. If she were married to me and went, she'd return to find the locks on the house changed and anything that could be retitled into my name alone would have been. Not to mention I'd serve her ass with divorce as fast as I possibly could - and with her out of the country, that would mean a notice in the newspaper that I'm suing for divorce and she has to respond within a certain amount of time or I get what I'm asking for in the divorce. I would start the divorce process within the hour after she boarded the plane. As soon as the divorce was granted, I'd immediately have a garage sale and sell her clothing and anything else of value. And if there were anything more creative I could do to stick it to her, you can be sure I'd probably think of it and I would definitely do it. Why, yes, yes I do possess a vindictive streak and the creativity to really hit where it hurts.

Mmmm. Much more succinct than "outside of marriage" or any other phrasing that I can think of. Hell, ppl r willing 2 spel lik dis just to save a character here or there. Using "wedlock" saves 12 (TWELVE!) characters. :D

Oh. My. God! How did your mother fail to react to this? If I'd been your father, brother, or boyfriend, I'd have been ready knock his head off and shove it up his ass! Even if I'd just been your friend, I'd have done that favor for you on request! I mean, I'm fucking offended by that now and I don't even know you! ETA: Even my wife was appalled when I read this to her. She completely understands my reaction to it, too. She agreed that I wouldn't hesitate to give anyone a quick trip to the floor if they said that to her.