The gameplay of first person shooters usually comes down to players trying to center their screens on other players' heads. All these games consist of thousands of people alone at home in front of their computers, flailing the mouse and keyboard to make eye contact with each other.
There couldn't be a better word for what one does with a job application than 'submit'. It feels like such an act of submission every time.
If herbal tea is tea, then chicken broth is chicken tea.
For those trying to make sense of Melania's Christmas decorations at the White House, here is a photo of how other Slovenians were gearing up for the season last week (seriously, it's called "The Hike of the Krampus of Three Lands"):
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Many will quote Oscar Wilde that "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit." Oscar Wilde obviously did not anticipate Memes. For those quoting him, there is no excuse.
This week in laziness and privilege: didn't want to walk all the way to the grocery store just for toothpaste, went to the hotel across the street and asked concierge, was assumed to be staying in the hotel, received toothpaste, walked right back across the street to my apartment.
How crazy is it that there are so many people out there right now looking at the world in 2017 and concluding that Sensitivity is a bigger problem than Insensitivity?
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