However, for women who take the time to seek out a Godly man, they are rewarded with a loving, mature partner who encourages them in their own walk with Jesus. “Where are all the good men?” They’re at church.

Here are some signs you’ve found yourself a Godly man:

He puts God first.

This is an obvious principle to state, but a difficult one to live by. Doing what is right by God isn’t always (or usually) popular, especially today with casual sex and a buffet of options on dating apps. Men especially are pressured to be sexually active in order to be seen as masculine in our culture. Godly men are strong enough to tolerate the uncomfortable moments when they go against the grain because of their faith in Jesus.

2. He spends time in prayer and reading his Bible.

To be a Godly man your actions have to match your words. If you say God is important, but you don’t spend time cultivating your relationship with God, how important can it actually be? Godly men do the everyday work of growing in their faith by attending church, reading their Bible and spending time in prayer.

3. He is the ultimate family man.

Godly men prioritize their families highly. He seeks out wisdom from his older family members. He ensures that his more vulnerable family members (ex: the young and elderly) have their needs met. He cherishes his wife and children (if applicable) or he hopes to raise his own family one day and show his children a portion of the love that Jesus showed to us.

4. You don’t feel jealous of other women.

A Godly man cherishes his woman. He has no interest in toeing the line to see how close he can get to cheating without technically cheating. Godly men run the other way when temptation presents itself. He is happy to have conversations that give you security. And since you can view his history of having integrity, you aren’t worried about the potential for him to prioritize other women over his relationship.

5. He seeks feedback on how to keep the relationship healthy.

Pathways to improving relationships (especially marriage) exist in many more forms through churches and Christian literature than in secular society. While culture at large views working on relationships as feminine, Godly men know it is part of their protective nature. They will seek out marriage advice from the Bible, from discernment and prayer, from their family and from trusted peers and leaders at church.

6. He has a heart for service.

Jesus was a servant leader and he told his followers to do the same. Godly men are generous and seek to serve others, through volunteering, helping their neighbors, church leadership and/or just being someone those around him can count on. One Christian man I knew would drive around in his truck after snowstorms and look for people stuck in the ditch to pull out. Whatever he can do, whatever his gifts are, he uses them to serve others.

7. His morals matter to him.

A Godly man tries his hardest to be a good person, even if he believes no one would notice or he wouldn’t get caught. That’s integrity. When he gives you his word, he keeps it. He seeks to do right by others. He is disciplined in avoiding temptation. He knows what his Christian values are and he prides himself on living them to the best of his ability.

8. He cares about your relationship with God.

How many women can say their boyfriend or husband truly cares about their spiritual journey? Nothing makes a Godly man happier than seeing his woman’s walk with the Lord. He goes to church with you, leads you in prayer and asks you about what God is doing in your life.

9. He forgives.

Christian men are taught not to hold a grudge. They are taught to forgive others as God forgives us. This doesn’t mean being a doormat – wrongdoing can still be addressed. However, the purpose of addressing it is to repair the relationship and move forward, not to gloat because someone else made a mistake at a time that he didn’t.

You do it, I do it, we’re all guilty in some form or another, and yet there seem to be people so steeped in their lack of self-awareness you can’t help but want to call it out. Here are all the struggles of being the kind of person whose daily struggle is not to do that, to save your own skin from familial exile (and other things).

Sigh.

1.

You know you can’t talk. You have your issues too. You have novels’ worth of nonsense that probably needs to be called out. You’re not unaware of this, which explains the hesitation. You can’t point fingers, and yet, here you are.

2.

“Polite” is basically just code for “dislikes confrontation / also doesn’t have time for it.” You’re just hoping the repercussions of their intense ignorance will teach them. You do find it curious how, after a certain age, people assume it’s totally okay to close their minds to anything that wasn’t acceptable in their first two or three decades of life and keep it that way, because correcting them is “not respectful.”

3.

You’re kind of confused by the people who try to pass an incorrect fact off as “just their opinion.”

4.

Most people who conduct their lives in a highly negative way tend to also be too fragile to hear feedback on it, even if it’s delivered very positively and lovingly. So any hope of even inching the self-awareness train along is usually futile.

5.

You’re always caught between having the strength to call something out and the grace to let it go, because you have none of the wisdom to know the difference.

6.

You are a master of passivity, and a lot of the time you don’t see it as a completely negative thing. It is often your source of sanity (though, admittedly, when taken to an extreme, your source of rage).

7.

You’re constantly wondering how it’s totally okay for everybody to talk behind someone’s back about something and yet let them carry on, spiraling toward self-destruction in their little pit of envy and negativity. (Everybody does this. Everybody knows who their spiraling person is. Don’t even pretend otherwise.)

8.

You spend half your time trying to figure out how people have such warped logic, or what it is they’re trying to deflect from with their willful ignorance.

9.

…and the rest of the time wondering what logic of your own is warped, reinforcing the idea that, yes, you shouldn’t start complaining.

10.

Facebook is a minefield for you. An actual mental, emotional, spiritual minefield. Perhaps more frightening than “opinions” that are objective fallacies (going by research or medicine or whatnot) is how many people believe them and believe them loudly.

11.

You wonder where the parents of the people who actually call others out are hiding, and how they don’t get stern lectures because of it. (Let’s be real. The only thing keeping you back is that your mom is on Facebook and she’ll see. We all understand this.)

12.

You are beyond validated when one of your friends complains about the same thing you were bothered by. You consistently maintain enough reasonable doubt that you could be wrong about it—that perhaps you’re being shortsighted or not hearing the full story—so to hear that you’re not imagining things (and yes, that situation is wild) is so life-affirming you can’t even take it.

13.

You don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings. You’re trying not to rack up karma debt. You’re not out to intentionally cause harm, so you just don’t do anything at all because you’d probably end up causing harm if you really got started.

14.

You try to give a perspective to people who aren’t open to it, and because the people in question are so shockingly self-unaware, they reject or deny the idea that their most obvious problem in life is actually an issue. Hence the conclusion: it’s to call this out or let it go forever, please God help me decide which.

15.

Ignorant family members are basically Your Mountain To Overcome. You’re stuck with them, you’re morally obligated to smile and agree with them, and yet their Official Stances on an infinite variety of social, political, human issues are the antithesis to your soul.

16.

Just because you don’t say it doesn’t mean you don’t see it. And really, that’s what you should just say to everything: “I see this, and it’s not okay, but I just don’t have the energy to fully engage with the level of irrationality you are currently functioning at. So. See ya.”

This is an obvious principle to state, but a difficult one to live by. Doing what is right by God isn’t always (or usually) popular, especially today with casual sex and a buffet of options on dating apps. Men especially are pressured to be sexually active in order to be seen as masculine in our culture. Godly men are strong enough to tolerate the uncomfortable moments when they go against the grain because of their faith in Jesus.

He spends time in prayer and reading his Bible.

To be a Godly man your actions have to match your words. If you say God is important, but you don’t spend time cultivating your relationship with God, how important can it actually be? Godly men do the everyday work of growing in their faith by attending church, reading their Bible and spending time in prayer.

He is the ultimate family man.

Godly men prioritize their families highly. He seeks out wisdom from his older family members. He ensures that his more vulnerable family members (ex: the young and elderly) have their needs met. He cherishes his wife and children (if applicable) or he hopes to raise his own family one day and show his children a portion of the love that Jesus showed to us.

You don’t feel jealous of other women.

A Godly man cherishes his woman. He has no interest in toeing the line to see how close he can get to cheating without technically cheating. Godly men run the other way when temptation presents itself. He is happy to have conversations that give you security. And since you can view his history of having integrity, you aren’t worried about the potential for him to prioritize other women over his relationship.

He seeks feedback on how to keep the relationship healthy.

Pathways to improving relationships (especially marriage) exist in many more forms through churches and Christian literature than in secular society. While culture at large views working on relationships as feminine, Godly men know it is part of their protective nature. They will seek out marriage advice from the Bible, from discernment and prayer, from their family and from trusted peers and leaders at church.

He has a heart for service.

Jesus was a servant leader and he told his followers to do the same. Godly men are generous and seek to serve others, through volunteering, helping their neighbors, church leadership and/or just being someone those around him can count on. One Christian man I knew would drive around in his truck after snowstorms and look for people stuck in the ditch to pull out. Whatever he can do, whatever his gifts are, he uses them to serve others.

His morals matter to him.

A Godly man tries his hardest to be a good person, even if he believes no one would notice or he wouldn’t get caught. That’s integrity. When he gives you his word, he keeps it. He seeks to do right by others. He is disciplined in avoiding temptation. He knows what his Christian values are and he prides himself on living them to the best of his ability.

He cares about your relationship with God.

How many women can say their boyfriend or husband truly cares about their spiritual journey? Nothing makes a Godly man happier than seeing his woman’s walk with the Lord. He goes to church with you, leads you in prayer and asks you about what God is doing in your life.

He forgives.

Christian men are taught not to hold a grudge. They are taught to forgive others as God forgives us. This doesn’t mean being a doormat – wrongdoing can still be addressed. However, the purpose of addressing it is to repair the relationship and move forward, not to gloat because someone else made a mistake at a time that he didn’t.

Montauk is a real town at the very tip of Long Island, New York. For decades, it’s carried a creepy rumor: that secret government experiments happened at an abandoned military base, involving psychic kids, mind control, and even missing children. None of it is proven — but the vibes line up hard with Eleven, the lab, and that “the government opened a door it couldn’t close” feeling.

Stranger Things was originally pitched under the title “Montauk.” The story was set on Long Island with the same foggy, coastal unease. Netflix asked for a new name, and “Stranger Things” replaced “Montauk” during development.

The conspiracy itself is called the Montauk Project. It’s tied to Camp Hero, a decommissioned radar base in Montauk. The myth claims the government ran extreme experiments there: teleportation, psychological warfare, and children with psychic abilities.

Most of what people “know” about the Montauk Project comes from Preston Nichols’ books. He said he was working on secret tech and later regained “recovered memories.” But there’s never been solid evidence — no verified documents, no physical proof, no confirmed witnesses.

What Camp Hero actually was is much more ordinary. It started as a WWII coastal defense site, then became a Cold War radar station. It shut down in 1981. A real program from that era did exist — MKUltra — but there’s no documented link between MKUltra and Montauk.

The Duffer Brothers have openly said Montauk conspiracies fascinated them and shaped the show’s mood. They moved the setting to Hawkins, Indiana so they could create their own world without tying the chaos to a real town.

Verdict: Montauk is the inspiration and the myth behind the myth, not a confirmed true story. But as a piece of American folklore that casts a long shadow over Stranger Things, it’s creepy either way.

When they care for others in front of you. Have you ever seen the person you love hold a baby or pet a puppy and you fall ten times more in love? The best girls are the kind who you can see taking care of others they way they would want to be taken care of. – Shane, 29

When they don’t dress fashionably. Hear me out. Every single person nowadays is into some style. It’s a lot of trying-hard. When you come across someone who dresses plainly but is certifiably awesome, funny, whatever… just real, and they don’t really care that much about their clothes? It makes them way more interesting than fashionable clothes could ever make someone. – Jeffrey, 24

When they don’t care what anyone thinks. They’ll grab your ass in line at the movies or make a weird face at you from behind the glass window of the pizza place. They aren’t worried about looking stupid in front of other people, and they most definitely are not constantly asking you whether or not something is weird. – Abel, 32

When they have really strong opinions.I love a woman who is intelligent and cares deeply about the things she’s passionate about. I like to see her revved up about something. The only problem is that sometimes she bests me in an argument and I have to lick my wounds the rest of the night. – Noah, 22

When they get dressed for you (sometimes). A woman with her own sense of style is a beautiful thing, but sometimes we want you to walk out of your closet, no shoes on, expensive dress unzipped, and say, “do you like this one?” 99% of the time, we’ll say yes, but you’re so cute when you ask to be zipped up. – Michael, 27

When they have a specific perfume they wear all the time. Truly awesome women have a signature scent that’s all their own. It’s a combination of their shampoo, body wash, perfume, lotion, all of it. It’s never so strong that you could catch it in passing, but you can pick it up when they walk into a room. – Terrance, 24

They socialize in social situations. We don’t bring you out with our friends so that you can talk to us and only us for the entire evening. A superior girl will talk to other people, circle back, kiss you, and go right back out and hold her own. It’s nice to have something to talk about at the end of the night. – Robert, 26

When they don’t hate your friends. Even if my friends can be assholes, she doesn’t care, because she knows her friends can be too. She doesn’t complain, as if I’d ditch my friends for her entirely. She wants us both to have our own friends and lives that she share with each other. We put up with them for each other, and she makes her best effort to hang and enjoy their company. – Parker, 21

When they let you pick the music. Some girls are control freaks about music. It’s the worst. Let us pick from time to time. Superior women want to share tastes and hear the things you love to listen to. – Steve, 28

When they eat. Eat the wings. The pizza. The sandwich. Whatever. Don’t ‘feel bad’ for ordering something ‘gross.’ Real women eat, and they eat what they want, when they want. – Mason, 21

When they are friends with your family.If we’re doing this thing for the long haul, she has to be able to hang with my family. It’s not easy to do, we’re a close-knit family, but the one woman that can hang with them? She’s the one for me. – Jeremy, 29

When they can make fun of you without being mean. It’s one thing to call me an asshole or a loser and try to make it playful. It’s another to land a witty jab whenever you have the chance; I love that you can tease me in a smart way. – Toby, 23

When they don’t fall into stereotypes. I really look for a woman who doesn’t just do certain things because she’s a woman. I am so attracted to independent women who like what they like regardless of anyone else or what anyone else thinks. It’s so hot! – Oliver, 26

When they decorate their rooms with personal touches. The pictures hung with paper clips behind her bed or the earring rack that shaped like a peacock on her desk. Girls move into apartments and make them homes. – Kwesi, 23

When she puts you on her team. I like it when you start dating and she immediately makes it clear that if she’s interested, I’m on her team, and she’s on mine. We’re a unit, we make decisions together, and if, for example, I feel bad about something, she’ll help me try and feel better about it. – Isaac, 27

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This hospital will let you die if their lung transplant goes bad.

If you have a lung transplant at my hospital and it goes poorly, they will keep you alive, by ANY means necessary until your one year date to keep up their statistics. Then the day after they will inform the family there is nothing they can do, then let you die. It’s horrible to watch.

This hotel stores all your info and it’s available to all their employees.

I used to work at a 4 star hotel. Every guest’s credit card info was stored in plain text in our database WITH their full name, home address, email and the CC’s security code. ANY employee who had access to either the office or reception computer could copy it down. It would have been easy as hell to copy down all this info, quit, wait a few months and engage in some serious CC fraud. Especially working the nightshift when I’d literally be in the only employee in the entire hotel so I wouldn’t have to have worried about being caught copying down information.

6 things you didn’t know about working as a radio DJ.

I work at a radio station. Here are some fun facts:

-The DJs you hear are rarely live. They voice track hours ahead of time so they can go to their other jobs.

-Unless you’re an enormously popular DJ, you’ll barely make enough money to feed yourself, hence the other jobs.

-A lot of the voice tracks you hear are likely from other markets. If a station is too cheap to hire more on-air talent, they’ll have someone from another market go over your playlist and voice track. So, if you’re in Townsville, Kansas, the DJ you hear introducing that Luke Bryan song coming up may be a hip-hop DJ from New Jersey making a little extra scratch.

-If a DJ is live, s/he is most likely out doing a remote broadcast. If you see a DJ on the phone at an event, they’re probably speaking with an operator back at the station. If you want to mess with them, wait until they start talking like they’re on the air, then yell obscenities or whatever you’re compelled to do. Even if they have a delay back in the studio, chances are the board op is an intern who’s not paying enough attention to black you out in time.

-When a DJ says the next track is by request, they’re lying 99% of the time. We just make up names to make it sound like we’re engaged with the audience. The request line is often just put on hold so that callers think we’re being slammed with calls and not just ignoring them. Every market I’ve worked in has done this. Every. Market.

-The playlist for the day is determined at the national level and then distributed to every market. And yes, it’s the same two dozen songs you’re tired of hearing all day just shuffled up. Even locally owned, private stations use national music services to do this for them.

Oh boy, could I go on…

This redditor is alleging that University of Phoenix is pretty much a total sham.

University of Phoenix Admissions Rep and former UoP Instructor—

You don’t have a GED? No problem, my boss knows a guy that can get you a GED in three days for $100. No test needed.

You are worried about tuition costs? No worries, we will get you all the “grants” and loans you need. Deferrment is a wonderful idea.

You need cash now? No problem! I can make it so you can a few extra thousand dollars from your student aid by misrepresenting your income, dependents, and ethnicity.

Scared that college will be hard and time consuming? Nope, for $100/class, I can give you an email address to someone who will log in as you, post discussions, do your assignments, with a minimum of a “B” grade.

Failing a class and scared about getting expelled? Tell the dean of the school that your instructor told an off-color joke about racism, sexism, or rape. Automatic A!

Concerned about finding a job after graduation? No problem, we have several outbound call centers that cannot wait to hire you so you can call people to collect money from them.

Don’t want to work at a call center? As I have been told by dozens and dozens of recruiters, if you mention that you have a degree from any for-profit school (UoP, Kaplan, DeVry, etc…), your resume gets thrown away.

Think the government will shut us down? HA!!! University of Phoenix spends MILLIONS of dollars to lobby senators and representatives to not look our way, instead shut down the smaller colleges (Corinthian is the latest victim.)

Nightmare Wal-Mart in California.

A Wal-Mart in the Inland-Empire area of southern California. I’m using a throwaway because as much as I hate it, I actually do need this job.

• Hazardous waste disposal bins are located 1 foot away from a rack used to store food products. This is not an exaggeration.
• Televisions and other sensitive, high-value electronics are often dropped on the ground. No inspection is ever made to see if the product is damaged.
• Employees are forced to use an unsecured 2′ wide metal ramp to unload trucks because the store refuses to pay to have the docking ramps repaired. Several injuries and close-calls have already happened.
• Employees often do not report serious injuries for fear of management retaliation.
• There is a cockroach infestation near and in the food-storage coolers.
• An alarmingly large number of employees have had to go on medical leave because of severe reactions to insect/spider bites.

Jimmy Johns allegedly dyes their roast beef red.

The Roast Beef is not actually rare, it’s well done and dyed red.

Edit: It’s Jimmy Johns

Chain steakhouses use super low-quality steaks.

One of those steakhouses with the peanuts: our steaks are of a lower quality grade than the ones you get at the grocery store.

Producers note: This is disgusting!

Start-up with over $3M in funding actually has 0 customers.

That we actually have ZERO customers, that we burnt well over $3m of our investors money into a product that barely works and has no market potential.

Cable company ripping you off.

I used to work for a dish installing company for DirecTV. DirecTV would knowingly overbook appointments by the thousands of people that were just singing signing up and needed an installation. They would get your money, guarantee you the NFL ticket or whatever and then give you a date that was next week, knowing that the reality of the situation was no tech was coming for at least a month or two….

Source: It was my job to call and reschedule the appointment.

Don’t use third-party sites to book hotels — you could be without a room.

I was in hotels for ten years. Hotels consider a night perfect if they’re overbooked by 2-5 rooms. They count on no-shows to make up the difference, but they’re totally OK with you not having the room you reserved. Likewise, if you booked with a third party like Expedia or Hotels.com, you are not guaranteed anything and will be last in line for everything because you’re not considered a loyal customer.

Very true. Currently work in a hotel. Though it pisses off the front desk agents when we are overbooked.

LPT: If you’re concerned about a sold-out situation…

1. Call the hotel earlier on the day of arrival to confirm all of the details about your reservation. Usually they’ll put a note on your reservation so you’re more likely to get your booked room/not be walked.
2. If you see a lower rate on hotels.com/expedia, call the hotel. 9 times out of ten we will match or beat it. It saves us the headache of dealing with these companies.
3. If faced with the choice of walking two identical reservations, except one joined the loyalty program and one didn’t, I’ll walk the one that didn’t every time.

A marketing company is selling an essentially free product for $380 — some are saying Yext.com.

You’re paying us to put your details in a form and click submit. A marketing company. One of our services is setting up a Google places account. We literally put their details into a form, click submit and they pay us $340.

One week later they’re on Google places.

Update One redditor says this is Yext’s ‘Advanced Local Citation Listings’ service.

Levis supposedly selling fake “oldest known Levis in existence” to rich dumbasses.

Used to work at the Levi’s flagship store in San Francisco. We had a pair of the ‘oldest known Levi’s in existence’ framed on the wall in the boutique, and every now and then some out-of-towner would come in boasting about how rich they were and how Levi’s represents the American dream, yada yada, and demand the rarest thing in the store as a memento. We were told to direct them to the torn up old jeans on the wall, and tell them they were from the 1880s and had been found in a barn in the early 20th century. They would then fork out 1500 bucks or so an be on their way with their fucked up jeans, and we would replace them with another copy from the store room.

Now that I think of it, Levi’s would probably like people to know about this, what with all the assimilated working class propaganda they use to sell their pants. Distraction from the more evil shit. Unfortunately, I haven’t been to a sweat shop, so those stories will have to be left to someone else.

Defense contractor wasting literal tons of money.

The amount of money I see wasted here is astounding. There’s a place called the “RPAT yard” where they shred/incinerate EVERYTHING in an effort to reduce US presence in Afghanistan. It doesn’t matter how expensive or re-usable it was, just destroy it so we don’t have to worry about sending it home or finding someone to sell it to.

MRAPs, for example, cost about $500,000 for a vanilla truck. There is an endless field of them on Bagram waiting to be shredded and sold for scrap. They weigh in at about 30,000lbs and are sold for ~93 cents/pound. Call it $30,000 of scrap metal, even though it’s probably a lot less.

I guess the customers are taxpayers.

Edit: from my understanding, most of it is being bought locally and then re-sold to China. I can’t find any corroborating sources, but that’s just what I’ve heard through the RPAT grapevine.

Also, shipping them all home would be my second-to-last option. I would sooner sell them to other governments at a discount. I made this argument to a lady I met doing cost-analysis here, and her response was “we wouldn’t want to give our tactical advantages to other countries,” which is an argument I’ve heard several times. The thing is, MRAPs are designed to be counter-IED. We don’t fight with those tactics, so what do we care if other governments have MRAP-type capabilities? In a conflict, it doesn’t much matter if it’s an MRAP or a bicycle, if we hit it with a SMAW, it’s not driving any more.

Your local concession stand could be selling you illegal hot dogs.

My old job occasionally involved us working in a concession stand. One time my boss came running downstairs and said “Guys! Put the hot dog machine in the laundry room! The health inspector is here! We only sell pop and candy!”

He gave us all an extra $20 from the cash box that day. I loved that job.

This magellans.com employee says they will “take any return,” but that also, they’ll be going out of business in a month.

You’ve used it for 6 years and it broke? Return it for a full refund! Except they’re going out of business in a month and for that last few weeks we’ve been told to avoid giving anyone their money back, just give them store credit that they’ll never get a chance to use.

What are they going to do, fire me a month early?

Terrible private security firm, OP alleges Securitas.

The branch I work for is so terrible at hiring/training the right people, that I’ve gone through 8 supervisors (was an interim myself for a while- at no extra pay), 3 branch managers, 4 scheduling managers, and currently the two people running the office are the two people who fitted me for my uniforms when I first started working for them 3 years ago.

We’ve had supervisors literally drive to people’s houses to continue a dispute with them in person, sneak into client property after hours to have extra-marital affairs, and clearly doctor important client books, costing probably thousands in fake overtime hours and the like.

It’s amazing to me that we still even have any clients.

All your recycling ends up in the dumpster.

We don’t recycle, even though we use recycling bins. My particular store has separate bins for customers plastics, but it all goes into one dumpster.

McDonalds will give you another one of anything for free.

Former McDonalds manager here. We will give you another one of everything, just about. Just complain that it “wasn’t up to standards” and we will replace it no questions asked. Fries, shakes, Big Macs, whatever. Just don’t be an asshole about it and we’ll give you another one.

What happens in rehab stays in rehab.

Someone died here when he was left alone. A person was supposed to be watching him at all times.

Hotel reservation people you’re on the phone with might not be wearing pants.

You think you are calling to speak to someone at the hotel directly. In reality, you have reached me, sitting at home in my PJ’s, watching Real Housewives on mute.

High school janitor instructed to throw away weapons and drugs without telling anyone.

We find weapons and drugs aaaallllllllllllll the time and are encouraged to just dispose and ignore and not report it.

I’m a High School custodian. It’s one of those swanky upper class sort of schools so we’re pretty much actively encouraged to ignore stuff like that.

Pizza Hut puts an entire cup of oil in every pizza.

Pizza Hut uses literally a cup of oil in all of their pan pizzas. There’s an oil sprayer device in the kitchen that sprays a cup of oil into the bottom of the pan before you put the frozen frisbee of dough in to thaw.

Consultant of some kind basically sells snake oil.

I’m an analyst and supposed to be an expert in my field. The reality is I don’t know shit and make up most of what I do. I’m starting to think all my coworkers are this way as well. We’re just professional bullshitters.

A company recently leaked their customers’ info and everything they said about it was false.

A few months ago the company I work for had a massive security breach and basically everything clients were told about it was false.

Most of the food at Applebees is microwaved?.

Most of the menu at Applebee’s I’ve cooked in the microwave.

Mark-up at IT company upward of 2000%.

The mark-ups on products tend to exceed 2000%

Edit: I.T. company

Tim Horton’s is not “fresh.”

I work at a popular coffee/donut chain in Canada called Tim Horton’s. Almost everything we serve in the restaurant comes from frozen. Soups, chili, donuts, muffins, chicken, steak, buns, croissants, and danishes. There is much more trust me. I just find it ironic that the place that prides itself in their “Always Fresh” motto, is anything but.

Think twice the next time you go in a department store for a makeover.

Makeup company: the counter girls at department stores sometimes work 8-hour shifts ringing up purchases, going to the bathroom, eating lunch, texting, and doing numerous makeovers for customers. Let’s just say a lot of those girls don’t believe in regular hand-washing.

Tl;dr scrub your face with Clorox after you go to the Clinique counter.

Your school teachers made fun of you.

Not really a company, and not really customers, but parents would almost certainly NOT be happy with the fact that yeah, we schoolteachers really do make fun of your kid in the staff room.

UK affordable housing — barely anyone’s eligible.

That about 85% of the registered applicants will not be eligible for our services in their life time.

Edit: Fuck it. UK affordable housing. And if by any chance you do, good luck getting to move into a suitable bigger property before you outgrow your needs yet again.

‘Sheltered properties’ are basically a broom closet managed mostly by people who hate their jobs.

All those ‘supporting doc.’ and evidence we sometimes ask you to send? Hardly any of them see the light of day. If you don’t send in all the docs it’s often a an excuse to close your application, and that’s pretty much the whole purpose of requesting further docs.

Demand far exceeds supply. I’ve also seen some case workers taking things a bit too personally and taking it out on the application and banding, especially if the applicant is a bit difficult.

If you have an especially large/ joint family, you’ll be on the list for decades.

(1) The girl you love deserves you texting back something other than “Ok” when she asks if you want to meet her for dinner after work. Don’t do that. If you want to meet her for dinner after work, you know you feel more than just an “Ok.” You feel a “Yes please,” “Definitely,” or even a “Sure.” It doesn’t take any more time or effort. The girl you love deserves more than an “Ok.”

(2) The girl you love deserves a vacation, but not a vacation that she has to plan. She deserves someone who will plan it for her. She deserves not to think a thing about how you guys are going to get there, what you guys are going to do, and how you guys are going to do it. The girl you love plans practically everything you two do together during your “real lives” (without complaint, because she loves you — but that doesn’t mean the responsibility isn’t a burden sometimes), and she deserves just as much from you, too.

(3) The girl you love deserves to be on your team. She deserves to be on your side. She deserves more benefit of the doubt than anyone else in your life. It’s the girl you love and you against the world, and she deserves for you to never forget that.

(4) The girl you love deserves to know what you’re thinking. You’re not obligated to explain yourself to anyone else, but if you won’t try to communicate how you feel to the girl you love, then maybe you don’t deserve her love. The girl you love deserves that communication reserved only for her, because she’s the only person in the world who is responsible enough to handle it.

(5) The girl you love deserves to take care of you. She deserves to hear your problems with work. She deserves to hear your insecurities, your failures, your shortcomings. The girl you love deserves to help you, because that’s why you chose her. The girl you love is the only one who’s good enough to care for you.

(6) The girl you love deserves time with her friends, and screw you if you don’t think so. She deserves happy hour after work, company parties for employees only, and drinks with old college friends who are in town for the weekend.

(7) The girl you love deserves to be able to show her quirks in front of you. She deserves to carry around that giant bag that makes it so it takes five minutes to find anything. She deserves to somehow get a small pebble stuck in her shoe approximately every 15 minutes and make you stop for her so she can take off her shoe and shake it out. She deserves to always steal your phone charger, and still, somehow, always have a really low battery life on her phone.

(8) The girl you love deserves to take a longer time to get ready to go out than you. She deserves the time to plan for going out the way she is comfortable with. Remember — it’s not just you who wants to have a good time.

(9) The girl you love deserves your reassurance that things are strictly platonic with your girl-friend who you sometimes hang out with. It isn’t unreasonable for her to get at least a little uncomfortable if you regularly hang out with an attractive female friend — and what’s the harm? You love her, so you want her to feel secure. The girl you love deserves this security.

(10) The girl you love deserves the kind of love that’s only available to one person at a time (her). No one else deserves the love she deserves. No one else deserves the texts you send her. And no one else deserves the amount of attention you give her. That’s why you love her in the first place.

(11) The girl you love deserves to see you act in ways you’d never let anyone other than her see. She deserves to hear things you’d never say in front of other people. She deserves the good, the bad, and the ugly things you’re too scared to show to your coworkers, your friends, even your family. The girl you love deserves to see you.

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Their friends…

…A woman can be the best thing since sliced bread until she talks to her friends and gets the B.S rolling. I suppose this works both ways but to answer your question their friends.

Losing them…

…sounds kind of desperate but it’s true. Don’t want to scare them off or lose them to my awkwardness. Other than that, I don’t think I’m afraid of them at all.

“I’m afraid I’ll keep screwing up until it’s too late.”

Lost every opportunity I’ve had because of my shy awkwardness. I was just never good at intimacy, emotional expression, etc. so I just became very introverted and withdrawn. I’m afraid I’ll keep screwing up until it’s too late. I always hate hitting it off with a girl at a party and then being kind of swept under the rug. But best to just keep trying, amirite?

That one could totally ruin my life.

I could do everything right as I see it, but if she doesn’t see it that way, she can basically hit the stop button and take me to the cleaners. And there’s not a FUCKING thing in the world I can really do about it, based on the way our laws/courts are set up.

Not trying to pass judgement on whether or not its right… just saying that’s how it is

…

“Does this look fat on me?”

Having to make a decision when they tell you…

…’I don’t know, whatever you want.’

It’s a no-win situation.

…

“What are you thinking about?”

If one unrighteously deems you “creepy”…

…you’re downright fucked.

Same

Whether they perceive me as a “creepy guy”. It’s completely irrational but for some reason I’m always worried that I don’t look too often or too long for fear that they’ll think I’m some scary stalker guy. Or if I run into them more then a few times in a day. Don’t know why, it’s just some bizarre phobia i guess…

“I’ll die alone”

That one of them will never fall in love with me and I’ll die alone…

“It scares the shit out of me.”

I have no idea what they are thinking. It scares the shit out of me.

From reddit user ohshush…

They have the power to change your mind instantly

“Feelings”

“Feelings” and the importance of being able to be in tune with them. They are erratic and unpredictable. I don’t like them.

From reddit user fuckyeahmoment…

The fact that one of them loves me.

“I’m an insecure bastard”

The other guys that love beautiful women and my girls’ chemistry with other men, because I’m an insecure bastard. I’ve never had a problem with a girl cheating on me but I still worry when I have a girlfriend about their interactions with other men.

“Next thing I know it’s 3am and I’m scrubbing the walls.”

How they always have that one little sentence tucked away that will completely unravel me, like a damn nuclear launch code. We’ll get in a fight and no matter how rational, calm and self-assured I am at the beginning I will completely lose my shit because of that one little thing that she said. Next thing I know it’s 3am and I’m scrubbing the walls. I clean obsessively when I get mad.

Lol.

They poop

“My female friends have meant more to me than my male friends.”

That I find it so easy to open up to them about my problems. Barely any of my guy friends know the shit I’m going through, yet maybe 3 or 4 of my female friends know everything about me. They’re easy to trust, but I know that one day, if I ever upset even one of them, they could ruin me, tell everyone my problems and they can use them against me. But I suppose, at the same time, it’s what makes me like women. They are kind and caring when they need to be, and they have been so goddamn loyal to me. Honestly I can say that my female friends have meant more to me than my male friends.

I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching they are your family.

Jim Butcher

Please know that there are much better things in life than being lonely or liked or bitter or mean or self conscious. We are all full of shit. Go love someone just because, I know your heart may be badly bruised, or even the victim of numerous knifings but it will always heal even if you don’t want it to, it keeps going. There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there, I promise. It’s up to you to find them.

Chuck Palahniuk

Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness.

Anonymous

People don’t like love, they like that flittery flirty feeling. They don’t love love – love is sacrificial, love is ferocious, it’s not emotive. Our culture doesn’t love love, it loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without paying anything for it. It’s ridiculous.

Matt Chandler Parsons

Some people will never ‘get you’. Do not spend eternity asking why. People will see you differently, just cherish those who lift your soul.

Dodinsky’s Garden of Thoughts

You’ll meet her, she’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many days at a time. You’ll see, when she smiles, you’ll love her.

Pan’s Labyrinth

I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.

Marilyn Monroe

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Audrey Hepburn

You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.

Azar Nafisi

Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.

Simone de Beauvoir

You are not useless. You are not hopeless. And no matter how scared you are, you will never be alone. And deep down, somewhere, in the part of you that decided the good days and your happiness and your health were all worth fighting for, you know that, too. Hold onto that knowledge. It will see you through the worst.

Ella Ceron

The pain that you’ve been feeling, can’t compare to the joy that’s coming.

Romans 8:18

I don’t think people love me. They love versions of me I have spun for them, versions of me they have construed in their minds. The easy versions of me, the easy parts of me to love. Who’s going to love the girl that can’t stop crying? The girl that hurts herself? The girl that is losing control? The girl that is so sad she can’t get out of bed? The girl that keeps pushing everyone away? Who’s going to love the monster in me, who’s going to love me now?

Anonymous

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

Ernest Hemingway

I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.

Marc Jacobs

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

Danielle LaPorte

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Maya Angelou

Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

You’re the kind of experience most people wait lifetimes for.

None

I am going to tell you a secret. Every year many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

John Green

Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

Tyrion Lannister

I would love to say that you make me weak in the knees but to be quite upfront and completely truthful you make my body forget it has knees at all.

Derrick Brown

Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.

Warsan Shire

They say you don’t get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don’t deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That’s why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.

Yasmin Mogahed

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

Pablo Neruda

Maybe there’s a universe where I’m the right person for you. Where I adore every nice thing you did for me without starting to resent you. A universe where you actually end up with someone who appreciates you. Where no one becomes a doormat. Where both of us can shed our baggage and curiosity and issues. A universe where we’re happy without wondering if that happiness is some messed-up Jenga game ready to topple at the slightest quiver. A universe where we’re comfortable and sure. Where I don’t second guess everything and I’m not afraid of commitment and of the future and of love. Maybe there’s a universe without all the noise in my head and the pride that makes me so fiercely independent and the coldness in my heart that I can turn on and off like a security fence.

Gaby Dunn

Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you or makes you happy.

Robert Tew

The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now.

Haruki Murakami

My only relief is to sleep. When I’m sleeping, I’m not sad, I’m not angry, I’m not lonely, I’m nothing.

Jillian Medoff

All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.

Iain Thomas

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