but if they aren’t working for you, pay someone else

My realtor was never on time to a single showing. He never knew the answer to any question without taking time to look it up himself. He couldn’t remember my specifications and his reading comprehension was non-existent as I had to repeat myself many, many times to get any kind of point across.

If I hadn’t gotten my house when I did, I would have dropped him. If I were any other kind of business owner and one of my employees acted like that people would think I was a fucking moron for keeping them on.

Your realtor is your employee. Don’t be afraid to fire them for shitty performance.

God, or worse, a conversation around the conversation you’re actually speaking in order to have

I mean this purely as an observation, but: almost certainly literal child detected

I’m in my mid 30s, and the people in my extended social circle around my age that don’t fire up a game at least once or twice a week are few and far between, even including the harried, busy, regular not-yet-grand parents, haha

Quick edit: imo, the ones not playing video games at my age (again, in my area) are generally the ones who seem the least like they have their shit together. It’s weird but it’s a thing I’ve noticed

Fetch as in fetching the hobbits for Master Saruman

“Wolves of Chernobyl” is a song by Municipal Waste, already

but what a way to go, huh? “torn apart by mutant wolves” is a pretty metal death

it sounds like We Need to Talk About Kevin

Unrelated to much in the way of the article, but the middle tier of anime poisoned with cubism actually looks sorta cool

The good X doth give it to ya, and the X he doth take it from ya