15 Times People Gave Immaculate Comebacks by Taking Themselves Down Too

When you shoot a gun, all the focus is on where the bullet goes. We forget that the recoil can pack a punch, too. As far as my deeply unscientific brain understands it, it’s basic physics that applying force is going to mean some of that force coming back to you.  Sometimes, it’s a similar …
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Woman Rebukes Nosy Co-Worker Asking About Her Husband’s Salary, Splits Opinion on Work Etiquette

A key part of many jobs is coworker management. Even if you aren’t anybody’s boss, navigating those thorny office politics is a necessity and not an optional extra. None of us get it right all of the time, but it really pays to try. Nobody wants to get on the wrong side of HR.  At …
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People Share ‘Compliments’ That Can Actually Be Insults

Communication! It’s one of those things that we’re meant to be primed to do, and yet it’s so incredibly complicated. There are probably billions of us in the world that are not good communicators, and even more that struggle to understand what other people mean half of the time. Sometimes it feels like nobody ever …
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Insufferable Designer Put In His Place For Belittling Junior Coworker

Power dynamics are an inbuilt feature of any office environment. When it comes down to it, we simply wouldn’t have enough bullsh*t jobs to go around if there weren’t supervisors, managers and other such senior people that exist to micromanage and crack the whip.  Nonetheless, the work hierarchy isn’t always as clear as we might …
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Insufferable ‘Boss’ Put In His Place For Belittling Junior Coworker

Power dynamics are an inbuilt feature of any office environment. When it comes down to it, we simply wouldn’t have enough bullsh*t jobs to go around if there weren’t supervisors, managers and other such senior people that exist to micromanage and crack the whip.  Nonetheless, the work hierarchy isn’t always as clear as we might …
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Brutal Portraits from Hawaiian Caricaturist Amuse and Horrify Twitter

Pablo Picasso once said that art is a lie that makes us realize truth. The truth isn’t always pretty, and sometimes the lies that get us there aren’t, either. God knows it’s hard to categorize anything that falls under the genre of performance art as attractive. There are other, more accessible types of creativity that …
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Delightfully Unique Insults That Are as Clever as They Are Cruel

Language is a gift that so few of us use to its full potential. Every day, we recycle the same old phrases, jokes, and even conversations to create a kind of mutual understanding with one another, but it can easily get boring if we’re not careful. This is especially true of our so-called more «colorful» …
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Jerk ‘Boss’ Put In His Place For Belittling Junior Coworker

Power dynamics are an inbuilt feature of any office environment. When it comes down to it, we simply wouldn’t have enough bullsh*t jobs to go around if there weren’t supervisors, managers and other such senior people that exist to micromanage and crack the whip.  Nonetheless, the work hierarchy isn’t always as clear as we might …
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Guy Shares Book Of Comebacks Mom Gave Him When Being Bullied At School

Pretty much anyone who has ever lived has thought to themselves at one point or another that people can be real dicks. For all that we exist in a highly individualist society, there’s nothing that a significant minority enjoys more than picking on people who they mark out as different in some way.  This is …
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Jerk ‘Boss’ Gets Put In His Place For Belittling Junior Coworker

Power dynamics are an inbuilt feature of any office environment. When it comes down to it, we simply wouldn’t have enough bullsh*t jobs to go around if there weren’t supervisors, managers and other such senior people that exist to micromanage and crack the whip.  Nonetheless, the work hierarchy isn’t always as clear as we might …
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