Google is eerie sometimes. A search begins with parrots and micro-chipping, and somehow ends with stalking behavior. It's as if the internet is saying, "You need to see this." Or maybe it's my subconscious. Anyway, I came across this excerpt from a little known book by a group of psychologist.

...other features that may alert the examiner to the ( Read more... )

I had to put a few of the last posts under a filter to avoid upsetting a nutcase. Tired of being blamed for their problems du jour.When looking back on some social media feeds, I saw a lot of complaining, though not on my immediate friendslist. People who gripe too consistently usually don't remain on my feed for long. It's not that I don't think ( Read more... )

Some time back G worked here, and he had an odd pet peeve. He would get annoyed when A would cut paper using scissors rather than the paper cutting machine; the noise bothered him. Naturally, this led to A finding any excuse to cut paper around G. I didn't realize this until one day I was teasing A about his cutting of a great deal of paper last ( Read more... )

With the exception of one example, the following post is full of anonymous titles in place of names.

Example One

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Along the same line as excusing repeated bad behavior and the posessive vampire boyfriend, is the manipulator. issendai writes about it. Here is an excerpt. Click the link at the end for the full post.

So you want to keep your lover or your employee close. Bound to you, even. You have a few options. You could be the best lover they've ever had, kind, ( Read more... )

Today I was shown this site.

some of the notes found here aren’t really passive-aggressive even by our generous standards. some of these notes are really more aggressive in tone, and some of them are more passive - polite, even - but they all share a common sense of frustration that’s been channeled into written form rather than a direct ( Read more... )

Many times when faced with the terrible things people do we’re asked to excuse the action because of the reason involved. But a reason and an excuse are different things. In other words, even if we understand why a person did something it doesn’t necessarily excuse the behavior ( Read more... )

A friend showed me an enlightening blog about narcissism. I think a lot of traits overlap with it, control freaks, moodiness, compulsive liars, or maybe those are but elements that make up narcissism. Regardless, every one of these made me think, "My God, that's John Doe!"

Jean doesn't view that friend as a normal person would. In fact, Jean has ( Read more... )

I apologize from being ranty lately. Some really Bad Things have been going down this week, things I’d love to write about in extensive detail, but I can’t. And it’s frustrating because I know there are those out there on the opposing team that don’t believe us. It’s enough to pull one’s hair out, or, better yet, pull their hair out. So I rant as ( Read more... )

... you post a three page play by play of a one hour television drama halfway through it. The random caps lock, the bizarre onomatopoeias, the incoherent run on sentences, they all make me back away slowly as I brandish my mechanical pencil at you. Back! Stay back!

The next time someone calls me a fangirl in that way I'm pointing them towards one ( Read more... )