Small things 4 Sep

• In order to empathize with someone's experience you must be willing to believe them as they see it and not how you imagine their experience to be. ~Brené Brown
• Canada should launch a trade investigation into to assess the impact of American exports of general assholishness and douchebagery. (In response to Trump wanting to launch a trade investigation to assess the impact of our lobster exports)
• Is smacking someone upside the head an acceptable way to check for fever?
• The longer you wait to buy video games, the cheaper they get.
• Whenever a store employee asks me if they can help me, I usually say, "Can you help me find my wife?" It usually gets a smile, but one time, the employee said, "I might be able to get you an upgrade..." I laughed, politely declined and said, "I'm going to tell her you said that."
• Am I the only one who has a smug smile on my face whenever someone races past me only to stop at the next traffic light?
• North Americans call it gas, but it's not even. It's a goddamned liquid.
• Which came first, pie the chart or pie the baked good?
• Alternate word for 'asthma': breathn't
• Alternate word for 'wake': unsleep.