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19. If you're giving advice on how to make or fix something, and you say you can do it with "things you have around the house"...

18. Some people have trouble coping with certain distressing possibilities, so, to get through the day, they delude themselves into thinking...

Glass door with vertical handle Many of the doors I pass through in my day-to-day life are made of glass with a single vertical handle o...

16. Some people seem to be under the impression that people can choose their feelings. They then go and give advice to others on that assump...

15. Men who catcall people who don't want to be catcalled are sentenced to losing the ability to get an erection for as long as their ta...

14. If you complain that someone is doing X instead of Y when X and Y are in no way incompatible or mutually exclusive (e.g. "Instead o...

I was trying to brainstorm this one a while back, but a simple, elegant solution came to me in the shower. 12.  If you lie to someone abo...

11. If Driver A honks at Driver B in a situation where moving would cause Driver B to crash into something or someone, Driver A (and their v...

Proper door etiquette is normally to let people out first and only enter once everyone has exited. This makes perfect sense for enclosed s...

10. If you don't understand the difference between "required to" and "permitted to", and therefore advocate for poli...

I have a series of posts called New Rules: Natural Consequences Edition , in which I propose natural consequences rules for various behaviou...

(Previous editions can be found here .) Inspired by Sir Anthony Strallan on Downton Abbey and by the boyfriend of the first letter-writer ...

As an addendum to this post : 6. Sometimes, when you ask for advice on how to find someone to provide a service you've never dealt w...

1. People who talk about marriage as though it's something a person can do unilaterally should be forced to marry the last person they ...

1. "But Whole Foods doesn't use plastic bags and they do fine..." The experience of an individual store not providing somethi...

The temperature control on my fridge is a dial, with "MIN" at one end and "MAX" at the other end. I'm never clear o...

1. Parents are allowed to be overprotective on one condition: their kids get to choose what they want to be overprotected from. The parent...

In my old building, when the supers knocked on the door, they'd announce "Super!" Then I'd know who it is and open the do...

In the subway: - If you're using a token, use the token-only turnstile. Not all turnstiles have a card swiper, so leave the ones that do...

I'm following the news of a potential Globe & Mail strike, and they're now saying that the strike deadline is midnight Thursday....