How Many Square Feet Must Your House Be in Order For Your Child to Have Friends?
Who gives the best advice? You, the idiots slacking off at your stupid job, reading Gawker. One wealthy mom desperately needs your help!
Reminder: Don't Borrow Money to Invest
China’s stock market, the most high-flying in the world lately, is now mired in its inevitable crash. What rises too high shall fall again. In the long run, it will be okay. Unless you did something stupid.
The prestigious magazine Science has deleted an advice column in which CalTech scientist Alice Huang advised a woman whose academic adviser was constantly leering at her breasts to “put up with it” because such behavior is “common in the workplace.”
Cops: Drunkenly Chasing Bears With Dull Hatchet Is "Not Advised"
If you happen to see a wild bear, police in North Adams, Massachusetts have a sensible—if weirdly specific—recommendation: “Chasing bears through the woods drunk with a dull hatchet is strongly not advised.”
“As my thirtieth birthday looms, I find that all my thoughts are consumed with Things I Wish People Had Told Me In My Twenties.” Does anyone know where this ThoughtCatalog.com writer could turn for such esoteric advice?
Is Your Flip Phone the Only Thing Stopping You From Getting Laid?
"How can I get girls' phone numbers and not feel like a loser when I have a flip phone?" asks a male user of the internet advice site Quora.com.
What I Learned From David Carr
Everyone has a David Carr story. Here is mine.
How to Completely Blow an Interview, by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Tony Robbins is a fabulously wealthy self-help guru who recently wrote a book containing bad financial advice. Andrew Ross Sorkin is a business reporter for America's most influential newspaper. What happens when you put them together?
Advice: Don't Use the News Media to Communicate to Your Exes
The public newspaper isn't often used to interrogate private matters, unless you're Sally Quinn. But sometimes, curiously, men try to write about their failed love lives like sullen teenagers, and the results are humiliating (for them).
Do Not Listen to the Crazy Man Telling You to Quit Your Job
Noted media thinker Jay Rosen offers this advice to to working journalists: if you don't thoroughly understand your company's business model, then "you should quit." Allow us to offer this counterpoint: whatever you do, do not listen to this man.
Thatz Not Okay: Can I Make All My Recipes Secret Recipes?
I made my husband a birthday party and invited his friends and colleagues. I prepared a bunch of my best dishes including a chocolate cake I have perfected for the past 4 years from various recipes. Now let me tell you about the cake: It's perfection, moist, rich and the frosting achieved the delicate balance for it…
Thatz Not Okay: Can I Fuck My High School Enemy's Dad?
So there was this girl that I went to high school with, and basically she was/is a homophobic, mouth breathing waste of space that made my life at the time rather miserable. Anywho, recently I was on Grindr (like half my day at work) and I happened upon her still rather handsome/DILF-esque father. I messaged him and…
Following the recent release of his sixth, best-selling album, Miami rapper Rick Ross will now be writing a regular advice column for Rolling Stone. It's fair to assume this project was inspired by DMX's ontological query, "How much can [Rick Ross] eat?"
The NSA Has Its Own Advice Columnist
Here's perhaps the only lighthearted revelation from Edward Snowden's NSA leaks: The spy agency has its own advice columnist. The anonymous writer, who uses the pen name "Zelda," has covered everything from flip-flops in the office to nosey supervisors.
A Valentine from Princeton's Most Infamous Mom: Settle Down Already!
Happy Valentine's Day! If you haven't settled down with a nice Ivy League man yet, you're going to die alone.
Very Important Friendship Advice from Joel Osteen
[Some now-deleted, but great advice from America's favorite televangelist. Image via Joel Osteen/Twitter]
A Wal-Mart Worker Asks: Can I Pray Out Loud at Work?
Due to our history as a platform for true Wal-Mart stories, we sometimes receive emails from beleaguered Wal-Mart employees, venting their frustrations. Today, we have our holiest Wal-Mart conundrum yet. Can you help?
Hot 97 urges NYC Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio to tell his "Afro Son," 16-year-old Dante, not to hang out with rappers. "We need Dante focused."
Thatz Not Okay: The Gold Medal in Silver Theft; Ugly Bumpings
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Thatz Not Okay: Biztch, Please; Recipes of the Dead
Welcome to Thatz Not Okay, a regular column in which I school inquiring readers on what is and is not okay. Please send your questions (max: 200 words) to caity@gawker.com with the subject "Thatz Not Okay."
