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There are a hundred ways a relationship can be bad, abusive, and traumatic. Some people, out of insecurity or just plain old nastiness, seem to enjoy downplaying their partner’s abilities and achievements.So one woman, after years of being dismissed and insulted, ditched her useless husband and made some upgrades. She described, in wonderful detail, all the ways she made her life better without him, while readers shared their own stories in the comments. Bored Panda got in touch with Independent-Let-7688 to learn…

Like slang, corporate jargon is driven by trends and evolves over time. For example, "bleeding edge" has basically replaced "cutting edge" to signify the latest innovation. So if someone wants to master it, they need to stay updated.Content creator 'Professor Corporate' is here to help. He regularly translates English phrases for setting boundaries, telling off annoying bosses, and other useful situations into this intricate language, arming everyone with the essential linguistic tools for surviving in the office.More…

After a long day at work, the last thing many of us want to do is head into the kitchen to start chopping vegetables and preparing an elaborate meal. But takeout isn’t always worth it, as according to CNET, it typically costs twice as much as making a meal at home.That might be why one woman who never cooks recently decided it would be nice to surprise her husband with a home cooked meal, rather than ordering in. Once she saw his response to the food, however, she might have regretted her actions. Below, you’ll find the…

Sometimes a teacher receives no help from parents or school administration with a student who interrupts the lessons or makes others uncomfortable and gets to navigate using their skills, experience, and… humor.This Redditor shared how she addressed a student hurling swear words at her by pretending these were compliments and asked if she was a jerk to do so because the student ended up crying.More info: RedditA teacher who has a lot of experience with goofy kids and loves teaching them still had a problem with one such…

Morgan Freeman has said commonly used terms relating to race should be taken out of the lexicon. In an interview with the Sunday Times, the actor said he was keen to “say publicly” that he objected to the terms “Black History Month” and “African American”.Calling both an “insult”, Freeman said of the first: “You’re going to relegate my history to a month?”Freeman said he objected to “African American” because it was inaccurate.“I don’t subscribe to that title. Black people have had different titles all the way back to the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Black and Asian people with darker skin shades can be the subject of prejudice and insults from lighter skin members of their families, new research shows. The first substantive research into this issue in the U.K. found that family members with darker skin were sometimes stigmatized by their…

Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk attends the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China August 29, 2019.Aly Song | ReutersElon Musk said in court on Wednesday that he does not want to be the CEO of any company.He recently acquired and appointed himself as the CEO of social media giant Twitter, adding to his responsibilities as the CEO and "technoking" of the electric vehicle company Tesla, and CEO and CTO of the U.S. defense contractor SpaceX.Musk also confirmed that the arrangement at Twitter is temporary.…

Julia Roberts and George Clooney have said they went a little overboard when improvising insults for each other on the set of their new romcom Ticket to Paradise.In the movie, the pair play embittered exes who fly to Bali to stop their daughter (Kaitlyn Dever) from getting married to a local seaweed farmer (Maxime Bouttier).In a post-credits scene, the duo sling put-downs at one another and, in a recent interview, the actors revealed a lot of them were improvised.“Julia would take everything too far. I will tell you,”…

We know verbal insults hurt. Words slung with spite or malice can feel like a proverbial slap in the face.Now new research goes some way to explaining why visceral shocks to spoken insults linger longer than praise or compliments often do.A team of researchers in the Netherlands explored people's emotional reactions to hurtful language by recording participants' brain activity as they heard insults hurled at them or others.While it can be easy to brush off a compliment, a snide remark or wounding slur can bother us for…

Movie insults have been a part of cinema since the very beginning. Despite the changing face of film over the decades, scriptwriters will always relish the opportunity to let their characters speak awful words they could never get away with in real life.The truth is, everybody loves a movie insult. A well-timed put-down can make any film more memorable, regardless of genre. Knowing where to find the best examples of insults can be an overwhelming task. There are the obvious – the ones whose quotability ensured a film’s…