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Your Store Policy Sucks

January 6, 2021 by BitterEmpire Leave a Comment

When attempting to return an ill advised gift, you no doubt have stumbled upon the phrase “store policy.” It may feel like store policy is a punishment for consumers, but after some consideration, I’ve decided that store policy is actually a slap in the face to all those who work in the store. Or an…

Filed Under: Endings, Featured Tagged With: management, store policy

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Not Your Mother’s Knitting: 5 Weird and Wonderful Knitting Projects

January 6, 2021 by Bitter Staff Leave a Comment

Having come across Knitted Knockers, the incredibly awesome charity organization that does this: …creating amazing knitted prosthetic breasts for breast cancer survivors, one of your intrepid editors may have gone down a rabbit hole of weird knitted projects. While none of our findings were as charitable as the Knitted Knockers organization, they certainly gave us…

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Filed Under: Endings, Featured Tagged With: crochet, knit, knitting, weird

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Seven Tricks of Law School Networking 101

January 6, 2021 by Bitter Contributor 34 Comments

To prepare for gut-wrenching, mind-numbing “networking” events, here are a few exercises that can steel you for boredom, humiliation, and awkwardness.

Filed Under: Columns, Featured, Featured Lawyer, law school, Lawyer Tagged With: Bitter by Numbers, bitter rant, law students

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So You Want To Be A Superhero

December 17, 2020 by Bitter Staff 2 Comments

And soon, you’ll be able to fulfill that superhero dream. Because, science. That’s right, scientists are currently attempting to make all our dreams come true with this stretchable conducting cable. The fiber itself is made from sheets of carbon nanotubes wrapping around a rubber core. Oh, that sounds boring? Well, do flexibile exoskeletons and morphing aircraft sound…

Filed Under: Featured, SciTech Tagged With: Like A Fish, Martin Jetpack, science, stretchable conducting cable, superhero, technology

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BROOOOOCE TV: The Best Bruce Springsteen Television Moments

December 17, 2020 by Caryn Rose 8 Comments

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band appear on the season finale of Saturday Night Live this week, to promote the release of the 35th anniversary box set of The River, and Springsteen will also be joining Jimmy Fallon on the couch later this evening on The Tonight Show, Mainstream network television appearances were not something Bruce…

Filed Under: Critic, Featured Tagged With: bruce springsteen, e street band, letterman

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Stories Of Genuinely Disastrous Restaurant Employees

December 16, 2020 by C.A. Pinkham 83 Comments

For this week’s Off the Menu, some reaaaaaaaaally bad employees.

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Dear Bitter Butch: How Does a Girl with Resting B*tch Face Make Friends?

December 16, 2020 by Haddayr Copley-Woods 3 Comments

Dear Bitter Butch, I’m a generally nice person. I don’t take a lot of crap and I don’t like people, but I’m not mean. I’m interesting and smart and I’m not totally unfortunate looking- but I have RBF- resting bitch face. Constantly, but worse when I’m tired, which is all the time. It has led…

Filed Under: Endings, Featured Tagged With: bitter butch, resting bitch face

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Review: Why ‘Pax Technica’ Is A Good Book with a Bad Argument

December 16, 2020 by Bitter Staff 1 Comment

Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up Philip N. Howard Yale University Press The Internet of Things may set us free, or lock us up, but Pax Technica won’t give much insight into how either eventuality will occur, mostly because it seems like the author isn’t particularly…

Filed Under: Critic, Featured Tagged With: book review, Internet of Things, Pax Technica

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Off The Menu: Stories Of The Worst Customers To Ever Darken A Restaurant’s Doorstep

December 1, 2020 by C.A. Pinkham 24 Comments

For this Fourth of July week’s Off the Memo, a special firecracker treat.

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Middlebrow Professional Wrestler Nicknames

September 26, 2020 by Chris Sumberg 1 Comment

The Grammarian The Enabler Stone Cold Stone Philips The Undercutter ADHD Jackson Big Matinee Just a Bad Dream (Back to Sleep, Little Guy) The Shuttle Wall Studd Capucin Rain The Empathizer Middle Management Nice Dogg Naughty Dogg Poopie-Oopie Dogg Adoptable Hypoallergenic Dogg Truly Likeable Nature Lover Great Company Fabulous Low-Interest Checking Account Anatomy I and…

Filed Under: Endings, Featured Tagged With: wrestling

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