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Puja Patel
puja-patel
Senior Editor, Deadspin

I do not condone this opinion, but do believe in the freedom of speech. To be frank, I think that wearing Tevas out in the rain and then into an office is a terrible, bad, no good idea.

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I’ve been at my current job for 7 months. I hate it, but I’m good at it. My boss announced her retirement not long ago, and has constantly been reminding me that my department would go to shit if I left, because of my unique set of skills that she was unable to hire anyone else for. As she tells me this, I’m regularly Read more

I heard one of the Grantland guys on a podcast mentioning that you paid for their tab the day they got shuttered, seemed like a really decent thing to do. Great move.
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Who’s usually on AUX cord duties for these types of gatherings? Read more

Is Samer really a Patriots fan, or does he just say that so it looks like he has credibility when he crushes them in his posts?
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I’m considering changing careers but I’m wondering if it’s too late to make the shift. I made the jump from engineering to education some years back, but that was a painless transition since my background overlapped. I’m now considering moving from education to journalism, but I’m afraid that the overlap would be less Read more

Wow, great take. Peeps truly ARE the worst candy! Read more

Learned somethin’ new about Drew today, respect. RIP to a legend, 45 is 45 too soon. Read more

semi-serious question here. greg’s last (meaningful) post was on on the sbnation debacle and at the heart of his article he had a really good point: sbnation’s editorial team is almost exclusively white men. doesn’t deadspin have a similar problem though? it would seem that puja would be the only woman on the deadspin Read more

Saw the author was HamNo, assumed the answer was to watch society crumble around you, then use those crumbles as a sweet topping.
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I’ve never won the office pool and my gf has somehow won 2 out of the last 3 in hers. She watches no sports, I watch all of the sports. I have resigned myself this year to the Ron Magill formula.. Just pick the team whose mascot could eat or kill the other, straight up food chain hierarchy shit. (If only 1 team has an Read more

I take the elevator if I have to fart because I am a bad person.
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When is it acceptable to make a shit-ass comment about someone taking the elevator? Never. Because I did it once, and the person was coming off of knee surgery a few months prior and I had to go to “sensitivity” class because of it. Read more

I’m married and there are a few women in my life who I find attractive and charming, and when they interact positively with me (laughing at a joke, having a meaningful chat, etc.) I tend to feel pretty good about it, and I’d consider that the kind of crush that the writer is talking about. None of those women will Read more

As someone who’s never had a crush, how often do these tend to happen for everyone else? The entire concept of a crush is kind of baffling and fascinating to me, never mind it happening regularly like this article suggests. Read more