They say that beggars can’t be choosers, but that’s not strictly true. As with so many uses of the word “can’t,” it might more properly be replaced with the word “shouldn’t.” Beggars SHOULDN’T be choosers, because when they are, they end up looking very silly, and then they get showcased on...
You know what drives me nuts in movies? That trope where there’s a big school play, or some other kind of live performance, and someone who’s been to like, no rehearsals or fittings or table reads or ANYTHING gets put in at the last minute, and somehow has not only a costume that fits, but is able to perform everything more or less...
Have you ever been to a restaurant? Yeah you have! And since you have, you’ll know about these people called servers. Do you think they hear what you say and just ignore it? Think again my friends. No, there’s not a ton of upsides to being in the service industry, but maybe this is one of them? Waiters/waitresses of Reddit, what’s...
I feel like whenever I go on Twitter and I see that something is trending, I click on that thing to see why it’s trending and am greeted only by tweets mentioning the thing to ask why it’s trending. This may in fact be a perfect microcosm or flawless exemplar of what the internet is as a whole; everyone asking each other why...
Yanno how alarm clocks exist and they’re the worst thing TO ever exist and I want to personally smash every single one of them with a special hammer? Yanno that? Yanno how that’s an absolute fact? I’m sure you feel the same way. The sound of that alarm creates a pavlovian response that just does our heads in. I have to switch up...
A wedding is a day that so many of us are brought up to dream about, to look forward to, to seek after. But what happens when you realize you simply don’t like what you see? What if you have a sense from the very beginning that you’ve made a big mistake? It seems simple enough from a detached perspective to just say “Well then...
Personally, I went to a very small college in the midwest – so small, in fact, that there were neither fraternities nor sororities. Not because they were banned or anything, just because there really weren’t enough students around for it to make sense, much less the proper housing for that kind of group living. I don’t know if I...
Before there were alarm clocks or wake up calls via phone, there was actually an industry within cities where you could hire a person who would come around and just tap on your window in the morning to wake you up. They even had these super long sticks so they could tap on the windows of higher floors. Personally, I cannot think of a worse job....
Why do people stay in unhappy relationships? There are all sorts of reasons, the most dire of which is probably “they’re in danger if they leave.” That’s a horrific reality for a lot of people trapped in abusive, violent, or manipulative relationships. But it’s not the only reason someone might choose to be in an...
The first form of paternity testing with any kind of sound scientific basis came about in the 1920’s and was based off the recent discovery and classification of different blood types, and the fact that they were genetically inherited. If the man had the same blood type as the kid, it stood to reason, he’s more likely to be the father...