Have you tumbled through Tumblr lately? If not, you’re missing out. Missing out on wonderful madness that only the Humans of Tumblr can provide. There’s far too much of it to show you every highlight, of course, but we do have here a fine selection of random hilarity that we think serves as an excellent example of the value of this...
Raise your hand if you like reading funny random Tumblr stuff. Ok, keep them up for a minute so I can count. Looks like that’s…yup, everybody in the world! And what luck, because we’ve got a great list of funny random Tumblr stuff right here! Take these Tumblr tidbits and enjoy yourselves. 10. Unusual peace Hey, it’s less...
Sometimes I find myself thinking of the time in college when a professor asked the question “who can tell me what renaissance means?” and I casually threw out “rebirth.” She nodded, somewhat impressed, probably not used to freshmen knowing that offhand. But the weird thing is, even though I did attend a very academically...
Britney Spears is an absolute coming-of-age icon for Millennials. For a time in the aughts she was arguably the biggest pop star in the world, with success so massive that by some reports she continues to earn 8-figure incomes per year despite being significantly less active in the music scene. Brittany started her career very young; she was only...
There seem to be three types of people in this world when it comes to matters of sexism and social discrimination generally. There are those who recognize its ubiquity and dedicate much of their energy combating it. Then there are those who seem hellbent on denying its existence in any form, no matter how much evidence is brought to their...
It totally stinks to go through something terrible yourself, or to have something unexpected and awful happen to you. It’s a whole other kind of pain to witness the same sort of stuff happen to the friends we love and root for every day, don’t you think? These 14 people had to witness some pretty awful stuff go down in their friends...
It’s hard to watch someone you know and love go through something horrible, or meet with a grisly and undeserved end. Harder even than imagining something similar happening to ourselves, sometimes. These 13 people had the tough task of being there for people who were really dealt stinking hands, and may we all have friends like them if the...
As a wise poet once said, “Tick-tock / on the clock / But the party don’t stop, no / Oh, whoa, whoa-oh / Oh, whoa, whoa-oh.” Though these words were writ 7 entire years before the social video platform was launched, we can only assume Kesha was making a prediction that one day, we would have a thing called TikTok, and upon that...
I’ve never been one to get all teary-eyed over a flag. Unless that flag is pure red, and it turns out I should have paid way more attention to it. Just like in these stories from the r/AskReddit thread that kicked off with the question: What’s the biggest red flag you’ve ignored because the sex was good? byu/silver_foks...
As early as the 16th century red flags have been used as as indication of danger – a warning that something bad is about to go down. I live in Chicago just a couple of blocks from the beaches of Lake Michigan, and when I see a red flag on one of my walks, I know that means “Stay away from the water, it’s not gonna go well for...