People Reveal What They Really Think About Their Time in a Psych Ward
The way we treat mental illness – especially the facilities we dedicate to it – has come a very long way from the nightmarish sanitariums of the past. Still, it’s not all utopian healing. There’s plenty of mismanagement, abuse, questionable practices, etc, alongside many truly getting the help and support they...
10 Times People Realized They’d Totally Just Settled
“Our youth is fleeting Old age is just around the bend And I can’t wait to go gray And I’ll sit and wonder Of every love that could have been If I’d only thought of something charming to say Bop-ba This is the sound of settling” That song, literally titled The Sound of Settling, is a weirdly upbeat emo-pop anthem...
People Reveal What Happens When Your Relationship Isn’t What You Wished
There’s not a lot worse than realizing you settled for someone – except perhaps realizing that the person you’re with settled for you. That’s a pretty big gut punch if ever there was one. In any case, settling doesn’t really make anybody happy. It may bring stability, it may feel better than chaos, but there are a lot...
10 Posts That are Oddly Compelling and Hilarious
There are good reasons why writers, even successful ones, spend most of their work time not actually writing anything. It’s a tough task to tackle. Not only are you attempting to write well – combining words in ways you hope will fascinate and entertain – but to write something with a shred of originality. And that’s no...
10 Hilarious Sentences That Have Never Been Said Before, or Since
They say that if you set infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters, they will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the entire endeavour of the internet has been set up specifically to test that idea. After all, we’re monkeys , sitting at our keyboards, in multitudes, typing...
10 Ways We’re All Turning into Our Parents
Listen. You’re turning into your parents. Or your aunts/uncles. You’re turning into the old farts you grew up with. And that’s ok. It’s inevitable. We need to learn to face it, like with tweets such as these: Hey 25+ Twitter. What ‘auntie/uncle tendencies’ do you have now that you’re old? 🤔 — E. Marie 😘 ...
People Reveal the “Old Auntie” Things They’re Suddenly Starting to Do
Being in my 30’s and having literally just spent a weekend with two of my little nieces, I can confirm that this tweet really hits home: Hey 25+ Twitter. What ‘auntie/uncle tendencies’ do you have now that you’re old? 🤔 — E. Marie 😘 August 23, 2021 The first answer that comes to mind for me is inevitably ending up lying...
10 People Who Might Just Be Having a Worse Day Than You Are
Have you been having a bad day? Well, not that it’s a competition, but this list contains ten people who might just have you beat. In a game that nobody wants to win, because winning means you get the prize of the worst thing, which is not really a prize at all. After all, no matter how bad your day is going, it could probably get worse, as...
10 Memes that are Just for Giggles
The dictionary definition of giggle is to “laugh lightly in a nervous, affected, or silly manner.” The reason I love that so much is that the definition makes me giggle, which means it’s kind of a self-fulfilling process. Perhaps there is something profound to be found in giggles. Perhaps giggles make the world go round. Or...
10 Memes to Shake Things Up a Bit
You ready to shake things up? Cause it’s about to get crazy in here. We’re gonna do something that we only do on very rare occasions such as days that end in “y” – we’re going to look at memes. I know. How bad are we, right? And you can join in if you want. But only if you’re ready to really get wild....