People Get Real About Their Takes on Food
Get ready for some takes that might be just a little too hot to handle. They say that if you can’t take the heat, you gotta get out of the kitchen, and that if you can’t take the heat from hot food takes, then you REALLY should leave, because all the food is here in the kitchen with us and it might hear you and get mad. That’s...
12 People With Exes That Just Can’t Stay Away
About a year ago, I got a text message from an ex I hadn’t spoken to in maybe 6 years. She’d broken a small gift that I’d given her all the way back in college. Something so insignificant, I thought, that I’d completely forgotten it even existed. But she was seemingly beside herself that this had happened. She was...
10 Stories of Friends With Benefits Gone Awry
At first, most “friends with benefits” arrangements seem great! No drama, no difficult feelings, no pressure, just people enjoying each other’s company as well as their occasional company. Seriously, I’m not knocking it. It can be exactly what’s needed sometimes. Unfortunately, humans being the messy creatures they...
15 Surprisingly Effective Ways to Deal with Anger
IS YOU LIKE HULK SOMETIMES? DOES YOU GET ANGRY, GO SMASH? WANT KNOW HOW UN-HULK? BE BANNER AGAIN? SMASH CONSIDERATELY? What are some productive ways to let your anger out? byu/Lornadoh inAskReddit NO WORRY. READ THIS. REDDIT HELP. 1. WRITE! Whenever I can’t exercise or burn out the feelings, I write Pour your heart out.. and if...
Imagining What the World Would Be Like with Only One Type of Person
I just spent entirely too long trying to find an old favorite tweet of mine and somehow I can’t track it down anywhere, so with apologies to whomever I’m about to paraphrase, it went something like this: “I can’t believe that no one on the left or the right ever gets it and that I’m the only one who knows exactly...
10 Hot Takes on Food That Might Make You Angry
In college I was lucky enough to go on a great little trip to Italy, and on one of the days we were there we took a train trip through the countryside and stopped at a winery. Our extremely animated guide at the winery asked if anyone knew what kind of wine you needed to pair with fish. “…white?” came a timid answer from one of...
10 Times People Absolutely Betrayed Their Friends
What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done to a friend? Can you think of it right now? For some, that may be an incredibly heavy answer. Maybe the sort of thing that haunts you forever and loads you down with regret. For others, you might be thinking of something cringy from when you were younger which in retrospect is probably pretty...
10 People Who Can’t Get Over the Crush They Have on Their Doctor
It’s a premise familiar to a plethora of retro adult films. A patient goes to a doctor, apparently sick but also surprisingly sultry and healthy looking. And it’s not long before all the touching and the examining turns into something else entirely. It’s so contrived and cliche that at this point it feels entirely like a joke,...
12 Awkward Interactions That Prove Humans Aren’t Meant to Be Social
Yanno, humans are supposed to be like the pinnacle of social animals – effectively dominating the planet not because we’re the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, but basically because we have thumbs and we’re good at cooperating. And yet, when it comes to interacting with anyone you don’t already know well, all of...
People Share the Things That Made Them Lose Respect for Friends and Loved Ones
It’s a dadgum tragedy to look at someone you once respected and think “what happened to you?” It’s the kind of thing that sticks with you forever, even though the person in question likely won’t. What made you lose respect for someone? byu/neck-pillow inAskReddit But how does this happen? Reddit’s got...