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Writing Is Hard — But You Can Actually Ignore These 4 Grammar Rules

I love language and proper grammar as much as the next person, but here the thing – it’s always changing. What was right and proper when you were taught, or the last time you checked, might have been updated in this brave new world of ours (double-spacing after a period and the Oxford comma are...

30 People Talk About the Scams They Fell For

When I first moved to Chicago, two guys come to my door explaining something about how our energy company was rebranding or something and I needed to just sign something so they could start the new service which was better yada yada and just sign it, ok? It wasn’t until about an hour later that...

NASA Weighs in on the #BroomstickChallenge With Science and Reality

In case you missed it, a few weeks ago someone tweeted that (according to NASA!), on February 10th only, your broomstick would stand up all on its own, possibly due to something to with gravitational pull. The #BroomstickChallenge was born, and the urban myth joined a similar one about eggs balancing on their ends on...

What Are the Dumbest Lies People Believed? Here’s What Folks Said.

Many of us grow up believing certain lies that our parents, siblings, friends, and enemies tell us. Some of the them are big and important, some are little and insignificant, and some are just plain STUPID. What I’m really trying to say is that we live in a world full of LIARS. What are the...

Ice-T’s Is Tweeting Out Honest Movie Reviews And People Love It

Ice-T is a true Renaissance man. Rapper, actor, reality TV star, and now, film reviewer. That’s right, the man himself offers simple, honest, to-the-point film reviews on Twitter and you should probably get on this train. I’ve been a fan of Ice-T’s since my older brother gave me a copy of his album Power when I...

What Industry Do You Hope Won’t Exist in Ten Years? Here’s What People Had to Say.

Well, this promises to be an interesting conversation! Because if there’s anything that gets people fired up, it’s what they perceive to be injustice or illegal, shady activities. So let’s hear from folks on AskReddit about the industries they hope aren’t around ten years from now. They’re everywhere. “Pyramid schemes and MLMs. The amount of...

Tumblr User Derails Our Idea Of The World’s Most Advanced Transportation System

I never thought I’d be talking about 4ft 8.5inches in any context, but it’s another day on the internet and somebody posted this amazingness that has completely upended how we think of our modern transportation system. Trust me, you’ll never see a train and NOT think of 4ft 8.5inches. You’ll also never look at horses...

Students Share the Most Hilarious Wrong Answers They’ve Ever Heard in Class

We can all think back to our school days and remember when a fellow student (or sometimes the teacher) really blew it with a hilariously incorrect answer. Come again? What was that? One more time? The best is when they are completely convinced they’re right, and you have to shake your head and say, “No,...

15 Wholesome Things That’ll Make You Realize There’s Still Good in the World

In this day and age, it seems like we have blinders on and sometimes only see the negative news on TV and social media. But I’m here to tell you there’s still a lot of goodness in this world! Actually, some GREATNESS. So block out the negativity, open up your eyes and enjoy these incredibly...

How Did Billie Eilish Stand on the Ceiling During Her SNL Performance?

If you follow the career of Billie Eilish, you know she pushes interesting boundaries. I’m not talking about sexual boundaries like Madonna or Lady Gaga, but more troubled, mysterious kinds of boundaries. And she was only 14 in 2015 when her first single, “Ocean Eyes,” dropped! https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Apa0TlrDW/ With her funky personal style and darkly twisted...

People with ‘Fake’ Service Dogs Are Now Subject to Fines Because Airlines Are Fed up

I have to admit, the couple of times my pets have flown in the cargo holds of airplanes, I’ve been incredibly nervous. You see terrible news stories about pets dying or getting lost, and it makes you dread the entire experience. So I can see why some people do make their pet a ‘service animal’...

1980s and ’90s Kids Reveal Which Slang Terms They Wish Would Make a Comeback

Psych!!!!! I’m announcing to the world here and now that I’m bringing back that sweet burn from the early-mid 1990s. And no one can stop me! Do you have any favorite slang terms from the 1980s and ’90s that you wish would make a tubular comeback? These AskReddit users definitely do… 1. Inspired by Heathers “What’s...

14 Teacher Tweets from Friday the 13th

Last Friday was the 13th, and it was a full moon, so no doubt teachers everywhere were battening down the hatches, girding their loins, or just calling in sick expecting their already crazy jobs to go completely off the deep end. And while some teachers surely breathed a sigh of relief at the end of...

14 People Admit What Didn’t Bother Them as Kids but Scares Them as Adults

When you’re young and carefree, you really don’t think a whole lot about your safety and things that might potentially harm you. And I have a pretty embarrassing example of something that I’m super cautious about now that I wouldn’t have given a second thought to when I was younger: driving at night. I used...