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Italian Doctor’s Plea for People to Take COVID-19 Recommendations Seriously

20 People Share Their ‘I Am Surrounded By Idiots’ Stories

Idiots. They’re everywhere. You work with them, you live with them, you’re related to them. Sometimes it’s fun to pretend that we live in a world populated (and run) by brilliant people and that our future looks bright. That fantasy usually doesn’t last long… These 20 AskReddit users share stories about when they realized the...

The Backwards Bookshelf Trend Needs to Go Away Immediately

This is one design trend I really don’t understand. It’s now “hot” for people to turn the books on their bookshelves inward so all that is visible are those boring white pages. Why, people? WHY? One of the best ways to learn about a person is to browse their bookshelves the first time you go...

Twitter Claimed That “Game of Thrones” Is Basically “Shrek,” and the Evidence Is Pretty Overwhelming

Twitter can be a bit of a crapshoot – some days, it’s unbearably harsh and un-fun, but others it’s so spot-on hilarious that it almost makes the bad days worthwhile. And the day when they decided that Game of Thrones was basically a live-action Shrek is definitely one of the better ones in recent memory....

If You Need a Smile, Try These 15 Posts on for Size

We all need a smile now and then, and I don’t know about you, but I really don’t like to work too hard for mine. Scrolling a list of funnies and sweet-nothings is the perfect amount of effort some days! If that’s how you’re feeling right now, let’s get to it – here are 15...

This Woman Adopted a Cat That Looks Just Like Steve Buscemi

If you’ve ever seen an animal that looks exactly like a person, you know how disconcerting it can be. And if you’ve ever adopted an animal, you know that people can turn down perfectly good pets for superficial reasons – my dog has a significant underbite, and when I went to adopt her, her foster...

It’s Official: Burnout Is an Actual Medical Condition

People have been talking about being “burned out” at their jobs, with their kids, with the general rat race, for what seems like forever…and it turns out that we’ve been onto something. It’s not simply feeling tired, or that the events of a certain day or a trying few weeks are getting under our skin....

Night Owls: Your Brain Chemistry Might be Sabotaging Your 9-5 Scedule

There seems to be two kinds of people – those who wake up bright and early ready to roll, and those who slog through the day and perk up when the sun goes down. Even though there’s nothing wrong with being one or the other, day people do seem to have the advantage, since the...

15 Parenting Mistakes That Are All-Too Common

I think that if there’s one thing that’s true about almost every parent out there, it’s that we’re doing our best. We might not have all of the tools, we might be overworked, emotional, struggling with our own mental health, or stretched too thin, but we’re not ever intending for those things to wreak havoc...

These Neighbors Pay the Price for Refusing to Turn Down the Heat

Being a good neighbor when everyone is behaving and in their own, single-family homes can be tough enough, some days, and people who share walls or buildings or other close-type quarters have my eternal sympathies. This person lived next door to a commercial unit that was rented to the city, who in turn rented the...

12 Posts We Think You And Your Friends Are Going To Love

There are some tweets that go in one ear and out the other, even if they make us smile, or maybe even chuckle. The thing that sets those tweets apart from the 12 we’re about to share you is that these are totally sharable. They make you laugh, but more than that, they make you...

This Vocabulary Wheel Helps You Find the Perfect Word for Your Feelings

No matter your age, it can sometimes be so hard to find the right word to describe exactly how you’re feeling. As you get older (I’m finding) things like, well, being old – but also sleep deprivation and having a million things on your mind – make plucking that one word you know but can’t...

12 Memes for the Dog Lover in All of Us

I don’t know about you, but if someone tells me they don’t like or love dogs, I don’t trust them. Dogs are amazing, and even if you can’t have one of your own right now for some actual reason, what’s not to love? Basically, these 12 memes are for all of us – because dogs...

What’s the Adult Version of “There Is No Santa Claus”? Here’s What People Had to Say.

Adulting: you look forward to it during your younger years and then you get there, you look around, and you say…”this is what I was so excited about?” It happens to the best of us and now you just gotta deal with it, right? The bills, the responsibilities, the job hassle, etc. It just never...

10 Foods That are Illegal in the United States

What’s considered a delicacy in some countries can actually be downright illegal in the United States. That’s just the nature of the business when it comes to food and the law. Whether it be for animal protection purposes or for health and safety reasons, some foods that are legal in other countries are a complete...