10 People Who Made Huge Mistakes in Their Text Messages
One time, an ex of mine with whom I’d had a pretty tumultuous relationship/breakup/attempt to be friends again sent me a text message letting me know she was engaged and would be married soon. I congratulated her, and then sent a text to a friend with my real feelings on the subject. Except I sent...
12 Times People Sent the WRONG Text
Remember that time that you sent that wrong thing to that wrong person and it was absolutely mortifying and you’ll never forget it? I think you do probably, because it’s happened to just about all of us. I think the only way to truly avoid it is to just not communicate with anyone on a...
10 Perspectives from People Who’ve Dealt with Homelessness
I’ve recently noticed a trend in language in which phrases like “homeless people” or “the homeless” are being phased out in favor of “people experiencing homelessness.” While I do find it grammatically clunky in certain contexts, it makes total sense to me. The way we speak about each other matters. It reinforces ideas good and...
10 Thoughts From People Who Know What it Really Is to Be Homeless
It’s a terrifying thing to not have a home. Not just not having a place to technically call your own, but literally not having shelter from the elements. There’s a huge list of implications that go along with it. Your access to every necessity is substantially reduced not just by lack of funds, but by...
15 Treasure Troves People Found Metal Detecting
There’s a great, cozy little show called Detectorists that centers around a couple of old friends and their frequently fruitless hobby scanning the countryside with metal detectors, ostensibly in search of some great unknown treasure. The show, of course, isn’t really about metal detectors, it’s about friendship and fulfillment and life and love and all...
15 Fantastic Finds People Came Across with Just Metal Detectors
If you’ve spent any amount of time at the beach you’ve probably seen a few folks scanning the sand with metal detectors, casually looking for nothing in particular. It’s a fun little hobby if you’ve got the funds and the patience for it. And while you’ll *probably* never find some grand treasure that will make...
15 Horribly Designed Things That Were Probably Not a Good Idea
Look, I’m no grand designer or anything, but I know what I like. I also know what I DON’T like, and that stuff is plastered all over this page. Because the eagle-eyed folks at Reddit are great at spotting bad and dangerous design, and then they share them with the rest of us, because bad...