Posts by Matt Gilligan

This is basically my dream come true. All I want to do for the rest of my life is be surrounded by hundreds (or thousands) of dogs and frolic in open fields. Is that too much to ask? And is there a way I can get paid for doing it?? Apparently, my dream also belongs to someone...

Let’s get one thing straight: Florida is a weird place. And I’m not a Florida hater by any means. In fact, I like it quite a bit. My parents live there and I visit often. But it is just odd in a lot of ways – especially the news that comes out of there. Stuff happens...

I’m not trying to be ironic or funny, I’m a huge Jason Priestley fan. I grew up on Beverly Hills, 90210, and whenever the reruns are on I drop what I’m doing and settle in for some time with Brandon Walsh and the gang. And now I like Priestley even more after a story emerged about an...

As you have probably heard, last year the FCC voted to overturn our country’s net neutrality laws. Net neutrality basically means that all internet traffic is treated equally by different providers, so a small, local business would be treated the same as a giant company like Facebook. People are justifiably very nervous about this decision...

I actually just watched Die Hard again last week for the first time in years, so this man’s observations speak to me. We recently talked about the debate over whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie (it is), but this is something different. Daniel Kibblesmith, a comedian and writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, watched Die Hard recently...

We all know Irish people are famous for their wit and self-deprecating sense of humor. The island nation was hit by a hurricane in October, and the people responded in typical Irish fashion: they had a good laugh! Take a look at 20 of the funniest reactions that the people of Ireland had to the destructive...

Brittany Mease is an Army veteran and a mom who just wants the best for her lovely kids. But there’s one thing that really gets on Mease’s nerves: that damn Elf on the Shelf. She said, “Y’all know I can’t stand doing Elf on the Shelf but I suck it up every year and do it...

These fascinating maps, which were released by NPR, detail the most common jobs in each U.S. state from 1978-2014. Obviously, the country underwent massive changes in those 36 years, but things didn’t change all that much in certain places. One occupation that has weathered the storm of innovation and change? Truck driving. Interestingly, secretaries have...

Nose pickers of the world, listen up and listen up good. Aside from being disgusting, there are health reasons why you shouldn’t be digging for gold. Dr. Erich P. Voigt says that picking your nose causes small abrasions and microscopic amounts of bleeding within the nose. Germs feast of this blood and whatever germs were...

This was one of the bad things about living in 2017 – and I’m betting it won’t get any better this year. In the past, you used to be able to yell at your friends, family members, and significant others in public and be comforted by the fact that no one was going to document...

Sometimes famous people should probably just not open their mouths. At all. Now that most celebrities have social media managers to take care of their twitter feed, you have to think that maybe the famous guy or gal themselves somehow got into their own accounts…because these are pretty damn dumb. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5....

Another year is gone, forever relegated to the dustbin of history. Did any of your tweets get 100,000 retweets in 2017? Well, these people were lucky enough to hit that milestone this year. Once you take a look at these tweets, you’ll understand why they were such a big hit. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5....

Christmas is all about giving, but the folks who gave these presents to their friends and families didn’t get the memo about giving things that people actually WANT. But that’s where the beauty lies in this list. The people behind these terrible and hilarious Christmas gifts are Grade A, Numero Uno, Head-of-the-Class, Cream-of-the-Crop, Rise-to-the-Top Trolls....

Poor Blake Shelton. He didn’t ask for this. It was thrust upon him. He’s a man thrown into an impossible situation. Or maybe his publicist bombarded People and forced them to do it. Either way, people were not happy with People‘s decision to name him sexiest man alive, which is obvious from the tweets below. 1. 2. 3....

As a person who has been made fun of and humiliated for the things I say in my sleep, I feel for this guy. Twitter user @Sleep_Sayings decided to document the bizarre and incomprehensible things her boyfriend says in his sleep, and, if you’re anything like me, you’ve got to wonder wtf this guys does...