Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

There are plenty of jokes floating around about what, exactly, goes into a classic hot dog. My grandfather’s favorite was that they’re made from the “lips and a-holes” of the pig – basically the spare parts. Whatever’s inside them, most of us Americans indulge from time to time, even if it’s just at the occasional...

There’s no telling what seemingly small (or big) or innocuous thing will get under our skin. We’re human, and sometimes that means when we finally see something, we just can’t unsee it – and things that make no sense at all can really get us going. These 15 people are here to vent about the...

Now, we’re all aware that no one is claiming that the world has to make sense, or even that it will. No one promised us that, yada yada, just like no one said life was going to be fair. That said, some things really push the limits of what we can accept without comment, don’t...

It can sometimes seem as if we spend a lot of time looking at the world and the people in it with our heads cocked, the phrase “what the f**k” popping into our heads. And while this can and does happen for many reasons, much of the time it’s just something that completely doesn’t compute...

Some readers love tropes – that’s why they exist in the first place, after all – and most of us have some we love and some we’d rather not find in the books we pick up. Are there tropes that are annoying to readers across the board, though? These 16 readers think they’ve found some...

We have so, so many things in this world that our grandparents could never have imagined, never mind our ancestors further back than that. We’re constantly innovating, developing new normals, and increasing the ease with which we can navigate this world. Why, then, do these 16 things still exist at all? We don’t have answers,...

We spend a lot of time laughing about the weird things that exist in our modern world, but less time pondering what it is we don’t have yet – probably because we have so much more than we could have imagined already. These 15 people aren’t afraid, though, and here are the things they really think...

If you, like us, adore dealing in random, interesting, and sure, occasionally useless facts, then you probably have a short list of your own favorites. You’re also probably always on the lookout for more useless and amazing facts, too, which is where this list comes in – see if you can use it to add to...

We deal in facts here; whether or not you deem most of them “useless” is up to you. Most facts aren’t technically relevant to every day life, but we love them anyway! These 18 people were asked to provide their favorite useless fact, and honestly, they really delivered. Let’s dive in! 18. Just ask Baloo...

Have you ever seen an advertisement, or been walking down the street, and glimpsed a business that made you go “no way that’s going to work?” I think most of us have, but we probably didn’t stick around long enough to observe how things were going (or how long it lasted). These 17 people did,...

When we hear about a new film or see that a piece of media we already love is being adapted for the big screen, we can often get a picture of what the characters will look like in our minds. And sometimes, when the official cast list is posted on the internet, we’re a little...

We’ve all heard the doom and gloom stories about declining birth rates around the world. More people are deciding not to have children, there are unknown medical issues at play, the world is a living nightmare, etc etc, but the fact that there won’t be enough humans to replace the ones currently aging seems like...

Just because something all-around stinks doesn’t mean we can’t laugh about it, right? And since being poor is something too many of us will experience at least some time in our lives, we can also all be in on the joke – fun, right? Whether you’re poor not, were poor, or think you will be...

There’s no real silver lining in being poor, but if there was an upside, it would be that other poor people are damn awesome to know. There’s nothing better than being able to laugh with your people at your sore circumstances, either. If you’ve ever had to figure out how to make it from one...

There are plenty of posts in the world that make you chuckle, but you just as quickly move on and forget what you found so funny a moment ago. The special posts are the ones that, no matter how many times we run across them, we can’t help but laugh and share, over and over...