Writing is hard, and writing without repeating yourself is very, very hard — and as you may have already noticed, one of the most repeated words in English is the intensifying modifier “very.” That’s why the website ProofreadingServices.com created this chart of 128 words you can use instead of placing “very” in front of a...

You know the feeling: you’re talking to people who think you’re intelligent, only to lose their respect when you say you “could care less” about something. Suddenly, “for all intensive purposes,” you’re a moron, and there’s no “escape goat” to blame this on. If you’re on the internet, you’re being torn apart, because online grammar...

Celebrities — can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em. They’re rich, famous, and help us through trying times. I mean, if I wasn’t able to watch Bridget Jones’ Diary every few months when I had excruciating period pains, I don’t know what I would have done. Shout out to Reneé Zellweger for pushing me...

For years, taxicab confessions were such a well-known phenomenon that they even got their own show on HBO in the 90s, but now it’s the 2010s—and that means people are using their phones to summon drivers right to their house so they can drunkenly reveal their darkest secrets. When someone on reddit asked Uber drivers...

Gather round, grown-ups, and hear the tale of Bo Johnson and his friend Matthew, who overcame adulthood to achieve every child’s ultimate squad goal: dressing up multiple kids as an adult and sneaking into the movies. Granted, these guys are now too big to sit on each other’s shoulders and don a trench coat. Fortunately,...

David Foster Wallace once gave a commencement speech where he told a story about a couple of young fish swimming along. They pass an older fish who says “Morning boys, how’s the water?” After they pass on for a bit one young fish turns to the other and says “What the hell is water?” The...

Abortion is one of the most controversial topics in America, with the pro-lifers and pro-choicers debating whether a woman should be the one in charge of her body, or if zygotes and angry men in suits should be the ones calling the shots. As bitter as the debate is, almost all Americans agree that abortion...