I wish we could return to a more rough-and-tumble way of life. Like the days of the Wild West, or maybe just the Wild West of the movies. I wish I was on a first-name basis with my local barkeep, and I wish he knew just how I liked my sasparilla. I wish I had …
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20+ Mildly Infuriating Things That Are Unquestionably Irritating
Being annoyed is a terrible feeling to have. It implies that your peace has been disrupted, but so drastically that you get to have a big, movie-score-appropriate emotion like anger or sadness. Your natural order of things has been disrupted, but if you point it out there’s a chance you come across as peevish and …
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Mother Refuses to Accept Her Daughter Moving Out of Town, Tries to Make Her Apply to Jobs Closer to Home
Left alone with an empty nest can feel… well, empty. Watching your kids grow up and become adults with their own lives can be hard. Look, I get that being left alone sucks, especially when your entire identity is being a parent. But you have got to let them GO. Let them move out, let …
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‘Some people shouldn’t be allowed outside’: Woman brings light up charger on red-eye flight, enrages internet
Flight etiquette is a delicate thing, especially if you’re flying in economy. It’s no mean feat to spend several hours crammed like sardines at 40,000 feet and remain on civil terms with the people sat around you. Air rage is very real, and there are varying degrees of validity to whatever might set it off. …
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30+ Karen Sympathizers Reveal Their Most Boomer-Friendly Complaints
Old age comes to us all, if we’re lucky. For some this is a process that happens quicker than with others, and you see the signs in your attitude towards life as much as you do in your body. Staying in suddenly becomes the pinnacle of the Friday night experience. You finally start caring about …
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Insufferable Humble Braggers Who Need Taking Down a Peg
One of many ways in which the internet gotten worse in recent years is that so much of it has become so polished. With many Millennials, Gen Z and younger looking up to influencers for inspiration, so much of the content we get confronted with seems like a subtle boast about how great somebody else’s …
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Disgruntled Redditors Provide Examples of Things People Do When They Aren’t Raised Right
I truly believe it’s important to try and see the best in others, even if it isn’t always obvious. At the same time, there’s a certain low bar that we should all be jumping over once we’ve reached adulthood, and felt a couple of the hard knocks of life. This usually involves simple things, like …
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Man Gets Tired of Client Ignoring 3-Hour Time Zone Difference, So He Does the Same
As a ‘digital nomad’ who works for a company that has employees all over the world, I try to respect the time zones of others. For instance, if I get online at 8am to start working, I don’t expect anyone who lives three thousand miles away to hop in a Zoom meeting until it suits …
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A Nostalgic Thread Told by Salty Students Who Are Still Not Over Their Tyrannical Grade School Teachers
For those who look back on those weird, awkward years when you were still living under your parent’s roof, getting grounded, made fun of at school, and tsk-tsked by teachers, believe me when I say you are not alone. Lots of people talk about the ‘good old days’ and reminisce about their school years. I, …
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Man Expresses Annoyance When His Wife Wants to Dine In at a Restaurant Just Minutes Before Close
If you’ve ever worked in the food service industry, you certainly know the pain of customers coming in right minutes before closing. While it’s still technically appropriate and enforced by management, the last thing you want after an eight-and-a-half-hour shift is to stick around an extra hour for a couple of customers. If you’ve never …
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