‘People ask for my opinion and get upset when I give my honest answer’: Man says he’s ‘not having fun’ on a hike with brother, brother calls out his brutal honesty

We all have to lie sometimes in order to grease the wheels of life. Part of being a human is not saying how we truly feel in order to spare the feelings of someone we love. Imagine if every time you get a gift you didn’t have much use for, you said «I don’t really …
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‘Keeping batteries in the fridge’: 20+ Weird habits our parents had that are definitely not normal anymore

Behaviors and customs, like anything, change with time. As technology changes and history continues to unfold, we change right along with it. We don’t use chamber pots and wear petticoats anymore, do we? But what are the changes that have happened over our lifetimes, or our parents’ lifetimes?  Time and technology move and change in …
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‘It’s extremely poor etiquette’: Woman’s buffet behavior causes stuck-up friend to call her ‘disgustingly low class’

Certain pockets of the world are weirdly obsessed with etiquette. I recently stumbled across a video where a woman was teaching how to let «the bag serve you» or «the water bottle serve you» rather than «serving the water bottle.» It was all about not paying too much attention to your purse or your water, …
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Father Sends Rebellious Son to Strict Brother’s Care After Countless Second Chances, Leaving Son Pleading to Return Home and the Father Distraught

A textbook can’t instruct you how to be a good parent. The most popular approach is probably trial and error. Having said that, how would you react if one of your kids started misbehaving? Would you work tirelessly to see that he matured into a respectful adult, or would you tolerate their wrongdoing out of …
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‘I spent 40 dollars ordering from a cookie store’: Entitled 5th grader continually disrupts teacher’s class, faces petty end of year revenge

How do you deal with a singular problem student? It’s a conundrum that has stressed out many hardworking teacher. It can sometimes seem like you can’t put a foot right: come down too hard on them and you risk making them even less willing to learn, but being too lenient can also have the same …
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‘SHOES ON THE FREAKING BED’: 20+ Non-Americans reveal what weirds them out about people from the USA

Many around the world would agree that the USA is a special place, but the reasons for that would differ wildly. To many Americans, it’s nothing short of the greatest place on Earth, but to those outside of the 50 states, it can be a very different scenario. No country is perfect, but thanks to …
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‘He said he had an alpha personality’: 20+ flagrant red flags that made regular folks run for the hills

As Lisa Kudrow as Wanda Pierce in Bojack Horseman once said, «When you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags,» which is one of the most poignantly true statements anyone has ever made, especially in an adult cartoon. When you love someone, or when you want to love someone, it’s …
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‘Leaving your kids at home for the night’: Things that were normal 20 years ago, but unacceptable today

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the mid-aughts are now history—they’re twenty years old, to be exact. No matter how many of us experience it, I don’t think us human beings will get used to the passage of time that only seems to get faster as we get older.  That being …
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‘I turn into the biggest Karen if I hear someone’s tablet’: Flight attendant reveals ‘most diabolical’ things a passenger can do on a plane

Economy class air travel is enough to enrage even the most mild-mannered of individuals. Between the lack of space and lack of consideration that much of the general public has, it is a recipe for discomfort and annoyance at the best of times. All it takes is one outrageous passenger to make an uncomfortable traveling …
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‘Giving any sort of unsolicited advice’: 20+ disrespectful things that people don’t realize are bad

Everybody has been impolite at some point in their lives. Contrary to what some would like to think, we do not all pop out of the womb pre-programmed to understand every single social rule and expectation that will get placed on us throughout our existence. Still! So long as we have the mental capacity, it’s …
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