Chef daughter serves ungrateful mom favorite fast food burger as her own cooking, still faces critique: ‘Who needs enemies with a mother like this?’

We can’t choose our family, and for some people that turns out to pretty unfortunate. Not everyone gets blessed with supportive parents, something which is always going to make a kid’s life harder—unless they can turn it into content, of course.  One amateur chef on TikTok has recently been doing exactly this, cooking for mean …
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Fed up barista reveals how she makes wildly unhealthy iced coffee orders: ‘How does one discover 15 pumps is the sweet spot’

As a general rule, I try not to be too hard on the ‘is it coffee or is it breakfast dessert’ crowd. I, too, much prefer this form of caffeine with a little cream and sugar. That being said, there is a line that is easily crossed and nowhere showcases this better than your average …
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Newly qualified attorney goes in for surgery, comes around from anesthetic reciting the Preamble to the Constitution: ‘[You] correcting yourself is the craziest part to me’

If you really think about it, tests are a crazy invention. The amount of knowledge you are expected to retain just so you can prove your competence has caused many a breakdown among stressed students who are at the point of sleep deprivation where they’re doubtful they can even remember their usual coffee order. This …
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New dad tries to go against wife’s wishes and feed water to 2-month-old baby: ‘my mother insists that newborns should be given water from birth’

It’s great that more and more dads are trying to be more involved parents these days, but not all of them understand that it isn’t about just showing up and doing whatever the heck they feel like. Raising kids isn’t easy, and the teamwork required with the other parent is a part of the equation …
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Corporate Millennials and Gen Z women deliberate over dressing appropriately for work: ‘just dress like you have no hopes and dreams’

As somebody who loves clothes and doesn’t love arbitrary rule enforcement, one of many things I’m grateful for about my job is that I don’t really have to worry about any higher-ups disapproving of how I dress (thank you, working from home).  However, it remains a fact that anybody who works a vaguely corporate or …
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Teen hobby horse rider reveals dramatic aftereffects of the sport, faces mockery: ‘I thought she just fell off an actual horse’

When most people think about sports, the first thing that comes to mind is probably some kind of ball game, like baseball or football. However, the truth is that there are all kinds of weird and wonderful exercise-based pursuits that don’t get as much airtime.  One such niche is hobby horsing, which involves completing a …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (21 May, 2024)

It’s time to face the fact that it has been a darned long time since TikTok was exclusively a young people app. On some For You pages, it can seem like the boomers are even more in love with the whole concept than their grandkids are. One of the most important points of TikTok’s ongoing …
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‘Calling CPS’: Frustrated postpartum mom causes controversy after releasing rage by throwing ice cubes in the bathroom

Giving birth can be one of the craziest experiences that somebody ever deals with. We are all pretty aware of the gruesome physical effects it can have, but often less discussed is the toll that it can take on you mentally. The postpartum phase can be just as difficult as pregnancy for numerous reasons, and …
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‘This was always my song for my daughter’: The most touching comments left under songs on YouTube

Once upon a time, one of the most important pieces of wisdom about the internet was to never read the comments. Even the comment sections of the most anodyne of videos threatened to be home to the cesspit of humanity, or so we were told.  While there can be an element of truth to this …
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20+ Ridiculous Recipe Substitutions and Comments That Didn’t Cook Up a Feast

Getting the right groceries can be a drag for anybody who is a somewhat adventurous chef. When you’re trying to cook up something delicious from a recipe that you found on the internet, there is every chance that what Ms. Perfect Food Blogger considers a pantry staple is most normal peoples’ idea of an arduous …
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