Running a «business» when you’re a kid is a rite of passage. For some reason, all of us want to grow up way too fast and thus want to role-play all the parts of being an adult. We want to pretend to have weddings, have kids, and have jobs. I remember playing «teacher» with my …
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25 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (October 5, 2025)
Sometimes failure is inevitable. Sometimes we can’t help but fall flat on our faces, no matter how hard we try. This is life’s way of humbling us. Think about what we would be like if we never failed. We would all be arrogant, entitled freaks, walking around, thinking that we’ve done nothing wrong. We wouldn’t …
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Boomer customers leave $65 to cover $68 bill, scurry out before management can catch them: ‘Never seen boomers move so fast’
I get it, everything is expensive nowadays. You can hardly walk outside without spending $60. And it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. Prices keep rising, and wages are staying the same. It’s an impossible situation, and one that almost all of us can relate to. So we might feel like there is less …
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25 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (September 28, 2025)
We don’t always get to decide when we fail. We just have to live through it. Say, for instance, it’s your first day at a new job. You worked unbelievably hard to get here, and you feel like you’re punching above your weight. You buy a new blazer just for the occasion. You couldn’t sleep …
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‘He was trying to put us in $800 a month worth of debt’: Entitled wife persuaded by car salesman to purchase a car $36,000 over given budget, angry husband refuses to view car and walks out of the dealership
Everybody likes to see how far they can stretch the limits. Sometimes we think we should all live our lives as if we’re negotiating the last dazzling elephant-covered scarf at an Asain flea market. That extra $1 feels so valuable after knowing you’ve worked for it. However, when most people create a thorough budget when …
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25+ Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (August 10, 2025)
The world is full of tiny absurdities. Sometimes you’ll just see something that doesn’t make any sense. You can’t square it with your version of reality. Maybe it’s a type of store that you can’t understand why anyone would have a need for. Maybe it’s a type of person that you’ve never met before and …
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Bossy customer makes waitress cry over a plate of sunny side up eggs, leaves $0 tip: ‘She starts picking me apart like I’m a character flaw’
If you’ve ever worked in the service industry, you know how difficult certain customers can be. No matter how much you try to please them, some folks just want to watch the world burn. They don’t care how hard you’re working, they just woke up on the wrong side of the bed, and on the …
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25+ Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (August 3, 2025)
To err is to be human. What are we, clankers? That’s a word I recently learned that is apparently used to denigrate robots. But robots, by design, don’t make mistakes. They can only be programmed wrong. Flaws? Things going south? That’s all us, baby. In this era of encroaching robot rule, it’s important to hold …
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25 Comforting College Memes For The Students Who Are Always One Step Behind
We’ve all been there: In desperate need of a private secretary to inform us of paper deadlines, ensure we are gracefully awoken for our 8 a.m.s, to place our textbooks gently under our pillows at night, and pray that some sliver of knowledge enters our brains. Some of us are lucky enough to have those …
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25 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (July 27, 2025)
Sometimes life calls for a «screw it» moment. You know this because you’ve had them. You’ve lived through moments when you just had to throw caution to the wind and let fate, or perhaps impulse, take the wheel. Maybe you were super nervous to ask someone out on a date, but instead of wallflowering in …
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