25+ Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (March 10, 2024)

Billboards. They’re some of the biggest signs we have. And with them is an opportunity to really make a statement. Often, they are simply used to promote firework warehouses, gentlemen’s clubs and to let you know that there is a Buc-ee’s coming up in a couple of exits. They often become fodder for road trips, …
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‘I dropped a full pizza onto a man’s lap’: 20+ funniest stories from servers about cringy mistakes they made on the job 

Every server out there has thousands of stories from the job, some funny, some infuriating, and some so cringy that they keep them up at night. I’m talking about times when a server embarrassed themselves so much in front of customers, that no one is ever going to forget it. But even if a story …
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‘She must have very rich parents’: Little girl performs horrendous rendition of The National Anthem, gets compared to Fergie

We’re living in a post-America’s Funniest Home Videos world. We no longer have a clip show airing on cable designed to show us as many fails as possible in close succession. We’re also living in a post-American Idol audition fails world. I have not watched American Idol recently, but I’m pretty certain they’re not using …
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25+ Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (February 25, 2024)

Have you ever pushed a door that says «pull» and then felt like the dumbest guy in all the land? Me too, buddy. Sorry I can’t always intuit what it’s going to be, and I don’t always have the wherewithal to look and see if there’s a sign. It’s one of those stupid human moments …
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25 Wacky Design Fails Found in the Wild (January 28, 2024)

As the ancient adage says, «Graphic design is my passion.» Written in Comic Sans, neon green on a yellow background, size 8 font so you can’t read it. As a person with very limited Photoshop skills, I admire the divas who can bring their visions to life with a few strokes of the keyboard. It’s …
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25 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild

I’m no designer, but I do have common sense. Sometimes we get so caught up in trying to make something look good that we lose sight of its actual functionality. As the saying goes, we were so busy wondering if we can that we didn’t stop and ask if we should. But I’m all for a wonky design choice. …
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‘Happy New Year, the misery never ends’: The cringiest cringe pics of the week (January 3, 2024)

The act of cringing might only last a moment, but cringe itself lasts a lifetime. As much as we’d like to deny it, we’re still thinking about a few select moments from our younger years that we can’t help but cringe about. For me, it’s throwing up on the school bus leaving my 8th-grade field …
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Woman Hides Cobbler-Pie From Her Roommates After They Take Her for Granted

I moved out of my parent’s house for the first time when I started university. When I arrived at the dorms, I made sure to clean every square inch of that filthy apartment since I had no idea how the previous tenants—a group of teenage boys—had managed to live in such a filthy space. When …
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The Cringiest Cringe of the Week (December 27, 2023)

Did you know that «cringe» didn’t always mean what it means today? There are many definitions of cringe, most of them boiling down to experiencing «an inward feeling of acute embarrassment or awkwardness.» Thanks, Google! However, there are more specific definitions of this pervasive word. According to Miriam Webster, the top definition of cringe is …
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The Cringiest Cringe Pics of the Week (December 20, 2023)

I have committed so many acts of cringe in my life, so I might as well share some with you. After all, I’m going to be throwing so many stones at cringe people; I might as well admit that I’m no better than the cringey people who lie in these pics below us. When I …
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