The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (June 25, 2024)

It’s no secret that the attention span of the average person these days is completely fried, and a big part of that is to do with social media. TikTok is probably one of the biggest culprits of the past half a decade, with the endless highlight reel of the FYP forever promising bigger and better …
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20+ Hilarious Typos and Unique Sentences That Boggle the Mind

Words: they’re difficult sometimes. Take it from somebody who spends most of their days looking at ‘em and typing ‘em, it’s very easy to trip yourself up when you least expect it. Sometimes, something as simple as a three-word text can offer the potential for disaster, and if you’re writing out anything longer? Well, Godspeed. …
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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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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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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (May 7, 2024)

For all that people used to treat it as a wild and novel invention, the formula of TikTok’s success only follows the many platforms that came before it. Many of its users mix candid revelations about their own lives with a very specific blend of social media showmanship that proves so addictive to viewers that …
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30 Unhinged Comments That Steal the Show

Sometimes, the comment section is where the real magic happens. Have you ever come across a post that was just okay and thought to yourself, «How did this go viral?» But then you read the comments and suddenly find yourself choking on your coffee from laughter? I do it all the time. It’s like an …
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‘What do y’all kids know about Crazy Frog’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (April 16, 2024)

For all that it can feel this way, the internet is not forever. The infrastructure on which it is built is so varied and sprawling that there is every chance that something will happen in the future that will cause its massive reservoir of information to be lost, meaning that we could currently be living …
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