‘This is shorter than a CVS receipt’: Toronto dispensary prints customer order that has entire script of ‘Shrek’ in the special instructions

Special order requests are dangerous territory for many a service worker. Sometimes they’re simple or surprisingly wholesome, and other times they turn out to be a battleground on which a hellish customer wishes to begin a duel. I don’t blame anyone who has to deal with them for approaching them with trepidation, even if they …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (November 28, 2023)

Something I find fascinating is how TikTok seems to be morphing slowly into YouTube. It was confirmed that the platform was experimenting with allowing some users to upload 15 minute videos last month. It started off with a time limit of 15 seconds! Also, a lot of people find that their FYP occasionally serves up …
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Crunchy Mom Gets Roasted for Claiming «Free Birthed Baby» Always Hangs Out Where Her Placenta Was Buried

Hippy moms can have a bad reputation. I have to say that it is often deserved. From the tyrannical bans on processed sugars to jeopardizing health by forgoing modern medicine, they can make decisions that don’t seem entirely rational. At the same time, it’s not always a terrible thing to take the crunchier approach to …
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Main Character Auntie Steals Show at Football Game, Haters Left Speechless

The term «main character» has become an internet-favorite insult for folks who claim the spotlight without regard for anyone else. Think influencers in the wild, Karens at the drive-through, and TikTokers on busy train cars. True, this brand of people is a ripe target for roasting. They’re annoying, self-centered, and everything that’s wrong with the …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (November 14, 2023)

The success of TikTok over the past half a decade is far from a mystery. It combines many of the contemporary internet’s favorite things: attention seeking, dumb arguments, and most importantly of all, easily accessible and digestible Content. Many a TikTok naysayer has been reluctantly won over by finally opening the app and immediately going …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (November 7, 2023)

Do you ever think about how in just a few short years, it’s become normal behavior — encouraged, even — to start recording with our front cameras and tell the world about the most intimate details of our life? While it didn’t come out of nowhere, it can occasionally seem that way. At least we …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (October 10, 2023)

I have a lot of thoughts about the future of the internet that make me anxious. One of these is that we will all be increasingly expected to express ourselves via the medium of short form video. Has the static written word really become that boring? I don’t want to have to go through an …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (October 3, 2023)

It’s wild to me how in just a few short years, TikTok has changed so much about the internet that we use everyday. Platforms that used to be all about the static image have done full pivots to video (looking at you, Instagram and Twitter). It’s become almost normal for some random person that you …
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Cringey TikTok Couple Get Clowned for Sharing Their «Love Surge»

There’s no getting away from it: being in love is one of the most cringeworthy emotional states in existence. That’s part of what makes it so great. There are so few experiences these days where we feel strongly enough to let our guard down that it makes true romance all the more freeing. Still, it’s …
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