Entitled New York restaurant staff refuse to let customers cut homemade birthday cake, serve them tiny slices then claim there is none left: ‘It took 5 or 6 hours of my time and I would value it at several hundred dollars’

Baking is a seriously impressive hobby. While anybody can throw some package mix together and call it a day, it takes real patience and skill to make and decorate a great cake. There’s a good reason those artisanal bakers charge so much. As a result, it’s a real privilege to have a friend who knows …
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Gen Z woman attempts to buy 72 rolls of laundry quarters for $10 on Amazon, is baffled when she gets scammed: ‘Isn’t this the kind of thing that Gen Z thought only Boomers do?’

Almost all of us have a reliance on online shopping these days, but there are some things you just don’t risk it with. For example, that obviously dropshipped miracle product being advertised on Twitter, or a suspiciously cheap piece of technology on Temu. However, we all have our dumb moments and some of us tend …
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‘So many [kids] have attention seekers for parents now’: Dad disciplines daughter for cutting second period math class by converting bedroom into ‘personal jail cell’

If there is one thing you can guarantee about having kids, it’s that they are going to act out sometimes. It’s only normal to push the boundaries and rebel, and although it can be a stressful experience for the parents it is important to only respond appropriately. Unfortunately, moms and dads often have very different …
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‘Do not invite me to that microwave you live in’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (October 1, 2024)

Many like to argue that TikTok can show us a lot about what it means to live in Society today. What that is exactly is highly dependent on who you may be talking to and whatever agenda they may have, so it can sometimes be pretty confusing to figure out what it all means. At …
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‘NYC side quest’: TikToker Shares POV of Being Escorted by the NYFD Through the L Train Subway Tunnels After Emergency Stop, Goes Viral

You can say a lot of things about New York City, but saying it’s boring is not one of them. This city will keep you on your toes, guaranteed! Heck, I was supposed to only be here for a summer and now it’s been over a decade. Once this city gets its claws into you, …
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‘Spent $150 on groceries and I still need $150 worth of groceries’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (September 24, 2024)

The psyche of the average person who posts regularly on TikTok must be a fascinating thing. Exchanging your story, your deepest held secrets, your most shameful thought processes in exchange for virality—it’s nothing new, but was it ever this popular and widely accepted? TikTok is in part so popular as it is a continuation of …
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19-year-old college student befriends 89-year-old widower at her bookie job, become the best of friends over 9 years: ‘It was obvious he was really lonely’

Multigenerational friendships benefit everyone involved. Many older people cannot socialize as much as they’d like, which leaves them stuck in their houses with nothing to do but watch TV all day. Too many young people do not have any friends more than five years older than them, let alone have had any real interaction with …
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Demure VS BRAT: How the trend uplifted modesty and denounced its predecessor of the messy party girl aka BRAT

As the wise Charli xcx once said, «I think the apple’s rotten right to the core / From all the things passed down from all the apples coming before». The apple in question? The internet. That ever-growing, overly-immersive, digital world, riddled with aesthetics and buzzwords. You’ve undoubtedly seen the «demure» meme everywhere. The term was …
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‘How difficult it is to be a book girlie AND a rotisserie chicken girlie’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (September 17, 2024)

One of the best and worst things about the internet is that it has exposed us all to so many things we would have been blissfully unaware of otherwise, and few places exemplify this better than TikTok. For better or worse, this short-form video platform has given a voice to people from all walks of …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (September 10, 2024)

There are only a few things that you need to be a somewhat successful TikToker: a phone, a can-do attitude, and the opportunity to be smiled upon by the algorithmic gods. While social media has always had at least the outward appearance of being democratic, it is the clock app that has really hammered home …
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