Explain Like I’m 35: What is Yapping? (February 4, 2024)

The entirety of social media relies on the fact that some people are physically incapable of shutting up. It’s an ecosystem sustained by diarrhea of the keyboard and/or phone camera. While many have criticized this state of affairs, it’s not until recently that we have had the meme-ready vocabulary to describe it: the online third …
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35+ of the Freshest and Funniest Tweets of the Week (February 3, 2024)

Tweet it once, shame on me. See the tweet and pass it off as your own, shame on you. A good tweet is one in a million. But that means there are vultures waiting in the wings to steal your good ideas. It happens all the time, and there’s very little you can do about …
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‘Stay in that area and keep an eye on them…’: Senior Employee Skillfully Complies With Upper Management to Stop Teen Theft

Customer service is never an easy job to work in. A whole different story, though, applies to customer service jobs during the holiday season.  A disappointed retail sales associate tells his story below. For a while now, OP has been employed in the field of customer service. He is therefore well-acquainted with the variety of …
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40+ of the Freshest and Funniest Tweets of the Week (January 27, 2024)

Twitter, for all its flaws (and there are MANY), has become an important cornerstone of our culture. It has transformed from a stupid little app where Ryan Lochte could tweet «Rocks, paper, siccor……..» into a platform where all kinds of important geopolitical information is disseminated. That said, I do wish we had apps that were …
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‘I know it smells crazy in there’: Movie theater allows dogs to attend screenings, people react weirdly

I am one of the world’s greatest defenders of going to the movies. I think it’s one of our most sacred rites as humans and to think that it’s in danger of going away fills me with existential dread. To gather to consume art, to pop the popcorn, dim the lights, and lose yourself for …
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‘It tasted nostalgic’: A surprising ice cream topping trend divides the internet

Weird food combos make the world go round. It feels like every couple of months we’re hit with a new combination that someone on the internet swears by, and leaves the rest of us scratching our heads. I remember a trend that appeared during the pandemic: you would hollow out a raw jalapeño, fill it …
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‘Leave them alone creep’: Woman secretly films couple’s photo booth proposal, gets roasted for invading privacy

In the age of social media, privacy has become a sticky subject. With everyone making content out of their lives all the time, it’s hard to say when to draw the line on if you want to be photographed. Everyone’s constantly mining their experiences for content, but some things are sacred. Not everything has to …
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‘Your name is Josh? Like the wine?’: 25 Josh Wine tweets celebrating 2024’s favorite beverage

Wine can be a mysterious lover. I love a good glass of red as much as the next girl, but that doesn’t mean I know anything about wine. All I know is that tannins are the thing that makes your tongue feel dry and terroir is when it tastes like where it’s from. Okay, so …
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20 Half-Baked Cookie Cutter Shapes That Still Pass the Vibe Check

It’s the holiday season! Grab your cookie sheets, your shortbread dough, and the frosting bags, because it’s time to dig up granny’s old cookie cutters to bake up some holiday cheer! Except, when you look at granny’s cookie-cutter shapes, it’s hard to decipher what they’re even supposed to be. Is that a deformed Christmas tree? …
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Pigs Destroy a Golf Course in Arizona and the Internet Sides With the Pigs

The internet has many foes, but one of its fiercest, and perhaps most surprising, is golf. TikTokers denounce it as a dry old man sport and environmentalists decry its adverse impacts. Some imagine a world where golf never existed, which was apparently the key to utopia this whole time. I personally only participate in the …
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