There is no way to fully prepare for parenthood. Even if you read every baby book in the library, devour countless academic articles about child-rearing, ask all the parents you know for advice, watch every baby TikTok under the sun, and study parenting tweets every Thursday, being a parent will continue to shock you every …
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‘Do not dare disrespect the hotdurger again’: Ungrateful foodie complains about being cooked for, gets roasted by the internet
I don’t believe in the whole concept of love languages, but if I did, one of mine would definitely be somebody cooking for me. Few things make me feel cared for like a person taking the trouble to make me food. I’d hazard a guess that there are many others that feel similarly. However, some …
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45+ of the Freshest and Funniest Tweets of the Week (May 11, 2024)
One of Twitter’s trademark features is also one of its greatest drawbacks: the character limit. It keeps things brief, digestible, and conversational. You don’t want anyone running around posting paragraphs and tomes… that’s what Wattpad is for. With everyone forced to reduce their ideas to a sentence-long quip, things get flashier and rougher. Nuance on Twitter? Yeah, ok, …
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‘I wake up at 4:30 AM every day’: Millennials who grew up living with their grandparents reveal the old people things they do
Despite the reputation that they often make for themselves on the internet, we can learn a lot from old people. It’s true that in some ways, they had to live in tougher times than we do. It’s easy to roll our eyes at their habits and sayings when we’re growing up, but as an adult? …
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‘Can’t y’all use magnets??’: Unorthodox grocery list splits opinion of the internet
I am a serial grocery list forgetter, and boy do I pay the price. In my hubris, I assume my memory will be good enough to remember all five items I planned on getting on my way home from work and half the time, I forget something. Perhaps it is my subconscious trying to tell …
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Worker complains about living paycheck to paycheck, despite making $80K per year and paying $1175 a month in rent: ‘This is extremely affordable living’
Everyone has a different definition of «living paycheck to paycheck.» If you’ve never lived in actual poverty, you have no idea how resourceful you have to be to stretch less than $100 over two weeks and how stressful it is to live like that. Even if your situation isn’t that dismal, you might not be …
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‘Imagine having children with this dude’: Woman complains about pumping gas 9 months pregnant while husband sits in car
‘Wife calling out lousy husband’ has long been a bonafide category of viral social media posts, but it never gets any less bleak. Every day, they go on the clock app and give unmarried straight women another reason to avoid men altogether. It’s extra fun when the woman in question is pregnant: what do you …
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‘He’s living the dream’: Corporate tech bro gets kudos for quitting 22-year career, becoming goose farmer
I challenge you to find a person who is part of the so-called rat race who doesn’t dream of giving it all up and then chilling in splendid isolation for the rest of their lives. Sure, there are a few true workaholics who would never entertain the thought, but they aren’t as common as you …
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‘How did people from the late 1900s to early 2000s graduate’: Lazy Gen Z college student brags about using AI for every assignment, gets dragged by the internet
Most of us college graduates know all too well that a university education doesn’t come cheap. Call me old-fashioned, but for me, this was an incentive to actually attempt to learn something. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t always the most studious undergraduate. Nonetheless, when the time came for me to be handed that fancy …
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‘I feel like you’d be overweight in the near future’: Man gets chewed out after dumping date for eating a salad
The ick is a complicated phenomenon in the already complex world of dating. Sometimes it arrives due to legitimate and even necessary reasons, other times it feels like a dumb game that your subconscious is playing against you. Either way, it is a very delicate topic to approach with your former crush. Often, it’s just …
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