How has she gotten away with this for five years? I used to think all Americans doing fake accents were incredibly obviously fake. That was until this past weekend, when my friend Shira bet me that she could convince a stranger at this party that she was Australian. If the stranger could tell it was …
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Bride Bans Wedding Guests From Wearing Blue 24 Hours Before Her Wedding, Forbids 30+ Guests Wearing Blue From Appearing in Pictures
Who does she think she is? Does she think her wedding guests have an unlimited budget to get a brand new outfit the night before her wedding? What about guests who are traveling from out of town? If you’ve been to your fair share of millennial or Gen Z weddings, you’ve probably had the experience …
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62-year-old dad scolds 16-year-old daughter for buying a $60 hoodie with her own money because he’s unemployed and getting his PhD: ‘Seriously, in our financial state?’
It’s her money, she should be able to do what she wants with it. Teenagers are not known for making the best financial decisions. Famously, when I was 17, I commissioned a wig maker to create a wig that resembled the hairdo of the most famous real estate agent in my hometown. I don’t remember …
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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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Parents don’t congratulate 15-year-old daughter on making the national debate team finals, praises her older brother for doing his PE assignment instead: ‘He did a compulsory assignment and he gets all the praise in the world’
Every kid is different, and parents should know this better than everybody. That’s why it gets tricky when praising one child for something you wouldn’t praise the other for. If one kid is a diligent, high-achieving student, you wouldn’t praise them for getting a C in Biology. But if your kid struggled immensely with passing …
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20+ British Memes From Across the Pond
When it comes to the great big English language meme machine, there is no denying that the good ol’ U S of A has a monopoly. More often than not the funny trends and pictures we consume have some flavor of the land of the free. It makes it easy to forget that there are …
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Terrifying British Karen Growls at Dude for Parking in Front of His Friend’s House
There’s something so scary and weird about someone banging on your car window. Unless there is a baby or a dog locked in there, there is practically no reason to be doing all of that. Still, Karens and male Karens of all kinds continue to bother people and complain about strangers just existing in a …
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Loser Tattles On Fast Food Worker For Greeting Him Casually
It’s hard to win when you’re working in customer service. If you are casual and approachable, people think you’re unprofessional and careless. If you ask several clarifying questions and maintain a «professional» manner, people think you are trying too hard and seem unfriendly. There is literally no way to win, so you have to gauge …
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40 British Memes For Greggs Enjoyers And Beans on Toast Defenders
Everything I know about the UK, I learned from RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. Well, that’s not completely true, but there’s no way I would be able to list as many British cities as I can now were it not for the drag queen reality competition show. In every first episode, there’s a runway challenge where …
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Europeans Share Things Americans Aren’t Ready To Hear
American culture can be pretty cringe. Even though I’m pro-America on some Europe vs. America issues (Stephen Sondheim over Andrew Lloyd Webber any day), I am not ignorant of my nation’s flaws. The Pledge of Allegiance is one of my favorite stupid things Americans force children to do. Not only did I have to recite …
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