Month: October 2018

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These 15 Posts Perfectly Capture the “Joys” of Adulthood

Things like paying bills, going to bed on time, and eating healthy are terrible. But for us adults, they’re what we’ve gotta do to survive. If you’re tired of adulting, these posts will hit you where you live.

15. Congrats!

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14. Amazon deliveries aren’t what they used to be

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13. HGTV does become strangely appealing

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12. Two truths about adulthood

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11. Ugh, work

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10. It’s the little things

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9. A vegetable!

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8. It’s practical

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7. On the plus side, you can annoy youngsters

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6. I’m not leveled up enough

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5. Adulthood is wild

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4. We’re all tired

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3. There’s no place like home

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2. Seriously! It’s gotta be expensive

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1. A painful truth

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Annnd now back to the grind…

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After Selling for More Than $1 Million, Banksy Artwork Shreds Itself

Leave it to Banksy, one of the world’s most eccentric (and anonymous) artists, to pull something like this off. At a recent Sotheby’s auction, his piece “Girl with Balloon” sold for $1.4 million — a whopping three times more than the artwork was estimated to fetch.

However, the highest bidder was in for a big, surprise. A shredder was built into the piece’s ornate frame, and when the auction ended, an alarm went off and “Girl with Balloon” was shredded to pieces in front of a dumbstruck crowd.

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Here’s a video of the incident.

The Sotheby’s listing noted that the frame is “an integral element of the artwork chosen by Banksy himself.” No word yet on next steps for the person who bought the piece. Were they in on the prank? I guess time will tell. But Banksy has announced that he was in the room when the shredding went down…

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This Just In: Pumpkin Spice Is Nothing New

This time of year, “pumpkin spice” is in everything you see. Lattes, beer, dog treats…the list goes on and on. It seems to be a national obsession. But if you think this trend is something from the last decade or so, you’re way off. In fact, pumpkin spice has been around for an incredible 3,500 years.

Pumpkin spice is a combination of nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger. On an Indonesian island called Pulau Ay, archaeologists discovered nutmeg residue on ceramic pottery that they estimate to be 3,500 years old. So a key ingredient in pumpkin spice has been around for much longer than previously thought.

The thousands-of-years-old spice trade was a global link from Africa to the Middle East to Asia to Europe. Spices were used in food and medicine (think about how bland European food probably was before the introduction of various spices) and were highly sought after commodities.

In the 1300s, traders went to Pulau Ay and other nearby islands seeking various spices – including nutmeg, which was only known to be grown in that region. And it was very big business.

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Nutmeg was so desired that in the late 1600s, the Dutch traded their colony of New Amsterdam (now known as a little place called New York City) to Britain in exchange for the nutmeg-rich island of Pulau Run. So nutmeg literally changed the course of history.

Just in the past year alone, nearly half a billion dollars of pumpkin spice-flavored products were sold in the U.S. So next time you’re sipping on your pumpkin spiced latte, remember that you’re carrying on an ancient tradition that’s been cultivated over many, many generations. Cheers!

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Drone Footage of Utah’s Fall Foliage Is Absolutely Breathtaking

Unless you live there, Utah may not be the first state that jumps to mind when you think of beauty, but this new video from a drone near Snowbasin Resort shows that it’s just as beautiful as anywhere else in the country.

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The bright, bursting colors don’t even look real from high above the forest – it has to be seen to be believed.

Take a look at this magnificent video from Justin McFarland.

What do you think? Pretty unbelievable, right?

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15+ Tweets About What It’s Really Like Living with Someone You Love

Your significant other is wonderful and perfect in every single way, right? Of course they are!

… and then you move in together.

The things that used to delight you are now driving you insane. You still love your partner, of course, but now they’re a bit more … human.

Here are 17 tweets that perfectly capture the joys of living with someone you love:

17. Bedtime is fun

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16. Ugh, snoring

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15. Be careful?

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14. Forever

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13. Stay classy

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12. A litmus test

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11. This pro tip could save your marriage

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10. It’s a valid question

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9. Keep that spark alive

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8. You can be there for each other

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7. How are we defining junk?

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6. It’s a sad moment

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5. So romantic

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4. I will end you

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3. Sometimes it’s about winning

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2. There’s a right way and a wrong way

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1. Finding lost things is what brings us together

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10 Sets of Twins Who Achieved Yearbook Greatness

When you’ve got a twin, it must be pretty tempting to get into some mischief.

Here are 10 times twins took their yearbooks to the next level:

10. Okay, they’re technically triplets…

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9. Channeling SpongeBob

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8. Unintentional? Sure…

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7. He was just being helpful

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6. It chose me

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5. It would have been wrong

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4. Jinx!

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3. Not smiling made all the difference

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2. Savage

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1. Well played

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I always wished I were a twin – now I know I missed out.

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Girl Scouts vs Personality Posters

The most controversial poster of 1969, which prompted the Girl Scouts to file suit. Although a judge threw out the case, citing no evidence that the organization had suffered any damages. via weirduniverse.net 00

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15+ Product Packages That Are the Absolute Worst

Companies are constantly coming up with new ways to package their products. The ideal product package reflects the brand and appeals to customers, all while keeping an eye on convenience and safety.

But if you’ve literally ever bought something in your life, you know that packaging is often frustrating, needlessly wasteful, and sometimes downright dangerous.

From shrink-wrapped fruit to oversized cardboard boxes, scroll through these images of the times packaging is the absolute worst.

#1 Why are we packaging bananas, folks?

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#2 Same with avocados.

We are perfectly capable of halving our own avocados.

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#3 This ginormous box shipped a ruler.

Maybe the person in charge of shipping should have measured it first.

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#4 Again, with the produce.

Just let everyone pick their own. They could even put them in bags they bring from their homes. It will all be okay.

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#5 This gas can of tea makes me think I could probably brew my own using a teeny biodegradable tea bag and some hot water.

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#6 Cheese wrapped in plastic wrapped in plastic.

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#7 Okay, this is too much packaging for some crackers and bologna.

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#8 This is a hell of a lot of packaging for ONE PILL.

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#9 All this packaging for a light bulb?

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#10 Not impressed.

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#11 On the other hand, no one needs tea bags individually wrapped in plastic.

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#12 Because chips must lie in a tray inside a tube.

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#13 That time you only needed one egg.

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#14 Oftentimes, choice cuts of meat are available for purchase at the butcher case where it will be wrapped in paper and a piece of tape or string.

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#15 Tic-tac boxes of boxes of Tic-tacs.

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#16 Why does whatever this is get its own pallet?

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#17 This over-packaging makes me crabby.

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Scroll further for 3 bonus images of worst ever packaging designed to make you cringe!

Bonus #1 How juvenile.

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Bonus #2 Look, both products are “quality assured.”

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Bonus #3 Finally! We’ve needed our own soup for quite a while.

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How Much Money You Need to Make to Afford the Average Home in Each State

Owning a home is a dream for many Americans, but the high price tag and unpredictable market can make it seem more like a nightmare.

People who want to learn how to better manage their finances may be familiar with the website HowMuch. This useful resource recently put together a colorful infographic that shows what salary you need to make in order to afford the average home in each state, and let’s just say you might need to ask your boss for a raise…

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Though the east and west coasts may have their cultural differences, both share an unfortunate characteristic: expensive homes. According to the graphic—which factors in a 30-year mortgage with a 10 percent down payment—you would need to make about $120,120 to afford the average home in California. It doesn’t get much better across the country in Massachusetts, where $101,320 will put you in a position to buy a house.

The situation is not all doom and gloom, though. For instance, you only need a salary of $47,960 to afford the average home in Pennsylvania. Strangely, midwestern states like North Dakota ($56,000) and Wyoming ($58,000) require a more substantial salary.

Of course, the cost-of-living index will vary based on your specific location. Generally speaking, living in a major city will lead to a more expensive lifestyle, whereas purchasing a home in suburban or rural areas can dramatically lower your cost of living.

So if you’re looking for a home, maybe think a little outside the box.

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The term and concept…

The term and concept of “jay-walking” was introduced in the 1920’s by the auto industry as part of a propaganda campaign to claim the roads for cars and shift the blame in accidents from cars to pedestrians. At the time “Jay” was a slur with a similar meaning to “redneck” or “hillbilly.” 00