Month: November 2019

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15 Hysterical Tweets from Women This Week

Ladies…are you ever gonna let up on the funny business?

I think we all know the answer to that one. It’s NO!

Absolutely not!

And here are 15 more examples of ladies bringing the house down.

1. That’s all I see, too.

2. Gonna be ugly this year.

3. That’s a pretty big bag.

4. I don’t think that’s gonna happen.

5. I feel you. BIG TIME.

6. Thank you?

7. A lot of Matts are causing problems out there.

8. Thanks a lot, parents.

9. Just go with it.

10. Gonna be an interesting Halloween.

11. This is hilarious.

12. On the offensive.

13. That person wins today.

14. I know I do.

15. We can all relate to this, right?

Ladies, keep on bringing that funny business to the masses!

Guys, let’s see if and when you can up your games!

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These Tweets Might Make Parents Laugh…and Cry

Parents, you have a tough job, and we take off our hats to you.

We also understand that you probably get a little (just a little…) fed up from time to time due to how much your little angels drive you up the wall.

So let’s enjoy some funny/painful tweets that should look familiar to all parents out there…let me know if you need a tissue…

1. Sick burn by Mom!

2. Not gonna happen.

3. Or where I am…

4. Don’t do it!

5. Thank you for that.

6. You showed them!

7. You’re doing great!

8. That’s not what I meant.

9. A slowwwww burn.

10. JUST DO IT.

11. You made a huge mistake.

12. Gee, thanks a lot.

13. Something totally different…

14. Yes, it is.

15. Now it makes sense.

Parents…do these tweets look accurate, or what?

Do us a favor: share a funny or painful anecdote about your kiddos in the comments below!

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This Is How Google Flights Can Help You Travel Cheaper

Traveling can be very expensive, so looking for cheap flights is crucial if you want to save a little money. Unfortunately, some websites make it hard to find a good deal.

Google Flights just introduced an update meant to help you find the best price for a flight. If you’ve used it recently, you may have seen alerts that pop up and let you know about any nearby airports. These pop-ups were created to help you find cheaper flight options at airports other than the one you initially were looking at.

Photo Credit: Screenshot, Google Flights

Sites such as The Points Guy and Thrifty Traveler first made mention of the new feature, and those guys definitely know what they’re talking about. So, worth checking out.

Pop-ups appear after you click “Nearby Airports” and usually look like this:

Photo Credit: Google Flights

Often times another airport may get you a better price, even if it winds up being slightly less convenient. And with this new update, Google Flights will also advise you on the best itinerary if you do decide to switch to another airport.

In the past, Google Flights allowed you to search for deals by clicking on more than one airport, but this new update makes it easier to play around with options until you find the best one.

In the end, people in larger metropolitan areas will benefit the most because Google Flights will alert them to better deals nearby. It is what it is, big cities just have more airport options.

Additional updates to Google Flights will also give you a glimpse of other types of deals, especially if you have flexible plans.

If you’ve already checked out Google Flights, let us know if it lives up to the hype. We’d love to hear more about whether or not these updates were useful!

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Former Victoria’s Secret Employees Share 10 Things They Want You to Know

Having a job at Victoria’s Secret looks “easy,” but employees are actually quite well-trained.

The store was born out of a desire to make sure people felt comfortable shopping for intimate items. Since 1977, Victoria’s Secret has been the go-to lingerie shop for people of all backgrounds.

The company has launched the careers of many a model and employed thousands of people at its retail locations. Here are some things they want you to know about their experiences.

10. Employee training is rigorous

Andrea, a former employee who worked with the company between 2015 to 2019, explained that everyone is trained for almost 6 weeks so they can better serve customers. She told Mental Floss,

“Whether you’re somebody who’s had a mastectomy, or somebody who’s transitioning, or somebody who’s getting a bra for the first time, that’s what we’re there for and that’s why we do our jobs.”

9. Employees can suggest other retailers

Victoria’s Secret may be the best-known lingerie retailer in the country, but employees can help you find what you need somewhere else if they don’t have a bra or item that fits your needs.

And since they carry sizes ranging only from 32AA-40DDD, some customers definitely need these suggestions.

8. In the past, looks were a bigger deal

Victoria’s Secret was once known for promoting models who were very thin. This was a large part of the company’s culture, and so, historically, the brand would hire thin employees to work at their retail stores, too.

That time is gone.

With slumping sales, Victoria’s Secret is now trying to revamp its image by diversifying. One former employee, says of this era,

“They would hire someone pretty over someone smart or capable. It was definitely part of the ‘fantasy.’”

7. Employees know how to deal with absent-minded boyfriends

Victoria's Secret, pretty red things, random shopping, University Village, Seattle, Washington, USA

Not every boyfriend or partner knows their girlfriend’s size. That’s why employees often suggest other gifts, such as gift cards, sprays, and body lotions.

Expert bra fitters are good, but not good enough to guess the bra size of someone who isn’t actually there.

6. Customers can get too comfortable

Customers are supposed to feel comfortable when they shop at Victoria’s Secret, but employees sometimes spot customers going way too far. Andrea once saw a customer use a pink bow on a bra to do something it wasn’t designed for…

“She takes it and she flossed her teeth with it in front of me. I was like ‘No!’ It’s so gross.”

5. There are some sweet benefits

Not everything is about training and seeing people do strange things. Employees get some nice benefits while they work at Victoria’s Secret, including decent pay and paid time off.

And as any retail worker will tell you, not every company will do the same for its employees.

4. Holidays can get zany

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Customers know they can get good deals during the holidays, but employees have to clean up after their messes and deal with extra foot traffic. Andrea says things can also get physical.

“I’ve literally seen grandmas punch each other in the face.”

3. Here’s how to avoid talking to sales reps

Not everyone likes talking to strangers, but company employers have to approach you asking if you need help. Andrea provides a small life hack for the timid shoppers though.

“A good trick if you don’t want help is to remember the name of the person who you’re introduced to. So if the first person is like ‘Hi, my name is Stephanie,’ and then two or three more people come and say ‘Do you need more help?’ just say ‘Stephanie’s helping me, thank you,’ and they will leave you alone.”

2. There’s a reason for the scent

You may have noticed Victoria’s Secret often smells like it was bathed in body spray. That’s because employees are required to spray the store with it. Along with other sales tactics, such as showing you a new bra and offering a store credit card, you can expect employees to try to sell you whatever scent is bombarding you at the store.

1. A lot of items are “damaged out”

People often try to return things that are already ruined, and some customers damage items they try on. An ex-employee said about her former job,

“The worst part was having to damage out [retail speak for taking an irreparable item out of circulation] underwear that girls had tried on without leaving their own underwear on.”

There are some valuable secrets! Which ones surprised you? Let us know below!

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Shocker: Hitting the “Close Door” Button on an Elevator Does Nothing at All

You’ve been here: you decided to wait on the elevator even though you’re running late, but it took forever to show up, and now you’re standing there waiting for the stupid doors to close, wishing the whole time that you’d taken the stairs.

You jab the “close door” icon repeatedly, and a rush of satisfaction rolls through you when, after a pause, the doors follow your internally screamed command.

Except…the button didn’t actually do anything. Just fyi.

The executive director of the National Elevator Industry trade group admitted recently that the close door button has been disabled on all U.S. elevators for a very long time, thanks for the Americans with Disabilities Act. Passed in 1990, the law requires elevators doors remain open long enough to anyone who needs assistance or using a mobility device to get safely in or out.

Since the majority of elevators out there are under 25 years old, the chances of snagging one with working close door buttons is just about nil.

Which should also make you feel good because your elevator is less than 25 years old.

But why bother to put them in new elevators if they’re not going to work?

Well, according to Drexel University professor John Kounios, it’s because the “white lie” of being able to hit the button is actually helpful.

“A perceived lack of control is associated with depression, so perhaps this is mildly therapeutic.”

Or at least, it was before you clicked on this article.

There’s good news, though – if you think you’ve been a generous, thoughtful person in holding the elevator doors open for people, you totally are.

Because those buttons are still functioning just fine.

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Here’s How to Find the Luckiest Lottery Numbers

Would you like to win the lottery? Yeah, join the club. While winning it big is mostly a matter of luck, there actually is some strategy to it. You can increase your chances of winning by using the numbers that are most common.

While many faithful lottery players have their own “lucky numbers” that they use over and over for years, you could instead go with the numbers that win the most frequently. Thankfully, there is an easy way to track this – in fact, multiple websites track which lottery numbers are pulled the most often.

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In the Mega Ball, for example, the most common number is 10. It has come up 13 times in the past two years. Other numbers barely come up at all – 8, 15, 25, 24, and 18 are the least common.

For the Mega Millions, the most common numbers in the past two years are 14, 62, 10, 42, and 48.

For the Powerball, the number 32 currently tops the list. It’s been drawn 46 times since 2015.

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In addition to picking the right numbers, there are other lottery statistics to keep in mind. For example, certain states are far more likely to win than others. When it comes to the Powerball, Indiana is the current luckiest with 39 wins since 1992 (when the Powerball started). Missouri, Minnesota, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania have also won many times. On the other end of the spectrum, West Virginia, Rhode Island, and Iowa have far fewer wins.

Hey, what’s a minor cross country move when the jackpot is on the line?

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This Is Why Your Arm Gets Sore After You Get a Flu Shot

It’s important to get a flu shot, but they can come with some annoying side effects. Namely, they often make your arm sore at the site of the injection, often for a day or two afterward.

But although the soreness isn’t pleasant, it’s actually a good sign that the vaccine is doing its job.

Soreness after a flu shot happens due to your body’s natural immunologic response. The flu shot introduces an “antigen,” or a protein that allows your body to recognize a foreign object so that it can fight it with antibodies. In this case, the antigen is a tiny deactivated version of the flu virus that teaches your body what a real, live flu virus looks like. That way, your body is prepared to quickly fight off illness if you encounter the flu out in the world.

However, this means your body recognizes the inactive flu virus as a foreign object – that’s the whole point. Your body notices the antigen and goes into attack mode, and since the antigens are deposited directly into your arm muscle, that’s where your immune system begins the attack.

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Part of that immune response includes inflammation. In the event of a real infection, inflammation is helpful — it helps repair damaged tissue and helps your body fight invaders.

But it can also cause soreness.

In addition to the flu shot, other shots also tend to create soreness, including the live varicella vaccine. The good news? The stronger your immune response (ie, the soreness), the stronger the immunity tends to be.

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However, just because you don’t feel any pain doesn’t mean the shot isn’t working. Everybody who receives a flu shot experiences inflammation. It’s just that not everybody experiences it to the point of pain. Only about one in five people have this local reaction, depending on the specific vaccine.

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A Study Found That Your Smartphone Is Making You Dumber, Even When It’s Turned off

You should turn off your phone once in a while. Better yet, throw it away! According to one 2017 study, you basically get stupider just by sharing the room with a smartphone, even if it’s not turned on.

The idea that smartphones dull your intelligence is not a new one. Many people are cautious about the over-use of screens and what it’s doing to our attention spans, especially for young kids. But one would think that smartphones can only take a cognitive toll when you’re actually using them.

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin found that that’s not the case.

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In the 2017 study, researchers asked over 400 undergrads to complete several tests of their cognitive capacity. In one test, participants had to complete a pattern. In another, they had to do math problems while keeping a regularly updated sequence of letters straight.

Some of the participants kept their phones on them, in their pocket or face down on the desk, like one naturally would. Others kept their phones in a separate room. The researchers found that the further away the phone was, the better the participants’ brains functioned.

In a second test, some of the participants kept their phones turned off, while others didn’t. Again, some kept their phones on them and some put them in another room. In this case, whether or not the phone was on made absolutely no difference in their test-taking performance – if it was present, it was apparently enough of a distraction to have an effect.

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So, if you’re looking to reduce your smartphone’s impact on your brain, turning it off ain’t enough. You don’t have to really throw it away, but if you’re going into distraction-free mode, leave it in a different room and turn off your notification sounds.

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A Man Finds out His Snakebite “Wasn’t That Bad”…After He Chops off His Finger

There’s a lot of information out there about how to treat a snakebite in order to give yourself the best chance to survive. And if you grow up somewhere with dangerous snakes, you pay attention when you people talk about how to handle a bite.

After being bit on the finger, an unfortunate Chinese man from the Zhejiang province thought he was doing exactly the right thing when he cut off the afflicted appendage – only to find out at the hospital that it was all for naught.

He believed the snake that had bitten him was a “hundred pacer” (Deinagkistrodon acutus), a snake that’s believed to have venom potent enough to kill a man before he can walk 100 steps.

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Venom VS Poison. Venom, in most things… and all snakes (the venomous ones), is made up of proteins, which are large and high molecular weight. It cannot travel through the body freely like many poisons and needs to go into the bloodstream in order to work. In current medical and scientific literature, the word poison is not used to define venom. There is a scientific difference for anyone who cares to read anything published in the last 2-3 decades. Yes there are poisonous snakes, many of them also venomous, but the mechanism of building, altering, and storing the different toxins is very different and so is their purpose and function. Some people might be fine with Websters Dictionary for their definition of venom, and maybe they are ok with their doctor using 1988 Encyclopedia Britannica to learn about heart surgery. Now as far as the sign goes, I think it is out of date, but the general public is not up to speed on the difference and it probably is synonymous and not a confusion for them. In time I hope the general public ever cares enough about snakes to know the difference…but it doesn't matter to most people. People with type 1 diabetes go through a similar frustration with the everyday person's knowledge of the disease and they think two very different illnesses both come from donuts. It takes people caring enough to educate others to change that.. thanks @ronan_m_k for this pic of my very venomous sharp-nosed pit-viper.

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In some parts of China, the same species is known as a five-step snake, which would make it 20x more deadly than this man believed when he took such drastic action.

So, I mean…you kind of get his reasoning (and admire his grit).

He arrived at the hospital 50 miles away, only to be told by one Dr. Yuan Chengda that “the five-step snake is not that toxic.”

It turns out that, while the snake’s venom is dangerous and can cause symptoms like local bleeding, swelling, blistering, necrosis, heart palpitations, and even death, it’s not as rapid as people believe. Also an antivenin is available and, if received in 6 hours or less, usually effective.

If the man had brought his finger, doctors at the hospital said they could even have reattached it.

According to Dr. Yuan, this isn’t even close to the first case he’s seen of someone overreacting and losing a limb.

“Some bite victims used knives to cut their fingers or toes, some used ropes or iron wires to bind the bitten limb tightly, and some even tried to destroy the venom in their body by burning their skin. When they arrive at the hospital, some people’s limbs are already showing signs of gangrene.”

Officially, the advice when dealing with a snakebite is that the “wound should not be tampered with in any way” – i.e. you shouldn’t use tourniquets, you shouldn’t “cut, suck, or scarify the wound or apply chemicals or electric shock,” and most of all, you shouldn’t panic.

Easier said than done, of course, but I’d say allowing a doctor to cut off any limbs that need cutting is probably your best course of action.

And you know, not all of us have an axe at the ready, so it’s hard to say what we might do if we did. No judgement.

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15 Funny Insults That Might Make You Cringe

There’s nothing like a good insult, is there? Especially when you’re the one dishing it out.

But sometimes you can appreciate the burn of a good one even when it’s happening to you. If it’s good enough, at least.

Either way, these 15 insults check off all the boxes.

Nice work, insulters!

1. Hahahaha. Zing!

2. I think they were right…

Shoutout to the 13-year-old on a skateboard who called me a “candy corn bitch” from funny

3. Wash your hands, people.

https://jennamoreci.tumblr.com/post/185850563432/thesapphicraven-warmhappycat

4. Violent and cartoon-y.

https://koboldpost-generator.tumblr.com/post/184449552990/yeah-well-i-think-dragons-suck-i-will-kick-your

5. Ouch. That one hurts.

A dick curling insult from rareinsults

6. Mr. Lacrosse in the house.

Found this on YouTube earlier, he makes a good point from rareinsults

7. That is not cool.

https://taquito.tumblr.com/post/171846982310

8. This person is obviously an intellectual.

https://barbex.tumblr.com/post/174042375743/gettingdinnerandpossiblythinner-my-favorite-is

9. That’s what brothers are for.

10. Poor little lizard got roasted.

https://butchteddybear.tumblr.com/post/186008217645

11. That is very good.

12. What about the eyebrows?

https://mmkayn.tumblr.com/post/81307142494/vastderp-lalaland1212-theatre-whovian

13. It was a different time…

Oh YouTube, never change. from rareinsults

14. You think that hurts my feelings?

https://happysynonym.tumblr.com/post/187885813780/honestly-it-is-so-goddamn-funny-whenever-some

15. Read ’em and weep.

https://pukicho.tumblr.com/post/175123941650/cheat-mode

Need some cream for that burn?

Share some of your favorite insults with us in the comments!

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