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Ladies Share the Worst Ways Guys Have Dealt With Rejection

Whether you’re a guy or a girl, getting rejected is no fun. Reading about rejection? Now that’s a little more fun.

Lucky for us, these ladies shared their stories on AskReddit.

1. A sad story

“My sister was killed by her husband when she tried to leave him. He sat next to me in the ICU crying crocodile tears. The story he gave the police was that she shot herself. I have no faith in police. I know many are good people, but not there and not then.

Thankfully, he’s dead, too. The world is better off, I was scared it was only a matter of time until he killed someone else. I’ve got my own stories, but they pale in comparison.”

2. That old excuse

“The old You’re-Actually-A-Dumb-B***h-Who-I-Didn’t-Like-Anyway after he wrote a letter expressing his feelings about me. I politely told him that he showed a lot of courage but that I just wanted to be friends. Worst part – he was my work study partner. I was 19 years old. Looking back I should have contacted my boss who would have done something about the work partnership.”

3. Stay out of it, mom

“I finally managed to dump my emotionally abusive ex for the last time, and a couple weeks later he found out I was staying at my moms. One night he hid in the bushes in her garden and waited for her to go to bed so he could knock on my window and give me a bag full of presents.

6 months later his mom rang me and asked when I was going to put him out of his misery and get back together with him because he was becoming unbearably depressed. It’s literally been 6 months of absolutely no contact, why the hell are you all still waiting!”

4. Stalker

“He stalked me for a year and a half after I danced with him for one song in a club. Police asked him to stop, but he didn’t stop until I moved to a different country.”

5. Rager

“When I was a nanny, I was walking around with the baby in the pram and we visited a bookshop. A man in there started talking to me, and then asked me out. Very kindly, keeping my father’s advice in mind about being kind when I have to reject men when they ask me out, I said that that was a nice offer, but my boyfriend might not to be too keen on it.

His response to that was to lean in and try and kiss me. I told him to get the f**k off me, he then exploded with rage and started screaming in my face. I was saved by the bookstore employee, the man stormed out of the shop, I spent the next few hours shaking like a leaf.

What a champion.”

6. You’re not listening!

“It amazes me that two times when I rejected people, they simply refused to listen to me and kept trying to change my mind.

The first guy kept following me everywhere even after I said I wasn’t interested. One time I was having breakfast at a cafe and he walked in and sat down opposite me. I was speechless and scared and too young to make a scene. The stalking only lasted a few weeks, but it got so bad I couldn’t relax in public, I’d look behind me every few steps because he made me so paranoid.

The second guy was in my friend group at college, which in a way made it worse than the first one. I must have turned this guy down at least ten times but his persistence was ridiculous. It was like trying to swat down an immortal fly that bounced back up every time you killed it. He’d make whiny passive-aggressive comments about why we should date and ask for hugs and pretend to be close to me in front of other people, and I didn’t want to disrupt our friend group so I avoided him as much as I could and changed friend groups.”

7. Good plan

“He told me he had considered trying to get me pregnant so I would have to marry him.”

8. Melodramatic

“He sent me an email with a 3 page essay attached. It was written entirely in 3rd person recounting his first rejection by a girl named Tania at the age of 16. There were a lot of solitary beach walks, ‘she’s the perfect girl’ talk, him not talking no for answer and the story eventually ends with him drinking anti-freeze, slipping into a coma, hospitalized and eventually recuperating. Only to tell poor Tania that she could avoided his, and his parents pain by agreeing to date him. The email said “so you know what you are getting into.”

I was 19 and did not see this extreme level of crazy coming but knew I needed to really make how I felt clear. I immediately called him to reiterate that I do not want to be with him, I no longer want to be friends with him and if he contacted me again I would change my number. I let a friend of his know what was going on. 5 days later he called from a different number to tell me he was out in the country one with a gun to his head and if I didn’t agree to be with him then an there he was pulling the trigger. I lied and convinced him I had to leave because I had a family emergency (aunt sick in the hospital) but we would talk the next day. Had mutual friend call him and report back as is suspected he was full of crap. Sure enough I was right, he was totally fine.

He called the next day and with the most sing song creepy serial killer tone said “you think you’re so niiiiiice. What type of human being doesn’t agree to what someone needs when they tell you they’re going to kill themselves? You piece of trash.” I. Lost. The. Plot. Told him I’m changing my numbers, and the next time he contacts me it will be the police involved. He just laughed the whole time and told me he hopes I die alone, like I deserve.

Radio silence for 6 years until I’m getting married. I have an email from him “Hey! Wow it’s been a while! How are you? Would be so great to catch up sometime”

Psychotic. Obviously I never replied and changed my email, again!”

9. Breaking and entering

“He broke into my house and chased me into my bedroom, then spent ten minutes shouting through my locked bedroom door that I should come out and have a reasonable conversation with him, adult to adult.”

10. Blocked!

“I also once had a guy send me hundreds of text messages calling me all kinds of names, cursing me out and threatening me because I didn’t have sex with him after our entirely lackluster (first and last) date… I didn’t even bother reading beyond the first 50. Just let him go on and on until I blocked and mass-deleted. Still, it was nuts.”

11. Creeps

“I was 13 and I basically told this really old dude to screw off while he was stopped at a light shouting shit at me. Light went green. He speeds off, u-turns wildly, then comes speeding back and threatens to shoot me.

Then there was this other guy at a concert who didnt take no for answer. He pinned me against the wall and only scurried away because the police crashed the concert at nearly the same moment. The worst one about that was my friends just watching it happen, doing nothing.”

12. Whoa!

“I turned down a guy that was known for being the “popular guy” and i thought he was a bit of a idiot. When he tried to kiss me i turned my head the other way, said i wasn’t interested and walked off. He grabbed my hand, spat in my face and said I missed the best opportunity in my life and the only reason he tried to kiss me was because he pitied me.”

13. Sounds like a winner

“He called me “roofie bait” and then followed me around campus for a couple months.”

14. He was married

“This is a slightly different take but I turned a guy down for a date and he then posted a long snap story about how much he loves his WIFE that he had neglected to mention all that time.”

15. Ugh, another stalker

“We went on one date and I declined a second. A couple of days after that he called me and told me what I had been wearing that day. This went on for a couple of months. I’d literally never see him but at least a three times a week he’d know exactly what I wore.”

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15 Employees Reveal Why Corporate Culture Made Them Leave Their Jobs

Corporate work environments can be their own little world. There’s a different language and attitude that just isn’t the right fit for some people.

These people shared their personal stories about when they decided to quit a job because the corporate culture became too much for them to deal with.

1. Okay….

“Lush, when we couldn’t say “bathroom” on the shop floor and instead had to ask a manager for “serenity.” “

2. Wall of crazy

“Had a “wall of crazy” where the CEO wanted to spend 20k on cool and edgy stuff for the office. Staff could make suggestions (Slides, beanbags, napping pods, etc)

Project was scrapped when the top suggestions ended up being:

Desks
Chairs
Working Heating
Working WiFi
Health Insurance”

3. Time to leave

“I’m in management and we just got the message that bonuses for the last financial year were severely cut across the business, probably going to receive 30% of our usual – at best. Then I attended our financial end of year results meeting the next day to be told that net profits were 18% up (nearly 1 billion total) and the best performance in years, all thanks to us.

So even though our profits were way up, the bonuses were cut? Employees who were not upper management would never have that information. Planning on leaving now.”

4. Then why are they there?

“Not my company but a company from a neighboring building. They had an entire area devoted to foosball, pinball, billiards, console gaming, and videoke booths on the ground floor and it was clearly visible because of the glass windows on street level. Oddly enough, nobody ever used them, and the place was almost always empty save for a few people who use the internet kiosks.

When I learned a friend worked there, I asked why nobody would want to take the opportunity to use the awesome-looking recreational facility, he told me that people who do use the facility often found it used against them during performance evaluations, even when their use wasn’t excessive at all. After a while word got around and they started avoiding the place altogether.

The irony is that their recruitment ads always touts a culture of “work hard play hard”.”

5. Like a criminal

“A co-worker was forced to work while her mother was dying in hospice. Mom dies, she quits, they escort her off the premises like a criminal.”

6. Cultish

“When I went to firm drinks in a public bar and the firm’s “fun committee” handed out song sheets and a choir of employees lead by a bad guitarist sang a song about how great the firm was to the tune of ‘Cause I’m Happy. We were expected to sing along. It was at that moment I realized I was in a cult.”

7. MONEY

“We (management team) spent months working with a business coach trying to collectively come up with meaningful core values. We devoted a ton of time to it and really tried to decide which direction we wanted to take the company culture. Everybody agreed on teamwork, reliability, a couple others that I can’t remember now, and then one day the owner came in and called a meeting.

He sat us down in the boardroom and told us he spent all weekend brainstorming and had decided on the core values. They were:

Meaningful Ownership Neighbourhood Engagement You

Does anybody see what that spells? He literally wanted it to be money and just came up with words that sort of worked the way you do in elementary school writing your name poem.

He rebranded the entire company from t shirts with giant first letters and smaller letters for the rest of the word straight down the arms, to plagues, wraps on the cars, everyfuckinthing.

And that’s when we all knew it was going to get bad.

Money is great, but it was mortifying walking/driving around with that plastered everywhere.”

8. That’s a little fishy

“They changed the title of the receptionist to “Director of First Impressions.””

9. Not an upgrade

“When I took a 40% pay cut (with no change in workload) by being moved to salary.”

10. Tears

“I worked for Apple back in their heyday and it was always constant and terrible. But one guy who was an assistant manager (or something like that) took time out during a store meeting to evangelize to us (his words) about how Apple was going to change each of our lives so drastically that we wouldn’t recognize ourselves any more. About five minutes in to his proselytizing, the tears began to flow and he openly sobbed about how Apple was the greatest thing on the planet.

He was ultimately let go for being late too many times and had to be escorted from the store out the back door because he was crying and refused to leave his “home.” “

11. The blame game

“We had a problem with the client and the boss dumped all of the blame on a 24 year old woman who was basically his most loyal employee. He made her cry in front of the client, as if that would somehow help save the relationship.”

12. Time to cheer!

“When I went to my first corporate managers rally, I thought this will be cool, free catered lunch and it counted as a work day. Then they started the rally with the company cheer. I’m like wtf, we’re adults, why are we cheering? Looked around and way too many people were into this cheer. I realized that job wasn’t going to be for me. EDIT: for all those asking I was working as a GM for Dominos pizza at the time. I believe they have a few videos on youtube of the cheer but I’m on mobile and can’t every get links to work.”

13. Priorities

“Not me, but my husband worked for two weeks for a “family owned and operated” business that touted how important “family” was and that they were all one happy “family.” My husband was on his way to drop our at the time 2 year old son off at daycare before work when son threw up all over himself. Husband called his employer to tell them what happened and that he needed to take son home and clean him up but he’d be in asap.

His manager told him he needed to get his priorities straight. He responded with “You know what? You’re right, I won’t be back in at all.” He was still working part time at his previous job where they had been sad that he was leaving, so he called them and told them to put him back on the schedule full-time. The “family” business is currently in the process of liquidating assets before going out of business and I cackle every time I drive past it.”

14. Just like family

“”We treat our employees like family!”

Ignores harassment claims, hires from outside the company, refuses to give out decent pay, will write you up for doing overtime, but the CEO just bought himself a new BMW.

I hate that place.”

15. Union busters

“When i was told that if i heard any talk about unionizing i was to report it immediately. <– G.E. “

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You’ve Probably Never Heard of Tonsil Stones – Unless You Have Them

Tonsil stones are about as gross as they sound. If I had one, I probably wouldn’t fess up until at least the second or third month of dating (and I am someone who has zero filter).

Actually, tonsil stones aren’t stones at all, but small, hard accumulations of dead cells, mucus, and food particles that gather in the crevices behind your tonsils and harden into little pellets.

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Worse still – you can actually pop them out like tiny little teeth. *shudder*

Small ones can be harmless, but if they grow larger, they can cause stinky breath, sore throats, and even ear pain. People who have larger tonsils or repeated trouble with tonsillitis are more susceptible to the little buggers, but anyone can get them.

That said, they’re common enough that you probably know someone who has them. So if you want to see for yourself, ask around!

Check out the Gross Science video below for more details (and pics, if you can handle them!).

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These 7 Car Hacks Will Save You Time and Energy

If you spend 1/3 of your time in bed, then your car has got to be a close second. From running errands to taking road trips, cars are some of our most-used spaces. So why not make sure it’s functioning at its best with these 7 tips?

#7. Deep Clean.

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Pro-tip: Use a toothbrush to get into all of those hard-to-reach areas.

#6. Partitions.

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If you’re going to be in the car for a while and you have children who enjoy terrorizing each other (and you in the process) these could be your answer.

#5. DIY Tablet Holder.

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Sure, you can buy one, but why bother when you can make your own?

#4. Install A Trunk Shelf.

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Keep dirty practice shoes away from bags and carpet you’d rather keep clean – or wet umbrellas, et al. Brilliant!

#3. Stay organized – simply.

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You have a lot of documents in your car, and they need to be easy to find. Why not keep a file folder under the seat so you can stop rummaging for your insurance card?

#2. DIY Trash Bag

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You’re always going to have trash in your car, so why don’t you have bags to catch it instead of dropping it in the doors or center console? No good reason!

#1. Eliminate Upholstery Stains.

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If you’ve got kids, you’ve got these – to get rid of them, mix vinegar and baking soda and rub it into the upholstery. Once it’s dry, simply vacuum it up!

I’ll definitely be trying this one!

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These Infographics Reveal How Many Years of Your Life Different Addictions Cost

A series of infographics was recently released by an online recovery resource directory called Treatment 4 Addiction. They show how many years of a person’s life addictions to various substances can cost.

These are extremely eye-opening and even terrifying charts filled with important information. Take a look for yourself.

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Handy Infographic Shows the Most Spoken Languages around the World

This neat infographic was created by Alberto Lucas Lopez for the South China Morning Post.

As you can see, it breaks down the world’s 23 most-common languages that are spoken by over 4 billion people across the planet. Take a look.

Photo Credit: Alberto Lucas Lopez

Click HERE to view the full-sized image.

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These 7 Useful Gadgets Could Save Your Life One Day

“Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.”

While we hope that we’ll never find ourselves in any dire situations, it certainly doesn’t hurt to make sure you’re prepped with some of these handy gadgets.

#7. Shark repellant.

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They say that your chances of being attacked by a shark are extremely small, but I have to think that percentage goes up the more time you spend in the ocean. So, if you’re a diver or surfer or just someone who spends tons of time in the salty water, you might want to invest in this bracelet that emits ultrasound signals that will put off any nearby sharks looking for a snack.

#6. This venom extractor.

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Extra important if you or someone you love is allergic to bee or wasp stings, but it could also work for ant bites, small snake bites, etc.

#5. A LifeStraw.

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Hey, you might think we live in a world where clean, available water is a given, but just ask the people in Flint, MI how true that turned out to be. This handy straw has a built-in filter that makes any water safe to drink.

#4. A pocket slingshot.

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Perfect for those apocalyptic days when you need to bring down a rabbit for dinner or knock out a member of a rival gang in the new world order.

But seriously.

#3. A rescue beacon.

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You should have one of these in your car and in your bag, because you really never know when you’re going to need to be found in the middle of nowhere. Make your mother happy. Try this one on for size!

#2. This smart float.

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If you throw this bad boy out to someone who has abandoned ship or fallen overboard, you can guide it to them – and back – by remote control. It’s also self-propelled in case they’re too weak to move.

#1. An external antennae.

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If you’re someone who spends time in the woods or off the grid (or again, someone preparing for the inevitable breakdown of Western society), then this puppy could be the thing that saves your life. The goTenna works when there are no mobile networks to speak of but allows smart gadget users to stay online even without a link. You can send messages and GPS coordinates on a private network up to 50 miles.

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15 Traditionally Female Things That Men Would Love to Try Without Feeling Judged

Sexism is a two-way street. While it tends to primarily affect women, men still feel the sting of misogyny and sexism when they try to step outside of things that are traditionally masculine.

Like these 15 guys, who feel as if they can’t even try an activity or product they’d like to because someone would think it’s too girly.

Do what you want, I say.

#15. Leggings.

“Leggings. I really want to try leggings.”

#14. Got a lot of looks.

“Fruity drinks absolutely. Had an appletini once and got a lot of looks. Fuck you I want fabulous fruity flavor you fucking fuck.”

#13. My dad never let me.

“I really wanted to do ballet as a child,
my dad never let me.”

#12. Love it.

“It’s less that I don’t do it, but more that I don’t talk about it with most folk I know.

But I fucking LOVE to cook and bake. Main dishes, side dishes, desserts (I REALLY like making desserts,) breads, muffins- fuck, I’ve even made my own home-made donuts using an old-ass recipe that called for LARD. I love cooking and baking. Love it.”

#11. I do limit myself.

“I’m not sure if this considered stereotypically feminine, but id love to give people more hugs. I still do, but I do limit myself more than id like to cause I’m worried people will think I’m weird.”

#10. Someday.

“I want to knit a sweater or something someday.”

#9. I want to be a…

“I’m a straight guy. I wanna be a wedding planner.

Edit: Wow! So much support! The ironic thing is that I’ve never been married and if I were to, I’d probably ditch the ceremony and go straight to the honeymoon. But still…

Edit 2: Whoever gave me that gold, you da real MVP!”

#8. Like a guy.

“I cross my legs sometimes when I sit. It’s just more comfortable to me until I have to switch but it’s pretty rare if I ever see any other guy sit in the same position. Usually it’s the skinnier guys who are more likely to do it.

Sometimes I’ll sit properly with both feet on the ground or cross my legs like a guy when I get conscious of other people around me even though it’s less comfortable.”

#7. WAY better than any washcloth.

“Those fluffy shower loofa-things are WAY better than any washcloth! ALL THE SUDS.”

#6. Captain Jack.

“Wear mascara/eye liner. I wanna look like captain jack sparrow.”

#5. Because I care about them!

“If it would be okay for me to be more affectionate to people without them thinking that I’m either gay or into them, coz I say I love you a lot to my friends (because I care about them!) but some of them get uncomfortable so I don’t.”

#4. I’m just really interested.

“Reading books such as Gossip Girl. Idk why I’m just really interested in reading about high school teenage drama.”

#3. So floofy.

“When I was 15-16 and I had long hair I was messing around with the 30 different hair things my mom had

I did something right cus I looked like fucking Naruto for a week

So floofy

So ploofy

I’m pretty sure I looked like a paintbrush but the Combs couldn’t comb it down at all.”

#2. Fresh air!

“First thing that springs to mind is that in hot weather I’d love be be able to wear a skirt.

Y’know … fresh air!”

#1. Social anxiety.

“Mani-pedi. I could really use one, but I’d have to go with someone, preferably a woman, because I just cannot handle that particular brand of social anxiety alone.”

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The Best Party Games, According to 15 Game Lovers

There are two types of people in this world: party game people, and people I’d rather not be friends with. All kidding aside, there’s no better way to take your party to the next level than with an awesome party game.

So, if you’re feeling like your game closet (real or virtual!) could use a little updating, check out these 15 game recommendations from people who play on the regular.

#15. Well-balanced and hilarious.

“Murder Trivia Party is one of my favourites, it’s a well balanced and hilarious experience.”

#14. For 6+.

“Secret Hitler and Codenames are pretty fun games to play with a group of people, although you’ll probably want 6+ for them to be truly enjoyable.”

#13. Fun and easy to learn.

“The Resistance: Avalon is a great card game to play with a larger group of people. You secretly set up two groups of people and try to deduce which person is in which group through bluffing, deception, and lies. It’s a lot of fun and easy to learn!”

#12. Keep it in the car.

“5-minute dungeon! Takes 2 minutes to learn and 5 minutes to play a round ,me and the girlfriend have it in the car for when we go to our friends houses.”

#11. The Resistance.

“The Resistance is a great, easy, and cheap game to play. Highly addicting and easy to expand on.”

#10. Also, watch out for asteroids.

“Spaceteam.

It’s an app you all have to download. You also have to be on the same wi-fi i believe.

Anyway, you’re all on the same space team, operating parts of your space ship. Everyone’s got their own console that has different switches, knobs, buttons, etc. Shit will slowly (but progressively more quickly and more intensely) start to go sideways, and you’ll have to perform different operations to maintain your ship before it’s destroyed.

The catch is that you’ll get an instruction on your screen that says something like “Adjust hyper-churn loop to level 3,” only, the hyper-churn loop adjustment knob is not on your console, it’s on someone else’s. You have to shout out the order, and whoever has the hyper-churn loop adjuster has to make the adjustment. Meanwhile, someone is probably shouting at you to activate the Mega-accelerator, which IS on your console.

It gets pretty intense.

Also, watch out for asteroids.”

#9. Great for…people.

“Quiplash. I love some good quiplash. It’s great for people you’ve known forever, and also for people you just met.”

#8. Ultimate Chicken Horse.

“If you have a console and 4 people then ultimate chicken horse is up there.”

#7. I like losing my friends.

“Mario Party

I like losing my friends.”

#6. Cheers to the Governor.

“Cheers to the governor is pretty fun

For those who don’t know: you sit in a circle and count from 1 to 21 (or any other number you want I guess) as a group, with each person saying one number. When you get to 21, everybody says “cheers to the governor!” And takes a drink. The person that it ended on gets to make a new rule for the numbers, like for example “say all multiples of 4 in a British accent” or something like that. Then you start again from that person. Anytime you fuck up the count or the rules, you have to drink. Every time you get to “cheers to the governor,” you add a new rule. It’s pretty great when you get to having a shitload of rules that no one can keep track of.”

#5. For 4 people.

“I don’t think it’d be good for much more than 4 people but I really enjoy keep talking and nobody explodes.”

#4. The best.

“Fibbage is the best. The best way to play is to play properly – Its too easy to type in bullsh*t answers, but if you type in “deceptive” answers – its a far better game.
Like sure, you can type in an answer to any question that is essentially “n0remack’s mom”, but if you read the trivia question and throw “sounds right, but its definitely wrong” – extra points.”

#3. A progression.

“Monikers is awesome, especially with about 6 people. Think Cards Against Humanity style cards, but the goal is to guess what’s on the card. First round you can describe with anything not on the card. In the second round, you use the same cards but this time you only get one word to describe it. The last round is charades.”

#2. Soooo fun and super cheap.

“One Night Ultimate Werewolf! Comes with a free app. Playing just requires one of you to have a phone. God it is soooo fun and super cheap!”

#1. Highly recommend.

“Balderdash. Not many people I talk to know about it but its awesome. Whats great is the players come up with all of the answers to the questions. So unlike apples to apples and cards against humanity you don’t get the same answers after a while. The questions and categories are very open ended so it leaves a ton of room for creative funny answers. If you play with funny people it can be one of the best games you will play. Highly recommend.”

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