If You’re Working From Home, These Memes Are for You

More people are working from home now than ever before, and not all because they want to. The ranks have been filled by people staying home out of necessity, and while there are perks like being able to set your own schedule and not having to wear pants, we’re all learning there are downsides, too.

Like having to set your own schedule, for example.

If you’re at home – happy or not – these memes will hit you right in the feels.

13. Nice try, boss man.

We’re all heard that line before.

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12. The eyes are the window to the soul.

Best to hide yours in times of stress.

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11. We’ve all practiced that look at this point.

It should be working like a charm.

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10. Do a double check, just in case.

You’ll thank me later.

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9. Why has no one fixed printers to be actually useful?

It’s like some kind of cosmic joke.

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8. If only we were all that cute.

It’s still a nice feeling, though.

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7. Communication is a skill.

Some people need more classes.

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6. I mean, it is 2020.

Who could blame you?

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5. Surely every boss knows the drill.

Are they just gaslighting us all at once?

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4. I feel this to the depths of my soul.

If only it were that easy.

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3. Only dads get to do that last one.

Bastards.

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2. Talk about walking on eggshells.

And you thought you had it rough.

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1. Start teaching them young.

This is the word, now.

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It’s quite the adjustment, but we’re all going to make it happen!

Let’s stay positive – tell us your favorite thing about working from home in the comments!

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November 17, 2020

6 Things Subway Employees Love…and 10 Things They Definitely Don’t

There’s no denying that if you’re traveling and want an alternative to burgers and fries, you’ve probably found yourself standing in line at a Subway.

And even though an Irish court recently decided their bread is more sugar than, well, bread, it turns out people still find plenty to love.

6. Clean up after yourselves, people!

We’re all adults here. Supposedly.

When people leave not only their rubbish but rubbish from other places brought in from subway

5. Don’t judge a book by its cover.

Sometimes even teenagers aren’t as bad as they seem.

not all customers are bad from subway

4. People are people.

No matter where they work.

When a regular customer asks if you live at the store because he sees you working there every day from subway

3. A little love goes a long way.

Such a simple.

A customer just left this on a table for me. I was having a really crappy day, and this made my day. from subway

2. Don’t leave anything out.

It’s like being a part of a secret club.

I always cherish the customers that tell me everything in the order you do it in. from subway

1. Tipping is always appreciated.

I mean, it’s money! Come on!

Best tip day I’ve ever had !!!! Usually only get $1-$3 a day from subway

Well, we started on a high note, so let’s head down a more negative path together now…because I mean, it’s Subway.

We had no trouble tracking down 10 things customers do that employees consider less than kosher.

10. Just get it all out of the way up front.

Like everything else in life.

Eat fresh with this fresh meme from subway

9. Like ordering from the Soup Nazi.

These people come prepared.

Ha…ha…ha…. from subway

8. She wants to be the exception.

Her name is Karen.

“Are you closed??????”

no ma’am, we actually just decided to lock the front and start mopping for fun

— ????? (@katiekml) August 5, 2018

7. It’s called math, folks.

I know it’s rough.

Anyone else feel this? from subway

6. Because they want you to have to get out everything you’ve put away.

It is the way of the fast food customer.

Why ? from subway

5. Because sometimes you need a sandwich at 10am?

I guess maybe you want to take it on a hike or something.

Every time I do a weekend open from subway

4. The one thing they don’t premake.

You know you want the sugar bread anyway.

Happened today during our lunch rush. from subway

3. They don’t know about the spreadable avocado, I guess.

The struggle is real from subway

2. I propose banning all actual phone calls.

Unless there’s an emergency I guess.

WHY from subway

1. How can people make a sandwich so complicated?

It’s bread and meat and cheese, folks!

Devils from subway

It’s hard to argue with most of these, don’t you think?

Tell us in the comments what you would add to both lists!

Please and thank you!

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November 17, 2020

Flight Attendant’s Video Highlights All of the (Many) Things You Should Never Touch on an Airplane

We’re all thinking more about germs and what we touch when we’re in public these days, and that goes double for indoor, confined spaces like airplanes. And while you’re probably not under any kind of illusion that commercial aircraft are super duper clean places, this flight attendant’s TikTok should probably still come with some kind of trigger warning.

Seriously, if you were a germaphobe before the whole pandemic situation, you might not want to subscribe to Kat Kamalani’s TikTok.

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Kat has gone viral will all kinds of insider videos, in which she shares tips, tricks, and behind-the-scene knowledge from the airline industry.

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This video, though, shows all of the places on airplanes that people touch and touch and touch – and that only get cleaned at the end of the day.

As someone with a fairly severe peanut allergy, I’ve known for years that planes don’t really get cleaned between flights – which shouldn’t come as a surprise to you, either, given how quick the turnaround is between deplaning and boarding the next set of passengers, right?

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If I don’t wipe down everything in my tiny sphere, I will end up with puffy eyes and more sneezes than I can clean up with a travel pack of Kleenex.

Which means someone (or many someone’s) have been there before me, touching everything in sight with peanut oil on their fingers.

@katkamalani

Flight attendant hack. GROSS things on airplane. #flightattendants #fyp #flightattendantlife #lifehack #travelhacks

♬ original sound – Kat Kamalani

So, Kat’s video is just confirming all of that for me – and now you, too.

Her video has been viewed over 1.2 million times.

The next time I travel, I’m going to bring plenty of Clorox wipes and hand sanitizer along for the ride…providing I can find them on the shelves.

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November 17, 2020

A Guy’s Bike Ride From Poo Point (Washington) to Pee Pee Creek (Ohio) Was All for Charity

Most of us want to find ways that we can do good, can give back to the world around us and those less fortunate.

We have to find our thing, the outlet that gets us the most attention and the most support – and therefore, earns support and attention for our passionate causes.

And judge this guy all you want, but if there’s one thing that’s universally true in this world, talking about one’s bodily functions as a joke is always popular.

Ruben Lopez (@rubydrummr on Twitter) is a Chicago-based musician and cyclist who promised to bike from Poo Poo Point in Washington to Pee Pee Creek in Ohio in exchange for charity support. In order to make it, he would have to traverse over 2500 miles and spend 36 days camping out under the stars.

I can’t believe I did it. Over 2500 miles on a bicycle, 36 days ? LMFAO pic.twitter.com/gDGmiDUUTi

— #YemenCantWait (@rubydrummr) September 27, 2020

To raise the hilarity stakes even further, Lopez promised to go 69 miles every day and take pictures of all the irreverent signs along the way.

He delivered, too, riding just the 69 miles – “not a mile more, not a mile less” – every day, and posting pictures of his, ahem, memorable sights along the way.

I have reached the holy land pic.twitter.com/Bf7pHWPEAF

— #YemenCantWait (@rubydrummr) August 19, 2020

While the humor factor in this story is high, what’s important is that Lopez was making the trip to raise both money and awareness for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. He’s raised more than $7,000 to donate for the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation, which “provides help and support to the neediest families in Yemen who have suffered from a devastating war since 2015.”

I almost forgot I passed Sharts Road on the way to pee pee creek. Can’t make this up pic.twitter.com/Xcok5vztrg

— #YemenCantWait (@rubydrummr) September 28, 2020

And he’s not done yet.

Since we’ve set a goal matching a dollar to every mile I ride, I’ve decided to choose the longest, most legendary route possible(5000 miles). Starting at Poo Poo Point, if this gets 75,000 retweets I will bike to Pee Pee Creek. 150,000 and I will bike to Pee Pee Island?(read⤵️) https://t.co/ncRbr7Pvq1 pic.twitter.com/JhdvVFlkei

— #YemenCantWait (@rubydrummr) August 12, 2020

Next up, the trek from Pee Pee Creek, Ohio, to Pee Pee Island, Newfoundland.

He’s the hero we all need, clearly, but none so much as the people suffering in Yemen.

Donate if you can!

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November 17, 2020

Researchers Believe Crows Have at Least as Much Self-Awareness as Humans

If you’ve read about crows or other members of the corvid family, there can be no doubt in your mind these birds are smart.

Super smart. Scary smart.

Until now, though, scientists have assumed there still remained a gap between primates and every other sort of living being, and that had to do with the way our consciousness works.

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Researchers, though, are becoming increasingly convinced that the minds of crows work more like our own than we probably want to believe.

A new study has shown that crows possess some degree of subjective experience and sensory consciousness – and not only that, they’re able to display consciousness despite not having a cerebral cortex. That’s the part of the primate brain scientists have long considered necessary for achieving this sort of higher intelligence.

Sensory consciousness involves being able to have a subjective experience, access it, and respond to it – which is exactly what researchers at the University of Tubingen claim to have proven.

For their study, researchers trained two carrion crows to move their heads in response to seeing different colored marks on a screen. Using implanted electrodes, they were able to record the activity of individual neurons, and were able to show that the nerve cells in the bird’s brains were influenced by their subjective experience and the way they reported their answers.

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They weren’t, in layman’s terms, responding instinctively to the brightness of the colors, but were responding to their own internal assessment of those colors.

Andreas Nieder, one of the study’s authors, expounded in a statement.

“Nerve cells that represent visual input without subjective components are expected to respond in the same way to a visual stimulus of constant intensity.

Our results however conclusively show that nerve cells at higher processing levels of the crow’s brain are influenced by subjective experience, or more precisely produce subjective experiences.”

Their results are challenging many long-held beliefs about the nature of consciousness, Professor Nieder told IFLScience.

“I think the results of our study open up a new way of looking at the evolution of awareness and its neurobiological constraints.

It becomes more likely that also other animals on different branches of the tree of life, and with brains that strikingly differ from ours, also have sensory consciousness.”

Another recently published study supports this, finding similar sensory connections being made in the brains of owls and pigeons.

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Which is all to say, not only are birds probably smarter than we’ve ever thought, they’re actually more intelligent, as well.

No matter how small their brains are, they’re definitely making the most of the headspace.

What do you think about this news? Have you always suspected that our fine, feathered friends have more going on upstairs than we previously thought?

Let us know your POV in the comments!

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November 17, 2020

Coffee Can Help Cats Live Longer, and 5 More Stimulating Facts About the Caffeinated Beverage

Coffee makes the world go ’round.

At least, it’s what makes my world go ’round, and I’ll be honest – I don’t spend a whole lot of time thinking about how it gets to my house and into my cup every day.

These facts make me reconsider those lovely little beans and what they do for my life, though, and perhaps they’ll do the same for you!

6. A coffeepot was the star of the world’s first webcam.

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Researchers at Cambridge could monitor the coffee situation without leaving their desks, and when they abandoned the webcam, that non-working Krups ProAroma – which would sell for around $50 – sold on eBay for almost $5k.

5. Coffee could make your cat live longer.

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The “Oldest Cat Ever” – a cat named Creme Puff who lived to the ripe old age of 28. – drank coffee every morning with her bacon, eggs, and broccoli.

It’s not a fluke, either – the previous record holder (aged 34 years) was fed the same diet by the same owner.

4. You would have to try really hard to kill yourself with coffee.

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It would take around 70 cups of coffee to kill a 150-pound person.

3. Women in the 17th century were not fans.

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The 1674 Women’s Petition Against Coffee claimed the drink was turning British men into “useless corpses,” and proposed banning it for anyone under the age of 60.

2. There’s a Starbucks at the CIA headquarters.

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Employees must undergo extensive background checks and can’t use the facilities without a government escort. They also don’t put customers names on the cups.

1. The world’s most expensive coffee comes from poop.

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It’s called Kopi Luwak, and the beans have been digested by an Indonesian animal called the Asian palm civet.

They eat the bright red coffee cherries but, unable to digest the beans, pass them through their system.

It’s some poor sap’s job to collect the beans from the droppings, wash them, and sells them – for $600 per pound.

It’s nice to know a little more about something that keeps you afloat, don’t you think?

Tell us your favorite way to have coffee in the comments – share the love!

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November 17, 2020

People Used to Chew Coffee, and 6 More Interesting Facts About the Caffeinated Brew

If you’re a person over a certain age, chances are coffee (or some kind of stimulant) is part of your day. We’re all hustling harder, being more involved parents, busy trying to have it all – and honestly, there aren’t enough hours in the day to spend 8 or more of them sleeping.

So, we drink coffee.

But, maybe you haven’t spent much time considering the beverage that gets you through your days!

If not, here are 7 facts that might keep you up a little longer.

7. Finland is the world’s coffee capital.

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Finland does not produce its own beans, but the country’s citizens consume more coffee per capita than any other country in the world.

6. You originally had to chew it.

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The first African tribes to consume coffee ground the berries, added in some animal fat, and rolled them into what amounted to energy balls.

Yum?

5. Beethoven was the Karen of his day.

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He loved his coffee just so, and insisted every cup contain exactly 60 beans.

I wonder how he could tell (and who was brave enough to test him)?

4. Instant coffee has been around for 250 years.

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We see its first appearance in 1771 England, but it wasn’t mass produced until 139 years later, in 1910 (and in the States).

3. It has fueled Olympic dreams – literally.

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The Brazilian Olympic team had no money to get to Los Angeles in 1932, so they sold coffee along the way to fund the trip.

2. The average American spends over $1,100 a year on coffee.

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That’s a lot of green – I have to admit I do my part, though.

1. Some people would like to ban it.

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Governments were trying to ban coffee as recently as the 18th century, with reasons like its tendency to stimulate “radical thinking.” In 1746, Sweden banned coffee and cups and saucers.

How did people drink their tea??

Interesting, right?

What’s your favorite fact about coffee? Tell us in the comments!

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November 17, 2020

An Irish Court Ruled That Subway Doesn’t Serve Actual Bread

There can be no doubt that Americans eat a lot of things – and on a regular basis – that are essentially banned in other countries. Chains like McDonalds even have to adhere to higher food standards abroad.

Well… the time has come for Subway too. They’re going to have to shape up their bread or start calling it something else in Ireland, because the courts there have ruled that whatever is on the outside of their meats and cheeses, it’s not bread.

Technically.

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Here’s why…

For purposes of tax laws in Ireland, Subway cannot classify their bread as such because of its high sugar content. Instead, it gets a label of “confectionary or fancy baked good.”

The case that led up to the ruling centered around whether or not Subway’s bread counts as a “staple food,” which would exempt it from the Value Added Tax and save Subway billions of dollars.

Sadly (for them, not Ireland), the amount of sugar in the bread – around a shocking 10% of the weight of the flour – far exceed the standard of 2% stated in the law.

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If you, like me, don’t understand numbers, that means that Subway’s bread contains around 5x more sugar than Ireland allows for something to be considered bread and not cake.

The court ruled that “the argument depends on the acceptance of the prior contention that the Subway heated sandwich contains ‘bread’ as defined, and therefore can be said to be food for the purposes of the Second Schedule rather than confectionary. Since that argument has been rejected, this subsidiary argument must fail.”

Yikes!

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Well, there you have it. The next time you grab a Subway, just know you’re basically eating a cake sandwich.

Which is perfect if you enjoy a little salty with your sweet!

What do you think? Was this court a bit too salty itself?

Let us know in the comments!

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November 17, 2020

A Lucky Duck Will Earn $50K a Year Exploring National Parks

If you’re a certain type of person, wandering the nation’s national parks – even if you’re getting paid – does not sound like your idea of a dream job.

For someone who lives for exploring, for hiking, for communing with nature and spending your days outdoors instead of in an office would seem like what they’d been dreaming of for a lifetime.

If you’re the latter type of human being, good news – you can earn $50K a year roaming America’s national parks.

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The position is for CEO – Chief Exploration Officer – with Michelob ULTRA Pure Gold. And no, you can’t apply because they got so overwhelmed with applications, that the process is now closed. Sorry.

The person who gets this job will be provided one camper van (with a complete bathroom), and 6 months to visit, hike, and photograph a list of national parks that includes Yosemite, Sequoia, Joshua Tree, Saguaro, and Big Bend.

Your $50,000 salary doesn’t include money for necessary expenses like gas or the van, and you’re welcome to take a friend along for the ride.

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The website lists the following qualifications:

An affinity for outdoor/nature photography and/or videography
A deep appreciate for the joy that connecting with nature brings
A willingness and an ability to hike through national parks and other outdoor areas
A valid U.S. driver’s license
Being at least 21 years old

They would also prefer the candidate enjoy and respect the great outdoors, have a knack for seeing the big picture, and be willing to follow all CDC guidelines on traveling responsibly.

Being a natural strong leader with a clear sense of direction is also a plus, as is – of course – a love of beer.

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The deadline might be passed, but you can root on the person who gets the job this year, and remind yourself to apply next year for your own adventure.

Better yet, maybe this will catch on, and all of the beer companies will hire their own CEO for summer 2021.

Cheers!

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