15 People Confess To The Dumbest Things They Did While Drunk

For most people, there’s probably that one night of a few too many drinks that stands out in their minds. I’m guessing most of us can recall it, but no matter who you are, I bet these 15 stories are going to make you feel just a bit better about your own choices.

#15. Put a stop to it.

“Was at a bar with a ton of friends. Had a lot and was moving to the music. Threw up my chicken parm that I ate for lunch in the sink because the only stall was occupied. I then spent the next minute sifting the puke from the sink to the garbage can by hand until a buddy came in to go to the bathroom and saw me and put a stop to it.

Later, I went in and I was waiting to use the only other sink. The guy washing his hands looked disgusted and talked to me about the puke, not knowing it was me.

I replied: “Who pukes in a sink. What a fucking asshole.”

Self-aware asshole that is.”

#14. A sh*tty ending.

“During high school at best friends party. Girl I liked was drinking and kissing other dude. So young me decides to drink and get fucked up. I’m playing basketball with a dude when 3 cop cars pull into driveway in front of me. I turn around and slowly walking into woods across road and into swampy woods. I walk for 15 min then sit next to tree and wait it out for 3 or 4 hrs. Well young me was taking this medication for my acne. Alcohol didn’t mix well with it. I had to fart a lot out there. Finally I decide to go back around 2 in morning to friends house. I arrive at back of house and enter through back door, as I open it I see my 2 best friends sitting at table with 3 cops staring at me. I slowly close door and try to walk back into woods. Failed. Cops call my parents and I hear them telling them to bring towels. My friends are crying and laughing. I find out that the fart was not a fart at all, but a steaming running pile of acne alcohol fueled shit all over my pants. Oh and my legs, hands, and face were all cut up front walking through woods.

What a shitty ending.”

#13. My neighbor’s toilet.

“Stole my neighbors toilet. I returned it a few days later.”

#12. The cat bomb.

“I once picked up a stray cat and brought it into the bar with me. It then ran and hid in the most inaccessible corner. Took two hours for the bartender to get it back outside… at least that’s what they told me. I am highly allergic to cats, so my eyes swelled shut and I had to go home within minutes of dropping the cat bomb.”

#11. The only reply I had for him.

“This is the story everyone who saw tells me, i dont remember a single bit of it. In high school I drank a fifth of Ciroc in 2ish hours, of course I ended up blacking out. While I was blacked out I thought it would be a great idea to pee on the host’s living room flat screen. Supposedly the host of the party walked in to see me peeing on his tv and started yelling at me, but the only reply I had for him was “can you fuck off dickhead, I’m trying to take a piss over here”

#10. God knows what reason.

“Once I toddled my merry way up to bed, puke bucket in hand, feeling sensible and proud of myself for preparing for the vomiting I was inevitably about to do. Then for God knows what reason I proceeded to take off ALL of my clothes and put them in the bucket for safekeeping. Had a pretty disgusting load to put in the washer the next day :(“

#9. Only a rash?

“I let my ex put wasabi in her mouth and give me head in front of 10 people. I got a rash from it.”

#8. I thought she was gorgeous.

“Drunkenly call the liquor store and ask for the cashier’s number because I thought she was gorgeous

…I no longer go to that liquor store.”

#7. Tree fights.

“Had a fight with a tree. I won and took what I could of it home with me.”

#6. Hug it out.

“Tie between falling through a glass window hugging my friend (we won 10 rounds of beer pong) and taking Molly before passing out so I woke up hungover and rolling. It was terrible.”

#5. Pee Mounds

“I got drunk and passed out on the beach. Someone put a blanket on me. I kept waking up having to pee really bad, but not wanting to get up and out from under the blanket, I would just dig a hole, unzip, pee, and bury it. I woke up surrounded by my pee mounds, fairly certain I wasn’t being as clean as I thought at the time.”

#4. Broke into a construction site.

“Broke into a construction site and tried to start the cranes and dozers. Spent the night in the drunk tank for that one.”

#3. Three times in a night.

“On my way home after the party late one night I decided it’s a good idea to instead go to a 24h gym since I felt unstoppable. Tried to bench x2 times my normal weight. Pulled my shoulder, got stuck under the bar and had to wiggle out.
Or that one time when I called my GF by my exes name. Three times in a night.”

#2. It was baking.

“Puked in my mom’s car while she was driving us home from a wedding. Had to clean it up the next day after it was baking in 95 degree heat too.”

#1. A stranger’s couch.

“Woke up in a stranger’s apartment one morning with a throbbing headache and no recollection of how I got there.

Early in the evening I left my apartment and walked down the street to hang out with a friend at his place. He was encouraging me to drink heavily and I indulged but I kept thinking to myself, “after this one I need to go home.”

When I did wake up, I was very confused about the situation but quickly exited the strange apartment. I went outside, strategically covering my junk with my hands and realized that I was on the right street, just in the wrong building. It was probably about 3:30 or 4:00 AM and I should consider myself lucky that I didn’t live on a busy street.

I ran down the street to my building and entered my code to get inside, but my apartment door was locked. I tried knocking on my neighbor’s door to borrow a towel but there was no answer. I decided I had no choice but to scale the building up to my balcony and let myself in. When I got inside, I found my clothes, keys, phone, and wallet in my bedroom next to an unmade bed.

I believe that after drinking heavily I made my way home, derobed, and passed out in bed. Then at some point I drunk-sleep-walked “home” to the wrong building as my subconscious must’ve still been fixated on “I need to go home after this”. I lived in apartment X, I woke up in apartment X in another building. Some months later I checked to see if my door code worked on the other building and it did.

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15 People Share Their Best Cheap Purchases

If you’re always on the lookout for the best deals, then these 12 people have you covered with some very seriously cool (and affordable) items you’ll wonder how you ever lived without.

#15. Twenty bucks.

“I spent 20 bucks to find who liked my profile on Ok Cupid. That girl is now my wife.”

#14. Big money saver.

“A box of condoms to protect against child support. Good so far.”

#13. I miss being a kid.

“I spent $5.99 on the mobile Rollercoaster Tycoon Classic game and I play it every single day. I miss being a kid.”

#12. Easy.

“Easy… my Sony MDR-7506 headphones. I live in an apartment building with 59 other tenants and the walls are paper thin. I’ve had mine since 2012 and other than having to replace the ear pads a time or two, they’ve held up very well.”

#11. Decent teeth.

“$40 waterpik water flosser. For the first time in my life I have decent teeth.”

#10. An old fire boat.

“I bought an old fire boat from a scrapyard for $100 years ago, ended up trading it for an amazing jet boat with a 454. I was 16 and all these years later, my $100 jet boat still lives!!!”

#9. I’m never going back.

“I bought a phone charger that is more than twice my height in length by mistake & at first I thought it was really goofy and was gonna return it but it’s actually awesome & I’m never going back to short cords!”

#8. Best dog ever.

“$75 to the pound, got the best dog ever.”

#7. Blasting those a$$holes.

“No question, it’s the Bug-A-Salt 2.0. It’s a pump-action air gun that shoots table salt (costs around $40). They market it for flies but it works especially well for mosquitos. I love blasting those assholes out of the sky!”

#6. Changed the way I cook.

“I have 2 Victorinox knives, a chef’s knife and a paring knife. $40 and $7 respectively, and I got a long honing steel for another $8.

I’d only ever used terrible or dull knives before. Using sharp knives and maintaining that sharpness has changed the way I cook. I’m far more confident and in control in the kitchen, and every time my boyfriend uses my knives he’s jealous of how sharp they are.”

#5. Like a drug.

“A used pressure washer. It’s like a drug using that thing.”

#4. RIP.

“Movie pass until they realized they’re going to go bankrupt.”

#3. Over or under.

“My eno hammock. Best purchase I’ve ever made over or under $100.”

#2. Life-changing.

“Bidet attachment for my toilet. Best $35 I ever spent. Life-changing.”

#1. People like me.

“Coffee cup reheater. It keeps your hot drinks warm for people like me that often forget they’re drinking it lol. Price ranges from like $12-$20 on Amazon.”

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This High School Math Puzzle Is Stumping The Internet

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A math problem went viral in Japan after people were claiming that only 60% of 20-year-olds were able to get the correct answer – and get out your pen and paper because using a calculator isn’t going to work, young whippersnappers!

However, if you’re someone who remembers “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally” to figure out the order of operations here, you’ve got a leg up.

Here’s the full answer in video format:

Basically, since there are no parentheses, exponents, or multiplication signs, you’d go after the division first (and should end up with 9), leaving you with 9-9+1.

Then, you’d move to addition and subtraction – left to right – which gives you 0+1.

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Which means your answer to the problem should be a 1.

It’s incredibly simple if you remember your pneumonic device, but almost impossible if you don’t. Score one for the old way of doing things, am I right?

Until next time!

h/t: Mental_Floss

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15 Readers Share the Worst Book They Ever Read

If you’re a reader, I’m sure answering the question “What’s the worst book you’ve ever read” is easier than answering its opposite – because truly, there are so many more good books out there than bad ones. If you don’t agree, well…you might not be looking hard enough.

#15. My anger and disgust.

“Thirteen Reasons Why.

It’s been years since I tried to read it, but I can still vividly remember my anger and disgust. On top of being terribly written, the book handles serious topics like suicide and depression with the emotional intelligence of a fucking twelve year-old orphan. The only two reasons why it was able to become a show are shock value and its ability to tout itself as an “mental health awareness tool”.”

#14. Oprah was into it.

“The Secret. It was big for awhile and Oprah was into it. Basically says if your life sucks you aren’t “envisioning” hard enough. Fuck that.”

#13. Just plain stupid.

“Left Behind. I wanted to enjoy it as a post-apocalyptic thriller, and I don’t mind religious elements, but it was just plain stupid.”

#12. Lazy, boring, and poorly written.

“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, may be a good play (haven’t seen it) but the book is lazy, boring and poorly written. Also the whole Voldy’s daughter is stupid

EDIT: my inbox has been fucking destroyed but almost everything that has been replied to me I agree with. Thanks for the Reddit gold, oh wait…”

#11. Double whoops.

“Twilight: Breaking Dawn

The vampire Cullens being all white and beautiful and rich and valuing education. The werewolf Quileutes being all brown and violent and high school dropouts. The plot is Bella gets knocked up by Edward, decides to gamble Edward’s life (because she knows he’ll commit suicide if she dies) and have this half-vampire baby. Surprise, she succeeds, and is immediately turned into a vampire. Jacob the werewolf gets removed from the love triangle by falling in love with Bella’s baby due to some stupid werewolf sexual mechanism even though it’s likely Bella’s baby is sterile, and he’ll only having to wait 7 years before he can fuck her because she rapidly ages (while conveniently will stop aging as an adolescent). Because Jacob is in love with Bella’s baby, he makes the other werewolves fall in line so they can’t fight vampires on their turf anymore.

Someone spots Bella and her perfect rainbow butt baby and assumes the kid is a vampire, and runs off to tell the vampire council since kid vamps are illegal. But half-vamps age so it’ll be fine once the vampire council shows up and sees she’s obviously not a full vampire. The Cullens collect dozens of vampire ‘witnesses’ to watch Bella’s baby grow up and be an obviously not a full vampire baby, all the while feasting and killing hundreds of humans in the Pacific Northwest but even the pedowolves give a shit about human lives anymore.

Bella gets the ultimate psychic shield power, which conveniently counters almost all of the vampire council’s special abilities. This one guy can expel a mist, and even though that’s physical Bella can still block it with her shield because fuck you, Mary Sue. She also has perfect control over her bloodlust because of course.

The vampire council shows up, sees that Bella’s kid is obviously not a full vampire, and go home.

Meanwhile everyone conveniently forgets that the vampire council now know that Bella’s dad knows about vampires, and the rules are such people either need to be turned into vampires themselves or killed. Whoops.

The book is full of poor writing and grammar, continuity issues, and shit just plain wrong. At one point they travel “West from Rio de Janeiro, into the ocean” which, if you examine a map, is not where the ocean is. Another scene has Bella’s dad eat pancakes in one paragraph, but they turn into cereal a few sentences later.

People say the movie was better because it had some trailer bait scene of the vampires and werewolves fighting….even though that scene was a vision of Alice’s, and impossible for her to see because she can’t see any future with werewolves involved. Like, that was a major plot point of the second book/movie New Moon. Double whoops.”

#10. Every chance I get.

“The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett. Basically, this teenage girl who we’re supposed to think is likeably quirky but is actually a huge bitch thinks that a girl she didn’t even like turned into a werewolf when she disappeared. This is not played for laughs and this is not a world in which werewolves or fantasy shit exists. She becomes obsessed with the missing girl and falls in love with the girl’s 30 year old boyfriend when she’s 16 (though acts much younger. This isn’t a book about a descent into madness either, THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE SEEN AS NORMAL). Hated it, and I’ll bash it every chance I get.”

#9. Atrociously written.

“Very possibly Armada, by Ernie Cline. It’s a shame, because I unabashedly love the cheesy retro nostalgia bomb that was Ready Player One, I was really hoping he’d knock it out of the park with the follow-up.

Nope. This book is fucking awful. It’s not a sequel, doesn’t tie in at all, it’s just trying to do the exact same thing all over again by stealing plots from The Last Starfighter and Ender’s Game and cramming in as many 70s and 80s references he possibly can. The main love interest, Alexis “Lex” Larkin, is the most obnoxiously typical manic pixie geek fantasy one could imagine:

She was just off to my right, sitting all alone in a deserted row near the back, taking brazen pulls from a chrome hip flask painted to look like R2-D2 […] Her pale, alabaster skin contrasted sharply with her dark clothing – black combat boots, black jeans, and a black tank top (which didn’t fully conceal the black bra she was wearing underneath). She had a spiky wave of black hair that was buzzed down one side and chin-length on the other. But the real kicker was her tattoos, on each arm: on the left was a beautiful seminude rendering of the comic book heroine Tank Girl, adorned in postapocalyptic rock lingerie and smooching an M16. On her right bicep, in stylized capital letters, were the words EL RIESGO SIEMPRE VIVE.
He then charms her by proving how nerdy he is, recognizing that her tattoo is from the movie Aliens and making bumbling nerdy pickup lines.

This book is so fucking terrible. The only joy I got out of it was reading various passages aloud to friends who laughed their asses off at how atrociously written it is.”

#8. I couldn’t even be bothered.

“Mickey by Chelsea Martin.

I picked it up randomly at a local bookstore because what little I read seemed promising. I took a creative writing class in college, and one thing my professor said that stuck with me is to read the kinds of books that I’d be interested in writing, so anything written in vignettes (my preferred style at the time) was what I’d usually end up buying/renting because I rarely stumbled upon them.

I’ve never wanted to trash a book so fast in my life. The writing was actually okay, but the narrator was incredibly narcissistic and unpalatable. The book itself could’ve been easily finished within an hour, but I couldn’t even be bothered to waste time slogging through it.

My options were to throw it away or have it recycled, but instead I drove the 45 mins back to the bookstore to get my money back.”

#7. A very big mistake.

“Anyone ever heard of Wraeththu by Storm Constantine? Yeah… when I was a teenager I saw it at my local library and thought “oh neat, scifi/fantasy stuff I haven’t heard about.” Within a couple hours I knew I’d made a very big mistake.”

#6. Ravings for cash.

“Valis by Philip K. Dick. This isn’t because the book is terrible per se. It’s because I think the book is evidence that the man was very unwell and I think that, in publishing it at all, his publishers and agent were milking a mentally ill man’s ravings for cash.”

#5. Whenever convenient.

“The Compound is an edgy teen post apocalyptic shelter book in which every character undergoes immediate overhauls of their entire personality whenever convenient.”

#4. I literally threw the book.

“Dianetics. Someone bet me I wouldn’t read it. The final straw was the part where people’s weight disorders stem from you being in the womb and your pregnant mom says how she hates being overweight. Yes, because a baby in the womb understands language and the concept of being fat.

I literally threw the book across the room. I did collect on the bet though because my friend was shocked I made it as far as I did.”

#3. So obviously faked.

“Go Ask Alice…I know it said it was taken from the REAL diary of an actual teenager, but it was so obviously faked that I rolled my eyes hard enough that I’m surprised they didn’t stick in the back of my head that way.”

#2. Go figure.

“The Zoo. It was a spur of the moment Costco purchase. It’s about animals taking over the world basically. I live texted a friend as I read it. It had every trope you could imagine in it. Story felt like it was written as part of someone’s grade school project.

There is now a TV show with several seasons. Go figure.”

#1. Morbid curiosity.

“Turner Diaries. Out of morbid curiosity. It’s a poorly written racist, anti semitic, conspiracy theory “novel”

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‘Lord of the Rings’ Bridge in Vietnam Is Breathtaking

Bridges have gotten boring. They used to be arched and notched and spoked and made of sparkling metals, they’re now simple, flat, concrete, and flat-out boring. I’ve personally lamented about how this architecture and design has gotten lame and uninspired in the modern age.

Not the case, however, in Da Nang, Vietnam, where the Golden Bridge’s design is wowing natives and visitors alike.

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It appears to be held aloft by two giant stone hands and stands 1400m above sea level, offering stunning views of the countryside around and below it. The gold-colored walkway is lined with purple Chrysanthemums and stretches nearly 150m in elegant curves.

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TA Landscape Architecture designed the bridge, and reveal that the “stone” hands actually…aren’t. They’re steel mesh covered with fiberglass and the faux-stone design, and the construction took about a year.

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The gorgeous bridge is just one more reason tourists are discovering and flocking to Vietnam in record numbers – the Golden Bridge is part of a $2billion investment that aims to bring more than 1.5 million visitors to the area every year.

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Investing in structures like this can’t hurt tourism. In fact, it’s making me want to visit and take a look for myself!

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People Confess to Common Things They’ve Never Done

I’ve never taken a public bus in the United States, but that’s me. The following 15 people also have some doozies!

#15. The whole night.

“Never stayed awake throughout the whole night.
EDIT: Believe it or not, I’m a university student. Yes, I’ve never left my home in the morning without having slept. The shortest I’ve slept was about 2 hours and a half when I had been studying until 3:30 AM. Felt horrible the next day. My only trouble with sleeping is that I usually sleep too much haha.”

#14. Not well traveled.

“I’ve never seen a mountain in person. Currently planning a trip later this year that will correct this, but until then…

And until two weeks ago, never seen an ocean in person. I’m not well traveled.”

#13. Fried chicken.

“I’ve never tried on fried chicken

Edit: just realized my English was off here lol

Edit 2: thanks for gold lol.”

#12. Up and downs.

“Close to 33, never been to a funeral. Estrangement from your family has it’s up and down sides depending on your perspective!”

#11. Matchless.

“College roommate had not once lit a match.”

#10. Props.

“I have never heard Kim Kardashian talk.”

#9. RIP.

“Never been grounded…. And considering I’m an adult I likely never will be.

Edit: looks like I’ll never marry then rip.”

#8. Never been.

“Never been to a concert of any of my favorite bands, or any bands.”

#7. Missing fruit.

“I have never left Philly, or eaten a pear.”

#6. Flying scared.

“I’ve never been on an airplane.”

#5. Just can’t catch one.

“I’ve never had a crepe. They look delicious too, like a thin, sweet pancake with amazing toppings. Everything about them seems incredible yet I’ve never been able to catch one.”

#4. Still alludes me.

“Whistle. I’ve tried for 31 years and it still alludes me.”

#3. Shut your holes.

“I have never been 10 pin bowling.

Edit for all you pedants asking if there are other types of bowling, well hell yes there are so shut your holes!”

#2. Star Wars.

“I have never seen 1 star wars movie.

Edit: I saw none of them

Edit 2: I have planned to binge watch them this friday to saturday.”

#1. Neither have I.

“I have never been stung by a bee or a wasp.”

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Homeless People Share What They Mean By “Anything Helps”

Seeing homeless people on the street is hard. They have different signs-some are funny, others are sad, but it’s hard to know what to give when you see that very common sign: anything helps.

So here’s some advice from people who have been there.

#15. When you have nothing.

“Anything to help get clean when showering is not available, like cleansing wipes and deodorant especially. Chapstick, especially in the winter. Women usually need pads or tampons, they are so expensive when you have nothing.”

#14. My last handout.

“Deodorant, water, healthy snacks, razor/shaving cream, couple bucks for food/gift card to taco Bell… I was once given a gift card to the Dollar store that I felt changed my life. They had given me $20 and I was able to buy toiletries, laundry detergent and food. It was my last handout before I got my life together.”

#13. A few impractical things.

“When I was homeless food was the least of my problems. ANyone can afford a couple Mcdick Mcdoubles to keep themselves alive. You know what woulda helped? Loonies for laundry and detergant to keep my clothes from smelling like piss, Batteries for my cd walkman so i could listen to Watch out by Alexisonfire (some of the tracks helped me turn sadness into anger, which helped motivate me to get my shit together), A bible (if your not religious i get it, but motivational reading material for lonely nights is what im getting at here), a monthly bus pass, day passes to the YMCA so i can take a shower and maybe use their plus rooms for a good steam room sesh, Let me put your phone number on my resume (I didnt have a home or a phone so when i applied places i had nothing for them to get ahold of me so i had to tell them i could be found on the waterfront by the picnic tables). Maybe none of this is practical, but i needed a few impractical things to get my foot in the door….which i did…and im fine now.”

#12. That personal touch.

“I used to work with homeless people. For women, you can do up little hygiene packs with pads, tampons, feminine wipes and a little roll-on deodorant. Pads are expensive as fuck and pretty much all women need them.

For a more generic approach, little care packs are doable too. A bottle of water, a snack, a pair of clean socks, bars of soap, a toothbrush and a little toothpaste will go a long way. Grocery gift cards are better than money too. A handwritten note slipped inside the pack too can give it that personal touch.”

#11. Quite cold.

“Not homeless, but a great idea I thought worth sharing: A young kid and his parent in my area recently started a charity drive that’s become quite popular. Donors and volunteers wrap warm winter coats around trees with “Take me, I’m free!” signs. It gets quite cold here and it’s a way to get coats to homeless people on their own terms. It’s been pretty successful from what I’ve heard.”

#10. My wife and kids.

“Homeless guy approached my uncle 15 years back asking for food outside a hotel. Uncle offered to pay his bill.

He said “Can I pack it and take it home, my wife and kids are hungry too?”

Uncle asked the cashier to pack 4 plates of Biryani (costly food with meat), the homeless guy said, “buy me rice and curry for the same amount we’ll get more food for the same price”

He was genuinely homeless.

And also, the amount of money my uncle spent for buying him food was like almost half the price, he and his friends had spent there before the homeless guy came.

We eat junk food and drink coffees throughout the day without giving it a thought. When in the same amount of money these homeless guys can spend almost a week with food.

#9. During the cold nights.

“I’ve never been homeless nor personally known anyone who was homeless. But one time I passed blankets around downtown Chicago and the most common requests were gloves and hand warmers, ESPECIALLY hand warmers. They may be temporary, but they really help out during the cold nights.”

#8. When you’re still stuck in it.

“Being talked to like a normal person is really, really awesome.

Money is good. But it only goes so far. And some people are scammers or after drugs. And even if not money just buys you some food and supplies you need.

What you really need is an address. And clean clothes. And a way to put together a resume and clean clothes to wear to interviews. And work to do in the meantime.

If there are good services in your area helping someone to them can help them. Resistance doesn’t mean they are one of the bad ones either. It could also mean they have been burned enough that they don’t really trust people anymore.

In the end I say support housing first policies and then point homeless people to where they can get involved in it. If you want to spend money then donate to organizations that help homeless people get in to a home and then help them get back in to the workforce. Or a meal. There are homeless that will take the meal. Food and things like tampons help when you’re still stuck in it.”

#7. Much-needed.

“For a female homeless person, I suggest tampons or pads, and feminine wipes. Having her period, living on the streets with no means to take care of herself or keep clean, is difficult and humiliating. It’s a basic human requirement, and those items are kind of expensive, but very much-needed.”

#6. Clean off.

“I was homeless for about 2 years. The most helpful is food. Next is clean clothing of any kind. When you’re homeless you don’t get to wash clothes or have clean ones to put on. Shoes! I’d walk the soles clean off in several months.”

#5. A genuine smile and…

“A genuine smile and food. If you have the time take them to a McDonald’s and talk to them. It was about 6 years ago someone did that for me and it helped me out so much more than I can express.”

#4. Hygiene.

“Probably a small hygiene pack, water and a snack.”

#3. The basics.

“Not homeless but as someone who has made kits the last 4 years to hand out (I keep a stack of totes in my car at all times) I give these things:

Each package has:

BPA free reusable water bottle

Peanut butter crackers

Cheese crackers
Lemon cookies
Dried fruit (Bananas, blueberries, cranberries)
Gum

Almonds and Cashews
Wet wipes

Sport Deodorant
Comb

SPF 30 sport sunscreen
Razor

Toothbrush & holder
Toothpaste
Pack of tissues

Sewing kit
First Aid kit

Lip balm

Tylenol
LED light w/batteries (120 hour tealight)
Ink pen
Stamped envelope
Blank card

Personal note from my family

Winter gets socks, hand warmers, gloves, hats, and those little silver space blankets

I never know everyone’s circumstances so I try to cover the basics and figure they can hopefully trade if they don’t need something.”

#2. Ibuprofen.

“a pass to a $10 gym so they have access to a hot shower everyday, socks, a bottle of ibuprofen…”

#1. Socks.

“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Socks. SOCKS SOCKS SOCKS. I didn’t care if they were too big, at least they were on and protecting my feet. Women, give hygiene products. Those never get donated unless it’s small bursts during awareness things.

If you want to take it a step further, make little packs with underwear/boxers (again, best to be too big than too small), socks, toothbrushes and paste (my teeth are permanently damaged and I’m looking at implants/dentures at 24), small snacks, a reusable water bottle, and little Mio water squirts, just because sometimes I liked being able to slap a few drops in my water and “treat myself”.

If you live in a bus-laden city, bus passes are good, too! Bus passes were always a pain! If a shelter had them, they metered them and only gave you one use only tickets.. once got stranded on the edge of town that way.”

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The Next Time You Feel The Need to Mansplain Use This Flowchart

The term “mansplaining” was officially added to Merriam-Webster earlier this year, but if you’re active in social media spheres, you’ve likely been hearing it for years.

If you’re a woman who knows anything about “guy” stuff (superheroes, cars, books, politics, on and on) then you’ve been dealing with it your entire life.

Mansplaining: When a man talks condescendingly to someone (especially a woman) about something he has incomplete knowledge of, with the mistaken assumption that he knows more about it than the person he’s talking to does.

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Thankfully, we now have this handy chat to hand over to the men in our lives. If begins with the question “did she ask you to explain it?” If yes, then feel free to proceed. If no, well…you’re only left with three outcomes:

Probably mansplaining, definitely mansplaining, and just stop talking now. It’s kind of a progression, really, because some men just can’t seem to stop talking, even when every instinct and any ability whatsoever to read the room should tell them that they’ve stuck their foot squarely in their mouth.

Because for all they know, they’re pontificating to someone who is as well – or better – versed on the subject than they are.

The chart was tweeted by @KimGoodwin, and even though most of the ladies in her mentions were all applause, she did get some less than enthusiastic (gasp!) responses from the men in the crowd.

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Perhaps this happens to men on occasion, but anyone who uses the hashtag #notallmen instantly loses all credibility. Sorry. It’s just true.

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Goodwin was quick to “regular” explain why he’s wrong.

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And the responses from the ladies really drove home her point.

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And then there were the people asking the big questions. We need to know!

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So there you have it – hats off, Kim Goodwin. You’re a gem.

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These People on Tumblr Are Wowed by Crazy Intelligent Crows

The first time I learned how crazy smart members of the Corvidae family – which includes crows and ravens – are, it totally blew my mind. They can solve multiple step puzzles, for one, and well…afterward, I wasn’t quite so quick to dismiss the happenings in The Birds.

In case you’re new to the information, we’ve got some human and bird encounters below. Prepare yourself to be stunned!

It all began with this post:

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And others quickly jumped on with their own examples of why, while you might not need to fear the crow, you should definitely respect them.

 

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Want to check it out for yourself? Watch this awesome video!

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