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People Talk About What Needs to Stop Being Romanticized

Things always look better through rose-colored glasses.

You know that’s the truth!

Some things just seem to get better with time…even if they really don’t deserve it. And we’re about to get an earful about what people think about this!

AskReddit users talked about things they think should stop being romanticized. Let’s take a look.

1. In reality…

“Depression.

There’s nothing romantic about not showering for three days and forgetting what it’s like to be able to feel things.”

2. Don’t be a creep.

“Stalkers.

When a person says they are not interested in you, walk away. They are not playing hard to get. They are not pretending. They are not sending mixed-messages.

Don’t follow them around. Don’t call/message/email them. Don’t “accidently” run into them at different places. Don’t make them socialize with you.

No matter how hard Hollywood tries to sell it, there is nothing romantic about a guy who can’t take rejection or understand and accept the word “no”.”

3. Too much work.

“Overworking.

The people at my job seem to make it a contest of who sacrifices more for their job. Who works the most overtime? Who does things off the clock for work more? Etc.

It’s bullsh*t.

I have a life and a family I want to prioritize.”

4. It’s not real life.

“Many romance stories focus on a male character who is ‘broken’ and is ‘fixed’ by the female protagonist.

Women craft a relationship standard from this – a man cannot be for her if he is not damaged.”

5. Not fun for everyone.

“High school.

There is so much more bullsh*t in high school but the media decides to romanticize one TEENSY part of it.

Take it from a high schooler, romance is such a tiny part of it that it’s barely even recognized anymore.”

6. So true.

“Alcoholism.

I am thankful I never made it such a habit that it ever became a problem, but between the commercials urging you to buy beer and liquor, the movies and television that treat binges as always fun and always s*x-filled, and the general cultural passivity with it (the fact I can drink with my parents no problem but will likely never, EVER smoke weed with them) is just painfully misleading.

I think of the people who truly struggle with alcoholism and how much it must pain them to watch TV or even just be out anywhere it is served. Maybe someone with that sort of perspective here can correct or enlighten me, but it just seems like a very difficult world to recover from alcohol dependency.

To clarify, I’m not anti-drinking. I used to drink on a weekly basis, whereas now it’s on special occasions only. Idk, so many things about it just don’t appeal to me anymore.

The emotional and relational problems…the trauma drunk behavior can bring, the wake-up headaches that make your head feel split in half, the vast amount of car accidents and fatalities inebriation causes, the numbing of your emotions (for better or worse), the amount of weight it makes you gain, the number of people who feel they cannot have fun without it.

To me it’s legitimately tragic just how much society encourages us, whether culturally or economically, to drink. I would argue cigarettes in the same vain, however I think society has generally embraced the anti-cigarettes mantra much more in recent years, though it’s still bad.”

7. Toxic.

“”Struggle love” or whatever you wanna call toxic relationships that slowly suck the life out of you and ruin your mental health. Relationships are not the misery olympics where you get a gold medal in the end if you put up with the most bullsh*t.

Your partner should make you happy at least 95% of the time, if it’s the opposite then you need to get the hell out of there instead of endlessly trying to ‘make it work’.

There’s nothing romantic or glamorous about wasting the only life you have with a loser who lies, cheats, uses, and abuses you.”

8. Not a good life.

“The Mafia.

Media makes them out to be bad*sses who are making money hand over fist.

Go watch Donnie Brasco and Al Pachino’s character. A life-long mafioso who drives a sh*tty car, has an average at-best apartment, and is constantly wondering if he’s going to get killed every day he wakes up.

Who the hell would want that life? But, a lot of these guys are Neanderthal morons who only know crime.”

9. Bad boys.

“The whole concept of “bad boys”.

Why is manipulative and abusive portrayed as hot? If anyone abuses you in any way, it’s not hot, it’s a serious problem.

For some reason, many movie/book plots overly romanticize the concept and it’s sick. Same thing goes for Stockholm Syndrome.”

10. Enough of this.

“The tortured artist.

I hate the idea of “only those that suffer can make great art”. Yes, there are people who have a rough life and make amazing things but that is a small percentage of people who actually get noticed. You can be smart, passionate, sincere, dedicated, or creative and make amazing art.

If we promote the idea that true art only comes from people who have suffered then that promotes the idea of self inflicting suffering while detracting from those who have made really amazing art but haven’t “truly suffered” for it.”

11. Yikes.

“Public marriage proposals, where the other party is basically shamed into accepting.

I heard someone on a podcast years ago telling their story about being proposed to on a cruise ship in front of hundreds. She said she leaned in, kissed the man, whispered in his ear “no but keep smiling”.”

12. Stay home.

“Working while sick.

JUST STOP! It’s not tough of you. You’re not taking one for the team. You’re probably about to take the whole team out.

I get it. Some workplaces have punitive policies for taking sick days (scary sidenote: like every single hospital I’ve ever worked). Some of us can’t afford not to work that shift.

But those are policy questions we should be pushing back on as soon as this administration is in the history books and we can finally get back to boring policy making again.”

13. Glamour and glitz.

“Celebrities. Fake people living fake, manufactured lives, yet the media insists that we care what they think, what they wear, who they’re voting for, who they’re f*cking.

All because they were born with some genetic gift, or born into the right family, or some other twist of fate thrust them into the limelight. It used to just be Hollywood types.

Now we have this whole generation of insta models, reality stars, and other “influencers” whose only contribution to society is their shameless self promoting bullsh*t. And people eat it up.

Meanwhile we have skyrocketing rates of teen depression and suicide because kids are bombarded with these impossible standards of beauty and popularity in their formative years.”

Now we’d like to get your thoughts.

In your opinion, what do people need to stop romanticizing?

Tell us what you think in the comments!

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What’s Your Happiest Memory? Here’s How People Responded.

Life sure is beautiful…

Yes, there is a lot of pain and many peaks and valleys, but there is so much to be thankful for and so many great memories that it really is a gift.

And most of us have a lot of great memories from years gone by.

Let’s get happy with people on AskReddit.

1. Family is everything.

“The day I met every one of my baby siblings. I’m the oldest male of 11. Life was a b*tch.

I was the only abused child but we all had it rough. The only thing that ever kept me going was my siblings.

Each and everyone of them changed my life the first day they were born and I held them.”

2. School days.

“I always loved elementary school.

Specifically after school, my mom and I would walk across the street from my school to go to the cafe near by. I would do my homework or she would read to my brothers and I, it was just a nice way to wind down after school.”

3. The last night.

“The last night before me and my childhood friend group parted ways.

It was the night before most of us left our country to go to school
on different continents.

We all went our separate ways within the next few days and we still try our best to keep in touch but it’s heartbreaking.

But we spent that entire night reminiscing and laughing so hard. I swear I haven’t laughed or been as happy since that night.”

4. A lot of fun.

“Band trips to football games and on trips for contests.

It was so much fun.”

5. Pure joy.

“I have a memory of chasing my little sister around the house, she was like 2 and we were laughing so hard.

Pure joy!

I do like to think that the happiest is yet to come, and that is merely the happiest so far.”

6. Up in the air.

“Jumping into my grandfather’s arms and he threw me into the air.

He died when I was young, so this is my only memory of him, but it makes me so happy I have it.”

7. Missing Mom.

“I think my happiest memory was when I was in 6th grade. My mom was very sick from cancer, but she put up a good fight for 2 years.

She told me one night when I was having a fit, that we could go to Disney world in Florida. And while she was doing that, she was also calming me down by patting my back and rubbing my head.

That was probably the happiest memory of her, because shortly after that her cancer went really downhill, and she ended up passing away about 7 months later.

I miss her every day, and i know she can see the man that I’ve become today. Miss you mom.”

8. A great concert.

“My dad, who sadly passed away a few year back, took me to see Fleetwood Mac in DC.

It was an obstructed view of the stage but I could actually see backstage, and watching Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks running around was so cool.

So yeah, eating a Mr. Goodbar with my dad seeing Lindsay Buckingham rock out is something I’ll cherish forever!”

9. Weekend trip.

“When I studied abroad in South Korea, my new friends and I went on a weekend trip to Busan.

We drank a lot, ate delicious food, danced and sang, got lost walking to temples, even jumped off a waterfall.

But best of all, we laughed a lot together.”

10. The world made sense.

“When I held my niece for the first time, the world finally seemed to make sense.

I know that sounds a bit dramatic, but these past couple years have been really, indescribably difficult.

She kept me going though despite having just been born and being about 1,000 miles away.”

11. A huge meeting.

“Meeting my biological parents they showed me what a mothers hug really feels like and how stupid a dad joke really is.

These are things my adoptive parents never did glad to say I don’t miss them because I now live with my real mom and dad.”

12. Lessons from Dad.

“My Dad teaching me how to maintain and fix my car.

I miss doing stuff like that with him so much, sadly he now has Alzheimer’s and only recognizes me on good days.”

13. Great times.

“I remember being very young and my Grandfather teaching me to play Go Fish and Old Maid card games on the back porch.

He was a really kind soul.

I also remember catching waves with my Dad and naming them all sorts of crazy things on the Jersey shore.”

What’s your happiest memory?

Share your stories with us in the comments!

We can’t wait to hear from you!

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People Discuss the Businesses They’ll Never Buy From Again

I’ve been wracking my brain trying to think of a business that I felt was so terrible that I’d never go back or spend money on again and I just can’t really think of any.

There are definitely tons of places where I would never spend my money in the first place, but I don’t think I’ve had such a bad experience somewhere that I vowed “never again”…

But these folks sure have…

AskReddit users opened up and revealed the brands, stores, and restaurants that they’ll never spend money on again.

1. Not gonna do that again.

“Greyhound.

I will NEVER step foot on one of their buses again. Every single time I’ve rode with them, something catastrophic happens.

From buses breaking down to felons getting arrested mid-trip, I think it’s safe to say I’ve had enough.”

2. Sketchy.

“Wells Fargo.

Fake Accounts scandal

Auto Loan insurance scandal

Mortgage Loan scandal #1 (changing customer terms)

Mortgage Loan scandal #2 (2008)

PPP Loan scandal.”

3. Not satisfied.

“Never again restaurant was Jamie Oliver’s Italian.

Bloody awful menu, completely pretentious trite.

I think they all closed down.”

4. The friendly skies.

“Spirit Airlines.

The one time my family has flown Spirit there was a crushed taco salad in the pull-down desk, and the whole plane smelled vaguely like baby powder.”

5. Waste of money.

“Smokey Bones.

I ordered a “loaded nachos” from them recently. It arrived. It was basically a pile of plain corn chips with maybe a tablespoon of cheese sauce.

It included several tiny tablespoon portions of salsa, tomatoes, jalapeños, and sour cream. This was $13.00! Total waste of money.

I will never order from them again!”

6. Avoid at all costs.

“American buffets.

Ryan’s, Golden Corral, Old Country Buffet, etc…

I worked at one. Trust me. Do not.”

7. Brilliant!

“Soon after she left me in 1998, my ex wife wanted to meet for a post mortem conversation. I suggested we meet at Pizzeria Uno.

About 20 minutes into our agonizing conversation, she looked around and said: “Wait. You hate Pizzeria Uno.” I replied: “I sure do. I’m not going to ruin a place that I like with terrible memories. I’m never entering a Pizzeria Uno again.”

And I haven’t.”

8. Best Buy.

“Best Buy. I bought a washer and dryer there, and I paid for installation.

The guy came out, installed them, turned them on, and left. The washer started flooding my laundry room within minutes. I called them back, and they said they couldn’t come back to fix it. They’re just bring me a new washer in a few days.

New washer comes, gets installed, and again the guy leaves (even though I asked him not to). Again, it floods my laundry room. Again, they won’t come back even though it’s just a few minutes later. They said they’d bring a new one in a few days, but I said f*ck it.

I told them to take the washer and dryer back, and I’d purchase them elsewhere. It took them a whole week to come back and get them, and even then only after I threatened to put them outside.

When they finally took them back, I got a refund….of one cent. One. F*cking. Cent. I had to spend hours on the phone with them to get the full refund amount. Then, they didn’t refund me for the hoses (which they took back) and the installation (you know, that flooded my laundry room twice). It was another few hours on the phone to get them to give me that money back too.

Bought a new washer and dryer at Costco later. Came the next day, installed in minutes (for free), and worked great. Was even cheaper than Best Buy.

Seriously, f*ck Best Buy.”

9. Bad experience.

“Long Horn Steak House.

Reason: all but 2 people in our party (of 15 people) got horrid food poisoning. Mine was so bad that I threw out my back from vomiting and retching, and couldn’t take pain medicine without throwing it up.

So I couldn’t sleep because of having intense stomach and back pain that lasted a week.”

10. Not good.

“Skullcandy headphones.

Bought a pair once, they broke, got them replaced, they broke, got them replaced, they broke, gave up.

Didn’t do anything out of the ordinary with them, I’d pull them apart a bit to place them.over my head and SNAP, two pieces…”

11. Stranded.

“Yellow Cab. The driver ran out of gas on Hwy 59 in Houston at 3:00 in the morning which is a major road in a not so good area.

He left my friend and I on the side of the road for an hour while he walked to get gas twice since it still am didn’t start after the first trip. In the midst of all this I called Yellow Cab multiple times asking for another vehicle to pick us up only to be hung up on.

After we finally got to my apartment he requested full payment. I said f*ck you and offered $20 and that was all he was getting. Ended up getting into a massive cussing argument with this guy before he finally took the money and left.

I haven’t, nor will I ever use them again.”

12. Haven’t forgotten.

“Pottery Barn.

My wife was pregnant with our first child, so full nesting mode engaged. We ordered a chair for the kids room/nursery/whatever the f*ck it’s called, a nice glider with an ottoman, perfect, in theory, for 3am feedings. We ordered it at around 5 months out.

Everything was on track until 3 weeks from delivery date. We had called many times to confirm since shipping was delayed, but still on track for the due date. They told us it was now back-ordered for 6 months. These things happen, but there’s no way they found out about a 6 month delay 3 weeks from delivery on a 9 month lead.

It was a sh*t show! My wife, now fully in the grasp of preggers-crazy went ballistic. We got in cancelled and found another one from some similar place (restoration hardware?) it came in time.

Ok, then Pottery Barn’s ottoman shows up! What else came was a charge for the ottoman. Now we start fight 2 so they would refund our money and retrieve the ottoman. Kid turned 2 months old before it got cleared up.

My wife still flips the store off every time we drive by. This was 8 years ago.”

13. That’s pretty gross.

“I ordered a different type of gravy at Cracker Barrel, and they brought it out to me still in a plastic pouch with microwaving instructions on it.

I know things are prepackaged and reheated in a lot of places, but to not even bother dishing it up?”

14. Dude, you’re NOT getting a Dell.

“Dell, for laptops anyway. They have this devious little feature: the charging cable has a thin data wire inside that tells the computer the charger is from Dell.

If you plug in a charger that does not have this, even if the voltage is correct, the computer will throttle the CPU way down by sending false overheating signals, and will only increase the battery charge if the machine is off. To make this way worse, that data pin wears out and breaks very easily, and even if your charger still works, which it often does, it is borderline unusable. Since you can only get a replacement from dell, replacement chargers are unusually expensive.

This “feature” cannot be turned off in any intended way. There is a program you can use to bypass it by disabling the specific type of thermal cpu throttling they use, but that only works on intel cpus.

If you have an amd, tough luck, and even if you dont you shouldn’t have to disable hardware safety features using 3rd party software just to use hardware that is perfectly functional except for one unnecessary part that is designed to break.”

Alright, friends, now we want to hear from you.

In the comments, tell us about the brands, stories, and other things that you’ve vowed to never spend money on again.

We look forward to hearing your stories!

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People Talk About What Kind of Food People Only Pretend to Like

Oh! I know my answer to this question!

Ethiopian food. It seems to be all the rage among the hipsters in the city I live in. I’ve tried it twice at two different restaurants but I’m just not feeling it. At all.

Now, to be fair, I probably should give it another shot because it’s been several years, but the memories still haunt me, so I’ve been wary of going back…

AskReddit users opened up about what foods they think people only pretend to like.

1. Local fare.

“Anything that’s classified as a “local delicacy”.

There’s usually a reason it’s remained local.

And yes, I am Scandinavian, how’d you guess?”

2. Nope.

“Some of the Jello salads out there. Green Jello with carrots (and sometimes raisins) is an abomination.

Also, whatever the hell my mom used to make with cottage cheese and orange jello.

My family had this weird notion that if you put healthy stuff in Jello that it was a side dish and not a dessert. Nope, you just ruined two foods by making unnatural combinations with them.

Mom never did come across a Jello recipe that she thought was a bad idea though.”

3. Never heard of it.

“Lutefisk

We eat this on Christmas on my dad’s side of the family and everyone hates how it tastes, but it’s an important part of our family history. His ancestors had to eat it to survive famine, and it’s a way of keeping the memory of their sacrifices alive and showing respect to them.

Having it with a table full of absolutely delightful cooking also serves as a reminder of what we do have, and makes us more aware of what we should be thankful for. We do drown it in mustard and cream sauce though.”

4. Eat up!

“Chitlins.

Seriously, it’s intestines sorta cleaned and cooked.

That’s it.”

5. Not normal.

“Gefilte fish.

I refuse to believe anyone under the age of 80 enjoys this food.

It’s not normal.”

6. Thoughts?

“I have the soap gene for cilantro, so I had my fiancé try a bit (raw) to tell me what it tasted like.

Does it really just taste like grass for people without my curse?”

7. Gross.

“Limburger cheese.

It smells and tastes like sweaty feet.”

8. What?!?!

“Tonic water.

It’s like angry poison water.

Shy would anyone drink that on purpose?”

9. Hmmmm…

“Balut.

I spend quite some time in the Philippines and I never saw one person actively ENJOYING the food but eating it because cheap and easy to get.”

10. Come on, now…

“Grape Nuts.

If I wanted that texture and no flavor I would go outside and chew on gravel.”

11. Not a fan.

“Caviar.

I’d like some salt paste please for $100 a scoop…”

12. Marmite.

“Marmite.

There’s literally a series of adverts made by the company where the whole premise is ‘This sh*t tastes so terrible that even the slightest scraping will make you vomit.’

They’re not even pretending anymore. It’s not a food as much as it is an inter-office dare to see just what nasty bullsh*t they can convince people to eat.”

13. Keep it away from me.

“Anything rose or floral flavored.

I wanted a cake, not a cake that smells like flowers and taste like soap.”

14. I get it…but…

“Everybody gonna say oysters and even though I love oysters I get what they mean. They’re the texture of a thick loogey. They taste like saltwater and algae that’s marinated an old piece of discarded bubble gum.

But I love them! I love them so much! I love them with horseradish, lemon juice and hot sauces. They’re mostly just a vector for those flavors I guess. But I’d never really argue with a person who hates on them.

They’re objectively correct. I’ve just eaten so many things at this point, whacked off my taste buds so much, made them numb with fire and acid, that I’ve evolved to some twisted realm of flavor where culinary cenobites make me genuinely enjoy some clearly disgusting meal.”

15. Doesn’t sound great.

“The food my nephew makes.

It’s too salty and its always made out of Play-Doh.”

Okay, you know the drill…

Now we want to hear from you!

In the comments, tell us what foods you think people only pretend to like. Please and thank you!

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What Food Do Folks Pretend to Like? 16 People Responded.

Are foods out there that people only pretend to like?

Maybe it’s because it’s all the rage at the moment, maybe it’s extremely hip, or maybe people are just too afraid to speak out against it.

Whatever the case, it does seem like there’s a lot of this going around…or at least people think there is.

Let’s see what AskReddit users had to say about this.

1. Code for “not good.”

“Everything I eat at Rosh Hashanah.

Chopped liver, gefilte fish, kugel (noodles with cottage cheese and raisins).

Everything is described as an “acquired taste,” which is code for “not good.””

2. No thank you.

“Liver and pig’s feet.

I eat all types of food.

I eat sushi, caviar, oysters, beef heart, tongue, etc but those two foods in particular have a certain taste that just broadcasts what they are, and it isn’t positive.”

3. I’m being poisoned!

“Those bitter gross leafs in some salads.

Those are weeds, not food.

Healthy doesn’t mean it needs to taste like poison.”

4. Get that outta here!

“Sprinkles!

You all pretend to like them because they’re cute but in reality they ruin whatever they are on.

Leave my cupcake alone with your glittery crunchy nasty bullsh*t.”

5. Like shoe leather.

“Well done steak.

It destroys the flavor and texture,.

You may as well just save yourself some money and buy chicken instead.”

6. Uh uh…

“Miracle Whip

To quote Kyle Kinane, “mayonnaise doesn’t go bad, it just becomes Miracle Whip. That extra tang in there, you know what that is? Patience.””

7. Not a fan.

“Fruit cake.

Do people actually eat that?

I feel like it work better as a doorstop.

8. Take that back!

“Jägermeister.

It tastes like a syrup version of black licorice.

Ewww, god no.”

9. Not feeling it.

“Coconut Water.

If I wanted to drink taint sweat I would just collect my own.

10. Not for me!

“Kale.

Sure, I’d love a sandpaper salad!”

11. That’s one way to put it.

“Cottage cheese.

It’s the Devil’s yeast infection.”

12. I guess it is kind of gross…

“Celery.

It’s literally bitter, chewy, fibrous water.

Blehhh.”

13. Is it all a conspiracy?

“Candy Corn?

There is a conspiracy that in the 1880’s “Big Sugar” had found a way to sell their low grade sugar by mixing it with edible wax and selling it to children called “candy corn”

if someone “Likes” candy corn they are alien who is trying to “fit in” with humanity, cause people weren’t suppose to like candy other than as fake gag food.”

14. Overpriced.

“Really fancy wines.

I feel like once yet hit anything over USD 40 per bottle, all wines are just about the same levels of good.”

15. Rusty nails.

“Uni(sea urchin).

Tastes like rusty nails and explodes said rusty nail juice in your mouth like a boba.

Chefs talk about how they love it and I think people say they like it to get foodie cred.”

16. Very bitter.

“IPA beer.

Especially when the brewery prides itself on how hoppy it is.

That just means it’ll be so bitter you’ll barely be able to get it past your lips.”

Now we want to hear from all of you out there!

In the comments, tell us what foods you think people only pretend to like.

We can’t wait to hear from you!

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People Share Their Opinions About What Never Stopped Being Cool

Some things are cool and they always have been.

Bruce Springsteen. The Ramones. Martin Scorsese. Converse All-Stars. Also a whole lot of little things in life, too!

It’s just the way it is!

So let’s learn about some more eternally cool stuff.

AskReddit users talked about what was, is, and always shall be cool.

1. Nice and wholesome.

“Being the guy out of the group that waits for you when you have to stop and tie your shoe.

I LOVE that guy!”

2. Kindness.

“Being the type of person who is kind without trying to get recognized for it.

My whole family tries to be this way. As a kid, there were always strange people by the house……I asked my parents when I got a little older why they had a bunch of whacky friends.

They were nice to everyone unless you gave them a reason not to be. That lead to all the strangers and outcasts that were always dumped on by *ssholes feeling like they had a home and a friend.

I try to live by the same code because “normal” is nothing more than a setting on the dryer.”

3. That’s right.

“Sticking up for people in need.

I went to school with a mentally challenged girl from preschool through high school. She always said hi to me and I would ask her how she was, almost every single day.

One day in middle school she started walking across the street without looking and got hit by a car. She wasnt badly injured, just a few scrapes and bruises. Well a couple weeks after that she was trying to cross the street to get to school but the traffic was bad and she was scared to try to cross.

I had just parked my car and started walking to the school. I heard her yell my name from across the street and start waving. I yelled back and asked if she was ok. She asked if I would help her cross the street. I didn’t think anything of it and just kinda started walking across the street and stopped traffic.

I got to the side she was on and took her hand and I helped her across the street. She said thank you many times and we went about our day. I never thought it was a big deal but it must have been to her because throughout the rest of our school years she would randomly tell me thank you for helping her across the street.”

4. The best.

“Tony Hawk.

I’m not even into skateboarding and I think he’s cool.”

5. I agree.

“Finding money.

On the ground, in a pair of pants.

Doesn’t matter. Finding money is always cool.”

6. All ages.

“For me it’d be LEGO.

It sparks a joy in most/all people, no matter the age.”

7. Better with age.

“Bob Ross and Mister Rogers get cooler with age.

Both MUCH cooler now than when I was a kid.

They are never going to hit maximum coolness.

They’ll just keep expanding.”

8. Be gentle about it.

“A gentle but witty comeback.”

9. The good stuff.

“A cold beer after a long day of work.

Pizza and beer after helping someone move.

Makes an average beer, average pizza, taste Godly.”

10. Lookin’ sharp.

“Leather jackets.

I wouldn’t mind having one if I could pull it off.”

11. A classic look.

“Jeans, a white t-shirt and some black boots.”

12. Darn right!

“Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Dolly Parton.”

13. American icon.

“Converse will be cool until the end of time.

This is the hill I will die on.”

14. Skate or die!

“Skateboarding.

It’s still absolutely awesome to watch and super fun to practice.”

15. Pretty awesome.

“Electric guitar.

The Les Paul is like 60 years old and still cool.”

What do you think has never gone out of style and will always be cool?

Share your thoughts with us in the comments.

Please and thank you!

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People Talk About the Craziest Things They’ve Ever Seen at Parties

This is gonna be fun…

I can vividly remember some house parties (and some field parties) that got a little bit out of control when I was in high school and college…and maybe a few years after college, as well…

Hey, we were all just living our best lives!

Are you ready to hear some party stories!

Let’s get wild with some folks on AskReddit.

1. Oh boy…

“Got a gun pointed at my crotch by the girl whose apartment the party was at. She laughed and said it wasn’t loaded.

Then some guy called her back over to the table where he was sitting. He said, “give me that.” And proceeded to pull out the magazine.

I left about then…”

2. They blew it.

“These guys were trying to cook a pig which none of them have ever done, so these geniuses came up with a plan to build a fire pit, lay the pig on top, then place a cast iron bathtub over the pig to cook… all day.

When it was time to feed the partiers, they removed the tub to find nothing but ashes.

They cremated a pig.”

3. Time to go to the ER.

“I once got stabbed in the f*cking chest at a party.

This guy had a ceramic plate of wings (was drunk) and I accidentally bumped into him (dropping his wings and plate) he got so mad he picked up a shard of the plate and stabbed me with it.

I ended up going to the hospital but was mostly ok.”

4. A wild night.

“Halloween house party, everyone in costume except one guy.

Everybody is having a good time until that guy goes on a rampage and throws a guy dressed as Shaggy through a ground floor window and just paces around the room like a wild animal looking like he’s going to do it again.

Everyone’s in a state of shock or going out to check on Shaggy. My mate Pete (RIP) calmly folds up a chair and smashes the guy over the back with it WWE style and then threw him out.”

5. Whacked out.

“An extremely drunk/high guy (I have no idea, he was wobbling around and hallucinating) and he made my bed.

I watched, also fairly drunk, from the corner of my room, as he fell on top of it over and over while attaching the sheets and tucking them under the mattress.

Guy’s mother must have drilled some crazy sense of duty into him.”

6. He nailed it!

“A very fat friend of mine was extremely drunk and said ‘Im gonna do a flip!’

He did a complete front flip, landing on a plastic chair, which broke and sliced his arm open.”

7. Ahhh, don’t worry about it.

“Austin, Texas 2008ish…

I was living with 6 people in hyde park and all of us were under 30 and kind of a hot mess. We were all good friends and would drink way too much and go to parties all the time.

So one of my room mates hits me up and tells me about a party nearby and gives me the address. I don’t really know anyone there but I don’t really care because I’m gonna go get drunk anyways…

So I ride my bike over to some apartment complex and start looking for the right apt number. I take a turn around one of the buildings and suddenly I see a fully naked 20 something girl making out with a fully clothed 20 something dude in the parking lot. She is pressing him up against the wall and both if them are too busy to notice me.

So I nope the f*ck right out of there, and wonder how the f*ck anyone could be that bold. I repeat this girl was full on naked, like without any socks or nothing in a parking lot alley of sorts at night.

I finally find the right apartment and my roommate still has not made it.

I break the ice with all these strangers by telling them about this weird *ss scenario that just happened and everyone has a good laugh. It turns out a bunch of them live here too and they start to ask me what they looked liked.

Just as I am finishing the details about what the guy was wearing and what the girls hair looked liked the people that were f*cking walk right in the door…

Dead silence, then straight up “Hey, this new kid just saw you f*cking in parking lot!” Followed by howling and cackling. The girl (who was surprisingly clothed now) turned bright red and dragged the speechless guy she was with to her room in dead silence.

By this point I felt like I f*cked up. I knew it would be a good ice breaker but I never would have in a million years expected them to walk in the door.

Then someone who lived there said not to worry about it and handed me a beer.”

8. Terrible.

“Guy tried to kill himself in the bathroom tub by slashing his wrists. It was a small-ish party in an apartment with one bathroom so people had to pee so thankfully they got to him in time.

We broke down the door when he finally said what he was doing and called an ambulance.

He lived. Also went to a psych ward for a few weeks after this.”

9. Left a mark.

“I went to a college Halloween party about 8 years ago, there’s was this dude dressed up in a pink gorilla costume just going ham, life of the party!

Dude went a little too hard, he ended up throwing up directly into his gorilla mask (while wearing it), and then followed it up by power yeeting himself down the stairs!

An ambulance came for him and we saw him again the next morning when he returned as a regular colored human and a cast on his leg.”

10. Make yourself at home.

“Hosted a party once and stayed sober so my house wouldn’t turn into a wreck.

Walked into my room and saw the biggest guy in my class (bodybuilding kind of big) drunk AF sitting on my bed watching reruns of Spongebob Squarepants and eating nachos.

Then looked at me dead in the eye and said “What? It’s a good show”.”

11. That’s not good.

“I went to a house party that got out of control. I was part of the ‘clearing out squad’ and I found a very coked up dude in the bathroom washing his face in the sink which appeared to filled with blood, like horror movie levels of blood.

Apparently he was punched in the face by somebody with a big ring which had sliced his nose, essentially, off. I will never forget him stuporously turning towards me to say something and his nose following his head on a 2 second delay like a door on a hinge.

He looked like Red Skull from the Marvel movies.”

12. Lots of weirdos out there.

“A random guy who wound up at a house party asked a couple people if they had her*in, and after we kicked him out he came back to the smoker’s area in the alley out back and tried to physically carry a drunk girl off down the back alley.

We intervened and got her inside and safe, but that was pretty f*cking crazy.

Be careful out there kids.”

13. Didn’t go back there.

“House party in 1990, I was 19 and in college. The crowd was mostly farm and ranch kids, rodeo team people, a lot of HS girls.

I was drinking a beer at the kitchen table talking to some people, playing one-card-no-peaky. Two brothers lived in the house we were partying in, parents were gone. There was a rear-projection TV in the living room with MTV or something on it.

The older brother, maybe 20, was laying on a beanbag on the living room floor in front of the TV. Younger bro comes in, sees older bro asleep on the beanbag. Younger bro decides he’s going to fart on older bro while he sleeps. Younger bro undoes his pants, drops his trousers, and squats over older brothers nose…and pushed. From my perspective the whole thing was silhouetted by the television screen.

A lone turd slithered out of younger bro and landed on older bro’s face. Younger bro whispers “oh, f*ck” because older bro had opened his eyes. Younger bro takes off running out of the house. Older brother sits up, sniffs, picks up the turd, and yelled “you sh*t on my FACE!”. Dead silence all around.

Older bro gets up and leaves the room and heads down the hall. Comes back a minute later with a 12 gauge pump, feeding shells into the magazine as he walked. Younger bro is outside getting into his truck when he sees older bro coming out the front door. YB fires up his truck and tore out of the yard while OB is shooting the hell out of the back of that pickup.

I didn’t party there anymore.”

Okay, now it’s your turn!

In the comments, tell us about the wildest thing you’ve ever seen at a party.

We can’t wait to hear from you!

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People Share the One Thing They Think Could Make Them Truly Happy

True happiness sure is elusive. Is it about personal satisfaction? Security? Relationships? All three?

It can mean so many things, and different stuff to different people, which is why – even though people over the centuries have certainly tried – there’s no recipe to make it happen across the board.

These 20 people are giving it the old college try, though, and some of them even seem to be on the right track.

20. Godspeed.

I literally just need to have balance. Meaning I have depression and anxiety.

I used to take medicine for that and it helped a lot but so much crap has happened this year to where I don’t have it right now.

I really feel that once I am back on that sh%t, my life would be a hell of a lot better.

19. Fake it ’til you make it?

I have it. I AM happy.

18. Getting old is a bear.

A good way to fix a herniated disk, to be able to walk without a limp would be a blessing (‘: hopefully a couple more months of therapy helps!

17. I mean.

Big ol bag of weed.

Money cant buy happiness, but it can buy weed and that’s pretty close.

16. Some people are simple creatures.

Some gogo squeezes, a computer with fl studio on it, and a comfy chair.

15. A catch 22.

I am pretty happy with my life, but I’d love to have my mental health back without meds….I’m sure they’re why I’m happy though.

Oh, and world peace.

14. It’s a good start.

Losing the weight and getting my career job would be a big start.

I wouldn’t say I’m not happy though, just not fulfilled.

13. Oof that’s rough.

Enough money not to worry about my parents’ retirement.

12. “Only.”

only an extra 40k a year.

11. Sometimes that’s all you need.

Right now, some days in a camp near a beach, would be perfect.

10. Family is everything.

Before, I would have said a lot of money, and would have been fine if that arrived in years down the road. Now, I still say a lot of money, but more immediately, because this really hinges on the lives of me and my siblings.

9. Is time travel a thing?

i’d be a lot warmer and a lot happier with a belly full of mead.

8. The internet connection is a must.

I often consider myself a simple guy.

The things I wish for is a reasonable income to cover my expenses and some savings for future, a good furnished place to live in a calm neighborhood and a fast internet connection to get my entertainment and information.

7. I’d say this could go either way.

A girlfriend.

6. Hopefully a good one.

Definitely a job at this point.

I’ve been out of work save for some freelancing since I got my Masters, and the freelance work dried up in March (turns out there’s not a lot of call for transporting and hanging artwork for corporate and institutional clients during a pandemic)

5. There’s always another rung on the ladder.

Little more money in my salary and a woman that genuinely loves me.

I’m sure once I get those I’ll start to want something else though.

4. Mowing is the worst.

If I could get my house completely paid off and turn my front lawn into something I don’t have to mow, that’d be it.

3. That sounds lovely.

Music, nice cup of hot chocolate and my family.

2. Not too much to ask.

I’m already happy. What would I need to feel comfortable?

Universal healthcare.

My child’s health / happiness. Which is tied in with universal healthcare.

And a job I really enjoyed.

1. If you want to get technical.

A decent mix of serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphins would help.

I’m not saying money would do the trick, but enough money could certainly relieve a lot of depression and anxiety in the world.

What would your answer be? Share it with us in the comments!

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Check out These Suggestions on How to Cheer Yourself Up When You’re Sad

Everyone gets sad –  it’s totally normal, whether it’s due to hormones, the weather, or just the natural ebb and flow of life.

If you’re afraid it’s depression, you should definitely seek professional help, but if not, these 15 tips could help pull you out of your funk!

15. Very creative.

I wrote a letter to my future self when I was at a happy point in my life to read when I’m sad. You’re obviously the only one who knows what you’re going through, so it’s nice to get advice from the happy version of yourself.

like: dear me/ future me, i hope that you’ll be happier wherever you are blah blah. it can be anything!

14. This is all very true.

I read a book, that always takes my mind off things: way better for your mental health than social media.

Just cut off the toxic social media for some weeks. Just browse through Reddit. You’ll feel much better.

13. Emotions are your friend.

Cry.

Identify my emotions. Is it angerr? Disappointment? Despair?

Accept them. Allow myself to feel them.

Figure out why I felt them and soon they just go away.

I find that distractions or suppressing them only makes them fester and get worse or come out in the form of anger and end up hurting someone else.

12. Endorphins are great.

I exercise. That makes me so much more miserable that my previous state of misery appears cheerful.

11. Just breathe in it.

I allow myself to be sad, understand why I am sad and just continue to do whatever I have planned to do.

Eventually it goes away the sadness and I don’t even notice.

10. I shall try it immediately.

Yelling Michael Jackson sounds.

You gotta try it. It really helps.

9. Solid advice from an old soul.

My coping mechanisms are shit, so I asked my 4 year old niece. She said you scream the sad out, then sat on the floor and shouted “AHHHH!” Then smiled and went about her day.

Scream the sad out.

8. I love everything about this.

Some motherf*cker said you can literally smile and trick your brain into being happier. I hate how it actually works sometimes.

7. Take a walk.

I just sit there continuing to feel sad until I just get over it. Sometimes I go outside for a bit of a walk too.

6. Dance it out.

I put on my dance gear and dance my ass of to some super corny hyped inspirational lyrical crazy beats songs with the lights either dimmed or off, if in the dark I put on the flashlight so I can see my silhouette on the mirror, the walls and roof.

It looks so beautiful and graceful and I feel like I’m on stage that it gets to me end up genuinely smiling.

5. It can really help.

Listen to music, it’s not a lot but it makes me so much better.

4. I feel like we could make a whole list of these.

Watch the YouTube video “If Animals Were Round”

3. Give yourself permission to veg.

This also worked for me when I needed to chill after a big test in college: order or make some food you like and watch your favorite shows or movies. I could recommend some if you like.

Mostly comedies: 30 Rock, Arrested Development, Chuck, Psych, Happy Endings, The Mighty Boosh, The IT Crowd, Parks and Recreation, Community.

2. Take a rest.

If I can, I take a nap or just go to sleep for the night. My doctor told me an analogy for mental health that I always find helpful.

Mental health is like a table. The more legs you have under the table (good sleep hygiene, nutritious diet, exercise, social contact, therapy etc…) the more stable the table is. It’s rarely one thing but we can do a lot of little things throughout the day that can cumulatively make a difference.

I have a toddler so I’m always exhausted and sleep deprived so that’s usually the table leg I’m missing, so any rest helps.

If you need to talk to someone, many people have offered in this thread. I’d probably be most helpful to other parents, if you want to vent there feel free.

Others have mentioned some fantastic points about finding a balance, and how no matter how stable your table is, sometimes the ground is uneven. I hear that, and they’re great points.

1. Fake it ’til you make it.

Pretend to be happy until I am. Fake it till you make it.

This was motto for 2 years while I was going through some serious sh%t in life. It worked out pretty well but, I think I bottled up too much emotions and lied to myself too much that I was happy that it got to the point where I can’t pretend anymore and just cry especially when I’m alone with my thoughts.

I don’t know how we do it but, I think as some of us age we pretty much just learn to suck it up though deep inside we’re all wounded to the core.

I’m definitely going to put a few of these in my back pocket.

What’s your go-to way to cheer up? Share your tips in the comments!

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People Share the Fastest Way They’ve Seen a New Coworker Get Fired

Once you’re happily ensconced at a job that you like, no longer the newbie feeling your way along, it can be interesting to watch those who come after you. You’re probably able to tell pretty easily which will sink and which will swim, right?

If you’re these 16 people, that’s definitely true, because they had a front row seat to the whole thing.

16. You gotta have boundaries.

Guy got hired, while going through orientation realized that his ex gf worked there too.

Turned around and walked right out the front door.

15. On CAMERA.

During their onboarding training, they stole my bosses wallet on camera….

1 hour in..

14. He had no idea where the line was.

This was a while ago at my old job. New guy gets hired as a bus boy. He was super annoying and tried to insert himself into everyone’s conversation whether they wanted him there or not. It only took a couple of hours for the whole restaurant to hate him. I was working the bar and he kept eating the bar fruit.

I personally didn’t care but the manager did. Manager comes over and tells him to stop eating the fruit. He looks the manager in the eye and eats another piece of fruit. Manager says “Really?” followed by “Come with me to the office”.

New guy promptly replies with “Alright man, calm down. I can tell you got that big dick energy for a good reason” followed with cliche wink and nudge from his elbow. In front of me and like 4 other employees. I wanted to slam my face into the ice bin, it was so cringe to witness.

He promptly walked out the front door 10 minutes later without his uniform on anymore. The worst thing about it was the manager was an insanely laid back guy. Hell, the whole restaurant was insanely laid back. You really had to try hard to get fired from this place. Had he not thrown in that big dick line, I’m almost positive he would have just gotten a slap on the wrist and kept the job.

13. This is pretty funny.

My boss was out of town and I managed a tea shop near a Starbucks years ago. This kid came in (foreign) and said he was supposed to start today.

We were hiring and I trained him etc. My boss came back two days later and had no idea.

The kid was in the wrong place but he stayed with us. Hired on the spot without even applying.

12. That’s something.

Not sure if it counts as being fired, but a guy in our basic training threatened a drill sergeant with a bayonet.

No idea what happened after he went to the hospital, but I didn’t see him again.

11. Good luck ol’ chap.

New guy drove a forklift into a fire hydrant, in front of a safety rep for the company. His supervisor was called over, and he immediately tells the supervisor that he won’t pass a piss test, as he used his only bottle of clean piss earlier that day when he hired in.

Everybody standing there immediately burst into laughter, which continued as security (also laughing) escorted him off site. Even the supervisor was all smiles…just gave him a pat on the back and wished him the best of luck. It was wild.

10. One heck of a story.

Worked in a grocery store for awhile: new guy took a lobster out of the tank and removed the elastic bands on its claws, then proceeded to put it back in the tank.

The thing murdered all the other lobsters in the tank.

9. This is all icky.

A week. I worked in a bar and a new girl started. At work, she seemed a little rough but was fine.

One day she finished a shift, sat at the bar and ordered a red wine with lemonade and ice in it (not really relevant to the story; just shows she is clearly insane). Her boyfriend came in, they had a huge domestic in front of my manager and several customers and she threw her drink over her bf and dramatically stormed out.

8. You can’t always fake it ’til you make it.

I got hired as a long-term temp with one other person to do some basic data entry work at a major brand pretty much everyone has heard of. And it was at their corporate headquarters so pretty prestigious.

Anyway, we went through all of this onboarding stuff in the morning that required us to get photo IDs and figure out parking and all that stuff. Then after 2 or 3 hours we were introduced to one of the employees in our new department who began going over what we were going to be doing.

None of it seemed overly difficult and I figured that while it was new system I had never used before I’d be able to work it out in a few days as long as I asked questions and took notes. And that was the thing that made me realize that the other person who got hired with me probably lied on her resume and was completely out of her depth.

She didn’t take any notes and didn’t ask any questions. And whenever I glanced at her I could see flashes of panic on her face. Well, lunchtime came and when we came back she said that another company had called her and offered her a permanent position and she couldn’t work with us ay longer.

Both me and the person training us knew what was going on but I’ll give the other lady credit for finding a way out without losing face too badly.

7. I’m guessing some kind of substance was involved.

There was this one kid who didn’t show up for work. He ditched work often, so the manager called around, couldn’t get anyone to fill in his shift, so she had to fill it for him.

A few hours into his shift, the dude ditching SHOWS UP, with his friends, and orders food from that manager. She fired him on the spot.

6. Lying makes people angry.

New guy started on Monday and was gone by Friday.

The guy hit some racking in the warehouse with the forklift, boss saw him do it, and the guy decided to lie about it when asked if he knew what happened.

5. Equal parts sad and funny.

I’ll never forget Jeremy.

Jeremy was 18, did not apply for colleges, so his parents made him get a job. He was hired as a mover, as is everyone. He shows up the first day to roll-call in a full suit and tie asking where his desk is. This was a group full of former convicts, high school dropouts, and generally rough dudes trying to make a living.

We laughed so hard. Jeremy went right back home.

Next day, Jeremy’s mom shows up to give the manager a piece of her mind. We laughed even harder.

4. That’s determination.

A 19 year old kid got hired to work the seafood counter. See him twice and then never again. Asked a coworker what happened.

He had closed seafood one night and was walking out of the store and the 5 pounds of crab legs he’d stuffed down the back of his pants fell out in front of the closing manager.

3. Well that’s unfortunate.

First day of work, he walks in, says “what the f*ck is up dumbaSs” to the guy that parked next to (didn’t touch) his new Camaro he bought since he got hired.

The guy was the CEO of the company I used to work for, on visit to our branch.

Literally ten minutes into his shift he was signing release papers.

2. I need details.

This was a pizza place I worked at in college. New guy was started on Thursday. Fine worker we showed him the ropes. He was on subs which is the easiest job. The instructions are right in front of your face.

Friday he no call no shows (it’s Friday. The busiest night of the week. And he and I were the only kitchen workers that weren’t also drivers). Monday a police officer shows up at the restaurant looking for him.

No idea what happened as he wasn’t there. Tuesday the owner informed me he was let go.

1. They sound brilliant.

I work construction. We had 2 new hires that were friends starting the same day.

Boss told one take a coffee order and come back.

Took everyone’s money and said he needed his friend to go with him cause it was a big order.

They never came back.

Man, these are definitely like car accidents you just can’t look away from, right?

If you’ve got a similar story from your work, please regale us with it in the comments!

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