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The Differences Between Dating Men and Women, According to 12+ Bisexuals

Bisexual people have dated members of both sexes. This gives them a unique insight into men, women, and relationships that most of us don’t have.

In this AskReddit thread, people who are bisexual reveal these differences.

1. Public perception

“How it’s received by the general public. When I’m out one on one with a man, it’s second nature to assume he is my significant other in situations such as having a dinner date or a weekend away at a hotel. That’s not the case when I’m with a woman. In particular, my current girlfriend looks somewhat similar to me. We’re both petite blondes. When we are out together, the first assumption is that we’re sisters or best friends. We have to make a point to explain that we’re together. It doesn’t bother me, as most people genuinely just don’t know and assume what’s second nature to them. It’s just an observation.”

2. Truth!

“Men can get ready in a matter of minutes.”

3. No privacy

“It’s a little weird on a date with a woman that you use the same bathroom. You don’t get that moment to yourself and there’s no privacy.”

4. Feelin’ good

“I keep seeing a reoccurring theme here. Girls think sex with girls is better, and guys think sex with guys is better. Possibly because you have the same anatomy and know what feels good?”

5. Differences

“In arguments alone: Women are explosive, but more pleasant in the day-to-day. Men tend to backslide into a quiet agony that never gets resolved.”

6. Communication

“More individual difference than gender difference.

But if there is one it’s communication style. Men take a lot longer to open up. And I’d say most men are less thoughtful about many things (like keeping track of important things happening in your life and giving support through them) although my personal experience there with the only man I’ve seriously dated has been stellar.”

7. Dominance

“There’s actually a noticeable difference on how I approach the relationship. When I’m with men I like being taken care of, but I like being more dominant in with women, I’ll do all the things I’d want a man to do for me.”

8. Bros

“The biggest difference for me, as a guy, is that there is a different level of friendship with a guy than a girl. With my current bf, it’s like I’m hanging out with my best bro, at the same time as spending time with the person I love. We do everything together and I never really want time away.

My last ex, a girl, was great to spend time with, but there was a level of understanding and friendship that wasn’t there purely because she was a girl. She could never understand certain things that a guy just gets. That shared understanding of experience that guys have. I’m sure girls have the same thing with other girls.

That was longer than I expected, but that’s the biggest difference I have.”

9. More truth

“One of them is WAY more comfortable buying tampons than the other.”

10. Understanding

“I’ve only dated gay guys and straight girls. For me the biggest difference has been that girls have in general been a lot more understanding of my sexuality and the guys have been a lot more biphobic/dismissive about it.”

11. A positive outlook…

“Women will ruin you emotionally, but men will disappoint you profoundly.”

12. S E X

“Sex. Was constantly being pursued to have sex while dating a man. Now sex is rarely had. If at all.”

13. Break ups

“with women, i always get emotional,..in a complete mess after breaking up. but men, i got over them..before the break up.

women–i think about them often when not together.

men–we were always doing activities together.”

14. It’s all about personality

“Honestly for me, I tend to be attracted to a similar type of personality regardless of gender, and that includes a lack of interest in conforming to gender roles, so in terms of internal relationship dynamics there hasn’t been an easy-to-parse difference my ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends along gender lines.”

15. Crazy talk

“Everyone’s giving normal scenarios, so I wanna bring up worst case. The ‘crazy guy’ is genuinely f****** insane, while the ‘crazy girl’ is a funny kind of insane. Like, craziest guy was a guy who gave me a necklace that he put his blood on to protect me from the secret powers of his alternate personality, and still tries to low key stalk me on social media, while the craziest girl is probably a tie between the super religious girl who cried when I ate meat and the ultra communist who told me she loved me within like an hour.:

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12+ People Reveal Their Biggest Work Fails

Failing at something at home stinks, but at least no one is around to see. When you fail at work, though? That’s the kind of thing that takes a while to forget.

Which, for us today, is a good thing because all these people on AskReddit remembered their #1 work fails. Read on to feel better about yourselves…

1. Uh oh

“Deleted the entire warehouse inventory database. Didn’t know how to get backup. Thank God for nice IT folks.”

2. That’s a whole lotta chicken

“I overestimated and cooked too much chicken for our dinner rush.

By 400 pieces.”

3. That’s a lot of cash

“In sales. Put through a giant order for Part Number 25503PC. Was supposed to be 25503MC. Custom factory make, 4 weeks later arrives on site obviosuly wrong… I just lost the company 30 thousand dollars.”

4. Gross incompetence

“I was a paralegal for a one-attorney office. I mis-calendared a court appearance and my attorney missed the hearing. Client ended up having to represent himself on the reckless driving charge and my attorney had to refund the client about $2,500. Thankfully, both the client and my boss were very gracious about my gross incompetence.”

5. Droppin’ plates

“Serving. I once dropped a salad plate ON a baby’s head. It left a small bruise. I’ve never felt more s***y. It was so, so awful, and so awkward. The family stayed to eat the rest of the meal. Fortunately my manager had another server take over the table. I didn’t get fired, I just got a sitdown lecture about how I can’t just go dropping plates on babies.

They took the baby to a doctor later to make sure everything was okay. I never heard anything else about it, so I guess everything was alright. This is one of those things that I’ll remember that makes me want to crawl in a hole and hide. I’m cringing so hard right now just thinking about it.”

6. I think you did the right thing

“I worked at a fast food joint nearly 20 years ago, some customer in the drive thru threw a chocolate shake at me, yelling that he’d ordered strawberry. I instinctively caught it and threw it back, hitting him in the face and getting chocolate shake all over the interior of his BMW. If my GM wasn’t standing damned near right next to me as it happened, I probably would have been fired.”

7. Ruined ceiling

“I work in AC. We were installing a custom system in the attic of a very nice baby mansion. If you’re not familiar with navigating an attic,you have to be very careful to walk only on the studs, and avoid the sheet rock. Near the access hole of the attic there was a complex duct system that we had to navigate in order to enter or exit. While in the process of straddling one duct and going underneath another, I lost my footing and fell through the sheet rock and ruined their ceiling. Luckily the customer was very understanding and my employer has insurance for cases just like that, and I still have my job!”

8. Missing kid

“I’m a teacher. Early in my career a student went missing after second recess. I looked around and realized he never came back. NO ONE could find him. Called parents: no answer. Searched the playground: nothing. Bat signal: no response.

School wide panic. Superintendent office was called and security & police came.

He never came to school that day. I missed the fact that he was gone all day when I took attendance first thing in the morning. Mom called in a panic wondering why she had 10 missed calls and cops were at her door when she got back from the prearranged doctors appointment she made for her son.

To be fair another kid, Sebastian, told me he saw him jump over the fence and leave at recess. Sebastian lies a lot.”

9. Still didn’t get fired

“I was in charge of moving a desk out of our old building. It was one of those big receptions desks you see in a office lobby. I called 1-800 junk to destroy and move it out. Well you might have guessed but I removed the wrong desk. It cost my work 6,000 dollars to replace it and somehow I wasn’t fired.”

10. That doesn’t sound right…

“I was a receptionist at an obstetrics office. I took a phone call from a patient who was, at the time, eight months pregnant and had a ruptured disc in her back. Well, I typed the message into the computer and sent it to the doctor.

Except I reported that the mother-to-be had a ruptured dick.

And that is now in her medical record, with the correction.

Her doctor found that hilarious.”

11. Forklift accident

“I once hit a water line sticking out of the ground with a forklift that ran to 3 different buildings in the lot. My grandfather straight asked me if I did it and I lied to his face. I in all honesty didn’t know how I did it. He called me out on it immediately on it and I stayed until that water line was fixed while going and letting our neighbors know the mistake I made…”

12. Spilled milk

“My first Sunday (busiest day) stocking the dairy department, 16 year old me pushed a pallet of milk a little too much and it tipped over towards the customer side of the display. 43 out about 150 broke and a few customers got soaked. I thought for sure I’d get fired but my manager showed up laughing and called maintenance who brought a shop vac to the rescue. I stayed and helped clean and got crap the rest of my years there… fun times racing those pallet jacks in the back though…”

13. Fire!

“I used to test the fire alarm. I once forgot to phone the company before the test to let them know we were testing it.

Had two fire trucks turn up at work.”

14. It’s broken

“I was on work placement for a week and I managed to BREAK MY OWN PHONE at a PHONE REPAIR SHOP!!!….pro tip don’t put an iPhone 6 sim tray in a galaxy j7.”

15. Time to cry

“I used to work at a diner, typically the graveyard shift. So one of the closing jobs I had to do was make two containers of ranch. Now these containers were big, probably about 2-3 gallons. So one night I had almost finished preparing the ranch and I had to step away, I placed the lid on the container but not fully shut. When I came back to move the gallons of ranch, I grabbed solely by the lid (why) and PLOP.

The container dropped to the floor and the ranch went flying EVERYWHERE. It drenched me so bad I had an all white uniform now. It got on several customers, basically the entire food prep area, and in all the food that was waiting to be delivered. I gave my bus boy literally all the tips I’d made that night and then went to the back freezer and cried like a little baby for the rest of my shift.”

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15 of the Dumbest Ways People Have Injured Themselves

Some people are simply clumsier than others. I’ve got friends who’ve made it this far without so much as a stubbed toe and other who seem to break bones like it’s an annual tradition.

People on AskReddit were brave enough to admit the absolute dumbest ways they’ve ever been injured.

1. It happens

“Coughed, pulled muscle in back.”

2. Bad habit

“Chipped a tooth biting my fingernails.”

3. Ouch!

“10 years old. Accidentally stepped on a croquet ball (it was bright orange). Broke my ankle.”

4. Accident prone

“In middle school I was on crutches because I broke my ankle, so in my 5th grade wisdom I decided to play soccer on an icy field using the crutches…. I broke my other ankle and ended up in a wheelchair. While in the wheelchair I got pretty good at doing wheelies and showed off a lot… That was until I tried it on carpet and the wheels slipped and I flipped the chair smashing my head into the floor giving myself a concussion. So yeah that.”

5. Hahaha

“Sneezed while crouched down and gave myself a concussion from head butting the granite countertop.”

6. That’s unusual

“One time I got chemical burns around my face from eating too much pineapple. I can list more things like this.”

7. Sinner!

“I ran into a giant cross with my cheek bone at church camp.”

8. The door

“I was helping my buddy and his dad do a kitchen demo and we were in the process of ripping off the old cabinet doors. I reached up and grabbed on to a particularly stubborn cabinet door that needed just a touch of extra force to rip it off the hinges. For some reason I decided the two handed approach was worth a shot and also decided that instead of trying to tear it down I would simply let my feet off the ground and let the weight of my body do the work…

The door came off with such force it slapped my glasses clean off my face and busted a nice fat gash above my eyebrow. Took us 10 minutes to stop laughing at my stupidity and another 15 of searching to find my glasses that had ricocheted off the floor and into the oven somehow.”

9. Wine casualty

“I stabbed myself in the wrist trying to open a bottle of wine with a pocket knife. I hit a really weird spot in my wrist because it didn’t bleed but it left a nasty scar which is still here nearly 20 years later.”

10. Dad laughed at this one

“This only lasted for a minute but when I was younger, my sis and I were at a family party and on a swing set. Some kids do this jump off when you get to the peak of the forward swing and see how far you can land.

For some reason, my dumb self decides to let go during the back swing and I land chest first on the ground. I got up and literally thought I was dying while grasping for air since my lungs got knocked out. All I remember is my dad laughing at me while I was crawling up the deck.”

11. It’s an intense sport

“Playing table tennis. Game got intense, and I didn’t want to lose. So, opponent hits the ball really close to the edge of my side of the table, I decided to go for the ball hard… slam my knuckles right into the edge of the table, bleeding profusely. To this day, almost 10 years later, those stupid scars are across my knuckles now.”

12. Unlucky

“I always wear a helmet when skiing. I was walking out to my car after a great day on the slopes and slipped. Nothing crazy just a little slip on the ice. I would have been fine, except I landed on my helmet. My full weight came down on my helmet, which was clipped onto my backpack, resulting in a broken rib.

The only bone I’ve ever broken… was a result of falling on a helmet.”

13. Shocked

“Unplugging an old electric drill. It was stuck. Got it half way out. Grabbed the metal part of the plug. The shock threw me across the room. Fun!”

14. This is a new one

“Making spaghetti, about to snap them in half. Ended up twisting them while trying to snap them, and the sharp spaghetti made multiple cuts in my hands.”

15. Party foul

“Caught fire at a party once at uni, bonded my sock to my leg and needed a skin graft for the 3rd degree burns. Following the creation of some rather strong punch, a lot of the sauce being down my jeans, some lass dropped a cigarette on me at some point later in the evening and I didn’t notice.”

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12+ Lucky People Reveal How They Almost Got Caught in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time

Life can change in an instant. One moment you’re having a grand old time, then, next thing you know, you’re in the middle of something real bad.

In this article, AskReddit users share their personal experiences about being in the wrong place at the wrong time but living to tell about it.

1. Robbery

“When I was 12, me, my mom, and my sister went to a dollar store late at night after a school play she had. Right when we went in, a car pulled up in the parking lot and my mom got paranoid and rushed us in and out to get candy and a soda. Right when we left, two men got out of the car and speed-walked into the store. The next morning we saw on the news that the store was robbed by them. I guess they waited for us to leave before they did it.”

2. Car wreck

“In my sophomore year of high school my older cousin was getting married. I’d originally talked my mum into letting me stay home that weekend instead of travelling the 7hrs to the event. I was going to go with some friends to a basketball game for something to do on Friday night.

But on Thursday my mum decided I couldn’t miss the wedding and made me go with the family Friday after school. Friday night after we got to the hotel I got a phone call. My friends that I was going to ride with to the basketball game were in a bad car accident. 2 died. It took years of survivor’s guilt to get over that because those 2 would have driven in a different car if I’d been there.”

3. Close call

“Almost forgot to wear my helmet before taking the scooter out for a ride in the country. I hit a deer that day. EMTs and Shock Trauma hospital doctors agreed that I’d be dead, had I not worn that helmet.”

4. Scary

“I was doing orientation videos at the company I had just been hired at. I had gotten enough done for the day, but still had some time left, so I decided to do just a couple more. In the time that I was doing that, someone had bought a kitchen knife and asked the clerk to remove the zip ties (you know, the ones that you have to take a knife or scissors to). She thought it was a little strange, but complied.

He then walked out the door, and started stabbing random folks in front of the store, talking about how “You took my people’s land!” Anyhow, a regular there, real road warrior looking guy, always carried a bowie knife and, apparently, a permitted concealed handgun, he drops his groceries he’s bagging in self-checkout, walks outside and pulls his gun and tells the guy to get on the ground. I walk out and find the door I’d usually exit through taped off and find out about the whole thing a few minutes later.”

5. Good thing you didn’t go

“My friends wanted to hang out but I didn’t like them anymore because they were druggies so I made an excuse.

By “hang out” they meant beat a jogger to death with hammers.

They all got life in prison.

I sometimes think if I would have been able to stop them.”

6. Disfigured

“When I was about 13, I came home from playing outside, entering the house into the kitchen through a side door. I walked through the kitchen and into the front of the house, and started up the stairs. Halfway up the stairs, I heard a crazy loud metallic clanging, like pots and pans were falling… and falling and falling.

I came running downstairs to find that the pressure cooker top had popped off, shooting into the ceiling and the pressure release propelled the cooker into the living room, smashing into a wall and rolled to a stop in front of my dad on the couch. The whole time it was spewing boiling chicken grease, as my mom was making chicken soup.

Had I come in 10 seconds later, I would have probably been disfigured from grease burns and maybe been hit by the flying cooker itself.”

7. The route home

“There had been a couple of armed robberies around my route home from work, which I usually walked. One of my coworkers, who lived in the same apartment building as me, was nervous about going home after dark, so I agreed to switch shifts with her so that she could get off in the afternoon and I’d take closing.

I found out the next day that she’d been mugged and shot after her shift. She didn’t die, thank God, but the fact that I should have been the one walking that same route freaked me out for a while.”

8. Drunk driver

“Going back home from the bakery with my aunt, for some reason she decided to cross the street, which was unnecessary cause my house was on that same sidewalk. As soon as we crossed the street, a car crashed at that very same place we were, breaking into a house. The driver was absolutely drunk. I was like 6 or 7 when it happened.”

9. Red light

“In the car with my father-in-law, husband, and baby boy. FIL was driving us to lunch. We were the first car at a red light. The light turns green but he hesitated to go for about a second and a half, for absolutely no reason. A car ran the red light and would likely have killed my FIL and husband at the speed it was going, and since it was on a hill, we likely would have rolled too.

Highway patrol just getting off the interstate saw the entire thing and pulled the driver over immediately.”

10. Flower pot

“Typical cartoon scene of a flower pot flying off a balcony. It fell right where I was standing one minute earlier. I had since moved a couple of steps, but another guy was in that spot, it grazed his shoulder and would have been really dangerous if it hit him on the head.

We called the cops on the guy since we saw other vases on his balcony. Dude was very pissed but took them in.”

11. Bomb

“My family vacationed in Paris for a week in the mid ’90s. I was about 10 years old. My mom and stepfather were planning to go to the Arc de Triomphe on a certain day, but I wanted to go to the Eiffel Tower. When I was told we would see the Eiffel Tower another day, I threw a fit. Don’t know why it was so important to see the Eiffel Tower that day and not two days later. It became a whole argument between me, my stepfather, and my mom.

My mom caved (to probably just shut me up) and we went to the Eiffel tower that day, and my stepfather was pissed the rest of the day for my mom caving. We got back to the hotel and saw that a pipe bomb had gone off near the Arc de Triomphe and a bunch of people got hurt. The last we spoke to any other (step) family was before the fight and my stepfather told them we were going to the Arc de Triomphe that day and they were frantically calling the hotel to try and get a hold of us. So my brattiness might of saved us from a pipe bombing.”

12. Gang related

“I just got off a bus stop near my home. My mom worked up the block wher my stop was. I called her and she said that she was gonna pick me up. As I waited outside the stop by a 7/11, I noticed a few guys outside the 7/11 who seemed off. 5 minutes later much more showed up. I assumed gang members so I kept my distance. My mom picked me up and we left for home. As soon as I got in, I saw another group of guys walking up to the 7/11. We pulled away. Next morning we turn on our local news and saw there was a gang related shooting at that 7/11.”

13. Sandwiched

“Yesterday the metal awning on the food truck I was approaching collapsed to the wind and slammed into the sidewalk.

I almost got sandwiched while trying to get a sandwich.”

14. Tragedy averted

“Was in Branson last week on vacation with my wife, had a thought about riding a Duck boat on Thursday. Decided to play mini golf instead. The boat capsized killing 17 people, 9 from one family.”

15. Shooting

“In high school my friend was supposed to go to a party with his best friend. He decided he was to tired and wanted to stay home and sleep. The next morning his mom wakes him up to tell him his best friend was shot and died.”

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15 Fictional Couples Who Should Have Never Gotten Together

Everyone loves a good fictional romance. Television shows will string out a romance over several seasons just for that “will they, won’t they” tension that viewers can’t resist. But have you ever stopped to question whether or not these characters are even a good fit for each other?

These AskReddit users opened up to reveal what fictional couples they think should never have gotten together.

1. Right on the money

“Kermit and Miss Piggy. He has depth and is kind and observant and she’s a superficial, abusive narcissist. And they’re interspecies so reproduction is impossible/ high stakes.”

2. ’70s

“Jackie and Fez. So f*cking awkward! She should have stayed with Hyde.”

3. Not a good match

“Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan.”

4. Sad face…

“Romeo and Juliet… Stupid kids.”

5. Okay…

“Zeus and most of the animals he ends up banging.”

6. Gettin’ historical

“Paris and Helen of Troy!”

7. GOT

“The Lannisters.”

8. These two…

“Bird Person and Tammy.

It was a huge mistake. F*ck Tammy.”

9. Hey o!

“Oedipus and his mom.”

10. Toxic

“House and Cuddy.”

11. Not a good combo

“Dexter and Deb.”

12. Uh uh

“Buffy and Riley. Ugh.”

13. Strange…

“Jonathan and Nancy from Stranger Things. I was happy they didn’t force the ”pretty girl leaves supposed douchebag boyfriend for the socially awkward boy” trope during the first season but they f*cked it up in the subsequent season.

Steve is the man.”

14. An interesting choice

“Anakin and Padme.”

15. Cringeworthy

“Carrie and Mr. Big.”

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15 Celebrity #TBT Photos You Need to See

Celebrities have funny/awkward/embarrassing/nostalgic pics from the past, just like the rest of us.

And luckily for us, these famous folks decided to share some of their throwback pics so we could enjoy them.

1. Barbara Streisand

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2. Carson Daly and Jennifer Love Hewitt

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3. Anne Hathaway and Mandy Moore

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4. Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers

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5. Cindy Crawford, Stephanie Seymour, Christy Turlington, Tatjana Patitz, and Naomi Campbell

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6. David Beckham

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7. Halle Berry

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8. Salma Hayek, Shakira, Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldana, and Eva Longoria

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9. Dolly Parton

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10. Mariah Carey and Dave Navarro

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11. John Stamos

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12. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick

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13. Gwyneth Paltrow and Julia Roberts

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14. Natalie Portman

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15. Armie Hammer

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Napoleon Was Once Attacked by Rabbits

Emperor Napoleon of France was once one of the most powerful men in the world. In 1807, he had recently signed the Treaties of Tilsit, ending the war between France and Russia, and was in the mood to celebrate. Not being one to take on the lowly task of party planning himself, he asked Chief of Staff Alexandre Berthier to plan a luncheon and rabbit hunt in anticipation of a relaxing afternoon.

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Berthier planned the celebration, arranging the outdoor meal, inviting top military brass, and ordering a large number of rabbits for the hunt. The numbers range from the hundreds up to three thousand, and though we’ll probably never know the exact amount, we can all agree that either way, that’s a lot of bunnies.

Napoleon and his friends began to prowl the field and the rabbits were released…but they didn’t run away.

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Instead, they hopped as fast as they could, directly toward the triumphant French emperor. The party laughed, but only at first. The rabbits kept coming, more and more of them, swarming Napoleon’s legs and climbing his jacket. He tried, without success, to shoot them. The coachmen and their bullwhips, the men and their sticks, were also useless against the onslaught of floppy-eared fuzzies.

Napoleon did something he had (maybe) never done before – he turned tail and ran for his carriage. The rabbits, who, according to historian David Chandler, possessed “a finer understanding of Napoleonic strategy than most of his generals…divided into two wings and poured around the flanks of the party and headed for the imperial coach.”

Some of the rabbits reportedly leaped into the carriage, and the Emperor escaped only when his carriage driver decided to gun it for the hills.

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The rabbits, as it turned out, were tame and not wild, which means they equated humans with a a food source as opposed to a direct threat (apparently even if those humans beat at them with weapons). It was Berthier’s mistake, but no word on whether he lost his job as Chief of Staff – or something more valuable, like his head.

One more detail lost to history. We can all be thankful, though, that the rabbit story has survived.

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Science Says Hang Up Your Christmas Decorations Early And Let Yourself Be Happier

Labor Day has come and gone, and that means fall is creeping up around the corner. This may please you or not, but according to the latest science, busting out your Christmas decorations earlier is guaranteed to make you happier if you’re a human being who celebrates the season.

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Well, it turns out you “save it for after Thanksgiving” haters are wrong, at least insofar as the effect that putting those decorations up whenever you feel like it has on the homeowners and the people around them. According to psychoanalyst and owner of the McKeown Clinic Steve McKeown:

“Although there could be a number of symptomatic reasons why someone would want to obsessively put up decorations early, it’s most commonly for nostalgic reasons either to relive the magic or to compensate for past neglect.”

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Alternatively, he also believes that it could have a lot to do with the strong pull of our childhood memory and experiences.

“In a world full of stress and anxiety people like to associate to things that make them happy, and Christmas decorations evoke those strong feelings of childhood. Decorations are simply an anchor or pathway to those old magical emotions of excitement.”

A study published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology also concludes that decorating early outside your house makes you appear more friendly and is more likely to engage your neighbors.

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Amy Morin, psychotherapist and best-selling author of 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, has her own ideas about why celebrating the holidays for as long as possible makes you happier:

“For people who have lost a loved one, the holidays may serve as a reminder of happy times they had with that person in the past. Decorating early may help them feel more connected with that individual.”

Whatever your reasons, here’s the bottom line – if putting up your decorations in the fall instead of in December makes you happier, do it! Your house, your rules, and it sounds as if your neighbors might end up thanking you in the long run, too.

Happy Holidays, whenever you choose to begin celebrating.

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Ease the Stress of Moving With These 4 Helpful Tips

Moving into a new place is always more stressful than you think it is going to be. And if you’re moving into a new city? Good luck…

Since moving is something most of us won’t be able to avoid, you’re going to want to keep these tips handy!

#4. Plan for the financial strain.

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There are many times people move before they’ve found a job, or a forced to make a big move without adequate savings, and all of this can add up to a lot of stress. Even if you have planned for your move, expenses are bound to crop up – it helps to know this ahead of time, realize you can’t control all of it, but plan for it as best as you can.

One way to keep expenses down is to leave behind the belongings you don’t love or don’t know that you’ll need in your new space. It can save you money and give you a sense of starting fresh that’s worth more than money.

#3. Stay in touch, but don’t forget to put yourself out there in your new home.

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That said, while staying in touch and giving yourself time is important, do your best to find your niches in your new place. If you go to church, find a new one. If you like volunteering, sign up. If you’re a gym rat, join a new one and start talking to people. The more willing and proactive you are about creating a welcoming environment for yourself in your new home, the faster it will feel like somewhere you belong.

#2. Expect a sense of loss.

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Our identities are often inextricably linked with the places we live and the people who move dependably in and our of our daily lives. Moving disrupts not only our routines but our sense of self, and it’s okay to feel like a fish out of water as you explore your new habitat and find ways to fit yourself into it.

Remind yourself of that, and give yourself time to adjust.

#1. Remember all the positives about moving.

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Moving can help you grow and change as a person in exciting ways. Change isn’t easy, but many of us move in search of better opportunities and to achieve big dreams of the future. Don’t lose sight of all of the positive things that forced you out of your comfort zone in the first place, and do your best to embrace them as you move forward.

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