Here’s Why Young People Prefer Saying “No Problem” Instead of “You’re Welcome”

Millennials take a lot of heat from older people for the way they do things. In many cases, it stems from the older generation wanting the younger one to do things their way. But things change, and it’s not always bad – like how the youth respond to “thank you”.

Professor Tom Nichols branded himself the quintessential grumpy old man back in 2015 when he tweeted this angry response to what he perceived as a rash of poor customer service.

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“Dear Every Cashier in America: the proper response to ‘thank you’ is ‘you’re welcome,’ not ‘no problem.’ And *you’re* suppose to thank *me*”

He received a number of responses, the vast majority mocking his attitude, but it one person’s detailed and thoughtful reply makes a lot of sense.

Bottom line? It’s not about being polite, it’s that our views on gratitude are evolving.

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“Actually, the “you’re welcome/no problem” issue is simply a linguistics misunderstanding. Older ppl tend to say “you’re welcome,” younger ppl tend to say “no problem.” This is because for older people the act of helping or assisting someone is seen as a task that is not expected of them, but is them doing extra, so it’s them saying, ‘I accept your thanks because I know I deserve it.”

“No problem, however, is used because younger people feel not only that helping or assisting someone is a given and expected but also that it should be stressed that your need for help was no burden to them (even if it was).”

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“Basically, older people think help is a gift you give, younger people think help is a requirement.”

The explanation, of course, doesn’t apply across the board. There are people in every generation that view service as “no problem” and people who feel like they are doing others a favor, but the idea that “no problem” is somehow disrespectful just isn’t right.

The people who use it are, quite genuinely, sharing that helping you out is “no problem.”

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Maybe, if we realized that doing the right thing – simple or not so much – is actually “no problem” we’d have fewer problems in general.

I mean, maybe not, but it’s worth a shot.

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Check Out the the Weirdest Town Names from Every State in America

I love a good weird name. Back when I was on the road a lot, I once passed a town called “Natchitoches,” and I’ve always regretted not going.

I also once wanted to start a band called “The World” just so we could have a tour that ended in Hell, Michigan – naturally, the tour would have been called “The World’s Goin’ to Hell!”

The folks at Estately put together a great infographic that shows the weirdest town names in each state in the U.S., and there are some absolute doozies on there!

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Alabama: Scratch Ankle

Alaska: Chicken

Arizona: Catfish Paradise

Arkansas: Toad Suck

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California: Mormon Bar

Colorado: Parachute

Connecticut: Moosup

Delaware: Flea Hill

Florida: Spuds

Georgia: Flippen

Hawaii: Volcano

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Idaho: Beer Bottle Crossing

Illinois: Chicken Bristle

Indiana: Santa Claus

Iowa: What Cheer

Kansas: Skiddy

Kentucky: Pig

Louisiana: Water Proof

Maine: Bald Head

Maryland: Accident

Massachusetts: Satan’s Kingdom (pictured below)

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Michigan: Free Soil

Minnesota: Little Canada

Mississippi: Possumneck

Missouri: Frankenstein

Montana: Big Sag

Nebraska: Worms

Nevada: Jackpot

New Hampshire: Dummer

New Jersey: Foul Rift

New Mexico: Pie Town

New York: Handsome Eddy

North Carolina: Why Not

North Dakota: Zap

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Ohio: Dull

Oklahoma: Okay

Oregon: Boring

Pennsylvania: Coupon

Rhode Island: Woonsocket

South Carolina: Coward

South Dakota: Plenty Bears

Tennessee: Smartt

Texas: Ding Dong (pictured below)

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Utah: Nibley

Vermont: Mosquitoville

Virginia: Fries

Washington: Big Bottom

West Virginia: Booger Hole

Wisconsin: Chili

Wyoming: Chugwater

Do you agree with the selection for your state?

By the way, I’m moving to Satan’s Kingdom, Massachusetts.

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Gorgeous Italian Village Wants to Pay You $10,000 to Move There and Start Procreating

We all have those moments when we feel a little bit at a loss for what to do with our lives. Ever feel like you just wanna get away from it all and start again?

Well, you may be in luck: this small Italian town is literally paying people $10,000 to move in and start a family. Yep, it’s 100% real, and 150% making me reconsider my life choices.

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The town of Locana, Italy is offering new residents $10,000 to move there and procreate. The new initiative is an attempt to lure more youth to the town, which is rapidly shrinking.

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The mayor, Giovanni Bruno Mattiet, explained his generous new offer.

“Our population has shrunk from 7,000 residents in the early 1900s to barely 1,500 as people left looking for a job at Turin’s big factories,” he said. “Our school each year faces the risk of shutting down due to few pupils. I can’t allow this to happen.”

The small Alpine village is not looking to attract slackers who just need a check, though.

“We’re looking to draw mostly young people and professionals who work remotely or are willing to start an activity here,” the mayor added.

The $10,000 will be paid out over the course of three years.

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Originally, the deal was available only to fellow Italians or to foreign residents of Italy. However, the mayor has become desperate enough to extend the offer to non-Italians, which means you totally have a shot. I mean, what else are you going to do for the next three years?

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No, You Really Don’t Need to Let Your Smartphone Die Before Charging It

Is there anything quite as anxiety-inducing as seeing the little “1% icon on the battery bar of your cell phone? Every time I see my battery icon going red, I go racing for the charger because yes, I am addicted to my phone and it needs to never die, thankyouverymuch.

Some people are not like me, apparently, and believe that you shouldn’t charge your battery before using up a full 100% of the previous charge. But according to science and Apple and, well, just about everyone, that’s not necessary.

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Here’s why.

What people are concerned about is helping their device’s lithium ion battery last as long as possible, but the battery itself doesn’t care whether your status bar says 10% or 80% – plugging it in at any point in the charge isn’t going to degrade it faster.

From Apple’s website:

“Charge your Apple lithium-ion battery whenever you want. There’s no need to let it discharge 100% before recharging. Apple lithium-ion batteries work in charge cycles. You complete one charge cycle when you’ve used (discharged) an amount that equals 100% of your battery’s capacity — but not necessarily all from one charge. For instance, you might use 75% of your battery’s capacity one day, then recharge it fully overnight. If you use 25% the next day, you will have discharged a total of 100%, and the two days will add up to one charge cycle.”

Another battery-protecting practice is to not leave your phone plugged in overnight because constantly charging a full battery – aka trickle charging – is hard on it in the long run.

Is this one true? Maybe more than the first.

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From Samsung’s website:

“Technically you should not be charging your phone for extended spans of time so overnight phone-charging is a big no. Though most chargers are designed to curb charging once your phone is full, you should avoid charging it to 100 percent and then leaving it connected to a charger. Overall, and for optimal long-term results, you should keep your phone charged between 40 and 80 percent at all times.”

And here’s what USAToday has to say about it:

“Chronically letting a battery go all the way down to zero puts unneeded stress on the materials inside. Believe it or not, the same goes for letting it sit on your charger overnight, because being continually juiced up quickly — and to the max also leads lithium-ion batteries to corrode faster than they otherwise would.”

And PCMag.com:

“Plug the phone in when you go to sleep; if you wake up sometime in the night, unplug it to prevent constant trickle-charging. If you don’t wake much, plug your phone into a outlet that you put on a schedule so it turns off.”

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Apple admits that the capacity of your lithium-ion battery “diminishes slightly with each complete charge cycle,” so letting the battery run all the way down probably does more harm than good. So, stop doing that. And if you think about it, stop letting it charge all night, too.

But you know. Prepare yourself for still having to buy a new phone (or battery) every couple of years. It’s inevitable no matter what.

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10+ Foodies Talk About the WORST Meals They’ve Ever Had

Are you a foodie? I don’t love the term -because I think just about everyone is a foodie to an extent in that everyone loves a great plate of food – but I am definitely someone who goes out of their way to find a great place to eat. Sadly, when the food doesn’t come out the way you’d expect it to, it can be a massive disappointment.

I’m not sure I could have handed any of these experiences, tbh. You?

#1. It used to be great.

“Paid $9 for a tiny burrito that contained a spoonful of rice, two pieces of fried tofu, about a teaspoon of pico and about three shreds of Monterey jack. It was soaked in a sauce that was so spicy I felt it for hours afterwards, and then all over again when it passed through. Absolutely disgusting. I was with a group who insisted that the food would be absolutely delicious. Talked to a relative who knows the area and she said that the restaurant used to be great but had gotten to be terrible within the last year.”

#2. Noped out.

“My aunt made some Hamburger Helper and fucked it up. I will never understand how you can mess up Hamburger Helper. Even my two year old cousin noped out of eating it.”

#3. I tasted tacos for the next two days.

“My husband made tacos. He misread the seasoning instructions and put in 3/4 cup instead of 3 tablespoons. I remember thinking that the mixture looked a lot darker than normal before I took a bite. I seriously tasted tacos for the next two days. He’s not allowed to make tacos anymore without supervision.”

#4. I hate milk.

“Mom made me drink some milk right after I’d eaten a grapefruit and the milk curdled in my mouth. I hate milk.”

#5. Don’t mess around with chicken.

“I got salmonella poisoning from undercooked chicken. After throwing up once I basically dry heaved for a few hours. Also, I had an insanely high fever, like 103/104 and hallucinated that I went to hell. I was dripping in sweat and saw shadowy figures in my peripheral vision dancing around in a circle.

After experiencing that I can totally see why people think they were visited by demons or went to hell. Don’t mess around with chicken.”

#6. She whipped up some food.

“My first time at one of my best friends house, his mom decided to make is a snack while we did homework. She was a single mom for a lot of his upbringing, so she worked all day and was usually not up for cooking lunch/dinner. She wanted to be nice and offer me something though, so she whipped up some food. She served us undercooked whole wheat pasta. She also didn’t have any sauce or topping for it, so she just crumbled some Triscuits over the top of them. My friend was severely embarrassed. His mom has since remarried and has learned much more about cooking food for others.

Edit: a word”

#7. The same damn thing.

“I made a microwaved pizza for myself when they first came out in the late 1980s. I loaded it up with extra cheese.

I hear the microwave go BING. I pull it out and it flips over onto my hands. I had boiling hot cheese stuck to my fingers. I screamed like a banshee. My mom looked at me like I was some kind of weirdo. And my best friends was there and started laughing at me with blisters forming all over my hands.

A few weeks later I was over at his parent’s place with him. He throws in a microwaveable pizza. I hear BING then him screaming like a banshee. He did the same damn thing.”

#8. I still remember the flavor.

“Probably a tie between the bad tortilla chips that gave me food poisoning and the time my sister tricked me into eating Cat Chow. Decades later and I still remember the flavor.”

#9. Like sweaty balls.

“Back in the days when I used to hate sushi I tried some in Tokyo just for the bragging rights. I don’t know what I ordered but it was slimy and gooey and salty and tasted like sweaty balls. It took all my strength to stop myself from chundering at the table.

Love sushi now so would probably enjoy it if I tried today.”

#10. A near poisoning.

“We travelled to Sicily and decided to get some pizza. Found a really nice place at the beach, where we could watch the sunset over the sea. We ordered our pizzas and everything seemed perfect. Then the pizzas came and my bf tasted his. First he thought his pizza had a funny seasoning and gave it a shot, but after a few bites he said his tongue began to tingle. I tried a few bites myself and it was a really weird sensation in my mouth. Like when something is really spicy, but more in the acid kind of way. So he tried to explain to a waitress something was off with the pizza. There was a huge language barrier, so in the end she took the pizza away and looked quite irritated. My bf decided to walk towards the kitchen because we had the feeling they didn’t understand our complaint. From my point of view, a saw different staff members rushing out of the kitchen, including a cheff, and tried to explain something to my bf in quite a panicky way. Turns out their dishwasher was broken and all the plates where covered with highly concentrated dish soap. Their head chef ate some pizza and had to be picked up by an ambulance, fortunately we didn’t get food poisoning and just left the restaurant with empty bellies.”

#11. I had to excuse myself.

One of my ex boyfriend’s grandmother had the whole family over for dinner one night. She cooked spaghetti and my ex’s mom warned me that it would be terrible. Boy, was she right. His grandmother boiled water, put in the noddles, DID NOT DRAIN THE WATER, and then dumped some salt, pepper, and KETCHUP into the pot and served it. I had to excuse myself to the bathroom so I could dry heave over the toilet.

#12. Disgusting beyond belief.

“I tried to eat andouillette, a kind of pork sausage, while I was in France. It’s notorious there. When I ordered it the server sort of said ‘are you sure?’ It was disgusting beyond belief. I was actually retching.”

#13. To this day.

“Food poisoning Benihana Millburn NJ. Age 16. BRUTAL. Cold sweats when passing any Japanese steakhouses, to this day.”

#14. Like we were eating houseplants.

“I had Chinese take away that was sub-par a couple weeks back. The rice was meh, nothing to write home about.

But then I tried the chow mein. Somehow, it tasted like soil.

I thought my tastebuds were tripping, but my girlfriend then tried hers and, yep: Like we were eating houseplants.

I still don’t understand.”

#15. For the next two years.

“I got food poisoning from a Mexican restaurant. I shit my pants twice, popped a blood vessel in my eye from vomiting so hard, and I couldn’t even think about Mexican food without getting nauseous for the next two years.”

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10 Facts That Debunk Some VERY Commonly-Held Misconceptions

There are plenty of things we grew up learning as being the gospel truth turning out to be wrong. For instance, I thought Milli Vanilli were the greatest thing ever as a kid, but as new facts came to light, I had to reconsider my stance.

Learning something brand new that dispels your common knowledge is always a weird experience. These facts might just fall into that category for you.

1. You won’t die

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2. Only two

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3. Interesting…

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4. Ancient mistake

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5. No negative impact

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6. Sex change

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7. All a lie

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8. Wow

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9. Only use one

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10. Rewriting history?

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Debunked!

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7 Great Facts to Improve Your Small Talk

Small talk is one of life’s necessary evils. Sure, it can be a little awkward fumbling around for something to say to fill the silence, but if you work through it, you may be rewarded with some truly great conversation.

I’m here to give you these conversation starters so that you’re not fumbling around as long next time.

Consider it a gift.

1. Lock ’em up

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2. Never ignore the Waffle House

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3. Good engineering

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4. I like the sound of this

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5. Might want to do that…

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6. Calm down

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7. No time for that

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Now you have no excuses for not bothering random strangers.

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Teacher Attempts to Simulate a Dictatorship in Her Classroom and It Did NOT Go Well

Diana Leygerman is a high school teacher who does a unit on George Orwell’s 1984 with her class every year. It’s a truly classic work with which to explore themes of totalitarianism and oppressive regimes. As part of the unit, she also turns her classroom into such a regime.

She starts by informing her kids that the teachers and administration have identified “Senioritis” as a serious problem, and are implementing a strategy that has had “immense success” in other schools across the country.

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She hangs motivational posters adorned with quotes and falsified statistics, the whole nine yards. The students believe that in order for them to succeed, they need to follow her strict classroom rules. Each time they don’t behave as expected, they lose points. They gain points for reporting other students who don’t follow the rules.

“I tell students that in order for this plan to work they must trust the process and not question their teachers.”

Everyone joins in the school-wide effort, and every year, the students fall in line, one-by-one.

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Except this year, they didn’t.

“A handful of students did fall in line as always. The majority of students, however, rebelled. By day two of the simulation, the students were contacting members of administration, writing letters, and creating protest posters. They were organizing against me and against the administration. They were stomping the hallways, refusing to do as they were told.”

And the rebellion began to spread.

The student government president wasn’t even in her classes but wrote her an email demanding she end the program, that it was “simply fascism at its worst” and that “statements such as these are the base of a dictatorship rule, this school, as well as this country, cannot and will not fall prey to these totalitarian behaviors.”

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She fought the rebellion, bribing the president to publicly resign, but it did not deter the others, who began to fight harder, with more vigilance. They found a new leader and kept pushing forward.

The teacher ended the experiment two days earlier than planned and says she’s learned something important, something that gives her hope – and that should do the same for all of us: teenagers will not go down without a fight when it comes to the integrity of their futures.

“For the first time since I’ve done this experiment, the students won.”

Perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that kids weaned on books like Harry Potter and The Hunger Games are empowered, and that they realize the strength and abilities they possess despite their age. Kids saved those worlds, after all – who’s to say they aren’t going to save ours, too?

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Adults should take a lesson from the kids of today, teens like this teacher’s students and the kids from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. There’s no room for laziness or complacency when it comes to our rights, to fighting for the kind of society where we want to live and want our kids to flourish. There’s no time to give up.

In the words of one teacher who has witnessed their determination firsthand, “Do not get in their way. They will crush you.”

I, for one, couldn’t be more excited to see what sort of future they hold in their hands.

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Anti-Vaxxer Gets Shot Down Using Their Own Logic and It’s Awesome

Oh. My. God. This whole vaxxers vs. anti-vaxxers conflict has GOT to stop, y’all. If you told me when I was a kid that by the time I was an adult, we’d live in a world where people are doubting the fact that vaccines work or that the world is round, I’d have looked at you like you had ten heads. And yet, here we are. seems to have no end.

That’s why it’s so delicious when an adamant anti-vaxxer gets epically shut down, and it’s even better when that’s done by using their own logic against them.

This is how it all started:

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So, naturally, someone came up with some great responses using the anti-vaxxer’s logic.

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Re-think electricity. I love it. And so did a whole lot of other people online.

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These anti-vaxxers are really something else, and it seems they won’t pay attention to logic no matter what. SMDH.

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The Strange Reason Iceland Gets Its Ice from Other Countries

The first time I found out about this, it totally tripped me up. You see, Iceland – a country with 11% of its surface covered by glaciers; a country whose name literally starts with the word “Ice” – imports most of the ice they use in their beverages. What the what?

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Maybe not so much, when you consider that the country’s rugged geography makes extracting many natural resources difficult. Not only that, but economics play a part; Iceland has extremely high domestic labor costs compared to cheap inbound shipping costs, which means they can import ice for far less than it would cost to pay a crew to harvest it.

If you’re interested in learning more, check out the video below from Half as Interesting.

The imported ice cubes are sold in grocery stores for far less than the price of native cubes, which can be up to 40% higher, and come from Norway, the U.K. and the U.S.

Biologist Rannveig Magnusdottir, who works at Icelandic Environment Association, commented that he finds “this completely insane, as I’m sure most people do, and I think our cousins in Norway and Scotland laugh at the fact that they can sell Icelanders ice.”

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Funny or not, believe it – it’s true!

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