Erratica
- Real Name:
- Amanda Mannen
- Member Since:
- October 20, 2009
About Me
When Men Thought Bicycles Would Make Women Ugly and Slutty
To all the stuffy, awful dudes of the Victorian era, bikes were less a means of transportation and more a proto vibrator that would render women so horny they had no choice but to emancipate themselves
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Slap Bets in ‘How I Met Your Mother,’ Ranked
Not all slaps are created equal. Some slaps fall short in some areas, others in others and there can be only one GOAT (and we’re not talking about Missy)
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How Your Pet Controls Your Mind
They don’t actually like you, they just know exactly how to make you think that they do
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Murder and Exile: What Actually Is a Scapegoat?
Yes, its history can be tied back to ritualistic animal sacrifice. But there was also a lot of silliness along the way, too
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The Chummy Science of Choosing the Right Friends
You’re gonna have to smell them and watch YouTube videos with them. But not smell them while watching YouTube videos — that would be gross
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There’s No Such Thing as ‘English’ Food
Even the most stereotypically English food — we’re looking at you fish and chips — has foreign origins. The Brits, it turns out, have essentially created an entire cuisine out of colonialism
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How to Predict Your Friends’ Breakups Using Social Media
We've become such an evolved society that we can now chart the arrival of heartbreak by Reddit and Twitter posts
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Hit Songs About Places That the Artists Had Never Visited
John Fogerty hadn’t spent a single second in that bayou he so famously captured in song
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‘How I Met Your Mother’: 5 Love Interest Characters Who Benefitted from Serious IRL Nepotism
Over the show’s nine seasons, only Jason Segel didn’t have an IRL significant other show up as a guest star
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15 Scientific Factors That Secretly Influence Who You Have Sex With
We're sorry to tell you that free will is an illusion.
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