A big part of losing weight and keeping it off is other peoples. Here are some of those often well-meaning monsters you must overcome in your battle to get healthy.
Complaining about bad drivers is probably the third most common talking point of every hack comic, right after airline food and how weird the opposite sex is. But while some types of bad drivers are just done to death as complaint subjects - people who drive too slow, people who talk on their cell phones, tailgaters, people who forget to turn off t
A lot of people complain about the 24 hour news cycle these days, where the media feels the pressure to be giving you news every second of the day, leading them to stretch the definition of
The Internet, as you might've guessed, is the king of stupid reactions. Here are a few of the most predictable and annoying reactions you'll get on any big story.
There's a lot of innocent people that can get caught in the searchlights during a hipster hunt, who have perfectly reasonable explanations for why they exhibit some of the classic hipster signs. Like...
But there's a lot of topics not on the standard hot-button list that are guaranteed to stir a forum thread into a white-hot frenzy. Topics that you would think people could disagree on reasonably, like dog poop disposal or tipping, that somehow drive people to threaten physical violence.
Watching public speaking - at a corporate seminar, a presentation, a high school assembly - is more often than not a miserable experience thanks to speakers who will dress up a 5 minute talk on the most obvious and meaningless statements about sexual harrassment with so many annoying gimmicks that everyone leaves the seminar determined to sexually
People complain all the time about the way women are depicted in Hollywood, but it's usually about female characters that are only there for men to have sex with or want to have sex with, or that walk around doing improbable action poses in skintight suits with 6 inch heels.
There are some jobs bred from unique cultural conditions in certain countries. For example, only in America can you make a living selling trophies for champions of imaginary football leagues. And in China, it gets weirder than that ...
There are someawkward situations we can anticipate, and prepare a little plan ready to defuse the tension. Unfortunately, a lot of those strategies end up making things even more awkward.
Since everyone knows online humor columns by obscure writers are extremely effective in changing society, We're sure misuse of these words will no longer a problem.
There are stories every day about some rescuer heroically stopping a suicide attempt - breaking down a door, scooping someone off a ledge, or cutting a noose down with a ninja star. But sometimes there's no strapping fireman or hero cop or friendly ninja, just one little silly thing between life and death.
We have classes for things like math and science and spelling. But what about social skills? Where are the classes on how to hold a basic conversation?
Can't we have legal controversies over sillier and more anticlimactic speech issues? Well, it turns out we can. If we Americans can stop being so self-centered for a moment and look around abroad, we can find a wealth of weird old free speech issues, like:
