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4 Creepy Unspoken Agreements We All Make With Public Places

We all agree to set aside certain faults and inconsistencies just as long as we can continue going to the places that make us happy. What kind of places do we have secret agreements with?

Authors: By Luis Prada
Published: October 09, 2014

4 Ways Fantasy Football Makes You Miserable

Fantasy footbal has a supremely stupid dark side, and it starts with the very foundation of every team.

Authors: By Luis Prada
Published: September 25, 2014

5 Failed Attempts At Keeping Up With Modern Pop Music

I'm going to venture out into the wilds of the Internet and track down what's being released today, if for no other reason than to get a status report on a part of pop culture I've abandoned.

Authors: By Luis Prada
Published: September 18, 2014

7 Old Pictures That Prove Sports Used To Be Insane

Back before professional sports were a multi-billion-dollar industry that cared about things like public image and reputation, the world of sports was just one big game of leapfrog to see who could scare the crap out of the most people.

Authors: By Luis Prada
Published: September 11, 2014

4 Public Apologies That Weren't Good Enough

These sorries just aren't good enough. We should generally be forgiving of our fellow humans, but not when it comes to these things.

Authors: By Luis Prada
Published: September 04, 2014

4 Important Skills That Lazy People Learn in High School

I was a high school slacker. We slackers want to be winners. We want to have monstrous GPAs. We want to be everything we know we can be ... it's all just so deeply unengaging.

Authors: By Luis Prada
Published: August 28, 2014

4 Uncool Fashions We Should Consider Bringing Back

If we can somehow move past the stigmas attached to some of these no-longer-cool-but-crazy-useful items, I think we'll all be much happier people.

Authors: By Luis Prada
Published: August 21, 2014

The 4 Most Overused Jokes It's Time to Stop Making

I's about time we retired these lame jokes and shipped them off to a hospice so they can die in peace after years of overuse. Their time is done.

Authors: By Luis Prada
Published: August 14, 2014

4 Terrible Golf Tips For Beginners (By a Beginner)

I've collected a few tips and tricks for people interested in learning how to play perhaps the laziest sport you can make millions playing on a professional level.

Authors: By Luis Prada
Published: August 07, 2014

The 4 Most Baffling Things Hiding in the 'Avengers 2' Poster

It's a beautiful, chaotic brawl when viewed as a whole, and it's a Where's Waldo? of goofy stuff when examined up close.

Authors: By Luis Prada
Published: August 02, 2014

5 Bizarre Subgenres of Fan Art Lurking on the Internet

It turns out there's a lot of bafflingly specific fan art out there.

Authors: By Luis Prada
Published: July 24, 2014

The 4 Most Awkward Group Dynamics

There are lots of chances when speaking in groups for you to fall down a pit of social hell.

Authors: By Luis Prada
Published: July 17, 2014

4 Absurdly Specific Pop Culture Questions Answered by Fans

These people intersected pop culture geekiness and academic nerdiness. They are nerd gods.

Authors: By Luis Prada
Published: July 10, 2014

The 4 Most Horrifying Recent Commercials

Turns out there's some crazy crap going down in the worlds created by commercials.

Authors: By Luis Prada
Published: July 03, 2014

4 Ridiculously Obsessive 'Star Wars' Fan Tributes Ever

Over the years, people have done some ridiculous things with the 'Star Wars' films in an attempt to put their own stamp on the movies they love.

Authors: By Luis Prada
Published: June 19, 2014

5 Unsettling Sub-Genres of Fan Art Lurking on the Internet

This stuff exists for the Internet's favorite reason: because.

Authors: By Luis Prada
Published: June 12, 2014

4 Things That TV Commercials Will Never Show You

Commercials create a glaring absence. No matter how obviously unrealistic their short narrative is, there's still that one aspect of a food/gadget/service they never depict.

Authors: By Luis Prada
Published: June 05, 2014

5 Pop Culture Classics (That Nearly Had Terrible Titles)

Not everyone can nail a title on the first shot, which means there's bound to be some famous things that ran through some exceptionally crappy titles before they landed on the one that worked.

Authors: By Luis Prada
Published: May 29, 2014

4 Famous Songs Used in Hilarious Ways Around the World

These songs were all big hits, but for one reason or another found big success in very specific, truly bizarre corners of life.

Authors: By Luis Prada
Published: May 22, 2014

4 Annoying Laws of Using a Computer

Just as the world of science evolves as new truths are discovered, adding to the tapestry of our understanding of the world, so too should our laws of the Internet.

Authors: By Luis Prada
Published: May 16, 2014