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5 Realities Of Using Ecstasy To Treat Veterans With PTSD
Turns out that crap you can buy off the street corners is some kind of miracle cure.
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- By Robert Evans
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I've Gotta Be Armed: 5 Realities Of A Little League Umpire
We sat down with a state-certified high school umpire from the Midwest to find out what it's like to make a whole stadium full of people hate you, day after day.
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- By Anonymous, Isaac Cabe
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5 Apocalyptic Realities Working At A Modern Day Blockbuster
For Blockbuster and Kmart employees, showing up for work every day was like watching grandma slowly lose her mind.
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- By Anonymous, Evan V. Symon
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6 Horrifying Realities Of Dealing With Sandy Hook 'Truthers'
How long do you think it takes conspiracy theorists to turn nasty after a national tragedy? A year? A month? Nope: Immediately.
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- By Mark Hill, Lenny Pozner
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4 Realities When You Wear Your Fetish Under Your Clothes
Welcome to the world of 'adult babies,' where people dress like babies, act like babies, and joyfully poop themselves like babies.
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- By Anna Dakota, Anonymous
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Realities Of Being A Gay Phone Sex Operator (Who's Straight)
Yes, phone-sex is still a thing because tradition is important, even when you're masturbating.
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- By Anonymous, Ryan Menezes
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Horrific Things You Only See As A Professional Body Piercer
WARNING: The following contains descriptions, but not photos, of graphic genital piercing mishaps.
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- By Anonymous, Evan V. Symon
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I Fought The Taliban And They Came After Me And My Family
So there's this guy in Afghanistan who learned English from watching old Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, and he has quite the story to tell.
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- By Robert Evans
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- 277
Agoraphobia Is A Physical Illness: 5 Strange Realities
It's impossible to imagine being afraid of, well, everything in the Universe outside your front door. Unless, of course, you've been there.
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- By Amanda Mannen, Christie
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5 Awful Things You Learn About America As A Homeless Woman
Some things are just harder for women, from getting a job to finding pants with real pockets to the basic human right to pee standing up. Even homelessness.
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- By Anonymous, Carolyn Burke
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I'm Paid To Play World Of Warcraft All Day (And It Sucks)
On one hand, this is a career that 30 years ago would have been considered too fanciful for a sci-fi novel. On the other, it sounds like one of the saddest jobs we've encountered.
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- By Anonymous, Evan V. Symon
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5 Things I Learned Making The Biggest Flop In Game History
E.T. was so bad it's credited for starting the video game crash. So what's it like being the Ed Wood of gaming?
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- By Mark Hill, Howard Scott Warshaw
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6 Ugly Things I Learned Selling Guns To Drug Cartels
In 2006, the ATF started experimenting with letting cartels smuggle guns into Mexico. We talked to someone who was a part of this predictable disaster.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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5 Things Only Helicopter Pilots Know About The World
Don't act like you never wanted to know what it's like to fly giant hunks of metal powered by spinning knives.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz, Anonymous
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- 136
I Weigh Over 500 Lbs: 5 Surprising Realities Of My Life
We, as a society, have long mocked fat people. But it's time we started to really understand what they're going for.
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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