After a long week of work, employees sprint out of the office at 5:01 PM.  We're cracking a brewski and calling our buddies the moment we clock out, ready to dish the drama of the week to our friends and drink away our sorrows with a $5 pint and a discounted appetizer. Happy hour is the thing we look forward to every workweek. With days and hours spent slaving behind a desk balancing Excel sheets, sending emails, and groveling at the feet of our micromanagers, it feels good to let our hair down a little bit to vent.  Nothing pairs better with a miniature work therapy session with ou ..read more

Finding a college apartment can be tough. If you live in a little college town, there are probably more students who need housing than there are suitable houses and apartments. Finding the place is only half the battle: it's sometimes much more tricky to find and maintain good roommate relationships. If you live with a stranger, you might feel uncomfortable in your house because you don't know and can't fully trust them. If you live with your besties, the roommate relationship might ruin your friendship. There's so much potential for disaster, and if you're lucky enough to live by yourself on ..read more

Bringing a little treat to your workplace is a nice idea. If you're baking a tray of brownies and have some leftovers, people love nothing more than free food. Especially when it's a sweet little something, something about an extra little bump of sugar in the workday gets you through. It wins you points in the office (if you're playing the political game), and it's just generally an act of goodwill. And if you have a talent for baking or cooking, odds are you probably enjoy sharing that with others. It's a love language.  But it's on your coworkers to respect your gift. You don't want to ..read more

In most cases, cohabiting with other people is difficult. If one wants to keep the peace in the home, one must abide by certain house rules and regulations. But who establishes these 'rules' that we have to follow? The story below is an account of a frustrated roommate. The original poster (OP) and his roommate lived together in an apartment for a long while. Together, they have created a special set of rules that have to be adhered to in order to keep the balance. But although the two were getting along just great and everything was going well at first, things quickly got out of hand wh ..read more

Say what you like about the civilization of Ancient Greece, those column-loving MFs knew how to tell a good story. They came up with all these tales about the Gods and the wild ways they interacted with people and each other, and even though it may be difficult to find anybody who believes in them nowadays, we're still having conversations about them. Some may argue that the measure of a good story is how easily it can be memed, which is yet another plus side that comes from both Ancient Greek mythology and history. It can get confusing to keep up with all the different characters at times, b ..read more

When you get into a serious relationship with someone, it's often just as important to consider their family as it is the individual you have chosen to settle down with. More often than not, they will provide crucial clues to their upbringing and whether there is anything to be worried about. Unfortunately, many people go as far as getting married without realizing the true ramifications of what their in-laws are like and it causes problems further down the line.  This is something that one wife came to terms with on social media after she revealed to her husband why she doesn't trust hi ..read more

I'm not 'flakey', I'm just not interested in going out anymore ..read more

When did reading become a… trend? I don't know why or how, but I'm kind of glad it did. Folks all over the internet are bonding over their favorite page-turners, and forming little online communities around the novels they love. People are buying Kindles at a breakneck pace and even getting accessories to trick them out. There are thousands of pages on Instagram and TikTok full of hyper-specific recommendations, and so many women I know have lost at least a few days inside the depths of something written by Sarah J. Maas.  There's a tweet about this trend that I think about a lot:  ..read more

An internet culture without Reddit would be like an angel without wings. Where else would we be able to enjoy wild stories, dubious advice, and a holier-than-thou attitude? OK, so maybe that could apply to lots of different social media spaces, but Reddit has positioned itself as a cut above. There is no sanctimony quite like Reddit sanctimony, and its semi-anonymous interface can make the stories and dilemmas that get shared on it all the more juicy than anywhere else.  This makes it worth a humble roundup of some of the more amusing posts it has managed to produce in recent times. Each ..read more

Every state has its idiosyncrasies, it's a beautiful thing. Illinoisans know never to call it the Willis Tower. Almost every Wisconsinite knows how to make the perfect Wisconsin old-fashioned just based on intuition alone. "This is always knee-high by the fourth of July" only makes sense to people who live in Iowa. Michiganders know that Superman is not just a comic book hero, but a deliciously cold summer treat. Ohio residents know that "The Jake" isn't just what you call your aging frat brother, and Minnesotans know that the Jucy Lucy is the only way to go when it comes to burgers.  We ..read more