Can people be normal for once? No? OK.

Maybe have some responsibility for your own children?

If you've been watching HBO's game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon , then you're probably familiar with the emotional rollercoaster of the show's first season. The series, which is set two hundred years before the original, is rife with problematic themes (classic Targaryen incest), some strange choices regarding timelines and casting, and some seriously insufferable characters. Yes, we're mostly talking about Ser Criston Cole. While we wait for tomorrow to enjoy what is set to be an ac…

Fantasy television series have been having a moment. We're not sure who had the genius idea to air HBO's House of the Dragon at the same time as Amazon's Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, but it's inspired a lot of comparisons, both good and bad. One thing that the HBO Game of Thrones prequel has over the LOTR prequel is some serious character hatred. And we're not even talking about Queen Alicent Hightower. We're talking about Ser Criston Cole. Criston's character was introduced in a posi…

Neighborly love

How far is too far when snooping through someone's packages? It is not uncommon for mail carriers to misplace deliveries, and you might never see your package again with one misplaced delivery. However, some people are way too comfortable looking through strangers' things.

"When neighbors start talking, good things happen"

Just wrong

That escalated quickly

Here in New York City we usually have too many neighbors to bother getting to know or communicate with anyone. Sure, there are a few neighborhood or block associations, but they're usually pretty insular. Nobody we know uses sites like Nextdoor to communicate. It's usually a quick “How ya doin?” or, when something messed up is happening, a quick complaining session on the sidewalk. This does not seem to be the case in the suburbs. We've come to this conclusion thanks to Best of Nextdoor Twitter…

Ah, the woes of renting. Anyone who's experienced the daily little annoyances that come with living in an apartment building full of hundreds of other grumpy tenants likely understands that 'loving thy neighbor' is sometimes harder than it looks. Even the politest souls can resort to furiously scrawling passive aggressive notes for their inconsiderate neighbors if buttons are pushed hard enough. One can only take so many sleepless nights hearing apartment 5b blast Justin Bieber at ungodly hours…

Thanks to the impressive popularity of @whatisnewyork, hundreds of renters regularly send the account all the hilariously weird and passive aggressive notes they find in the apartment complex lobbies of New York City. Seeing these notes all in one place really paints a picture of the woes of renting in a tenement full of high-strung, stressed-out, irritable people. Though, to be fair, not all the notes are full of rage. Some bold neighbors use lobbies, laundry rooms, and elevators as their perso

"When neighbors start talking, good things happen."

Festive prankery

Wow.

Unless you spend your entire life on a farm in the middle of nowhere, it's likely you will have to deal with neighbor drama at some point. Whether it's the family upstairs who apparently wear concrete shoes or that dude who keeps parking in front of your driveway, people are often at their worst when they're close to home. Technology has tried to find a solution in the form of the neighborhood app ; in theory, they allow us to sort our petty disputes and maybe even create a sense community alon…