It's beat down time

When you're a kid, you have to be a little sneaky with what you say. When I was a wee lass, I had a huge potty mouth , and it took me a while to learn that there were some words you just couldn't say in front of adults without consequences. I remember how unjust I thought it was that my mom could swear, but I couldn't when I was 11 years old. Swearing seemed like the coolest thing in the world, and all I wanted to do was show the kids at school that I knew more bad words than they did. But alas…

Bank account is at negative nada

Tipping culture in America is pretty straightforward. If you're eating at a sit-down restaurant, it's expected that you tip your waiter 20% of the cost of your meal in total. This system is in place because paying servers far less than the minimum wage is legal and common, with restaurant owners assuming most of their income will be supplied by tips. Tipped employees in some U.S. states can make as little as $2.13 per hour , which is why it's so important to tip them 20%. Many Europeans visitin…

It's Twitter time

Well, well, well. Look what we have here. Another bored person on the Internet, mindlessly searching for content to consume. And guess what? We're here to provide just that. While we're usually all about mixin' up our memes, tweets, cringe posts, and videos, we do take the time to recognize the beauty of each art form on its own. This is particularly true for tweets. Why? Because they're constantly being published. There's almost always a fresh and funny tweet waiting on the horizon. And now, t…

So hospitable

It's Tuesday again, which means we're enjoying my absolute least favorite day of the week. It's not close enough to Friday for us to feel hope, and the weekend was just recent enough to inspire feelings of wistfulness. Despite my hatred for this day, there are some redeeming qualities. A) it's a day associated with tacos, and B) we get to round up all our favorite Lord of the Rings memes to share with fans on our site and beyond. Whether you're a book purist or a movie buff, you're bound to fin…

Twitter is officially one year away from being a legal adult. I have been on the bird app (or, in the pre-iPhone days, the bird website ) for over half of its existence, so you'd think I would have a strong opinion about Twitter being around for 17 years. At this point, I'm just glad that Twitter is still managing to function. Elon Musk's purchase of the company appears to be the beginning of the end. The website is not getting any better, and Musk's plans to drive new users to the site seem to…

Awooo

Parenting Facebook groups have obsessions with the many "natural remedies" they think will cure all childhood ailments. My favorite supposed cure-all miracle is breastmilk. For some reason, crunchy moms think that breastmilk can do anything. I will give credit where credit is due: breastmilk offers babies essential nutrients they can't get anywhere else. Unfortunately, breast milk does not cure ear infections. You cannot squirt breastmilk in a blind man's eye and make him see again. Breastmilk…

Franken-Tesla!? It's ALIVE!

Oh boy

Food is an important part of life. We need to eat to live. It's a necessary part of survival for most living things. But humans have made eating into something of an affair. Somewhere between when we were hunter-gatherers and when we started obsessively Instagramming our meals before eating them, food surpassed its purpose as sustenance. These days, preparing or eating food is a ritual. It's a form of celebration, a way to show love. It's trendy and it's sometimes seen as a status symbol. Peopl…

Memes for the gifted and talented!

When you think about the Internet, what pops into your mind? The sound of a new email in your inbox? Falling into a deep, dark Wikipeda hole? Or do you start seeing memes dancing around your head? We happen to fall into the latter camp, which is probably no surprise given that this is a website called "Memebase." Memes have become such an integral part of Internet culture that the two are practically tethered to each other in my mind. While it's a joy to laugh about memes and share them with fr…