Embarrassing

I'm going to come out and say it: Loving what you do (for work) is a luxury. But even if you're a statistics enthusiast or a strategy geek, chances are you don't want to spend all your time working. That's where having a work/life balance comes in. The concept, to many, is pretty novel. It's long been fashionable to spend long hours working in the office or from home, putting in the extra time because your bosses, for some reason, expect you to be available around the clock. There's a reason th…

People are often surprised when I tell them that my 92-year-old grandmother is capable of sending me emails. They're surprised that my Grandfather posts to my Facebook, and still calls me to describe his dreams. While they've both got a pretty good handle on using the world wide web, there's plenty of people their age (even boomers) who consistently fail to use social media, and even Google, properly. While sometimes their failures or inappropriate diatribes can be offensive, many of the online…

I'm so glad I'm not in school anymore and no longer have to be the “buffer student.” Almost every former girl child knows what it's like to be the “buffer student." When teachers have “problem kids” in their class, they often seat them next to quiet and well-behaved kids (mostly girls) to attempt to mitigate the problem (or buffer it). Teachers think that well-behaved kids will rub off on the rowdy ones, but usually, it results in well-behaved kids becoming miserable. I always seemed to end up…

Weddings are stressful enough as it is. Hundreds of hours of planning and thousands of dollars go into this one day, and if you're the bride or the groom, you want it to be perfect. Unfortunately, wedding venues are not perfect, especially churches. If you want a church wedding, you'll likely have to put a lot of time and effort into schmoozing the church for them even to consider you eligible for a wedding in their fine institution. If you can get past that point of gatekeeping, you have to ta…

It’s that time of the week! Everyone’s favorite roastee, Elon Musk is trending on Twitter and waiting on your feed. But what’d he do this time? Appeal to Twitter Republicans? Run Twitter further into the ground? Post a 4/20 meme? Not quite, though we can’t rule it out of the immediate future. Today, Elon Musk experienced a “rapid unscheduled disassembly,” or in reality’s terms, his rocket exploded. This morning SpaceX launched its unmanned “Starship” in southern Texas which exploded around four…

Parents embarrass their kids all the time. It's a natural part of the parent-child relationship , and it's often completely unavoidable. Once a child becomes a tween, they can't stand to be seen with their parents in public. Tweens want their parents to drop them off at the mall far out of the view of any other tweens because having a mom is apparently extremely embarrassing. Tweens and teens don't want their parents to take pictures of them, be seen in public with them, or generally be around…

Small businesses are not an unequivocal good in society. Many small business owners underpay their employees, nickel and dime their customers, and, worst of all, provide a subpar product. We tend to look at small businesses as virtuous fighters in a world where every industry is getting more and more monopolized by the second. While I think that it's good that there are silly little stores that only sell sauces or socks, their niche uniqueness does not make them inherently good for a community…

It's absolutely mind-boggling to think of all the tech-related advancements that have occurred over the last, oh, fifty years. And while we do poke fun at the technical abilities (or lack thereof) of the geriatrics in our lives, we've really got to hand it to them: There's been a lot to keep up with. While my 93-year-old grandmother impresses me with her knowledge of how to email, the truth is that there are definitely elderly people who are both more and less technologically advanced than she…

But he bought the beer... these folks don’t know what boycott means, do they?

It's my party and I'll ruin the vibe if I want to

Are these people for real?

We often highlight some of the funniest jokes that Twitter has to offer for those who normally wouldn't go near the bird website with a ten-foot pole. But it would be a lie to portray Twitter as anything other than a cesspool of horrific takes and the sort of cringe that can only come from brains rotted by the internet. For those of us sickos who can't get enough of social media's cringiest moments, @benner's thread is a goldmine of the worst tweets ever twote. Before you dive into this content…

Everyone makes mistakes. But some mistakes are funnier than others. In a recent TikTok, Chicago therapist Zach Leeze r shared a video addressing his, um, poor choice of a username . That username? It's “@zachtherapist.” It could be read as Zach Therapist. Or it could be read as something a little more damning. If the dilemma seems familiar, that's probably because a similar fiasco occurred on Arrested Development , when Tobias Funke decided to use the ill-advise portmanteau of “analrapist” to d…

The Internet revolts after McDonalds does the one thing they should never do: mess with the price of a hash brown.

Being an Airbnb hater is a big part of who I am and what I do. I distinctly recall being on a family vacation, waiting outside in freezing weather for over an hour for the owner of the apartment to give my family the key. The owner drove a moped and I could tell that he did not feel sorry, not one bit. The best Airbnb experience I had was at a place virtually identical to a hotel, and honestly, that doesn't even count. Despite my bitterness, Airbnb's used to be novel and fun as a concept for mo…