Why do so many people get sick during the holiday season ? Nobody likes being sick during the holidays, especially in a hospital. Nobody likes working overtime during the holidays either, unable to see their families when they should be together most. Unfortunately, there ain't no rest for the weary, so nurses and healthcare professionals everywhere spend so much of their December working till all hours of the night. It's so cruel that there's an increase in hospitalizations and illnesses durin…

Chocaholics unite

Tuck yourself in

Not to be corny, but I have an incredibly corny story about a high school teacher who always told us to “dominate the day.” He was my world history teacher and a football coach, usually a red flag. If you've never been to a school with incompetent coach teachers who were unnecessarily cruel to unathletic children, I'm guessing you're not from the South. This guy was not like that at all, and was really kind to all of the students. He was a super funny guy. I don't know of any other teacher that…

One day you'll wake up and realize that as an adult, you can just choose to stay home if you don't feel like going out

2023 here we come!

Tumblr might seem like an outdated platform to the millennials who abandoned their blogs several years ago, but Tumblr still exists and it's thriving (even without your highly aesthetic sea foam-tinged vaporwave gifs). If you know where to look, there's plenty of gold to be mined from the depths of Tumblr . We've rounded up some of the best posts, funny comments, and shower thoughts for anyone who can't be bothered opening the site.

Seasoning

Well, if you didn't think gender reveal parties were stupid, chances are you do now. Remember the wildfires that raged on the west coast? Well, we've learned that announcing whether your kid is a boy or a girl can cause irreparable damage and death. That's on top of the fact that they honestly seem to be completely unnecessary. It's almost as if people need a constant flow of milestone events to validate the fact that they exist on planet Earth. How many things are we going to have to lave lavi…

Take 'em

We're living in a golden era of gaming . The evidence is all around us—the biggest esports streamers are earning just as much as professional athletes. Mario and Dungeons and Dragons blockbusters are soon to be released. Steam's all-time concurrent player count peaked this year. Not to mention, every other meme format these days seems to have been sourced from a video game. You'll find no complaints around these parts. Keep the gaming content coming! In celebration of a great year in gaming, we…

Maybe the Grinch would have been nicer if all the Who's in Whoville weren't singing about how much of a jerk he is?

Extra baggage is extra expensive.

Suggestive words and images are floating around us all the time, usually trying to sell us something or competing to capture our attention for one reason or another. Sometimes the intended message of a sign, advertisement, or slogan is totally eclipsed by an unintentional innuendo, like the time Jersey Mike's Subs tweeted, “how do you top your sub?” The dirty-minded immediately got the “accidental” subtext . Sometimes it's so obvious, it's hard to believe it was a mistake. Like, come on. Are yo…

Oh yeah, baby. It's Tuesday again. And that means it's time for our weekly installment of our “Tolkien Tuesday” meme collection. The

Nobody wants to be nervous all the time. Nothing is more fraught than feeling uneasy in every one of your social relationships. Anxiety might be a fairly common affliction, but that does not make it suck any less. If it gets bad enough, you might become a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown . I haven't seen that movie, but if I had to guess, I'd guess the titular woman suffers from anxiety. For me, the best ways to fight anxiety have been with meds and therapy, simple as that. In therapy,…