Is this art?

Twitter can be a pretty exciting gossip-machine full of complicated beef and endless threads of strangers trying to prove each other wrong. As titillating as the realtime Twitter drama often is, sometimes it's nice to remember the website's humble beginnings, where people went to offer innocuous bitesized shower thoughts to the internet. We've collected some of our favorite recent Tweets that feel like those good ol' Twitter days of dumb jokes and funny observations.

If there’s one thing we can all agree on from years of speaking, reading and writing, it’s that the English language seems to operate in the most mysterious of ways. Between all the archaic grammatical rules and words that are a mishmash of several other different tongues, it’s a wonder non-native speakers manage to understand what we’re saying half of the time. As well as this, it means that we often don’t fully understand where the phrases we use originally come from. It is a topic which has …

There's layers here

They both suck, let's be real.

Mesmerizing

Some truly facepalm-worthy moments

Can't argue with any of these.

The best thing about New York City is arguably all the beautiful bodega cats

The world's biggest 'oof'