Google Glass died for this

One of the worst customer interactions I've ever had was when I worked at a Chinese food place. A guy placing his order told me that his pregnant wife was allergic to sesame, and if she had any of it, she'd break out in hives. He also mentioned that this was her favorite restaurant. I noted the allergy on his order, but he kept calling the store, reminding us that there was to be no sesame in the meals. I reassured him that I had told the kitchen there was a sesame allergy for this order, and t…

Where are the manners?

We've got some of everything

Um, what?

If there's one thing that people on Twitter get heated about (besides, y'know, politics), it's food. If we had a nickel for every time a food went viral for being stupid, we'd be rich. Sadly, our Internet addiction hasn't proved financially lucrative, but we do find the food-related discourse entertaining. This week, Twitter users are up in arms over a carbonara dish served tableside - out of a cocktail shaker. In the video, the pasta, which is available at Aroma, a 1 Michelin star restaurant i…

Watch your back

As someone who lives in an urban area, with very little easy access to the natural world, it's therapeutic to imagine myself walking through a pine-scented, shaded forest, or picnicking in a sunny, pastoral field. Sure, sometimes these daydreams involve talking to woodland creatures or baking bread over an open fire. That's pretty unrealistic for a person who is A) not a Disney princess and B) has no idea how to make fire or bake bread. But that's what daydreaming is about. There's tons of cont…

Instant ick

Christopher Nolan's Batman films have long been revered as masterpieces, at least in the area of superhero movies. While the pictures have definitely had an impact on culture (for better or for worse), we always find ourselves coming back to the following quote: "Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn." The quote has its literal meaning, but we find it to be extremely appli…

Yet more dispatches from social media.

Ridiculous

We're sad to report that there are still gamers in 2023 who are not only mad about seeing realistic depictions of female human characters in video games, but also feel inclined to tweet about their bad opinions no one asked for. Case in point, one dude called @poliwar_94 on Twitter recently announced his approval of the faceless femme robot twins from Atomic Heart and used them as an example of a good representation of femininity in video games, while expressing contempt for studios that create…

The Succession series finale on Sunday rocked a whole lot of boats and inspired a whole lot of memes and tweets , but it may not the only show that came to an end this week. It's being reported that the season finale of Apple TV+'s Ted Lasso may actually be a series finale. A lot of yuppies are gonna be upset about this, but if the rumors are true, it shouldn't really be a surprise. Jason Sudeikis previously said that season 3 would be "the end of this story we wanted to tell, while hinting at…

This one's for the 23-year-old teenage girls out there.

ChatGPT has been popping up in almost every corner of the Internet - and even at the parties that my friends throw. ChatGPT (which stands for Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI. The tool can be used to create AI art, to write papers, and even to create the hard-hitting content that Buzzfeed is known for. We're definitely not even scratching the somewhat scary possibilities of the service, but it seems like every week we learn of a new use. This week, G…