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How To Not Be A Slut
When you hear the word hissed across a bar as another girl parades by in a red dress and full confidence, it is not really this woman that the speaker…
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I Lost All My Best Girlfriends In My 20s
As an adult when you are pressured to prioritize your romantic relationship over all else, it is difficult to cultivate those other super important relationships in your life.
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I Want To Be A Pretty Girl
Maybe they don’t even realize it. They have grown up for so long in the cage of their beauty and have come to imagine that everyone is afforded their treatment.
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20 Fantastic Alternative Explanations For Your Hickey
4. It’s not a hickey, it’s a tattoo… of a hickey.
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7 Things That Happen When You Fall In Love
You essentially take a long walk off a short pier of respectful, timely communication and sequester yourself into a love-cave to grow a sex-beard à la Rip Van Winkle.
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10 Reasons To Be In Love With Boston
Like many others, I spent four of my most formative and drunken years in a deeply involved love affair with Boston. In the wake of Monday’s tragedy, I’d like to…
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How Dropping Out Of College Can Save Your Life
Space is recoverable. The status of a college degree, the income from a job — recoverable. Time is not. This time you have now is it. You will not get…
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22 Changes You Make In Your 20s
Becoming more acutely aware of how precious all the time you have with your older family members is, and how not a single day with them is guaranteed.
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The 9 Types of People You’ll Find At Every College Campus
The Hooded Sweatshirt Douchebag
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17 Signs You Need To Go To Bed
10. Mild hallucinations are setting in. Did my puppy just mumble something about Cee Lo Green’s tiny hands and smile with a full set of human teeth?
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The 10 Decisions That Change Your Life
There are a thousand different reasons people get (and stay) together and some of them can be the farthest thing from love. If this is your truth, change it. Go…
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If You Want Extraordinary Love, You Need To Fight For It
Life is unimaginably short and passes even faster than that; there will be enough average things in your life. Don’t let love be one of them.
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10 Things You Actually Learn In College
That you’re essentially paying thousands of dollars to end up with a piece of paper and maybe a job that pays off your debt. Maybe.
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21 Ways To Ruin A One Night Stand
Answering a phone call while still in their bed and telling your friend “I can’t talk right now, I’ll tell you about it later.”
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7 Dumbest Things People Buy
Once again, Corporate America tries to sell us on the notion you need a specific item to fulfill a given function when you can use practically anything soft to substitute…
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Stuff Watching Horror Movies Has Made Me Afraid Of
Don’t talk to strangers, don’t talk to Anthony Hopkins and especially don’t talk to an island-based cult of women who worship bees.
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21 Ways To Be A Better Friend
14. Get them out of their comfort zone in a way that won’t make them hate you for all eternity. (Because they’ll probably hate you in the moment.)
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‘Scary Movie 5’ Is the Worst Movie of the Year (So Far)
A film so empty, lazy and artless that it doesn’t even bother to spoof the movies that it’s ostensibly supposed to be parodying, or bother to tell any real jokes…
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The Problem With Having Sex
There’s nothing dirty about it, no, but there is something complicated. There is something which demands more of you, which implicates you, which makes extricating yourself a more involved ordeal…
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When You See Yourself In A Bad Picture
We are an amalgam of our best selfies, of the edits, and of the tagged photos we approved. We are someone else entirely, someone more conventionally beautiful.
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30 Ways To Make Someone’s Day
6) If you have roommates or live with your significant other, draw some funny faces on the eggs in the refrigerator!
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19 Things That Everyone Deserves
Having the amount of connection with your family that is healthy and positive for you. There is no set amount of attachment that one needs with the people they were…
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21 Ways to Help Yourself Heal
7. Listen to your parents and friends more often and trust them with your problems, while also remembering to be true to yourself and your own instincts.
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The Marathon
Perhaps the strangest thing about all this was how little I cared about who was responsible for the attack. I’m sure I will. I’m sure one day, when I learn…
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6 Sexist Things Girls Say
5. “All guys think about is sex.” And all women think about is SHOPPING!! Am I right, guys?
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When You Get Back Together With Your Ex
Things didn’t work out a first time, why in the world would they work out a second? You both say that you are different, but do we ever really have…
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The OkCupid Inbox Of Every 20-Something Male
how do you feel about ikat print chairs?
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What Twitter Looks Like In A Tragedy
Twitter manifests that, makes it feel real, like a cross-section of all the wild blood flows that happen in our brains when bad things go down.
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Tragedy Has No Answers
We were reminded of the capacity for evil and we were reminded of our own mortality.
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The Boston Marathon Explosions, In Photos And Tweets
Photos and tweets of the explosion in Boston. We’ll be updating this for the rest of the day.
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6 Ways To Make Friends In A New Place
When you move to a new place you have to put yourself out there if you really want to put a stop to those lonely Saturday nights of you crying…
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It Is Not Okay To Make Fun Of Amanda Bynes
Because, in case there was any confusion about it, if you deem what is happening in her life as funny or cute, you are being a terrible person.
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13 Ways To Know If Someone Is Your Person
You have a completely nonsensical (and possibly offensive) nickname for them that you employ so seriously that you’re consistently confused when their profile doesn’t show up when you search said…
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30 Glorious Justin Bieber Quotes
24. “As hard as I’ve tried, I don’t know how not to be adorable.”
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17 Things Running Teaches You About Life
9. You cannot reach the finish line unless you start.
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When Your Friend Is Having A Baby
Why is it scary, though? Part of it has to be the obvious reasons — are they going to become lame, lose sight of who they are, forget what made…
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The 10 Best Amanda Bynes Tweets
Amanda Bynes has become notorious for tweeting amusing things and attacking Perez Hilton. Here are some of her funniest Twitter moments.
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My Cat’s Last Will and Testament
This weekend, my cat died. It’s awful news. The kind of news you want to crawl up with for a week and beg to go away.
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5 Things No One Ever Tells You About Getting A Job After College
What comes next is all that’s being talked about. But all that’s being talked about is being talked about in a certain all-smiles way. Truth hurts, but the truth is…
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Critiquing Wes Anderson’s Movie Posters
Here are my smart critiques that I think would really help Wes Anderson and his movies and I’m pretty sure he would agree with me I have a really good…
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18 Reasons Being In A Relationship Is Awesome
16. That first semi-awkward kiss you share together because you aren’t so sure how your mouths are going to fit together, but you make it through anyway. It’s all smooth…
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19 Life Lessons We Don’t Want To Learn
Sometimes the people that your ex left you for were actually much better for them, and they are happier now, and they absolutely don’t regret leaving you to get with…
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I Got Fired From My First Job And Eventually Regained My Will To Live (And You Can, Too!)
Just as the first person you slept with turned out to not actually be your soul mate (even though it reeeeeally felt like it on that one camping trip), your…
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10 Things It’s Impossible To Look Sexy While Doing
Special shout out to pita wraps, foods on sticks, and spaghetti for also being incredibly delicious, but essentially impossible to eat without looking like a rabid animal.
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20 Cheap Ways To Get Out More Often
14. Flea markets. I’m in love with these damn things. Walk in with $10 and walk out with fresh pecans, some rusting knick-knacks, and a Bad Company LP. It’s like…
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If I Could See All My Friends Tonight
We all promise we won’t lose touch. Friends forever. You’re like my brother. My sister. I won’t be gone for that long. We’re not going to change that much.
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14 Signs You’re In An Imaginary Relationship
2. You have definitely held pretend full-on conversations with him or her except it was just you talking to yourself.
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19 Things Teenagers Like In 2013
Snapchatting pictures of themselves getting blowjobs to their bros.