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You Can’t Please All The People All The Time, Unless You’re Tina Fey
Parents like her. Kids like her. Hipsters, weirdos, Democrats, Republicans, even my cat can’t stop talking about Date Night, and I thought it was pretty mediocre.
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19 Signs You Should Break Up With Them
It has been so long since you last had sex that neither of you are really willing to bring up the subject because you both know the discussion is going…
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Andrea And Michonne: The Only Female Friendship On TV You Need To Care About Right Now
Not all female friendships are founded on malicious competitiveness, jealousy and resentment. Some of us actually really care about each other.
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How To Be A B*tch
When a guy hits on you at a bar, tell him directly but not unkindly, that you’re not interested.
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An Open Letter To Guys Who Are Going Bald
If you are going bald, and are past the point of creating a reasonable facsimile of hair with a few good products and swishes of the comb, you just have…
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24 Signs You’re A Hopeless Romantic
When you were a little kid, all of your dolls/stuffed animals were in long-term, committed relationships with one another. Two of your teddy bears would be soon nearing their silver…
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25 Reasons Kristen Bell Is The World’s Most Adorable Human
3. Her dogs are named Lola, Sadie and Mr. Shakes.
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How To Have Sex Without Developing Any Feelings Whatsoever
Under no circumstances should you let them spoon you. When it comes to feelings spooning is basically asking for it.
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This Is How You Win Your 20s
If you want to win your 20s, you must never fool yourself into believing that the world owes you something. You must decide what you want and hustle for it.
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What Happens When You Make Yourself Vulnerable
When you’re vulnerable, your heart is wide open, you put your trust in somebody in the form of giving them the most precious thing you have – your heart.
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Boys, Please Shave Your Body Hair!
I obviously appreciate a good head of hair, eyelashes and eyebrows. I
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How You Know Someone Cares
Someone who cares will listen. Now, there are times when they won’t listen well. We all do that sometimes: we’re distracted, or so excited we talk over each other. But…
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Jon Hamm Needs To Stop Dressing Like a Total Slut
Wearing a clingy, form-fitting pair of slacks gives the impression that a man is DTBP (Down To Be Photographed). If Jon Hamm didn’t want this type of attention, he shouldn’t…
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The 25 Greatest Quotes About Love
“Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell
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We Can’t Get Lost Anymore
We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dip in the ocean, because there’s no service on the beach and and adventures…
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I Haven’t Had Sex In Forever
Take Rivers Cuomo. He took a vow of celibacy and then he swears his music and his voice improved. So maybe I have secret talents and superpowers that will burst…
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24 Painful Things You Must Do To Grow Up
Realizing that some people are making the transition from “crazy kid who parties a little too much” to “person who has a serious problem with drinking/drug use,” and that there…
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10 Reasons Why You Have To Quit Your Job This Year
You can’t make money without selling something real. You can’t make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can’t have imagination without surrendering yourself to an…
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Why Vegeta Is Better Than Goku
In childhood, while Goku was toying with Bulma in a capsule house, Vegeta was undergoing constant training on his home planet.
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If You Identify Yourself As Straight While Advocating For Gay Rights, You’re Doing It Wrong
Know this, Straight Ally: whenever I see, “I’m a straight person who just supports LOVE!!!” I read, “Well, my friends are gay, but I don’t want people to think I’m…
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Which Stuff From Your Ex Should You Keep?
So even though we don’t really talk anymore and are completely over each other, I’m keeping the letters.
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How To Not Take Things Personally
So how does one go about it? How does one attempt to remove notions of a personal attack when that is what one perceives?
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11 Ways To Be A Decent Person
Nice doesn’t equal kind, there are kind people who aren’t nice.
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6 People You Become On Fridays
4. The I Can’t Wait To Get Home, Put On My Softest Pants And Do Nothing Person
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7 Reasons Why Dating Is The Absolute Worst
Finding out if someone is going to love you or not takes time and lots of cash. Just to power through some awkward dates, I’ve had to gulp down four…
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15 Things We Should All Admit
You always click on those headline-grabby articles on Yahoo! or People about “Taylor Swift’s Latest Break Up” or “You’ll Never Guess What Selena Said!”
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26 Things I Learned During My First Year Of Real Employment
Exactly which holidays are federal holidays and which are just the stupid ones.
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15 Things I Don’t Understand About Myself
I don’t ever dress the way I envision myself dressing. I see all these cute outfits on fashion blogs but then I just pull on a sweatshirt and jeans.
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Things You Have To Learn On Your Own
You have to learn to be happy. Happiness is not something you can buy or earn, it is something you are and have; it is a state of mind.
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The 7 Most Unappealing Qualities In People
Competitive people are the worst for so many reasons but one of the major ones is that they’re always trying to one-up their friends. “Oh, you got a boyfriend? Well,…
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Physical Appearance Should Not Be The Most Attractive Thing About You
Yo, dudes, we’re not looking for supermen (or women). We’re looking for real, loving, genuine, kick-butt people who lift us up and make us happy.
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20 Songs That Perfectly Encapsulate Being In Your 20s
They only want you when you’re seventeen. When you’re twenty one, you’re no fun.
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7 Things That Happen To You When You Are Completely Honest
I got a death threat last week from a guy who’s a senior at Brown University who didn’t think I could track him down. More on that in a second.
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The 7 Most Appealing Qualities In People
As we go through life searching for meaningful connections with the all people we meet, if they have these qualities you will definitely want to keep them around for awhile.
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5 Stages Of Finding Out You Have Cancer
I wouldn’t call it hopefulness, exactly; it was more like last minute, panic-induced mania, probably induced by the same biological response that causes all your capillaries to explode in a…
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5 Non-Fiction Books That Will Suck You In
Want to read a HUGE book about Abraham Lincoln? You’re in luck.
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9 Songs That Always Make You Feel Fabulous
Nobody’s perfect, and sometimes you wake up and you’re feeling down. But don’t feel sorry for yourself. You’re amazing! Here are 9 songs that’ll always make you feel fabulous so…
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You’re Allowed To Have Feelings
I am The Person Who Feels Everything, surely one of the most Sisyphean of all fates.
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15 Times I Want To Die Of Embarrassment
When I have headphones on and I fart thinking no one else can hear it like an idiot.
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Things I Love You More Than
I love you more than Bruce Willis, Nicolas Cage and Liam Neeson combined.
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10 Reasons 22 Is The Perfect Age
Twenty-two is basically the only age you can use as leverage. Meaning that because it’s the exact age between life-as-you-know-it and what will later be known as ‘real life’ (that’s…
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Girl, I Don’t Care About Your Hair Down There
I appreciate my body for some of the ways it helps me out. In the summertime, I get mosquito bites on my ankles because they can’t navigate through my hairy…
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19 Questions You Wish You Could Ask Their Ex
Do you have fantasies about getting back together… and can you not?
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Why I Reject The Idea Of Hooking Up
I came to the conclusion that drinking a lot of alcohol and staying up till the wee hours of the morning trying to get laid, although fun when used sparingly,…
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How To Be A Cool, Trendy, Popular Person And Stuff
Does this stuff come in newsletter form? Is there some exclusive memo or cool-kid-illuminati type of secret society meeting that excludes the rest of us? Or is it called Twitter?…
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16 Signs You’re A Control Freak
7) You get a rejection letter from a job or a school but just like, WHATEVER. It’s their fault they didn’t take you. They will be sorry!
