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20 People You Will Meet In Your 20s
Whatever this person is doing with their life, you no longer have the balls to do it. They’re quitting their job on a whim to go backpack through Asia. They’re dating gorgeous people they meet and ask out in the middle of the grocery store.
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19 Things To Do When You Stay Up Until 5 A.M.
Sign up for a free trial of something that you’ll forget to cancel, thus earning yourself a full-blown membership.
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5 Things Only You Are Judging About Yourself
When I have nasty acne, I tell myself that the people that love me would rather have me around than not have me around because I’m hiding out over a pimple.
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32 Mistakes Not To Make While Drunk
Blogging without making the requisite announcement/tag that you are now “drunk blogging.” Everything written while drunk blogging is acceptable.
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21 Truths About Being An Only Child
Famous only children include: FDR, Frank Sinatra, Lance Armstrong, and Elvis. Oh yeah, and some dude you may have heard of, goes by the name Jesus. You might remember him as the guy who invented magic tricks and being nice to other people, though. So yeah, there have been some pretty rad only children.
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Just Because She Is Polite Does Not Mean She Is Flirting
Feeling the discomfort of even mild politeness being received as an open invitation to follow you down the street or insist on continuing a clearly-unwanted conversation is something you don’t have to be particularly gorgeous to experience.
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Yeah Trick, I AM Wearing Leggings As Pants. Wanna Fight About It?
Does the shirt cover four inches of crotch/thigh area, AT LEAST? Are the leggings somehow embellished to make them more “pant-like”?
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The 10 Best Fictional Boyfriends
Whether you like him in his clean-shaven, hopeful early days, or his scruffy, overgrown, widow-boning, depressed days, Noah is inarguably one of the greatest fictional boyfriends to ever not exist outside of our collective imaginations.
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Short Men, Eww, They’re Genetically Deformed
Height signifies, if not biological strength, then a glow of social supremacy.
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I Really Hate Alcohol
Whenever I’m in a drinking situation and somebody new finds out that I generally stay away from alcohol, the first thing they do is tilt their head, furrow their brows and look at me like I’m some kind of unrecognizable foreign object. “You don’t…drink?”
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32 Ways To Make Me Fall In Love With You
Lend me your sweater with the vague-and-absolutely-correct notion that I will be keeping it.
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I’m Not In Love With You Anymore
I don’t not-love you in a way that deserves a song. I just don’t. It is the most anti-climatic thing in the world, falling out of love.
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How To Shop At Target In 20 Simple Steps
Come across something that you don’t need, need — but you’re convinced that you could really use (e.g. new bath towels, a Frappuccino maker, etc.). Place all of them in your cart with the utmost confidence.
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I Have Herpes And It’s Not The End Of The World
The “accepted” reason that herpes is not part of a standard screening is that unless you have an outbreak, herpes is generally harmless and it doesn’t affect your quality of life.
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I Am Tired Of Competing With Other Women
I know, if I am being honest with myself, that my harshest judgments and strictest standards are almost always reserved for other women, by reflex that I often cannot realize until I am mid-snark.
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A Playlist Of Songs To Freak Out To
Andrew WK makes freak out songs. (He pretty much built his career off of them.) So does Japandroids. So does Titus Andronicus.
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34 Ways To Get Over Someone
Don’t worry about ‘winning’ the breakup. You’re not going to become the first ballerina president astronaut unicorn by the next time they look at your Facebook, so don’t waste time trying.
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12 Reasons You Should Never Meet Your Hero
It may be hard to believe, but “I’m your biggest fan,” is about the least impressive thing you can say to someone who hears it almost constantly — in fact, I’m pretty sure the guy in front of you just said exactly that, and he’s got the tattoo to prove it.