The near-endless data and resources of the internet allow us to window-shop at a scale that used to be unimaginable. Everything from food delivery to real estate can be found, investigated, and bought online from the comfort of your bedroom, bathroom, or really wherever you prefer to take a device with internet access. Saving all … Read more

Am I the only one who finds it funny when people with a miniscule amount of power strut around as if they’re kings, complete with red cape and ermine fur trimmings? They’ve just got that patronizing “oh, hello, peasant” attitude, even if the other person knows more and better than them. You’ve also probably seen … Read more

You know the feeling when going to work is the biggest challenge? The atmosphere, boss, coworkers and the whole workplace are toxic. If you don’t know this feeling – you are really lucky, we’re happy for you, hopefully you will never find yourself in this situation. However, leaving a workplace like this is such a … Read more

You know that awkward feeling when you think you see your friend, but as you get closer, you realize that it’s just a random stranger who happened to remind you of your friend? So yes, mixing up people happens to almost everybody. There are also quite a few stories about teachers mixing up students; well, … Read more

There are two kinds of people (of course more, but now let’s imagine these 2) – ones who really like to study. Their favorite time was in university or school and they wish they could always just study, prepare for lectures, take exams and then have holidays. But also there is another type of people … Read more

People are remarkably effective at twisting events, circumstances, and even words to their own self-interest. We hear what we want to hear, as the saying goes. One man described a time from the past when a manager, perhaps mistakenly, said that he would approve any and all overtime, across all departments for multiple days. Likely … Read more

You can look at life as an unending chain of lessons. Some of them we learn incredibly quickly. Others might take dozens of mistakes for us to finally grasp their significance. Hindsight is 20/20 and it’s often hard not to blame your past self for not foreseeing all the consequences of your actions. But that’s … Read more

Parking is a fine art. There are a lot of things that you can mess up and if you’ve ever been in a road scuffle, you know the horrible sinking feeling when you hear that disproportionately loud bumper-on-bumper bang. But sometimes, people are far too quick to judge the parking skills of others. Because, you … Read more

Whether you get sinus infections every three months like clockwork or your immune system deserves a gold medal for keeping you healthy for years, nobody likes being sick. So for the vast majority of us, we won’t take a day off due to illness unless we know we’re incapable of doing our job (or contagious … Read more

In September 2011, basketball player Ron Artest officially changed his name to Metta World Peace, and about a decade later, publicly announced that from now on he should be addressed as Metta Sandiford-Artest. Well, celebs are sometimes subject to desires to change their name, and insistently demand that they be called in a new way, … Read more