When something happens and you can’t quite figure out who did it, it’s natural to blame the only other person in your household. This is what one man did when the strings on his pajama pants suddenly and mysteriously started to go missing. Not finding any logical reason, he began to suspect his prankster wife … Read more

Interview Just because someone’s got a bunch of fancy diplomas (hi!) doesn’t mean that they’re necessarily smart. Oh, they might have a ton of technical knowledge in their narrow field of study, but they might lack common sense. Or even worse—they might be so arrogant that they think they’re experts in every field. Which, as … Read more

There are plenty of niche subreddits, but some of them can get quite big. Like ‘Eat Sandwiches.’ This online community with a pretty self-explanatory name was created back in November 2010 and now unites 429,000 members who are constantly sharing mouth-watering pictures of the best sandwiches they can find, both store-bought and homemade. To remind … Read more

Love it or hate it, the comments section is a mainstay of nearly anything that gets posted to the internet. Indeed, depending on the sort of content you prefer, the comments section can be a veritable gold mine of hilarity, savagery, or just downright good ideas. Netizens from around the world share the best comments … Read more

Most of us can intuitively tell whether something is designed well or if the end result falls way short of what it should be like. The more we’re exposed to ads and products—both great and god-awful—the more our sense of taste develops. Ever since 2011, this popular subreddit has been sharing examples of epic design … Read more

According to a common definition, chivalry is “the combination of qualities expected of an ideal knight, especially courage, honor, courtesy, justice, and a readiness to help the weak.” The word is usually associated with the medieval institution of knighthood when knights’ and gentlewomen’s behaviors were governed by chivalrous social codes.” Today, however, we understand chivalry … Read more

As temperatures drop, the cooler months are getting increasingly more difficult to bear, encouraging people to start playing with their thermostats. This young woman was not given access to the thermostat in her home, though. Her parents asked the AITA community if they were in the wrong for not letting their daughter turn up the … Read more

A less commonly talked about “superpower” of the internet is the ability to make thousands, if not millions of people realize that in many ways we are actually a lot more alike than we might think. In fact, if you think about it, memes can only function if there is some shared understanding and frame … Read more

The modern world provides all of us (okay, almost all of us) with incredibly wide opportunities to access a wide variety of information, useful and useless, boring and exciting. And it’s not surprising that often the locomotive of this access is youth and even kids. But the problem is that openness to everything new often … Read more

Fashion isn’t always an easy concept to grasp, and numerous are the trends that do not always appear to make much sense. It appears that a new craze has taken the industry by storm, and luckily for us non-model mere mortals, this new conception is rather low-maintenance. Vogue declared the looks of dirty hair as … Read more