Dating Show Contestants Share What It’s Really Like
It’s no secret at this point that “reality” shows aren’t particularly real. You’ll hear plenty of people shrug them off as “all scripted,” but the truth is slightly more complicated than that. Networks LOVE reality shows because they get relatively high ratings while being exceptionally cheap to produce,...
People Reveal Their Most Awkward Social Encounters
There’s a great comedian named Brian Regan who several years back had a routine that I still think about constantly. The gist of it was that he could never say the correct thing when interacting with a stranger. An airport teller tells him to enjoy his flight? “You too.” Comes the response. Of course, she’s not getting on a...
10 Horror Shows From the World of IT
Oh, to live in the world of IT. It must be like being a wizard in a world full of muggles, clumsily trying to use the magical things all around them, having no idea how any of it actually functions, breaking it, wreaking havoc with the fabric of reality. And where do you go when you need to vent about all of those woes? To the nerd haven of...
14 Times Adult Entertainers Ran Into their Fans in Real Life
People talk a lot about OnlyFans in sort of hushed or jokey tones, but the truth is this platform – whose bread and butter is adult content – is just an example of the latest iteration of a very old tradition: selling sexiness. But of course, the creators behind the content are just people, and it might be a little odd when the folks...
Couples Reveal the Weird Things They Do For Each Other
Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is pretty gross, a lot of the time. Partially because in the course of love, we end up doing weird and gross things for each other. And that’s beautiful, in its own way, I suppose, but at the same time it’s like…why are humans like this? In any case, these anonymous comments on the things...
People Reveal What Their Teenage Selves Would Say About Them
We often think about what we would do if we could travel through time – but what if it wasn’t so much the current us going somewhere, as being visited by someone distant but familiar? That’s the prompt in this thought on Ask Reddit. If 16 year old you could see you now, what would 16 year old you think about your life?...
People Share What They Miss Most from the 90’s
Ah, the 90’s. It feels like a lifetime ago. Maybe even another dimension. Or a weird, puke-green dream. But a lot of us miss it anyway. What’s something from the 90s you miss? byu/tjapp93 inAskReddit What does Reddit think was the best part of this era? Let’s find out. 1. Sit-in Pizza Huts I was on vacation in the mountains up state...
People Reveal Their School’s Dumbest Rules
There’s nothing more satisfying than knowing that YOU are the reason there’s a new rule somewhere. It happened to me at my old school, which was rife with plenty of ridiculous rules. Apparently I’m not alone in that. What’s the dumbest rule your school ever enforced? byu/SoLe123456 inAskReddit How are our institutions of...
15 Mating Rituals That Would be Super Strange For Humans
One of the strangest writing jobs I’ve ever had was – no joke – an annual infotainment show for a zoo in which my partner and I wrote a series of sketches about weird animal mating rituals. I have learned things I never wanted to know, and my search history is forever scarred. What is an animal’s mating ritual you’re...
Hotel Workers Reveal the Weirdest Things They’ve Ever Seen
Hotels are strange places in that they are simultaneously completely banal and the wildest experiences in the world. Most of the time, you’re just a place for somebody to stay for a night or two because they gotta be in town for some conference or something. Other times? You’re a pit for all the strangest depravity imaginable. And the...