by DevinIZJesus | Apr 21, 2024 | Humor, News, Rants, Social Norms, Trends, YouTube
Is the Internet making us stupid? It’s tough to say, but if you saw the Tide pod challenge, the NyQuil Chicken Challenge, the Bird Box Challenge, the Cinnamon Challenge, the Kia Boyz Challenge, and the Benadryl Challenge, you might start to wonder. Are humans...
by DevinIZJesus | Apr 21, 2024 | Health, Humor, Rants, Social Norms, Trends
If you’ve scrolled through social media feed before, you’ve probably seen videos of people who have wild pets. I’ve seen videos of people who have tried to make pets of skunks, ducks, foxes, racoons, lions, leopards, hyenas, bears, iguanas, pigs, and...
by DevinIZJesus | Apr 7, 2024 | Beliefs, Health, Rants, Social Norms
When people ghost, they disappear. In the age of online connections, especially in a larger city, people can block each other and disappear entirely from one another, in a digital sense. But exactly why? Who knows. Most seem to agree that ghosting is lousy, but many...
by DevinIZJesus | Mar 24, 2024 | Beliefs, Humor, Language, Rants
When it’s a number of things that are counted, use greater or fewer. When it’s an amount or quantity of things measured, it’s more or less. This should be pretty simple and I believe all English speakers know it somewhere deep down, but most use more...
by DevinIZJesus | Mar 17, 2024 | Beliefs, Humor, Language, Rants, Social Norms
By all means. By any means. By no means. It seems that millennials are particularly attracted to verbal use of these phrases. They are spoken often, but rarely written. There’s an air of pretense + pseudo-formality + fake politeness in there. People should stop...
by DevinIZJesus | Mar 10, 2024 | Beliefs, Health, Humor, Language, Rants, Social Norms
I have too much on my plate. How can I keep all these plates spinning? Their world is on a platter. Step up to the plate. Is that gold-plated? Clear your plate. Can I take some of that off your plate? US society is obsessed with colloquial sayings and the plate seems...
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