Naming a baby is a crazy amount of pressure. A name is never just a name—it has to be beautiful and strong and fitting. And you have one chance to get it right—well without having to do more legal paperwork. So it's almost understandable that one couple decided to take some of the pressure off and crowdsource a name…
One particularly daring student found a new loophole around hard test questions. Too bad for her this method stopped working decades ago.
In late 2012, Reddit shut down its massively popular, massively shitty "creepshots" subreddit after women and non-monsters complained that the website was tacitly endorsing a forum that features sexualized pictures of women posted without their consent, a practice many people with souls consider "bad." But like herpes and…
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File this under ideas that are so good they make the rest of us regular job applicants look bad: a hopeful ad agency intern has figured out a way to stand out from the pack of other applicants for the job she covets by making a miniature Lego version of herself.
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Ready for something awesome? Check out this painting of an alien below (looks like oil on canvas, right?) and see if you can tell what's so special about it.
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Jeff Goldblum granted us mere mortals with the glory of his presence via a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" and it was as kooky and lovely as you could imagine.
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Well, this is disgusting: Reddit has a subreddit called r/FacebookCleavage, dedicated entirely to sharing "sexy pictures" of members' "hot Facebook friends." Currently, it has 16,655 subscribers.
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A Redditor who posted a question about what gynecologists can tell about their patients "lifestyle" from an examination probably didn't expect to get science dropped on them by actual MDs. The question which appeared on the site 18 hours ago asked the site's resident gynecologists to reveal all about what the redditor…
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The first time a person has sex is both magical and (can be) loaded with frustration and disappointment. And because such an event should be remembered and relived forever, Reddit users took to the site to sum up their first sexual experience in GIFs, the only real way to express how that first time felt.
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After photos of an attractive, midriff-bearing Olympic volunteer were published by a couple of American photo services, some Reddit denizens took notice. A lot of notice. So much notice, in fact, that they tracked down her name, social media presence, and dozens of photos of her, which they compiled into a hand spank…
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Will Ferrell graced Reddit with his almighty comedic presence on Tuesday and the results are as hilarious as you would expect. Except no they are not—they're funnier. So much funnier.
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Classic American love story: Boy meets girl. Boy cheats on girl. Girl discovers infidelity. Girl goes batshit crazy, taking out full page ads in college newspaper and starting whole tumblr about it. Boy grovels. Girl vows continued revenge. Girl turns out to be an invention of a record company promoting a new *bItChEs…
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What do women really think of the oft-mocked 'fedora personality'? (We hate it.) No, really, what do they think? (Really, we hate it.) That's what one man wanted to know when he took to the subreddit Ask Women to find out just how we gals feel about the fancy fedora and the personality that sometimes come with it. The…
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This is the worst thing I've read in my entire life, so brace yourselves — the Gothamist has unearthed a Reddit thread asking doctors, nurses and other medical professionals to share their "most gory, disgusting or worst medical experience." As one might predict, it's not something you'd ever want to read or think about…
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A Reddit user named OKCThrowaway22221 shared a pretty spectacular tale of his adventures in online dating while pretending to be a woman, and we need to talk about it.
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Are you an open-minded woman who's ready to give things a try? Do you love to laugh/smile (maybe at the same time?) Do you have a high tolerance for grammar that will make your head feel like there are a thousand bees buzzing around in there, anxiously fighting for a way out? If so, then you may be lucky enough to…
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It was once written (in the Bible, maybe?) that "two are better than one" and it's a statement true enough for a lot of things. It's true for cakes, kittens, Weasley twins, bongo drums, socks and chopsticks, but is it also true for one man with two penises? Apparently, it is — at least according to one individual who has …
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Men's rights activism — a term most often applied to wounded community of daft, delusional, and often malignant denizens of the Internet who think that feminism threatens their basic rights and that rape isn't even that big of a deal — has had a busy week bringing shame to its already quite besmirched name. In the past …
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In between hanging out with her OMFG HOW COULD SHE BE DATING HIM boyfriend and becoming besties with Taylor Swift, Lorde took to Reddit Sunday to answer questions both important (what kind of shampoo does she use?) and mundane (what will her next single be?).
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Jennifer Lawrence just became even more of your BFF because even though she is beautiful like a goddammed golden gazelle, she's apparently as klutzy as an elephant in a tutu on roller skates in an ice rink. Or something along those lines.
