3. Texting funny messages! An even simpler way to maintain and grow that intellectual connection is actually a very popular technique many are already using: the texting, emailing, DM’ing, and posting of articles, memes, and stories to your partner. It’s not just the sending and receiving...
I was having dinner in Seoul recently with an old friend who taught in Egypt back around 2000. Living in East Asia for the past decade, he hasn’t really kept up on Egypt, and after a conversation about the revolution and its aftermath, he asked about Copts. There was always, he said...
A vast sea of entertainment would have been at my fingertips if I had social media growing up. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky entertain me with funny memes, viral videos, and trending topics. Remove Ads Also, if I want to learn a skill, discover a different culture, watch...
@tikloguy: Well perhaps you should stop drinking the cool aid and teach your 11 year old correctly then. 40 to 50 years ago we put a much larger amount of harmful chemicals into the air that opened a hole in the ozone layer which is all but completely healed ...
He was only 23 years old. On our final day we visited the Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker a few miles away in the Cheshire countryside. For more than 50 years the vast underground bunker was kept a secret and it would have been the centre of Regional Government had nuclear war broken ...
Getting a chance to grow up with him! While some of us are still looking for the one true friend, these animals already found each other and are happy to share their lives together. In this list collected byBored Pandayou'll find even the most unlikely of friendships, such as best buddi...
As a young person I imagined myself a sort of vengeful spirit. A schoolyard Robin Hood who attacked the strong and popular on behalf of the social outcasts. I’m 36 years old now though and I realize what I am is a bully. I may have been the one who got beat up but I sent ple...
"I think he's brilliant! Very down to earth, geeky, trips over things a lot, helps old ladies across the street, that sort of thing." But it's not only about making Ed feel better. Abby supports Labour, and is annoyed that she can't yet vote. "I can't have a say in what ha...
“The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes. If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do,” ...