May 2012
39 posts
“An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied...”
– Jane Austen (via futurecamdens)
A new category of heel: The customer service... →
Joel Anaya, a Hospitality Business Management student from Washington State University, studied entries from Web sites like dinnersfromhell.com, flightsfromhell.com, and notalwaysright.com to identify seven classes of annoying customers.
“Badmouthers,” the most common saboteurs, used profanity and raised their voices.
“It’s crazy what a few bad words can do, how...
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The Crown Vic is dead; Long live the Crown Vic -... →
Like a cockroach, however, the Crown Vic is resilient. It’s already begun quietly colonizing civilian car culture, notably in Los Angeles County, where the number now in private hands — 38,000 — is second only to that in metropolitan New York, according to auto information company Edmunds.com.
This is confounding on multiple counts. The Crown Vic, the last of the roomy, rear-drive...
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“A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.”
– Henry David Thoreau
1,001 Droll Pranks for Rich Boys →
The Wealthy Young Gentleman’s Guide to Horseplay
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Program pays drug addicts to get sterilized or... →
Controversial NC-based non-profit group Project Prevention is doing just that — offering $300 to addicts who agree to sterilization or long-term birth control. The group’s posters hang in homeless shelters and read things such as “Don’t let a pregnancy ruin your drug habit,” or “She has her daddy’s eyes … and her mommy’s heroin addiction.”
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To Predict Dating Success, The Secret's In The... →
Function words - those unassuming “filler” words like the, this, though, I, an, there, and, that - are mightier than you think. For one, they’re a very good predictor of sex and love. This is the story of how analyzing the patterns of the use of these words in speech between two strangers in a speed dating scenario can be a very good predictor of who will get the date.
April 2012
43 posts
Seriously, What's So Great About Corgis? - The... →
Atlantic, go fuck yourself.
