Pour Too Much Coffee in This Mug and It Will Start Crying

Wask | $35.01

Do you have a tendency of drinking too much coffee? Well, there's a mug that will let you know when enough is enough. Overflow the Flooded With Emotions Mug and the extra brew will leak from its two round eyes, making it look like the cup is crying.

Designed by Wask, this funny mug features a minimalist design with a smiley face and two perforated eyeholes by the brim. When you keep the coffee below a certain level, the mug remains happy-looking. But pour a little too much joe in the cup and the coffee will trickle out of the eyes like tears. It will surely make any coffee lover laugh.

Due to the nature of this mug, you'll want to make sure you're cautious about touching the hot liquid. In addition to making sure the coffee doesn't overflow, another important thing to keep in mind is which side you drink your coffee from. Pick the wrong side, and the mug will end up crying on you! So, to be safe, Wask recommends drinking from the back of the cup where there are no hopefully pop up in the next batch of sales.

You can find the Flooded With Emotions Mug in the Wask store for CA$35.01 (about US$25.90).

The Flooded With Emotions Mug has a lot of feelings.

The Politics of Eternity. All images Dustin Yellin. Photos by Gus Powell, courtesy of the Liberty Science Center, New York

Drawing inspiration from the systems and networks that connect us to one another, the world around us, and realms we cant even see, Dustin Yellin (previously) encases detailed narratives between numerous layers of glass. At the Liberty Science Center in New York City, Yellins 10,000-pound The Politics of Liberty explores historical timepast, present, and futureas part of the centers 30th anniversary Big Art program.

As the founder and director of Pioneer Works, a multidisciplinary center with a mission to build community through the arts and sciences, Yellin is no stranger to exploring ways that art can educate and communicate about important topics. Using paint and clippings from print media, the Brooklyn-based artist creates elaborate, allegorical scenes that tap into viewers emotions and consciousness and encourage new ways of thinking about society and its infrastructures. Yellin embraces interdisciplinary approaches and says the Big Art initiative demonstrates the fundamental belief in the ability of ideas to exist fluidly across different domains, inviting us to consider the different ways in which an understanding of our universe can be expressed and to feel the expanses of our minds.

...

Spring Celebration Sale at My Modern Met Store: Save 15% on All of Our Creative Products

For many folks, spring is a time when they celebrate religious holidays. From Ramadan to Passover to Easter (which all overlap for a bit this year), there is time spent with family and communityand thats something to celebrate! My Modern Met Store is having a Spring Celebration Sale that extends to all of our creative products. From April 10 to April 16 at 11:59 PM PDT, use the code CELEBRATEINSPRING to save 15% on your entire order. This includes the items already on sale.

With so many products to choose from, where do you being to shop? Our suggestion is to start with spring-inspired items. April showers bring May flowers, and you can celebrate this fact with a variety of artsy temporary tattoos from Tattly. The Perennial Set features eight scented tattoos inspired by different species of flowers. They will be a beautiful addition to your skin.

Alternatively, you can enjoy the return of our feathered friends with a Blue Jay Embroidery Kit by Kiriki Press. It has everything you need to make a small plush bird doll, and it includes a screen-printed pattern and a range of embroidery floss. (Due to the stitches that this project requires, its recommended for folks with a basic knowledge of embroidery.)

Check out My Modern Met Store for our entire selection of creative products. When youre ready to check out, use CELEBRATEINSPRING to save 15% o...

More and more people are choosing to be child-free these days, and no, getting older does not necessarily mean theyll change their mind.

Some people say they dont want kids from a young age and do change their minds later, but others live happy lives as not-parents forever.

This kid is only 16, but he says hes definitely child-free.

My brother (Brandon) is 16 and decided he is childfree.

Which basically just means he doesnt want to be around our 4 years old little cousin.

Which is fine, except he thinks that means hes allowed to act as if his 4yo cousin doesnt exist.

According to OP he flat-out ignores her and leaves the room if shes trying to talk to him, and finally OP had enough.

We have dinner at our grandparents every other weekend together with all our aunts/uncles and cousins. Brandon never liked our little cousin, and recently he decided that that means he doesnt have to talk to her or acknowledge her existence at all.

Brandon will 100% ignore her and if she keeps trying to talk to him, he will stand up and go to another room. The parents dont really care about it, they are usually busy with talking to each other and dont pay attention to us.

She called him out on the rude/mean behavior and tried to tell him that being child-free doesnt mean hes allowed to treat kids like crap.

Last weekend, Brandon was ignoring our little cousin once again. She was showing him her drawings, when he stood up and went away. She started crying and I went after Brandon to call him out on it.

He said he was childfree and he doesnt have to engage with children if he doesnt want to. He is not rude or mean to her, so he is not doing anything wrong. I told him he can...

Franois-Joseph Lapointe, Microbiome Selfies (2014-2020). Image courtesy of Franois-Joseph Lapointe

The complexity of the world todaywith emergencies related to climate, health, migration, and moredemands that we bring together all the available tools and disciplines for reflection and action. How can knowledge be interwoven to expand our understanding of the world and broaden our imaginations, to look to the future on an international scale? Research-creation, or practice-based research, is a relatively recent field between theoretical and applied research associating experimental, exploratory, and critical approaches and practices while privileging sensorial experience. Through installations, dispositifs, and performances, new methodological tools are being created to access sources of shared knowledge and to explore contemporary transformations aesthetically.

How can we go beyond text in communicating these findings at the intersections of art, design, and science? The traditional methodologies and formats of journal articles are not always adapted to research that explores sensorial and singular forms.

.able Journal is the result of observing this limitation, reinventing the publication form by making research accessible through images. Free of charge and distributed on numerous platforms, media, and devicesincluding formats specifically adapted for social mediathe journal gives immediate access to visual essays and creates multiple entry points for all to access research in the arts, design, and sciences. Centered on the visual, this system makes the text ancillary, overturning the traditional balance between text and image. .ables publication modalities leverage and circumvent contemporary fragmented reading patterns, allowing transitions between different devic...

Think of the names David Hockney, Jean Michel-Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein, and Keith Haring, and one time period comes vividly to mind: the nineteen-eighties, the blast radius of whose explosion of shape, color, and motion encompassed everything from mainstream pop culture to the avant-garde. One could experience this through movies, clothes, paintings, graphic design, architecture, and even furniture. But did anyone really know the aesthetic of the eighties, in its full high-low span, who did not visit Luna Luna, the first and only modern-art amusement park?

Staged in the summer of 1987 in Hamburg, the largest city in then West Germany, Luna Luna was conceived by the Austrian artist Andr Heller. Inspired by the cultural memory of fairgrounds like Coney Islands Luna Park and its many imitators around the world, Heller made use of all his connections to solicit designs for attractions from the superstar artists of the day.

I didnt have time to be anyones museI was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist. Leonora Carrington

In some ways, Surrealist Leonora Carringtons story is a familiar one, given her gender and generation.

A creative young woman, stifled by her conventional upbringing, escapes to Paris, falls in love with an older male artist, gains a degree of recognition destined always to be smaller than that of her celebrated lovers, suffers hardships, continues working, lives a very long time and is the subject of nearly as many exhibitions in the decade and a half following her death as in the 70 years preceding it.

Even if you can end up wasting hours and hours of your life falling down them, internet rabbit holes are actually pretty great (if you ask me).

You cant go looking for them, exactly, because the best ones always find you.

That said, you might find yourself itching to find out more about these 14 deep ones.

14. Be careful.

Locked in syndrome. It f**ked me up mentally for like a week. Terrifying.

there was a guy who did an AMA about how he was in Locked in Syndrome and he was able to finally get them to realize he was in there and he managed to recover. S

o much anxiety man. Its basically like claustrophobia which is another huge anxiety of mine.

13. They wanted answers.

Spent a lot of time in the quantum consciousness rabbit hole. I had just deconstructed from religion and wanted answers about life, death, and reality.

It was long before I made peace with not knowing.

I spent around a year obsessed with quantum experiments, psychedelics, and the general philosophy of consciousness

12. Beware.

The story of Chris Chan. If you dont know then beware! There are some things that, once known, cannot be unknown.

11. Only hours?

list of unusual deaths

Spent several hours looking at this

I already knew about this one (theres videos on it) but seeing it put in just a few sentences still blows my mind.

Bernd Jrgen Brandes was voluntarily slaughtered and eaten by Armin Meiwes, following an appointment via internet. At his request, Meiwes first amputated his penis and they unsuccessfully tried to eat it. Meiwes taped the entire amputation and killin...

Visitors to Debora Bolzsonis exhibition Somnambular Geometry are immediately struck by two distinct sculptural elements. The first, Luz que desce (Light that comes down), 2023, a large rectangular

Organized by the Bucharest-based curatorial initiative Salonul de proiecte, Small Things, Precious Things delivers a loving ode to the late artist Ionu Cioan (19802020), who practiced under the

Every person in the world has secrets. It doesnt matter how long youve been with someone, theres a good chance you dont know everything about who they are or how they think.

OP in this case was definitely caught off guard when he realized why his girlfriend wanted so many compliments after she fixed him dinner.

OPs father is deceased, but left a legacy of making nice, fancy dinners for his family. Now they get together a couple of times a month to recreate some of his recipes and keep his memory alive.

My(25m) father (deceased) studied to be a chef but life got in the way and had to do something else, but he kept his cooking skills. Every Saturday or Sunday, he prepared us a 5-course meal for the family.

We (family) are not that good but we get together at least 2 times a month and cook some of the dishes that he used to prepare for us.

His girlfriend is an accomplished cook herself and has taken it upon herself to fix many (if not all) of OPs fathers meals herself. The thing is, no matter how many ways he told her the meals were great, she never seemed happy with his answers.

My gf (26f) also likes to cook and she is very good at it. She has been part of said tradition (as a guest) and knows the many plates my father made for us.

Now, for the past 6 months she has invited me to eat at her house, she has made every said plates, I didnt find it strange at the beginning but after a couple of times, every time that she asked me how it was, no matter how much I tell her that it was very good, she somehow ends up dissatisfied with my answer.

I have asked her what was the issue but got no answer.

Finally, he understood: she was wanting him to say that her meals were better than the ones his dad used to make.

Being a parent is hard, and anyone who tells you it gets easier as they get older probably doesnt have older kids. Bigger kids equal bigger problems, and you never really stop raising them.

You do have to decide what hills to die on, and when you want to voice your opinion rather than keeping it to yourself two choices that OP might have called wrong here.

His son is young and engaged. He has a cabin that he inherited when his wife passed away.

His son is paying for his wedding alone and doesnt have any money for a honeymoon. He asked whether or not they could use the cabin as a honeymoon spot, and then was obviously shocked (and hurt) when OP said sureas long as you can pay.

My late wife and I invested in a small winter cabin years ago. Im the owner now after her passing. My son (22) is getting married to his STBW in a month. They have no money for a destination honeymoon, they were barely able to plan the wedding.

He asked if they could spend their honeymoon in my winter cabin and I agreed but under the condition that they pay me.

He acted all shocked and tried to argue that its his moms cabin too but I pointed out how Im the owner now and that I pay to keep it maintained. He got upset and accused me of being materialistic and selfish after Id already been unhelpful with the wedding.

I told him I did the same thing with his aunt and it wasnt personal.

His family says hes being rude, but OP says its not personal.

He left with his fiancee and told the family about it.

Now Im being berating left and right and am being told to let him use the cabin and shamed me for asking for money.

His edit suggests hes been vocal of his disapproval of the marriage before this...

Back in the 80s and 90s, telling someone they had no life was the greatest of insults. That was when we were young and cool, and the thought of doing nothing on a weekend was horrifying, to say the least.

Our perspectives have changed now, and when we meet people who seem like they have no life its still an insult just with a bit of a different slant.

14. Its a mental exercise.

Arguing with people on the Internet.

13. Let people enjoy things.

Making fun of other peoples hobbies.

12. Oddly specific

Breaking into a teenagers home because he flipped you off a week ago

11. Whatever blows your skirt up.

Scrolling on Reddit answering questions so I can get more karma points.

I think thats all the I have no life evidence you need.

10. Theres always one.

Being on the receiving end of CPR

9. Why do you care so much?

Worrying about what others are doing with their life.

8. No one cares.

Working tons of hours and bragging about it. People at my job do this and its pathetic.

Well I chopped off an arm instead of hanging out with my kids!

Ugh. Rookie. I cut off BOTH my arms so the boss super likes me!

7. Its that simple.

Yknow i want to talk about the exact opposite of this: what screams Im living life the way its intended to?

Well i have a buddy who i think is a pretty gre...

We all know its not nice to insult people without cause, but listen there are a lot of people out there giving us plenty of cause on a pretty regular basis.

And when we hear the perfect comeback in the perfect moment, well, it sticks with us.

Which is probably why these 16 people still remember these insults all these days down the line.

16. Oof.

I bet your parents change the subject when their friends ask about you.

15. Of course he did.

Teacher of mine once said to a classmate who kept making the most asinine contributions to the conversation:

You make it really difficult to underestimate you.

The guy had no idea what it meant, he thought it was a compliment .

14. Have a chuckle.

Was out with some workmates on a Xmas night out. One guy I worked with was drunk and obnoxious with it. He said to the barmaid fancy sitting on my face.

Quick as a flash she replied why ? Is your nose bigger than your dick. Place erupted in laughter and he skulked off. That was over 20 years ago and it still gives me a chuckle.

13. Hard to imagine.

After football practice in high school, was walking to the locker room and the coach said to me Smith (not real last name), any plans for the rest of the day?

I said Heading out with some of the guys on the team. Going to try to meet some girls.

His reply: Smith, you couldnt get laid in a whorehouse on dollar day with a fist full of $100 bills.

Stopped me right in my tracks.

This was 1980. I cant imagine what would happen if a coach said that to a kid today.

...

When Nancy Holt died from leukemia in 2014, she still owned about 95% of her artworks. Her 50-year oeuvre includes concrete poetry, photography, video works, drawings, installation art, and artists books. Promoting it is among the primary projects of the Holt/Smithson Foundation, which also fosters the legacy of Holts more famous and institutionally collected husband, Robert Smithson.

Its really a 20-year project, says Lisa Le Feuvre, the inaugural executive director of the organization, which launched its programming in 2018 and shutters in 2038. Upon its dissolution the Holt/Smithson Foundation will transfer its digital archives to a to-be-determined research institution and bequeath its land holdings in Utah and Maine to Indigenous nations or nature conservancies.

Holt is best known for...

Barkley L. Hendricks was known to wear his camera around his neck like an extension of himself. Most people associate the artist with his paintings that gracefully embody the Black experience in America. But in an upcoming exhibition titled Myself When I Am Real, opening at Jack Shainman Gallery on April 13, his photographs will take center stage. 

His widow, Susan Hendricks, knew about the painter&#8217...

April 5 marked the first night of Passover. Upholding Jewish tradition, we reclined in our chairs, sang boisterously, and drank ample wine. We reveled in the joy and safety many of us are thankful to have in the present while holding close the memory of those that came before us. Alaskan-born Jewish artist Kate Laster carves those memories into delicate paper cuts. Then, she dunks that paper in the ocean.

My art is about the people we carry with us, she told Hyperallergic in an interview.

Lasters first memories are of snow floating on water. She grew up moving from place to place in rural Alaska, from temperate rainforest of Juneau to the icy treeless wilderness in Utqiavik. In a world den...

News broke this week that United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has received a long list of undisclosed gifts and trips from a prominent Republican donor including artworks and objects of cultural significance.

According to reporting by...

Youve probably seen the commercials where Ryan Reynolds is talking about his wireless company and encouraging people to give it a try. If youre like me, you might have thought he was mostly serving as a face people recognized, but if so, you should know we were both wrong.

He was very involved in the company from the get-go an investment thats paying off big time now that hes sold it.

T-Mobile announced they are acquiring the Reynolds-backed Mint Mobile for a cool $1.35 billion.

Reynolds is reportedly a significant investor, and guesses are that he currently owns at least 25% of the company.

Reynolds released his own statement on the sale as well.

...

New Moai Statue Discovered on Easter Island and There May Be More To Find

Moai at Rano Raraku, Easter Island. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)

Easter Island is known for its giant stone statues with stoic faces, known as moai. The small volcanic landmass in the Pacific Ocean is home to the indigenous Rapa Nui people, whose ancestors impressively crafted the moai. Ranging in size from three to 80 tons and towering up to 33 feet tall, the island's roughly 1,000 moai have long been an object of fascination around the world. Yet the story of the moai is still evolving: a new statue was discovered at the bottom of a dry lake bed. Exposed by climate change's effects, the new moai offers insight into what other hidden history the island may reveal.

The moai was discovered in a dried-up lake situated in a quarry on the island. It was long obscured by reeds, but receding water levels due to climate change exposed a glimpse of the stone. The find was announced by Salvador Atan Hito, the vice president of Ma'u Henua, the Indigenous organization that oversees the national park which stretches across much of the island. For the Rapa Nui people, it's [a] very, very important discovery, Hito told Good Morning America. Because it's here in the lake and nobody knows this existseven the ancestors, our grandparents don't know [about] that one.

The find suggests more moai may be yet to be discovered. The moai are important because they really represent the history of the Rapa Nui people, Terry Hunt, professor of archeology at the University of Arizona, said. They were the islanders' deified ancestors. They're iconic worldwide, and they really represent the fantastic archeological heritage of this island We think we know all the moai, but then a new one turns up, a new discovery...

In a world full of people who seem to know everything, passionately, based on little (often slanted) information, where certainty is often mistaken for power, what a relief it is to be in the company of someone confident enough to stay unsure (that is, perpetually curious).

Nothing, not one thing, hurts us more or causes us to hurt others more than our certainties. The stories we tell ourselves about the world and the foregone conclusions with which we cork the fount of possibility are the supreme downfall of our consciousness. They are also the inevitable cost of survival, of navigating a vast and complex reality most of which remains forever beyond our control and comprehension. And yet in our effort to parse the world, we sever ourselves from the full range of its beauty, tensing against the tenderness of life.

How to love the world more by negotiating our hunger for certainty and our gift for story is what George Saunders explores in some lovely passages from A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life (public library) the boundlessly wonderful and layered book in which he reckoned with the key to great storytelling and the way to unbreak our hearts.

The internet is good, its bad, and some days like when youre supposed to be working and end up chasing a white rabbit down holes you didnt know existed they can seem like a little bit of both.

Get ready, because these 16 people are recalling the wildest rabbit holes theyve found, and their stories just might have you tempted to go for a tumble yourself.

16. The safety of flying.

I worked in administration at an aviation academy for a few years and decided Id start listening to aviation podcasts since I didnt know much about it. I came across a plane crash podcast that talks about crashes in history and how it improved the safety of flying.

I was fascinated by it, and found myself gradually needing to know more and listening to more of the same type of podcasts, watching videos, and listening to black box recordings. It was eerie but interesting at the time.

Now, I regret it tremendously because since then Ive developed horrible anxiety when flying.

15. No idea why.

YouTube videos of old chainsaw restorations.

No idea why, but I guess thats why its a rabbit hole.

I dont even own a chainsaw or have a need for one.

14. So addictive.

An Uncle Johns Bathroom Reader. Started with 1 and ended up with a 20+ collection.

13. Roommates beware.

I really enjoy going on a citys Craigslist, then to rooms/shared (or whatever it is for finding a room mate).

Then typing words like warning or beware in the search to see what kind of horror show nightmare room mate scenarios people have decided to write about.. its usually some juicy headline like warning...

Traveling is one of the greatest things in the world. There are so many amazing things about leaving your comfort zone, but that said, its nice to have a heads up when youre heading somewhere totally unfamiliar.

If youre a noob when it comes to traveling Europe, here are 15 things more experienced travelers say you should definitely avoid.

14. Where there are tourists

Watch out for pickpockets in Western Europe.

There is a stigma that Eastern Europe like Romania and Bulgaria is dangerous but pick pocketing happens more in Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, etc.

12. Dont feel bad.

Avoid any restaurant that tries to strong arm you into entering.

come come sit down as they shove a menu in your face, fast talking, usually offering a free drink/entree/dessert, basically trying to get you to feel bad about turning them down.

11. Mind your manners.

Dont assume that everything will be open during the hours youd expect in your home countrythis is true no matter where youre going. It varies by country and region, but in my experience, grocery stores, banks, post offices, etc., had much more restricted hours than they do in the US. In the US, its rare for a grocery store to close before 9 PM, if its not open 24 hours. In Europe, its normal for grocery stores to close quite early, and for things to be closed on weekends, though this varies by country.

Also, mind your manners. In America, you can often skip over the formalities without being seen as rude. In Europe, this is much harder.

Be more direct about what you want, and more polite about...

Statue of Late Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman Donated to Film Museum in His Hometown

A statute of the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has been donated to, and displayed at, the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY. (Photo: Renee Veniskey/George Eastman Museum)

In 2014, the world of filmand film audienceslost a great light. The actor Philip Seymour Hoffman passed away tragically at age 46 after a brilliant career spanning from cult classics like The Big Lebowski to an Academy Award for his performance in Capote. Born and raised in Fairport, a suburb of Rochester, New York, Hoffman has been greatly missed by many, particularly in his hometown. Now his likeness is immortalized in bronze outside the iconic George Eastman Museum in Rochester, a pilgrimage site for film lovers around the world.

The life-sized statue was originally created for a New York City site, but it fit so well at a temporary exhibit at the museum that organizers donated it permanently. Designed by David A. Annand and commissioned by producer James Declan Tobin, the statue depicts Hoffman happily striding with a script in hand. He appears to be headed to the Dryden Theater, the museum's specialty cinema which screens old moviesincluding incredibly rare original, nitrate films. The museum itself is situated in the elegant mansion of George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company.

The institution is the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography. Its photography collections and motion picture film archives are legendary and responsible for preserving much of 20th-century visual history. The greatest actor of my generation has come home to the community that loves him, Tobin said of the statue's placement. This is where Phil belongs. I wanted a home that is worthy of Phil, and we have it at...

Fascinating Discovery Finds That the White-throated Sparrow Species Has Four Sexes

The white-throated sparrow, a unique creature. (Photo: Rhododendrites via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Sex in nature is hardly simple. While biological sex is often used in reductive and factually incorrect political parlance, the science of chromosomes is far from a simple dichotomy. In the natural world, some species change their sex as they age. Others such as the white-throated sparrow have a whopping four sexes or genotypes. As described in Current Biology, the species has evolved to have a surprising chromosomal anomaly which makes mating more complex.

The Zonotrichia albicollis, or the white-throated sparrow, has white and tan morphs, or subspecies. The white males are promiscuous while neglecting their paternal care, unlike tan males who are monogamous and do their due diligence to offspring. Females also trade off between investment in parental care and mating effort.

The white and tan striped birds typically mate with individuals of the opposite color. Within the white-striped birds, a gene mutation flipped a section of chromosome two creating a supergene. This new type of chromosome cannot exchange genetic material with its mate. As discovered by scientists in the 1960s, this means tan birds have two identical chromosomes, whereas white ones have one regular and one inverted. A white-tan pairing has a 50% chance of inheriting the inverted gene.

In the early 2000s, the married researchers Elaina Tuttle and Rusty Gonser discovered that the inverted gene was not a simple flip....

Intricate Cutouts Capture the Delicate Durability of Nature With a Single Sheet of Paper

This post may contain affiliate links. If you make a purchase, My Modern Met may earn an affiliate commission. Please read our disclosure for more info.

We normally think of paper as a delicate material, but Maude White demonstrates its durability through her series of paper cutouts. The self-taught artist carves into single sheets of paper and creates numerous cuts and perforations until she achieves intricate portraits of plants and animals that are as dainty as they are awe-inspiring.

Currently based in the Hudson Valley of New York, White has been honing her craft for over a decade. Her portfolio ranges from large flora to depictions of animals big and small, including elephants and mice. Although it may seem flimsy and easily damaged, paper ultimately holds such strength and, when used to create art, it can convey such meaning and beauty, she tells My Modern Met. I love cutting paper because a seemingly flat piece of paper can suddenly acquire dimension and depth when it is cut. The play of light through cut paper is also always a beautiful revelation and discovery.

While her material is limited to paper and the tools she uses, White finds ways of conveying different textures through her cutting process. Amazingly, even when the paper is thinned to an extremely fine strand, it remains connected to the rest of the sheet. I find my best inspiration in nature and the animal world, she adds. I love the delicate tracery of veins in flowers and leaves, the wrinkles in elephant skin, the texture of wove strands of hair or water. Magical...

It can be hard to really get to know someone on a first date, or even a second. Heck, some people have gotten so good at concealing their true form that youre not entirely sure what youve gotten until after you move in together, or even get married.

Theyre not all telling how far in they got, but these 16 people are sharing the moment they realized they were dating an absolute dolt.

16. Yes nearby.

Was just lounging about one Sunday and skiing came on the TV. at one point the commentator said that contestants reached 100 km/h at that point in the race.

The ex literally shouted bulls**t at the telly.

I looked at her and asked why..she replied that there was no way that they could tell how far theyd go in an hour since the race was only two minutes long.

Another time, I have an aunt who lives in London, is that near England

15. Bless his heart.

watched a doc that explained how sharks have electricity receptors which they use to hunt.

he said thats not possible. sharks are supposedly millions of years old but we only invented electricity a hundred years ago.

14. Weird for sure.

I introduced him to my stepsister. He said, weird, you guys look nothing alike.

13. A prime indicator.

He thought the outlet plug covers (for childproofing) meant the outlet was out-of-order. He literally had nothing plugged into the walls of his entire living room.

He also mentioned how smart he was any chance he got. usually a prime indicator.

12. For months.

It was 1999 and I was a Marine. He...

If you figured that, by now, people had learned better than to lie about food allergies, wellyou would be wrong. Unfortunately.

This person was set to celebrate her 18th birthday at a Chinese restaurant. Shes picky about food because of sensory issues brought on by autism, but Asian food is always a go.

I, (F18), turned 18 in early August.

For my 18th birthday, I wanted to go out and celebrate with my family by going to my favorite Chinese restaurant.

Im quite a picky eater (Im autistic and have issues with textures) but any type of Asian food is safe food for me. When it comes to more Western cuisine, I dont have a lot of options unless I make it at home.

Unfortunately, her brothers (almost 30yo) girlfriend said she couldnt attend because she has a seafood allergy. She stated she had called the restaurant and was told they would not be able to accommodate her diet.

Everything was organised and ready to go, but a week prior to my birthday, my brothers fiance Vicky (F27) said that she cant go.

She said she has a seafood allergy, and after contacting the restaurant, they said they cant realistically cater to her and politely advised that she doesnt eat there.

Then, the family chose to eat at an Italian restaurant instead somewhere OP cannot stand. She had a miserable time and had to sneak in her own food.

Vicky and my brother suggested that we go to this Italian restaurant instead. Everyone was on board butI hate Italian food. The textures of cheese, pasta and just all of it is just gross to me.

I got upset because it was supposed to be a dinner for my birthday, and it was like I got forgotten about. I talked to my parents and they told me to stop complaining, Vicky...

Life can change in an instant and sometimes, freak injuries can derail a persons lifeeven if you happen to be in tip-top shape like personal trainer Jillian Michaels.

In the spring of 2021, Michaels slipped and fell in her bathroom and hit her back on the edge of her bathtub.

Michaels said,

I wish it was some gangster motorcycle story where I told you I was racing motorcycles or Lindsey Vonn-ing downhill at 60 miles an hour, but it wasnt.

It makes it that much more disturbing because in a way, it wasnt preventable.

And this innocent little slip ended up becoming a major ordeal.

...

When you think of kids today, you probably imagine someone who can handle any kind of technology you can throw at them, given that they were practically born with an internet-capable cell phone in their hands.

I mean, kids now can navigate an iPad before they can really talk, right?

While that might be true, the reality is that as more of them are entering the workforce, theyre finding that theyre actually a bit baffled by things like printers, copy machines, and even some older software and operating systems.

Image Credit: iStock

Sarah Dexter, an associate professor of education at the University of Virginia, told The Guardian that makes perfect sense.

There is a myth that kids were born into an information age, and that this all comes intuitively to them. But that is not realistic.

How would they know to scan...

For all of time, women have been the ones largely responsible for birth control. Sure, there are condoms that fall more on the man to actually use, but when it comes to permanent solutions that come with sometimes (usually) uncomfortable side effects, women have borne the brunt.

For some time, though, scientists have been working on a birth control pill that can be taken by men, instead and the trials are starting to seem very promising.

Image Credit: iStock

The new drug, which works by immobilizing sperm, was found 100% effective in lab mice.

The study, which was done at the Weill Cornell Medicine Center in New York, is a short-term answer to things like injections or medications that work 24/7 to prevent pregnancy or permanent options like vasectomies or tubal ligations.

It uses a soluble adenylyl cyclase (sAC) i...

Online dating is pretty common these days. I feel like it might even be the way most people meet, even if its not the place they end up meeting a long-term partner or spouse.

So if youre curious how others see your profile, here are 17 men sounding off about what they see on a womans profile that makes them say nope.

17. Still a red flag.

Five consecutive group photos with absolutely no clear direction on which one person is the common thread.

Im the one with the boobs lol. Great. All 5 of yall have them. I mean sometimes its obvious but still a red flag.

16. All too common.

If they say I dont contact first on Bumble.

Haha what? Do they not understand how Bumble works?

15. Follow the rabbit hole.

Im not here often, DM me on insta

Thats literally a scam profile. Follow that rabbit hole and you will be mailing apple gift cards to India.

14. It just screams.

Instagram handle that screams i just want you to see my insta page and make me an influencer i think half of tinder is that

13. Sadly.

My kid comes first!

Usually a sign that their kid does not, in fact, come first for them sadly

12. A couple of things.

When its 2-3 of the same people in every single picture and I have no idea who she is. That level of obliviousness is so unattractive.

Disturbingly obvious filters.

11. Too much work.

you better be able to hold a conversation Then my back hurts as I...

Kinetic Wind Chime Sculpture Creates a Big Bang From Rusty Metal Pipes

 

View this post on Instagram

...