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Puja Patel
puja-patel
Senior Editor, Deadspin

I think there’s more pressure on millennials to be great straight out of school, which makes us harder on ourselves. Just like with sports coaches now, it seems like you have to be a winner straight away, especially since there’s so much more competition (graduates) for positions now than there ever has been. Read more

You wanna know how to succeed in life? Quit giving people the satisfaction of your reaction. Treat everyone you meet with kindness no matter how much they’ve wronged you. Be the bigger person. People are going to be assholes and there is not one single solitary thing you can do about it except for controlling yourself Read more

As someone who is probably going to need to put their dog down within the month I would say you are absolutely incorrect. Rescue dog that I have poured more money for health issues into that I have spent on myself over that same amount of time. Dog that, as she has gotten older, sometimes pees on the carpet when it Read more

My gf and I talk about giving our two cats away every single day. We openly talk about their deaths being excellent bc of the financial freedom it will afford us to PROBABLY JUST GO AND BUY TWO MORE FUCKING CATS Read more

Cats are the spawn of Satan. Dogs are just his retarded bouncers. Read more

It’s all true. I have a dog and I love her to death. I also cannot wait to not have a dog. These are NOT contradictory feelings. Read more

I use a facial scrub daily, and I don’t have bad skin, but occasionally I get a pimple that’s front and center, and almost always at the worst time. I keep one of those concealer pens with the brush tip handy, pretty quick and easy way to hide blemishes, and I think they come in different skin tones too. Yeah, as a

Honest question for you, Kadia: what if you absolutely despise everything about coconut? From the smell, taste, texture, everything. Even in oil form. Any potential substitutes to it that would work just as well? Read more

My mom is currently with her mom back east. My grandmother found out her cancer is back and since she’s 90 she’s done fighting it and just wants to live her life and not have people tell her what to do. You moms are all amazing and as a man I can’t even imagine the strength you have for grinding through life with a Read more

A bad idea that was poorly executed by ABC. Thank you for being brave enough to share your experience and outing the idiocy of this brand of “reality TV.”
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Speak for yourself, we had a joint party in which our wedding party floated the river for the weekend. Friday night the groups split up and went to their own bars that sounded fun but around midnight we all met back up, Saturday we floated the river all day and partied all night while Sunday everybody went back their Read more

If you’re still young enough to give a shit about strip clubs, you’re too young to be getting married.
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Let’s all be sure to keep an eye out now for the inevitable, “My $%^#* of a roommate is kicking me out, help” post on Reddit.
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Basketball would be better if the ball was a round screen and we could live tweet tweets right to the ball in real time so the dribbler could read the ball and become inspired to do more good kinds of shots. Imagine being passed a ball and right there on the screen/ball it says, from @DildoDunkins69: Hammer the Read more

This is a welcome article. My house has a pretty good sized lawn but the grass is patchy and the surface is bumpy. With spring coming around, I decided I wanted to have the best lawn in the neighborhood so I googled it and the search results were horrible! These insane hobbyists recommended lifting the entire lawn and Read more