Clean-Burning Poppers, Acne You Don’t Grow out of and Expensive Lunches
I read this Miles Klee magnum opuson getting peer-pressured at work into going to expensive lunches with the team, and I must say, bravo.
$30 dollar sushi excursions are a scourge on office life, especially when you have a perfectly good homemade turkey sando sitting in the fridge. But FOMO is real, as is the desire to be held in high regard by your coworkers, and not a Debbie Downer who’s too cool to hang.
So what’s a model employee to do? You’re gonna have to read on (and everything else while you’re at it) to find out…
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“The Quest for ‘Farm-To-Disco’ Poppers”
“I think it’s for guys who want to burst their capillaries while also receiving the health benefits of agave.”
Amyl Nitrites, aka poppers, is the beloved recreational drug of the gay community of which “relaxed sphincter muscles,” “complete loss of inhibitions” and “wanting to get fucked more than anything else in the world” are the primary benefits. But there’s a problem: Often times the side effects of poppers outweigh their utility, a reality that makes using them a crapshoot. Enter Double Scorpio, a new, betterpopper without all the additives that make you cough like crazy or turn your fingers turn blue. And it’s taking the gays by storm. READ MORE
Veterans Between PTSD and a Jobless Place
What a tragedy it is that our veterans often struggle to hold down jobs as they deal with PTSD, but now it seems their PTSD might also be preventing them from getting jobs in the first place. And, to make matters worse, the president’s thoughtless comments about vets being “sick puppies” isn’t helping erase the stigma, either.
The Skinny on NBA Fashion
Don’t look now, but NBA stars like Russell Westbrook and Jordan Clarkson (among many others) are bonafide fashion tastemakers. They’ve become so powerful, David Bixenspan writes, that they’re keeping “skinnies” — toothpick-leg jeans widely popular among players in the Association — in style all by themselves.
Middle-Aged and a Pizza Face
“If I want to dress better, I know how to fix that. If I want to get in better shape, I know how to do that. If I want to have a better haircut, I know what to do. So why the fuck can’t I fix my acne?”
For the majority of people who suffer from acne, painful skin blemishes are just part of their awkward teen years, when hormones rage and faces are slicker with oil than Prince Edward Sound after the Exxon Valdez. Thankfully, all that bad acne usually goes away by the early 20s.
But what if it doesn’t?
Quinn Myers spoke to I talked two guys about what it’s like to have acne well into manhood.
Under Pressure
Everyone remembers being a teenager and being pressured to take a hit of a joint or blow off 7th and 8th period to go to a friend’s house. But do you know what adult peer pressure looks like?
It’s being pressured to go to a sushi lunch with the work gang when you’ve got a perfectly good turkey sandwich in the fridge. And it’s time we put a stop to it.
Relationship Kryptonite
If only this was accurate. But sorry, it isn’t. As many have pointed out in reply to this now viral tweet, the “honeymoon phase” is the part where you fallin love, not everything after it. In fact, the honeymoon phase ending actually acts as an important catalyst for the relationship to grow even stronger.
Down with ‘Friends’
Despite staring down its own syndication doom on Netflix, Friendswas able to endure mainly because of its popularity among Millennials. But ask a Gen-Xer — Friends’ original target audience — about the show and you’ll likely get a shrug, or a “whatever.”And that’s because despite latching on with a new generation of fans, Friendsnever quite captured its own.
Jeff Gross is MEL’s senior editor for social media and content marketing. His daily ICYMI column, which chronicles all things meta on the site, is the quickest way to catch up on MEL, and the funniest thing you’ll read all day. Follow him on Twitter.
