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Greg Sullivan
November 13, 2025
They think they're getting closer, but they're actually pushing people away.
By Tod Perry
When most people find they have a common interest with someone, especially a person they have just met, they get a little giddy and excited to share their thoughts. However, this could cause trouble if, instead of using the common interest to build rapport, you turn the conversation to yourself.
Daniel Beer, a real estate agent who shares communication strategies on social media, addressed the problem in a recent post. “A quick way for you to break rapport with your clients is that when they start telling you something about their life, ‘Oh, I went to Hawaii. I like this. I like the Yankees.’ … You go, ‘Oh, me too.’ And you start telling them about your experience in Hawaii or with the Yankees or your favorite baseball team. You think you're building rapport, but you're actually not only not building you're breaking it,” Beer says.
'Charm a sea witch for her pearls of the deep.'
Most of us accept that our devices are listening to us, and that we likely have our own personal very disappointed FBI agent tracking our movements on the Internet, right? Maybe that's just a specific group of people. It's certainly not me …ahem. If it's true, though, there are certainly several amused and confused FBI agents in a three-year-old thread on Reddit where someone asked, "What is something illegal that you do frequently?" The answers are probably not what you would expect, but they're pretty funny nonetheless.
When most people think of illegal things done frequently, it's probably something like eating grapes from the store while shopping or forgetting to pay for the thing at the bottom of the cart. But this question got people's creativity going and, honestly, some folks may be going to jail because of these confessions. There are people out here living on the edge every day, and I just don't know how they manage to do so. Someone claimed to have downloaded a car! After all of the anti-piracy commercials in the early 2000s warning us of the dangers of downloading things and this guy actually did it.
HIS WHOLE FACE LIT UP. 😭
"16 seconds but started freaking out at 11"
By Evan Porter
There are a lot of easy tests you can do from the comfort of your own home to measure different aspects of your health. Of particular note are longevity tests like the SRT (sitting-rising test), which purports to give you valuable data on how long you might live, or the Dead Hang test, which offers similar insights.
A new viral breath test is making waves on social media, and claims to do something even more immediately useful: expose your hidden stress and anxiety levels.
You've probably heard of breath-hold tests, or even tried seeing how long you could hold your breath just for fun (though experts warn not to try going longer than a minute without professional or medical supervision). The twist is that this new technique is a breath-hold test done after a complete exhale. Normally, to test your lung capacity, you'd inhale a deep breath and hold for as long as possible. In this test, you're trying to see if you can make it just 30 seconds on an empty set of lungs.
"I've tried to explain to my kids how awesome Saturday mornings were in the 80s."
Growing up, Gen X treasured one very specific thing: Saturday morning cartoons. Waking up to spend a few hours in front of the tube held a significant spot on their weekends growing up in the '70s and '80s.
To this day, the memories of Saturday morning cartoons have stayed with Gen Xers. Over on Reddit, they expressed how much the weekend tradition meant to them—and shared their favorites while debating which cartoon series was truly the best.
"Saturday morning cartoon time was sacred," one Gen Xer wrote. "I loved waking up on Saturday morning and get my dose of toons."