1. Hacks for everything. Got cold feet? Life hack: wear socks!
2. Peak clickbait reached on Facebook this year. "I came to see how friends and family are doing and end up reading "Estranged Father Meets Dead Daughter's Cat for First Time. What Happens Next Will Leave You Sobbing For Weeks!"
3. The blue/gold dress saga.
4. The rise of outrage culture. "Almost anytime anything happens, it seems people are up in arms about it, and those who aren't, are up in arms about other people being up in arms about it."
5. Reaction video, gifs and vines. Popular videos nowadays aren't, "hey watch this", it's "hey, watch how this guy reacts to this".
6. Pranks. Walking up to people and being openly offensive, racist or sexist is in no way validated by saying ... "woah, calm down man, it was just a prank".
7. Beard stupidity. "People attempting to one-up each other by having a more ridiculous beard than someone else." (Source: Ask Reddit)
Kitchen-shamed by friends
British couple Martin and Julie Bishop, from Peterborough, considered spending thousands of borrowed money on a new kitchen before deciding that it was a lot of rubbish. Martin Bishop said: "Who cares what our kitchen looks like? It's got a cooker, a fridge, a washing machine and a worktop for the preparation of sandwiches." Julie Bishop added: "I don't need a built-in wine rack. It's all just bullshit. I had thought about creating a Nigella-inspired wonderland. But then I remembered that I'm a human being with better things to do than care about this sort of utter nonsense." The couple revealed they have been shunned by friends who have accused them of being communists. (Via: The Daily Mash)
Escape the Christmas spirit in this Lorne Street cafe.
Post all haste and short on delivery
"I feel the pain felt with postal services," writes a reader. "I have a sign in my window explaining my house number in big letters, as well as a big letter outside my front door. But my parcels are still delivered next door, or undelivered because they could not find my house. Filling out a 'Card to Call' is also too much effort. I have had a couple of close calls where goods were nearly returned to the sender because I did not respond to a card that was never written. Another parcel with my phone number on it was not delivered because they could not find the house. Once I got a parcel for someone four doors away and took it to them and found their 'note for couriers' glued up by their doorbell with delivery instructions."
