When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....
Potty Talk is a one-panel comic about the funny thoughts, observations and fears men have in the bathroom. This week’s is from illustrator Burton Durand. Check out his Instagram here.
There’s never a good time to run out of whatever nicely scented accoutrement prevents you from smelling like the mildewy sack of skin that covers your organs. But for some reason, it always seems to happen at exactly the time you most need your body to not...
Unless you go looking for it, it’s easy to live in the dark as to what other types of wangs are out there. In fact, all sorts of shapes and sizes of wangs can be handed to you at birth in the Great Wang Lottery — bent wangs, double...
On June 8, 1948, Saskatchewan farmer Cecil George Harris fell off his tractor and became pinned beneath it. Fearing he might not survive, he used his pocket knife and his remaining strength to carve a will into the side of the tractor as it crushed his lower body into...
Cancelling plans is my Prozac. One minute, I’m pent up with anxiety about performing human activities in a social setting and the next minute, after sending a quick text along the lines of, “So sorry man, I’m not gonna make it,” it’s pure climactic release. Needless to...
Winter is nigh in Chicago, which has forced my girlfriend and me to layer our individual blankets and sleep… together. Ugh! Sharing blankets is awful. We do, in fact, like each other, but she’s a serial blanket thief with jimmy legs while I am a perfect sleeper. We...
Cold weather takes a lot of heat, and perhaps rightfully so: It’s slippery, it’s gloomy, it’s wet, it’s icy and it turns our bodies into sickly, dried-out raisin people. After all, there’s a reason why some animals just say “screw it” and hibernate through the winter. But...
You’re sitting at home, eyes glued to the screen as you binge through the latest season of the hottest new TV show. You hit the rewind button and go back 30 seconds, then you crank the volume to try to understand that last bit of forensic science...
The bigger the poop, the happier the pooper: This much I know to be true. It’s why MEL investigated whether a 15-pound poop is even possible — because they were jealous and wanted to know if that jealousy was justified. It’s also why we wrote about hangover poops (which are,...
Last year, I didn’t get a flu shot. It wasn’t because I don’t believe in them, or because I think that I’m an especially virile man whom illness cannot penetrate. I just forgot, or rather, I never really made it a priority. But I know how dangerous...
Daniel became desensitized to nudity when he joined the Marines at 18. “I had to shower with dozens of dudes,” he says. “I’m over it. I just lost the shame we build around our bodies when I realized that nobody cared and a body is just a...
