When scoring a date depends on some photos and a couple hundred characters, those pictures best be flattering. Attempting to take the perfect online dating profile picture can be a bewildering and discouraging experience, though — one that can result in phones being chucked out windows and...
Like many millennials, Curtis got his first mobile phone when he entered his freshman year of high school. He was 15 years old, and his first phone went with him everywhere. Still, conscious of school rules and eager not to look antisocial, he’d wait to take the...
You’ve probably seen the story shared on social media, or on one of those Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: emails from your mom: As a lark, a dude finds his ex-girlfriend’s pregnancy test in his bathroom and, naturally, he pees on it, as men are wont to do....
Congrats! You’ve reached the light at the end of the tunnel — the light being a poolside Mai Tai and the tunnel being nine long months of soul-crushing office work. Now here you are, sipping on bottomless tropical drinks and roasting under the sun, detaching as far as...
Guys aren’t born with an instinctive knowledge of how to look the way they want to look. We don’t exit the womb with manscaping and moisturizing best practices etched in our brains — it’s something that’s (hopefully) picked up over time, from parents, from peers, even from...
Phones and computers are the ultimate companions: They connect us with our friends and family; they provide endless streams of entertainment; they supply… well, you know, when you’re feeling a little lonely. But despite their limitless devotion to our every need and want, we treat them like...
Imagine for a second that you lived life without all your texts, your favorite apps and the internet in your hands. Now, stop imagining because we asked three guys who don’t have a smartphone (or at least tried not to have one) so you don’t have to...
There was a time, before The Killers’ now infamous song lyric, that I would argue we were both human and dancer. The 20th century brimmed with those who could waltz and those who could twist. Either you could polka, tango or Charleston, or you could Cha Cha...
Chances are, if you’re reading this article, you’re doing so on your fifth, sixth or maybe even the seventh tab of your browser. Perhaps you saw this headline and figured, “Ehh, I could maybe read that later,” then did what we all do when we want to...
For 99.9 percent of the human population, that finely dressed mannequin in the window display might as well have the measurements of an entirely different species. Most of us, even at our best physical selves, don’t measure up to the androgynous 6-foot tall plaster figurine with a...
I’m embarrassed to admit that my daily routine is completely soiled with the internet. I check my email and scroll through Instagram before getting out of bed. I scroll through Instagram while walking from my car to my desk. I spend the workday glued to my computer,...
Everyone who celebrates Christmas loves Christmas, and anyone who says otherwise needs a large mug of spiked eggnog. But some commemorate the holiday year round — and take their festive fandom to new heights — with Christmas-themed tattoos, which take Instagram by storm every year. Below, you’ll...