Новости за 26.12.2023

Working at tourist traps has a lot of negatives: customers are usually demanding, argumentative, and worst of all, they are angry over prices the server can't control.

A server at a Korean restaurant posted a viral video sharing what older customers should stop saying to servers. 

A woman says she and her mother were racially profiled at an art museum in Scotland.

Do you remember the dress that sparked widespread debate in 2015? What colors did you think it was, and why did such a seemingly innocuous question cause the internet to lose its collective mind? This is a dive into meme history.

A user on TikTok has sparked discussion after making a video about an alleged incident involving the family she nannies for.

A TikToker who went viral for blasting a wildly underwhelming Secret Santa exchange gift he received at work is back with a new update—he got fired.

Long-shot Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips (D-MN) was mocked on Christmas after a post on X where he asked potential voters to “imagine waking-up January 21, 2025 with a President who grew up listening to U2 and watching MTV on a color television.”

While pickup orders via couriers have made life a lot more convenient, they also come with a host of issues of their own. And this is something TikToker Amber (@sensible_amber) learned the hard way after her Kroger pickup order "couldn't have gotten it more wrong."

One of the joys of shopping at Costco is the chain’s tendency to give out free samples of the products it's selling.

Some restaurants are known, loved, cherished, and even reviled for the special sauces they serve to their customers.

Pricing for Ubers has always been opaque. When the app first launched, fares seemed unreasonably cheap, as the company undercut competitors to take over the market. 

2023 was dubbed “the year of AI” deservingly: Adobe Photoshop unveiled its generative fill feature, the world got more comfortable with ChatGPT, and workers across the globe wondered if artificial intelligence would take their jobs. 

Imagine being so cheap that you bring your own bottle of wine to a restaurant. This man's boss did just that at a team holiday dinner.

John Pork, a virtual influencer who is also an anthropomorphic pig, first graced social media platforms in 2018. With a pig's head and a human body, John Pork's unique appearance resulted in numerous memes across platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Let's take a closer look at this phenomenon.

In the vast world of internet humor, deep fried memes stand out with their distinct graphics and edgy content. These memes are characterized by a grainy, washed-out, and strangely colored appearance, resulting from running the image through numerous filters, and the unique aesthetic has become a matter of visual style and a commentary on meme culture itself.

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A mother out Christmas shopping for her kids said a Walmart employee racially profiled her. It happens every year, she said.

Just in case anybody needs to hear it, no, you cannot use Google Play gift cards as currency anywhere cards are accepted just because it is, technically, a card.

The coworker relationship is very infrequently explored but often times very complex.

A TikTok video showcasing a self-scanning shopping cart at Canadian supermarket chain Sobeys has gone viral on the platform, sparking a debate about the future of retail.

An insurance worker advised people looking for jobs or even careers that there's "money to be made in the insurance industry."

One person’s trash is another person’s treasure—or, as TikTok viewers suspect, another person’s secret stash. 

A Target shopper recently claimed that 7 a.m. was the best time to shop in-store because it’s a low-traffic hour. Some users, however, said it’s actually a no-traffic hour as their local stores don’t open until 8 a.m.

A content creator recently went viral on TikTok after warning viewers against drinking too many vodka Red Bulls, a caffeinated beverage consisting of the energy drink and varying amounts of liquor. 

A woman sarcastically urged viewers to visit Marshalls after discovering a “mystery liquid” on their shelves.