Lifestyle

Lifestyle

A new poll found more than half of all the selfies we post online now include some sort of filter or effect . . . 52%, on average. They only polled Millennials and Gen Xers.  So selfies posted by Baby Boomers might drag that average down.  But they didn’t poll Gen Z either, and young […]

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Should you be teaching your kids to say ‘Sir” and Ma’am’? A writer from  https://lifehacker.com/  believes you should stop teaching your kids to use those terms. From the article https://lifehacker.com/stop-teaching-kids-to-say-sir-and-maam-1850130701 Some reasons to stop teaching “sir” and “ma’am” It comes with tremendous risk of misgendering trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people. It often offends people who feel young […]

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21 new emojis just arrived!  We heard about them last summer, but now they’re available if you download iPhone’s new beta update.  They’re also in the new Android O.S. that goes wide next month. Most of them are things you’ll never use, like pea pods, a moose, a goose, a donkey, and a jellyfish.  But […]

Food

Is having breakfast in bed on Valentine’s Day romantic . . . or a horror show?  It depends who you ask.  And what the food is. In a new poll, 44% of people said eating in bed is romantic, although 39% said that’s mainly BREAKFAST in bed . . . not other meals. 22% said […]

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day and with the prices at the grocery store, several chain restaurants are making romance a little easier with pre-fixed dining for two deals that everyone will love. Several popular steakhouses are offering multiple locations to eat fine steaks with both savory and sweet accompaniments for one fixed price. Morton’s The Steakhouse […]

The jackpot for Monday night’s Powerball drawing has grown to $747 million — making it the fifth-largest jackpot in the game’s history, officials say. The new figure comes after no one matched all six numbers Saturday, marking the 33rd consecutive drawing without a big winner. The last time someone won the jackpot was November 19th, when a Kansas […]

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Seniors at The Villages retirement community in Florida are supposedly tying LOOFAHS to the tops of their cars to let people know they’re SWINGERS. Different colors are supposed to mean different things.  For example, a purple loofah on your roof rack means you like to watch.  And a teal loofah means you swing both ways. […]

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There’s a new list of the DIRTIEST cities in America, which takes into account things like pollution . . . living conditions and rodents . . . infrastructure, including landfills . . . and consumer satisfaction, like greenery and parks. They considered 152 cities, and the one that ranks the dirtiest is:  Houston. Newark, New […]

An end of an era… On Sunday, Disney World pulled the plug on Splash Mountain.  On Monday, renovations for the famed ride began after it was announced two years ago that it would be “reimagined” after complaints arose of its affiliation with the film The Song of the South. Splash Mountain, Disneyland is also scheduled […]

Podcasts

In this episode of the Matt and Ramona Off Air Podcast, they discuss their theories on the difference between venting and complaining. Ramona has a clear point where venting becomes complaining and Matt believes it how the person presents the issue. Tell us how you feel on the Matt and Ramona Facebook page. Plus, Matt […]