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Ranking 25 Of The Funniest Animal Names On Earth

Funniest Animal Names

Across the world, scientists have identified over 1.5 million living animal species. One of the perks of being a field biologist to first document a species is they get to name it and that has led to some of the funniest animal names imaginable.

As I was engaged in a highly-competitive game of ‘Bird Bingo’ with my family the other day and appreciating how hilarious some bird names are the idea struck me to bring you all a collection of the funniest animal names on earth. Now here we are!

Ranking 25 Of The Funniest Animal Names In Existence

Many of these are birds but birds don’t have a complete monopoly on the funniest animal names. The list also includes frogs, turtles, sharks, and more. So let’s dive in!

1. American Woodcock

American woodcock bird
American woodcock bird

The American woodcock (Scolopax minor) doesn’t have just one hilarious name it also has a list of incredible nicknames that include the ‘timberdoodle,’ the ‘mudbat,’ the ‘bogsucker,’ and more. They also have an adorable dance where they rock back and forth.

This is the only species of woodcock native to North America and there is currently one in NYC that is the city’s latest bird celebrity. People are traveling from all over to see the NYC American Woodcock.

2. Blue-Footed Booby

blue footed booby bird
blue footed booby bird

This fella right here needs no introduction, the feet speak for themselves. The Blue-Footed Booby is probably the most famous ‘funny animal name’ on earth for obvious reasons.

They are a marine bird native to the subtropical Eastern Pacific Ocean and have a wingspan up to 5ft but it is their bright blue feet that steal the show.

3. Andean Cock of the Rock

Andean Cock of the Rock bird
Andean Cock of the Rock bird

I love this bird. The Andean cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus) is absolutely stunning. This is actually the bird that was the entire impetus for this list as I had the Andean cock-of-the-rock on my Bird BINGO board when I was playing the other night.

The Andean cock-of-the-rock is the national bird of Peru and found high up in the cloud forests of the Andean mountains in Peru. It would be HARD to miss with the striking colors. Perfect all around, 10 out of 10 looks and name.

4. Tasselled Wobbegong

wobbegong shark
wobbegong shark

The Tasselled Wobbegong is a carpet shark species native to Australia and New Guinea. They grow up to nearly 6ft in length.

Pronounced ‘wobby-gong’ the Tasselled Wobbegong sounds like a name that an American would come up with while trying to make a joke about Australian accents. The name doesn’t even sound real, but I assure you they are.

5. Pigbutt Worm

The Pigbutt Worm, Chaetopterus pugaporcinus, is also known as the ‘flying buttocks.’ That folks is what I like to call a two-fer because it has two spectacular names.

This deep sea marine worm was first documented by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) way back in 2007 and it is a tiny one, 10-20 millimeters in length.

6. Sarcastic Fringehead

Sarcastic fringehead
Sarcastic fringehead

My favorite part about the name Sarcastic Fringehead (Neoclinus blanchardi) is that you can immediately look at this fish and think ‘yeah, that checks out.’ This fish definitely looks like a sarcastic fringehead.

7. Spiny Lumpsucker

Atlantic Spiny Lumpsucker
Atlantic Spiny Lumpsucker

What did the Spiny Lumpsucker do to someone to earn this name? They’re adorable. Dare I say perfect.

They only grow up to a max of 5-7″ long and are horrible swimmers so they are commonly found attached to something, aka ‘lumpsucker.’ Instead of scales the fish is covered in cone-shaped plates. They also come in an array of colors.

8. Great Tit

three great tit birds flying together
three great tit birds flying together

The great tit (Parus major) is found throughout Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia. While the name ‘great’ might imply they’re large, as it typically would in nature, these are tiny birds.

They don’t migrate, instead great tits just stick it out wherever they’re born. Living the dream. Spreading laughs worldwide with their incredible name.

9. Dickcissel

dickcissel bird singing on a tree
dickcissel bird singing on a tree

Found throughout the Midwest states here in the good ol’ U.S. of A, the Dickcissel is a perfect name for this tiny fella. These birds are also found in Central America, northern Colombia, and northern Venezuela during the winters.

Just say that name. Let it roll off your tongue. It’s perfect.

10. Screaming Hairy Armadillo

screaming hairy armadillo on the ground
screaming hairy armadillo on the ground

Someone looked at this thing, heard it make the iconic squealing sound it produces when it is threatened or handled, and nailed it with the name: Screaming Hairy Armadillo. Is it hairy? Sure is. Does it scream? You betcha.

They are found throughout the central/southern portions of South America and dine primarily on insects, invertebrates, and plants.

11. Tufted Titmouse

tufted titmouse birds
tufted titmouse birds

The thing about the Tufted Titmouse is if someone asked you what it was, and you were not already aware that it was a species of bird, there is no way you would guess that it was a bird. Everything about the name screams ‘mouse’ of some sort. Alas, it’s a bird.

They are stunners, to be sure. Members of the chickadee family, they’re tiny and beautiful. They can be found throughout the eastern portion of our country and can be spotted by the iconic black forehead.

12. Strange-tailed Tyrant

strange tailed tyrant bird
strange tailed tyrant bird

Someone saw the Alectrurus risora and did them dirty when they named it the strange-tailed tyrant. It was first documented by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1824 so we at least know who to blame for this.

The strange-tailed tyrant shares a genus with the cock-tailed tyrant, because of course it does. And they are found throughout parts of Argentina and Paraguay where they are excellent fly catchers.

13. Satanic Leaf-Tailed Gecko

rare satanic leaf tailed gecko
rare satanic leaf tailed gecko

George Albert Boulenger must have hated geckos. That is the only explanation for why he would name such a majestic creature ‘satanic’ when he became the first person to document it back in 1888.

The satanic leaf-tailed gecko is also known as the eyelash leaf-tailed gecko or the phantastic leaf-tailed gecko, and they have some of the best camouflage around. They are native to the tropical forests of Madagascar.

14. Boops boops

boops boops fish
boops boops fish

I’ve seen this fish a thousand times over the year in the James Bond meme where the text goes something like ‘My name is Bond, James Bond. And you are?… Boops, Boops Boops.’ Or something like that.

The Boops boops is a subspecies of seabream found in the eastern Atlantic with characteristically large eyeballs. Found throughout European waters, they are often pan-fried, broiled, or baked but only when caught fresh because if they are caught and stored the taste turns foul quickly.

15. Dik-Dik

dik dik deer in the wild
dik dik deer in the wild

What a name! The dik-dik is a small species of antelope found in southern Africa that is absolutely adorable.

They are famous for making a shrill whistling sound because of course they are. It is used to alert other dik-diks and animals when there are predators around.

16. Sparklemuffin

The Sparklemuffin (Maratus jactatus) feels like it got its name from a 1st grader. They are an Australian jumping spider with stunning coloration and the ability to jump more than 50x the length of their bodies.

They are tiny, only measuring around 4-6mm in length, but a leap of 50x that distance is still concerning. Of course they’re in Australia too where every animal is wild in its own way.

17. Chicken Turtle

eastern chicken turtle
eastern chicken turtle

Someone in the Southeastern United States got real lazy when they named the Chicken Turtle. They were probably eating chicken roasted over a spit and saw a turtle, pointed at it, and said ‘chicken turtle.’

In actuality, the chicken turtle was first named by two French zoologists back in 1801, Pierre André Latreille and François Marie Daudin, who each published their findings in separate journals after having first observed it near Charleston, South Carolina. If you’ve ever been to the Southeast then chances are you have seen one of these turtles.

18. Pleasing Fungus Beetle

pleasing fungus beetle
pleasing fungus beetle

This is one of those ‘make your mind up’ names. The pleasing fungus beetle actually encompasses a whole family of beetles. I’m no entomologist but I fail to find anything pleasing about the fungus beetle.

19. Hummingbird Hawk-Moth

hummingbird hawk moth flying
hummingbird hawk moth flying

My theory with the Hummingbird Hawk-Moth is three people spotted it at the same time. One swore they saw a hummingbird, another swore it was a mini hawk, and the third was confident it was a moth. When the Hummingbird Hawk-Moth turned out to be a moth that looked like all three they just squished the name together.

They are found from Portugal to Japan and were first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. As caterpillars, they are rather unremarkable but as fully grown Hummingbird Hawk-Moths they are stunning.

20. Ice Cream Cone Worm

Ice Cream Cone Worms or trumpet worms measure around 2″ long. Do they look like ice cream cones? In my opinion, absolutely not. But maybe ice cream cones looked like dirty scabs back in the day. They were first documented in the early 1800s so maybe they primarily went by ‘trumpet worms’ early on until ice cream cones hit the market in 1896.

21. Hellbender

eastern Hellbender in the water
eastern Hellbender in the water

The Eastern Hellbender is an iconic species of giant salamander. I have wanted to see one in the wild my whole life but have yet to spot one.

As for having one of the funniest names among animals, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources says “The name ‘hellbender’ probably comes from the animal’s odd look. One theory claims the hellbender was named by settlers who thought “it was a creature from hell where it’s bent on returning.” Another rendition says the undulating skin of a hellbender reminded observers of “horrible tortu”res of the infernal regions.” In reality, it’s a harmless aquatic salamander.”

22. Jackass Penguin

The African Penguin is also known as the ‘Jackass Penguin’ and are endemic to the Old World. Also known as the Cape penguin or the South African penguin, the Jackass Penguin was not, in fact, named for Johnny Knoxville.

23. Hotwheels sisyphus

This name feels like an elaborate prank. Hotwheels sisyphus is a species of Chinese ground spider and the genus is Hotwheels. They were first documented in 2024 which makes the ‘Hotwheels’ designation all the stranger. Didn’t those toys fall off decades ago?

24. E.T. sponge

It is wild how some creature that has existed for untold millennia gets spotted by humans one day and they are like ‘you kind of reminded me of an overrated 80s movie and I’m going to name you after that forever.’ That is basically how the E.T. Sponge, Advhena magnifica, got its name back in 2016 when it was first observed in the Mariana Trench at a depth of 2,028 meters.

25. Mountain Chicken Frog

The Mountain Chicken Frog, Leptodactylus fallax, is critically endangered and found throughout the Caribbean islands of Montserrat and Dominica. Population numbers plummeted by 80% between 1995 and 2004.

The name, Mountain Chicken, comes from the locals hunting them down as a delicacy and the chicken-like flavor.

For Introverts, How to Feel Less Exhausted by Group Conversations

If you’re introverted or neurodivergent, it means your brain is processing more during group conversations than other people realize.

I could feel myself disappearing into the background.

I was sitting at a table with six other adults in a noisy coffee shop. We were all strangers, meeting for a book club for the first time.

I had joined the group because I love reading, but also because I wanted to make a few new friends. As an introvert, I don’t always make friends easily, so I thought it would help to have a built-in topic to talk about — the book.

But suddenly, I was back in a familiar introvert struggle that had been with me my whole life: a group conversation.

The conversation moved fast, bouncing from person to person with no structure. Even when I had something meaningful to say, I couldn’t get my thoughts out quickly enough before someone else started talking. When I did speak, someone often interrupted me before I was finished, and I felt pressure to rush just to get my words out.

All around me, other people were talking and laughing. Coffee machines hissed. Orders were being called out. Sometimes I couldn’t hear well, but more than that, as a highly sensitive person, I could feel my mind getting overstimulated. I started mentally checking out.

If you’ve had a similar experience, you’re not alone. Group conversations aren’t always easy for introverts, highly sensitive people, or neurodivergent people. Since that book club, I’ve learned a few things about group conversations that make them a little easier. They might help you, too.

Why Group Conversations Are Draining

If group conversations feel harder than one-on-one conversations, you’re not imagining it. Group conversations are a different social task altogether. They aren’t just one-on-one conversations with more people added.

The more people in the conversation, the harder it becomes to follow what’s happening, know when to jump in, and get a fair share of speaking time. Research on conversation shows that human turn-taking is extremely fast. Usually, there are only a few hundred milliseconds between when one person stops talking and another person begins.

(Fun fact: In one study, Danish speakers had the longest average gap between turns, which I find interesting because Danish culture is supposedly very introvert-friendly.)

All of this adds to something called cognitive load. When you have to deal with multiple speakers at once, or keep switching your attention from one speaker to another, you listen more slowly and less accurately. That higher listening demand makes it even harder to know when to speak.

In other words, big groups place more demands on your attention, memory, and energy than one-on-one conversations do.

And it doesn’t help if you’re in a noisy public place, with other sounds and sights competing for your attention, like I was at that book club.

If you’re introverted, sensitive, or neurodivergent, it doesn’t mean you have nothing to say. It means your brain is taking in and processing more stimuli than other people often realize.

How to Make Group Conversations Easier

Whenever possible, I try to socialize one-on-one or in small groups. It lowers my cognitive load and helps me protect my energy as an introvert.

But sometimes that’s just not possible. You may also have to deal with group conversations at work, at networking events, or at family gatherings.

So here are a few ways to make them a little easier:

1. Jump in early.

Research shows that as groups get bigger, it gets harder for everyone to participate equally. Often, one or two people end up dominating the conversation. That was definitely true at my book club. One man seemed to think he was the main character.

Making a comment early helps in two ways. First, it removes the pressure of trying to find the perfect moment later. Second, it makes it easier for other people to bring you back into the conversation as things go on.

It can also reflect well on you. Speaking early can make you seem confident, even if you feel anything but confident inside.

And your comment doesn’t have to be brilliant. It can be tiny, like an interesting observation, a moment of agreement, or a clarifying question.

Another reason to speak early is your social battery. As the event goes on, you may lose steam, and group conversations can drain your energy even faster. Even if it goes against your quiet nature, talking early lets you contribute while your energy is still at its highest.

Once the introvert hangover starts to set in, it gets harder to think clearly, listen well, and put your thoughts into words.

2. Use follow-up questions as your entry point.

Not sure how to jump in? Ask a question right after someone finishes talking. Follow-up questions are easier than coming up with a completely new topic under pressure. 

Good examples are:

  • “What happened next?”
  • “How did you feel about it?”
  • “Was that what you expected?”
  • “Would you do it again?”
  • “What did you learn?”

In a group, follow-up questions do double duty. They lower your cognitive load, and they make the speaker feel heard.

Research has also found that people like you more when you ask follow-up questions, because it shows that you’re interested in them. In one study, people who asked more follow-up questions during speed dating were more likely to get asked on second dates.

This approach also plays to a natural introvert strength. One of our conversational superpowers is helping a discussion go one layer deeper instead of jumping from topic to topic. Introverts are often the ones who move beyond small talk and into more interesting, meaningful territory. And the science supports that instinct: People often expect deeper conversations to feel awkward, but they actually leave people feeling more connected.

(Here’s one way to move beyond small talk quicker if you’re an introvert who hates it.)

Just make sure to read the room. If the group is joking around or rushing with excited energy, a deep question can feel a little out of place. For example, a group that’s quickly swapping travel stories probably won’t want to pause for a deep question about how childhood shaped the way someone experiences adventure.

3. Switch to listening mode when your social battery runs low.

It happens to all of us introverts at some point: You just run out of social energy.

When that happens, it may be time to leave. But if you can’t get away just yet, switch into listening mode. This can help you conserve energy without fully checking out.

Even if it’s obvious you’ve gotten quieter, you don’t want to give the impression that you’re uninterested. Use visible listening cues. Look at the speaker. Nod. Briefly reflect back a phrase. Offer a short verbal cue like, “That makes sense.”

In groups, not everyone talks all the time. Being visibly attentive is still a way of participating.

And if someone points out that you’ve gotten quieter, remember that the strongest response is usually the least dramatic one. Be comfortable with who you are, acknowledge the comment, and then move on.

As I share in my 30-page guide, Confident Introvert Scripts, you could say:

  • “I’m more of a listener.”
  • “I’m just taking things in.”
  • “To be honest, I’m more of an internal processor.”
  • “I’m just not a big chatter, but I’m enjoying listening.”
  • “I get that question a lot, but I’m actually very comfortable.”
  • “I’m honestly more interested in hearing from you.”
  • “I tend to speak up once I’ve fully formed my thoughts.”

When the social event is over, plan for some extra “me time.” Because of everything going on, group conversations can be overstimulating, even when you enjoy the people you’re with. There’s nothing wrong with needing a breather afterward, or going home and planning no other social activities for the rest of the day.

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Here’s my 2 cents: don’t go to these things. It’s never worth it, and halfway through, you want to leave and realize you don’t want to be there.

The Science Behind Why Introverts Need Alone Time

I know that if I have the chance, I’m going to either be alone or with my dog.

ByJenn Granneman April 6, 2026

an introvert needs alone time

The next time an introvert in your life needs alone time, remember it’s not personal. They need solitude because that’s how they’re wired.

I love spending time alone. There’s nothing better than being at home in my comfy clothes, reading a good book, or watching a show while munching on snacks. This doesn’t mean I don’t crave time with “my people” — those I laugh with and share my day with. But when I don’t get enough alone time, I start to feel tired, cranky, and overstimulated, even if I’ve enjoyed being with the people I love.

I show all the classic signs of being an introvert.

Sometimes when I need alone time, the people in my life feel hurt. They feel rejected, but that’s not what it means. I need little periods of solitude to recharge my energy and feel like myself again.

Why do introverts need alone time? Why does socializing exhaust us, even when we’re having fun? Recent research offers some interesting insights. I delve deeper into these findings in my book, The Secret Lives of Introverts.

The Curious Connection Between Introverts and Rewards

When writing my book, I spoke with Colin DeYoung, a psychology professor at the University of Minnesota who had published a paper on introversion. He explained that one reason introverts need alone time is related to how we respond to rewards.

No, I’m not talking about the gold stars you might have earned in grade school (though it could be argued that stickers are indeed a reward for kids). For adults, rewards can be things like money, social status, social connections, food, and even sex. When you get promoted at work or convince an attractive stranger to give you their phone number, you’re receiving a reward. Hurray!

Of course, introverts also value things like money, relationships, and food. However, researchers believe that introverts are wired to respond differently to rewards than extroverts. Compared to our more outgoing counterparts, we “quiet ones” are simply less motivated and energized by these same rewards. It’s as if extroverts see big, juicy steaks everywhere, while introverts see overcooked hamburgers.

In fact, as any introvert can confirm, sometimes those “rewards” aren’t just less appealing — they can actually be tiring and annoying, like a big party. This brings me to another reason why introverts need alone time: We react differently to stimulation.

An Extrovert and an Introvert Go to a Party

Take, for example, two friends at a house party — one an extrovert, the other an introvert. They’re crammed into a crowded room where loud music blares from huge speakers. Everyone is practically shouting to be heard over the din. There are a dozen conversations happening simultaneously, with just as many things demanding their attention.

For the extrovert, this level of stimulation might feel just right. He sees potential rewards everywhere — an attractive stranger across the room, opportunities to deepen old relationships, and the chance to make new friends. Most importantly, tonight offers a chance to boost his social status within his friend group, especially if he plays his cards right.

So, the extrovert feels energized and excited to be at the party. In fact, he’s so motivated that he stays late into the night. He’s exhausted the next day and needs time to recover — after all, partying is hard work. But to him, the energy spent was well worth it.

Now, back to our introvert. See him over there, hunkered down in the corner? For him, the environment feels overwhelming. It’s too loud, there are too many things happening at once, and the crowd creates a dizzying buzz of activity. Sure, he wants to make friends, fit in, and be liked, but these rewards just aren’t as tantalizing to him. It feels like he would have to expend a lot of energy for something he’s only mildly interested in to begin with.

So, the introvert heads home early to watch a movie with his roommate. In his own apartment, with just one other person, the level of stimulation feels just right. He exchanges some texts with a woman he met a few weeks ago in one of his classes. Like the extrovert, he too wants friends and a romantic partner. However, he finds it too tiring to deal with the noise and socializing at a big party to make those connections.

The Dopamine Difference

Chemically, there’s a good reason the introvert in the above scenario feels overwhelmed, and it relates to a neurotransmitter called dopamine. This chemical, found in the brain, is often referred to as the “feel good” chemical because it regulates our pleasure and reward centers.

One of its roles is to make us notice potential rewards and motivate us to pursue them. For example, dopamine alerts the extrovert to the attractive stranger at the party and fuels his motivation to come up with a cheesy pick-up line.

Another important function of dopamine is reducing our cost of effort. Socializing requires energy because it involves paying attention, listening, thinking, speaking, and moderating our emotional reactions. Technically, socializing is tiring for everyone, including extroverts. However, dopamine helps make it less exhausting for them.

According to DeYoung, extroverts have a more active dopamine reward system. As a result, they can better tolerate — and often push through — the tiredness that inevitably comes with socializing. Much of the time, they don’t experience the same level of mental and physical fatigue that introverts do, thanks to dopamine.

It’s called the “introvert” hangover, not the “extrovert” hangover for a reason.

A New Theory of Introverts and Dopamine

In her 2002 book, The Introvert Advantage, Dr. Marti Olsen Laney speculated that introverts may be more sensitive to dopamine. In other words, we “quiet ones” might need less of it to feel good. Too much, she wrote, could leave us feeling overstimulated.

Science has come a long way since then. When I caught up with DeYoung again, he told me that theory had since been disproven. In fact, scientists now think it’s the opposite.

In fact, DeYoung told me, extroverts are the ones who are more sensitive to dopamine. For example, if introverts and extroverts are given the same drug that affects dopamine, extroverts tend to have a stronger response and become more motivated by similar stimuli later on.

It’s not that dopamine itself makes introverts feel overstimulated. Rather, when introverts do overstimulating things, like going to a party, they may not get as much dopamine release. Extroverts, on the other hand, may get a much bigger dopamine hit from those same activities.

“Without the sense of reward, the extra focus, and the sense of being ‘worth the effort’ that dopamine initiates,” DeYoung told me, “the introverts simply find the activities overwhelming and/or tiring instead.”

Extroverts Place More Significance on People

Finally, a study found that extroverts might simply find humans more interesting than introverts do. This finding aligns with the idea that introverts are less motivated to seek social rewards.

In this study, researchers observed a diverse group of individuals and recorded their brain’s electrical activity using an EEG. As participants were shown pictures of both objects and people, the researchers measured their brains’ P300 activity. This activity happens quickly in response to sudden changes around us and gets its name because it occurs within 300 milliseconds.

Interestingly, researchers found that extroverts showed the P300 response primarily when viewing images of faces, whereas introverts only exhibited this response after viewing objects. Essentially, extroverts’ brains became more active when looking at people.

This doesn’t mean that introverts hate people (though, admittedly, the human race can get on my nerves occasionally). Researchers still don’t fully understand introversion. However, these findings suggest that extroverts might simply place more importance on social interactions than introverts do.

So, the next time an introvert in your life needs alone time, remember that it’s not personal. Introverts need alone time because their brains are wired that way. It isn’t necessarily a reflection of how they feel about you or your relationship.

As for me, you can find me at home tonight. Preferably with the whole place to myself, that is.

Describe Something you Learned In High School

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That people were shallow. That people would peak at different times in their lives. For some, the peak was high school.

I learned that I had to try harder to be more successful than those I went to school with. To not stand still at that point in life, but to learn and grow and to unlock my fullest potential. I set my standards to be better than those I went to school with. That came to fruition.

Mostly, I learned to never look back. I closed that chapter in my life, and the best thing about it was leaving. I needed to move on in life and do more.

If You Could Be a Character From a Book or Film, Who Would You Be? Why?

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If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why?
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Man, there is a list of people here. Anything from the invisible man to Captain America, Superman, The Count of Monte Cristo, or Tony Stark.

I mostly posted this to see what Bocopro would say. He’s one of the well-read readers and commenters here, and I’ll bet he has something good to say.

What Animals Make the best/worst pets?

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What animals make the best/worst pets?
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Let’s see, I’m not having any lions, badgers, monkeys, gorillas, any animals from the weasel family, skunks, pigs, chickens, and I could go on. I think you get the picture.

I’ve had cats and dogs, but I’m down to dogs now. It’s the typical Ford/Chevrolet debate over which is better. Since this is about me, the answer is dogs.

They love you, are more loyal, and learn to obey better. They get you out to walk so that you get exercise and are happy to see you, whether you’be been gone all day, or to get the mail.

Pick your own and don’t criticize mine. I like animals better than people, but that is the introvert in me. I love my dog, and still love the dogs that have been in my life.

Songs Turning 50 This Year; Man, I Feel Old

Which Aspects do you think Make A Person Unique?

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Which aspects do you think makes a person unique?
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The real answer is almost everything. From the minute you are born, you live a different life from everyone else.

So the real answer is life. It shapes everyone differently, from the experiences to how we handle them. Even Identical twins have separate lives.

Unless you could do everything at the same time with the same person and have the same response, you are different.

That is comforting to me, because I don’t want what anyone else has. My life is mine.

On a side note, have you ever looked at a group of people together? How is it that we have that many people and not a one of them is the same? Different eyes, nose, ears, chin, size, shape, coloring, and the list goes on.

I could bring God into this conversation, but I know a lot of you have different views, so I’ll just leave it at this. Go ahead and try to find 2 people who are the same, or even close.

What’s Something Most People Don’t Understand?

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What’s something most people don’t understand?
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Aside from the fact that there is a God, this is an easy one.

No one gives a shit about you, really. Not long after you die, people don’t even think of you, other than in a story. Two generations after you die, virtually no one remembers you or anything you did.

Think of all the people who have come and gone in your life. You don’t think about 90% of them. Who remembers every kid in elementary school? How about the kids on the street you grew up on. When did you speak with them last? Did they initiate the conversation?

Most people overestimate their importance, especially to others. Your spouse will likely even get remarried if you die.

This works for me on a lot of levels, though. I have eliminated a lot of people from my life who weren’t making it any better. That’s a thing that is best for introverts, though.

This fact has been my best friend in a lot of instances. I even got rid of Facebook because too many people wanted back in my life that I thought I’d gotten rid of.

AOTW

It was hard to choose this week. John Thune wouldn’t let the Save act get a vote, despite most of the country on both sides wanting it. Honorable mention, but still an asshole.

Next, also on the Save Act is Chuck Schumer, Thune’s counterpart on the (seemingly) other side.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called the SAVE America Act “one of the most despicable pieces of legislation” he has seen ahead of the bill being brought to the floor for a vote this week.

Speaking to reporters on a Sunday phone call, Schumer claimed that President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans are attempting to “disenfranchise millions of Americans and undermine democracy by pushing this despicable SAVE Act,” also called the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility Act.

He also called the election integrity bill “one of the most despicable pieces of legislation I’ve come across in the many years I’ve been a legislator.”

“Nothing is more important than defeating this dagger to the heart of our democracy,” the Democrat leader told reporters. 

He’s an asshole because he knows that if they have voter ID, the Dem’s can’t cheat. On top of that, he said Trump wanted to use voter ID to cheat in the mid-terms. Imagine that, calling out your opponent for doing what you are doing, cheating.

BUT

While it happened during the Biden administration, there was this:

‘Living in sex-slavery’: Biden admin was ‘paying individuals who were knowingly trafficking’ kids

During the Joe Biden administration, the federal government actually was paying human traffickers to take unaccompanied migrant children.

“The one thing that has been challenging is that under the Biden administration, the government paid sponsors,” under HHS programs, which were tasked with relocating and taking care of unaccompanied children.

“Those sponsors, many times, we found instances where they trafficked these children themselves,” Noem told Congress.

“Under the Biden administration, she said, “we not only had children in this country that were part of a program, the government was paying individuals who were knowingly trafficking them and abusing them.”

A report from the Washington Stand noted the trafficking was in addition to the fact that the Biden administration also misplaced hundreds of thousands of children.

Source

They knew and, just like Epstein, abused children. He should get worse than Asshole of the Week, he should get a stay in hell for eternity.

AOTW is all I’ve got, so Biden, you are it.

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What Movies or TV Series Have You Watched More Than 5 Times?

Daily writing prompt
What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times?
View all responses

The real Star Wars movies, but only 4,5 and 6. The prequels and the sequels were horrible. I saw The Empire Strikes back 8 times in the theater at $2.00 a ticket.

All of the Captain America movies, especially The Winter Soldier. On your left.

The Final Countdown was my go-to movie when I called in sick to work, while in reality, I was taking a day off.

Star Trek, The Wrath of Khan, and all of Star Trek, The Original Series TV episodes. Heck, I saw them when they aired the first time in the 60’s.

I’ve seen all of the Looney Tunes and all of the Tex Avery Tom and Jerry cartoons.

I must have seen the Original Jonny Quest well more than 5 times, every episode. I used to get high as a kite in college and watch a bunch of stuff.

I Can’t Find A Man – The Search For a Man Has Women Literally Breaking Down in Tears

It seems that despite women preaching for decades that they don’t need a man and that they’re “above them,” now, when they look to find a partner, there’s not one to be found. Funny how that works, eh? There are tons of videos out on social media showing women and their current plight in “finding a man,” but one particular video seems to really capture the sheer breaking point a lot of ladies have reached. Let’s break it down.

In the clip, the woman is literally in tears, ranting from, of course, her vehicle, where she painfully describes feeling overwhelmed by the toll modern dating has taken on her. She claims that she cares more about the men she dates than they seem to care about her. She says she’s mad. No, not mad. FUMING. No, not fuming. On literal fire.

After screwing men over from the time they were boys in school, to putting them in the friendzone because they weren’t the ideal 666 man, now girls are paying the price. No one wants to put up with their shit and feelings of entitlement anymore.

Guys just want peace and a supportive partner. Girls want the next best thing that will make them look better or improve their status, either on social media or in life. Life has become a Facebook page, trying to get likes and adoration.

Imagine if guys were nice to you always, buying you drinks or complimenting you. After a while, you think you are special. Sure, they wanted some action, but at least they tried, and I promise there were some good guys you tossed away. You can only be shut down so many times before you give up and stop trying.

But regardless of the specifics, the fact is that the dominant message for eons now has been that women don’t need men. Their independence was paramount, traditional relationship structures were dismissed as outdated, and masculinity itself was frequently portrayed as something disposable or problematic.

Yet the desire for partnership, stability, and connection clearly didn’t completely disappear… and now, both men and women are left out in the cold.

NOW YOU KNOW

Push men out of the culture long enough, and eventually the real ones stop showing up. Here are the comments:

“Modern dating: where everyone wants love, but nobody wants the responsibility that comes with it.”

“It’s really hard out there. Feminism F’d everything up.”

“Seems like such a catch…” 

“I guarantee she has like 30+ good men in the friend zone.” 

“We’re watching a woman reach her breaking point in real-time, and the scariest part? Millions of people are looking in the mirror and seeing the same exhaustion.” 

Relationships have been against men for years. They demeaned boys in school because they couldn’t sit still. The mean girls grouped together to diss any guy who wasn’t the star of the sports team. Guys have to put themselves out there and mostly get rejected. If you get married, Divorce courts take at least half of what you own, including the kids, who almost always go with the wife. Why would you want that deal?

Girls are mean, even to each other

Dating is a joke. The story that women can have it all is a lie that feminists have told girls. Fuck around until you are ready to settle down. Get a career and put family on hold. Live the party life, drink and date, keep upgrading boyfriends as you throw away great marriage men. It all changes when you wake up older one day, childless, and the men can now date younger girls who don’t have the attitude of this twunt.

Guys are tired of this shit from entitled females. The truth is that every girl has a vagina. They are everywhere, and not a one of them is the golden one. Girls are giving it away to everyone. No man wants a used bicycle, and the girls are letting all the best men take a ride. They think that just because they slept with a 9 or a 10, that this is their potential. They tossed out the 7’s or less, who were better men that would have taken care of them.

The reality is that they were never above a 6 without makeup, and it’s downhill for them after 30.

A lot of guys just said fuck it, and live their lives without the hassle.

Source with editorial comments by me

Woke Media Struggles To Explain Why Gen Z Men Are Turning Against Feminism

Woke Media Struggles To Explain Why Gen Z Men Are Turning Against Feminism

The progressive left operates on the assumption that generational indoctrination is cumulative – That is to say, they think that through time and indoctrination, they will eventually lay claim to the minds of 100% of the population.  Each new generation is supposed to be more “woke” than the last.  However, this is not how society or individual psychology works.  

Movements of “progress” crash in flames all the time, often because they turn out to be regressive rather than progressive.  And once the smoke clears and the social experiment is dead, the public will usually go back to what worked best in the past. 

Leftists thought they had the future in the bag with Gen Z.  After all, this is the generation hit hardest with woke propaganda.  No other generation has been so overwhelmed with LGBT brainwashing, anti-white racism and multiculturalism, socialist Utopian fantasy, moral relativism and anti-masculinity. 

Young women have been convinced that abandoning femininity, rejecting their biological destiny and competing with men is “true freedom.”  Third-wave feminism teaches women that their ultimate goal in life is to achieve power by any means necessary.  It’s a dangerous delusion that relies on men to remain completely and utterly passive. 

Gen Z men have been taught from an early age that they are inherently evil monsters that must be subdued and caged (figuratively or literally).  They are warned that they will become “Incels”; dangerous landmines just waiting to explode unless they embrace feminism. 

They are conditioned to see traditional manhood as a “social construct” that will ultimately end in a bullet riddled rain of toxic masculinity.  They are told that the very root of their future happiness and sanity depends on leftist women accepting them as viable, docile and “safe”.

In other words, leftist women have positioned themselves as the arbiters of society by declaring they they will be the people who decide what manhood should be.  It’s an interesting narrative.  It is specifically designed to give progressives total power over the one thing that could destroy their socialist empire:  Strong men who wake up one day and realize they are being treated unjustly and that the system does not work. 

Ross Kemp made an entire docuseries on inceldom after watching Adolescence.

This was the moment he found out. pic.twitter.com/QxJtI8GmgX — Jonathan Wong (@WONGthink) March 3, 2026

Female social circles tend to function on collectivist terms:  The group determines membership through a series of struggle sessions and shame tests to ensure that new members submit to their control.  Male groups determine membership by merit – Who is most useful, the hardest working, the most intelligent, the most able to move the group’s success forward. 

Woke ideology is a vehicle for building a society using effeminate group structures.  Most men are held back within such a system and left to rot, never fulfilling their roles because they are seen as threats to the power dynamics of the collective.

According to recent surveys, Gen Z is abandoning this feminist paradigm at record pace. In 2019 in the US, just one third of Americans surveyed agreed that traditional gender roles were becoming more popular. In 2026, that number rose to 40%; among Gen Z the number spikes to 61%. 

The woke media is struggling to understand what is happening and trying to figure out how they can shame Zoomer men into coming back to the progressive fold.  As Esquire Magazine asks: 

“What the hell is going on with Gen Z?”  

Both Esquire Magazine and The New York Times have recently lamented new data showing an unusual spike in support for traditional male/female roles in society among Gen Z males.  Perhaps the most interesting data point comes from a recent survey out of King’s College London which polled a total of 23,000 adults across 29 countries worldwide.  It indicates that 57% of Zoomer men agree that women’s rights have gone too far – to the point that men are being discriminated against.

The media, of course, acts as if this view is absurd even though it is entirely accurate.  For the past decade in the US (until Donald Trump’s return to the White House) DEI initiatives in corporations, colleges and within many government institutions were deliberately designed to treat straight white men as second class citizens regardless of their qualifications. 

They used to call it conspiracy theory, but numerous successful lawsuits have been filed against these institutions after years of rigging the system against men in favor of “equality of outcome” over equality of opportunity. 

When it comes to relationships in the modern west, women have been given carte blanche through the “MeToo” Movement to act as destructive, promiscuous and unhinged as they please under the protection of the feminist zero accountability clause.  If anything goes wrong they can simply blame men, and for a long time everyone was expected to automatically believe them.

Esquire engages in this same refusal to question women; blaming “podcasts” and the “male loneliness epidemic” for the rise in traditional views among Gen Z.  They will not consider the possibility that this trend is caused by blowback from the trespasses of militant feminist ideology.  Feminists can do no wrong.  Esquire notes:

“The study doesn’t get into the why of respondents’ answers, but one guess is that this is the result of a generation raised on podcasts. Around every corner on the Internet, members of the so-called manosphere lurk, assuring young men that their failures and setbacks are not their fault. In fact, they are the persecuted ones; the world would be better off if women were subservient to guys. Progress, they seem to think, has gone too far…”   

The “manosphere” did nothing more than point out the inconsistencies of the feminist movement and warn about the clear social decline that feminism has caused for men and women alike.  Progress for the political left requires that men continue to sacrifice for the collective while never gaining any individual benefits in return.  

The imbalance of society in scrambling to appease narcissistic women has radicalized an entire generation of men.  Esquire notes:

“What’s most interesting is how divided Gen Z men and Gen Z women are on gender roles in relationships. Which makes a ton of sense, because if you haven’t heard, Gen Z women are facing a nightmare of a dating scene. In an opinion piece for The New York Times, Christine Emba claims that it’s not just app burnout or incels—at least, no more so than in my generation. Instead, there is a fundamental disconnect between what straight young men and women want from one another…”  

Thirty-one percent of Gen Z men now agree that a wife should always obey her husband (compare this to 18% of Baby Boomers).  59% of Gen Z men say that men are expected to do too much to support equality.  In every category, Gen Z greatly surpasses aging Baby Boomers on traditional values.  

Big changes are coming in the form of a masculinity-driven cultural reckoning.  Perhaps it’s because feminism flew too close the sun and got burned.  They got a taste of power and went insane, once again confirming the theory that women should never be in charge.  No matriarchy in history has produced anything of historical or technological significance.  Biology and natural law recoils at the idea of a female-centric society.

Feminists try to use scare tactics, like the theory of the “male loneliness epidemic”, as a means to frighten men back into line.  However, surveys also show that by 2030 nearly half of all women 25-44 are projected to become single and childless. 

The truth is, feminists no longer hold the power of social rejection; it’s men who make that determination, and they are walking away from the woke system.  What feminists should be more concerned about is the female loneliness epidemic that is looming for them in the near future. 

Source

10 Things About Owning A Dog, By a Dog (Paul Harvey)

My heart gets torn up when I read this. I hate when people are mean to dogs. They just want to love you and can’t understand why you don’t. Some people shouldn’t be allowed to own them.

1. My life is likely to last 10 to 15 years; any separation from you will be painful for me. Remember that before you adopt me.

2. Give me time to understand what you want from me; don’t be impatient, short-tempered, or irritable.

3. Place your trust in me, and I will always trust you back. Respect is earned, not given as an inalienable right.

4. Don’t be angry with me for long, and don’t lock me up as punishment; I am not capable of understanding why. I only know I have been rejected. You have your work, your entertainment, and your friends, but I have only you.

5. Talk to me. Even if I don’t understand your words, I do understand your voice and your tone. You only have to look at my tail.

6. Be aware that, however you treat me, I’ll never forget it, and if it’s cruel, it may affect me forever.

7. Please don’t hit me. I can’t hit back, but I can bite and scratch, and I really don’t ever want to do that

8. Before you scold me for being uncooperative, obstinate, or lazy, ask yourself if something might be bothering me. Perhaps I’m not getting the right foods, or I’ve been out in the sun too long, or my heart is getting old and weak. It may be I am just dog-tired.

9. Take care of me when I get old. You too, will grow old and may also need love, care, comfort, and attention.

10. On the difficult journey, on the ultimate difficult journey, go with me, please. Never say you can’t bear to watch. Don’t make me face this alone. Everything is easier for me if you are there. Because I love you so.

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Woke

From Bud Light to Netflix, Traditional Americans Keep Winning the War on ‘Woke’

Ex-Wives

Man Used Slingshot to Target Ex-Wife at Scottsdale Luxury Condo Complex – use a canon next time

Cars

Porsche Charges $133K for This Look, Now China Sells It for $36K – I’ll take the Porsche over anything made in China

Maybe you should pay more attention to what your kids are up to?

Curse Or Curiosity? Missouri Claw Machine Traps Second Child In Less Than A Month

Best tasting crabs

The 9 Best Tasting Crabs On Earth, A Very Unscientific Ranking – I agree with number 1. You can have some of the others that I won’t touch

Blowing up Iran’s Missiles

Why Islam loves the left

Why Islam Seeks Shelter Under the Banner of the Left – they are fucking traitors to our country. They’d sacrifice the lives of their children to hate Trump.

Lasers over Roundup

Check it out: New AI-powered tractor uses lasers, not chemicals, to VAPORIZE weeds… – Roundup is as bad as cigarettes for you.

UFO’S

Long-Buried UFO Files Confirming Report Of Glowing Object Over Military Base Finally Declassified

Golf

Scottie Scheffler Pulls The Curtains Back On Masters Champions Dinner And Why He Avoids Jordan Spieth

What is the one question you hate to be asked?

Daily writing prompt
What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain.
View all responses

Tell me more about yourself, or show me what you learned recently (speak in a foreign language). It is especially painful in a social icebreaker. I know they don’t really care.

I feel like I’m a trained monkey on display when I get this question. Most people get nothing really. Tell me what you’ve been up to? Do a trick for me. Entertain me with what you can do. That’s when I change the subject

If I know the person, I might share something I’ve done, but without details. Most people bore you with details that aren’t significant to the story. Only my inner circle will get to know my feelings or what I really do.

I also tend to listen more to men. Females have a hard time telling a story without adding details that aren’t relevant and distract from the story. It’s why male comedians are funnier. Listen to Richard Pryor or Robin Williams. They are always funnier than, say Amy Schumer or any of her ilk.

What advice would you give to your teenage self?

What advice would you give to your teenage self?

Stand up for yourself and don’t try to make everybody happy, you can’t.

Not everyone is your friend, no matter what they say or do.

Don’t be afraid to hurt somebody else’s feelings if you have to sacrifice yourself.

Realize that you are introverted and that not doing a bunch of stupid stuff because the crowd wants to is not a good enough reason to do it.

Take your time and enjoy what you are doing. It will go by too quickly. You don’t have to do everything right away. Life will let you get the experience if you give it time.

I have a couple of readers (you know who you are) who give way better answers than I do because they’ve had different experiences than I have. I wonder what they will say?

What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in?

What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in?

Although my ancestors came to this country from multiple European countries, it was too long ago. I have no knowledge of anything beyond which country they came from.

My family fought on both sides of the Civil War. I don’t take sides; I learn from history.

There are some things I can’t change. I was born White and a man. I’m good with it and don’t want to be anything else.

I loved my parents and some of my family. I put up with the rest and avoid some with vigor.

I guess I don’t take it too seriously, as my heritage is a mish-mash of so many things, I could fit into most categories, except the obvious. I’m also too old now to change anything, so I am who I am. I’m interested in the timeline at this point, and who died early or late that is closely related to me. I’m headed to the finish line at some point in the future.

What about you?

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Beef

Meet Boots, the Record-Setting $320,000 Steer Raised by a 13-Year-Old South Dakota Girl

Irony

Democrat Senator Requires Photo ID to Enter Campaign Event While Opposing Voter ID for Elections

Life

Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl LX Star Derick Hall Had Just A 1 Percent Chance To Live After Birth – this proves a baby is not just a clump of cells. I’m looking at you abortion lovers

That’s a lot of fish sticks

Quebec Ice Fishermen Land Record-Setting 244-Pound Atlantic Halibut In The Name Of Science

Super Bowl Halftime

Kid Rock Crushes Bad Bunny in TMZ Poll on Competing Super Bowl Halftime Shows

The NFL’s stranglehold on American culture was just shattered…

Did You Catch All the MK-Ultra Moments at the Super Bowl?

 Breaking Down California’s Insane “Super Bowl Tax” – Sam Darnold lost money to play in the game

Air Travel

Affirmative Action Quotas in Question as Female, Minority Pilots Caused Half of Pilot-Error Crashes – DEI results

Identity Politics

Identity Politics and Therapy Culture Are Two of the Main Reasons Society Is Going Crazy [VIDEO]

Cars

Are EVs the Most Expensive Boondoggle in Human History?

The 12 Stupidest Cars of the 1950s You’ve Never Seen Before [VIDEO]

Coffee

Coffee Shop Accused of Being a Strip Club Just Because Scantily-Clad Women Appear to Be Giving Lap Dances

Air Travel

‘These Airlines Are Robbing Us Blind’: Expert Warns Against Buying New Carry-On Bags In 2026. Why Are People Getting Gate-Checked, Charged By Delta, United? – do they sit around and think of ways to make it worse for travelers?

Olympics

The Origins Stories Behind The 5 Most Unique Events At The Winter Olympics

Non Liberal Women

 The woman globalists fear most

Different Headlines: 68 Mustang Custom Fastback; 145K Illegal Immigrant Children Found; Superbowl Lowest Scores; 3300 Year Old Egyptian Document Confirms Bible Story; Something Huge Crawls on A Guy Flying – Travel Sucks; China Has a Biolab In Vegas, Why?….and more

Cars

1968 Ford Mustang Custom Fastback – one of the great Pony Cars

Supercharged 5.4L V-8, Unique Panoramic Roof and Tonneau Cover, Multiple Award Winner

US, European car brands have lost $114B on EVs — as idiocy abounds in electric market – EV’s are not the answer

Illegals

Border Czar Homan Says More Than 145,000 Illegal Immigrant Children Located – It’s on Biden that there is that many kids running around, some being trafficked. He and his henchmen need to be held accountable. Get those kids back to their parents

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Faces Trial in New Mexico Over Child Safety and Exploitation Allegations – maybe this had something to do with the kids

Bible Giants Real

Resurfaced 3,300-Year-Old Egyptian Document Hints at Biblical Giants Being Real – So that makes the Flood a true story then also

Superbowl

Counting Down The 5 Lowest-Scoring Super Bowls Of All Time

Covid – Gates in The Middle

The Epstein Files Illuminate a 20-Year Architecture Behind Pandemics as a Business Model—With Bill Gates at the Center of the Network – some pretty damning evidence against Bill Gates for being involved in Covid well before the pandemic

Climate Hoax

Climate Alarmists Are Often Wrong But Never in Doubt – At the end of the day, “these models can display a pessimistic worldview in which climate damages accelerate to catastrophic levels, or a more optimistic one in which human progress keeps damages relatively modest. They offer little help in determining which of these futures is coming.”

Space

Fuel leaks cause Artemis-2 dress rehearsal countdown to terminate at T-5:15, several minutes early – The next Challenger, waiting to happen

Why Traveling Sucks – Reason 1097

Man Takes Delta Flight From Boston To Seattle. Then They See Something ‘Huge’ Crawl Across Their Leg. Then They Ask A Flight Attendant: ‘They Usually Come In More Than One’ – You bring that home and you’ll never get rid of them

China

ABC the Only Nightly Newscast to Cover Clandestine Vegas Biolab – I think the question is, why does China have a Biolab on US soil?

Epstein

Elon Musk just DROPPED THE BOMB on why Kamala got so much elite cash…they’re afraid Trump would release the Epstein files and people would find out the sick people that they really are

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China Birthrate Falls

Births Plummet In China As Population Growth Stalls – During the one-child policy, they got rid of all the girls. The rich and military Chinese are having their kids in America

NYC

Mamdani Shelves Housing Plans as New York City Faces $12 Billion Budget Shortfall – the first lie gets exposed

Disney

Bob Iger Will Be Leaving Disney Early, After Disastrous Tenure as CEO – That and getting rid of Kathleen Kennedy gives a small chance that there might be something left to salvage from Marvel or Star Wars, but they destroyed them with woke DEI crap pretty severely

Bikini Baristas

‘Are You Supposed To Tip A Lot?’: Seattle Woman Tries Bikini Barista Espresso Drive-Thru. Then She Sees Who’s In Line – dirty old men

Restaurant Gross Food

‘Damn That’s My Go-To Location’: Texas Woman Orders Wingstop Fries. Then She Spots Something Moving

Climate Hoax Humor

Watch: Singer John Rich dedicates song to Al Gore: ‘GLOBAL WARMING Is Freezin’ Us To Death’ – ‘I’m startin’ to think that Al Gore fella is full of sh*t?’ – Gore is full of shit

Bummer: Trump’s Fed Pick Could Move Fed Away From Climate Scam

Anti-Ice and Liberal Women

Now You Will Know – “The ICE derangement syndrome is off the charts because we are amidst a pandemic of progressive leftist mental illness, which is an extremely disproportionately female problem.” —JD Haltigan on “X”

Relationships

Why Men Are Choosing Singlehood… Becasuse females are ruining it for everyone. They think they are special and no one wants to put up with their shit anymore. It’s a combination of Social Media delusion and feminism. Can someone find a decent girl who doesn’t come with all the hassle?

I Remember When Child Molesters Were Men

Fla. woman charged with posing as teen to molest 5 middle-school-age boys is ‘the real victim,’ dad claims…girls again, causing problems.

Communism Fails Every Time

Former NYC mayor Eric Adams claims 10 dead as a result of Mamdani reversing his policy that kept homeless New Yorkers from freezing outdoors in makeshift encampments…Thank you very little women of NY who voted this guy in. You got what you asked for

See Through Leggings

“Leader Turned Follower”: Lululemon’s See-Through Legging Fiasco Exposes Brand Drift – it’s a strip show at the gym. We go to work out and the girls are there to show off. No guy is showing his meat, we want to lift without distraction.

Celebtards

Effete Hollyweird Weenie Giancarlo Esposito Calls for Violent Revolution – I thought this guy was only a douchebag on the screen. Now, he wants to kill people trying to protect us from criminals. One of my least favorite actors

How Communism starts

Mamdani Already Declares Fiscal Crisis – the next step is towards dictatorship.

Different Headlines: Almost a Darwin Award Winner; Liberal Women Expect Men To Pay For Makeup/Hair/Nails before A Date; Woman Grabs Flash Bang, Doesn’t Work Out For Her; Artificial Intelligence May Have passed The Turing Test;mOne-Off Corvette ZR1X Sells for Over 12 Times Its Sticker Price…..and more

Darwin Awards or FAFO

Chinese Skier Mauled After Trying To Take A Selfie With A Snow Leopard

WATCH: Woman thinks it’s a good idea to grab a flashbang and try to throw it back, but she finds out in a hurry – what a dumbass

Ice Protesters are thugs

ICE: These Are the People Anti-ICE Agitators in Minneapolis Are Trying to Protect

‘Poison’: Nurse urges people to inject ICE agents with drug that paralyzes, stops breathing – I think they call this murder

Media – Time Scores Self Goal on Climate change

Cool Your Jets! TIME Rages At Trump Mocking Climate Change Before ‘Historic’ Snowstorm – couldn’t have picked worse timing to lie, but then they have severe TDS

“Mother Nature Stops For No One”: All Eyes On Next Winter Storm Threat For US East – more evidence Time Magazine is retarded and biased

Meta – Out To Hurt and Pervert The Kids

Meta CEO Zuckerberg OK’d Sex-Talking Bots for Minors – prick

FIFA World Cup

Former FIFA President Slams US Hosting of 2026 World Cup – his beef is Trump of course, but no one really cares about Soccer in the US anyway

Liberal Women

Women Now Expect Men to Pay a Makeup, Nails, and Hair ‘Deposit’ Before a Date… – Guess who is going to get less dates? Good luck with that one. Guess what else? You aren’t that special. We can find one with less high maintenance.

White, Liberal Women on the Warpath: Guys, We Missed the Warning Signs – They are out to ruin the country

The Weaponization of Women’s Empathy Might Be the End of Western Democracy [VIDEO] Is it the robots or liberal women who will destroy us first?

Turing Test

Watch: Tech Entrepreneur Claims His AI Agent Built Itself A Face While He Slept – The robots are going to kill the humans.

Cars

One-Off Corvette ZR1X Sells for Over 12 Times Its Sticker Price

Different Headlines: Reset The Davos Great Reset; NFL Trying To Ruin The Superbowl; 8 Teams With The Most Conference Championships, But No Superbowl Win; Murders Fall To Lowest Rate In US Since 1900; America’s Healthiest States; GM Shuts Down EV Production; Parent Get Tazed at Kids Game; Scamming A Pizza…..and more

Davos And The Great Reset Not Happening

The 2026 World Economic Forum Proved That Trump Flipped the Script on ‘The Great Reset’ – good, I didn’t want to eat bugs and I still want to own stuff

Things I won’t Be Watching

Bad Bunny Plans to Use Super Bowl Halftime Show to ‘Honor Queer Icons,’ Plans to Wear a Dress – I’ll see the game, but not half time

Football

8 NFL Teams With The Most Conference Championship Appearances But No Super Bowl Rings

Murders

US Murders Fall to Lowest Level Since 1900; Largest One-Year Decline on Record – Gee, I wonder why that could be?

Liberal White Women

Passengers Applaud When Left Wing Woman is Ejected From Flight After Crazy Political Rants (VIDEO) – what is it with these females acting like little spoiled brats

Women! You Can’t Have a Society With Them, You Can’t Have a Society Without Them

Beyond Politics: The Spiritual Darkness Behind a Nurse’s Shocking Words – What a Twunt

Heather Mac Donald Explains Scientifically Why Irrational Leftist Females Are the Problem – what happened to these females that they turned into robotic twunts? They used to at least try to be nice. Good luck with a relationship. No sane man wants anything to do with this. Females are cracking up.

Art of the Greenland Deal

Dream Greenland Deal – with all the bitching from a piss ant country that won’t protect their own land, the Danes caved to Trump like a sandcastle in a storm

The UK

Using AI To Tell Your Government To Go Fuck Itself

Cars

General Motors to Shut Down Production of Chevrolet Bolt EV to Build Gas-Powered Cars – EV”s are being canceled by every manufacturer. People always wanted gas engines. it was the Government that tried to force EV’s on everyone. It was about control, just like Covid and Climate Change. They were lying like always

Shoes

LEGO Crocs Are Real, Horrifying, and Will Run You $150 – has anyone ever stepped on a Lego? possibly the worst idea in concept.

Health

Mapped: America’s Healthiest States, Ranked

Parents

Kentucky Man Tased By Police For Attacking Parent During Wild Elementary School Basketball Brawl

Scamming a deliver Pizza

‘That’s On You’: Florida Woman Tries To Return Papa John’s ‘Burnt’ Pizza. There’s Just One Problem—And The Worker Isn’t Having It

Best Of Introvert Meme’s – Part 6

Here are some of the posts that got a lot of clicks. Some are funny, all are true, and every introvert will look at it and say yep. I see myself in most of these

Introvert Meme’s

Introvert Meme’s

Introvert Meme’s – Good One’s Today

Introvert Meme’s

12 Reasons to Celebrate Introverts on World Introvert Day (Jan. 2)

Why We Should Celebrate Introverts By Jenn Granneman

1. Introverts really know their stuff.

I have an introverted friend who is basically a walking encyclopedia of Celtic myth. For example, if you ask him about the hero Cú Chulainn, he can not only tell you how he died, but also what kind of chariot he drove around in. Listening to him talk, I’ve found myself thinking, “Wow, he really knows his stuff!”

That’s because many introverts love learning and adding to their vast stores of specialized knowledge. It’s no surprise they often become experts in their field.

2. Introverts are problem-solvers and idea generators.

Introverts tend to gravitate toward working alone. Rather than chatting in the break room, we’re often the ones sitting at our desks, quietly turning ideas over and over in our minds. And there’s a big benefit to this. When you’re with other people, your brain is forced to multitask. Even if you’re not talking with someone, part of your attention is occupied just by their mere presence, research suggests.

When you’re alone, you can clear your mind and focus your thoughts. All this deep, concentrated thinking can lead to novel solutions and brilliant ideas. Working alone can even lead to more ideas. “Decades of research have consistently shown that brainstorming groups think of far fewer ideas than the same number of people who work alone and later pool their ideas,” according to psychologist Keith Sawyer.

So forget the brainstorming group. Take a cue from introverts and spend some time in solitude.

3. Give up? Not yet.

Speaking of problem-solving, introverts tend to stick with problems longer — well past when everyone else has moved on to another topic or gone home for the day. Albert Einstein, the world-renowned physicist who developed the theory of relativity, was probably an introvert. He said, “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”

4. Introverts make better team players than extroverts over the long run.

Corinne Bendersky and her colleagues found that while extroverts make great first impressions, they may disappoint us over time when they’re part of a team. Their “value and reputation at work diminish over time,” explains Bendersky. “On a team, you’re expected to work hard and contribute a lot. But they’re often poor listeners, and they don’t collaborate.”

Ouch.

Introverts, on the other hand, may work harder on a team because they tend to be conscientious; they don’t want to be seen as not pulling their weight. So, while companies may initially be attracted to extroverts, bosses should remember that introverts pack a powerful (yet understated) punch.

5. Introverts are capable of incredible depth and intimacy in their relationships.

We “quiet ones” have a penchant for quality, one-on-one time and deep conversations. Instead of talking about the weather or what you did this weekend, we want to peek into your inner world. What have you learned lately? How are your ideas evolving? How are you really? When you have an introvert in your life, you may experience emotional intimacy like never before.

6. Introverts know the power of words.

As the nickname suggests, we “quiet ones” tend to listen more than we talk and think carefully before we speak. We try to choose our words thoughtfully because we understand that once said, words can’t be retracted or easily forgotten.

7. Introverts are low maintenance.

You can leave an introvert alone for hours (or even days!), and we’ll be content to do our own thing. No need to constantly text us, check in on us, or “babysit” us.

Why? Because introverts tend to be self-starters, and many of us are drawn to working quietly and steadily on our own. In fact, you’ll probably only hear from us if we have a problem we can’t fix (and believe me, we’ve tried solving it a dozen times before coming to you). Similarly, we don’t need constant praise, gold stars, and shoutouts in the company newsletter (although sure, those things are appreciated). If we’re working hard, we’re likely drawing motivation from within.

8. Introverts can be the calm in the center of the storm.

Reserved and often self-contained, introverts are known for exuding calm — even when there’s a storm raging inside us. We’re often the ones quietly creating an action plan while everyone else is stressing over the company’s latest policy change. And in this way, our methodical approach to chaos benefits everyone.

9. Introverts “get” you.

Although it may seem counterintuitive, solitude can actually help you connect better with others. Why? Because spending time alone — which introverts love — may enhance our empathy, especially for people outside our typical social group, according to research. Being alone often involves reflecting on our actions, beliefs, and experiences, which helps us develop a deeper understanding and stronger empathy for others.

10. Introverts look before they leap.

Compared to extroverts, introverts generally prefer a slower, more deliberate pace of life, and this difference stems from the way our brains are wired. Many of us hate rushing into things; whenever possible, we take time to consider all potential outcomes before making a decision. This applies to our careers, personal lives, and relationships.

For example, one study found that extroverts may jump into a new relationship more quickly than introverts. An Katrien Sodermans and her colleagues revealed that divorced extroverts were more likely than divorced introverts to remarry quickly. While this isn’t always the case, hastily made decisions — such as committing to a new relationship before fully healing from the last one — can sometimes lead to regret later on.

11. Introverts create worlds inside their heads — and help create the world we live in.

Introverts are artists, actors, musicians, entertainers, writers, and more. Famous creative introverts include Lady Gaga (she has said, “I generally really keep to myself and I am focused on my music.”), Bob Dylan, Meryl Streep, Lorde, Audrey Hepburn, and more. David Bowie is also thought to have been an introvert; experts believe he coped with his anxiety and introverted nature by developing various stage personas. Even the “King of Rock and Roll,” Elvis Presley, was described by his friends as a “loner” and “introverted.”

There are so many famous creative introverts that it’s impossible to name them all here! Just a few more examples include Steven Spielberg, Shonda Rhimes, David Letterman, Harrison Ford, Gwyneth Paltrow, Elton John, Emma Watson, and Tom Hanks… the list could go on.

12. Who runs the world? Introverts.

When we think of leadership, especially in the corporate world, words like “bold,” “overconfident,” and “selfish” may come to mind. But there’s a different kind of leader emerging: the quiet one. Today, about 40 percent of executives describe themselves as introverts, including Microsoft’s Bill Gates.

Gates believes that introverts can make great leaders because they know the value of being alone and focusing deeply. Speaking at an event in 2013, he said, “I think introverts can do quite well. If you’re clever you can learn to get the benefits of being an introvert, which might be, say, being willing to go off for a few days and think about a tough problem, read everything you can, push yourself very hard to think out on the edge of that area.”

Other introverted leaders include Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, Jill Biden, Eleanor Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln — and many others — as well as many of our greatest U.S. presidents.

Yes, introverts may be the quiet ones who eat lunch alone. They may also be the ones curled up at home with a good book, avoiding the party. But introverts are so much more than that. They are artists, visionaries, and leaders who bring quiet strength and understand the power of the inner journey.

Today — and every day — they deserve to be celebrated.

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So everyone celebrate together, separately, and alone. I disagree that Jill Biden and Barack Obama were leaders. They were power hungry people who shouldn’t be celebrated.

What makes you feel nostalgic?

What makes you feel nostalgic?

Songs, without a doubt. I can hear a song and go back to the room I was in and the person I was with, not to mention how I felt.

Here’s an example or two.

I hear Come Monday by Jimmy Buffet, and it’s 3:00 in the afternoon. I’m at work at the Winter Park Towers, my first job. I was mopping the floor after lunch. I was 15 at the time, and I recall the 4-top by the window overlooking Lake Berry. My Uncle lived on that lake, and I could see his house

Here’s another. I was laying the wood to a girl named Leila in her bedroom in Coral Gables, Florida, at 24 years old. She was a cologne girl who sprayed you at the escalator in the Department Store where I worked. Apparently, she had already decided she was going to do me well before I knew it, and she did.

I was always able to control busting a nut and had been going at it with her clock radio playing music. Then Layla, by Eric Clapton came on. On the downstroke, she said it was her song because it was her name. I decided I would keep going until the end of the song just because it was long. We went at it like big dogs, which was unusual as she had a special talent with her mouth that was outstanding. It starts off with a hairband for a ponytail, if you need a reference. She even performed that on me in my office one afternoon. What a good sport.

If either of those songs comes on, I go right back to that time of life.

There are a million more, but I won’t bore you with the rest of my life. Plus, everyone has their own.

My Take On Emoji’s

I’ve written about this before, but it’s worth the effort to repeat myself.

I hate emojis and refuse to use them. Not only is it a waste of time after you’ve already typed what you’re going to say, but they are just clutter. Oh, they think they are clever, but those of us with a mind think otherwise.

Most of all, I think they are childish or for girls. I lose respect for any guy who sends me one. I refuse to send them back. I don’t even know if anyone has noticed it from me, but then I don’t care. At least my son won’t use them either. I didn’t even have to say anything.

It’s like wearing makeup or girls playing with dolls. It covers up something or tries to make it look better, but not to me.

Worst of all is an emoji for an answer without any words. I roll my eyes.

I guess some people think it’s cute, or that I’m a grumpy old man, but I also don’t have a lot of time left, and I’m not going to waste it on something I just said in words.

Oh, and a repeat emoji is the worst. I got it the first time. It’s like typing in CAPS, IT IS ANNOYING.

Different Headlines: Box Offic Crash Worse Than It Looks; Why the lack of sex; Good Men are hard to find; How the cheating went down in the 2020 election; Artists with the most top hits; Steve Rogers Comes Back In The Avengers; 1 of 7 Porsche’s Hit’s the block…..and more

Hollywood

The Box Office Crisis Is Worse Than It Looks – stop making woke movies, and people might want to see them.

Epstein

Is This the Rosetta Stone That Explains Epstein’s Vast Wealth and Intelligence Ties? – let’s just be glad he’s gone. His stench is still haunting us

Good Men Aren’t hard to find

Good Men Are Hard To Find, So Why Are So Many Women Divorcing Them? – because they are self-centered narciccists. Their friends tell them they can do better and they become cnuts. These men did nothing, it was the feminists who ruin everything.

Elections 2020

 The Fulton County 2020 Election Bombshell – They cheated and will cheat again

FAFO

You’re fired! Trans instructor booted for flunking college student’s Bible-based essay on gender – the tide is turning on the freaks.

Avengers

Marvel Fans Are Finally Getting Excited About ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ After The Thor-Centric Teaser Leaks – The woke shit didnt’ sell, so they’re bringing back Chris Evans as the Real Captain America to try and save the franchise. Besides, we need a super soldier, not a flying stand in.

Artists and Bands

The 11 Artists And Bands With The Most Billboard No. 1 Hits Of All Time – a lot of crap over the years it seems

Health

Plant-Based Food Increases Heart Attack Risk, Study Finds – eat bacon instead. It keeps the Muslims away

The Left Eat their own

Hunter Biden blasts ‘distasteful’ Obama team for foreign influence peddling — including ‘viper’s den’ of Ukraine – what a POS life

Sex

The Hangover: How the Elites Created the 2020s Sex Recession Through a 2010s Free for All… – and by elites, they mean feminists and liberal women who ruin everything. Plus, no one wants to have sex with these losers

Cars

1959 Porsche 1600 GT Speedster by Reutter – 1 of 7 Built with the 616/2 Pushrod Engine, Matching Numbers Engine, Fully Documented

5 Survival Tips For Introverts Attending Large Events (plus my bonus)

5 Survival Tips for Introverts Attending Big, Crowded Events

ByEllie Matama December 19, 2025

An introvert walks through a crowded event

Big events or parties can become overwhelming for us introverts, so look for little ways to maintain your energy.

I have no problem socializing with my family or close friends. I am comfortable doing so because I have known them for a long time, and I interact with them just a few at a time. There’s no having-to-get-to-know-you period.

But it’s an entirely different matter to attend big, crowded gatherings where almost everyone is a stranger (hello, holiday parties or awkward job-related networking events). Sure, for a short amount of time, I can make small talk. Of course, I need to recharge my energy afterward.

Yet, in everyday life, social interactions are required. The good news is there are plenty of things you can do to maintain your energy as an introvert when you have to attend a crowded event. 

How Introverts Can Survive Crowded Events

1. Arrive early so you can pick the best spot.

One study found that about 20 percent of employees regularly arrive late to work. If you are an introvert, you can’t afford to be late for an event because people will notice your tardiness (hello, suddenly being the center of attention!). In addition, you may have to engage in unnecessary awkward interactions as you make your way to an available seat. Plus, you may have to explain your lateness later, which will further drain whatever energy you have left.

So arrive early and be prepared to stay for a while. When you arrive early, you can choose the best seat or standing spot for your needs. That way, you can still be alone among the crowd.

For example, find a seat or table on the fringes or near the back, which will enable you to move freely without having to ask people to move whenever you need to get out (i.e., escape to the bathroom). You could also choose a spot near the exit for the same purpose. 

2. Go with a “human shield,” a.k.a. your favorite extrovert or outgoing introvert.

As an introvert, you may find it challenging to interact with many people at once. But some people you know may actually like doing so. Your family members, friends, or your significant other may be more outgoing — and they may thrive in crowded situations. See if they’re willing to go to the event with you. This will enable you to talk less, since they will happily do most of the talking for you.

Or, you can go to the event with a colleague who enjoys socializing. There’s no shame in using them as a “human shield” while representing your company or department. While they schmooze with everyone, you can thoughtfully listen and pick up points for discussion later on (i.e., at the next company meeting).  

And, speaking of talking less…

3. Embrace your listening skills.

Remember: As an introvert, listening is one of your superpowers. We speak about 125 to 175 words a minute, but we’re able to listen to about 450 words a minute. Therefore, you’ll learn more by listening than by talking a lot. Also, when you aren’t talking, you can pay more attention to people’s body language, which can offer more information about their state of mind than what they actually say.

Plus, people feel understood and cared for when someone listens to them. So you may make a great first impression just by listening!

Once you’ve absorbed everything they’ve said, take the time to process it before adding your thoughts. That way, you’ll have something valuable to say based on all your gathered information.

Want to feel more at ease in social situations?

Discover the secrets to enjoying fun, meaningful conversations. Know exactly what to say — even if you’re introverted, shy, or socially anxious. Feel less drained and have more energy while socializing.

4. Look for small groups talking about topics you care about.

Even at the most crowded events, small groups tend to form because people with similar interests gravitate toward one another. That’s great news for introverts, as you’ll feel more at home if the topic is one you’re passionate about. Even if the group is talking about something similar to a topic you want to bring up, now’s your chance to change the subject to that one instead. And, when interacting in a small group, you won’t get socially burned out as quickly.

5. Block out the noise.

As an introvert, there may be times when you can’t take all the noise, small talk, or all the people anymore. But you also can’t leave the event… yet. In that case, you need a way to block out the noise.

You can do this in many ways: Listen to music or an audiobook (or just put on your earbuds to make it look like you’re listening to something or on a call; they’ll still help tune out some of the noise!); make an actual call; or excuse yourself to “step outside for a moment.” If you’re worried that these things will make you seem aloof or antisocial, remember that most people aren’t looking at you, anyway, and won’t even notice.

Yes, I know, having to attend crowded events and make small talk can be a nightmare for introverts. However, the more prepared you are, the more you’ll preserve your energy.

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Here’s my bonus: say no and don’t go. You won’t miss much, and your life will be better for it

Tell us one thing you hope people say about you.

Tell us one thing you hope people say about you.

I don’t care what people say about me. I can be the nicest person on earth, or one of the biggest assholes. I treat people accordingly. It depends on you.

I’m always the same, so if I’m not nice to you, look in the mirror to understand why.

They say in 3 generations, no one remembers you anyway, so who cares what they say about me?

So in conclusion, it’s not important to me what people say about me. I gave up caring about that in high school.

Kids Games When We Used To Play Outside, Red Rover, Smear The Queer

Last night, the left lost their minds when Bijan Robinsin commented on his play as it related to a game we played as kids. He called it smear the queer, but we knew it as kill the man with the ball. He had to walk it back, but I know he didn’t mean it.

If you grew up before video games and actually played outside without a helmet, it was great fun. If you don’t know it, look it up. It will be a good education for you on why our generation tried harder at most things. The struggle was real, like real life, everyone against you.

Another good game was Red Rover. It’s where you line up kids in 2 groups, holding each other by the arms, and pick someone from the other side to run and try to break the hold. Red rover, red rover, send x (next victim) on over. In reality, it was a way to clothesline a kid from the other side, also great fun.

We also played war, kick the can, and baseball, where a parked car served as 3rd base. The game would stop for a while if a car came through, but there weren’t as many back then.

And then there is dodgeball. That’s where you’d hit the girls and the fat kids first. Nothing beats a good shot to the face though. That’s the real score

If you didn’t have a ball, there was kick the can.

Sometimes it was stickball. Kids from NY know that one well.

Life was easier back then, and we didn’t need a Switch or Xbox to play video games. Our moms kicked us out of the house, and we made stuff up.

If there were not enough other kids, you could climb a tree or throw something for the dog to chase. I grew up in an old tangerine farm so that is what we had, way before tennis balls were dog toys.

We moved on to paper football

Oh, to be young again.

What’s your favorite cartoon?

What’s your favorite cartoon?

Without a doubt, Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, and the old Jonny Quest.

Everything I know about opera on Jeopardy, I learned from Bugs. I like all of the Looney Tunes, especially when they break the new lines of political correctness. Road Runner/Coyote, Pepe’ Le Pew, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Foghorn Leghorn, all were better than anything on today. Who could forget Michigan J. Frog, a classic.

Here are the censored 11 they can’t show today

As for Tom and Jerry, the Tex Avery ones are clearly the best. Cat Fishin’, Touche’ Pussy Cat, Pecos Pest, and Spike and Tike are some of the better ones.

Only the original Jonny Quest shows were good. They were far ahead of their time and very creative. The Invisible Monster and the Robot Spy were two of my favorite episodes. After that, the series wasn’t very good. Later in life, I found them on Sunday morning. I’d do a wake and bake and enjoy my childhood all over.

A point of interest is that Tim Matheson is the original voice of Jonny. You may know him better as Otter in Animal House.

I even named one of my dogs Bandit after the cartoon. She was a boxer and is still in my blog, way back in the early years

23 Little Things Introverts Are Thankful for Anytime of the Year

“Waking up early or staying up late, when no one else is around. Peace. Silence. Bliss.”

Turkey. Pumpkin pie. Awkwardly chatting with Great Aunt Gladys. If you live in the U.S., you’re probably celebrating Thanksgiving. Inevitably, at some point, you’ll be asked to name something you’re thankful for. With that spirit in mind, here are 23 things introverts are generally thankful for — anytime of the year. What would you add to this list?

1. Coming home and finding the house unexpectedly empty. There’s nothing better than sneaking in a few hours (or even minutes) of unexpected solitude. Time to relax. Time to decompress. No obligatory, “How was your day?” Just space and freedom to be yourself. Ahhhh…

2. When your friend cancels on you at the last minute, and you kind of wanted to stay home anyway. This is just like #1: unexpected solitude.

3. Getting a Saturday afternoon to yourself. Perhaps even better than a few moments of unexpected solitude is knowing that you have hours and hours of alone time ahead of you.

4. Finding out that the party/event/meeting is ending earlier than you thought. Sure, introverts can socialize and even be leaders in the workplace. But for many of us, those things don’t come naturally. “Peopling” is a skill we’ve had to learn — kind of like learning a foreign language. And we all know how mentally exhausting it can be to speak a language you’re not entirely comfortable with. Any time spent away from the group (and in our natural inward “habitat”) is something we’re thankful for.

5. Discovering a good book that you can’t put down. Books (along with movies, music, and art) transport introverts to the place we love the most: the energizing world of ideas and imagination.

6. Having a meaningful conversation. How are you a different person today than you were five years ago? What’s on your mind lately? Do aliens exist? In our fast-paced society that values polite chitchat over substance, deep conversations don’t happen often. Yet it’s these meaningful interactions that nourish introverts and provide us with an antidote to social burnout. Something to be thankful for, indeed.

7. Meeting a fellow introvert who “gets” it. Or an extrovert who “gets” it by respecting your need for space and solitude. Feeling understood by another human being is about as magical as it gets.

8. When there’s a dog or cat at the party. Saved! (From small talk with humans, that is.)

9. Headphones. Pop on a pair when you’re in a public space — like a bus, airplane, coffee shop, or at your desk — and you signal to others that you’re not in the mood to chat. Hallelujah!

10. Arriving on your own to a party so you can leave whenever you want. For introverts, hell is being trapped somewhere surrounded by noise and people. Having an escape mechanism is key.

11. When someone says, “How are you?” and really means it. See #6.

12. When you don’t have to make awkward small talk. For some reason, people find silence awkward. So we strike up conversations about the weather with strangers in elevators. Or we erupt with a cheery, “How’s it going?” when we pass someone we barely know in the hallway at work. When introverts can get through the day with minimal chitchat, we’re thankful.

13. Waking up early or staying up late, when no one else is around. Peace. Silence. Bliss.

14. Downtime after a busy day. Socializing isn’t the only thing that drains introverts. Any kind of incoming stimulation, such as noise, time pressure, or activity, gets tiring. After a busy day, when we don’t have to do one more thing, we’re thankful.

15. A weekend with no social plans. But that doesn’t mean we won’t be doing anything. We’ll make our own plans. Introvert plans. Plans to read in bed. To binge watch our favorite show. To lounge around the house.

16. Self-checkout lanes, drive-throughs, food delivery, and online shopping. No, introverts don’t hate people. But we do try to minimize our “people” intake, because each interaction drains our limited social energy — especially the kind of surface-level interactions that usually take place in restaurants and stores.

17. Having to go to a store but unexpectedly finding it not busy. If you can’t do #16, this is the next best thing.

18. Time to think before responding. Many introverts struggle with word retrieval, because our brains may rely more on long-term memory than short-term memory (extroverts do the opposite). For this reason, we may have a hard time putting our thoughts into words, especially when we’re put on the spot in a meeting, on a first date, or when called on in class. We’re thankful for people who give us a few pressure-free moments to collect our thoughts before demanding an answer.

19. Texting. Similar to #18, introverts tend to feel more comfortable expressing themselves in writing than speaking. That’s because writing uses different pathways in the brain, which seem to flow more fluently for introverts. We’re thankful for every time we can send a text message instead of making a phone call.

20. Public spaces that are actually quiet. When parks, restaurants, coffee shops, bars, buses, and trains are chill, we’re thankful.

21. When you get to do your thing, uninterrupted. Alone time isn’t just about being alone. For many introverts, it’s a way to reconnect with our passions, hobbies, and artistic pursuits. It’s when we do deep, concentrated work. When our alone time is fragmented by other obligations (or interruptions from loved ones), introverts can get stressed. A long stretch of unbroken time to do our thing is something we’re immensely thankful for.

22. Your favorite beverage, a cozy blanket, and your favorite show. Alone.

23. “Me” time. Doing whatever relaxes you, energizes you, and brings you joy. 

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Different Headlines: The Engine That Refused To Die; Superbowl Loser Facts; Public Sex; Woke Jag Exec Canned; Covid Jab Killed Kids; Canada Euthanized 16,499 People, or Murdered Them; 14 College Coaches That Coached The Most Schools…..and more

Cars

Chrysler’s Slant-6 Was an Oddly Tilted Engine That Refused to Die

Jaguar Fires Design Boss Behind Type 00 Concept – Bring back the E-Type and get rid of the Woke cars

Covid

FDA’s “Profound Revelation”: Covid Shots Killed at Least 10 Children, Stronger Vaxx Rules Coming

Florida Drivers

Why Florida Drivers Don’t Know They’re Breaking the Law – When I see a Florida tag, I stay away. I know they are a bad driver. I don’t know what it is about that state, the one I grew up in and learned drive in. It was way different, before Disney.

Canada

Canada Euthanized a Record 16,499 Patients in 2024 – anywhere else, this would be called murder

Climate Hoax

Al Gore Is Inconsolable: 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season Ends With No Landfall in the U.S. – he was in it for the money by scaring people. He’s running out of ammo

Gas Prices

Gas Prices Fall to Lowest in 4 Years – FJB

Public Sex

As Romantic as It Sounds, the Winn-Dixie Parking Lot Is No Place for a Threesome

College Football

14 College Football Job Hoppers That Have Coached At The Most Schools – good luck LSU

Why It Sucks To Be Famous

New Study Suggests Celebrities Die Sooner Than Similar People Who Aren’t Famous – Oh, your life is so hard on you. Gimme a break

POTUS Health

‘Are You Kidding Me?’ WH’s Leavitt Touts Bias Page, SLAMS NYT for Doubting Trump’s Health – and they said nothing about Biden for 4 years

Superbowl

The 11 Teams That Failed To Post A Winning Record After Winning A Super Bowl

Introvert Thanksgiving Nightmare

Introverts hate being put on the spot, icebreakers, and networking events. My Brother in law (who I nicknamed Flounder from Animal House) did this to me on one of the 2 worst Thanksgivings I’ve had. He was at the other one also. I mumbled some answer when I should have just passed and felt awkward the whole meal.

Different Headlines: 19 NFL Teams With The Best And Worst Records On Thanksgiving; 1st Superman Comic Book For Millions; History Shows 3 Phases of Islamic Takeover; WNBA Star Says 8th Graders Could Beat Them; How California’s Clean Energy Doesn’t Pay….and more

Football

The 19 NFL Teams With The Best (And Worst) Records On Thanksgiving

1st Superman Comic Book

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Superman Comic for $9.12M

Google

Google Denies Claims That It’s Reading Gmails to Train Its AI – And the Dead Sea isn’t salty either

Islam

History Shows Us the Three Phases of an Islamic Takeover [VIDEO] – the end of the story is the same, death, destruction and peoples lives destroyed. Get those Burkas ready

Economics

More Relief on the Way as Economic Wins Bring Savings to Gas Pump, Thanksgiving Table – Make America Great Again

WNBA

WNBA Star Admits That Elite 8th Graders Could “Probably” Beat WNBA Players – She’s not wrong. It’s why no one takes it serious. It already happened to the Womens US Olympic Soccer team

Trannies

Gender-Benders Shellacked by Truth in HHS Report

Censorship

“Absolutely Breathtaking” – Exposing The Censorship Industrial Complex’s Power Grip In Germany – Is anyone afraid of the 1930’s in Germany yet?

Clean Energy

Waste Of The Day: California’s Clean Energy Investment Doesn’t Pay – There isn’t much about the climate scam that is working the way they said it would.

GOP 2028 Poll

New Poll Shows Front-Runner of 2028 GOP Primary and It’s Not Even Close

You Get More Introverted With Age, According to Science

We all become more introverted as we get older, even the most extroverted among us. Of course we do

I’m a classic introvert, but in my teens and twenties, it was normal for me to spend almost every weekend with friends. Now, in my thirties, the perfect weekend is one with zero social plans.

And I’m not the only one socializing less these days. My extroverted friend, for example, used to run through her entire contact list, calling friends whenever she was alone in the car. She told me she hated the quiet, the emptiness, because being alone felt boring.

You know, for the whole 10–15 minutes it took to drive to the grocery store. Oh, the horror.

These days, I can rarely get her out for brunch or coffee. She’s content spending most nights at home with her husband and two kids. And I haven’t gotten one of her infamous calls in years.

So, what gives? Do we get more introverted as we get older?

Probably, says Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking — and this is actually a good thing. Let me explain.

Why We Become More Introverted With Age

In a post on Quiet Revolution, Susan Cain confirmed my suspicions: We tend to act more introverted as we get older. Psychologists call this “intrinsic maturation.” It means our personalities become more balanced, “like a kind of fine wine that mellows with age,” writes Cain.

Research also shows that our personalities do indeed change over time — and usually for the better. For instance, we become more emotionally stable, agreeable, and conscientious as we grow, with the largest change in agreeableness happening during our thirties and continuing to improve into our sixties. “Agreeableness” is one of the traits measured by the Big Five personality scale, and people high in this trait are warm, friendly, and optimistic.

We also become quieter and more self-contained, needing less “people time” and excitement to feel a sense of happiness.

Psychologists have observed intrinsic maturation in people worldwide, from Germany to the UK, Spain, the Czech Republic, and Turkey. And it’s not just humans; they’ve observed it in chimps and monkeys, too.

This shift is why we slow down as we get older and begin enjoying a quieter, calmer life — and yes, it happens to both introverts and extroverts.

Becoming More Introverted Is a Good Thing

From an evolutionary standpoint, becoming more introverted as we age makes sense — and it’s probably a good thing.

“High levels of extroversion probably help with mating, which is why most of us are at our most sociable during our teenage and young adult years,” writes Susan Cain.

In other words, being more extroverted when you’re young might help you form important social connections and, ultimately, find a life partner. (Cue the flashbacks to awkward high school dances and “welcome week” in college.)

Then, at least in theory, by the time we reach our 30s, we’ve committed to a life path and a long-term relationship. We may have kids, a job, a spouse, and a mortgage — our lives are stable. So it becomes less important to constantly branch out in new directions and meet new people.

(Note that I said “in theory.” In my 30s, I still don’t have kids, a mortgage, or a wedding ring. These days, we have the luxury of not following evolution’s “script.”)

“If the task of the first half of life is to put yourself out there, the task of the second half is to make sense of where you’ve been,” explains Cain.

During the married-with-children years, think of how difficult it would be to raise a family and nurture close relationships if you were constantly popping into the next party. Even if you don’t marry or have kids, it would be hard to focus on your career, health, and life goals if you were always hanging out with friends like you did in your teens and twenties.

Once an Introvert, Always an Introvert

But there’s a catch: Our personalities only change so much.

In my book, The Secret Lives of Introverts, I like to say that our personalities may evolve, but our temperaments remain constant.

This means that if you’re an introvert, you’ll always be an introvert, even at 90. And if you’re an extrovert — though you may slow down with age — you’ll always be an extrovert.

I’m talking big-picture here: who you are at your core.

Research supports this idea. In 2004, Harvard psychologists Jerome Kagan and Nancy Snidman studied individuals from infancy into adulthood. In one study, they exposed babies to unfamiliar stimuli and recorded their reactions. Some babies got upset, crying and flailing their arms and legs; these were labeled “highly reactive” to their environment.

Other babies remained calm around the new stimuli; they were the “low-reactive” ones.

When Kagan and Snidman checked in with these individuals later, they found that the “highly reactive” babies often grew up to be more cautious and reserved, while the “low-reactive” babies tended to stay sociable and daring as adults.

The bottom line? Our core temperament — whether cautious or sociable, introverted or extroverted — doesn’t change dramatically with age.

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An Example: Your High School Reunion

Consider, for instance, your high school reunion.

Let’s say you were very introverted in high school — perhaps the third-most introverted person in your graduating class. Over the years, you’ve grown more confident, agreeable, and comfortable in your own skin, but you’ve also become a bit more introverted. If you enjoyed hanging out with friends once a week in high school, maybe now in your thirties, you’re content with seeing them only once a month.

At your ten-year high school reunion, you notice everyone has slowed down a bit, enjoying a calmer, more stable life. But those who were very extroverted in high school are still much more extroverted than you.

You’re still approximately the third-most introverted person in your class — but now the whole group has shifted slightly toward the introverted side.

And that’s not a bad thing. In fact, it might be exactly what we need to flourish as adults. If there’s one thing we introverts understand, it’s the deep satisfaction of a quiet life.

Source

My take, I just had my 50th high school reunion. I never even considered going. I enjoyed it immensely.

What’s your favorite month of the year? Why?

What’s your favorite month of the year? Why?

January, actually December 26th. That’s when the world goes back to normal, and they stop playing all the same songs I’ve been hearing in the stores since October.

You can have too much of a good thing, and that is what they’ve done to Christmas, overdone it. I’m for the real meaning of our Savior being born, but people who don’t even care about that go overboard. It started in September with the Christmas decorations at the Home Improvement stores, and they are already up. Thanksgiving is next week.

It’s hard for introverts to process all the attention. We also know that for most people, it is fake. They act all happy and joyful, then get in their cars and cut you off and give you the finger.

All the production around it excites some, but drains introverted people. By the time we get to Christmas, our social battery is dead, and it’s hard to function. Look at the post a few below this on introvert hangovers, and that is what I’m talking about.

The holiday season is tough for some. Fake joy doesn’t make up for it. Too many people takes it out of me and I can’t wait for it to be over.

Different Headlines: AI China Toys Telling Children To Do Twisted Things; GLP-1 Side Effects From Vomiting To Life Threatening; New Lucifer Bee Discovered, Horns And All (on the females); The Left Want A Civil War, But Forgot Who They Will Be Fighting….and more

AI Toys From China

AI Toys From China Collect Biometric Data From Children and Instruct Them to Do Extremely Dangerous and Twisted Things

GLP-1 Weight Loss Side Effects

Weight Loss Jabs Like Ozempic and Mounjaro ‘Linked to 170 Deaths’ – Including Adults in Their 20s – Yet concerns are growing over the side effects, with milder ones including headaches, vomiting, and diarrhea.

In more serious cases, GLP-1s can cause gallstones, kidney stones and inflammation of the pancreas, with some doctors warning of ‘life-threatening complications’.

Nature

New Nightmare Just Dropped: Scientists Discover Horned “Lucifer” Bee – So the male bees are totally cool and lack stingers, and the females have stingers and devil horns?

Hmmm…you don’t say. It’s always the girls that are the devils.

The Real troublemakers tearing America apart

‘F-ck Your Dead Homie’: Violent Antifa Mob Terrorizes Attendees of TPUSA Event Honoring Charlie Kirk at UC Berkeley – Haven’t you got something better to do? Or are you being paid to protest? Here’s your hint, it’s the liberals, Antifa and the socialists.

Climate

Reality Caught Up to ‘Climate Change’ – Greed for AI power is more important that the carbon lie. Bill Gates pulled the rug out from under the Green New Scam

Air Travel

‘It Hurts Our Feelings’: New Jersey Flight Attendant Of 11 Years Shares All The Things Customers Do That Flight Attendants ‘Hate’—You Might Be Guilty Of The ‘Stretching’ One – what a whiner. You signed up for the job. The travelers overpaid for their tickets for usually poor service and late arrivals. If you don’t like it, learn to code. Oh, that’s right, you’re a stewardess. Every job sucks that deals with people, but you chose it.

Cost of living around the world

Visualizing How The Cost Of Living Differs Around The World

Inflation and Tarriffs

150 Years Of Data Destroy Democrat Dogma On Tariffs: Fed Study Finds They Lower, Not Raise, Inflation – NBADJT

Child Welfare Mistreatment

193 Youth in Care of Illinois’ Child Welfare Agency Missing in 2025 – How the F do you lose 193 kids?

Incompetence

San Fransicko’s Newly Appointed Supervisor Resigns Over Pet Store Controversy – I took one look at her and knew she was a loser

Civil War

Too Many Americans Want a Civil War – First of all, Katie Couric is a F’n idiot. Second, Antifa and the left don’t know that hunters have been practicing with camo and high powered rifles since they were kids. A lot of us had to fight real fights, not the pussy name calling they are used to. The are in for a nice Sunday Surprise if they try it

How Is This Legal? Drinking and Driving In Florida

‘How Is This Legal?’: Tampa Bay Woman Pulls Up To Drive-Thru. Then She Proves Why Florida ‘Isn’t A Real Place’

If you know, you know: Florida is more than a glorious, sun-drenched vacation land. It’s a weird and chaotic, semi-lawless-feeling place dangling off of the edge of America. And for Maddy (@maddy.1414), who lives in Tampa Bay, that is exactly why she swears it’s not even a “real place.”

In a TikTok video that’s been watched over 689,000 times, Maddy spotlights one of the quirkiest, most counterintuitive things about life in Florida. And shockingly, it has nothing to do with alligators or the Brightline. It’s all about drive-thru drinks. 

One For The Road, Literally

“Florida is not a real state,” says Maddy in the intro to her video. Sure, she’s going hard, but she promises to back up her claim with evidence. The video then cuts to her ordering at a drive-thru. “Can I just get one espresso martini?” she says.

A voice replies, “Yeah, sure thing.”

She pulls around to the window. But while waiting, she speaks directly into the camera again. “OK, if you know me, you know that I always say Florida isn’t a real state because you can do things here that you shouldn’t be able to legally do,” she says.

MY STORY FROM YEARS AGO

When a stupid youth in high school and college, I remember going through the brew-threw to get a six pack for the beach or wherever I was going. They were available in Orlando and along the beach. We had fake IDs and just cruised in and out. The best thing I ever did was move out of that state. That meant splitting a six-pack to the beach and another one on the way home. It was only a one hour drive away. I could have blown the limit by double, which was higher back then. That business made a killing. We’d have to wait in line for our turn, it was so busy, any time of day. I think they finally passed a law to stop it, but I haven’t been there in years.

How I’m alive is beyond me.

Now, when I see a Florida tag in my current state, I steer clear because I know it’s a bad driver. The minute you cross the border from Georgia, people pass in the right lane. The old people get into the fast lane and drive slowly. They also drive into pools in South Florida fairly regularly

Now, If I have to go out with my brother-in-law to dinner, he has a cocktail, a bottle of wine, and an after dinner drink. I gave it up 30 years ago, yet he drives because I don’t know where I’m going where they live, and he thinks he’s a big shot. How he doesn’t have a DUI or a broken neck is beyond me. It’s why I avoid my family when possible. I also won’t drive with him anymore.

If I’m a cat, I’ve used up 8 lives.

Feeling Drained? Here Are 12 Signs You Have an Introvert Hangover

An introvert hangover can leave you feeling exhausted, making you want nothing more than to escape to a quiet place alone.

Does this sound familiar?

You’ve spent the whole day with your friends or family. You’ve had a great time eating, playing games, and catching up. But now, you’re so exhausted you can barely see straight, while everyone else seems as energetic as ever. In fact, they’re already setting up the next game as you’re wondering how you can slip out the door.

The next day, after the event is over, is no better. You might have a headache, and your body may feel sore and drained, almost like the onset of the flu. You’re tired — so very tired.

If this resonates with you, you might be experiencing something we call an “introvert hangover.”

What Is the Introvert Hangover?

Introvert, Dear writer Shawna Courter coined the term “introvert hangover” in this article to describe the exhaustion she felt after celebrating Christmas with her in-laws. She writes:

“An introvert hangover is a pretty terrible thing to experience. It starts with an actual physical reaction to overstimulation. Your ears might ring, your eyes start to blur, and you feel like you’re going to hyperventilate. Maybe your palms sweat. And then your mind feels like it kind of shuts down, building barriers around itself as if you had been driving on a wide open road, and now you’re suddenly driving in a narrow tunnel. All you want is to be at home, alone, where it’s quiet.”

Yes, the introvert hangover is real. It’s a funny term that describes the serious social burnout many introverts experience, marked by significant mental and physical fatigue.

Here are 12 signs that you might have an introvert hangover, which I discuss in more detail in my book, The Secret Lives of Introverts. You don’t need to experience all these symptoms to have one, and your symptoms might vary.

Signs of an Introvert Hangover

1. Every little thing gets on your nerves.

When you have an introvert hangover, even small annoyances can overwhelm you. Normally, you might brush off a sarcastic comment from your partner or stay calm when you misplace your keys — but not in this state. An introvert hangover can make it feel as though your head is so full it might burst, leaving no room for even the smallest extra bit of information. Because you’re so tired, you may find it hard to control your emotions.

2. You struggle to make decisions.

Even small decisions become difficult. Paper or plastic? Pumpkin pie or cherry? Normally, these choices wouldn’t be hard, but when you have an introvert hangover, your brain is so tired that it doesn’t function properly. For bigger issues, you might find yourself obsessively thinking about the situation to the point of frustration. You’re searching for that one piece of information that will show the right way forward, but because you’re so exhausted, your mind can’t focus enough to find it.

3. You can’t think clearly.

Similar to the previous point, you’re so tired that it feels like your mind is processing everything in slow motion. You might struggle to recall details of things you should easily know, like your daily schedule, where you left your phone, or even common passwords.

4. Your speech changes.

You might speak slower, with unusually long pauses between your words. Sometimes, you might use words that are close to what you mean but not quite right — for instance, “dessert” becomes “candy” and “where’s my coat” becomes just a vague gesture. You might even seem a bit intoxicated, even if you haven’t had much or any alcohol. You might slur your words together, mispronounce them, or both.

5. You feel physically unwell.

Some introverts report experiencing headaches, muscle aches, upset stomachs, or other physical symptoms.

6. You’re tired.

Like, really tired. It feels like you’ve just finished an intense workout at the gym. If someone offered you a quiet spot to nap, you’d accept it immediately. After the social event, you find yourself collapsing on the couch, skipping your usual evening routine, or heading straight to bed.

7. You’re zoning out.

You find it hard to focus. Someone might be speaking, but you’re not absorbing their words. Your expression may appear blank, sad, or even angry, but you’re not necessarily upset. Your mind is simply wandering, perhaps lost in thought or daydreaming.

8. You feel anxious.

For some, an introvert hangover can intensify their anxiety. In social situations, they might feel particularly nervous, worried about how others perceive them and concerned they might say or do the wrong thing. They may also find themselves overthinking a particular decision, unable to escape an anxious thought spiral due to their fatigue.

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9. You feel depressed.

An introvert hangover can also trigger feelings of depression. You might find yourself overwhelmed by pessimism and cynicism, questioning past decisions, and experiencing dark thoughts. Everything in life may seem bleak or not okay.

10. You’re not acting like yourself.

You might be quieter or not as cheerful as usual. Something seems off, and those close to you are likely to pick up on it.

11. You can’t handle small talk anymore.

When you’re experiencing an introvert hangover at a social event, you might find it hard to keep up with conversations. You’ve run out of small talk. Your mind is just too tired to think of anything polite or interesting to say.

12. You have an intense desire to be alone.

When you’re dealing with an introvert hangover, all you crave is solitude. Whether it’s sneaking off to the bathroom during a social gathering or cozying up in your pajamas afterward, you just need some time for yourself. For introverts, there’s nothing quite like the comfort of being alone after a hectic day or social gathering.

What Causes an Introvert Hangover?

Research shows that everyone eventually gets tired from socializing, including extroverts. Socializing requires energy, and after a while, everyone reaches their limit. However, introverts experience social burnout more quickly and intensely.

Why is this the case? Introverts are generally more sensitive to noise and other forms of stimulation compared to extroverts. Their dopamine systems are less active, meaning that an overload of dopamine — the “feel good” neurotransmitter — can leave them feeling tired and overstimulated. In contrast, extroverts often feel energized by the same levels of dopamine, which can help them push past social fatigue.

To learn more about why introverts need time alone and why they get easily drained from socializing, click here.

The Cure for an Introvert Hangover

The best way to recover from an introvert hangover is to spend time alone in a peaceful, quiet environment. Do your favorite self-care activities or hobbies — anything that helps uplift your mood and energy. For introverts, solitude is as essential as food and water.

If you can’t be completely alone, look for small ways to take a break. You could listen to soothing music with headphones, go for a walk, or find a quiet corner to read. Even short breaks can make a difference.

As introverts, we might feel pressured to fit into a society that often values extroverted behavior. You might worry that prioritizing your needs could inconvenience others or hurt their feelings. This pressure can lead you to hide or deny what you really need, causing more stress.

Remember that your needs as an introvert are valid. It’s perfectly okay to leave a party early or to spend time alone. Your needs are real and deserve respect.

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The holiday season is here. It’s the worst 2 months of the year for me. What is telling is that as soon as the presents are opened, people go right back to the other 10 months of the year.

I cringed when I saw the decorations for sale in September, and they started going up 50 days before Christmas near me. My energy started draining on the spot

Different Headline: 5 Descendents of Di Vinci Did Extrordinary Things; Diet Coke Addiction Worse Than Imagined; Cadillac or Rolls Royce For The Same Price?; Marrying An AI Husband; Master Internet Trolling…..and more

Food Addiction

‘As A Former Diet Coke Aholic, It Is So Hard To Give It Up’: Delta Flight Attendant Says First-Class Passenger Asked For Strange Request. So She Complied—And Got $35 For It – That stuff is poison

Dad Humor

‘I Would Die’: Florida Woman Borrows Her Dad’s Shirt, Starts Getting Compliments From ‘Old Men.’ Then She Reads The Back Of It

Introverts

‘Do They Know Introverts Exist???’: New York Man Chooses To Enjoy His Lunch Alone Instead Of With Co-Workers. He Didn’t Expect It To Cost Him His Job – What a crappy company

Covid PPP Fraud

Democrat Ex-Lawmaker Who Heckled Trump Convicted in Covid Fraud Scheme – Stupid is as stupid does. Can’t keep his trap shut

Cars

Would You Rather Spend Over $400K on a Cadillac Celestiq or a Rolls-Royce Ghost? – I wouldn’t spend $8 on a Cadilac.

Internet Master Trolling.

Dana Perino Lets Commiela Harris Know What Game She Was Really Playing Against Trump (Not ‘3-D Chess’) – I wonder if Kamala even knew she got trolled

Artificial Intelligence

People Are Now Having AI “Children” With Their AI Partners – It’s best this way. People like this don’t need to bring real children into the world

Euginics

Silicon Valley Elites Pump Cash into Banned Genetically Modified Babies Research

Didn’t they try this in the 1930’s in Germany? Stop trying to play God.

Racism

Michelle Obama’s Bigoted Book Tour – She lived the privileged life while lying, whining and hating white people. She drank top shelf booze and wasted millions of taxpayer money on her vacations that she took friends and family on. What and ungrateful and bigoted bitch. She picked the most dumbassed topic to harp on. No one really cares about her, nor do they care about her looks.

DNA

Five Men Spent Their Lives Doing Extraordinary Things… Turns Out They Were Da Vinci’s Secret Descendants… – It was the Y Chromosome passed down.

Marrying an AI Husband

Bride weds AI-groom she created using ChatGPT in dual real-life and virtual reality ceremony – psycho-chicks. Men are better off if she stays with the fake husband instead of ruining the life of a real life man.

Cars

Locked Out: How Big Auto Could Destroy the Used-Car Market – The stakes are enormous: 273,000 repair shops, 900,000 technicians, and 293 million vehicles could be affected.

Islam

The European Tragedy Comes to America – It’s the same war that’s been fought since 610. They ruin every country they invade, either by immigration or war.

Covid and Wuhan Labs

U.S. Spy Agencies Had Ties to Wuhan Scientists Years before 2020 Covid Pandemic Began

Different Headlines: AI Is At An Inflection Point For Humanity; 1 of 1 McLaren Car Art In Vegas; Porsche Barn Find; The Last Fart Lamp In London; Why ChatGPT Is Full Of Nonsense; Arkancide – Someone Had Sex With Hillary; Many Instances Of Liberal White Women Ruining Any and Everything They Touch……and more

Porsche

This Porsche 911 Targa Was Buried Under Pine Cones for 31 Years Until Now

Artificial Intelligence

AI Is the Inflection Point for Humanity

Marxism for losers

Blaming Boomers Is Generational Victimhood for Losers

Childish Humor While Being True

Today I Learned About The Last ‘Fart Lamp’ In London And You Should Too

Bastketball Records

The 9 Most Unbreakable College Basketball Records – Not any by the new 1 on 1 showboating types.

Problems with SNAP

Broken System: 500K People Get SNAP Benefits Twice, Plus 5K Dead People Are Still Getting SNAP [VIDEO] – fix this, get rid of the illegals and it will help the people needing help.

Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT Is Full of Nonsense – of the engines I use, it’s easily the worst and most biased, but then it has a lot of Google in it so I’m not surprised.

Obamacare Built in Cost Increases

Sen. Fetterman On Affordable Care Act Subsidies: Dems ‘Designed Those Tax Credits to Expire’ – They knew they were screwing us from the start. Well Nancy Pelosi, you voted for it and we found out what was in it, screwing the American public

Liberal White Women

Gallup: Nearly 4 in 10 Young Women Want to Leave US – go then, you’ll be making both of our lives better. Gen Z guys are more conservative so they don’t want you either.

Arkancide

Clinton Body Count: Epstein Email to Disgraced Journalist Alleges Hillary Had Sexual Affair with ‘Suicided’ Vince Foster – so the evidence points at Hillary, but the real question is who would want to have sex with her?

Feminism ruining females

What Is Stealing Women’s Childbearing Years? – you go girl, have everything you want, until you realize life passed you by while you thought you were ruling the world

Pandora’s Box is open

Seattle’s New Socialist Mayor Goes Full Communist, Says She Won’t Allow Private Grocery Stores to Close – put a liberal white woman in charge and you are screwed.

Car Art

One-Off McLaren 750S Turns Las Vegas Into Automotive Art

Schadenfreude

Starbucks Workers Launch Strike on Chain’s Biggest Day of the Year – I have a Schadenboner. Maybe people that can’t afford it will stop buying that bat piss.

Food Scenes In Movies

Ranking The 16 Greatest Food Scenes In Movie History – I had food fight from Animal House as my number 1.

What was your favorite subject in school?

What was your favorite subject in school?

I’d like to say that I was dedicated to a job goal in school, but I just tried to get good grades, like it or not. I was only interested in either getting into college or getting a job, but there wasn’t any subject that blew wind up my skirt.

I was small and the youngest kid in my class due to the birthday cut off, but I enjoyed PE class because it was a break from studying. It’s tough being the youngest and usually the smallest. Once I caught up to the other kids, I held my own and even kept up with the team athletes at the end.

It was the break from the monotony of class that made me enjoy it.

The valedictorian and salutatorian were in my chemistry class. They ruined the curve for everyone. The kids always messed with their experiments, and they could never figure out why they didn’t get the results that they were supposed to, although their write ups got them the A’s they strove for. Neither went anywhere in life.

The real smartest kid placed 3rd behind these two shrimp girls because he took weightlifting in PE and got a B, his only one ever. I give him credit for sticking his neck out in life. Straight A’s got a lot of people nowhere, but life lessons did.

Which brings me to my greatest learning in school. I had to try harder in everything. I was so young that social things, intuitive to others, were a hard learned lesson for me. It was tenacity over talent in everything. If I’d known that I was an introvert, I could have used my observation skills even more. What I did was just intuition back then.

So while it was the toughest subject for me, life was the class I studied the most. I had to figure everything out without someone to show me how. Like the Bob Seger song, I was working on mysteries without any clues. It was the best lesson I learned.

I wound up playing Tennis for my college, the only sport I made the team on. I was president of my fraternity and dated a cheerleader. None of that really mattered to me then. I expected it after all that I’d been through. I worked hard enough to get the job that opened doors to people and travel, and the success I’d defined for myself.

As it turns out, my 50th reunion was last weekend. I didn’t go because I never related to the other kids, or wanted to. They were just people I learned from, mostly what not to do or how to act.

At high school graduation, I vowed that I’d be more successful by any measurement. A few became actors, pro sports athletes, or a doctors here and there. As I’d come across their stories before I ditched Facebook, the pinnacle of life was high school for them. It was all downhill from there. I was just starting, but the seeds of motivation to succeed were planted and fertilized. I’d met my goal set way back in high school.

Life was the best class. It had nothing to do with the classroom.

I will say that my German teacher was hot and not that much older than me. Why didn’t they throw a high schooler a break like they do now?

Millions Of America’s Teens Are Being Seduced By AI Chatbots, Including Encouraging To Commit Suicide

Our kids are being targeted by AI chatbots on a massive scale, and most parents have no idea that this is happening. When you are young and impressionable, having someone tell you exactly what you want to hear can be highly appealing. AI chatbots have become extremely sophisticated, and millions of America’s teens are developing very deep relationships with them. Is this just harmless fun, or is it extremely dangerous?

A brand new study that was just released by the Center for Democracy & Technology contains some statistics that absolutely shocked me…

A new study published Oct. 8 by the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) found that 1 in 5 high school students have had a relationship with an AI chatbot, or know someone who has. In a 2025 report from Common Sense Media, 72% of teens had used an AI companion, and a third of teen users said they had chosen to discuss important or serious matters with AI companions instead of real people.

We aren’t just talking about a few isolated cases anymore.

At this stage, literally millions upon millions of America’s teens are having very significant relationships with AI chatbots.

Unfortunately, there are many examples where these relationships are leading to tragic consequences.

After 14-year-old Sewell Setzer developed a “romantic relationship” with a chatbot on Character.AI, he decided to take his own life…

Read more here

Here’s a Parent’s view of how AI killed their son.

“ChatGPT killed my son”: Parents’ lawsuit describes suicide notes in chat logs

Over a few months of increasingly heavy engagement, ChatGPT allegedly went from a teen’s go-to homework help tool to a “suicide coach.”

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, mourning parents Matt and Maria Raine alleged that the chatbot offered to draft their 16-year-old son Adam a suicide note after teaching the teen how to subvert safety features and generate technical instructions to help Adam follow through on what ChatGPT claimed would be a “beautiful suicide.”

Adam’s family was shocked by his death last April, unaware the chatbot was romanticizing suicide while allegedly isolating the teen and discouraging interventions. They’ve accused OpenAI of deliberately designing the version Adam used, ChatGPT 4o, to encourage and validate the teen’s suicidal ideation in its quest to build the world’s most engaging chatbot. That includes making a reckless choice to never halt conversations even when the teen shared photos from multiple suicide attempts, the lawsuit alleged.

“Despite acknowledging Adam’s suicide attempt and his statement that he would ‘do it one of these days,’ ChatGPT neither terminated the session nor initiated any emergency protocol,” the lawsuit said.

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The robots always kill the humans.

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13 Things Introverts Find ‘Horrifying’

1. When people call — and a text or email would have been more than sufficient.

As an introvert, I am frightened by people who call when a text or email would be more than sufficient. There is a certain anxiety that comes with an open-ended conversation, since phone conversations are expected to take longer than the 10 seconds necessary to transmit the information. This anxiety is compounded by the lack of visual cues during a phone call that are vital to us introverts, but are often summarily ignored by extroverts. 

–Steve

2. Not being able to exit an intense social setting.

The thing that horrifies me the most is not being able to exit an intense social setting. If I am somewhere and don’t have an out, my stress level skyrockets. I need to know that I have a way to step out or leave so I can recharge. 

–Lou

3. Networking events. Period.

Networking events are made for extroverts who gain energy by being around people and engaging with them. However, for most introverts, networking events are generally uncomfortable and terrifying — we find it hard to be open and let strangers into our lives. We are atrocious at small talk, and it is challenging to establish rapport with new people. For us, networking is definitely out of our comfort zone and ranks as one the top scary things for introverts.

–Albert

4. Being put on the spot.

My biggest fear is of being put on the spot to say something in a group or public setting when I’m not prepared. That feeling of all eyes turning to me to say something off-the-cuff really makes me uncomfortable! 

–Jen

5. Two words that strike intense fear into my heart are “overnight stay.”

I may be an introvert, but I love people. I can have a great time seeing friends and family and love spending time together over a few drinks and board games. But if we need to stay overnight? That’s when anxiety sets in. Keeping up the social energy in the morning, not knowing when we’ll be able to duck out and find some respite — these thoughts embed themselves into the back of my mind, which makes socializing that much harder.

–Mike

6. First dates terrify me. 

First dates terrify me because of my aversion to small talk and awkward silences. I can talk to someone online, no problem, but face-to-face? I make very weird small talk because I’m nervous. The terror is, I see the date and he’s not who I’m interested in when I meet him in person. Then I just want to leave as quickly as possible, so the small talk becomes even more painful. I just sit there, in anxious terror, and blurt out the first thing that comes into my head, whether it’s appropriate or not. 

Prime example: I went out on a one-date-wonder a few years ago. We met for lunch, he didn’t appeal to me in person, awkward silence ensued. The only thing I thought to say was: “Armadillos are the only other mammal that contract leprosy from humans.” (I learned that factoid in fifth grade and who would have thought it’d stick with me 35 years later?!) He looked at me in horror and I fled. I never heard from him again — whew!

–Lisa

7. Public speaking scares me to death. 

Any sort of public speaking scares me to death as someone who is basically a career introvert. It doesn’t matter if I’m leading a meeting of three participants or speaking to a larger audience, the thought of being the center of attention in any way, shape, or form truly terrifies me. It’s kind of like a fear of heights — you don’t understand it truly unless you suffer from it. All of the workarounds don’t seem to work, and I just manage it by avoiding it as much as possible. 

–David

8. Getting trapped in a social commitment that goes on for hours.

There’s nothing more frightening than getting trapped in a social commitment that can prolong for hours (like public speaking or large parties). I prefer shorter engagements when my energy levels are higher, but once things drag on, it becomes impossible to focus and incredibly uncomfortable! 

–Sara

9. Having roommates — thus having to be social all the time — is an introvert’s worst nightmare.

The one thing that scares me a lot is living with my friends permanently. While I enjoy socializing, after a while, I am mentally drained and need time to recharge. If I had to live with friends, I’d feel obligated to be social all the time and that would be mentally stressful for me as an introvert because I wouldn’t have “space” to get away from them. You’re stuck living in the same place, and I feel that would be pretty unbearable.

–Roger

10. My biggest fear is being embarrassed.

As an introvert who avoids social interaction at nearly all costs, my biggest fear is being embarrassed. When I’m in public, I usually become solely focused on how I look to other people, what others think of me, and the assumptions they make of me. In the past, it’s affected everything from the way that I walk to the comments I make to even the tone of my voice. It can be kind of brutal, but it’s something I’ve learned to deal with. Staying out of the public eye seems to help with that.

–Mike

11. I feel my introversion can scare off a romantic partner.

One thing that scares me is that being introverted and very independent could cause damage to my relationship or scare them off. 

–Lauren

12. I fear being alone forever because of my introversion.

We all need love and companionship, but as an introvert, I don’t like feeling like I have to compete for “airtime” in social gatherings. I love my alone time, but still want a solid group of loved ones. 

–Tolu

13. I find it horrifying when my work manager announces, “Let’s have a team-building exercise today.”

I call myself an introvert, as I am someone who enjoys alone time, would rather stay home than go to a party on weekends, and I regain energy by spending time away from people. 

The one thing that terrifies me is when my work manager announces, “Let’s have a team-building exercise today.” Though we introverts tend to be team players — as we are all about deep work and being invested in the goals of the group — when it comes to group or team activities, it scares us. Team-building exercises involve interacting with people, small talk, and, in some cases, having the spotlight on you alone. These are all things my introverted self dreads and runs away from.

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12 doesn’t bother me, and I pretty much have gotten over being embarrassed, but the rest are true. I have to face number 5 on Thanksgiving with a houseful of extroverts.

I got told that I have to take care of some adolescents that I’m related to next summer and the anxiety has already set in.

Different Headlines: Divorce Because His Dick Was Too Big, Sex Spies From China And Russia, Stopping Woke With AI, Democrats Using The KGB Handbook, Quantum Computing Qubits, $100 Million In Real Estate Sales For New Yorkers Moving To Miami Because Of The Election……and more

Education

Why Great Teachers are Fleeing the Classroom

Climate Scam

Only 3% of international climate aid going to transitioning communities – ‘Just one in 50 of the approved projects’ met criteria, a ‘jaw-droppingly’ low figure

Stopping Woke With AI

How To End ESG, DEI, and H1B with AI

How Democrats Are Using the KGB Handbook

I believe this is the Democrat playbook.

Quantum Computing

Encoding Photonic Qubits – it’s a good discussion of how things work in that world. At one point, the world thought the telephone was too complicated, yet now it is ubiquitous. I don’t see it being on anyone’s phone in the near future, but we’ll be using this technology, even if in the background and we don’t know that we are.

The 5th Column

Mamdani’s Socialist Org Makes Progress Flooding Local Offices With Radicals Across US – I’ve maintained that if the US gets defeated, it will be from within. Between this and the left coast, they are working towards each other. Wait until they pick a fight with the Rednecks in the south.

why radical islam votes left – soon, it will be too late when they realize who the Muslims really are.

Mamdani Says The Quiet Part Out Loud After Completing Takeover Of NYC

With Mamdani’s Win in NYC, Class Warfare Politics Have Arrived – nothing that the Government can’t solve he says. When have they solved anything?

SNAP

RON HART: SNAP Benefits — Where Reality Checks Often Bounce – the average female SNAP recipient weighs over 200 pounds. The average woman not on SNAP, 145. Oh SNAP!

Election

NYC election fears drive $100M+ Florida real estate surge as ‘nervous’ New Yorkers flee south – for the record, Miami isn’t the south. It’s the Southern borough of NYC and has been forever. The real south ends north of Orlando and probably north of Florida by now.

Spying

‘Sex spies’ from China, Russia hit US to seduce and steal secrets with honeypot tactics, fmr operative warns – Ask Eric Swalwell about Fang Fang. He’s the new Benedict Arnold

Divorce

Model Haley Kalil Reveals Her Marriage To Former NFL Player Ended Because He Was Too Well-Endowed – And the shocker is he’s a white dude. No one has ever given me that excuse before.

Different Healines: Quantum Computing, Wireless Radiation Causing Memory Problems, How Blackrock Lost Half A Billion, Adults Who Build LEGO Rooms, How AI Threatens To Erase Reality…..and more

Quantum Computing:

PIC Summit Europe 2025: Leaders Gather to Debate How to Scale Photonic Chip Industry for Quantum – If they can agree, the future of a lot of things is about to get much faster and more powerful. People I worked with at IBM are on this and they are now driving this, although we’ve all left the company.

Wireless Radiation

Soaring Memory Problems in Youth Linked to Unprecedented Wireless Radiation Exposure – Kids are losing their memory because they are on devices too much. Go outside and play.

Media

Just When You Thought It Wasn’t Possible to Hate the Media More – It’s always possible to hate them more. Trust me, I worked with them for decades.

Murder

Lesbian Couple Accused of Tortured 12 Year Old Boy Until He Died – some people are evil, they deserve Justice

Fraud

‘Breathtaking’ Fraud: BlackRock Ripped off for $500 Million in Curious Case of Bankim Brahmbhatt – How do you lose $500 Million when you are an investment and finance company?

Strip Clubs, Sex Changes, Rental Aid: What One Lawmaker Found in Medicaid Spending Shocked Him

Covid-19 Vaccination

Discussion on Covid “Vaccination” Should Be Non-Controversial – Ok, I’ll start. It’s not safe, not effective, not tested, forced on people or they get fired, turbo cancer, Myocarditis….Oh and Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine cured it for about .10 a pill. How’s that?

Capitalism

Capitalism’s Popularity Falls Below 50% as Socialism Spreads Among Democrats – It’s never worked in the history of man, yet they are going to try it again. NYC is leading the way down the toilet of breadlines.

Stellantis Expands in the US, as Germany’s Deindustrialization Accelerates – One economy grows freely while the other is constricted by policies not based on logic, and it shows. Green is the new woke

Scott Bessent Points Out What’s Gone Unnoticed During Shutdown Which Could Stave off Recession – Cut Government spending and GDP grows. Not so simple economics, but facts are facts. Take that Gen Z who want socialism. Get a real life education and stop being financial retards.

Refusing To Grow Up

They Tear Down Walls and Hire Architects to Make Room for Their Lego Worlds – fun, but tedious and I always lose the smallest piece when needed.

Health

Starved and Poisoned: The Dual Crisis of Decreasing Trace Minerals and Rising Heavy Metals in Our Soils – paying for the irresponsibility or ignorance of prior generations.

U.S. Obesity Rate Drops to 37%: 7.6M Fewer Obese Adults Amid GLP-1 Surge – of course you could put down the fork and the wine and accomplish the same thing.

A Celebtard That Woke Up To Reality

Jennifer Lawrence Says Criticizing Trump Adds ‘Fuel to a Fire Ripping the Country Apart’ – Hollywood is made up of a bunch of lemmings that march in step. It’s refreshing to see one that woke up to reality. The rest like Kimmel, DeNiro and Harrison Ford are delusional.

Artificial Intelligence

How AI Programming Threatens to Erase Reality – Red pill or blue pill? We are closer to the Matrix than you think. What do you think Mr. Anderson?

Cars

Porsche Reveals the Secret Boxster That’s Been Shooting Its Fastest Cars – how they get those great shots of cars

Climate Fraud and Activism

Bill Gates’ New Priorities May Trigger a Seismic Shift in Climate Activism – It was a money laundering hoax anyway

Bias And Depopulation

Reprogramming the West: Why Anti-Family Propaganda Always Looks White – Who is it that hates white, Judeo-Christian, straight families? Of course I point the finger at WEF who want to rule over everyone. They could be the top hate group of all time.

Rent Prices By State

Mapped: Median Rent Price by u.s. State – Don’t come from a blue state where your prices are higher because of what you voted for and then try to change it. It’s why the prices are lower in most of the Red states. I lived through this when I grew up in Florida. I heard, it was so much better in New York. Well, go back to NY. You’re in Florida now and it’s not the same. Fortunatly, I don’t live in either.

Is there an age or year of your life you would re-live?

Is there an age or year of your life you would re-live?

When I was single in Miami. I was in a place that was great to be solo. I had friends to do stuff with. The beach was minutes away. Life was just starting for me, so everything was an adventure. We went deep-sea fishing, clubbing, and I came home to a house that occasionally had roommates. Mostly, I was able to come and go as I wished.

When it was time to move on in a relationship, that was easy too. They would just become after W in the alphabet.

Health was easy. I was in shape for free by just being young. We were fearless and what felt like immortal. We could do anything and there would always be tomorrow.

My friends and I had season tickets to the Dan Marino Air Force show. Every game was 5 touchdowns, and I even partied in the stands with Don Shula’s daughter.

Then, I grew up. In the words of Toby Keith, I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.

Now, it’s you ain’t much fun since I quit drinkin’.

Can Father’s Pass On Their Fitness To Their Children?

We’re told we get our mitochondria from our moms, and that’s true.

In humans, mitochondrial DNA is almost exclusively maternally inherited. Sperm mitochondria do enter the egg, but they’re typically tagged for destruction—marked and cleared by mitophagy so the embryo keeps mom’s mitochondrial line.

But even though mitochondrial DNA comes from mom, dad’s workouts before conception may still shape a child’s endurance capacity and metabolic health, not by passing on his mitochondria, but by sending tiny sperm microRNA messages that tune early embryonic gene regulation.

In a new study, exercising fathers produced offspring with greater endurance and more mitochondria, an effect that tracked to sperm small RNAs that suppress a “molecular brake” on PGC-1α, the classic mitochondrial biogenesis switch.

The findings reframe preconception health as a two-parent story—mom supplies the mitochondria, but dad’s training status can still program how those mitochondria are used.

Untrained offspring inherit their father’s fitness

For the study, male mice completed 8 weeks of progressive endurance exercise training on a treadmill, a program that successfully enhanced their fitness. Compared to their untrained peers, they were leaner, had higher bone mineral density, superior endurance, greater energy expenditure, increased mitochondrial abundance, more fatigue-resistance type I muscle fibers, and (at the molecular level), increased expression of PGC-1α—the master metabolic regulator.

This better fitness and endurance showed up in their offspring. When male mice trained before conception, their offspring (who never trained) ran longer and farther (with lower post-exercise lactate levels) than mice from sedentary fathers, and their leg muscles looked like those of trained mice, with more slow-twitch/oxidative fibers, higher mitochondrial enzyme activity, and visibly more mitochondria.

They also mirrored their fathers’ body composition, with higher lean mass, lower fat mass, and improved bone mineral density compared to offspring of sedentary fathers. Metabolically, endurance-trained offspring exhibited higher oxygen consumption and burned more calories throughout the day.

Put on a high-fat diet, offspring of exercising fathers had better blood sugar control than those of sedentary fathers. Skeletal muscle was pinpointed as the main driver. Their muscles pulled in more glucose, stored more glycogen, showed stronger insulin signaling, and had more of the glucose transporter GLUT4.

Endurance capacity (B and C) and energy expenditure (D) in offspring of sedentary (blue) and endurance-trained (red) male mice.

PGC-1α’s crucial role

A complementary experiment showed the same effect without any treadmill training.

Fathers engineered to overexpress PGC-1α—the muscle’s “fitness switch”—passed on endurance benefits even when the transgene wasn’t inherited. Offspring that did inherit the transgene had a 31% higher peak VO₂ than controls, and even the wild-type littermates (whose fathers overexpressed PGC-1α but who lacked the gene themselves) showed a 14% increase in peak VO₂. Even when pups did not inherit the genetic tweak, they still showed the endurance and mitochondrial advantages, set up through a non-genetic mechanism.

Small sperm RNAs carry the message

Researchers isolated RNA from the sperm of exercising fathers and injected it into normal embryos. This alone recreated the full package of fitness and metabolic benefits in otherwise standard offspring, who had a leaner body composition, better endurance, and more mitochondria in their muscle.

The tiny RNAs worked by dialing down an embryonic brake called NCoR1, a corepressor that acts as a brake on PGC-1α-driven mitochondrial biogenesis. Exercise and elevated PGC-1α in fathers produced a shared signature of altered sperm microRNAs, several of which target NCoR1.

Injecting just one of those microRNAs (miR-148a-3p) into standard embryos reduced embryonic NCoR1 and was enough to produce adult mice with higher endurance and more oxidative muscle.

Body weight (B) and glucose tolerance (C and D) in offspring from sedentary (blue) and endurance-trained (red) male mice fed a high-fat diet.

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Fitness-forward genes are conserved in humansTo test whether this pathway shows up in people, the researchers compared trained and untrained men. The trained group had markedly higher aerobic capacity (VO₂max of ~63 vs. ~53), confirming a meaningful endurance phenotype before looking at sperm biology.
They then profiled the same exercise-responsive sperm microRNAs highlighted in the mouse experiments. Of the ten miRNAs consistently elevated after paternal exercise or PGC-1α activation in mice, seven are conserved in humans and all of them were significantly higher in sperm from the trained men.
Is that amount of microRNA enough to matter at fertilization? Maybe. The study estimated ~830 vs. ~2,779 copies per sperm in sedentary vs. exercised males. Prior work suggests ~100 copies per cell can repress targets—so these amounts are plausibly active during the earliest embryonic stages.
In short: endurance training is associated with the same conserved sperm-miRNA pattern in humans and exercised mice, making it biologically plausible that a father’s training status before conception could influence early embryonic gene regulation (even though child outcomes weren’t measured in this study).

DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2025.09.003

The importance of parental exercise

Unsurprisingly, most of the research on parental habits and childhood health has focused on the role of the mother before and during pregnancy—her body weight, what she eats and drinks, and other lifestyle habits she engages in or avoids. That’s especially true when it comes to exercise. The role of the father, however, is a bit more hazy.

For moms, randomized controlled studies show that exercise during pregnancy reduces the risk of pregnancy complications (macrosomia, abnormal vaginal delivery, C-section) and lowers the odds of gestational diabetes, hypertension, and preeclampsia—which pose short- and long-term health risks for mother and newborn.[1][2] There’s also possibly autonomic and neurodevelopmental advantages, for example, better language and cognitive development in children at age 2 and 5 if their mothers exercised regularly.[3]

For dads, human evidence is limited to molecular-level studies such as the one discussed today—we don’t have much information on long-term outcomes after paternal exercise, even though the mechanistic plausibility is there.

But we do know that fitness can be passed down. VO2 max trainability (how much one can improve their fitness via training) is estimated to have 47% heritability, and even endurance performance measures like lactate threshold show significant parent-offspring resemblance—highly trainable and fit parents are likely to have fitter, highly trainable kids.[4][5] Part of this is environmental, but part is also genetic. It’s not just fitness either—parents (particularly fathers) who are highly active have children who are more likely to be highly physically active throughout childhood and into adulthood. While this might reflect modeled lifestyle habits rather than inheritance per se, there’s likely a genetic component at play too.

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