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  • 10 New Year’s Resolutions Everybody Sucks at Keeping That Have Nothing to Do With Losing Weight

    New Year’s resolutions are fun. They’re also notoriously hard to sustain, and ultimately we only come up with them because other people do and we hate it when we’re at dinner and going around the table and we don’t have shit to say. So here are things many of us say that we know aren’t…

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    Panama Jackson

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  • 7 Great Reasons to Be a Petty MFer: The Holiday-Season Version

    Way back yonder, we brought you the list of “7 Great Reasons to Be a Petty Motherfucker” in hopes of spearheading a #LoveYourselfEvenInYourPetty movement. While it looks like the movement is already in full swing, it’s always good to have some justification for one’s petty. Well, friends, Christmastime brings up a whole SLEW of other…

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    Panama Jackson

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  • Steph Curry Is Petty As …

    While he is known for raining 3-pointers from long distances and handling the rock with as much ease and agility as Donald Trump manipulates throngs of Appalachian Caucasian rallygoers, until this week, very few people knew that Stephen Curry is also highly regarded as one of the pettiest motherfuckers on the planet. In two separate…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • A Petty Ranking of the Most Annoying Types of Co-Workers

    Co-workers are basically the Tyrese of our professional lives. You can’t live with them and you certainly could live without them. No matter your career there’s a strong possibility you’ve encountered some pretty annoying people in your quest to make a dolla. And while all co-workers and their endless stash of Lean Cuisines are pretty…

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    Chevonne Harris

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  • Is There a Method to Being Messy? The Do’s and Don’ts of Airing Dirty Laundry

    Is There a Method to Being Messy? The Do’s and Don’ts of Airing Dirty Laundry

    It was the “hell hath no fury” moment many women have had … and even more wish they’d had. A good, old-fashioned read for an utter and complete filth-of-a-no-count man and his side hustle—broadcast for the salacious awe and delight of anyone active on black Twitter. With a single post titled, “Open Letter to My…

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    Maiysha Kai

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  • 20 People, Places, And Things Still Somehow Less Petty Than Janet Hubert

    Early Monday morning, Jada Pinkett Smith logged onto Facebook to tell the world that we should all boycott the Oscars because the Academy didn’t see it for Will Smith’s interpretation of an Igbo accent. That same MLK day, “Blacktress” Janet Hubert popped open her MacBook, picked her favorite filter on photobooth, poured some of her…

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    Shamira Ibrahim

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  • 7 Great Reasons To Be A Petty Motherfucker

    Between Meek Mill, Cornel West, and general niggadry everywhere, pettiness is having the best week ever. Oh, and me too. Let me tell you how. So recently on Twitter, somebody that I know but barely interact with was RTd into my timeline. That’s retweeted for you old people. Which means somebody tweeted something, and somebody…

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    Panama Jackson

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  • 50 Cent Is The Worst Type Of Person: Powerful And Petty

    I will not pretend to know exactly what happens when a person files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Sure, I can read about it on the internet. And the internet will tell me that “when a business is unable to service its debt or pay its creditors, the business or its creditors can file with…

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    Damon Young

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  • A Message To The Person(s) Using My Netflix Password

    Gotchabitch. Actually, let’s back this train up a bit. Relationships are great. They’re great for all of the big things like plus-ones to events that suck to go to by yourself (like weddings, movies, and the all you can eat buffet at CiCi’s Pizza), but they’re also great for the minor and mundane things. Such…

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    Panama Jackson

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