Jason Bailey

If you don’t know one of the couples… You might be one these couples!

Here’s a list of the six most annoying couples at a cookout, from MSN Living.

1.  The Grill Masters.  They’re the ones who take over the grill and make sure everyone knows about it.  If you try to do it your own way, they tell you what you’re doing wrong.  And if you let THEM do it, they STILL have to explain it in detail.

2.  The Sharers.  This is the lovey-dovey couple who share everything . . . they eat from the same plate, they take sips from each other’s drinks, they try each other’s desserts.  And they sit on each other’s laps, even when there’s lots of space.

3.  The Boozers.  These two are great for an hour or two.  They bring lots of alcohol, they mix drinks for everyone.  But halfway through the party they’re already trashed.  And then they start fighting, or they split up and complain about each other all night.

4.  The Performers.  These two want to make everything into a reality show.  They make sure everyone knows it what they’re doing, and every conversation is either bragging about themselves, or gossiping about someone else.

5.  The Health Nuts.  These two won’t eat anything that anyone else brings, and they ask you to scrape off the grill before they can cook their veggie patties.  Worst of all . . . they DON’T DRINK.

6.  The Superiors.  These guys think they’re somehow better than everyone else.  You ask them to bring bratwursts, and they come with artisan sausage.  They probably only came because they see your party as an interesting sociological experiment.

Tonight on The Voice… more Knockout rounds and Brittany Kennell is on Team Blake and she hopes she can make it through to the live show. Check out the full interview here:

If you missed here performance in the Blinds round here it is:

And She killed it in the Battle Round:

The collective brilliance of the Internet continues to amaze me. There’s a video on YouTube where a guy mows his lawn . . . but without actually doing any work. Read More »

With all the strides we’ve made in technology, you’d think we’d have figured out how to avoid this by now.

According to a new survey, 40% of us have injured ourselves trying to get through hard-to-open packaging in the past two years.

Products that are encased in hard plastic are the most difficult to open, and cans are the most dangerous. And anything that requires you to peel away a specific piece of plastic . . . like on a CD . . . also causes problems.

89% of us have used scissors to open something . . . 66% have resorted to using a knife . . . 8% have used a box cutter . . . 6% used a screwdriver . . . and 2% have tried bashing through the packaging with a hammer.

It’s so frustrating that 19% of people say they actually avoid certain products because they’re too hard to open.

This might be old, but there’s a video going around of a “Man” freaking out over a dead rodent in his living room while his kids watch. Read More »

And now, a survey to make you feel completely inadequate. A clothing company called Austin Reed surveyed 2,000 women to figure out the qualities that make up the “perfect man.” See how many of these 26 criteria you meet . . .

Physical. Six feet tall. Muscularly toned and athletic. Brown eyes. Short dark hair. Smooth chest. Clean shaven. Good fashion sense, but gets ready in 17 minutes or less. Wears jeans and a v-neck sweater.

Habits. Non-smoker. Prefers beer over wine or cocktails. Admits when he looks at other women. Eats meat.

Education, Career, Money. College degree. Earns more than you . . . approximately $76,000-a-year. Drives an Audi.

Hobbies. Loves shopping. Watches football. Can swim and ride a bike. Knows how to change a tire. Has a driver’s license. Likes dramas and reality shows.

Other Emotional Stuff. Calls his mom twice a week. Says “I love you” only when he means it. Is sensitive when you’re upset. Has a good sense of humor. Wants a family.

Do you know the names of the people who live next door to you? Or, have you ever screamed at the people next door to you, and suggested bad things might happen to them if they weren’t careful?

According to a new survey, 25% of people admit they don’t know their neighbors’ names.

About the same percentage . . . 23% . . . have gotten into a fight with a neighbor in the past five years, or felt threatened by them.

Noise was the biggest reason for fights, at 37%. The other main reasons were arguments about parking, pets, and children.

And about 6% of people say they’ve never even seen the people who live next door to them.

We’ve seen plenty of reports on how innocent things you touch every day are filthy and germ-infested. And here’s another one, to keep you on your toes.

According to a study by a company called Initial Washroom Hygiene, the average computer mouse is three times filthier than a toilet seat.

They also found the average keyboard, office chair, desk, phone, and elevator button are more germ-covered than a toilet too.

Four out of 10 desks had at least one item with extremely high levels of bacteria.

The germs can include things like staph and E. coli . . . so wash your hands before you eat.

It’s April Fools’ Day! And if you want to pull a prank at your office today, there’s still time. Here are five April Fools’ office pranks that require little or no preparation. Read More »

You might think your grandparents are clueless because they can’t program the DVR or video chat. But they know how to do a lot of stuff that you don’t. Here’s a list of seven skills most people don’t have anymore.

1. Cooking from scratch. Not following a recipe, but actually improvising with food. Before microwaves and TV dinners, people just had to know how to work with what they had, and make it taste good.

2. Sewing. Also crocheting, quilting, darning, needlepoint, and all that related stuff. If we have holes in our socks, we throw them away. Your grandparents actually sat down and fixed them. Men too . . . they had to do it by themselves in the Army.

3. Canning. A couple people do it now if they’re really into home gardening. But fifty years ago, just about everybody did it.

4. Ironing. It used to be that you would iron everything off the clothesline. Now we just iron dress clothes, and most of the time we don’t even do it right.

5. Meeting people in person . . . by talking. A lot of us meet new people online nowadays. When we’re out in public, face to face with real people, we IGNORE them . . . so we can stay online instead.

6. Haggling. Before everything was sold in chain superstores, people used to haggle a lot. Now you never even get to try, except on Craigslist and at the car dealership.

7. Writing letters. Your grandparents used to write beautiful letters all the time, with pen and paper, and mail them in envelopes. The writing you do on Facebook and Twitter . . . your grandparents would have called that being illiterate.

And they’d be right. A recent study found that 67.3% of Facebook posts are written at a fifth grade reading level or lower.