Advice
Last week we talked about cleaning up your dating headline, turning it from a repulsive beast into a stunningly attractive belle of the ball. This week in BCU How Tos, we thought it a good idea to discuss the REST of your profile. Whether you're on OBC looking for a hot night out with a …
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Best Feature to Compliment Online: LIPS
It is interesting to me, that at the ripe old age of twenty-something-something (don'tworryaboutit), men my age seem to still be mentally incapable of finding a solid middle ground in the world of flirting. Some go the awkward no eye contact half-smile "hello," and others tend towards borderline-sexual assault in public.EITHER WAY, this absolute inability …
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How To: Survive December
img via topnews.in I remember as a kid, I loved December. I always had an advent calendar, you know those cardboard things with the doors with chocolate things inside, and we'd get a Christmas tree and bake cookies and hang stockings and everyday until the Christmas Eve seriously lasted an ETERNITY. And then you hit …
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Engagement Ring Store Advice
"Hahaha! Look at this sign that was hanging near a urinal in the bathroom of an engagement ring store. OMG. I can't believe they would say that! This is hilarious. I would totally move to Bali and yes, start my bach- wait... What? Forlorn? Emotionally vacant? Well, that's not an exactly accurate portrayal of bachelorhood, …
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Profile Picture Don’ts: Asking Your Mom to Help
Look. We women appreciate a guy who takes care of his body. We like someone who has a close relationship with their family. We definitely like a man who seems to have decent enough pride in cleanliness. However, those three things can easily be true in and of themselves without being in a photo together. …
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Halloween Dos and Don'ts
Well, its BCUs last post before the Halloween weekend, so instead of providing you the normal Three Things You Have to Do This Weekend, we've decided to give you a little more advice with some dos and don'ts for this most debaucherous of weekends. Take heed, because this is your last big party holiday until …
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American Men Think They're Better in Bed Than They Really Are
Sometimes I'm researching for BCU and I'm like, you know what we haven't talked about in a long time? Obviously Obvious News! And then I'm like, well maybe that's because the world has finally stopped reporting on utterly inane sh-t because it realizes that all that does is further our communal stupidity level and stop …
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Your Profile Picture: A Lesson In Latitudes
We're halfway through National Singles Week and decided to make this a bit of an educational day. HEY SIT BACK DOWN RIGHT NOW, DUMMY. Don't leave. I promise you this information is good. We've been doing a lot of browsing on OBC recently, checking out all the hot singles that have joined recently (there are …
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National Singles Week: Day 2
It's day two of National Singles Week, and since we started off your morning with a depressing tale of unhappy marriages and divorces and grown women who can't read, we thought we'd brighten your day with your daily National Singles Week tip! Today's tip: Nighttime Grown Up Scavenger Hunt! Because we should all be celebrating …
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National Singles Week is Here!
In honor of Unmarried and Single Americans Week, which started yesterday and goes until Saturday, BCU is going to update once a day with a hot idea for all of us smarter-than-the-average-bears out there who have made the socially, environmentally, and fiscally brilliant decision to stay single. From workout trends to vacation hotspots to entertainment …
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Weekend To-Dos: DON'TS
Despite the fact that this week was a full 5 day week, and the last two weeks were 4 day weeks, somehow the past 5 days went by really, really fast. And here we are, at Friday, and I have to come up with a TTYHTDTW on the spot and I'm sleepy and feel like …
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Weekend To-Dos: SUMMER'S OVER
We didn't get a chance to dictate your weekend last week because the BCU staff got a miraculous 4 days off for the holiday. It's okay to be jealous, we won't judge. Needless to say, this sad two day weekend is going to be a smack in the face, but we've still got a few …
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Booty Economics
With the unemployment rate hovering just below 10% these days, we're all lucky to even have a job, whether it be at a fast food joint or a clothing store or as a fart-joke-loving blogger pretending to know about fantasy football when she clearly only watches the sport to admire the spandex-clad butts. We should …
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Weekend To-Dos
Welcome back to this week's edition of The Three Things You Have to Do This Weekend. This week: Super F---ing Hot Outside edition. Expect your activities to be a feeble attempt at forgetting that we're all currently living inside my mother's rice cooker. 1) Pool-Pong Assuming you don't live in my labor camp of an …
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And That's Why You Always Do A Background Check
Let this be a warning: Always ask yourself, is this really a photo I'd be okay with the entire universe seeing? Because whether there be a suspicious looking gadget, blatant proof that you shouldn't have procreated, or a major example of TMI, SOMEONE from lamebook will find it, save it, and keep it for the …
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Amy Winehouse is Back and Also, 5 Reasons to Cut Back on Booze
Amy Winehouse is back! As you can tell, this look is classic Amy. The frighteningly distended stomach and shirt pulled up to her boobs, complemented by the same ballet flats she's been wearing since the beginning of time. Oh and of course, she's looking fabulous PASSED OUT ON A F***ING BENCH IN LONDON AT NINE …
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Relationship Insecurity Can Lead to Heart Problems
Reason 4,598 people should avoid long-term relationships: they might give you a heart attack. Relationship insecurity (n): the constant fear that you're not good enough and your partner will cheat, and extreme fear of rejection. Assuming you aren't some sort of AI robot (and if you are, please consider me a friend when you take …
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Most Awkward Post-Hook Up Conversations
After watching the hilarious video below featuring comedian Peet Guercio discussing quite possibly the most uncomfortable post-hookup e-mail (e-mail?! Really?!) ever to be sent ever, we began thinking about our own awkward post-hook up stories so you know to avoid them. Keep this post bookmarked for future reference, because you know it's gonna happen eventually. …
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Best Break Up Techniques
Breaking up is hard to do, so Neil Sedaka said, and we agree, except in times when an entertaining, out with a bang break up is necessary. Perhaps you caught your SO in a tryst or have finally realized that without some sort of catastrophic event, your relationship will never end and you'll be stuck …
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A LITERAL Teabag
A friend and I got into a heated debate over coffee a couple days ago over a very important issue: the teabag. No, not green or jasmine teabags and their homeopathic healing powers, but the kind of teabags that dudes give each other after one of them has passed out drunk. I, using my powers …
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