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Red Flag Alert! How to tell when you’re dating a loser

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 3, 2012

Web Watch has spent enough time out at bars and restaurants to recognize when a date seen across the room is heading in the wrong direction.

It could be a subtle sign, like a couple sitting at the table not talking to each other or engrossed in their cellphones instead of each other — or it could be something a bit more blatant, such as a heated discussion that slowly escalates to the point where the whole room is involved in some manner.

Heck, even when if comes to married life, we know plenty of couples who should have seen the writing on the wall well before the divorce papers were a conversation topic… if only they had asked us for our honest opinion of where we thought their relationship was heading.

Tags 10 Things, dating, How To, Relationships, website

10 Things Book food

The 5 Grossest Foods You’re Eating RIGHT NOW

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 2, 2012

Web Watch isn’t the best to tell you what you should or shouldn’t be eating, most likely because we would never listen to a thing we say about this (“do as we say, not as we do” doesn’t apply to us, it seems).

But our good friends over at EAT THIS, NOT THAT have come up with a list of the FIVE GROSSEST THINGS YOU’RE EATING that will probably make you think again about the crap that you’re putting into your body every day.

Tags 10 Things, diet, food

10 Things How To shopping

How does the average American spend their paycheck?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 1, 2012

Web Watch remembers the old adage when we were just starting out to be able to sustain ourselves on our own.

“When you make your budget, you should always devote 1/3 to housing, 1/3 to transportation, and 1/3 for everything else.”

Now, we may not have been able to follow that breakdown exactly, but it’s not necessarily that far from the truth of how AMERICANS ACTUALLY SPEND THEIR PAYCHECK. Especially if you take into account the need for saving some money for retirement or a rainy day, that ratio may be better split into quarters:

“devote 1/4 to housing, 1/4 to transportation, 1/4 put away in the bank/IRA/investments, 1/4 for everything else”

That seems to be closer to the truth. Let’s take a look at how the average 48-year-old spends their average $63,091 annual salary (before taxes):

Tags 10 Things, alcohol, budget, business, How To, money, Save Money, shopping

10 Things Funny

14 Worst Stripper Names

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 31, 2012

Web Watch has been reading the diary of the ANGRY STRIPPER, and has been quite amused by what Sarah has written thus far.

Who would have thought that dancers would have this much pent-up anger that forces them to write, write, write about their experiences and observations?

It does help when the stripper in question really is a writer, but that’s another post for another day.

Tags 10 Things, business, career, dancing

10 Things How To

Contrary to popular belief, “women’s business networks” don’t always work

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 30, 2012

Web Watch has been a member of any number of work-related groups and networking circles.

Usually, they serve some greater purpose in advancing one’s career via seminars and learning opportunities.

But the networking aspect of them always felt a little… off.

Very clique-ish, especially from an outsider’s viewpoint looking in. If you didn’t already know someone who knew someone, your ability to join in all the fun and reindeer games would be similar to what you probably went through in high school, with the same insecurities in trying to make it in with the In Crowd.

Tags 10 Things, business, career, gender, How To, jobs

Funny TV

The NEW GIRL GUIDE TO NAKED ANIMALS. (There’s a word for that.)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 29, 2012

FOX’s TV show NEW GIRL has become one of this season’s more entertaining programs.

While it started slow, with an unnecessary emphasis on the adorkable Zooey Deschanel, it has grown into itself as the audience (and show writers) have gotten to know all the other characters that inhabit Jess’ 30-year-old life.

One recent episode had Jess wondering how to describe what she saw, when she saw one of her roommates’ friends urinating in their shared, co-ed bathroom.

Tags bathroom, naked, Party Talk, TV, Winnie the Pooh

10 Things Science

It’s true: women hate beards

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 28, 2012

Women: do you like your men clean-shaven, or with some sort of facial hair?

Oh, don’t kid yourself.

We know that you’re going to say that you like the casual, rough look of a slightly unshaven Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt or George Clooney.

But really, that’s just a cop-out. Let’s compare apples to oranges here, and keep your choices to (a) clean shaven, and (b) a full-on, minimum 6-week’s worth of growth, manly man beard.

Which of those scenarios do you prefer?

Tags 10 Things, grooming, Relationships, survey

10 Things

20 things that people misplace the most

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 27, 2012

How often do you lose your keys or your sunglasses?

In the Web Watch household, it’s almost a daily occurrence. Hey, it happens to everyone, right?

One thing that we’ve learned over the years is that no matter how lost something is in your immediate environment, everything will always turn up eventually. It may not be when you most need it, but everything does show up somewhere down the road.

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