The Truth About This Special Time In Your Life

According to what we remember from pamphlets geared towards 6th-grade girls, puberty is regarded as one of the most awkward and scary stages in a person’s life. It’s a time of horrifying physical transformations, scary new feelings, and growing interest in activities that you are still not old enough to engage in legally. Common symptoms of puberty include: braces, frizzy hair, baby fat, having a crush on 8th grader Steve Julius, blinding body odor and lame extracurricular interests like the violin or Bedazzling.

However, if personal experience has taught us anything, it's that there are experiences in life far more awkward, scary and pathetic than puberty. Here is a list of things that are:


WORSE THAN PUBERTY

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Friday, July 9, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: Are these things worse than puberty?

1.) Searching the free craigslist ads for necessary furniture.

2.) Searching craigslist ads for anything.

3.) When your friends on facebook post ads looking for babysitters for their kids and offering to pay double what you currently earn to spend a week with them in the Hamptons. I mean, is this what life has come to?

4.) Seriously considering quitting your job and becoming a professional nanny because you know they have more earning potential than you currently do.

5.) Having to think about things like your earning potential because you are now a responsible adult and not married to an sick but generous, old, rich man.

Friday, July 2, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: Are these things worse than puberty?

1.) Planning your life (including your work schedule) around the release date of Twilight movies.

2.) Having a really dreamy guy in your small office who does not acknowledge your existence in any way shape or form, not even for a traditional platonic morning greeting. Does this mean we aren't soul-mates???

3.) Reading a good quote and immediately thinking about how profound you will look when you post it on facebook or as your gchat status.

4.) When your favorite author is actually a blogger who writes about reality TV shows. Richard Lawson from Gawker, holla!!!

5.) Getting star-struck talking on the phone with a beautician whose videos you've watched on youtube.

6.) When the friend you're talking to has bad breath.

7.) Realizing, too late, that YOU were the bad-breath friend

8.) When the back of your legs stick to and/or sweat on plastic or leather chairs

9.) Actually considering arch support.

10.) Being told you're "too old" for the Chuckie Cheese.

Friday, June 25, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: Are these things worse than puberty?

1). When, despite your expensive college degree, your job consists of running errands for the office secretaries, effectively ranking you lower than an unpaid intern.

2.) Being 25 and getting jealous of the interns your friends manage who make $15 an hour watching movies all day.

3.) Looking into buying a monokini for the summer because, at the age of 25, your body is too old and gross to really be exposing all that much skin in public.

4.) Sending an email to all your friends in a certain city telling them you'll be in town and you're excited to see them, only to get no replies.

5.) Thinking that "everytime" is a legitimate English word on the grounds that it was in a title of a Britney Spears song.

6.) People who need glasses and refuse to wear them

7.) Hipsters' insistence on glasses that make them hideous. I speak of the granny-glasses.

8.) When large girls where very, VERY short skirts.

9.) Morning breath

10.) That all healthy diets cut out all the best foods.

Friday, June 18, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: Are these things worse than puberty?

1.) Meals made of the last 3 random ingredients in your pantry because you are too lazy to go to the supermarket.

2.) Disgusting dishes you made after being inspired by Top Chef only to realize you are not qualified to do anything in the kitchen but occasionally operate the microwave.

3.) Not knowing how to spell basic words.

4.) Not knowing how to spell basic words even though you majored in English.

5.) Shirts with any kind of written message on them.

6.) Playing Mah-Jongg on your computer

7.) Losing Mah-Jongg to your computer

8.) Cramps

9.) Having a black thumb (re: plants)

10.) Literally, having a black thumb. Shouldn't you see a doctor about that?


Friday, June 11, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: Are these things worse than puberty?

1.) Getting one of those enormous flies in your house during the summer that you can't get to leave and just buzzes loudly around the room incessantly.

2.) Being so hot during the summer that you start sweating immediately after taking a shower.

3.) Waking up in a panic and thinking that you forgot to set your alarm for work when it's actually your day off.

4.) Waking up peacefully and thinking it's a day off only to realize you have work.

5.) Days when you have to work.

6.) Everything about TGI Friday's

7.) Actually EATING TGI Friday's

8.) Knowing your pet hates you

9.) Becoming some weird inter-species version of that pubescent kid who tries WAY too hard to get the cool kids to like him in your effort to overturn your pet's hatred of you

10.) Spray Cheese

Friday, June 4, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: Are these things worse than puberty?

1.) The fact that Fifty Cent is at my goal weight.

2.) Hitting your goal weight and then getting "comfortable" and putting all of it back on.

3.) Owning an old lady muumuu... which you wear... on a daily basis.

4.) Actually passing by a hideous discount clothing store with old lady muumuus in the window and thinking to yourself: "I want the floral pink one with snaps down the center."

5.) Having an entirely separate wardrobe of comfortable/home clothes you know you can never wear in front of any other human being who isn't genetically related to you out of fear they will reject you.

6.) Wearing those clothes in front of others, anyway.

7.) Realizing that people significantly younger than you are now allowed into your bars.

8.) Women who date for money

9.) Not being able to just get over it, already, and date for money.

10.) Heel blisters

Friday, May 28, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: ARE THESE THINGS WORSE THAN PUBERTY?

1.) Creepy guys at the gym.

2.) Not being able to tell if a guy is being creepy or just going about his daily business with you being overly suspicious.

3.) Humidity.

4.) Road rage.

5.) Not experiencing road rage because you are 25 and don't have a driver's license.

6.) The Sex and the City sequel

7.) Bug bites between your toes

8.) Being incredibly excited about planting your own vegetables this year, but knowing that excitement isn't enough to overcome a black thumb.

9.) Bloating

10.) Blaming bloating when we all know it's a real 5 pounds.

Friday, May 21, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: Are these things worse than puberty?

1.) Reading a guy's blog as seeing how horrifying the inner workings of the male mind can be.

2.) When the male blog you are referring to actually belongs to someone in your close social circle, not some obnoxious guy you've never met.

3.) Thinking, incorrectly, that you have high privacy settings on your facebook account only to realize all your pictures and information was made totally public without your knowledge.

4.) Committing to moving to a place for years that you know in advance will be cold, dreary and miserable.

5.) Meeting a 50 year old with nicer and less wrinkly skin than you.

Friday, May 14, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: Are these things worse than puberty?

1.) Wearing a short, flowly skirt on the windiest day of the year.

2.) Finding out only after you've consumed something that it had an ingredient you are allergic to.

3.) Knowing that you could find out one way or another whether you suffer from life-threatening medical issues you suspect you might have with a simple, routine test but not being able to afford to do any of those tests because of a lack of health insurance.

4.) Researching "itchy heart" on webmd.

5.) Researching anything on webmd.

6.) Planning on eating item X in your fridge and only realizing when you pull it out that it is moldy/wilted/otherwise inedible.

7.) Eating it anyway

8.) The coffee shakes

9.) Being deeply involved in programs no one else has heard of

10.) Being the person who tells an involved story about those programs despite every else's utter lack of interest

-Posted by Karla and Jilly

Friday, May 7, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: Are these things worse than puberty?

1.) Getting a haircut and still spotting hundreds of split ends right after.

2.) Being so anal retentive that you focus on how many split ends you have.

3.) When your pet would rather lie motionless and undisturbed on the hard ground than cuddle with you.

4.) Realizing that your pet is not the only living thing out there that feels this way about you.

5.) Realizing that, among the other living things that would rather lie motionless and undisturbed on the hard ground than cuddle with you, are 98% of adult human males.

6.) Allergies

7.) Cleaning up because family is in town, only to realize that they had no intention of stopping by your place during their stay.

8.) The smell of burning hair.

9.) Being in a situation where you've managed to burn your own hair in the first place.

10.) Realizing that, on the increasingly fewer nights in your life where you overindulge, your hangover payments will only get worse and worse.

Friday, April 30, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: Are these things worse than puberty?

1.) Trying to steal the internet connection from a Bolt bus that is riding along side you while you sit in your Fung Wah headed non-stop to Chinatown.

2.) The fact that the only thing to eat along any US roadway is McDonalds.

3.) When you run into someone you recognize but were never actually friends with and you have to force conversation.

4.) Running into someone while eating something kind of embarrassing that is probably all over your teeth.

5.) People who think they are successful on the grounds that they married someone rich.

6.) Knowing that, at least insofar as "happiness with your life," those people are right.

7.) Allergies

8.) Using your days off to catch up on your Netflix instant queue.

9.) Book deals for marginally funny internet phenomenons.

10.) Being more invested in "The Tudors" than your currently lame life.

Friday, April 23, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: Are these things worse than puberty?

1.) The way that the brothers and sisters of celebrities are always similar but unsettling versions of their famous sibling.

2.) People who work at TMZ and think their jobs have value.

3.) The amount that you spend a year on barely used cosmetics and beauty products.

4.) When your pet is bothering you non-stop and you can't understand why for hours and then you realize that its bowl of water has been dry all day.

5.) When your pet is bothering you non-stop and you can't understand why for hours and then you realize that it's because you locked it in a room by mistake.

6.) When your pet doesn't bother you, something you find out some days or weeks later when you pick up a strangely ammonia-scented pile of clothing.

7.) The acting on made for TV movies.

8.) Knowing a lot about said acting because you watch quite a few of sais made for TV movies.

9.) Self-tanner, and those who self-tan.

10.) Being called "racist" for poking fun at the self-tanned (see: Achieving John Boehner's Tan, specifically the comments)

Friday, April 16, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: Are these things worse than puberty?

1.) Seeing a nasty split-end in your hair but not being in a position to do anything about it because you don't have a scissor or because you are in public.

2) Noticing the start of wrinkles and loss of collagen at 25.

3) Spending a small fortune on anti-aging eye care which you already know has no noticeable effect.

4.) Not having had a hair cut in about 6 months because $60 every 6 weeks is too much of a commitment for you.

5.) Knowing that your hair doesn't react well to bangs but being talked in to getting them every 3 years to disastrous results.

6.) Static cling at inappropriate times.

7.) When old men suddenly switch from charming and sweet to creepy.

8.) Being asked what sort of beer you're drinking...at 10:47 AM...at work.

9.) Sorta wishing that your answer to that question wasn't "iced tea."

10.) The fact that Blossom clothes are apparently "trendy" once again.

Friday, April 9, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: Are these things worse than puberty?

1.) Dressing in light clothing for what you have been led to believe will be a warm and sunny day only to spend the entire day really cold and avoiding shade.

2.) Dressing in heavy clothing for what you have been led to believe will be a cold day only to spend the entire day sweating and carrying around a winter coat like a jackass whose never heard of weather.com.

3.) Timed lunch hours.

4.) Friends who have high paying jobs where they can take full afternoon lunches and nobody cares while you get your pay docked for every minute of lateness.

5.) Umbrellas that are not broken enough to completely throw away but are just broken and misshapen enough to embarrass you as you use it.

6.) Actually bothering to fix a broken umbrella.

7.) Missing a show that got canceled more than the friends you don't see much.

8.) Canceling a date with those friends just to make sure you catch that show.

9.) The smell of rotten dairy.

10.) Gladiator sandals.

Friday, April 2, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: Are these things worse than puberty?

1.) Finding out through In Touch magazine that your husband collects Nazi memorabilia and myspace skanks.

2.) Having a husband that collects Nazi memorabilia and myspace skanks.

3.) Myspace skanks.

4.) Myspace.

5.) People who mistakenly think facebook is still a step-up from Myspace.

6.) Having a beautiful day unexpectedly to yourself, then realizing you don't know what to do with it.

7.) Knowing that, even if you ever make real money, you'll still care about the cost per unit comparisons at the grocery store.


8.) Even knowing what the cost per unit comparisons at the grocery store are.

9.) Spending hours making a toy for your pet only to realize said pet won't touch it.


10.) Having spent hours making a pet toy at all.

Friday, March 26, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: Are these things worse than puberty?

1.) Not understand the logistics of social networking software so you end up friending someone you actually wanted to block.

2.) Having people in your life that create so much drama that blocking is a legitimate tool.

3.) When you block someone because it is just too emotionally taxing to have them around in your life but then finding out the other person never even realized they were blocked because you don't mean enough to them for them to stalk you.

4.) Social networking in general.

5.) The fact that a terrible Justin Timberlakey movie is being made about the heinous troll-like beginnings of facebook.

6.) Having "your thing" suddenly become trendy, making you look like a trend-ho.

7.) The sort of cleaning that takes you an hour and a half to do, but which no one notices (i'm looking at you, freshly-dusted slat blinds).

8.) Wet socks.

9.) Bloating

10.) Trying to tell yourself it's just bloating, even though you know it's 5 pounds.

Friday, March 19, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: Are these things worse than puberty?

1.) The fact that all my favorite shows are on Bravo (as opposed to PBS or the history channel).

2.) When your must-watch show for the week is "Millionaire Matchmaker."

3.) Seriously considering signing up as part of the "Millionaire Matchmaker" dating pool (on the poor side though, not as one of the millionaires).

4.) Having to pretend that you have actual professional goals in your life during job interviews or application essays.

5.) When the only professional goal you can come up with in life is "to be Oprah-rich."

6.) Poppy seeds between your teeth - why even sprinkle them on things? They're minefields!

7.) Books with the movie-still cover.

8.) How amazing Alec Baldwin is.

9.) Tastes that teeth-brushing can't eradicate.

10.) Knowing that, because you write incredibly black humor, your friends and family are often more uncomfortable than proud to see your bylines.

Friday, March 12, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: Are these things worse than puberty?

1.) Being featured on this website.

2.) Getting really psyched to be sick because it puts you one step closer to that goal weight!

3.) Having ugly pets and knowing that pets always look like their owners.

4.) People with horrible hair who don't know it.

5.) Having horrible hair, knowing it, but choosing not to do anything about it because that's the least of your physical flaws at this point.

6.) Getting little seeds - like blueberry seeds - caught deep  between your molars

7.) Trust fund kids.

8.) Not being a trust fund kid.

9.) Being duped at the remainders table, but feeling compelled to read your purchase, anyway.

10.) How much faster time goes as you get older

Friday, March 5, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: Are these things worse than puberty?

1.) Moldy fruit that you still feel like eating because it was expensive and that's good money going to waste.

2.) That iffy dairy stage when you don't know if it's edible but it's not quite expired yet so you let it sit around until it's DEFINITELY expired so you feel justified in getting rid of it.

3.) Hearing Lady Gaga songs on constant loop on the radio. I like her a lot but dang! Sometimes you need a break.

4.) The cliche-ness of all romance novels.

5.) Being in a room full of gorgeous guys with great senses of humor and amazing bodies.... because you are standing inside a gay bar.

6.) Realizing you'd rather stay in the gay bar than face the ordeal of finding men who might be sexually interested in you.

7.) Being terrified of an audit...even though you made poverty-level money.

8.) When your laundry comes out of the washing machine SOAKING.

9.) Wet socks.

10.) Being simultaneously tired and over-caffeinated.

Friday, February 26, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: Are these things worse than puberty?

1.) Anything that involves "kid geniuses."

2.) When really good, well-written, thought provoking books just don't hold your interest anymore so you go back to reading the Twilight series.

3.) When the most exciting part of your day is tracking the shipping status of your latest online shoe order.

4.) Ordering clothes and shoes online when you live in NYC with every store imaginable just a subway ride away because you can't be bothered to get up, shower and make it outside.

5.) People who dress really skanky and have huge fake boobs but still talk about what conservative, heavenly Christians they are (Alexis from Real Housewives of Orange County, anyone??).

6.) Having a "type" that pretty much equates to "gay men."

7.) When it's raining sideways...

8.) ...and you actually HAVE to be somewhere

9.) Girls who wear bras that are too small for them, creating quad-boob.

10.) Knowing that quad-boob will get them more guys.