Category Life

Stories about life today from staff of the Tiger.

How To Start Your Own Doomsday Panic

Pattern recognition is mankind’s third greatest weakness, just behind bullets and YouTube videos of sneezing baby pandas. In recent years, the best example of our collective failure of induction has been the repetitive cycle of doomsday panics in popular culture.…

Shake Up Your Hook Up

The Hook Up is In! Breaking news: American college students have spoken: the “hook up” is in. Experts concur that this is mostly a result of a soul-sucking adolescent urge to “bang” combined with how it is increasingly difficult to…

Burqas: A Scientific Defense

Burqas: A Scientific Defense A fundamental principle of modern sociological thought is the legendary syllogism that states that mo’ money yields mo’ bitches yields mo’ problems, or the “Gangsta’s Chain.” An oft-neglected corollary to the Chain derives from the postulate…

A Message From Your Conscience

Hey, there. I think we need to talk. See, I’ve felt like we’ve been drifting apart lately. Remember the good old days? We made a great team. You’d consider taking Jim’s lunch when he got up to get a drink,…

New Chinese Characters

The Chinese language has existed for thousands of years and, like any language, it must change and adapt to fit the needs of its speakers as time passes.  Recognizing this need, the Chinese government recently charged the People’s Glorious Commission…