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Human Things We’ll Inevitably Have to Explain to the Aliens, Alphabetically

October 5, 2023 By LizLawton

A – Astrological signs and how they’re used to justify character flaws and put a bandaid on our personal demons

B – Burning Man, which I would love to have explained to me as well

C – Crypto and why it took so long for people to realize it was just one big pyramid scheme

D – Why Dogs and men from affluent Connecticut suburbs have the same names

E – How we went straight from Encyclopedia Brittanica to Google, no in between

F – Don’t ask a woman you don’t know extremely well if she’s thinking about Freezing her eggs

G – The Government threats at the beginning of VHS tapes

H – Our Housing crisis and why we’re building more pickleball courts instead of affordable housing

I – We’re more afraid of the IRS than we are of you

J – January everyone stops drinking for the month and will tell you of their enviable piousness every chance they get

K – The Knicks are a perpetually doomed franchise, it makes no sense so let’s move on

L – Leonardo DiCaprio is the most sought after man but also everything that is wrong with men

M – Mapquest and how we once traveled like 15th century explorers with 14 pages of printed directions

N – Even if you like Nickelback, under no circumstance do you admit it

O – Why ‘The Office’ will be playing on a continual loop at every nursing home once Millennials are elders

P – Pokemon Go, a fever dream VR campaign that involved capturing cartoon creatures, was the most successful mobilization to date of our deeply sedentary society

Q – Despite all the advancements in e-commerce, a large part of our population still shops on QVC

R – The Run on toilet paper of 2020

S – the Sexy Covid Nurse costume, which is bound to pop up at frat parties across the country in the 2030s once we’ve repressed the traumas of the 2020s

T – Tide Pods, why we used to eat them, why we don’t any more, and how they’ve always been exclusively meant for laundry

U – Boomers who Unplug the computer when they want to turn it off

V – Saying “Voldemort” will trigger anyone over the age of 27

W – Weddings and why we willingly spend the GDP of a small middle eastern country to legally bind two people together

X – Know that if you’re speaking to a man, he’s probably thinking about Xerxes and the battle of Thermopylae instead of listening to you

Y – Yogurt and why people eat it when it does absolutely nothing to fill you up

Z – We give Zero shits if you burn fossil fuels but if you are seen using a plastic straw…

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