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Extra, Extra: Millennials Prefer Texting To Boozing & Smoking
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Ben Yakas
Published Jun 13, 2014
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- Teens have replaced alcohol with texting.
- No one should speak ill of National Treasure Vin Diesel, even if he is being a diva.
- Wineries will now get tax breaks for having tastings.
- If a creepy dude hits on you, just give him this number and let Bell Hooks talk to or text him about feminist theory.
- Zosia Mamet and Alison Williams tease the fourth season of Girls.
- Officials set a house teetering over a cliff on fire in order to knock it down, which has got to be the ultimate metaphor for something.
- Check out four of the biggest moneymaking apartment flips in the recent history of downtown Manhattan.
- Of course there are going to be more SNL cast changes before the next season.
- Here's the oral history of the Wikipedia photo for 'grinding.'
- If you claim you gave birth to a lizard, don't be surprised if people start accusing you of witchcraft.
- And finally, bitch I don't walk down the stairs, I take my stairlift:
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