Clean-Burning Poppers, Acne You Don’t Grow Out Of and Expensive Lunches

I read this Miles Klee magnum opus on getting peer-pressured at work into going to expensive lunches with the team, and I must say, bravo.

Thirty-dollar sushi excursions are a scourge on office life, especially when you have a perfectly good homemade turkey sando sitting in the fridge. But FOMO is real, as is the desire to be held in high regard by your coworkers, and not a Debbie Downer who’s too cool to hang.

So what’s a model employee to do? You’re gonna have to read it (and everything else while you’re at it) to find out…

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Middle-Aged Pizza Face

For the majority of people who suffer from acne, painful skin blemishes are just part of their awkward teen years, when hormones rage and faces are slicker with oil than Prince Edward Sound after the Exxon Valdez. Thankfully, though, all that bad acne usually goes away by their early 20s.

But what if it doesn’t?

Quinn Myers spoke to two guys about what it’s like to have acne well into manhood.

Under Pressure

Speaking of the teen years, everyone remembers being a teenager and being pressured to take a hit of a joint or blow off 7th and 8th period to go to a friend’s house. But do you know what adult peer pressure looks like?

It’s being pressured to go to a sushi lunch with the work gang when you’ve got a perfectly good turkey sandwich in the fridge.

Relationship Kryptonite

If only this was accurate. But sorry, it isn’t. As many have pointed out in reply to this now viral tweet, the “honeymoon phase” is the part where you fall in love, not everything after it. In fact, the honeymoon phase ending actually acts as an important catalyst for the relationship to grow even stronger.

Down With ‘Friends’

Despite staring down its own syndication doom on Netflix, Friends was able to endure mainly because of its popularity among Millennials. But ask a Gen-Xer — Friends’ original target audience — about the show and you’ll likely get a shrug, or a “whatever.” And that’s because despite latching on with a new generation of fans, Friends never quite captured its own.

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Jeff Gross

Jeff Gross is MEL’s senior editor for social media and content marketing. His daily ICYMI column, which chronicles all things meta on the site, is the quickest way to catch up on MEL, and the funniest thing you’ll read all day. Follow him on Twitter.