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Waking up to a blaring alarm in the morning is bad enough, but at least you can hit snooze and return to your peaceful slumber for another 10 minutes. However, if you wake up to something truly, genuinely awful, it’s another matter entirely. They’ve been discussing shocking wake ups on the AskReddit page after shoeee788 […] The post ‘What’s the worst thing you’ve ever woken up to?’ – 21 highly alarming things to experience first thing in the morning appeared first on The Poke.

Ah, high school – a beautiful, chaotic time where we find out about life, love, loss, and how hard it can be to find the right table to sit at for lunch in the cafeteria. Those of us who thrived in high school seemed to have it all. Those of us who weren’t as popular […] The post What screams ‘this person peaked in high school’? – 15 ways premature overachievers tell on themselves appeared first on The Poke.

The Magas are getting scared. Texas, for so many years a safeground for the gun-toting and women-hating alt-right, looks like it might have a fight on its hands in the upcoming race for Senate. Liberal James Talarico has not been shy about sharing his views on gender-affirming care, immigration, energy, and religion. This has turned […] The post Fox News’ Jesse Watters went on a bizarre rant questioning a Democratic senate candidate’s ‘manliness’, and the projection could be seen from space appeared first on The Poke.

First dates are nerve wracking affairs, and it’s easy to make a bit of a wally of yourself by saying or doing something a bit silly. However, there is a very big difference between ‘silly’ and ‘downright weird and/or creepy’. They’ve been discussing first encounters that ended up also being emphatically the last on the […] The post ‘What is the worst thing you experienced on a first date?’ – 22 encounters that came with the biggest, reddest flags of all appeared first on The Poke.

If you’d been told 30 years ago that as a society we’d become completely blasé about walking around with an incredibly powerful handheld computers in our pockets, your mind would have been blown. And rightly so. We’re living in an episode of Tomorrow’s World. But what about the thousands of smaller, more everyday, but still […] The post ‘Which simple item is a masterpiece of ingenious engineering?’ – 21 everyday things that are being incredibly clever right under your nose appeared first on The Poke.

Graduation ceremonies are a time for celebration and reflection. So when Vice President JD Vance stepped up to the podium to address the graduating class at the Air Force Academy, the crowd bristled with anticipation for life advice. Instead they got a plea. A command, rather. They were told they can’t disagree with him. Here’s […] The post JD Vance said he can’t be booed because he’s the Vice President, and you can probably guess what happened in the replies appeared first on The Poke.

Social norms can come and go like the tide. What’s acceptable today might be the height of bad taste in a few years time, leaving future generations to wonder what on earth we were thinking. If you’ve been around long enough, you’ve probably already seen this in action. To get a taste of which behaviours […] The post What’s something that became socially unacceptable way faster than anyone expected? – 17 behaviours that surprisingly fell out of favour appeared first on The Poke.

The current White House appears hellbent on proving it has completely lost touch with its base. Their latest attempt: putting Donald Trump’s face on a $250 bill. Scott Bessent hosted an extremely awkward press conference at the White House yesterday where he announced, and then doubled down on, the idea that the treasury department wants […] The post The US Treasury Department announces it will put Donald Trump’s face on a $250 bill – 15 takedowns that are right on the money appeared first on The Poke.

Thursday’s episode of Question Time was an AI special, with experts from the field both advocating for and warning against the use of AI. As well as living, present, human panellists, the show featured an AI-generated panel of people who probably didn’t actually need an introduction, but they got one anyway. Tonight Question Time features […] The post This Question Time intro with an AI ‘panel’ of famous people from history was a perfect demonstration of not reading the room appeared first on The Poke.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is hosting a first of its kind event on the White House lawn this summer. A bunch of sweaty men in shorts are going to jump into a cage together and punch, kick, and bleed until one of them is crowned a champion. America! The President of the UFC is Dana […] The post UFC CEO Dana White said he’s politically ‘right down the middle’, and the replies dragged him into the cage for a reality check appeared first on The Poke.