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It’s all very well having firm beliefs. But not enough is said about the virtue of changing your mind as you get older. At least that was the case until complexity_neccesity decided to do some investigating over on r/AskReddit by posing the following question: ‘What is a belief you held for years that you now […] The post What’s a belief you held for years that you now disagree with? – 17 hills people have chosen not to die on appeared first on The Poke.

Unless you’re inhumanely cool, chances are you’ve embarrassingly put a foot wrong at some point in your life. It’s not the end of the world though. As CobaltBlue389 found out over on r/AskUK, everyone’s been there. They did so by asking fellow users ‘What is the most awkward thing you’ve seen, or been part of, […] The post ‘What’s the most awkward thing you’ve seen or been part of?’ – 17 cringe moments that have haunted people for years appeared first on The Poke.

Nobody embodies the stifling omnipresence of the Trump Administration quite like Pete Hegseth. The Secretary of Defence, sorry, War, would appear to be completely unqualified for his job, and yet he can’t help but show up everywhere and meddle. For a person in his position, that usually means making bad decisions from the comfort of […] The post Pete Hegseth’s workout video with the Marines prompted a world of mockery and he might want to find a new trainer – 15 takedowns from the frontline of Twitter appeared first on The Poke.

Sometimes life can be stranger than fiction. In fact there are certain facts which sound so bizarre that they practically compel you to look into them. This was clearly playing on the mind Quadranippelkill as they turned to r/AskReddit to pose the following question about suspicious stats: ‘What is a statistic that sounds INSANE but […] The post What is a statistic that sounds INSANE but is 100% true? – 17 pieces of info that will have you scurrying to the fact checkers appeared first on The Poke.

Texas has long been one of America’s safest havens for gun owners and abortion haters. The conservative state hasn’t voted in a US senator since the 1980s. Candidates can do just about anything and still get the red vote. But that’s all about to be put to the test. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton just […] The post The Texas attorney general just compared himself to Donald Trump in this one very specific way and it really wasn’t the flex he thought it was appeared first on The Poke.

Things are pretty dire in America these days. Everything costs more. Everyone is making less. And everyone in the Trump Administration wants you to believe that this is all a good thing. The number one poster boy for this line of gaslighting is Donald Trump’s director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett. Not only […] The post Trump’s top economic advisor said people are paying more for fuel because they’re just so optimistic about the future – 15 premium grade clap backs appeared first on The Poke.

Will they ever learn? We recently shared a video of an American trying English mustard for the first time and it ended in tears. Not every American got the memo, however, as this video from YouTuber JJLA Reacts goes to show. Thanks to Graeme From IT for sharing the exquisite agony on Twitter. American guy […] The post This American made the mistake of not treating English mustard with the respect it deserves and it’s eye-wateringly hilarious appeared first on The Poke.

Unless you go to catering college or are one of Jamie Oliver’s tweely named children, cooking is something you just kind of pick up as you go along, often largely making it up yourself. This means we often develop bad habits, which we stubbornly refuse to change, even when we are faced with an obviously […] The post ‘What’s a cooking tip you never paid attention to until you realised it was right all along?’ – 23 home chefs who reluctantly changed their ways appeared first on The Poke.

Like us you might not be overly familiar with the Babylon Bee, which brands itself as ‘fake news you can trust’ over on Twitter and is described as conservative, anti-woke and, well you get the idea. Magas lap it up, basically. Although there was something about this particular wheeze which might have stuck in the […] The post American anti-wokers tried to use AI to mock the idea of a woman president and it was a glorious self-own for the ages appeared first on The Poke.

Despite having all of the knowledge in the whole world in our literal hands in the form of a smartphone, there are still a lot of things that we still struggle to understand. They’ve been chatting about our chronic inability to figure the easy stuff out on the AskUK subreddit after Proper_Emu_2296 posted this: What […] The post ‘What are common misconceptions people could benefit from understanding?’ – 21 things we’re all getting very wrong appeared first on The Poke.