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Eating & Drinking

A Man’s Guide to Leftover Turkey

3 recipes that could make Thanksgiving leftovers taste better than the big meal

By Bob Blumer

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Sex & Relationships

Your Biggest Relationship Disputes, Settled

We pick a winner in marriage’s most unwinnable fights

By Carrie Borzillo

, November 7, 2022

3 Min Read

Robert Stack, host of Unsolved Mysteries 1987

Inside Dope

Why Is Gen X So Obsessed With True Crime?

It isn’t some macabre fascination with murder and death

By M. William Phelps

, November 7, 2022

3 Min Read

George Clooney poses for a portrait wearing a grey sweater at the Carlyle, a Rosewood Hotel on Wednesday February 05, 2014 in New York, NY

Money & Career

How to Find a Great Sweater if You’re Over 40

Whether you’re looking for warmth or to distract from your dad bod, here’s how to find the perfect sweater

By Dale Arden Chong

, November 7, 2022

3 Min Read

Rear view of child sitting in living room hugging Teddy bear

Family & Fatherhood

Our Son Wants a Sibling. We Don't

A Gen X dad struggles with his kid’s yearning for brothers and sisters

By Eric Spitznagel

, November 7, 2022

3 Min Read

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Health & Fitness

The Arrow Guide to Touch Football Archetypes

Your cheat sheet to identifying all the players in your family game-day roster

By Jay Ferrari

3 Min Read

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Money & Career

Wallets Are Dead! Long Live Wallets!

By Tom Vanderbilt

, July 11, 2022

We live in a world where cash and wallets are increasingly unnecessary. So why do I miss it so much?

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Sex & Relationships

Lies I Tell My Wife to Keep Our Marriage Strong

By David Hochman

, March 28, 2022

A strong relationship isn’t always about telling the truth

Inside Dope

Why My Favorite Character in The Breakfast Club Is the Janitor

By Mike Sacks

, October 10, 2022

I used to idolize the teens in John Hughes movies — but I was so, so wrong.

Health & Fitness

The Arrow Guide to Touch Football Archetypes

By Jay Ferrari

, November 22, 2022

3 Min Read

Money & Career

Wallets Are Dead! Long Live Wallets!

By Tom Vanderbilt

, July 11, 2022

3 Min Read

Sex & Relationships

Lies I Tell My Wife to Keep Our Marriage Strong

By David Hochman

, March 28, 2022

3 Min Read

Inside Dope

Why My Favorite Character in The Breakfast Club Is the Janitor

By Mike Sacks

, October 10, 2022

3 Min Read

Honest. Smart. Aimed at guys like you.

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Eating & Drinking

I Hosted Thanksgiving Dinner for My Parents and Lived to Tell About It

How I survived a modern rite of passage

By Mark Miller

The Arrow Poll

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According to a new survey, one in four Americans are skipping Thanksgiving this year because of rising food prices. What are you doing instead?

30%

Staying home and getting into arguments with strangers for free on the Internet.

10%

If pretzel sticks, popcorn, jelly beans, and toast served on a ping-pong table were good enough for Snoopy, it's good enough for me.

20%

Nothing but football and cheap beer. And I will survive the holiday stronger than all of you.

40%

Oh, that's just what I'm telling my family. I'm still eating a big meal. I'm just not inviting those freeloaders.

If you could become a kid again but only in 2022, would you do it?

22%

Absolutely! A chance to screw it up all over again, but this time on TikTok? What could go wrong?

27%

Maybe. But only if I can keep my middle-aged cynicism and complete disregard for what other people think.

44%

Nope. I love the age I’m at and my memories of growing up at the perfect time in history to be a kid.

Wait, is this going to involve befriending an eccentric scientist and building a flux capacitor? Sounds too complicated.

Daylight Savings ends this Saturday, with much of the country “falling back” and setting their clocks one hour earlier. Are you pro or con the time change?

16%

As a 19th-century farmer with limited access to candles, I find it very helpful.

45%

I hate it! In fact, let’s just abolish time completely. I’m tired of being oppressed by clocks!

What choice do we have? We can’t defy the will of Ra the sun god!

34%

Don’t care. Make it whatever hour you want. I’m hitting the snooze button either way.

What are you going as for Halloween this year?

17%

Sexy Guy Who Can’t Believe What He Paid For Blink-182 Reunion Tickets

13%

Sexy Guy Sexily Drinking His Colonoscopy Prep Drink

17%

Sexy Tom Brady Posing For His Tinder Profile

52%

Sexy Dad Finally Getting Some Likes For His Dad Jokes on Twitter and Now He’s Like, “Wait, What’s Happening?”

Who are you rooting for in the World Series?

28%

Phillies

31%

Astros

14%

I still think the Yankees have a chance.

28%

If by "World Series" you mean the Great British Baking Show, I'm rooting for Maxy to take it all.

When's the right time to turn on the heat in your home?

16%

When one of you kids gets a job and starts paying bills around here, that's when.

13%

It's been on since August. I want my living room to be as balmy as the inside of a Tauntaun.

55%

We're close, but we're still in "put on a damn sweater and stop complaining" season.

16%

Exactly five business days after you first hear "O Tannenbaum" from the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack.

According to a Reddit debate, some people under 30 feel that thumbs-up emojis, used primarily by "Gen X people," are "hostile" and "passive-aggressive." What do you think?

32%

Please accept this eye-roll emoji in lieu of me caring.

10%

If it was good enough for the Fonz, it's good enough for us. If you don't like it, aaaaay, sit on it!

Wait, but eggplant emojis are fine?

52%

If they're worried about hostile hand gestures, I've got another finger I'd like to introduce them to.

A new 10-year study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that colonoscopies don't significantly reduce the risk of colon cancer deaths. What do you think?

22%

Sounds good! I'm going with option B from my doctor: A pinkie swear that I won't get cancer.

13%

Nice try. I'm still doing shots of the colonoscopy drink prep with my boys. Delish!

22%

There's only one way to settle this. An old-school wrestling cage match between gastroenterologists.

44%

I'm getting a colonoscopy anyway. I could use the nap.

Adult men wearing shorts. Totally acceptable or a fashion blunder?

12%

Unless you're on the way to the gym or have a paper route side hustle, no way.

45%

Totally fine. If I put on pants, winter wins.

As long as they're paired with a nice button-down and blazer. Like a fashion mullet: business up top, party down below.

40%

And hide these delicious calves from the world?

In a just-published study, scientists used zebrafish to see how oxytocin, the so-called "love" or "cuddle" hormone, could be used to treat heart attacks. What do you think?

18%

If getting my cholesterol under control means I don’t have to cuddle with my doctor, I’m in.

29%

Great, so on top of blood pressure meds, I need to get a zebrafish to fall in love with me? Health care in this country is ridiculous.

21%

I wonder if this means date night is covered by my PPO.

32%

Sounds like somebody in the lab has a "Little Mermaid" obsession.

There was a 33% increase in workers over age 40 quitting their jobs in early 2022. Why is this happening?

21%

Just don't have time to balance work and all the new shows and podcasts I need to binge.

10%

NASA can only bounce away so many asteroids. Might as well have fun before we go dinosaur extinct

10%

Need to devote myself full time to becoming the Michael Jordan of pickleball.

59%

Heard about “quiet quitting,” decided to show Gen Zers how we do “Take This Job and Shove It" quitting.

According to a new study, men are more likely to flirt at work to gain favor among female bosses and advance their careers. What do you think?

29%

I'm sorry, I was distracted by your breathtaking beauty. What was the question again?

23%

As somebody who watched "Mad Men" and thought, "Wow, those people are terrible," no, I've never done this.

What counts as flirting? Does singing "happy birthday, Mr. President" to my boss in a sultry voice count as flirting?

46%

That's why I work from home. I can do a Zoom meeting without pants and nobody reports me to HR.

A growing number of young men are struggling with "bigorexia," a psychological desire to look more muscular. What do you think?

42%

These poor kids. Nobody warned them that big muscles only lead to friends asking them to help move a couch.

23%

Sounds like somebody could learn from the cautionary tale of Hans and Franz.

Well, as every successful man in history has said: "I couldn't have done it without my enormous glutes."

31%

It could be worse. We lived through the "heroin chic" of the '90s.

What's the worst thing about being over 40?

Thanks for playing!

48%

When people say, "The 90s were 30 years ago," and you're like, "Shut your lying mouth!"

27%

Invitations to social gatherings that happen after 10pm. What am I, a vampire?

Ryan Reynolds had a colonoscopy and it's all your friends can talk about, and you still remember when celebrity gossip used to involve drugs and leaked sex tapes.

15%

Date night ruined by perimenopause.

Nirvana released "Smells Like Teen Spirit" 31 years ago. Does the song still affect you?

25%

Oh, yeah. Especially the part about feeling stupid and contagious.

22%

It makes me sad that Nirvana never lasted long enough for somebody to call them "Dad Rock."

42%

I'm just grateful it came out 31 years ago, so we never had to witness Kurt Cobain doing promotional TikToks.

11%

I'll tell you who smells like teen spirit, my son who hasn't showered since Labor Day! Kids today are a bunch of slackers!

What’s the scariest thing about being a parent in 2022?

16%

Cyberbullying.

32%

Rising rates of teenage suicide and self-harming.

39%

Smartphone addiction.

13%

Pretty sure I’ve been using “cheugy” wrong.

It's Labor Day weekend. What's this holiday about again?

31%

It's the official start of either fantasy football or pumpkin spice season, depending on how you celebrate autumn.

34%

A day of mourning for our sexy summer bodies, which we never got around to having.

16%

Something to do with when you're allowed to wear white.

19%

To commemorate a woman's labor during childbirth, which seemed like a good idea at the time, but now we're like, "Oh my god, get them out of the house and back to school already!"