Ryan is a writer on Game Rant focusing on Anime. Ryan spends most of his free time video editing, playing video games, or attempting to keep up with every new Shonen Anime all at once (though he ...

Transferred aggression is a negative trait – even when born out of frustration. Proverbially speaking, it is like victimising the hen at home because a sparrow devoured one’s corn in the farm. So, one ...

Some epithets are really quite brilliant: wanker, for example, with its intimations of onanistic futility, is one of the best. (But then, the Brits, who invented the term, are so much more elegant ...

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Some figures from history lead such remarkable (or notorious) lives that they earn themselves an epithet that remains in use long after their death. More often than not these nicknames are used either ...

Some students, faculty, and administrators have argued that even hearing racial epithets quoted is traumatic or at least highly offensive to students, and that decent people therefore should not quote ...

Hours before President Donald Trump revealed the recipients of his "fake news awards," one Republican lawmaker took to the Senate floor to deliver a stern warning about the perils of undermining ...