you cannot grow up in a gynocentric country / without having to be sexist just to be pro male.
A Actual Advice Mallard 1 post.
Live in a flat for a week and you learn that the walls are suggestions. Your neighbour knows your ringtone, your shower times and the song you sing while cooking. Assume he hears everything, because he does. Before the interview, someone tells you to check your teeth in a mirror. You think it's silly. Then you meet the interviewer, who has spinach in his, and realise it's the advice everyone wishes they'd been given. On the day you move in, photograph the model number of every appliance. Two years later the oven breaks, the landlord asks for the model number, and you're the only tenant in history who has it. Keys, phone and wallet go in the same pocket every time. Not most of the time. Every time. The day you don't is the day you stand by a locked car in the rain, patting yourself like a man looking for a rhythm. **Why it caught on:** a plain photo of a mallard turned up on Reddit's r/AdviceAnimals in June 2011 as the helpful cousin of Malicious Advice Mallard, whose tips were meant to ruin your day. A duck giving advice that actually works was such a surprise that people kept it going.