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Ben Weiss

Ben Weiss is a New York-based writer/editor for the FAIL Blog team at Cheezburger. He holds an MFA from NYU Tisch and a BA from Northwestern University. His favorite topics to write about at Cheezburger are workplace drama, neighborhood feuds, celebrity news, and his greatest love of all, movies & television. Ben has also contributed to "Puppet Regime," a weekly political sketch comedy segment that airs on GZERO World with Ian Bremmer on PBS, for which he won a Telly Award for Best Online Comedy Series as part of the writing team. In his free time, Ben moonlights as a screenwriter and filmmaker. He was a semifinalist for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship and a finalist for the Humanitas Comedy Fellowship. He worships at the altar of Nicole Kidman.
16-year-old denied laptop access by teacher and told to take notes the 'old-fashioned' way, so he brings in a vintage typewriter: 'If the laptop was loud before, this thing was practically screaming!'

16-year-old denied laptop access by teacher and told to take notes the 'old-fashioned' way, so he brings in a vintage typewriter: 'If the laptop was loud before, this thing was practically screaming!'
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17-year-old's mother calls security to kick entitled woman's screaming kids out of the store: 'How dare you teach ME how to parent!'

17-year-old's mother calls security to kick entitled woman's screaming kids out of the store: 'How dare you teach ME how to parent!'
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New boss enforces strict 12:00 lunch time, rule immediately backfires as customers are abandoned: 'It was a complete mess'

New boss enforces strict 12:00 lunch time, rule immediately backfires as customers are abandoned: 'It was a complete mess'
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'The last 3.5 days stranded at [the] airport': Top 20 inconvenient airport moments

'The last 3.5 days stranded at [the] airport': Top 20 inconvenient airport moments
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Entitled mother throws tantrum after school assembly over which students were chosen to be volunteers in presentation: 'You didn’t pick either of [my] 2 daughters'

Entitled mother throws tantrum after school assembly over which students were chosen to be volunteers in presentation: 'You didn’t pick either of [my] 2 daughters'
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Employee saves her company from signing a deal with shady business after overhearing them conspire in another language: 'Do not scheme people and talk about it in another language, they might understand it'

Employee saves her company from signing a deal with shady business after overhearing them conspire in another language: 'Do not scheme people and talk about it in another language, they might understand it'
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Substitute teacher fails student on music assignment because of bias against sound clip, student makes sound clip play everywhere: 'She changed my grade [...] from a D to an A+'

Substitute teacher fails student on music assignment because of bias against sound clip, student makes sound clip play everywhere: 'She changed my grade [...] from a D to an A+'
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Wife teams up with petty MIL to make cheating husband fend for himself after discovering his infidelity: 'His mistress doesn't even want him'

Wife teams up with petty MIL to make cheating husband fend for himself after discovering his infidelity: 'His mistress doesn't even want him'
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Employee challenges CEO by denying him coffee at company workshop: 'New rules'

Employee challenges power-tripping CEO by denying him coffee at company workshop: 'We can't have coffee? You can't have coffee!'
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Entitled woman keeps changing her order and sending food back, throwing tantrum in front of the manager: 'Let's see how many freebies we can get'

Entitled woman keeps changing her order and sending food back, throwing tantrum in front of the manager: 'Let's see how many freebies we can get'
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