They say that safety regulations are written in blood and it gets way worse than a few OSHA-defying safety fails. Big companies don't exactly have your best interests at heart, and there's a whole boatload of evidence from the early 1900s to confirm that. For some less dark history, here's tumblr making history fun.
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The truth will set you free. These people clearly don't subscribe to that saying. Nope. Instead, they've gone about trying to spread all kinds of dishonesty online. This only makes the world of social media more confusing and distorted. Fortunately, there are people around who are ready to call out the lies when they see them pop up.
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Talk about a loyal friend. This guy decided to outsmart a clueless bully on test day in the classroom, to support his friend who'd gone through the ringer with the bully at hand. It sounds like the revenge played out beautifully, and the bully unknowingly copied a slew of the wrong answers. A proper fail for a proper jerk.
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It's an interesting time to be alive. With so many apps at our disposal, people are able to edit and morph and tune their faces and bodies to such an extent that their picture can end up looking like a completely different person, from the one that the rest of the world sees. Enough with all the deception. These people either rock some surreal kinds of looks that escape our definition of what's physically possible, or they got caught red-handed trying to pull a fast photoshop on the online world.
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We've seen stories of big company owners tripping over their own hubris, like this incompetent owner who mistakenly fired a special contractor, and this time there's more math. This guy gives an extremely detailed account of exactly how a whole bunch of water, a valve, and an overly zealous farm owner gave himself the business.
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Someone on AskReddit asked for people to describe American problems that they're just too European to understand. Things like limited sick days and student debt, and even remembering that cars can turn on red lights made the list.
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Twitter users that are "middle-aged" are breaking out their most inspirational stories, when it comes to enjoying big breaks. Some people are just born late bloomers. You never know what kind of wild successes might yet wait for you around the corner.
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An evolutionary anthropologist named, Dorsa Amir, shared a series of evolutionary leftovers that the human body seemingly carries for no reason at all. Kind of fun to look at the parts of the human body that have survived the test of time, and for what looks to us like no reason at all.
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This choosing beggar decided to offer up his "cool vibes' in exchange for a free place to live. That is an interesting way to go about negotiations. The comments section was definitely lit up over the guy's seemingly profound level of unawareness and entitlement.
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This person was told that they should be aware of their work schedule even when they receive a schedule change with absolutely no notice, so they took their incompetent manager's advice to heart. While this seems like a lot of effort just to get under the skin of your annoying employer, it seems like it totally worked and it's kind of awesome. Here's a time when an employee got back at their horrible manager by giving them a uniquely confusing schedule.
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This Tumblr thread employs an American Gothic style of writing to highlight stereotypes --- imagined and potentially accurate --- for different places in American. The resulting descriptions are vivid and unsettling and might just chill you to the bone. It's almost like the whole place is cursed.
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Never underestimate the destructive power of a bag of wild ice left to create chaos in the back of your very nice car. This person ended up enduring quite the regrettable situation with a measly bag of ice. Apparently, it ended up resulting in thousands of dollars worth of damage.
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How dare this contractor go and break their arm before checking with the testy client to see how they felt about it. So inconsiderate!
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Sometimes people give other people compliments that end up sounding like they could be a cleverly disguised insult. Like you're not really sure whether what that person said to you was from the bottom of their heart. Maybe they were just trying to pull a fast one on you with a roast that just sounded kind of nice. Who knows.
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This guy's Twitter thread about all the ways his world changed, after combining his with his girlfriend's, is a thing of beauty. Sounds like he vastly underestimated all the possibilities of life, and the ways that some people choose to prepare, to make it easier on themselves in the long run. Like grabbing a few sticks of deodorant, in case you run out.
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These images combine the cursed and blessed aspects of life to potentially pleasantly overwhelm the senses. Plus, "blursed" is kind of just a fun word to say.
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Some people really just insist on getting mad at everything, even free stuff, like this choosing beggar. After being offered a free Android phone, she proceeded to unleash rage in the comments section over the gracious offer. Confusing and delusional, and genuinely ridiculous. Nice.
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These people are describing their experiences with learning that they've been doing something wrong, years after the fact. We're talking about a series of very humbling realizations. Sometimes the funniest part is how they were able to make the "wrong way" work for them in the first place.
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Soldiers of Reddit are sharing the items they'd welcome in care packages. The following list should be helpful for anyone considering assembling a care package for a soldier out there.
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This woman asked the people of Reddit whether or not she was in the wrong for being upset about her partner getting her an engagement ring worth $80. The verdict rolling in would seem to be one that suggests she's not wrong for being hurt by the less than overwhelming financial gesture. A question that comes to mind is why he'd spend hundreds on a TV and $80 on a ring? What was the motivation there?
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People are sharing their strangest experiences at the gym. The place just has a knack for being a magnet for strange behavior. You've got the animalistic grunts, the sweaty messes, the head cases of unfathomable vanity, the inflated egos, etc. If you're a part of a gym, you're bound to cross paths with weird in some form at some moment.
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Harry Mack is a living legend of the freestyle rap game. The dude just shows up and absolutely crushes it in the moment.
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Ham Man is here. This guy was in the middle of enjoying an impressive block of ham, while the police were trying to get to the bottom of a domestic dispute. There's a whole lot going on here beneath the surface, and we're not even where to start.
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People on Twitter are describing the biggest mistakes that they've made at work. These recaps of fail might just end up making you feel better about your moments of misfortune, from the past. We all mess up. Thus is life.
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These customers sound like they came in on a mission to be discontented with whatever the bartender served up, and did for them. So, the bartender served them up a couple big glasses -- as per request -- of exactly what they ordered. Were they just trying to get more wine, with that little request? Maybe.
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People are describing their most awkward interactions they've had with their crushes. The following tales are filled with moments of spontaneous fail, and an overriding lesson that no matter how much planning goes into something...anything can happen, and in these cases, awkwardness can ensue.
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People on Twitter are describing the things they find creepy, and wish didn't exist in the first place. We've got some creepy crawlers and bizarre hairstyles, and even a monstrous example of a chicken McNuggets from McDonald's.
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These spin class fitness bullies were using social media to shame a person who was just trying to get their workouts in, so that person decided to use social media to revenge right back at them. A solid and satisfying story. Take that bullies.
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This is just the kind of Twitter thread that can manage to rob the most peaceful of minds, of sleep. There's something genuinely bone-chilling, terrifying, when reading about a kid discovering that there's been a stranger living in his house's vents, without his knowledge.
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This comments thread went a bit dark when it came to figuring out what to do with dad's ashes. There were no limits to what people hatched up for ideas when it came to trying to dissolve the brick of dad (rest in peace).
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