Friday, July 31, 2020

Man Excavates Basement Using RC Toys


Why do the work yourself when you can get a mini-excavator to do it for you? This dude's a hero. 

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People Struggle To Open Milk Cartons In 1976


This is such a first world problem that it actually ends up being pretty fascinating. 

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Tumblr User Says Fish Aren't Animals, Meltdown Ensues


This is one of those conversations that's just an absolute train wreck. We all hope that this is nothing more than a drawn out act of trolling, and that there wasn't actually any mystery around whether fish were animals or not. Truth is that there really is that level of cluelessness out in the world right now. At least we get some fails out of it. 

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Text - yeezyslides i dont understand why vegans keep eating salmon like thats a gateway food to salmonella colormipretty Vegans can eat salmon? I thought they couldn't eat meat or food from animals

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Text - yeezyslides well salmon isnt rlly an animal, its a fish cinnamonvenus So fish aren't animals?

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Text - yeezyslides theyre not animals, theyre fish cinnamonvenus How do you define the word animal, sis? cinnamonrollwithit i'm sorry, can we take like, three steps back and look at the fact that op thinks that eating salmon is the direct cause of salmonella?

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Text - tired-beans IT'S CALLED PESCETARIAN, NOT VEGAN, NOT VEGETARIAN. PESCETARIAN. FISH ARE ANIMALS, THEY EAT, THEY BREATHE, THEY SHIT, THEY REPRODUCE AHSHFJAKDJ yeezyslides 1st of all bring down ur tone 2th of all it isnt pescatarian bc fish arent part of the animal kingdom their FISH.. and u ppl call me stupid imagine being this ignornant and typing in all caps... nobody said fish dont reproduce or shit but they dont breathe bc theyre in water wtf u cant breahe underwater ur so dumb

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Text - artistsregret fish [fiSH) 4) NOUN fishes (plural noun) 1. a limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins and living wholly in water. "the sea is thick with fish" • the flesh of fish as food. "hot crab appetizers stuffed with fish" • (the FishFishes) the zodiacal sign or constellation Pisces. • used in names of invertebrate animals living wholly in water, e.g., cuttlefish, shellfish, jellyfish. So you mean to tell me. They're not animals? yeezyslides now ur switching my word

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Text - artistsregret "So fish arent animals?" "They're not animals, they're fish" Fish are in fact animals, I'm sorry to say. yeezyslides i dont recall sereniv this is a fucking train wreck

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Strict Teacher Tells Student Not to Speak, Totally Backfires


When you have a strict, or even angry teacher, you never forget about them. If only there was some way to simultaneously follow a strict teacher's rules, while also exposing their tyrannical ways? Well this person figured it out. For a better teacher, here's a Tumblr story about students who worshiped a stuffed octopus.

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Tumblr Users Illustrate Terrifying Angels Using Historical Imagery


Tumblr users banded together to illustrate just how terrifying angels would look, using nothing more than historical imagery. There doesn't seem to be anything about these that scream, "angelic." Nah, getting more of a monster vibe than anything else. 

Check out some more fun from Tumblr with this thread about how death isn't a bad guy.

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Line art - What do angels actually look like per the bible? anonymous Well, according to Ezekiel 1 they might look something like this...

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Wing - According to Daniel 10 something like this... According to Isaiah 6.

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Human - In Ezekiel 10...

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Wing - Again in Ezekiel 10...

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Text - Basically, when the people writing Scripture tried to describe what they saw when they saw an angel... they run into the end of their imagination... they can never quite seem to fully explain it because they had trouble even comprehending what they saw, let alone being able to describe it to someone else. revelation19

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Text - revelation19 Yeah, that's usually how people responded to seeing them in the Bible.. the-unreadable-book There's a good reason why angels' standard greeting is 'Do not be afraid'.

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Text - glitterbomb-goblinking I used to listen to this radio show and one thing I remember because it was so funny was a Christmas special where an angel showed up to tell the shepherds about the birth of Christ. The conversations went: Angel: “FEAR NOT." Shepherds: *screaming* Angel: "I SAID FEAR NOT." Shepherds: *screaming LOUDER*

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Text - Angel: "WHAT PART OF FEAR NOT ARE YOU NOT UNDERSTANDING?" cameoamalthea So demons are fallen angels but they don't look scary because they're fallen, that's just what all angels look like.

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Text - Maybe that's why so many Christians see visions of Saints or the Virgin Mary instead.. like Jesus is all.no, no see being human made me realize sending Angels might not be the best idea. I don't know if humans can handle this. So I'm gonna just send mom bamf-castiel @fem-deanwinchester mathblr I'M GONNA JUST SEND MOM

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Text - veronica-rich God: The humans are scared. Mary: Fine. I'm on it. upallnightogetloki Jesus: It's either Mom or the thousand eyed flaming wheel, Dad, do you really think the humans are gonna be chill with that when they're terrified of spiders already?

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Text - God: Hey now, some of those spiders eat birds. Jesus: .Dad. God: ...To be fair, Australian wildlife was my dark creation phase. fawningparadox Australian wildlife was my dark creation phase

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Twitter Thread: Tale Of A Hilariously Clueless Intern


It's a true wonder that folks like this are able to get employed in the first place. I mean, hey, whatever works. James sounds like he'd be a fun dude to work with. 

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Text - Kaleb Harmon @KalebAHarmon We have an intern named James. God blessed James with an incredible amount of confidence to the point of arrogance. God did not, however, bless James with any amount of common sense or intelligence. These are his stories.

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Text - Kaleb Harmon @KalebAHarmon 3d James failed to realize that, even on Casual Friday, American flag tank tops still weren't appropriate office attire. When we asked him to change, he came back in a tank top and tennis shoes because he thought his flip flops were the issue. 27418 9,491 Kaleb Harmon @KalebAHarmon 3d James once typed a letter that was supposed to be handwritten in the "Informal Roman" font because he didn't think anyone would notice.

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Text - Kaleb Harmon @KalebAHarmon 3d James isn't allowed to do door-to-door canvassing anymore because he kept asking every house he went to if he could "borrow a beer". 07 27464 O 6,844 Kaleb Harmon @KalebAHarmon 3d I'm not sure James knows what his major is because he's told me 4 different ones. 27 267 6,897 Kaleb Harmon @KalebAHarmon · 3d To his credit, James has a pretty incredible singing voice. Unfortunately, he's only ever used it for renditions of "Careless Whisper" by George Michaels an

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Text - Kaleb Harmon @KalebAHarmon · 3d James has never been to Chipotle because one of his friends convinced hm you have to order in Spanish and he doesn't speak any Spanish. 04 271,464 O 14.1K Kaleb Harmon @KalebAHarmon 3d James impressed the office by catching 15 cheese puffs in a row in his mouth that someone brought in. He then asked to go home because he forgot he was lactose intolerant.

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Tumblr Thread: Death as Not a Bad Guy


This thread asks the question, why would any God of Death every really need to be a bad guy? Why feel the need to speed things up if it's guaranteed to win in the end? These Tumblr users flesh out the idea of a death who's not that bad of a person. For some more creative tumblr musings on life and death and gods, here's a story about a selfless farmer with a heart of gold, as well as a tumblr thread on demons bonding over sandwiches.

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Text - mikkeneko concept: a death god that is actually surprisingly supportive and on the side of the good guys, supporting actions and promoting policies that will lead to the kingdom growing and thriving instead of being destroyed, because the more the kingdom grows, the more people there are, and the more people there are the more people will eventually die, and when you're an immortal god of death, you know there's no need to rush. you'll get them all in the end mikkeneko i like how the resp

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Text - honourablejester Yes. A Death that is kind, and patient, and inevitable. A Death that need not fight against you, that will often fight for you, because why not? It will gather you home eventually. Why not enjoy you first? A Death that treasures those who fight it most ardently. That loves healers and defenders and survivalists and necromancers and mad scientists and immortal gods. That lets them pour everything they are into fighting it, denying it, adoring every desperate scrap of stren

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Text - A Death who will not seek to hasten an inevitable end, who will chastise those who seek to hasten it for others in Death's stead, who will slowly and patiently plot and sow and siphon away from the great monsters of the world. Because who are they to hasten Death's domain, who are they to deny Death its time and its place, who are they to cut short these vital glories that illuminate it so? Who are they to presume upon its will, that is so much larger and so much longer than theirs? Who a

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Text - A Death that is not a hunter but a gatherer, who is always and eternal, who loves you, and can afford to wait. A Death who will fight for you and defend you, who will place its hand upon those who would speed you to its embrace, who has no need to rush you, only to greet you when you call. A Death who is kind. And patient. And, before all and above all, inevitable.

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4 Famous Movie Lessons (That Didn’t Make A Lick Of Sense)


Our friends at Cracked are back at it again with a fresh installment in their weekly video series, "Your Brain on Cracked." This time we take a look at some famous movies that were devoid of sense. Some movies are just too bizarre and lacking in the logic category to look past. 

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Man Has Glitter Bomb Delivered To The Office, Coworker Gets Surprised


This guy should've known what he was in for when he had a glitter bomb delivered to the office. Those things are no joke. No joke at all. It's only a matter of time before his coworker gets back at him. For an example of the sheer power of the glitter bomb, check out this video of a glitter bomb vs. a package thief over here.

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Text - r/tifu + Join u/mmmjr16 • 11h TIFU by buying my coworker a huge glitter bomb, and having it delivered to the office. M TIFU by buying my coworker a huge glitter bomb. So spent like $35 on the hugest glitter bomb could find online. I had it shipped to my coworker and good buddy, thinking he would open it as his desk after retrieving it from the mail room, as was normal when we get a package. The idea was that he'd open it at his desk, creating a beautiful glitter covered canvas of his own

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Text - Anyway, it had been a long time since I ordered and I honestly kind of forgot about it. We were coming back from lunch together and entered the huge front lobby area of our building. Our front desk secretary just finished signing for the packages that day and says: "Hey Jimmy John (fake name), you have a package that just arrived", which is not uncommon for him. However, usually we retrieve our own packages from the mail room. So at first I didn't think anything of it. That's when he says

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Text - That's when it hit me....This huge as glitter bomb filled with like 1lb of "super fine" red glitter has arrived like 2 days earlier than expected. As he's unknowingly inspecting this massive spring-loaded mystery tube, I quickly try and sneak away towards the elevator, not knowing what is going to happen next. There is absolutely no way I would be able to keep a straight face, if he was to open this sucker RIGHT IN THE FRONT LOBBY! Welp, sure enough, this mother fucker decides to open thi

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Text - He and the office lady stand there in silence for what seems like a solid minute as they try and process what has happened. The elevator had just dinged for me to make my "sneaky getaway", drawing their attention towards me as I stand there like a deer in the headlights, not moving and staring straight back at them. My buddy turns right to me, apparently looking guiltier than sin. He looks me right in the eyes and says: “You. Mother. Fucker!" The whole office must've heard. Hahah! What a

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Text - Anyway, I felt so guilty I ended up cleaning the whole thing up myself. It took almost an hour of vacuuming, sweeping, and wiping this super fine red glitter off of everything in the front lobby space. I was so embarrassed as everyone was coming back from lunch seeing me vacuuming and cleaning the front lobby, which was pretty strange for me to be doing when our regular custodians are also standing around watching the show. I finally get the mess cleaned up and had a good laugh about it a

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Twitter Thread: Italian Family Gets Blindsided By DNA Test


This fun Twitter thread looks at an Italian family undergoing quite the shock when their DNA test results come in. Turns out they weren't so Italian after all. Well, really, not at all. This isn't the first time that we've seen a DNA test surprise folks. Check out another time a DNA test shocked a family over here.

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Text - buzzfeed owes me money f... Follow @queenozymandias My uncle on my Italian side got one of the DNA tests done and it turns out they're not Italian and everyone in my family is having a mental breakdown

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Text - buzzfeed owes me money f... Follow @queenozymandias My dad is yelling at his brother "WHY DID YOU DO THIS"

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Text - buzzfeed owes me money f... Follow @queenozymandias Dad is currently yelling in an excessively Italian accent at his brother and my stepmom that his life has been ruined

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Text - buzzfeed owes me money f... Follow @queenozymandias Currently looking at a map to try to figure out if we could be from like the Italian part of Switzerland, a thing that my father now is convinced exists

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Text - buzzfeed owes me money f... Follow @queenozymandias My uncle Andy is now yodeling in the kitchen and my dad is yelling at him to shut up

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Text - buzzfeed owes me money f... Follow @queenozymandias This all came up bc I had to explain to my step brother what "Joey bag a donuts" meant and it all came up

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Text - buzzfeed owes me money f... Follow @queenozymandias Here's the update for those who were asking

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Text - buzzfeed owes me money f... Follow @queenozymandias Replying to @theblerdgurl @ReignOfApril My nana is mad at my uncle and eventually just stopped talking to him and started talking about her family's history in New Jersey, and this morning told my brother to "shut it" when he brought it up again. I'm getting my dad Swiss chocolate for Christmas, he remains devastated.

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Text - buzzfeed owes me money f... Follow @queenozymandias Replying to @queenozymandias @theblerdgurl @ReignOfApril My stepmom is delighted by all of this bc she is not Italian and now no longer has to endure the ridiculous way my family pronounces food words

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People's Most Eccentric and Oblivious Bosses


Most bosses have some weird eccentricities and behaviors. Some bosses are outright oblivious and rude, and others might just be straight up dumb. Here are experiences with real-life Michael Scotts. Some employees had a better time than others. Some bosses are just hell to work for, like this ungrateful psycho boss who got instant karma.

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Text - homeschoolpromqueen 51.6k points · 13 hours ago 5 & 4 More Worked with a genuine Michael Scott: i.e. a nice, well- meaning person who just did some absurd things. We had kidnapping drills one day, where we learned how to 'not be kidnapped'. Notably, this was a regular, boring office in a regular, boring suburb. No reason why kidnapping would be on anybody's radar.. He and several of the guys randomly broke out into a push-up contest. Again. White collar office. Middle-aged dudes in khakis

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Text - Disappeared for four days. No call. No email. Wouldn't respond to any of our attempts to reach him. Finally, someone drove out to his house to make sure he was alive. He was. He'd just forgotten to tell us he was taking the week off, and then lost his phone in a lake. There were many, many moments like these. Great boss. Genuinely cared about everyone in the company. Occasional moments of brilliance, where he really got things done. But OMG, so many moments of ridiculousness.

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Text - happydactyl31 36.8k points · 13 hours ago 2 4 3 & 4 More I used Michael Scott as a reference point for an old boss of mine from the moment I started working there. He made Chewbacca noises on the regular because one of my coworkers' names sort of vaguely sounded like Chewbacca (it didn't), used voice to text extremely loudly in his office for no reason to send really personal messages, got really excited and wore a specific vest any time we had after-work outings scheduled, shouted the sa

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Text - That said - he had all the good parts too. He never hesitated go to the mat for any of us whether we deserved it or not, he gave really sage business advice and great examples of how to face challenges out of absolutely nowhere, and he came to every community play I did in the 4 years I worked for him - and told everyone else in the office how good I was in it for the following month and chastised them for not coming. When things really got serious or bad in my life, he couldn't have been

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Text - BigShoots 34.5k points · 14 hours ago We had an anonymous feedback program at work, and our boss was livid with the results, particularly with several comments that he frequently lost his temper in meetings and would yell at us. The more he talked about how incorrect and unfair and hurtful these comments were, the redder and angrier he got, until he finally pounded the table and shouted, "I DO NOT! SCREAM! IN MEETINGS! OKAY?"

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Text - RespectFar 3.1k points · 13 hours ago I had a redhead boss who made us all sit down and watch a training video about how we shouldn't refer to him as a "ginger" because it is bullying. No one had ever called him that.

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Text - Two_for_joy 24.4k points · 15 hours ago · edited 13 hours ago O O & 9 2 & 4 More I had one and these are just a few quick stories • he asked me how much I weighed during my interview • one time he was considering selling the company to a Japanese company and while walking them around the building he was heard saying 'we really bombed the hell out of you, huh? • he got on the intercom and interrupted everyone by yelling for someone to bring him the football team's schedule • I have video o

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Text - • one time he told me to call his assistant and have her bring him a bag of coffee and his 5lb dumbbell • he had a 'secret' facelift. He was mysteriously gone for 3 weeks and came back with a beard. • I ended up with a box of pictures from the 70s with an exotic dancer giving him a lap dance. In the conference room. Same furniture. • One time I watched his business partner go down the pot luck line, tasting everything with the same fork. At the end of the line, he stuck his used fork into

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Text - LemonsofLifee 21.2k points · 14 hours ago He wanted a pomegranate for lunch and they were out of season, but that didn't stop him from sending me on a quest to every grocery store in town in search of a pomegranate. Multiple produce guys laughed at me, but that was the easiest $13/hr I've ever made.

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Text - lala710 20.4k points · 14 hours ago He held a meeting with our whole team less one person to discuss said person being gay. We all knew for well over a year, and never made a deal of it. So yes, they are out there and that is why the show is so funny to me. I can relate..

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Text - represent_represent 19.0k points · 14 hours ago I worked for a woman as her "personal assistant/ cat sitter". She was super rich and off the deep end nuts. She had me order a mannequin online, and then paid me to take one of the mannequin legs to Nordstrom to try and see what suitcase I could buy that would fit the dismembered mannequin body, because she wanted to fly with the mannequin to Pittsburgh to display "as her daughter", dressed in her daughter's clothes, at that daughter's gradu

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Text - PAzo042 17.4k points · 14 hours ago I literally had a boss who would stop us in the middle of our work and hold company-wide meetings talking about 9/11 truther conspiracies and chemtrails. Mind you we were furniture- making company. He would get so caught up in his conspiracy theories that he forgot to order wood to make furniture one month.

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Text - enlarged-tuna-fish 15.3k points · 14 hours ago Never have worked for one myself, but my dad told me a story about his boss who was giving out awards to everyone in honor of how long they've worked there, and he would give speeches for each person. A woman employee received her award and he gave a speech about the story of how she came to work there. And he said, "At first I didn't want to hire her because she was so hot." My dad's not working there anymore, but I love that story because I

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Text - supersecretsecretary 14.7k points · 14 hours ago My boss used to carry around a backpack full of hammers and if you fell sleep at your desk he started banging a hammer on your desk until you woke up and then he would autograph the hammer and give it to you as a gift

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Text - harperv215 14.5k points · 14 hours ago I had a boss that used to watch me through a gap in the glass partition between our desks. She wanted to see if I was paying attention during meetings. One day, I put a large folder to cover the gap and she freaked. I still laugh when I think about it.

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Text - holmen-2001 12.1k points · 14 hours ago 3 My ass boss insisted his daughters be flower girls in my wedding. I declined. At the reception, he told me I was spending too much time talking to one person, and I need to work the room more.

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Text - mackenziefox55 7.4k points 13 hours ago Yep, I had one. Organized a thoroughly awkward award ceremony once (that we never did again). Asked a Mexican employee if his new baby's name was going to be “No Mas" during the shower we threw for him. Heard me once use the phrase "economy of scale," then used it wrong 5 minutes later in a conversation with different people. Didn't know the meaning behind "Black Friday" and what it meant for a company to be "in the black." Just like Michael Scott,

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Text - paulfromatlanta 6.8k points · 14 hours ago · edited 13 hours ago Long ago, my 80 year old boss pulled me into his office B: "Paul, I've noticed that your shirts come untucked and that looks unprofessional" Me: I'm sorry about that Joel B: I want you to start tucking your shirts into your underwear Me: Uhhh... B: Go ahead and and try it now. Me: Joel, you know I have 15 women who report to me - I can't un-do my pants in the office. B: Sure you can. Drops pants. He is 80 and wearing Spiderm

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Text - downloadedpizza 6.7k points · 14 hours ago My brother had two bosses at his first job that I think fit this. It was an old married couple that owned the gym across the street from us. Probably in their 70s when he started working there. The wife was from Germany and super strict, the husband was clearly losing it Some notable mentions are: •when the husband combined bleach and ammonia to clean the hot tub and sauna room, tear gassing my brother in the process •wife insisted the street be

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Guy Steals From Roommates, Skips Town, Loan Sharks Intervene


Kevin is a contender for the worst roommate of all time. Regardless of whether this story's real or not, the dude who shared it painted quite the picture. You've got a lazy and aimless roommate caught up in a terrible cycle of self-destructive gambling that ultimately manifests in him stealing, and being hunted down by some formidable loan sharks. If this is indeed a real story and they sent Kevin's old roommates that Christmas card with the money they were owed, that's sweeter than hot cocoa on Christmas Eve. 

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Text - r/NuclearRevenge Join u/ack1308 · 7d Loan Sharked This is the story of someone I used to know. I posted it r/StoriesAboutKevin so we'll call him Kevin. first in He needed a place to stay, and my mate needed someone to help pay the rent, so he moved in. Apart from a few minor dietary habits, such as walking around the house drinking chocolate milk from a 2L bottle and not putting it back in the fridge as the sour smell slowly grows, it seemed to be fine.

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Text - In the meantime, he wasn't getting what he considered an adequate wage from taxi driving (which is fair), so he got a job at a bakery. But then he decided to go the whole hog and started gambling online. He had a system, you see. But the system still needed refining. A lot. He was shovelling money into it, and still not getting a return. But to ask him, he was just a few days away from getting the big jackpot. But he didn't have the money to make it work. So he borrowed from a loan shark.

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Text - The next morning, after my mate went to work, Kevin went around to the power and phone companies and had everything cut off, and got the bond for each of them back. Then he grabbed his pre-packed bags and vanished down south. (I'm guessing he'd been getting "Where is my money" from the loan shark). My mate gets home, everything's turned off. Everything in the fridge is either spoiled or well on the way there. He has to run around, get everything reconnected, restock the fridge, and cover

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Text - So then, a few days later, he gets a knock on the door. "Are you Kevin?" These are big guys, wearing white shirts with ties. Very polite, but they're ripped as feck and he can see the tatts through the white material. He's fully aware of who and what they are, and he's able to start making a guess as to why they're there. He invites them in, proves that he's not Kevin, then shows them documentation of what Kevin pulled on him. They're sympathetic, and on the way out one of them gives him

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Text - He puts the card on the fridge. A few months later, Kevin calls from where he's vanished to, asking for his share of the rental bond. Never mind that he never put any money into it in the first place. So my mate says, "Sure. Where can I mail it to?" Kevin rattles off an address. "No worries. It'll be on your doorstep before you know it."

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Text - My mate hangs up, takes the card off the fridge, and makes a call. "So, you wanted to know where Kevin was?" That Christmas, he got a card from the loan shark with $500 in it. 388 22 1 Share

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