Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Blind Comedian Tells Story Of Time He Thought Neighbor Ignored Him


What a hilarious tale from start to finish. 

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Kayakers Briefly Swallowed By Whale


Now that's a once in a lifetime kind of experience right there. Yikes. Can't even imagine what must've been going through those poor kayakers' heads when they were momentarily chilling in the whale's mouth. 

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The Time a Florida University Developed a $430,000 Abstinence Game


The year was 2010. Motion capture technology was all the rage, and someone at the The Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida had a great idea. Why not use rapidly obsolete-looking technology to design a simulation-style game for middle-school girls? And the goal of that game? To promote abstinence, baby. It's hard to find anything about it, so the project may easily have been scraped, but we wish there was a playable copy somewhere. Honestly it's really hard to tell if times ever change or everything is the same forever.

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Manager Tries To Embarrass Employee, Proceeds To Self Destruct


The fact that this manager ended up quitting after unsuccessfully trying to humiliate an employee, is the real icing on the cake. It's a true mystery how some of these incompetent managers end up being in the positions of power that they are. At least this particular manager was ultimately defeated. 

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Text - r/ProRevenge + JOIN u/Darigone • 5h Total Humiliation Was told I should post this here [TL:DR] Manager used my report in a meeting to' set an example." Only for the manager to be humiliated by the same report. I work in security and have been for years. A common practice is to complete a report of what happened during your time. I specifically work in patrols. Basically you go from location to location checking on each site.

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Text - After each site you write what you did at the location. I have 40 sites to watch over every night. For this reason things tend to get very copy paste. Most locations require the same thing. Check exterior, checking stairs doors damage, you get the point. I got a new manager who is disconnected with how patrols work. He want us to make unique entries into every single log.

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Text - When I mean unique I mean none can be close to similar. So if I state I patrolled the exterior of the building. I can't use that phrase for any of the other logs. You can see how that could cause me a lot of problems, and is a massive time waster. After about a week of being borderline harassed, and threatened to make each log 100% unique or else. Let's see about that.

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Text - We have so much to look after we have thick binders giving detailed information for each site, and what's required of you. “Site orders." Every time I would complete a site I just copy pasted all the information into the log. Each log has a small window that you could put 50 words into before it becomes overwhelming to read. Each log I posted had no less than 500 words directly from the “Site Orders." After my first day doing this. I expected to walk in, and get yelled at. However nothing

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Text - 2 months latter, and still no one says anything not a word. We have quarterly meetings to talk about accidents how the patrol group is doing. What's going wrong and what's good. Que the manager the first thing he brings up is the logs, and how almost everyone is failing. How we all should know better. “Your not kids I shouldn't be holding your hands, the only adult in here besides me is OP."

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Text - I look up at him, and his smile was almost disturbing. He then shows a log I wrote up. He begins to talk about how everyone should be like me. How no one deserved to work here but me. The looks I was getting from everyone was brutal. He talked for about 20 min constantly using my name. He would of kept going, but I interrupted him. I asked why he called me out, and how inappropriate it was for him to do so. He looked at me and said “Only children interrupt someone when they are talking."

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Text - I then turned to the group. Telling them that T have been copy pasting my report for the last 2 months. I told them that I just copy pasted the "Site orders." Over and over again, The managers face started getting real red. He after all wanted us to make unique logs. He started to scramble a bit as he pulled up other logs of mine. Only to show that everything I said was true. After that the whole group jumped on him. Many had been screamed at for the exact thing I had been doing. It was b

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Tumblr Thread: Spiders Rule The Cranberry Bogs


Just in case you were considering starting up with a gig at a cranberry bog, this post might make you reconsider that particular life route. Or, maybe you're one of those people who aren't scared one bit by the prospect of wading around cranberry bogs with armies of wolf spiders encircling you. 

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Text - dombinic why do they always show cranberries in thos big pits n its implied its wet and possibly swimmable. do cranberries really grow like that. wh thetaobella You've never heard of The Bog? heartachedreamboy th the what heartachedreamboy #i forget some people dont understand massachusetts

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Water - EACH ADDITION TO THIS POST MAKES MY BLOOD RUN COLD punkrorschach This is a cranberry bog (unflooded) it's how cranberries grow. Once they're ripe, the blog is flooded and the cranberries harvested.

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Water resources - Basically by using big floaty things to round them all up and then scooping them out of the water. heartachedreamboy thank u. i hate it a little less but the horrible little man in my head is still screaming "BOG BODY BOG BODY BOG BODY", but i appreciate the education,

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Text - bomberqueen17 oh here is a fun lil perspective on cranberry harvesting i never heard about anywhere else. the guy who owns the restaurant right down the road from the farm, who fries our chickens sometimes, is from Boston, with the strongest Boston accent ever, and in a former life before he started slinging reasonably priced barbeque and occasional organic chicken, he was a cranberry farmer. His farm was on the leading edge of kinda using organic/sustainable pest control methods, and one

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Text - Well when you're in the bog in hip waders, that makes you the tallest thing. Wolf spiders can swim a bit, but they don't like it, so they're, quite understandably, looking to climb out of the water onto a tall thing. So yeah the first interview question he always asked potential cranberry bog harvester hires was "are you cool with spiders?" "You'd be amazed," he said to us, shaking his head a little, "how many guys would just straight lie. Like, you think I'm asking you that question to b

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People's Dumbest Assumptions About Jobs


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the most ridiculous, mindless assumptions that people make about other people's jobs. Just because someone's a doctor doesn't mean that they're going to be able to figure out why your back hasn't felt right for weeks. 

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Text - imontiza • 5h 1 Award "You're invited to my.. party/event/wedding/ celebration.. please could you bring your camera" Reply 5.5k ...

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Text - McDougal_Scarborough • 5h 3 2 Awards "Oh, you're an electrical engineer? Can you wire my garage?" Reply 12.7k ...

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Text - Absolute_Predator • 6h "Oh, you're a chemical analyst? You must know how to make drugs" Reply 8.6k ...

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Text - Funke-munke • 6h 3 7 Awards Oh you're an Occupational Therapist- Can you help me find a job Reply 23.3k ...

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Text - tygs42 • 5h "Oh, you're a truck driver? Can you come tell me what's wrong with my car?" Umm, ma'am, I just drive the damn things... You want the shop guys for that. Reply 3.5k ...

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Text - Conscious_Tea • 6h Oh, you're a therapist? tells me about their family member who really needs to see a therapist Reply 1 12.5k ...

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Text - garbagepencil • 5h "Oh, you're an accountant? Can you add and/or multiply these huge numbers in your head lightening fast?" No. You have no idea what I do.... Reply 4.0k ...

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Text - New_Game_P1us • 6h Oh, you work in construction? (Proceeds to ask about fixing things around the house, asking if something was installed wrong because it doesn't "look right", or wanting a price quotes for various projects) Reply 2.5k ...

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Text - CarbineFox • 2h 3 Awards "Oh you're a geologist? What kind of rock is this?" Just kidding, we love that shit and will tell you a long story of the history of that rock and how we saw examples in the field in the middle of nowhere. Reply 1 2.1k ...

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Text - MelpomeneLee • 3h "Oh you work for a law firm? My son's ex-girlfriend wants full custody of their kid. What should he do?" A. I'm a mass tort paralegal, I don't do family law B. He needs to get a lawyer. Reply 587 ...

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Text - brow3477 • 5h "Oh, you're a pharmacist? Well I have this huge, gaping wound on my left butt cheek, can you look at it and tell me what I can use over the counter?" Sir... Please go to the hospital... Reply 1.5k ...

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Text - Askanner • 5h Oh you're travel agent, when is covid going to end? Reply 1 1.3k ...

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Text - keithwaits • 5h 7 Awards So you're a statistician? .... I never get to help friends and family with my professional skills :( Reply 13.8k

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Text - "Oh you're a firefighter? Do you actually go to work?" Reply 591

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Text - bigEchees • 7h 1 Award "Oh your a musician, play that one that goes, bun dum dum bun dum donn bom" Reply 4.3k

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Text - Lethal_bizzle94 •5h Oh your a psychologist, can you chat to my kid and see if he is depressed Reply 1 2.3k ...

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Text - drawingmentally • 4h "OH, are you an artist? Draw me for free!" Reply 436 ...

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Text - sdhohd • 6h "Oh you're a linguist? How many languages do you speak?" Reply 952 ...

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White - rafily • 6h CAN YOU hACk fAcEbOok??? Reply 780 ...

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Text - BloatedCrow • 4h I was going to have surgery and about 10 minutes before I was scheduled to go under the knife, the nurse asked me what I was studying. I told her l'm a computer science student and without skipping a beat she asked me to help her download WhatsApp on her Huawei! Since I'm also studying genetics, I also often get requests like "does this rash look bad" or "can you clone my cat". NO. LEAVE ME ALONE. Edit: I nearly forgot my all-time favourite - "you're Jewish? Can you balan

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Text - shellshocked_637 • 3h Oh you're a nurse, can you have a look at my ingrowing toenail / tell me why I have a rash down below Reply 1 108 ...

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Text - POtentialAH • 4h "Oh, you're a voice actor? Do "x" character's voice!" Reply 437 ...

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Text - ilikerocks19 • 2h "Oh you're a geologist? If I showed you a map could you find Norway?" Um, yeah, but not because I'm a geologist... Reply 161 ...

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Text - Extreme_Seaweed5214 • 2h "Oh you're a gardener? WhY cAnT I EvEn KEEP mY CACTUS aLiVe???" Because you like telling people you have no green thumb to virtue signal how humble and accepting of your faults you are (and it seems to get you matches on Bumble profile) rather than watching one youtube vid on how to keep succulents alive Reply 1 56 ...

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Text - Rand_alThor_ • 2h Oh you're an astronomer? Why is my outlook as Pisces so negative this month? I heard all the planets are going to be lined up what does that mean for my horoscope? Reply 42

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Text - labbykun • 5h "Oh, you work in a pharmacy? Can you tell me what to take for [insert ailment here]?" And "Oh, you're a photographer, can you take pictures for my wedding/birthday party/Christmas?" That one gets me really irked because I have all this pressure on me to do a really precise job on what is essentially a hobby, I do not have the equipment for professional shots and the end result is usually met with at least mild disappointment. Reply 64 ...

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Cursed Foods That are Uncomfortable to Look At


In some cases, a closeup of just about any pot of slime is gonna look bad, but then there are those cursed foods from Lucifer's larder that are so creatively horrible that they're just hard to look at. Props on people for trying something new, but dear god some of this food was created in the underworld's kitchen.

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Food - Made chilli for dinner

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Buttercream - FIND THE TOENAIL

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Dish - mashed potatoes, corn, fried chicken, gravy. all homemade. fuck a kfc

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Food - NEW funeral ootatoes AUGASON FARMS SINCE+ 1972 casy prepare WITH MADE 00% REA L POTATOES

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Food - What you do not smell is Briabeetus. "Super moist French vanilla" cake, topped with sliced strawberries and a combo of EXTRA CREAMY Cool Whip and whipped fluffy white icing stirred together to perfection, finished with a whole strawberry cheesecake including graham cracker crust floating atop. he 508

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