Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Ice Dropped Down 450 Foot Ice Hole Sounds Like Lasers


Drilling for ice cores in the Antarctic has its perks, like hearing the freaky sound of ice dropping down an extremely long ice tube. It legit sounds like they're shooting a space western down there.

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Wins of the Week - December 2020


This year's already had far too many fails. Let's switch things up for a hot second and celebrate some of the times that humanity wasn't just failing left and right uncontrollably. 

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Man Tells Story About Goth Kid Defeating Bouncers


Man, this lad tells a wild story about four bouncers being defeated by an unlikely foe. If anything this rollercoaster of a story should serve as a solid testament to the fact that you shouldn't ever judge a book by its cover. 

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Dumb and Bad Life Pro Tips That Aren't Worth It


Good advice is hard to come by, and these make it even harder to find. Want to learn how to make milk or not get hit by cars? These kinds of bad life pro tips won't help at all. Don't get them confused with life hacks or actual life pro tips. These are dumb and bad life pro tips to not do. Or, if you want your life to go badly, go ahead.

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Automotive design - everyday is a half day if you just fucking leave

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Organism - Life hack Got something you need to do at a certain time every day (e.g., take meds)? Start giving your cat a treat right before you do it. You may have trouble remembering, but your cat absolutely will not. hollowedskin Thats a damn good advice skeletonmug a cat wrote this

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Photograph - LOOKING FOR SOME QUALITY "YOU" TIME THANKSGIVING NIGHT? A LITTLE EXTRA CHERRY FLAVORING WILL GET THE KIDDOS TO SLEEP NICE AND EASY POWERFUL RELIEF VICKS Quil

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Finger - How to Speak a Foreign Language Step 1: Go to a foreign country Step 2: Speak your mother tongue

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Skin - Someone just said to me: "fall in love with your problems, maybe they'll leave you too" ifunny.co

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Motor vehicle - I WAS LONELY UNTIL I GLUED A CFFEE CUP ON TOP OF MY CAR. NOW EVERYONE WAVES AT ME!

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Forehead - u can cut your electricity bill in half by getting one of these shit crazy

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Technology - Follow Exchange l'm currently having with my landlord. The hot water is broken 20:16 How? Can you send me some photos? 20:17 MMS It looks like this but it's not hot. 20:18 98 Comments Give Award Share A Save O Hide Report SORT BY BEST View all comments View discussions in 2 other communities JustMelurkingAround- Score hidden - 1 hour ago Should have put some hot water in the freezer for emergencies. Reply Give Award Share Report Save

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Blue - Stop blaming everyone for all of your problems. Pick one person you hate and blame them for everything

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Gun - CONSERVE YOUR PAINTBALL 25 AMMO BY USING A KNIFE DURING COMBAT valker

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Water resources - Why I Should Throw This Plastic Six-Pack Ring Into The River • i dont want it the river is right there

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Electronic device - Gnand Bhero Eutio

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Product - how to keep your christmas lights on no matter what 20

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Text - Tweet full time stoner ... @cowboyenergy420 instead of using plastic cups from starbucks just cup your hands and sip very quickly. global warming = hacked 9:22 PM · 1/6/20 · Twitter Web App

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Text - Because the keys on a keyboard are all muddled up and wrong instead of being laid out alphabetically, most people when writing on their computers just hit the buttons in a blind panic and hope for the best. Use this "Keyboard Guide" to quickly and conveniently look up your desired letter. KEYBOARD GUIDE A B CDE F GHI JKL MNOPQRSTUVWXY Z delete tab capt leck cantul orhun cnd cnd

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Product - Take an item that is about to expire and place it into another container without an expiration date to make it last forever! 3484 -1 500

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Sweetness - Eggs are fantastic for a fitness diet. Don't like the taste? Add cocoa, butter, flour & bake for 30 minutes!

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Text - IFYOU NEED TO WORK ON SOMETHING ELECTRICAL BUT DON'T KNOW WHERE THE BREAKER PANEL IS SIMPLY KINK THE WIRE LIKE A GARDEN HOSE TO STOP THE FLOW OF ELECTRICITY HLLAGE

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Cuisine - bod Hamilton Beach 1500 DONOT ERENATER EAS EE

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Text - A LOT OF PEOPLE USE ASPARTAME OR STEVIA AS A SWEETENER BUT SUGAR TASTES JUST AS GOOD AND CAN BE USED BY YOUR BODY AS ENERGY! imgflip.com

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Text - oday at 9:07 PM Study after the test so you know what to study for

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Textile - The Hardcore Way To Eat Instant Noodles 1. Boil Water 2. Eat Block Of Noodles 3.Drink Boiling Water. 4. Snort Flavour Powder. 5. Commit tax fraud

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Nose - @remzel_ 5h REMZEL Me when l'm crossing the street and a car acts like they won't stop O 28 27893 2,912 kool aid the train @kool_train 2h Run towards it to scare it away δΈͺ li

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Blue - WHEN doing Sudoku, just fill in any old numbers as you will find that nobody ever checks your answers. David Thomson, Glasgow

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Colorfulness - Pro-tip: Outta milk? Mayo and ice cold water makes milk in a pinch. Great for break fast cereal!

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Times People Realized They Married The Wrong Person


This feels trip of an AskReddit thread has people describing the emotionally painful times that they realized they'd actually married the wrong person. Sometimes you throw in with another person that you're convinced is your soulmate, and then go on to realize that there are insurmountable obstacles in the way of the two of you having a fruitful and loving relationship. After a realization like that the purest expression of love can really be to just let the person go. 

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Text - crassy • 3y I realised when I checked our bank accounts and noticed they were completely empty of the money my grandmother had given us to buy a house. Then I noticed that he was 'on call' more than usual and that those calls happened all night...then all weekend. Then I realised he was not the one when the chick he was fucking called our house looking for him and was surprised that his wife answered the phone. Turns out he emptied our accounts to pay for her. She was expensive. 2.5k •..

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Text - Faiths_got_fangs • 3y His girlfriend texted me and told me I needed to leave so they could be together. 2.2k ...

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Text - NICOSobatka • 3y He wanted kids as much as I did. So, we had kids. Then he just turned out to be a horrible Dad. Ignored them, belittled them, started drinking too much and lashing out. Refused couples therapy. Started to embarrass the kids with his actions. Divorce. 1.9k ...

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Text - dappled-and-drowsy • 3y I married him in a "shit or get off the pot" situation after 6 years of dating. I knew I shouldn't marry him, but I did it anyway. Just felt obligated I suppose. I was young and stupid. Needless to say, we are no longer married. | 590 ...

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Text - 1ronfastnative• 3y Other than when I was served with papers for a dissolution for marriage, I should have known she was going to walk when a month into the marriage she wanted to leave after a small argument. Then she called her mom and said maybe we should go to marriage counselling. The marriage lasted on paper for 23 months, but was already starting to disintegrate after a month. 384 ...

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Text - ZippyQueSera • 3y It didn't take long. I was so young and naive I basically married the person my controlling mother picked out for me. After six months, our sex life was almost non- existent. Seems he could manage a quick episode only after returning from Sunday Mass. I actually believed he was spending hours and hours nightly, jogging, with our fabulously gay neighbor. It was only when I found myself drinking copiously every night that I realized something wasn't right. So I left, still

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Text - GrandMoffDuce • 3y When she took her son to Disney world for a family vacation....and left me and my son at home to take care of the dog. I told her I was divorcing her the day she got back. 1.4k ...

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Text - fairiestoldmeto • 3y When i realised l'd rather die than continue. And that my son needed me alive more than I needed his daddy. And then when I had it pointed out to me that due to my being the sole earner in the house I could easily disentangle myself from him financially - something he'd made me believe I couldn't do. Pretty certain he has NPD. His truth is very flexible to his environment and audience. He had zero energy for engaging with me and his son and while I worked he farmed my

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Text - Tink_619 • 3y He told me he can't love me the way he thinks he can love a man... was honestly relieved as the couple years leading up to that moment had been hell for me. I had convinced myself something was wrong with me, etc. He told me his truth and I was free. Fast forward 5 years and he's still in the closet (he never fully came out) and living a miserable existence while hating me for knowing his truth. There's so much more I could add, but l'll just leave it at that. 1.4k ...

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Text - banaynaboat • 3y Saw the red flags even before marriage--threats of suicide if we break up, haven't graduated from college, terminated from the first job within 4 months, etc. I thought it would change. It didn't. Red flags will always be red. 272 ...

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Text - decorama • 3y After getting married, I began to see all the red flags I had been ignoring weren't going away. Too much unnecessary drama, financial irresponsibility and a cheating heart all hidden by a pretty face. Look for and always acknowledge the red flags. 1.3k ...

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Text - [deleted] • 3y I realised it over the summer as we were finalizing the wedding plans. He would constantly get caught hanging out with other girls behind my back as I was working hard to finalize the plans for our wedding that was weeks away. I figured that l'd just need to sucker up and deal with it the way I had in the past since everything was paid for and everyone had taken off work for the wedding (it was on a Friday). We married very young as well.

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Text - [deleted] • 3y My friend got divorced after a year of being married. The issue was her husband was the same person he was before they got married. This is super common, I think, but in her case it blew up much faster than it does in other cases (where people split up around the 5-7 year mark). A lot of people believe in some capacity that once they get married, some things will change. They'|l become more reliable, they'll take the relationship more seriously, they'll "grow up", they'll b

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Text - He never wanted to spend any time with me. He would get upset when I wanted to have dinner with my friends instead of watching him play video games all night (which he equated to "spending time together"). He dampened my love for music by telling me to stop singing all the time and discouraged me from being in a band, which is all I ever wanted to do. When we lost our jobs and had to move back in with my parents, he refused to apply for jobs, school, even unemployment because he was too l

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Text - We were married for a total of six months before we separated. It was so embarrassing knowing how many people bought us gifts and attended our wedding and having to tell all of them that we split up. Now Il'm afraid of having a wedding with my boyfriend because I feel like nobody will come. I know that the decision to marry this fuck was ultimately mine, but I wish someone would have had an honest to god conversation with me about it first. 221

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Text - pious_platypus • 3y When she told me that the day I got full custody of my daughter was the worse day of her life. It would've been nice to know that before we got married. 177 ...

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Text - PikaChillin • 3y When I had to start paying every single bill for it to be paid on time. He made in a week what I made in an entire month yet he was ALWAYS broke. I never did find out where all his money was going. When a month after our wedding he told me he didn't want me anymore. He never had a sense of responsibility about anything, even his two children from a previous relationship. I never once saw him play a game with them. He would only try to buy their love by taking them to Best

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Text - He took out his anger at his job on me and his kids constantly. There were holes in some of the walls from where he had punched them and even a hole in the kids' door from a day he had been mad at them. Teventually realized that I hated everything about my relationship and that I shouldn't be yelled at and made to feel worthless. Marriage lasted 5 years. Divorce was finalized this past January. He never even came back to get his stuff and he never responded, nor showed up to the divorce h

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Text - MaceEtiquette • 3y It started out small.. First couple months after marriage he became extremely controlling financially. There was a lot of belittling, calling me trash (ironically I come from a well off family), telling me I was nothing without him. Six months in, he put his hands on me for the first time. Pushing me into a wall. Before the year mark, the pushing turned into choke slamming me and slapping me. He told me if I told anyone (friends, family, etc.) he would kill me. He was i

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Text - PicklelnDaButt • 3y Well, a shit ton of things. Two of the worst. When I came back from my fourth deployment, she told me she wished I was still over there. That was like within three days. I told her I wanted to name my first born after my friend who died overseas. She told me it was a terrible name. 114 ...

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Text - KT_mama • 12h NTA Part of being inclusive is allowing people the space and time to celebrate their own beliefs. Your Christmas tree doesn't force anyone to celebrate your beliefs any more than someone wearing religious clothing. There's nothing inherently offensive about a tree. O Reply 1 vVote ...

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Text - АceTMK . Π—Ρƒ Ignored red flags.. She was selfish and rude immediately after we got married. She was rude to the help. To waiters. To anyone she saw as beneath her. Needless to say. Ended.

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Text - nonsufficient • 3y When we discussed what our lives would be like if we divorced and how they'd be fine. Six months in. Married at 20. Separated at 20. After we had that talk I just started seeing all the reasons we wouldn't work. Plus he wouldn't fight with me. Just refused. He's happily married with two kids now. And l'm in the best long term relationship of my life, with a man that made me want to try marriage again. Don't be afraid to admit you made a mistake. I'm glad I did.

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Text - neemeenone • 3y I kinda slowly figured it out over the course of the 3 years we were married, but I shit you not, the exact moment I realized I married the wrong man happened in the grocery store. We were buying toilet paper and ended up having a serious fight over what type to get - he wanted to get single-ply because it was cheaper, I wanted to get Charmin because it doesn't hurt when I wipe (he didn't wipe unless it was a #2 so I guess the stakes were higher for me). I had this moment

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Text - Chckyrsix • 3y I was in the military, her father didn't like me because I didn't make a lot of money (he was a small business owner), and some of her family weren't exactly pro- military. Whatever, some people can't change it, you just live with that fact. Cut to her living with me off base, she didn't have any friends and was bored. So I helped her get a job on base. We played WoW together for raiding (WotLk baby!). But we fought most of the time about trivial things of course. But what

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"Good Friend" Expects Free Custom Sneakers


Nothing quite brings the blood to a boil like a choosing beggar who tries to play the "friendship card." This particularly entitled individual wants a free pair of custom sneakers, and expects such a want to be fulfilled because they're clearly such a "good friend." Seems like everyone involved here would be best served to never communicate again. Check out another choosing beggar who expected free art, and then the artist clapped back

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Text - iMessage Today 13:17 Hey girl!!! I miss you :(I wanted to ask you if you could paint some air forces with butterflies on them for me? | really like your work and I wanted to know if you could do them for me! Lmk hey, been a while!

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Text - yea i can definitely paint some butterflies on some air forces for you, it's gonna be $100 you just have to give me the shoes. Oh.. wait you want me to pay for them..? yea, this is my business, i don't usually do them for free.. why wouldn't i?

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Text - Well I didn't think you would charge me cause we're really good friends, i guess I just didn't expect that from you. I just wanted to support the business but never mind, $100 is too expensive for the work you do anyway. I mean honestly. Your shit isn't even that good to be charging that much, you should do like $20 tbh

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Blue - girl what??? it takes me almost 20+ hours to finish a pair of shoes, not to mention they're all hand painted and i work really hard to come up with my own ideas. you said you really liked my work and then whenever i said i was gonna charge you, all of a sudden it isn't good enough? you said you want to support my business but how are you supporting my business if i paint your shoes for free. that's not even being "friends" not to mention this is the first time we've spoken in like a year.

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Incompetent Manager Suspends Employee, Expects Them At Shift


It's a wonder that people like this are able to end up in the managerial positions that they are. This incompetent manager sounds like they were incapable of making one correct move. It's just one fail after another, and the whole time they're stirring up a fuss about the very problems that they are proactively causing. At least the malicious compliance aspect of this is on point. Check out another incompetent manager who forbid overtime and then had it backfire terribly

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Text - r/MaliciousCompliance + Join u/Azurix8 • 1d Come in for my shift? You just suspended me. L This happened about 3 years ago while I worked at a large pizza chain as a manager. Background: At the time of this story I was in college coming up on 5 years of service at this company and 4 years of it being management. At our location I was the second longest standing employee with one other manager having 1 more year than me,so it goes to say that we knew how to run the store smoothly and handl

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Text - Cast: me as me, the general manager and manager in training. Its the middle of a dinner rush on Wednesday and I'm running the line where we make the pizzas. Everyone is moving among and things are going smooth. Then I hear our new. General manager from across the floor talking to our manager in training General manager: Sure hunny if you want to leave early that shouldn't be a problem! Only problem is it very much is a problem she is one of two closers for the night and I like going home

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Text - Me: Hey sorry to overhear but did you just say manager I'm training can leave early tonight? General manager: Yes, is there a problem? Me: manager in training is scheduled to be a closer tonight with me to be trained on paperwork and help clean. Did you ask anyone else to take their pace? General manager: No , but that shouldn't be a problem its only Wed and you can manage it just leave when your scheduled to and I can handle what's left in the morning Me: Ok Boss if you say so. Cue MC

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Text - So the night is ending and me and my one closer are scrambling to get things done. I got the paperwork and daily cash put together and inventory while he cleaned. Right at the stroke of midnight I looked at him and said boss said its time to go new general manager said to leave when scheduled they will handle the rest tomorrow. Needless to say things where not finished. Dishes where piled in the sink, floors weren't fully swept and mopped, and stations where not setup. Come tomorrow morni

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Text - Me: what seems to be the problem? Manager in training: you left this store a mess! And you call yourself a manager! General manager: She's right this is unacceptable. Me: I just did as you told me and left at my scheduled time At this comment the general manager blew up and screamed some slew about how manager in training can replace me in a heartbeat and that I should have stayed and finished my job. He then proceeded to tell me l'm suspended from work for 2 weeks, and to that I happily

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Text - Fast forward to Friday night (I normally close Friday and Saturdays) and I get a phone call from manager in training asking where I am. I humbly reminded her I'm suspended and to enjoy covering it alone. minutes later the general manager called me demanding I come work My shift and how he can't believe l'm skipping out. Again I humbly reminded him that I'm suspended on his orders. At this he stammered for a second then just told me to come in anyway as they have none too cover My shifts.

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Things People Only Understood After Getting Older


When we're young, everything seems so cut and dried, but getting a little bit older makes us ask questions we didn't even know we had. It's eye opening, and it makes you realize that with greater responsibilities comes having to understand a lot of the things your parents complained about. Here are some total downsides to being an adult as well as some funny and embarrassingly basic stuff adults didn't know.

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Text - _doggystyle_ 29.7k points · 3 days ago 926 & 24 More Sleep is no punishment it's a gift

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Text - Slowjams 55.8k points · 3 days ago 28 & 73 More Friendships fading away I remember my dad telling me all kinds of cool stories about things him and his friends did in the past. I even asked him "why aren't you still friends with these people?" He really did basically say "it's complicated, you'll understand when you're older." Even back then I remember thinking "that's crazy, me and my friends will always be friends." Sitting here now in my early 30's and it really hits home.

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Text - xXnova16poguex 40.4k points · 3 days ago ,6 8 39 E 3 Not everybody is going to like you, even if you're a good person. 12

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Text - plotthick 31.4k points · 3 days ago 5 0 11 e4 & 14 More The quiet, boring, simple, times are the best. Everyone's fed, happy, healthy, chill, napping... these are the good times.

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Text - laundryandblowjobs 28.0k points · 3 days ago 3 2 3 3 If the door is closed, you should always knock.

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Text - AWhistlingWoman 6.2k points · 3 days ago That EVERYTHING has shades of grey/is a sliding scale. It is so easy to understand the world as absolutes when young. Suddenly realising in my late teens/early twenties that basically nothing is an absolute was a total revelation that really steers my understanding of everything and undoubtedly makes me a better person.

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Text - diegojones4 27.3k points · 3 days ago 2 3 2 Money. There was a reason that you didn't get those shoes, the PS5, a new shiny car, etc. Maintaining a home and keeping the family fed is fucking expensive.

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Text - foundingflounders 25.6k points · 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago 2 King Triton, ArieΔΎ's dad was right. She was just a child and she was not “in love" with the random prince she saw for all of 30 seconds.

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Text - call-me-mama-t 25.4k points · 3 days ago 2 2 e2 33 8 Time...wasting time, and how time flies. It's mid Dec & I'm saying to myself 'what the heck-it's been 9 months of Covid & I can't believe this year is almost over'! As you age it seems to go faster & faster. When I was younger I felt like time just dragged on some days.

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Text - Tru27 25.1k points · 3 days ago 4 3 e3 & 4 More Literally getting older. Never thought much about when adults would say "You're still young, just enjoy it". I always wanted to be older because I was tired of HS, wanted to be out of college, etc. Now I want aging to slow down a bit.

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Text - steviebergwijn 21.9k points - 3 days ago 2 3 2 3 2 O Why it's so annoying when you forget to take the chicken out of the freezer

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Text - -eDgAR- 20.2k points · 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago 14 9 & 60 More When I was a kid my dad and I had a tradition every week of going to the video store and renting a movie or two to watch together. It was one of my favorite things to do, but I remember I used to get really upset at him because every single time we'd actually start to watch the movie he would fall asleep. It wasn't until I was older that I realized that the reason he would fall asleep was because he was exhausted from wo

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Text - ninten-dont 19.9k points · 3 days ago 2 2 & 6 More Can we get McDonald's? No we have food at home.

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Text - distrucktocon 18.2k points · 3 days ago ,5 9 3 3 8 8 4 It is possible to do everything right and still fail. Dont let it consume you. Pick up the pieces and move on. I had to learn this after a project that I was on for 3 years was sabotaged and shitcanned. I did some amazing work, and poured my life into that project.. in the end I had nothing to show for it. It put me in a real slump for a few years. Im still trying to pull myself out of it without becoming a cynical and jaded asshole.

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Text - Wyndsock 16.8k points · 3 days ago 2 e2 3 2 E 2 The sound of your joints exploding every time you get up.

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Text - justcurious247_ 15.6k points · 3 days ago Why my parents would look disgusted eating/ drinking anything that was sweet. • I never understood why they watered down juice until now

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Text - FoxtailZerda 15.5k points · 3 days ago 2@3 2 Something a little more lighthearted, but about half the jokes on cartoons like SpongeBob take on a whole new light once you've got more experience under your belt. ikindalold 10.4k points · 3 days ago 2 3 34 & 7 More You either die a Spongebob or live long enough to become a Squidward.

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Text - RedsInABox 14.2k points · 3 days ago · edited 2 days ago Time off. Working crazy hours in my early 20s was nice because I had a lot of money 3 6 e & 7 More but as I became older and more involved with my now fiancΓ© and my friends I realized that there's a balance. This drove me to look for a job with a little less pay but far better hours and now I'm happy. Don't work like a slave, you'll miss a lot of good things in life.

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Text - bibbidibobbidi-bacon 14.2k points · 3 days ago · 55 & 16 More edited 3 days ago Good people aren't always nice people, and vice versa.

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Text - allsfairinwar 13.7k points · 3 days ago 2 4 5 3 2 8 3 What parents sacrifice just so you can do something fun. Last night my husband and I sat in a line of cars for an hour and a half so our kids could see this cheesy drive thru light display in my town with Santa and other characters. 0/10 not worth it for us but the kids loved it and it was worth it to see them be able to do a fun Christmas activity during a pandemic. It made me think of how much my parents had to endure taking my broth

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Text - pilatesse 13.2k points · 3 days ago 2 3 e S 3 & 3 More Socks are a very nice gift.

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Text - curiousboopnoodle 10.8k points · 3 days ago 2 3 24 Teenagers are just kids. It's something I quite literally was not capable of understanding until I wasn't a teenager anymore. When I was a teenager I felt so000 grown up.

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Text - QuarantineTitans 9.7k points · 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago In my teens and 20's, I just couldn't understand how my parents were so oblivious to celebrities. They were all over TV, their names and faces blasted on everything, it seemed everybody had some strong emotionally charged opinion about every major actor, musician, director, or tabloid magnet. What are they, living under a rock? Didn't take long to find out why. Growing up, I didn't have a pre- existing list of "these are famous

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Text - pinetreeroad 8.5k points · 3 days ago 25 e6 3 E 5 That the quality rather than quantity of friends matters.

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Text - eeyoremarie 7.7k points · 3 days ago Hand me downs. I absolutely hated them, e 8 2 even though my grandma was a genius with them. Dyeing, artistic patches, new buttons... They just didn't last compared to the new clothes my older sister had. Then I had 3 boys in 6 years.. I'm seriously grateful that my grandma tried so hard to make my hand me downs look good. I get it now.

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Text - BigBadKYDO 6.5k points · 3 days ago Why the pet hamster changed color

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