Friday, March 26, 2021

5 (Secretly) Depressing Famous Movies


Movies are really fun as long as you don't stop and smell the civilian casualties or take stock of how many fish Aquaman sends to their deaths or how many people Spider-Man lets get obliterated by a crane or how Ready Player One's Wade Watts is even less cool than we think. "Doctor" Jordan Breeding returns this week to point out all sorts of little depressing details that were snuck into movies that you probably never noticed!

Adam Savage Tests If Titanium Armor Would Be Bulletproof


It's videos like the one we have here from the infamous Adam Savage that really might manage to make people miss Mythbusters. Did you ever find yourself wondering whether or not Iron Man's iconic armor would actually be bulletproof in real life? Well, now your curiosity can be satisfied. 

Kids Balance Bike Races Are A Hilarious Masterpiece


This right here is what the internet is for. Little did much of the world know just how amazing and funny kids balance bike races can be. Well, now we know. It's something else. Truly. 

Tumblr Story: Teacher Underestimates Students in Social Experiment


And with that, maybe there's evidence the world won't completely slip into utter chaos. Sure, the strangeness of students can result in some weird and stupid school stories, but that doesn't mean students are necessarily complete animals all the time. Sometimes it can be teachers who say weird and wild junk.

Tumblr User Thinks Honey's Made From Bees


This is one of those wild Tumblr interactions that we sorely hope is nothing more than a devilish troll on the part of the one profoundly clueless Tumblr user. The dude suggests that honey comes from bees that have been squashed up in some kind of grinder device. Seriously, where do people read some of this stuff? 

Check out some more gold from Tumblr with this thread about trade school and the point of tests.

Employee Gets Fired, Takes Essential Program with Them


This factory thought it could get rid of an employee but keep their game-changing program. It looks like they thought too fast. For another story of an employee getting the better of an ungrateful company, here's an ungrateful psycho boss that got instant karma.

Mildly Interesting Images To Ponder


There's nothing like some mildly interesting images to mull over while you're going about your day. Both of the bananas pictures in this collection of mildly interesting images are definitely a trip. Also, shout out to the champion seahorse lugging that q tip around. Not sure what that's about. 

Property Manager Won't Return Security Deposit, Pro Revenge Ensues


What is with all these landlords and being so dang stubborn (and criminal) when it comes to returning tenants' rightful deposits? It's like, just do the right thing so that the rest of the antics don't need to occur in the first place. But alas, here we are. This guy successfully took the tyrannical property manager down by setting up a website that ended up getting a whole lot of traffic. Hopefully they kept that site up until the property manager made good on all of the payments. 

Dumb Things People Witnessed That Leave Little Hope For Humanity


There are some real dumb idiots out there. We all like to think that just cause we have cars and planes and indoor plumbing that the standards for your average person's grasp on reality is vastly better than say, a dirt-farming medieval peasant. But then you talk to someone for 5 minutes and realize that they don't believe in air. What's worse is the dumb things people say with mystifying confidence.

Tumblr Post: Darth Vader's Such A Drama King


We can always count on Tumblr to take us down the rabbit holes that we otherwise never would've entertained. In this case, we have quite the funny series of observations that astutely point out the fact that Darth Vader's a total, shameless drama queen. For some more gold from Tumblr check out this Tumblr thread about an entitled coworker who couldn't handle a service industry service job

Incompetent Manager Gets Rid of Closer, Store Gets Robbed


In an effort to trim down a company, some managers try eliminating vital positions without replacing them. Some managers illegally dock pay, and IT has to get it all back. In this case a hotheaded manager went and made a pretty big mistake while also making sure there was a lot of proof for that mistake. Nice. Some managers are super chill, like this boss who used an eye gag to remove problem customers.

Customer Tells Call Center Employee Their Nickname Is Forbidden


Anyone who has ever grinded through the exhausting state of existence that can be working a job at a call center has likely fielded their fair, infuriating share of terribly entitled and delusional customers. This customer sounds like they're on a level of their own. They had the nerve to get totally nasty toward a call center employee over the employee's elected professional nickname. Like, what? It seems like some people really just need to have a fight with someone over something no matter what. For some more call center drama check out this story where a call center wouldn't give an employee a raise, and then a malicious compliance ensued

Parenting Memes For The Always Exhausted


Being responsible for the continued existence of multiple human lives is an undeniable hassle. Few of us are even that prepared to look after ourselves, so throwing in a few more mortal entities into the cauldron of life isn't gonna make things run more smoothly. Here's to zero sleep and parenting memes for the perpetually stressed.

Entitled Customer Tells Plumber His Rate's Too High, Gets Nastier After That


Man oh man, our hearts go out to anyone working in the sewage/draining industry who ends up having to deal with these kinds of terribly entitled, if not delusional customers. This scenario was shady from the very beginning. And then after the customer blatantly wastes the poor dude's time, he has the audacity to get all nasty toward the guy. Good riddance and good luck getting that issue resolved. Seems like most of the moral judges in the comments section agreed that this guy wasn't in the wrong at all for walking out on the "job."

Karen Steals Kid's Pokémon Cards, Mom Saves The Day


Leave it to a Disney mom cult to save the day. This isn't the first time that we've encountered a gnarly case of an entitled Karen, and we highly doubt it'll be the last time. In this case, the drama that unfolds involves a Karen having the immoral audacity to legit steal a kid's binder of precious Pokémon cards at a summer camp, for her kid. Come on, Karen. That ain't how the world works. 

Teacher Makes False Claim Against Student, Student's Mom Takes Revenge


Unfortunately, a fair number of us have encountered a rather nasty teacher while muddling through the education system at one point or another. Some teachers are certainly worse than others. It's like some of them will have some strange vendetta against you from the moment you walked in, for some unfathomable reason. Well, the teacher in this scenario sounds like she was way outside the line. Fortunately, the student's mom was ready to unleash a righteous revenge. 

Creepiest Things People Experienced That Escaped Explanation


Existence is strange. There are so many moments all of us seem to encounter in our lives where things simply just don't add up. It can end up feeling like you're straight up witnessing a glitch in the matrix. Maybe you end up sharing that glitchy moment with another human being, who also can't explain the occurrence. Well, all we can do is shrug it off, and accept the fact that there will always be those strange moments lurking right around the corner that we'll never be able to explain through the lens of a rational mind. 

Scale-Model Battleships Club Battling in a Lake


Sometimes you can just tell based off the title of a video, whether or not you're about to witness something very, very cool. Naturally, scale-model battleships duking it out in a lake arena will make for an entertaining spectacle.