The legend of the silver screen, Steven Seagal, is an unforgettable monument on the mountaintop of the wasteland of cinema. He's excellent at pretending to do martial arts, and even worse at cocking a gun. Back when he used to run in movies, he had an interesting, noodly kind of thing he did with his arms that really drove home the fact that he was acting super hard about getting to wherever he was going fast.
Society has soft rules that are hard to follow, maybe because they aren't literally written on the wall. Ones that we were supposed to be taught as kids, or basic functions of reality, like not blocking traffic. And there's no official manual for not being an annoying burden to the people around you, so here are some tips for the folks who keep getting called asses in public and "have no idea why." For some more frustrating little things about being a human, here are bone-jarringly frustrating double standards.
"What 9000? There's no way that can be right!"
Get ready for the fight of your lives against these final bosses. These are the bosses that await you when you have already defeated all others of their kind.
Afterward, check out these Lord of the Rings memes that are more fire than the Balrog.
Who would think that separating kids in school by reading level could result in some of those kids becoming huge jerks to their own peers? Kids are all basically sociopaths anyway, so giving a talented one a tangible reason to be an ass isn't exactly gonna help their social development in the long run. The internet weighed in on this sibling giving their sister the straight facts about her attitude toward other people. For another one like this, here's the condescending genius brother who finally got told he's a jerk.
There's something to be said about following through on promises here. When this company promised this worker a raise a year ago and then refused to follow through all they were doing was stacking dominos.
It doesn't seem unfair to expect a promised raise especially in the light of dramatically increased production. Honestly, it's hard to see what the company was expecting here other than the loss of this valuable employee.
It's going to cost them a lot more than the raise that he was asking for to train someone new up for the role. By then they will have probably lost this $3 million project for good too.
Read on and then check out this overworked employee who negotiated what he was owed after working 90+ hour weeks.
You want a raise? How about a pizza party instead.
Nothing is more frustrating than when you work your butt off, you go above and beyond for your job, and your reward is nowhere near worth all of the effort you put in. TikTok creator @domer0421 posted a video asking what ridiculous thing everyone got instead of a raise and it instantly started trending and going viral with responses. Yes, lots of people have unfortunately gotten pizza parties at their workplace instead of better pay, but also so many other absolutely absurd things. We're talking monopoly games, cans of soda, gift cards, and, of course, lots of emotional damage.
We could have spent our childhoods outside or doing things, but when "talking to girls" is competing with "converting an entire army of Persian war elephants to blue" those ladies stood as much of a chance as a men-at-arms has against a Cobra with a machine gun. Here's to all the time we spent trying to get out of the dark ages as quickly as possible. And here are some more video game memes.
If anyone needed a reason to lie silently in bed with their eyes open, consider "the heat death of the universe" or "Victorian Brits ate all the mummies" as decent insomnia fodder. The universe we live in is plagued with injustice, cruelty and gross realities, but hey, some of them are kind of cool to know. So here's some stuff to alienate your family at dinner. Here are some more freaky facts to feel weird about.
