We feel dumb admitting this, but we've definitely had this question too. Turns out there's a few reasons people don't frequently die in nuclear explosions every time someone tries to prepare a salad. For another interesting thing regarding the physics of nuclear explosions, here's the time tumblr uncovered the legend of the fastest manhole cover ever.
Submitted by:
This waitress managed to get back at her mean boss lady in quite the satisfying way. The saying "kill em with kindness" has never rang more true. In this case, the mean boss lady won't give the waitress her birthday off from work. So, after doing something totally normal like working on trading shifts around she managed to piss off the boss so much that she gets called out for being rude.
From there, she decides to quit at the end of the season, but commits herself to being nice as possible to everyone around her. She ends up winning over the hearts of all her co-workers, so much that they quit with her!
Submitted by:
Everyone's lives would be massively improved if they had an animal in their life that cared about them as much as this dog!
Submitted by: (via Team Coco)
Apparently "kick me" signs are out and there's a new thing to put on someone's back before they absent-mindedly walk through a live news report.
Submitted by: (via WaxLionTV)
Someone on AskReddit asked for people to share their weirdest experiences with co-workers. Everyone has that "one person" at work that just drives everyone else insane, and/or pulls the weirdest stunts. These people are really out there.
Submitted by:
Some of the greatest innovations at work come from human laziness. It's just not a good idea to work extra hard when you can think of a way to do the same work more efficiently. That said, don't do too good of a job or your boss might find out that you don't need to work there anymore. One or two of these definitely backfired. And a few definitely weren't as smart as the person first thought.
Submitted by:
If you're just a horrible adult who needs pictures of Christmas morning to revitalize your holiday spirit, then here you go. If your family sucked at Christmas and you just wanna hate on all these kids that got what they wanted, you're free to do that too. Here's some more nostalgia for 80s and 90s kids. Going back further, here are some horrifically weird old-timey Christmas cards.
Submitted by:
Somewhere along the way, classic idioms and sayings with two parts got shortened to the first one, and everyone's just been using them wrong for a while. Tumblr gets itself into spirals of informative weirdness, like this Tumblr thread that actually makes history fun.
Submitted by:
This bridezilla expected people to accept her payment in the form of "Instagram exposure." The real catch with that expectation is that she didn't even have an Instagram yet. What an all around cringeworthy rollercoaster from start to finish.
Submitted by:
As far as dramatic feuds go in the art world, this takes the cake. Sounds like Anish Kapoor was one selfish prick. Thankfully, the art world had a hero of the people around like Stuart Semple who just wanted to give the people access to more pretty colors. So good on Semple, and his epic levels of pettiness to take a mega rich prick like Kapoor down.
Submitted by:
This health insurance exec's Twitter thread on America's healthcare system, and whether or not it preserves a "choice" is going viral. Healthcare should be a right, and not a privilege indeed!
Submitted by:
For whatever reason, almost every printing policy is stupid. Whether you work somewhere with one, or go to school, there's always some sort of wast-of-money plan that never seems to work out in your favor. There's even another dude who complied with his school's unfair printing fee by using every printer at once.
Submitted by:
We're back at it again with a fresh and fiery collection of rare insults that are as creative as they are brutal. These people didn't pull any punches at all when it came to utterly destroying other folks online. Sometimes people just put those words together in such a way, that the only outcome for the person on the other end of it is complete destruction.
Submitted by:
As long as people keep making things, the world will have more and more stupid design failures that need some help. We have no way of knowing if these folks were trying their best, but however hard they tried, their attempts hit the ground with the sound of failure.
Submitted by:
Someone on AskReddit asked for bilinguals to share their experiences with overhearing other folks that had no idea they could understand them. If there's one valuable lesson in this particular form of "overheards", it's that you never know who's listening!
Submitted by:
