They say that safety regulations are written in blood and it gets way worse than a few OSHA-defying safety fails. Big companies don't exactly have your best interests at heart, and there's a whole boatload of evidence from the early 1900s to confirm that. For some less dark history, here's tumblr making history fun.
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The truth will set you free. These people clearly don't subscribe to that saying. Nope. Instead, they've gone about trying to spread all kinds of dishonesty online. This only makes the world of social media more confusing and distorted. Fortunately, there are people around who are ready to call out the lies when they see them pop up.
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Talk about a loyal friend. This guy decided to outsmart a clueless bully on test day in the classroom, to support his friend who'd gone through the ringer with the bully at hand. It sounds like the revenge played out beautifully, and the bully unknowingly copied a slew of the wrong answers. A proper fail for a proper jerk.
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It's an interesting time to be alive. With so many apps at our disposal, people are able to edit and morph and tune their faces and bodies to such an extent that their picture can end up looking like a completely different person, from the one that the rest of the world sees. Enough with all the deception. These people either rock some surreal kinds of looks that escape our definition of what's physically possible, or they got caught red-handed trying to pull a fast photoshop on the online world.
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We've seen stories of big company owners tripping over their own hubris, like this incompetent owner who mistakenly fired a special contractor, and this time there's more math. This guy gives an extremely detailed account of exactly how a whole bunch of water, a valve, and an overly zealous farm owner gave himself the business.
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Someone on AskReddit asked for people to describe American problems that they're just too European to understand. Things like limited sick days and student debt, and even remembering that cars can turn on red lights made the list.
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Twitter users that are "middle-aged" are breaking out their most inspirational stories, when it comes to enjoying big breaks. Some people are just born late bloomers. You never know what kind of wild successes might yet wait for you around the corner.
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An evolutionary anthropologist named, Dorsa Amir, shared a series of evolutionary leftovers that the human body seemingly carries for no reason at all. Kind of fun to look at the parts of the human body that have survived the test of time, and for what looks to us like no reason at all.
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This choosing beggar decided to offer up his "cool vibes' in exchange for a free place to live. That is an interesting way to go about negotiations. The comments section was definitely lit up over the guy's seemingly profound level of unawareness and entitlement.
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This person was told that they should be aware of their work schedule even when they receive a schedule change with absolutely no notice, so they took their incompetent manager's advice to heart. While this seems like a lot of effort just to get under the skin of your annoying employer, it seems like it totally worked and it's kind of awesome. Here's a time when an employee got back at their horrible manager by giving them a uniquely confusing schedule.
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This Tumblr thread employs an American Gothic style of writing to highlight stereotypes --- imagined and potentially accurate --- for different places in American. The resulting descriptions are vivid and unsettling and might just chill you to the bone. It's almost like the whole place is cursed.
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Never underestimate the destructive power of a bag of wild ice left to create chaos in the back of your very nice car. This person ended up enduring quite the regrettable situation with a measly bag of ice. Apparently, it ended up resulting in thousands of dollars worth of damage.
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How dare this contractor go and break their arm before checking with the testy client to see how they felt about it. So inconsiderate!
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Sometimes people give other people compliments that end up sounding like they could be a cleverly disguised insult. Like you're not really sure whether what that person said to you was from the bottom of their heart. Maybe they were just trying to pull a fast one on you with a roast that just sounded kind of nice. Who knows.
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This guy's Twitter thread about all the ways his world changed, after combining his with his girlfriend's, is a thing of beauty. Sounds like he vastly underestimated all the possibilities of life, and the ways that some people choose to prepare, to make it easier on themselves in the long run. Like grabbing a few sticks of deodorant, in case you run out.
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These images combine the cursed and blessed aspects of life to potentially pleasantly overwhelm the senses. Plus, "blursed" is kind of just a fun word to say.
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Some people really just insist on getting mad at everything, even free stuff, like this choosing beggar. After being offered a free Android phone, she proceeded to unleash rage in the comments section over the gracious offer. Confusing and delusional, and genuinely ridiculous. Nice.
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These people are describing their experiences with learning that they've been doing something wrong, years after the fact. We're talking about a series of very humbling realizations. Sometimes the funniest part is how they were able to make the "wrong way" work for them in the first place.
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