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Thursday, November 5, 2020

Man Tries To Pitch Stop Sign With LED Lights To Investors

This very well might be the worst "invention" that the Dragon's Den investors have ever come across. With that being said, you've gotta feel for the guy. Even though the idea might be ridiculous, he clearly passionately believes in its potential.

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Tagged: FAIL , cringe , Awkward , investors , ridiculous , dragons den

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Customer States Turn Signal Is Broken, It's Definitely Not

How on earth did it never occur to this customer to try out her turn signal without that little contraption dangling off of it? Some people are too ready to throw money at something they see as a problem, that could ultimately be solved with a little common sense.

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Tagged: customer service , FAIL , cringe , driving , ridiculous , dumb , Video

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Compilation Of Every Time Dad Says "Huh?"

This is way funnier than it should be. If anything, maybe this'll inspire other people out there to create their own compilations of their dads' common sayings.

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Tagged: parenting , compilation , dad , ridiculous , funny , Video

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Karen Wants $1K Cash for $10 Coupon Sent to Wrong Address

We're not sure what Karen was thinking on this one. She took what was otherwise a low key coupon designed to help anyone in need, and turned it into a whole situation where she was paying even more money in legal fees than she ever could've imagined in the first place. A definite loss. Check out some more juicy Karen content with this story about Karen threatening an employee with a write-up and getting a lesson in management.

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Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/TheBreakUp2013 •· 1y Karen Wants $1,000 Cash for $10 Coupon Sent to Wrong Address - Pays More in Legal Fees (Re-Posted with Names) This story is from a few years ago when I worked in the legal department of a 1,000+ store national retailer. As part of my job, I handled customer complaints that elevated when the customer threatened legal action. Our customer service call center forwarded Karen's call to me after she threatened legal action. Karen left a message claimi

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Text - Karen back. It turned out, we had an old address associated with her rewards account. No big deal, right? I spoke with Karen and offered to send her the original $10 coupon and an additional $25 for her trouble to the correct address. That did not satisfy Karen. She claimed we should have known her address and threatened to sue us if we didn't pay her $1,000 in cash. Her rationale was that it would cost us at least $1,000 to defend the suit (she was in a state in which our company did not

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Text - I contacted outside counsel, our Awesome Attorney, explained the situation to him and I $hit you not he said (in a Southern drawl): "I get to sue Karen? I should be paying you guys. There are a lot of lawyers in this legal community who would love to sue her as she is reckless, unpleasant and a total pain in the ass to deal with. I'll gladly take your case." He agreed to defend us at a reduced rate. Part of our defense strategy was to counter-sue her under the state's frivolous lawsuit st

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Text - I talked with Awesome Attorney about continuing our claim, but he advised it would probably be worth settling and being done with it rather than being vindictive. Although vindictive would have been fun, courts tend not to like that so I agreed. My company ended up paying Awesome Attorney $900 in attorneys' fees. Awesome Attorney later called and told us that the attorney Karen engaged charged her $1,700 to defend the suit. Although I would have liked to continue with our suit, I think he

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Tagged: FAIL , revenge , cringe , finance , ridiculous , Reddit , karen , wtf , karen memes

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Tumblr Thread: People Who Ask vs People Who Guess

As it turns out, there are different ways people try to get the things they want, and they don't always line up perfectly. There are people who ask for stuff even though they'll accept no as an answer, while there are people who try to guess what other people should want as to avoid that awkward no. For another thread that airs things out, here's tumblr's explanation of the USA. And for something more colorful about human nature, here's a thread on how humans will pack bond with anything.

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Text - mefitours-blog-blog Ask Culture and Guess Culture "One of my wife's distant friends has attempted to invite herself to stay with us, again," writes the exasperated owner of a prime 2 bedroom apartment in New York City in this Ask MetaFilter question. "She did this last March, and we used the excuse of me starting a new job and needing to do x, y, and z as well as the "out of town" excuse for any remaining dates. This got us off scot-free, but we both knew the time would come again... and

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Text - The first few answers give this poster very direct advice: Just say no. No need to give an explanation, it's her who's being rude by asking. Others give him advice that was probably more like what he was expecting: other ways to be vague like claiming that it's “One of those random 'Life in NYC things." Another thread of discussion popped up around whether or not the woman asking for a place to stay was being rude. Some posters couldn't understand how simply asking to stay in someone's ap

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Text - In Guess Culture, you avoid putting a request into words unless you're pretty sure the answer will be yes. Guess Culture depends on a tight net of shared expectations. A key skill is putting out delicate feelers. If you do this with enough subtlety, you won't even have to make the request directly; you'll get an offer. Even then, the offer may be genuine or pro forma; it takes yet more skill and delicacy to discern whether you should ассept. All kinds of problems spring up around the edge

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Text - Obviously she's an Ask and you're a Guess. (I'm a Guess too. Let me tell you, it's great for, say, reading nuanced and subtle novels; not so great for, say, dating and getting raises.) Thing is, Guess behaviors only work among a subset of other Guess people – ones who share a fairly specific set of expectations and signalling techniques. The farther you get from your own family and friends and subculture, the more you'll have to embrace Ask behavior. Otherwise you'll spend your life in a

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Text - After this comment many users, including the original poster himself, began to use these terms in discussing the issue. And why wouldn't they? Ask Culture and Guess Culture describe two valid yet opposing ways of interacting with the world with very little value judgment given to them. Framing the argument as such was a stroke of utter genius by tangerine, broadening the perspective of many who participated in the discussion and adding to the general lifebuzz.

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Text - Thoughts: -I wonder how many failed relationships and divorces have mixed ask/guess culture as a component? -I wonder how many other like me there are- trained in both cultures due to a mixed marriage-and what this does to our own relationships. -why is this not a widely known thing? Good god it seems a HUGE facet of effective communication and I'm only just hearing about it at 51 years old? Is there a book about this somewhere? Dammit...

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Text - aeveee This is fascinating. My mom was, I think, a variety of Guess culture. She disliked telling her kids no to reasonable requests. We learned to make flat/information statements like "I'm going to need a ride after school on Friday," and if she responded with another flat stament like "I have to work until 5 on Friday," then we knew we had to problem solve an alternative. My parents divorced when I was 12. One summer spent with my dad when I was 16, he blew up at me. "Why don't you jus

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Text - ford-ye-fiji My mother is an asker and my dad is a guesser and sometimes I have to butt in and translate what each other is trying to say XD I didn't even know there was a word for it!! tellmevarric I learned to give people permission to say no to me. A lot of people, more than I ever expected, have trouble saying no, especially when, like in the original post, it's because they just don't want to, not because they have a reason. (As if not wanting to isn't a valid reason... but I digress

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Text - When I was a teenager visiting family, apparently my aunt got tired of having to ask me and my sisters what we wanted all the time and asked us to speak up and said 'if you don't ask, you don't get. At the time I thought this was partly a lesson in gaining self confidence but at the same time I realized if I just ask and not expect everyone to guess, I can get more of what I need out of life with less stress. Fast forward to now. My mother is still an extreme Guesser and three of my siste

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Text - And if they say no, I don't ask why, I don't get passive aggressive and I don't get angry or upset. I don't dwell on it. They've said no and that's final. I thank them, then I move the conversation on. Two of the most valuable things you can learn is how to say no and how to accept no.

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Tagged: wtf , asking , sociology , guess , interesting , society , ask , culture

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People's Best Clues that We're Living in The Matrix

There are universal moments that people experience, some weird hard rules about our universe, and just some straight up weird coincidences that would give anyone reason to believe that we're living in a poorly run simulation. People see what they consider to be glitches in the matrix all the time, and it's extremely tempting to believe that it's all a simulation, man.

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Text - ambivalenttypewriter 397 points · 20 hours ago edited 10 hours ago I once went two whole weeks plugging USB cords in the right way on my first attempt.

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Text - Chinpokomono 30.6k points · 23 hours ago 5 2 3 e23 The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. When you learn something new it seems like you see it everywhere right after that. Like a video game when you learn some new move then it is immediately applicable to your life. RectumPiercing 18.7k points · 21 hours ago O 82 8 A & 7 More Motherfucker I was just telling someone about the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon a couple of hours ago.

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Text - himalayanpine 27.4k points · 22 hours ago A e2 3 3 2 When your pen gets lost as soon it hits the floor. And then appears right there after some time.

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Text - banditk77 25.4k points · 21 hours ago · edited 17 hours ago 3 S Before cell phones I accidentally misdialed a & 2 More persons number and got them at someone else's house with the wrong number being three numbers off. (Edit- thanks for the awards! I talked to her for about a minute and she asked me how I got her uncles number. I said I didn't have his number, I dialed hers. We both fell deadly silent thinking about how bizarre it was).

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Text - matthra 25.2k points · 22 hours ago * E 2 3 & 4 More MCAfee The quantum eraser O MEURE . Quantum physics as a whole feels like a huge dev shortcut, things only exist in a definitive state when they are interacted with, kind of like a GPU only rendering things when your character is looking at them.

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Text - Hank_from_accounting 17.5k points · 22 hours ago you could say the strict laws of physics that govern our reality. if we were in, say, a video game, we'd eventually start wondering why the rules seem absolutely rigid/mathematical. maybe the speed of light is just the speed limit for transmitting information within the network of our simulation

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Text - raredomme 14.2k points · 19 hours ago O 2 93 @4 & 11 More Deja Reve. It's similar to Deja vu but it's where you've dreamed of a future moment. It's weird and for me it hasn't been useful. But one moment I'll be experiencing life and know what's going to happen, because I saw it in a dream. I'll even know about my futile attempts to change it from the dream. It only lasts a couple minutes at most and is at mundane moments but it is freaky.

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Text - FrogginBullfish_ 13.4k points · 22 hours ago When you run into someone you don't know and you both stare at each other saying, "You look familiar. Do I know you?" and then ask a million questions trying to figure it out and come to the conclusion that you don't in fact know each other. Then walk away still wondering why that person looked so familiar.

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Text - Yosef616 8.2k points · 20 hours ago Welp, yesterday while driving with my daughter in the car, she says "Dad? I'm starting to feel that this whole human thing isn't real." So I guess that would be confirmed as my first hint.

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Text - ville-v 7.9k points · 22 hours ago 2 2 3 & 5 More There have been numerous hints every day, but you have ignored them all. No, I'm not talking to OP. I'm talking to you. I bet you will read this post and still not realize you are the only real person on the planet. We are increasingly frustrated that you are ignoring the main questline.

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Text - Gingrpenguin 7.3k points · 22 hours ago · edited 18 hours ago 2 S Why physics appears to operate under different rules depending on whether you are looking at very big things or very small things. If it is a simulation they simply faked the big things to save processing power which is why quantum physics doesn't fit neatly in our understanding of the universe and likely why we are "detecting" dark matter

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Text - DarkNinjaPenguin 7.0k points · 23 hours ago Millions of years of evolution and we can still accidentally bite our own tongue? That's some bullshit.

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Text - hdvjufd 6.9k points · 22 hours ago That thing where you go into a room for something and then forget why. Like a Sim who had their action cancelled. That can't be for no reason, that was someone in our simulation cancelling our action.

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Text - Binary_wolf 5.8k points · 22 hours ago - edited 17 hours ago The "Observer effect" in quantum mechanics. When something is in multiple states at the same time and when you measure/watch it, you force it to take a state. Just looks like a computer saving ressources by not loading useless shit

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Text - its_no_game 2.6k points · 22 hours ago Children who are convinced that they've lived before, and know sometimes verifiable facts about the person they think they were.

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Text - peon47 1.6k points · 20 hours ago 2 The dual slit experiment. Basically, light acts like a wave when you look at it But if you look at light really really closely, you see it's not a continuous wave but made of teeny little particles called "photons". These photons, when there's loads of them, affect each other so they act in waves. Seems simple. However, when you fire photons one at a time at a piece of card with two slits in it, they still act like they're being affected by lots of othe

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Text - melting_trash04 1.2k points · 21 hours ago · edited 17 hours ago Sometimes you get out of your house and walk past the same people a lot of times. Like, you are going to the market and walk past a dude walking the opposite direction. Then, you leave the market a couple of minutes and walk past the same dude, again in the opposite direction. This shit happens A LOT with me and its like a ton of people at the same time. It makes me feel like there arent enough models of NPCS to throw around

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Text - paladinchiro 806 points · 20 hours ago S The fact that the moon and the sun can just about perfectly eclipse each other. What are the odds that the moon and sun would be the sizes they are and distances from the earth that they are to allow that to happen?

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Text - Decent-Alternative 727 points · 22 hours ago The need to sleep. Gotta reset the system or it slows down, has glitches and deteriorates because it can't clear out the useless junk and runs out of space.

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Text - everybodysheardabout 527 points · 20 hours ago Look around the room you're in. Choose any random object within the room. What does it feel like to lick that object? You know what it feels like to have licked it, but have you ever? Single biggest glitch in my book.

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Tagged: the matrix , wtf , matrix , lol , computer , trippy , glitches , reality , program

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Wholesome Memes to Help Wade Through the Muck

The world can seem like a hard place to live in at times. There are moments when negativity surrounds us, and disappointment isn't an irregular novelty but it becomes the standard. That's why at times it's healthy to get a dose of wholesome memes for a little boost. Most of us could use a shot of niceness to keep things afloat.

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Tagged: aww , wholesome , feels , Memes , lol , nice , funny

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