Thursday, November 12, 2020

Golfer Skips Ball Off Pond For Hole In One


Jon Rahm defied everyone's expectations when he somehow managed to skip a ball off a pond into the literal hole. This looks like it's some kind of cheat code shot right out of a video game. 

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Ronald McDonald Notices a Fart


While it's hard to verify if it was he who dealt it, any of us would be hard pressed to find a sadder looking man than whoever had to be in that Ronald McDonald outfit.

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FAILBlog Presents: Success or Fail


We're all just trying our best to make it through this crazy world and we're constantly failing along the way. However, sometimes it's not clear if it's a success or a failure. Sometimes it's up for debate. This is why we're here. Let's break down another fresh batch of fails and wins!

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Czech Guy's Colleagues Refuse to Say His Excellent Name


It's a damn shame that this guy is having trouble getting other people to call him Mr. Bitch, because most of us would think it's kind of awesome. For some other cultural name challenges, here's a grandson who's jerk grandma won't learn his name, so he resolves to say her name wrong too.

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Text - * r/AmItheAsshole · Posted by u/bxhxjxnc 1 day ago E 6 2 9 3 10 4 AITA for demanding my colleagues use my "offensive" name? Not the A-hole Throwaway because I am a lurker and don't have an actual Reddit account. So, I work for an international company with many different nationalities, recently I have been assigned to a mainly American team (which means I have to work weird hours due to time zones but I'm a single guy with no kids so I can work around that). I live/work in Germany and pri

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Text - We had a couple of virtual meetings and I noticed some of the Americans mispronouncing my name - they called me Mr. Birch. So I corrected them, my surname is Bič (Czech noun meaning “a whip", happens to be pronounced just like "bitch"). My name is not English and doesn't have English meaning. Well, turns out the Americans felt extremely awkward about calling me Mr Bitch and using first names is not a norm here. HR got in touch with me and I just stated that I don't see a problem with my n

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Text - Well apparently the American group I'm working with is demanding a different representative (they also work from home and feel uncomfortable saying “curse words"(my name) in front of their families), but due to the time zone issues the German office is having problems finding a replacement for me, nobody wants to work a 2am-7am office shift from home. So management approached me asking to just accept being called Mr Birch but honestly I am a bit offended. A coworker even suggested that I

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Text - Edit due to common question: using first names is not our company policy due to different cultural customs, for many (me included) using first names with very distant coworkers is not comfortable and the management ruled that using surnames and titles is much more suitable for professional environment. I am aware that using first names is common in the USA, please mind that while the company is international, the US office is just one of the branches. Edit 2: many people are telling me to

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Text - Edit 3: I deal with other teams as wellI, everyone calls me Mr Bič, having one single team call me by my first name (which is impolite) or by changing my name is troublesome because things like Birch really do sound different. Someone mentioned Beach, which still sounds odd but it's better than Birch. Right now I have three options as last resort, if they absolutely cannot speak my name and if German office doesn't re-assign me: 1. use beach, 2. use Mr Representative, 3. switch to German,

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Text - mettwurstsjw Partassipant [1] 31.4k points · 1 day ago 4 NTA. Sorry you even have to deal with this, American adults are often overgrown children. Source: am American

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Text - mezamic000 Asshole Enthusiast [8] 9.0k points · 1 day ago - edited 1 day ago NTA - That is most definitely a discrimination complaint. I would send HR an email and make them put in WRITING why you can't use your LEGAL name. Something like... Hello HR, I am just emailing to clarify a phone call I had with you regarding my legal name [your name]. It's my understanding from the discussion I had with you, that you are refusing to allow me to use my legal name and to instead use a fake name, M

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Text - QuixoticLogophile Colo-rectal Surgeon [34] 6.1k points 1 day ago · edited 22 hours ago NTA There are plenty of American surnames that could be taken offensively (Butts, Dix, Weiner, etc) and no one asks them to go by a different name. It's common practice to close a door if you have a meeting while you're working from home anyways. It should be pretty easy for your coworkers to call you by your last name without offending their families. Edit to add lots more names: Dick, Raper, Wanker, B

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Text - RemindMeImGolden Asshole Enthusiast [6] 1.8k points · 1 day ago NTA English speakers expect to be accommodated to an extreme, consistently forcing people to Anglicize their names.

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Text - Soulc4tcher 787 points · 1 day ago NAH. It sucks, but this is a cultural barrier that you're never going to be able to overcome. My friend (who is from a Spanish speaking country) worked in an Arabic speaking country for years, where his name sounds like the word for poop. He was frustrated by trying to go by his own name for over a year before he gave in and went by a slightly changed name. I totally understand if you want to fight it but know that it's never going to stop being an issue

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Text - Pteromys44 Partassipant [1] 85 points · 1 day ago · edited 19 hours ago NTA. I would slightly change pronunciation to "Веach" bxhxjxnc 2 174 points · 1 day ago Huh, I haven't thought of that. It still alters my name, but not as much as Birch which has entirely different vowel sounds. But Beach is just longer vowel. I will see how the situation develops and if no other compromise can be reached I will suggest this to keep the peace. Thank you!

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Roommate Mistakes Guy For His Ex, Hilarity Ensues


The costume was just that good. No, seriously all kidding aside this is absolutely hilarious. Poor guy was just trying to cheer up his buddy that was going through a tough break up, and ended up in the middle of a very uncomfortable moment of pure delirious confusion. 

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Text - r/tifu Join u/HalloweenHooligan • 8h TIFU pretending to be my roommate's ex M FYI: my roommate was planning to share this story from his perspective but thought it was more entertaining coming from me. This happened just over 2 weeks ago on Halloween night. Even though my roommate and I didn't go anywhere on Halloween, we still dressed up anyway. My roommate's costume was basically just an apron, boxers and socks. Not very imaginative, I know. In my roommate's defense though, he was going

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Text - For some reason my roommate still had some of his ex- girlfriend's clothes in his closet, which I, the constant clown, ended up trying on. For the record, the items of clothing were: short, heart-shaped pajama pants and an extremely tight camisole top. I was skinny enough to squeeze into them without too much effort, and the fact that I still had Tarzan-long hair (partly due to lockdown, mostly due to style), made my hideous transformation even more hilarious. So, there I was, dressed as

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Text - Cut to me waking up to my roommate struggling to pick me up off the couch. He already had one arm under my neck and another arm under my legs like a human forklift. All the lights in the living room were off at the time, but the TV was still on. My roommate's back was towards the TV when I opened my eyes, and from my POV, he looked less human and more like an ominous shadow figure. Not gonna lie, I was still far from sober at that moment. My roommate, on the other hand, was practically on

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Text - My roommate stood up and stared at me in silence. For the sake of full disclosure I said out loud "it's me dude". My roommate's reaction was eerie as fuck. His eyes grew really big but the rest of his face stayed completely calm. Without saying anything, he awkwardly zombie-walked to his room. I was to0 hammered to register what had happened but I damn sure knew I had to get out of my "costume" and lock my room before going to bed that night. TL:DR Dressed up as my roommate's ex-girlfrien

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Tumblr Thread: Modeling For Art Is A Cold Business


This Tumblr thread shines light on the business of modeling for art classes. While it sounds like the pay can be decent, it can also end up being a true test of willpower when it comes to putting up with the cold. Turns out that sitting in studios or garages without any clothes on can be a tad bit chilly. 

Check out some more gold from Tumblr with these totally random Tumblr tidbits of pure golden proportions.

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Text - professorpineapple "you're an art model does that mean you're NAKED?" "yeah" "whoa...those lucky artists ;)" ..buddy. professorpineapple idk who started the idea that life drawing classes have anything sexy going on like. there's at least ten people in the room and we're all tired and covered in charcoal. the dude in front who's staring at my boobs has been trying to get the shading right for 10 minutes. he's almost out of paint. he is crying.

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Text - askfordoodles #this ain't some avant-garde titanic poly romance it's a bunch of individual sinking ships and one uncaring human-shaped ice burg branch-and-root The ice burg being frozen solid because there are NEVER ENOUGH SPACE HEATERS. angryfishtrap I was an artist's model in uni since it paid better than any other student work position. Did a life drawing class one semester, despite it being an unheated old building in the winter evenings, because the instructor was a decent fellow who

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Text - Beyond the red glow of the heaters and the hot-white of the spotlights, the massive drafty room is dark and quiet, broken only by the instructor's whispers and the scratch of charcoal on paper. Me, I'm just dozing, 'cause my ancient dorm was heated with creaky old steampipes that never really got warm, and with the new extra-powered space heater alongside the others, that night was the warmest l'd been in a month. I dozed, basking in the glorious warmth. And then I fell asleep. And then I

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Text - Fortunately someone had the bright idea to tear the sheet down from the backdrop, lay it over me as a wrap, and then everyone was quick to help me up. After that, the instructor and students got used to taking turns talking to me, just to make sure I wasn't dozing off. Which was weird, at first, because l'd done two semesters just being a silent prop, and now I was interacting. It gave the class a vibe completely unlike any other l'd modeled for, and it ended up one of my favorite modelin

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Text - whitebear-ofthe-watertribe This is honestly so delightful and accurate rhpotter This! :D ravenstolethesun Totally accurate. I worked as a art model in collage as well...in Fairbanks Alaska . Heat in the art department was fine, but the sculpture studio had a huge garage-style door . I was modeling there once when someone on the outside OPENED THE DOOR. It was around 30 below zero F out there! Every student in the room scrambled to grab their coats and pretty much bury me in them as the te

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Company Won't Stop Cold Calling, Employee Calls Bluff


Sometimes, when you've reached your breaking point with the profoundly irritating company that seems hellbent on selling you the product that you never asked for in the first place, you've just gotta call their bluff. Not all heroes wear capes. Clearly. Check out some more juicy malicious compliance drama with this lazy manager who reneges on a request, right before the malicious compliance ensues.

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Text - r/MaliciousCompliance + Join u/nenepp • 26d 3 e 3 3 2 You won't stop cold calling a printing company to sell us printing unless I agree to set up a meeting with one of your reps? OK then. L I'm not sure if this quite counts as malicious compliance but I was just doing what they wanted me to so I guess it fits. In the mid 00's I worked for a small printing company, our commercial work was on large lithographic machines but we still had office printers and a number of staff who knew a lot a

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Text - I don't think a single one of our office printers had been purchased new or even working, the owner just bought job lots of broken office printers for not a lot of money and then frankensteined them into working ones. We didn't often buy printer paper because we'd just cut leftovers from the factory to suitable sizes for the office. Overall our office printing costs were extremely low despite the fact that we printed tens of thousands of pages a year. was a general office dogsbody, among

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Text - An office printing management service had got our number. They were offering a completely managed service where they loaned the machines, supplied the consumables, took care of everything and you just paid per print - great for some companies, expensive and unnecessary for us. When they first started ringing I kept telling them "sorry, we aren't interested, please remove us from your list" or "we're a printing company, we don't need managed printing services, please take us off your list"

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Text - regardless of all that, I guaranteed him he couldn't, as I doubted we paid more than a penny a page. Naturally he didn't believe me, as far as he was concerned if I was answering the phone I was the office junior (no- one important answers the phone) who had no idea how much printing actually cost, and just too stubborn and/or stupid to put him through to someone that mattered and if he persisted eventually he'd get through to the right person who would reward him with a juicy contract. T

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Text - The reps arrive, I show them into the office, they are clearly thinking we spend a lot on printing because we have so many damn printers and I gave a rough idea of how much we get through in the office, they give me their enthusiastic spiel about all the advantages, focusing on the costs, they want to sit down with the figures and see what they can save us, do I know what we spend at the moment? Paraphrased conversation: Me: Not completely sure, think it's around £100-200 a year. Rep: Nah

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Text - Me: To be honest we mostly cut down leftover paper from the factory or sometimes suppliers give us a few cases for free Rep: OK, right, so what about the initial costs of the machines, if you average it out over the lifetime of prints rather than considering it just as capital expenditure it can make up a significant portion of your printing costs - this photocopier for example, it's a few years old now and you're looking at about £12,000 to replace it with a similar spec machine, so with

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Text - Me: I hazard to guess he'll do exactly the same again. Rep: ...and the ongoing maintenance costs Me: :| Rep: ... then there's the costs and lost productivity of downtime to consider.... He is trailing off at this point, it's clearly part of his rehearsed spiel but he can also see downtime isn't an issue when we bizarrely have more printers than computers. Rep: There's absolutely no point us being here is there?

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Text - Me: No, I'm afraid not. That was repeatedly explained to the guy who set up the meeting, but he said your company won't stop cold calling until we agreed to a meeting so here you are L(Y)S The reps agree it is a complete waste of time, have a bit of a frustrated laugh about the call centre and say it's not the first time they've been sent to completely pointless meetings because the call centre folks get their commission based on the quantity not quality of the meetings they set up. They

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Spelling Failures That Hurt a Little


Spelling is a skill, and enough time without practice can lead people down some weird rabbit holes of how letters are supposed to fit together. Sometimes watching someone write out their thoughts is enough to realize that they don't have a terrific grasp on what words mean. Either way, in life we come across a lot of spelling fails that deserve a harsh sentence.

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Food - 9 layer case idea

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Text - I have two sides.... the nicest girl you'll ever meet.. and twisted fucking cycle path 10:45 PM >

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Organism - What did u get to eat last night Delivered shrimps camping Idk how to spell it

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Toy - Transformers, robots in the sky

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Text - ours ago I feel bad everytime he hits his head, hope he doesn't get a caucasian 33 9 REPLIES

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Text - 43m Ly is my mother's mating name Reply 1 Vote ,• 41m her, her mating name? 1 Vote

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Text - Following For You 655 comments Why haven't I heard of this gore may restaurant before? I love fresh 4172 homegrown American food O 7h Liked by creator

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Picture frame - $14 Bullet ten Board

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Hand - This tree is dropping free grapes! They're kinda crunchy though that's a fucking egg corn

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Furniture - Foot on for free FREE

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Font - Follow When you craving a shark cootchie board.... or whatever you call it. less

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Text - 19 mins · * For fuck dose anyone it's not the 5th of November. Armholes.

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Text - Get off ya pedal stool! If you honestly read that far into this. It's time to sign off. The internet isn't for you! 11 9h Like Reply

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Text - 4:41 r ll 84% 11:25 / 14:23 Replies • 52 minutes ago i believe you about your school typing skills Snoop. I've heard about your eye Q being genius levels Add a public reply... •1 second ago S r/boneappletea ...

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Text - So dumb. Are people still anti rap? 2d 4 likes Reply Hide replies z it's sad tire I love rap 2d 2 likes Reply damn, sad tire. I hope it gets better

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Text - Whats frank Whats that song Im waking up I feel it in my bones Welcome to the new age To the new age Woohoo oh ohh woooho oh ohhhh Radio acid radio acid

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Text - DHEC reports 2 pet cats have been quarantined due to exposure to rabbit bats. Wild turkey lane area and Cantey Hill 13 Comments Like Comment Really gotta watch out for those rabbit bats... dangerous creatures. Like Reply 13

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Text - ll T-Mobile ? 8:57 PM 9. Did you buy it yet? yep it was pretty a ford a bull tbh What do you mean "a ford a bull"? when you buy something for a cheap price? Dude, you mean affordable. thats how you spell it? How long have you been spelling it "a ford a bull"? Read 8:56 PM iMessage ebay CATOON METO

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Property - Newly decorated 2 bed bungalow located at the top of a hill in chesham. 2 bed, 1 bathroom, large open plan kitchen / living room and 2 loft rooms. Large driveway with parking for 4 cars! French doors that open out on to a large paved garden area. 2 tier garden with artificial grass, summer house, shed and large wooden garage. Walking distance to shops and station. Really nice quiet road with friendly neighbours. No through traffic as in a colder sack! REAT

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