Many of us enjoy the art of trying to prepare a beautiful, tasty meal at home. It's certainly one of those things that's easier said then done. Sometimes, right when you're in the thick of preparing what you think is the immaculate meal to end all meals, you only come to realize that you forgot that one essential ingredient that would've leveled up the whole dish. Well, we live and we learn, and we can learn a whole lot from these pro chefs about what their favorite ingredients are.
Just because someone's a "parent" doesn't mean that they're not hopelessly clueless in some facet of life. In fact, many of us have fielded all kinds of ridiculous questions from our folks about how to navigate the ins and outs of all this disorienting technology we have available at our disposal. Maybe these people's stories about the dumbest things they had to convince their parents to not do will send you on a trip down memory lane.
It's another one of those unfair changes in policy made by management with zero foresight. It seems like a huge company should be able to adapt when their employees use the benefits they promise to give. In a similar story, here's a guy who came up with a masterful plan when told he had to work on vacation.
Work comes with a distinct set of expectations. As long as people are basically cooperative and don't get on each other's nerves, everyone can walk away happy. But sometimes a person's explosive personality, annoying habits, or smell can get in the way of that. Particularly bad coworkers will even steal lunches or use sonograms to trick their boyfriend.
It's only a matter of time before you end up crossing paths with a toxic mess of a human being who blindly insists on spreading ignorance and entitlement into the atmosphere. This particular entitled Karen was really on one when it came to not being understanding in the slightest bit over some scheduling issues for her kid's guitar lessons. Fortunately though, the guitar teacher was more than ready to put Karen in her place.
There are two kinds of device owners, people who revere their laptops like a hollow Easter bunny made of flammable glass, and the other ones. The ones who store pieces of bologna in disk trays and drill speed holes in their keyboards, or people like this lady who claimed her computer was losing files, but was actually just deleting them. So naturally, tech support has to face some waking nightmares.
There's no getting around the fact that parenting is a wild emotional rollercoaster that can test a human being's ability to be patient and understanding beyond all measure. If you're a parent with a little kid you're likely muddling through many days where you've had little to no sleep at all, while trying to juggle a wealth of responsibilities that somehow fit into your day. And then you factor in the moments when the tooth fairy needs to clock in. The whole tooth fairy situation can go on to inspire many funny moments with your kids. These stories are something else.
Giving a kid every opportunity and telling them they're the smartest kid around is a terrific recipe for raising an emotionally dense narcissist, and that's why we have siblings to tell us the hard truths about ourselves. You hope moments like these are learning experiences that help people avoid the rough path of becoming a ridiculous individual who brags about their intelligence online.
Fails successfully keep us entertained. Most of the time. It depends on the severity of the fail. There are lines that can be crossed. In this case, these seem pretty absurd, and hopefully nobody suffered any great inconvenience as a result of the fail occurring.
Rob Arnold has spent a dizzying amount of time sifting through washed up litter, and has some interesting and informative things to say about the plastic he's seen. Some of this stuff can even be traced back to specific incidents from decades ago, which is crazy to think about.
Awesome, our bodies are like natural history museums. Apparently, we're brimming with evolutionary leftovers, and Dorsa Amir mapped out a way to play around with some of these in a fun Twitter thread.
The sign for the Indian Hills Community Center has a long history of having a pun game that's too strong. There's something weirdly quaint about a sign with good puns. For some more quality puns, here's a smattering of puns to fill the pun void.
Assigning silly identities and voices to those various thought streams that might pop up as invasive, and with a dark tone around them, can be helpful in riding out the process back toward peace. If you're able to step outside the thought when it pops up, recognize it as that, and not identify with the thought, it can almost end up being a game of sorts. Is the conspiracy theorist with the panicked strain piping up again from the back corridors of your mind? Maybe.
Life is a journey. That means there are ups and downs, twists and turns, mistakes, failures, errors and blunders. Expecting everything to go perfectly all the time is just a recipe for disappointment, especially when the only certainty is that life is uncertain. That's not to say we should just expect things to go terribly all the time. Far from it. We just need to realize that windows will break, toilets will explode, trees will fall, and that's just part of the merciless nature of the world.
There's no denying the fact that folks in the older generations experience their fair share of troubles when it comes to smoothly navigating all this crazy, advanced technology available nowadays. If anything, the funny fails that can result from the collective confusion is a humorous reminder of just how quickly things have progressed. For some more gold from Tumblr check out this Tumblr thread about foiling the psychic ice cream cat.
The universe is stuffed to the brim with an infinite amount of mysteries. There's so much to this life that we'll never understand. To make it even more endlessly strange, many of us have experienced those unexplainable "glitch in the matrix" moments where it's as if reality itself bugged out for a hot second. This can manifest as weird patterns that escape logic altogether. So, buckle up and brace yourself for this rollercoaster of bizarre stories.
Contrary to the belief that pets just sit there and mope all day, many animals have rich inner lives filled with jealousy and rage. There's dogs out there herding lawn roombas and cats out there being eloquent, melodramatic divas. There's cats Lion Kinging other cats off balconies and jealous horses up to no good. Animals are just as petty and vicious as the rest of us.
Live with anything long enough and you're bound to notice some patterns. This tumblr user found that for some mystical reason, their cat knew exactly when there was going to be ice cream, so it became a process of tricking the cat. It fits into the long line of tumblr users who seem to notice things about their cats, like how cats are just eloquent enough to be melodramatic.
Reality has a habit of looking way too delicious for it's own good. There's just too many dice, coins and bits of rock out there that look like cookies, candy and gummies. There's too many car fluids that look like refreshing beverages. There's even snakes that look like bananas and that's not fair. There's just too many delicious looking things that aren't food.
Marriage brings with it a whole lot of hurdles. You've agreed to share your life with someone, and that oftentimes implies a shared bank account. If there isn't a flow, a mutual understanding between partners over how that money's going to be spend, then a whole lot of drama can end up breaking out. It sounds like this guy's wife is operating on a very different frequency for what she considers to be sound investment opportunities. So, he consulted the moral judges of Reddit's AITA community to see whether or not he'd be in the wrong for choosing to open a separate bank account if her habits don't change.
The internet's full of mind titans and obnoxious "brainiacs" that spew off half baked sentiments that are wrapped up in flowery words with the intention to flex those fragile egos. Unfortunately, these brainiacs are blinded by the love they possess for hearing themselves talk, and thus don't realize that everyone else is having none of it. Hopefully you don't find yourself realizing you say a lot of the things mentioned in this list. But, if you do, never too late to change.
It seems as if this world will truly never run out of wildly entitled human beings. We're not sure what compels folks to trouble other people with their unyielding series of irrational demands. This girl certainly needed the wakeup call that she was given. Hopefully it takes. Check out more entitled folks and their wild boldness over here.
It used to be that pizza delivery drivers bore the brunt of the weirdness, but now that people can have basically anything brought to their door, it widens the scope of strange and intriguing situations strangers can have with each other. 20 pizzas to an elks lodge? Makes sense. 20 bunches of bananas to a hotel room at 3 in the morning? Well, hopefully they tip well as an apology for what you're about to see.
This parent decided to consult the moral judges of Reddit's AITA community to see whether or not they were in the wrong for letting their daughter exclude an apparently lazy neighbor from their yard business. Folks seem to be in agreement that the parent didn't do anything wrong. If anything, they could've been serving up a little wakeup call to the neighbor. For some more drama between neighbors check out these passive aggressive notes that were left by angry neighbors.
Nothing warms our hearts like being able to feast our eyes on some rather gnarly cake fails that missed their mark by a long shot. Hopefully the folks that created these disasters were able to have a nice laugh about it.
Anyone who signs up for marriage dives into the experience knowing that it'll likely come with its fair share of meltdowns over the pettiest of matters. You spend enough time with anyone, anyone at all, and you're bound to start having an issue or two with them over something. In this case, the wife was completely fed up with her husband because he kept eating her food. She's wondering whether or not she was in the wrong for calling him out like she did.
If you've ever had the vague feeling that someone was upset with you, then why not indulge that feeling with the sight of inanimate objects that seem to be angry, frustrated and scared! There's just something about us that wants to see faces in things. Whether that's a fun creative exercise or a millennia of fear forcing us to look for predators, it sure seems like some inanimate objects have a whole lot of personality.
As much as we'd like the forces of darkness and confusion to leave us alone, mistakes, failures, errors and blunders still find their way into our lives. It's not a graceful life; one of dropped phones and exploded pipes, but it is the one we are given. All there is to do is take it in stride and sometimes expect that the world is merciless.
It's AskReddit threads like the one we have here that can remind you that there are a whole lot of people out there being proactively stressed out, frustrated, and straight up angered by the very same things that make you tick. It could be those moments when folks comment on the food that you're eating, or perhaps it's the people that leave cooking time on the microwave instead of clearing it. You'll likely connect with at least one of these petty pet peeves.
This employee decided to ask the moral judges of Reddit's AITA community whether or not they were in the wrong for telling their coworkers that everyone can't in fact afford to buy a house. Apparently their coworkers didn't take too kindly to them sharing that widely recognized reality. If anything it seems like their coworkers could've handled the sentiment that they shared with just a bit more grace and understanding.
We can always bank on the brilliant, wandering minds of Tumblr to lead us down rabbit holes where various aspects of universes like that of the Star Trek universe, are obsessively overanalyzed. Basically, this Tumblr thread pays mind to the fact that humans are regularly equipped with technology that's light years beyond their understanding, and such a situation paves the way for complete chaos throughout space. It's really a fun way to shift your perspective on how other civilizations throughout space actually view humans in the Star Trek universe. Check out some more funny Tumblr gems unleashed from the depths over here.
They say ignorance is bliss, and that's mostly true until reality smashes into your face faster than you can say "I'd rather not." We live in a world of secrets, and the unsettling irony is that the most unassuming, trustworthy people are also the ones who are just the best at keeping them. You hope those secrets are wholesome, but lets be honest that's usually not the case. For things you might rather not want to see, here are some strange and cursed images of internet weirdness.
This customer decided to channel their inner aggression and outrage at the bar, after she was rejected from having more drinks. Apparently, she was showing signs of drunkenness, and the bar decided it was time for them to stop serving her. By the sound of it, this news was unwelcome and simply not accepted.
So, the customer proceeded to make a proper stink about it. She went so far as to leave a dishonest review. Fortunately, the bar owner was ready to address the dishonest review with the footage-backed facts that they had on hand.
It's far too easy to take for granted just how strangely spelled some of the words in the English language are. The weird spellings themselves can end up making for quite the hassle for when it comes time to actually say the words out loud. Seriously though, have we just accepted that desert and dessert are actually spelled wrong?
You can't knock people for their hustle, even when that hustle is trying to re-brand a useless 70-year-old couch as "vintage." Okay, maybe you can knock them a little bit. People will create and find some strange and dumb junk and immediately think that someone might pay top dollar for it. At least some folks have a sense of humor about it.
It's just plain old uncool to tamper with someone's food in a way that has you putting in an ingredient that they have no idea, nor intention of eating in the first place. In this case, it's cottage cheese. It sounds like the cousin in this scenario was determined to prove some kind of unnecessary point, but ultimately they just end up looking like the inconsiderate chef.
Anyone who has a twin knows that having a family member who looks exactly like you can result in some hilarious, if not panic-inducing situations. It sounds like the dude on the other end of this interaction had no idea just how close he was to taking some pepper spray to the face. For some more humorous, twin-inspired content check out this AskReddit thread about the best switcharoos that twins were able to pull off.
Being actually right is a hard and thankless job. There are not enough hours in the day to burden ourselves with factual correctness, so sometimes we have to settle for technical and literally accurate options to get us through that day. Technically accurate moments let us enjoy the fruits of being not wrong, but with the time saving nature of not having to be totally right.
These guys brought the unexpected and clearly unwanted journey to a bathroom in a faraway land, on themselves. We're not sure what compels people to talk down to other people that are just trying to get through their jobs. Kudos to the sweeper for having the wherewithal to return the favor to a couple insensitive dudes that needed to use the bathroom. For another glorious tale of malicious compliance check out this story about a boss who denied their employee's request for a PC upgrade, and then the malicious compliance that ensued.
Is there a better waste of time than delving into the weird, wild and stupid things the denizens of tumblr bring to the table? Maybe, but that said is it truly wasting time if you enjoyed doing it? Who knows, these tumblr gems are packed with peculiarity and stupidness. In order to banish the boredom, may tumblr gems lend their endless curiosity to you
Anyone who goes out of their way to make their coworkers' lives miserable, or just stomps around with an insufferable entitled attitude about them, is just asking for a someone else to take a pro revenge on them. In this case, the pro revenge that is taken on a terribly toxic Karen coworker is nothing short of biblical. The amount of patience exercised in the face of Karen's infuriating antics is nothing short of saintly. For some more Karen drama check out the time that Karen spilled water all over her computer, and then expected a sys admin to be able to fix the mess.
In case you ever find yourself suffering through a date that you can't find a good reason to be a part of anymore, then these devilishly inventive ways to ruin a date in under five seconds might come in handy. Sometimes, you just need to hit the eject button on a date as soon as possible for your own good. Are there more graceful ways to go about the process than what we have here? Of course, but to each their own.
There's nothing quite like that sweet "I told you so feeling" you get when a customer gets exactly what they wanted and learns that they screwed up. It feels good to drink in the visceral feeling of an outsmarted horrible customer. Customers are often wrong, but too few of us don't give a rip, so this kind of interaction is as rare as it is sweet.
Karen should've just told the truth from the start, and also not put so much effort into making her coworker's life on the job, miserable. But no, Karen insisted on maintaining a personal vendetta against her coworker, and also lying about a back injury. Well karma came around to collect in the form of perfect timing. The very coworker she dragged down ended up spotting her at the pool hall that an injured person most certainly wouldn't be frequenting.
Scams are still abundant in this day and age, and one really popular system designed to separate well-meaning people and their money are massive pyramid scheme-like multi-level marketing operations. What makes them hard to deal with is that they're not the traditional kind of scammer that you can just mess with. They suck people in with promises of being your own boss and giving bonuses for recruiting more people, all while siphoning money out of their own "employees" pockets. One big issue with this is that the convinced don't want to be unconvinced, so when given the facts about predatory companies, the duped people involved just double down. It also provides a lot of strange, interesting and frustrating interactions like these, where a near stranger at this person's gym wanted to tell them about a "new and exciting opportunity."
Nothing quite uplifts the downtrodden spirits like being able to witness or hear about your archenemy enduring their ultimate demise. It's pretty much music to the ears. Especially if you were chugging along through life with the exhausting weight of a profound grudge being held against them. Maybe these people's stories will strike a chord for some folks out there.
We can always rely on the wonderful, ever wandering minds of the Tumblr world to lead us down the rich rabbit holes brimming with boundless creativity. In this case, we have a Tumblr user go off on quite the inspired tangent about the "history" behind New York Central's "Mercury" engines. Check out some more gold from Tumblr with these Tumblr gems of the sparkling variety.
Geez. Edward Norton meticulously deconstructed Bruce Willis up on stage, for the rest of the world to see. You've gotta love that ending though, where we basically learn that Bruce and Edward are close pals. Makes sense. Can't imagine anyone else being able to get away with saying what they did to Bruce Willis.
Just in case you were in need of a reason to absolutely love birds, then this is the video for you. It's really the bird's passion that takes this performance to the next level. Left it all out there.
Medium density fiber board has to come from somewhere, and this baby is the press that forms it. It also has the added benefit of sounding like the cloistered screeches of the damned, screaming to be let out of their existence of suffering in it's purest form. That or most people's internal monologue on a Monday morning but combined with the THX sound.
