Monday, January 4, 2021

3 Random Strangers Make An Awesome Song


If the aliens ever show up to take over our strange little rock that's falling through space, they might feel compelled to give us a second chance if they see this performance. These guys crushed it. 

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Emergency Crash Landing A Plane After The Door Flies Off


The way that she is able to crack jokes amidst such a truly terrifying, adrenaline-charged situation is nothing short of heroic. Sheesh. 

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South Park Satan Explains Dopamine Response And Addictive Behavior


Let's never forget the iconic moment in South Park when Satan rolled through to break down the basic principle of naturalism to Stan. Guess everyone is trying to fill the void brought on by human existence at some level. 

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Entitled Family Demands House Sitter Pay Their Utilities Bill


This person gets someone to housesit and feed their pets for a week, then they turn around and make up a bunch of charges for the person? Sounds like the cartoonish demands of an entitled person. And even if paying the utilities was part of the deal, which it wasn't, that number is still way too high. It's impossible to understand what's going on in the heads of entitled folks with audacious demands.

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Text - Posted by u/22022004 1 day ago 15 4 7 S 12 E7 AITA for refusing to pay bills for a house i house-sitted a month ago Not the A-hole I don't really think i'm the asshole in this situation but the family member, her boyfriend and her mum sure do. Although the fact that the family member recently lost her job due to the pandemic does make me feel like i'm being an AH. A little less than a month ago, i decided to house sit for a family member and her boyfriend for a week while they were going

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Text - House-sitting went fine and i'd pretty much forgotten about it until today. The family member sent me a paypal request with no explanation. She requested $184 and i immediately called and her and asked why she was doing this. She stated that it was my share of the bills for when i stayed. I was in shock, i told her i took a week off of work to care for her house free of charge, she said that i sill had to pay utilities. Keep in mind, i was never once made aware of this otherwise i would o

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Text - I told her to go fuck herself and hung up, ever since she's been messaging me saying she's gonna call the police and tell everyone on facebook about what a horrible piece of shit i am. I haven't responded to any of these messages and don't plan too. Am i the asshole?

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Text - Sentient111 Partassipant [2] 30.3k points 1 day ago 2 4 4 3 2 NTA. Send her a bill for pet services. The going rate in my area is $70/day. This should have been discussed beforehand, not argued about afterwards. And if she calls the police, let the police know about her marijuana stash.

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Text - Garlic-dough-balls Certified Proctologist [22] 11.2k points · 1 day ago 2 e S 8 2 I don't know what minimum wage is but send her a bill for $5 an hour. 5 X 24 hours X 7 days. =840 Assume one pet. 5 per feeding days. 5x7 = 35. You'll pay her 184 when she pays you $875 Offer her a discount and charge her $2 per hour. Still works out. $350. NTA you were doing them a favour. If they had put the pet in to boarding or elsewhere they would have a much higher bill.

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Text - lucyken Partassipant [2] 7.6k points · 1 day ago · edited 21 hours ago 2 S Nta, pre-empt her by making your own facebook post. "Here's gratitude for you, I mind X's house for a week, free. I feed their pets for a week, free. Now she is trying to bill me for the utilities. "

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Text - ChewMyFudge Certified Proctologist [26] 3.0k points · 1 day ago NTA. That's no different than someone asking you to babysit their kids for a week while they take vacation, then tell you to pay for bills during the time you were in the house. What will they tell the police? Make sure to save any text messages sent to you they sound insane.

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Text - Natalorian Asshole Enthusiast [8] 2.3k points · 1 day ago What a weird situation. I've never heard of someone house sitting who had to pay for any house related bills. NTA.

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Text - Gonebabythoughts Commander in Cheeks [263] 1.8k points · 1 day ago NTA Find a local kennel and get some rates for what they would have charged her to take care of her pets, then look up the fees for how much it would have cost to have someone paid to stay in her house to do the same. Present her with an invoice for both and ask her which one she wants to pay.

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Text - Cat_in_an_oak_tree Partassipant [2] 1.1k points · 1 day ago · edited 21 hours ago NTA. I have hired people to house sit. You NEVER charge them utilities unless there is egregious breach like $600 in phone calls or the electric jumped 250%. Further they should have been compensating you for your time and energy. Never house sit for them again and tell them to stuff that bill where the sun doesn't shine.

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Text - lanibgoode 877 points · 1 day ago nta, everyone else has good points, but I'm still stuck on the amount. how on earth could you possibly have used up enough of anything in a week to cost almost $200?? i don't think you could rack up that amount having every electronic device on and running water 24/7 for the whole week! 22022004 983 points · 1 day ago Considering she tried to add all of her insurances as reasoning for a bill so high, she's probably just trying to get the most money she ca

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Smooth Scotsman Turns Wrong Number Into Job Interview


The guys used some silken words to get that coveted interview spot right from under Annette's nose. Some wouldn't take the risk to get so informal with a potential employer, but it ended up working out here. You've gotta feel bad for Annette, wherever she is. For some less fortuitous job foibles, here are hiring managers sharing signs someone lied on their resume.

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Blue - Add contact Report spam 14:49 Good afternoon Annette, this is Erin from the MTU site. I've phoned twice today for a phone interview but unfortunately have missed you both times. If you're available and would still like to be considered for the role I could phone again around 6PM this evening or I can schedule you in for the 2nd. Please let me know. Erin

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Blue - Add contact Report spam Hi Erin, I just realised you phoned due to being at work but I'm a 27 year old Scottish Guy Called Steven. So I think Annette has either entered the wrong number or I have a high achieving transgender split personality I don't know about. If you want I can do the interview on her behalf? I don't know her but I give a cracking reference, drop me a text if you want to proceed. Also Happy New Year.

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Text - Hi Steven, I must say that's an absolutely cracking response! I've just crossed referenced my lists and yes I do have the wrong number for Annette however do you happen to be from Motherwell a that applied for a Mobile Testing Unit job recently? 21 min Well thank you and yes that is myself. We do actually have you shortlisted for an interview as well, and if you're free I'm more than happy to do it at 6PM? Yeah that sounds great, looking forward to it, thanks. 17 min · Read

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Stupid Mistakes Tattoo Artists Witnessed


Tattoos can be tricky business. One typo or slip of the hand can have someone wearing "I love moom" on their bicep for the rest of their life. Tattoo artists take multiple precautions to idiot-proof the process, but we still end up with tattoo choices that have people asking questions. Sometimes the customers themselves are uncontrollable, like in the case of this male Karen who didn't believe a tattoo shop owner.

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Text - ALasagnaForOne 35.8k points · 17 hours ago · edited 4 hours ago 2 & 6 More I had a client email me asking for a four-letter acronym. I don't do freehand script so I put the letters into a font generator and sent him back some options. He picked the one he liked best and we set an appointment date. On the day of his session, I showed him the acronym again and we chose a size. I placed the stencil and he approved it and I got started. Midway through the tattoo I asked him what the letters s

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Text - willieyobslayer 28.0k points · 16 hours ago · edited 6 hours ago 6 Once had a client call the shop who was crying 10 & 26 More hysterically because, according to her, I had done her tattoo backwards. It took a few minutes to get her to calm down to the point where we realized she was looking at it in the mirror. She apologized and hung up.

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Text - RideAndShoot 24.6k points · 14 hours ago 3 3 10 S 2 & 6 More I was getting tattooed by my artist one time. I had been tattooed by him exclusively for over 10 years at that point. There was a girl getting tattooed at the next station over with a talkative friend. The friend was talking about her shitty tattoo on the back of her neck. It was supposed to be a genie lamp, but looked more like a shitty teapot as she described it. She says something about her hometown, and my artist perks up, a

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Text - mt995 20.1k points · 18 hours ago I've never really made any big mistakes that garnered a reaction, but one of my clients has a tattoo from another artist in a local studio that says "Gradad" instead of Grandad. The studio fired the artist and wouldn't take any responsibility for what had happened

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Text - Totally_Not_Hitler_ 18.2k points · 19 hours ago 4 3 2 & 10 More Just posted this in the other thread but here it is again: I'll bite. I misspelled "forward". It was a line of script on the side of a foot, and a last minute addition to a couple other tattoos they were getting. I quickly knocked it together on photoshop and nothing looked out of place, the client approved, so I made the stencil. The real fuckup is that I didn't ask them to spellcheck... I ALWAYS ask them to spellcheck, exce

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Text - Fixing the O was easy and I was able to turn the E and W into a wide loopy W and add a bit of extra loops and flourish to other letters so that it looked totally fine in the end albeit a bit stylized. She was happy in the end and still comes to get work from me. Ten years of tattooing and that one still haunts me. There have been other mistakes but they're mostly the clients fault... things like dads getting their children's birthdays wrong (happens a lot actually. Dude, I don't know what

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Text - "What E?" I reply in dismay! "The E! Bently has an E!" So I show him what he had written down, and he groans, "oh man, I always fuck that up... my wife is going to kill me!" So I sit down with the original drawing and manage to turn part of the L and the Y into an E, add another couple lines to re-form the L and Y, and boom: Bentley. It worked out in the end and I felt like and absolute wizard, but fuck, DUDE, it's your kid's name and you didn't notice the spelling was wrong the 10 times

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Text - xfactotumx 17.4k points · 17 hours ago · edited 6 hours ago 3 2 S 2 Worked as a piercer in a shop a decade ago. A guy came in and wanted "Murphys law"...the artist freehanded a design on him, he green lit it after watching in the mirror and they did a beautiful piece with a banner saying "murpys law". Seemed fitting. The guy loved the fact that his one messed up tattoo was the murphys law one.

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Text - eccoothedolphin 38.0k points · 18 hours ago · 3 O 2 5 & 12 More edited 15 hours ago I was a receptionist at a tattoo shop. One of the artists misspelled “neighborhood" on this guys neck. He spelled it "neigborhood", leaving out the first "H". Neighborhood was the guys nickname. It was a pretty large, elaborate tattoo so there was no fixing it. I don't think I have ever cringed so hard in my life. The guy was surprisingly really cool about it. He did see the drawing and approved it before

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Text - srhfy 119 points · 14 hours ago · edited 14 hours ago Dang, I'm late to the party. This didn't happen to me, but to an artist that used to work in the booth next to me. Some lady comes in and wants a pocket watch with roses in her arm, so my coworker agrees to do it. The client specifically wanted the pocket watch to be stopped at "4:20" He draws it up for her right arm and she's soooo excited, but for some reason she decides to change it to the left arm last minute. No problem, he runs i

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Text - gnitelove 12.0k points · 19 hours ago My ex did a large scarification on the client's abdomen. The client had brought in a piece of paper with the stylized word " preserverence". I was invited in mid-way to see the progress and had to tap my ex on the shoulder for a spelling lesson.

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Text - Mars_The_68thMedic 8.8k points · 16 hours ago· edited 16 hours ago ( A few years ago I was tattooing a client who had apparently lost a bet, his buddies were allowed to tattoo something behind his shoulder as long as it wasn't racist or offensive. Turns out the guy drew up a design of “A Leprechaun throwing up on a book"... Sure, why not, everyone was sober and they were paying pounds upfront. Easy work- the drawing was really simple and the shading was easier than I thought it'd be. Turn

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Text - Comes in about ten days later, demanding a refund of money HE didn't pay or the studio, not me, cover it up. Nope, management said you signed for it in your right mind and than damaged it yourself, personally I was yelled at and told NEVER tattoo anyone like that, it only works in television series or film. Did I make a mistake? Yes and no. The lesson here is don't get involved in others drama when permanent body marking are involved.

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Text - Darkroomist 8.6k points · 18 hours ago I got a tatt from an apprentice once and the process was rough. I was his 4th customer and he had a mentor "guiding" him. By guiding I mean roasting everything he was doing. It was a fairly simple Sailor Jerry pinup maybe 3 colors. The guide made him use 6 colors. Like the skin color on it is skin colored ink. It took 5 hours. The whole time the guide is saying stuff like "why the fck did you pick that color next?" Or "No, no, no! Don't do that you'l

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Text - JoshSidekick 8.3k points · 16 hours ago I was working at a place when a guy came in for a full back piece of 3 different cars. It took like 4 visits to finish and each visit he'd look at it and say it looks awesome and then he would take off. On the last visit, they call me in to look at it to show me how awesome it turned out. Well, all the steering wheels were on the wrong side and the reason no one caught it was because the dude was looking in a mirror to check his progress so they loo

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Text - tinawww 7.2k points · 16 hours ago So I didn't mess up but I had a client scare me, I was tattooing his sister's name on him (she passed away). "Gabriela" with 1 (L) in it. Past the point of no return he asks me "there's 2 L's, right?" I think I had a heart attack, and he started laughing. He thought it was hilarious, I died a little and pretended to laugh

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Text - WhenInDoubtBolt 6.5k points · 18 hours ago Did my first one on an old schoolmate who was aware of my artistic abilities, despite having never applied ink before, and he offered me his back. I had 3 pros watching as I drew a geisha freehanded on his back while he was hunched over. When the design was laid out, he checked it in the mirror and was good with it so I began lining it. The thing is, the other artists said it looked great but unfortunately I was doing something else when he check

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Text - cantstopgetitgetit 5.9k points · 13 hours ago 2 I was getting a wrap-around ankle piece of a beach scene. The artist is one who had done most of my other tattoos. He was freehanding most of it. At one point, he hit a really sensitive spot and I involuntarily kicked. "Oops, well that's a rock now" is all he said and made it blend in seamlessly with the rest of the piece.

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Text - Graverobber13 5.6k points · 18 hours ago 4 I was doing a big ol' tattoo of Cringer (aka Battlecat) on a really cool client's leg. I got so into doing this big, awesome tiger head that I forgot that it WASN'T a goddamn tiger and colored the stripes black. I realized about a third of the way through filling them in and let the guy know. He was disappointed, but mostly okay with it; I felt like I was going to puke. I finished the thing feeling so fucking sick and then refused payment. Man, g

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Text - Zornamental 4.0k points · 14 hours ago My ONLY spelling mistake ever was in Italian. Girl wants a phrase in Italian. She writes it down no less than 5x on a paper. I tell her to make sure it is correct, I don't speak Italian. She insists it is correct. I draw up some nice script, tattoo it with no issues, bandage, pay and she leaves. She comes back in hysterical and tells me I spelled it wrong. I hadn't thrown out the paper. I spelled it exactly how she spelled it. I asked what she wanted

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Text - hazard0666 1.7k points · 15 hours ago I tattooed Philippines 4:13 instead of Philippians 4:13 on a girl one time. Fortunately I was able fix it though

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Text - sagestudio 1.2k points · 16 hours ago I watched my boss turn a stylized "Tierny" (mistress's name) into “Diane" (wife's name) once. I'd never believe it if I didn't see it with my eyes.

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Text - Right_Entertainer_91 260 points · 15 hours ago · edited 15 hours ago S Tattoo artist here. Best case I ever saw, a guy came into our shop asking about a cover up. The tattoo wasn't done at our place. He had what we call a "belly rocker". One of those lettering tattoos that arcs over the belly. Think Tommy Lee's "mayhem" tattoo. Usually gothic font, gangsta type piece. He had beautifully executed, bold, black, old English letters across his belly that were supposed to read, “scarred for li

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Text - LuckyDevil042071 129 points · 16 hours ago · edited 16 hours ago Misspelled the name Jamie, Jaime. I asked the client for the spelling and showed the client the laid out script before it was applied. So not my fault. The client was very disgusted with himself for not knowing how to spell the name of the woman he loved enough to show it on his skin for life. I felt sorry for the guy so I offered him a cover-up at an incredible discount as well as the name re-applied spelled correctly, Unfo

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Karen Rages At Innocent Grocery Store Employee, Other Customer Takes Petty Revenge


This tale of petty revenge serves as a great example of what one can do if they ever witness a wild Karen raging at a completely innocent human being working customer service. In this case, Karen was pitching a full on rage fit over the store "not" having her precious black-eyed peas. The thing about it is though that Karen never bothered to inspect the proper aisle closely. Nope, she segued right into unleashing her pent up rage at a poor grocery store employee who was just there trying to be helpful. Fortunately, another customer who has been through the ringer of working customer service was ready to take a swift yet effective petty revenge. 

Check out another story of a Karen getting her comeuppance with this tale about a wild Karen getting bested by petty revenge at the airport

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Text - r/pettyrevenge + Join u/SkyBlueCorgi17 · 3d No black eyed peas for Karens So I live in the South (Texas specifically), and down here there's a tradition that every good southern home makes and eats black eyed peas for New Years. It's supposed to bring good luck in the coming year. I'm not crazy superstitious but I'm not taking any chances with 2021. Well being the organized human I am, I left this until the last minute and only remembered when my

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Text - boyfriend asked if l'd picked up some peas on my last grocery run. So I bolt out the door and head for the nearest grocery store. I went to four stores looking for these little bastards! But the time I get to the last store I'm ready to take anything (frozen, canned, pre-made whatever) or call it quits. I decide to check the aisle with dried beans first, in the slim hope I could find the real deal. And as I round the corner for the aisle I can see a lady has cornered some poor stock boy a

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Text - Karen: what do you mean you don't have any black eyed peas? I saw you restocking these shelves with beans and need them for tonight! Don't you understand tradition?! Employee: Ma'am I don't think we have any left. If they aren't in the display case, then we're probably out. But we do have canned and frozen- Karen: NO! I don't want canned or frozen! I need REAL BLACK EYED PEAS!

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Text - She continues to ream out this poor kid as I walk to the other side of them and to the shelf where the black eyed peas are usually stored. Call it a hunch or a blind hope but I crouched down to look all the way in the back and sure enough there were two bags left, tucked away in the shadows. I fished them out with a little difficulty (yay for having short arms) and by the time I got them both out, Karen had taken notice. When she saw me pull out the peas she gasped. Literally gasped like

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Text - She then holds out one hand and curls her fingers in a "fork 'em over" motion. Now I could have given her the bag. I only needed one. But dammit, I used to work retail and I can tell you that poor employee was not paid enough to deal with her attitude. Especially not this year. So I put on my best smile and said, "Sorry ma'am. I need these for my own New Years Eve. Tradition, you know?" And plopped them into my basket. She had a fit! Called me a selfish millennial brat with no respect for

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