Insolent-Idiot Neighbor Tries to Mess With the HOA, Loses His Parking Spot Permanently

u/rashmisalvi's neighbor was approached with a request to move his car by their residential complex's 'housing society', which u/rashmisalvi explains is his country equivalent of an HOA.

The neighbor could not have reacted in a worse way and tried to stonewall the ceremony as to not have to move their car. The thing is, the neighbor had claimed a highly sought-after spot. A spot that wasn't necessarily his but one that everyone else left to him anyways out of force of habit. 

The neighbor thought that, if he moved his car, someone else might try to take the spot. So he was determined not to move it.

It's worth noting here that the only other spot in this location was used by the elderly neighbor whom everyone was eager to accommodate. These parking spaces were so much closer than any others that people had unofficially declared the other spot to be his. 

When the insolent neighbor finally relented and moved his car for the ceremony. The HOA declared that his spot was no longer going to exist and they would be taking applications to park in the elderly gentleman's spot. Which, of course, the elderly gentleman won. 

It's hard to believe that we're cheering for and HOA but it is amazing to see someone like this getting put in their place. Kudos to the HOA for sorting this a-hole out.

Husband Insists Wife Loses Weight, Lets His Friend Gives Unsolicited Advice, Tells Her She's the Jerk

The 'Husband of the Year Award' for 2022 has already been claimed and it's going to be this lovely piece of work. 

u/PartReal8256 shared her recent experience with her husband to the r/AmItheA--Hole subreddit today.

She describes that she has gained about 4 kg (10 lbs. for you Americans) over the course of the last few years. As a result, her husband has been telling her that he "finds [her] legs too thick". Which is something I just can't imagine ever saying to my partner.

I understand that everyone has different relationships but I just can not imagine ever saying that to my partner. I also can't imagine still having a partner after saying that to my partner and allowing my friend to comment on her weight.

I'd tend to agree with the commenters here... She should commence her weight-loss journey by ditching the 100 kg sack of crap she has been dragging around.

Untouchable and Unqualified Political Appointee Successfully Fires Herself, Regrets Immediately

This week on r/MaliciousCompliance, u/WritesForDough42, shared the story of their terrible, politically appointed, boss, who successfully managed to remove themselves from their position when no one else was able to.

Shannon is the kind of person who thinks that she is transcendent because of their parent's political connection. She lives her life in a way that only such entitlement would allow. Never taking responsibility for her lack of contribution to anything significant. 

In u/WritesForDough42's words, "She was a bully and a tyrant." though she "wasn't a micromanager because she was never around enough to actually micromanage anything."

What do you do about someone who is incapable of being removed from their office but is absolutely useless? 

Get them to remove themselves.

Thankfully that chance would soon present itself when Tricia, the new assistant director, arrived. 

Freaky Double Take Moments That Had Our Eyes Thoroughly Tricked

As amazing as the human eye is, it's remarkable how easy it is to trick. Millions of years of evolution would have you thinking that you have this amazing tool that can perfectly detect an astonishing amount of information at a rapid rate. But guess what, if someone's pants are the same color as the grass, your first thought is "whoa that guy learned how to levitate, that's crazy." 99 percent of the time our eyes and brain come to terrifically reasonable conclusions, but that last one percent has us actually thinking "isn't it interesting that that man has the face of a horse."

It doesn't even take a whole lot to sway our sense of reality. One well-placed shadow or warped perspective and we're baffled for half a minute. One upside-down dog's face and we think we've discovered a new species. If someone puts Bugles on their fingers, there's a very small fraction of a second where we seriously have to consider whether or not witches exist. It makes sense that our brains default to alarm. If in fact there was a possibility that we lived in a world filled with levitating trash cans and dogs with human butts, it would be better that our mind can first detect it as a supernatural threat. But that's not the case, so instead we just see things the wrong way and our friends point out to us that we are dumb all the time.

Heartless New Neighbor Ignites Driveway Feud, Loses and Ends Up With Tiny Driveway

When u/VeterinarianWhole250 and their significant other moved into their house 20 years ago they had a long period of peace with their elderly neighbors and they "got along with [them] very well." 

But when those neighbors, sadly, passed away and the house was sold it fell into Mike's meaty claws. 

Now Mike is one of those people. One of those people who have no regard for where they hang in the karmic balance of the world or for how their actions affect others. 

All people like Mike see are dollar signs and personal gain. 

Our protagonist couple had been sharing a driveway with the old neighbors for the duration of their time living next to each other. The driveway was partially on one side of the property line and partially on the other. 

So, when Mike decided that he was going to abolish that tarmac treaty, his ugly mug wasn't ready for what he was about to do.

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For more neighbor drama, check out this guy who had had enough with his neighbor's barking dogs and decided to interrupt their movie night with his leaf blower.

Lord Of The Rings Memes To Help One Simply Walk Into Mordor

These movies have been around for almost 20 years, but like the proverbial eye of Sauron, they just keep finding us no matter how hard we try to stay away. And no, we don't try to stay away from Lord of The Rings memes, but they just have a habit of making their way into our lives. We get constant flashbacks to Denethor eating that cherry tomato, that one orc with the torch that blows up in the Helm's Deep sewer, and during lulls in the day our internal monologue just goes "AND MY AXE." No birthday, baby shower, Christmas or Friday is complete without a viewing of the extended edition. 

This preoccupation with Lord of The Rings moments would be a problem if it were almost any other franchise, but hey we're here to enjoy the time we have, and any time spent watching Sam and Frodo onscreen is impossible to consider wasted time. Okay, The Hobbit movies might be not as completely perfect, but they're fine to throw on during an airplane ride or something.

Barista Posts TikTok Degrading Guy's Mother, She Gets Fired When He Shows Her Manager After She Refuses to Take it Down

U/aitacoffeeserver left his mother at home alone when she visited them for the first time from Korea. 

When he got home from work he realized that he forgot to instruct his mother on the tipping customs in the United States. The thing was, she had already gone to aitacoffeeserver's local cafe to get a coffee while he was at work. Putting two and two together, he realizes that she must not have tipped the barista.

He went immediately the next day to see the barista, "Jane". Jane is noticeably upset about not being tipped but aitacoffeeserver explains the situation to her and leaves a 70% tip. 

Thinking it is all now behind him aitacoffeeserver returns to his business... Until he is sent a TikTok by a coworker. 

Jane has made a TikTok about getting stiffed on tips by people from '"f--k knows" followed by a discriminatory phrase that leads aitacoffeeserver to believe that it is referring to his mother. 

aitacoffeeserver went back to the cafe and asked Jane to take the video down. 

When she refused. He escalated. 

Good on him for taking this idiot down. People need to remember that actions on social media can have real-world consequences. I

Insane Lies People Heard From Compulsive Liars

It's always interesting to slowly realize that you're talking to a pathological liar. Usually it starts with an intriguing hook. "Oh man, I can't eat Oreos," says a strange gentleman at the Jimmy Buffet themed bar you always seem to find yourself in on Thursdays.

"Really man? It is because of the sugar? Sometimes too much sugar gives me a stomach ache" you say, trying to make friendly conversation.

"Yeah, it could be that," he says, being reasonable enough to keep you involved. "But they have a chemical in there that stains your teeth."

"Oh really? I guess the chocolate parts of it do kind of get stuck in my teeth a lot. It's like spinach, haha" you say, because you are very good at conversation. You're terrific.

"No," he continues. "It's a tracking device. See I used to work for the CIA. Psy ops. I worked in Brazil in the 70's. I was the front man for a rock group that was really popular there. We sang in Portuguese, so you haven't heard any of our songs. Anyway, Mondelez foods, the owner of Oreos, is a front for the CIA, and my rock group was sponsored by Oreos so that we could install tracking devices into all the mouths of the royal family there. But then our cover was blown. My bassist was a double agent. Turns out the Oreos were being used to track US. And that's why I'm off the grid. Can't touch an Oreo or else I'll be extradited to Sao Paulo and charged for my crimes." He takes a sip of Bud and looks at you with wide eyes, waiting, expecting, demanding that you believe him. It's the only thing he wants in this whole world.

"Oh. That's really interesting, man. I have to go."

Some people lie as an excuse, and others lie because they're deeply insecure and want to impress people. But the most interesting liars are the ones who lie for no conceivable reason, like these absurd lies people's parents told them as kids.

Clueless Boyfriend Destroys Girlfriend’s Recently-Deceased Grandmother’s Heirloom Wedding Ring to Propose, Doesn’t See the Issue With His Actions

When u/fleetsmyk decided that he wanted to propose to his girlfriend he had a genius idea. He could use her grandmother's heirloom ring in order to create a new wedding ring. 

His aim was to give her something that was sentimental. Like her grandmother's ring was to her. I mean, she loves that ring but never wears it, so there's no way this could possibly backfire right? 

Let's also take a look at the fact that this guy refers to getting engaged to his girlfriend as the "next logical step". That doesn't sound like a reason you want to be getting engaged to be married to another human being. You should want to be with that person not just consider it to be the "next logical step".

 

Seriously bro. Bad move. How can you not see that there might have been a problem here? I'd expect to be single if I took my girlfriend's grandmother's wedding ring and destroyed it because I was too lazy to pick something else out. 

As one commenter points out, you can almost see the intention here. It's incredibly thoughtful to involve her treasured grandmother's heirloom in the proposal. If only there had been another option there somewhere... like, I don't know... Proposing with the grandmother's ring and giving her the option to repurpose it or choose something else?

 

Exasperated Girlfriend Calls Out Immature Boyfriend When Her Interrupts Her During An Interview

When u/whotiatisnow's boyfriend interrupted her during an interview she had finally had enough of his behavior. 

She had been applying to a lot of jobs recently and it was taking up a lot of her spare time. For some reason, her boyfriend, Ian, insisted on interrupting her during these interviews. 

Even when she attempted to wave him away her refused to get the message and persisted. He continued to follow her around the house, refusing to leave her alone so that she could take the call.

Honestly, what a baby. 

This guy, at the very least, needs a little more situational awareness. 

I'm hesitant to say anything that he is doing her is intentional or malicious as some commenters seem to think. I think he's just an immature idiot who can't read the room. This is made even worse by the fact that he's 30 something years old and also the fact that he is acting like this while staying over at her place. 

He might be an idiot but at least he's not as big of an idiot as the guy who destroyed his girlfriend's heirloom jewelry.

Worst Adult Temper Tantrums People Witnessed

Most of us have a particular epiphany in childhood that sets us on a course for how we deal with conflict later in life. That sudden realization is the very moment that you discover that there are some situations where, no matter how much you yell, scream and cry, you still won't get what you want. It's a very important lesson to learn. It makes you a more complete person. It makes you understand that your desires aren't the same as your needs, and it makes you realize that if you want something, being an ass about it isn't the most effective way of getting it.

That's something most of us learn. Some of us never got the memo. Some of us carry the belief that being a walking sack of problems is a good way to get what you want. It doesn't help that the customer-centric retail world is built to cater to exactly this type of person. It lets them off the hook. It teaches them a new lesson that if you are just a liability who holds social convention hostage by screaming a lot, you can actually redeem an expired coupon.

And that's the crazy thing. Adult tantrums are often over the things that are as small as a child's tantrum. Someone wanted to save 25 cents but they tried using that expired coupon, and now they're lying on the floor screaming in front of other shoppers. For the price of a gumball.

You never know if you're going to encounter an adult out in the wild who spontaneously hits their breaking point, and devolves back into a childlike state that's brimming with emotional overreactions. This collection of the worst adult temper tantrums that people ever ended up witnessing is a whole lot of absurdity. For an adult who should have just listened, here's the Karen who wouldn't listen to staff about rain and ended up with a reckoning.

Employee Stands Up For Herself and Quits on the Spot, Finally Has Had Enough of Her Bosses Harassment

Sometimes enough is enough and you simply cannot take anymore. It sounds like this is exactly what happened with this guy's niece with her job at the accounting firm.

These sorts of workplaces have a reputation for being "old boy's clubs" so it's no surprise that they continue to harbor relics of a past age who continue to live their lives as if they're in the pages of a "Mad Men" script. It's honestly disappointing how prevalent these types of attitudes are. 

This niece absolutely should not have put up with her boss's behavior. Perhaps, there were more constructive ways to go about handling the situation. A juicy lawsuit was just hanging there waiting to be nabbed up. 

For more stories about horrible bosses check out this doozy of a manager who tried to tell their pregnant employee that she had to waif for cover before going into labor.

People's Favorite Bits To Annoy Their Spouse

What is love? First of all, baby don't hurt me. But secondly, a whole lot of it seems to revolve around "just getting along." That sounds like a boring and mundane thing, but life itself is mostly boring and mundane. And part of having someone in your life is living through the boring parts and still enjoying, or at least tolerating them. And the beauty of a solid relationship is that even if you constantly say really dumb things, the other person just has to deal with it. It's not like they'd leave just because every time you pick up stud finder you hold it over yourself and go "beep!" Well, they could leave, but if you've already got a joint account it's probably not gonna happen. What we're trying to get at here is that the deeper in you are, the stupider and more constant jokes you can make. And there's beauty in being annoying and knowing the other person just has to deal with it. And if they come up with a more annoying thing to do as retaliation, then you know you've got something really special.

Just about every relationship is built on a strong foundation of the annoying things people's spouses do. Sometimes that's their inability to wrap extension cords correctly, and other times it's their insistence on introducing their current wife as "my ex girlfriend." We all have our jokes.

Customer Demands Kilo of Meat To Be Weighed, Gets Less Meat

Ya know those genie jokes? The ones where a guy finds a magic lamp and a genie gives him some wishes, and he ends up with a 10 inch pianist? We like to think that these situations are like real life genie jokes. Guy stupidly demands one thing without fully understanding what he's asking for, and lo and behold guy ends up getting something that he didn't want but still kind of technically asked for. What makes them even better is the added flair that this guy wouldn't have been pushed around if he had first approached the situation with, as Panic at the Disco would say, a sense of poise and rationality.

All it takes to avoid being made a fool by restaurant staff is to be polite and reasonable. That is something a surprising number of people can't find the strength in themselves to do, but in the end it's worth spitless fries.

The guy went through all this to have his meal weighed so things would be "fair" and by god he got his fairness. A hilariously similar thing happened with this customer who demanded a pound of wings and got less wings. With sassier staff, customer demands can go really off the rails like this rude gentleman who demanded no ice and got less than that.

Power Tripping Manager Gets Put In His Place By Employee Who Has Had Enough

Trouble was brewing between u/seb__brown, Sebastian, and their boss, "Austin". Austin refused to stay late to help out with extra tasks that needed to be done and insisted on piling more and more tasks onto Sebastian's plate. 

Sebastian hit the roof when Austin told them, "Sebastian, it's not a recommendation or me asking you to do it. I'm telling you to please get it done."

Sebastian then proceeded to launch into Austin and put him right back in his place.

There's nothing worse than when the person who is your immediate superior thinks that they have absolute control over you. Just because they happen to have stumbled their way into a position with a semblance of power over you... they think that they rule you in your entirety. Chances are that these people aren't 'true' leaders and have no idea how to inspire and instill loyalty in their followers. 

Instead, devoid and utterly unaware of a thing called empathy, these walking 'peter-principles' make a vain attempt to rule their modern-day serfs with an iron fist. 

It must be satisfying to rip down the facade and expose their power for the sham that it is as our hero has done here. This is the kind of pushback we like to see.

Prank Goes Viral of TikToker Telling an Absurd Story That Makes Zero Sense During a Job Interview

"So, I just graduated from home last year ago."

Bad Life Pro Tips To Really Jack Up One's Game

Life gives us a lot of choices. It also makes a point pretty clearly that we should avoid a lot of them. As people, we're constantly fretting over the next best move. We want to do the right thing. Sometimes we want justice. Sometimes we want cold, hard cash. Sometimes we just want to sit in bed and stare at the ceiling. But with all those choices at our disposal, we don't want to make rash decisions, so we seek out advice that best fits our situation.

But that advice sometimes isn't so great. Sometimes, it's bad life pro tips that won't help at all. Bad tips can lead you down a road of ruination and humiliation. Bad advice could have you walking down the freeway at 2 in the morning just covered angry raccoons. Or even worse, getting into Ska. Don't get into Ska, you're better than that. Anyway, be they wildly self-destructive or heinously immoral, some pieces of advice are just hilariously dumb and bad tips to avoid.

Senior Manager Gets Employee Fired, Employee Digs Up Manager's Dirty Past

If you have skeletons hanging out in your closet, it's probably best to not make it your personal mission to get an employee terminated over a whole bunch of nonsense. It's not like people in this position really have all that much to benefit from being miserable to others, and it would do them well to all take a few deep breaths and consult their doctor for a prescription for chill pills. And if they can't do that, maybe we need a long range jerk-cannon aimed directly at the sun.

In this case, the employee did a little research on their old senior manager after being fired, and ended up learning that the senior manager had a bit of a troubled, secret past. Suffice to say, that was it for the senior manager, and the employee ended up being offered their gig. It's moments like these that make you realize that if you do your due diligence, you too can achieve anything within the realm of reasonable social and career revenge. So that's pretty cool.

Neighbor Brings Furious Wrath Upon Themselves By Repeatedly Parking In Woman's Driveway

Alright, buckle up for one and get your reading glasses on because it is a doozy of a tale and this gal knows how to tell a story at length. It is well worth a read though because this neighbor takes the entitlement knob and turns it UP. 

Imagine having the gall in the first place to ask your neighbor if you can park your vehicle in their (single) driveway -blocking access to their garage and on their private property. Then, to be repeatedly told a very firm and clear "No" only to do it anyway? That is just a new level of brazen, pig-headed, entitled insanity. 

Not sure if this one is reaching new lows or heights, but it's certainly one of the two.

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When u/Jeleki2020, who is a single mother, had new neighbors move in next door she didn't expect that things could go so poorly. She made a point of immediately going over to their house and introducing herself to them in order to start the relationship on the right foot. 

They seemed friendly enough and u/Jeleki2020 left feeling pretty hopeful. 

The issues began with the way that the large family was handling their four vehicles. Their garage was full of stuff so they had all four of the vehicles in their driveway.

When one of the sons turned 16 they got him a new truck. 

That's when they began insisting that they park it in her driveway.

Employee Gets Extremely Rude Customers and Makes an Itemized List of Everything They Did To Piss Her Off, Goes Viral

She had to remake their food THREE TIMES. 

Impressive Creations of Weird Taste

All in all it's good to know that it's possible to weave a wicker toilet. It's not clear exactly what it's for, but it definitely counts as an impressive creation of dubious taste. Everyone has their own style, and whether that's golden hot dog statues or chest tattoos of Scooby Doo, there's always someone out there willing to make an extremely competent version of it. They may be of questionable taste, but they're definitely impressive creations.

Hats off to the artists and craftsmen out there who are willing to do this. It's not like it's many people's explicit passion to design an incredibly detailed Ridley Scott Alien style motorcycle. But hey, if someone wants it done, there are more than enough people out there who are willing to listen to the heavily-pocketed dude who's always wanted to drive down the streets of Tulsa on a Xenomorph.

Does it say something about us as people that we don't feel completely fulfilled until we finally get to ride around in a car shaped like our third favorite brand of hot dog? Some could say that we lead frivolous lives. Others might say that it's good to have dreams. May the childlike wonder in our souls never die, and may we all ride off on our hotdog-mobiles into that great steamer tray in the sky.

Hateful In-laws Refuse to Make Salad For Son’s Vegetarian Wife, Get Offended When She Brings Her Own

u/No-sense-2820 eloped with her husband over this past summer. Some of the motivating reasons behind that were that his family were "traditional" and didn't want to invite her to their house if they weren't married. 

Who on earth refuses to meet their children's partner in 2022 just because they aren't married? Also what is it with the, dramatically increasing, number of people excusing their older relative's or in-laws' behavior as "being traditional". Every time you see this come up it's an excuse being made for someone who is out of touch and awful. 

These in-laws aren't traditional. They're hateful and cruel. Whether or not she had brought a salad they would have found some reason to take offense to her existence. I can't believe how hard they are making this for her. Like how hard is it to prepare something, anything that doesn't have meat in it? It's a bloody salad, Karen and Ken. It's not going to kill you. 

Her husband sounds like he has done a pretty good job of supporting her. But he needs to really stand his ground for her like this husband who went off on his entitled brother-in-law.

Star Trek Memes To Show To The Next Generation

Star Trek is one of those things that will probably be on tv in some form for as long as television continues to exist. We give it maybe 10 to 15 more years. After that we'll either have holodecks of our own, sponsored by Gillet (holograms that feel as real as your shave) OR we'll all have been killed in the Nuclear winter of 2025. Either way we have it on good authority that we won't have to live our lives as we have been, for better or worse. Sometimes you just need a vacation from life. A permanent vacation.

Anyway, while that option isn't on the table, what do we have to escape from our boring lives? We could go backwards into the realm of dungeons and dragons or we could go forward, into space. The final front ear. The kind that sits in between your eyes like a radar dish and lets you hear your neighbors cheating on each other.

Star Trekhas always presented a future not free of conflict, but at least working toward a better universe. And as we lurch ever forward through time, we can really appreciate the fantasy as that future becomes less and less realistic.

Boss Tells Tech Support That They Need to Increase Sales "No Exceptions", So They Sell Everything Possible to Boss' Dad

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

It's not every day that you get a chance like this thrust upon you. A chance for everything that you have been experiencing to line up perfectly and rhyme with poetic justice. 

Well, u/dodimelodi got exactly that chance when their boss told them that they needed to increase their sales with "No Exceptions". 

u/dodimelodi was working for an internet service provider as tech support when, one day, their boss came in and bizarrely told them that they needed to get their sales figures up. Since u/dodimelodi wasn't even in sales they were beyond confused by this request but when the boss then asked them to help the boss' dad with some tech setup u/dodimelodi saw their chance. 

 

 

 

 

Entitled People Who Made The World Their Big Stupid Oyster

Picture yourself at Thanksgiving dinner. Everyone has had all the turkey, potatoes, green bean casserole and pumpkin pie they wanted. And at the end of the table, there's this guy. You don't know who brought him, and he himself didn't contribute anything. That's fine, you guess. He's a guest and got invited on short notice. But then he says "well it's been great, thanks for having me" and you expect him to offer to help with dishes. But no, he takes out his own Tupperware and he starts packing everything up.

"What are you doing?" you ask, fork in hand, ready for action.

"Well I thanked you, the least you could do is offer me some food."

"What on god's green asscrack do you think a thanks is worth? 14 pounds of smoked Butterball?"

"What's wrong with you? Why are you being such a bad host? I swear to god I'm never coming back here again. And this turkey sucked" he bellows, continuing to load the tumescent carcass into his burping plastic thieves satchel. "Your house is getting a one star review. You've given me a lot to think about while I sit in the Uber. You're getting me an Uber, right?"

Entitled people like this feel too cartoonish to exist. But they're out there. And they are blissfully unaware of the burden they put on others. So... enjoy?

Company Charges Nonsensical Convenience Fee, Customer Makes Things Even Less Convenient

It's surprisingly common for banks, mortgage buyers, and most famously event ticketing companies to charge completely manipulated fees that have no basis in reality. What is a "convenience fee" when bill processing is automated anyway? They say it's for convenience, but in truth it's for their convenience, not yours. And the reason people feel pressured into paying these is because these companies are often so big (plus the fact you own them money in the first place) that they're getting what they want on sheer intimidation. It's robbery, dammit! It's the worst. Some companies will even pretend they didn't receive payments just to tell their own customers they've defaulted.

Because of these predatory business practices, people have to come up with their own solutions to avoid this BS. And when they come up with solutions that inconvenience the party that was trying to be unreasonable in the first place? That's the kind of satisfaction that turns each of our pant legs into eclairs. It provides a roadmap to stand up for ourselves in our own lives. We can each be our own Rocky, and the bank that owns our debt the proverbial Apollo Creed. But just in the first movie. Actually, we take that back. They can be Apollo Creed in the fourth one.

Anyway, it's fun to see people inconvenience the bastards who try to bleed them dry on no other justification that that they have power, money and fear on their side. 

Bride Loses it When Sister Brings Her "Child" to Bride's Childfree Wedding, That Child is 19 Years Old

We're really stretching the limits of what is considered to be a child with this one. As far as I am aware, most parts of the world consider the threshold for "adulthood" to be somewhere around the '18 years of age' mark. Some countries come in even lower than that... with 16 years old being typical in some parts of the world. 

So where in the definition of "child" does 19 years old ever stray onto the rug rat side of that line? Is that idea just borne from the sheer fact that we all have been birthed (at the beginning of all things) and each of us is, in fact, somebody's child? If so, why was anybody able to attend the wedding? Even the bride and groom should have been absent leaving the clones and robot aliens alone to celebrate the couple. 

That entire point aside... Why were the children's names on the invitation if they were not, in fact, invited?

This whole thing is bizarre and reeks of a bridezilla meltdown. She is tiptoeing on the edge of sanity and reason.

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For more wedding disasters... Check out this collection of stories about the worst things people ever witnessed at weddings.

Absurd Reasons Men Had Their Masculinity Questioned

There's no doubt that there are certain features inextricably linked to being a man. And many of those society fully accepts. Things like enjoying a nice beer, not having a complex skin care routine, and refusing to ask for directions or assistance at the paint store are all things that most men would agree are, for better or worse, right up our alley. Then there's the dudes who take so much pride in their own self conception of manliness that things get a little weird.

There's a type of dude out there who is more than willing to believe that things like wearing a motorcycle helmet, wiping your ass, and greeting people with anything more than a grunt is attack on not only your own masculinity, but theirs by association. But a lot of these are completely arbitrary. And honestly, if you lived by all of these random-ass man codes, you'd smell like garbage, "live" on a diet of Coors light and nails, have three fingers, debilitating skin cancer, and ironically, never get laid. If you tried to live up to every moron's standards of what a man should be, you would die, dude.

So let's abide by one of the manliest codes of all and not care about what other people think.

Puppies or Kidnapped? TikTok of Woman Seeing a Shady Van with "Puppies" Sign Goes Viral

"My heart is telling me yes, my lady bits are telling me it's a trap…"

Competent Guy's Job Usurped By Unsafe Coworker, Lets Him Dig His Own Grave

We've all had jobs where one coworker has been able to simply play the game better. If you're the kind of person who lets their work speak for itself, depending on your field, you might actually be at a disadvantage. Having a coworker who brags about their work, takes too much credit, and does shoddy work that has somehow gotten through can make them look like a superhero even though their MO is cutting corners.

But in some professions, when the ramifications of bad work can be something like the injury or death of another coworker, the destruction of property, and your own public shame, people like this often have the tendency to meet their own professional roadblocks. In this situation, all our protagonist had to do was watch while his coworker made a large and dumb mistake. Luckily it was just small enough to result in some destroyed equipment rather than the actual loss of life or limb.

If you are currently working at a job where you have to do your coworker's or even manager's job for them, we wish you luck. Maybe for some catharsis, enjoy this time a Karen manager tried sabotaging an employee so that employee stopped doing her job for her.

Snooping Mother-In-Law Caught in the Act When She Triggers Hidden Glitter Bomb, Feigns Innocence, Plays Victim

When u/itsbettertobelucky realized that her mother-in-law was snooping she decided to catch her in the act. 

She went upstairs to see what her mother-in-law, who was supposed to just be using the bathroom, was up to and caught her well out of place. The mother-in-law just pretended that she had "gotten lost" upstairs on her way to the bathroom. As if.

When u/itsbettertobelucky approached her husband about it, he just brushed her off saying that she "Just get[s] annoyed at this because everything [the MIL] does drives [her] crazy." So u/itsbettertobelucky realized that she needed some hard evidence if her husband was going to believe her and deal with the issue with his mother.

They had the in-laws over for the holidays. u/itsbettertobelucky had previously attempted, at this point, to catch her mother-in-law in the act by putting glitter on door handles. That proved to not be effective enough. She needed harder evidence to undeniably catch her mother-in-law in the act. To achieve this she rigged an envelope, filled with glitter, over the door to the office. 

Lo and behold... The mother-in-law ends up covered in glitter for being where she's not supposed to. But now the husband and his family are taking the mother-in-law's side. 

u/itsbettertobelucky wants to know... Did she do the right thing? Who is the a**hole here?

25 Chowder Heads Who Seriously Didn't Get Jokes

We are human, so naturally we like jokes. We like obvious jokes, stupid jokes, complex jokes, memes that make almost no sense, absurdist deviations of space and time, fart jokes, creative misspellings, some puns, and people getting kicked in the nuts. Of course it's not uncommon to have to reread something in order to get it. People are anything but transparent, and understanding subtext is a skill that makes, in our opinion, jokes funnier.

But there is a type of person out there who just doesn't get it. Sarcasm leaves them scratching at their own empty heads, the acoustics reverberating like so many an empty dormitory bathroom. Absurdist takes have them angry, wondering "where is the joke?" There is no jokes, that's the joke honey. And it's fine to be confused. But it's the anger that sets them apart.

It's okay to not get a joke. But to be an ass simply because you misread something, or try to repeat the joke back to someone having taken it literally? That's a sign of piquant dumbassery that leaves you a champion of oblivious people who didn't get the joke. Enjoy your crown of non-humor, you dry, dirty sack of used hospital rags.

Dad Forces Teenage Girl to Drive While Crying as "Strategic Trauma" to Teach Her a Life Lesson in Viral TikTok

"Crying and throwing up on the highway while driving perfectly is a resume skill."

Strangers Share Their Dirty, Shameful And Juicy Little Secrets

They say that every lie incurs a debt to the truth, and sooner or later that debt is paid. They also say "what you don't know can't hurt you." It seems like "they" have a really unpredictable attitude toward lies and secrets. Or maybe there's just a figure of speech to explain away any action you want to take at any given time, no matter the consequences.

Sometimes it feels like secrets are the grease that holds society together. If we knew everything about the people around us, we'd either learn to accept each other or we'd just be too disgusted by each other's inner lives to look each other in the eyes every day. It's hard to come to work and sit down next to a coworker for 8 hours knowing that they listen to ska.

So these are the small secrets people keep to themselves. They might be wholesome secrets. They might be company secrets that people can share now that they've left. They might just be petty decisions people made, or irrational and embarrassing choices that people made in the moment and didn't want anyone in their real social circles to find out about. Anyway here are people's dirty little secrets that they decided to share with the world.

Cousin Wants To Do Interpretive Dance At Dad's Funeral, Gets Shot Down

Sure, everyone grieves differently. But it's safe to say that most people wouldn't completely appreciate a full-on casket dance while they are sad. This person was put in the interesting position of having to fight their cousin on their insistence of doing an interpretive dance segment at his own father's funeral. Damn, dude. Get your own dead dad.

The Aunt and cousin didn't take their dismissal lightly but honestly, these things are more about what the deceased would want. And it's extremely safe to say that having a dude dance on his grave might not have its intended impact on the memory of the dearly departed. That thing would be a full-on spectacle, man. They were even planning one recording it. At that point, isn't it sort of obvious that maybe this whole venture isn't right for a funeral?

If, for some reason you want to see people make someone's loss about themselves, here's the shameless unhinged nice guy who decided to shoot his shot at a recent widow. Aren't people so interesting?

Guy Harasses Girl on Tinder With "Negging", Has Brutal and Humiliating Meltdown When Confronted

When u/ivegotafeelingthat opened her Tinder to find these messages waiting for her she had to have known she was in for some trouble. No conversation that starts off with "What's up you snob." is going to end in happily ever after. Hopefully, our boy, Conz, has realized that after this experience. 

u/ivegotafeelingthat immediately calls him on his opening "tactics", replying "I believe this is 'negging' right?". Unfortunately for her, it's definitely not the first time she has seen this tactic. 

'Negging' is, apparently, a method that is used by "pickup artists" in order to emotionally manipulate the target. More on that below. But essentially it's supposed to be used as a sleazy, underhanded tactic into manipulating women into sleeping with you.

Lovely.

Conz then proceeds to have a full-blown meltdown but saves a little face when he actually responds positively to her advice. Hopefully this guy can get the help he needs to approach relationships in a healthy way. It's a brutal and wild dating world out there.

Scammer Tries to Shakedown Guy After Car Accident, Guy Gets Revenge, Scammer Has to Pay

This week on r/ProRevenge, u/bigcapper69 shared a story about a scammer that they encountered that tried to shake them down for cash after a simple fender bender. 

When u/bigcapper69 accidentally ran into someone else's vehicle in a parking lot they immediately apologized profusely and offered to pay for the damages. They describe that the scammer, who they refer to as 'Brent', initially came across as very cool. Brent seemed to be taking everything in stride and was quite happy for u/bigcapper69 to settle up in cash and get the work done at a repair shop that u/bigcapper69 recommended.

When it began to drag out and u/bigcapper69 didn't hear anything from Brent they began to worry. After some time, u/bigcapper69 gave Brent a sizeable lump sum of cash. 

Then Brent disappeared again. The next thing u/bigcapper69 heard was when they got a message from Brent's lawyer claiming that nothing had been paid. 

That's when u/bigcapper69 began their revenge. 

We love to see scammers like Brent getting served. There is nothing better than when karmatic justice plays out before your very eyes. 

Funny Texts That Caught People Off Guard

So what exactly is a para-social relationship?  Urban Dictionary might describe it as a sex move that involves an entire parachute. But really it has to do with convincing yourself that you actually have a personal relationship with a celebrity or bit of mass media that has no idea you exist. Sort of like this interaction right now, but not really. Because that would imply that you actually like us, which is not a terrifically solid claim.

Where this might apply here is that when we read other people's texts, it's extremely easy to put ourselves in the shoes of that person. This is part of what makes these fun. At the same time, it's a mental exercise that takes an interesting foray into how people identify with the very media they are consuming. This is probably completely off base, but it's at least sort of interesting and that's all that matters in this dumb little corner of the internet.

Here are some textual interactions when people either got way too weird or way too dumb. Sometimes we imagine ourselves, the textee, as someone who is the pinnacle of rationality, being bombarded with idiotic nonsense. Other times were are the colloquial doodoo stirrer, cooking up a pot of nonsense for our even dumber friends to sniff. It is what it is.

Pushy Girlfriend Demands First Bites, Guy Resorts To Eating All Fast Food Secretly

It's a seemingly relatable scenario: "Oh, my girlfriend/boyfriend never wants to order their own food and always takes bites of my own." But this time it's different. This girlfriend seems to have a perverse and unyielding interest in the first bite of everything. Honestly, this sounds like something only lions or wolves do, but she is absolutely obsessed with the first bite. It's to the point where if there's already a bite in there, she loses interest.

And not only that, if he brings it up, she gets argumentative! It would be fine if this were something a person did to try to be cute or something, but the fact remains, she is focused like a laser on those first bites. What does it all mean? Is it a show of dominance? A display of privilege? Is it just the allure of perfectly round and soft, unsullied sesame seed buns?

Either way, this guy went to the internet to ask if he was in the wrong for secretly getting food and eating it in his car without her knowledge. It's already an unenviable position to have to snarf your nuggets like a goblin just to not be accosted for "first bites," but the internet brought up some relevant points about the relationship in general. And for some real juicy relationship overstepping, here's the girlfriend who tried to kick out the cat, but got kicked out herself.

Twitter Thread: The Trials And Tribulations Of Getting Into Anime And Manga

It's hard to explain the rise in popularity that manga and anime have seen in the last 20 years. What could be described as "big headed, doe-eyed high schoolers fighting monsters" is not necessarily inaccurate and could be used to describe a pretty fair chunk of a lot of the medium. But hey man, people like it, and if a lot of people like something that usually means there's some value in it. Except for Ska. There's no reason that ska should exist. Just listen to surf rock and call it a day.

Maybe for a lot of us it all started with seeing Goku go Super Saiyan for the first time. Our child eyes didn't know how much we needed to see a golden man scream. For some of us it's all the seductively drawn women that one can fill their life with in lieu of having an actual girlfriend. Not me though, definitely not me.

As this peculiar brand of Japanese animation enters the mainstream, the people who like it are left with the cold realization that they're going to have to explain to their friends why it's a good use of their time to become invested in the fictional lives of pirate kings, teenage bounty hunters, and amnesiacs with lizard heads who kill wizards to find out their past. Seriously, watch Dorohedoro it's weird and amazing.

Alex Blechman explains the struggle.

Viral TikTok Exposes Stalkers Slipping Bluetooth Trackers into Unsuspecting Women's Purses in NYC, Fear Ignites Within the Comments

She received an alert saying a device not registered to her has been following her for hours. 

Absurdly Rude Guests That Made Themselves Far Too Comfortable

We all (mostly) try to be good hosts when we have guests, but sometimes our hospitality can be taken advantage of by guests who seem to forget that they aren't at their own house. This led u/Mr_Yus_uwu to ask the question: "What was the worst thing your guest did when they took "Make yourself at home" very literally?

The results were as surprising as they were unsurprising. That means to say, people can be pretty terrible houseguests in wildly unpredictable ways. It's not unheard of to have a family member overstay their welcome, but when someone says they need to stay for a few weeks and ends up staying for three years, it feels like something that has become an issue. 

We love having our friends over, but one terrific way to get to know a potential friend is whether or not they fill your couch with farts and get barbeque everywhere. That's not to say that a barbeque slopping ass-factory doesn't make a good friend, but it does mean that maybe your "friend that gets indeterminate brown goo" all over the place might better be reserved as an "outside friend."

Manager Stands Up For His Employees, Protects Them From Corporate Poppycock, Gets Fired

u/Durncha posted this story about his experience with a bad employer this week on r/antiwork. 

u/Durncha is a true leader. A true leader stands up for their team. They protect those under them from the baloney of the big boys upstairs. 

 

In an effective organization, they'll act as a translator, a conduit that helps pass information in both directions. And, when pressure pushes downwards, they won't pass it on or let you-know-what flow downwards. They'll act as a barrier and interpret communication to their team in the most effective way. Then, when something needs to be communicated upwards, the same principle applies. 

 

In an ineffective organization, this doesn't happen. Communication flows in one direction and pressure continues pushing down harder and harder on the manager until they either cave and become a "yes man" (-doing whatever they're asked without question). That or they take a stand for their team one too many times and get fired for it.

 

The second option of the second scenario applies in u/Durncha's story. Unfortunately, u/Durncha was pushed out for standing up for their employees one too many times. There's no way their boss just happened to be looking at the store's clock in sheets at that exact moment. The coincidence is too great. They were looking for a reason... no, they had been instructed by their boss to find a reason to fire u/Durncha. 

 

This just happened to be that reason. 

Kudos to u/Durncha for doing the hard yards of standing up for their team. We need more actual leaders like this in the world.

CEO Tells App Development Team to "Go Work Somewhere Else" if They Want to Work From Home, So They Do

The general landscape of the modern work environment necessitates a greater amount of flexibility from employers than it ever has. As u/R_Jay101 puts it in the comments of this post, "The WFH pandora's box has been opened and there is no closing it."

So, when the CEO of u/Icerman's company insisted that the app development team work from the office, without exception, there was bound to be some trouble. He sealed the deal when he had the misfortune of uttering "If you want to work from home, go work somewhere else" which prompted an exodus of developers doing exactly that.

Out of Control Waitress Hits Aggressively on Woman's Husband, Gets Fired, Woman is Blamed

This week u/throwraWaitress109 posted on the /r/AmItheA$$hole subreddit, asking for advice on a situation that had come up with her and her husband after they went to a restaurant for a night out on his birthday.

Throughout the evening, and during the meal, the waitress had been blatantly hitting on her husband. Taking it to levels that made her very uncomfortable.

When asked to stop the waitress just smirked. So u/throwraWaitress109 went home and left a bad review, ultimately leading to the waitress being fired.

Her family thinks she is in the wrong for not just letting it go. What's your take on the situation?

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For more trouble in marriage paradise... Check out this idiot husband who wanted to cancel a prenup that he insisted on when he discovered his wife was making more than he was!

Freaky Old Religious Albums That Have Less And Less Context Every Day

Times change, but album jackets stay the same. There was an era when what America wanted was dudes in suits singing about God, as well as family bands featuring women with the largest hair that you ever did see. For quit a few of these people it feels like the whole religious aspect was more of a stepping stone to get their ventriloquism careers off the ground, but how can we judge? it's not like you see us putting in the time to learn how to drink a glass of water while making a doll tell people they're going to hell.

People Are Sharing the "Things That We Pretend We Need to Be Addicted to" and I Need to Go Home and Rethink My Life

This week u/Morticiar posed the question on Reddit:

"What is an addiction society pretends is a necessity?"

Annnnnd it's probably time that we, as a society, have a bit of a think about the things that we take for granted that are actually just major addictions of ours.

Entitled Parent Bullies Kids Off Playground, Wonders If They're In The Wrong

The answer is yes. This is one of those interactions that feels like it should have a record scratch moment. One of those brief slices in time where everything stops, you look down at the children who you've made cry for no reason other than your own convenience, and you wonder to yourself, "how did I get here?" That's something a normal person would think. But not this entitled parent. They just went full bore. For another class act, here's the neighbor who couldn't understand why their neighbor wasn't completely silent.

Ohio Turnpike Reveals New Snowplow Names, They Are Perfect

It's something we've known since the cultural tipping point that was the naming of "Boaty McBoatface." While democracy can have its issues when it comes to efficiency in governance, it is absolutely the best method humanity has ever devised for naming infrastructure-maintaining heavy equipment. The results came in and these are the names of the snowplows used by the Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission.

Tinderella Claims to Love "The Powerpuff Girls", Gets Mad at Extremely Obvious Reference

What is it with dating apps that make people feel the need to fake an entire gosh darn personality? Maybe it's their entire lack of a personality of their own. 

A lot of people are so obsessed with being the hippest, trendiest, and most ironic that they don't even realize that actually having their own personality and being true to themselves would make them infinitely more attractive than whatever hipster aesthetic they're conforming to. 

When u/poonieLord encountered Jennifer on bumble he thought that they were about to hit it off. She messaged him referring to a story he had shared about Batman saying that she"Once had dreams of being a Powerpuff Girl." When u/poonieLord responded with a quote from The Powerpuff Girls intro she immediately took offense to his "pickup line".

Honestly? Sometimes you just can't win.