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…"