20 Terrible Liars Get Called Out and Put on Blast, Top Lies of the Month (February 2022)

What is it that drives someone to lie on the internet? Are we really all that desperate for our internet points? That one moment of perceived glory?

We languish in the idea that we might find ourselves forgotten and realize that we aren't the main characters of our own story and instead find ourselves the NPC in someone else's world as they lead the lives we wish we'd had.

It's the curse and the plague that social media has wrought upon us. As the spawn of the wealthy plaster professionally taken photographs of their weekend trip to Dubai all over Instagram and write about how #blessed they are, you find yourself arguing again with your aunt on Facebook over her absurd conspiracies.

As you doom scroll further and further into oblivion, you swap back to Instagram to reminisce over that grainy photo you took on your one vacation last year, still feeding off the dopamine the 30 likes your mother, and her friends gave you. You're dying for another boost, something to get the ol' dopamine machine humming again. Seeing how many updoots the anonymous power-users are farming on Reddit, you devise yourself a plan… One Google search for "Busty Drawings of Catwoman" later, and you're away with your first fake post. It has a smashing title, too: "I drew this last night with my dying mother." The post is a sensation; the internet points flood in, there's already a DMCA in your DM's, but you don't care. You're too busy relishing in the tidal wave of neurotransmitters gritting your teeth in uncontrollable bliss, a deluge of delight that would cause even Kubla Khan to blush in Xanadu. "A stately pleasure-dome decree" indeed.

Old Lady Steals Bike, Pays For It With Smelly Apartment

This "concerned citizen" took it upon herself to steal a kid's bike and teach them a lesson. That lesson? Something along the lines of "don't be a kid who rides your bike when I can faintly hear you riding your bike. And don't leave that bike somewhere where I can take it and hold it hostage." It's a mystery as to why a person like this would live alone. She went so far as to demand a written apology in exchange for the bike.

Most kids would probably just cave to the demands of a grown-up, irrational as they may be, but OP had a taste for justice. Or at least petty revenge. They weren't gonna put up with this without a fight, and decided the natural course of action should be to leave some surprises for this lady to not find for a long time. Karma is real, and it stinks.

It's weird when adults feel like they're justified in stealing from or victimizing kids for doing nothing other than being kids. For example, here's this entitled parent who kicked kids off a playground and wondered if they were in the wrong.

25 Technically Accurate Jokes And Memes That Are Hard To Argue With

Being "well technically'd" is kind of the worst. All you want to do is buy a cup of soup, but the guy at the counter hands you a cup of coffee. And you go "hey man, I asked for the three bean soup." And he's like "well technically, a vanilla mocha is a three bean soup." And you go "you know what I mean. I asked for a thing, and I want that thing. You proving to me that you're being clever doesn't improve my situation. It doesn't get me any closer to eating a cup of soup, and you know it."

But "well technically-ing" people feels absolutely awesome. You get to feel clever while simultaneously not giving someone the answer they want. Your victory is two-fold. You've just managed to not have to try hard but also made that person seem dumb, in your own little way. Now do you want your "three-bean soup" or not?

So hats off to being literally, technically accurate. Who wants to spend their time being actually correct when we could be dancing around the situation with the power of wit?

Company Tells Employee Groceries Cost Too Much, Must Eat Every Meal At Fancy Restaurants

This might come as a surprise, but corporate isn't very good with money. Basically anyone who's worked at a company with a lot of money at the top has witnessed some absurd waste in their career. Sometimes it's flying the whole board and their families to one location in order to conduct a 5 minute meeting that could have just been an email. Sometimes it looks like an entire nacho bar that just sits there while you wonder why your insurance benefits haven't kicked in yet. And sometimes it's inadvertently finding out how much your boss makes and then thinking back to the time you saw them spend two hours at work trying to hang a poster. 

Budgets, per diems and stipends can get messy. Especially when there are special little rules around them that keep you from spending money in a smart way. In this guy's case, he wanted to buy some groceries, but since it cost more than a single dinner, he was reprimanded for going over the limit. Obviously, according to the company, the cheaper way is to spend every single meal at a fancy restaurant. Duh.

Retail Worker Helped Lay Down Karmageddon After Witnessing a Random Customer Get Cheated On

This worker put the therapy in retail therapy—as she watched the betrayal go down within this love triangle, she helped the victim come out stronger. 

Teachers Share Times They Had To Stop Themselves From Laughing At Their Students

School takes forever, man. It's over a decade of constantly showing up, being told what to do, doing most of it, and staring out the window. But in that time, we all have moments where we heard someone say something so dumb that we couldn't stay quiet about it. Teachers, however, had to be tight-lipped about all the stupid-ass things they heard us say. Right now there are thousands of functional adults walking around doing totally fine because when they were in 4th grade, a teacher never pointed at their face and laughed at them for saying something stupid. Sure, there are many adults who are functional despite having experienced exactly that, but it's still not a good time.

Kids are so dumb that they're pretty much a different species. So we can't blame teachers or noticing the absurd things they do and say. We remember how dumb we were. We remember all those times a kid said "organism" wrong. It happened a lot. And honestly it's a miracle that teachers can manage to get through the day.

Oil Rig Worker in the Middle of the Ocean Goes Viral for Feeding Ravenous Fish During the Day and Flinging Fruit Into the Nighttime Abyss

During the day, he flings food for the ravenous fish to eat. During the pitch black night, he flings fruit into the darkness never to be seen again. TikTokers are loving it.