Grandpa's patience was no match for the frustrating process that can come of trying to pay for parking. Just let the poor old man park his car.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Real Life Optical Illusions and Double-Takery
Your brain is doing it's best to keep up with all the information your eyes throw at it, but sometimes things don't make sense. With some weird perspective, you can confuse yourself into thinking stuff is way too big or small, floating strangely, or something else entirely.
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People's Favorite Lessons From Therapy (36 Tweets)
Twitter users are sharing their most cherished lessons they've picked up from therapists over the years. The following collection of insights might speak to you on some level. We can all use a couple calming tips to keep in our back pockets, for when the world throws a curveball our way.
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Sadly Mistaken People Who Didn't Understand Satire
People have a really hard time deciphering what is real news and what is obviously a joke. Who knew the unintended consequence of satirical news would be your grandma thinking the rapture happened. Whether it's a state of uncanny gullibility or just poor reading comprehension, a lot of mistaken people do not understand satire.
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IT Guy Performs Printer Exorcism and It Works
People have such a limited understanding of technology that the office tech support person can seem like a literal godsend. IT has to deal with some of the worst tech support gore around, and managers who don't know what computers are. This guy had to deal with a problem printer, and used an unorthodox method.
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Guy Captures The Escalating Stress Of Emailing The Landlord
Twitter user @calebsaysthings ignited a passionate discussion about just how terrible landlords can be when it comes to addressing tenants' concerns. Nothing quite gets the blood boiling like the experience of trying to navigate a landlord who is a terrible communicator, and never follows through on fixing sh*t that needs fixing in apartments.
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Man Buys An $1800 Bike For $100 From Thief, Returns To Owner
Twitter user @SteBurke44 is out here restoring people's faith in humanity. It turns out that a bike he'd purchased off someone had been stolen, and was actually worth $1800. As luck would have it, he was contacted by the original owner of the bike and able to get it back to him. It's moments like these that remind us there are still good people out there just trying to help keep the world's fits of chaos relatively manageable.
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Apocalyptic Images From Newfoundland's Storm Of The Century
Just in case you missed it, Newfoundland was overrun by a snowstorm of epic proportions. Yes, we're talking 30 inches of snow on Friday, which was reported from St. John's International Airport. Residents have been left to quite literally dig themselves out from the storm. The Canadian Armed Forces even stepped up to help in the efforts to clear up all the snow, and help out residents in need. Outside of all that chaos, the storm definitely made for quite the array of hilarious and crazy images. Nature is a wild beast, man.
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Prick Customer Publicly Shames Target Employee, It Backfires
Every once and a while one of those stories come along that restore our faith in humanity, before that same fragile faith is quickly crushed again by some new and discouraging headline. Well, at least we can enjoy this deeply satisfying tale of goodhearted people banding together to fundraise a $30K vacation for "Target Tori."
Apparently Tori was mistreated and generally bombarded with BS by a rude customer over a damn toothbrush. He tried to publicly shame Tori, and it backfired in the best kind of way.
You can check out the GoFundMe for Tori over here if you're curious on how things played out.
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Sister Hijacks Woman's Wedding, She Wonders If She Can Still Cancel
It's crazy that someone can find themselves in the position of paying for their sister to take their wedding, but it does not seem fun. Weddings are the source of family drama, backstabbing, and in some cases, entitled bridezillas cancelling the wedding and keeping 30k in gifts.
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All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Horror Stories
Someone on AskReddit asked for buffet workers to share the very best and worst of their horror stories. The following snapshots of meals and adults having full-fledged childlike tantrums would make anyone's stomach turn. Buffets just have a knack for bringing out the insanity buried deep within people.
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Guy Sees "Cats" On Shrooms, Has A Bad Time
Why on earth would somebody do this to themselves. This guy decided to dive down the rabbit's hole of taking some mushrooms, and then making his universe all the more chaotic and confusing by going and seeing "Cats." Just in case you missed it, the movie is getting all the funny reviews for being a ridiculous mess of a film.
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Proof that Children are Strange and Stupid
Kids are weird, dumb and easily tricked. All we can say is that we were this stupid once too, but that doesn't make kids not stupid. They make irrational demands, have unrealistic dreams, and believe just about anything. There's a lot of evidence out there that goes to show how kids are stupid and weird.
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An Economist's Twitter Thread On People's Investment Strategies
Economist, Daryl Fairweather, shared a viral Twitter thread regarding her observations about people's motivations behind different investment strategies. At the core of it all, it would seem to get down to people just wanting to be the best off in a worst-case scenario world.
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Science Diagrams That Look Like Sh*tposts
This is quickly becoming one of our new favorite Twitter accounts. @scienceshitpost has taken it upon themselves to share the best (or worst) of science diagrams that look like sh*tposts. The resulting array of tweets is nothing short of a comedy goldmine.
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Guy Believes He's Rev Matching His Automatic Transmission
This has to be a troll. There's no way that this guy actually believes this is a thing. There's just no way.
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Twitter Roasts Rob Lowe For His NFL Hat, He Responds
Rob Lowe did not anticipate the reaction he received on Twitter, over his NFL hat. People were quick to poke fun at the fact that the guy showed up to an NFL game, basically just rooting for the NFL. I guess at least Rob Lowe doesn't have to deal with alienating himself from any fans in particular. Based off his hat, his team would appear to be undecided.
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Trashy Moments Straight from The Garbage Factory
In life, you never know when someone is gonna instigate a straight up garbage moment. Selfish behavior can come from all walks of life, from any social circle, and in any setting. It happens at weddings, at your job, and just walking down the street. You can't escape those garbage moments that belong on garbage island.
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Retail Workers Share Their Breaking Points Moments
Someone on AskReddit asked for people that have endured working retail, to share their biggest customer service nightmares. You know, those moments when you're at your breaking point and the Karen in your vicinity is testing the very outer limits of your sanity.
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Tagged: customer service , FAIL , public freakout , retail , cringe , askreddit , ridiculous , stupid
Chaos and Misfortune that Injected Itself into People's Lives
Your can never be too sure what kind of chaos and failure life will bring you. There are insane snowdrifts that bury your car, people driving through concrete, ruined art projects and dogs chewing through doors. Life is an artist and chaos and misfortune are its implements.
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Weird, Stupid and Funny Signs and Ads
Signs, advertisements and billboards are a weird game. Every joke advertisement is a bit of a risk. Some are dumber than others. Sometimes a sign's pun game is simply too strong. Some advertising fails, like the magazine layout failsare total accidents. Sometimes signs are just straight up scary.
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Babysitter Leaves Bad Job, Entitled Mom Lashes Out
It's common to see entitled people wanting free and cheap childcare, like this entitled dad who wanted free art and babysitting but gets neither, but you rarely get to see what kind of monsters they can be in detail. This lady seems like an absolute treat...
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Exhausted Parent Accidentally Sleep Trains Whole Family
We'd bet that a lot of parents out there are bound to relate to this hilariously wholesome accident. Apparently the whole family ended up getting accidentally "sleeptrained" by a strangely adorable little stuffed worm toy thing. Whatever works, I guess.
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Woman Cuts Up Wedding Dress After Being Cheated On, Sister Complains
This woman asked the people of Reddit whether or not she was in the wrong for cutting up and altering her wedding dress, after discovering that her fiancee cheated on her with a stripper. Apparently the sister was upset because she was banking on being able to use it. Honestly, shouldn't it be the (ex) bride's decision on what happens to the dress?
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Native American Journalist Explains Impact Of KC Chiefs On Stereotypes
Ahead of the big Super Bowl matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers, Mohawk Writer Vincent Schilling, seeks to explain the impact of the KC Chiefs on offensive stereotypes concerning Native Americans and Indigenous people. Schilling's thoughts are definitely making a wave across Twitter.
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People's Experiences With Doomsday Prepper Parents
People are sharing their experiences with growing up with doomsday prepper parents, or people they've crossed paths with that were just convinced that the apocalypse was looming heavy around the corner. Can't imagine how that could affect a child's outlook on life, if they're growing up around stockpiles of food and other life essentials like the world was about to cave in on itself at any moment. Definitely a stressful environment.
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Tagged: Awkward , askreddit , apocalypse , parenting , ridiculous , Reddit , funny , weird , parents
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