Thursday, June 25, 2020

People Who Had Run-Ins With Aggressive Statues


With a gesture here and a flourish there, you can turn a statue of a famous baseball player into a bat wielding bronze demon ready to get revenge. For more creative people who took advantage of their surroundings, here are some funny textbook doodles.

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Spider-man - KLUSCIENEE TiL LACINN DE NTE RDRL i 2ON T ACCIORLE TAMIENTO DE GUADALAJIRA

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Banana Bunker Inspires Questions, Groupon Commits to the Bit


For such a pointless and suggestive product, anyone who sells the Banana Bunker has to be ready to field a storm of joke questions. Buying stuff online can have its drawbacks, like this guy who just tried to order boxes. You never know what kind of product reviews you might get, like this review for electric knuckles that's a fight for the ages.

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Corn kernels - G Groupon 11 hours ago . O We're contractually obligated to let you know every time the Banana Bunker is featured on our site. http://gr.pn/1NcSOlt Like Comment Share 2,588 people like this.

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Text - Danica Overly ribbed! Looks painful 9 hours ago · Like · 6 26 · Reply Groupon O G Sorry for any confusion! You'll remove that part of the bunker (as well as the skin of the banana) before eating it. 9 hours ago· Like · 6 145

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Text - Cyndee Looks like it has double duty to me! 9 hours ago · Like 6 8 · Reply G Groupon Yes -- it can also be used for small cucumbers O or very wide carrots. 9 hours ago · Like · 6 53

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Text - Tricia So does this banana bunker only house one banana or can you put two slim bananas in there? 2 hours ago · Like 6 90 · Reply Groupon It just depends on what size and type of banana, Tricia! Latundan bananas are an excellent G example of a smaller, but equally delicious banana. 1 hour ago · Like 6 104 Lynn Tricia always worried about the size of the banana it's the quality not the quantity that counts right groupon! 1 hour ago · Like · 6 92 Tricia Some think two is better than one. 1

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Text - Rema Is it flavored? 9 hours ago Like 6 6 - Reply Groupon G We just checked, and it tastes like plastic. 5 hours ago · Like · O 79

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Text - Lauren Is that a Banana Bunker in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? 10 hours ago · Like · 6 39 · Reply G Groupon Why not both?! A well-protected snack is a good present for a great friend. O 9 hours ago · Like · 6 99

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Text - Christina Where do u put the batteries? 8 hours ago · Like · 6 28 · Reply G Groupon No batteries required, Christina! But for all the buzz this is generating, you'd think about 4 AAA's. 8 hours ago · Like · 6 88

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Text - Jaclyn My friend said her banana was too curvy...is this the only shape it comes in? Is it a flexible container? Haha! 8 hours ago · Like · 6 21 · Reply G Groupon The soft plastic reservoir, located in the middle, is able to expand and twist to suit all bananas. Thanks for asking! O 8 hours ago · Like · 6 75

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Text - Amanda Ribbed for her... NM 10 hours ago · Like · 6 13 · Reply Groupon ...more sizeable bananas! 10 hours ago · Like · 6 51

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Tenant Outwits Psycho Landlord


The tenant just wanted their deposit back, but this nasty landlord insisted on going ahead and stirring up all kinds of unnecessary drama. The look on that landlord's face when they were sitting there in the mediator room, and told that they had no chance at actually "defeating" the tenant must've been pure gold. 

Check out another instance of a landlord who refused to give a tenant their deposit back, and ultimately got bested in court.

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Text - r/ProRevenge u/cloudubious • 232d Join I just wanted my deposit back. So about 10 years ago, my wife (then girlfriend) and I decided to move in together. She was sick of living in a dorm and my lease was up, and we had a family friend that was looking for someone to move into a little granny flat under their house. I say under because they lived on a steep hill where the flat was below the house with an entrance on the back side, so we had this incredible view out back, a pool (we'll get

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Text - Everything was great for a couple months. Then Mary and her wife started fighting. Screaming matches, stomping above us, throwing things, I didn't understand how people could be that mad at each other that often and still be together. I eventually sent them an email saying we were not comfortable with the fighting and we wanted to make sure they were ok, etc. They replied to that with, "you're lucky you have a place this nice." Mary began to scrutinize the yard and poolwork I was doing, t

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Text - shot in a gang shooting across the street. We decided to cut our losses and get out of there. Found a new apt and a roommate (one of my wife's college friends) that was open a month later (perfect for us, we were on month to month on this place), emailed Mary that we were moving out in 30 days, etc. At that point, she went insane. Tried to do daily inspections of the granny flat, would call and email daily with chores around the property she'd insist we do, and would pound on her floor (o

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Text - So I rush home after work, stop by upstairs and ask for a copy of the pest control receipt. I have massive allrrgirs to most pesticides, so I need to know what was used. She goes into her office and bring back a copy with every single chemical on the list checked off, every single one. I immediately take the copy, run down, grab the cat and a handlful of clothes, and drive to my parents' house. We stayed there 4 days, hoping everything would clear out in time for us to finish packing and

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Text - do), and she did a short walkthrough efire stating it was fine but that her copier was broken and she'd have to email us the final copy. Two days later, we got that copy, with $1400 in damages claimed above our deposit, including a number of charges like, "my wife had to replace a screw in a cabinet, $1 for screw, $15 labor." I was livid. The place was spotless, my mother (a landlord who does all her own prep work in rentals) helped us, and we'd been very nonconfrontational except for fil

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Text - already be doing the same. Luckily, I knew my tenant rights and that she'd violated them a lot, including email chains where l'd point out 24 hour notice laws, etc., in emails and she'd reply to them. Finally, I called the exterminator. The conversation went like this: "Hi, you sprayed in my flat without my permission because my landlord ordered it with no notice to me, with my cat inside, and used every chemical on your receipt."

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Text - "We most certainly did not. Here's a copy of the work order, we only put out ant traps on the outside." "Oh, I'm sorry, thank you for your clarification." Armed with that last little piece, I countersued, asking for a Bad Faith penalty as well as our deposit. Bad Faith was 3x deposit, so I was asking for a total of 4x what we'd given Mary on move in. The big day came in court, I showed up early, had everything in order and ready, and she swaggers in huffed up and clearly ready to put me i

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Text - about 20 min, until a courtroom worker asks the waiting room if anyone would be willing to go to mediation instead since they were booked solid. We both say yes, and go into a mediation room with an arbitrator whose job was just to keep us civil and answer any legal queations they could while staying neutral. Mary lays out her case, it takes about 4 min. The arbitrator looked very neutral still. Then I present my case, bringing up each violation, each lie, and end it with the work order f

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Text - arbitrator then explains the bad faith penalty, then looks at me, "would you be ok dropping the penalty for your deposit back?" "Sure." They looked over at Mary, "I can't tell you what to do. But what I can say is, if you decide to go back into that courtroom in front of a judge, it's not likely to go in your favor." (I swear they really said this, I know they're not supposed to but they did!) I got my deposit back. 8.0k 185 1 Share

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Tumblr Thread: Addams Family Rents Rooms Out To College Students


Man, college kids these days are missing out. This fun Tumblr thread imagines a world where the Addams Family rents out rooms to broke college students. It certainly is a spooky thought imagining Wednesday and Thing critiquing that thesis in every way imaginable.

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Text - guilty-as-battery-charged The Addams Family renting out rooms in their huge mansion cheaply to broke college students. The students digging it because the craziness and the bugs are pretty much the same as any other dorm house. Also, Morticia and Gomez treat them all like visiting cousins, not like tenants to abuse and exploit.

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Text - guiltyhipster One of the tenants is a creative writing major and Gomez and Morticia house them up in the tower because of the quiet and the inspiring view They're supposed to be working on a typical coming-of-age story but after living with the Addams for just a week the project is becoming a horror-Gothic-romance

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Text - They go to their room after classes one day and find Thing correcting the grammar errors in the manuscript with a red pen specialstarfish and yeah, the students pay roughly market value for their rooms, but that doesn't stop gomez from shouting "capital idea!" and handing them wads of cash when they telll him about their weekend plans or what they're researching, so they basically end up living there for free

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Text - gholateg In the same vein, half the them have to turn into exceptional fencers, because Gomez just doesn't give a shit, and if he sees you in the library, its fucking Sword Fighting Time. Fester and Pugsley find out one of the college students is trying to get into chemistry and woo boy, there has never been a faster study of

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Text - how to counter various acidic chemical reactions due to "water" balloons in campus history. Morticia and Grammy are keeping the horticulturalists on their toes with their Black Tulip/Rose hybrids, which can flick their barbs a foot away from their stem system. But it's fine, one of the kids has managed to breed Aloe with the anti venom.

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Text - Lurch makes sandwiches for everyone who's too much of a coward for Grammy's cooking. Any music major will find him looming over them, utterly stone faced as they practise until they finish, when he'll smile, and slowly applaud. And the spookiest thing of all Wednesday and Thing will find your thesis. They will critique it in every way imaginable. There is no escape.

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Text - aardvarkingmad I especially love the idea of Gomez spotting a student in the library, throwing a sword at a startled student, shouting, "En garde!" and lunging at him/her with a sword of his own. Student (later in life), when asked how she jumps from quietly doing research to handling a sudden influx of ER cases so quickly and easily, says, "When you have to snap out of deep concentration on biochem to fight for your life then get back to biochem without losing your train of thought...you

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Guest Tries To Get Employee Fired For Doing Their Job


These unruly guests got just the kind of instant karma that they clearly needed. This really just might be the only way that these kind of people learn their lesson. It's the kind of story that puts a big old grin on your face. 

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Text - r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk u/LobbyJockey • 1y • I don't like you, but I really... 1 Guest tries to get me fired for doing my job, admits she's doing it "just to be a b**ch" and the results are highly satisfying. Long This happened back in April. tl;dr at the end. Around mid-morning, an attractive young woman came into the lobby and asked for a key to her cousin's room (who we'll call "Shi-Shi Garcia"). Cousin: "Can I get a key to room 207?" Me (checking...): "Is Ms. Garcia here with you?" Sh

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Text - generous solution to her problem, a definite grey-area loophole--but they didn't see it that way. The one on the phone said "You're really gonna be that petty? Why can't you just do your job and let my cousin into our room." Finally sick of the abuse, I snapped back "Doing my job means your cousin plops down on that couch and waits for you to get back here and let her in. What I'm doing is extra. It's special treatment. I'm being nice, and I don't appreciate the abuse. I don't have to do

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Text - struck me as odd, because I was told she was "hours away". Never looking up from her phone, she asked for my name and my supervisor's name, and took the opportunity to slip in a few more derisive remarks. After I said "Have a nice day," with perhaps too much bite, she told me she's going to try and get me fired because "What you did is illegal." Then, while I was speechless, she smugly turned on a dime like a model on the runway and strutted back to her room. That could have been the end

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Text - Me: (knock, kna-knock knock) "Front desk" (Shi-Shi opens the door, holding her cell phone up to her ear, saying something inaudible into it) Me: "Hey so do you want me to call the police and oust this person from your room?" Shi-Shi: "No no no--no. She's actually in the restroom." Me: "Is it okay that she's in here?" Shi-Shi (innocently): "Yeah. That's fine." Me: "Thennn why are you upset that I let her in?" Shi-Shi (talking into the phone): "Hold on, can l- can |- can- can--is there a wa

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Text - That conversation (26 seconds): [redacted. Transcript below. Starts after she gets off the phone with customer support. We're standing at the desk.] Shi-Shi: "Okay." (long pause) Me: "So it's okay that that person's in the room?" Shi-Shi: "That is correct." Me: "Then what's the problem?" Shi-Shi: "The problem is... your... customer relations." Me: "So it's not that I let her into the room... like you threatened me with earlier." Shi-Shi: "No not necessarily? I did that? Because l'm upset

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Text - The only reason I recorded this stuff was to defend myself against a write-up or worse. I was content to let the whole thing go. She had her key and filed her complaint and my manager was on my side. Great. That could very easily have been the end of it. The next day, however, after they checked-out, Housekeeping discovered Shi-Shi and her cousin had stolen all our pillows and left their own raggedy, old pillows in the pillowcases. Did they think we wouldn't notice? Naturally her card dec

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Text - Nope! Two days later, whose name do I see in the Arrivals list, but Shi-Shi Garcia. Two adults. Oh dear. I called the phone number on-file, expecting to have it out with her, but it was a man who answered. I told him we'll have to cancel this reservation because Shi-Shi and her cousin are not welcome at the Slumtown Inn. He asked why and I told him the whole story; the key, the abuse, "I'm just doing it to be a bitch," and the pillow swap. I did not mention the recordings. He apologized p

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Text - The next day, I learned that man had been her boss' boss. He called her supervisor, who called the hotel and spoke with my manager. My manager told him the whole story and mentioned the recordings. Ladies and gentlemen, it saddens me to tell you: Shi- Shi and her pretty cousin were let go. They were fired in a strange city, a thousand miles from home, in the middle of a business trip. Sad. Edit: One of the mods asked me to remove the audio clips. At a commenter's suggestion, I supplied tr

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Speedrunner Tackles Making a Burrito


At this point we're kind of blending the lines between speed-running and just "doing something fast." Anyway, here's actual video game speedrunner Arcus doing his thing IRL.

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