Friday, November 6, 2020

Grieving Cat Owner's Question Makes Way for All These Feels


For a lot of people, the internet is the first place they go to try to understand grief, and there are some good answers out there. And when it comes to people's relationships with their cats, there are a few ambiguous feelings. This kind stranger on Quora explained why this person's relationship with their cat was important and positive.

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Text - My cat died in my bedroom while I was still sleeping, and while I couldn't have done anything about it, I feel guilty because I might have heard her die. How do I stop feeling guilty about this and move on? 86 ANSWERS Michael Duncan, I've been trained by a few. Some of my best friends are cats Undated Oct 29 Author has 302 answers and

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Text - Actually, you were there. Cats don't just sleep with anyone. Cats don't even relax around just anyone. And cats especially don't choose to die around just anyone. Your cat could have chosen to curl up and die in the most hidden corner of a closet. Many do. It's an instinct often observed in cats-they seek shelter and isolation when near death.

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Text - Your cat chose to be with you. I don't think it matters much that you were sleeping. Your cat must have found a lot of trust and comfort in you. You took her in and gave her a good life for her WHOLE life! What a privilege. And you might not have realized it, but you gave her comfort in her death as well.

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Tumblr Thread: Tom Clancy's Brain Freaked Out The Military


Man, it'd be something special to have a brain like that. There you are, Tom Clancy, never having served in the military, yet able to put together stories with such astoundingly specific details that the literal Department of Defense is worried you've gained access to top secret layouts of US Navy ships. 

Check out some more gold from Tumblr with this thread about humans doing cool space things.

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Text - phoenixyfriend 5 spazzcat Follow tilthat TIL Tom Clancy's stories were so detailed, many assumed he was ex-military. In fact he never served. He wrote most of his stories in his spare time whilst working as an insurance salesman. via ift.tt alternative-munster Follow He was actually interrogated by the Feds for this.

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Text - brosefvondudehomie Follow NERI He used logic to figure out the most efficient way the inside of a ship would be laid out. Said ship being a vessel in the United States Navy. It was so accurate that the DoD wanted to know who was giving him details about ship layouts because his description of areas included places civilians aren't allowed to see ever.

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Text - nunyabizni Follow I'm reminded of when Kubrick was making “Dr. Strangelove" and managed to get far too many of the details of the bomber used correct for the DoD to ignore, but he'd only ever seen a couple pictures of the outside of it and just managed to somehow get it right inside and out.

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Picture frame - dracophile Follow DOUG FORCETT CALGARY CLOSEST GUESS 10/14/72

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Text - jerumebrunneng Follow In 1944, Astounding Science Fiction published a serial called Deadline, by Cleve Cartmill, describing a nation at war secretly working on an atomic bomb. People working on the Manhattan Project at the time recognized a lot of information in there that was supposed to be top secret.

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Text - The FBI came to interrogate the magazine's editor, John W. Campbell. He argued that there was nothing in there that a reasonably bright person couldn't figure out or guess from publicly available information about how nuclear fission works, and the rest is just common sense extrapolation about how engineering works. Eventually, he convinced them that censoring the story halfway through would be much more suspicious than letting it finish.

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Text - Then, just as the agents were leaving, Campbell added “Oh, and by the way, I know you're building The Bomb at Los Alamos, New Mexico." It turns out about a quarter of the physicists in the US had suddenly changed their mailing address to the middle of the desert. #history #military #atomic bomb #logic #united states 109,364 notes

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Dumbest Things People Have Ever Done


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the stupidest things that people have ever done. We've all endured our moments of misfortune. Sometimes those happen to be self-created. Hopefully, these brutally honest moments of mindlessness from some individuals that have had their struggles make you feel better about your own. 

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Text - Madhighlander1 • 8h I once tried to eat my phone while wearing a mask because I simultaneously forgot that I had the mask on and also forgot which hand was carrying my phone and which was carrying the cookie I was eating.

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Text - soundtribekitty94 • 10h Drunkenly sold my landlord's lamps while living in her apartment. Reply 1 2.2k + ...

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Text - cyainanotherlifebro • 9h Paid $500 for bar tending lesson/certification and haven't tended bar once in all my 29 years or even really tried. Reply 1 2.0k 3 ...

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Text - Presidentderka • 9h When I was a kid, I took my Nintendo apart so that I could use the parts to build a remote control airplane. Reply 1 2.2k ...

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Text - WhattheDuck9• 10h 1 Award Broke the window of the principals office, not on purpose,I was throwing a stone at a tree but my aim was so bad it took a 90° turn and went right into his window. Reply 4 2.9k ...

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Text - Hambushed • 8h 1 Award Forgot my own phone number while leaving my client a voicemail. This was yesterday. Reply 1 1.3k ...

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Text - slightlydefective • 7h I didn't do it, but I nearly jumped off a 30 metre drop without the safety cable attached to me. (I think it was meant to be a bungee thing without bouncing back up.) I was just so ready to get it over with, I didn't look before I lept and the guy on the deck with me grabbed me when he saw I was ready to jump and yelled " Holy, I haven't attached the cable yet!" Nearly died over something so stupid. My excuse is that I was 14 at the time. Reply 1 598 3 ...

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Text - starstarstar42• 9h 3 11 Awards I called the cops on myself because I thought I saw a ghost. Was working midnight shift at an old movie theater. After the last person left, I confused the shadow of my torso reflecting onto the empty movie screen for a disembodied ghost. T ran and told the manager, and because I had planted the "ghost" idea in his mind, he went in, saw his shadow and decided there was in fact a ghost, and called the cops. A cop arrived, we told him what we thought we saw, h

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Text - A second cop arrived, went into the theater, realized we had seen our own shadows, and came out laughing his ass off at all 3 of us. Manager and I were embarrassed, but omg that poor first cop. Eventually there were 10 cops there and some were laughing so hard at him, that they had to support themselves on the sides of their squad cars. Between bouts of laughter, one made a spooky ghost sound, and another mimed putting him in handcuffs as they both laughed even harder, and that made all t

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Text - NotTika • 8h Lost my phone in my bedroom. To help locate it, I tried calling it using my phone. Reply 1 987 3 ...

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Text - nownowthethetalktalk • 8h Paid $60,000 on a house renovation without really vetting the contractor. It looks okay and they worked hard enough but they didn't address a floor that was sagging. Now it's very noticeable and extremely hard to rectify without dismantling the entire kitchen. E Q Reply ↑ 369 3 ...

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Text - batmans_apprentice • 9h Waiter: How was your food? Me: I'm fine thank you Reply 1.2k ...

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Text - NadaOmelet • 8h Hit a golf ball onto a recently drained lake and decided it was playable from the "mud." On my third step onto the lake I sank up to my chest. Took a chain of three people to pull me out, and my God the smell. Should've taken the penalty Reply 462 ...

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Text - SicTransitGloria03 • 9h 2 Awards Tried to have a constructive conversation with someone with a differing opinion via social media. Reply 1 1.3k ...

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Text - Anthro10 • 9h A couple of years ago the 4th of July was a few days away, so all of the stores had decorations and clothes with stars or red, white, and blue. In a busy clothing store I, with no hesitation, picked up a shirt with a blue star on it and across the clothing section I asked my mom, "Mom, when is the 4th of July?". You can imagine how embarrassing that was when everyone turned and looked at me. I can only think of what was going through their minds. Reply 691 ...

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Text - jrnitc • 9h I stumbled into a emergency shutdown button in a water purifying plant. Received a hefty compensation claim.

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Text - PunkinPlayer • 7h Waiter: Do you want soup or salad? Mе: Yes Waiter: No, no, soup OR salad? Ме: Oh!... soup. Waiter: leaves Me: to my ex-bf We can never come here again. Q Reply 172 3 ...

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Text - your_local_recruiter • 10h Walked across a frozen lake that wasn't frozen enough, fell through current almost sucked me under the ice I got my hands around the top before I went under. Reply 443 ...

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Text - Over head Welding,or welding in crocs is a bad idea in general i still do it though Reply 127 5 ...

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Text - SilkyEnchilada • 9h Ate a habanero pepper when was dehydrated and overheated. I had dry chapped lips. No saliva in my mouth and I was spent. I picked up what I thought was a peperoncino up from a Papa Johns pizza box. It was in fact NOT what I thought it was. It was a habanero pepper. And it melted my face. My mouth hurt/burned/ ached/blistered. And no amount of water was helping. I suffered for three hours. It was the most traumatic moment of my life. Reply 1 240 + ...

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NFL Wide Receiver Pulls Off Play Of Pure Guts


Some human beings have that level of athleticism that is just supernatural. We're seeing that in this video. 

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Thursday, November 5, 2020

Man Tries To Pitch Stop Sign With LED Lights To Investors


This very well might be the worst "invention" that the Dragon's Den investors have ever come across. With that being said, you've gotta feel for the guy. Even though the idea might be ridiculous, he clearly passionately believes in its potential. 

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Customer States Turn Signal Is Broken, It's Definitely Not


How on earth did it never occur to this customer to try out her turn signal without that little contraption dangling off of it? Some people are too ready to throw money at something they see as a problem, that could ultimately be solved with a little common sense. 

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Compilation Of Every Time Dad Says "Huh?"


This is way funnier than it should be. If anything, maybe this'll inspire other people out there to create their own compilations of their dads' common sayings. 

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Karen Wants $1K Cash for $10 Coupon Sent to Wrong Address


We're not sure what Karen was thinking on this one. She took what was otherwise a low key coupon designed to help anyone in need, and turned it into a whole situation where she was paying even more money in legal fees than she ever could've imagined in the first place. A definite loss. Check out some more juicy Karen content with this story about Karen threatening an employee with a write-up and getting a lesson in management.

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Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/TheBreakUp2013 •· 1y Karen Wants $1,000 Cash for $10 Coupon Sent to Wrong Address - Pays More in Legal Fees (Re-Posted with Names) This story is from a few years ago when I worked in the legal department of a 1,000+ store national retailer. As part of my job, I handled customer complaints that elevated when the customer threatened legal action. Our customer service call center forwarded Karen's call to me after she threatened legal action. Karen left a message claimi

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Text - Karen back. It turned out, we had an old address associated with her rewards account. No big deal, right? I spoke with Karen and offered to send her the original $10 coupon and an additional $25 for her trouble to the correct address. That did not satisfy Karen. She claimed we should have known her address and threatened to sue us if we didn't pay her $1,000 in cash. Her rationale was that it would cost us at least $1,000 to defend the suit (she was in a state in which our company did not

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Text - I contacted outside counsel, our Awesome Attorney, explained the situation to him and I $hit you not he said (in a Southern drawl): "I get to sue Karen? I should be paying you guys. There are a lot of lawyers in this legal community who would love to sue her as she is reckless, unpleasant and a total pain in the ass to deal with. I'll gladly take your case." He agreed to defend us at a reduced rate. Part of our defense strategy was to counter-sue her under the state's frivolous lawsuit st

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Text - I talked with Awesome Attorney about continuing our claim, but he advised it would probably be worth settling and being done with it rather than being vindictive. Although vindictive would have been fun, courts tend not to like that so I agreed. My company ended up paying Awesome Attorney $900 in attorneys' fees. Awesome Attorney later called and told us that the attorney Karen engaged charged her $1,700 to defend the suit. Although I would have liked to continue with our suit, I think he

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Tumblr Thread: People Who Ask vs People Who Guess


As it turns out, there are different ways people try to get the things they want, and they don't always line up perfectly. There are people who ask for stuff even though they'll accept no as an answer, while there are people who try to guess what other people should want as to avoid that awkward no. For another thread that airs things out, here's tumblr's explanation of the USA. And for something more colorful about human nature, here's a thread on how humans will pack bond with anything.

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Text - mefitours-blog-blog Ask Culture and Guess Culture "One of my wife's distant friends has attempted to invite herself to stay with us, again," writes the exasperated owner of a prime 2 bedroom apartment in New York City in this Ask MetaFilter question. "She did this last March, and we used the excuse of me starting a new job and needing to do x, y, and z as well as the "out of town" excuse for any remaining dates. This got us off scot-free, but we both knew the time would come again... and

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Text - The first few answers give this poster very direct advice: Just say no. No need to give an explanation, it's her who's being rude by asking. Others give him advice that was probably more like what he was expecting: other ways to be vague like claiming that it's “One of those random 'Life in NYC things." Another thread of discussion popped up around whether or not the woman asking for a place to stay was being rude. Some posters couldn't understand how simply asking to stay in someone's ap

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Text - In Guess Culture, you avoid putting a request into words unless you're pretty sure the answer will be yes. Guess Culture depends on a tight net of shared expectations. A key skill is putting out delicate feelers. If you do this with enough subtlety, you won't even have to make the request directly; you'll get an offer. Even then, the offer may be genuine or pro forma; it takes yet more skill and delicacy to discern whether you should ассept. All kinds of problems spring up around the edge

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Text - Obviously she's an Ask and you're a Guess. (I'm a Guess too. Let me tell you, it's great for, say, reading nuanced and subtle novels; not so great for, say, dating and getting raises.) Thing is, Guess behaviors only work among a subset of other Guess people – ones who share a fairly specific set of expectations and signalling techniques. The farther you get from your own family and friends and subculture, the more you'll have to embrace Ask behavior. Otherwise you'll spend your life in a

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Text - After this comment many users, including the original poster himself, began to use these terms in discussing the issue. And why wouldn't they? Ask Culture and Guess Culture describe two valid yet opposing ways of interacting with the world with very little value judgment given to them. Framing the argument as such was a stroke of utter genius by tangerine, broadening the perspective of many who participated in the discussion and adding to the general lifebuzz.

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Text - Thoughts: -I wonder how many failed relationships and divorces have mixed ask/guess culture as a component? -I wonder how many other like me there are- trained in both cultures due to a mixed marriage-and what this does to our own relationships. -why is this not a widely known thing? Good god it seems a HUGE facet of effective communication and I'm only just hearing about it at 51 years old? Is there a book about this somewhere? Dammit...

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Text - aeveee This is fascinating. My mom was, I think, a variety of Guess culture. She disliked telling her kids no to reasonable requests. We learned to make flat/information statements like "I'm going to need a ride after school on Friday," and if she responded with another flat stament like "I have to work until 5 on Friday," then we knew we had to problem solve an alternative. My parents divorced when I was 12. One summer spent with my dad when I was 16, he blew up at me. "Why don't you jus

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Text - ford-ye-fiji My mother is an asker and my dad is a guesser and sometimes I have to butt in and translate what each other is trying to say XD I didn't even know there was a word for it!! tellmevarric I learned to give people permission to say no to me. A lot of people, more than I ever expected, have trouble saying no, especially when, like in the original post, it's because they just don't want to, not because they have a reason. (As if not wanting to isn't a valid reason... but I digress

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Text - When I was a teenager visiting family, apparently my aunt got tired of having to ask me and my sisters what we wanted all the time and asked us to speak up and said 'if you don't ask, you don't get. At the time I thought this was partly a lesson in gaining self confidence but at the same time I realized if I just ask and not expect everyone to guess, I can get more of what I need out of life with less stress. Fast forward to now. My mother is still an extreme Guesser and three of my siste

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Text - And if they say no, I don't ask why, I don't get passive aggressive and I don't get angry or upset. I don't dwell on it. They've said no and that's final. I thank them, then I move the conversation on. Two of the most valuable things you can learn is how to say no and how to accept no.

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