For a whole lot of people, sex ed was more of a fear factory than a sober discussion of scientific facts, and it's really weird how much unverified information and questionable analogies people are prepared to hare in order to get kids to do what they want. Yeah, a lot of awkward sex questions get asked in sex ed, but at least they sometimes get answered.
The internet's never been in short supply of people dishing out gnarly stories of maniacal managers and the righteous revenges that ensued. With that being said, what fun it is to come across a new subreddit dedicated to calling out management for being uncool to their employees. Check out another ridiculous manager story with this lazy Karen manager who let everything fall to pieces.
Our successes wouldn't seem so great if we didn't have moments of failure and chaos, or so they say. It would probably be just as nice to enjoy a promotion or lottery win without having to deal with all the exploded toilets and dropped eggs that life tends to throw at us, but that's just a personal opinion. Either way,the world is merciless.
Those stimmy checks can be a tricky business. A drama broke out between this couple over the newly unemployed boyfriend wanting to go on a near-sighted spending spree with his newfound influx of funds, instead of helping out his partner who is set to be their sole source of income for awhile. The folks in the comments section are in agreement that his approach is just a little bit out of line.
One wouldn't think that the yarn and knitting community would go to bat for their extremely strong opinions on the kind of material that's most likely to set a baby on fire, or that there would be people faking their deaths, but you would be wrong. Tumblr gets into the politics and colorful internal drama of the yarn people. It's reminiscent of thistumblr foray into the drama of the art world.
We love to see this gem making the rounds again. We look back to a time, a strange and surprising time when what appears to be a runaway criminal named Anthony Ackers, up and decides to respond to his own "wanted" ad out in Richland, WA. What ensues is nothing short of a swift emotional rollercoaster, filled to the brim with banter and the inevitable moment when Ackers serves up his own demise.
As long as we've had well intentioned people trying to sell stuff online, we've also had the choosy beggars dashing right out of the woodwork to stink up the whole online marketplace with their series of irrational demands. This dude was tripping from the very beginning. And then when they're given a righteous reality check, they try to play it off like they're just "trying to do business." Yeah, okay then. Check out more entitled people with their childish demands over here.
Just because someone's a "parent" doesn't mean that they're not hopelessly clueless in some facet of life. In fact, many of us have fielded all kinds of ridiculous questions from our folks about how to navigate the ins and outs of all this disorienting technology we have available at our disposal. Maybe these people's stories about the dumbest things they had to convince their parents to not do will send you on a trip down memory lane.
Tumblr is an island of misfit thoughts in the sea of confusing allegories, and it produces some real hilarious and totally random tumblr gems. Jumping from one absurd misunderstanding to another idiotic caption, it's hard to tell what stupid thought people will dogpile on next and roll into a tumblr gem to be unleashed from the depths.
The Kamov Ka 52 helicopter ejection system sounds more like some Rube Goldberg, Wile E. Coyote nonsense, but low and behold, it was the first helicopter designed to have an ejection seat. The system even blows up the spinning blades just before firing off. Granted it's a lot better than launching a pilot straight into a blender, the engineering involved in shooting someone out of a helicopter is... a lot.
There's a reason that he's Elton John. We could say we're surprised at how this challenge turned out, but again, it's Elton John that we're talking about.
Of all the horrible things to be surprised by, "slowly tipping concrete mixing truck coming right at you" is probably way up on the list. After that thing tipped for what seemed like ages, everyone got out unscathed. It's just probably a better idea in general to not try to pull of any slick moves in a concrete truck.
You probably didn't hop on the internet today thinking that you'd end up stumbling upon a video of an enthusiastic man launching an anvil 100 feet into the air, but hey, here you are. The internet's always here to surprise us. Apparently Gay Wilkinson's a world champion anvil shooter. Right on.
Time zones can be a bastard especially when the person you'r dealing with has no concept of empathy. And when the tables were turned, she couldn't even manage to skip happy hour and had to give up. Here's another entitled coworker who demanded a party and took all the leftovers. You can't help but be fascinated by the antics of an entitled Karen, like this one who tried and failed to scam a restaurant.
TikTok user @pnuks shared a couple viral videos which depicts a belligerent Karen harrassing him over not looking disabled enough to take a handicap parking spot at McDonalds. Pretty surreal situation. He decided to bust out his missing leg to give her the reality check that she so clearly needed.
These brokers sound like the sleaziest of dudes. They ultimately learned an invaluable lesson in not messing with the IT guy. Especially when you're a company that was 10 years behind the game on technology.
We love us some well crafted, spicy rare insults. The internet's never going to be in short supply of people going at it with one another in the comments section. It's all about the folks that take the extra minute to put together the kind of rare insults that leave their recipients utterly speechless. These rare insults certainly delivered. Check out more rare insults that creatively roasted people to oblivion over here.
It's another one of those unfair changes in policy made by management with zero foresight. It seems like a huge company should be able to adapt when their employees use the benefits they promise to give. In a similar story, here's a guy who came up with a masterful plan when told he had to work on vacation.
Work comes with a distinct set of expectations. As long as people are basically cooperative and don't get on each other's nerves, everyone can walk away happy. But sometimes a person's explosive personality, annoying habits, or smell can get in the way of that. Particularly bad coworkers will even steal lunches or use sonograms to trick their boyfriend.
Okay, maybe that person wanted a toilet it in their kitchen, but probably not? It only takes seeing a few unprofessional "not my job" moments of failure to see that the world is absolutely brimming with examples of incompetent construction. It's a good reminder that no infrastructure is totally for sure, and that there could be anything going on with the pipes under your house.
We've seen stories of big company owners tripping over their own hubris, like this incompetent owner who mistakenly fired a special contractor, and this time there's more math. This guy gives an extremely detailed account of exactly how a whole bunch of water, a valve, and an overly zealous farm owner gave himself the business.
Daylight Savings Time can really do a number on the human mind. Some of us struggle more than others to do mental math and figure out "simple things" that are easy for everyone else. Honestly, this hilarious little tale about a Daylight Savings Time fail will probably resonate with plenty of folks that have had their own moments of fail when it came to trying to correctly calculate what time it was. Just remember, "fall back" and "spring forward."
There are two kinds of device owners, people who revere their laptops like a hollow Easter bunny made of flammable glass, and the other ones. The ones who store pieces of bologna in disk trays and drill speed holes in their keyboards, or people like this lady who claimed her computer was losing files, but was actually just deleting them. So naturally, tech support has to face some waking nightmares.
There's no getting around the fact that parenting is a wild emotional rollercoaster that can test a human being's ability to be patient and understanding beyond all measure. If you're a parent with a little kid you're likely muddling through many days where you've had little to no sleep at all, while trying to juggle a wealth of responsibilities that somehow fit into your day. And then you factor in the moments when the tooth fairy needs to clock in. The whole tooth fairy situation can go on to inspire many funny moments with your kids. These stories are something else.
One of the enduring features of every culture's cuisine is that you are never going to make it as well as your grandma did. With that out of the way, it becomes a game of how much you're willing to make your house smell like garlic in order to impress your uncle. Not only can cultures collide over something as basic as what lemonade is, but different places having totally different understandings of how one should measure space and time.
Giving a kid every opportunity and telling them they're the smartest kid around is a terrific recipe for raising an emotionally dense narcissist, and that's why we have siblings to tell us the hard truths about ourselves. You hope moments like these are learning experiences that help people avoid the rough path of becoming a ridiculous individual who brags about their intelligence online.
Sure, Mark Twain is the source of some insightful quotes, but what about Mewtwo? There are as many, if not more great quotes from cartoon characters and strangers on the internet than there are from great leaders and authors. It just takes someone to write it all down. Who knows, in your lowest moments, you might find yourself leaning on the immortal words of Shadow the Hedgehog for strength. For some more tumblr fun, here are random tumblr gems to rifle through like a goblin.
Fails successfully keep us entertained. Most of the time. It depends on the severity of the fail. There are lines that can be crossed. In this case, these seem pretty absurd, and hopefully nobody suffered any great inconvenience as a result of the fail occurring.
Local yeast geneticist, Sudeep Agarwala, picked up wind that people were encountering yeast shortages. So, like any awesome human being does, Agarwala decided to share a helpful and fun Twitter thread on how one goes about making homemade yeast.
This collection of infuriating images is enough to rattle the most calm of minds. Things just aren't as they should be. Or at least, how some might expect them to be. They're a little off, maybe the result of obnoxious carelessness. And from that can arise deep frustration from folks experiencing a world that didn't align with their expectations.
