Being upset and miserable isn't always a choice, but sometimes we have the option to seek it out in the form of annoying and off-center imperfections. Maybe this kind of thing doesn't bother you. But it probably does. As people with free will, we have the freedom to sit there and gripe at images of sloppy imperfection or stare in delight at delectable images of satisfying perfection. The choice is ours.
A lobster diver by the name of Michael Packard from Massachusetts ended up enduring quite the historical experience. Specifically, Packard was consumed by a whale, and then lived to tell the tale. And with this being the era of everything being available online, we're actually fortunate enough to be able to read his account of what the whole experience was like. Pretty dang cool.
If you've ever dated/are married to someone who sleep talks, you've likely had your bouts with spontaneous interruptions throughout an otherwise peaceful night in dreamland. The best part about sleep talking is that it usually makes zero sense when compared to what's actually going on in the world. It's like this shining insight into just how different the world of dreams and our waking existence could be. Anyways, this dude decided to make the most out of his girlfriend's sleep talking by turning her various sleep talking musings into Rupi Kaur poems. Pretty clever stuff.
The fun thing about entitled people is that they never really seem to understand why everyone takes issue with their "suggestions." From this entitled mom who tried to swindle a babysitter to the many Karens of the world, what feels like it should be a learning experience never becomes one. The abusive landlords, demanding neighbors, insane bosses and random craigslist buyers out there just keep doing their thing, unfazed by the mountains of regular people telling them they're being ridiculous.
It's for sure a bad day for this lady, but sometimes we have to look inwardly at our own role in the twists and turns in our lives, and some people are completely unwilling to do that. As a result, we have people like this bride who thinks her bridesmaid's chemotherapy will ruin her wedding or these brides with their unreasonable demands. Maybe this will be a learning moment? Spoiler: It won't.
Our hearts go out to anyone who has to muddle through shifts at a call center. It seems like call centers are magnets for the world's most insufferable, painfully entitled individuals. It's as if the people that contact call centers with whatever complaints they have on tap, also manage to completely forget how to carry themselves like decent human beings. Seriously, there's no excuse. Fortunately, this call center was able to play right into the customer's demands in a way that resulted in glorious malicious compliance. If this post got you going, then definitely check out this post about a customer who demanded a plain omelette, and was then furious that it was just plain eggs.
Just in case you weren't already aware, home inspectors are at the literal frontlines for when it comes to making sure that new homeowners don't get completely screwed over. It's both highly discouraging and outright remarkable what kinds of nasty things that people will try to get away with when it comes to foregoing repairs on homes that are already treading in dangerous waters. Like that toilet story. Yikes.
With Father's Day right around the corner it's high time for us to sit back and enjoy some dad jokes. Oh boy, dad jokes. You've probably already heard your fair share at this point. When you hear a dad joke split the air make sure to pay close attention to everyone's reactions around you. Some people love their dad jokes, while others would just as much elect to never hear another dad joke ever again.
If you've ever dated/are married to someone who sleep talks, you've likely had your bouts with spontaneous interruptions throughout an otherwise peaceful night in dreamland. The best part about sleep talking is that it usually makes zero sense when compared to what's actually going on in the world. It's like this shining insight into just how different the world of dreams and our waking existence could be. Anyways, this dude decided to make the most out of his girlfriend's sleep talking by turning her various sleep talking musings into Rupi Kapur poems. Pretty clever stuff.
The world is big and there's a lot going on, so almost paradoxically, a whole lot of rare and unlikely things happen. Not just that, many of us have some extremely rare quality or achievement that no one would have thought about before we mentioned it. (Side note, boy howdy do people have some unconventional diseases.) We're all subject to weird goings-on, so naturally we also have stories of strange events we can't explain logically.
This Greenpeace activist was attempting to drop a big yellow balloon into the field to raise awareness of the climate crisis during a France vs Germany match when he hit a camera cable high above the pitch, forcing a tight recovery and crash landing on the field. Greenpeace has since apologized to the two audience members injured in the stunt, and Bavaria's interior minister said that the guy was lucky marksmen noticed the Greenpeace banner and didn't shoot him. With all that said, if the goal was to raise awareness, the guy's screw-up probably got more eyes on him than if the plan had succeeded.
Clearly this octopus is a good boi. He decided to go ahead and swim ashore to try and score some pets from some beachgoers. It's pretty cute watching the octopus accomplish his mission, and then swim back off into the sunset.
Honestly, it's really the sweet, golden, cringeworthy silence that ties this whole video together. If only we could get a pure glimpse into what must've been flashing through the mind of Jessica when she realized that she was indeed, live.
TikToker @mevlideahmeti had a rather ridiculous video involving a very perturbed Karen, go viral. In the video they explain that Karen basically showed up ready to unleash a full on temper tantrum over what she assumed were fake roses being spread around a beach. Fortunately, after some clarification, Karen learns the truth. It's a video like this that can serve as a good example that it's really never beneficial to leap to conclusions. Much of the time people only end up making themselves look worse.
Since the internet's been around we've had irrationally emboldened folks diving into the comments section to drop nuggets of pure, dizzying ignorance. Sometimes, other folks hit their breaking points. When those moments occur, people have a tendency to get absolutely crushed by the power of words. We definitely appreciate the spicy silvertongues that go the extra mile when it comes to being extra creative with their insults. Maybe this series of times that people got KO'ed by words will inspire you to unleash destruction of your own in the next YouTube comments section.
In our own lives, we find ourselves in inconvenient petty struggles that take up way too much of our time. While these challenges are cosmically small, they can grow to inconvenience our personal lives and become intolerable, forcing us to become creative problem solvers. For example, here's a dad who designed a masterful basketball hoop loophole and a guy who battled an unreasonable store owner who wouldn't update his phone number.
Sometimes people don't seem to understand that driving is a cooperative event. That means risky maneuvers like strapping a literal ton of garbage to the roof of your car or dangling a dryer out the back while pushing 70 down the freeway isn't exactly the best way to inspire confidence in the drivers around you. We get to see enough unsafe maneuvers at work, it just so happens people are compelled to do dumb crap on their commute too.
Hopefully at least someone involved in these wild series of conversations felt nothing short of immense gratitude over the fact that their business wasn't completely destroyed by a user that had the wherewithal to try out the password assigned to every user. It sounds like the company got by purely because nobody ever honestly thought that the password could be so obvious. Somehow, that whole approach to security seems like it can work sometimes. Just a bit of a gamble. For another ridiculous tech support tale check out the time that a customer thought that the internet runs on magic.
Graphic design, font choice and building decisions seem simple enough in our heads, but they come with pitfalls in practice. Design failures are all around us. One slip of the font can turn a fortress into a fartress or a public area into a pubic one. The architects of these design failures could use a little bit of blame. Of course, for the rest of us they just make life more fun and interesting.
There's nothing quite like a fresh batch of glitch in the matrix moments to send you off on a disorienting reality trip where you might be left with your head in your hands, shakily wondering whether or not this is some grand simulation. Well, simulation or not we've still got to play the game. If it were a simulation, it's kind of "nice" to know that whoever/whatever is running said simulation is also prone to fails just like the rest of us measly human beings.
It should come as no surprise that building stuff is hard. Or at least there are a whole lot of wrong ways to do it. Those ways reveal themselves in "not my job" moments of incompetent construction. How hard is it to build a functional set of stairs, do proper electrical or put in a window? These people wouldn't know because it's not their job.
There's something about the talkative people in this world, where when they're told to give all the blabbering a rest by the ones that are tired of listening, they can tend to get pretty offended. In this particular scenario it sounds like the chatty albeit friendly neighbors next door were not going to stop with their constant chatter anytime soon. It seems like the tenant who had exhausted their willingness to listen anymore wasn't really left with any other options. And then when they do exercise control over what they can actually control, their neighbors insist on being especially aggressive. Not cool, man.
It seems as if the world's never going to run out of slimy landlords that are all trying to pull fast ones on tenants that they vastly underestimate. In this case, good on the tenant for sniffing out the landlord's shady intentions pretty much from the get-go. It sounds like the landlord really did himself in when it was all said and done. Generally, it's only a matter of time before the world's sketchy landlords end up hitting their own self-destruct buttons. For some more juicy landlord drama check out this landlord who refused to return a deposit, got taken to court, appealed that, and then lost everything.
Unfortunately, we've all come across folks that insist on putting out all kinds of tryhard energy that only ends up making them look worse when it's all said and done. For instance, the folks that try to gain the favor of the rest of the group by putting down any oddballs that might be around. It's like they're so clueless that they went ahead and believed that the popular bully in a throwback film that got popular through being an insufferable prick was an acceptable representation of how to carry yourself as a human being. Um, no. Not at all.
Sure, some trees look like they're eating stuff, but it should be noted that trees themselves are low key monsters. Trees suck nutrients out of whatever organic matter they can get their roots on, so it stands to reason that they have the option to wake up and choose violence. The things don't even have real feelings, thank god they can't chase us down. Quickly, that is.
Who would've known that oranges and balloons could create such destruction? Apparently they're anything but a match made in heaven.
Nothing quite melts our icy hearts like seeing a tyrannical boss end up serving themselves ultimate destruction. In the case of this boss, it sounds like he very well might've gotten away with all of his shady antics if he simply didn't go stirring up trouble where there was originally none to be had.
Clearly, it's because he's such a health nut. Also though, no free plugs. Shoutout to Ronaldo as well for summoning that look of pure and sobering loathing on his face when he noticed those Coke bottles.
Beauty product makers love to make all sorts of dubious promises regarding the alchemical properties of their pastes and creams, so it's nice to see one that does at least a little bit of what it says it does. Will an iron based cream pull the "toxins" out of your pores? Who knows. Can you pull it off with a magnet? Hell yeah.
Our hearts go out to the Hugh(s) that were watching this live broadcast. With that being said, the weather man handled the prank like a champion. His reaction was nothing but wholesome. He had just the kind of infectious laughter that gets the rest of the room going.
