There's a lot of good money to be made off of well-known brands, and people know it. The whole issue is all those pesky licensing fees and copyright claims. What is a shrewd business-person to do? Obviously, create some uncredible off-brand and bootleg products. No, we don't have Pepsi, Shrek or Pokémon but how about Poopsi, Shronk or Pokermoms? Anything is possible in the world ofridiculous knockoffs.
There are far too many irrational, impossibly entitled customers out there that insist on not accepting tech support employees' advice. It's like they call in to tech support just to pitch a fit, and take out some of the stress they've accumulated through their personal lives, on completely well meaning individuals in the realm of tech support. It's a whole toxic circus act, and hopefully less and less people go about participating in it. In this particular tech support tale, we get to read about a stubborn customer who proactively wastes his own time. Pretty good stuff. For another tech support tale, check out the time that an owner fired the IT guy, and then how the business was completely sabotaged afterwards.
Unfortunately a reality of being human is that there will come various times when your judgment is seemingly chucked right out the window. Hopefully, when this happens you don't find yourself in a position of power where you're being held responsible for the very health of a business. Or, maybe if you've already suffered a self-created business blunder of your own, then these fails will make you feel a bit better about whatever cringe from the past keeps you up at night.
Just in case you weren't already aware, Megalodons are an extinct species of shark that ranged between 15 and 18 metres. Basically, those underwater tanks were so massive and generally physically formidable that they'd have wreaked such havoc on blue whales that we'd end up seeing their population die off/get physically smaller for survival. Obviously, blue whales are huge. So, just the thought of that is a tad bit unsettling. Outside of what the Megalodons would do the ocean's modern day ecosystem, there does seem to be a lot of room for a creative take on some kind of Megalodon-inspired horror film. Hence, this Tumblr thread.
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.
Our lives are swirling messes of responsibility, confusion and turmoil. So naturally it's easy to think ourselves into a corner, imagining that we're just put here to endure life's annoyances. But it's important to pull ourselves back and realize that a big part of life is appreciating the relationships we have and the progress we make. So why not enjoy some wholesome memes to reflect the nicer side of things? We can go back and be spiteful, callous sacks of stress whenever we want, but right now is the time for wholesome memes to give a little boost.
Mooches are the worst. They plead and they whine and they often try to take advantage of other people's kindness. Then when they get caught up in their cheap little scams they cry out from their pity trains, and try to make the people that originally helped them out, to be the ones that are in the wrong. It's ridiculous, and a poor reflection of humanity. This particular choosing beggar co-worker got called out, and honestly it seems like it was a long time coming.
The last thing that you or anyone else wants to find themselves confronting is the grim realization that the new roommate is a literal waking nightmare. Unfortunately, it seems like so often some of the world's most insufferable human beings are that much better at putting on a whole carefully practiced act when it comes to tricking people into thinking that they're nice human beings. Hopefully this AskReddit thread that's filled with red flags for troublesome roommates will be all the information you ever need to never find yourself in hot water with a nasty roommate.
As human beings, it's our duty to complete our jobs with the absolute minimum in mind. To some degree, we all pride ourselves on looking like we've done our jobs without making our general apathy and unprofessionalism too obvious. That said, we're not perfect and it can show in the form of "not my job" moments of dubious professionalism. But also, it's not like an upside-down stop sign is impossible to read.
Every workplace is subject to whispered rumblings about dishonest or prohibitively weird coworkers. Some of these things go unfounded, but more often than not someone is stealing from the till, throwing tantrums in front of customers or just being incalculably anti-social. Some of these horrible coworkers people just have to endure. Some coworkers are so absurdly bad they get fired on the first day.
We all like to think of ourselves as basically intelligent people. Does that mean that we're completely right about everything all the time? No, not really. We have the capacity to be right about most things, but the reality of knowing things is that it takes a lot of research. Why be totally correct when with a lot less effort we can be technically accurate and not incorrect? Empirical accuracy takes a second seat to the convenience of technically correct cleverness.
It happened all the time. Some kid would start collecting walnuts that fell on school property, or a teacher would ban rubber bands, and all of a sudden there was a new schoolyard black market. It was a confusing, weird and stupid lesson in basic economics. For those aching for simpler times, here are the school memes for the mostly educated.
Seriously, what was this guy on about? He goes out of his way to call the collections department at his water company, and then goes on an inspired riff about how he's definitely not using water, but also managed to take showers and use the toilet. Buddy, you did yourself in on whatever money-saving scam that you were trying to carry out, right there. I just wonder what was racing through his mind when he realized (hopefully) that he was not about to get any money knocked off his water bill.
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.
You can be out, just mindlessly strolling down the sidewalk, perhaps even with the slight tracings of a smile on your face, when suddenly you overhear someone spew something so profoundly clueless that you're stopped in your tracks. You might stand there, paralyzed in troubled wonder as you try to figure out how someone could ever end up so lost. But then, you either let it go (recognizing that everyone says something dumb at one point or another), or actually try to let them know what's up. Of course, if you choose the latter approach, just be ready for defensiveness. Such a response tends to accompany blind ignorance.
Literally, it's hard to comprehend the fact that this CTO possessed the puzzling level of ignorance that manifested in actually giving every employee at the company the same password. Like, do you want the company to get hacked, or what bro? It just seems like some kind of open invitation at that point. Really. Fortunately, for the company the CTO was eventually replaced. Hopefully the CTO learned their lesson.
It's hard to be a dungeon master. You can spend hours thinking of the perfect campaign, just to have players turn into murder hobos and spend hours fighting geese for bread. But where there is fantasy-fueled absurdity, there are also more emotional D&D moments like this total feels trip of a campaign or this guy's grandmother who fell in love with Dungeons and Dragons while battling cancer.
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.
Always remember: just because someone is willing to offer advice, does not men that advice is good. It could just as well be some dumb and bad life pro tips to not do. We'd all like to be more successful, attractive and intelligent, but that actually requires work. Hilariously bad and dumb life pro tips to avoid aren't exactly helpful, but they're something.
We're not so uncultured that we'd go see a national monument booming with historical significance and complain that it's boring, but at the same time Mount Rushmore is way smaller in real-life than how people make it out to be. Also, Plymouth Rock sounds like it straight up sucks. For some real ignorant tourist shenanigans, here are some obnoxious things done by American tourists.
We humans are adaptable creatures. And when a proper solution like "widening the damn garage" is deemed impossible, honey it's time to adapt around that shoebox of a car holder. We'd like to call this adaptation "brilliant" but it reads a little more like "doing what has to be done." Why park on the street anyway?
Skydiving is scary enough when all the equipment is working normally. In this case, the skydivers were hanging on and about to jump when suddenly their plane stalled and peeled off, leaving everyone to fend for themselves in the sky. Luckily, no one was harmed. At least they were prepared to jump anyway.
Anyone who's ever worked at anything has probably had a moment like this described by @_Page_Turner. When we first get into developing a skill, we aren't aware of the massive mistakes we're making, and as we get better at that thing, the gulf between our actual skill level and our desired skill level becomes apparent. But hey, that doesn't mean it's a good idea to stop trying. That said, that's just most of us. Sometimes we never learn, like this person who thought they were writing the next Twilight and wanted it edited for free.
Working. It's a necessarily evil that we all have to tolerate if we want to eat regularly. No two jobs are exactly the same, but just about everyone wishes they didn't have to see their idiot coworkers and hard-ass bosses, and there's something soothing in that. Sure, we're all kind of miserable most of the time, but at least we can all commiserate with each other over that fact. Here are some moreexhaustingly relatable memes and jokes about work.
The moral philosophers of the internet had a field day with this lady who tried to use her unborn baby as an excuse for why she took a chunk out of her mother in law's surprise party cake. Maybe if she was willing to see the error of her ways she'd get more sympathy, but the fact that she doubled down and thinks she's in the right on this one makes this cake debacle even better. For some more cake drama, here's a vegan coworker who refused to eat a highly suspicious cake and made their coworker cry.
The gargantuan girth and powerful presence of absolute units are too real to be denied. Turns out whatever the world makes, it's working on a bigger version right now. And these absolute units are just too mighty for this little world. There are big grapes, large eggs, rotund squirrels, titanic crabs and goliath potatoes. And just like the absolute units themselves, there's more where that came from.
IT has to deal with so many stories of corporate BS, like this tech support employee who got fired and unfired on the same day. They even get to see the horrible things people do to their own technology, like these excruciating moments of tech support gore. But the fact remains, most people need IT as badly as they need oxygen, because without them, life as we know it would grind to a halt.
Look, we can always count on someone who is wandering around the world of Tumblr, what with all of its wild rabbit holes, to ask the questions that the rest of the world otherwise would've overlooked. In this case, it's a matter of asking the important questions surrounding when it's okay and not okay for a vampire to enter a particular place. It can get a little tricky. Sounds like it'd be hard to have a vampire friend. Check out some more funny and delectable Tumblr gems to quench the forever thirst over here.
We're not sure what compels people to weave their unnecessary webs of foolish lies. Especially when it comes to something as silly as rapping off a quick work of fiction about how they're on a salt-free diet. Well, the thing about lying is eventually you'll come across someone who has their BS radar up and running, and also has no problem calling someone out for their dishonest antics. Thus was the case for Sally. For another satisfying tale of malicious compliance, check out this story about a boss who accused an ex-employee of reporting them, and then actually proceeded to get reported.
There are a lot of hazards in this world. Some of them are obvious, like poison plants and bees. Others are some Wile E. Coyote level garbage like "beware falling dynamite" or "warning, trebuchet is fully functional." It's good that we have creepy signs with clear messages to keep us from wandering into open mine shafts and more violent mine fields, but they don't make us feel that much safer.
