Guy Gets Call From Actual Space, Sees "Us Gov" Caller ID, Lets It Go To Voicemail

They say that luck is just opportunity plus preparation. In this case, OP had the opportunity, but was woefully unprepared, and the result was a cartoonishly unlucky experience.

It's not every day that your astronaut friend decides to call you from space. Honestly it sounds as absurd as your cowboy friend calling from 1880. This dude's buddy had the thought to call him from space, and this guy's caller ID presented the incoming call as "Us Gov." Thinking it was something he didn't really want to get involved with, he missed his space call and let it go to voicemail. It's an understandable mistake, but also an absolutely terrific way to screw yourself out of an awesome experience. Space isn't going away soon, so hopefully he picks up if they call again.

This being a particularly weird way to ruin your own day, the internet was ready with jokes about the missed space call.

25 Blessed Images To Really Crank Up The Vibes

The internet has a terrifically wide spectrum of things to look at. In the darkest recesses of weirdness we find those cursed images to not feel so good about. On the fringes of hilarious weirdness be those blursed images of concerning hilarity. And then further into the stratosphere of good vibes we finally come across blessed images to brighten up that big ol' day. So pick your poison. Well, one of them is poison. The other one is like a fine soothing tonic, and the other one is like pretty decent tasting dishwater. So it's not really that hard to distinguish between them. Our pick is the dishwater. It tastes alright. Just make sure to strain it first.

For more things to look at and go "the world ain't too heck" please indulge in these wholesome moments to tap into the feels.

Anyway, on to the ducklings and cats and things.

Grandmother Wants a Vote in Child's Name, Gets Outvoted Anyways

This persistent mother-in-law wanted a vote (the only vote) on what their grandchild's name was going to be. She was determined to find a way to get her name selected one way or another before the child was born. She had managed to turn her son (the husband) to her side before his wife came up with this clever way to give her a "vote" and stop this nonsense once and for all.

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by the wife, u/Ok-Cranberry-9158, to share her glorious malicious compliance. See, she realized something that her mother-in-law didn't; there were four grandparents! All she had to do was get the other three (her parents and her mother-in-law's ex) to vote in her favor, which they were more than happy to do. 

With this tactic, she managed to shut her mother-in-law down. 

Keep scrolling for images of the thread and reactions below.

 

Woman Doubles Salary With New Job, Hadn't Gotten a Raise in 10 Years

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit by the woman's son, u/nannerooni (OP), who posted the thread to the popular sub to share his mother's story and experiences with her previous employer.

u/nannerooni explains that her boss was "filthy rich" but was as tight as he could be when rewarding the people who helped him get there. When the OP's mother told him of her offer, he offered to pay her more and admitted, "I haven't been paying you the value you are worth to me."

Wouldn't it just be easier for him to pay her what she's worth in the first place rather than have to go out and find someone to replace her?

Commenters voiced their support for the OP's mother and wished bad fortune on the employer and others like them.

Scroll on for images of the thread and reactions below.

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Viral Tweet: Boss Demands Project During Developer's Day Off, Gets Resignation Instead

This tweet went viral and has been posted in multiple relevant groups across the internet this week. 

The tweet was posted by @danielesimontho, who has Full-Stack Software Engineer listed among her varied experience in her Twitter bio. 

The tweet followed several by @danielesimontho that described the issues she had been facing in her workplace and her mistreatment by her direct superior.  

She then posted the tweet that went viral:

"Job update: 

Boss is calling me to do work (asap) on the weekend of my sisters graduation (which she's knows about) and I don't have my computer. They want it done now, but instead they're getting my resignation letter 

Effective immediately. Lmao"

-@danielesimontho

The tweet has sparked conversation across the internet, including in response to the tweet on Twitter and on Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit, where Redditor u/Kiko2s posted a screenshot with the title "Graduation." Responders have shared their own stories and expressed support for @danielesimontho's decision.

The original tweet has received 115k likes and has been retweeted 6k times. While the Reddit thread earned 2.7k upvotes. 

Scroll on for images of the Twitter and Reddit threads and the reactions below.

 

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Mysterious Toxic Ex Signs Begging to Get Someone Named "Stacey" Back are Popping Up All Over Boston and the Internet has a Lot of Questions

Half the Internet believes it's a joke, the other half thinks it's an art project—some are also very concerned about it being real…

Wife and Mother-In-Law Secretly Change Daughter's Name, Husband Left in the Dark

This mother and her mother-in-law plotted to secretly change their daughter's name, without telling the father, after the pair decided that they didn't like the name that had been chosen at the time of the child's birth. The father only discovered the plot when he overheard his wife calling the daughter by a different name and suddenly realized why their daughter had been so confused with responding to her name.

The couple had agreed that the wife would pick the name of their child was a boy and the husband if the child was a girl. They built in a "veto" rule for the name, just in case. 

Throughout the pregnancy, his wife became delusional and was convinced that their baby would be a boy. To the point that she insisted everything be purchased for a boy. As a result, there was no planning or consideration on her part whatsoever for if the baby ended up being a girl. So, when the child was born, the name the husband had chosen was selected, with the wife agreeing to name the child that.  

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/AITA (Am I the A-Hole) subreddit by the husband, 
u/Ok-Toe-5157, who is wondering if he is in the wrong for insisting on calling his daughter by the name that he wrote on her birth certificate and considered as her name for the first year of her life.

Usually, Reddit would be quick to take the wife's side in favor of the "controlling" husband in disputes over naming children. But this situation, with the whole "secret name change," is so bizarre and manipulative that Reddit was certain u/Ok-Toe-5157 is in the right here.

Childcare professionals out there… How early can childhood trauma start? Because this poor one-year-old will end up with some split personality disorder with the way these parents are raising her. 

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Spelling Failures That Really Missed The Mark

Spelling is a hard thing to do. There are just so many goddamn words to remember, and all of them are spelled differently. If there were like, 250 words, then we might have better odds. Sure, sentences might end up looking like something out of 1984, but that's double plus good by us. We gotta get rid of all this poetry and junk. No more verbs. See how things look then. Get rid of some nouns. All of a sudden the sentence "Let's go get some coffee" becomes "we the hot brown now." Perfect. Simple. Easy to remember. Sure, it would tank the collective human spirit and disable our ability to articulate anything of substantive meaning, but at least people wouldn't mistakenly sound so dumb all the time. We'd sound stupid on purpose. It's not better, but it's a change.

For more times people mangled the English language, here are some spelling failures that really shift the bed.

Daughter Hides Camera in Divorced Dad's Office to Spy For Her Mother

This wife discovered a camera hidden in her husband's office and immediately suspected her unruly stepdaughter, who had been turned against her father and his new wife by her mother. The daughter had previously lived with them until several incidents that resulted in damage, including setting an "accidental" fire in the kitchen. The wife explains that her husband's ex-wife.

When the wife confronted her stepdaughter about the camera, it was revealed that she had placed it there on behalf of her mother. Somehow the daughter convinced her stepmother not to tell her father, but the stepmother is still considering revealing this to her husband.

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/AITA (Am I the A-Hole) subreddit by the stepmother/wife who posted the topic to see whether or not it was wrong for her to say something to her husband.

Confused commenters replied that they were surprised that she hadn't told him already, stating that she would be the a-hole if she didn't tell him and deal with this invasive and illegal violation of privacy. 

Scroll on for screenshots of the thread below.

Scary Signs That Aren't Messing Around

On any given day, we're only exposed to the "normal" hazards. Stuff like slipping and falling on stairs, getting burned by various appliances, and getting our feelings hurt by Debra. But this world isn't just a pile of household hazards and emotional turmoil, it's also a place where you can get stung by thousands of bees, dissolved in acid, and liquified by a series of grinding implements. Also asploded. Don't forget asploded. 

All of these unconventional hazards are highly cartoonish in their own ways. This makes them seem like they're out of the realm of possibility, and honestly that makes them even more dangerous. It's a lot easier to get liquified when you don't believe the liquification machine can "get you." So for that very purpose we have terrifying signs that aren't messing around. They might be scary to read, but we've gotta admit that they're necessary. Thanks signs. Good job.

Dad Disowns Son After He Discovers He's Not Actually His, Wonders Why Son is Upset

What is with the number of threads like this lately? In the last day alone we have seen two threads where fathers have discovered that they are not actually the biological parent of their children. Only discovering the affairs years later when the kids are teenagers or adults. 

The other thread, also posted this week was one where the father's children disowned him for their biological father after the truth was revealed. 

In this thread, rather than being posted by one of the children, it has been posted by the father who is harboring obvious resentment for his child who was born from the affair. 

He had previously considered and raised his sixteen-year-old as his own before discovering that the boy was the product of an affair his wife had been having. He left after the discovery and refused to speak to the boy for two years. 

Now, the father is taking it personally that the boy will not come to visit him. After cutting off contact for two years he has moved back into the city and demanded that his son come to visit him, threatening financial retribution if he refuses to do so.

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/AITA (Am I the A-Hole) subreddit by the father, u/Worried_papa_1762, who has posted the thread in order to see if he is in the wrong for his actions towards his child. 

Although he is specifically about his actions regarding the college fund commenters have not hesitated to weigh in with their opinion on the entire ordeal. Commenters have brutally roasted the father for not being there for his son and leaving a young teenager hurt, confused and now without a future. 

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Adult Children Disown Man Who Raised Them After They Discover Mother's Adultery, One Stands By Him

This family was torn asunder once it was revealed that the mother had participated in multiple long-standing affairs (with two brothers nonetheless) that had resulted in the pregnancies of each of her three children. No one in the family knew of the affairs or that the bio-fathers of the children were someone other than her husband. The truth was shocking and brought the family apart in a great schism. 

The thread was posted to Reddit's r/AITA (Am I the A-Hole) subreddit by the concerned daughter who has decided to stick by her father's side despite the tragedy and controversy that is tearing their family apart. She has uninvited the two people who were raised as her brother and sister from her wedding after they completely disowned their father after finding out about their lack of biological relation.

She posted the thread to see if she was in the wrong for uninviting these people and appealed to readers to give their opinion.

What's your take? Who is in the wrong here?

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White Woman Gets Hate On Tiktok For Dancing Hula At Her Wedding; Gets Accused Of Cultural Appropriation

You certainly cannot please everybody

"Tell Me the Moment You Realized Your Workplace was Toxic": Millennials are Sharing Job Horror Stories on TikTok

It was the official "employee crying corner" for me…

Tumblr Thread: The Carpathia Titanic Rescue Is A Direct Line To The Feels

Sure, there was definitely enough space on that door for DiCaprio.

But when the actual Titanic sunk, the only effective rescue attempt was staged by the Carpathia, which should have been too far away to help, but they did anyway. This Tumblr story addresses that intriguing human need to do as much as you can in a moment of crisis. It's a decent reminder that not only are we compelled to try as hard as we can to help strangers who truly need our help in an emergency, but also that we'd have a harder time living with ourselves if we knew we didn't try hard enough. Even in the recounting, it's hard not to feel a tinge of humanity restored.

If anything, it's a reminder that Kate Winslet's heart was even colder than, well, Jack's at the end there.

For another intriguingly emotional nautical tumblr tale, here's the thread on the forever on patrol submarines.

Freaky Human Body Facts To Feel Gross About

If anyone ever tells you that you're repulsive, they're completely right. Your mouth is made out of butthole, you're chock full of bacteria and acid. Your spine wasn't built to stand up straight and you're immune system doesn't know your eyes exist. You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.

So don't let anyone tell you that you're not gross. You are, and it's awful. Sure, all of your parts working in concert make up a terrifically capable, interesting and unique human, but you're always gonna be made of some kind of goo. On the bright side, if anyone ever offers to rearrange your guts, let them know that in fact, they do that by themselves. It might not be perfect, but it's at least a bit of a consolation.

Anyways, here's to the inherent horror show of being. Your body may be a haunted house, but at least haunted houses are exciting.

Employee Automates Their Boss's Job, Boss Gets Fired

It's not uncommon for employees to secretly get back at their own employers by automating their own job, like this employee who automated their job and got paid to do nothing for 5 years. It's also pretty common for employees to be responsible for doing their bosses job. Combine the two and you get this person. They figured out how to do their boss's job in a fraction of the time. And since this task just happened to be the one thing keeping their boss around, it became pretty reasonable to just let 'em go.

Maybe if their boss played by the rules in the first place, they wouldn't have created a situation where their employee could so easily make their entire position redundant. Even if you're totally ineffectual in your workplace, but people still like you, you're probably gonna stick around. But since they were an active inconvenience, it's not surprising that they got the axe.

Guy Shares This Insane Note His Roommate Sent Their Landlord

A terrible roommate is something that can turn your entire world upside down. There's nothing like coming home from a long day's work only to experience the antagonizing torment of sharing your space with an insane stranger. 

This hellscape is all too real in our modern dystopian world, with more adults "doubling up" or sharing living spaces with someone other than their partner than ever before. A study done by Pew Research Center in 2018 showed this trend, and that was pre-COVID times, so you can only imagine that it has gotten much worse. 

This guy showed his coworker this letter that his insane roommate had sent their landlord. The coworker has now shared it with us so that we can all bask in its deranged brilliance. 

It's funny to view this kind of thing from a distance but living with this person would be all too close for comfort.

Scroll on to see screenshots of the letter and the reactions below.

 

Wife Fed Up With Husband's "Close" Friend Carl, Internet Suspicious of Their Relationship

This wife has finally reached her wit's end with her husband's relationship with his close friend Carl. The two are inseparable, and her husband even describes Carl as his "nicotine," He just can't quit "it." It hit its breaking point when her husband invited Carl to come along with them on their planned couple's getaway. Her husband thought it would be no problem if they crammed Carl into their two-person room with only one bed. The shock of her life came when she found out her husband planned to share the bed with Carl and have her sleep on the floor. Now, who's the third wheel here? It doesn't seem like it's Carl.

Of course, the internet is naturally suspicious, and just about every single comment is alluding to the fact that Carl and her husband seem to be a little bit closer than just friends. There are multiple references to "Grace and Frankie," which, for the uninformed, is a show that's premise centers on almost precisely this scenario.

What do you think? Is she in the wrong for excusing herself from the situation? Should she excuse herself from the situation altogether and file for divorce? Let us know in the comments.

Keep scrolling for screenshots of u/measures2013's post and the reactions below.

 

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Gaming Memes To Look At While Mindlessly Grinding XP

Who could have guessed that in a few short decades, video games would become a billion dollar industry, captivating the minds and afternoons of countless people, attracting innovators and artists of all types to tell stories in a way that had never been done before. We could have. We totally guessed it years ago. Playing Mario Kart on N64, our parents were like "good thing they'll grow out of this complete waste of time." Little did they know that we were all planning to do this for the rest of our lives.

It's not like people spent their time on terrifically worthwhile pursuits anyway. Oh, did your dad used to go fishing or whatever? Well there's tons of video games that do that. And in most of them, it's just a mini-game. Now, if you want, you can go fishing and steal a car in the same game. Video games are freakin' sweet.

Here are some more gaming memes for the highly leveled.

Idiot Boss Has Cement Truck Drivers Follow Terrible GPS, Loses Company Thousands

Across pretty much every industry, if the people who do a particular job tell you that something isn't going to work, it's most likely in your best interest to listen to them. This was the case with a new boss who insisted on using a terrifically inefficient GPS system, then actively punished employees who wouldn't use it. So what happens when management insists on work being inefficient? Well, things get more inefficient of course. It's one of those screw ups that almost solves itself.

Evidently this guy was even worse than they thought, having gotten fired later not just for incompetence, but corruption. How the hell do these kinds of people keep being put in charge of employees? All of the wrong people are lying to get jobs.

For another graceful episode of work correcting itself, here's the employee who pushed their stinky cart though their workplace until the elevator was fixed.

The 50 Pettiest Reasons People Can't Date Someone

These are the pettiest reasons that would cause someone to refuse to date a potential match, even if everything else about that person would otherwise be desirable. These ordinarily trifling traits, attributes, and mannerisms are an earth-shattering deal-breaker for these people. 

I'd have to say that I think that the person who said that they couldn't handle loud open-mouthed chewing is the wisest here. I don't even think that's petty, but maybe that's because I can relate to it so well. I would add nail-biting and any mannerisms that involve any variety of teeth or mouth noises to that category too. I can not be in the same room with any noises involving teeth, which makes me a brilliant guest at dinner parties. The sound of teeth being brushed makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up, and I'm convinced it is the most brain-crushing noise on the planet. My partner, bless her, somehow manages to be the loudest chewer in existence. She's a real-life version of that episode from How I Met Your Mother where, no matter what Lilly eats, it makes a deafening noise. Eerily, the two look quite similar too. Are all small women loud chewers?

Somehow, this petty deal-breaker of mine failed to do its job… and now I'm eternally listening to a garbage disposal every time I eat my dinner. 

I will say that it's worth it though. 

Scroll on for Reddit's take as people share their pettiest reasons for refusing to date someone. 

 

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Wholesome Moments To Access Those Feels

As people, we spend a lot of our time concerning ourselves with problems. And that's generally a good thing. By focusing on our own problems, we can motivate ourselves to solve those problems and move towards having more pleasant and fulfilling lives. But the issue with only focusing on problems all the time is that the world seems like it's composed entirely of unending chaos. That's why we need to actually take note of when we find solutions, and give ourselves some credit for finding them. If you don't do that, you're just gonna be miserable, and you're gonna make everyone around you miserable. So... don't do that?

So to help remind yourself that there are more people than you think who are doing their best, and finding ways to deal with this big thing called life, here are some wholesome moments to exercise the feels. And if that's not enough, here are even more wholesome moments to tap into the feels.

Neighbor Lies About Mulberry Wine Success To Mess With Eavesdropping Neighbor, Cuts Her Own Tree Down

Having a bad neighbor is a nightmare. When dealing with a real piece of work in the wild, at least you can just walk away and never see them again. But if you share a property line with an inconsolable sack of garbage, it's a lot harder to ignore someone else's miserable life. In this case, this person's neighbor had a habit of eavesdropping on their conversations. So naturally, they started a recurring lie/joke about all the wine they were making from her overhanging mulberry tree.

Taking these words as complete fact, this neighbor became consumed by hatred over the purported "successful wine business" and decided to take things into her own hands. She really thought she was getting the upper hand when she cut her own tree down. But hey, let people live their truth. Even if it is terrifically stupid, and built on lies.

For some more neighbor trouble, here's the insolent neighbor who got their car towed after repeatedly blocking a driveway.

Man's Tinder Match Orders 100 McChickens On First Date; She Says They Should 'Split Them'

About 96 too many

Woman Insists On Being Naked In Front Of Visiting Mother-In-Law, Thinks She's Being Reasonable

Sure, everyone has varying standards of decency, and you should be allowed to do what you want in the privacy of your own home. But insisting that your Mother-In-Law look at your naked body doesn't exactly make you a perfectly reasonable host. We all have to make small concessions when we have someone visiting, and this person has some very peculiar ideas on how big a concession "wearing a swim suit for a bit" actually is. Particularly when it comes to her defense. "I need to be naked for my mental health, and if guests can't handle it they can screw" might not be the rhetorical slam dunk she think she's making.

Especially considering the fact that a lot of people would kill to have a Mother in Law that isn't chomping at the bit to invade your personal space and life, like when this woman noped out of a husband/wife trip after her husband secretly booked his mom to come with.

People Who Became The Very Thing They Swore To Destroy

Life seems to simple when you're in high school. The man is always on your back, but you know the truth. You're gonna do things differently. If only people understood how unique and complex your emotions are. "No one can tell me what to do, I'm going to be a force for good in the world." And then 20 years later you wake up early so you can get your good boots on, because it's your time to shine at the lead poisoning factory.

"Maybe we should make something other than lead poisoning," you think to yourself, removing the needle from an apple before slapping an "organic" sticker over the hole.

"Quit being an idealist," says your coworker, before pursing his lips to blow lead shavings into a pile of Spiderman underwear.

Maybe it's not what you wanted to do, but at the end of the day you have to admit that at least it's less evil than working for a bank.

Mind-Jarring Images of Confusing Double-Takery

It's easy enough to be confused. If that's all it took to amuse us, people would just sit in organic chemistry lectures and laugh their assess off.

But the amusement of confusion is a little more complicated than just looking at a lot of Os, Cs, and Hs and being told you'll never amount to anything. No, there are certain aesthetics to the right type of fun confusion. It can still be frustrating investigating an image of what looks like a dog with a human face, but at least after a few seconds of thinking, the mystery is solved. There's nothing quite like that "eureka" moment of realizing that you are in fact, not looking at a butt. And in that sense, we can each be our own Sherlock Holmes. But, like, for butts.

Anyway for another does of terrific confusion, here are some more confusing images of amusing double-takery.

Wife Shows Up at Husband's Work, Berates Him to the Point She Has to Be Removed By Security

A wife arrived at her husband's workplace unannounced, fuming over the fact that he wasn't answering his phone while he was in a work meeting. She berated and argued with him to the point where security had to come and remove her from the building, forbidding her to ever return. Her husband notes that she is a 'hothead' but readers think that it's much, much worse than that. 

Yikes. Yeah, it's time to get as far away as possible from this relationship.

This thread was posted to r/AITA (Am I the A-Hole) by the husband, Redditor u/throwra37736. He posted the topic to the popular subreddit to see if he was in the wrong for not sticking up for his wife when she was removed from the building. His wife certainly thinks that he is in the wrong for, when he returned home, she was fuming over the fact that he didn't do anything when she was being 'mistreated.'

Commenter's responses were exactly the same as what you're probably thinking right now and they encouraged him to divorce her and get as far away from her as he could. 

Scroll down for the thread below.

Neighbor Won't Stop Recording Dude, Fights Back With Raw Sexuality

This guy's dad passed away, leaving his sister and him the house. While he was doing some yard work, he found that the older lady living next door wanted to make this complete non-problem her problem. Despite his attempts to explain why he's there, she would not be convinced. So she settled on recording him with her phone. It's probably hard to get into the groove of weeding when an old lady is recording your every move in an attempt to "catch you." OP came up with a pretty novel way to stop this nosey old lady from being a creepy weirdo, and the internet approves of his method.

But seriously, what does she think is going on here? That a burglar has come a few days in a row in order to steal a bunch of lawn clippings? How much does ill-gotten mulch sell for on the black market these days?