Sunday, October 11, 2020

Guy's Classmate Teaches Him Lesson In Selflessness


This guy's Twitter thread about misinterpreting his classmate's behavior, is a valuable lesson in mindfulness, not leaping to conclusions, and ultimately thinking outside of oneself. Looks like the two dudes ended up having that lunch together by the end of the story, after all. 

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Text - Thomas McFall @thomas_mcfall Hey guys, I knowl usually just post shitty jokes on my Twitter but bear with me because I wanted to share something. >

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Text - So in one of my Management classes I sit in the same seat in the front every day. Every single day I sit there. Now, I also sit next to some foreign guy that

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Text - Thomas McFall @thomas_mcfall · 5d v barely speaks English. The most advanced thing I've heard this guy say in English is "Wow, my muffin is really good". This guy also has a habit of stacking every item he owns in the exact space I sit. His bag, his food, his books, and his phone are ALWAYS right on my desk space. 06 271,098 14.2K

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Text - Thomas McFall @thomas_mcfall · 5d v Now, every single time I walk into class this guy says "Ah, Tom. You here. Okay." And starts frantically clearing my desk of his belongings. He then makes it a habit to say "Ready for class, yeah?" And gives me a high five. Every day this guy gives me a high five. 04 271,052 17.1K

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Text - Thomas McFall @thomas_mcfall · 5d I was ALWAYS annoyed with this guy. I'm thinking "Dude, you know I sit in this seat every day. Why are you always stacking your shit here? And the last thing I want to do is give a guy who barely speaks my language high fives at 8 in the morning" Just get your shit off my desk O 16 271,005 13.7K

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Text - Thomas McFall @thomas_mcfall · 5d v But today I came to class and was running a few minutes late. I'm standing outside because I had to send a quick text. I could see my usual space through the door out of the corner of my eye. Of course, my desk was filled with his belongings. The usual. 27964 12.9K

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Text - Thomas McFall @thomas_mcfall · 5d v As l'm standing there on my phone another guy who was also late walks into the class before me and tried to take my seat since it's closest to the door. The guy sitting next to me stops this dude from sitting down and says "I'm sorry. My good friend Thomas sits here." Q 22 271,663 29.5K

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Text - Thomas McFall @thomas_mcfall · 5d v It was then that I realized this guy wasn't putting stuff on my seat to annoy me. He was saving me the seat every morning. And this whole time he saw me as a friend but I was too busy thinking about myself to take him into consideration. Cheesy as it sounds, I was touched.

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Text - Thomas McFall @thomas_mcfall · 5d v I ended up going into class and of course he cleared the seat and said "Ah, Tom. You here. Okay." And I did get a high five. At the end of class I ended up asking him if he wanted to get a bite to eat with me. We did. And we talked for a while. I got through the broken English 271,159 23.3K

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Text - Thomas McFall @thomas_mcfall 5d v The guy moved here from the Middle East to pursue a college education in America. He plans to go back after he gets his degree. He's got two kids and a wife. He works full time and sends his all his left over money back home to his wife. 07 271,271 27.4K

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Text - Thomas McFall @thomas_mcfall · 5d v I asked him how he liked America as well. He said he misses his family but it's exciting to be here. He also said "Not every American is nice to me like you are, Tom." I bought lunch, of course. Dude deserves it. He gave me a high five for buying lunch. Gotta keep up tradition. O 22 271,476 34.6K

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Text - Thomas McFall @thomas_mcfall · 5d v Moral of the story? Don't do what I do and constantly only think about yourself. It took me nearly the entire semester to get my head out of my ass and realize this guy was just trying to be my friend. Better late than never I suppose. 938 2712.1K 118K

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Wholesome Memes Because Some Things are Still Nice


Times can get weird, hard, and disappointing. Everyone is very well aware of that. That's why it's okay to have a reminder that people aren't terrible everywhere. Almost everyone has the common goals of being happy and building connections. Wholesome memes can provide a boost in what can seem like an otherwise unforgiving world.

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Table - After this teacher complimented a student on his shoes, the whole class chipped in to get him the same pair for Christmas

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Green - Before and after being told she's beautiful

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Face - SOME MEN JUST WANT TO WATCH THE WORLD LEARN dogrampa The fact their faces kinda align scares me lyrium art, science and kindness. the holy trinity of mankind

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Facial expression - I am really proud of you macarons-and-corpses: i-have-been-thunderstruck: | So sweet I don't know if you've actually seen this episode, but Pam invites the entire office to her art show that she's been gearing up for for a really long time. Nobody shows up except for Oscar and his partner (and they critique her work, calling her "lacking in courage" among other things, not realizing she is standing right behind them) and then Michael. And Michael is the only one who tells her

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Medical procedure - Heart Surgeon Calms Weeping 2-Year-Old Girl Before Heart Operation

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Text - Damien @DFacobbre Replying to @Original Yoni and @LynnCinnamon I put some action figures on eBay, a mom bought 2 but not the other 28 I had. She mssged to say her autistic son was excited to get them. She wished she could have bought more. I sent her all 30 of them, got a phone call, she thanked me and cried. We're all friends to this day.

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Bird - me: *shakes hands with grandpa* grandpa: *acts like I broke his hand* me:

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Advertising - My momma always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. kindness dogs all the wonderful people in the world şupportive family love fantastic friends wholesome memes a purpose i, in life hobbies i enjoy

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People - This man purchased 7 packs of cookies. Gave the girls $40, told them to keep the change. Then he came back to the table and said "pack up all of your cookies. I'm taking them all so y'all can get out of this cold" $540 he spent on cookies. What an amazing soul!!!! #troop1574 #kindheart #thatgreenville #greenvillesc

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Adaptation - My grandpa has been giving my grandma flowers everytime he goes riding for the past 40 years

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Food - ABC7 Eyewitness News Folow abc ФАВСТ Seal Beach residents buy all the baked goods from local doughnut shop every morning so owner can close up shop and go to nursing facility to take care of his wife, who recently suffered brain aneurysm abc7.la/2yLPhlc 2:08 PM - 2 Nov 2018

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Automotive mirror - positive-memes becoming who i want to be success happiness not being depressed more friendships OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR 9-DCA-2 don't give up goodthingsarewaiting This is cute as hell and it made me smile and l'm hoping it does the same for you.

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Machine - Turkish social media was heartbroken over the photo of a Syrian refugee boy staring into a Turkish gym. So the gym gave the 12-year-old Muhammad Hussein a free lifetime membership BAYANLAKA ÖZEL SAATLERİMİZ MEVCUTTUR

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Text - this little girl thought a bride she saw on the street was the princess from her book, i'm crying

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Adaptation - After his fishing buddy passed away, 75-year-old widower Ray Johnstone posted a classified ad that broke hearts all over the Internet. He just wanted someone to go fishing with and offered to split costs with anyone who owns a boat. His ad got over 60k views, and he had offers from people around the world- including a guy who took him on an all- expense-paid, deep sea fishing getaway. Everyone liked that

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Terrific Tumblr Gems From The World's Tumblin Minds


Ah yes, we're back at it again with a fresh collection of Tumblr gems. If there's one thing that we can always count on, it's Tumblr's ability to give us fantastic rabbit holes and strange observations and genuinely humorous insights that we'd otherwise never come across. If you enjoyed this batch of Tumblr gems, check out another gem from Tumblr with this thread about how horse sizes are ridiculous.

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Text - catsi.tumblr.com a cute girl told me she has lots of plants in her house and i told her, for some fucking reason "damn the oxygen at your place must be mad crisp" and somehow still got her number so. chase your dreams. nothing is impossible apparently > D 2 ♡

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Text - bloodbending Seguir peter parker in the 2002 movie is fuckin.. incredible. he gets bitten by a fuckin jacked red blue spider and he doesnt say “hey someone should take me to the hospital mayhaps?" he just goes home. then the bite swells to the size of a fuckin jawbreaker but he's like “nah i just need a nap." then he wakes up the next day and discovers that he DOESN'T NEED HIS GLASSES ANYMORE and he has a fuckin six pack. does he flip his entire Fuck? no. he says, “cool." iconic. laughing

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Text - maxofs2d Follow you ever think about how “mountain dew" is a really poetic name and how, if someone didn't know what it was, they'd probably guess “some herbal tea made from the finest leaves of the Alps". but instead, it's just, radioactive gamer soda 88,268 notes

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Text - malignantlyuselesss dethchilada Bones Malone and the spooky boys. jooshbag "RATTLE 'EM, BOYS!" *the unsettling rattling noises of three skeletons*

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Text - REI tilthat Follow TIL that until the mid-twentieth century, golf clubs were not numbered, but had wonderfully funny names: brassies, niblicks, baffies, mashies, jiggers, spoons, and cleeks. via reddit.com thyrell Follow hey guys wanna hear the seven new slurs for british people i just came up with

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Text - * HORRORBEEST @flashember i begin typing on an old typewriter, "a werewolf is steering a submarine" but then stop. i crunch up the paper and throw it in the fire. the world isn't ready yet for Captain Harry McHowls, the submarine pilot who is secretly a werewolf hiding from the moon 12:47 PM Oct 13, 2019 Twitter for Android spiderine yes it is a headspace-hotel The world would be so much better if people would just unironically write stuff like this. I'm tired of books that Take Themselve

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Text - REI A tilthat TIL on the set of The Princess Bride, André the Giant once "let out a 16 second fart and brought production to a standstill." Nobody. said anything except director Rob Reiner, who said "Are you OK, André?" to which André replied, "I am now boss." via reddit.com lizardsister legends only asexualbrittaperry im crying the lack of a comma meant that for a full minute I interpreted this as him declaring himself the new boss

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Text - the-irken-pony Follow Sans is like Perry the Platypus at this point thestarsave44 Follow "A skeleton?" one pupil glows blue SANS THE SKELETON?!?!

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Text - ball-e life hack: if someone insults you, just say 'no, l'm not' with a serious face example: 'you're ugly' 'no, I'm not' *walks away*

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Text - lesbwian Follow "we're ruining the planet" i'm sorry who is this we i don't recall myself running a billion dollar oil business hardleywhelmed Follow Sometimes I use the keurig and I feel bad but then I remember Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions

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Text - catswithbenefits volleyball is just a more intense version of "don't let the balloon touch the floor isweartotellthetruther I'm sorry but nothing is more intense than "don't let the balloon touch the floor" winnieportleyrind My sister and I used to mix "Don't let the baloon touch the floor" with "the floor is lava" and let me tell you that's a little bit more intense.

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Dish - Pizza place at my university offers a "stoner pie" complete with pepperoni, bacon, extra cheese, mozzarella sticks, and French fries. bigwetnose god that sounds so awful give me like 5

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Text - afloweroutofstone I wish there was a way to tell companies that I dislike an ad so much that I will actively avoid buying anything from them because of it botprince So slightly unrelated but still relevant, generally when I come across an ad that just really fuckin annoys me for whatever reason l'll go into Google and just type different variations of "I hate 'x' product" like 5 times until googles algorithm picks it up an I never see an ad for that product again. It's amazing. corsont44

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Text - 3 chefpyro Want to hear a hot take? chefpyro Despite what modern core nihilism will tell you, the accidental nature and inherent meaninglessness of life as a biological phenomenon does not mean that our efforts are pointless but instead allows us all to determine what we personally desire out of life. It means we are free to pursue what our hearts desire, and so enables each of us to find our own unique meaning. Also love is real. And the majority of people in the world are inherently goo

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Text - a-very-large-pile-of-hats i think online class should be like among us, there's an impostor that's not actually a student and tries to sabatoge the rest of the class exel-bobbie that's already how it is a-very-large-pile-of-hats ??elaborate?? official-lucifers-child teachers cgbk10 Correct

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Mom's Baby Name Choice Gets Called Out


There's nothing wrong with finding ways to share your appreciation for Game of Thrones. Even if the last season and that finale was some whole other kind of mess, but leave the newborn baby out of the process. Or, or if you're going to name your newborn after a character from the show, at least spell their name right. The name that this new mom settled on sounds like it'd manifest in nothing short of a waking nightmare for the kid every time they went to introduce themselves. 

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Text - AITA for telling my roommate that the name she chose for her baby is 'ridiculously stupid'? Not the A-hole My roommate (24f) is a big Game of Thrones fan. She's pregnant with her first child right now. She decided to name her baby, 'Arya'. When she asked my opinion of this name, I said I it was a good name with a good meaning (Arya means noble in Sanskrit), but a lot of people have named their kids Arya/Khaleesi/Sansa because of the popularity of GoT and it might be a little too common, n

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Text - The next day, which was yesterday, she said she's found a way to name her baby 'Arya' and not have it be associated with other Aryas running around or the show. How? She said she wanted to spell it as Aughreighyah. I did a double take reading that word too, but apparently people are supposed to read it as Augh-reigh-ya or Arya. She asked me how I felt about it and I told her that, frankly, Aughreighyah looks ridiculously stupid and she should just go with Arya. She got kinda upset and sai

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Text - Vixen7-9 • 2d• Asshole Enthusiast [5] Aughreighyah sounds like something I would sigh when i'm frustrated. Or something Link would yell out when attacking. NTA. Reply 264 ...

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Text - iamskankhunt • 2d 1 Award NTA - that poor child will have to spell her name for everyone, and correct people mis-pronouncing it. Reply 3.6k ...

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Text - Goody3333 · 2d • Partassipant [1] Aryah Aria Auria Auryah ... Literally a billion ways to spell it, and your friend comes up with that bs? I hope this is a troll. Reply 2.5k ...

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Text - lamanamalgam • 2d • Asshole Aficionado [16] 2 Awards NTA. That name is a tragedeigh. Reply 472 ...

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Text - i_thru_it_away • 2d 121 Awards Ask her 'Arya being stupid?' ... I'll be here all night Reply 1 48.4k ...

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Text - 0000udeis000 • 2d • Certified Proctologist [27] 6 Awards NTA. You should not give your kid a name that looks like it could be a Welsh town. Reply 17.2k ...

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Text - Pale_Natural3655 • 2d • Asshole Enthusiast [7] NTA. They are setting that kid up for a lifetime of hell. Why do people feel the need to do this? Besides, the name is still the same, so they haven't really solved the too common problem, they just made the spelling look like a cat ran over a keyboard. Reply 854 ...

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Text - Practical_Heart7287 • 2d • Asshole Enthusiast [8] NTA. Holy hell. And this is from someone with a four letter name that people can't spell. Reply 539 ...

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Text - A-RovinIGo • 2d • Partassipant [3] NTA - I used to work in a pharmacy take them out to the waiting room, call the patient to the till for payment. One woman had a complete meltdown when I called her, claiming l'd "butchered" her name. Her idiot parents had given her a name from Greek mythology -- Ariadne, which is pronounced pretty much exactly the way it looks -- but they told her it was pronounced "ARDEEN"! It still makes my brain hurt. fill prescriptions, -- Reply 1 74 + ...

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Text - darthhellokitty • 2d NTA a lot of people have named their kids Arya/Khaleesi/ Sansa because of the popularity of GoT Laughing at the people who already named their kid Khaleesi and then got surprised at the end!!! Reply 142

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Text - Dracon_Pyrothayan • 2d NTA "Unique" names foist unpleasantness onto their holders, because the general public are terrible. Arya/Aria/Aryah will still get called on in class, won't get picked on for an odd name, and won't get her applications and resumè thrown out like they will with her mother's unique spelling. Reply 48

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Text - Froggetpwagain • 2d NTA, Arya is not super super popular, but spelling it like that would be a TERRIBLE mistake!!!! Kids going to have to spell it for the rest of their life Reply 21 ...

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Text - SuperSixSumorai • 2d This is obviously bait. No normal person names their kids that irl. If, by the slim chance this is true, and they are serious, then do everything in your power to stop it. Hard NTA Reply 354 ...

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Text - lustified • 2d NTA. I hope other friends have also told her how ridiculous it is. A friend of a friend on my old facebook (now deleted) has a daughter named Penneigh. I may have laughed a bit. Reply 43 ...

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Text - ElectricMoccoson • 2d • Asshole Aficionado [16] NTA - She asked you a question, you gave her a diplomatically honest answer. Reply 42 ...

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Text - oh-hot-baby-jesus • 2d NTA I was so ready to call you TA (my goddaughters name is Arya), but that spelling made my brain hurt. What is it with people giving their kids normal sounding names with crazy spellings??? Did anyone see that meme of the crossed out baby names like Lakkyn and Mkkarti and Nayvvie and Ashleighley Reply 12 ...

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Text - Flutter_bat_16_• 2d NTA Yeah she should just go with Arya. It's a beautiful name and she shouldn't try and over complicate the spelling just to feel like her kid is "unique" Reply 3 ...

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Text - AlmightyAcey • 2d ΝΤΑ. However, I plan to name my daughter Arya, and I am NOT a Game of Thrones fan. It's been a name I used for all my RPG characters in video games over many years, and I know l'll get asked about it a lot. It's a chance I'm willing to take. HER spelling looks like word vomit. Literal vomit in letter form. Reply ...

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Text - LivelyUnicorn • 2d • Partassipant [1] NTA I would normally say you don't have the right to tell anyone the name they picked for their child is stupid but on this occasion you are so right OP. Potentially saving a kid from a lifetime of hell with a name like that Reply 2 ...

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Text - Mxkylah • 2d NTA. I like longer versions of names a lot. Like my name is Makayla, but if I could've picked the spelling it would either be McKayla, or Michaela. But spelling a name in detail how it's pronounced is nothing but stupid. That's like if my parents chose to spell my name Muhkayluh. Like wtf. If she wants it to be a bit different, here are some ideas: Aria Aryah Aerya Aryaa Reply ...

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