Friday, October 16, 2020

A Quick Hilarious Livestock Drama


Just another day on the farm. This quick and absolutely ridiculous story about a dramatic livestock situation will never get old. Poor Hero was in panic, busy leading the parade that he never wanted. 

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Nature - Livestock drama "Let's put pool noodles on the goat's horns!" says a teenager. "Why would you, "I begin, but they have already stampeded out of the house. I shrug.

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Text - It turns out that when someone puts pool noodles on a goat's horns, the goat doesn't really care. They're very light, after all, and she can't see them. You know who cares? Who cares a LOT? the HORSE. Hero took one look at Nutmeg wearing pool noodles and ran away. You know who doesn't want to be left alone, ever? Nutmeg. Who went trotting after Hero because he was leaving her.

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Text - Hero, seeing that the eldritch abomination was after him, picked up speed. Nutmeg went into a full run. My kids started chasing Nutmeg to get the pool noodles off her, but could not catch her, because she's surprisingly fast. The dogs were bringing up the rear, just happy to be going for a pleasant run. Hero was in a panic, leading a parade that he did not want. This all resolved. One noodle feel off; the kids eventually cornered Nutmeg and removed the other one. Just a day at a farm, I g

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Tagged: FAIL , goats , ridiculous , farm , funny

Man Proposes To Girlfriend With Sapphire Ring, Grandma Pitches Fit


Man oh man, nothing like some good old fashioned family drama when it comes to an engagement. This guy sounds like he did exactly what his partner would've wanted him to do. The only person that seemed to have a problem with his ring choice was the grandmother. Folks in the comments seem to be of the opinion that he's not the jerk as long as he stands by his decision, and doesn't back down to whiny grandma. 

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Text - AITA for not getting a traditional engagement ring? | (29M) just proposed to my girlfriend (27F) of four years. She doesn't really like jewelry as a whole, and has said she doesn't like diamonds. I was really struggling to find a ring that I thought she'd like enough to wear. My mother pulled me aside and offered me one. She had a beautiful Sapphire ring that's been in my family for any years, and Sapphire happens to be my fiancés birthday stone. I proposed with the ring, and she loves it

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Text - My fiancées grandmother however has been up my ass ever since I proposed about how I must not love her, how dare I give her a used ring, she can't believe her granddaughter doesn't have a diamond. Here's where I'm most likely the asshole. We had dinner with her family and she wouldn't let up. My fiancée said she loved the ring and didn't like diamonds. That still didn't stop her grandmother and finally I said "I'm sorry you feel that way, but you've more made your disapproval clear, we do

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Text - redditcreatanaccount • 16h 3 2 Awards Being old doesn't give you a free pass to be an asshole. NTA Reply 4.7k

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Text - dricysarcasm • 16h • Asshole Enthusiast [5] Q A 2 17 Awards NTA as long as you dont apologize to the grandmother You need to stand firm here. Your fiancée supports how you handled it. And both of you tried to be nicer about it and she would not quit. And what you said wasn't even that rude to begin with. You just made it clear you and your fiancée were done "discussing" it with her. You need to stand with your fiancée on this. Not give in to their ridiculous demands that you apologize to

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Text - KinkyTattedNerd • 16h • Partassipant [1] No, I would not apologize. She's the one who needs to be apologizing for stirring the pot continuously and putting her nose where it does not belong. NTA I think people should quit coddling and bending over to appease people like this to "keep the peace" and instead address the behavior that is actually disrupting the peace in the first place. Don't muzzle one person for another's incessant mouth. Reply 747 ...

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Text - HalcyonEve • 14h 1 Award The Duchess of Cambridge would likely disagree that a used sapphire ring is not suitable for an engagement ring. Grandma should mind her own business. NTA. Reply 741 ...

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Text - goshyarnit • 15h • Partassipant [2] NTA. Sounds like a beautiful ring and exactly what your fiance wanted! My grandpa made a few snide comments about the size of my ring when I got engaged (he didn't really care for my fiance back then - he came round eventually, I was his eldest grandchild and he adored me and didn't think anyone was good enough for me) but I shut that shit down really quick. I explained to him how dumb I thought it was to spend thousands of dollars on a ring when we wer

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Text - FesteringNoseOlives • 16h • Partassipant [1] NTA Your fiancée doesn't want you to apologize, so think you should follow her lead here. Maybe suggest she talk with her father and grandmother, but don't apologize if she doesn't want you to. Reply 249 ...

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Text - justslightlyparanoid • 15h • Asshole Aficionado [17] NTA. Your fiancé is happy with the ring and doesn't want you to apologise. Oh well, one less person you have to invite to your wedding. Reply 103 ...

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Text - ClearAbove • 16h NTA. You're both happy. That matters so much more than the stone. Her dad is being unreasonable by expecting an apology. He should have stepped up to tell her to stop. Reply 1 33 ...

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Text - Fantastic_Elk_1575 • 15h • Partassipant [2] NTA You established your boundary pretty tactfully. Any normal person would get the hint to stfu You and fiancee are fine with it. Grandma's opinion is irrelevant (which I would mention if she brought up again, because l'm like that lol) and sounds like she just wants to be offended about something. So fine, she gets to be offended but you don't have to apologise for living your life as the two of you see fit Reply 35 ...

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Text - Unlikely-Pin-5558 • 14h NTA...tell Grandma that Duchess Kate got a sapphire, which was Princess Diana's engagement ring. IF I ever get engaged (at almost 44, kind of unlikely at this point) I would love a morganite or tanzanite ring...in GASP sterling silver or white gold. Diamonds are beautiful, yes, but a cliché. If your fiancée is happy, then that's all that matters Reply 23 ...

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Text - anonymommy15 • 16h NTA. It sounds like your response was completely reasonable. How does your fiancé feel about it? That's important. Reply 20 ..

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Text - RollingKatamari • 16h • Craptain [156] NTA-what your fiancée thinks is most important here, you respected her wishes and got her a ring that actually means something. Her grandma needs to shut 'dn Reply 16

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Text - MyGfcumstojazz • 12h Drive tractor trailers, pays amazing but it can be exhausting and mind numbing. Also can be terrifying depending on the weather conditions but it only costs 5 grand from the school I went to, to get my cdl. Gotta deal with the DOT sometimes and sleeping in your truck six days a week sucks being away from home but it's got a lot of benefits to it, like I think I'm smart now cause I have listened to every podcast that has ever existed. Reply 1 940 ...

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Text - IcedChaiLatte_16 • 15h NTA, you proposed with a beautiful and meaningful ring that your fiancee loves. Also, diamonds are a HUGE racket. Reply 1 15 ...

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Text - sofiassecret • 15h • Partassipant [2] NTA- I have a small estate and vintage fine jewelry store and sell non traditional rings for engagements all of the time! More and more people are straying away from diamonds for many reasons. Keep your eyes open and look around, lots of younger women with colored stones in their wedding bands these days! Reply 15 ...

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Text - OldLadyDaniels • 15h NTA- Also, using an inherited/family ring is more traditional then diamonds anyways. Diamond engagement rings as standard is relativity new. So not only is her grandmother being rude and overstepping, she's also wrong. Reply 14 ...

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Text - Plenty-State2879 • 15h NTA. And its not going to stop at the ring. As the planning progresses, she's going to knit pick everything you guys do. Reply 10 ...

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Text - liarslittlepretty • 16h • Commander in Cheeks [287] NTA she's off her rocker Reply ...

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Text - dawrina • 15h I work for the government and I'm way overpaid for what I do honestly. There were people at my last job that made like 120k to scan documents all day. Another guy I worked with wrote dates on file folders and made the same. Reply 5.9k

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Text - Astro_Dragons • 14h NTA you didn't do anything wrong. Granny needs to go have her nap. Reply ...

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Text - BoundaryStompingMIL • 15h • Partassipant [4] NTA. Crazy old bat is clearly used to being horrible and having people enable and rug sweep her. Of your fiancee is happy and you are happy, that's the end of it. Besides, you weren't even that rude. You laid a boundary line down to stop a torrent of verbal abuse. You didn't call her a raging bitch, which is better than I would have done. Reply 6 ...

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Text - anonaway42 • 13h NTA, but I have an idea for some petty revenge. Find a cute Diamond ring. Not too much, within your price range. Then donate that money to a charity in your fiancee's grandma's name. Even better if it's a cause she hates (i.e. donating to Biden if she's pro Trump, donating to Planned parenthood if she's pro life). Then say "I thought a lot about what your said. GF doesn't like diamonds but you have a point and I did save a lot of money on a used ring. So I gave that money

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Text - frenchtoastlove • 13h NTA, please don't apologize! You kept your fiancée's preferences in mind and chose a ring you knew SHE would like. A Sapphire engagement ring is just lovely, and hey, it's good enough for the Duchess of Cambridge! Reply 3 ...

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Text - Gryffindor4ble • 14h NTA. Also- how does a family heirloom just get called "used ring"? Reply Vote ...

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Text - PrincessOfPomade • 13h NTA. Sapphire engagement rings are a traditional choice for an engagement ring-- google it. Kate Middleton's ring is a sapphire ring that belonged to Princess Diana. Your fiance's grandmother just needs a little education. You have chosen wisely, and congratulations! Reply 1 Vote ...

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Text - tamatoas_peaches • 11h • Partassipant [1] NTA. I also have a non-traditional engagement ring (a ruby) and my fiancé was told by older members of his family that he needed to get me a diamond. I don't like diamonds; I don't like the cost, I don't like the history, and I don't like the total lack of color. We talked about this months and months ago. I chose the engagement ring myself. And he still caught shit for not getting me a diamond - from everybody else. It comes down to the person we

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Text - HeapsFine • 9h NTA - You have no need to apologise, but maybe you could calm things by having a chat with just grandma, fiancée and yourself explaining why you went with that ring (again). It seems ridiculous to me and I don't know what grandma's problem is -I guess some people are just set in their ways. Good luck! Reply Vote

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Tumblr Thread: Why Frogs Have Got Weird Bones


Apparently frogs flop around so much it wouldn't be worth it for them to have rib cages. And in conjunction with that, they don't breath the same way something with a ribcage might. It'd be nice to have less bones to break. Tumblr can get way into animal anatomy, like this thread about horse sizes being ridiculous.

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Skeleton - snakegay i hate looking at frog skeletons what do they think theyre doing with that fucking anatomy. all amphibians are kind of like this but frogs are just like,. ma'am you have a criminally small amount of bones supporting your slop

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Text - magistrate-of-mediocrity Frogs basically don't have ribs because when they hop they just fucking belly flop onto the ground. Evolution never got around to giving them ribs because it wouldn't be worth the broken ribs every time the frogs decided to go out on land. As a result, the intercostal muscles responsible for breathing in most vertebrates never developed. Frogs (and most amphibians) rely almost solely on buccal pumping for

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Text - breathing: They lower the floor of their mouths which draws in air through their nostrils. Then they raise the floor of their mouths to force air into their lungs. It's not super efficient because used air is mixed with fresh air in the mouth during every breath. But frogs also exchange gases through their skin as well so super sophisticated breathing apparatuses aren't exactly worth the developmental cost. kaijutegu Frogs are just stomachs with enough legs to throw themselves at food. Th

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People That Love Their Jobs


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the people that genuinely love their jobs. As it turns out, some folks are actually lucky enough to find themselves with a career opportunity that doesn't feel like work at all. It can be done. And if you ever find yourself in that kind of position, just hold on for dear life. And if you're not, maybe some of these gigs will give you new ideas about a career shift. 

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Text - ItsUnderAnOunce • 13h Parks and Rec manager. I watch sports for a living. Reply 2.2k ...

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Text - paraouji • 11h 3 3 Awards Proofreader. I basically just make our company's stuff look like it was written by someone who paid attention in english class. I used to do the same thing but I didn't get paid enough to do it. Ridiculous deadlines, everything was always getting blown way out of proportion, lower pay, constant overtime due to intentional understaffing. I do way less work and get paid more now and everyone is much chiller about the process Reply 4.2k ...

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Text - yamacat88 • 11h 3 1 Award Firefighter. We are paid for what we potentially have to do not for what we do when we show up to work. On top of that I can retire with a pension at 50 years old and we work a schedule where everyday you come to work it's your "friday" Reply 1.4k ...

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Text - zkinny • 15h 1 Award Production operator. I have really good pay for working an alright shift and am damn happy with my job as I have zero education after high school and have worked a lot of shit jobs. Reply 5.3k ...

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Text - Maximum_Raisin9272 • 13h O1 Award My husband is an overnight security guard at a ranch in a small town. He gets paid $17.50 an hour. He sits in the car and makes sure no one comes on the property overnight. Only one time he's had an incident, and it was a drunk driver that drove through the front fence, the pasture, then through the back fence and then got stuck. He called the police and they handled it. He's worked there for several years. It's an easy job, which is nice because he has s

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Text - jarofherb • 11h I get paid an excessive amount to deliver excessively priced appliances to the extremely excessively well funded occupants of Lake Tahoe. Like 90% of the job is just going on an amazing drive. Reply 2.0k ...

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Text - poisden • 13h 5 Awards In a different vein than most of the comments, I'm a nanny for a very well off couple who are convinced their two boys are terribly behaved despite me constantly saying they're great kids. There is literal shit to deal with and they for sure have their issues- not enough time to play or hang out with their parents doesn't help. But I get paid an outrageous wage to basically be a third parent to two cute kids. Recently went down to only 20 hours a week during school

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Text - xrp_reddit_guy • 12h 4 Awards Residential Appraiser. Pick my own hours and get $400 per report. Work isn't hard. Takes me about 5 hours. Everyone leaves me alone by design to not influence my value. Pretty sweet. Reply 11.1k ...

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Text - tmott85 • 11h 3 28 Awards Trashman here. I literally deal with peoples shit. get paid enough. Ten years in and 80k+ a year. More this year because COVID-19 overtime. Reply 24.3k ...

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Text - GreenOnionCrusader • 14h 3 Awards Used to hand out free samples for $10/hr when minimum was $7.50. I got to cook and joke around with people all day long. Hardly anyone gets mad at the person giving them free food, even if they don't like it. I loved that job. Edit: I'm in Arkansas. Minimum is $9.25 here. Cost of living is low and there's lots of tourism and jobs. Reply 18.5k ...

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Text - Insomniax995 • 13h Had a babysitting job during university. I showed about 2 hours before bedtime and we had a snack and I checked if they needed any help with homework and then we watched some TV. They went to bed at 8:30 and the parent came home around 6 in the morning. This was 2 nights a week and the pay was good. I spent the time either studying or just watching movies all night. Reply 4.5k ...

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Text - discostud1515 • 14h I work in the fitness industry. For the most part, the pay sucks and most people burn out quick and switch careers. I lucked out and got a coordinator job for a municipal event government. Toversee several facilities and provide training and presentations for select groups -police, fire, paramedics etc. I make 6 figures and it's pretty much a cake walk. I'm very aware of how lucky I am. T have a masters degree and about 15 years experience but I was just about to switc

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Text - sunglassesinsideguy • 10h Not me but my close friend is a V.I.P experience tester for a large hotel chain. He shows up and they roll out the red carpet. He stays in the nicest suite and makes constant requests for champaign, food, car services, dry cleaning, etc. and takes note of the speed and level of service. I asked him if it was a difficult job and he sincerely told me "sometimes it's hard to spend the dollar amount I am supposed to spend in 2 days. I throw out a lot of food and alco

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Text - Calliope719 • 11h Receptionist. I get paid $20 an hour to scroll through reddit. Once a day or so, I need to have someone fill out a form. It makes for long days, but l'm doing classes to finish my undergrad on paid time, so its all good. Reply 3.0k ...

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Text - Grayboosh • 18h 1 Award Poker dealer. I dont really do much, basically just play middle man so people can play their game without concern. If there's any real issue I am suppose to just call a supervisor and let them handle it. I put up with plenty of bullshit but its not that bad.

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Text - grahag • 17h Helpdesk for 20 years... I remember all the jobs before that where I said, "I don't get paid enough to deal with this shit". Farmer, CRM, Fast Food, Video store clerk, 7-11 Clerk, Call center... Although I kind of liked the graves at 7-11... :D Reply 4.9k ...

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Text - olorin_istar • 15h Engineer. I do mechanical designs of heat exchanger products. Chill in my own office and listen to music or podcasts all day while l'm doing layout drawings, making bill of materials or running design software/ calculations. I get about 90k a year plus (usually) a nice profit bonus which goes a long way where I live (OK). someone else commented asking us to list how long we have been at these jobs. This was my first job out of college and I have been here 5 years now. R

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Text - Sk8mastr45 • 12h Anesthesiologist. Get to put people to sleep. It almost always goes well and the people are thankful. Rarely it does not go well and can get very scary very fast. We're fairly well compensated compared to other specialties. Reply 1 1.0k ...

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Text - PRGuyHere • 10h Hospital spokesman. I get paid six figures to come up with the words to make bad things sound better. But most days, there isn't something bad to make sound better. Most days, it's more about event planning. Most days, it's me telling people "Come to this place at this time and sit quietly while I talk, and I will literally give you cake." I get paid over 100k per year to tell people where the cake will be. Reply 194 ..

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Text - dawrina • 15h I work for the government and I'm way overpaid for what I do honestly. There were people at my last job that made like 120k to scan documents all day. Another guy I worked with wrote dates on file folders and made the same. Reply 5.9k

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Text - MyGfcumstojazz • 12h Drive tractor trailers, pays amazing but it can be exhausting and mind numbing. Also can be terrifying depending on the weather conditions but it only costs 5 grand from the school I went to, to get my cdl. Gotta deal with the DOT sometimes and sleeping in your truck six days a week sucks being away from home but it's got a lot of benefits to it, like I think I'm smart now cause I have listened to every podcast that has ever existed. Reply 1 940 ...

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Text - pocketfullofuranium • 17h 3 3 Awards My dad is a clam farmer. He basically spends his days diving or fishing and maybe every two weeks has to actually "work" but only for a couple of hours. He lives on a tropical island, tax and duty free, and drinks a lot of rum. He could earn a LOT more than he does (which is still a tasty amount) but then he'd have to DO more so he's happy as he is. Reply 25.1k ...

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Text - melodyze • 18h 1 Award Software engineer. Sometimes you have to deal with shit breaking at inconvenient times for random reasons, but it's a pretty great deal all considered. Reply 9.5k ...

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Text - henry_sqared • 13h Administrative assistant. Stay at it long enough and it can be a six figure gig (in a major city, supporting a sr exec). Infinitely portable (the job is pretty much the same in tech, finance, whatever); every company needs them. Virtually recession proof (execs ain't gonna run their own calendars, email, expenses, travel, etc). Almost always has good benefits. While there are always exceptions, its typically a very 9 to 5 job that isn't overly stressful or demanding. Re

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