Tuesday, November 2, 2021

City Gives Man Trouble Over His Property Line, Man Builds Revenge Bar


Nobody wants to have to deal with city officials giving them trouble over something that absolutely doesn't warrant any trouble to be dished out in the first place. It sounds like Carl is just one of those wonderful human beings who fights back against the BS by unleashing nothing short of a wildly petty revenge. In this case, the revenge ended up involving a decent number of folks benefiting from having a spontaneous little bar "in the park" being set up. To keep the pro revenge drama going check out this revenge tale about a tenant getting their property owner's car towed, so the property owner went ahead and hatched a sweet pro revenge.

Dungeons & Dragons Memes To Roll The Dice On


There are only so many ways to completely escape your life for a few hours. Some of those ways are dark, expensive, self-destructive spirals that lead you to you betraying your friends and stealing things. The other option is a dark, expensive, self destructive spiral that leads you to playing a half-elf rogue who does pretty much the same thing. For some more intriguing D&D stuff, here are weird items people exploited to hilarious ends.

Escaped Ostrich Runs Down Busy Road


Word has it this ostrich was able to make its escape after its enclosure was flooded. Luckily, it managed to enjoy a taste of freedom and see a bit of Pakistan before being captured and returned. Probably the most amazing thing here it's that it follows the rules of the road more safely than most BMW drivers.

POV Of Parachuter Landing In World Series Game


If you ever wanted to know what it's like to parachute into a stadium to the sight and sound of thousands of cheering fans, here's what that looks like. Good thing he landed on the field, cause if a fan caught him they'd probably get to take him home. That's how it works right?

Wrong and Dumb Things People's Parents Told Them


Life is all about learning new things, but a good portion of life is unlearning all of the insane garbage your parents crammed into your head at an early age. Once you get to be the age of when your parents had you, it's remarkably easy to realize that they, like you, hardly ever know what they're talking about. Here's some of theworst advice people have ever received.

Restaurant Work Memes To Serve Up To Ungrateful Customers


Working in restaurants is brutal. You've got screaming bosses breathing down your back, angry customers breathing down your front, and someone keeps reassuring you that the french fries are almost ready, but man, you don't see any french fries. The only benefit you get from working with a dysfunctional team, barely functional equipment and customers with non-functional brains is that there's almost always someone to blame. Hey, here are the french fries. Woops, looks like you burned yourself. For more cries for help disguised as jokes, here are relatable memes about work.

Employee Uses Records To Soundly Defeat Micromanaging Boss


There's a beauty in using someone's own words to destroy them. And when that person is a power-tripping control freak of a manager, the satisfaction of victory is all the sweeter. All it took was an accurate account of the conversation for HR to see the light. For some more employees sticking it to their boss, here's the saga of employees getting the best of their unhinged CEO via malicious compliance.

Weird Internet Stuff To Peruse, Amuse and Confuse


There have definitely been some unintended consequences of connecting billions of people in an electronic network of images and symbols. Like, sure it's given deluded weirdos places to groupthink themselves into complete derealization, and for some reason ticket prices have all these weird surcharges now. But also, the internet has provided cursed weirdness from its depths. That's something, right?

Entitled Karen Won't Help Her Family, Asks For Advice


There are certainly people like this in this world, but for everyone's sake, we hope it's not real. Usually it's a blast seeing all the selfish shenanigans entitled people get up to but when it comes to this account of someone who's entirely capable of helping their family in need, but trying to completely avoid it, it's just kind of rage inducing. Please don't be real.

Satisfying Moments Of Alignment For The World's Perfectionists


There's something about coming across a well placed object, or perfectly parked car that can make you stop in your tracks to exercise some appreciation over the aesthetically pleasing nature of the situation. The world's a messy place. More often than not, something's going wrong. So, when things just line up nice and perfectly, it feels pretty dang nice. 

Wife Cooks Food For Her Family, Husband Won't Eat It And Throws It All Out


In general, it's important to respect someone's time and effort. Even if you're not thrilled that your partner made meatloaf again, part of being a reasonable human is to acknowledge that they took time and effort to make it. And even if you find yourself incapable of eating it, choosing to take that effort and throw it in the garbage rather than opening a damn can of beans for yourself is a strikingly childish thing to do. It's not rocket science.

The Irreverant and Clever Hot Takes of Xavier


What began as the irreverant jokes and puns of Pakalu Papito has taken on a second life of its own. The original Pakalu Papito was a totally invented twitter account, and sort of morphed into this, another invented dude with the same profile picture. Xavier doesn't exactly exist as a physical person, but more as a spirit of commenting. A state of being, if you will. Transcendent. Here are some more clever comebacks and rare insults.

Cool And Fun Facts To Help Become The Lord Of All Trivia


The world is big and complex and bursting with things to learn. We could learn them, but we could also spend that time drinking beer in our underwear. The point being, it's a bit of a toss up. And if you are currently drinking beer in your underwear and finding yourself reading this, then congratulations on your ability to multi-task. It's an important skill. Here are some strange science facts to ponder.

Guy Rudely Orders For Table, Gets Mocked By Server


Having dinner with the parents can go a lot of ways, but it narrows your odds of success when you interrupt mom and insist on being the server's only point of contact. Lo and behold, the server complied. Out of some misaligned sense of responsibility or self importance, this guy made himself a target right out of the gate. At least it's better than having to defeat a Karen. And at least nothing happened to the food.

Tumblr Thread Seamlessly Weaves Knitting And Science


It's not surprising that Tumblr would find a way to highlight the role of threadwork into computing and space travel when you consider this bonkers thread on the fiery drama of the knitting community. Again, it's not like little old ladies sewing things is the first thing one thinks of when considering math and hard science, but by golly if it ain't part of it.

Monday, November 1, 2021

Tumblr Thread: The Big, Weird Empty Mansions of Rich People


Having a mansion used to make sense when people had servants and guests with servants, but now the prospect of keeping a 3 person home with 8 bathrooms and 4 family rooms doesn't really make that much sense, leading to a weird "my empire of dirt" phenomenon with giant houses with empty weird rooms. If this isn't true, and your mansion is very cool and full of stuff, can we come over? Do you have Xbox? For some intriguing insight into the lives of rich people who don't know how much a sandwich should cost, here are wild cases of wealthy people being out of touch.

County Mower Shreds Dad's Shrubs, Dad Revenges With Rebar


This tale of pro revenge involving an inconsiderate county mower and a dad who wasn't going to put up with anyone's nonsense reminds us of another revenge involving a steel-enforced mailbox and a snowplow. The grin on dad's face must've spanned from cheek to cheek. Sounds like the county mower was ultimately unsuccessful with trying to get dad to cough up cash for those broken blades too. Talk about the icing on the cake. 

Canopener Bridge Pops Stack Off Of Semi Truck


There are only so many famous bridges in this world, and fewer still that are famous for the damage they consistently cause. The 11foot8 bridge has worked hard to build and maintain a reputation of strictly enforcing its own height restriction on any vehicle that tries to bend the limits of physics.

Rally Racing In Finland Is As Riveting As It Is Terrifying


Good old pristine nature. The birds are singing. There's a babbling brook off in the distance. And what's that? At the end of the path? There's a loud mechanical hum, a cloud of dust, and what looks like an almost out of control car barreling straight at you at a speed that seems unrealistic for the kind of road this is. It's getting louder now. It's getting--DEAR GOD WHAT IN THE HOLY-- and there it goes.

Dude Argues With Karen For Seat, Wonders If He's The Karen


Very few of us want to become a spectacle on public transportation, but it's also healthy to advocate for ourselves in situations where we're being treated unfairly. Here's the case of a seat-stealing Karen who tried to pull a reverse Uno on the guy who bought the seat she see found herself sitting in. Why do people have to be like this? For another entry in the book of Karen, here's a Karen who had a rude outburst and then ruined her own car.

Frustrating Plot Holes And Movie Details That People Can't Stand


We understand that the people who make movies are just doing their best to make a compelling story, and it's our job to suspend our own disbelief in order to enjoy them. No one is going to stand up in the theater while watching Harry Potter and go "hey, this is stupid, magic isn't real!" But it's those moments that have blatant disregard for their own internal logic that take us out of it. That moment when you think "seriously, why does the wizarding world have a complex court system when truth serum also exists?" To enjoy movies less, here are some frustratingly unrealistic movie logic moments.

Kid Gets Greedy On Halloween, Parent Makes Him Give His Candy Away


Kid takes too much candy, parent says don't do that, kid disagrees, kid gets punished by having to give candy away. Naturally, everyone has pretty strong opinions on parenting. It definitely feels like a satisfying punishment to lay down, but this one brings up some interesting questions. Is it right to assume that this kind of punishment is 100 percent effective? Is it right to expect a kid to respect the sanctity of the "only take this many" rule when they're jacked on sugar and the holiday spirit? How much candy did that kid have to give away? For some more parenting fun, here are parenting memes for those whose lives are over.

People That Made Ridiculous Risky Decisions


Human beings have an uncanny knack for making terribly questionable decisions. Clearly, these people didn't put a whole lot of necessary thought into the actions that they were making, before they went ahead and did their dang thing. Hopefully a list like this serves as a wakeup call to walk through this life with just a little bit more prudence. 

Parenting Memes For Those Whose Lives Are Over


In the time it's taken to look at a few relatable memes, the kids will have probably have found what's in your secret drawer or have climbed into a stranger's van on the loose promise of candy, so don't get distracted for too long. But if it seems like they're chill, here are some more parenting memes for the perpetually stressed and some dad memes for the dads out there.

Employee Contacts HR After Being Told to Work While Sick, Boss Sends This Unhinged Message


This boss is off his rocker. What a power play. Imagine having the gall to send a message like this to your employee after being told off by HR for trying to make your employee come into work while sick. Talk about being utterly unwilling to back down. 

This definitely takes some stones, I'll give him that, but it's also absolute insanity. As the commenters have said, hopefully there's a new management position opening soon.

There are some terrible bosses out there but this guy makes the list.

People Share the Things That Are Tragically, and Sometimes Thankfully, Disappearing From Our World


Some of these things are an absolute tragedy and some of these won't be missed.

It's hard to imagine a world without some of the natural wonders that we have grown up with and taken for granted. Imagine if suddenly the entirety of Yellowstone or Yosemite was to burn down and cease, utterly, to exist. That's basically what has happened to entire stretches of these underwater wonders of the world. Once beautiful and colourful worlds that were teeming with life are now barren and brown.

ahem...

On the other hand you have malls. Who is going to miss those?

Guy's Pure Twitter Thread Is Lesson In Not Judging People


Unfortunately, far too many of us can fall into the vicious mental cycle of drawing all kinds of nasty assumptions about people we've never met, because there are plenty of difficult human beings out there. Well, the thing is that there also a whole lot of other folks that just want to help brighten people's days. Like this guy's classmate for instance. A pretty cool turn of events for these two. Yet another example that the knowledge passed on through textbooks only covers so much ground when it comes to navigating the real world with empathy and understanding. 

In Terrible Blunder, Guy Misreads Lip Reading and Kisses Deaf Friend


She might be deaf but he's bloody blind.

Or maybe he's just read the signs exactly right and then retrospectively misattributed it to something else when the anxiety. 

Either way it looks like, despite the FU, things are going to go his way here. Just goes to show that sometimes you have to take the leap! 

Funny Tweets And Tumblr Gems To Kick Boredom In The Groin


We are at heart, boring people. We live our boring lives, eat mostly grey food, and complain about the drama in our pets lives as if they were people. That's why we need funny tweets and tumblr gems to quote later. There's no sense letting people find out you're boring right away. That's for after you've tricked them into hanging out. So eat up them tumblr gems and funny tweets to have something to talk about.

Staff Sergeant Supervisor Gets Caught Lying About Doing His Job


Is there a better feeling than catching your supervisor in a lie? Yes, when it's in writing. And even better than that, when you can leverage that knowledge to make them give you a more accurate performance review. Interesting things happen when there's a strict chain of command, like this military wife Karen who demanded salutes and ended up getting mocked.