There's so much pomp and circumstance leading up to Christmas that the holiday is primed for disappointment. As kids, it was easy to get our hopes up about a new bike, only to see those same hopes plummet when we unwrapped a used copy of Ben Hur on VHS. Was there even a lesson here? Maybe "don't expect too much from your Aunt Carol." Either way, bad gifts are at least worth seeing how your loved ones will panic and compromise on giving a golf trophy to a 9 year old.
With so many animals being pushed into the system, you can only name incoming cats "Snowball" so many times before you get bored and start using a random word generator. It seems like they've even freed themselves from conventional names and just started going for parts of speech and infomercial personalities. That said, even if their name is JG Wentworth, these cats are probably all better pets than Prancer, the most irredeemable dog.
There's so much pomp and circumstance leading up to Christmas that the holiday is primed for disappointment. As kids, it was easy to get our hopes up about a new bike, only to see those same hopes plummet when we unwrapped a used copy of Ben Hur on VHS. Was there even a lesson here? Maybe "don't expect too much from your Aunt Carol." Either way, bad gifts are at least worth seeing how your loved ones will panic and compromise on giving a golf trophy to a 9 year old.
We already knew that Rob Zombie is great dinner party and bat mitzvah music, so it only makes sense that it should also pair well with high energy, spandex-laden aerobic exercise. If only our buns could be steely enough to dig through all those ditches.
It doesn't matter what kind of day she was having before this, because it's over now. The heartbreak of a screw-up this fast and effortless is one of those things that takes a few moments to process, so it's nice she had some time to think about it. Sucks, man.
It's never a good start when your significant other demands that you corroborate all the lies she's fed her own friends and family about your relationship. And it's even worse when her fairytale version of events paints you as an insane weirdo who would ask a perfect stranger to be their girlfriend. And even worse than that, that she would blame you for "caring too much about what other people think." Absolute yikes. For some more wildness, here's the girlfriend who tried to kick out a cat and got herself kicked out instead.
Ladies, if your date ever does something like this and you find about it.... Run. Very fast and very far away. Cause that guy is a walking red flag.
Talk about unnecessary manipulation and in-genuine behaviour. Good on this waitress for alerting his date to his poor behaviour.
It's always an interesting time working for completely inept leadership. The unrealistic goals, absurd orders and impotent posturing of a bad boss makes for a pretty bad time. Sure, money can solve a whole lot of problems, but throwing someone a hundred dollar bill doesn't make them grow an extra three pairs of hands. For an actually cool boss, here's the manager who pulled a hire/fire switcheroo.
Sure, there's "takin' care of business," but the real law of everyday employment is "take care of literally just enough business to not get fired and hope no one notices." Some of us take this maxim to its extreme, and it results in some unprofessional "not my job" moments of failure. Sure, freeway lines are supposed to be straight but that's of little importance in the land of "not my job."
The internet can bring many things. Some of those things are cold facts and bad news. But the rest is a pile of weird observations, dumb stories, tumblr gems and funny tweets. Do we need a worldwide network of people sharing their intimate moments and weird nuggets of knowledge? Probably not but it's here now in the form of tumblr gems and tweets and boy is it going strong.
Having gone through a master's program to be lied to and paid ten dollars an hour must feel like a slap in the face. This kind of shenaniganry seems like the kind of thing that would only happen with bad drug deals and under-the-table contractor work, but it happens, somehow. Who knows what kind of employer would expect someone to stay after something like this, but the move has been seen before in instances such as this Karen who tried to trick a baby-sitter by lying about pay and calling it a typo.
Dungeons and Dragons is a great way to explore realms hitherto unseen by man, become a legendary warrior, learn unbelievable magical spells, and attempt to seduce monsters. Let these dungeons and dragons memes be the fuel for the creative fire that is your mind as you slay beasts and ignore work emails.
After this employee came in late, their boss decided to use the minor infraction as an opportunity to give them a raise in the most convoluted, yet effective way possible. There are so many bad bosses out there, like this boss who said employee computers couldn't idle, or this boss who tried to take priority over the army. But at the end of the day, it's the cool and competent bosses who we remember the most, like this boss who used an eye gag to remove problem customers.
When you think about your wedding as a child, you probably don't anticipate there being many, if any, cringeworthy moments. For 30 unfortunate couples, this was very much not the case. Between elaborate wedding cakes unfortunately plopping to their doom and animals making crude gestures during wedding photos, these fails are as diverseas they are hilarious. Thethought of wedding fails always brings us back to the Clergyman from Princess Bride…"Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder today. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam." If you don't get the reference, we recommend looking it up.
At some jobs, the boss only really cares if the work gets done. At other jobs, the boss is so obsessed that employees are working every second of the day that it ends up making things less efficient. For example, this boss who demanded an endless task be completed, and ended up stuck with it. In this case, boss man was upset with the thought of anyone's computer idling. So naturally this employee figured out a way to make everyone happy.
For those of you who don't know, Warhammer 40,000 happens to be the most popular miniature wargame ever, especially in the United Kingdom. The first edition of the rulebook was published in 1987, and the ninth and current edition was released in 2020. Between the various editions and regular rule book updates, there just might be a few grey areas resting peacefully between the lines of the rulebook.
These users recount the absolute stupidest rules arguments they've had while battling to the death with no mercy or respite. The game is set in the grim darkness of the far future, where mighty armies clash on countless war-torn worlds and Humanity stands alone, beset on all sides by the threats of the heretic, the mutant and the alien. So yeah, serious business and we take the rules VERY seriously. If you don't agree you can get out and join this guy who went to a football game while his wife went into labor in the lobby. Karens, Karens of all genders everywhere.
The human brain is a lump of dripping goo powered by electricity, so naturally it's bound to make a few mistakes. Double take moments of warped perspective are just enough of a push in the wrong direction where we're more than willing to see impossible landscapes and cats with human faces. It just takes a little bit of weird perspective to cause more than a little bit of confusion.
It wouldn't occur to most of us to get back at our snooping in-laws by making up a story about a curse. Most of us would just say "don't steal my things lady" or change the locks. But that fact that she believed it, and that something bad actually happened is absolutely excellent. Gotta love it when fake curses come through in your favor. For another weird mother-in-law story, here's the craigslist ad seeking a wedding date for a Karen mother-in-law.
These folks noticed a sloth swimming in a Costa Rican stream with heavy boat traffic, so they decided to ask if it wanted a ride. The sloth obliged, and probably moved faster than it's ever moved in its life.
Jeaney Collects finds interesting things and does voices for them. In this case we have a few great reviews for one of the most powerful cubes that you can buy. Just hearing about the potential of such a powerfully dense object is enough to make us feel strong.
They told us when we grew up we'd get to drive cars and spend all our money on whatever we wanted. Now we're here and they were right, but we're driving our cars to work and spending our money on fixing our cars. Sure, we all deal with the everyday responsibilities of life, but man, there's so much laundry. For the aging, here are some millennial memes for the aching backbone of the economy.
We spend so much time complaining about terrible incompetent coworkers and sadistic bosses that it's easy to forget why our jobs can be nice. That's getting to work with like-minded, chill, funny people. This person had exactly that in Joe, a coworker who we all wish we could have the pleasure of working alongside. For another wholesome work tale, here's the story of a wholesome IT bro who revived a totally destroyed laptop.
Man oh man, some of the world's managers really never should've been put in the positions of power that they were in the first place. It sounds like Jeff was possessed by blind greed to such an extent that it was only a matter of time before he ended up engineering his own demise. I wonder how many moments Jeff had where he was up late at night, tossing and turning, soaked in sweat, bogged down by the burn of regret. It's like, he was the one who ultimately ended up complicating his own life. For another entertaining tale of malicious compliance, check out the time that a Karen presenter demanded a crappier hotel, and got it.
It feels amazing to have the hookup on literally anything. Knowing a guy who can get you a mattress for cheap or a gal who has inside knowledge on farm fresh eggs is something many of us take pride in. And of course, everyone needs a tamale guy. For more people who got the hookup, here are the black markets that existed at people's schools.
There are some employees who stick around because they do good work, and there are others whose longevity stems from their ability to blame everyone else for screw ups. This manager tried to get after a certain employee when he should have realized the mistake was his own, and it just proved his own incompetence. People have problems with technology, like this customer who thought electronic payment worked by putting checks into their computer.
Work is a drag. We all wish we had to do less of it, but the more we get done, the more our bosses say "wow you're so good at this, you must want to do more." The one thing that helps is to know that everyone is in a similar boat, and work memes for the hustle as well as the bustle sure drive that point home. People are even ready to commiserate over work email struggles. It never ends.
As many of us know, it's oodles of fun dealing with entitled people and their laughable antics. It could be an unhinged mom who wants you to pay her to take care of her children. It could be a guy who insists on you driving 4 and a half hours to drop off your free barbeque. It could be a Karen secret shopper who's too much of a Karen to do her job. It might just be a dude who wants to pay for swimming lessons with his terrible poetry. Whatever it is, entitled folks are always a barrel of something.
Marriage is a pretty big deal, ideally it lasts forever. And weddings are supposed to be days of love and celebration focused purely on the bride and groom. Well, sometimes the Bride's sister steals the spotlight with all of her various issues. Such is the case here. OP has made it very clear that her wedding will be pet and child free, and surprise that includes her sister's service dog.
Not to mention that the totally legitimate and valid reason that she does not want pets at her wedding is because her fiancé underwent a traumatic childhood experience and still has dog related anxiety, but hey, as long as the bride's sister is happy. Isn't that what they say, 'happy sister of wife, happy life?' For more wedding drama, check this out.
We're not gonna sit here and say that it's a good idea to use a Twister pad to patch the busted out back window of your car. Especially considering a game of twister costs significantly more than a garbage bag, so it's not even a good deal. But by all means, it that's what's convenient, then put your foot down on green, baby. Here are some more funny low budget fixes and engineering solutions.
We are people who want answers. Sometimes the factual answers we crave aren't readily available, and it's a whole lot more satisfying and easy to just get clever about it. Hence, these technically accurate moments that aren't incorrect. Sometimes the best we can be is technically accurate and not wrong. Is that an easy cop-out? Yeah. Does it work? Sometimes, but not really.
