Did you know that in Arizona it's illegal for a donkey to sleep in your bathtub? And you better keep close tabs on your birds, because in California it's illegal to whistle for your canary before 7 a.m. There are hundreds of peculiar laws and ordinances still in effect today even though some of them were written to address some highly specific circumstances one hundred years ago. In Connecticut, a pickle is only legitimate if it bounces. Out of context, this law seems pretty absurd, but in 1948 legislators came up with a quick and easy way to figure out if pickles were fit for human consumption—by checking if they could bounce. We've got a bunch of examples of things you probably didn't know were illegal thanks to one redditor who was curious enough to ask.
Online shopping can be a minefield. Deceptive photos and sketchy sellers can leave you with a terrible product — but on the other hand, it could be the only way to get your hands on something that might just change your life (thanks, consumerism!).
For this reason, product reviews are probably one of the most essential parts of the whole retail experience. Nobody knows this better than Amazon, which has perfected the art of being a dubiously ethical one-stop shop through reviews of almost all its millions of products.
This being the internet, some of these are more flamboyant than others. Depths Of Amazon is here to showcase every critique that goes above and beyond when it comes to describing their newfound goods. The results, such as the ones displayed here, are nothing short of magnificent.
Of all the necessities of modern life, meme breaks are arguably one of the most important. There are few pastimes out there that are easier, more accessible and more fun. We all have our different ways of decompressing, but most of us can find some common ground in doing this with some amusing memes. Sometimes, it's the only way.
We caught up with Maggie Robertson, the actor who played the part of Lady Dimitrescu in RE8, to see how she reacted to this massive influx of attention toward her and her character over the last few months, as well as how the role came about. During our discussion, Robertson shared her thoughts on acting in a video game for the first time, dealing with her newfound fanbase and even some of her favorite Lady D memes. So without further ado, here's the scoop on the tall vampire lady from Lady Dimitrescu herself.
When boredom strikes, the brain's standards for stimulating content begin to plummet. Even snobs who consider themselves connoisseurs of Fine Art and intellectual humor are not immune to fart jokes and dumb memes, especially when the insidious languor of a long day dampens their comprehension skills. There's no shame in embracing ridiculously stupid memes when your brain just doesn't have the energy for anything fancier. Don't be so hard on yourself and enjoy some silly content. You know you want to.
Foodservice can be a taxing industry to work in. The fast-paced environment, formidable Karens and all-round frequent crises mean the average shift doesn't leave much room to breathe. If anything, that is all the more reason for fast food workers to find the entertainment value where they can.
This is the philosophy behind @etherealloverboy's videos. An anonymous Chick-Fil-A employee, their account is dedicated to showing off the many strange and occasionally baffling orders that their branch receives. Examples range from customers asking for items that the chain doesn't even produce to combinations that don't seem to make any sense (kudos to the person eating mac and cheese with a straw). It's not all weird customer requests, either. The occasional order or motivational message from other crew members also slips through.
Overall, the insight these videos provide offer a revealing, entertaining portrait of what it's like to deal with the hangry general public every day. It does leave us with some questions, though, like how do they manage to deal with them all?
Some people take a long bath or treat themselves to a pastry when they're feeling low. Maybe they talk to a friend who can make them smile. But when we're feeling depressed or insecure, our favorite pastime is observing stupid people do what they do best: inflate our egos with their embarrassing antics. There's nothing quite as uplifting as seeing people f*ck up worse than we do on a day-to-day basis. And we've got a whole lot of that stupid for you to scroll through right here.
Clowns have been having quite the moment over the past few years. "Jokerfied" has become a verb. Thousands of women have been Harley Quinn for Halloween. It had a new opportunity to become a household name. Despite all these prominent media moments, we (as a society) are overlooking the biggest clowns of all: ourselves.
That's right. Somehow, the human race has managed to make jesters of themselves on a day-to-day basis. Whether it's convincing yourself that you matter to your corporate overlords, or if you've convinced yourself that you can change your toxic partner, we're constantly subconsciously donning giant shoes and making a mockery of ourselves by playing dumb. But we're not alone. Pretty much every living, breathing human with an ounce of empathy, heart, or soul has themselves up for clownish disappointment. And boy, are there a ton of memes out there that reflect just that.
We all have to go to work to pay the bills in order to just survive - unless you're a trust-fund baby who inherited millions from your rich uncle (in which case get out of here). Just kidding, you can stay if you want to see how the rest of us plebes live.
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Few internet phenomena have developed at the alarming rate of men's thirst traps. Gone are the days when a partially clad mirror selfie would satisfy attention seekers; it's now a whole process involving ring lights, mood music and worst of all, meticulously planned video.
The time when half the population seemed hellbent on perfecting a Lin-Manuel Miranda lip bite was bad enough. Yet somehow, we appear to be in a horrible new era of embarrassing, romantically inclined content creation. Twitter users seized on an example of this over the weekend after discovering the work of TikToker @spencermumford.
In particular, one video attracted all the wrong kind of attention. In it, Mumford lipsyncs and winks at the camera while proclaiming that he is attracted to the "Big Hearts" of women in a long list of ethnicities. To apparently prove his point, he announces that he "love[s] rhythm" with some alarmingly offbeat dancing and seemingly out of nowhere, professes his love for the soundtrack provided by Nigerian musician Burna Boy.
Despite his attempt to charm, Twitter was less than convinced by his confused and slightly terrifying efforts. If there's one takeaway from this trainwreck, it's that nobody becomes a heartthrob by being tryhard.
If you're a sucker for a good Julius Caesar pun or Diogenes gag, you've come to the right place because we've got a whole bunch of dank memes full of history, classical art and ancient philosophy references for anyone who likes their funny content on the sophisticated side. Tap into your inner Socrates and nurture your scholarly side with these vaguely educational memes.
The internet is brimming with examples of bullshitters who state opinion as fact, make unwarranted declarations about their authority on a subject, and make up ridiculous rules about who has the right to enjoy or experience specific things. These people are called gatekeepers. The annoying gatekeeper is also known for putting others down for not suffering enough to warrant feeling unhappy with a shitty situation. Like if you're venting to someone about being exhausted after a 40-hour work week and they just mock you for not having worked 70 hours like them. r/gatekeeping is a good document of people who won't get off their high horse, even after someone points out that their horse is just a withered cardboard box.
We've got a bunch of cringey and eye-roll inducing examples of groundless gatekeeping thanks to all the avid screenshotters out there.
Christopher Meloni has broken the internet with a recent post he shared featuring himself looking like a magnificent watermelon on the set of a photoshoot with Interview Magazine. Best known for portraying Detective Elliot Stabler in beloved legal drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the actor and fitness-enthusiast has amassed a social media following of stans who can't get enough of that goofy Chris Meloni charm. Celebrities who act like real humans on the internet are hard to come by—can you blame them for simping?
Meloni posed for that shot like he knew it was a meme before the photo was even captured. We can't decide which is more meme-able—Chris Meloni or the G7 Summit family photo. In any case, we'll take all the hilarious new meme formats we can get. Keep scrolling for the best Meloni memes so far.
Let's face it, most people today have a hard time switching off. Between our dependency on computers and the chronic device addiction, we all spend far too much of our days staring at screens. As a result, it makes sense to devote some of that screen time to the things we really enjoy. There's no need to be doing an endless doomscroll of depressing news headlines when you could be looking at memes, and all of the ones we have here only prove it.
Do you feel beaten down by the universe? Is thinking more difficult than you ever remembered? Would you rather die than exercise and develop a healthy routine? Well, we've got some entertainment made for this weary mental state. While some people have the energy to seek out humor and investigate the internet, we know that for some people, the process is daunting. So we've gathered up some good memes of varying freshness, and are here to serve 'em up to you. It ain't much, but it's honest work.
