Anyone who's human has experienced a brain glitch or momentary lapse of judgement that causes dumb things to be said. Well thanks to the internet, people can now post all the idiotic things that come to mind, immortalizing them for all eternity. You think it's painful repressing that memory of saying something stupid ten years ago? Try erasing that facepalm-worthytweet that's been screenshot a million times. We've collected a handful of examples of embarrassing blunders, moments of stupidity, and tone-deaf headlines for anyone who needs a good scoff.
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We love to see ordinary people exploiting glitches in the system, flawed discount deals, lazy employers, and any big institution that profits from usually doing the exploiting. When you spend most of your life rising and grinding every damn day to pay the bills, even the smallest win can feel like striking gold, like figuring out how to secure a free weekly lunch for the next couple years.
We've got a bunch of great examples of clever people taking advantage of loopholes thanks to a hot recent thread from r/AskReddit.
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Disappointment is one of the most inevitable feelings in life. No matter how positive our attitudes, or how hard we try, every so often something will come along to f*ck things up. It's never easy when things don't go the way you want them to. Thankfully, these days there are plenty of memes out there to help vent this frustration.
'For The Better, Right?' is one of the latest memes to capture this specific emotion. It takes a scene from Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, reimagining a conversation with Padmé and Anakin on their differing attitudes towards the Galactic Republic. Padmé's unwelcome realization about their opposing views has become a universal indicator for anything that doesn't turn out the way we expect. While it might be too late to change things that have gone wrong in the past, at least this format means we can laugh at them.
If you're a human, chances are you've had to interact with an entitled jerk at some point in your life—the sort of person who expects free goods and services for no reason, or someone who complains when a favor from a friend didn't meet their insane expectations. No Karen, I will not also cook and deliver the free Thanksgiving turkey I offered you. Jeez.
r/ChoosingBeggars is brimming with examples of people who exposed their own ungratefulness and greed, and it's a great place to lurk if you're in the mood to get pissed off at total strangers. Here are twenty-seven eye-roll worthy examples of choosy beggars.
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Little kids are pretty damn stupid. But to be fair, most of them have only been alive for a few years. As toddlers, we all said and did batshit ridiculous stuff that we'd never get away with now—like cutting up every extension cord in the house for absolutely no reason or burying your baby brother in a pile of flour. To be honest, we kind of envy some of these dumb kids. Wouldn't it be nice to fully indulge the sudden urge to throw a cup of soda across the room without having to worry about the consequences? Sigh. At least we can live vicariously through these laughable examples of kids being impressively stupid.
It may not be Halloween, but that doesn't mean we can't get our fix of spooky stories in the off-season. Scary stories are one of those things that most people enjoy hearing, but not experiencing themselves. They may give you nightmares but at the end of the day, that adrenaline rush is totally worth it. Now onto the creepy stories! And check out even more on eBaum's World!
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Life in the 21st century feels like a bad dark comedy no one would ever pay to see. Every new headline about some evil biotech company developing drugs that make prisoners feel like they're serving 1,000 year sentences only further proves that the world is some sick joke and we're living in a boring dystopia. If you're sitting in your Kafkaesque cubical, crying inside while you wait for Western civilization to collapse, maybe you'll morbidly enjoy these dismal posts about the late capitalist hellscape we're all forced to exist in.
Karma's a bitch. But karma is almost not enough of a punishment for these terrible people. From animal abusers to selfish murderers, these scumbags deserve to be punished - and hard. While shaming them online may not help them rehabilitate, we're here to acknowledge that there are a lot of people out there who need a serious talking to. Or, y'know, a lobotomy.
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Is one's life just a series of random and chaotic events, or are there underlying patterns that determine the things that happen to us? In the late 1050s, Meteorologist Edward Lorenz was skeptical of linear statistical models of meteorology and pioneered weather and climate predictability through his discovery of deterministic chaos—the theory that though chaotic systems appear to be random, they contain underlying patterns and feedback loops which can be used to explain evidently unpredictable outcomes in weather. And so a small, seemingly inconsequential change to initial conditions can lead to significantly different results. In his 1963 paper entitled Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow, Lorenz claims that "two states differing by imperceptible amounts may eventually evolve into two considerably different states...If, then, there is any error whatever in observing the present state—and in any real system such errors seem inevitable—an acceptable prediction of an instantaneous state in the distant future may well be impossible...In view of the inevitable inaccuracy and incompleteness of weather observations, precise very-long-range forecasting would seem to be nonexistent." Although Lorenz's deterministic chaos theory was focused on connecting cause and effect in weather to the general instability of Earth's atmosphere, the 'butterfly effect' metaphor has been used in different areas, such as quantum mechanics and (oftentimes incorrectly) in fiction. In Ray Bradbury's 1952 short story A Sound of Thunder, where time travel is a mundane reality and wealthy tourists can travel back in time to hunt dinosaurs for sport, one character is warned by his 'Time Safari' guides not to interfere with events from the past more than necessary, since small causes can snowball into catastrophic effects over time. At one point the character accidentally falls in the forest, but doesn't think much of it. When he returns to the present, he notices significant differences in the reality he once knew and eventually discovers a butterfly crushed under his shoe. The death of one butterfly millions of years ago had caused a catastrophic rift in time. Though this is a pretty outrageous interpretation of chaos theory, it's easy to go down a rabbit hole of wondering what other outcomes might have happened if seemingly minuscule changes to our own past life events were possible. In hindsight, it's easy to appreciate those random decisions that help us avoid disaster, but the implication that every decision you make potentially has a life or death outcome can drive anyone crazy.
We've got a bunch of examples of times people 'dodged a bullet' by making small decisions based on a feeling, or sometimes nothing at all. One person recounts the time they randomly decided to cancel a flight, which happened to be Malaysia Airlines flight 370. What at the time seemed like a mundane decision turned out to be a life-saving one. Not all of these anecdotes describe such dire mortal events—most of these stories are about the sort of times when you feel like you initially missed out on something good, but later realize you avoided an incredibly undesirable situation, like a job for a company that eventually goes out of business, or a date who ends up revealing themselves to be a psycho. You gotta wonder—were these people just lucky, or are there underlying patterns at play?
r/madlads is a great document of the chaotic rebels of the world who have no regard for rules, regulations, and politeness. The sort of people who'd answer a Craigslist listing for a used washing machine just to do a free load of laundry and then ghost the seller. We've got a very entertaining collection of mad lads and pranksters who give absolutely zero f**ks. Be sure to check out r/madlads for even more great content.
Picture this: your cellphone rings and the sound alone makes your skin crawl. You look down at the screen and it's just what you suspected—unknown caller. Do you answer? Do you screen the call like so many others before it? You're feeling brave today, so you take the call. There's a pause and then the mysterious unknown caller reveals themselves in all their cringe: "Hello. We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty." Joke's on them—your license has been suspended for a year now. You have a choice: do you hang up, or have a little fun?
When trolls and phone scammers cross paths, entertaining things can happen. In one Reddit thread, madlads boast about all the different ways in which they took control of unsolicited spam calls and turned the tables on unsuspecting scammers. Take notes.
r/masterhacker is a treasure trove of cringey and hilarious examples of wannabe hackers trying their best to intimidate people online with empty threats, seeking advice that betrays their naivety, and straight up asking people for their IP addresses so they can hack them. We've got a bunch of amusing screenshots and memes about the sort of person who whispers 'I'm in' to themselves after using a Windows command prompt to identify an IP address. Be sure to check out r/masterhacker for more of this content.
Anyone who is well-versed in the art of the subtweet can probably appreciate a good starter pack meme. Say there's some jerk you want to roast without calling them out by name—just concoct a scathing starter pack meme loosely based on their worst qualities. But be careful, even the most specific spicy memes can make a few innocent bystanders feel personally attacked. That said, the punchline of a starter pack meme doesn't always depend on roasting particular kind of person. Some of our favorites are simply relatable in an amusingly wholesome way. Check out some of the funny starter pack memes we picked out for those who'll never tire of the classic format.
