Many spouses choose a no-fault divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. In the US, for example, 31% of couples who end their marriages report that incompatibility is the main factor. But the leading causes are infidelity (or extramarital affairs) with 34% and lack of family support with 43%. And how people and up in these (and other) categories can be as diverse as the individual themselves. So when Redditt user SpicyNovel asked everyone on the platform to share the most petty reason they've heard someone has gotten a divorce, they received plenty of replies.
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Adolescence is tiring. And Reddit user Technical-Alps6831 believes her days would be a whole lot easier if it wasn’t for her parents.
The 19-year-old, who is still living with them, feels like her younger brother is already capable of taking care of himself, which includes bearing the responsibility for his actions. However, when he snuck into her room and inadvertently got high off her edibles, their mom and dad blamed her.
So she told the story to the subreddit ‘Am I the [Jerk]?‘ to get a better understanding of the situation.
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Family life can be difficult as it is, but when you add autism into the mix, even ordinary conflicts might become a very big deal.
Therefore, it’s important for the children to feel they’re all cared for and are all making a contribution to the household. This also encourages everyone to pull together as a family and teaches all children valuable skills and independence.
Experts recommend that parents set consistent rules, use strategies to encourage positive behavior in all their children, and try to be fair in handling aggressive or hurtful behavior from all their children as well as work out tasks and chores that suit their children’s different ages, stages of development, strengths and abilities.
The author of the post said that her parents didn’t seem to be “too against” her cannabis use, so it’s hard to imagine the boundaries that they had settled on before the whole ordeal.
However, her argument that she’s “an adult” doesn’t really stand. As of January 2024, 24 states plus the District of Columbia and three U.S. territories have put in place regulations for the recreational use of marijuana. Recreational use—wherever it has been legalized—is limited to those who are 21 and older.
Autism advocate Lisa Jo Rudy acknowledges that older siblings of autistic children may be frustrated when parents’ attention is pulled to a younger sibling. At at nineteen, however, the young woman, who already thinks of herself as an adult, should have already established her own place not only in her school but also in her family.
So if her parents think that their current arrangement isn’t working, she should at least demonstrate some maturity and work together to find a solution.
What you see is not always what you get. Especially when it comes to the culinary world. From packaging to cookbooks and even restaurant menus, the portrayal of food often sets high expectations that reality struggles to meet.
So we at Bored Panda put together a list of pictures people shared after they realized the gap between what they wanted and what they got. Looks like there was plenty of room for dessert!
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Navigating this rugged terrain isn’t easy for anyone, so men have recently been opening up on Reddit about the most frustrating issues they’ve encountered while trying to date. From misunderstandings to ever-changing preferences from women, we’ve gathered some of their most popular replies below. Enjoy scrolling through, whether you’re still in the dating pool or not, and keep reading to find a conversation with dating and relationships coach Rachel New! Image credits: anon Image credits: ArmariumEspata Image credits: habbo311 To learn more about the difficulties that men encounter when dating today, we reached out to dating and relationships coach Rachel New, who was kind enough to share her thoughts with Bored Panda. First, Rachel noted that not knowing what the “rules” are is a common frustration for not only heterosexual men, but heterosexual women as well. "These men complain that they don’t know whether to take it slow (at both the messaging stage and moving the dates along to intimacy) and that women expect them to read their minds," the expert explained. "And some of these women worry that they will come across as too keen if they want to meet up rather than message a lot, or that the man will think they aren’t interested if they take longer to be ready to meet or don’t want to kiss on a first date," Rachel says. "Men are also expected to take the initiative to arrange the date, but can be criticized for 'taking over' or being too controlling or assertive," she continued. "And when they arrange the date, often the woman will not like what he has planned, particularly if it involves food." Image credits: Splaaaty Image credits: WakeoftheStorm Image credits: Zurg0Thrax The dating expert also noted that finding a partner today might be even harder than it was in the past. "These expectations for men to have a good income, take the lead, and be physically attractive have been around for centuries, but now there is an added desire for men to be confident and strong and comfortable with emotions and being vulnerable!" Rachel shared. While there are some men that get a lot of attention on dating apps without much effort, that's not the case for everyone. "There is another subset of men that never get any matches or messages, partly because of the superficial nature of dating apps that are so focused on appearance," Rachel noted. "Research shows that men that have more to offer (skills of emotional connection, humor, empathy, listening skills, ability to take advice and change their views or behavior, and so on) will do better meeting people in real life." Image credits: Screambloodyleprosy Image credits: A-Red-Guitar-Pick Image credits: ___shadow_wolf__ But not everything about modern dating has made men's lives more difficult. "On the other hand, dating apps do make it easier for men to approach women without having to worry that they’re harassing them," Rachel says. "If you’re at the gym, at work or in a bar or café, it’s difficult to know whether talking to a woman is appropriate or an invasion of privacy, and of course, you don’t know if the woman is open to dating. (This applies to all genders and orientations, of course – but for heterosexual men, there is another layer of concern about safety and privilege.)" Image credits: Slarg232 Image credits: DontTakePeopleSrsly Image credits: Educational_Fig_2213 The dating expert also shared some of the best advice she has for men dating in this modern world. "It’s helpful to understand that we can all be too judgmental about small things because they remind us of something that happened in a previous dating experience or relationship," Rachel says. "We are vigilant because we want to protect ourselves from getting hurt or from disappointment. So when women say 'Don’t bother messaging me if …' on dating profiles, it sounds very intolerant but actually comes from a place of protection and empowerment: I deserve to be treated well and I’m not taking any risks," she explained. Image credits: AaronParan Image credits: festival-papi Image credits: anon Rachel also says that talking openly is the healthiest way to avoid these common misunderstandings and frustrations. "If you’re not sure whether you’re going too fast or slow, just ask 'What pace works best for you? I’ve found in the past that people vary in what they feel comfortable with, so it would be helpful for you to tell me if I’m going too slowly or quickly,'" the expert suggests. "It’s important that this is two-way: a woman who is in a good place for healthy dating will ask you back: 'What works best for you?'" Image credits: anon Image credits: anon Image credits: Tokedout01 Rachel shared that she often discusses with her straight male clients the need to understand what might be driving the expectations of the other person. "Expecting someone to read your mind is unrealistic and often comes from an unmet need for a responsive caregiver," she noted. "As very young infants, we need our caregivers to know when we’re hungry, tired, too hot or cold or distressed, and to respond appropriately. We can only cry at that stage, so we need them to read our minds. If we experience that responsiveness and attunement as young infants, we can move onto more emotionally mature developmental stages where we can simply request what we need and not feel wounded when people don’t always 'get' us immediately," Rachel explained. Image credits: Wide-Expression5880 Image credits: JPK12794 Image credits: Burn-The-Villages "Recognizing when someone needs something (mindreading) from us that we can’t give helps us to decide when to move on from a dating experience or relationship," Rachel added. "Sometimes having an open discussion about their relationship template and expectations can be enough to help them see they need to change, but this needs to be done without criticism, blame or defensiveness." "Ultimately, good relationship skills such as being able to discussing difficult emotional issues without it escalating are absolutely vital to navigating those early stages of dating, which is why I do a lot of work on those skills with people so they are ready when the right person comes along!" the expert shared. If you'd like to gain insight into your own relationships or check out Rachel's dating workbook, be sure to visit her website! 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I went out with a woman a few times and enjoyed her company. She told me she was casually seeing a few guys. So I backed off. That’s not my thing. She later reached out again and expressed that she considered herself “old school” and that I needed to pursue her if I wanted it to happen. I told her that I don’t chase women. Especially one that is not giving me her undivided attention. I’m not going to compete for her affection, I’d rather be alone.
#2
Trust me, men do NOT like it when women (like those your husband is friends with) play “hard to get.” It’s degrading, dehumanizing, and makes us feel like creeps. Women who act this way are really not worth our time and effort, anyway.
#3
Girls think that I am supposed to chase them. Jump through hoops to gain their approval. Nope. I match your energy and if you don't reciprocate I have zero patience for it. If they were genuinely interested they would put in tons more effort.
#4
How often women ghost. I don't much care about getting rejected, sure it sucks but it's an expectation we have going into dating, it's going to happen quite a lot. But for the love of god, reject me in any way except for ghosting.
At least if I get blocked, or insulted, or politely put down, I know the other person's intentions and can move on with my life. If I'm ghosted out of the blue, I have no way of knowing if the other person has moved on, or is just too busy to contact me, or is playing hard to get. I'd take getting directly rejected 100 times over the ambiguity of getting ghosted by someone I was interested in.
Edit: obviously ghosting is acceptable if the other person doesn't take no for an answer or otherwise makes you uncomfortable.
#5
Only issue I've had is in gauging how quickly to escalate. Some women seem to lose interest if you move too slow, others get turned off if you push too quickly. Online dating really exaggerates this because you can't get feedback from body language during the conversation.
#6
From my perspective as a man, it is extremely difficult to know what a woman wants. So the chase is off the table because it is an extreme gamble of either successful getting a date or being labelled a creep. The chase should not be a thing because, as a guy, I will play it better safe than sorry. Communication is necessary. Don't make it harder by expecting me to understand vague hints. Direct communication is the best way to get what you want.
My gripe with dating apps is that a majority of women's profiles just have their snapchat or Instagram handle, and they expect me to text them on those apps. Why the heck should I have to use another app's texting feature when one exists on the dating app?
#7
I have a playstation if I want to play games. If I'm into you, I'll tell you.
#8
Modern dating is the most frustrating thing I've come across in modern dating.
Specifically how most people my age (20's) simply aren't trying to engage romantically outside of the s****y dating apps... and even if they do, the expectations are already so inflated by said apps it just becomes a frustrating ordeal for both parties.
#9
That women want you to approach them but are unapproachable at the same time.
#10
A lot of my gal pals are in relationships that they're absolutely miserable in (example: she has to lie to her boyfriend to hang out with literally anyone because "she's bi and she could cheat on him with anyone"), but won't leave because it's "better than nothing and they're waiting for someone better to come along". I almost died from the looks alone when I asked if "someone better" was the type of person who went after a woman in a committed relationship...
As for chasing a woman after she turns me down, absolutely not. You all spent the last 10 years drilling into our heads that No Means No and if you say No that's that.
A woman put it best: "Guys don't want to chase, they want to play Tag. You need to chase them too".
#11
I learned to avoid women that want a guy to chase them like the plague in middle school. This type of woman isn’t chasing love, she’s chasing anxiety.
It’s really the most toxic and unattractive thing a woman can do. Especially in a world of “no means no” and #metoo.
#12
If we approach it's "not appropriate and being creep even for something as small as Hi".
If we don't approach then "how are you supposed to get into relationship if you don't approach".
If we approach a women we know then they don't put the equal efforts and love the runner chaser dynamic.
If a women is interested in me then she won't put any efforts other than eye contact and later complain I don't get hints
and most of the women around me can't even hold conversations, others are just committed and not available.
#13
I spent a week talking to you and asked if you’d like to meet and talk more. You went silent.
I moved on to another match. You came back a week later and asked how I was doing.
Are you dumb? Or are men that desperate to talk to a woman online and will forgive ghosting and making me wait on you hand and foot on your “precious” time as if my time isn’t valuable at all.
If you wonder why men don’t respond to you after you’ve made us wait a few days for a simple response, it’s because those are the good ones. We didn’t respond because you made us wait for a f*****g sentence.
#14
The more I play into the f**kboy/player archetype, the better things go for me and while I do *like* when things go well for me, I don't like that it's because I embrace behaviors that I've been taught are counterproductive.
#15
Women who show romantic interest and we grow closer together, but then when I try and take things to the next level, they pull back and say that they’re not emotionally ready to be in a relationship only to turn around and date someone else.
#16
The god-awful grueling scrutiny. Whatever happened to just two people having fun? Instead, you turn a date into a job interview nightmare with a bunch of gotcha questions and a 5-year plan.
#17
Thank God I'm not dating anymore. My problem was the ridiculous double standards out there and the cherry picking of feminist ideals when it was convenient. If you wanted something, you're misogynistic. If you didn't give something they wanted, you weren't chivalrous. If you want sex, you're a f**k boy. If she wanted money, she's just someone who knows her worth, not a gold digger. She is worth everything just because. You gotta prove what you bring for her.
#18
Gotta say the most frustrating thing we've seen lately is the judgement and worrying about what others think. Whether it be family, friends, etc. Whatever happened to just being happy.
#19
Dinner-view culture and expectations.
Honestly, the ROI isn’t there. The issue is not the price. It’s the return. It’s emptying to watch someone pic over an expensive dish and making small talk.
I would rather pay for a ticketed event, go to a museum, or hike, bike, kayak, golf, volunteer, run a race, etc. I know that I’m going to enjoy those things. I see a lot of women doing those things happily as well. Unfortunately, I have felt and been told (in a round about way and directly) that companionship is earned.
A genuine connection is rare and you’re less likely to find it over a “dinner-view” (talking about divorces, dating broken divorcees, finances, time with children, etc). Being in my late 40s, it’s important to enjoy my time. I date less frequently and usually it’s a female friend who has “got this really nice friend” when I do.
#20
Generally I feel like the bad guy and that I'm under the microscope being judged under the umbrella of "ugh, men". It's so assumed that I'm like that that I cannot do anything right. In general my goals with dating are to find a person I like, connect with and get into a long term commitment. I don't do ONS, I don't like people coming into my home really. But here's the experience, you meet a girl, you invite her out quickly. That's too quick and you're a man so you're just trying to get her into bed. So you slow down try to be a bit longer, leave it up to her. Nope that's indecisive, you need to be clear and know what you want. So you go down the middle and take it at a pace you're comfortable with. Nope wrong again you've got to do it at her pace which if faster than your pace is wrong again. You're just expected to get everything right first time. Combine this with actually trying to get a date and especially with online dating you'll never be good enough, ever. It's always going to be "your photos aren't good enough, your bio isn't quite right" so putting the effort in after the 4th or 5th redo is just incredibly frustrating. Generally the standards you're expected to meet vary so rapidly but are hyperspecific, so you cannot meet them.
#21
Being noticed at all. I often feel invisible. Not even trying to be dramatic. I’ve had a few dates, and two really short term relationships (less than six months) in my seven years of multiple dating apps. And absolutely nothing for the last three years. No decent conversations have materialized these past few years.
Now most of my friends and siblings are married with kids and they all do couples- type things and I’m even more alone as a result. Not implying I’m some super attractive rich person, and certainly not to say I somehow deserve to have dates and romance blah blah, but goddamn it’s frustrating being so invisible to others.
And going out into the real world to talk to folks has gotten me 100% nothing in the last years.
It’s so bad that I am starting to think that maybe meeting that someone special and falling in love is just not something even possible anymore. Like that part of my life is just over now.
#22
All i want is to meet up for a coffee to see if we click then go for a proper date, not make a load of online pen pals.
OLD means it often takes 2+ weeks just to get that coffee
HUGE time sink for almost zero gain.
#23
I tend to feel like I’m in a psych ward. You know how talking too much = anxiety, taking not enough = depression? Everything you do is the wrong thing to do.
If I chase when it’s not wanted, I’m seen as obsessed. If I don’t chase when it’s wanted, I’m seen as uninterested. But I am completely unable to tell who wants to be chased and doesn’t want to and asking for clarification is kinda taboo. So it’s kind of a guessing game but if I f**k up, the gossip could spread to future potential partners. So a lot of us lean toward “Better safe than sorry” meaning we don’t ask. But then women think we don’t like them or care about them or whatever. Idk if you can understand how this would drive someone crazy trying to navigate this. I’ve had the most success being detached and only pursuing women who express enough interest in me that it’s distinguishable from friendliness because that takes the guess work out of it.
#24
Barrier to entry is quite high, but also 'the bar is on the floor'. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me, if the minimum standards are so low, but I still can't get a date.
#25
Honestly some men have it way easier on the dating front while others like me struggle. Only thing I'd say is that it's a pain to chat with a wall, so much so that I just straight up give up.
If you're not participating in the conversation or even trying to have one, then I have no reason to be on the date.
Side note, dating apps are something there to ruin my mental health, confidence and any self image I've built for myself. Weeks of no matches into straight up ghosting from first hello whenever I do get one. Or then it's a scammer.
I guess in a nutshell, good date would be win-win for both participants, not just one person doing everything and getting "a reward". Going to a bar and getting one night stand or just straight up hiring hooker is easier, if you just wanna get off.
#26
Women wanting to be chased, even though they're glaringly, obviously interested in someone.
Not being able to say "our chemistry wasn't there for me" instead gradually ghosting you without an explanation.
#27
A lot of young women in my generation glorify cheating and have high expectations in what they want in a man but they don't meet those expectations themselves. That's why some of them get an older sugar daddy.
I worked at a predominantly woman dominated workplace for a number of years and some of these younger women will say s**t like they want a man that makes good money however they work a min wage job.
#28
I have learned how to avoid the frustration.
Don’t bother approaching
Especially in our current culture where approaching can easily be seen as harassing, with serious social and legal repercussions.
It is clear that, with some rare exceptions, the vast majority of women don’t want, or even like, men.
According to data from dating apps 95% of women find 80% of men unattractive by every blind survey, and by actual data usage (“swiping”, “liking”, and responding to messages) on dating/social apps such as Tinder, OKCupid, Bumble, Cuddle Comfort, etc.
So, for men that aren’t “high value”, that is to say, model good-looking, rich, and/or famous, the best we can do is enjoy our own lives.
Dive into your career.
Be passionate about your hobbies.
Invest in your own friend groups of men.
Volunteer your time.
Focus on self-care.
Don’t waste your time and energy on pursuing women.
Certainly don’t waste your money, or risk your career, social standing, or reputation.
Remember, if you have to approach them, that is already your answer.
The message in our current culture is clear: If a woman is interested in you she will approach you.
#29
Lots of expectations for men, yet not so much accountability when it comes to women. Like nearly every day here, there's some woman asking about how she can wiggle under/past some standard that she might expect from the men she fancies. Just in general a lot of people don't really want to listen to men about issues related to dating, unless it fits some arbitrary norm and isn't slightly controversial or something like that. Even if most of the time men are trying to emulate how they see women talk about this stuff. People just don't seem to factor in that not all guys have the same experience and are not at the same point as other people.
ln general I was sort of burnt out in my teenage years, lots of gals who were not that great of relationship material and I wanted more of a sure thing that the relationship would be stable. It might have cut down on the amount of dates/relationships, but most of the ones I did end up having ended up being healthy.
#30
I’ll tackle the older end of things, as I am in my 50s.
That saying that women control access to sex and men control access to relationships is absolutely true as you get older. He’s looking for someone to f**k who he might eventually like a relationship with. She’s looking for a relationship with someone who she might eventually f**k.
First dates with women my age turn into financial and relationship history colonoscopies. They want to know details of your financial prospects so they know if you can either keep up or provide and they want to know what they are getting into because they are looking for the guy they hope to be buried next to someday. ON A FIRST DATE. They want to know the deepest and most painful details of why your first marriage failed that only your closest two friends in the world know…ON A FIRST DATE.
Meanwhile, most guys have been there and done that. And we just don’t understand why anyone would want to go through that hell again. We want someone we can laugh with, watch movies with, talk with, snuggle, and f**k. Why ruin that with a serious relationship? We aren’t thinking about long-term relationships yet. If it leads to that, great. But that’s off the table for now and may never be on the table.
It makes for a lot of frustrating first date fails on both sides.
#31
That women will make rules for men who will make great partners before getting intimate with them but will break those same exact for a random conventionally attractive party dude for no reason.
#32
It is because gender roles dont hardly exist anymore in the western world so but a LOT of women still want the benefits of gender roles but not the same responsiblities. Like wanting to be pursued when society says the pursuing is harassment, or being treated like a lady but getting all the perks of being a man.
At this point, we don’t think any convincing is really necessary in terms of funny memes. They’re memes. They’re funny. Yes, you deserve to indulge in some. Take a friend with you.
Incidentally, there’s an Instagram page that dishes out chucklesome and relatable bits of internet content to waste everyone’s time because of course you can’t help but show at least one of them to your friends.
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I’m sure you’re already aware of the nooks and crannies where memes flow freely. We’re also sure you won’t mind getting a new venue to virtually peruse too. @EpicFunnyPage on Instagram is one such venue, currently on its way to 13,000 posts uploaded since late 2013 (averaging at 1,300 posts per year). Plenty of mileage there.
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It goes without saying that memes as an internet phenomenon don’t really get old. By that, we don’t mean that memes themselves don’t age—they do. New ones are created as others die and fade into obscurity. Thus is the cycle of internet life.
No, we mean that people just don’t stop consuming memes. And there’s a lot of reasoning behind it. Some of which is inevitable and the other is unavoidable. Embrace it.
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The inevitable and unavoidable comes from the fact that memes are by nature viral. They spread across the internet and just never go away. Why? Because they are relatable and funny—they provide a sense of comfort by showing just how universal some human experiences are, all the while throwing out some gags and goofs about it.
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Another factor of their inevitability is how ingrained they have become in our lives as a form of communication. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, sometimes a meme is worth just as much, and it actually uses words. Just that there aren’t that many of them. But match that up with an appropriate image and you got yourself volumes at this point.
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But the one thing which is more seldom considered is the idea of memes as a form of escapism. Considering that everything has been seemingly going down the drain since, maybe, 2015, with things like the pandemic, economic crises, war, and that’s on top of the already problematic world we live in, it’s no wonder why people need to find some room to breathe.
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Addiction and mental health help venue Fort Behavioral Health discusses escapism as a form of coping with real life challenges and struggles. Among the more conventional methods of escapism, like reading, music, and exercise, things like video games and scrolling through memes have become viable options through which to escape a stressful reality.
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Escapism, while sweet and juicy at times, can be taken to an extreme and, seriously, nobody wants that. Drugs and alcohol are the more traditional modes of escapism and that in and of itself doesn’t lead to good things. So, if you get addicted to memes, the results might be quite similar—both you and your ability to face reality might start to change in ways where you wouldn’t be able to cope, creating a vicious circle of sorts.
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And if you think you can’t ever get addicted to memes, don’t forget what empowers that: dopamine.
Because memes are predominantly found on social media and relevant websites, and we often gravitate there as a reward for a job well done (or nothing done at all, still applies), we get that sweet dopamine release making us feel good. Memes have the same effect.
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In such a case, just remember that everything should be taken in moderation. Pace yourself, take breaks from memes and keep yourself busy with other things. If it does get out of hand, seek help. Ain’t no shame in that.
But if you’re more than fine, continue scrolling and keep another article open in a new tab for an encore.
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Navigating the wild world of online dating isn’t easy. You might have thousands of options to swipe through, but finding someone you’re attracted to who’s also interested in you and has similar interests can feel like finding a needle in a haystack.
So when TikToker Fi Rooney found a match online, she decided to get to know him for a few days before deciding whether or not they should actually meet up in person. And when she expressed that she actually wasn’t interested in a date, the man unleashed a swarm of angry voice memos on her. Below, you’ll find a video that Fi shared featuring all of the messages she received, as well as a conversation with Licensed Professional Counselor and Life Coach, Jacy Robinson.
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Speaker Two: “So yeah, best of luck to you, just next time, when you’re gonna let someone down, don’t make it Sunday night when they’re just chilled out. Like, God, man. Well, to be fair, I think I’ve absolutely dodged a bullet, to be honest, man, and saved myself some fuel money. So yeah. Best of luck to you.”
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“I mean, hey, if you don’t want to give someone an answer who, we were just like, we were talking for quite a few days. And, like you, you elicit an emotional response from me. So if you just wanted to end it all with one message, like, fair enough. Don’t insult my intelligence by saying, ‘Hey, I think the reason I don’t want to message all day is because I’ve been busy.’ You knew, you would just wait until you had all your fun in the sun for a weekend, and then you’re just gonna go, right? All the good bits over.
And also, big red flag is you talking about ADHD right from the get-go. So many people talking about their ADHD and their neurodiversity within the first few sentences are massive red flags, because it’s like, your entire personality. And it’s not that interesting. I’m have ADHD, I don’t use it as an excuse. So anyway, Tara, I figured I’m already on your [black] list anyway. And if it was about physical attraction, well, and I’m not expecting you were, just because you’re not rude. You’re not nasty. But you’re not going to turn around and say, ‘so I don’t find you physically attractive.’ But hey, I wasn’t exactly blown away by you, myself. But I was willing to just give it a go. Because I just liked your personality. So take that. But it’s just inferior that I knew you were feeling this way. You didn’t just come out with it. Like, no one just comes out with that. You gave me no respect.”
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“To be honest, yes, I feel like I’m lashing out and I’m annoyed because basically, I feel like, and this has always come across from my point of view, anyway, is that I was used because you were just a little bit bored. Then as soon as you’ve gone off and had fun, or you’ve probably shagged someone over there, I don’t know.”
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“And then you’ve just decided, oh, no, actually, I’m done with him now. It’s back to reality tomorrow. Just don’t fancy him anymore. To not even give me like, one interaction in person, which I was prepared to do, is like, I don’t know, man, that’s where it’s at for me. And yet, you don’t owe me any explanation. You don’t owe me any of these things. I just simply wanted them because I felt like I put enough time and considered how, and that you’ve obviously rejected a few people, I feel. And maybe that’s unfair of me to say that outright. You know, I’m giving you the voice notes. I’m just giving you the raw stuff. I am thoroughly, thoroughly not interested in seeing you whatsoever. So we’re done. That’s fine. I just, yeah, just bye.
So anyway, good luck with the next person, to be honest, going by the way you’ve acted by just cutting this off without even giving it a chance gives me the idea that who you were going to see in London is not a friend, it’s someone that you are romantically interested in, which is like, don’t be on the bloody app if that’s the case. I just don’t buy it. Or I do not take back what I’m saying. Like, I feel like we would have been wasting our time because I would have probably just got the ick from actually interacting with you in person. Go get some accountability.”
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@therealfifilaroux It’s giving Alpha Dom #Fyp #TheIck #Dating #datingstorytime ♬ original sound – Fi Rooney
Despite the fact that rejection is an inevitable part of dating, it can be very difficult for some of us to take. So to learn more about this specific situation, we reached out to Licensed Professional Counselor and Life Coach, Jacy Robinson. Jacy was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda and break down why it can be so difficult to accept rejection.
“Whether it’s rejection or accountability, it’s hard for people to accept realities that do not align with the person they think they are,” the expert explained. “It is common for people to take rejection as a personal attack. I think this especially occurs if a person values external validation more highly than internal validation. Rejection acts as a piece of evidence that influences their unhelpful thoughts about themselves, which is unfortunate.”
Rather than sending a slew of voice memos, Jacy noted that a healthier way to respond to rejection is to simply accept it. “Radical acceptance is a great skill that requires the person utilizing the skill to accept things as they are, without judgement,” she shared. She also warned that reacting like the man in this story did is 100% a red flag. “I can also say that if someone responds [like this] in one setting, it may be generalized to other similar settings as well,” Jacy added.
“I think the issue with rejection is entitlement,” the expert noted. “It begins in childhood, when kids are conditioned to not accept no for an answer. A way to resolve this issue is to simply say no to your kids sometimes. Let them know that they are able to say no as well. Also, provide reassurance when they are told no. Being told no does not mean you are not valuable or inferior.”
It’s natural to have a slight fear of rejection, as one study found that 60% of men have felt insecurities when it comes to dating, often linked to the fear of being turned down. But we have to remember not to let those worries stop us from taking any action. Relationship expert Rachael Lloyd explained to Mashable that, when we’re looking for a partner, we’re trying to find a great match. If both parties aren’t on the same page, there’s no need to even desire a relationship with them.
It’s also wise not to take rejection personally, Lloyd recommends, as you’re not being rejected as much as the relationship is. This person might not see a future with you because you want different things, you have different interests or you just don’t happen to be their type. That doesn’t mean that there’s anything wrong with you as a person.
As Dita Von Teese once said, “You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches.” Not every person you encounter is going to be someone you’d like to date, and you can’t expect everyone to want to date you either. While rejection might sting in the moment, try to put a positive spin on it and realize that you’re now one step closer to finding the person you are meant to be with. You’ve eliminated one more option, so you can stop wasting your time with them and move onto the next!
If you’re having a difficult time dealing with the pain of being turned down, CNBC shared a piece detailing ways to keep your spirits up. First, they recommend taking a beat in between relationships to pick yourself back up. You don’t have to ease the pain of rejection by quickly jumping onto a dating app or into someone else’s DMs. Take some time to do some self reflection as well. What can you learn from this experience? How can you use this knowledge to help you in future relationships?
Remember to be kind to yourself as well. Resist the temptation to believe that being rejected is because of some moral failing you have or due to your physical insecurities. You are not any less deserving of love, especially from yourself. And try not to compare yourself to others either. It can be easy to start looking at other relationships and wondering why they get to be so happy when you don’t, but being single can come with plenty of perks!
Finally, CNBC suggests that you surround yourself with people who do make you feel valued after experiencing rejection. Find friends or family members who you enjoy spending time with and who allow you to be 100% yourself around them. Don’t stop enjoying life just because a few relationships didn’t work out.
We would love to hear your thoughts on this situation in the comments below, pandas. Have you ever received messages like this after turning someone down? Feel free to share in the comments below, and let us know how you would have reacted to these voice memos. Then, if you’re interested in reading another Bored Panda piece discussing the wild world of dating, we recommend checking out this piece next!
Bullying is a serious problem in schools. You can fight to reduce its impact, but it still manages to rear its ugly head from time to time. Sometimes, all it takes is a single item of clothing for your classmates to start making fun of you.
One dad, Reddit user u/RogueMisanthrope, turned to the AITA community for their thoughts about a very sensitive situation. He shared how he let his son wear a dress to school. However, the boy got bullied in class, while the dad got called out by his wife. Read on for the full story and to see what the range of opinions other internet users had to share. People had some very different takes on the situation.
Bored Panda has reached out to the author for comment via Reddit, and we’ll update the article once we hear back from him.
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So long as a student’s outfit matches the school’s dress code and regulations, they should be allowed to wear whatever they like. Or, in the case of younger students, whatever it is that their parents pick out for them.
Putting on a dress when you’re male shouldn’t be a big deal—it’s an item of clothing like anything else. But in many places around the world, even in progressive countries, it can cause a lot of outcry. That’s the reality of the situation.
And it’s a reality that parents ought to be aware of, at least on some level. It’s one thing to empower your child and respect their choices by letting them pick out their own outfit. It’s another issue entirely not to offer them some advice when you know the possible negative attitudes that some people might have in your local area.
Or, to put it bluntly: even in the most progressive places on the planet, you’ll still find that some kids and adults are mean to anyone who’s even slightly different than everyone else. It’s human nature to judge others. Self-expression and identity are very important, but you also have to weigh that against the safety of your child.
In an ideal world, your kid would be accepted by all of their classmates no matter what they wear. But we don’t live in an ideal world. Wishing that bullying didn’t exist doesn’t mean that it’ll go away on its own. So, it falls to parents to prepare their kids for the possibility that some of their classmates might say or do mean things.
One redditor had a very nuanced take on the situation. “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a boy wearing a dress, and neither do you, which is great, but you should have realized that letting him walk into school like that was a recipe for disaster,” u/CassowaryCrow wrote.
“Most people do not think a guy should wear a dress, and that includes little kids, who can and will be cruel. Hopefully, the other kids will forget about it in a month or so, but for now, your son is going to face some taunting when he gets to school.”
Many schools want to be inclusive and protect their students, so they create policies to stop bullying and teach everyone to be more tolerant of others’ choices. While this does work to a certain extent, some students simply become more subtle in how they bully others. Or they learn to cover their tracks better.
For some bullies, lashing out at others is a way to feel better about themselves and the events going on in their lives. Others might bully their fellow students as a way to reclaim control that they’ve lost at home or in class. Some kids might want to hurt their classmates in a way that they themselves have been hurt.
While many people can empathize with these situations, it still doesn’t excuse bullying. It should not happen. Period. But so long as it does, it falls to adults to step in instead of ignoring the situation or avoiding responsibility.
Teachers ought to protect their students as best as they can. Meanwhile, parents ought to talk to their children about building up some confidence and emotional resilience while also stressing the importance of being proud of who they are.
It’s vital that your kids know that you are there to support them and that you’ll always hear them out, no matter what.
Being online comes with the ever present risk of being exposed to some of the hottest, dumbest and most brain-melting takes of all time. But every now and then, a hero arrives and hits them with the most savage roasts out there.
The “Conservatives Getting Owned” X page is dedicated to screenshots of bigots, conspiracy theorists and fringe economists being publicly humiliated. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your thoughts in the comments sections below. Remember, be nice!
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The “Conservatives Getting Owned” X page has been around for a while now (since that auspicious year of 2020), and has accumulated an impressive 356 thousand followers. In this day and age, most of us know not to pick fights online. After all, there is no “winning” , just a battle to logging off in the mud.
This is perhaps why this page succeeds, as it does a vital job of showcasing the times where folks with questionable ideas had those same ideas obliterated by words. The idea of a person deciding to “report a crime” online no doubt came from pages like this. If that’s not enough, remember, there are all sorts of cases of people owning themselves.
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It is a bit surreal to think that while we can’t physically experience history because we’re born in a particular place and time, the power of technology has empowered us to see it, understand it, and make conclusions from it.
Historical Capsule is a dedicated community that pretty much empowers people to do just that. Join us as we take a journey through time in this listicle of iconic historical photos below.
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So, Historical Capsule is a subreddit that’s a “step into the past”. It’s an online depository for old and vintage photographs that tell stories from significant events and moments in history.
The subreddit is home to 50,000 members, being ranked in the top 3%, and encourages open discussion and celebration of all things history.
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On the surface, history might sound like a dull and boring discipline. However, if you dig deeper into what it’s all about, you begin to understand just how much essence it has and how much it has to offer in general.
After all, history might be something that’s all about the past, but you’d be surprised just how transformative it might be.
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History professor Mary Jo Festle wrote a piece on how history as a discipline transforms students. In it, she explained that since there isn’t realistically any empirical evidence of this hypothesis, she took it upon herself to figure it out.
She asked nearly 60 of her students across 8 different sections of the small research seminars they hosted to give open-ended responses to prompts reflecting upon the change.
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One of the main prompts was asking students to describe how their understanding of what history is changed during their studies.
A third of the students provided some form of “I now understand history is not just facts about names, dates, or a chronology of events.”
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The answers verified the idea that the interpretive nature of history is a crucial lesson that can be considered a threshold concept.
One student elaborated that they realized how much power historians actually have, i.e. the power to construct the past. History is dynamic and a point of debate as a lot of the unknown in it can be argued.
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Another point to mention is that students didn’t see themselves as books full of facts and figures in history. It’s these same activities of interpreting and analyzing sources, conducting research, looking for influences and biases and challenging what has been read from a critical, multifaceted standpoint, that makes all the difference in the discipline.
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Another student pointed out that, before their studies, they enjoyed watching documentaries and furthering their knowledge that way. After them, however, it was an eye-opening experience to understand that they can now discover history for themselves, see how the evidence works and the puzzle pieces fall into place. There’s more of a hands-on approach than meets the eye.
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If anything, the mini study concluded that in 70% of all cases, history topics were personally challenging in terms of values and assumptions about the world. Among these were themes and topics like gender and sexuality, religious history, the Holocaust as well as Nazism. A number of them touched upon issues of race and foreign policy, civil war and ideology.
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This ultimately led to some openly expressing how challenging topics have made them better human beings. One pointed out how Islam studies brought to light racist assumptions. Another changed their opinion on same sex marriage after investigating sources from LGBTQIA+ people. It gave them perspective. Perspective that made them rethink what they thought before.
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So, what are your thoughts on any of this? Has history changed you, and if so how? Or mayhaps you have an interesting historical story to tell that might fit this listicle. Whatever the case, share your takes and commentary in the comment section below!
And there’s plenty more historical content where that came from.
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After kidnapping Mormon missionary Kirk Anderson from his church, forcing him to be her sex slave for 3 days. 1977
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While you might think you know exactly what you’re getting when booking a hotel, many employees can actually prove otherwise. Hotel and motel workers have recently been sharing the most bizarre things they’ve come across in rooms, so we gathered their most fascinating replies below. From having frightening encounters to finding inexplicable amounts of produce, enjoy scrolling through these odd stories, and be sure to upvote your favorites! Image credits: Velvetystardust Image credits: gherks69 Image credits: moto626 Image credits: ye_olde_tosser Image credits: MenacingGummy Image credits: Jayhawker_Pilot Image credits: ladymerida Image credits: madaboutallthat Image credits: ritaleyla Image credits: Exotic_Pop_5456 Image credits: Gostaverling Image credits: NDRoughNeck Image credits: TheForceIsNapping Image credits: iputitthere Image credits: Digitalstatic Image credits: TheLastMan Image credits: supe3rnova Image credits: Spiritual_Quit_4833 Image credits: Some_Cod_8604 Image credits: awini9 Image credits: JudgeQuick Image credits: Storyteller678 Image credits: TyrantDragon19 Image credits: Hummus-Among-Us Image credits: Appropriate-Battle32 Image credits: TrogdorBurns Image credits: LiterallyAzzmilk Image credits: jollyrobyn#1
This story was told by a housekeeping manager during orientation. An old couple who are regulars would always stay at the hotel every summertime and the lady would always bring her teddy bear. She’d request that the housekeepers make sure to change its outfit daily. Odd indeed for the housekeepers to adhere to those rules, but not until they realized how well this couple would tip and anyone who happened to clean their room for the day would be so lucky. Bear had a name, forgot what it was, but the staff eventually started greeting it lmao.
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Managed several hotel when I was younger, here’s a few weird bits:
A guest left a briefcase with £35k within it, tried to contact them several times to no avail, after 6 months the police advised us it was now ours - this went to the staff bonus pot.
One guest fell seriously ill and was hospitalised. The situation didn’t sit right and locked their companion out of the room (they were given an alternative room for free). Found the companion trying to break into the room (despite our offer to get stuff for them). Police were called and they were wanted by them, also transpired they’d poisoned the guest and were after their wealth.
An urn with someone’s ashes.
Most disgusting is this. Heard the most blood curdling of screams coming from the rooms. Ran up and found a very traumatised housekeeper. As she flicked the bedding (to change the bed), unbeknownst to her, was a used condom. This flicked up in the air and landed on her head. She was frozen in fear and screaming. Had to help her by picking it off her. Understandably she had the rest of the day off.
Have a slew of hospitality tales like these.
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As a guest, checked into a room in CA. I turn on the wall-mounted AC unit and a dirty needle falls out the bottom. Then we order a cot for our kid. We roll it in the room, open it up, and multiple cockroaches fall out and scurry away.
We got our money back and adios immediately.
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A few years ago I was staying in a remote part of Oregon for work. Staying all by myself.
I get up in the morning and go into the bathroom to take a shower. The curtain had been bunched against the wall.
I get undressed, turn the water on, and pull the curtain fully across tub. When I do, it exposes a bloody handprint on the white curtain.
Scared the living s**t out of me. I nope hard out of there and skip the shower leaving as fast as possible.
As I check out I tell the front desk employee about the handprint. She sighs, rolls her eyes and says, “Probably just some hunter cleaning his kill in the bathtub. They’re not supposed to but they do it all the time.”.
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Had a lady check in early & ask for a late check out. She still hadn’t checked out by 2pm & wouldn’t come out of the room. When we were about to have her escorted out she finally left. In the room was 100’s of little white out bottles everywhere. She had painted every reflective surface with white out including all the plumbing under the sink, all the fixtures, every screw & had started painting the mirrors.
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Friend's wife runs a mid priced hotel. She tells stories about what her people have found - everything from dead bodies in the bed frame (yup someone murdered their spouse, wrapped them in plastic) to d***s, adult toys (so many toys), to stolen cars in the parking lot. Anything you can imagine she has found.
Oh just remembered - cams in room. They have to scan every room now to validate that there are nothing communicating in the room now because of how many they have found.
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A bathtub full of turnips.
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Worked at a motel on the outskirts of the city that used to be down the street from some pretty well known strip clubs in Eastern Ontario. There was a performer had an extra special act and left it in the bathtub during the day. The housekeeper wasn't too thrilled about finding a gigantic python in the bathtub first thing in the morning.
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I worked in a cheap hostel in Lisbon about 10 years ago. We had this very odd guest who'd speak in a super low voice and walk really slowly. He'd also leave random bits of TP around the hostel. Once the cleaning lady found him in his room completely rolled in toiled paper.
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For me it would be about 16 gallons of urine stashed underneath a bed we found while cleaning, it was stored in tons of plastic water bottles varying of different brands like Polish Springs or Dasani. once I also found 16 severed fingers in a trash can in a guys room.
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Not me, but my wife worked as a night front desk attendant for a very budget hotel. She had some stories.
The saddest was a couple who were celebrating their wedding night/honeymoon at her hotel. They had been drinking at the reception and came in very happy and friendly. The man came back down after couple of hours because he couldn’t sleep due to backpain. He talked to my wife for a bit and offered her some cake before heading back to the room. He proceeded to take some of his wife’s morphine pills, which interacted with the alcohol in his system. His new bride woke up the next morning a widow.
Then there was a time when the cleaning ladies found a blowup doll a guess left in the room. One of the ladies was super excited to bring it home to her adult son….
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My aunt was a cleaning lady for a nicer hotel for most of her life. She once found 75k in a bag under a pillow. She turned it in.
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Former hotel front desk. At a mid range business hotel ($200+ nightly) we got a frantic call on the radio from housekeeping about a room being nasty.
Yeah, it was nasty. Poop thrown on the ceiling, smeared on the walls, on the floor. The bathroom had poop in the tub.
The room was declared a biohazard, we preauthorized about $2k on the CC, and a specialty company was brought in to clean it.
Customer wasn’t even mad when we called them to inform them of the charges, and the ban from the property.
Edit: let me clarify for those thinking this was explosive diarrhea: the poop wasn’t just in the bathroom, most of it was in the living area.
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Former Motel 6 employee outside of NOLA. Dead bodies always bothered me the most. Almost always recently dead not the hidden body trope you always hear about. As far as weirdest I’d say the room covered in smeared butter and syrup. Literal piles of empty syrup bottles in the bathroom.
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I’m not a worker at a motel but I have a relevant story. About 12 years ago my wife and I arrived in Savannah GA at 11pm to our motel after driving through a thunderstorm for 3 hours. Exhausted and rest to get some sleep, I grabbed the key from the front desk and headed to room #7 while my wife finished the paperwork. I heard noise coming from the room so cautiously opened the door. That was when I found three men and one woman, naked with the exception of some random biker gear like vests and boots were in the middle of making a p**no. They were all in their fifties and none were lighter than 300 lbs. There were two cameras on tripods and the bikers looked to be just went to get into the thick of it. I quickly shut the door once I was no longer in shock. Then ran back to the desk and let them know some people were in our room and the desk clerk set us up in room #1. I didn’t tell the clerk what I saw, but my wife and I had a great laugh when we were in our room.
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Been workinh hotels for almost 20 years. A dead person, suicide. A safe full of dildos. A briefcase that had "if lost, please mail to the FBI". A half melted ice sculpture for doing shots of a double penis. A couple of guns. A person's dog that they left behind.
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A live fish in a bath thub.
Same year, different hotel, fresh bear meat. Twas a hunting season.
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A giant pocket knife like one of the Swiss army ones but it was the size of my arm under a bed.
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A loaded .45 on the bedside table after checkout. I worked at a resort in northern Minnesota. The guy just left it there after checking out. We had to call him and he had to drive back to pick it up. When asked he said he was worried about the bears. He was staying in our main lodge building on the second floor which was essentially a hotel.#20
Not a worker but use to travel for work. Once we were checking into our rooms and me and a coworker were going to her room. She open the door and there was two people living in the room. They were prostitutes who were friends with the house keeper. They were given keys to use empty rooms.
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My father managed a hotel when I was younger. He came home one day distraught after finding a room with s**t everywhere. The guest had s**t in all of the pillow cases and smeared it all over the bathroom as well. I remember him saying it looked like a pig had lived in the room for a week.
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A large sack full of pinecones. We do not have any pine trees nearby so they had to have brought them with. It confuses and haunts me to this day.
#23
I saw this on the short-lived Smoking Gun series on Adult Swim:
Hotel maids went to cleaning out a room only to find that everything in the room had been coated in Vaseline. He’d left behind a bag filled with dozens of empty jars. They charged the damages to his credit card, apparently he’d done the same thing to other hotels around town.
#24
I have a friend who has a side job of cleaning hotel rooms. He calls me out of nowhere cackling about how there were two inflatable sex dolls in the tub kissing, with one in the middle of the room with a paper saying “oh no I’ve been caught!”.
#25
A bunch of used condoms stuck to the ceiling.
#26
Dried s**t in the bed - twice and almost a 1,000 miles apart. A stack of p*rn mags.
#27
While working the night audit at a very upscale hotel a known pimp (who was previously given a trespass notice to never come back to the hotel) somehow got in the building. Around midnight he tried to get upstairs to see his girlfriend and security told him leave or get arrested. Around 4 am he came down the main mezzanine staircase dragging a girl down the stairs by her hair. She was only wearing one shoe, it was clicking on the stairs on the way down.
They were in one of the very expensive suites adjacent to the presidential suite and owner suite. The person that rented the suite was a VVIP and knew how to use the staff elevator and a back entrance so they wouldn't be seen by the public into or out of the hotel.
Some shady stuff went on with that guest getting put on the Do Not Rent list. The VIP had the place booked in someone else's name. The VIP wasn't banned for life, but the person who's name was checked in can't ever rent from the property anymore.
#28
Not a worker - stayed at Borgata in Atlantic City. Layed down on the bed and stretched my arms up. Reached up and felt something behind the picture over the bed. Someone stuck a well used crack pipe behind the picture and the wall.#29
Not a worker but I once got a room, upon entering everything was neat except there was spots where you could tell someone had only moved the blanket for where they were sleeping, there was a dent in the sheets where you can tell there a*s was, the remote was on the nightstand, and on the pillow you could see where their head was. I went down to the check in area and told them, they went upstairs with me to see what I was talking about and then they assigned me a new room lmao.
#30
My coworker eating a cold can of corn with a comically large pink spoon.
Also didn't see a can opener with her, so either she was carrying around an open can of corn, or she found it open in the room.
Noelle M. Lynch, a 23-year-old Sacramento State University student, has been reported missing after being seen for the last time on April 3, 2024, around 5 p.m.
According to a press release by the Los Angeles Police Department, the young woman was last seen leaving an apartment building on foot in the 900 block of East Redondo Boulevard in the City of Inglewood, California.
Lynch left without any of her belongings and “may not be able to identify herself.”
The university student lives with her parents in Sacramento, California. Her parents last saw her after she drove away to Southern California on April 1.
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Her father, Mark, told SFGATE that Noelle is vulnerable and left home in a “difficult state of mind.”
“All that matters is trying to get her back,” the desperate father expressed. “The more people that can open their eyes, the better.”
“We didn’t know where she was going,” Mark added. “And the next thing we knew, she was in an accident in Los Angeles at 3 a.m. to 4 a.m. on Tuesday, April 2.”
The accident occurred at an intersection and involved two vehicles, though no injuries were reported. As Lynch’s vehicle was totaled as a result of the crash, her mother booked a hotel room for her near LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) and then drove down to Los Angeles to find her.
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The family then learned that Lynch didn’t stay at the hotel. The following day, on April 3, her mother got a call from a “strange person’s phone” at noon. As Mark explained, the conversation was brief, and her daughter “was “mostly not making sense.” That’s the last time they spoke with her.
At about 5 p.m. of that same day, the junior college student was seen on surveillance video walking from an Inglewood apartment, about six miles from LAX, without carrying her belongings.
It’s unclear why the 23-year-old went to the building. As her father explained, she wasn’t visiting a friend.
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When she went to the building, Lynch’s mother found her daughter’s things, including a backpack.
It isn’t common behavior for the missing woman to go days without speaking to her parents, her family said.
“She always calls,” Mark explained. “This is very out of character. She has had a tough time, but she has always called.”
The young woman’s phone was later found at the Southwest ticket counter at LAX airport. Her father believes there’s no convincing evidence that she boarded a plane.
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Mark suspects foul play may have led to her disappearance and said he can’t imagine she’s “sitting in a coffee shop in Marina del Rey,” as per SFG.
Lynch is described as a 23-year-old female, White, with brown hair and blue eyes. She stands 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs approximately 125 pounds. She was last seen wearing a dark t-shirt, green sweatpants with a military logo, and white sneakers, the LAPD shared.
Anyone with information about her whereabouts should contact LAPD’s Department Missing Persons Unit at 213-996-1800.
Anyone wishing to remain anonymous should call the LA Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (800-222-8477) or go directly to www.lacrimestoppers.org.
Bored Panda has contacted the LAPD for comment.
Following J.K. Rowling’s refusal to forgive Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson for their support of transgender rights, Potterheads have been jumping to the defense of the actors, amid ongoing controversy.
Harry Potter fans have been defending Daniel and Emma, as a person took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to make their stance clear: “J.K. Rowling and her fans once again throwing Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson under the bus.
“All they did was say ‘trans people are valid’, Dan even said he respected/owed his career to her, but because they won’t stand with bigotry she’ll happily publicly shame them.”
Another X user wrote: “I’m sure Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson are devastated J.K. Rowling won’t accept their ‘apologies’ for not [using] their fame and wealth to s**t on trans people.”
Someone else commented: “Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson have never once mentioned J.K. Rowling by name, they’ve simply expressed allyship and compassion towards trans people and she’s taken it as a personal attack on her.
“Says all you need to know.”
Bored Panda has contacted Emma and Daniel’s respective representatives for comment.
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The support for the Harry Potter stars follows J.K.’s string of posts on X about the release of the long-awaited Cass Review.
The review, by pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass, was published after an analysis of gender identity services for minors in the UK concluded that there was a “lack of high-quality research” on the effects of puberty blockers on children.
Following the release of the Cass Review, the 58-year-old author took to her social media to express her “anger” over what she called “severe medical malpractice.”
In a series of X posts shared on Wednesday (April 10), J.K. wrote: “Even if you don’t feel ashamed of cheerleading for what now looks like severe medical malpractice, even if you don’t want to accept that you might have been wrong, where’s your sense of self-preservation?
“The bandwagon you hopped on so gladly is hurtling towards a cliff.
“If I sound angry, it’s because I’m bloody angry.
“I read Cass this morning and my anger’s been mounting all day.
“Kids have been irreversibly harmed, and thousands are complicit, not just medics, but the celebrity mouthpieces, unquestioning media and cynical corporations.”
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Puberty blockers can be used to delay the changes of puberty in transgender and gender-diverse youth who have started puberty, the Mayo Clinic states. The medicines most often used for this purpose are called gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogs.
Moreover, the renowned medical institution explains that GnRH analogs do not cause permanent physical changes. Instead, they pause puberty, which offers a chance to explore gender identity. It also gives youth and their families time to plan for the psychological, medical, developmental, social, and legal issues that may lie ahead.
When a person stops taking GnRH analogs, puberty starts again, Mayo Clinic notes.
J.K’s jibe at Daniel and Emma came after a fan commented on her X posts saying: “Just waiting for Dan and Emma to give you a very public apology … safe in the knowledge that you will forgive them.”
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The writer subsequently responded by hitting out at the actor, suggesting she wouldn’t accept their apology. She wrote: “Not safe, I’m afraid.
“Celebs who cozied up to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights and who used their platforms to cheer on the transitioning of minors can save their apologies for traumatized detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single-sex spaces.”
The philanthropist has often been accused of perpetuating harmful ideologies against transgender people and aligning with TERF values.
TERF stands for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist.” It refers to individuals or groups within feminism who exclude transgender women from their definition of womanhood and feminist spaces.
They often hold beliefs that biological sex is the sole determinant of gender and may oppose transgender rights and inclusion in women’s spaces. TERF ideology has been widely criticized for being transphobic and exclusionary.
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Recent events have strengthened the LGBTQIA2S+ (abbreviated LGBTQ+) communities’ growing disappointment over the author who has inspired so many young readers.
The British native provoked controversy in the past couple of years due to her responses regarding proposed changes to UK gender recognition laws, and her views on sex and gender, which are topics that have divided politics in various countries.
The best-selling author started to fuel debates on transgender rights in 2020, when she wrote on X that transgender people should live their lives as they pleased in “peace and security”, but questioned women being “force[d] out of their jobs for stating that sex is real”.
Following the initial post, J.K. continued to express controversial statements, with another X publication in the same year, where she mocked an article for using the phrase “people who menstruate”, and reshared that women’s rights and “lived reality” would be “erased” if “sex isn’t real”.
“People who menstruate” has been an accepted term to use in order to be more inclusive of people who do not identify as female, but still have their period.
Moreover, sex and gender have been scientifically proven and accepted to be different concepts, with The World Health Organisation explaining that sex refers to “the different biological and physiological characteristics of males and females, such as reproductive organs, chromosomes, hormones, etc.”
Additionally, gender refers to “the socially constructed characteristics of women and men – such as norms, roles and relationships of and between groups of women and men.”
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In October 2023, J.K. claimed she would “happily” go to jail in order to keep misgendering people in a post on X.
The mom-of-three was reacting to unverified reports about the UK’s Labour Party and their plans to amend an already existing hate crime law to better protect gender identity.
At the time, the writer: “I’ll happily do two years if the alternative is compelled speech and forced denial of the reality and importance of sex.
“Bring on the court case, I say. It’ll be more fun than I’ve ever had on a red carpet.”
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She also went on to reply a simple “no” to a photo posted on X which showed the phrase, “repeat after us: trans women are women” being projected on a government building.
Tia Latham, an intersex woman with what she has described to be a transgender experience told Bored Panda in reaction to J.K.’s X transphobic rants: “The impact is detrimental to the trans community, it plays into many misinformed views that have been curated by people in positions of power to sensationalize, hyper-sexualize, and attack some of the most vulnerable people in society.”
Transgender people are over four times more likely than cisgender people to experience violent victimization, including rape, sexual assault, and aggravated or simple assault, according to a new study by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law.
A 21-year-old man lost his life while attempting to perform a skiing stunt across a Colorado highway.
The young victim, identified as Dallas LeBeau, took on the daredevil adventure of trying to make a “high-risk” jump and leap 40 feet over Highway 40 in Grand County on Tuesday, April 9.
Dallas failed to clear the width of the roadway near Winter Park and landed on the highway pavement before a bystander found him unconscious and not breathing. An onlooker administered CPR, and 911 calls were made to the local dispatch center around 3 p.m.
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“On April 9, 2024, at approximately 3 p.m., the Grand County Communications Center received a 911 call reporting a skiing accident on Highway 40 … It was reported that a 21-year-old male was unconscious and not breathing and that bystander CPR had been initiated,” the Grand County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
First responders arrived at the scene and pronounced the young skier deceased.
As per the preliminary investigation, officials found that Dallas was “attempting to perform a high-risk skiing stunt by trying to clear the width of Highway 40 and unfortunately lacked the necessary speed and distance and subsequently landed on the highway pavement,” the sheriff’s office said. “The victim had been wearing a helmet and other protective gear.”
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The incident affected traffic on Highway 40 from both directions as emergency responders were present at the scene.
A childhood friend, Devin Shirk, who had been pals with Dallas since they were toddlers, revealed that the victim had loved to ski since he was a child and would encourage others to try it out as well.
“He wanted to do things that nobody else had done. He always said his birthday was the same day as Evil Knievel,” Devin told FOX31.
“He encouraged other people to start skiing too,” Devin added. “That was one of my favorite things about him too, is even if it wasn’t jumps, he would just be like, ‘You just gotta try skiing — it will change your life.’”
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Devin started a GoFundMe page for Dallas to help offset funeral costs for the grieving family.
“Hi, my name is Devin. Dallas was a close friend of mine since before preschool,” Devin wrote on the fundraiser.
“He was one of the most joyful and kind people you could ever meet. He was always raising good spirits and loved to ski ever since he was 2,” he added.
The bereaved friend hoped to raise enough money through the fundraiser so that the family has “one less thing to stress about.”
“I wanted to start this GoFundMe to help the family of Dallas Lebeau with the costs of the funeral and the financial expenses that may come their way. And give them one less thing to stress about. Thank you,” Devin concluded.
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The goal for the fundraiser was set at $20,000, but the community showed up with an outpour of love and support, exceeding the goal to reach $48,121 so far.
Many commented on the fundraising page with fond memories that they have shared with Dallas.
“I will always remember Dallas’s great passion for skiing and attitude, so many fun park days … Love and peace to family and close friends,” said a donor named Patrick Manyak.
“We met Dallas a while back. He was an inspiring slopestyle competitor in our local USASA series, his presence will be missed by all,” Paul Krahulec wrote in the comments section. “RIP Dallas.”
“Ever since I met Dallas, he has treated me like one of his own. We met through a mutual friend, and he has treated me like family. This kid is f—ing amazing,” added Danny Forebaugh.
Jaxson Holme wrote, “Dallas has been my best friend since we met on the first day of comp center. We have shared highs and lows and everything in between. I will miss his eagerness to do the things he loved and his dedication to everyone in his life. Forever my best friend.”
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Colorado Ski Country USA, a trade association representing Colorado ski resorts, acknowledged the tragic incident that claimed Dallas’ life.
“The skier death in the back country on Berthoud Pass is a tragic accident and CSCUSA offers our sincere condolences to the victim’s family and friends,” the statement said.
They went on to warn skiers that safety must be the top priority while skiing, snowboarding, and performing other snow sports or activities.
“Whether skiing, snowboarding, or participating in another resort activity, we encourage everyone to keep safety top of mind as we head into the spring season,” the statement went on to say. “Reading, understanding, and following the ten points of Your Responsibility Code is the best way to keep yourself, your family, and those around as safe as possible. They’re the ‘rules of the road’ when it comes to safety on the slopes. Look for the bright yellow Your Responsibility Code sign when you’re skiing or snowboarding and ask any resort employee if you have any questions about the Code.”
Trigger warning: murder, domestic abuse
Khloé Kardashian has been trending on social media following OJ Simpson‘s death yesterday (April 11), amid longstanding rumors of paternity and controversy surrounding claims of a past affair with her mother Kris Jenner, despite OJ’s denial and lack of public comment from Khloé.
When the news that the controversial retired NFL star had died from prostate cancer broke out on Thursday, internet users rushed to social media to extend their condolences to the 39-year-old reality star.
OJ, whose real name was Orenthal James, had long been rumored to be the biological father of Kris Jenner’s third born with the late lawyer, Robert Kardashian.
The 68-year-old momager gave birth to Kourtney Kardashian in 1979, Kim Kardashian in 1980, Khloé in 1984, and Rob Kardashian in 1987.
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After remarrying with Caitlyn Jenner (at the time known as Bruce), she had Kendall Jenner in 1995, and Kylie Jenner in 1997.
Despite the numerous conspiracy theories that OJ was in fact Khloé’s dad, the late sportsman denied the claims multiple times over the years. Nevertheless, this didn’t stop social media users from flocking to Khloé’s public platform to say how “sorry” they were for her “loss.”
On the other hand, the media personality’s stepfather, Caitlyn, had more brutal words after the announcement of the 76-year-old’s death, writing on X (formerly known as Twitter): “Good riddance.”
Meanwhile, Khloé has not as of yet publicly commented on the news, opting instead to post a video of herself at the gym.
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The 39-year-old Good American founder was photographed stepping out in Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon, just hours after news of OJ’s death broke.
As reported by the Daily Mail, Khloé looked somber as she exited a building with her entourage. She was dressed in a beige bodycon dress and carried a pricey bubblegum pink Hermes Birkin bag.
Robert Kardashian famously defended OJ during his 1995 murder trial. Khloé was nine years old when the American football player was arrested on suspicion of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
In 2009 during an E! True Hollywood Story episode, Khloé said she used to refer to OJ as “Uncle OJ” and Nicole as “Auntie Nicole.”
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Kris’ friendship with Nicole was reportedly so strong that she honored her memory by giving her daughter Kendall the middle name, Nicole.
In 2019, OJ publicly denied that he was Khloé’s biological father amid rumors that she was conceived during an alleged fling with her mother in the 1990s, which he also stated never happened, the Daily Mail reported.
At the time, he said in a video posted on X: “I want to stress never – in any way, shape, or form had I ever had any interest in Kris, romantically, sexually, and I never got any indication that she had any interest in me.
“So all of these stories are just bogus. Bad, you know, tasteless.”
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OJ elaborated on his close relationship with Robert Kardashian, saying: “Khloe, like all the [Kardashian] girls, I’m very proud of, just like I know Bob would be if he was here.” Bob was the nickname given to Robert.
“But the simple fact of the matter is she’s not mine,” the former actor added.
In 1995, OJ’s murder case captivated the US and viewers worldwide, but to the Kardashian family, the trial was a personal affair, due to Robert defending the acquitted criminal.
At the time, the courtroom highlighted a stark divide within the Kardashian family, as Kris stood by Nicole’s loved ones’ side, while Robert represented his friend OJ.
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When Kim and Kourtney took a seat behind their father on the defendant’s side of the courtroom, they noticed their mother sitting on the opposite side in support of her best friend, as per the Daily Mail.
Speaking to David Letterman in 2020, Kim recalled the painful moment when she was 13 years old, saying: “It tore my family apart, I’d say, for the whole time of the trial.”
She admitted that the 15-month legal battle was “really tough” for her and her older sister Kourtney, who felt like they had to pick a side.
OJ was later found civilly liable for the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend Ron. But over the years, Kris has spoken out about the horror she felt when Nicole was brutally stabbed in her home in Los Angeles back in 1994.
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The mom-of-six said she still could not believe what had happened as she sat in court during OJ’s trial the following year, where her lawyer ex-husband was helping defend her best friend’s suspected killer, as per the Daily Mail.
Kim explained to GQ in October 2023 that she and Kourtney opted to spend more time with their dad during the trial because they felt their mom was “happily remarried” while their father was “by himself.”
In April 1991, one month after her divorce from Robert, Kris married retired Olympian Bruce Jenner, who publicly came out as a transgender woman in 2015, taking the name Caitlyn.
R.i.p to Khloe Kardashian’s dad OJ Simpson 🙏🏿😅 pic.twitter.com/PJpTCUSmya
— Ngbantz (@ngbantz) April 11, 2024
Kim recalled: “We walked in [the courtroom] and saw my mom sitting on the other side.
“She said, ‘You’re supposed to be in school. What are you doing here?’ Kourtney and I didn’t even look at her.”
Robert and OJ first met in 1967, when OJ was the star running back for the University of Southern California Trojans, and Robert was a glorified waterboy.
A few years later while playing tennis at a mutual friend’s house, when Robert had become a successful entertainment businessman and lawyer, and OJ was an NFL hero of the Buffalo Bills, the men rekindled their relations and developed a strong friendship.
khloe kardashian logging onto twitter today and seeing her name trending next to OJ’s pic.twitter.com/37iicfwLCv
— nella’s a world champion 🇦🇷 (@shadysmj) April 11, 2024
They became business partners, capitalizing on OJ’s nickname “The Juice” by opening a chain of yogurt and juice stores known as Juice Inc. They also invested in Concert Cinema, which would show music videos before movies in theaters, as per the Daily Mail.
The friendship between Robert and OJ went on to extend to their wives, with Robert marrying Kris and OJ marrying Nicole after divorcing his first wife.
But unbeknownst to Kris was OJ’s dark and violent side, prone to jealousy and explosive outbursts, according to the Daily Mail.
Throughout their 13-year relationship, OJ and Nicole experienced a turbulent cycle of reconciliation and separation, marked by incidents of violence such as OJ reportedly punching Nicole but attempting to make amends with lavish gifts like a Porsche.
There are even rumors that Khloe Kardashian is the biological daughter of OJ Simpson
This is a comparison of Khloe (before her surgeries) with OJ’s daughter Sydney Simpson
Khloe is also about 8-9 inches taller than her sisters Kim and Kourtney pic.twitter.com/UglCcnOCkk
— Vision4theBlind (@Vision4theBlind) April 11, 2024
On New Year’s Eve 1988, OJ beat Nicole so severely that she required hospital treatment. At the time, the running back reportedly screamed repeatedly: “I’ll kill you!”
Their toxic relationship culminated in their ninth reported domestic dispute, leading to OJ’s arrest and court-ordered counseling, yet they reunited shortly after. They officially divorced in 1993, a year before Nicole’s tragic death.
Kris, set to meet Nicole the morning she was murdered, later reflected on her best friend’s documented abuse and her desire for someone close, like Kris, to bear witness to her suffering.
In the aftermath, Robert, who hadn’t practiced law in over two decades, renewed his legal license to join OJ’s infamous Dream Team of defense lawyers, which included Johnnie Cochran and Robert Shapiro, as per the Daily Mail.
Kris Jenner calling Hulu and the camera crew to come to khloe Kardashian house after she heard OJ Simpson died. pic.twitter.com/MSnVTX1Igd
— ☆La 🤍 (@Ayah2156) April 11, 2024
In a 2009 interview with Dr. Phil, Kris recalled: “Right before the trial started, Robert sat down and wrote us a handwritten letter and just said, ‘Look, I know you don’t agree with what is going down here, but this is what I have to do for my friend.'”
During the trial, Johnnie infamously said “If the glove don’t fit, you must acquit” when a pair of bloody gloves were presented as evidence, appearing to be too small for OJ’s hands.
Kris claimed that she was with Nicole in New York City when she purchased those gloves as a gift for OJ earlier that year, as per the Daily Mail.
RIP OJ Simpson …
Poor Khloe Kardashian first she loses Robert and Bruce and now her real dad. pic.twitter.com/3xGFSMVo6o
— ☆La 🤍 (@Ayah2156) April 11, 2024
According to the British tabloid, those who followed the trial closely would remember the unhappy look on Robert’s face when the “not guilty” verdict was read, a confusing image to many for a man who tore apart his own family to protect his close friend.
In her 2017 memoir, Caitlin claimed that Robert secretly believed OJ was guilty and once told her: “I would’ve been OK with it if they had gotten him in the first trial.”
She wrote: “The implication was obvious that he believed OJ was guilty.”
Oftentimes, one person is enough to interrupt the workflow of the company or bring all processes to a halt. And whether intentional or not, their actions can result in significant losses.
That’s what happened with this redditor’s friend, “Bobby”, whose malicious compliance led to a slowed pace of operations at the workplace and thousands of dollars in losses; all because of their aggravating superior. Scroll down to find the full story below.
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Few people would likely argue the importance of rules and regulations at work. They are necessary in order to make sure that everything runs smoothly and everyone involved is well-aware of both their rights and responsibilities. But in order for rules to work, there shouldn’t be exceptions in regards to who has to abide by them.
In the OP’s story, the new foreman, who was said to be a jerk to the redditor’s friend, Bobby, was seemingly quite keen on following workplace rules. That’s why when Bobby came to work 10 minutes late, the superior was holding a demerit slip, as it was the second time the employee had clocked in late in the last 14 days; he didn’t care much that the first time Bobby was just one minute late.
While it’s true that being 10 minutes late is likely a violation of workplace rules, penalizing an employee for clocking in just one minute after the start of their working hours likely balances on the brink of micromanaging. Unsurprisingly, such an overly attentive management style is considered to be the main red flag signaling a toxic workplace, according to a poll carried out by Monster.
Another survey found that roughly four-in-five employed people have experienced micromanaging and nearly 70% have considered changing jobs because of it. While Bobby didn’t quit his job because of the new foreman, he realized that two can play this game and decided to unconditionally stick to the rules, too, which meant no more working overtime.
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It’s safe to assume that Bobby is far from the only one who has worked overtime in their careers. Ciphr’s research found that employees from 35 to 44 years of age are the most likely to work unpaid overtime, and those from 25 to 34 accumulate the most hours of such additional time spent at work, averaging 3.5 hours per week. It also found that on a regular week, the number of people working unpaid overtime is twice higher than those who get paid for it.
According to Clockify, despite overtime being regulated by different laws in most countries, research found that as many as one in ten employees have worked an extra day of unpaid overtime every week in 2021.
Be that as it may, the number of hours people spend working in general has reportedly decreased over the years, as people became more and more productive. Clockify found that employed individuals now work roughly 20-30 hours less each week compared to the 19th century. According to their data, the average work hours in developed countries went from 3000 hours per year in 1870 to 1500-2000 hours per year by 1990.
Clockify also revealed that nowadays, in Europe, the Netherlands seem to be the country where people work the least hours, adding up to roughly 1627 hours per year (roughly 31 per week), while Turkey is on the other end of the scale, as that’s where people spend 2256 hours a year (43 per week) at work.
The OP didn’t specify where in the world Bobby was based, however, one thing was made clear—the number of hours he spent at work decreased when the new foreman started intervening. Be that as it may, it wasn’t the number of hours or the foreman’s behavior that fellow netizens seemed to be interested in the most; many seemed to focus most on how critical Bobby was for the company. They shared their views in the comments section.
Redditors have recently been sharing devastating stories of people that they’ve watched ruin their lives, so we’ve gathered some of the most painful accounts below. Let these tales serve as a reminder to make decisions that you’ll be proud of, rather than haunted by, and be sure to upvote the most heartbreaking stories of self-sabotage. Image credits: _hootyowlscissors Image credits: JahnnDraegos Image credits: Old-Pin-7839 Image credits: nicekona Image credits: Elgin-Franklin Image credits: its0matt Image credits: Big_Yogurtcloset6443 Image credits: aspbergerinparadise Image credits: badgersprite Image credits: MangoSalsa89 Image credits: MareShoop63 Image credits: BeyondXpression Image credits: Klown1327 Image credits: Scotsburd Image credits: Dazzling-Panda8082 Image credits: DistractedHouseWitch Image credits: Jefffahfffah Image credits: CraptasticDruid369 Image credits: Icy-Establishment850 Image credits: loCAtek Image credits: StrykerXion Image credits: ScobAgape Image credits: iceymoo Image credits: thisgirlsforreal Image credits: RedDirtWitch Image credits: reallyluckysocks Image credits: Environmental-Song16 Image credits: August_8_ Image credits: MaximusSydney Image credits: alexdaland#1
**My younger brother broke up with a girl he liked...because she farted in her sleep**.
He was telling my older brother and I that he was in the midst of a miserable dry spell. And how he'd been seeing a girl he liked but then she farted in her sleep and he was so grossed out because "there are some things you don’t need to see your SO doing. It just felt like the mystery was gone.”
My older bro was like “yeah, cause that’s what the mystery was about, farting.”
I called younger bro a “f*****g moron” and older bro was like “you’re half right.”
**EDIT:** When he said "you're half right" he meant my younger brother may be a moron, but he ain't f*****g.
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I had a very close friend whose wife, out of the blue, suddenly asked to open the marriage. This friend hated the idea but said yes anyway. Result: divorce, messy and angry and messing up all three of their kids.
The point of contention was that he wound up finding a very compatible side-partner himself and his wife apparently was shocked to discover he was swinging just as happily as she was. Apparently her expectation was that he'd never be able to find a girlfriend so she (the wife) would have her side-piece *and* her husband all to herself. Wife was jealous, and angry, and eventually demanded they un-open the marriage because she didn't like him being with other partners while she was with other partners. Thankfully at this point he finally saw things for what they are and they divorced. Wrecked his life for years, though.
Moral of the story: polygamy is complicated and not something to rush into just because you've hit your midlife crisis. Also don't agree to open your damn marriage if you don't really want that.
#3
I have a friend, I’ll call him Jay, smart as heck but maybe a little on the spectrum so clueless as to social things. But he made great money in tech. One day he’s at a friends house and the friend said something to the effect of “nobody could bug my house without me knowing”, so Jay thought it would be funny to put a spare webcam he happened to have in his backpack in his friend’s entertainment center, plugged into his Xbox, just to see how long it took him to notice. Well the friend didn’t notice, but his friend’s girlfriend did, and thought the friend had been recording them having sex, so she called the cops. The cops arrested the friend. Jay hears about it and goes in to explain. He didn’t think he needed a lawyer, he figured the cops would be able to see it was just a dumb misunderstanding.
Thing is, in my state, placing a recording device in someone’s home without their consent is voyeurism, which is a sex crime. And Jay just admitted, to the cops, on the record, that he had done so. Also in my state, it’s a law that all sex crimes MUST be prosecuted, so even tho Jay’s friend and his friends girlfriend didn’t want to press charges, Jay still got prosecuted.
The prosecutor and judge were as gentle as they could be but he was still convicted. Now as a registered sex offender (for life) he has trouble finding and keeping work, gets harassed by neighbors, can’t go to most of his kids sports events, etc. All over one seemingly harmless prank.
#4
Meeeee! I was so f*****g in love with this man, but I have a drinking problem (I don’t get sloppy, or mean, most people can’t even tell, but it affects my health)
He told me if he found another hidden bottle squirreled away, we were done.
But… we were going up to visit his family for a month. I REALLY wanted his family to love me, and I’m MUCH more bubbly and personable when I drink.
So…. Naturally, he found a hidden bottle, while we were on the trip. Promptly dumped me.
I wanted his family to love me SO BAD, because I wanted to be part of that family forever…. And instead, I lost it all.
Alcohol is the devil, kids.
#5
Some guy at work was caught red handed stealing airpods from the locker room. When he was sent to pick up his own kit before being sent home he excused himself to go to the toilet, and took a s**t on the floor.
The kicker is that we work on an oil rig. It's impossible to get away with theft, and he was a senior technician making really good money. He didn't need the airpods he was just stealing for the fun of it.
He's now "not required back", and all the companies talk to each other. He sh*t away his career over a pair of airpods.
#6
My best friend and hetro-lifemate. Early 30s w/ wife. kids. great job and lots of friends. He was always looking for inventive ways to party. He figured out that you could order dried poppy pods online, grind them up and make poppy tea. This stuff is STRONG. 4/6 ounces will have you floating on a cloud for 24 hrs. Dosages kept going up over the next 10 yrs. until he couldn't physically drink enough fluid to maintain his habit. Lost his wife, kids and then his 3rd generation family business job.
Then he switch to h****n. Living in a half million dollar home with no power or water. Junkies everywhere. When he OD'ed, they stuffed his body in a closet for 3 days so they could burn through his credit and debit cards before reporting it to the police. Now his family is fighting squatters who have destroyed his home. I miss him everyday/.
#7
It’s really sad but my cousin had a stillborn when she was young and got into hard d***s to cope. Now she has 6 kids that she has no custody over, has been imprisoned multiple times, has fines she can’t pay, and can’t get a job above minimum wage.
I’m the only one in the family who doesn’t blame her for relapsing time and time again because I can’t imagine the horror of sobering up and realizing you threw your entire life away before 35 and had no chance of ever getting it back. The rest of the family doesn’t understand that being an adult and working two full time jobs at minimum wage to barely make ends meet isn’t a life worth living sober, especially knowing all your kids are out there in someone else’s care and seeing them in bad situations too.
Idk which would hurt worse tbh, knowing that most of them hate you, or knowing that some of them look up to you even though you’ve royally f****d up both your own life and all the kids.
#8
Friend of a friend got caught in one of those "to catch a predator" style stings. Was messaging with what he thought was a 14 year old and tried to meet up to have sex.
Lost his wife, all his friends, his apprenticeship, and spent the next several years in prison.
#9
Recent example, guy was a doctor and now cannot work because he hit his wife while they were getting divorced
I don’t know the specifics of it but the domestic violence offence on his record is prohibiting him from working in medicine.
#10
My neighbor across the street had 4 kids in 6 years with a boyfriend in an attempt to get him to stick around/pay attention to her. Now she’s single and living with her mom and grandma is raising the kids alone while she goes out and tries to find a new boyfriend. Is having a boyfriend really worth ruining your life?
#11
Co-worker was addicted to Starbucks cold coffee drinks that you buy at a convenience store. She drank 4 per day, everyday.
Smoked , too.
Would spend $250.00 on up for store products, and that’s with a 50% discount ( crystal shop)
Got herself dug into a hole and couldn’t make her house payment. I actually watched her deliberate on whether to buy something at work ( retail therapy she called it) or make her house payment.
I added up the cost of Starbucks alone was $500.00 per month - I was trying to help her.
Her house was foreclosed on in December all because she wouldn’t stop the Starbucks and the “retail therapy “ spending.
Now she homeless.
#12
This kid I went to college with was in the Army Reserves making really good grades, and his parents were really well off. The kid's life was set. Got an allowance every month from his parents, had a nice brand new car for school, lived in a nice apartment right off campus and he had so much going for him. He didn't even have to work, just do his monthly reserve days which were like 3 days a month. So set for life.
To shorten the story a bit, he got caught at a random UA (d**g test) for c*****e. He got lucky and the Army gave him a second chance. Not even 5 months later he got caught AGAIN for c*****e and weed. He somehow got lucky, again, and they just kicked him out in an "Other than Honorable" discharge. Parents pulled his funding and he had to get a minimum wage job at a sandwich shop.
Never saw him again until he randomly popped up on my Facebook about a year later. I hit him up to see how he was. Up and moved halfway across the U.S. with this girl he got pregnant and they were both working at Walmart barely affording rent. He sold his BMW to pocket the move up there. He also looked....rough, to say the least in a lot of his pictures.
#13
I worked on a school bus as a monitor/aid. There was one driver (we'll call him Ed). Ed was always complaining about something, every single day there was some new issue, some problem. He was a bit of a pain. He got into an argument with one of our supervisors over the radio one day and earned himself a 3 day suspension.
His first morning back from his suspension. First route of the day, he gets on the radio and starts back complaining. Dispatch asks him a few simple questions, he responds with hostility and some really unprofessional comments. The director of transportation (our big boss) gets on the radio and asks Ed to meet him in his office after morning routes. Ed responds, "I'll be there if I have time" boss says, "I need you to understand, this is not optional" Ed comes back, "I need YOU to understand, I'll be there if I have time!" Mind you, this is on the radio as we are picking up high school kids, everyone can hear what's happening this entire time. Another dispatcher calls in and tells Ed "when you finish your high school route, park your bus there at the school. We are bringing someone to take your route over, and to bring you back to the lot". Ed did not like this and responded by saying, "Negative. I am finishing my route. Me. If you want someone to drive my route, you get (our boss's boss) and have her come drive this route. Otherwise, I am finishing my route." Dispatch asked for an ETA to the high school, he responded "whenever (our boss's boss) is gonna be there. Otherwise, I get there when I get there". Somewhere around this time he starts talking like, they were targeting him and picking on him and that "it ends today". Again, at this point he has a bus full of high school kids.
Now, I did not see what happened at the high school, but I heard from several other drivers. Apparently the police were waiting for him once he got there and they removed him from his bus. To quote one driver "he acted a fool the entire time". I'm not sure exactly what he was charged with, maybe kidnapping since he acted like he wasn't gonna bring the kids to school unless he got what he wanted? Theft for not bringing the bus back? No clue. But I do know he was arrested and fired. A few days later we get the news that he had a heart attack and died. Most likely from all the stress.
#14
My husbands friend. Had a beautiful wife, gorgeous house, 2 lovely boys, a job he loved and lots of great friends who loved him. Then he decided at the age of 35 to get into hard d***s. He has been in and out of prison for violent crimes, transportation of large volumes of h****n, attempted m****r, burglary and stalking...
He is homeless again as he burned down his flat on purpose to get a move. No one will ever talk to him again. He's now 55 and has nothing, his wife divorced him after giving him far too many chances, his sons hate him, his real friends gone for ever. All for nothing.
#15
I used to work at a wedding reception place
One wedding the groom and a bridesmaid (I think it was the bride's cousin) got "drunk" and snuck out the back for a quickie. I didn't realise they'd done this and (as I did) threw a bag of rubbish off the upstairs kitchen balcony into the bin - which scared the s**t out of them enough that the bridesmaid has bitten down on the grooms d**k . Lots of blood.
Then when the ambulance has shown up the guys tried to start a fight with one of the ambulance drivers for some reason and we ended up having to call the cops as well and the guys gotten arrested.
Guys boss (fairly high paying lawyer job by the sounds of it) was at the wedding and was definitely planning on sacking the guy after what happened
So the d******d lost both his fiancé/wife and job on his wedding day. And I never found out just how bad the injury to his d**k was but it didn't look good 
#16
This is relatively mild, but it's still pretty sad.
My mom is pretty isolated socially. She lives near me and for years her main source of interaction with other humans was me and my kids. She was emotionally abusive when I was a kid and was doing better for a few years, but then was ramping up the abuse again. I went no contact for several months, then had a sit down with her and discussed what abusive behaviors needed to stop for us to continue our relationship. She agreed.
It lasted two years. She started ramping up the abuse again and then she put my kids and my immunocompromised niece at risk during the pandemic. My husband and I told her that she needed to adjust her behavior and acknowledge that her behavior wasn't okay. She used her usual manipulation tactics (a fake "medical emergency" that my husband took her to the hospital for) and when we didn't immediately forget everything that happened, she called the police for a welfare check on my kids.
We haven't spoken to her in nearly three years and they have been the happiest years of my life. She now has no one locally. My brother had already distanced himself (he lives several hours away) and she's not even getting attention when she goes to the hospital, because my SIL is now helping her manage everything and will only talk to the doctors about her health issues, not my mom. I hope being abusive and selfish was worth her loneliness now.
#17
My uncle was an ambitextrous baseball pitcher in highschool. Absurdly good at it. He could have gotten an athletic scholasrhip, gone to college, maybe gone pro.
His dad died, he got into d***s, and now he's a h****n addict in and out of prison.
#18
One of my former friends from college worked as an analyst for a pretty big investment bank. He did NOT handle covid and isolation well and got really into conspiracy theories and became a straight up racist. When he returned to office he refused to work with anyone with dark skin, muslims or women he deemed inferior to his intellect. This did not go well with his boss who was a second generation somali immigrant, and a muslim, and a woman….. he was fired and he still doesnt have found another job in the same League.#19
Watching someone you love not take care of their diabetes. It’s torture.
#20
My brother was offered a really well-paying job doing something he's excellent at. He thought it would be too easy, so he chose a much more challenging job in a less appealing environment with a boss who is a real jerk. He hoped to impress him. Now, he's really unhappy. I just don't understand why he puts himself through this kind of thing.
#21
A former classmate of mine pursued medicine even though she didn't want it, her parents was a big factor of this decision. She was into music and I'd have to say she was great & really passionate doing it, her parents wasn't just supportive. During college she failed almost every subjects and then eventually dropped out. The last time I heard she left home and is living with her bf now. Its just unfortunate she wasn't able to take the path that she loves. F**k the parents honestly for pressuring her. I think she would've been happier if she pushed through music. I don't blame her though maybe she didn' t have a choice. Sometimes we have to disappoint our parents a little bit to be happy.#22
I’m an alcoholic/addict. I’m in recovery but, I can barely leave the the house, I can’t hold a job, I have cut off all but five people in my life…I’m a mess.#23
One of my former co-workers, a smart young man that most everybody liked. It was just a gas station cashiering job, not a hard job at all.
Ben was only 22 and we're not sure if the attitude problem started before or after the d**g use, but he suddenly started calling out sick, a lot!
Whatever the reasons, since he couldn't handle the responsibilities of his job, they had to let him go.
That's when his d**g problem became apparent, as he was still seen around the neighborhood looking disheveled and lost.
His best friend told us that he was found unresponsive, after an OD and that he was in the ICU.
The doctors were saying that the brain damage was irreversible and friends and family should just come say their goodbyes while he was still alive... so to speak.
#24
My buddy Steve was the poster child for 'has it all.' Good career, amazing wife, cute house. Then, the model trains happened. Not little setups...this guy took over the whole basement, then the garage. His wife went from amused to livid. Arguments turned into screaming matches. She eventually left, and Steve, in his model train bliss, barely noticed. The twist? He inherited a ton of money…and spent it all on antique train sets. Eventually though, he noticed....and no model could cure the blues of losing his incredible wife.
#25
One of my buddies actually ditched a six-figure job because he didn't trust his girlfriend not to cheat on him while he was at work. He's a good guy, but when it comes to women, he can be a real dummy sometimes. **It's pretty crazy, right?**.
#26
Back in the 90s, a classmate of mine was way into computers. He was offered a really well paid job in the US, we were in the UK, straight out of school. Incredible benefits. Invaluable training opportunities. In in the ground floor at the best possible time. Lost it because he used the free airline tickets the company gave him so family could visit, to fly his friends out. Then lied about it. He was a notorious liar all through school. What an opportunity. What a c**t.
#27
I girl I know/used to work with decided to jump on the only fans bandwagon. Went all in doing all sort of things on camera. Well the truth is, only the top 1% of OF creators make alot of money and the average one makes $200 a month. If you don’t start with a big social following it’s an uphill battle.
Anyway some people in her town (not super tiny population 120k) saw the account, someone posted the pics of her on Facebook and basically everyone found out. Including her parents.
So after not making much money and photos that will forever be on the internet, she packed it all in to go back to kindergarten teaching. But being in a country town no one would give her a job and people would stare at her wherever she went.
She had to move to the city, and she has a job now. I just hope her new employer doesn’t google image search her ?
But yeah she really regrets it, could have made more money doing Uber eats on the weekend.
#28
One of my closest childhood friends. We’re all well into adulthood now and he had been sober from alcohol for years, had his own plumbing business, kids, a fiancee. Typical american dream stuff.
During the pandemic he basically snapped, starting drinking again which quickly turned into doing m**h and now he’s a missing person on the streets of Portland somewhere. Just sad and I feel like I’m going to hear he’s OD’d since there’s fentanyl in everything here and there’s nothing any of us can do about it. He’s intensely stubborn and won’t listen to anyone and he doesn’t seem to care.#29
I have an ex- SIL who has been a drunk for years. She was an attractive, fiercely intelligent, really cool, fun person who had mental health issues that were ignored for years. Eventually, she got that part under control, and became a mental health professional. I think she probably is very good at it, but she’s on a downward spiral. Her drinking is worse than ever. She has had two DWIs. I won’t let my kids go anywhere with her anymore because she drives drunk with them, or tries to get them to drive so she can drink. She got pulled over once and handed her weed and vaping pen to my kid and said “Here, take this. I can’t be caught with it.” She cancels her appointments with her clients constantly. I know one person who was seeing her and they believe she was drunk during their sessions. I know somebody else whose mother works with her, and my friend is scared for her mother’s safety as my ex-SIL has a history of being violent and assaulting people (never been to jail for it) and trying to get her to take benzodiazepines that she has. She is single as far as I know, and all her boyfriends have either been dumb guys and losers who don’t deserve her, or abusive bullies that walk all over her. I have cut her off entirely, but I feel terrible for her.
#30
My best friend's ex-wife. He was the most loving husband who doted on her and gave her everything. They wanted to start a family. His family was also very accepting of her. She was a councillor who decided to cheat on him with one of her patients... not once, not twice, but three times. My friend finally saw the light and divorced her.
He's now remarried to a fantastic woman who appreciates him as much as he does her and they just had their first child. I don't know what the ex-wife is doing now but I hope she knows what she threw away one day.
#31
Our daughter is 25. Every few years she just randomly blows up her life. Tells us not to call/talk to her, cuts off her real friends and makes them hate her. Ends up calling us months later because she's out of options/friends.
She's currently living with us, rent free, no job, but has some plan on moving south with randos from the internet. Can't talk to her without her getting angry. We don't know what to do. It's so unsafe.
She had a good job a year ago. Had a nice 2 bedroom apartment, a great friend who picked her up for work everyday.
#32
Probably me when I was younger, I spent my ENTIRE teenage years alone because I gave up easily. Because I was scared of everything.
I didn’t have friends, love, dances etc.
I seriously was absolutely lifeless inside.
#33
I know plenty of guys who had kids with the wrong person.
I don't think people quite realise the negative impact on your life this can have.
#34
My ex wife, we had sort of realized that things wasnt going to work out in the long run, but we wanted to solve things as amicably as possible and take the time. The was no real animosity other than things just not working, until ofc I found out she had some boyfriend staying there when I wasnt home. If she told me beforehand, I probably wouldnt even be that pissed, but just expedited the break-up so she could do what she wanted. But ofc when I come home and literally find him, I got pissed and instead of being any sort of humble or try to talk she just screams and shouts that I could just go and she now had a new guy that would take care of her!
I said ok - grabbed my stuff, gave her the bill for the rent and saids it due in 3 days - but your fella will ofc take care of that, goodbye. *He* was the one that got the problem, because then she kind of had to go all in, and he did for a few months and then basically told her that it wasnt really in the deal/plan to literally take over a wife with two kids (not mine) on a random tuesday... And then she had to spend the next 10years working all kinds of things 15 hours a day to be able to keep an apt. and so on. We are "friends" today in that I dont hate her, so we talk once in a while and she says that *that* was the dumbest day in her life. Not just sitting down and discuss for even 5 minutes...
#35
Friend who got married because he didn’t want to break it off and thought he would just be better off, he’s dying a slow death.#36
My husband cheated with an ugly, married coworker. I discovered their affair while we were on our FAMILY Vacation to New Orleans. We were there for our family's 4th trip there for the Jazz Festival. It was the 50th Anniversary of the Jazz Fest. Our family had been looking forward to it for 6 months. Then we flew down there, arriving at midnight or so. I was still the unknowing wife.
Next morning, May 1st 2019. I discover the affair because of his distracted ( not really there with us vibe), and his cell phone use. That night I went into the phone and found out everything. I took photos and videos.
We got home, I confronted him, he denied denied denied. I showed our family the proof.#37
My older sister who is 32 just, refuses to work. She lives with our grandma and is absolutely miserable because she has zero autonomy (grandma rides her a*s when she leaves the house etc, her decorating choices are confined to one single room, etc), yet she refuses to make any moves because “people in other countries live with their family as adults.” We suggest therapy, she’s not interested, says she can be her own therapist. She’s too good for a job in retail or call center (I work retail), but refuses to do any kind of schooling. She makes her own misery. The most she has in regards to disability is depression, which I understand, but she refuses help or to try any changes.#38
Me, just living and making wrong decisions all of the f*****g time.#39
Guy blew all his cash on gambling. Lost family, home, everything. Tragic, man.#40
My sister is currently in an abusive relationship with a man twice her age. He tracks her messages and refuses for her to see her friends, accuses her of cheating, convinced her to quit her job so she relies on him for everything. But she can't leave him because she loves him.
One, sometimes unnoticed difficulty in putting together a wedding is the need to balance out multiple groups, from friends, to family and acquaintances. This can, at times, lead to unexpected conflicts at the worst possible time and place.
A bride was shocked to hear that one of her bridesmaids seemed to be casually racist towards a bridesmaid from Africa, culminating in the racist being kicked out. She then had some doubts, so she turned to the internet for advice. We reached out to the bride via private message and will update the story when she gets back to us.
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While on the surface, this looks like a wedding story, the only reason the bride felt the need to turn to the internet was the fact that this all occurred at a destination wedding. After all, if a friend is racist towards your other friend in really any other situation, one, hopefully, wouldn’t even think twice about cutting ties on the spot. Destination weddings are not the easiest cost or logistics wise, as it’s basically a vacation for the guests, but everyone has their limits.
However, this wasn’t some minor drama, all things considered, it was pure and unadulterated racism, even if Jane didn’t see it that way. It’s also important to note that Jane’s response to being told her actions were racist was to immediately get defensive. Humans are not perfect, we will make mistakes, but what sets us apart is the ability to learn. All in all, the bride is not wrong to ditch someone with these sorts of beliefs. They can reconnect in the future if Jane finally understands the error of her ways.
Instead of apologizing and perhaps rethinking her behavior, she simply told the bride that she was wrong and overreacting. Similarly, while it is possible to be racist by accident or to simply speak without thinking, Jane using the “n word” and then defending it is a red flag so large, the folks on the ISS might be able to spot it.
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Similarly, one has to consider how Nya may have been feeling. Imagine staying with a friend (a destination wedding isn’t just a one-day affair, after all) and this new person starts asking you ridiculous and semi-insulting questions. On top of that, they use a slur in a casual story and then try to play it off. It’s not perhaps the worst or weirdest thing a “friend” has done and considered normal, but it’s absolutely up there, as it raises questions about what else remains unsaid?
If the bride had chosen to do nothing, it’s not hard to imagine Nya deciding that cutting ties would be the best option in the long run. The bride basically had to choose between these two people, so, all in all, not siding with the racist was a pretty easy option, all things considered. Indeed, this didn’t even seem to be a possibility for the bride, as she immediately clocked Jane being weird.
All in all, Jane should already be thankful that she was invited and given such a position of “honor” as a bridesmaid. There are countless stories online of unequal levels of friendship that culminate with someone feeling snubbed at a wedding. As most commenters suggested, (some of which can be read below) she really shouldn’t feel too bad about the situation. No doubt, it cost Jane a bit of money, but in the long run, allowing her to stick around would have ruined at least one friendship and who knows what else she would have done at the wedding proper?
Being in a relationship with someone often means loving them for who they are. That includes all their flaws and weird habits. Nobody is perfect in this regard – both you and your partner likely have traits that drive the other one crazy. And the answers in this thread might just be proof of that.
Not sure if you should get into another fight with your SO over their dirty socks lying on the floor again? Check out these answers, and you'll feel way better about your own nasty habits. Some are maddening, others – hilariously disgusting. And if you have a gross habit of your partner's that drives you crazy, Pandas, share it with us in the comments!
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How can partners deal with their SO's nasty habits? Experts say that shaming them publicly (albeit anonymously) is hardly the way. Australian dating and relationship coach Debbie Rivers claims that the first and most important thing is to recognize that your partner might be doing that gross thing not out of spite.
"They aren't personally directed at you and your partner may not even realize that they are doing it," she claims. “In fact, they may have no idea quite how annoying it is to you." The second step would be to talk about the issue. However, Rivers advises doing so when you're calm and not right after witnessing the gross habit.
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If you wish to address the annoying behavior or habit with your SO, it matters how you do it. The tone of voice, facial expressions, and, most importantly, what words you use. Rivers recommends avoiding such phrases as "You always do that" and "You never listen." Such verbiage might only trigger defensiveness and will hardly lead to any productive discussions.
Of course, it goes the other way round as well: when your partner tells you about what habits of yours they don't like, be willing to listen. When they have noticed your comments and reacted appropriately, acknowledge their effort. Encouragement is important when trying to kick a bad habit, so letting your partner know you notice and support them will let them improve and result in a better relationship.
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Experts also advise to start talking about gross and disgusting habits only when you really can't take it anymore. Psychiatrist and relationship therapist Dion Metzger, MD, told Style Caster that if it only makes you roll your eyes but not gag, maybe it's worth letting go. "Most people overthink this and end up feeling more anxious during their time together rather than enjoying it. Whenever you can, don't make this the focus of your relationship, and try to go with the flow."
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Human beings are social animals. Most of us crave acceptance, connection, love, and respect. An 85-year Harvard study found that our positive relationships empower us, make us resilient, and actually lead to healthier, happier, and longer lives. But social isolation is horrible for our physical and mental health. When somebody is ostracized from their social circle or society, it takes a toll and can even put them on a warpath in life.
In a viral thread started by user u/WANACWaac, the r/AskReddit online community shared stories of what happened to the social outcasts they knew and how they got revenge against their communities after growing up. We’ve picked out some of the most powerful and emotional stories, which you’ll find as you scroll down. Though, keep in mind, some of them are very sensitive.
Bored Panda got in touch with the author of the candid discussion, Isaiah Taylor, aka u/WANACWaac, and he shared his perspective on outcasts, tolerance, and people judging one another. Read on for our full interview with him.
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According to Psychologist Rick Hanson, Ph.D., accepting other people doesn’t necessarily mean that you agree with them or approve of them. However, as he explains, “you can simply let people be” and accept that they exist as they are, not as you’d like them to be.
“You may not like it, you may not prefer it, you may feel sad or angry about it, but at a deeper level, you are at peace with it. That alone is a blessing. And sometimes, your shift to acceptance can help things get better,” Hanson explains.
Meanwhile, Psychologist Kipling D. Williams claims that ostracism is an invisible form of abuse. Ostracized individuals tend to go through three stages. They first feel pain, then they enter the ‘coping’ stage, which is followed by ‘resignation.’ The latter is when someone gives up after becoming depressed and feels helpless to change anything.
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People are often paradoxical. On the one hand, they’re often warm, kind, friendly, and welcoming. On the other hand, they’re extremely quick to judge others based on initial impressions. Not only that, but they might push someone away because they’re slightly different than them.
Ostracism can happen due to a variety of reasons. Broadly speaking, people tend to judge others when there’s a mismatch in values, behavior, status, or even appearance. Someone who was born out of wedlock or lives in a poorer household might be pushed away in their community, which can breed resentment, frustration, and anger over the long term.
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Social isolation increases the risk of serious health problems. It increases the risk of dementia by a whopping 50%, heart disease by 29%, and stroke by 32%. Not only that, but socially isolated individuals are more prone to developing depression and anxiety, diabetes, and issues with substance abuse.
The CDC reports that more than 1 in 3 American adults who are aged 45 and over feel lonely. People more at risk of social isolation tend to have lower income and physical or mental health problems. They also often live alone, have disabilities, and have been the victims of abuse. The emotional toll is immense. But in financial terms, loneliness costs the US economy around $406 billion per year, while social isolation costs it another $6.7 billion annually.
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“I have experienced feelings of loneliness and moments in which I’m alone, and there is a definite difference between the two,” Isaiah, who created the viral thread, opened up to Bored Panda.
“For example, have you wanted to be within proximity of a company while maintaining your choice of personal space? My answer to that question would be yes, a hundred times yes! And that, to me at least, is the difference between being alone and being lonely. A person who is lonely is too alone, yet they are on a spiritual, mental, and physical spectrum.
We asked Isaiah for his perspective as to why so many of us are so quick to judge each other. “The reason people are so quick to judge the next person's difference is usually due to a seemingly endless search to find the difference within self or they have recognized the difference within themselves and have not learned to appreciate it,” he shared his point of view.
“We are all books whose stories cannot and should not be plagiarized! Our differences are all various shades of various colors splattered across this blank canvas we call EXISTENCE, and those differences are what make us unique masterpieces to be admired in the gallery of LIFE.”
In the meantime, the author of the viral thread shared his thoughts on how everyone can become more tolerant and understanding. “The only way I see us becoming more tolerant of one another would be to show more concern toward our fellow human and to show more compassion for our fellow human,” he told Bored Panda.
“We are all trying—some harder than others—but nevertheless, we are all trying. Whether it is trying to fit in, trying to stand out, trying to be the best version of ourselves, or maybe just trying to be better than we were a second, minute, hour, day, week, month, or year ago…WE ARE ALL TRYING!”
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If there’s one thing we love, it’s adventure. Travel is something magical, and it really ups the quality of your life. That being said, let’s not be naive—long trips can be a real pain when you’re stuck in a bus or on a train. Especially if you’re tired and surrounded by entitled people who ignore everyone’s personal boundaries and have incredibly loud conversations on their phones.
Redditor u/Shadow_of_the_moon11 faced this exact problem. She shared how she got on an overnight bus for an international students’ trip, but one passenger kept having a phone conversation while everyone else was trying to get some shut-eye. Annoyed and craving sleep, she decided that it was time for some petty revenge. Check out the full story below!
Bored Panda reached out to the author of the viral story, u/Shadow_of_the_moon11. She told us more about what happened and shared her thoughts about unruly passengers on transportation. Check out our interview with her!
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The author told us that she didn’t expect her story to get so much attention online. She thinks that its popularity might be linked to the fact that her experience was so universal: lots of different people go on long journeys and witness disruptive passengers.
Bored Panda asked u/Shadow_of_the_moon11 how the loud passenger behind her reacted when she reclined her seat.
“She didn’t react. I think, because she was American, she was on the phone at this time because it was more convenient with the time zones but still clearly didn’t consider that while it might have been an appropriate time in the States, it wasn’t an appropriate time here,” she shared her interpretation of the situation.
The author revealed to us that she is autistic, so she finds many social situations difficult to handle. “I do think it’s very important to just treat everybody with respect and to show kindness, but that doesn’t mean that you don’t stand up for yourself if somebody is mistreating you,” she told Bored Panda.
According to the OP, transportation staff should definitely intervene more in these sorts of situations.
“On trains, I’ve even seen signs telling people not to have loud phone calls because it’s disruptive, and that’s during the day,” she said. “I suppose in this scenario, the driver didn’t really have to do anything because that behavior wasn’t really hurting anybody, but passengers shouldn’t be feeling like somebody else’s behavior is so disruptive that they have to take matters into their own hands.”
Sometimes, the best revenge is the most straightforward. That’s exactly the attitude that u/Shadow_of_the_moon11 embraced. In order to teach the impolite and entitled bus passenger a lesson, they simply used their reclining seat. It quickly put an end to the entire problem.
A lot of internet users were impressed by the story. It also inspired them to share their own experiences with folks who talk way, way too loudly on the phone.
We’re all super busy living our own lives, but it doesn’t mean that we can’t be courteous, kind, and aware of our surroundings. A good rule of thumb in life is not to behave in a way that you would find to be hurtful or annoying.
The reality is that some people lack self-awareness. They might never have been called out for their rude behavior before or think it’s their right to do whatever they choose. Or they might be genuinely kind-hearted and have good intentions but have no clue how their behavior affects the people around them.
They might not know that they’re causing other people problems. Sometimes, a gentle reminder from the folks around them is enough to set them on the right path. Sure, it might be a tad awkward or embarrassing to bring the topic up, but many people are reasonable and happy to change for the better.
But the important thing is to bring the issue up. Aloud! Nobody’s a mind-reader. Sometimes, people might lose track of time or not realize that their incredibly loud phone conversations are, in fact, incredibly loud. Of course, there are other ways to handle entitled and loud people.
You could cough very loudly so they understand they’re being a nuisance. You could look them right in their eyes, meaningfully, hoping they get the (not so) subtle hint. You could ask the bus driver or other figure of authority if they could help manage the situation. Or you could do what the author of the story did and recline your seat to send a very obvious signal that you’re trying to sleep.
Generally, it’s better to err on the side of politeness when you’re traveling with strangers. Don’t be obnoxiously loud. Don’t litter. Don’t invade their personal space. Don’t eat food that has strong smells. In general, be as friendly as you can!
However, it’s understandable that there’d be at least some friction between passengers if the trip goes on for hours and hours. It’s inevitable that some folks let down their guards while others let their social ‘masks’ slip a little. It’s exhausting keeping up appearances in public. Who you are in private starts to leak out… with all the pros and cons that this entails.
Meanwhile, if a passenger is causing a ruckus, the bus drivers themselves have a few options on how to handle things. They could, for example, ask them to knock off the chaotic behavior over the bus speaker. Or they could pull the entire bus over and speak to them in person.
How they handle these situations is going to vary a lot. In some cases, the drivers might want to use humor to de-escalate the tension. In other cases, they might need to be more direct than diplomatic (while still remaining professional) to warn the passenger about the possible consequences of their actions.
In the worst-case scenario, the drivers always have the option to kick the passenger off the bus if they’re being particularly unruly. However, it might be best to do so somewhere with public transport access, not in the middle of a random road in the woods…
World-famous conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel were once again the center of attention after an old photo of them enjoying some summer bliss resurfaced. Fans made the nostalgic revisit to their old photo following the news of Abby’s secret wedding to Josh Bowling.
Dressed in their vibrant summer attire, the twins were pictured in the 2015 snap, donning a light blue bikini top and bright orange bottoms. The photo, with the simple caption of “summer,” sparked admiration and affection from fans around the globe as it resurfaced in light of the news of Abby’s secret nuptials in 2021.
“Congratulations on your marriage! Wish you happiness,” one user commented on the photo, while another wrote, “I know this is a picture from some years ago but I’d never seen it. All three of you girls looked amazing!”
“Wow you look so beautiful,” another chimed in.
“’Such an example of love and strength, you both inspire me to keep going every day,” wrote another fan.
“You are two beautiful girls,” another said.
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Abby and Brittany were first introduced to the world when they appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to share their story in 1996. They also gained widespread recognition with their TLC reality show “Abby & Brittany,” which captured glimpses of their daily lives.
Their story has been the subject of numerous documentaries, showcasing how they live their lives as dicephalus-conjoined twins. Joined at the torso since birth, the twins have their own separate spinal cords, brains, hearts, and stomachs. They have four lungs in total, two of which are joined, and they share organs below the waist.
Control of their body is also divided; Brittany is in charge of the left side limbs, while Abby manages the right side.
Each twin experiences hunger, sleep, and the urge to urinate separately, and they also have their own birth certificates and passports.
The twins previously revealed how their personalities are wildly different; while Brittany prefers the arts, Abby’s favorite subjects are math and science. Brittany is also scared of heights, while her sister isn’t. Even when it comes to coffee, Abby wouldn’t mind a cup, but Brittany said it makes her heart rate increase.
“I can be a totally different temperature than Brittany would be,” Abby said in 2013. “And a lot of times our hands are different temperatures, so I get super-hot way faster.”
In an interview with Time magazine back in 2001, the twins’ father Mike said he hoped their condition wouldn’t stop them from finding love and settling down.
“They’re good-looking girls. They’re witty. They’ve got everything going for them, except they’re together,” the father said at the time.
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It’s only been a couple of weeks since the news of Abby’s wedding to Josh became the subject of headlines.
Abby, a teacher, and Josh, a nurse and United States Army veteran, said “I do” in 2021, according to a Today report from March 27. When news outlets began reporting Abby’s 2021 wedding last month, the famed twins also shared posts around the same time featuring pictures of Abby in a wedding dress and Josh in a grey suit.
Fans flooded their social media posts with comments congratulating them.
“I’m so happy for them. I remember seeing their documentary when they were younger really sweet girls,” one wrote.
“You deserve nothing but blissful happiness. Congratulations,” another said.
“Congratulations, it’s great to see you all so happy !” read a third comment.
“You both looked so beautiful.. your makeup is gorgeous!! Have a happy ever after! Minnesota Girl at Heart! God Bless!” another said.
However, the twins also received comments that jibed at Abby’s relationship with Josh.
“What if one isn’t in the mood?” one asked, while another said, “Buy one get one.”
“A two for one special. congratulations champ,” another wrote.
One questioned, “How do the I love you convos go? I need to know.”
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Following the “loud” comments, the twins clapped back by sharing a video on TikTok that sent a crystal-clear message to their haters.
“This is a message to all the haters out there. If you don’t like what I do, but you watch everything I’m doing, you’re still a fan,” declared the message in their video, which included a picture of the twins happily smiling beside Josh.
They also posted another video with the caption, “The internet is extra LOUD today. We have always been around.”
The video showcased ancient sculptures of conjoined twins as a way of reminding the public about the historical evidence of the existence of conjoined twins.
At the heels of the news of Abby’s wedding, reports came out last week about her husband Josh being hit with a paternity suit by his ex-wife, Annica Bowling. Josh and Annica married in 2010 and then split in 2019, about two years before he tied the knot with Abby.
The more experience you have in the corporate world, the more you come to realize that there’s no such thing as a ‘perfect’ workplace. There will always be something to complain about. Whether it’s substandard office coffee, endless meetings, confusing remote-work policies, micromanaging bosses, and chronic exhaustion. But you’re not alone. Nearly everyone in the corporate world runs into similar issues.
The ‘Memes Off The Clock’ Instagram page shares some of the funniest and most relatable memes about the ups and downs of office life. We’ve collected some of the top ones to share with you, Pandas. Scroll down and upvote your faves. Remember to send these pics to your colleagues… and we dare you to forward them to your boss!
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Worker burnout is a major problem. A survey conducted by Deloitte found that 77% of surveyed American professionals experienced burnout at their current job, while over half admitted that this has happened more than once.
The vast majority of respondents said that the stress and frustration that they face at work has a negative impact on their quality of work, as well as their personal relationships.
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It’s a common misconception that just because you enjoy the work you do, you’ll never feel tired. However, 87% of the working professionals who participated in the Deloitte survey said that they were passionate about their jobs, but 64% revealed that they’re frequently stressed. In other words, being passionate about what you do does not make you immune to stress.
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Meanwhile, most respondents felt that their employers weren’t doing enough to prevent burnout. However, the solution doesn’t lie in just having super hip well-being programs to destress your employees.
Ideally, there should be a workplace culture that actively fights back against chronic exhaustion, demotivation, and burnout.
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Having supportive bosses who genuinely care about their employees’ issues and growth is a godsend. But that requires being well-versed in leadership and management and having a lot of empathy. If you’re aiming for profit at the cost of your employees’ physical and mental health, you’re going to drive away your top talent. Your staff needs proper rest to recharge and do their jobs well.
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If you force everyone to constantly work overtime and pile unreasonable workloads on their shoulders, you’ll only get substandard results. If efficiency and good results are your actual priorities, then you have to be open-minded.
Well-rested, happy people who feel like they’re doing purposeful tasks will get you there faster than a frustrated and exhausted group who feels undervalued. Wonderful things happen if you genuinely care about the individuals who work for you. Loyalty should be a two-way street.
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According to Deloitte, corporations ought to prioritize relationships instead of rewards. It’s also essential to assess what the actual needs of your employees are. That way, management can plan how they can best support the entire workforce, as well as separate departments and individual specialists.
It’s also a huge plus if management can make the work processes more meaningful and fulfilling. People can move mountains if they believe in the cause and the values of their company.
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Some other important challenges that employees face at work, according to Indeed, include a lack of communication and poor transparency, as well as a lack of recognition for hard work. Many workers also find that their managers don’t know how to motivate them and help them be more engaged in their daily tasks.
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At the time of writing, ‘Memes Off The Clock’ has 25.3k followers on Instagram. The curator describes the project as sharing “corporate memes for your lunch break dreams,” and we totally dig the intentional rhyme there. The account has been focused on posting witty work and corporate life-related memes since late 2020, and we can’t get enough of them.
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One of the best ways to get your memes noticed is to make them relatable to your target audience. If you throw some humor into the mix, you’re only improving your chances of going viral. And what’s more relatable than sharing the most common problems that many employees run into in their day-to-day office lives?
The absolute majority of us have to work for a living, and our grievances are an invisible thread that connects us all, no matter what part of the world we might be in.
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What’s your workday been like today, dear Pandas? Which of these memes did you vibe with the most? Which ones did you forward to your colleagues? What do you do to create a healthier work-life balance?
If you have a free moment or you’re on your coffee break (we’ll join you in spirit), we’d love to hear from you. Share your thoughts in the comment section at the bottom of this post!
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If at some time in the future the internet is inexplicably switched off, the one commonality between the first memes, contemporary content and, presumably, the future will be cats. After all, we found them on Egyptian murals, so your grandkids Facebook page is not that much of a stretch.
The “Memes I wish I could tag my cat in” Facebook page is dedicated to hilarious posts about having a feline friend. We got in touch with Trev Lewis, one of the founders of the page to learn more. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorite posts and be sure to share your own thoughts in the comments section below.
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Bored Panda got in touch with Trev Lewis, a broadcaster and comedian who is also one of the founders of “Memes I wish I could tag my cat in” and he was kind enough to answer some of our questions. Firstly, we were curious to hear his thoughts on why the group is as large as it is, currently just shy of a million followers.
“I think the page's main draw for our group is a passion for debating the different schools of thought within modern economic theory. Kidding! The main draw is cats, of course.” You can also find his previous interview with Bored Panda from last year.
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“People will always love cats and anything that incorporates cat content. It's a fun place to spend some free time, as opposed to more-serious corners of the internet. Cat memes endure because they make the perfect indoor pet, and those of us (myself included) who are chronically online don't like to go outside much. So this particular crowd is wired to appreciate and own cats.”
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Naturally, we also wanted to know why he thought cat memes in particular were so enduring and ever-present. “Compared to other animals and their respective memes, cats simply have more of a meme-worthy personality. They are fiercely independent at times, and very antagonistic.” he shared.
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“One could say they are the animal version of American comedian Larry David, who just wrapped up his long-running sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm. Something about disposing of social norms and acceptable behavior, and choosing to forge your own grumpy path really lends itself to comedy, and that's something both Larry David and cats have successfully tapped into. If any animal on earth could learn the art of standup comedy, I think it would definitely be cats.”
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Trev shared some parting thoughts. “The only other thing I will add is that my family's oldest cat, Nugget, is currently in ill-health. It's always difficult to lose a pet, and I think this group has helped me, and hopefully many others, have some bright cat-related moments in difficult times. That is also part of its huge appeal.” You can find more of his work on his website.
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Today, we’re dedicating our attention to disturbing info, pandas. Redditors have recently been sharing some of the least fun facts that they know, so we’ve gathered some that you might not want to know down below. I’ll warn you right now to keep reading at your own risk, and be sure to upvote the facts you wish weren’t true! Image credits: Top_Tart_7558 Image credits: Trailerguy13 Image credits: pilgrimz To learn more about how this thread started in the first place, we reached out to Reddit user Ghost-5AVAGE_786, who posed the question, "What is your not-so-fun fact?” They were kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda and explain what inspired them to spark this conversation. "My mind birthed this question out of my simple desire to learn broad and niche facts which pique my interest," they explained. "I have a peculiar fondness to wacky or even 'not-so-fun facts', which is why I had asked the question to one of the biggest communities on Reddit." Image credits: DauntlessTanker Image credits: Lord_Lava_Nugget We also asked the OP if they were partial to any unsettling facts. "My personal favorite not-so-fun fact is the peculiar circumstances of Cleopatra's marriage," they shared. "According to history, Cleopatra had married both her brother and father (at separate times, of course), as it was a part of some weird cultural ritual of the Egyptians. In all honesty, this fact did disgust me to quite an extent." "However, this does showcase how bizarre and different cultures and ancient kingdoms can be," Ghost-5AVAGE_786 added. "This fact in particular, came to me from a show called Horrible Histories, which is a British Children's show to teach the odd facts of history." Image credits: Annual-Ad-3350 Image credits: GotPC As far as why we're so drawn to these unsettling facts, the OP says, "I suppose our species in general is highly peculiar, hence it's fascination for disturbing facts, whether full of gore or just a tad bit strange." And as far as what they thought of the replies to their post, they told Bored Panda, "The comments bombarded me with many unusual, as well as some upsetting, facts. The strangest one I had come across was where a user had commented about dolphins being able to be sexually attracted to humans, and they can or will act upon these desires when given an opportunity." Image credits: UndyneIsCool Image credits: DecadentLife "In conclusion, 'not-so-fun facts' are a great (as well as peculiar) way to learn about the universe in which we reside in," Ghost-5AVAGE_786 added. "In essence, we don't truly know everything, but our thirst for hunger as a species will never come to an end, as long as we exist. Who knows, maybe even after our time on Earth has ended." Image credits: ZealousidealPotato71 Image credits: AdExcellent8978 Image credits: PdxPhoenixActual Image credits: chernygal Image credits: paradox-psy-hoe-sis Image credits: BigAlsSmokedShack Image credits: VanessaDoesVanNuys Image credits: pottedplantfairy Image credits: ForgottenShark Image credits: EntertainmentPure955 Image credits: problem-solver0 Image credits: blakeman8192 Image credits: rChewbacca Image credits: kh9hexagon Image credits: Exotic_Bumblebee_275 Image credits: AdorableSunshine02 Image credits: MrPuzzleMan Image credits: theothermeisnothere Image credits: OppositeYouth Image credits: Icy_Selection_7853 Image credits: ChickenNugsBGood#1
If you are properly skinned alive you can survive upwards of an hour and will die from hypothermia, not blood loss.
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The fact that the "couple" down the street from me with 3 kids are not husband and wife. They are in fact brother and sister.
Yes I know it for fact I went to grammar school with them.
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When whales and dolphins get too old they just drown.
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Dental Hygienist here.
There is a type of gum disease that is caused by maggots in your gums. Literal maggots from flys laying eggs in your mouth to feed on your rotten flesh.
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ER Doc here
A lot of people know when they are about to die, even if they don't know why. Just instinctual, they even say it very calmly and knowingly "I'm gonna die." Or something similar. And then they code.
Or. They say they have to go the bathroom. Then code.
I am dead serious.
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It's possible for rats to swim up your toilet piping. There are enough air pockets to travel all the way into your bathroom. I could have lived my whole life not knowing this, but here you go.
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Mummies weren’t that rare until the Victorian British ate so many of them.
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You are more likely to be bitten by a New Yorker then die from a shark.
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I was a social worker. I saw a lot.
The first three weeks, we were in a classroom doing intensive training. Every day, someone would walk out. It wasn’t out of being rude, it’s because each person has a point at which they cannot go any further. They showed us some of the worst. The deal is, they do it for very good reason. If we are so horrified that we refuse to learn about the abuse, how will we recognize it in one of our kids?
That’s what I ask of all adults. PLEASE, if you see something, don’t assume it’s impossible so you can push it out of your mind. A whole lot is possible.
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We don't know the effects of micro plastics on the human body, partially because we can't find a control group.
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Horses can't throw up. If they need to throw up, they'll die.
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Smell is particle based... remember that next time you go into a smelly restroom...
I gotta know it, now so do you.
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If you die on Mount Everest, it's too dangerous and too expensive to move your body. So you'll be stuck there forever, and depending on where you die, other climbers might use your body as a trail marker.
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The number one cause of death for pregnant women is domestic violence.
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There's a very concerning number of nuclear warheads that are unaccounted for.
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There's an extremely high chance that Boeing executives contracted a hit on one of their former employees for being a whistleblower and basically the public response (other than a few angry social media posts) has been "well, yeah, that's just what happens...".#17
Bus seats are designed so that you can't tell how dirty they are
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When gas was introduced into common households during the industrial revolutions, people started paying more attention to what they put on their walls, now that they were lit up. They began decorating more, and wallpaper became a much more important part of the modern home. At the time, green was a very popular colour, as it had never really been an option to decorate with that colour before. However the green colour was obtained with Arsenic (as white paints were often obtained through a lead product). After a while, wear and tear made it so that people literally started breathing in bits of their arsenic wallpapers, and feeling bad within their homes. Their doctors would then suggest they go on holiday to the sea, as the ocean air often had proven a successful remedy. But of course, it was a remedy simply because they were no longer breathing in arsenic. The companies that made these wallpapers were well aware of their nefarious effects, but it took people boycotting "en masse" for them to actually stop production, several decades later.
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Australians' greatest enemy isn't spider, drop bears, killer roos, massive insects, or devil snakes; it's the sun.
Australia has the highest skin cancer rate in the world, and an Australian is four times more likely to develop skin cancer than any other type of cancer, and two thirds of Australian would be diagnosed with it by the time they reach the age of 70.
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One of the more recent things I learned about is the Paria diving disaster - where four divers got sucked up into an underwater pipe and three of them got stuck in there. The company decided to wait until they were dead instead of doing a rescue operation because money. They said they heard banging for three days until it finally stopped. Not a fun way to go, inside a dark pipe alone, cold and scared. Damn, may those souls rest in peace.
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Mentally handicapped children are roughly three times as likely to be sexually assaulted.
Note that roughly 25% of all healthy girls and 5% of healthy boys will be the victim of CSA before they are 12.#22
A lot of people in nursing homes will die shortly after family leaves. I’ve had funeral directors tell me this is very accurate. Both my parents did. We were there, left for the night and while gone, they died. It’s like they don’t want to expire in front of anyone.
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You ever use bleach without gloves, and it gets kinda slimy?
That slime isn't the bleach. It's your skin melting.
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Old people move so slow because everything they do hurts. I’m getting old and it’s starting to happen.
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That you are not immune to propaganda, and that chronically online children and adults alike are manipulated to becoming violent extremists .#26
There’s a relatively good chance that you already own the clothes that you’ll die in.
*To clarify, I’m not threatening you, haha.#27
There’s decent evidence that the Challenger astronauts didn’t die when the vehicle broke apart. They may have even been conscious and alert inside the crew compartment all the way to the surface of the ocean, which was like a two and a half minute fall. It’s possible they were knocked out but it’s possible they weren’t.
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Greater than half the population of the USA reads at or below fourth grade level.
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Many lullabies are about plagues or a hanging.#30
When you're burning to death your eyes melt out of your head before you die. So you're still alive while your eyes are melting.
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There is a whale called 52 Blue
that only sings at their frequency meaning it can't communicate with other whales. It is nicknamed the loneliest whale on the planet.#32
Everything you experience and perceive is just an incredibly vivid hallucination based on _very_ sparse and broadly interpreted data from our own senses.
We infer reality. We don’t witness it.#33
Chainsaws were invented for medical use, largely for cutting into the pelvis during childbirth in a process called a pelviotomy. And from about 1940 to 1987, approximately 1,500 women were given one in Ireland without their consent, way after they should have switched to C-sections, often to perfect the surgery for use in Africa.
A 2012 study found that many of the victims say the Catholic Church "encouraged, if not insisted upon, symphysiotomies."
It took until 2012 for people to begin getting any compensation and the first woman to receive it was subjected to the procedure *post cesarian.* However, they dropped the ball so hard on addressing it afterwards that the survivor's group of these women had to go to the UN Committee Against Torture to get anything else done.
Some babies were also killed in the process.#34
Brain aneurysms are still a thing perfectly healthy people can drop dead from with no visible symptoms whatsoever. Pop! Dead.
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During the cleanup of Pearl Harbor, as the recovery crews for *USS West Virginia (BB-48)* got deeper into the ship months after the attack, they discovered bodies high in the engine room and a locked storeroom where air bubbles had kept them alive for **2 weeks** based on calendars they used to keep track of time. That was "well after" divers had made their first passes over the ship listening for sounds of survivors.
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That Munmorah power plant in Australia was allowed to operate for decades with a significant diesel leak in an underground reservoir that contaminated the water table. When demolishing the plant you could light the sand that surrounded the tank on fire (about 50 meters each way), and if you dug lower than the sea level anywhere within a I guess about a 1km radius you could smell diesel.
It's a high fishing surfing area. That was far from the only contaminant. Pfas, Pfos, chromium, etc. People live very close to it. People eat the fish for years from the hot water outlet. (Was a super popular "secret" fishing spot)
Also during the demolition there was lots of contaminated water collected - This was sent through a filtration process and pumped into the ocean. It had multiple sediment filters and a water/oil separator. I do not believe it was adequate filtration before it was sent back into the sea.
No one seems to know. I only know because I was part of the works post operation.
Makes me wonder how many heavy industrial entities got to do who knows what and get away with it.#37
That prion diseases exist, specifically fatal familial insomnia. .
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A rare medication reaction called Stevens-Johnson Syndrome can cause your skin to blister and eventually peel off similar to a third degree burn victim. It's a horrible d**g reaction and has a very high mortality rate.
It can be caused by almost any medication, including ones you have already taken before and had no prior reaction to. The most common medications that cause it are antibiotics and anti-epileptic medications.
(Do not the Google pics unless you are not sensitive to medical trauma pics--they are extremely disturbing).
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Vulture bees - the bees that eat meat! (Do not eat the meat honey).#40
Your immune system basically ignores your eyes. If for whatever reason your immune system becomes aware of the existence of your eyes, it can attack them and potentially cause severe damage.
(This is quite simplified, but if you’re interested look up ocular immune privilege. It’s fascinating stuff.)#41
If it wasn’t for your stomach lining, your stomach would eat you from the inside out.
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Living a healthy lifestyle, eating right and exercising buys you the slowest rate of death possible, at best. I work with the elderly and a 95 yo woman mumbled that “this is what I get for being healthy…stiiiiiillll here.”#43
At some point the number of yesterdays you’ve had will be greater than the number of tomorrows you’ve got left.#44
Dolphins can be sexually attracted to you and will definitely try to do something about it#45
We've lived half of our subjective experience of life by the time we're 18 years old. It's why our childhoods felt so long and time feels like it goes by faster as we get older.#46
It’s incredibly common for people to be eaten by their pets if they die alone. However, it is WAY more likely in cats than in dogs. Cats will pretty much eat you as soon as their food runs out, if they have any. Some of them will eat you even before their food runs out. Dogs are different, they will only eat you out of necessity, if they’ve exhausted all previous foodstuffs that they can get to and if they can’t escape from the property and it will be days before that happens.
There is a reason for this. Dogs are omnivores. They will primarily eat meat but can eat vegetables. They can survive without meat. Cats are obligate carnivores, which means they HAVE to eat meat. There’s a specific protein that they can only get from meat and it’s essential for their organs to operate properly, otherwise, they will die and it’s not a quick, quiet death either. So given the absense of meat, your pet cat will eat your soft squishy bits first. Usually the face.
Source-used to be an RVN.#47
Apparently, you can go swimming in a southern US lake and an amoeba might just swim up your nose and eat your brain.#48
That one in five men will leave their wives when they get extremely sick or have to care for them in some manner. #49
There is a condition in which damaged tissue is replaced by bone. People with this condition are slowly consumed by their own skeleton and have to choses which position they want to spend the rest of their life in after a certain point#50
"Died instantly on impact" in a car crash is anywhere up to 30 minutes, which is about how long it takes to extract your body from a crushed car in a deadly wreck. They don't bother trying to find out how long it actually took you to die, and the family doesn't really want to know.#51
The number of lives that have been saved by inventions made for and during wars is greater than the number of lives lost in wars. As far as human lives are concerned, wars have a net-positive effect. If this isn't disturbing, I don't know what is.#52
Horses have 350° vision they have a 5° gap at the front of their sight and a 5° gap at the back of their sight. If you stand directly behind them they don't see you. And that is what triggers the kick reaction#53
One of the most common ways to get testicular torsion is just sleeping wrong.
On the next episode of Managers And Bosses Who Never Learn, we have a toxic narcissist boss who has a habit of treating everyone under her like trash. And in a maliciously compliant turn of events, she ends up becoming a victim of redirected virtual and voice correspondence from, assuming it’s all since-source, over 100 sales reps. Well, at least 100 plus spam letters will definitely reach her from now on.
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A short, but a good one this time around. A Redditor recently shared how she’s finally leaving a toxic job—predominantly that due to the boss.
Until a replacement arrives, the boss asked OP to let every client rep know who to contact just in case. Little did she know, however, was that the Redditor would get hundreds of sales spammers in the mail and on the phone. And, in all honesty, that is a business opportunity that’s as good as any. So, into the pot they go.
It gets better as the boss is somewhat IT illiterate—enough to not know that Outlook has nifty features to avoid unsolicited correspondence. This translates to hundreds of new emails every day from that pot mentioned previously.
The comment section got mischievous really quickly, suggesting to set a permanent out of office forwarding function and maybe signing up for more than just relevant emails. Whatever the case, folks approved of spam of mass destruction.
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In simple terms, spam is email that you don’t need or care about, for whatever reason. Usually, it’s company communication, but can be a part of scam attacks and the like.
These days, many of the major email service providers have algorithms in place to manage spam. These mechanisms typically rely on checking source IP and domain reputation, history of spam traps, user reports and engagement, running mail against blacklists, as well as tracking the sending rate and identifying malicious content. If any of these trip the spam filters, the messages land in the spam folder.
There are other, more hands-on approaches to managing spam, however, like OP’s mentioned Outlook rules. Many email management clients have filter functions that allow users to customize what letters go where based on a set of criteria that they can set freely.
With that said, if spam does sneak through the sensors, mark it as such, and if it continues to happen, create a filter on your client so that all those pesky sales reps for miracle cream and you know what enlargement could go straight to email hell.
So, what are your thoughts on any of this? What are some of your toxic boss or spam email experiences? Share your takes and stories in the comment section below!
If you often engage in aimless scrolling through social media feeds or enjoy a good meme once in a while (who doesn’t?), you might have noticed that Europeans and Americans like to tease each other from time to time. All in good fun, of course, mostly regarding their bewildering cultural differences.
One of the most recent formats through which they poke fun at each other is the ‘European mind can’t comprehend this’ meme. Since its first known sighting in July 2023, it has successfully continued to amuse Americans and confuse Europeans by showcasing something from the US that might leave someone living in Europe in a muddle.
Today we bring you the freshest collection of these memes, from Dr. Pepper-flavored peeps to highways with 26 lanes. All you have to do is scroll down!
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