People Share the Pop Culture Characters They See Differently Now That They’re Adults

Have you ever re-watched a movie or TV show that used to be your absolute favorite when you were a kid? Nine times out of ten, things are gonna be pretty different than you remembered.

These folks on AskReddit shared the pop culture characters they can no longer view the same now that they’re adults.

1. Poor Helga

“Not sure if this has already been mentioned but Helga Pataki from Hey Arnold. As a kid, I thought she was a weird girl. As an adult, my mind was blown when I realized how neglected she was. Her mom was an alcoholic and her dad was a narcissist who favored Olga and made her the golden child. Most of the characters have pretty sad stories honestly. That show was deep and I never realized it as a child.”

2. Issues

“Hank Hill. Growing up I thought Hank was just kind of an a** to his kid for no reason. Now I realize that he’s got a whole host of emotional issues caused by his upbringing, even if he doesn’t do much to address them. He’s really doing the best he can and usually comes around in the end.”

3. Endearing

“Team Rocket.

As a kid they were just the goofballs appearing constantly for slapstick humor and episode drama.

Re-watching the series as an adult they are actually a lot more endearing pair than any of the main cast and get a fair amount of development and depth throughout the series. And that’s not including the puns and jokes that slipped by me in my childhood.”

4. Good reasons

“Daniel Hillard from Mrs. Doubtfire

Kid Me thought it was unfair that his wife would leave him and take the kids when he was such a hilarious, fun guy. Adult Me thinks ‘Yeah, there are multiple good reasons why she divorced you, Daniel.’”

5. Bad parenting

“Mr. Wilson from Dennis the Menace. That kid really is a destructive force of nature, and his parents don’t do crap to stop it.”

6. Identify with Donald

“Donald Duck. As a child I thought he is lazy AF and just boring. The older I get, the more I can identify with him.”

7. Different views

“King Triton. As a kid, you look at him as the powerful and oppressive father who is preventing Ariel from getting what she wants. As an adult, you realize more and more how stupid Ariel is and how much he is trying to actually protect her.”

8. Perspective

“Mulan.

Growing up Asian I felt a connection to the character but in a way that children would (i.e. she was rebellious, she was cool since she could wield a sword, and she was praised at the end).

As a full grown man now I see her as someone who just wanted to help out her parents regardless of what people said. Sure she was a woman and people practically looked on her even going so far as to shame her and her family just because she wanted to prevent her father from having to go out to fight in his old and injured state. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do and show all the morons who say you’re not worth it that you are and that they have no control over you.”

9. Heartbreaking

“Nani from Lilo & Stitch.

As a kid she was the overly strict “mother”, and always overly angry, while Lilo was the poor lost kid who was blamed for everything.

As an adult, the film is heart-breaking. Nani is herself a young kid doing her best to keep her family together, under the worst circumstances, and she’s become one of my favorite characters of all time just for how relatable she is.”

10. Messed up

“Cyclops from the X-Men

As a child: Boring tighta** who doesn’t respect Wolverine’s awesomeness and doesn’t deserve Jean.

As an adult: Brainwashed child soldier who was given too much responsibility too young and consequently holds himself accountable for everything, constantly screws up, but keeps on trying to do the right thing.

He’s still a terrible husband, of course, but that’s part of his constantly messed up.”

11. That’s what happened

“It took me a long time to realize what was up with Penny Johnson in Dirty Dancing. As a kid I just thought she had a stomach ache or something, only recently did I realize she was pregnant and had a botched abortion.”

12. The best and worst

“Boromir. As a kid, I judged him as weak for not being able to resist the ring and as foolish for not liking the plan of the Council. As an adult, I realize that his weakness is the weakness of almost all mortals. Very few people could resist the Ring.

Also, Gondor was in the most immediate danger and had been bearing the brunt of Sauron’s power for the longest time. As the next Steward of Gondor, his people’s safety was his first concern. In the end, he shows his quality by sacrificing himself for the hobbits. He really exemplifies the best and worst parts of men.”

13. On his way to jail

“I used to think Bart Simpson was cool. Now I’m sure he’s heading straight into a lifetime of incarceration.”

14. A dark character

“Woody from Toy Story.

He was always a fun toy but now I see his desperation to be played with and his jealousy when Andy plays with someone else. He is actually quite a dark character if you think about it.

And also the fishing rod with barbie legs, it looked fun when I was young but now I know it was a hooker =) “

15. I can relate…

“Squidward.

I too have worked in the service industry. I was also grumpy and miserable doing it. You either quit a Spongebob or work long enough to see yourself become a Squidward.”

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August 28, 2018

Teachers Dish on the Worst Papers They’ve Ever Had to Grade

Being a teacher isn’t all engaging lectures and inspirational speeches…in reality, it’s mostly grading really bad papers.

Well, now it’s time for the teachers to turn the tables on those students. In this AskReddit thread, teachers fessed up to the absolute worst paper they’ve ever had the misfortune to grade.

1. Not goats

“English teacher. Read and discussed ghost stories with class- what makes them spooky, how they are structured, building up tension, key elements etc. They set off writing their own. ghost story supposedly using everything we had been studying. When I marked them one boy had written a ‘goat story’. Seriously!”

2. Hydrogen

“I teach chemistry, not English, but they write one big paper as a write up after a long lab.

Anyway, I had this one student, let’s call him Joe, who was a pain in my butt. Constantly late, disrespectful to his classmates and me, often just ditched, so he was waaaaay behind. Anytime I’d call on him during class his answer would be “HYDROGEN!” We could be talking about molecular structure, I’d call on Joe to tell me how a transition metal like iron was [structurally] different from a halogen, and still that’s what he’d shout.

Fast forward to the end of the year and the long lab write up. All the kids, including Joe, have done the lab. I give rubrics, clear guidelines on what I expect them to discuss, and a deadline. Deadline comes and they’re all submitted through Google classroom, I start reading. I’d made it through about 10 of them, and [they’re] okay. The kids gave it a decent shot.

Then I get to Joe’s essay. He’d literally typed the sentence “The answer is always Hydrogen.” Hundreds of times. Enough to reach the page length requirement. And he’d done it with the correct headers for each section, too. I was impressed with the amount of effort that had been put into screwing his grade away.”

3. At least he didn’t get an F

“My parents graded GCSE papers every summer. One year my mum got an English essay exam on which the kid had written “I don’t understand the question so I’m going to write you a poem”, followed by said poem and an elaborate drawing of a tropical island.

He got a D.”

4. Awkward

“I once was in an English class with several papers that had to be peer-reviewed. One of my classmates wrote a 15 page paper that was, for the most part, barely comprehensible. But the real kicker was that she directly quoted Santa Clause 2. In a final paper for a college-level senior capstone, a real person quoted the 2002 Tim Allen Christmas comedy, Santa Clause 2.

We also had to discuss each other papers in class afterward. Awkward.”

5. Hahahaha

“I was observing a class at a highschool (one for very low standards and many, many problems) and the teacher I was observing told me about how one student on his state exam (4th grade) wrote 90% of his essay in emojis.

He did not pass.”

6. Bare arms

“I had a student who wrote about the right to “bare” arms. For some of the paper he was talking about concealed carry laws and was for it. Then he started arguing against the second amendment. Then he started talking about women wearing short sleeved shirts.

This was a college level class.

I still have photos of this paper, though I’ve lost the original copy. It is glorious. I read it to all new friends.”

7. That’s not gonna cut it

“My brother was grading papers for an astronomy class he took last year, when he came across a paper in which somebody quoted the bible’s creation story, thinking it was an adequate explanation of how the universe came to be.”

8. The two-day war

“We’d just spent two weeks on WWII and the kids were supposed to write a summary essay on the major events. This kid genuinely believed that WWII lasted two days; The Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, and the next day America nuked Tokyo.”

9. Doctorate candidate

“I was in a master’s program for the last two years, and I had to peer review a classmate’s paper. Holy sh-t.

We were supposed to write a persuasive research essay on an effective way to make college more affordable. I was lucky enough to peer review a classmate and coworker, who already possessed not one, but TWO master’s degrees, and he was somehow on his way to a doctorate. I’m honestly still perplexed trying to figure out how he got those other two degrees.

Anyways, the paper was littered with grammatical errors. My favorite of those was when he started making up words, and talked about the problem of student indebtness. He probably meant indebtedness, but he used it incorrectly multiple times, so make what you will of that.

He also referred to the student debt problem as an extra layer on students’ frustration cake. Yum.

This person was a veteran, and at one point in the paper, he talks about the terrorist attacks of 9/11/11. I understand that that’s a single-number typo, but also, if you’re going to state that as your reason for joining the military, at least proofread it like you care about what happened that day.

The good part, however, was his actual argument. For some reason he was arguing that college should be more affordable, but only for veterans (you mean the GI Bill?). He said that we could make this happen by simply cutting the salaries of professors, and giving that money back to the students.

We’re going to save colleges and universities in America by failing to pay our professors, everyone.”

10. Wrong one

“I once marked an essay that was meant to discuss code (as in HTML). The student wrote about the ‘Pirate’s Code’ from ‘[Pirates] of the Caribbean’…”

11. Smooth moves

“Geography teacher here, I teach 18 year olds. I had assigned a scientific paper of about 5 pages long. Topic was chosen from among the chapter on space. Had a student write it on the subject of the moon. Went of on the good start: different theories of how the moon came into existence. Then suddenly she switched into astrology. It was so smooth I didn’t notice until a full paragraph in.

I had to explain to her why she failed…”

12. Wacky jumble

“One of my classmates once wrote and presented on this wacky jumble of conspiracy theories about the Illuminati. The paper was bad but the presentation was awkward as f-ck, he was doing numerology on the chalk board to demonstrate that the Pope was actually the Antichrist and that George Bush was one of his minions.

It would have been funny, but I’m pretty sure he was schizophrenic. Everyone just got really, really quiet, including the professor.”

13. Not good references

“Not English, but Politics. I’m a PhD student, and I also teach and mark undergraduate essays and exams.

I get quite a few essays that are just poor quality (things like poor argumentation, lack of critical insight etc), but this is often because the student struggles with understanding concepts and just needs a helping hand. Some clearly just don’t put any effort in, but they are usually in a very small minority.

One of the few essays that really stands out, and the one that I gave my lowest ever mark to, was less an essay and more a diatribe against immigration. I’m not going to mark someone down because I don’t agree with what they write – I don’t really care as long as it’s well-argued, factually correct and follows the principles of academic writing, citations, and argumentation.

This one crossed the line in two respects. Firstly, it was egregiously racist. The student effectively stated that ‘all Pakistanis are child abusers and women-beaters’, amongst other things (although apparently Indians were ok because they were ‘civilised by the british’). Secondly, it just wasn’t an academic essay. The argument was just so, so bad. And they didn’t reference any peer-reviewed sources. Their reference list was a list of URLs to sites like the Daily Mail and Infowars.

Needless to say, I failed it and sent it to the head of department who went to have a chat with the student. I don’t like failing students, but this one definitely deserved it.”

14. Pick one of the above

“Definitely not the worst, but my favourite was a student who wrote in an essay on the First World War that soldiers could be put out of action by being shot in the “head, neck or pancreas” “

15. Ancient Roman tank races

“Oh goody, one where I can answer.

So I teach ESL to Japanese children in America. Fun job, good hours, and the kids are usually pretty great. But all of them at some point get stressed out and decide using Google Translate is easier than writing a paper.

It’s fairly obvious when they use Google Translate, as the sentence structure will be off, or the paper just won’t make any sense.

Which leads me to my favorite worst paper ever written, The Ancient Roman Olympics. You could tell that the student wrote it themselves, and then used Translate for the English. So why is it my favorite? Because of one line: “Ancient Roman tank races must have been intense.”

The word he meant was chariot. But the kanji for chariot is the same for tank. You use context to know which meaning to give the kanji. I now have a running joke with this student about tanks races.”

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August 28, 2018

15 Hotel Workers Reveal the Strangest Thing They’ve Ever Seen at Work

Working in a hotel has to be one of the weirdest jobs on the planet. You’re essentaially running a giant house full of all different types of people who will probably never be there again.

So you know hotel workers have some great stories. Just like these folks shared on AskReddit.

1. Party time

“Worked at a large hotel. Every year a group of old men rented the top two floors of the hotel for a few days. These were all retired judges, lawyers, business owners, ect. They would wear thousands of dollars of jewelry, bring in tons of liquor and other stuff. They would hire a bunch of prostitutes, put them in rooms and post a paper on the door with the description of the prostitute in each room.

Basically would have a huge party in every aspect. Would have to tell them to stay on their floors but would have old naked guys be spotted in the elevator or on other floors freaking out other guests. They were big tippers and made for an interesting weekend each year.”

2. Drugs, man

“I used to work as a Quality Supervisor for a 5* hotel. Basically my job was to make sure that both the staff and the guests have no ongoing issues.

One morning, I was around the reception area, guests were leaving in masses. I asked a few of them about their stay, took positive and negative feedback. Suddenly, one of the receptionist girls wave me over. A guest couple was checking out, I think they were Irish, age around 24-26, completely normal couple. The receptionist girl pulled me over and said that one of the cleaning crew notified them to send me up to the couple’s room immediately. A bit puzzled, I go up to their room.

It was trashed. Like COMPLETELY trashed. Like if there were some blood splatters around, it could have seriously looked like a scene for a brutal murder case.

Among a hundred other things: Broken chair. Broken TV. Pillows and sheets all over the place. Curtains torn down. The bathtub was clogged with the bathrobes and the floor was completely drenched. The table seems like some sort of makeup and other unknown things were used to paint all over it. A pack of wet Asian noodles were slammed on the ceiling. A tampon inside a lamp. And so on.

Completely in shock, I went down to immediately talk to the couple. I questioned them, but they acted like they don’t know what I’m talking about. Called in the higher-ups, in the end, they were forced to pay a considerable amount of money for the damage they caused. The strangest thing was they were genuinely acting like they don’t know what happened at all, not just trying to lie or make up a ridiculous story.

After they paid (still acting like they did nothing wrong) and left, I went on to investigate the issue a bit more. I ran into some of the other guests from the floor they stayed in, and asked them if they saw or heard anything strange. As it turned out, the couple acted like they were on drugs the night before the accident. Like HEAVY drugs. They stood in the hallway for 30 minutes, just staring at the wall, for example. They left claw marks on the inside of the door, which I didn’t even notice at first. The staff did not get called because other people thought they were just moderately drunk tourists.

To this day, I do not know what drug they took, but that room left a permanent mental image in my head.”

3. Crazy monkeys

“Stayed in a resort where it was a series of clay huts that comprised the hotel – this was in Namibia. You booked a hut, chill and go about your life.

When I arrived I found the door to my hut with scratches on the outside and several bolts. A sign saying “do not open at night.” Strange.

I didn’t sleep that night as I could hear a child wailing outside in pain and scrabbling at the door. Once I heard the door trying to be wrenched open.

Next morning I spoke to the other guests who had had a similar experience. Turns out that it was monkeys that mimicked human sounds to make people open the door and attack them. Stranger than fiction.”

4. Revolting

“Poop mountain.

Apparently some bachelor parties/sports teams/psychopaths think it’s fun to stay in a room as a group for a weekend and continually poop into of the same, unflushed toilet for multiple days. Just poop on top of poop.

It turns out that putting poop immediately under water is a good way to keep the smell down. You can imagine how awful this is, then, in a small, windowless, non-ventilated room. Not sure why you would do this to yourselves or to anyone else, but we had multiple instances of this in the hotel I worked in when I was young.”

5. Dig ’em up

“Hotel reservations website – once got a call from a client who was staying in Thailand, asking to be relocated. When we asked why would he need that he told us the police was there because the property owner (it was a villa, not a Hotel) had murdered her husband and buried him under the villa. When he called us they were there with a excavator and a coroner’s crew.

On top of that the villa owner ran away with the client’s passports so they also required consular assistance.”

6. Soiled

“Worked in a crappy pub that offered crappy accommodation. A guest rightfully lost their stuff after they climbed into bed and found a soiled pair of men’s underwear. They fired the housekeeper after that.”

7. Classy girls

“3 girls shared a room were wasted, next morning they were very quick to check out not even went for breakfast, turns out they took dumps all over the room… we blacklisted them and send their id’s to other hotels telling of what happen so they could be aware if they showed up. (at least we could take the money for the stay of the credit card they gave).”

8. Holy sh*t

“We had a girl staying for a week in our place. She would call my office phone a few times a say for our janitor kid to get her snacks from the vending machines and take her cash to pay for her room. Her reason was that she had very bad leg pain and it was hard to walk. Hospitality is our business so no one complained. When the kid went to the room she was always seated in a wheelchair with a blanket draped over her from the waist down. At the end of the week she called me crying that she couldn’t take the pain anymore would I call for an ambulance.

When the EMT arrived and pulled the blanket away they found out the awful truth. This young girl was a nursing student and had used her stolen instruments to cut off her leg mid thigh. She did it in the tub and washed the blood down the drain. She had gotten through the bone and had been working on the underside flesh. It goes without saying she had some kind of mental issues. She was admitted to the hospital where they worked to reattach her leg and then sent to the psych ward. When her family was notified, according to the nurses at the hospital, friends of mine, they did not come. I often think of this girl and wonder what became of her.”

9. The traveler

“We were a small pet friends hotel in a medium size NC town. There was a guest in town for a few months that was covering for someone at one of the local plants. This guy was traveling with his dog and generally seemed like a pretty alright guy, even if he was a recluse. This guy said we didn’t need to go into his room for housekeeping since his dog wasn’t the friendliest and he liked to do the cleaning himself. This isn’t really an abnormal request and we never had trouble with people doing that in the past, so we were happy enough to save our girls a room on the housekeeping boards.

After two months, the guy checks out and we go into the room for the first time in that span; what we found was a smorgasbord of disgusting. Opening the door we were assailed by the overpowering stench of dog urine, okay, that happens sometimes. This was obviously worse than we thought it would be!

Exploring the room further, we found that the mattress and chair were completely soaked through with dog urine and growing literal mushrooms and mold. The wood on the tables and dressers was split and peeling, beyond any kind of salvage. The bathroom had poop stains on the floor and in the tub, but the tub also had a temporary bed of blankets and pillows set up in it. This dude was literally coming back to his room every day and sleeping in that mess, the only thing he bothered to clean up was the dogs shit (mostly). This was for TWO MONTHS.

We had to completely strip the room and rehab it because it was so bad. This also prompted us to create a policy where we had to enter every room at least once a week, no exceptions.

It amazes me that guy slept in there and supposedly went to work each day. I don’t know how he managed to hold down a job if he lived like that.”

10. Orgy

“Bunch of guys in suits in their 40s and 50s (about 5 of them) brought over a bunch of prostitutes, they weren’t dressed like they were prostitutes but they were recognized as prostitutes. We know what’s gonna happen so I and another co-worker go and wait for the call from them.

Half an hour later, we get a call from them and we go to their room, one of our bigger and more expensive ones, one of the oldies is on the floor naked and passed out. This always happens with these guys, they eat and drink a lot and want to bang some hot chicks and so they get together to have their orgies.

In reality, their age and health and all that crap they just put in their bodies and the excitement gets their heart pumping a little bit too much. We once had a guy in his 50s be taken to the hospital because he was ejaculating blood and having a heart attack, the girl he hired was not happy with no getting paid.”

11. Scary

“A guy shot himself in the hotel room and the maids found him. It was a chain hotel which sent their laundry to the hotel I worked for and days later we received the bed sheets from said room. Obviously covered in blood and my boss just said: “It is just blood, we won’t throw away sheets just because of a bit blood.” Little did she know that I threw them away behind her back.”

12. Disgusting

“When I was just out of high school I worked as a housekeeper at a decently upscale hotel.

The main policy regarding cleaning rooms was unless it was illegal activity just clean around it. Okay, fair. I had seen marijuana paraphernalia in hotel rooms and chosen to just ignore it. Guns laying around in their lock cases during a gun convention, fair enough.

But, I wasn’t prepared for what I saw on a night room turndown. Basically, you lightly freshen up the room, make the bed prepared to be used for the night and drop a chocolate on the pillow. When I moved the sheet down to make the tuck for turndown their was child porn pictures. I immediately spoke to the night manager who contacted the police.

I was allowed to anonymously make a report because the man was already on probation. He wasn’t allowed to even be staying at the hotel. He was from the area and utilized hotels to meet other pedophiles. Because it was probation they could be more flexible with warrants and such.

Still bothers me now.”

13. People are weird

“I’ve worked in a fair few of London’s most famous hotels as a gardener and have some weird stories about people there.

Barbra Streisand always made weird requests, for example she demanded a fresh roll of turf everyday be delivered to her room so her dog could pee/poop on it.

i also found a huge log of shit inside an interior palm too, it was literally tucked into the crown of the plant like a vigilant guard. no idea why someone would feel the need to do that but hey people are weird.”

14. Trevor

“I was a night auditor 10 years ago in an airport hotel, we had a pilot staying in our hotel, his name was Trevor.

Trevor got drunk and locked himself out of the room just wearing a very tiny piece of underwear. He used the phone of the corridor to call us open his room.

Could happen right? This repeated itself for 3 times. So after the third time we told him that we would not run up to open his room anymore.

So after half an hour he came downstairs saying he locked himself out of the room again and that he would spend the night in the lobby.

After he fell asleep in the lobby we decided to carry him to his room and we literally put him in bed. This time he stayed there.

No idea why he would lock himself out all the time, no idea why he didn’t wear anymore clothing, i guess drunk. But hell he was annoying!”

15. Creep

“I was running room service up to a room one evening. They’d placed the order half an hour before and knew the wait time so normally people were half ready for the knock at the door.

Got to this woman’s room and all I can hear is giggling and whispering. Eventually she opens the door a crack and I tell her that her food’s arrived. She shut the door again and more giggling, then opens it slightly wider. I tell her I need to come in to put the tray down and for her to sign for the food and same again, giggling, door closed, she then opens it wearing a towel.

Get in the room, she signs and that’s when I see it. A naked man in a chair in the corner, casually covering a very erect penis with a single page from a news paper. Like this guy had over 2 minutes to change / hide / cover up and instead just opted for the front page of The Times.”

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August 28, 2018

Woman Asks for Advice After Her Boyfriend Censors Her In Public: The Internet Delivers

A woman shared her story on AskReddit and asked for advice about a strange predicament: her boyfriend censors what she’s allowed to say in public. She asked:

My boyfriend Dan always tells me “Don’t talk about that when people can hear you” and I feel like most of the stuff he says that about is stuff that’s just normal conversation. I’ll give a couple examples so you get the idea.

We were at the supermarket and he asked me if I was going to my friend Jim’s party. I said I wasn’t sure yet. He asked why. I said “I told Jim that me and the girls wouldn’t go if Mark was gonna be there, cause Mark’s been a huge creep to us all.” Dan shushed me, and whispered “Don’t talk about that here”

Another time, we were on the bus, and I was talking about my old roommate, and how she was still dating a teacher she had in high school, who came onto her basically immediately after she graduated. And how sketchy that was. Dan basically told me off for saying that on the bus. Which felt kinda ridiculous because there’s worse stuff you hear on buses; there was some strung out druggie woman talking to herself just a few seats back.

Another time, we were in the pharmacy, and I said “What brand of lube did you like better? I forget” And held up two bottles. He got really irritated when we got back in the car.

And one more time, he got snippy with me for saying “Did I tell you what my therapist said this morning?” Because apparently seeing a therapist is another inappropriate topic.

In general, I feel like I have to put on some kinda picture perfect act every time we’re outside one of our apartments. Like I can’t tell the truth about conflicts in my friend group, weird shit I’ve seen in life, or ask even basic questions about lube and condoms, in the lube and condoms aisle of the pharmacy…

It’s not like he minds those topics in general. I think it’s more like an anxiety thing, that he’s worried about strangers overhearing and judging us. But it’s really stressing me out, because I never know what he’s going to tell me is a no-no topic for him. I feel like I’ve got to put on an act every time we’re outside, or else we’re going to argue.

But I don’t know if I’m in the wrong, and I really could do to tone it down a little. So I’m looking for a few second opinions. Is the kinda stuff I say stuff I should be embarrassed to say in a public place? If not, how can I talk to my boyfriend about how much this is stressing me out?

These are the responses she received.

1. Self-conscious

“He sounds like he’s really self-conscious about what other people/strangers think of him. The examples you gave don’t sound like something you should be quieted for in my opinion. It’s not like you were loudly swearing in front of children at church. Maybe it’s an issue of compatibility. If you’re a more outgoing, carefree person, you shouldn’t have to feel embarrassed about that because your boyfriend is uncomfortable. It’s really frustrating to feel like you can’t be yourself around your significant other or feel like they’re embarrassed of you. Have you talked to him about it or how often it seems to happen? Did he have anything to say?”

2. Small town?

“Is your boyfriend from a small town?

Cause 100% of that absolutely would get to my mom by the time I got home where I grew up. Took a long time for the small town paranoia to fall away. Being chatty in public is definitely a perk I have come to enjoy living in a bigger city.”

3. It may become a mountain

“My husband used to be like your boyfriend. He’d give me a look to shoosh me, and I would stare back at him as if to say “silence me I dare you” and continue talking. We would later have discussions about it and found some compromises. He once told me he preferred long hair when I was itching to cut it and told him. I acknowledged his opinion and cut it off anyways. Then he realized he liked me still with short hair. As you can tell, I don’t take to feeling like someone is trying to control me well.

These little quirks make me who I am, and he fell in love with quirky me so he can put up with a wife who thinks tennis shoes are appropriate for church when my feet hurt.

He did back off after discussions where I said I felt like these were attempts to control me or change me. Why fall in love with a person and then attempt to change them? He also naturally chilled a lot over the years, but I asserted myself on these things while dating.

It may become a mountain if you don’t level the molehill.”

4. Might be repressed

“Ok the lube one is just hilarious…

But he sounds really uptight and… repressed? Like I’m from a super WASP-y family, and we just don’t talk about a lot of things, but thats usually money/income/mental health issues. We’re all over gossip about creeps and lecherous teachers…

Is he very image conscious? Like overly concerned what other people think of him?”

5. WASPy

“I was thinking this was probably the result of a WASPy upbringing. And I mean sure, maybe not everyone wants to have a grand conversation about income or mental health issues or lube in the middle of the store. But shushing his girlfriend talking about someone else’s mental health in front of other randos?

That’s super ridiculous and potentially problematic because that would encourage people being harassed/abused/mentally tortured to not speak up. And that speaks to upper echelon royalty/megarich WASPyness. I hope he can come around and be more comfortable with this sort of stuff, otherwise their relationship might stall out for inability to communicate.”

6. I’d be bothered…

“Being shushed over the creeper or the therapist thing would really bother me.

Saying you want to avoid someone who is treating you badly says nothing bad. I’d be angry if he acted like I should be ashamed or hide it. Creeper dude is why I’m not sure I’m going to the party. He asked; I replied.”

7. Advice

“Literally the only thing I could see his point with was the lube, because some people are just shy about that sort of thing.

For everything else, he’s being ridiculous and controlling. If he’s so insecure that he’s constantly on alert about what other people might hear and think of him then he needs to get his crap together or see someone about it instead of expecting you to accommodate his foolishness all the time.

Next time he does it, wait until you’re out of immediate earshot of strangers and tell him bluntly “I’m getting tired of being shushed. I’m sorry if you’re that worried about what strangers think, but I’d like to talk to my partner and I’m pretty much done with being scolded when I try. If you want to talk about why it bothers you when we get home we can, but I’m not going to walk on eggshells anymore.” “

8. Not that important

“Exactly. He really over-estimates how interested everyone is in him if he thinks completely strangers have nothing better to do or nothing more important to think about then what he and his girlfriend are talking about. Most people probably don’t even notice they’re there, never mind trying to hang on their every word, especially when the girlfriend is talking in a normal tone to a person right next to her and not exactly bellowing across the room. He needs to get over himself. He’s not that important.”

9. Like a child

“He’s treating you like a child. That’s how a parent talks to you not your BF.

Those are not inappropriate topics. Maybe he means he is not comfortable talking about them, but that would require more clear communication from him. Could be how he was raised to not talk about certain things.”

10. Don’t need drama

“Honestly I usually refrain from saying “gossip” type things when I’m out. We live in a small city but it’s very much everyone knows everyone kind of place. I get worried about someone overhearing and spreading it or telling the person we were talking about. And it’s not like my husband and I never do a bit of gossip in public, we do.

However, my husband is a loud talker and I have to remind him to turn the volume down during certain topics. At least twice now I’ve had to stop my husband from complaining about a child when their parents are near by because he is oblivious and talks a little loud. (And yes it is a problem because these kids aren’t friends with my kids but they go to the same school and I don’t need that kind of drama.)”

11. His issue

“That’s a him issue that he’s projecting onto you, and if you stay this way it might warp your way of thinking about them. You’re right that absolutely nothing you mentioned was inappropriate both in terms of context or content. I’d personally just chalk this up to incompatibility and move on, but maybe you’ve been dating for longer and feel comfortable with helping him unpack these issues with a therapist.”

12. Might be worth a talk

“My sister is like this. She frequently shushes me, gets embarrassed, thinks a topic is inappropriate, or thinks other people can hear. It’s a social anxiety thing and I love my sister but it’s really frustrating because her anxiety-by-proxy ends up feeling like she’s controlling what I do/say out of her own embarrassment of me. I’m not sure if I would be able to handle that in a romantic partner because I’m extroverted and personable and it’s just incompatible with how I live my life and makes me feel like she’s ashamed of me or thinks I’m embarrassing.

Not sure if you feel a similar way, but it might be worth talking to him about how it makes you feel when he does this!”

13. It is what it is

“You’re just incompatible. I might think you’re the more normal one out of the pair of you, but I don’t think it’s right to tell him he has to change out of this prude/modest mindset. IDK if those are even the right words to use, but it is what it is.”

14. Similar experience

“I don’t want to blow things out of perspective, but I dated a guy like this for 2.5 years and it was actually him controlling me and making me feel ashamed about random things because of his insecurity. Examples like you talked about – something a tiny bit sexual he would freak out, if I said something ‘unladylike’ or vulgar… Honestly I’d take it as a red flag, but maybe that’s because of my personal experience.”

15. Incompatible

“I’m with him on the lube. LOL I’d be so embarrassed! Do you perhaps have a louder voice? Also, it seems the examples are always around very private topics or gossip. I think this is pure incompatibility. You have the right to want to talk about these topics, he has the right not to discuss them.”

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August 28, 2018

Between 1907 and 1922, American…

Between 1907 and 1922, American-born women who married non-citizens automatically lost American citizenship. In 1917, hundreds of American women who had married German men were forced to register with the government as ‘enemy aliens’. 00

August 27, 2018

15 People Share the Dumbest Questions They’ve Ever Heard

We’ve been told the same thing over and over ever since our earliest school days: “There’s no such thing as a stupid question!”

Wellllllll, it’s not completely true. People ask really stupid questions all the time. Have you ever been on the internet? Here are some real classics that AskReddit users were nice enough to share.

1. Move the sun, please

“I work in a toll booth and was working on the westbound side. A lady drove up to my booth really mad, which is par for the course but I digress. She told me that every day she takes this route home from work, and every. single. day. the sun is directly in her eyes… Well of course, shes driving westbound at 6 pm. When I mentioned this she brushed it off and asked “well can’t you change the direction of the road or at least put a cover over it?! I can’t be the only person who is bothered by this!” “

2. SMH

“I’m a whitewater raft guide.

One of my customers asked me why they put rocks in the river if they’re so dangerous.”

3. Yes. Yes, we do

“I am an identical twin and one time a girl asked me if we get each other confused.”

4. No

“I was at my cottage looking at the stars at night with a friend and she turned to me and asked: “are there countries in the sky?” I didn’t know what she meant so I asked her to explain and then she said: “Well, are there any countries in the world that are just kind of, in the sky?” I was so confused that I just sat there in silence but eventually she says “I mean, is there land on the earth in the sky where people live that are countries?” At that point I just gave up and said “no” and she replied “oh, okay” so reassuringly.”

5. Customer service

“For context, I work in a phone shop.

Customer: What is this? (Hands me his bill)

Me: This is your bill.

Customer: But I already paid it.

Me: Well then, don’t worry about it.

Customer: No, I mean I paid it last month.

Me: Oh, this is just your second bill then.

Customer: BUT I ALREADY PAID IT!

Me: Last month’s bill, yes. This is your next bill.

Customer: YOU MEAN THEY KEEP SENDING THESE EVERY MONTH?

Me: … yes … that’s what a phone contract is. You signed a contract for 2 years didn’t you?

Customer: Yeah.

Me: So you will get a bill each month for 2 years then.

Customer: WHAT A RIP OFF!!!

He legit thought he would only get a single $90 bill for his brand new iPhone over the entire 2 years of his contract…”

6. Brilliant

“My 21 year old sister once asked my entire family at dinner if Nuns don’t have sex where do they get more nuns. That takes the cake for me.”

7. Where’s the beef?

“Waited on a woman who asked me what kind of meat was in our beef taco salad.

Lady: what kind of meat is in your beef taco salad?

Me : Beef

L: what kind of beef?

Me: Beef, ground beef seasoned with taco seasoning.

L: No, I mean is it pork or chicken?

Me: Ma’am, it’s beef, it’s from a cow. It’s beef.”

8. Well, it took a long time

” “How did we build the mountains?” – my brothers fiance, while we drove through the Rockies.”

9. Sea level

“People visiting Alaska on a cruise would walk onto the dock– a dock portruding into the Pacific Ocean– then look up at the mountains and ask what elevation we were at.

1 foot, ma’am. You are standing on a dock which is at sea level.”

10. Hold the potatoes

“Someone was placing an order once at my family’s restaurant, and they had asked me for a side of French fries without the potatoes. I assumed she was joking, so I laughed…she wasn’t joking. She got offended and left the restaurant lol.”

11. Wow

“If it was possible to even land a plane on Japan because it’s so small.

Because, you know, maps are a 1:1 description of the world.”

12. The doctor will be right with you

“I’m a postpartum nurse. A patient asked me “when will the doctor be here to pierce my nipples so I can breastfeed?” “

13. Spelling problems

“I worked in a pizza restaurant when I was 16. They had a pizza they called a UFO pizza. It was just another slab of dough on top of a regular pizza, and it made it look like an orb, hence the name.

One day a guy that worked there was writing down a telephone order, turns around and says “hey guys, how do you spell UFO??” The owner looked mortified and just repeated “youuu eefff ohhh!!”. He stared back in silence for a few moments before it hit him.”

14. Different moons

“Not me, but our safari guide in South Africa said he once heard a woman ask her husband, “Honey, is that the same moon we see in Texas?” “

15. Yes, ma’am

“Was a Mac Genius for 7 years, customer asked if her iPod would get heavier as she puts more music on it.”

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August 27, 2018

12+ People Reveal the Biggest Lies They Tell Themselves

It’s important to be honest with ourselves, but sometimes you need to tell yourself a little white lie to help get you through the day.

Even though we know it’s not true, we do it anyway. Just like these AskReddit users.

1. Hopefully?

“That tomorrow will be better.”

2. Very common

“Adding more responsibility will fix a marriage/relationship. Things suck? Have a baby

Still sucks? Buy a house together

Still sucks? Time for another baby.

Sometimes entrenching your lives closer together doesn’t work. Sometimes you have to step away.”

3. Hmmmm, I don’t think so

“I’ll wake up early and finish it in the morning.”

4. Time to admit it

” “I’m not an alcoholic.”

Yeah, sure, everybody keeps vodka in the washing machine, Mom.”

5. I know a lot of these people

“I’m a good driver, it’s everyone else who is terrible.”

6. Overeating

“I’m only going to get the 6 chicken nuggets meal at McDonald’s and not the 10.”

7. A classic

“I don’t need to write this down, I’ll remember it.”

8. Interesting…

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

9. Myth

“You’re only as healthy as you feel.”

10. Not always

” “There will always be a second chance.”

Sometimes, there isn’t.”

11. Up all night

“I’ll go to sleep in 15 minutes.”

12. I believe her

“Kids have the worst lies. My niece made a bowl of ice cream for herself when she wasn’t allowed to. When confronted she said the cat made the bowl and ate it, not her.”

13. No!

“Codpieces are out of fashion.”

14. We all do this

“I’m going to afford it some day.”

15. Amen

“Being in a relationship will complete me and fix my life.”

No, it won’t. Get your life together, improve yourself.”

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August 27, 2018

The Biggest Red Flags to Look for in Friendships, According to Experts

Even though it can be painful, sometimes you have to cut friends out of your life. But how can you tell when is the right time to do so?

In this AskReddit thread, relationship experts share the biggest red flags to look out for in your friendships. So pay attention.

1. Nope

“When they only talk crap about their other friends to you. Calling you their “best friend” too quickly, when you feel not even close to the same.”

2. No show

“‘Let’s get together this weekend! I’ll give you a call Friday so we can make plans.’ Sunday, still no call or text…

Always telling you gossip about someone else, they will tell your gossip to someone else.

“It’s your turn to buy/pay/pick/etc.” nah b*tch, pay your half.”

3. Don’t miss it

“One of my friends upset me once, and I told him the comment he made about me offended me, and he said it was all banter and he didn’t see anything wrong with it. After that, he just kept escalating it, and I found out later from a mutual friend that he thought it was funny that I got offended and said, “if I’m in the shit list I might as well stay in it and make it worth it”. He’s tried to just brush it under a rug and be all buddy-buddy again, but I don’t really want to give the impression that his attitude was okay, so I’ve just stayed away – haven’t spoken to him since, can’t say I’ve missed the company.”

4. No room for growth

“I’ve had friends that are so worried about their image that even after years of friendship they refuse to be themselves or admit their flaws. Instead when we hang out it’s like there is this facade. Interactions are super shallow and there’s no room for personal growth.

My best friends are pretty blunt. I once asked one if she thought I had alcoholic tendencies, and she was like, “no sh*t, look at who we hang out it. We’re all alcoholics. We should work on that.” Then we did. Or one time a friend of mine walked three miles while working in the back country so she could get cell phone service, to make sure I went through with getting a counseling appointment.

Not the most pleasant stuff, but because of the honesty I’ve grown as an individual.”

5. A bunch of flags

“I have friends that have been hitting a bunch of red flags as of late:

Only reaches out when they want something or when boyfriend is unavailable. Otherwise you’re nobody. There’s weeks where I don’t see or hear them and then I get a “can I borrow your car to help my bf” message. Lol no.
Doesn’t offer congratulations for good news. Instead gives criticism and downplays your achievements.
Never reaching out but plays victim of Facebook about how lonely they are
Ignores/disregards/downplays your concerns (“You didn’t use a condom/plan b? Pls go get a checkup” “I don’t see why you’re making this such an issue”).”

6. Bad behavior

“My friend and I were talking outside after class when I realized I was on the verge of fainting. I quickly sat down and said this to her.

She said “okay” and continued talking.

I thought, “Uh, okay… Did she not hear me?” so I repeated myself and said I should go to the nearby Starbucks to get something to eat or drink (since, ya know, it’s 115° and I’m about to faint).

She said okay and that she had to go.

She left, I wobbled to Starbucks and then headed home still feeling a bit suspect.

Sadly, I didn’t see this as a red flag until over a year later… I had completely forgotten about it. I was going through some stuff at the time so I just thought, “Maybe not all friends care about that or think they need to help you?”

Well, if that’s true, that’s not the behavior I’m looking for in a friend.”

7. Complaints

“-Self Absorbed (ONLY talk about themselves and their lives instead of letting others talk, basically thinks the world revolves around them. OR, always change the conversation to be about them and their past experiences even when it’s not anywhere near what you just said.)

– Always have something to complain about when it comes to what you’re doing (IF what you’re doing isn’t wrong/bad)

– Complains about you not opening up to them and rarely sees your own friends, but they don’t make the effort in reaching out and always make plans without you.

– Expect you to pay for her (Not once or twice… but ALL the time)

– Texts you to go out to ‘hang out’ but actually just needed a ride to go to the mall to buy some stuff while we ‘hang out’.”

8. One-sided

“I have a friend who I still love because I don’t think she knows how bad she is. We often had long conversations talking about events in her life (her crushes, her worries, what made her mad) and I liked it since I don’t like talking about myself for a longer time and like to listen to people. I thought it was a mutual friendship and that she would listen to me too when I wanted to talk.

Nope. We once met for a drink when I was accepted at an art school and I wanted to talk about the assignments we had to do and she deflected the conversation to a relationship problem she had.

We were on vacation together and I wanted to talk about a philosophy in a show I liked since it meant much to me and that I wanted to get a tattoo from that show but she interrupted me to ask a question about the air conditioner, threw herself on the bed and looked at instagram posts.

I’ve honestly never had a friend that was so disinterested in me but still expected me to listen to her talk. If she didn’t have other redeeming qualities and was part of the friend group I’m in I would let her fall like a wet sack of potatoes.”

9. A whole laundry list

“Never on top of their things or schedule. For example, you go to hang out with them and meet up with them and they are consistently late or unorganized with something (Tom failing to pack his stuff up before moving in Parks and Rec comes to mind).
In the age of social media, someone always telling you they want to hang out but never inviting you. In my experience it can lead to being taken advantage of.
Very clingy friendships, something isn’t healthy in that relationship.
A friend that spends a lot of time putting others down, especially being really critical, and past the point of just a joke. In addition to being very critical/judgmental all the time, they are also very arrogant or braggy about themselves.
A friend that always has to be right, can’t admit they are wrong, must get in the last word, etc.
Specifically in the case of friends/roommates:

People not pulling their fair share of housework (cleaning, yard work, etc.).
Roommates making changes to the lease or not following the lease and not telling you.
Roommates that spend their rent money on a TV or something unnecessarily expensive and have to borrow.
Loud/inconsiderate/messy roommates that don’t even think about their actions possibly being annoying or frustrating to live with.
Roommates that don’t respect personal space, enter rooms without knocking, always wanting to hang out without giving any time to oneself.”

10. That ain’t cute

” “Jokes” that seem off color, especially in response to you expressing something positive or a win in life.

For example, I told a work friend that I lost a bit of weight since switching a medication and how I felt like my clothes fit better.. her response was never “Aw that’s great!” But instead she said “you’re the girl who thinks she’s a size 8 but is actually a 14”

Ok first off, excuse me WHAT?!

She laughed hysterically and said “I’m only joking!”

No. This sh-t ain’t cute. Also I have clothes ranging from size 8 to 14. They all fit. Wtf u doin, womens fashion??”

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August 27, 2018

12 Hilariously Bad Signs That Make Almost Zero Sense

Signs should be clear, simple, and easy to read. And, for the most part, they are. But every so often there are signs so bad that we can’t help but upload pictures of them to the internet and have a good laugh.

Enjoy these 12 signs that are so bad, it’s tough to tell what they’re even trying to say.

1. No questions here.

Photo Credit: Reddit: littlefisch2020

2. Um.

Photo Credit: Reddit: long-time-lurker-

3. Will there or won’t there?

Photo Credit: Reddit: manby

4. My brain hurts.

Photo Credit: Reddit: Citizen_Ken

5. “Men because women…”

Photo Credit: Reddit: verianne

6. Well, we weren’t worried about it until you said something.

Photo Credit: Reddit: ghkddbsgk

7. Either way, I think we’re in trouble.

Photo Credit: Reddit: Lolawolf

8. Free donations? Nice try, kid.

Photo Credit: Reddit: BossMabel5

9. “YOU ARE NOT OUR TROLLIES.”

Photo Credit: Reddit: INTP36

10. “The Joel With McHale Joel Show McHale.”

Photo Credit: Reddit: NinjaCowReddit

11. Is this an endorsement of drugs?

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12. Hi, Call. Nice to meet you.

Photo Credit: Reddit: QuinnJet

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August 27, 2018

13 Situations That Make Traveling No Fun

Travel can be a whole lot of fun…but it can also be a real nightmare. When you’re far from home with a bunch of unknown factors at play, things are bound to go wrong. Here’s to hoping our next vacation is better than these.