Month: August 2020

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People Share Their Tips for Getting Around the System

Most of us try to be honest and do the right thing most of the time, but here’s the truth: business, the government, other people…they’re always looking for ways to take advantage of you and your hard-earned cash.

So maybe people also feel like, if there’s a harmless way to get some of the power back, we should take it.

If you feel that way, here’s how 14 people manage to do just that.

14. Never give up your coupon unless they ask!

Dominoes.

We got a voucher in the post with a code they said “collection only, one use, surrender coupon upon use”.

Used it on their website and it worked for 50% off, carried on using it for 2 years every week, then one day it stopped working.

13. This is so meta.

The playstation had a mouse.

A local electronic chain was selling them at clearance for $2 each.

Game Stop was giving $15 or $10 cash for each.

I cleared out one store, got cash for them all, then cleared out two more and got a bunch of games in trade.

12. But you could have actually…tried?

Our English department in high school ran every class the same way. We do an in class essay at the beginning of the year to gauge your current writing ability, and every subsequent essay would be compared to that and your grade is 100% based on improvement.

I’d just write a garbage essay the first time then get an A only half-a$$ing everything

11. Don’t fall for the update trick!

When Verizon got rid of unlimited data in like 2011, it triggered the switch to limited when you upgraded your phone.

I transferred my upgrade to my sister’s account (who already switched to limited,) got the phone and put my Sim card in it. Had unlimited until 2015

10. I really hope she didn’t.

A girl in my high school computers class won a $500 scholarship by doing something similar. She bombed the start of the year test and placed a little above average on the final. They gave the scholarship to whoever improved the most, not who did the best.

I didn’t know her well enough to know if she did it on purpose.

9. Ahhh, high school.

We were the first senior class to be given laptops in high school. It came with some monitoring application that allowed teachers to see when we were using our laptops, watch our screens, etc. We didn’t have the rights to disable it or kill the service but it took a buddy of mine in our programming class about a week to write a little program that would do it anyway.

Click a button and it kills the service. Click it again and the service restarts. This was even better than not being monitored at all because it gave teachers a false sense of security.

We could turn it on when attendance was being taken and then turn it off when test time came so we could Google all the answers. Also spent a lot of time chatting, playing alpha Minecraft, etc. when we were supposed to be taking notes in class. Basically just did whatever we wanted that year lol. Good times

8. That’s a good day right there.

I once bought a snickers and it knocked the bag of Doritos that was sitting against the glass down and i got both.

That’s it. I won life.

Game over.

7. Kids will make time to subvert the system.

In my school we got some of the first computers too and man did they try to shut those things down so we couldn’t sue them for anything but education.

However, that’s how I found the gems of portable flash-drive Minecraft and Halo. We made 4 versions of Halo CE and 2 of Minecraft, and even when they banned one, we still had the others to fallback on.

The kids in our school distributed flash-drives with the games on them and everyone downloaded them to their disks.

We had LAN games during breaks and classes and built some pretty awesome servers and custom Halo modes. We’d be playing it during class and as soon as the teacher came around everyone minimized the tab and we consecutively agreed to stop playing until the teacher had sat back down so no one would die during the ‘inspection’.

I even found a way to watch the educational version of YouTube, which included Good Mythical Morning, a funny channel I never knew I needed.

Twas the best experience I ever had in high school.

6. But you didn’t earn it, though.

Years ago, I played some little Flash game in my browser and at the end I could submit my score to an online scores list. But I noticed that on submitting the score, the browser redirected to a new address that had my player name and the score as URL parameters.

I copied the address, changed the score parameter to ‘9999999999999’, pasted in the new address, and got my name at the top of the list.

5. You gotta love capitalism.

I did this to pay for my Xbox one X. I actually do stuff like this pretty often, but I usually don’t say anything about it because you never brag about the things you get away with, that’s how you stop getting away with them.​

In this case, though, Game Stop was doing a deal where they would give an extra 70% on certain games and one of them was some plants vs. zombies game, they were offering $27/pop for them.

Come to find out, that specific game was on clearance at Walmart and target for $5/each. I went to every store that had stock within a 20 mile radius, then opened the games and traded them in. The first few Game Stops I went to only allowed me to trade in 5 copies at a time. Then only one.

By that time, though, I’d acquired about $250 in credit so I checked trade values on other games and purchased used copies (getting 10% off with pro membership) and re-traded them in at the next Game Stop I went to. Breath of the wild, pretty much any Pokemon game, and Mario Kart 8 were moneymakers, usually in the $15-20 range.

I stopped once I’d made enough to pay for my Scorpio Edition One X, I probably could have made even more, but I didn’t want to push my luck any further. Ended up paying about $70 total for the initial investment, and about 4 hours on my day off going back and forth.

God bless America.

4. It’s no one’s fault but their own.

My local grocery store has a mobile app offer that gives you a 10$ gift card if you spend $50+. It’s supposed to be one time use only… But I’ve used it like, 6-7 times. Because I use the self checkout, I can’t receive the gift card at time of purchase, therefore it doesn’t register to my store card that I’ve used the offer.

I also have a few receipts that customer service never marked off as having the offer redeemed, so I’ve been tempted to go back and try to redeem them again …

3. Quite clever, if you ask me.

In college I studied to be a teacher (it ended up not working out :/). I was taking a class where we learned how to create proper assessments and tests.

As part of the class, the professor would usually have us design test items for one or two questions during like quizzes and stuff. Then she said we’d be doing this for the final exam.

So the questions were all to be multiple choice. The /entire/ class got together and devised a system. The questions you design are all to include a person’s name (Mr. Allen or Mrs. Black). Whatever the first letter of their last name was would correlate with the answer options (A, B, C, D, or E).

We all finished the test in less than 10 minutes and nobody was the wiser when we all got 100%.

2. In case you’re the sort of person who enjoys self torture.

In monopoly, you buy as many houses as you can and never upgrade to hotels. You get to the point where they run out of house pieces so your opponent can’t buy them (all legal within the rules) and they have no options to upgrade.

Sit back and collect that rent yo.

1. This is a wholesome deal.

Back when me and my GF were poor I would go to the local supermarket (Sainsbury’s) at the end of the night when they were reducing food going out of date to a few pence.

Some of the items, at full price, were discounted for buying multiples e.g. £1 each or 2 for £1.50. The way the till worked, it would add £2 to the bill then deduct 50p at the end. Some of the stuff would be reduced to say 20p but if I bought 2 of them (40p) it would still deduct 50p at the end of the bill giving me a 10p profit.

I would buy loads of these and make the bill look reasonable by getting some “luxury” items, which in those days was stuff like coffee. As long as the bill was over a few pounds the tellers didn’t seem to notice.

Then I would go all round town giving the bulk of it to homeless folk and put the rest in the freezer.

TL;DR Sainsbury’s paid me to take food.

I love the small and big ways people get away with it, don’t you?

How do you game a system? Share with us in the comments!

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People Share the Worst Thing They’ve Witnessed at a Funeral

Funerals should be one of those sacred places where people are on their best behavior. Someone has died, their friends and family have gathered to remember them and say goodbye, so it seems like a no-brainer that guests should try not to be awful.

These 14 people definitely spied others who didn’t get the message, though.

14. That poor kiddo.

A few years back, when the uncle of my mother died my young cousin (8) cried a lot at the funeral. It took some time but eventually he calmed down and his parents went for a little walk with him for some distraction.

But then he noticed that his first name was written on one of the tombstones. He mentions it loudly and one of the bystanders said: ”Yeah its already reserved for you”.

He immediately started crying again…

13. When you can’t even give the man ONE DAY.

The gentleman had a large family and all of his siblings got up and made it all about themselves, dredged up old family drama, made it clear that they resented his wife, etc.

It was so painfully awkward.

12. You’d think he could keep it together for an hour.

My uncle was pissed about something in my grandmother’s Will. So during the funeral, he went out to the parking lot and keyed everyone’s car.

It should be noted, he has severe brain injury from a motorcycle accident that causes him to be constantly angry and paranoid. Still…

11. This is odd, but not terrible.

I had a fit of hysterical laugh at my father’s funeral just about the time people started to gather at the mortuary.

In my defense, my mother had a nervous breakdown (my father died 4 days after we found out he had lung cancer), there was a lot of shitty stuff surrounding the funeral organization, my mom just flipped, my siblings were 15 and lost so I was at 23 left to handle it all.

I kinda lost it.

10. Jeez. Talk about the wrong time and place.

My husband went to his great aunt’s funeral and while they did the little ceremony in the cemetery, great aunt’s granddaughters were all hiding behind a tombstone giggling and doing coke.

9. This makes me sick to my stomach.

One of my students’ mother died. I went to the funeral with the principal and the student’s integration aide.

After the funeral her father walked up to her and her grandmother and said “I want her out of the house by tomorrow morning”. She was 11 years old.

8. That scene belongs in a movie.

My brother in law is a mortician. Boy does he have stories….

One of the best- A guy disguised himself as a nun, shows up at the funeral, pulls a gun from under his habit and tries to shoot the deceased’s son. Luckily the gun malfunctioned and didn’t fire.

The son then decks the nun and knocks him out, kicks him in the head a few times, and is pulled off by other family. Police are called, yada yada yada… turns out the deceased owed the nun quite a lot of money and the son had refused to honor the debt.

7. Maybe he thought they were compliments?

Her ex told us about all the great things she did in bed and what a loss for mankind that is.

In present of her boyfriend.

6. No time to waste, I guess.

At my father’s funeral, one of my aunts asked my mom when would she get out of the house.

5. Was this an episode of The Office?

He handed out his business cards at his stepdaughter’s funeral.

There was very nearly a fistfight!

4. Ohhhh my heart.

I knew a guy who climbed up into the casket with his grandfather. This one’s sweet and wholesome.

He was around four years old. He wasn’t sure what was going on, and people weren’t giving him much attention. He asked someone what his grandfather was doing in a box at the front of the room. A relative, thinking they were explaining death in an age appropriate way, told him that grandpa went to sleep, and won’t wake up again.

So we went up to the casket, and climbed up. The room froze in shock. Then he said, “Good night, grandpa,” and he kissed him. Adults told him later you could hear a pin drop and there wasn’t a dry eye in the room.

3. What is wrong with people?

When my grandad passed and we went to view his body at the crematorium my aunt started stealing from the facility the second the employees back was turned.

Just shoving anything that wasn’t nailed down into her purse and pockets.

Unbelievable. And yes we called her out and made her put it all back.

2. None of this is ok.

My sister murdered her father(my stepfather…at the time we didn’t know she was guilty)

BTW Just so you know she did this purely for financial gain

During the viewing she drug her little boy to the casket and because he didn’t cry enough to suit her she pinched him on the upper arm until he was sobbing then took him around to everyone saying he was really crying because he loved his Gramps so much

1. This is truly awful.

No where near as bad as most comments but the family didn’t allow for his twin to speak.

Straight up skipped over the allocated time for the living twin to get up and speak about his brother. Who was his last remaining immediate family.

I don’t think I can ever forgive the late wife for putting him through that. She treated him so horribly all throughout the sickness, and then to not allow him to be a part of the funeral was the final nail in the coffin.

I don’t even know how I would handle these events!

Have you ever seen anyone act up at a funeral? Share the story with us in the comments!

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People Share the Weirdest Things They’ve Gotten in the Mail That They Didn’t Order

It’s exciting to get mail, especially packages, and bonus if you’re not expecting it for some reason.

That fun can quickly turn strange, or confusing, or even frightening, though, depending on what’s in the box and who might have sent it – and these 12 people definitely got some out-of-the-box (heh) surprises.

12. It’s probably something like that.

Not me but my roommate. It wasn’t the item so much as the source and circumstances. She had a pair of shoes delivered to her that she didn’t order, from china, with no shipping info on it. Her account was not accessed, the shoes were not in her size, no one she knows claims to have sent it.

Mysterious. Random shoes, no info, just her address and name. I think she got a few other things too, like a backpack was one thing, then it stopped.

Personally I still think maybe illegal activity was attempted by someone, and maybe just didn’t work out quite right. Either that or maybe her info has been saved for future use maybe, something like that.

11. Just enjoy your expensive trash bags, ma’am.

Strangest thing… hmm.. probably the giant industrial sized trash bags. It was my address on the shipping label but the name was WER WERWER. Yea weird.

I live in the middle of nowhere and I don’t know anyone who’d send me ($70!!) trash bags. I definitely didn’t buy them. Lol But spent a good hour looking through all my card statements.

I then looked up the company and emailed them. They couldn’t tell me who bought them but did give me the last four digits on the card used. That gave me reassurance it wasn’t any of mine. They basically told me I could keep them. No one was disputing the purchase except me. Haha

I still have no idea who sent those damn trash bags and still have them to this day. ??‍♀️

10. Surely she kept one though.

It was weird. There was a box in front of my door with no shipping label on it. It looked like something had been there once and was torn off. There was some marker scribble on the side with the building’s address but not my name or unit. It was filled with 16 granny type housecoats of the same pattern.

This happened before our little building had security cameras. There was no packing slip. Where did this come from and why me? I was just starting out and called the one card I had to check on any fraudulent charges. Nothing. I held on to it for months, hoping someone would come for it.

I spoke to my neighbors about it but no one knew anything or cared. I ended up donating it.

9. I want to know how large VERY large is now.

The strangest thing delivered to my house that I did not order was a VERY large bra (that did not fit me) and swim goggles (I don’t swim). We donated both to Goodwill.

But, for a couple of years we also got birthday and/or Christmas Amazon gift cards for a man with a very common name (like Bob Miller). Google was no help—there were dozens of people with his name in any given area.

I’d call up Amazon knowing they couldn’t do anything to help and would just tell us to keep the cards, but felt awful not being able to let the dad (similar common name) know that his son not only didn’t receive the packages, but as far as we could tell, had never lived at our address, since we knew who two of the prior owners were besides ourselves.

8. Sure, sure he didn’t order it.

A 13 inch d#ldo.

This one is my dads I was a 13 year old male at the time

One day he came home with an open box and would not tell me we what was in it I kept asking him what it was he still said no, later I heard him and my mom talking and he said he did not order it at this point I still did not know what is was so after my parents went to bed I looked into his work bag and saw a 13 inch d#ldo.

7. What…was the point of all that?

A couple of years ago I got a call from our credit card company about unusual activity on our card. It was an online purchase from a store specializing in items for children. My children are grown and I don’t yet have grandkids. I told them it was not me, they cancelled the charges and issued me a new card. I didn’t think much more about it.

A week later 17 boxes were left on our front porch by UPS (my husband and I were both at work when they were delivered). Turns out these were the items purchased by the thief, who had them shipped to our address. Seventeen boxes of toddler sized furniture. My husband then had to load them all into his truck, haul them back to UPS, and then refuse the shipment.

Thief obviously wasn’t the sharpest.

6. It’s hard doing the right thing I guess.

A large coil of 2x 24 core telecoms cable.

We were expecting a suitcase….

We had had our luggage miss a flight on the way back from a wedding, and the airport said it was on the next flight, and they’d send it to us.

My bag turned up a few days later, along with a coil of cable. Somewhere in the depot, the suitcase had lost the right label, and someone had stuck it on this coil of cable.

Six weeks of complaining later, and chasing, and basically doing everyone’s job for them, we got back the suitcase, that still had the the permanently fixed address label on it that nobody had bothered to read.

5. This definitely qualifies as weird.

This week, while checking my credit card activity online, I saw an unauthorized charge for over $600 from a medical supply company. I immediately called my credit card company and got the charge reversed and a new credit card number issued.

Well yesterday, the mail room of my high rise apartment building called and told me that I had a large box that was delivered. My husband had to haul the box to our apartment with a dolly. Lo and behold it was a “family 5 pack” of CPR Mannequin dummies!

Needless to say, I called the company and they promptly emailed me a return label. The next day, I got another delivery, from a different company, another set.

4. Something is rotten in Denmark.

I got a $20,000 airplane part.

UPS had some other stuff that was mine, we were playing who gets what.

This was not my house, it was a server farm where I rented racks.

I show up one night and they have the airplane part, labeled for me, from Germany.

I think it had been remanufactured, it did not look new.

About 10 days later, UPS contacts me and asked if I had the package. They came by and got it. Never heard another word.

I knew UPS would want it back. I did not have a good way to contact whoever had dropped it off. I just held it and waited patiently.

Best of luck.

3. You think they would order something less conspicuous?

Actually the delivery guy, not the recipient.

I used to deliver groceries and we got an order through for ten bags of frozen prawns.

To the guy whose house the order was sent to, this was probably pretty strange, as he’d certainly not ordered them.

The confusing thing for him was that this happened twelve more times. I checked the card details for all the separate orders, only to find a different card every single time.

We deduced that someone living nearby was ordering on the (no doubt stolen) card to test it. Then, if they saw us turning up, they knew the card was still active and could probably go ahead and try to hammer it before the card holder got wise and cancelled it.

2. When life hands you apricots.

About 20 years ago, I found a package delivered by UPS. It was between my two back doors. It was from my next door neighbor, who I really hated, intended for the people who used to live in our house.

The next door neighbor and the previous occupants were good friends. After about one second of hesitation, I opened the package. It was dried apricots. I love dried apricots. I sort of hit two birds with one stone, I screwed over my neighbor and I got a delicious treat.

(For those of you who think I’m a terrible person, trust me, she deserved it. She put my whole family through hell. But that’s for another answer).

1. My husband would be seriously delighted.

A machete. I have never figured this out. This was about six years ago – came home and there was an Amazon package waiting for me, addressed to me. Not at all unusual, I buy tons of stuff on a Amazon.

Took it in the bedroom, opened it up, and it was a machete – a real one. I’m thinking this is a funny error, someone picked the wrong item, but the invoice is also for a machete.

I check my Amazon account, I have not accidentally ordered a machete, and have no pending deliveries. Have never figured it out, I think it is still under my bed.

I don’t know how I could have reacted to these, but I guess it would depend on the situation.

Has anything like this ever landed on your porch? If so, tell us how you handled it in the comments!

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Brands That People Boycott Due to Poor Ethics

It can be difficult to figure out which brands to support and which to avoid, especially if you want to be a conscientious consumer. We don’t want to purchase products from companies that exploit children, who don’t care for their workers, who source meat from farms where animals are treated badly – and that’s just the start of the list.

If you’re someone looking to be responsible in your consumption, here are 16 brands people say to avoid.

16. Working conditions are terrible.

Fashion Nova is horrible. Fast fashion is a HUGE issue.

They exploit workers overseas enduring horrible conditions for very little pay and they also significantly hurt the environment.

15. Well that’s not very nice.

Lumber Liquidators should be on here.

They keep getting caught poaching endangered trees for hardwood flooring.

14. It’s like trying to avoid gluten.

Ever since they said water isn’t a human right, I’ve tried to avoid Nestlé products but it’s hard: they’re everywhere and sometimes you don’t realize that a brand is a subsidiary of Nestlé

13. Overseas labor practices are a huge minefield.

hey everyone check out the #payup movement.

people like kylie jenner haven’t paid workers in Bangladesh for like months now. There are people there surviving on a bag of rice for a f*cking month

it’s not just her, there are heaps of more brands doing this. The same brands that have been supporting BLM and hashtagging on twitter – turns out they’re a bunch of c&nts.

12. Because it’s as bad as it sounds.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP.

11. When you can’t quit, but you’d really like to.

If I could ditch the over priced insulin, I would in a heart beat but you know, I’d like to live.

Here in Canada, the vial is $40 CAN. In the US, the same vial by the same company is $550 CAN.

So freaking unethical overpricing life sustaining medication.

10. And let’s face it, it’s not worth the money.

Victoria’s Secret, among many others.

VS has most of their exorbitantly priced items made by free prison labor.

9. Why aren’t there better ticket options?

Ticketmaster.

Pearl Jam tried to sue them back in the day. No success.

“Hey buy this concert ticket for 50 bucks” … “Processing fee is $3000 and your firstborn”

Ugh.

8. Anyone who treats their employees like dirt.

All MLM and “network marketing ” companies.

Walmart, the humane society, I’m sure there are more but I can’t think of them at the moment.

7. No one respects teenaged girls.

Sinful Colors nail polish. 10+ years back my sister told me about how they took her friends nail art pictures and used them for marketing purposes.

She asked them to either give her credit or take them down and they refused.

6. When the money doesn’t go where you think.

Humane society of the United states. I worked as a volunteer for them in the office and saw how little money they take in from adoption and donations actually goes to the care of the animals. Most of it goes into administrative, (CEO, shareholder,etc) and media expense.

Its run like a school board runs things allocating money to the ones in power and upgrading their offices etc, instead of to the schools where it’s needed. They don’t vet their foster parents or workers either. I’ve seen so many workers abuse the animals in the shelters.

5. Theft is not cool.

I refuse to buy from Wish.

It’s a scam with horrible products but also they steal designs from real people and sell cheap shitty knockoffs with the original creators images

4. The term “banana republic” isn’t cute at all.

Chiquita Brands International because it’s the continuation of the infamous United Fruit Company.

United Fruit Company is the company that engineered a massacre of striking workers in Colombia.

3. I don’t like it at all.

Backcountry.com and it’s affiliated websites. They hired a bunch of lawyers to sue small businesses using the name ‘backcountry’ anywhere in it’s name or tag line.

Many of the companies were much older than backcountry.com. They have since sent out a ‘sorry we were caught’ letter, but there’s too many other outdoor companies that are run ethically, I can’t justify buying from backcountry.

2. They own so much of our online lives.

Facebook, too much shit revolving around them.

1. LulaRoe is a scam, friends.

My mother sells this out of our foyer. She put $5,000 on a credit card to get started 3 years ago and is still in the hole maybe $3,500. It’s a borderline scam.

Awful designs that you roll a die to get. You have to order a minimum quantity without getting to choose your designs. If they end up being ugly, well, you’re sitting on assets that no one wants.

For the smaller retailers, it’s basically a constant loop of buying items, then selling them at wholesale prices to other retailers because no one wants them for retail prices. So yeah, you get your money back. But remember, you spent $5,000 to play this game.

The company also appears to care very little about its “consultants.” They leave you in the dark while they bribe you with perks and prizes for making milestones in sales, but really you “earn” the ability to purchase the prizes.

My mother recently “won” a cruise, but it turned out she still had to pay the full price of the trip. You sign up under successful retailers because you fantasize about making bank like they are, but you soon find out they got special treatment to get to where they are. The company plays favorites and lets certain people choose which items they get, or even pick them out of a bin at the LulaRoe warehouse.

They’ll often get priority when a new “launch” happens, where these favorites get to place their orders first. And because they’re the favorites, they have more money to spend and very quickly buy out all of the popular items before the smaller retailers even get onto the website. The favorites get insider information to boost them even further as the icons of the company.

It’s a winner’s game. The little guy is screwed but the big players push them to continue because “look where it got me! I’m rich!”

It’s sh%t. Avoid LulaRoe.

I always want to do better but it can be hard to do the research on your own.

Are there any brands you would add to the list? Tell us what and why in the comments!

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Japanese Engineers Have Built a Real Life Gundam That Walks

Earlier this year, Gundam Factory Yokohama began construction on a 60-foot tall robot. This summer, the team revealed that their Gundam is nearly complete, and that the robot can even walk.

If you are unfamiliar, Gundams have appeared in over 50 films and television shows since the 1970s, and the robots are endlessly popular in video games and manga.

The films Pacific Rim and Pacific Rim: Uprising are even about Gundams that are used in a war against monsters that rise from the sea.

While the global health crisis definitely slowed down production, the team has been able to resume their work.

In a recently released video, you can see that the Gundam is able to pick up its legs and rotate its torso. Once the project is complete, the robot will be able to walk totally on its own.

The team has been filming and sharing videos that track the progress of the project. In one, viewers are taken on a tour of the factory where the Gundam was built.

The factory is home to quite a few projects, including one that is dinosaur-themed.

This particular Gundamn is only 25 tons, which sounds like a lot but isn’t when you consider how heavy a robot like this could have been.

Jun Narita, who is in charge of design at the factory, noted that the team used specific materials to keep the Gundam as lightweight as possible. Otherwise, one hand could have weighed 1,500 pounds on its own.

This is definitely a really exciting development, and it will be fun to see what the team uses the Gundam for. What do you think of the project? Let us know in the comments!

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These Designers Were All Really Creating for the People Who Use Their Products

In a world where we can get just about anything we want with only a click of a mouse or a swipe on a screen, it can feel a little exhausting to constantly be marketed to.

That potential for exhaustion makes it extra nice when you see a product that is so clearly designed for the person who will buy it.

From doormats that were clearly designed to help you out to a mug that doubles as a hand warmer, here are 10 times that designers proved they had their users in mind when they came up with a product.

1. This wonderful doormat

It’s cute and it also reminds you of everything you need to take out with you.

2. A helpful mannequin

It shows you what the shirt will really look like.

3. This mug that warms you up.

This is legitimately a brilliant invention. It’s so cozy!

4. This tree-friendly fence

This is such a great idea for anyone who is willing to work with and around nature.

5. An amazing USB connector

Gone are the days of flipping it one way and then the other, because both ways work!

6. This bathroom must-have

A windshield wiper… for your mirror!

7. This helpful wok

The circles show you exactly how much oil you’ve added.

8. Toast grabbers!

Are you tired of burning your hands? This toaster solves that problem for you.

9. Bike-friendly stairs

Truly a wonderful invention for every cyclist!

10. A kid-friendly train

In Copenhagen, the train carts without drivers have “buttons” that kids can play with while they ride.

Aren’t these products pretty cool? Those toast grabbers are seriously impressive. Let us know which is your favorite in the comments!

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10 First Date Stories That Might Just Make Your Jaw Drop

Have you ever heard of a site called Whisper? It’s got ALL the secrets. And some of them are truly shocking.

The following 10 secrets from the site are all about those first dates that went… nuts. Some in a good way, some in a bad way.

But they’re all gonna make you go, “Well well well… I did not expect that.”

Actually, who knows… maybe you’ve seen it all before. But just in case you haven’t…

1. Oh, what a rebel you are.

That’s never happened in the history of first dates. Shocking!

Photo Credit: Whisper

2. Here’s a girl who knows what she likes.

Or she knows how to trap a guy with that good good. Either way, she won!

Photo Credit: Whisper

3. Do you know what those guys have to deal with?

You’re both awful people. Yuck.

Photo Credit: Whisper

4. Those mushrooms lasted 8 months?

Jeezus! Got to the f**king hospital already!

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5. Yeah, that’ll make somebody not notice vomit.

Laughter might be the best medicine, but it’s a horrible vomit remover.

Photo Credit: Whisper

6. So you’re boring now?

Got it. Don’t date this b**ch.

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7. Do you not have an apartment?

What’s wrong with you?

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8. Why do you hate people who value themselves?

Discounts are nature’s way of saying that you’re not worth the price of admission.

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9. Wait… how does one get violently high?

I bet they had s*x. That weird, high kind of s*x.

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10. You sound like a f**king a$$hole.

I hope this guy gets arrested one day.

Photo Credit: Whisper

Wasn’t that fun? Peeking into people’s private lives like that? I mean, I had a blast. What’s more fun than getting balls deep into somebody else’s business?

Nothing! That’s what!

Okay, time for YOU to share, if you want. Do that in the comments.

Thanks fam!

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Memes for People Who Can’t Stop Talking About History

The saying goes that those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Given that the majority of history has been *checks notes* a total dumpster fire, and given that there is a growing pro-dumpster fire contingency in the world today, I think it’s more important than ever that we heed this warning.

Of course, history is kinda long, and there are upwards of several entire books on the subject, so for starters, let’s just do some history via memes.

10. Rebellion

I offer my largest oof.

9. The big one

You’re harshing everybody’s buzz, dude.

8. Look of recognition

I see nothing. NOTHING!

7. Sick burn

Good thing we’re SUPER good at dealing with this kind of thing now…

6. The blame game

You get what you deserve!

5. New math

$Infinity, please.

4. Khan academy

The dude got around so much he’s probably you’re grandpa.

3. Assassination nation

You gone and stepped in it now, John Flammang Schrank.

2. Terms of agreement

Colonists have just sorta been garbage from the start.

1. Fight for your rights

“Yanno…rights and stuff…to like…do…state things… come on, don’t make me say it.”

Well, history has been horrifying. And there’s so much more of it to come! Just remember, you’re a part of it now. Make choices that won’t make your descendants facepalm, please.

What’s your favorite historical fact?

Share it with us in the comments.

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People Share What They Thought Made Someone Rich When They Were Kids

Children grow up in the bubble of their family’s reality. Whatever’s normal at their house is normal, at least until they start school and start to visit their friends’s houses, and realize that not everyone’s “normal” looks the same.

If you grew up poor, or middle class, there were probably some things that’s existence completely amazed you – people who had those things were rich, surely.

Looking back now, it can seem silly, but everything is bigger and better when you’re small!

12. Still too rich for my blood.

It all gets to Netflix eventually.

11. Those ice machines, man.

A blessing and a curse, they are.

10. Total luxury.

Have one, still appreciate it.

9. That kid was cleaning up!

Little entrepreneur, that one.

8. I never thought about this.

Going to check in my next car purchase, though.

7. In some parts of the world, no one has it.

And I would not like to live there, no thanks.

6. I was so lucky my mom got a teacher discount.

We even had a Mac.

5. I bet he took better care of his, though.

Life lessons are surely worth something.

4. I still don’t understand the point.

Everyone knows they’re tissues.

3. A garage would be hard to live without, in extreme temperatures.

And some people just fill theirs with junk!

2. Like winning the lottery.

There were two houses in our neighborhood.

1. I still think this.

Probably because I’ve never lived in a house with double front doors.

I definitely had some of these ideas myself, how about you?

Add something to the list, please!

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Science Memes That Will Make You Smart…Maybe

Science. What is it, exactly?

And how the heck does it work? Does it want to be my friend? And can it make me rich, somehow? These are the questions we’ll be exploring today on our journey through the cosmos of science memes.

Come aboard our ship of the imagination, and cruise the dank depths of human knowledge.

10. Breathe free

This is why Plankton on Spongebob is always struggling so much.

9. K

I think we might be putting a little too much pressure on this one little letter.

8. Hot take

I may not be the smartest, but you’re an absolute zero.

7. Stellar work

Another star’s career ruined by chemicals. Sad.

6. Genetic love

I’m going to plant a seed of affection.

5. Quantum of solace

If you think you understand it, you’re wrong.

4. Fun guy

Don’t you leave him behind, you monster.

3. Bright ideas

You made this? I made this.

2. Tough work

I mean, sure, they’re experts who have dedicated their lives to studying these things, but I also saw a Facebook meme, so.

1. The hard truths

The laws of nature are tough but fair.

I feel smarter already! But in all seriousness – please listen to experts when they tell you science stuff. Please? Before we ruin everything forever? Thanks.

What’s your favorite science fact?

Tell us in the comments.

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