People Discuss What They Think Has an Undeserved Bad Reputation

In the world we live in, things that aren’t necessarily all that bad get dragged through the mud sometimes.

And that can be a real bummer…but it happens…A LOT.

What has a totally undeserved bad reputation?

Let’s see what people on AskReddit had to say about this.

1. Going nuclear.

“Nuclear energy.

Not only does nuclear power not deserve its bad reputation, we desperately need to embrace its good one.

With our present technology, nuclear power is quite literally the cleanest, safest, most reliable, and most productive option that we have available.

Unfortunately – owing to fears of radioactive fallout and misconceptions about the efficiency of renewables like wind power – folks are unwilling to look at uranium as a solution to global warming, despite it being the best one that we have.

Renewable energy sources are great, and we should absolutely be investing in them… but not as primary sources of power-generation. If we want to save the planet, nuclear power is the only viable avenue for doing that.”

2. A great thing.

“Community college.

I will advocate for community colleges until the day I die.”

3. It’s hard work.

“Fast food workers. I don’t get the “anyone can do it” argument.

Through my time as a manager I’ve turned down applicants for not being up to our standard, and watched all age groups quit because the job isn’t as easy as they expected. It’s a fast paced work environment with lots of memorization due to food safety standards.

I’ve worked production, construction, warehouse, and others but working in fast food isn’t easier than the others, just different.”

4. I agree 100%.

“Airlines and airports.

Considering how massively complex the system is they generally do a pretty great job and there are usually few legitimate reasons to complain.”

5. Look closer.

“Genetically modified produce.

I think when people mention it, their brain immediately jumps to “super bad chemicals that will instantly kill you”…Instead of modifying a plant’s genes just so it could produce more or bigger offspring. Besides, we would probably see less of it if we (speaking as an American here) didn’t consume so much anyway.

And if you still don’t vibe with that sort of stuff that’s cool, but it isn’t as bad as people make it out to be.

What is bad are companies going out of their way to patent genetic codes so that they can bury farmers with lawsuits, or develop seeds who’s offspring will never produce grandchildren.”

6. Maybe they’re wrong?

“Testosterone is blamed for aggressive behavior, inappropriate s**ual behavior, emotional unavailability and more. Thing is, there is absolutely no proof for testosterone being responsible for any of those things.

Unhealthily high levels can cause aggression (roid rage) but whether somebody is at the high or low end of the range of normal levels has nothing to do with how aggressive or emotional they are, and even less with whether they can control their s**ual urges.”

7. Who’s the loudest?

“Movements like veganism, too many people generalize all vegans to be like the annoying ones.

Just like any movement, the loudest and most obnoxious get the attention but make everyone else look bad.”

8. Unions.

“Most unions.

Unions serve an excellent purpose in promoting collective action and bringing frontline labor to the bargaining table as a commodity.

Unfortunately, they are often granted monopoly status, allowing them to become corrupt over time.”

9. Creepy creatures.

“Spiders and bats have a pretty bad rep. People seem to think they’re no good creatures that are creepy and are gonna suck your blood or bite you for no reason, when they actually help keep populations of flies, mosquitoes, etc. at bay.

Without spiders and bats, we’d be so screwed. There would be an insane amount of bugs everywhere and you’d probably have to wear a net regularly when going outside. I personally like bats more then spiders, since i’m terrified of them for no real reason besides the way they look, crawl and honestly they’re eyes are pretty creepy to me-but I still appreciate all that they do for us.

Oh also fun fact, if you’re afraid of bats sucking your blood, only 1 species of bat does that! It’s called the vampire bat, and even though it drinks blood, it only really drinks the blood of cows, goats, and other animals. They don’t like human blood and are kinda cute in their own way.”

10. The Garden State.

“New Jersey.

It’s a hell of a lot cheaper and the commute can take just ask long to the city.

Also, it doesn’t need to always be compared to it’s relation to New York, like being broke in NYC is so much better.”

11. Hatin’ on Spam.

“SPAM.

It looks like gross, gelatinous, molded ham product in a can. why would anyone eat such a thing? But prepared well it just hits a spot few things can. Slice teriyaki spam and grill in a skillet until the outside is crispy, serve on Hawaiian rolls as sliders, or on rice with nori as spam musubi.

Chop some up with gold potatoes and onions and cook it in the cast iron skillet for a delicious SPAM and potato hash to serve with eggs. I used to think it was just weird apocalypse food, but it turns out it is really tasty.”

12. Seems like a great guy!

“Guy Fieri.

He’s out here doing the most with a charming personality and being kind to everyone he meets in his shows… but we were too busy simpin’ over Anthony Bourdain being a bad boy with everyone.

I love Anthony too, RIP, I think they deserve the same level of admiration.”

What do you think has an undeserved bad reputation?

Talk to us in the comments and tell us what you think.

Thanks in advance!

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Should This Person Have Accepted an Apology From the Mother of Childhood Bully?

For many years, the subject of bullying was treated like a joke. Something to be survived, something to prove you’d earned your stripes as a kid, or something.

These days students, parents, and educators take it all more seriously, realizing that the scars obtained in childhood, at the hands of mean kids (and sometimes adults) can last a lifetime.

It’s easy to understand, then, why someone who endured h*ll as a kid would want nothing to do with their bully, their family, or anything else that might remind them of that time in their lives.

In this case, the bullying was so severe that OP (original poster) had to change schools in order to escape it.

I (22F) grew up with a guy who had severely bullied me during my elementary & middle school years and it did not stop until I had changed to a different high school (yes, my previous schools somehow managed to do absolutely nothing about the situation despite claiming that they would “look into it.”)

Recently, they ran into the boy’s mother, who tried to apologize for his behavior as a child.

OP didn’t want to hear it.

Recently, I ran into this guy’s mother in public (I still live in the same town) and she said she wanted to personally apologize for what her son did. However, I told her that I refused to accept her apology and that it wasn’t my fault that she had epically failed as a parent.

To OP it just sounded like a bunch of excuses, and no one still wanting to take responsibility for what had happened to them as a result.

I responded like this because during her apology she kept bringing up the fact that her son had family issues at home and was undergoing a lot of stress. However, to me it just sounded like she was trying to excuse her son’s behavior towards me as if it was acceptable for her son to unleash his frustrations onto me and to torment me for years.

Another big reason for why I said what I said to her is because both my family and I had complained about her son’s behavior directly to her as well as through the school. However back then she claimed that her “precious son was incapable of harming other kids” and instead insisted that I had to have been lying about her son.

To make matters worse, during my final year at the school, she went out of her way to place a formal complaint against me to the school based on unfounded claims in what I assume was her attempt at ‘getting back at me.’

Basically it was too little, too late – especially after the mother was kind of a bully herself back then, defending her son all the way to the school’s office.

In my opinion, she had so many years to step up as an adult and to address and correct the problem and situation on her end and yet she didn’t. Instead it took her years of complaints from other parents to supposedly ‘open her eyes.’

On top of this, I still have not heard a word from her son himself so the apology further came off as insincere and instead just the mother’s way to absolve herself of any guilt or whatever her personal reasoning was. Does my reaction make me TA?

He’s worried he was wrong, or too harsh, but what does Reddit think?

Let’s find out!

Apologies are not required to be accepted. If you’re not ready, don’t feel obligated.

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And not all apologies are made for the right reasons.

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Not even at all.

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Honestly, she has a lot of nerve.

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It doesn’t sound like it was a real apology.

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An improper apology doesn’t deserve a proper response.

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I am with the commenters on this one – it doesn’t sound like this woman is even sorry, so I’m not sure why she apologized in the first place.

What are your thoughts on this, and on apologies in general? Let’s discuss in the comments!

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What’s Cool Now, But Won’t Be in 5 Years? Here’s What People Said.

Are you old enough to remember the glorious Hypercolor t-shirts?

If you’re not, let me fill you in.

Hypercolor shirts changed color with your body heat. They were all the rage when I was in seventh grade and I even had one of my own. I was there, man!

But…by eighth grade, they were definitely not cool anymore and that thing sat in the back of my closet, lost to history…it’s quite sad, actually…

People on AskReddit talked about what is popular and cool now but probably won’t be in five years.

1. Can’t last forever.

“The <insert name here> Nutrition drink shops.

MLM bright teas that have no actual nutritional value can’t last forever.”

2. Might go away.

“Galaxy print is probably going to go the way of the bowling alley carpet patterns we used to wear on our clothes in the 1990s.

It’ll come back ironically in 10 years.”

3. YouTubers.

“Probably most popular YouTubers.

That’s something I’ve noticed.

The shelf life of YouTube popularity seems to be shorter than “mainstream” pop star popularity.”

4. Darn, already got mine…

“Brazilian Bootie Lifts.

I feel like it will not age well.

A lot of plastic surgeries collapse over time or have complications as it degrades.”

5. A lot of BS.

“Life hacks.

Since they have taken over YouTube, it just will be bland after amount of time because a lot of it is just BS and many just don’t work now.

Many I’ve seen so many stupid harmful things they are doing like “oH PuT YoUR TiN FoIL iN a BaLL anD pUt It iN a MICrowave tO MakE a SmOTH BaLL.”

6. That doesn’t sound good.

“The bowl cut.

For some reason it came back in south Houston.

Looks ridiculous.”

7. You see it all the time.

“Corporations trying to be weird and relatable on Twitter.

Wish it would die out now.

Twitter, where people try to be brands and brands try to be people.”

8. Totally embarrassing.

“A lot of the stuff I see people doing on TikTok seems like the kinda thing you’d be embarrassed about in a few years.”

9. That’s sad.

“Instagram is going to be an online shopping mall.

Far removed from the cool blogging site it used to be.”

10. What’s next?

“Subscribing to multiple streaming platforms.

Isn’t that why cable doesn’t exist anymore?”

11. Enough! ?

?  putting ?  emojis ?  everywhere ?  especially ?  if ?  you’re ?  a ?  brand ?  trying ?  to ?  do ? buddy ?  marketing ?.”

12. Electric vehicles.

“EVs.

In 5 years, it’ll just be a commonplace thing.

It won’t be every car on the road, or every purchase, but already the shock of “oh look it’s a Tesla” is fading out.”

13. Could be…

“Funko Pops.

They’re the Beanie Babies of the ’20s.”

Okay, now it’s your turn…

In the comments, tell us what YOU think is cool now but won’t be in five years.

We can’t wait to hear from you!

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People Talk About Traditions From Their Countries That Don’t Make Any Sense to the Rest of the World

One of the many joys of traveling is to learn about and experience how people in other countries live their lives.

The food, the way they dance and celebrate, their sports, etc.

The possibilities are endless! But not all traditions translate across cultures.

So, what traditions from your country don’t make sense to the rest of the world?

Here’s what AskReddit users had to say.

1. Sauna life.

“When you go to the sauna you’re supposed to get a bundle of these birch twigs and hit yourself and others with them in the steamy sauna.

It’s a purifying act and helps the blood circulation but it’s something foreigners often find strange.

Also, cutting a hole into the ice in the middle of winter and going ice swimming. People are sometimes surprised to hear that doing this doesn’t kill you.”

2. In Norway.

“Norway:

Teenagers graduating high school have a unique celebration called the “Russ” period where they wear special clothes, get drunk, do elaborate pranks and just party for several weeks… before final exams.”

3. Moving day!

“In Quebec almost everyone who rents apt moves the same day July 1st.

In the rest of the country its Canada Day but in Quebec its moving day.”

4. Day of the Dead.

“Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos) is pretty known to be celebrated in Mexico but there’s this tradition of Death’s Day of writing a “Calaverita”.

Which is a poem you write to a friend or member of the family, narrating how they died or would die in a comedic way. Basically making fun of the demise of our loved ones.”

5. Wow.

“Dyngus Day.

The day after Easter when men sprinkle women with water, usually with squirt guns now, and tap their bu**s with p**sy willows.

There is a heavy Polish influence on my area in the States.”

6. The holidays.

“I live in Colombia. And here, we start celebrating Christmas 9 days before the actual 24th of December.

Let me explain..

We have something called the ‘novenas’, which would be literally translated as ‘ninths’, but I know it doesn’t make sense, so we’re just gonna call them ‘novenas’.

Here, we invented a weird version of Christmas, in which it took Jesus Christ 9 days for him to go from wherever he was before, to Jerusalem. And as here in Colombia we celebrate everything for an excuse not to work, so we celebrate all 9 days of Jesus’ trip.

In those 9 days we usually go to other people’s homes, we pray the ‘novena’, which is what we invented, we open gifts, we eat… a lot… and then we just leave. And that is for 9 days previous to the 24th.

So.. yeah. Here in Colombia we start celebrating Christmas 9 days before everyone in the world.”

7. Sounds fun!

“We have a sport in which we carry our wives/girlfriends across a swamp and whoever wins gets their wife’s weight in beer.”

8. It’s a party!

“There is this religious festival in a particular province in my country that holds literal crucifixions.

Full size cross and nails through the hands and feet. The works. Participants are volunteers, of course. “

9. A little privacy.

“In Myanmar teenage couples go to the park and sit behind “privacy umbrellas.”

On sunny days the parks are dotted with all these open umbrellas with young couples hiding behind them.”

10. Yuck.

“After killing your first animal you need to eat its genit**s.

South Africa.”

11. You don’t want bad luck.

“In Russia, if I leave my house door and go outside but forget something and I have to go back I have to sit down in quiet for a second look into a mirror after and then I can leave.

Otherwise it’s bad luck if I just leave without doing that.”

12. Walking into the sea.

“When walking into the sea, skipping over the first 7 waves that hit you. This is mostly done at midnight on New Year’s Eve.

Brazil is Christian AF, but even the most devout Catholics do that… unaware that the tradition comes from Candomblé and Umbanda, which are religions connected to the enslaved African that were brought here centuries ago.

They call Umbanda and Candomblé devil worshipping AND YET here they are with their jumping on the beaches every single year.”

What are some traditions from your country that the rest of the world finds odd?

Talk to us in the comments.

We can’t wait to hear from you!

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What Exists Only to Mess With Us? Here’s What People Had to Say.

The older you get, the more you realize what a sinister world we live in…

Things seem to exist just to mess with our minds and make our days a little bit more difficult.

What a cruel existence we all must deal with…

So, what exists only to mess with us?

AskReddit users shared their thoughts on this subject.

1. NO!

“The ads that have the X inside the ad.

So that when you click to close it, it takes you to the linked site.”

2. Pointless.

“Bedbugs.

They have no ecological benefit and target only humans, almost exclusively just when the human hosts are sleeping, armed with natural anticoagulants and painkillers for enhanced, stealthy blood-sucking.”

3. Ouch.

“I know they weren’t meant to and once had a reason to exist, but by now: Wisdom Teeth.”

12. Well, on that note…

“Time. You lose it constantly and can’t get it back.

You get older and older and uglier and uglier until your a shell of your former self.

Then die and rot in the ground.”

5. Leave me alone!

“Robocalls about your car’s extended warranty.

I get these several times a week.

I don’t even own a car!”

6. Not a fan.

“Mosquitos.

Wasn’t even that long ago that a study proved that you could wipe them all out and it would not actually negatively impact ecosystems as much as previously thought and there is now a real effort to exterminate every last one of the bloodsuckers.”

7. Thoughts on this one?

“Credit Scores.

Used to be that the bank would do their due diligence on loan applications before offering terms that made sense for each person.

Now they’ve constructed a huge system where missing one bill payment can f**k you over and paying down debt early is can be interpreted as a bad thing.

The idea in principle isn’t so bad, but the way it’s implemented is stupid and unwieldy and mistakes are far too hard to correct.”

8. Sent from Hell.

“Printers.

Now I hear you saying to me oh but wait printers are so useful. Nope. They were all sent from hell to haunt us. Office printers are bad, home printers are worse. They never work, need 300 different drivers you have to get off the website, oopsies we don’t make that one anymore.

Oh no, the ink we gave you was a trial size, guess what a**hole no stores sells the bastard random number your printer needs, but you can buy this replacement for 60 bucks that will print maybe 2 pages properly.”

9. Can be maddening.

“Our tax system. In the U.S. anyway.

Most places don’t have such confusing taxes. Usually it’s just a bill that comes that you gotta pay. This is very possible and doable in America. In fact in the past twenty years both a Democrat and a Republican’s on two separate occasions proposed a bill that would simply taxes so literally anyone could do it.

The problem is that would cost a lot of accountants some jobs. So, America, in it’s never dying love of retaining jobs that have no reason to exist outside of providing work, has never implemented a more simple tax system.

That and H&R Block spends millions of dollars every year to make the tax code more complicated so people will have to relay on some big company to do it for them.

And yet another example of a big giant company purposefully making the government incompetent so that they can replace the government and charge citizens to do what you legally have to do every year.”

10. Just end it!

“Junk paper mail in the physical mailbox. From the same companies constantly.

Capitol One, Discover, American Express. And certain ones have a thick card stock insert so you will pay more attention to it. Constant mailers from local realtors. Companies always pitching term life insurance. Etc etc etc. Tricking you to think it’s a tax form. Tricking you to think it’s official government business.

All junk mail needs to go away. All of it goes straight to the paper shredder and that also takes up a lot of time to deal with.”

11. Annoying.

“Products designed in such a way that they are impossible to repair

Power tools, all consumer electronics, appliances, cars, tractors, agricultural machines, trucks. Anything with a bearing or a microchip anything you can imagine buying and using is well on its way to becoming the exclusive property of the people who sold it to you. Forever. This forecast brought to you in the year 2021.

Fu**ing with people in such a way in order to make money is perhaps the worst outcome of capitalism. The subtle manipulation of what it means to own something by corporations is the worst thing that has ever happened to society.

It makes me feel a rage beyond words because the unrepairable item is by definition something that only exists to f**k with you.”

What do you think exists only to mess with us?

Sound off in the comments and let us know!

Please and thank you!

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What Exists Only to Mess With Us? Here’s What People Had to Say.

The older you get, the more you realize what a sinister world we live in…

Things seem to exist just to mess with our minds and make our days a little bit more difficult.

What a cruel existence we all must deal with…

So, what exists only to mess with us?

AskReddit users shared their thoughts on this subject.

1. NO!

“The ads that have the X inside the ad.

So that when you click to close it, it takes you to the linked site.”

2. Pointless.

“Bedbugs.

They have no ecological benefit and target only humans, almost exclusively just when the human hosts are sleeping, armed with natural anticoagulants and painkillers for enhanced, stealthy blood-sucking.”

3. Ouch.

“I know they weren’t meant to and once had a reason to exist, but by now: Wisdom Teeth.”

12. Well, on that note…

“Time. You lose it constantly and can’t get it back.

You get older and older and uglier and uglier until your a shell of your former self.

Then die and rot in the ground.”

5. Leave me alone!

“Robocalls about your car’s extended warranty.

I get these several times a week.

I don’t even own a car!”

6. Not a fan.

“Mosquitos.

Wasn’t even that long ago that a study proved that you could wipe them all out and it would not actually negatively impact ecosystems as much as previously thought and there is now a real effort to exterminate every last one of the bloodsuckers.”

7. Thoughts on this one?

“Credit Scores.

Used to be that the bank would do their due diligence on loan applications before offering terms that made sense for each person.

Now they’ve constructed a huge system where missing one bill payment can f**k you over and paying down debt early is can be interpreted as a bad thing.

The idea in principle isn’t so bad, but the way it’s implemented is stupid and unwieldy and mistakes are far too hard to correct.”

8. Sent from Hell.

“Printers.

Now I hear you saying to me oh but wait printers are so useful. Nope. They were all sent from hell to haunt us. Office printers are bad, home printers are worse. They never work, need 300 different drivers you have to get off the website, oopsies we don’t make that one anymore.

Oh no, the ink we gave you was a trial size, guess what a**hole no stores sells the bastard random number your printer needs, but you can buy this replacement for 60 bucks that will print maybe 2 pages properly.”

9. Can be maddening.

“Our tax system. In the U.S. anyway.

Most places don’t have such confusing taxes. Usually it’s just a bill that comes that you gotta pay. This is very possible and doable in America. In fact in the past twenty years both a Democrat and a Republican’s on two separate occasions proposed a bill that would simply taxes so literally anyone could do it.

The problem is that would cost a lot of accountants some jobs. So, America, in it’s never dying love of retaining jobs that have no reason to exist outside of providing work, has never implemented a more simple tax system.

That and H&R Block spends millions of dollars every year to make the tax code more complicated so people will have to relay on some big company to do it for them.

And yet another example of a big giant company purposefully making the government incompetent so that they can replace the government and charge citizens to do what you legally have to do every year.”

10. Just end it!

“Junk paper mail in the physical mailbox. From the same companies constantly.

Capitol One, Discover, American Express. And certain ones have a thick card stock insert so you will pay more attention to it. Constant mailers from local realtors. Companies always pitching term life insurance. Etc etc etc. Tricking you to think it’s a tax form. Tricking you to think it’s official government business.

All junk mail needs to go away. All of it goes straight to the paper shredder and that also takes up a lot of time to deal with.”

11. Annoying.

“Products designed in such a way that they are impossible to repair

Power tools, all consumer electronics, appliances, cars, tractors, agricultural machines, trucks. Anything with a bearing or a microchip anything you can imagine buying and using is well on its way to becoming the exclusive property of the people who sold it to you. Forever. This forecast brought to you in the year 2021.

Fu**ing with people in such a way in order to make money is perhaps the worst outcome of capitalism. The subtle manipulation of what it means to own something by corporations is the worst thing that has ever happened to society.

It makes me feel a rage beyond words because the unrepairable item is by definition something that only exists to f**k with you.”

What do you think exists only to mess with us?

Sound off in the comments and let us know!

Please and thank you!

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What Should Be Free? Here’s How People Responded.

I know my answer!

How about HEALTH CARE in the United States? Wouldn’t that be nice?

I know some Americans like to say that we have the best health care in the world and that might be true…if you have a good job and good benefits. But a whole lot of folks out there in this country can’t even go see a doctor because they simply can’t afford it.

Okay, that’s my speech for the day.

What do you think should be free?

AskReddit users shared their thoughts.

1. Why am I paying for this?

“IDs.

I find it ridiculous that we have to pay so much for something we are required to have on us at all times.”

2. That’s lame.

“Beaches and public parks.

I’m from California where all of the beaches are free for everybody to use.

It baffles me when I travel and find other beaches aren’t free.

WHAT?!”

3. A great idea.

“School lunch for all kids.

A city near me tested free breakfast for all elementary students and test scores went up.”

4. When you gotta go…

“Using the toilet.

I’m looking at you and your stupid pay toilets, Europe!

As well as any convenience store/fast food joint that tries to refuse the restroom to non-customers, especially if there isn’t a nearby public option.”

5. I agree!

“Hospital parking.

Where I live, parking garages at public hospitals all seem to be run by private companies and the fees are nuts.

It’s a huge amount of pressure to put on people who are already under stress.”

6. Ridiculous.

“If you ask me, a single ambulance ride shouldn’t cost as much as a Lamborghini.”

7. There you go.

“Government identification.

Drug testing

Criminal record checks.”

8. Yes!

“Medication, especially anything required for survival.

No reason I should have to choose between paying for insulin or paying for food/shelter/education.

My body cannot produce it on its own, and I have no choice but to buy it.”

9. Should be free.

“Mental health support.

The fact that you need to pay someone to listen to you really shows how f**ked the world is.”

10. Fill ‘er up.

“The air machines at gas stations.

It’s air for cryin’ out loud.

How you gonna refuse me some air for my tires just because I don’t have any change on me?”

11. Good point.

“I’m a man, but imo feminine hygiene products should be free.

As a cashier full time, it feels wrong to tell a high school girl she’s a dollar short so I can’t let her leave with her hygiene products.

For one, I’m a guy, and can’t fathom that discomfort, and that’s not even to mention the fact that it is probably extremely embarrassing for her, and a messy inconvenience, especially if that was her only option, in public.

For the record, I bought her tampons for her.

It’s f**ked that these aren’t free for women.”

12. That would be nice.

“Glasses or eye contacts.

Why do I need to pay so much just to be able to see?”

13. Let’s hope so. Forever.

“Libraries.

Anyone who thinks ‘Netflix for Books’ is a viable business model that could possibly replace the numerous services your local library provides — especially to those people who by definition couldn’t afford a subscription model — is exactly the kind of person who could probably benefit by spending more time in a library.”

What do YOU think should be free?

Sound off in the comments and make your voice heard!

We can’t wait to hear from you!

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What Should Be Free? Here’s How People Responded.

I know my answer!

How about HEALTH CARE in the United States? Wouldn’t that be nice?

I know some Americans like to say that we have the best health care in the world and that might be true…if you have a good job and good benefits. But a whole lot of folks out there in this country can’t even go see a doctor because they simply can’t afford it.

Okay, that’s my speech for the day.

What do you think should be free?

AskReddit users shared their thoughts.

1. Why am I paying for this?

“IDs.

I find it ridiculous that we have to pay so much for something we are required to have on us at all times.”

2. That’s lame.

“Beaches and public parks.

I’m from California where all of the beaches are free for everybody to use.

It baffles me when I travel and find other beaches aren’t free.

WHAT?!”

3. A great idea.

“School lunch for all kids.

A city near me tested free breakfast for all elementary students and test scores went up.”

4. When you gotta go…

“Using the toilet.

I’m looking at you and your stupid pay toilets, Europe!

As well as any convenience store/fast food joint that tries to refuse the restroom to non-customers, especially if there isn’t a nearby public option.”

5. I agree!

“Hospital parking.

Where I live, parking garages at public hospitals all seem to be run by private companies and the fees are nuts.

It’s a huge amount of pressure to put on people who are already under stress.”

6. Ridiculous.

“If you ask me, a single ambulance ride shouldn’t cost as much as a Lamborghini.”

7. There you go.

“Government identification.

Drug testing

Criminal record checks.”

8. Yes!

“Medication, especially anything required for survival.

No reason I should have to choose between paying for insulin or paying for food/shelter/education.

My body cannot produce it on its own, and I have no choice but to buy it.”

9. Should be free.

“Mental health support.

The fact that you need to pay someone to listen to you really shows how f**ked the world is.”

10. Fill ‘er up.

“The air machines at gas stations.

It’s air for cryin’ out loud.

How you gonna refuse me some air for my tires just because I don’t have any change on me?”

11. Good point.

“I’m a man, but imo feminine hygiene products should be free.

As a cashier full time, it feels wrong to tell a high school girl she’s a dollar short so I can’t let her leave with her hygiene products.

For one, I’m a guy, and can’t fathom that discomfort, and that’s not even to mention the fact that it is probably extremely embarrassing for her, and a messy inconvenience, especially if that was her only option, in public.

For the record, I bought her tampons for her.

It’s f**ked that these aren’t free for women.”

12. That would be nice.

“Glasses or eye contacts.

Why do I need to pay so much just to be able to see?”

13. Let’s hope so. Forever.

“Libraries.

Anyone who thinks ‘Netflix for Books’ is a viable business model that could possibly replace the numerous services your local library provides — especially to those people who by definition couldn’t afford a subscription model — is exactly the kind of person who could probably benefit by spending more time in a library.”

What do YOU think should be free?

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People Discuss the Concepts They Just Can’t Grasp

Some people just can’t grasp certain things.

You try and try and for some reason, it just doesn’t click in your head.

For me, it’s Math. And a lot of Science stuff, too, if I’m being honest.

I guess my brain just doesn’t work that way…

People on AskReddit shared what concepts they just can’t seem to grasp.

Let’s take a look.

1. Just don’t get it.

“Emotionless s**.

The idea of a one-nightstand with someone you’ve only known for a few days – or even just a few hours (?!?!) – and who you plan to never, ever, ever see again boggles my mind.

Zero judgement, btw. I have friends who are happily single and simply get their physical needs met with hookup-apps.

It works for them, and I think that’s great. I’ve just never been in the position of finding someone I barley know s**ually attractive.”

2. I’m with you!

“All of the higher maths, Algebra through Calc. I just can not do it.

I’ve taken Algebra 3 times and never got anything higher than a C. I get to radical equations and my brain takes a dump. Very confusing!”

3. Please explain it again…

“The stock market.

Having a number of friends in finance, they are numbers wizards.

They talk about how this pattern in this sector means the outcome will be this.”

4. Some people don’t care.

“Cultural appropriation.

I’m Hispanic and I don’t give a s**t if white people like our culture and copy it on their body or in their home.

It’s really not of any concern to me. It’s really hard for me to care.”

5. Confusing.

“The relationship between time and gravity. Like in the movie INTERSTELLAR, when the people on Earth age faster than them who are traveling through high gravity.

My understanding of gravity is a force that pulls objects together, the more objects together the stronger the pull. So I have gravity that pulls objects to me but it is so small of a force in comparison to say a planet or sun. Light is both a particle and wave so I get it being pulled by gravity.

But time isn’t a physical object, there is no particle or atom or whatever for gravity to pull. Time is our perception of our existence and our growth and eventual decay. So how is time being affected by gravity? How is decay slowed by the pull of gravity? If I were close to a dense system or black hole, would the electrical/ chemical elements in my brain slow down so I think at the same rate as I age?

Or would I be thinking really fast in comparison? Does gravity affect the rate of electron flow in electronic components?”

6. Not grasping it.

“Never have and never will understand inflation, I literally don’t understand how it works.

I get we can’t print more money but in my head that just doesn’t make sense, humans are the ones who ascribed value to everything so I don’t get what the problem is.

Yeah I’m not very smart.”

7. Seriously.

“Trolling.

I really just cant understand why you would go out of your way to make the game/experience worse by purposefully being annoying and unhelpful.”

8. Don’t get it.

“Collecting things.

I have a pretty big nail polish “collection” but I wear all of it. When people collect things that do nothing but sit there, I don’t get it.

I have friends who own literally hundreds of those Funko Pop figures and I don’t know why.”

9. A mystery.

“The fact that people will take the teachings of a 2,000 year old book to heart and say “it’s all true” with zero evidence, yet completely ignore something that is scientifically proven will evidence to support it.

No offense intended to religious people, you do you.”

10. Too stressful.

“Having kids, the whole concept seems SO stressful there is SOOOOO much that can go wrong.

I really feel the negatives WAY out weigh the positives and I feel when parents are telling you the “joys” they are just trying to convince themselves their decisions were good.”

11. Happens all the time.

“How tens of millions of people can be brainwashed by the same narrative.

I know there are some pretty susceptible people out there, but I didn’t expect it to be TENS OF MILLIONS.”

12. What’s happening?!?!

“Time travel.

Obviously it’s a fictional concept, but every time I watch or read anything about it my brain starts hurting really fast.”

13. Mind = Blown.

“Things like Wifi, Bluetooth and airdrop. Especially air drop.

HOW THE HELL can a picture form my phone magically appear on my laptop? I don’t get it. There’s nothing there to connect the two.

It boggles my mind.”

Now we want to hear from you!

What are concepts that you just can’t grasp no matter how hard you try?

Talk to us in the comments, please!

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People Share the Most High Risk Low Reward Things They’ve Ever Done

Some of us are worse than others, but I think it’s safe to say that many people out there do questionable things that aren’t worth it.

At all.

Like, not even a little bit.

Why do we do the things we do…?

Folks on AskReddit talked about the most high risk, low reward things they’ve ever done in their lives.

Let’s see what went down!

1. Pretty pointless.

“I stole every wheel off the chairs in my high school’s computer lab as a joke during a 20-minute break.

I still have one of them.

Probably could’ve gotten expelled just for a slightly funny joke and a useless chair wheel.”

2. For what?

“Lots and lots of illegal graffiti. For about 3 years it was all I cared about.

Hanging off ledges and bridges, climbing up the sides of buildings, being on roofs, hiding under trains, being in dangerous places by myself at 3am, abandoned buildings, squatter houses, rough neighborhoods. Not to mention the risk of criminal prosecution.

Paint doesn’t just fall into your lap either, one year I spent $5,000 on spray paint on top of getting it any other ways I could. Homeless guy with a knife, a couple of gangsters tried to rob me, a freight train was about a foot away from running over me. (Not all at the same time lol but those were some of the worst bits)

And for what? Just to put some paint on a wall or train and take a photo of it.”

3. Not worth it.

“I once climbed an old truss bridge to get some neat pictures of myself.

I climbed under it and sat on the beams beneath the bridge, I climbed the the very top, I hung off the edge of the bridge above several rocks.

Once I got done I  showed the pictures to my friends and they said they sucked.”

4. Whoa!

“Snuck a girl over and had unprotected s** while my parents were home.

Got syphilis at 17.”

5. No reward at all.

“During an all-nighter study session with my college roommate we decided we wanted to get some McDonald’s.

It was around 1 am, so we left all of our stuff in a common study room (laptops and all- wtf) and got in my car. It was pitch black, super foggy with my lights on, and raining to top it all off. I couldn’t see more than a foot in front of my car so we were driving 10mph down the highway on no sleep.

After less than 5 terrifying minutes we decided the cheeseburgers weren’t worth it and went home. Essentially high risk, no reward.”

6. Cherry pie.

“While in Army basic in 2004, I took a piece of cherry pie during dinner chow, covered it under 2 slices of bread and ate it before eating any of my actual dinner.

One of the guys in my platoon saw me but never said anything. If the Drill Sergeants would have caught me they would have made me (and my platoon) pay with a round of 200 (push-ups, sit-ups, burpees) and most likely mountain climbers unit a few of us threw up.

It was the first thing I ate with sugar in 2 and a half months and it was DELICIOUS! Especially since I never got caught!”

7. Pretty risky.

“I was stationed at GITMO (worked exterior security, nothing in the facility itself) and its actually a pretty laid back place to work. Anywho theres a bunch of different beaches we could swim at and me and a few others thought it would be fun to swim down around the fences and snap some pictures on the Cuba side.

Turns out they really didn’t like that. They didn’t approach us but there was an announcement made that doing such was highly illegal, they shut down the adjoining beaches and they demanded we come forward.

We never did and they never figured it out..but yeah we basically risked an international incident for a couple of pictures. Stupidest thing I’ve ever done.”

8. Tell no one.

“Sent my boss a glitter bomb, never told anyone who sent it.

The whole organization, thousands of people, know it happened, boss flipped out when glitter went everywhere.

I’ll never tell anyone.”

9. Shoplifting.

“Stole some random season of Seinfeld DVDs from Walmart by putting them under my hoodie.

Alarm went off as I left but it was 1 am so no one did s**t.

Just kept on walking.”

10. Insane.

“Smuggled €250,000 (drug money, taped to my chest) through 4 countries for the princely sum of £3000.

I risked my freedom for a sofa, a nice sofa, but still.

2/10 would not do again.”

11. A lot of this going on.

“Hid an ab**ive boyfriend from the cops.

Ended up breaking up with him afterwards and going to jail for a day (I was super lucky, harboring a fugitive is a felony, folks). I risked having a permanent felony on my record for a dude without a job who regularly verbally abused me.

Without a doubt the stupidest thing I’ve ever done because I thought I loved him and wanted to be with him forever.”

12. Road rage.

“Once got in a fit of road rage…

A guy cut me off on the interstate, so I honked at him (wasn’t a quick honk, it was a longer one, few seconds)

Guy slows down and matches the speed of the car in the right lane, so I’m blocked now.

I flash my headlights and honk again

He proceeds to spit out his sunroof and it hits my windshield

He then accelerates heavily back to speed

I floor it, move to the right lane and move to pass him

He floors it, now we’re both going faster (definitely got over 85mph, limit was 65 IIRC)

Coming up quickly on a delivery truck in the right lane (he’s still in the left, I’m in the right) I punch it harder

I just barely get in ahead of him then cut him off, maybe 50ft before the delivery truck.

I slow down and match the speed of the delivery truck. Wait for probably a minute at that speed (speed limit) then pass the delivery truck and move right. (he had been tailgating me and half driving on the shoulder)

Guy floors and flies past, I return to going 5 over the speed limit.

Lots of risk, zero reward. I was a complete idiot and there was nothing to gain. Saved no time and endangered at least 3 lives, if not more (mine, other guy, and delivery truck).”

Okay, now we want to hear from you.

In the comments, tell us about the most high risk, low reward thing you’ve ever done in your life.

We can’t wait to hear your stories!

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