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Totally Free Things You Should Be Taking Advantage of Online

People love free stuff. If there is one universal truth about humanity, this is it – but there are times when not everyone knows about the cool free stuff out there just waiting for the picking!

If you’re into it, these 14 Redditors are giving us a head’s up on some freebies available online.

14. I had no idea this worked on dog prescriptions!

Goodrx.

If you haven’t seen the depressing commercials, this is an app that gives you discounts on prescription medications.

My dog has epilepsy and I save about $200 a month on his pills.

13. That’s quite an endorsement.

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Stackoverflow because I wouldn’t be a developer without it.

One of the most helpful things I’ve ever found.

12. A tip for everyone.

Image Credit: Have I Been Pwned

https://haveibeenpwned.com/ is a website that checks through a database of breaches to see if any account associated with your email has been compromised.

being pwned is pretty common, especially if you use the same email for many websites. There is no need to be concerned if you have been pwned multiple times; almost all will be from mass data breaches and it is unlikely you will ever be targeted specifically. However, it is a good idea to close accounts you no longer use and to change the passwords on accounts you use regularly

11. Definitely going to bookmark this one!

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https://thenounproject.com/ has a wide selection of icons. I use them for presentations!

15. For the GenXers in the house.

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https://oldgamesdownload.com/

Free old computer games.

Some good ones from my childhood:

Marathon

The Incredible Machine (1&2)

Need For Speed (Hot Pursuit 1&2, Underground 1&2, Most Wanted, Carbon)

Tony Hawk (Pro Skater 2&3&4, Underground 1&2)

Simpsons Hit and Run

Final Fantasy

Baldurs Gate

The Lord of the Rings

9. Taxes should NOT be that hard.

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Turbotaxsucksass.com

It’s created by Hasan Minhaj with a list of websites to file free taxes with direct links instead of misleading users to paying.

Hasan Minhaj talks about it in his Patriot Act Volume 6 episode “Why Doing Taxes Is So Hard”

8. You can never have enough of these.

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https://unsplash.com/ – free (SUPER high quality) photographs, I also use as reference for sketches/artwork.

7. This should work!

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If you’re a student or are really trying to stay focused at work there’s and app called Forest: Stay Focused.

It’s a free app that’s available as an extension on Google Chrome or the Apple AppStore.

Basically, you plant a tree, set a time limit and you can only go on the sites that you’ve added to the whitelist or your tree will die.

It’s designed to stop you from always being in social media while you’re supposed to be studying or doing something productive.

6. Music from anywhere you want.

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I bring to you radio.garden, my friend.

Radio stations from around the globe. Just spin it a bit and click where you want to get a list of radio stations from that country. Great for people who like foreign music, language learners, or people looking to reconnect with something “back home”.

5. They have television shows, too!

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Tubi TV.

It has a ton of movies. Not exactly box office hits but its got movies and they change every month.

I’ve watched movies like Fury and Airplane! on there. Best part is you can get it in phone laptop, and Ps4 as far as i know of.

100% free, 100% recommend

4. Like a garage sale on the internet.

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The Freecycle Network.

A free to sign-up/nonprofit website that helps people give away free stuff that they don’t need to people who need it in their local town/neighborhood.

Their goal is to promote re-use of goods that would otherwise go into landfills.

3. These are awesome.

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EdX

Its completely free online courses (usually 2-6 weeks per course) taught by professors from top notch universities from all over the world (Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Oxford). It’s just like taking classes from a university (with assignments, lectures to watch, etc.) and the courses are varied and interesting.

Another online use people don’t think about is LIBRARIES. Go to your local library, get a card, and you get a huge selection of books right on your phone, Kindle, laptop, etc. You check out the books online and you get them on your device for 3 weeks usually. The book then deletes itself, but you can check the book back out if need be. It’s completely free.

2. Free audiobooks ftw.

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Libby is an app you can use to borrow audiobooks and ebooks for free as long as you have a library card (also free).

1. Who doesn’t love that?

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Khan academy.

It’s free, free knowledge!

Definitely going to put these to good use, how about you?

If you’ve got any tips to add, please do so in the comments!

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These Things Are Just Placebos, but People Crave Them Anyway

We all use certain workarounds to make our lives easier – especially if those days and jobs revolve around interacting with other people.

It can be pretty funny to realize what in your life is complete bs, and how others may have been secretly talking you into compliance without your knowledge.

15. It makes us feel better, ok?

I’m not sure if it still does this, but at one time Google Docs intercepted the ctrl+s shortcut and briefly changes the cursor to the “thinking” cursor (hourglass, beachball, whatever your computer does).

You don’t need to save your google docs. They save every tiny change on the server. But people are used to doing it.

14. This is really amusing.

How long it takes a Coinstar to process and count coins and return a receipt. It finishes quickly.

So quickly that folks are skeptical of the accuracy.

So a fake delay (with fake counting noises) was built in giving folks more confidence in the results.

13. So it’s not REALLY random.

I saw an article about how Apple Music made random selection less random because people would often complain the same artist would follow after a song so they made an algorithm to NOT select a song made by the same artist until after some songs.

Trippy.

12. Just think how fast we COULD be working.

A lot of scans do this as well. (Not virus scans, those just take a damn long time), but sites that show you the best deals are often done in a hundred milliseconds. They’re not really doing anything that intensive, just make a few requests to autotrader or whoever, which probably only returns 15 cars, and sort by lowest price.

But people wouldn’t believe it was the best price if it came back instantly, they wouldn’t think it looked hard enough. So they make them wait a little.

11. What makes us want to hear these things?

The exaggerated sounds of some vacuum cleaners, microwaves and cars to make them sound powerful.

The loading screens on some apps that make it seem like they are doing something complex.

10. We want what we expect, I suppose.

Not sure if it’s really placebo, but there is research done on how a car door should sound when you close it.

A flat and boring “pank” sound would do just fine but a lot of people find that soft, plush and yet firm “pshrompff” sound reassures them the door is closed.

Someone please do a better job here describing car doors closing because mine sucks.

9. I just want it to go faster?

I once spoke to a guy involved in developing the first ATM cash machines.

Early trials showed that users thought that the dispensing of cash happened too fast and didn’t trust that it had correctly debited their account for the right amount.

So they inserted a wait cycle to make it appear that the machine was counting the cash. That wait cycle is still there today in most machines.

8. I love people who clean their cars.

I swear my car performs better immediately after it’s cleaned.

7. Most birds are too smart for that crap.

A scarecrow in the garden.

6. Amazon has made billions off it.

That “free shipping” is a better deal.

It generally means they’ve added the cost into the product instead, but you feel like you’ve gotten a better deal.

5. The internet has made everything permanent.

Your “Permanent Record”.

Colleges care more about what you say on Twitter and Facebook than what you said to Dakota in third grade.

The only time your permanent record means something is if you transfer within the district.

4. Comfort be damned.

Beats headphones have weights inside them to make them heavier and give the illusion of quality and sturdiness.

3. We like the bubbles!

Bubbles in cleaning products.

Early formulations of soap WAY back when used to naturally form suds. Newer formulations can clean better but don’t naturally produce suds as the bubbling was an incidental side effect that doesn’t actually have any bearing on cleaning. When these newer soaps were first introduced people complained they didn’t work because they didn’t make loads of bubbles. So the manufacturers started adding a chemical solely to generate bubbles that didn’t actually help with the cleaning at all and all the complaints stopped.

To this day the association of bubbles=clean is strong enough that they still do it. Basically all cleaning products, including toothpaste, foam up when used and almost without exception the foam is 100% marketing.

2. This is too funny to be made up.

When cake mixes first came out you only had to add water to them, but too many housewives felt like that was cheating and wouldn’t buy cake mixes.

So the cake mix companies added another step. The eggs.

It worked, apparently the cracking and adding of the eggs to the batter was enough to make it feel more “homemade” and cake mixes became extremely popular.

1. Those JERKS.

Airport Security.

Homeland Security’s own inspectors were able to get illegal items through TSA checkpoints 70% of the time.

I’m straight up impressed by most of these, y’all. Brilliant.

If you’ve got something to add to the list, I’m all ears!

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People Recall the Worst Pain They’ve Ever Felt

Many of us can answer this question immediately – childbirth, kidney stones, physical trauma – the worst pain of your life can flood back with a memory like you wouldn’t believe.

That said, until you read these 15 people’s stories, you probably thought your worst was pretty bad…but that might not be the case.

15. I would still like the drugs, please.

I split my toe open to the bone and the doc said it would take longer for the anesthetic to take effect than it would to stitch the toe up.

So, lots of screeching from me.

14. Sounds like a nightmare.

I broke my femur in a car accident, all I felt was pure adrenaline like I had never felt before and no pain. They got me to the hospital fairly quickly and hit me with 2 shots of morphine ASAP.

Next thing I know they were drilling a hole through my calf with a power drill so they could set the leg with a pin and I was wide awake with no pain due to the drugs. It was the other drivers 6th DUI offense

13. This person is a WRITER.

I missed a step one morning and I folded my foot over so much that my big toe touched my heel.

I made a noise I had never made before.

It was like a dying rabbit who was into Finnish death metal.

12. How do you get through it?

Trigeminal neuralgia (also called the suicide disease).

I’m one of the lucky ones though, that it improved with treatment so I only had it for about a year.

Basically felt like someone was slamming an ice pick into my ear, jaw, and face.

Even brushing my teeth hurt.

11. How does this happen?

A 5 foot section of my small intestine became strangulated and died.

20 times more painful than an 8mm kidney stone.

10. At least it’s easily remedied.

I slipped on steps one winter fell on my back had my wind knocked out, cracked 2 ribs and dislocated shoulder.

And worst part is that it was like 3 steps…

9. This made me actually cringe.

I was ice skating and going through a major growth spurt when I was 13. The skates were too tight. I hit a crack in the ice and did a maneuver to stop from falling on my face. Well CRACK! SNAP! I shattered my tibia from just bellow the knee all the way down to the ankle, in a spiral fracture.

Because the skates were so tight in fact that when I hobbled and limped off of the ice and had them removed my leg did not immediately swell up. I knew my bone was broken. I could feel and hear the various shards of shin bone grinding up against one another and the muscles. Yet, people assumed at most I maybe bruised my bone.

I went home. Limping and in the worst physical pain. My father said I was ok. But after about 12 hours and the pain just getting worse I finally was taken to the ER – where I learned I fractured my leg in 8 different spots on the tibia.

I had to get metal pins put in, and was in various casts for 4 straight months and a boot for two.

8. I did not need to read this.

My appendix exploded like a water balloon while inside me.

7. Another one of these and no thanks.

Trigeminal neuralgia. It’s called “the suicide disease” for a very good reason. It felt like my jaw was being crushed in a vice. The pain is beyond description, an episode would last for 8-10 hours, and no painkiller touched it. I would hit my head on things trying to knock myself out.

For comparison, I was getting an x-ray for a “bad backache”, and when I gave the urine sample you have to give first, the tech saw that I had stones in it. Kidney stones. My “bad backache” was fucking kidney stones. TN really recalibrates your pain meter. Nothing goes past a six anymore.

I had brain surgery nine years ago to fix it and it’s the best damn decision I ever made. I’m nervous because it’s often not a permanent fix, and I’m afraid it will come back, but I’m so thankful to be pain-free for now.

6. You’ve gotta keep up with those pain meds.

This is the worst pain I’ve ever seen someone feel. My sister had open heart surgery at 23 to repair a murmur. Several days later when she first got home the nerve block in her side started to wear off.

She managed to fall asleep at the beginning but she woke up screaming like a banshee. I’ll never forget it. I got her to stand up but she looked at me and went white as a sheet and passed out.

5. That’s gotta hurt.

Probably the time I jumped onto the seat of my bike, and actually just sat on my testicle.

4. Were his doctors into pain??

I shot a 3.5″ spiral nail into my finger

The doctor pulled it out with pliers, no freezing or pain killers. I had 3 nurses holding me down.

I’ve broken many bones and it doesn’t even come close to comparing

3. This kind of back pain is the worst.

I sat up to leave after a meeting at work and my entire back seized up. It was all I could do to make it home. I had to lay on the couch in a weird position just to experience no pain. The slightest movement (even lifting a fork) and my back would seize up again.

I finally forced myself that night to go to the ER because my mind was racing with what it could be. X-rays showed nothing so I don’t know to this day what happened. It was about a week before I could fully move. Worst pain I’ve ever felt!

2. A miserable description.

Gout. The foot swelled up massively, it was bright red and hot to the touch.

Touch was the LAST thing I wanted, just having enough air movement to shift the hairs on my foot was excruciating.

Unbelievable pain that I couldn’t escape from.

I swelled so much that when it finally went back to normal, the skin sloughed off like I had had a massive sunburn.

I could feel EVERY heartbeat, painfully, in my foot.

1. I’m glad this is never a thing that will happen to me.

Epididimitis, inflammation of the testicle cord, described as a feeling akin to testicular torsion

At one point it hurt so bad I couldn’t sit up straight in class, took a whole week to get a doctors appointment and at least 2 more days for the meds to really make the pain die down

That was 6 years ago and even to this day that cord is so sensitive that it hurts if I sit wrong and occasionally has mini inflammation episodes

Icing on the cake, pretty sure I was told it could lead to impotence at a younger age than most men

I honestly cannot even (and do not want to) imagine most of these!

Share your answers to this question with us in the comments.

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Make-A-Wish Employees Share the Weirdest Requests They’ve Received

I’m so glad there are people out there who do this job, because I think it would be way too depressing. Kids who are sick and unable to live a normal life deserve some happiness and smiles, though, so it’s awesome that people take it on.

That said, I’ve always wondered whether or not they get requests so strange they’re not able to answer them – so thank goodness for these 16 people who are willing to wish and tell.

16. This kid had the right idea.

Nephew had terminal brain cancer at 8. His make a wish was to see lions. Small community so he got mass funding.

Ended up sending him to Africa for a bunch of Safaris and bunch of helicopter rides. Had time of his life.

Make a wish is now the organization I donate to the most now.

15. Some kiddos just know what they like.

Former junior genie. The vast majority of wishes are pretty common: Disney, wwe, trip to Paris or Japan. Because MAW is locally funded (your donations go to your community), depending on your region, you can get some pretty fancy wishes.

So I wouldn’t say this wish was weird, only that it was different. A kid was obsessed with dukes of Hazzard and the car was going to be at a fair along with some stars. We threw everything at him and still stayed way within budget. He got limo to and from, a bunch of ride tickets and tokens for games, we got him special guest seating and one on one time with the stars.

I’m sure he had the time of his life. But altogether, it was a few hundred dollars and a couple of favors. If the fairs attitude when working with us was anything to go by, he was treated like an absolute king. I remember that case fondly.

It doesn’t have to be MAW but I strongly advise everyone to spend some time working with an organization that gives back. They’re some of the best memories. It’s very humbling and inspiring work.

14. Something only a kid would wish for.

The cutest one that’s been requested is a trip to New York to ride the subway along the entire subway line and buy all of the model subways at the store.

When the dad heard, he rolled his eyes and said that they’d just gone to New York recently and said he expected either that or a visit to the zoo to feed the penguins. They were by far my favorite family to work with and a very loving, goofy one at that.

We haven’t done their wish send offs yet due to covid, so it’ll be nice to see them again once this is all over. I hope when he goes on his trip he’ll be treated really well by the subway conductors.

13. Bless his heart.

Oh my god. This dredged up a long forgotten memory. I don’t remember the details all too well but I’ll do my best.

So, a friend of mine did some work experience a while back. I’m not sure if it was make a wish, but it was a similar organisation anyway. They got a request from some kid that wanted to marry his favourite anime waifu. I’m serious.

The people in charge of this (I’m not sure what they’re called) were completely clueless and had no idea what a waifu was so they just went along with it. They ended up getting in contact with the game developers of said waifu and tried to make something happen. They wanted some sort of video or message from the anime girl addressed to the kid. The developers refused and said that would not be possible. In the end they had to get him a different wish.

Man that was a strange one.

12. No pressure, Mickey…

Not a wish granter, but a parent of a MAW kid.

When we went to the MAW house for my son’s star raising, they had a board with kids photos and their wish. One that made me laugh was the little girl that wanted to “hear Mickey Mouse burp.”

11. This definitely qualifies as weird.

Make-A-Wish Worker’s son here. One time my dad had one of the kids he worked with request that they get feet pictures from some popular twitch streamer.

Obviously he had to turn it down, but offered the kid the ability to meet said streamer but he turned it down. Only cared about the feet. Weird.

10. Being a sweetheart pays dividends.

Friend’s young son asked for a spider costume. Not Spider-Man. Spider.

No one could find one. Next day was Halloween. A volunteer spent the night making him a spider costume. He loved it. A few months later they asked him what he wanted and he said he already got his wish.

They were so touched that he or his parents didn’t ask for anything else that they sent them to Disney for a week, he got to spend a game day with his favorite baseball team with his own locker and uniform (even had to see the trainer to get taped up), same thing for his favorite football and hockey teams, flew an airplane, all access water park. Met his favorite “celebrities.”

One was actually what most people would consider a celebrity. If they find out anything he likes or is interested in they hook him up.

9. Can you really blame them?

I used to intern at Make-a-Wish Foundation in Pakistan. It usually caters to kids who are really poor. The most common requests I’d see were tractors, air conditioners and refrigerators. It just dawned on me that those requests were made by their parents.

I don’t recall any legitimate requests since they were very few and far between. I guess the farmers saw this as a rare opportunity to get access to nicer goods and I don’t really blame them because they would break their bones working for a 5$/day wage (at a stretch).

8. Ugh why are some parents?

Former Wish Granter here!

A big part of the job is helping the child decide on their wish. The final wish has to be feasible of course so you’re there to make sure it isn’t too outlandish, but, in my experience, kids often don’t initially think “big enough.”

It was not uncommon at all for a kid to request something super small like going to Chucky Cheese, and we’d have to build the wish out from there.

Also we had to make sure parents didn’t try to influence the child’s decision, which I saw many times

7. So wholesome ugh.

Pretty tame but my mother was a wish volunteer and had a kid in the late 80’s who wanted to meet Lassie and Timmy.

Kinda unusual thing for a kid to be into by that point

6. That’s my kind of kid.

My aunt works for make a wish and told me a kid wanted to meet Voldemort.

Apparently the kid was of the opinion that since his cancer was terminal he should join the death eaters.

5. Well now I hate that guy.

My friend’s daughter requested to met Dog the Bounty hunter, but he declined.

4. I love when people are into it.

My favorite one I’ve seen was when someone wanted to go on hermitcraft and meet everyone, and they actually did it.

I mean, ofc hermitcraft would say yes, half the fundraising they do is for feeding america and MAW.

3. That’s a good dad right there.

My brother works for a beer distributor and kid’s dad came in and requested some beers for his son, who was 16 and might last another 6 months, if that, and the kid just wanted to get drunk before he died.

Make A Wish wouldn’t grant that wish so his dad had to do it. He even paid full price, though my brother gave him a discount.

He wasn’t going to do it, figured it was a scam to get free beer, when someone called from Make A Wish and told him the situation and that they couldn’t give an underage kid beer, even if it was his last wish.

2. Is it weird or super cool?!?

I think my favorite one is one where a young boy around 10 wanted to shoot a car with an RPG and watch it blow up.

They set him up with squad of real marines and a ballistics team in the LA desert and he absolutely got to blow up cars with an RPG for a day. His picture was him in his specially made marine camo uniform and helmet posing with the RPG.

I honestly don’t know how they got away with it but that kid knew what he wanted and he got it.

1. Probably still not the kid’s idea.

I am a Make a Wish mom (my son had his wish in 2006) and I volunteer as a wish grantor. I work mostly with the emergency or quick turn around kids. Kids who can’t wait for their wishes. The weirdest request we got was from a father who wanted to travel to Mecca.

There was no way for his toddler son with a brain tumor to go there or anywhere at that point. We had to delicately explain that this needed to be a wish for the son. We ended up getting a nice TV/video/audio system for their living room where the boy spent his last days.

I don’t even know what the proper response is to some of these. My goodness!

How would you have reacted in this situation? I want to know in the comments!

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Movie Villains That People Find Very Sympathetic

The best villains are people you can relate to, and maybe even be a little sympathetic toward. We’re all the heroes of our own stories, of course, so most “bad guys” believe they are doing things for the right reason.

If your audiences end up rooting for the bad guy to win, though, you might not be doing something right – and in these 16 cases, the line might have been crossed.

16. I’d react the same if someone dropped a house on my sister and stole the family shoes.

Wicked witch of the west from The Wizard of Oz.

Dorthy can get bent. Dropping that house on her sister!

What up with that?

15. That makes sense to everyone, really.

The probe from the Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

All it wanted to do was talk to some whales.

14. I think we can all agree that idiots are running Jurassic Park every single time.

The Indominus-Rex from Jurassic World.

You made a living kill-machine, with abilities that far exceed those of your measures to control it, and expect it to live its life in a small cage like a cat? (Heck, even cats won’t stay in cages)

13. “Antagonist” and “bad guy” aren’t necessarily interchangeable.

The Puppet Master from the original Ghost in the Shell movie. All he really asked for was asylum.

There is a scene where, before going on a rampage, it demands asylum and rights to a trial to which the humans pretty much ignore. It’s only after demanding its rights then being denied that it decides to go guerilla.

12. It’s kind of hard to blame him.

General Grievous from Star Wars.

His people were massacred by the Jedi for reasons that were false. He was then physically crippled for the rest of his life (our side of his exoskeleton) and was told that the Jedi were to blame.

He destroyed as many as he could and took their weapons as a trophy to exact his revenge for the Jedi ruining his life and pushing his people to the brink of extinction.

11. He’s just doing his job.

Hades from folklore.

Not in any specific movie but just the fact that he’s always a villain despite him just chilling in the underworld, doing his job, and not causing mass genocide, like the other gods, the worst thing he did was kidnap a teenage girl but compared to Zeus, THE HERO IN ALL THESE DAMN MOVIES he’s not that bad.

10. If that’s not a whole mood…

Poison Ivy from the Batman films.

All she wants is more plants and less destruction.

9. They’re not not saying that, either.

Doc Ock from Spider-Man.

I’m not saying that I’d sooner rob a bank than beg for grant money, but I get where he’s coming from.

8. If he would just stop kidnapping people.

I kind of understand the Ice King’s motives from Adventure Time.

He’s just really lonely and he wants to be friends with Finn and Jake and he wants a gf. However, kidnapping people isn’t cool.

He’s also just a really great character. He started out as simon and then slowly went insane after he found the crown and put it on. He forgot his entire identity and became the ice king.

7. All of the Batman villains have decent backstories.

Dr Freeze from Batman.

The guy just wanted to find a way to save his wife.

Batman even once tried to help him with it.

6. Like, all of the moments.

Not a movie, but Robbie Rotten from LazyTown.

As an adult, you get it, you want sleep, you want cake, your want quiet. You want to be lazy.

There were moments where you could be like “I feel ya bro.”

5. A nice, chill family vacation RUINED!

The dad from Dirty Dancing.

He was just trying to keep his daughter, Baby, from f%cking the local trouble maker, Johnny. And Johnny looked like he was in his mid-30s. He was actually supposed to be 25, but those were some ROUGH years.

His daughter looked like she was 15. She was actually 17. And, again… her name was Baby. I mean… BABY.

But still… that’s an 8-year age gap.

COMPLETELY justified actions by dad.

4. If that doesn’t sound blissful…

The Grinch.

He just wants to live alone in his gaff with a dog and the who people won’t stop bothering him

3. That was a pretty raw deal.

Hector Barbossa and his crew from Pirates of the Caribbean.

They found a bunch of gold coins sitting around, traded them as currency like anyone would, and were severely punished for no good reason.

2. If you really think about it.

I agree with Ken from the Bee Movie. His gf got pissed at him for trying to kill a bee something that he was allergic to, meaning it was potentially life threatening.

Frankly, Vanessa was terrible for dumping him because he tried to kill an insect. It’s like getting mad at someone for refusing shrimp because they have a shellfish allergy. (I know he’s not the main villain, but he was the secondary one.)

Yes, Barry was a sentient bee, but Ken never knew that. I would also go a little nuts if a bee was slowly replacing me.

1. More and more as we get older.

Chief Inspector Dreyfus from the Pink Panther movies.

Maybe I wouldn’t have gone as far as he did, but I understand his frustration.

I have to say, I can see the point on most of these!

What villain do you think may have been in the right? Tell us in the comments!

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People Share the Weird Things Their Bodies Do That Kind of Seems Normal Now

Once we get to a certain age, I feel like nobody’s body really works quite right anymore. Things ache, you can tweak them without trying, and honestly, it never really feels good to move from a sitting position ever again.

What’s funny is how we just accept that’s how life is now – like these 14 people, who barely even notice the weird things happening in their own bodies anymore.

14. There’s an app for that.

I don’t feel dehydrated even though I am. When I was a kid, I’ve gone whole days without drinking anything.

I’ve just learnt to force myself to drink water every hour. Until I developed this routine, I never understood how my lips were supposed to feel like as they were always dry.

13. Fingers crossed on the synthetic insulin issues, though.

My pancreas just refuses to produce insulin.

It’s really annoying but what can you do? ??‍♂️

12. This happens to me, too!

 will just randomly get a huge chill which looks like a mini seizure.

People always ask what’s wrong.

11. This sounds a lot dirtier than it is.

“Voluntarily Piloerection” or to put it more cooler, I can raise my hair i.e. Have goosebumps at will.

It’s apparently rare but seeing the amount of people saying they have it too, you should get in contact with James Heather who is researching about the same

10. Lie down and close your eyes.

I get ocular migraines sometimes.

They’re not terribly frequent, though maybe once in a while they’ll be persistent for a week or so. It’s a strange experience. No pain, no headache, but an actual blind spot develops in my vision, that ‘appears’ sort of like a lightning bolt, it hovers there for about 20-30 minutes then gradually subsides. I’ll tend to feel a bit weird for maybe an hour or two afterward but then back to normal.

They seem to be triggered by a combination of poor sleep, dehydration and (maybe) caffeine + stress. Have had them off-and-on for about 10 years probably. Consulted with a couple doctors about it and they’ve said it’s probably nothing to be too worried about unless it starts happening more frequently/intensely.

9. This makes me sad.

I have spinal stenosis, basically my vertebra are thickening and pressing against my spinal cord in my upper neck and lower spine.

It causes numbness in my extremities and I have to do special stretches to help relieve the pressure but man sometimes I’ll sit for a little bit too long and it’s like my feet don’t exist. I’ll try to walk but it’s like walking on stumps.

Back to the stretches and within 10 minutes the feeling returns. I use to do 100 mile bicycle rides, now I’m lucky if I can walk three blocks without tripping and falling.

8. I think I need a video.

I can control my pinky toes separate from the rest of my foot.

Never thought it was weird until my mom was like what the fuck and apparently most people can’t do that.

7. This needs a new name.

I have Exploding Head Syndrome, which is a lot scarier sounding than it actually is– a sleep phase disorder.

Basically, when I’m falling asleep I occasionally hear random phantom noises that startle me back awake.

For me, I most commonly hear someone shouting my name, an unintelligible brief yell, knocking on the door, or the doorbell.

I’ve noticed over the years that it tends to happen mostly when I’m overtired and/or anxious, and I may not have one for months and then have them every other day for a week.

6. It seems like this would be extremely inconvenient.

I get sharp intense pains on the left bottom side of my ribs randomly. I just suck in air and hope my rib didn’t puncture my lung. Sometimes its when I’m working out, but sometimes I’m literally just standing there and whoops popped a lung.

I’m 18, and have been experiencing these since I was 15. Happens whether I breathe in or out. Hurts like hell for a minute and then passes, I mainly breathe in more air to stop myself from screaming.

I’ve never seen a doctor for it because I saw a post online saying that most teenagers experience this pain because “our ribs are growing”. Don’t know the medical truth of that but whatever it calmed my tits and made it easier to live with.

5. Middle school me called this “gleeking.”

Sometimes when I yawn saliva literally squirts out of my mouth.

No idea why, it’s kinda weird.

4. Only if it’s a really good stretch.

When I yawn and stretch I become blind for a few seconds, don’t know if thats normal

3. Brain stuff totally freaks me out.

I have neurological issues that make me have “phantom” feelings.

For instance the last two days I’ve had a burning sensation, like if I‘d rested a hot soup bowl on my thigh, but there’s nothing there.

It can feel like little bug bites, scratches or “streaky” burns. It’s never severe, mostly just weird to feel a distinct sensation for no reason.

Sometimes I’ll ask a family member to check for marks.

The other day I pulled up my shirt, turned around and asked my mom if there was anything on my back.

She was like, “Oh my goodness! There is! Looks like one of the cats got you!”

And we were both so weirdly delighted I’d actually been mauled. lol

2. I guess it would seem normal by now.

I was born with a disorder that makes crossover motion between both sides of my body more challenging. Riding a bike took me a year to master, for context.

The hardest thing for me to do autopilot is stairs, though. If I don’t think about it, my body automatically goes one at a time with both feet rather than alternating.

1. It is what it is.

I’m white and pale AF.

Normally avoid sun exposure due to not tolerating heat well and skin cancer running in the family.

But earlier this summer I spent quite a bit of time in the desert. I got several shades darker, except for a bunch of random spots that are still white.

They weren’t covered and had the same amount of sun exposure as the rest of me, but just no color change at all. Biggest spot is on my bicep but there are random spots everywhere.

I’ve always had a streak like that along my hairline (hair also grows in white there too) that my mom said was a birth mark. I’m guessing these “new” spots have always been there too but never apparent because I avoid sun exposure.

No one warned me it would be like this, y’all – why does my back hurt?

What does your body do that you’ve just written off with a shrug? Tell us in the comments!

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People Share the Worst Pain They’ve Ever Felt

For a lot of us, the answer to this question is probably fairly basic. Things like childbirth, kidney stones, and broken bones are all up there, and many of us will have those experiences to compare during our lifetimes.

These 13 people had some expected experiences, but they also had some that I definitely never hope I have – I don’t need to find out for myself!

13. I flinched just reading this.

When I was a kid I was standing on the corners of a wooden box balancing myself when I fell and slammed my lady bits right on the edge of the box.

Falling on it actually wasn’t the worst part. It was trying to pee afterwards. It felt like I was pissing glass.

12. There’s no escaping it.

The worst thing about ball pain no matter how it happens is that it’s radiant. You have the pain, but it also makes you sick to your stomach, upsets your bowels, and just creates this dull achey vomity feeling throughout your entire person.

Much like having really bad diarrhea, but with major ball tenderness as well.

11. And neither thing worked.

Migraine.

I used to suffer them so often that I beat my head to the wall from the pain and have my brother (80kg) sit on my head.

10. I’m glad I don’t have to choose.

Tough one between kidney stones and a burst appendix

9. This sounds like a literal nightmare.

I had an abscess on my taint, like smack dab between my balls and asshole. 3 days in i went to the hospital because i was in unbearable pain. He said he didn’t think it was an abscess but gave me antibiotics just in case.

By day 9 i couldn’t walk anymore to go to the bathroom and it was getting worse and was the size of a softball, and started leaking the worst smelling fluid ive ever smelled in my life. At that point it was the worst pain id ever felt, but oh boy did it get worse.

I went to a different hospital and the doctor went “whoever saw you at the other place is an idiot. This needs drained literally right now. I’ll be right back”. So, they drained it, which honestly was relieving as hell at first although it did hurt, seeing as how she’s massaging blood and pus out of an area i couldn’t even bear to touch without wanting to die.

But apparently their was a blood clot they couldn’t get out, so this doctor without warning shoves a scalpel inside my taint and just starts swirling it around hard as fuck. It took everything I had not to squirm around so she could just finish it. It took maybe 2 minutes in total and by the time it was over I was drenched in sweat and just kept going “fuuuuuuuuuuck”.

I went through like 25 baby wipes cleaning all the pus and blood off of myself. When the nurse that was assisting the doctor came back to discharge me, i asked her if i overreacted. She said verbatim “oh hell no. Usually you can hear the screaming on the other side of the hospital when we do that. You did really good actually.”

By far the absolute worst pain I’ve ever felt, a scalpel blade deep in my taint swirling around an already unbearably painful area. I still feel where it was because I’m terrified I’ll get another. Also i had to wear pads for a week, and had to take warm baths so it could keep draining. So my taint was a bloody mess for like a week afterwards lol. That was fun.

8. The worst is when it ruins food.

Gallstone attack.

Fucking hell that hurt.

Was eating dumplings at the time, still can’t taste them without gagging on the memory.

7. Tooth stuff is the worst.

Infected tooth.

Lasted months before my dentist was willing to treat it after giving me the diagnosis.

No pain killers either because they’re lived at ground zero of the opioid crisis.

6. When they just don’t let up.

Not only is the pain the gallbladder can inflict on you bad, but it can be long lasting. I once had an attack that lasted overnight, probably about 10 hours in total.

No sleep, no comfort, no pain relief; just curled up in a fetal position, tossing and turning to try and find some relief, and occasionally having to rush to the sink.

5. The worst part is it’s usually “nothing.”

I sat up to leave after a meeting at work and my entire back seized up. It was all I could do to make it home. I had to lay on the couch in a weird position just to experience no pain. The slightest movement (even lifting a fork) and my back would seize up again.

I finally forced myself that night to go to the ER because my mind was racing with what it could be. X-rays showed nothing so I don’t know to this day what happened. It was about a week before I could fully move. Worst pain I’ve ever felt!

4. I hope to never experience this one, for sure.

My kidney shut down due to an infection from a kidney stone.

I’ve had a lot of kidney stones.

Pain was 10x worse when the kidney shut down.

3. Why did it take so long to get an appointment?

Epididymitis, inflammation of the testicle cord, described as a feeling akin to testicular torsion

At one point it hurt so bad I couldn’t sit up straight in class, took a whole week to get a doctors appointment and at least 2 more days for the meds to really make the pain die down

That was 6 years ago and even to this day that cord is so sensitive that it hurts if I sit wrong and occasionally has mini inflammation episodes

Icing on the cake, pretty sure I was told it could lead to impotence at a younger age than most men

2. I bet the urchin wasn’t all that happy, either.

Stepped on a sea urchin.

Bloody agony, as was having it removed with tweezers.

1. That sounds terrifying.

I accidentally put hydrogen peroxide in my contact before i stick it in my eye thinking it was contact solution.

that 10 seconds where i was rolling on the ground blind screaming at the top of my lungs felt like 10 minutes before i managed to force my eye open and take the contact out.

It was another hour or two of constant red eye pain, but i was drunk a little so i guess that helped numb a bit of pain!

I’m sitting here trying to decide whether kidney stones are worse than labor, but I think they are.

Nobody offers you an epidural for a kidney stone, after all!

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“What Do You Know Is True, Even Without Evidence?” Here’s What People Said.

Sometimes in life, you have just have a feeling about something and you KNOW it’s true, even though you have absolutely no evidence or facts to back it up.

I guess some call it faith and others would call it ignorance, but each person is definitely different in this respect.

And I think it’s safe to say that some of these beliefs are harmless and some can be extremely dangerous, especially when it comes to conspiracy theories and politics…

AskReddit users sounded off about what they believe to be true even though they have nothing to back it up.

1. A famous true crime case.

“Casey Anthony killed her daughter and her parents know it too!

The justice system failed that poor baby.

And to me, what’s worse is last year she apparently said she wants another child/children.”

2. Very confusing.

“That my last boss secretly hated me even though we had, on the surface, a very positive relationship.”

3. Hmmmm. Maybe?

“The Truman show was made to make me think the entire world watching my every move was a ridiculous notion.

But I know better…”

4. Might be true.

“That the key to happiness is low expectations.”

5. Mob front.

“There’s a travel agency that’s been around in my town for as long as I can remember.

I wholeheartedly believe it’s a front for the mob.”

6. Hollywood legacy.

“That a LOT more famous actors than we realize are secretly the children of other famous actors from the previous generation.

I call it the Hollywood B*stard Theory.”

7. A lot of people will be mad.

“George R R Martin will never finish the last Game of Thrones book.”

8. Interesting…

“I’m convinced I watched Flight 93 go down.

I would never share that in real life because it’s grim and no one would believe me (the geography of the reports are off ). I saw it clear as day from Kent State’s main campus in Ohio.

I didn’t know what I was seeing other than I remember thinking “that plane is way way too low (we had a aviation college so planes were common) and too big and it’s jerking around like how a toddler drives a power wheels truck….”.

Continued on to class. You don’t wanna be late even at a liberal college.”

9. Could be…

“Flat Earthers are just doing it for attention.

They really don’t think the Earth is flat.”

10. Guts.

“Gut bacterial imbalance can change a person fundamentally — physically, mentally, emotionally.

One day they’re going to cure some impossibly vexing diseases and conditions when they figure out that it’s all connected to what lives in your guts.”

11. A scary thought.

“That actual, proper snuff films exist.

There’s too much depravity and perversion in the world for that not to be the case.”

12. Guilty!

“That Andy Dufresne was guilty in the Shawshank Redemption.

It’s never actually proven that he didn’t kill his wife and her lover. We just have his word and a story made up by an inmate that wanted to be liked by Andy and his friends.

Also what are the chances that his wife and lover were murdered the same night that Andy was going to kill them himself, before he changed his mind?”

13. From the deep…

“There is some Godzilla sh*t at the bottom of our oceans.

Deep sea gigantism will not fail me.”

14. I started it.

“Back when I was 18 I got my first tattoo, the Squaresoft logo on my upper arm. It was 2001 and I was also on my own in a new state.

I was and still am a huge RPG fan and it’s the height of my geekdom. Well, I sent in a picture of me and my tattoo with a short letter about me and my favorite games to Official PlayStation Magazine.

They published my letter and photo along with the caption “We don’t know whether to be impressed or frightened.”

The very next month they started a “Tattoo of the Month” section and I am absolutely sure 100% that I either started that or was the story that proved the concept, the test.

Unless someone can come from that team’s time and tell me I’m not, I’ll always believe I was the start of that.”

Do you have any extremely strong beliefs like this?

If so, please share them in the comments.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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Teachers Shared Students’ Weird Responses When They Were Asked, “Tell Me a Fun Fact About Yourself”

Kids can be just plain weird.

And teachers REALLY know that to be a fact. Because they deal with those little weirdos…I mean adorable children…on a daily basis.

And the weirdness really comes out when the kids are asked to share something about themselves, which I’m sure you remember fondly.

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

1. Drunk dad.

“I had a student tell me that sometimes his dad got drunk and asked his mom for things.

As I was starting to tell him he didn’t need to elaborate any further, he continued with “like soup and he yells it like ‘soooooooooup’” it took every bit of restraint to not laugh.

It’s been years and years since that happened but I still laugh when I think about it.”

2. Takes the cake.

“I teach middle school, This one still takes the cake.

That his mom and dad have the same parents. I asked him to clarify because I didn’t understand what he was saying and he said “I only have one set of grandparents, they had the same parents”

I quickly moved to the next student so no one else would realize that this kid just told the class that his parents were siblings…

I talked to him about it the next day in private and he said that he got it mixed up, his parents don’t have the exact same parents, they shared a dad…

I felt so much better when the mom called me to let me know her elderly step-father married her husband’s elderly mother. still weird, but much better.”

3. Wow.

““My arm is F*CKED y’all” in the deepest southern drawl and proceeded to wildly swing his “f*cked” up arm around.

He was 12, had Erb’s palsy and also got detention that day.

He might be one of my fav students.”

4. That’s odd.

“Student told me that there is a chapter dedicated to him in a dental surgery textbook because of a very rare disorder that he had as a child.

I may still have that essay.”

5. Oh, no!

“During an introductory activity for my new class, a boy, aged 9, got up and said ‘My dog has to wear a cone on its head because dad had his bollocks cut off!’”

6. Don’t ask any more questions.

“Kid in my kindergarten class said “My pee-pee fell off at Disneyland”

I didn’t ask any follow up questions.”

7. Horrible.

““I found my dad who hung himself”

From a fifth grader.”

8. Family drama.

“A few years ago on the first day of school, this kid in one of my classes casually answered, “I have a restraining order against my Dad.””

9. Too much info.

“‘My dad clogged the toilet this morning and that’s why I’m feeling frustrated’ -5 year old child.

I will say the question was “how are you doing this morning?” But I could barely keep from laughing out loud!”

10. Starting early.

“A young girl, who seemed uninterested, said, with no hesitation, that she can chug an entire bottle of beer.

She got expelled later that year for keeping drugs in her locker.”

11. Shane.

“This guy in my class named Shane has this medical condition that causes him to grow tons of hair at an early age.

Full beard in middle school.

He would say “I’m Shane and I’m Very Hairy.””

12. You know what that is.

“A student once told my wife that her daddy had a special device that he had to blow into to start his truck…”

13. That’s awkward.

“We would do this weekly “how was your weekend” sort of thing where we’d sit in a circle and share.

This one girl casually goes “I found out that my biological father didn’t want me” in a super nonchalant tone and everything.

I still remember the awkward tension.”

14. Don’t say that!

“I said “my dad steal cars.”

It was something my parents always told us growing up as a joke. The teacher just laughed and said “that’s nice”.”

What’s the funniest or weirdest thing that you’ve heard a kid say?

Tell us in the comments!

We’d love to hear from you!

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People Share the Most Cowardly Things That a Person Can Do

Not everyone is brave in fight-or-flight situations and not everyone can be a hero, but I suppose that there’s a middle ground when it comes to what can truly be considered “cowardly”.

With that being said, there are some things that I think pretty much everyone can agree on would definitely be classified as the act of a coward.

Care to see what we’re talking about?

People on AskReddit shared what they believe to be the most cowardly things that someone can do.

1. We all make mistakes.

“Refusing to acknowledge that you made a mistake and making excuses instead of being better.

We’re human. We’re flawed – all of us.”

2. Unacceptable.

“Put a child (especially their own) in danger to protect themselves.

My uncle was a massive drug addict when my brother and I were small children. He came to our home and stole some things.

He wouldn’t leave and my mom pulled a gun on him. My uncle snatched up my older brother and puts him between my mom with the gun and himself.”

3. Over the line.

“When you accuse someone of a crime they didn’t commit to ruin their reputation/get them into trouble.”

4. You see it all the time.

“Push the blame onto others when it’s clearly your own fault.

I had a coworker recently who did this. Has no idea how to do his job, constantly screwed up, and constantly tried to hide those screwups until somebody else got blamed for them so he could weasel his way out of the situation.

Worst instance was where the person who got blamed was being chastised and he decided to scold said person himself.

Best instance was when someone called him out and left him blabbering.”

5. Awful.

“Steal from an elderly person.

Im a nurse, and my first job was at an elderly transitional care unit (basically like a rehabilitation unit for anyone 65 and older, lots of post knee or hip surgeries, post stroke, heart conditions, etc).

I remember during my orientation week we spent basically an entire day devoted to vulnerable adult abuse, how to spot it, and how to report it.

This includes physical abuse, but the one seen most often in elderly patients is their children stealing from them or manipulating them to their benefit.

Just awful.”

6. Manipulation.

“Use people’s weaknesses to manipulate them.

I lose respect for such people in an instant.”

7. Cheaters.

“Cheat on their partner.

Falling out of love, wanting out of the relationship is fine, it happens.

But cheating is one of the lowest things someone can do that’s legal in my opinion.”

8. Better off without him.

“A coworker of mine was diagnosed with breast cancer, her husband left her because “he couldn’t deal with the stress”.

She beat cancer on her own and is much better off without that cowardly man.”

9. Unforgivable.

“Abandon their child.

Everyone wants to play with the baby making machine and then act surprised when a baby pops out. That’s fine though, man, not your problem, Plus that girl is a psycho anyway.

Just make an excuse for a fight a few times a week and then when you leave you can tell yourself it’s for the best.

I have a brother in law who started out like this then encouraged her to move back to her home state and when the kid comes up once a year to visit his grandma, the dude doesn’t even come around.

I want to strangle him. That’s a human life he is stealing potential from for his own selfishness and cowardice.”

10. The worst.

“Being a bully, especially if you hold authority over people.

Most of them will never have the guts to bully someone who can fight back and those who do only have those guts because they’re too stupid and narcissistic to account for getting their teeth kicked in.”

11. That’s really bad.

“People who want somebody that’s in a relationship, so they spread lies to ruin the relationship, and then swoop in to comfort/date the person they wanted now that they’re single.”

12. Ghosted.

“Ghosting the person they’re dating as a way of breaking up with them.

This goes for men, women, and everybody in between. If you don’t like someone, or if you just don’t see yourself continuing a relationship even after a single date, you can take five minutes to call them or at least throw them a text.

Ignoring them will make them feel a hundred times worse than being upfront.”

13. Horrible.

“Getting their dog euthanized, not because the dog actually has any health issues, but because the owner simply does not feel like taking care of them anymore and is too afraid and lazy to care for another living thing besides themselves.”

14. George Costanza?

“Bowling over women and children while fleeing a child’s birthday party after seeing a little smoke and thinking it’s a fire.

Don’t do that.”

Now we’d like to hear from all the readers out there.

In the comments, tell us what you think are very cowardly things that people do.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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