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Check Out These Hidden Meanings in Popular Movies

We often don’t think about the little details when we’re watching a movie because we’re focused on the story and the characters, so hearing about how the magic comes to the screen is fascinating.

Start popping the popcorn and look out for these 10 hidden stories from these iconic movie moments. These surprised even me, a huge movie buff!

1. Well played

The only girl in Dumbledore’s army in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) who isn’t wearing a skirt is Ginny. Her pants are likely hand-me-downs from her brothers.

An interesting bit of character development.

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2. Translation please

The language the aliens speak in Men in Black (1997) is the same language  Jabba the Hutt speaks in the Star Wars movies.

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3. Symbolism

In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), anyone who attempts to kill Indy is wearing a flower on their lapel.

Who knew flowers could be sinister.

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4. Well deserved

In Deadpool 2 (2018), Ruth Bader Ginsberg is one of the people considered for a spot.

She is a legend and would have been a great member of the team.

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5. Clever

You can notice new things every time you watch The Matrix.

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6. It’s the eyes TBH

The little girl with Angelina Jolie is her daughter.

She was cast because the children auditioning were afraid of Angelina in the makeup, but her daughter wasn’t.

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7. That’s deep

The reason Bruce Wayne isn’t wearing a mask at the masked ball is because he thinks of Batman as his real identity and Bruce Wayne his disguise.

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8. Clever

Asterix shows a number to Obelix with his hand by presenting the Roman numeral instead of a number of fingers in Asterix Conquers Rome (1976)

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9. Chilling

In Inglorious Bastards (2009), the Colonel holds the wrists of the women to take their pulses and uncover their anxiety.

He’s trying to detect if they are hiding something.

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10.That explains it

The community in Moana (2006) return from their travels wearing tattoos because they learned how to do them while they were away.

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From now on I’m going to be wondering about the back stories of movies as I watch them.

What’s your favorite little-known trivia about a movie? Let us know in the comments.

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People Talk About Things That Are a Lot Cheaper if You Do It Yourself

I wish I knew how to fix cars…

I supposed it’s never too late to learn new things, but it’s something that I just never took the time to figure out or explore when I was younger and I think it would be nice to be able to some of those basic maintenance things myself.

And it would be cheaper, too…

People on AskReddit talked about what is much cheaper if you do it yourself.

1. Give it a shot.

“Buying computer upgrades separate from the OEMs, like RAM and storage.

Apple is a perfect example. $1000 for 64 GB of RAM for an iMac.

You can buy 128 GB of RAM for $600 off Amazon.

What a ripoff.”

2. Get ‘er done!

“As a woman, anything related to our beauty saves me so much money!

Waxing, one on one lashes, manicure and pedicure, professional make up, hair extensions, etc etc etc.”

3. Let’s get fancy.

“Drinking fancy drinks.

A fancy cocktail at a restaurant or bar will run you about 7 dollars depending on what you get and where you go.

You can buy the ingredients and make it yourself, and end up paying less per drink than you would at the restaurant.”

4. Most vehicle stuff.

“Vehicle maintenance.

Not talking engine swaps or anything but most stuff is relatively easy to do and parts are cheap. Get a scanner that connects to an app on your phone and if the check engine light comes on see what the fix is. Watch a youtube, get a friend and some beers and try it yourself.

If you have a motorcycle change your own oil. I put in the best synthetic with a good filter for less than $70 while a dealer would charge me $120 for whatever oil they use. It takes maybe 5-10 minutes rather than dropping it at a dealer for the day and because it is so convenient I do it more often.”

5. Pest control.

“Minor pest control.

Buy some borax ant traps for crawling bugs, and buy an indoor bug zapper to kill flying bugs like flies and mosquitoes.

It’s like $20 for an indoor bug zapper and it was one of the best investments I ever made to stop getting bit by mosquitoes inside my house every summer.”

6. Good idea!

“When my aunt got a quote for how much it would cost to remodel her kitchen she was like “Forget that!” and took a basic carpentry course and remodelled it herself which ended up being much cheaper and influenced her future endeavours.

Now she does woodworking and has a pretty good business selling her work at art fairs and she restores and resells antique furniture for fun.”

7. Truth!

“Picking up your take away food.

Covid made it super convenient to order from services like Uber Eats, but when it’s all said and done, a $20 dinner is closer to $40 after service fees, delivery fees, and tips.”

8. Might as well try it.

“Making your own pizza.

Get the dough ingredients. Make a good batch of tomato sauce (freeze the rest) and get the toppings you want.

You’ll save labor and delivery costs.”

9. You can do it!

“Eating healthy.

It is very inexpensive and easy to prepare at home. So many people want to use the excuse ” I can’t afford to eat healthy!”.

Not true at all. If you can afford fast food, you can actually save money by eating healthy.

Vegetables and a protein source (chicken, fish, beef, pork, beans) are easily less than $20 a week per person.”

10. It adds up in a hurry.

“Coffee.

I lived in the US for a year as an exchange student a couple of years back and I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND WHY some people felt the need to go out EVERY SINGLE DAY to get coffee.

And some of the people I know didn’t even go to a regular Café, they went to F*CKING STARBUCKS EVERY SINGLE DAY. B*tch, just buy a f*cking coffee machine and make coffee at home.

“Oh, but I don’t like black coffee, I like other flavors and blablabla…”

First of all: go f*ck yourself. Second: you can learn how to make those complicated drinks in a weekend, you’re just too lazy to learn and too stupid to save money.”

11. Get busy!

“Cleaning.

It will be cheaper of you use grandma’s old cleaning solutions and a little bit of elbow grease.

Paying someone to clean for you might seem good but if you stop groaning and do it you will have it done in an hour or two.”

12. All kinds of things.

“Lots of things are very simple to fix, and parts are available online.

I’ve saved myself thousands by ordering parts online. I’ve fixed my washer and dryer, A/C, cars and trucks, computers etc. Lots of parts are easy interchange and diagnostics is usually pretty simple.

Plus most things only need simple hand tools.”

13. Bingo!

“Mowing your own lawn.

In addition to some good exercise and outdoor time, it gets you away from the kids for an hour as well!

What’s that honey? “RRRAAAAPPPPAAAA” I can’t hear you!””

What are some good DIY tips that you can share with us?

Talk to us in the comments!

We really appreciate it!

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People Shared the Stupidest Rules They Had at Their Schools

I still have a hard time believing that I actually went to school for all those years until I graduated from high school.

The cold, early mornings, the bus rides, the long days, and of course…THE RULES…

There were so many of them! Ugh. I really don’t miss those days at all…

AskReddit talked about the dumbest rules they had at their school. Let’s take a look.

1. Come on!

“If you were involved in a fight, you got suspended. While it sounds reasonable, context didn’t matter.

I got suspended once not for throwing a single punch, kick, whatever. I got suspended because someone knocked the books out of my hand and when I reached down to grab them they punched me in the face.

I got suspended for walking down the hallway and unprovoked getting punched in the face.”

2. Really dumb.

“Can’t wear too many matching shirts because you could be a gang.

This was in regards to a kid with cancer wanting to make a bunch of shirts.”

3. Put on some clothes, mister!

“You got in trouble if you wore just a hanes white t-shirt after school because “you were in your underwear”.”

4. Banned!

“My high school banned t-shirts that had the cover of Rush’s album Signals, an album popular at the time, which features an image of a dog sniffing a fire hydrant.

They considered it scatalogical because the dog was about to pee on it. This struck the entire student body as extremely stupid, and roughly 1/2 of the student body picked a day to wear the t-shirt.

We won.”

5. Bad idea.

“We were all given these ugly planners at the beginning of the school year, with a few pages at the back filled with ‘hall passes’.

If you didn’t have your planner, or if all your boxes were filled, you weren’t allowed to go to the bathroom. And no, you couldn’t buy a new planner. Or borrow one from your friend.

The only excuse you had was if you had a doctor’s note, but no doctor is going to give a note for an upset stomach caused by the school lunch.”

6. What’s going on over there?

“In grade 8, we were banned from standing in circles at recess because of potential scandalous activity going on in the middle.

We stood in squares instead.”

7. Showed them.

“They banned the word snap, since everyone used it instead of sh*t.

So we all just started saying sh*t.

The snap ban lasted about 3 days.”

8. Kind of expensive.

“The $200 blazer was compulsory and we got detention every single day until we got it.”

9. Sounds like a hoot.

“A girl and a boy couldn’t sit together.

The school employed “disciplinarians” to roam around the school and monitor this “activity”.

If found, you will get a reprimand, if found repeating the offence, you get sent to the principal office and if continuing, then eventually escalated to the parents, etc!”

10. Worried about your health.

“Middle School had banned salt and pepper from being used in the cafeteria, claimed it was too unhealthy.

Still sold Mountain Dew in the vending machines .”

11. I don’t think that’s a problem here.

“We couldn’t wear winter clothing (jackets, hats, gloves) in class because they were “gang symbols.”

This was a small farm town in Wisconsin. Besides obviously having no gangs, it was f*cking cold, even indoors, in the winter.

But clearly wearing warm clothing is something only gangs do.”

12. Very erotic.

“Our school banned hugging because it was “erotic.”

As you can imagine, the boys at school started giving each other very sensual high fives for the rest of the year.”

13. Ridiculous.

“No touching the walls.

They restored a building with historic value using, among other things, period appropriate paints. They then opened the planned primary school there and proceeded to try to get children to respect the restoration work.

So we had a few years of benches in the hallways being 10 cm from the wall and children being reprimanded for leaning against the wall before the faculty gave up.”

Do you remember some dumb rules from your school days?

If so, please share them with us in the comments.

Thanks a lot!

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Veterinarians Discuss What They Wish People Knew About Their Pets

Even if you’ve owned a bunch of dogs, cats, or other animals before, there’s always more to learn.

And we all want what’s best for our furry little friends because they’re part of the family, no doubt about that.

So pay attention to what you’re about to read, okay?

Vets talked about what they wish all pet owners knew about their pets on AskReddit. Let’s take a look.

1. This is good.

“Anthropomorphizing your pets will probably kill them.

Your snake is not lonely in its habitat and does not want to be pulled from it to hang out. Your salamander is not hiding 24/7 because it’s shy. Your cat is not p*ssing on your bed because it’s mad at you, and your rabbit does not chew cords because it likes the chewy plastic coating. Do not apply human emotions to your pets like that – they are not human and they do not experience the world like we do.

Your snake is a solitary animal (look don’t touch) that wants to be left alone in its warm habitat. Your salamander is probably hiding because you didn’t put enough enrichment (caves, other hiding places, plants) in its tank. Your cat is probably p*ssing on your bed because it’s sick and definitely needs to go to the vet.

And your rabbit chews cords because that’s what rabbits do so hide the d*mn things when you let it run around.”

2. Body language.

“I am a vet.

I wish people just even had a BASIC understanding of dog or cat body language. The number of videos posted on reddit of animals in distress and its tagged as “oh my little fluffster is so cute when he plays!” Or whatever makes my blood boil.

That kind of moronic ignorance is what gets children bit by the pet dog or the cat who is now dying because the owner had no idea of the signs 4 months ago.”

3. Handle with care.

“I wished that they undersood that they have a live creature that need all type of care.

Not just medical but environmental enrichment, a correct and healthy diet and even emotional care.

But the average pet owner thinks they just have a teddy bear or something.”

4. Pay attention.

“If you see a stray cat with a cleanly clipped ear tip do not take it to a shelter. Either take it home to live with you or leave it on the street.

Clipped ears mean they were caught, neutered/spayed by the city/county, and released. This is a way to control cat populations and, over time, protect wildlife. They compete for resources with fertile cats without adding to the population.

In many cities, stray cats are more likely to be adopted from the street than in the shelter. If the cat is taken to a shelter they cannot legally release it because it is now abandoning the animal. That cat will be euthanized, or at best absorbs resources until it finds a home.”

5. Don’t do it.

“Ripping your cat’s claws out to preserve your furniture is absolutely disgusting and inhumane.

Don’t justify it by saying that at least you’re giving him/her a good home.

You’re depriving the animal of one of the core essence of being a cat!”

6. Take care of those teeth.

“Dental disease is WAY more serious than you think. Get the scale and polish.

If we have to extract teeth (and believe me, we would prefer not to), they will still be able to eat.”

7. It’s for the best.

“Get your pet a series of cartrophen (or zydax, or pentosan polysulfate) injections when they turn 8.

They help slow down the progression of arthritis and are safe and cost-effective.”

8. A pro tip.

“If your cat is stressed at the vet, take home some gabapentin to put on her food before their next visit.

They will be safe, happy, and calm, and the vet will be able to examine her more thoroughly.”

9. They love them all.

“We love your pet.

Even when they hate us, we honestly try to make them feel safe and comfortable. But what we have to do is scary and sometimes hurts.

We don’t think less of you as an owner when your pet is upset or gets aggressive.”

10. Not cute.

“Fat pets are not cute. They are unhealthy.

One of my saying is “if this pet was as skinny as it is fat, we would call animal control.””

11. This is a big one.

“Don’t leave your pets to be euthanized without you.

It’s hard to be there and it’s hard to watch, but if you leave them they will die scared and looking for you.”

12. All good to know.

“The internet is not a place for you to self diagnose and treat your pet.

I saw way too many things happen to pets that didn’t need to. Like putting oregano or oil in your dog’s ear to treat an ear infection. Or water. Or letting your other dog lick its ears clean.

Giant dogs and little dogs are both expensive. But giant breeds require more quantities of meds if needed. Be aware of common ailments for your breed. No, you don’t need your pet to produce a litter once. They don’t care if they have one or not.

For the love of all that is holy, stop using chain and extending leashes. Please. Don’t let your dog loose into the clinic either. Or your children. We aren’t baby sitters.

We cry with you when you lose your pet. We take every loss with us. If you aren’t there during the procedure, we are still holding them close, petting them and talking to them the whole time.

If you’re dog is super stressed or can be nippy, let us know before we begin the exam. A muzzle is safer for everyone involved if it is needed.

If you get a puppy, touch them everywhere all of the time. Lightly restrain, lift up and down onto different surfaces, get them used to noises. It will make the vet a better experience for them.

The best time to get pet insurance is when they are young, before anything has happened. If you do, READ your policy. If you don’t understand something, ask questions. There will be a waiting period before your pet’s coverage starts, so you cannot get pet insurance the day of and have it be covered.

Vets don’t get a bonus or reward for selling prescription dog food. They have them so they can aid in the treatment of whatever your pet is dealing with. Those are the companies doing the research to create specialized diets and until more holistic brands do, this is what’s out there.

Be nice to vets and their staff. Vets have one of the highest suicide rates of any profession. Techs don’t do it for the money, they usually aren’t paid well enough and the average time a person stays in that career is only 5 years.

Oh yeah, please don’t bring your cat in a bag of dog food. If you don’t have a carrier, the vet can probably lend you one or bring the cat in a pillowcase.”

Do you have any animal tips or advice to share?

If so, please do it in the comments.

Thanks a lot!

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Fun Charts That Are Both Cool and Educational

Few things in the world are more aesthetically pleasing than a well-organized chart.

Whether it’s a flow chart for work or even one of those customary restaurant CPR diagrams, there’s just something about orderly visual information that makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside.

Nowadays, that sort of feeling is mostly reduced to memes… Which isn’t bad, but it isn’t necessarily good, either.

If you’re looking for a little more intellectual stimulation, you’re in luck. We’ve got a fresh batch of the internet’s finest coming your way. Here are 13 fun charts that are both cool and fairly educational.

12. NATO Phonetic Alphabet

That’s what this thing is called. You’re welcome.

11. Golf swings

I don’t call them any of these, I just scream swear words.

10. Water and land

Get your butte over here.

9. Fruit products

It’s all jelly to me, man.

8. Generations

Where do you fit in?

7. Animal lifespans

Ah, to be a clam. Centuries of life in exchange for literally never doing anything ever.

6. Dash lights

Maybe check this before you slap some electrical tape over it.

5. Screws and bolts

Never embarrass your dad again.

4. War planes

From “small vroom” to “big vroom.”

3. Types of sugar

I’ll take them all, please.

2. Bacon methods

You can’t go wrong.

1. Screw heads

They look like flags of questionable organizations.

And there ya have it, hope you found something useful there!

What’s a fun fact you’d like to share with the class?

Tell us in the comments.

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Random Charts That Are Pretty Interesting to Look At

Are you in need of a quick little break from the daily grind? Hoping that it might be sort of educational?

Never fear, we’ve got some geeky charts full of nerdy-yet-fun information to help stimulate those alpha brainwaves.

Here are 11 charts with random information that’s mildly interesting to look at.

11. Light pollution

I need to get to a (1) or die trying.

10. Lightsaber combat

If aliens found the depths of lore around this franchise they’d probably be super confused.

9. The Star Wars timeline

Yes, there’s a lot of Star Wars ones, it’s the internet, what did you expect.

8. Intelligence types

Which ones do you have? Mine is none.

7. Proper packing

This sure beats my “throw in five shirts, two pants, and for some reason every pair of underwear I own” method.

6. Levels of hot

No thank you please.

5. The pain scale

If ya don’t know, now ya know.

4. Emotional chemistry

How can I get me some of them happy colors?

3. Dental damage

Man, I need to go to the dentist…

2. Cat breeds

They’re all adorable and they all hate you.

1. Harry Potter by screen time

Number one will not shock you.

Pretty interesting stuff! Not sure what I’m supposed to do with most of that information, but I’ll bet you’ve got some ideas!

What’s your favorite fun factoid you’d like to share with the class?

Tell us in the comments.

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What Would You Save if the Internet Was Going Away Forever?

Reddit’s got a horrific scenario it wants you to consider, and then it’s gonna ask you to make a tough decision about it.

You ready? Prepare yourself. Here we go.

The internet is scheduled to go down forever. You have a week to prepare and download anything from the web you think is necessary to have for the rest of your life. What do you download and why? from AskReddit

So, the time constraint is the interesting part. That would mean that the biggest determining factor in how much you’d be able to get is how good your internet connection is.

My home PC, when plugged straight into the router, pulls down about 450mbps. Of course, actual download speeds are almost never that fast, because it depends on what the host is giving you, so let’s slow it down to 100. Allowing for a couple of hours of downtime each day of the week allotted, that means I could nab around 50 terabytes – assuming I ran out and bought some new drives so I had somewhere to put it all.

That’s way more than enough to nab all of wikipedia. Nice.

Let’s see what other nerds thought.

1. Do it yourself.

Every How-To book ever written.

At this point, the only way the internet is shutting down is if the world is ending.

Gotta know how to start over.

– cbite

2. A nice start.

The Pirate Bay’s top 100 in each category for the kneejerk shotgun approach.

After that an offline copy of Wikipedia, my entire GOG library, and everything from Project Gutenberg.

– Aperture_Kubi

3. Play on!

Download all of the roms I would play

– ninjaboss1211

4. That…would be helpful.

Maps.

I got lost in the middle of nowhere this summer, had no cell service or internet access, and realized it would have useful to have offline road maps on my phone.

Anyone have recommendations for a good and/or free source?

– BlueMacaw

5. Bring it back!

Everything I need to know on how to build the Internet

– SubcooledBoiling

6. Ya’ll realize we had houses and stuff before the internet, right?

I’d start with books on how to live off grid. How to dig wells set up irrigation. Gardening and food preservation. 3D printer plans for all sorts of tools and equipment. Animal husbandry and everything I would need to set up my own cnc shop.

I would also be downloading science databases, sewing, leather making etc. I was 27 before I ever had access to the internet and I had already graduated with a B.S. and at first it was a novelty but I soon realized how powerful it was when I realized that you get access to a lot of knowledge that normally would be unavailable to the average person.

The internet became the ultimate do it yourself book.

– Maxtrt

7. Make that money.

That’s about 70TB I can download so I’d probably go with all the music ever made and then get rich selling bootlegs because everyone else is downloading wikipedia and p*rn.

– antaryon

8. Good priorities.

All of the medical, history and math books that I can find.

And every song I can think of.

Aaaaand “Bartender – the right mix”

– JosheeFence

9. Better read up.

Well since I work in IT, specifically network infrastructure, I’ll be out of a job.

So I guess some books on welding or something.

– [User Deleted]

10. A digital survivalist.

This is literally why I have about 3TB of lossless music copied to four different hard drives. I also have thousands of books too.

I simply do not need any corporation, record label, or anyone deciding how I consume music content for me.

I have a backlog of thousands of albums I will never hear even though the majority of the things I haven’t heard I very much would love to hear…just not enough time or motivation for it.

So, I guess if I had to, I would download whole albums of lyrics since I know where to get them and I’ve done that in the past. It’s an achievable goal.

– RageForOrder17599

11. That’s sweet.

A video of my dad talking to my first grandchild.

It is the only recording I have of his voice.

– katneedle

12. Oh, finally!

I find out who all these hot singles in my area are and why they want to meet me.

– Shinespark7

13. Yikes, it’s true.

The real ones are going to use that time to commit all the cyber crime possible ( steal money, hack and steal information of bank accounts, financial statements, dirt on ppl etc)

it’s the ePurg

– -knight-who-says-ni

14. Do do do dooo.

I would just invest in a good pair of prescribe glasses for reading.

I do not want end up like that dude from the Twilight Zone.

– davidwal83

15. What a twist!

Plot twist, everyone downloading everything is what causes the internet to go down.

– RedditUsername42

Honestly, thinking about this is just making me anxious, so I’m gonna stop doing that now.

But I’m curious – what would your answer be?

Tell us in the comments.

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Guys Admit What They’d Do if They Were Women for a Day

I’m a dude. And I have oft wondered what it would be like to be, say, not a dude. A woman, perchance.

My musings on this topic have ranged from how it might feel physically, to how much I would like it, to what my external treatment would change to, etc.

But this is the internet and there’s not a lot of space for nuance here, so let’s get to the weirdness.

If you were the opposite sex for a day, what would you do? from AskReddit

Here’s what some of my fellow men said they’d do given 24 hours as a woman. I’m sure they’re not gonna embarrass me at all. Let’s find out.

1. Off to a great start.

Play with my woman boobs for a day instead of my man boobs like normal.

– d*ck-nipples

2. Yeah, that’s the technical term.

I believe the appropriate response is: be a hoe.

But with my luck I’d be on my period.

– Sh*ttinwithmykitten

3. What the f*ck.

I’d probably end up in the hospital for sticking so much stuff up my vagina

– beerknowswhen

4. Ok, this is…cute?

Find out what the girls really do at sleep overs, it’s a mystery that has to be revealed

– Anon_nomy

5. A valid social experiment.

Male at the moment, so would become female.

Aside from all of the obvious sex things, I’d love to walk into a computer or gaming store, with the knowledge I have, and see if/how differently I’d be treated.

– Ratfor

6. And we’re back to weird Freaky Friday sequels.

Go on tinder and swipe right on lesbians, hopefully can have lesbian sex before my day up.

Would be awkward if my day was up mid sex

– oknh

7. Guys.

Poop so I could see if it’s true that women don’t poop

– watches_yousleep

8. Aw, this is actually kinda sweet!

Depends.

If my wife and I switched roles, I would just have sex with her so she understands my adoration for it with her.

– mountiemotorsports

9. Again, a valuable lesson I’m sure.

Assuming I’m a good looking lady go to a bar and see what it’s like to get a ton of unwanted attention.

– PoliticalNerd87

10. …Reddit, everyone.

I know many people will say this, but have sex with my best friend, but in this case not cuz he is a virgin, since he is not, but cuz even though he had sex, he never felt truly loved, his longest relationship lasted about 2 months. Since I support him and care for him, I would let him silly f*ck me, just saying.

Also, none of this is gay.

– CoffeeK_

11. Science, of course.

Get naked and touch every part of my body. For research purposes.

Cos when I revert I want to have a whole lot more intimate knowledge of female sexual responses.

– Duck_Kak

12. Ya’ll are really scared of this, huh?

Being the lucky piece of sh*t I am, I’d probably get a period

– EnderCorePL

13. I just…

I’d post my t*ts on reddit for karma.

My current tits don’t get much traction here.

– [User Deleted]

14. THE WHOLE TEAM?

Play with the new plumping, then go f*ck a soccer (football) team.

– Chrome_Armadillo

15. You’ve…you’ve already thought about this a lot.

am I hot/attractive? I’d drive to walmart, get a high quality camera and some bananas. then make some “asmr” videos. like 50 of them. 20 with my clothes on and 30 topless. and then maybe 10 more full frontal nude. just recording and storing the footage all day. if i can do more, i’ll do more. in different rooms so it looks like different days.

Then when I’m back to being a guy, I’d slowly release the videos on youtube and start a patreon and onlyfans. and then upload the nude ones to those sites. and i’d do this over the span of a few years, uploading each video once every month, sometimes twice a month. some months being skipped.

Then when I’m down to my last video, I tell people that I’m moving and need some funds to move to another state to get a ton of money from my simp army. Then when I get as much money as possible, I upload a video of my male self saying that she’s taking a break for mental health reasons and that she’ll be back. but she never comes back. and then I’d leave the donation stuff open for those who want to keep simping for no more content.

– MyStationIsAbandoned

Well. That was…enlightening. I’m gonna go see what women had to say about becoming men. I’m sure it’s…better?

What would you do if you swapped sexes for a day?

Tell us in the comments.

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Is It Normal to Feel Like Everyone’s Secretly Mad At You?

There’s a saying that gets attributed to a lot of different people though its true origin is murky. It’s one that I come back to in my mind pretty often and it goes like this:

“You’ll worry less what others think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”

At first it feels cold and cynical, maybe even nihilistic, but that’s not how I interpret it.

We tend to live in this constant fear of the judgement we might be receiving from our peer groups, but the truth is, everyone else out there is also worried about themselves and their own issues. They’re probably not putting a ton of energy into evaluating you – they’re too busy for that.

And yet, thinking like this comes up all the time:

Is it normal to feel like everyone secretly dislikes you, being your friend only out of pity or kindness? If so, how did you over come this? from AskReddit

So what do we do about it? Here are ten pieces of seemingly solid advice from the people of Reddit.

1. Get some counseling.

Counseling – there is pure magic in moving your anxious thoughts into spoken word; once I heard myself speak these anxieties, they became kinda silly.

There is also magic in being able to bounce my anxious thoughts off of someone who is trained not to react to them. They are listening for the meaning and motivation behind your thoughts. Basically it’s like a doctor listening to your list of symptoms and determining what may be causing them.

I can remember being afraid of going to counseling because they might think I was stupid or crazy. It would be embarrassing!

Shift that thought…..it’s also embarrassing to have some weird thing going on in an unmentionable area, but you’re gonna go to a doctor because you’ve been to a doctor and know they are professionals that aren’t going to act like a 5 year old.

Counselors and Therapist are they very same.

– bostonbean7904

2. Remember, they’re busy.

[Something that helped was] the realization that I was giving people way too much credit believing they spent that much time thinking about me.

Seriously! We are pretty much the same in that when we walk away from some socially awkward conversation, that person is doing the exact same thing as you; worrying about how they sounded, looked, acted, what you must being thinking of them, analyzing every word and injecting (most often) wrong perspective, etc.

Their minds are no different than yours in that they shift to self more times than not. I call that little voice in my mind that creeps in my “Inner *sshole”.

I would never speak to a dearly loved companion the way that I talk to myself. I’ve learned to shift my perspective.

– bostonbean7904

3. It’s an ongoing process.

I have to do the work in my mind to keep [the good work] up.

Some people can just flip a switch and let that sh*t go, but i can guarantee that they didn’t just let it go that one time and then the anxiety never crept back in. Nope.

It just gets easier to let that sh*t go after you do the work and train your thought patterns.

The visual analogy that I use for something that I’m perseverating on is driving and seeing a billboard that catches my eye. It’s got this message that i just have to read and study so I pull over and just keep looking at it and I just get stuck at this billboard not being able to divert my attention enough to get back on the road.

And sweet Jesus, sometimes I just plow my car right into that mother f*cker and I’m really stuck. That billboard is not gonna move. I have to move. I have to shift my thought process just enough to get back on the road. The best is when you can see that billboard up ahead (because anxiety be what it be), roll down the window, and flip it off as you punch the gas.

– bostonbean7904

4. Communication is key.

Ask them!

I’ve really done my work on feeling like an imposter. […] I was one of those kids in class that was afraid of their own voice, never asking any questions, because what if they know I don’t know how to do this thing?

See

#1 on giving voice to your thoughts and realizing how silly they sound and then

#2, most people are stuck on self.

Ask them.

– bostonbean7904

5. Therapy won’t bite.

I was feeling like sh*t my whole life, but I also was afraid of therapy bc I thought that it would be too expensive, that I need years to find the one therapist who can help my very bad condition etc….

Instead I tried to cure myself with alcohol and drugs, you can guess how that worked. After 20 years of thinking about going to therapy, I finally did it, it was just how you say: hearing myself speaking out these thoughts was half of the rent.

It took me four sessions, best 500 bucks I ever invested, know I’m full of energy and good thoughts.

It happens from time to time, that the anxiety is crawling back, but therapy gave me the right instruments to deal with it

– fluent_sleeper

6. Calibrate your warning systems.

Sometimes it’s helpful to know why the anxiousness keeps creeping up, and it’s even more important to have a positive attitude towards its presence.

I’m not saying trick yourself into enjoying something unpleasant, because that’s inauthentic. But the anxiety is coming from our internal warning system, whose only two main functions are to keep us safe and productive.

Our minds know we function better with human connection, so sometimes the warning systems that need a little “calibration” go into overdrive pointing out things that aren’t necessary threats.

Like thinking everyone in your friend group pities you. Our minds know it’s within the realm of possibility for that to be a reality; it would be naive to think there aren’t any people on Earth who do that.

So go easy on your warning system, be sure to thank it from time to time, and press forward with that compassion for yourself.

[…]consistent practice WILL make good results come to fruition. Thank you again for discussing this.

– ur_therapist_says_hi

7. It’s not all about you.

I will say a big thing for me was about 6 years ago I asked a friend if they were mad at me because I felt like I had upset everyone. I hadn’t done anything, just that feeling.

He said something that hit me like a ton of bricks. He said ” No, im not mad and nobody is thinking about you.”

It didn’t all change right then, I’ve learned alot about my own self centeredness and I’ve done a lot of therapy in the past 6 years.

Its freeing to realize everyone is concerned with themselves just as you are.

– RangerDull4048

8. Don’t be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Let me be clear: If people are in your company, THEY LIKE YOU.

That feeling you have, though? That is going to keep worming its way into your mind, looking for confirmation that it’s right, even going so far as to cause you act in ways that make it right.

You might make negative faces you don’t realize. You might not respond in the way a friend needs when they need it because you miss it wondering if it was about you. You might just act weird sometimes.

When people react accordingly, you will take it as confirmation that the feeling was right all along and these people were just faking their friendship.

You would do well to heed the therapy advice and get a handle on how to recognize that feeling as nothing more than an inner guide, and to take it under advisement without trusting it, or worse, acting on it.

– jt004c

9. Watch out for substance abuse.

The answer is not drugs or alcohol, right off the bat. I struggled with this for years. I wish I could saw I woke up and brushed it off but honestly when I was around 21 I just stopped caring what people thought.

It got to the point where the friends I previously thought only liked me because they “had to” starting calling me and asking me what’s wrong and if I could meet up with them.

It showed me in the end that I needed to stop worrying about things that made me unhappy or upset because they were issues that were created by me in my mind to feel bad about myself.

Not that I pitied myself or think that you may be doing the same. But my advice I guess would be to just relax friend. Things are rarely as bad as you make them out to be in your mind.

The mind is a powerful thing, and what you force into it can affect you in a monstrous way. You don’t deserve that. You deserve to know that you matter, and your friend recognize that.

– charres1020

10. Grateful vibes.

What’s been helping me is trying to act on grateful vibes but commenting or messaging on social media posts or commenting or even texting the person off social media to say I saw a post or something made me think of them.

I like the good feeling of someone I know taking the time to send a message or post a comment or a special “like” on a video or something I’ve posted so I love tried to practice not hesitating and if something makes me think of them.

I purposely don’t ask people “how they are” because it opens up the door to me having to explain my life if I’m bummed, but it opens up the door for a little appreciation both ways.

Once I started doing that I was getting more interaction back from them which helped create a positive cycle and a feeling of connection.

– Venting2theDucks

I think those are all pretty great pieces of advice. And if it turns out that it wasn’t in your head, that you’re just friends with a bunch of jerks, find new friends. You don’t need ’em. You deserve better.

Do you have any other thoughts on this topic?

Share them with us in the comments.

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Interesting Examples of People Experiencing Pareidolia

Pareidolia is “the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern.”

In other words…you’re seeing things!

But don’t get alarmed, we all do it sometimes. Like when you see faces or animals in clouds, or on buildings, or on cracked sidewalks. Or maybe even in your food or your coffee.

Are you ready to see some really good examples of pareidolia?

Let’s take a look!

1. I feel like I’m being yelled at.

You see it, don’t you?

2. Just like a little kitty.

Well, isn’t that cute?

This blob of hand cream i squeezed on my hand looks like a kitten from mildlyinteresting

3. I saw what you did!

Yes, you’re being judged.

Whilst walking into a kitchen I saw this guy from Pareidolia

4. This is so cool!

I don’t think this will ever happen again. EVER.

Sun’s reflection on my drinking glass creates Bart Simpson’s skull. from mildlyinteresting

5. A ghost rising out of the coffee.

I like this one a lot.

The steam from this coffee looks like a triumphant ghost. from Pareidolia

6. You haven’t lost it…yet.

Yes, I see it, too!

7. Trying to escape its shell.

Where do you think you’re going, friend?

I thought this gourd looked like a snail. from mildlyinteresting

8. This is not a good sign.

You better run for it!

Godzilla Cloud from interestingasfuck

9. A big thumps up from this eggplant!

You’re doing a great job!

Best eggplant ever ?? from pics

10. This one is kinda scary.

Stay away from that tree.

This tree looks like Swamp Thing from mildlyinteresting

11. There’s no doubt about that.

Well, aren’t you a cute little guy?

The piece of paper that is frozen to the back of my fridge looks like a wiener dog. from funny

12. I think there’s a frog on your porch.

Nothing to be alarmed about, I’m just letting you know.

This knot in the wood looks like a Frog from mildlyinteresting

Now I’m gonna be seeing things everywhere…

How about you?

Does this happen to you sometimes?

If so, tell us your stories in the comments. And please share some photos with us if you have them.

Thanks a lot!

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