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13 Cool Hollywood Facts From Behind-the-Scenes

The thing about movies is they’re incredibly hard to make. They’re complicated. And if you’re someone staffed on a film set, odds are you might spend days, weeks, or months hammering out details on a film that in the big picture will be invisible to the audience.

But not invisible to the people on r/MovieDetails – they thrive on the minutia. Here are just a few gems they’ve uncovered!

13. Troy (2004)

Brad Pitt and Eric Bana made an agreement to owe each other small amounts of money for each accidental hit on set during their fight choreography.

In the end, Bana owed nothing, Pitt owed $750.

12. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

It’s notable that Ginny is the only girl in the photo wearing pants instead of a skirt, likely a nod from the costuming department that she’d be in boys’ hand-me-downs.

11. Interstellar (2014)

The way they modeled the black hole was so complex that it took 100 hours of computing time to render each frame.

10. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Everyone with a flower in their lapel tried to kill Indy.

He then marks Elsa with one.

9. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Bruce is the only person at the masquerade not wearing a mask.

Batman is his true identity, the maskless Bruce is the facade.

8. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

The toothpaste brand Smilex is a nod to Smylex, the company that creates poisonous gas in one of Tim Burton’s other movies, Batman.

7. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Terry the dog (“Toto”) was paid more than the actors playing munchkins.

6. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

“I am your father.” wasn’t spoken on set during the shooting of the scene.

It was dubbed in later along with the rest of Vader’s dialogue.

In order to keep the secret, the line as performed was “Obi-Wan killed your father.”

Only Mark Hamill knew what it would really be.

5. Rango (2011)

Rather than motion capture, animators used footage of the actors playing their parts live as detailed reference.

4. The Incredibles (2004)

Director Brad Bird had Spencer Fox (Dash) run laps around he studio in order to sound convincingly out of breath.

3. Scream (1996)

The phone Drew Barrymore was using to dial 911 had been left plugged in by mistake for a few takes.

The police called back to ask what was going on.

2. Inglorious Bastards (2009)

Colonel Landa subtly but repeatedly checks the pulse of those he’s interrogating in order to gauge how nervous they are.

1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)

Mackenzie Crook wore two contact lenses on top of each other to pull off his character’s wooden eye effect.

“It’s uncomfortable,” he said, “but not painful.”

There’s more than just loads of money happening behind the scenes of these iconic flicks!

What’s your favorite movie factoid?

Tell us in the comments.

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Hot and Spicy Memes About the Wall Street Takedown

The larger the company, the harder the fall.

When it comes to Wall Street, losses run pretty big these days. The whole meme stock controversy has everyone (even politicians!) talking about the ethics of trading… which can get pretty confusing.

Luckily for us denizens of the net, we have extremely dank memes to explain even the most complicated concepts.

Here are 12 hot and spicy memes all about the Wall Street takedown.

12. That’s economics

Yeah, that’s pretty much it. That’s exactly how it works. Who would’ve thought!

11. RIP the 1%

Whatever shall these folks do without the proper funding for their next yacht?

10. Whoopsie

Ah, the fresh smell of reigning double standards in the morning!

9. Excellent

Just roll with it, boys…just roll with it.

8. That’s life

Wonder how Joaquin feels about all of this.

7. LOL

Whoever bought this is an absolute champion.

6. It just keeps getting crazier

Yeah, if you told me in March 2020 that this is where we’d be almost a year later, I’d literally laugh in your face.

5. Time to face the music

4. Wow

Which witch is which?

3. Accurate

Here’s the latest political alignment chart for all your compartmentalization needs.

2. That’s real

Everything is on fire, and it’s totally fine.

1. There he goes

It’s about time the little man stood up to the big guy.

If you’ve been following the insanity that is the whole GameStop fiasco, then these memes were sure to tickle your funny bones just right.

Anyone feel like going in on Blackberry next week? (Don’t listen to me, I have no idea what I’m talking about.)

What’s your take on all the Wall Street drama? Share your thoughts with us in the comments!

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Memes for Those of Us Who Are Thankful It’s 2021

2020 taught us a lot, but it still sucked. Few things can put a damper on an entire year like an unprecedented global catastrophe.

Add everything else that’s pretty crummy about life on top of that, and you’re in for a real pickle. And I hate pickles.

Luckily, 2020 is over, and we can all finally breathe a collective sigh of relief as we continue onward into 2021!

Here are 11 memes for those of us thankful for 2021 and the hope this still young year might bring.

10. That’s real

Truly – has much of anything actually changed?

Via: Someecards

9. Time to celebrate

Nothing quite hits the spot like a hot cup of “oh no, we’re all doomed!”

Via: Someecards

8. Accurate

I mean, is there really much else to say?

Via: Someecards

7. Lies

Listen, we all need to find a way to unwind sometimes.

Via: Someecards

6. Wow

Yeah guys – remember movies? Remember how going to see those in a theater was actually a thing?

Via: Someecards

5. At least it’s over

Hopefully 2020 won’t come back for a bunch of increasingly worse sequels.

Via: Someecards

4. Yup

What else is there to do but eat your feelings every waking second of the day?

Via: Someecards

3. Yowch

Whatever you do, don’t touch it.

Via: Someecards

2. Avoid predictions at all cost

You don’t want to fill the universe with any negative energies right now.

Via: Someecards

1. Sounds great

If this is all you do throughout 2021, then consider yourself lucky.

Via: Someecards

Get ready to wash 2020 out of your hair. It’s firmly 2021, folks – and that means it’s time for a whole new outlook on life.

What are your goals for 2021? Do you think this year will be better than the last one?

Share your thoughts with us in the comments!

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This is Why Hackers Aren’t Stopped by the “5 Attempts” Limit

I’ve found myself saying it as I sweat over trying to remember what my stupid password is on some seldom-used site I need info from:

“If even I can’t figure out how to log in to my account, how could any hacker have a chance?”

How can hackers try thousands of passwords when trying to hack something, but my account gets locked after 5 tries when I do it? from NoStupidQuestions

Well hold on, because we’re about to get technical with the help of Reddit.

1. Hashing it out.

Usually sites don’t store your password directly, they store a hash of your password. The hash is a number which is derived from your password using an algorithm.

When you log in, it’s very easy to convert your password to a hash and check it matches. But it’s very, very difficult to figure out what the password was from a hash. Generating a hash is a one-way operation.

So if someone hacks into a website they might be able to get those password hashes. That by itself isn’t enough to break into your account because they still need a password, the hash alone isn’t enough.

But what it does mean is they can keep hashing lots and lots of passwords to try to find one which generates a matching hash. They don’t need to actually enter passwords into the site to do that, they can run the hashing algorithm themselves. So it gets around any limitations like account locking.

– Psyk60

2. There are many ways.

Yeah there are tons of ways [to hack in].

Many sites only block you from trying multiple passwords on 1 account let’s say 5 times. But they don’t block you from trying 1 password on multiple accounts at all. So people can gather a very large list of login names (such as emails or just account names) and then try 5 commonly used passwords on that very large list of login names.

– GreenBlueEyedDog

3. Trade up.

Another easy way is to first target fan sites/forums/message boards. For example (and I’m just making this all up), there are tons stock trading forums. Almost every forum software has public exploits which can allow someone to gain access to the database which will then give access to emails and passwords.

You can then theoretically take those lists of emails and passwords and make a program to try them on common trading platforms such as Robinhood, etrade, or anything. People tend to use their same email and password pretty much everywhere, and when you’re working with that large of a dataset you’re bound to get hits.

And again, most websites don’t have any block protection for trying different login names so it’s fast and easy to do this.

– GreenBlueEyedDog

4. Proxy magic.

Another option is to use proxies. It can be quite a bit slower but there are places you can purchase large amounts of IP addresses and ports that a password cracker can connect to which allows the login attempt to be made through that IP.

With a list of 2000 IPs, you can theoretically make over 100k login attempts in an hour, or running 24/7 2.4 million attempts in a day.

– GreenBlueEyedDog

5. Outdated methods?

So the approach you’re describing essentially involves some code that just tries a metric f*ckton of possible passwords in the hope that the correct password is guessed eventually through brute force. This approach used to be quite effective but nowadays most major websites and organisations have limits on how often you can fill in a password for this exact reason.

Some older websites will not have the limit and I believe others have a system where you can only try a password once every few seconds because the code that the hackers use to brute force their way in usually tries thousands of combinations a second.

– diatomicsoda

6. Thieves in the night.

They steal the data they need to break in (like your hashed password, what the site stores), and work on it remotely, where there is no 5-try limit.

– bazmonkey

7. Weaker websites.

They try to break passwords on weaker websites or on leaked hashes and then escalate the attack to other websites hoping you use the same password (way too many people do).

Use a password manager and random passwords everywhere.

– akulowaty

8. Gone phishing.

Phishing: Often hackers don’t even both guessing- they’ll create fake web pages or inject scripts into website that will just send your password directly to them.

This is why you should be very hesitant when clicking on links you don’t trust.

– AudreyIsDumb

9. It’s not about you.

The trick is they don’t want a particular account. If they tried brute forcing YOUR account. They’d be blocked like you.

So you have version one of this which is called password spraying. This usually goes along with having a bunch of usernames available to them. So they brute force attack the password, but they run every iteration across all accounts they have a username for. This spreads things out and avoids triggering action for a lot of places because often it is tries in a short time period, not an absolute number of consecutive wrong attempts.

If the system has an absolute number of failed consecutive attempts set up for lock out, they will trigger lock out of your account.

Version two of brute forcing requires them to have the encrypted password file. In this case, they get all the tries in the world until the heat death of the universe. If they manage to match it, they then go to the UI and log in. No failed attempts to lock you out.

Alternatively, you did something stupid like reuse passwords and username. You set up a log in over on some low quality web site like a cheap phpbb forum for fans of rainbow colored lemurs. They compromise that, have your password for that site and an email address, and then hit up everything interesting like banks, credit card sites, gmail, etc with that pair. It works or it doesn’t and the hit and run attempt isn’t likely to trigger a block.

– raz-0

10. What’s the hardware?

Depends on the hardware/OS platform that handles the log in. Back when I was a sysadmin, the best security software in the industry ran on IBM mainframes. If you ever hit a three strikes and you’re out situation, a mainframe was handling your login.

If it were a UNIX box or god-forbid a Windows server, have at it. Nothing was counting.

Most websites use SQL to handle anything typed into a field, and that could connect to anything. But most servers on the Net are either UNIX or Windows machines.

That tells you most you need to know.

– newsjunkie102

11. Social engineering.

The Brute Force method isn’t used nearly as much anymore. The new trick is to is what is called Social Engineering to get people to divulge their passwords or other info. “hacking” is not a real thing. Nowadays security breaches happen because of human failings.

If I wanted to “hack” someones accounts I wouldn’t set up a complex algorithm, I’d set up a complex lie.

– NRG_Factor

12. PSA!

PSA: As long as we’re talking about hacking passwords, I’d like to discuss the importance of 2-factor authentication.

Even if a hacker finds your password, a properly implemented 2FA methodology will still prevent them from accessing your account.

Username / password alone is not safe.

– Beauregard_Jones

13. Close calls.

My computer at work has 3 wrong times and then you are locked out resulting in a lengthy phone call to the help centre in India to unlock it.

The other day i mistakenly entered the old password twice without thinking, realising what i had just done meant i have never entered the third try so carefully as that time as i had a conference call scheduled in a few minutes time with my boss.

– moondog1967

14. Of course!

Because they’re hackers, duh

– thesleepingtigress

15. That’s good hash.

I like salt and a little pepper on my hash browns

– benmarvin

So the important takeaways here seem to be:
• Don’t repeat your passwords on different sites
• Use a password manager to help make this easier
• Turn on two-factor authentication wherever you can
• If strangers on the internet start asking you weirdly personal questions…don’t answer them.

What are some other password best practices?

Drop ’em in the comments.

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Folks Discuss the Real Reasons Printers Still Suck

I have spent a good chunk of my life yelling at printers.

My roommate took the last printer I’d been using when we parted ways, and the only thing I miss about it is that it had the little automatic feeder tray to scan documents.

Because we shouldn’t even be BOTHERING with putting data on physical paper, we should be shoving whatever paper is still lying around back into digital form, right?

I mean, RIGHT?

Why, after so many fucking years, do printers still work like overpriced pieces of shit? from NoStupidQuestions

So why are printers so horrible? Let’s see if we can get a consensus from Reddit.

1. “Complicated moving parts.”

They have lots of complicated moving parts that can jam and break and go wrong.

Meanwhile the business model is to sell the printer as cheap as possible (maybe even at a loss) and make up the money on ink cartridge sales, so there’s incentive to cut every corner on build quality if it makes it possible to sell the end result even cheaper.

If you want a reliable printer, look for one that just does one thing (all the multifunction printer/scanner/copier/fax/shredder/espresso stuff just adds more complications and things that can go wrong) and be prepared to spend extra for quality.

Or buy a laser printer – toner cartridges last way longer than ink cartridges, which flips the business model away from selling refills. Colour lasers are pricey, but a black and white laser printer can be reasonably inexpensive and is a better bet for reliability than an equivalent inkjet.

– noggin-scratcher

2.”Just save everything.”

I work in IT and the one technology I hate more than anything is printers – god f*cking d*mn it why cant people just save everything online, send them in emails and let us trash the bleeding things.

Join the paperless revolution now and yeet your printer out the window

– Bisqutz

3. “Paperless is not an option.”

I’m in IT too, Unfortunately paperless is not an option (yet) in the industry. Best solution is Lease, You save on time and money, Printers are managed offsite by the provider, The consumables are automatically ordered when needed and the printers can log they own tickets!

I saved my last company 1/3 the usual yearly spend in the first year. Now in a new place with 10 year old printers I’m trying to do the same, Why it’s a hard sell is way beyond me.

– drumanddrummer

4. (That’s over a thousand pounds of paper per month.)

Used to repair industrial copiers. You’d hate being IT for the railroad then.

Only place I ever serviced where it was when, not if one would break. They had 3 huge Monochrome printers for their Engineers and Conductors work orders. Things spat out 120K pages a month, each. Full service was needed every 2 months minimum. Then you had the fact that if it did jam, some idiot would stick their grease coated hand in, grab whatever they touched and rip it out.

I arrived once to find a fuser unit just chilling on top of the machine. Those are pretty hard to get out on the models they had even using tools.

Even I wished they’d go digital.

– McDicklesP1ckle

5. “Printer = inkjet?”

Every single thread about printers being sh*t is either about inkjets breaking or about cost of inkjet cartridges. Then comes a hero and suggests laser.

I wonder whether the word “printer” = “inkjet” for americans. Do most people just buy them dirt cheap, throw away and replace? Because in my limited 3rd world experience, laser cartridges are cherished, loved, refilled and refurbished till their last black breath. And most 8+ years laser printers can be repaired for cheap.

– TrueMinoshiro

6. “What the monopoly wanted.”

Walmart.

My father worked for Lexmark for most of his working life. According to him, the big box stores came along and dictated the price of goods. They told single-stream businesses like Lexmark that they would only sell printers that cost $50 or less.

As Walmart is roughly 30% of all sales of anything in the United States (at the time) you had to do what the monopoly wanted. So factories were exported overseas, R&D budgets were slashed, and the ‘we will have to make our profit off ink cartridges instead’ model was implemented.

So the printers had to be made a sh*tty and cheaply as possible in order to be allowed to sell them at all.

All his years at Lexmark turned him to hating capitalism and the unfree market.

Once a Chinese conglomerate offered to buy Lexmark, he was happy to take the contract buyout and leave early.

– Farmerssharkey

7. “It’s a workhorse.”

A few years ago I purchased an All-in-One HP laserjet printer – copy, scan, fax, and print, including automated double-sided printing. I have not had a single problem with it. It connects to my home network via wireless. It prints color as well as black and white.

The toner cartridges are expensive, but (a) print some huge number of pages, and (b) are stable for years. I read about a man who maintained computer equipment for a small firm that found 10yo cartridges for his printers that had been stored and forgotten, he put them in and they worked without a hitch. The toner cartridge technology has gotten perfected, even to the point of making them easy to install.

I don’t remember how many years I used this before I needed to replace the B&W cartridge. It’s a workhorse.

I just looked up the price of this, retail — it’s just under $500. You can buy an inkjet for a quarter of that, and the ink is much cheaper, but they dry out while you aren’t using them, I used to have annoyingly frequent trouble with mine jamming and smearing, the printouts smear if touched too soon after printing, and also if they get wet. None of this has been true with my laser printer.

I’m afraid you’ve been buying the wrong printers.

– arghvark

8. “Worse than glitter.”

Yeah I think about that often. We have VR glasses, hoverboards and Sophia the robot, but printing is still a huge pain in the *ss.

Even at work, it’s just such a pain. There is always something with it and this is coming from a graphic designer that has learned to fix printers.

Like ever had a broken toner cartridge explode in your face? Worse than glitter.

– Twirlingbarbie

9. “Never buy a printer.”

Pro tip: Never buy a printer, go to FedEx Kinkos and pay $1.50 for the once or twice a year you actually need to print something.

– trush44

10. “Ink is expensive.”

First off, ink is one of the most expensive liquids in the world.

Printers are there to sell ink, and basically nothing else. If you want to buy a printer that’s big enough for a small to medium office setting these days they almost always come with a subscription to a maintenance and ink refill program to make sure you continue buying the “correct” ink and do regular maintenance (aka spending money)… A lot of printers won’t even accept any cartridges other than the ones made specifically for that printer anymore.

But apparently that’s not enough, because they want you to also buy a new printer every few years, meaning the printer is made with incredibly cheap parts and lasts about 1/10th as long as it could. Planned obsolescence is far from an uncommon business practice, but the real problem is that every printing company is buying into the business model.

Is it possible to make a superior product that doesn’t break down as often? Is it possible to make a universal ink cartridge or even one that works across all [OG printing company]? Do even the printers at [OG printing company] break down all the time? The answer to all of these questions is “yes, but money is more important”.

The one place all the printing companies actually compete is in the large scale printing production market, any machine made for a large office or printing central company is made to last and costs a fortune.

– Lesbionical

11. “Cheaper to just buy a whole new printer.”

In college I would buy the cheapest printer that only printed (no scanning no fax) and when the cartridges that came with it ran out, it was cheaper to just buy a whole new printer than new ink cartridges

– PapaRed18

12. “Actual good software.”

If you’re an actual good software engineer, you don’t get a job designing software for a printer.

– Lobanium

13. “People treat copiers like trash.”

As a MFP repairman, I can tell you the 2 most common issues I see with printers.

A, most people treat the copiers like trash (using paper with the wrong settings, over working it, never having it pm’d, using crappy paper, running unauthorized objects like paper clips and sticky notes through the document feeder, skyshots, etc.), and wonder why it breaks down.

B, they go with the cheap option which either means the machine is 5-7 years old, not the right model for their workload, or is a HP.

– BloodNinja87

14. “Include a trigger warning.”

Please include a trigger warning for questions like this in the future.

Asking my dad this question started a 5 minute rant that I’m pretty sure will repeat itself in about 10 minutes.

– lantana88

15. “In spirit.”

All printers are from 2005 in spirit.

– malatropism

So, taken together, the solution to this enigma seems to be:

If you want a printer that doesn’t drive you insane, spend the money on a decent laser model instead of picking up the cheapest possible scam of an inkjet and expecting it to not destroy your marriage.

What’s your printer approach?

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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Memes to Help You Break Free From Boredom

Do you need to break free, but you can’t and that’s why you’re staring at a screen at this very moment?

Well what if I told you that you could break free THROUGH that screen to a land of wonder!

I mean, don’t literally break your screen. If you did already, we’re not liable for that, you really should get a fuller context on things before you act so aggressively. All we meant is that we’ve got some memes, and memes are a sort of freedom. That’s why “meme” rhymes with “free.”

What do you mean it doesn’t?

Well, it should.

15. Pile on

Naturally occuring Keanus are simply beautiful.

Via: Someecards

14. Again again

RIP the only thing in a bunch of people’s Netflix lists.

Via: Someecards

13. I do

“I understand, much to my horror, that the couple have written their own vows.”

Via: Someecards

12. I swear

I learned it from watching you!

Via: Someecards

11. Payday

Lol like any of us are ever gonna know.

Via: Someecards

10. Biting back

If I fits, I turns into defensive fort.

Via: Someecards

9. The blessed snoot

Boop me father, for I am cutes.

Via: Someecards

8. What big eyes you have

It’s cool that we all accept the talking wolf but draw the line at ineffective disguises.

Via: Someecards

7. Keep up

I’m not the boss of me.

Via: Someecards

6. Any other

This is very much me, I’m not even sure how old I am at this point.

Via: Someecards

5. Surprise cuisine

Those little guys are really going places.

Via: Someecards

4. Can’t cut it

Yeah, well, we also get to live like four times longer now, so, I’ll take it.

Via: Someecards

3. Level up

Maybe his ways aren’t so much mysterious as they are just ill-thought out?

Via: Someecards

2. Try, try again

Dang girl, fine, stay in bed then.

Via: Someecards

1. The gift of gab

This is going well already.

Via: Someecards

I certainly feel more free now.

What are your favorite kinds of memes?

Tell us in the comments.

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Really Wonderful Cringey Looks Back in Time

As a kid I was kind of obsessed with recording things. I was into multimedia endeavors in a big way. I had my tape recorders, my family’s giant camcorder, and some fairly primitive software to play around with as well.

The upside of this is that I have a TON of preserved record of my childhood with all of my tastes and attempts at expression.

The downside of this is that I have a TON of preserved record of my childhood with all of my tastes and attempts at expression.

Most of it is, how do I put this, the cringiest cringe that ever cringed. And I’m genuinely torn between burning it all in a fire and backing it up forever because of my previously mentioned obsession with all things multimedia.

Maybe I should just dump it all on r/blunderyears like these Reddit people did.

14. Apology accepted

“My name is Kate and I’m here to say /
I’m unwittingly problematic in a major way…”

I’m sorry guys, I was like 9 and loved rap. I truly apologize. from blunderyears

13. Baby bat

Hey, at least it looks like you’re having fun.

Baby bat me was something else huh… from blunderyears

12. Mood swinging

What really sells this is the editing.

I have no words to explain my younger self from blunderyears

11. Ashlee Simpson phase

Yo, you had a blitz phone?

At a sleepover with my blitz phone during my Ashlee Simpson phase circa 2008 from blunderyears

10. The death of MySpace

Wait? What’s Stickam? [Googling intensifies.]

My last MySpace photo, probably getting ready to login into Stickam. The streaks are plastic hair clip ins. from blunderyears

9. Official Campion

You’re the real winner here, friend.

Feeling confident AF in my Reign Man sneakers, official Champion Charlotte Hornets game shorts, and a polo shirt for added grown-up sophistication from blunderyears

8. Grunge phase

“Yeah, I’ve seen some stuff. Like water. And rocks. And picturesque pastel riverlines.”

I went through my grunge phase when I was 7 from blunderyears

7. Absolutely br00tal

Stay away from this kid, he WILL hit you with that guitar.
Because he can’t see a f*ckin’ thing.

br00tal ’09 core kid reporting for duty from blunderyears

6. The whole package

Hollister at ya boy.

Circa 2006 – freshman year of high school. Hollister shirt, Hollister necklace, and I would straighten my hair. from blunderyears

 

5. Hottest cowgirl fashion

Yeehaw to you, young lady!

The year is 1993, I am fresh from the salon with the $50 perm I begged my mom for, and JCPennys hottest cowgirl fashion (look it up sweaty). from blunderyears

4. Ride it

They’re both just like “Who is this? Why is this happening?”

Me and flo rida. I did not listen to flo rida. from blunderyears

3. Embrace it

You look like a character in a Fry & Laurie sketch, my guy.

I had embraced my nerdy outcast status and went to school like this, sadly the trench coat was soon banned after ’99 from blunderyears

2. Recent developments

This kid crawled so that Insta selfies could run.

Got a disposable camera as a child and decided to take a selfie. I was very pleased with it after getting it developed. from blunderyears

1. Totally subline

Rock on!

Sublime shirt: check. Bandana: check. Self awareness: not found from blunderyears

In the end, the only thing we have to cringe is cringe itself.

What was your past self like?

Tell us about ’em in the comments.

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People Share Photos From Their Very Awkward Pasts

For a generation that’s as nostalgic as mine is, we rarely actually wanna look at what we were like back in the day.

Because the past, by and large, is not pretty. Though it is frequently hilarious.

Enter a fascinating rabbit hole on Reddit called r/blunderyears, where people voluntarily post relics of their own cringey past that they may be mourned and celebrated communally.

Let us enter the zone now, and try to survive.

13. Guess who?

I’ll tell ya who still probably didn’t know: that boy.

Guess which boy I liked from blunderyears

12. Choice

Look,, we all make choices.

15yo me, I thought this outfit was choice. from blunderyears

11. Done

“I’m just old for my age, you wouldn’t understand.”

I was 100% done with life at the age of 4. from blunderyears

10. Phase out

Got some serious rawr XD energy going on here.

Thankfully, it WAS a phase mom. from blunderyears

9. Bang bang

Nevermind that, the rest of your hair is trying to escape.

1989… I cut my own bangs for picture day from blunderyears

8. What a performance!

Who doesn’t love the utility of a good fanny pack?

1992, the peak of my theatre kid years. from blunderyears

7. Beat that

If that kid wasn’t drowning in ladies I’d be shocked.

Every year my mom would photoshop my Valentine’s Day cards for me to hand out in school. (Circa 2006) from blunderyears

6. Sticking together

Ah yes, I remember these.

Duct tape prom, why did I think this was a good idea from blunderyears

5. Danger zone!

It’s hardly fair, there’s one of me, and yet only four of me.

Four times the danger…. from blunderyears

4. Taste the difference

Why does he look like he just caught those drums from horseback?

The days when I was a performing Pepsi can. from blunderyears

3. Blunderbuss

Hanson in a very alternate reality.

My three brothers. Three times the blunder. from blunderyears

2. Eye see you

“Nice try God, I’ll take it from here.”

At 15, I thought if I shaved my eyebrows off it would be easier to make them symmetrical. For this heinous act, I am sorry. from blunderyears

 

1. Oh brother

I…kind of need to hear this immediately.

Found this at a friends house. Her little brothers made a rap album when they were younger from blunderyears

If heartwarming cringe could be converted to electricity, this page could power a city.

What were your blunder years like? What did you wear? What did you do for fun?

Tell us all about them in the comments.

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