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2020 vs 2021 Memes Are Now a Thing

A lot of people seemed to think that when the clock struck midnight on December 31st, 2020, we’d finally be rid of the cursed beast that was that year.

However, while the year is over, the ripples and repercussions of the horrible things that began in that year (and years before it) carry on. What a bummer, huh?

At least we’ve got memes about it.

15. Try, try again

If at first you don’t succeed…

14. Clowning around

“It’s the same, and I’m tired of pretending it’s not.”

13. Clicked without reading

Slow your roll, fast-talker.

12. I’ll be good

I made a deal with the devil and the devil said no.

11. Sober reflection

I don’t even understand what the term patriotic pride is supposed to mean.

10. Twins!

It’s not just the parents who are trapped, it’s all of us.

9. I sense something…

You gotta stay on your guard.

8. A welcome invasion

Come one, come all!

7. Dead serious

It’s remarkable what we can all learn to adjust to.

6. Year by year

Time is relative, read some Einstein.

5. Dry January

From namaste to “Nah, I’mma stay in bed.”

4. Bubble boi

We expected the future to look like this, but for different reasons.

3. Boom

Which movie is this? I need to see it.

2. Under pressure

That’s not an act I’d want to follow.

1. The passive approach

We’re happy to be of service.

Things can get better. They WILL get better. In the meantime, it’s memetime.

What’s been getting you through lately?

Tell us in the comments.

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Funny Memes for People Who Live in Front of Their Screens

Are you in front of screens a lot? Sure. We all do this. You’re doing it right now. I’m doing it right now.

And when I’m done looking at this particular medium-sized screen, I’ll probably catch up on a little business on my small screen before finally retiring to a relaxing evening in front of my largest screen.

Some may find this a sad way to live, but I think it’s a rad way to live. It’s extreme. Ex-SCREEN, you might say, if your brain was melted from looking at screens all the time.

Games, movies, trash TV, it’s what our lives revolve around these days. And we’ve got some memes about it.

13. The magic touch

But now that I’ve gotten here, what more is there for me to do?

12. Think fast

That’s a rap, I guess.

11. That smarts

Stand down in the face of true genius.

10. The master at work

What wizardry is this?

9. The blame game

Stupid controller.

8. Rare sightings

You can’t summon him without something microwavable.

7. A class act

Sorry, I was just feeling a little sluggish.

6. Skyrim’s the limit

This is my calling, you wouldn’t understand.

5. Shift in perspective

How much longer?

4. Keep your distance

Even the younglings?

3. Brace yourself

What am I gonna do, write outside this lazy trope?

2. Wait in line

We live in a civilized society, after all.

1. Weird vs. weird

As long as absolutely everyone is gorgeous.

May the remainder of your screen time today be a blessed screen time.

What’s your favorite thing to look at on a screen?

Tell us in the comments.

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Check Out Some of the Dumbest Roommate Moves Ever

Here’s a true story…

A few days ago I moved into my own place for the first time in my entire life. I don’t wanna say how old I am, but suffice it to mention that I’m…older than the average person is when striking out without a roommate for the first time in their lives.

I’ve shared lots of different places with lots of different people. Some of them are perfectly pleasant, others are awful, most are somewhere in between.

But rarely do any hold a candle to the outrageous crap perpetrated by the people being complained about in these Reddit posts.

10. Off the cup

What kind of awful monster…

My roommate ate all of the peanut butter cups off of the cupcakes that were made from mildlyinfuriating

9. The juice is loose

A fool and his money are soon partied.

My roommate spent her paycheck too fast again, so I offered to get us liquor. It devolved into this from ChoosingBeggars

8. Pot heads

If that ain’t the most inefficient, inconvenient thing I’ve ever seen…

My roommate and I own only two pots. When he cooks with them, he stores any leftovers from his cooking in the fridge in the pots, instead of putting them in containers. from mildlyinfuriating

7. On the tube

On top of that, he rolLED IT THE WRONG WAY.

My roommate has hit new peaks of laziness from mildlyinfuriating

6. Divide and conquer

This is the sort of conversation that might be reasonable in, say, a marriage, but a roommate situation? Nah, man.

Facebook CB wants roommate to pay more rent because she makes more from ChoosingBeggars

5. Self-contained

Just wait ’till he tried to heat those tots up in the microwave.

My roommate doesn’t put his leftovers in containers either. from mildlyinfuriating

4. Hair today, gone tomorrow

Um…why are they so short and curly…

The soap bar is mine, but the hair is not. My roommate better come home bald, or else I’ll have to move from mildlyinfuriating

3. Share the wealth

I’m gonna guess this is in NYC.

Live away roommate from ChoosingBeggars

2. Control freak

Remotes are like $10 brand new, I think you’ll be fine.

My girlfriends roommate refuses to take her TV remote out of the packaging to preserve the "value" of the TV. from mildlyinfuriating

1. Getting panned

Well, now it’s just a war of the wills.

we love shitty roommates from mildlyinfuriating

Love ’em or hate ’em, most of us have to have roommates at some point, because, yanno, the economy was handed to us in ruins. So you might as well learn to laugh about ’em!

What’s the worst roommate story you’ve got?

Tell us in the comments.

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Which Parts of Science Can We Lick? Let Us Explain…

More people out there are being encouraged these days to get an education/job in what’s called a STEM field (“Stem” here stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.)

STEM is basically the stuff that helps us know more things about the universe, and build stuff. It’s fascinating, and it’s hard work, but it can be very rewarding.

But before diving into one of these areas, people understandable have questions.

Questions like, “What are my job prospects in this field? What do they pay? What’s the day-to-day really entail? And most importantly, can I lick it?”

The last question is the one that the people of Tumblr decided to rally together and answer. Here’s what your future of licking things might look like if you choose to study the following topics:

1. The genome

2. Chemicals

3. Human history

4. Rocks

5. The mind

6. Movement

7. Animals

8. People

9. Reptiles

10. Society

11. Plants

12. Computers

13. Disease

14. Language

15. Design

16. Code

17. The brain

18. Water animals

19. Space

Welp, I’m convinced. Sign me up for all of ’em. I’ve got some licking to do.

Is licking allowed in your line of work?

Tell us why or why not in the comments.

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Are These Things “Cheap” or Just “Illegal?” People Describe Their Cheapest Achievements.

Twitter user Rubba Band Grant caused a stir on Twitter when he mused out loud about the “cheapest” thing he’d ever done:

As a lot of people were eager to point out, that’s not so much “being cheap” as it is just “stealing tires.” Not that we’re snitches here. We’re gonna give Grant the benefit of the doubt and assume this was made up for entertainment purposes only. And we’ll extend that benefit toward all the Twitter replies that followed which had…dubious legality.

Here’s a few ways people apparently skirt the system to save some cash.

10. Water, water everywhere

This is a perfect example of how you can be clearly deceitful without technically lying.

9. Up close and personal

If you’ve got those kinds of photoshop skills *on a phone* then I’ve got mad respect.

8. Pole vaulting

Oh my God…I’m so tempted…

7. Inspired / expired

You’d think their barcode scanners would be smarter than that.

6. The switch

Well done.

5. What a tool

Walmart will pretty much take anything back, they don’t care.

4. Book ’em

Pretty hard to feel sympathy for either Amazon or the textbook industry.

3. Signed, sealed, delivered

You gotta wonder how often people do this.

2. Free means free!

Seems kind of sad and ridiculous that they wouldn’t just give their employees a free sandwich on their lunch break anyway.

1. Since delivert

Didn’t they have some way to like, check your order though?

We’re not saying we endorse any of these methods. We’re not saying we don’t, either. WE AIN’T SAYIN’ NOTHIN’, YA HEAR?

Do you have a method like this?

Tell us in the comments. We won’t judge.

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This is How the Butterfly Effect Actually Works

Travis Scott’s song “BUTTERFLY EFFECT” might make for a great title, but it doesn’t offer the best theoretical explanation.

That’s right, the butterfly effect is a real vessel of chaos theory, but it doesn’t entail what you might think.

Image Credit: howstuffworks

The idea suggests that seemingly insignificant events can eventually lead to much more impactful consequences. For example, something as small as a butterfly flapping its wings in Russia might lead to a catastrophic tornado in Kansas – hence the theory’s name.

So, Travis Scott song actually gets the butterfly effect completely wrong. Scott seems to insist “For this life, I cannot change,” but the entire theory is based on constant change.

The theory was actually developed in the 1960s by meteorology professor Edward Lorenz while he was teaching at MIT. Lorenz created a model that showed how two points near each other could end up with vastly different weather conditions within hours.

Previously, meteorologists believed that weather could be predicted by looking at historical records. Lorenz’s discovery proved that it was essentially impossible to predict weather in this way. His model showed that there were too many variables to rely on past data.

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Therefore, our common understanding of the butterfly effect is skewed.

Though we might think that the theory means small changes can lead to big results, in actuality, Lorenz’s theory insists that tracking these changes and their effects is impossible. The reach of the butterfly effect spans far beyond weather; it also touches upon when you get your groceries, the people you make small talk with, or even what route you decide to take to work. Every small action we do has the potential to change our lives.

However, we have no way of knowing which choices caused what changes.

We’re basically moving through one giant ripple effect that we can’t even see.

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

So, it looks like we have even less control over our lives than we thought! That’s so horrifying that I want to forget that I ever learned it. T

ime to obsessively repress that information while we all get on with the rest of our day! Or maybe we’ll dwell on it and spiral.

What’s your experience with the butterfly effect?

Share with us in the comments!

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These People Went to Great Lengths to Get the Perfect Shot

I’ve worked on film sets and I know probably better than most people that every cool image you see had a lot of work put into making it happen.

Often that work is not at all glamorous. Sometimes it’s downright weird, or even demeaning. Occasionally it’s dangerous. You very much enter a mindset of “hey, whatever gets the job done” and you just start grabbing anything you can that might be helpful.

If you’re working without budget (and without permission) things can get especially strange. And that’s never more evident than in the world of amatuer photogs trying to bolster their social media presence.

10. Look at these two

That’s a public street, yo.

9. Leaf me alone

I’m actually very curious to see how that shot turned out.

8. Sidewalk saunter

Nobody’s gonna be looking, right?

7. Swing and a miss

Or, hit, as the case may be.

6. Honest Abe

Not really the place, honey.

5. Irony alert

Everybody huddle together now, we don’t want to miss catching this.

4. Seize your opening

“Sir you’re really supposed to wear a shirt in here.”

3. A bridge too far

This is gonna be quite a story for the memorial service.

2. Winds of change

When nature just won’t do her part.

1. Through the roof

Meanwhile I’m getting tickets for rolling to a stop at the sign.

I understand the need to get the shot, but for the love of God, be careful, and be considerate.

What’s the greatest length you’ve gone to in order to snap a picture?

Tell us in the comments.

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“I’m Too Busy” and Other Things Wealthy People Avoid Saying

There are plenty of rich people who were born with a lot of money, but there are others who have worked and scraped their own way to the top.

Regardless of what sort of rich person you’re dealing with, there are some things they’ll never say – and below are 6 items you’ll never hear.

6. “I have money, so why not spend it?”

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A treat here and there is one thing, but careless spending can turn into a bad habit that’s hard to break. Most financial coaches will train their clients to ask whether or not a purchase will really improve their lives before they pull the trigger.

One, Bob Finley of Virtual Asset Management, says “most of my clients don’t splurge on investments. Despite being able to afford first class, most of my clients always fly coach because they know the cost of first class is multiple round trips in coach.”

Just as an example.

5. “Saving and investing are the same.”

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It’s money you’re not actively spending, but aside from that, the two things aren’t alike at all.

Wes Moss, a certified financial planner, explains:

“The wealthy understand that their savings has to be invested in order to have the potential for compound growth. Savers have a fear mentality, stash their money away in the bank, and never really get momentum from their assets. Investors, on the other hand, have their assets invested in areas that over time have produced high single-digit or low double-digit annual returns.”

4. “I’m not good with money.”

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Being “good with money” is a skill, and it can be learned like any other. People who have money don’t like to rely on others to tell them things about their own funds and investments – they like to understand things themselves.

3. “Can I afford it?”

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While it’s true that rich people can afford most things, but the better – and related – question is “is it in the budget?”

If you can pay for it in cash and not take a hit later, ok.

If not, you should probably pass.

2. “I’m too busy.”

Image Credit: Pexels

Life is all about priorities, and if an opportunity arises that will help advance your financial goals, you should make time for it.

No questions asked, no chance for opportunities.

1. “It’s all my fault.”

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Lou Haverty, CFA, says that wealthy people tend to describe any shortcomings as temporary issues out of their control, and ascribe successes to their own influence.

“So a bad sales presentation was due to a wrong fit with the audience rather than due to a bad sales pitch. A successful sales presentation was directly due to a well-presented pitch.”

And there’s a reason for it, too.

“Over time this type of positive thinking becomes ingrained in the person’s view of themself and they’re able to more easily bounce back from setbacks and enjoy longer successful streaks.”

The power of positive thinking, y’all.

It’s not like following these will make you rich, but it can’t hurt, right?

Mind over matter and all of that.

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Very Questionable Ways People “Saved Money”

Almost everybody I know is looking for ways to save a buck here and there. But some of us go to extremes.

Like Rubba Band Grant on Twitter here:

Now, we’re pretty sure that’s just theft…though maybe he was joking? Whatever, we’re not the cops. We’re just invested weirdos who went on to scroll endlessly through the replies and find a bunch of other surprising ways that people *ahem* saved money.

Some of them truly were just “being cheap,” but others…well, again. We’re not the cops.

So let’s just look at the tweets.

10. You are banned

This is like a really low key sequel to Ocean’s 11.

9. Stay on target

Um…yeah this is just theft. Like, three times over.

8. Peak Philly

I wish I had those kinds of skills.

7. The tube

How devilishly clever.

6. Complimentary

Eh, who’s gonna know?

5. Stacks on stacks

I’m sure you looked lovely.

4. Phoney business

If I’m reading this right, I’m pretty sure you’re just describing blackmail.

3. I scream

Hope nobody got fired.

2. Free 99

Again, sure hope nobody got fired.

1. Punching up

That’s a short con I can get behind.

So remember, if you gotta save money, maybe try to like…avoid jail in the process.

Do you have a story like this?

Tell us in the comments.

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10 Big Fails in the Name of Getting the Perfect Shot

I’m not big into Instagram or having much of a presence or a “brand” on social media, it’s not something I work to cultivate or think about a whole lot. But for some people, it seems like it’s a way of life. You gotta get the shot, no matter what.

And since necessity is the mother of invention, people get pretty creative – and pretty risky – in their pursuit of grabbing that perfect snap. Love it or hate it, it’s a real part of our world, and the behind the scenes results can be hilarious.

Just check out some of the things you may need to be willing to do in order to truly up your social media game.

10. Get a little wet

It’s so predictable but it’s still so satisfying to watch.

9. Make a scene

I think while we’re still having to follow mask protocols and aisle directions, this should be straight up illegal.

8. Get upside down

You really gotta work as a team.

7. Work the sidewalk

Excuse me…ma’am? I need to get to the bus stop. Ma’am!

6. Stop traffic

This would be a super cool way to die.

5. Go to space

How did you even get that thing, bro?

4. Wiggle that booty

Who wants to see this and why?

3. Catch some waves

Again, predictable and satisfying.

2. Get a little rocky

IT JUST NEVER FAILS!

1. Go up in smoke

We get it, you vape.

Hey man, ya gotta shoot your shot.

How much do you care about your Instagram presence?

Tell us in the comments.

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