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People Recall the First Time They Thought, “I’m Old”

Getting old really isn’t that bad – there are plenty of upsides, with my favorite being not having to fix my hair and also not caring what random people think about my hair.

The downsides are mostly pain-related, if you ask me.

It happens to all of us, and like these 13 people, we can all recall one of the first moments we realized it was really happening.

13. Everyone “hot” is younger than me.

When you realize that almost every actor and actress on TV commercials is younger than you.

12. At first you wonder who they’re talking to.

Teenagers have started to call me “Mr.”, and not ironically.

11. Those things can be an investment.

When I got excited about buying a new bin.

Bought it, looked at it for days thinking how nice it is.

10. They’re all about the memes.

when my students told me they had never seen the matrix, but they thought they maybe recognized a meme from it ?

9. Get off my lawn, Simpsons.

When I watched new Simpsons for the first time in years, and could hear the age in their voices.

I felt like shaking my fist at a cloud.

8. Our interests have changed.

At a gathering and all the younger people were talking about video games or movies, my friends and I were discussing homeowner related stuff and the older people were discussing their health issues and medications.

My friends wife laughed and said we are now middle age and medicating talk is next for us all.

7. Bless her mama heart.

I was driving and saw a very attractive younger guy running shirtless on the sidewalk.

My immediate thought was “OMG dude! I hope you wore enough sunscreen today!”

6. Ah, back in the day.

I was telling the story of how I broke my back in a car accident.

Someone asked why the airbags didn’t go off or I didn’t just use my cell to call for help.

Both of those things were new when I was old enough to drive.

5. Cringe city.

When I started a sentence with “Well, before the Internet, we used to…”

4. That initial reaction will circle back around.

When I realized it’s acceptable to say “Congratulations” instead of “Oh Shit” when a friend of mine gets pregnant.

3. “To my dog.” Perfect.

When I heard people outside and grumbled about f%cking teenagers to my dog.

2. It can seem overwhelming.

I have no idea what’s happening in music right now.

And I don’t mean that in a wrong generation, “back in my day!” Kind if way.

I mean that I literally have no idea what is happening.

I used to be so plugged in. I knew all the coolest bands and went to all the best shows. I was giving recommendations to people, I was making mix cds, it was my dream job to be a music supervisor for tv. Now.. I don’t know anything any more. I try, but it’s overwhelming.

1. That’s some kind of realization.

“Damn, this grocery store is playing my jams.”

Congrats to all who are getting older, because it means you’re still alive!

Tell us what your aha! moment was in the comments!

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People Share Their Tips for Getting Around the System

Most of us try to be honest and do the right thing most of the time, but here’s the truth: business, the government, other people…they’re always looking for ways to take advantage of you and your hard-earned cash.

So maybe people also feel like, if there’s a harmless way to get some of the power back, we should take it.

If you feel that way, here’s how 14 people manage to do just that.

14. Never give up your coupon unless they ask!

Dominoes.

We got a voucher in the post with a code they said “collection only, one use, surrender coupon upon use”.

Used it on their website and it worked for 50% off, carried on using it for 2 years every week, then one day it stopped working.

13. This is so meta.

The playstation had a mouse.

A local electronic chain was selling them at clearance for $2 each.

Game Stop was giving $15 or $10 cash for each.

I cleared out one store, got cash for them all, then cleared out two more and got a bunch of games in trade.

12. But you could have actually…tried?

Our English department in high school ran every class the same way. We do an in class essay at the beginning of the year to gauge your current writing ability, and every subsequent essay would be compared to that and your grade is 100% based on improvement.

I’d just write a garbage essay the first time then get an A only half-a$$ing everything

11. Don’t fall for the update trick!

When Verizon got rid of unlimited data in like 2011, it triggered the switch to limited when you upgraded your phone.

I transferred my upgrade to my sister’s account (who already switched to limited,) got the phone and put my Sim card in it. Had unlimited until 2015

10. I really hope she didn’t.

A girl in my high school computers class won a $500 scholarship by doing something similar. She bombed the start of the year test and placed a little above average on the final. They gave the scholarship to whoever improved the most, not who did the best.

I didn’t know her well enough to know if she did it on purpose.

9. Ahhh, high school.

We were the first senior class to be given laptops in high school. It came with some monitoring application that allowed teachers to see when we were using our laptops, watch our screens, etc. We didn’t have the rights to disable it or kill the service but it took a buddy of mine in our programming class about a week to write a little program that would do it anyway.

Click a button and it kills the service. Click it again and the service restarts. This was even better than not being monitored at all because it gave teachers a false sense of security.

We could turn it on when attendance was being taken and then turn it off when test time came so we could Google all the answers. Also spent a lot of time chatting, playing alpha Minecraft, etc. when we were supposed to be taking notes in class. Basically just did whatever we wanted that year lol. Good times

8. That’s a good day right there.

I once bought a snickers and it knocked the bag of Doritos that was sitting against the glass down and i got both.

That’s it. I won life.

Game over.

7. Kids will make time to subvert the system.

In my school we got some of the first computers too and man did they try to shut those things down so we couldn’t sue them for anything but education.

However, that’s how I found the gems of portable flash-drive Minecraft and Halo. We made 4 versions of Halo CE and 2 of Minecraft, and even when they banned one, we still had the others to fallback on.

The kids in our school distributed flash-drives with the games on them and everyone downloaded them to their disks.

We had LAN games during breaks and classes and built some pretty awesome servers and custom Halo modes. We’d be playing it during class and as soon as the teacher came around everyone minimized the tab and we consecutively agreed to stop playing until the teacher had sat back down so no one would die during the ‘inspection’.

I even found a way to watch the educational version of YouTube, which included Good Mythical Morning, a funny channel I never knew I needed.

Twas the best experience I ever had in high school.

6. But you didn’t earn it, though.

Years ago, I played some little Flash game in my browser and at the end I could submit my score to an online scores list. But I noticed that on submitting the score, the browser redirected to a new address that had my player name and the score as URL parameters.

I copied the address, changed the score parameter to ‘9999999999999’, pasted in the new address, and got my name at the top of the list.

5. You gotta love capitalism.

I did this to pay for my Xbox one X. I actually do stuff like this pretty often, but I usually don’t say anything about it because you never brag about the things you get away with, that’s how you stop getting away with them.​

In this case, though, Game Stop was doing a deal where they would give an extra 70% on certain games and one of them was some plants vs. zombies game, they were offering $27/pop for them.

Come to find out, that specific game was on clearance at Walmart and target for $5/each. I went to every store that had stock within a 20 mile radius, then opened the games and traded them in. The first few Game Stops I went to only allowed me to trade in 5 copies at a time. Then only one.

By that time, though, I’d acquired about $250 in credit so I checked trade values on other games and purchased used copies (getting 10% off with pro membership) and re-traded them in at the next Game Stop I went to. Breath of the wild, pretty much any Pokemon game, and Mario Kart 8 were moneymakers, usually in the $15-20 range.

I stopped once I’d made enough to pay for my Scorpio Edition One X, I probably could have made even more, but I didn’t want to push my luck any further. Ended up paying about $70 total for the initial investment, and about 4 hours on my day off going back and forth.

God bless America.

4. It’s no one’s fault but their own.

My local grocery store has a mobile app offer that gives you a 10$ gift card if you spend $50+. It’s supposed to be one time use only… But I’ve used it like, 6-7 times. Because I use the self checkout, I can’t receive the gift card at time of purchase, therefore it doesn’t register to my store card that I’ve used the offer.

I also have a few receipts that customer service never marked off as having the offer redeemed, so I’ve been tempted to go back and try to redeem them again …

3. Quite clever, if you ask me.

In college I studied to be a teacher (it ended up not working out :/). I was taking a class where we learned how to create proper assessments and tests.

As part of the class, the professor would usually have us design test items for one or two questions during like quizzes and stuff. Then she said we’d be doing this for the final exam.

So the questions were all to be multiple choice. The /entire/ class got together and devised a system. The questions you design are all to include a person’s name (Mr. Allen or Mrs. Black). Whatever the first letter of their last name was would correlate with the answer options (A, B, C, D, or E).

We all finished the test in less than 10 minutes and nobody was the wiser when we all got 100%.

2. In case you’re the sort of person who enjoys self torture.

In monopoly, you buy as many houses as you can and never upgrade to hotels. You get to the point where they run out of house pieces so your opponent can’t buy them (all legal within the rules) and they have no options to upgrade.

Sit back and collect that rent yo.

1. This is a wholesome deal.

Back when me and my GF were poor I would go to the local supermarket (Sainsbury’s) at the end of the night when they were reducing food going out of date to a few pence.

Some of the items, at full price, were discounted for buying multiples e.g. £1 each or 2 for £1.50. The way the till worked, it would add £2 to the bill then deduct 50p at the end. Some of the stuff would be reduced to say 20p but if I bought 2 of them (40p) it would still deduct 50p at the end of the bill giving me a 10p profit.

I would buy loads of these and make the bill look reasonable by getting some “luxury” items, which in those days was stuff like coffee. As long as the bill was over a few pounds the tellers didn’t seem to notice.

Then I would go all round town giving the bulk of it to homeless folk and put the rest in the freezer.

TL;DR Sainsbury’s paid me to take food.

I love the small and big ways people get away with it, don’t you?

How do you game a system? Share with us in the comments!

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People Share the Worst Thing They’ve Witnessed at a Funeral

Funerals should be one of those sacred places where people are on their best behavior. Someone has died, their friends and family have gathered to remember them and say goodbye, so it seems like a no-brainer that guests should try not to be awful.

These 14 people definitely spied others who didn’t get the message, though.

14. That poor kiddo.

A few years back, when the uncle of my mother died my young cousin (8) cried a lot at the funeral. It took some time but eventually he calmed down and his parents went for a little walk with him for some distraction.

But then he noticed that his first name was written on one of the tombstones. He mentions it loudly and one of the bystanders said: ”Yeah its already reserved for you”.

He immediately started crying again…

13. When you can’t even give the man ONE DAY.

The gentleman had a large family and all of his siblings got up and made it all about themselves, dredged up old family drama, made it clear that they resented his wife, etc.

It was so painfully awkward.

12. You’d think he could keep it together for an hour.

My uncle was pissed about something in my grandmother’s Will. So during the funeral, he went out to the parking lot and keyed everyone’s car.

It should be noted, he has severe brain injury from a motorcycle accident that causes him to be constantly angry and paranoid. Still…

11. This is odd, but not terrible.

I had a fit of hysterical laugh at my father’s funeral just about the time people started to gather at the mortuary.

In my defense, my mother had a nervous breakdown (my father died 4 days after we found out he had lung cancer), there was a lot of shitty stuff surrounding the funeral organization, my mom just flipped, my siblings were 15 and lost so I was at 23 left to handle it all.

I kinda lost it.

10. Jeez. Talk about the wrong time and place.

My husband went to his great aunt’s funeral and while they did the little ceremony in the cemetery, great aunt’s granddaughters were all hiding behind a tombstone giggling and doing coke.

9. This makes me sick to my stomach.

One of my students’ mother died. I went to the funeral with the principal and the student’s integration aide.

After the funeral her father walked up to her and her grandmother and said “I want her out of the house by tomorrow morning”. She was 11 years old.

8. That scene belongs in a movie.

My brother in law is a mortician. Boy does he have stories….

One of the best- A guy disguised himself as a nun, shows up at the funeral, pulls a gun from under his habit and tries to shoot the deceased’s son. Luckily the gun malfunctioned and didn’t fire.

The son then decks the nun and knocks him out, kicks him in the head a few times, and is pulled off by other family. Police are called, yada yada yada… turns out the deceased owed the nun quite a lot of money and the son had refused to honor the debt.

7. Maybe he thought they were compliments?

Her ex told us about all the great things she did in bed and what a loss for mankind that is.

In present of her boyfriend.

6. No time to waste, I guess.

At my father’s funeral, one of my aunts asked my mom when would she get out of the house.

5. Was this an episode of The Office?

He handed out his business cards at his stepdaughter’s funeral.

There was very nearly a fistfight!

4. Ohhhh my heart.

I knew a guy who climbed up into the casket with his grandfather. This one’s sweet and wholesome.

He was around four years old. He wasn’t sure what was going on, and people weren’t giving him much attention. He asked someone what his grandfather was doing in a box at the front of the room. A relative, thinking they were explaining death in an age appropriate way, told him that grandpa went to sleep, and won’t wake up again.

So we went up to the casket, and climbed up. The room froze in shock. Then he said, “Good night, grandpa,” and he kissed him. Adults told him later you could hear a pin drop and there wasn’t a dry eye in the room.

3. What is wrong with people?

When my grandad passed and we went to view his body at the crematorium my aunt started stealing from the facility the second the employees back was turned.

Just shoving anything that wasn’t nailed down into her purse and pockets.

Unbelievable. And yes we called her out and made her put it all back.

2. None of this is ok.

My sister murdered her father(my stepfather…at the time we didn’t know she was guilty)

BTW Just so you know she did this purely for financial gain

During the viewing she drug her little boy to the casket and because he didn’t cry enough to suit her she pinched him on the upper arm until he was sobbing then took him around to everyone saying he was really crying because he loved his Gramps so much

1. This is truly awful.

No where near as bad as most comments but the family didn’t allow for his twin to speak.

Straight up skipped over the allocated time for the living twin to get up and speak about his brother. Who was his last remaining immediate family.

I don’t think I can ever forgive the late wife for putting him through that. She treated him so horribly all throughout the sickness, and then to not allow him to be a part of the funeral was the final nail in the coffin.

I don’t even know how I would handle these events!

Have you ever seen anyone act up at a funeral? Share the story with us in the comments!

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Brands That People Boycott Due to Poor Ethics

It can be difficult to figure out which brands to support and which to avoid, especially if you want to be a conscientious consumer. We don’t want to purchase products from companies that exploit children, who don’t care for their workers, who source meat from farms where animals are treated badly – and that’s just the start of the list.

If you’re someone looking to be responsible in your consumption, here are 16 brands people say to avoid.

16. Working conditions are terrible.

Fashion Nova is horrible. Fast fashion is a HUGE issue.

They exploit workers overseas enduring horrible conditions for very little pay and they also significantly hurt the environment.

15. Well that’s not very nice.

Lumber Liquidators should be on here.

They keep getting caught poaching endangered trees for hardwood flooring.

14. It’s like trying to avoid gluten.

Ever since they said water isn’t a human right, I’ve tried to avoid Nestlé products but it’s hard: they’re everywhere and sometimes you don’t realize that a brand is a subsidiary of Nestlé

13. Overseas labor practices are a huge minefield.

hey everyone check out the #payup movement.

people like kylie jenner haven’t paid workers in Bangladesh for like months now. There are people there surviving on a bag of rice for a f*cking month

it’s not just her, there are heaps of more brands doing this. The same brands that have been supporting BLM and hashtagging on twitter – turns out they’re a bunch of c&nts.

12. Because it’s as bad as it sounds.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP.

11. When you can’t quit, but you’d really like to.

If I could ditch the over priced insulin, I would in a heart beat but you know, I’d like to live.

Here in Canada, the vial is $40 CAN. In the US, the same vial by the same company is $550 CAN.

So freaking unethical overpricing life sustaining medication.

10. And let’s face it, it’s not worth the money.

Victoria’s Secret, among many others.

VS has most of their exorbitantly priced items made by free prison labor.

9. Why aren’t there better ticket options?

Ticketmaster.

Pearl Jam tried to sue them back in the day. No success.

“Hey buy this concert ticket for 50 bucks” … “Processing fee is $3000 and your firstborn”

Ugh.

8. Anyone who treats their employees like dirt.

All MLM and “network marketing ” companies.

Walmart, the humane society, I’m sure there are more but I can’t think of them at the moment.

7. No one respects teenaged girls.

Sinful Colors nail polish. 10+ years back my sister told me about how they took her friends nail art pictures and used them for marketing purposes.

She asked them to either give her credit or take them down and they refused.

6. When the money doesn’t go where you think.

Humane society of the United states. I worked as a volunteer for them in the office and saw how little money they take in from adoption and donations actually goes to the care of the animals. Most of it goes into administrative, (CEO, shareholder,etc) and media expense.

Its run like a school board runs things allocating money to the ones in power and upgrading their offices etc, instead of to the schools where it’s needed. They don’t vet their foster parents or workers either. I’ve seen so many workers abuse the animals in the shelters.

5. Theft is not cool.

I refuse to buy from Wish.

It’s a scam with horrible products but also they steal designs from real people and sell cheap shitty knockoffs with the original creators images

4. The term “banana republic” isn’t cute at all.

Chiquita Brands International because it’s the continuation of the infamous United Fruit Company.

United Fruit Company is the company that engineered a massacre of striking workers in Colombia.

3. I don’t like it at all.

Backcountry.com and it’s affiliated websites. They hired a bunch of lawyers to sue small businesses using the name ‘backcountry’ anywhere in it’s name or tag line.

Many of the companies were much older than backcountry.com. They have since sent out a ‘sorry we were caught’ letter, but there’s too many other outdoor companies that are run ethically, I can’t justify buying from backcountry.

2. They own so much of our online lives.

Facebook, too much shit revolving around them.

1. LulaRoe is a scam, friends.

My mother sells this out of our foyer. She put $5,000 on a credit card to get started 3 years ago and is still in the hole maybe $3,500. It’s a borderline scam.

Awful designs that you roll a die to get. You have to order a minimum quantity without getting to choose your designs. If they end up being ugly, well, you’re sitting on assets that no one wants.

For the smaller retailers, it’s basically a constant loop of buying items, then selling them at wholesale prices to other retailers because no one wants them for retail prices. So yeah, you get your money back. But remember, you spent $5,000 to play this game.

The company also appears to care very little about its “consultants.” They leave you in the dark while they bribe you with perks and prizes for making milestones in sales, but really you “earn” the ability to purchase the prizes.

My mother recently “won” a cruise, but it turned out she still had to pay the full price of the trip. You sign up under successful retailers because you fantasize about making bank like they are, but you soon find out they got special treatment to get to where they are. The company plays favorites and lets certain people choose which items they get, or even pick them out of a bin at the LulaRoe warehouse.

They’ll often get priority when a new “launch” happens, where these favorites get to place their orders first. And because they’re the favorites, they have more money to spend and very quickly buy out all of the popular items before the smaller retailers even get onto the website. The favorites get insider information to boost them even further as the icons of the company.

It’s a winner’s game. The little guy is screwed but the big players push them to continue because “look where it got me! I’m rich!”

It’s sh%t. Avoid LulaRoe.

I always want to do better but it can be hard to do the research on your own.

Are there any brands you would add to the list? Tell us what and why in the comments!

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People Dish on Their Favorite Ways to Game the System

Most people try their best to be honest and trustworthy when it matters, but listen…. when you live in a capitalist society, the little man can be a bit tired of getting taken advantage of by the Man, and well …they look for ways to take a little back.

If you’re feeling all “damn the man” today, here’s how 12 people choose to game the system.

Some actually pretty good tips here!

12. It’s not the worst strategy. Except you’re still playing Monopoly.

In Monopoly i always go aim for jail so i can make money without any risks.

11. I just call that being smart.

I took a portable x-ray machine home every night, it was mandatory. So if my dog or anyone I loved had a doggie that needed a radiograph not only was it free, it was read by a radiologist.

10. But do you have a cat?

I once got a few hundred cans of cat food that were in the 80c price range coupled with a 2$ off coupon. I got a ton of cat food free and in the range of 80 bux in groceries free since the grocery store doesn’t pay out like that with coupons.

Note, math is probably off as i don’t remember exact values. This was a few years ago.

9. This seems like risky business.

Frequented the same convenience store every morning on my way to work. About a week before I turned 20, I started telling the employees that my 21st Birthday was at the end of the week and I would be coming the buy my first legal beer.

Did this every day for a week. So at the end of the week when I got off work I went the that store, grabbed a 12 pack and the clerk said happy birthday, this ones on us. For the next year I bought beer there every weekend and never showed anyone an ID.

8. Kids, man.

I used to play Magic.

Went to a card shop in a different town while visiting my dad to pick up a couple packs. I did so, opened them, and pulled some good stuff so I decided to trade in the rates for more packs.

The employee used the store sell price to buy the cards off of me instead of their buy price.

I spent the next hour there opening packs and trading in my rates until the shift change happened and his replacement did things the right way.

I walked out with over an entire box worth minus most of the rares.

7. Sadly, most stores have a gallon limit now.

My uncle is a carpenter.

He buys gift cards to Lowe’s (home improvement store) from the grocery store, thousands of dollars’ worth at a time, and uses those to buy all his business supplies. Meanwhile the credit from buying the gift cards gets added to his grocery store loyalty card.

This is redeemable as discounted gas. Well, he also has a 500-gallon gas tank in his yard. A few times a year, he loads the back of his pickup with 50-gallon drums and uses the accumulated discount to fill them all up at a dollar-something per gallon, and then has half-price (or less) gas until the next trip in. “They set up the dominoes, I just knock ’em down,” he says.

6. That’s one way to find a bright side I guess.

I got suspended from school for a year.

The year below me had different requirements for the psychology major. Now I don’t have to take french

5. Capitalism for the win!

Back in the late 90s early 2000s we had this punk rock music store in our town. Well, record companies would send them all kinds of free sample stuff and they had a big tub at the entrance of the store where they put all the bumper stickers and album singles they got and the customers could just grab any of the stuff they want.

Well they started getting all of these N’Sync and Backstreet Boys bumper stickers and patches and posters… the store is not exactly the market for pop music.

My boyfriend and I grabbed all of the pop music stuff and sold them on eBay. Those teeny boppers wanted anything they could get their hands on. I was able to buy my first car!

4. I suppose these people talk.

Not mine but back in the early 2000s when blockbuster was trying to compete with GameStop. They were having a promo of trade in any 3 used games and get a new game for $10.

So my friend would go to GameStop and buy three madden games for dirt cheap. Less than $10 combined. He would then go to blockbuster and trade in those used games and get a new one for $10.

Eventually they caught on and he got banned from both stores.

3. Talk about winning the game.

bar down the street from me had a deal for 25oz domestic drafts for 2$. I’d order Labatt, and they would only charge me $2.

THAT’S A CANADIAN IMPORT BABY!

2. I never would have thought of this.

Short version is: cousin and I found keys to lockers on the bottom of the pool and returned them for five bucks a piece, used that money to then buy all day passes for three restaurants in the water park that we did all of this in.

Made out like f*cking bandits because we did this all day every day in the summer of 2009 or so.

Water park was called Aquatica, I spent my money on video games, he spent his on hair products

1. They weren’t prepared.

Game Stop has those promotions for 15-20% extra credit on trades, usually after E3. I took this opportunity to trade in a bunch of games, and spread them all out over the ones showcased in E3 to maximize my trade-ins.

After it’s all said and done and the transaction is complete, I’ll say “Okay, now I’d like to cancel all of those pre-orders”, and then put it toward something that wasn’t part of the promotion. Annoyed the store manager that was doing all of this, as it cost her 10 pre-orders. That’s how I got my 3DS XL.

I’m feeling some of these – so clever!

Do you have a tip to add to the list? Share it in the comments!

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People Consider All of These Things Signs of Bad Manners

Manners and propriety can seem old fashioned, but here’s the thing – some of them are outdated, and some were super specific and only applied to upper class interactions. Others, though, are just the respectful way to interact with society.

Eschewing those kind – like these 14 – shows a lack of caring about yourself, your friends and family, and anyone else you might run into on a daily basis.

14. Seriously – headphones!

People who let their kids watch annoying ass YouTube videos in public places without headphones. Pure trash.

13. I have no idea why a person would do this.

When I’m out with a friend and we meet someone they know but I don’t, and that person makes no effort to introduce themselves to me or include me in the conversation.

Like, I know I’m the designated Less Hot Friend but you don’t have to remind me of it

12. It’s so easy to throw away your trash.

Leaving their rubbish at a fast food restaurant.

Most offenders are parents who think it’s their day off or teenagers that have learned this behavior from said parents.

11. It’s just common courtesy.

People that don’t put their weights away at the gym.

God this pisses me off so much.

NOT EVERYONE HAS THE SAME LIFTING ROUTINE AS YOU CHAD.

I threw my back out pretty badly and the free weight machines were the only ones that didnt hurt me for some reason. Trying to lift a 20kg weight from heights above your waist with cooked spaghetti for a back is PAINFUL. I had to ask someone to help me move weights so I could use the machine once. So embarrassing.

10. And now with the one-way arrows…

When grocery shoppers leave their carts in the middle of the aisle instead of pulling over.

Come on folks… it’s not that hard!

9. Respect is earned.

People who act mean towards others for apparently no reason.

I got this friend who always talks down to younger people and I’m like “you need to gain people’s respect, don’t take it for granted”

8. It’s so simple and it goes a long way!

Not saying “Thank You” to stuff like someone holding a door open for them or a waiter/waitress refilling their drink.

Just be nice, please!

7. You’ve got to read the room.

Overstaying your welcome or inviting yourself to things. I had a friend who wouldn’t take no for an answer. Like get the hint. It’s midnight and you’ve been here all day.

I am not talking about someone who just doesn’t get hints because they are oblivious. I’m talking about someone who will make excuses and guilt trip their way into staying even after clear reminders that they need to leave soon. Or even just saying to them it’s time for them to get out.

If you don’t get hints that’s totally okay as long as you understand when someone asks you to leave.

6. That’s a good way to get a shot of saliva in your beverage.

People who click their fingers at waiting or bar staff.

5. Life doesn’t have to be a competition.

When they turn everything into a one up contest.

4. Don’t just wait to talk.

Interrupting mid sentence.

I know I’m guilty at times, it makes me feel like trash.

3. Understand when people are just doing their jobs.

Yelling at retail workers. Most recently about wearing masks or putting hand sanitizer on.

It takes little to no effort and people lose their minds over it

2. This isn’t kindergarten, folks.

Cutting!!!! In!!!!! Line!!!!!

This old lady tried to skip me in line (seemed easy for her as I was social distancing…) and I gave her “the look”, she then silently proceeds to walk over to the cashier to ask if she can cut in line…

The laughs from all of us waiting in line proceeded as she was denied via a confused “no you may not…” + a wtf look from the cashier ?

1. Any kind of grooming in public, tbh.

People who cut their nails on public transportation.

Do your grooming at home.

Don’t be like these people, y’all – consider those around you!

What would you add to this list? If something is missing, let us know in the comments!

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People Imagine What Animals Who Could Defeat Humans If They Really Tried

I know that humans have things like guns and (supposedly) higher brain function, but listen – don’t you think there are some cases when none of that is going to stand up to a horde of really sharp teeth and claws?

Or like…geese. If the geese formed a posse I would be on my way to an underground bunker so fast, y’all.

Here are 13 other people’s takes on the animals we should fear more than we do.

13. We should all be worried about those literal dinosaurs.

I’m worried about cassowarries.

They are fierce AF!

12. It’s a good thing most of them are domesticated.

Canadians.

Haha, no seriously… Canadians.

They look nice… but they’r enot.

11. What if they banded together?

750k deaths a year when mosquitoes aren’t making an effort.

Don’t mess with those things, fam!

10. I mean what if none of us could eat carbs again?

The ~3.5kg of bacteria that call your gut home and control your digestion.

They also carry more information in their DNA than you.

If they wanna wreck their vehicle you will not stop them.

9. You know what he’s talking about, right?

Don’t quote me on this, but I’m pretty sure there’s a movie series about this.

Planet of the…..of the…ummm…uhhhh…I can’t remember.

Oh, yeah! Apes!

8. When they party in your brain all night.

Spongebob showed my how deadly nematodes are.

Once they get inside of you.. game over!

7. If you’re not terrified of monkeys, you’re not paying attention.

Chimpanzees are the only other species than humans known to wage organized wars and to engage in torture.

They’re also the closest relatives to humans and the second smartest animal behind us.

6. Seriously you don’t want to know too much about dolphins.

Dolphins.

They can easily kill sharks. They gang up on them and basically ram them to death.

Oh, and they have attacked humans in captivity.

5. Or just give us all horrible diseases.

I’ve played Dishonored a lot, so I believe that rats could eat all the Humans easily if they wanted to.

4. I would like these ants to stay off of my continent please and thank you. Fire ants are enough.

I lived in East Africa for 6 years and I love watching giant African siafu ants. Sometimes the ants will make a tunnel – a tunnel of ants – that let the others pass from one place to another safely.

They’ve got a good bite on them too! My rule has always been that if you can see siafu, you’ve got them on you somewhere, so check your legs! I once got a load of them under my jeans and so ran into my house, whipped off my jeans and jumped in the shower. BAD. MOVE. As soon as the water hit my body, these guys all bit down HARD in unison, leaving me frantically trying to brush them off me. Now, in the bush, siafu are a handy part of any first-aid routine because they bite so hard and so firmly that you can use them as field stitches. It took me a while to pick off each individual ant, but I learned a valuable lesson!

I’ve heard stories about drunk people passing out and being found the next day having been almost picked clean by siafu.

That’s a hell of a way to go…

3. Some people are just a little too confident in weapons, I think.

Yeah, it’s like literally nobody in this thread has heard of the flamethrower.

There is no animal that could deal with modern weaponry.

2. I mean you’ve seen Finding Nemo, right?

Fu*ckin Seagulls.

Swooping down and ruining your life!

1. We’re trying to test that theory.

Forget animals fighting us – bees could wipe out at least a sizable majority of humans by doing precisely nothing.

This list just cracked me up! Thinking about some of these guys organizing (but seriously, keep the monkeys away from me!).

What would you add? What animal are you most afraid of? Tell me in the comments!

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Animals That Could Take Us All Out If They Decided They’d Had Enough

We like to think we’re at the top of the food chain, but in reality that’s not even close to the truth. Sure, we can use tools and (some of us) have developed higher level thinking, but listen – don’t get too comfortable, y’all.

If we piss these 16 animals off enough, they can definitely take us all down.

16. You should learn something new every day.

Nematodes. Here’s some fun facts about our worm overlords!

There are 57 billion nematodes per person on Earth, making them 80% of all animals here. They have an incredible reproductive rate – the intestinal roundworm can lay 200 000 eggs in a day.

Nematodes are very hardy and are found in diverse and hostile environments, from deserts to Antarctica. 8 species of Nematodes have been found to live in Mono Lake, which contains deadly levels of arsenic. When tested, those nematodes were found to be capable of tolerating 500x the lethal dose of arsenic for humans.

Oh, many of them are parasitic, including 60 types that prey on humans. That’s actually relatively low, considering there are 25 000 parasitic nematodes for vertebrates.

You know how the tardigrade gets credit for being one of the few organisms capable of surviving in outer space? Well, the nematode species C.elegans is the only species who has survived a virtually unprotected atmospheric re-entry to Earth during the 2003 Space Columbia disaster.

Most nematodes are small, but not all. Placentonema gigantissima can span up to 8-9m in length and lives in the placenta of sperm whales.

Hope you enjoy this bit of trivia! Let’s end with a quote by nematologist Nathan Cobb.

“If all the matter in the universe except nematodes were swept away, our world would still be dimly recognizable… we should find mountains, hills, vales, rivers, lakes and oceans represented by a film of nematodes”

15. We’re doing a good job all on our own.

Humans seems to be pretty fed up with each other a lot of the time?

14. An argument could be made for either. Or both.

I know the answer is supposed to be ants, but it really sounds like you are describing a sharknado.

13. I am legit terrified of monkeys.

Chimpanzees are the only other species than humans known to wage organized wars and to engage in torture.

They’re also the closest relatives to humans and the second smartest animal behind us.

12. Take the watermelon, leave the cannoli.

Ants I would think.

I’ve seen videos of those giant African seifu things walking into peoples houses stealing their watermelons.

They just sort of go…ok.

It’s you guyses watermelon, just stay away from me.

11. In case you weren’t convinced.

Bats… apparently.

Plus the rabies. Where I live, if you get bats, you can’t even get them removed or relocated because they are considered endangered(wrong word, protected). You’re only allowed to wait for them to leave and try to patch wherever they got in… but they can fit in holes smaller than them, similar to mice.

Cute yet terribly horrific creatures.

10. Or been to the beach?

Have none of you seriously seen “the birds”

They will f*ck us up!

9. They don’t care at all.

Mother f*cking honey badgers.

Not only are they good guns but they don’t give a sh%t at all.

8. Same goes for small monkeys. *shudder*

If rats band together and attack in waves is disease we are done.

7. With their cuteness, maybe.

Those bit*ha$s raccoons.

Have you seen their little hands?

Nothing but evil, y’all!

6. Or if they died…oh.

We’d all be fucked if the pollinators went on strike.

No food. We’d starve.

Truth.

5. Lord I hate flies.

Flies.

They just have to fart on our food or kamikaze down our throats and we’d all die from sickness.

4. Actually like most of the animals in Australia.

The emu’s, I’m looking at you Australia.

Have you seen their feet?

They will mess some sh*t up!

3. If they team up with the geese all is lost.

Ducks.

They would form some sort of alliance with swans and geese, then bully the rabbits into joining.

The ducks would use the rabbits to tempt foxes out, the foxes would lure fox hunters and their pack of hounds into traps.

Fox hunters are usually posh people with power in government.

So Ducks.

2. Only if you like nightmares.

You should read about prions.

The diseases they cause are grim. Mad Cow Disease is the most famous, but kuru also possesses a certain notoriety thanks to its unorthodox mode of transmission.

Although uncommon, prion diseases are incurable and bring dementia swiftly followed by death. In the case of spontaneous Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (sCJD), the most common prion disease, half of patients are dead within six months of symptom onset. That figure reaches 95% within a year.

In a particularly vexing twist, prions are also nearly impervious to destruction, even when attacked using a strenuous combination of disinfectants, heat, and pressure.

1. Look at this hot take.

None.

There is a reason we are where we are. Even if the wave of ants (the most popular answered here) flood the earth we will fight bqck.

We are able to cover the cities in pesticides. We are able to live in subzero temperatures, we are able to heat up the planet and burn/flood the areas.

We are able to build cities in sea when no ant can reach us.

Only humans are able to get rid of humans at this point. And even this is barely possible.

I don’t want to think too long and hard about this, honestly!

What animal do you think is missing from this list? Add it in the comments!

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Brands Whose Ethics Are Costing Them Customers

Many people don’t want to know all of the bad, immoral, and even questionable practices of the brands they shop and love. It makes it easier to turn a blind eye, continuing to buy what we enjoy and not worry too much about the other stops in the process.

If you’re someone who is concerned about animal welfare, child labor, human rights violations, and safe practices, you might want to scroll through this list of 13 companies who are not doing it right.

13. Please, please don’t take my Ben & Jerry’s.

Digiorno and tons of frozen food brands are owned by nestle too.

They own so many brands that it’s hard to not buy from them and still buy any packaged foods.

They don’t own Ben & Jerrys though!

12. As if small businesses don’t have enough troubles.

Zara, they’re disgusting.

They straight up steal designs and ideas from small businesses and refuse to give credit or pay for what they’ve taken.

Their clothing is overpriced poor quality garbage.

11. Not basically – it is.

Tik Tok – it’s basically Chinese spyware.

Also, it’s just Vine.

Next.

10. Color me not-shocked.

Random one, but Kylie Jenner.

She exploited young fans by saying she didn’t have fillers and looks like she has big lips from wearing lipstick and liner. Then sold Kylie lip kits to take advantage of self conscious girls wanting bigger lips, and seriously thinking that she hadn’t used filler.

She stole designs from smaller brands and used them for her own clothing, pretending her company made the designs.

Then her skincare is awful. Overpriced stuff that barely works, and the scrub will cause serious damage to your skin.

Another which some have commented on. She isn’t paying her workers in Bangladesh. She is taking advantage of desperate people in order to save money…when she is close to being a billionaire.

Overall she just exploits her fans for money. Nothing she does is actually as good as it is made out to be.

9. The big ones are always bullies.

Walmart and Amazon. I work for a small transport company so Ive seen how they bully small companies with fines for like, everything if you don’t do things their way.

Plus they also have a lot of internal stories about terrible employee treatment.

8. “If I would have known that was frowned upon…”

Lenovo.

It seems every year they are either putting malicious code or conveniently overlooked security backdoors into their hardware.

And when called out on it, their response is “Was that wrong?

Should we not have done that?”

7. The actual story here is terrible.

Honestly, McDonald’s.

After running that poor old lady through the mud for literally serving coffee that was dangerously hot and then refusing to pay her bills over their coffee being so hot that it gave her third degree burns and nearly killed her after putting her in shock….

All she wanted was her medical bills paid for. She only sued because they kept refusing, despite the courts saying that 190 degree coffee was too dangerous to serve in the end. They were in the wrong, and painted her lawsuit as frivolous and that she was the idiot.

Coffee is hot, but it shouldn’t be served at 190 degrees…. Plus the way they treat the franchisees and employees. Food ain’t good enough for me to want to give them any money.

6. It’s made by a kid like you.

I will never forget when I was in the 4th grade, wearing a GAP kids tank top.

A cool teenager told me that the GAP uses child labour and I just thought, “oh sh%t”.

I’ve never bought anything from the GAP to this day.

5. When the same ones keep coming up…

Nestlé and its brands, Mars, Hershey, and Folgers.

More generally I don’t buy any chocolate, coffee, or clothing that uses exploitative labor, as far as is in my power.

Lots of child slave labor in those industries.

4. This one would be so tough.

I’m really trying to stop shopping on Amazon.

It’s tough. I live in a pretty rural area and I’m not shopping in stores at all lately, but I’m finding substitute vendors for things I can’t do without…

3. You can feel the awful in their ads.

Wish.com.

They openly market illegal/dangerous products (glock auto sear) and sell products copied from creators without consent.

2. It’s a darn shame.

Nestle.

I love crunch bars and butterfingers but once I learned how nestle operates I stopped buying them.

1. Terrible person, terrible company.

Well in light of recent events Jeffree Star cosmetics.

He’s racist AF!

Some of these are super disappointing – I already had to give up my Hershey’s Kisses!

Is there something you’d add to the list? Tell us what company and why you don’t buy from them in the comments!

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Actions That People Say Prove a Person Has No Manners

Some people probably think that manners are antiquated or overrated, but as someone raised in the Midwest, I can promise you that for more of us, that’s simply not true.

The thing is, we live in a society, and we’re all better off if there’s some kind of bar as far as how to act when we’re in a group setting, don’t you think?

If you’re worried about your manners, or those of your kids, here are 16 things people say are a dead giveaway that yours are lacking.

16. No one wants to watch your kids.

I used to work in a toy shop and people thought it was okay to just leave their kids to run around while they went shopping.

We had to call security so many times to find the parents because they just wouldn’t understand our shop was not a play area.

15. Just be aware of your surroundings.

Standing in the middle of the aisle at a grocery store.

Not returning the cart.

14. It’s called headphones, people.

Blasting music on the bus, absolute tw*ts.

13. The movie is not a babysitter.

People who let their kids run around in a movie theater, kick the back of your seat repeatedly, and hang on you.

12. Clean up after yourself.

People who leave their litter and uneaten food all over fast food restaurant tables, and the floor area.

11. My 3yo already does this, so.

Coughing or sneezing without covering your mouth.

10. I do not understand why people do this.

When they walk into an elevator before you have a chance to get off.

Same w buses and subways.

9. We all know about please and thank you, right?

When you offer your time and money to drive someone and they don’t thank you for the ride.

8. That’s a quick way to decide you don’t need him as a friend.

Hung out with a co-worker once and he threw all his garbage out the window of his car onto the street.

Never hung out with him again.

7. It’s like he thinks he lives with a maid?

so i have a roommate who i’m entirely convinced has absolutely no manners whatsoever.

for context, i live in the barracks, so i have no choice but to live with this guy. i have a million and a half stories about this guy, but i guess i’ll start with the basics. doesn’t clean up after himself, and refuses to help clean – even if he’s a guest in someone else’s home. chain smokes/vapes in peoples cars, flicks ash “out the window” but everyone knows that literally will just kick it back into the jeep.

tries to constantly “teach” people things, and will talk your ear off and basically just dominate the conversation. no listening or allowing for a different perspective. motherfucker literally introduced himself to me as “the smartest man in any room”

he plays music and sings in the shower at 4, 5, 6 in the morning and will take 45+ minute showers – 20 minutes to sit on the toilet and 25 to have his concert. the last straw for me was when i came home on leave and saw his flesh light sitting out in the common area table.

we’ve stopped inviting him to places. he sits in his room alone playing xbox all day because i’m not responsible for teaching a 21 year old child basic manners. it’s not happening.

6. Wait, people really do this?

When you’re having a nice chat with someone and they start saying things that don’t seem to make sense to you….then you realize they just answered a call on their @#$% bluetooth phone ear thingy and are not even talking to you any more.

5. Stuff like this breaks my heart.

Inviting everyone in the friend group to an event and excluding just one friend then proceeding to talk about how much fun they’re going to have at said event in front of the person that was purposely excluded , in front of everybody.

Happened today and thought it was pretty rude.

4. It’s like they don’t even notice.

Apartment neighbors who slam their doors as hard as they can.

3. Everyone needs to teach their kids this.

When I was a kid in the 80’s, I was driving with a neighbor and I chucked a piece of trash out the window.

She immediately pulled over and made me get out and pick it up. Lesson learned.

2. They think kids are exempt.

Parents who let their children run rampant anywhere.

I’ve seen parents watch as their kid pops their fingers through every package of meat at the grocery store and do nothing….

Parents who let their kids kick a strangers shoe or other belongings

Letting the kids spit on windows and rub it with their hands.

Letting them run around the store, playing with anything and everything and leaving a mess for others to clean and the parents literally just ignore it!!!

I never understood that. They really are your obligation, not the store associate who’s unlucky enough to be working the shift you happen to stroll in during.

Be a parent!!! Bad kids can turn into crappy people

1. Just use your turn signals – that’s what they’re there for!

I can’t even fully understand why this makes me so angry. I am a generally calm person. I’m not hot-headed at all. But when someone doesn’t use a turn signal my blood boils so fast it’s insane!

I think in my mind I assume “if you can’t operate the most basic function of your vehicle mandated by the law – then you have no business driving at all”.

I don’t do any of these – props to my mom and dad!

Is there anything you would add to this list? Tell us what and why in the comments!

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