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10 People Reveal the Worst Thing They’ve Done While Drunk

Oh boy, this should be interesting.

Admit it, you’ve done some seriously stupid sh*t when you’ve been drunk.

And so have these AskReddit users…and they’re here to tell us all about it.

1. Tacos!

“Got drunk, went to a taco shop, loudly exclaimed “these tacos are awesome!” and then wrote a $400 tip on the tip line of my receipt. I honestly don’t remember if I meant to actually tip 400 since the tacos were so good, or 4.00 and forgot the decimal, but I was able to get the charge reversed luckily since I was a poor college kid who didn’t even have $400 in my account. Almost died when I woke up to overdraft alerts on my phone though.”

2. A little accident

“I had just passed out and I must have gotten up to go pee, but the only thing I remember is being in the attic squatting and when I stood up my foot fell through the ceiling.

The next morning I woke up with scratches and bruises all down my leg and a huge hole in the ceiling with a pee stain around it. I honestly don’t remember how I got up there.

What’s crazy about it is, you had to walk through our closet on the other side of the room and climb a flight of stairs to get to the attic. The bathroom was 4 feet away from where I was sleeping.”

3. This is a common occurrence

“Woke up to 20 dollars in my wallet, thought to myself “I left with $60 so I only spent $40″

Look at bank account and realize I took out $200 more throughout the night. Damn you drunk me, Damn youu!”

4. Face palm

“I thought my Xbox broke cause it wasn’t ejecting the disk, and drunk me thinks he’s a technical genius, so he tried to fix it.

Sober me found my Xbox in pieces the next morning, and spent $60 to get it repaired. Oh, and there was never even a disk stuck in it.”

5. Fighting

“Started stupid dramatic fights with my husband. I would get upset over a little bit of nothing and bitch at him for no real reason. I don’t think I ever said anything too devastating, but I know I made him feel terrible lots of times. Thing is, he’s just the best guy. He never picks fights and has to be pushed really hard before he gets upset. He didn’t deserve any of that, and I still regret it. Two-and-a-half years sober.”

6. Why not?

“I’m a man. On a drunken shopping spree with my mate, I bought a women’s bras and panties and then rushed home so I could try them on. I passed out pretty soon afterwards. The next day when my girlfriend came to visit, she found me passed out undressed and surrounded by lingerie. I had a pretty tough time explaining I wasn’t cheating on her. I still have no clue why I bought them.”

7. Free drinks!

“I had recently graduated from a Christian university where you are required to abstain from consuming alcohol (you need to sign an agreement and everything). I had not yet moved off campus and couldn’t really afford to yet.

A work function gave us our first 8 drinks free, I took full advantage of this opportunity… and then a little bit more. Some barhopping, 8 cocktails, 3 jack and cokes, and some drunk wandering later, a homeless man approached me offering to sell me a Target gift card.

I bought it for $20 then stumbled drunk to Target and got myself kicked out.

I honestly have no idea how, but I made it back to the dorms somehow. I made it to the shared bathroom, stripped, exploded from both ends and passed out in my own mess. Eventually, security found me and took me in to file a report.

The following weeks were some of the scariest in my life. I had no money and had the looming threat of being kicked out of my apartment. Nothing happened of it though. So I guess the worst thing that happened was losing $20 to a gift card that didn’t work.

Also if you are reading this and had to clean up that bathroom, I am so sorry. Please forgive me.

Drunk me doesn’t make good decisions.”

8. Brandy and iced tea

“I drunk-texted my ex-girlfriend after getting extremely piss-drunk off brandy and iced tea. It led to us getting back together and a very bad, abusive relationship that followed.”

9. Hide and seek

“Drunk Me hides my things all. the. time. I wake up in the morning, head throbbing. Can’t find my keys or my wallet or my purse or my shoes.

Where’s my keys? Oh look, it totally makes sense that they’re in the freezer inside of the bag of frozen fruit. My wallet is in that bag of DVDs that I haven’t looked at since I moved into my apartment. One shoe is on the kitchen counter, the other one is tucked under a blanket by the front door. WHY do I even have a blanket by the front door?! WHO KNOWS.”

10. Heavy drunkening

“I woke up one morning after a heavy drunkening, went into the kitchen and saw my front door key, on it’s own, bent in half in the middle of the kitchen floor. It’s usually attached to a keyring with about 6 other keys.

I tried to think back to what the hell I did, vaguely remember being that pissed up I couldn’t get the key in the lock, when I did I finally bent it in half but managed to get the door open. Walked into the living room and decided it was the keys fault, so in a rage somehow ripped the keyring apart with my bare hands and launched the keys all over the room.

Took my about 3 days to find them all, there were keys behind the television, under the sofa, in plant pots etc.”

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911 Dispatchers Share What Crimes Happen More Often Than You Think

I have a friend who is a 911 dispatcher and he tells me some pretty crazy and ridiculous stories, so I can only imagine what that job is like on a daily basis.

A bunch of dispatchers shared their stories on AskReddit about what crimes happen a lot more often than you would probably think.

1. Watch the alarm

“I remember being surprised by how many bank alarm calls there were. Turns out, bank tellers accidentally bump the silent alarm button fairly often.”

2. Missing

“Cop here, not a crime, but the amount of missing people reported is insane. Normally juvenile runaways but I feel like it’s hundreds a day.”

8. Theft

“Former 911 operator;

What surprised me was the sheer amount of big-ticket item theft…

I’m talking like they walked into an electronics store and walked out with a 50″+ TV (or two or three or whole damn pallet of them)…or walking into a sporting goods store and walking out with a canoe.

It just floored me as to how frequently it happens. I guess if you act like you’re supposed to be walking out of the store with a canoe, people don’t seem to ask too many questions.”

4. Suspicious

“My friend who was a 911 operator says that suspicious packages are reported all the time. 99.9999% of the time they’re backpacks left by homeless people.”

5. Not very serious…

“As a former 999 operator, these ‘crimes’ were reported regularly-

Car parked across someone’s driveway

Neighbors having a barbeque

Fireworks, even on Bonfire Night or New Year

Kids ‘hanging around’

Children playing football

‘I’m really drunk and I’ve lost my friends and I haven’t got any money left, you need to come and pick me up’ (No, we won’t)

‘Yeah, what it is yeah, it’s all kicking off, get down here now!’ “

6. Serious crime

“Lest anyone forget, you forgot to add to your list the ignorant aholes who call cops on little kids for running a godd*mn lemonade stand.”

7. Depressing

“Mom does dispatch. Not actually a crime per se but suicides. The number of times she tells me about talking to a parent/spouse/child that just found their loved one dead from suicide is depressing in and of itself. We live in Utah so our suicide rate is higher than almost everywhere in the nation.”

8. Family violence

“Criminal lawyer here who has to listen to 911 recordings daily.

Family violence. Husband/wife, parent/child, elder abuse.

Almost every victim tells me by the time it’s a criminal offense that’s reported, it’s been going on for years. And usually? It’s someone from outside the family that reports.”

9. Old folks

“Alarm Company Dispatcher here

Old people slip out of bed ALL THE TIME. You don’t really think about it but if they can’t really move, they will probably just get into bed barely resulting in them falling out of bed during the night.”

10. Lock your cars

“Larceny from your vehicle. Especially when your car is unlocked (which is stupid to ever do). People who break into cars for a “living” are quick, able to get in and out without breaking anything, and will take anything they can find.”

11. Fraud

“On the non-emergency side of the police calls we get, fraud and identity theft are really on the rise. Especially preying on the elderly, calling and saying a loved one is in jail and making them “pay” over the phone for bail. We have dozens of fraud calls pending every day. People are so trusting and naive to the fact that people are scamming them.”

12. DUI

“DUI. We may have the plate, the location, the info of the driver but if the officer can’t find them there’s nothing that can be done.

To add onto that, I might tell an officer that they are obviously intoxicated and they clear the call with nothing done. They do that because DUI cases are a pain in the ass and often don’t amount to anything which is a shame considering the amount of work that goes into them.???????”

13. Gettin’ towed

“I had no idea how many cars get towed out of private lots. Years ago my wife and I were out and she suggested we just park in some strip mall’s lot. There were signs everywhere advising you’ll be towed so I decided against it.

Fast forward 4 years and I work for the agency that covers that parking lot. They tow a few cars every night. Never knew so many places made good on the threat.”

14. Hmmmm

“(S)extortion, by which I mean people getting naked for a stranger during a Skype chat, that stranger records and/or takes a bunch of screenshots, and then tells them it’ll take $500 or more to prevent the video/pictures from being all over Facebook.

This used to be an occasional deal, maybe once every couple weeks, but lately, there are a few that come in every other day. A lot of it seems to come from the Philippines, or at least that’s where the money gets sent, and yes some people do send the money.”

15. Gangs

“911 Dispatcher here. Gangs are very common. The most affluent part of my county has a rather dangerous gang and all the rich people in their gated communities are either ignorant or in denial. One woman was even offended that I even suggest the very notion it was possible.”

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14 Tattoo Artists Admit the Tattoos They’ll Judge You For

Being a tattoo artist has to be kind of weird. They probably get to do a lot of cool tattoos…but they also get stuck doing a whole lot of weird/lame/embarrassing art.

These 15 tattoo artists shared the tattoos they actually judge their customers for.

1. Bridget

“I try not to judge but I have a difficult time not doing so sometimes.

The most interesting tattoo I’ve ever done was on a guy who came in wanting the words, “Bridget, I’m sorry. I was wrong. I love you.” I would say it was the most dumb tattoo I’ve ever done, but…well you just have to have the full picture.

The story goes like this: 38-year-old guy was dating and living with his girlfriend of two years. She wanted to get married. He was reluctant because she didn’t fit some ideals he had in his head for his long-term partner. They were all superficial things: she was shorter than he liked, and blonde. He preferred brunettes. So she left him. Two months later he realizes he made a huge mistake. The only problem is that she’s moved on and is dating someone and has made it clear that she’s not interested.

This is when this gentleman comes to get the tattoo that is going to solve all of his problems. He tells me that he’s arranged to have dinner with her in a week. He intends to plead for her to come back to him, and when she inevitably doubts his sincerity, he will reveal his tattoo as a sign of his commitment. I try to talk him out of it, but he’s an adult, sober, and of seemingly sound mind. I do the tattoo.

Cut to that very next day. It’s my off day. I’m at my friend’s subdivision pool and I notice this guy who is remarkably attractive. He’s also playing around with some of the kids there and I lean over to my friend and inquire as to Hotty McHottypant’s identity. She tells me about how he’s the new boyfriend of her pretty blonde neighbor who had just gotten out of a long term relationship. Her name? You guessed it. Bridget. In the flesh.

At this point I’m wriggling with the excitement of seeing this girl in person, and the anxiety of having knowledge of what is about to happen to her without being able to reveal it.

Over the next few days, little billboards start popping up around town. “Bridget, I’m sorry. I was wrong. I love you.”

We all know how this is going to end. Bridget sees the tattoo, freaks out, and this guy leads the rest of his life with an uncomfortable tattoo.

But that’s not what happened!

He has dinner with Bridget. She sees the tattoo, and she completely changes her mind. She breaks up with her boyfriend, gets back together with her ex. And three months later, they get engaged. They have a destination wedding, and are still married today. I know this because I saw both of them at that same pool three and a half months later and they both came over and Bridget gave me a big hug and thanked me. Also, the billboards earlier that month all over town that said, “Bridget, I love you. Will you marry me?” helped tip me off.

And that’s my story of how the dumbest tattoo I’ve ever done ended up being not dumb at all. I wouldn’t recommend anyone else trying it though.”

2. Hahaha

“I’m a welder, I have a coworker with a Miller logo tattoo. Non-welders, this is the equivalent of an office worker getting a tattoo of the PowerPoint start screen.”

3. Couples

“I particularly enjoy watching the couples that come in and want each other’s names or matching tattoos. They always seem like they just hate each other – lots of griping and b-tching, low talking and indecisiveness.”

4. Classy

“Not a tattoo artist, but during a regrettable time in my life I hooked up with a guy who had “make poop” tattooed on his knuckles. One word on each hand.”

5. Creeper dude

“My artist told me a story (one of the only tattoos he ever refused to do) was about this patchy creeper dude walking in the shop and asked for a tattoo of himself, naked, with clown makeup on, with a sock over his junk standing. Probably the most terrible/uncomfortable proposition I could imagine.. dude is probably dead or in prison by now.”

6. Scrubbed

“I’ve scrubbed into a few amputations. I cant give specifics, but if you ever find yourself in a position where you are going to lose a limb and want to make sure you’re getting the best damn medical treatment ever, tattoo something ridiculously stupid in that area. A lot of surgeons I’ve worked with try to just get through the day, but they will put in 110% if it means preserving a particularly stupid tattoo.”

7. Potato

“I wanted to get a potato on my ankle since I was a kid. I’m 34 now and I still want one. I had a tattoo artist flat out refuse because he thought it was stupid. I tried to explain the reference but he wouldn’t listen. So I’m pretty sure there was judgement there.”

8. No more stars

“I asked an artist which tattoo he loathed to do and he just said, “Stars man, f-cking stars.” “

9. Never got back to me…

“I had a guy message wanting a portrait of his son, his kid was about 4/5 yrs old in this picture, and he was putting his middle finger up and covering his mouth and nose with this hand. I thought it was different but showed some uniqueness to it so fair enough, I agreed to do it. Before his appointment he asked if I could remove the hand, I explained I can’t guess what his mouth and nose look like, he never got back to me with an alternative picture.”

10. None left

“I was in the chair getting part of my sleeve done when one of the dudes came into the back room and told my tattooist that there was a young woman at the desk who wanted some stars tattooing on her arm. He sighed loudly and told the other guy to tell her that sorry but they’d run out of stars so no can do.”

11. Two stories

“I have two stories.

My boyfriend is the artist so I hear a lot of stories. The two that come up frequently about what tattoos he has judged (at all) are these.

A woman comes in and wants an infinity symbol. Sure. Easy enough. EXCEPT, she wants it made out of other smaller infinity symbols. The artist who did it died a little inside.

This one my boyfriend did (and I was there for this one).

A guy comes in wanting his girlfriends name tattooed on him. Stupid, yet common.

But he wants her name, on his penis.

Her name:

Chastity.

There is a guy walking around with Chastity.

Also, the shop charges a 100 dollar penis holding fee on top of what the tattoo would normal cost.”

12. Genitals

“So a buddy of mine is a traveling tattoo artist– he just travels the world and works as a guest artist at tattoo shops.

So this time he’s in Thailand and an older white couple comes in, husband seems to have had a few drinks. Husband wants to have his wife’s name tattooed on his genitals. My buddy straight up denies the request (drunk, genitals, etc), but another artist decides to go through with it.

Next day, the couple returns, but they are instead arguing on the way in. Apparently it was a ‘if you do it, I’ll do it too’ kind of agreement, but the wife wants no part of it.”

13. Okay…

“A girl I know got a tattoo of a ladybug.

It wasn’t a normal ladybug. It was a ladybug with a 5 inch long human penis going down her arm.”

14. Irony

“I judged one girl hard when she came into dad’s shop. She had just turns 18 the day before, and wanted three tattoos at once. The first was a hand holding a cigarette, the second said something along the lines of “no regrets” in French, and the third was a lip print on her buttcheek. The irony was lost on nobody.”

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Check out These 12 Popular Sayings That Absolutely Do Not Translate to English

Other languages and cultures have sayings and idioms just like we have in English, but when you go to translate them, sometimes it just doesn’t quite work.

Or, like in these 12 cases, they don’t work at all. In any way.

Enjoy!

#12. Wow.

“There’s a saying in Polish that means suck my dick but translates literally to “Make me an ice cream”.”

#11. Are pumpkins bad?

“In Spanish you can say “dar calabazas a alguien,” which means to brush somebody off.

But in English literally translated it means “to give pumpkins to someone”

#10. All of German.

“Basically the entire German language makes no sense translated into English. Here is about 0.00001% of those:

“Holla the wood fairy” – Expression of surprise

“My dear Mister singing club” – Expression of surprise

“You’re heavy on the woodway” – You’re completely mistaken

“There the pope dances in chain mail” – That’s completely crazy

“That’s upper ape tits horny” – That’s super awesome

“I came on the dog” – I found pleasure unexpectedly

“I believe my pig is whistling” – I can’t believe it

“You’re a real ass violin” – You’re a major dickhead

“He’s making an ape circus” – He’s making a fuss over nothing

“I took the ass card” – I got the worst option

“He gave me the black Peter” – He said it was my fault though it wasn’t

“You made me a bear service” – You tried making it better but fucked it all up

“Everything in butter?” – Everything alright?

“I only understand train station.” – I don’t understand anything

“It’s highest rail road!” – It’s incredibly urgent!”

#9. Apt.

“The Communists are in the fun house” -my Danish friends when referring to being on their periods.”

#8. In Spanish.

“Spanish sayings:

“To flip the omelette.” When something goes in a certain way but turns out into another way.
“Be a melon”. Be stupid.
“Into good hours, green sleeves”. You are late.
“Be fried”. Be tired, be sleeping, be mad.
“Wood to the monkey, he is made of rubber”. Do something without consecuences.
“Swallow them bent”. Believe all that people tells.
“Two tits have more pull than two wagons”. Sometimes guys do things just for hitting a woman that they won’t do for anything else.
“To give him to eat away from the rest”. Weird person, better if he stays out.
“Having only two news program left”. Going to die soon.
“Or everyone fucks or we throw the whore to the river”. People should be conside equal.”

#7. Into the eye.

“In Lithuania we say “fell into the eye” (e.g. “he fell into her eye”) when someone gets attracted to another person or falls in love.”

#6. Wut.

“Having an “arse full of noodles” is a french expression that could rougly translate to “being on a lucky streak”. It took me a while to figure that one out.”

#5. You know what that means…or do you?

“In France, we say “we didn’t keep the pigs together” when someone is overly familiar.”

#4. On shrimp.

“There’s a Spanish saying that goes: “The shrimp that falls asleep is carried by the current.”

In other words: you snooze, you lose.”

#3. If you can’t share cherries…

“In Germany you say “Cherry eating is not good with him/her.”

It means it is a person you don’t want to be with.”

#2. Lost in translation.

“My Dutch father used to sometimes say to me (in Dutch), “you look like you spent your last time on candy.” Apparently this was a popular Dutch idiom once upon a time.

Later, we moved to the Netherlands and I began to understand that the Dutch are quite thrifty and the idea of using your last bit of money on something as ephemeral as a sweet does sound miserable. But to an American child, it seemed like a pretty good use of 10¢.”

#1. Literally.

“鬼拍後尾枕, Literally “ghost hitting you in the back of the head”

It describes that feeling of you forgetting something important, on the tip of your tongue.”

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Check out These 12 Popular Sayings That Absolutely Do Not Translate to English

Other languages and cultures have sayings and idioms just like we have in English, but when you go to translate them, sometimes it just doesn’t quite work.

Or, like in these 12 cases, they don’t work at all. In any way.

Enjoy!

#12. Wow.

“There’s a saying in Polish that means suck my dick but translates literally to “Make me an ice cream”.”

#11. Are pumpkins bad?

“In Spanish you can say “dar calabazas a alguien,” which means to brush somebody off.

But in English literally translated it means “to give pumpkins to someone”

#10. All of German.

“Basically the entire German language makes no sense translated into English. Here is about 0.00001% of those:

“Holla the wood fairy” – Expression of surprise

“My dear Mister singing club” – Expression of surprise

“You’re heavy on the woodway” – You’re completely mistaken

“There the pope dances in chain mail” – That’s completely crazy

“That’s upper ape tits horny” – That’s super awesome

“I came on the dog” – I found pleasure unexpectedly

“I believe my pig is whistling” – I can’t believe it

“You’re a real ass violin” – You’re a major dickhead

“He’s making an ape circus” – He’s making a fuss over nothing

“I took the ass card” – I got the worst option

“He gave me the black Peter” – He said it was my fault though it wasn’t

“You made me a bear service” – You tried making it better but fucked it all up

“Everything in butter?” – Everything alright?

“I only understand train station.” – I don’t understand anything

“It’s highest rail road!” – It’s incredibly urgent!”

#9. Apt.

“The Communists are in the fun house” -my Danish friends when referring to being on their periods.”

#8. In Spanish.

“Spanish sayings:

“To flip the omelette.” When something goes in a certain way but turns out into another way.
“Be a melon”. Be stupid.
“Into good hours, green sleeves”. You are late.
“Be fried”. Be tired, be sleeping, be mad.
“Wood to the monkey, he is made of rubber”. Do something without consecuences.
“Swallow them bent”. Believe all that people tells.
“Two tits have more pull than two wagons”. Sometimes guys do things just for hitting a woman that they won’t do for anything else.
“To give him to eat away from the rest”. Weird person, better if he stays out.
“Having only two news program left”. Going to die soon.
“Or everyone fucks or we throw the whore to the river”. People should be conside equal.”

#7. Into the eye.

“In Lithuania we say “fell into the eye” (e.g. “he fell into her eye”) when someone gets attracted to another person or falls in love.”

#6. Wut.

“Having an “arse full of noodles” is a french expression that could rougly translate to “being on a lucky streak”. It took me a while to figure that one out.”

#5. You know what that means…or do you?

“In France, we say “we didn’t keep the pigs together” when someone is overly familiar.”

#4. On shrimp.

“There’s a Spanish saying that goes: “The shrimp that falls asleep is carried by the current.”

In other words: you snooze, you lose.”

#3. If you can’t share cherries…

“In Germany you say “Cherry eating is not good with him/her.”

It means it is a person you don’t want to be with.”

#2. Lost in translation.

“My Dutch father used to sometimes say to me (in Dutch), “you look like you spent your last time on candy.” Apparently this was a popular Dutch idiom once upon a time.

Later, we moved to the Netherlands and I began to understand that the Dutch are quite thrifty and the idea of using your last bit of money on something as ephemeral as a sweet does sound miserable. But to an American child, it seemed like a pretty good use of 10¢.”

#1. Literally.

“鬼拍後尾枕, Literally “ghost hitting you in the back of the head”

It describes that feeling of you forgetting something important, on the tip of your tongue.”

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15 People Confess the Worst Scam They’ve Fallen For

It’s not an easy thing to confess that you got taken, but hey, this is the Internet. Go ahead and dish, like these folks did.

#15. He booked it.

“Went to China on a HS trip. Bought some knock off Heely’s (basically just 2 sets of rollerblade wheels you could attach to the back of your shoe).

I gave the guy 100 yuan and he gave me back 30 rubles. The bills had a similar color and it was dark outside so I didn’t notice. Rubles are worth about 10% of the same amount in yuan.

The kicker was that I actually saw the same dude the next day when we were leaving the hotel. He booked it out of there the moment we made eye contact.”

#14. Never bet against him.

“Homeless crackhead guy bet me he could do 90 push-ups for $10 I obliged thinking he would stop after like 20 or so but he did 90 in a row and earned his $10 I didn’t really get scammed but I shouldn’t have bet against his crack fueled exercise.”

#13. No cancer.

“Girl in my high school made up a sob story about her little sister needing money for her cancer treatment, I felt so bad I gave her the $50 I got as Christmas money.

There was no cancer. The money probably went to drugs :/”

#12. Thailand.

“Thailand.

Second day of my two week long honeymoon in Thailand. My wife and I decided to go exploring and wanted to visit the local mall in Bangkok. We get off the ferry boat with a map in hand, looking somewhat confused and a nice, well- dressed Thai man comes up to us asking if we need help in surprisingly good English.

He mentioned that the shopping malls are closed till 1pm due to the “ morning of the Kings death” but he knows of a place where we can get high end suits and dresses discounted. If we follow the road all the way down a Tuk Tuk ( Thai taxi type of thing) will take you there. Sure enough we walk along along the road and a gentleman was waiting right there for us.

We hop in, and they drop us off at this big fancy clothing store. They separated my wife and I to our men’s and women’s departments much to my dismay and horror. She didn’t seem too concerned so I let it fly. They start showing me fabrics for a custom fitted suit. I pick out some and before I know it I’m being measured. Finally find my wife and she has two dresses picked out. Grand total came to about $1500 American dollars.

We leave and the same Tuk Tuk is waiting for us, and then takes us to a Jewelry store where a gentleman is showing us rare “gemstones.” My wife is a sucker for Jewelry so buys one for about $250. Finally we leave and get a regular cab back to our hotel. I pull out my phone and look up the “suit” place we went to. It literally was hundreds of people describing the scam from beginning ( nice, well-dressed Thai man giving assistance, to the Tuk Tuk Driver) to the end. We felt absolutely robbed. Also read that the gemstone was fake hence the “no return” policy.

We finally got our shit in the mail back in the States about two weeks later. My wife’s dresses are essentially Wal- Mart quality. My custom fitted suit is surprisingly decent and does fit incredibly well so it wasn’t a total bust. But we were tourists that got absolutely swindled.”

#11. Betrayal.

“A few years back when I was unemployed I got a call from a women who told me that they found my resume online at whatever site I happened to throw it up on, and were interested in hiring me. She talked about how it looked so good and she couldn’t believe I had been out of work.

I was super excited and eagerly set up an interview. I got there and they wanted me to sell CC knives.

Words can not express the betrayal I felt at realizing I was still jobless.”

#10. The girls are gone

“When I was 21 I went to Vegas with a group of friends. We got separated due to people just wandering off and doing their own thing for a little while in some random casino. I had quite a lot to drink and these two pretty girls started talking to me. They seemed really interested. I felt like a stud. They asked if I wanted to come to a club with me at the other end of the strip. Me thinking my night was going to be awesome, I obliged and we went outside to find a ride. They suggested we take a black car because hey, fuck it. We get in and they start flirting and laughing with me. Amazing.

We get to the location a few miles away and they hop out and apparently we were not splitting the ride, but they said they’d wait for me. They get out and close the door and I see them walking away. The driver just looks back and me, winces and says, “Yeah man, Im sorry man, but thats going to be $150″ Feeling like a chump but not giving up hope, I get out and the girls are gone. The driver, apparently having pity on me, offers to give me a ride back down to the other end of the strip for free since that was going to be his last one of the night.”

#9. It’s stuck with me.

“a mexican cop pulled us over and jabbered in spanish for awhile while we stared at him. then, in perfect english, he said “gimme $50 bucks.” i was happy to pay it and be on my way.

ok, perhaps not a horrible *scam* per se, but visions of being sodomized in mexican jail were dancing through my head at the time, so it’s stuck with me.”

#8. The false hope.

“Worst in the sense that it gave me false hope. But my first job “offer” out of university was with a company that was owned by the Citi Group. Turns out Primerica was a MLM company and wanted me to pay hundreds of dollars in setup/training fees and eventually get my relatives to sign up.”

#7. No radio show.

“When I was 18 my friend and I were in a hookah lounge and we met this guy who said he ran this pretty popular online radio station and he could give us a program on it. I was kind of skeptical about it, but my friend was really excited to do it and she convinced me we should do it. He said we had to pay $35 to buy the slot, which I thought made sense at the time, so I put up the money. We were supposed to meet with him again the next day so he could show us how to do everything.

My friend was really excited and we spent the rest of the evening putting together a mix CD of what songs we wanted to play. The next day, we went to meet him again at the hookah place and he was not there. We asked an employee about him, since he said he often hosted the program there. They said they had never seen him before yesterday.

It was only $35, but at that time it was a decent amount of money for me and the worst part was I was actually excited to do a radio show.”

#6. “Sales” job.

“Primerica.

As a recent high school grad, someone told me to sit thru this presentation of how you can earn $xxx.xx per week, yada yada. And every person you get to work for you, you get a share of what they earn. Up to this point, I’d never heard of a pyramid scheme. I sat thru the presentation. Then they take you individually (or with one other person, I can’t remember) and get you to sign up requiring a direct deposit from my bank account. When I told my parents about this, I immediately knew this was a huge mistake. I promptly went to the credit union where I had an account and cancelled it. Luckily never heard from them again.

TL;DR: don’t apply at Primerica for a “sales job.””

#5. So upset.

“Ugh someone called my grandmother last week saying her granddaughter had been in an accident and the police took her to jail. A man pretended to be an attorney and asked my grandmother to send over $4000 for her bail. Her “granddaughter” got on the phone too and started fake-crying. My grandmother was so upset and almost fell for it because she would do anything for her family :'(“

#4. Pay the man.

“Bet you 5 bucks I can tell you where you got your shoes?” “Ok?” “You got ’em on your feet!” I paid the man.”

#3. Big mistake.

“Wanted to buy a 100€ concert ticket from a dude via facebook, big mistake.”

#2. Never again.

“Booked flights with Ryanair.

Tried to change them, got in contact with a Ryanair guy who changed them. (Website is 100% bullshit and doesn’t work, Livechat is always offline).
Went to pay the fee for changing, couldn’t see the changes before paying.
165 Euros to view, and see he changed to the wrong month.
Got in contact with him again.
Now the fee to change to the correct date is an additional 532 Euros.
Fuck Ryanair, and their additional fees for winking, taking a breath or sitting in the plane.
Never again.”

#1. Foiled.

“My great aunt was tricked into thinking her grandson was being detained in a Guatemalan prison and needed money to help get him out (they live in the U.S.). The trick was foiled when her grandson called asking her to dinner that night.”

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15 People Confess the Worst Scam They’ve Fallen For

It’s not an easy thing to confess that you got taken, but hey, this is the Internet. Go ahead and dish, like these folks did.

#15. He booked it.

“Went to China on a HS trip. Bought some knock off Heely’s (basically just 2 sets of rollerblade wheels you could attach to the back of your shoe).

I gave the guy 100 yuan and he gave me back 30 rubles. The bills had a similar color and it was dark outside so I didn’t notice. Rubles are worth about 10% of the same amount in yuan.

The kicker was that I actually saw the same dude the next day when we were leaving the hotel. He booked it out of there the moment we made eye contact.”

#14. Never bet against him.

“Homeless crackhead guy bet me he could do 90 push-ups for $10 I obliged thinking he would stop after like 20 or so but he did 90 in a row and earned his $10 I didn’t really get scammed but I shouldn’t have bet against his crack fueled exercise.”

#13. No cancer.

“Girl in my high school made up a sob story about her little sister needing money for her cancer treatment, I felt so bad I gave her the $50 I got as Christmas money.

There was no cancer. The money probably went to drugs :/”

#12. Thailand.

“Thailand.

Second day of my two week long honeymoon in Thailand. My wife and I decided to go exploring and wanted to visit the local mall in Bangkok. We get off the ferry boat with a map in hand, looking somewhat confused and a nice, well- dressed Thai man comes up to us asking if we need help in surprisingly good English.

He mentioned that the shopping malls are closed till 1pm due to the “ morning of the Kings death” but he knows of a place where we can get high end suits and dresses discounted. If we follow the road all the way down a Tuk Tuk ( Thai taxi type of thing) will take you there. Sure enough we walk along along the road and a gentleman was waiting right there for us.

We hop in, and they drop us off at this big fancy clothing store. They separated my wife and I to our men’s and women’s departments much to my dismay and horror. She didn’t seem too concerned so I let it fly. They start showing me fabrics for a custom fitted suit. I pick out some and before I know it I’m being measured. Finally find my wife and she has two dresses picked out. Grand total came to about $1500 American dollars.

We leave and the same Tuk Tuk is waiting for us, and then takes us to a Jewelry store where a gentleman is showing us rare “gemstones.” My wife is a sucker for Jewelry so buys one for about $250. Finally we leave and get a regular cab back to our hotel. I pull out my phone and look up the “suit” place we went to. It literally was hundreds of people describing the scam from beginning ( nice, well-dressed Thai man giving assistance, to the Tuk Tuk Driver) to the end. We felt absolutely robbed. Also read that the gemstone was fake hence the “no return” policy.

We finally got our shit in the mail back in the States about two weeks later. My wife’s dresses are essentially Wal- Mart quality. My custom fitted suit is surprisingly decent and does fit incredibly well so it wasn’t a total bust. But we were tourists that got absolutely swindled.”

#11. Betrayal.

“A few years back when I was unemployed I got a call from a women who told me that they found my resume online at whatever site I happened to throw it up on, and were interested in hiring me. She talked about how it looked so good and she couldn’t believe I had been out of work.

I was super excited and eagerly set up an interview. I got there and they wanted me to sell CC knives.

Words can not express the betrayal I felt at realizing I was still jobless.”

#10. The girls are gone

“When I was 21 I went to Vegas with a group of friends. We got separated due to people just wandering off and doing their own thing for a little while in some random casino. I had quite a lot to drink and these two pretty girls started talking to me. They seemed really interested. I felt like a stud. They asked if I wanted to come to a club with me at the other end of the strip. Me thinking my night was going to be awesome, I obliged and we went outside to find a ride. They suggested we take a black car because hey, fuck it. We get in and they start flirting and laughing with me. Amazing.

We get to the location a few miles away and they hop out and apparently we were not splitting the ride, but they said they’d wait for me. They get out and close the door and I see them walking away. The driver just looks back and me, winces and says, “Yeah man, Im sorry man, but thats going to be $150″ Feeling like a chump but not giving up hope, I get out and the girls are gone. The driver, apparently having pity on me, offers to give me a ride back down to the other end of the strip for free since that was going to be his last one of the night.”

#9. It’s stuck with me.

“a mexican cop pulled us over and jabbered in spanish for awhile while we stared at him. then, in perfect english, he said “gimme $50 bucks.” i was happy to pay it and be on my way.

ok, perhaps not a horrible *scam* per se, but visions of being sodomized in mexican jail were dancing through my head at the time, so it’s stuck with me.”

#8. The false hope.

“Worst in the sense that it gave me false hope. But my first job “offer” out of university was with a company that was owned by the Citi Group. Turns out Primerica was a MLM company and wanted me to pay hundreds of dollars in setup/training fees and eventually get my relatives to sign up.”

#7. No radio show.

“When I was 18 my friend and I were in a hookah lounge and we met this guy who said he ran this pretty popular online radio station and he could give us a program on it. I was kind of skeptical about it, but my friend was really excited to do it and she convinced me we should do it. He said we had to pay $35 to buy the slot, which I thought made sense at the time, so I put up the money. We were supposed to meet with him again the next day so he could show us how to do everything.

My friend was really excited and we spent the rest of the evening putting together a mix CD of what songs we wanted to play. The next day, we went to meet him again at the hookah place and he was not there. We asked an employee about him, since he said he often hosted the program there. They said they had never seen him before yesterday.

It was only $35, but at that time it was a decent amount of money for me and the worst part was I was actually excited to do a radio show.”

#6. “Sales” job.

“Primerica.

As a recent high school grad, someone told me to sit thru this presentation of how you can earn $xxx.xx per week, yada yada. And every person you get to work for you, you get a share of what they earn. Up to this point, I’d never heard of a pyramid scheme. I sat thru the presentation. Then they take you individually (or with one other person, I can’t remember) and get you to sign up requiring a direct deposit from my bank account. When I told my parents about this, I immediately knew this was a huge mistake. I promptly went to the credit union where I had an account and cancelled it. Luckily never heard from them again.

TL;DR: don’t apply at Primerica for a “sales job.””

#5. So upset.

“Ugh someone called my grandmother last week saying her granddaughter had been in an accident and the police took her to jail. A man pretended to be an attorney and asked my grandmother to send over $4000 for her bail. Her “granddaughter” got on the phone too and started fake-crying. My grandmother was so upset and almost fell for it because she would do anything for her family :'(“

#4. Pay the man.

“Bet you 5 bucks I can tell you where you got your shoes?” “Ok?” “You got ’em on your feet!” I paid the man.”

#3. Big mistake.

“Wanted to buy a 100€ concert ticket from a dude via facebook, big mistake.”

#2. Never again.

“Booked flights with Ryanair.

Tried to change them, got in contact with a Ryanair guy who changed them. (Website is 100% bullshit and doesn’t work, Livechat is always offline).
Went to pay the fee for changing, couldn’t see the changes before paying.
165 Euros to view, and see he changed to the wrong month.
Got in contact with him again.
Now the fee to change to the correct date is an additional 532 Euros.
Fuck Ryanair, and their additional fees for winking, taking a breath or sitting in the plane.
Never again.”

#1. Foiled.

“My great aunt was tricked into thinking her grandson was being detained in a Guatemalan prison and needed money to help get him out (they live in the U.S.). The trick was foiled when her grandson called asking her to dinner that night.”

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12 People Dish on What Social Norms People Just Flat-Out Refuse to Follow

There are unspoken rules that people are just supposed to follow, and when they don’t, well…sometimes it’s hard to know exactly how to handle it. So read through this list and make sure you’re not one of the guilty!

#12. Step to the side.

“If you are on a crowded sidewalk/grocery aisle/hallway and realize you need to pause — step over to the side so people can get by while you sort your shit out.”

#11. Buy that thing.

“If you need to borrow something once a week, you just need to buy that thing for yourself.

Space heaters are like $40 at Bed Bath and Beyond, BECCA.”

#10. It’s right there.

“Clean up after yourself in the break room at work. Seriously people, the garbage can is RIGHT THERE.”

#9. Wait your turn.

“People trying to shove themselves into the train, bus, elevator, etc. instead of letting others out first.”

#8. Wrong time and place

“Don’t talk when you’re watching a movie in the theatre. Seriously, it’s getting bad where I live; I’m ready to stop going because people seem to think it’s a good place for an in-depth chat.”

#7. It’s his ketchup now.

“Customer just licked the top of the ketchup bottle. Who does that at a restaurant?! I told him it was his ketchup now.”

#6. When you’re done…

“When you’re done in the bathroom, flush the toilet!”

#5. Carry your waste.

“If there’s not a trash can nearby CARRY YOUR WASTE WITH YOU UNTIL YOU FIND ONE.”

#4. In a timely manner.

“If you owe someone money..pay it back..in a timely manner. At least let the other person know that you don’t have it right now.”

#3. Walk in pairs.

“If you’re walking in a group of more than 3, walk in pairs, not 5 people across.”

#2. Not in public.

“There are places to watch a video or listen to music on your phone without headphones – in public amongst other people is not one of those places.”

#1. Don’t drag me down.

“When you can turn right on red in your car, but some fuckwit in a truck, van, or SUV in the left-only lane pulls up WAY past the white line and blocks your view. Bitch, you can’t even turn until the light does, don’t drag me down with you…”

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12 People Dish on What Social Norms People Just Flat-Out Refuse to Follow

There are unspoken rules that people are just supposed to follow, and when they don’t, well…sometimes it’s hard to know exactly how to handle it. So read through this list and make sure you’re not one of the guilty!

#12. Step to the side.

“If you are on a crowded sidewalk/grocery aisle/hallway and realize you need to pause — step over to the side so people can get by while you sort your shit out.”

#11. Buy that thing.

“If you need to borrow something once a week, you just need to buy that thing for yourself.

Space heaters are like $40 at Bed Bath and Beyond, BECCA.”

#10. It’s right there.

“Clean up after yourself in the break room at work. Seriously people, the garbage can is RIGHT THERE.”

#9. Wait your turn.

“People trying to shove themselves into the train, bus, elevator, etc. instead of letting others out first.”

#8. Wrong time and place

“Don’t talk when you’re watching a movie in the theatre. Seriously, it’s getting bad where I live; I’m ready to stop going because people seem to think it’s a good place for an in-depth chat.”

#7. It’s his ketchup now.

“Customer just licked the top of the ketchup bottle. Who does that at a restaurant?! I told him it was his ketchup now.”

#6. When you’re done…

“When you’re done in the bathroom, flush the toilet!”

#5. Carry your waste.

“If there’s not a trash can nearby CARRY YOUR WASTE WITH YOU UNTIL YOU FIND ONE.”

#4. In a timely manner.

“If you owe someone money..pay it back..in a timely manner. At least let the other person know that you don’t have it right now.”

#3. Walk in pairs.

“If you’re walking in a group of more than 3, walk in pairs, not 5 people across.”

#2. Not in public.

“There are places to watch a video or listen to music on your phone without headphones – in public amongst other people is not one of those places.”

#1. Don’t drag me down.

“When you can turn right on red in your car, but some fuckwit in a truck, van, or SUV in the left-only lane pulls up WAY past the white line and blocks your view. Bitch, you can’t even turn until the light does, don’t drag me down with you…”

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12+ People Reveal What Movie They Think Is Totally Overrated

Sometimes, all of your friends (and seemingly everyone in the world) thinks a movie is great, but you just can’t figure it out. Well, that’s exactly what these 15 people are dishing on today.

#15. Two hours I’ll never get back.

“Open Water. Everyone says it’s incredibly terrifying. I say I was incredibly bored, and that’s two hours of my life I’ll never get back.”

#14. Barely a story.

“Gravity.

My teacher and classmates got mad when I said it was trash. It barely even qualifies as a fucking story.”

#13. You and Elaine Benes.

“The English Patient – I HATE IT!”

#12. All of them.

“Fast and Furious. All of them.”

#11. Pretty generic.

“Frozen. I didn’t think it was a bad movie by any means, but I thought it was weird how so many people said it was Disney’s best movie. I found it pretty generic.”

#10. Extremely.

“Extremely Overrated?

The Last Airbender (2010) has 6% on RottenTomatoes.

That is extremely overrated.”

#9. Why bother?

“Lol Jurassic World. Okay popcorn flick, but it was poorly written. Why bother? Just make up your own dinosaur movie.”

#8. Watch Lion King.

“People saying that Frozen is Disney’s best movie need to fuck right off and watch Lion King.”

#7. Spoiled and insufferable.

“Breakfast at Tiffany’s. I know everyone loves Audrey Hepburn and I do too but in this movie she just played a spoiled and insufferable twat for 2 hours.”

#6. Blah blah.

“One Night in Paris made Hilton an overnight sensation but the lighting was poor, acting was robotic, and the film basically had no final shot.”

#5. Rather drab.

“American Hustle. Does anyone even remember this movie now? It won so many awards but was rather drab.”

#4. Everything is mediocre.

“Crash.

That melodramatic after school special actually f*cking won best picture. BEST PICTURE. I couldn’t f*cking believe it when I saw it. Everything about that movie is mediocre.”

#3. Done to death.

“Generally anything that starts with:

The Fast and Furious

Transformers

xXx

These things have been done to death.”

#2. Boring and cliched.

“Avatar.

Fuck that boring, cliched pile of shit.”

#1. Nitpick.

“Wonder Woman. I get the social importance of it, but the movie itself really goes off the rails towards the end. It’s 2/3rds a good super hero movie (which are highly overrated relatively speaking already). It was also setup to make a nice statement on the nature of the evils of humanity, but just kind of lost it somewhere.

Also what the fuck was up with hiding her sword behind her back in a backless dress? Sure no one in front sees it but she literally walks through a crowd of people looking in every direction. It’s blatantly visible to anyone not looking head on.”

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