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15 Terrible (and Forgotten) Events in History

One of my favorite podcasts to listen to is The Dollop.

On it, some insane story from (usually American) history is told and riffed on, but the comedy doesn’t always come easy in the face of how purely horrific so much of history really is.

I mean, see for yourself:

Historians of Reddit, what’s a devastating event that no one talks about? from AskReddit

It should be noted that by their own admission many of the people who posted these summaries are not officially historians, and that you should look deeper into the stories mentioned if you want the real scoop.

Still, it’s pretty darkly fascinating stuff. Take it away, history buffs of Reddit.

1. The Victoria Hall Disaster

All because kids were being kids in a death trap:

“The disaster started when about 1,000 children in the audience of a variety show were told they could get free toys.

Kids began pouring down the aisles to get the toys, blocking the exits and piling on top of one another.

In the end, 183 of them were crushed to death.”

– HeyWaitHUHWhat

2. The Andijan Massacre of 2005

It is largest mass shooting in Asia since Tianmen Square, with over one thousand killed and even more wounded.

The Uzbek government forcefully “silenced” reform protests by firing into the crowd and then kicked out 90% of westerners in the country when the US gov and UN tried to investigate.

Terrible loss of life that rarely gets remembered because the Uzbek government tried so hard to cover it up.

– -theRedPanda-

3. The Bronze Age Collapse

It’s not as though nobody talks about it at all but considering how catastrophic it was, it doesn’t get nearly enough attention.

At this time civilisations were still pretty scarce but the eastern Mediterranean was full of them. We can’t pinpoint an exact reason but at some point it all fell apart.

The Myceneans? Gone!

The Hittites? Gone!

The Minoans? Gone!

The Egyptians? Barely clinging on and having serious problems.

There are many things that happened around that time in that general area that could be the culprit: Volcanoes, earthquakes, drought, famine, war and invasions from ‘foreigners that came by boat’ that historians have named the Sea People because we have basically no idea where they came from.

In reality, it was probably a combination of some or even all of them.

– tiffinstorm

4. Pol Pot

His regime killed 25% of its population.

Let that sink in – one in four.

If you were educated, you were first killed.

– Total_D*ck_Move

5. The Johnstown Flood of 1889

The deadliest civil engineering disaster on US soil, it killed 2209 people.

After a dam collapsed it swept up rail cars, passengers, trees, an entire town of 10,000, then swirled it around and ejected the debris downriver into a bridge where it all caught fire.

Destruction beyond belief, and all so that some rich steel magnates up the mountain didn’t maintain the dam they used to keep their fishing reservoir.

– Ludendorff

6. The Year 536

That year marked several natural disasters and social upheaval that devastated multiple societies.

It’s thought that a volcanic eruption blocked out enough sun to cause crop failures across Europe and as far as China.

While this was happening terrible plagues were also afflicting the Middle East. Economies everywhere fell to ruin and stagnation in the years that followed because several other eruptions later made things worse.

– LiteracyIzGrate

7. Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan

Put simply, it was an upsurp Kingdom in 1850’s China that directly and indirectly led to the deaths of millions (maybe ten million+) of people through massacre and famine.

Hong Xiuquan believed he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ and persuaded enough people to follow along and start a civil war.

Check out God’s Chinese Son by Jonathan Spence.

– oswan

8. The Sixties Scoop

In Canada, from the late 1950s to 1980s, the government removed indigenous children from their homes and families and placed them up for adoption or in foster care.

Most remained in Canada but some were sent to the US or western Europe.

The majority were placed with white middle class families.

A number of them experienced abuse. This even furthered the loss of their culture.

– billyandteddy

9. Ten Tragic Days during the Mexican Revolution

US ambassador Henry Lane Wilson conspired with the nephew of the former Mexican president and Mexican army general in the US embassy in Mexico City to assassinate the newly elected president of Mexico.

Absolutely wild and tragic assassination that shook Mexico in 1913.

– SteveRalph

10. The School Bombing of Bath, Michigan

We talk a lot about Columbine and Sandy Hook, but few people nowadays remember the 1927 bombing of the school in Bath, Michigan, or the explosion of a school in New London, Texas in 1937 that in addition to killing almost 300 people, launched the career of a cub reporter named Walter Cronkite.

The Bath Massacre was mostly done with dynamite, wired into the school by a disgruntled janitor who also killed his wife and some of his livestock, and the New London disaster is why natural gas, which is odorless, has an unpleasant-smelling gas added to it. Some people who went to parts of the school in the days preceding the blast complained of headaches and dizziness, but nobody could figure out why.

– notthesedays

11. Vietnamese Boat People.

Absolutely crazy and literally can’t believe this happened. And nobody f*cking ever talks about it.

Think about this, it’s the Vietnam war, and you are Vietnamese and obviously want nothing to do with it. Many saw their only way out was by sea, due to tensions with neighboring countries. So hordes of people tried to escape the country in little boats.

Now here’s the kicker, it’s estimated that up to 400,000 of them drowned. […] Everything got stolen. People got sick and starved. Pirates kidnapped people.

Absolutely horrible. That wiki page makes me feel bad for ever having complained about anything

– Wooden_Muffin_9880

12. The Khodynka Tragedy

Was supposed to be a celebration of the crowning of Nicholas II as emperor.

Around 500,000 people gathered in a field where they would receive free food.

Rumors spread that there wouldn’t be enough food for everyone leading to a panic and everyone rushing the field.

1,389 people were trampled to death. Nicholas II responded by going to a party that night.

– CrustyTowel

13. The Balkan Conflict

Asked my history studying friend about this, she said there’s A LOT of events that people don’t talk about. For example, there was a lot of countries involved in the Balkan conflict who knew about the massacre of Srebrenica but still allowed it to happen.

So many historical events are just so grim and depressing when you read about it, we knew bad things were happening but didn’t stop until it was too late for many people.

– ThiccNya

14. The Outbreaks

The disease outbreaks that hit the Americas with the arrival of the Europeans.

You hear about a 90% death rate and it sounds made up, but whatever the actual number was, entire civilizations were literally wiped out. Cultures that had existed for thousands of years are just gone, with barely a record left. You have stories of people coming across whole villages of corpses. These people died never even having seen the Europeans, never knowing what was killing them and their loved ones and totally helpless to do anything about it.

– Vic_Hedges

15. The Leprosy Colonies of Hawaii

People who were diagnosed with leprosy were forcibly banished to Kalaupapa to live out the rest of their lives – they were dug graves, had to stand in them, while their families and friends basically had a “living funeral” for them where they had the dirt thrown on them; they were then pronounced dead to the world and no longer part of the community.

This continued through 1969 even after Hawaii officially became a state.

– daphne_dysarte

Well that’s all certainly…horrifying.

Have another horrifying historical tale to add?

Tell us in the comments.

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History Buffs Share the Awful Bits That Have Been Forgotten

I don’t know if you’ve been made aware of this yet, but history is kind of terrible. In all kinds of ways.

Historians of Reddit, what’s a devastating event that no one talks about? from AskReddit

Many of the people who posted here included disclaimers that they were not full-on historians, and that the information they present should be taken with a grain of salt. Those disclaimers have been removed for the sake of not getting redundant, but the point remains that if any of these tales from Reddit intrigue you – you should definitely look into them further!

1. The Year of Living Dangerously

The Year of Living Dangerously in Indonesia in 1965-66 saw absolute chaos and still has a marked effect on their society. It is possibly one of the largest mass killings of the last century and I had heard nothing about it ever, living in the West. It’s hard to say how many people actually died, but estimates range from 100k to 300k, and even on up to 500k or a million dead.

Basically, the Communist party in Indonesia was heavily influenced by Maoism and ethnic Chinese civilians. It was the largest Communist party outside of China. President Sukarno, who had helped the country through Japanese occupation and independence from the Dutch/British had kept the house of cards balanced, but was beginning to be swayed by Communist policies. The military, staunchly anti-Communist (and largely supported by the US) would be looking to take power.

One night, 6 high-ranking members of the military were abducted and killed. The army spread the word that the Communists were to blame and initiated mass reprisals. Killings, torture and imprisonment ran rampant over the islands and even ethnic Chinese or just suspected Communists were taken. Despite working with Sukarno for many years, the US would support his liquidation and the rise of the military. It is unclear how extensive American support to the army was, but it is probable they aided in training and may have even helped compile names of Communists to the army. Eventually, a general by the name of Suharto would take power and Sukarno would be placed under house arrest with no power.

Today, the massacres and chaos are not really taught in Indonesian schools and it’s clear that many have not come to terms with what happened. However, the mass killings of possibly a million or more people should rank up there in devastating events.

– captfaramir

2. The Carrington Event

In 1859, solar flares hit the earth causing an aurora borealis effect to be seen all over the world. It lasted for several days, during which time it was reportedly bright enough to read by at midnight. Telegraph operators reported receiving shocks and burns from the devices, and in some cases removed the batteries powering the telegraphs, as signals were being disrupted by the geomagnetic storm. After removing the batteries, the telegraphs still operated, in some cases better than they had when powered.

It wasn’t particularly devastating at the time, but it’s estimated that if a similar storm were to hit us today, it would cripple the entire planet for potentially decades. The estimated repair cost in the US alone is measured in the trillions. In 2012, a similar storm missed the earth by nine days.

– Dyne4R

3. The Goiânia Accident

Something that Is well known but not that much is the Goiânia accident in Brazil, where Cesium-137 was handled by many people, including children. It is regarded as the worst radioactive incident to happen in Brazil.

It was a radioactive contamination accident that happened on September 13, 1987 after a radiotherapy machine from an abandoned hospital was illegally stripped for parts and said parts were stolen, on September 16 one of the thieves opened a cesium capsule and then on September 18 sold it to a scrapyard, at that same night the owner of the scrapyard saw a blue glow in the machines parts (which was the cesium capsule that had been opened).

Thinking it might be valuable he brought it to his home, over the next 3 days he invited friends and family to see the strange glowing substance, on September 21 one of his friends succeeded in freeing several rice-sized grains of the glowing material from the opened capsule, he then started sharing some of them with friends and family, on September 25 the capsule was again sold to another scrap yard – although one day before the sale more dust was removed from the capsule by the scrapyard owner’s brother, the brother then took the dust home and spread it on the concrete floor where later his daughter would play in and with the dust she also ate while sitting on the floor and dust particles fell on her food, contaminating it – one of the family members of the owner of the first scrapyard noticed that many people around her fell ill and on September 28 she reclaimed the capsule from the second scrapyard and brought it to a hospital, in the morning of September 29 it was confirmed that the material was radioactive and the doctors persuaded authorities to take immediate action on the matter the city, state, and national governments were all aware of the incident by the end of the day.

News of the radiation incident was broadcast on local, national, and international media.

Within days, nearly 130,000 people went to local hospitals concerned that they might have been exposed, of those only 250 were indeed contaminated – some with radioactive residue still on their skin – 4 of those people died including a 6 year old girl (the one that ate food that had been contaminated by dust particles).

– Otaldolitro

4. The Second Congo War (1998 – 2003)

It’s the deadliest conflict since WW2 with about 5.4 million deaths a vast majority of them due to malnutrition and disease

– TrentonTallywacker

5. The Fall of Baghdad

Baghdad used to be one of the biggest and most vibrant cities in the world in the 1200s.

Until the Mongols came.

Baghdad did not recover its year 1200 population until the 1980s.

– SenorBeef

6. The Extinction of the Attu

During WW2 the Japanese had invaded the Alaskan island of Attu. On the island was the village of Attu where the Aleutian tribe had lived for centuries. The only non natives were the wife school teacher and priest husband who were elderly and beloved by the townspeople.

The husband was shot in front of his wife by the Japanese. After that the Japanese loaded the native population on to ships back to Japan were they worked in POW camps where many died from disease and execution. The Japanese saw them as lower then soldier POW and almost sub human because they didn’t fight back and thus treated them horribly.

When the war ended only a handful of the native population survived and they went back home only to find their village burned down. They left the island and it now remains uninhabited basically, driving the Attu tribe to extinction.

Years later the Japanese left a peace monument on the island in honor of the American and Japanese soldiers that died there but have yet to apologize to the descendants of the Attu tribe they destroyed.

– arcticredneck10

7. The Iroquois Theater Fire

One thing that doesn’t get talked about was more of a phenomenon or major problem than event, and that was how many people died in theater fires due to poor design, combustible materials, few fire exits, and panic.

One of the worst was the Iroquois Theater in Chicago (1903), which is both the deadliest theater fire and the deadliest single-building fire in US history where patrons died after sparks from an arc light set a curtain on fire, then a chain reaction started, exacerbated by failures of the things in place that were supposed to combat fire.

The theater had been overbooked to compensate for earlier poor sales, causing some to sit blocking the exits. The fire was immediately worsened when performers opened the stage door to get outside, as it turned the fire into a fireball. Many people were held inside by iron gates that had been put in place to prevent people from sneaking in without paying. As people fled, they tumbled down stairs, trampled each other, and got squashed to death. Their unfamiliarity with the building got them stuck in dead ends and up against windows. Many jumped from fire escapes and died, while those behind them were saved, the bodies of the earlier jumpers cushioning their falls.

All in all, 602 people died, many were children. The story is a lot more complicated and sordid with city corruption, etc. The one takeaway is the incident promoted the development and use of the panic bar.

– etoiles-du-nord

8. The Destruction of Galveston, TX

Galveston, Texas was once considered to be one of the most important commercial ports in the United States and was referred to by several fantastical names such as the “Queen City of the Gulf” and the “Wallstreet of the West”.

All that changed when it suffered a near-direct hit from a devastating Category 4 Hurricane in 1900, the deadliest natural disaster in American history. Pretty much the entire city was destroyed by a storm surge and anywhere from 8,000 to 12,000 people died.

Galveston was rebuilt but it never truly regained its status; Houston became the state’s commercial center in the storm’s wake, in addition to other factors.

– TheMidnightScorpion

9. The Rwandan Genocide

I watched Shake Hands with the Devil here awhile ago and highly recommend it.

Unspeakable acts of brutality inflicted.

Still gives me chills.

– GartSnart52

10. Year 535

In 535, humans went through hell. Many reported a strange color in the skies, not just in Europe… A dense, dry fog was also reported in Asia and the Middle East. Even the regions, now known as the Americas, weren’t spared… e.g. drought in Peru. Temperatures were rather low in some places… it snowed either in the summertime. One survivor, a Roman politician named Cassiodorus, explained about the bluish sun and no shadows being cast, even in the noon.

It has been hypothesized that Iceland holds the reason for the events between the years 535 and 536. Iceland is known for its volcanoes, and it was possible one such was to blame.

– MissSara101

11. Collapse of the Bronze Age

The sea peoples and Bronze Age collapse associated with it.

Seriously, over a thousand years of culture and progress lost in a hundred years

– xXshadowmaniaXx

12. PS General Slocum

The Paddle Steamer PS General Slocum, that caught fire and sank in the East River in 1904. More than a thousand German Americans died in the accident, and it was considered the NYC’s biggest disaster until 9/11.

Up until that point, the city had had a thriving German community, but that single event almost completely destroyed an entire Lutheran church congregation, comprised of many of the city’s most influential citizens.

Maybe not an event ‘no one talks about’, as it’s been lamented many times, but certainly a tragic date of historic note.

– willflameboy

13. The Milan Conference

Back in 1880, a bunch of educators of the deaf all decided to meet in Milan to determine how best to teach deaf people. 164 delegates were in attendance, only one of whom was deaf.

At the time, there was a conflict among educators of deaf people about whether an oralism or manualism based approach was better. Proponents of oralism argued that deaf people would never succeed in society if they could not speak and hold a conversation in the same way a hearing person would. To this end, anyone who attempted to sign would be punished, and deaf people were forced to lip read.

At the end of the conference, sign language was banned in all educational institutions, and deaf people were not allowed to teach, for fear that it would encourage the use of sign language. As a result, for roughly 100 years, deaf people were essentially isolated from communication and unable to form communities.

To this day, amongst older generations of deaf people, many still have never learned to sign. In addition, Deaf culture as a whole was and is profoundly affected by this event, because it essentially stole stories that had been passed down from generation to generation, erasing the history of deaf people and the Deaf community.

– FrauMew

14. British Home Children

Poor British children were taken from their families and sold to Canada as indentured servants/farmhands.

Many of these children were never checked on, were not paid, educated, fed, or clothed properly, and endured cruel and unusual treatment.

Some died, but most ran away.

– inkling66

15. The Assassination of James Garfield

He was a known advocate for racial equality. He appointed black men into his cabinet and tried expanding public education into the south to get more African-Americans an education.

He tried to fight for racial equality but died four months into his presidency which f*cked it up.

– bentheboy1139

D*mn history, you scary.

Do you have another tale like this?

Share it with us in the comments.

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People Discuss the Movie Plot Holes That Bother Them the Most

One of the bad parts of learning about writing and story structure, whether through formal education in the subject, self-research, or just ingesting and paying attention to a ton of stories, is that you start to see the holes everywhere.

Truth be told, it’s hard to tell an entertaining story without weaving in nonsense some step of the way. But some of these bits stand out more than others…

What movie plothole still bothers you to this day? from AskReddit

Here are some movies that, according to the film scholars at Reddit, unforgettably messed up.

1. Limitless (2011)

Limitless.

You’re telling me, that essentially the smartest person in the world. That took a 50k loan from some mafia, and then turned that into millions, in like a few days through some crazy investing scheme. Was unable to have the foresight, to pay back the loan shark on time.

It was explained in the movie, “He was just too focused on making money, and he forgot.”

Yeah, okay. The dude remembering a random book he glanced at 20 years ago, simply forgot to pay a loan he took out a few weeks ago.

– anooblol

2. Bigfoot Family (2020)

Just watched the Bigfoot cartoon movie on Netflix.

The kid says he inherited the ability to run very fast and talk to animals due to being Bigfoot’s son.

However, Bigfoot was originally a human scientist that was changed into Bigfoot after a science experiment went wrong.

His kid was already born when this happened… so no way did he inherit powers.

Bothered me more than it should for a kids movie.

– Pharm-Poet

3. Back to the Future Part II (1989)

Back to the Future II is one of my all time favorite movies but the entire plot doesn’t make sense.

Why would they need to go into the future to prevent Marty Jr. from doing the horrible thing he does?

When they go back to their present it’s going to undo it anyway.

Why wouldn’t they just wait and then try to prevent him from doing it when the time comes?

– ChimpBzkit

4. The Polar Express (2004)

In Polar Express, the kid who almost misses the train never gets gifts from “Santa” for Christmas presumably because his parents can’t afford presents, meaning either

A. Santa isn’t real or

B. Santa hates poor people?

But at the end of the movie the main kid gets the bell from Santa directly so canonically Santa said f*ck that kid in particular I guess.

This has haunted me for decades.

– olivedream

5. Batman Begins (2005)

Ras Al Ghul standing next to a microwave emitter, explaining it turns the water in pipes 100 feet away into steam, but apparently isn’t strong enough to turn the water in his body into steam when he’s standing 10 inches away.

– Aksius14

6. The Purge (2013)

The purge always annoys me because you can literally just leave the country or do fraud to get richer, but instead people just turn into serial killers!

– Throwawayam10

7. Ant Man (2015)

In Ant Man, they claim that mass stays the same, and only the distance between atoms changes, yet he is quite obviously much lighter when smaller

And he wouldn’t be able to throw punches when that small, he wouldn’t have enough leverage to do so, his muscles would be to small, and even if he could exert enough force to throw them back like with a normal punch, his tiny little hands would just punch through their flesh like stabbing someone with a pencil

– Willis644

8. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

At the beginning of the third Harry Potter movie it shows him practicing “lumos”.

Is he or is he not doing magic outside of school which is expressly banned?!? And mentioned time and time again?

(I never got around to reading the books)

– Rozlun_The_Monster

9. Saw (2004)

At the end of Saw, Cary Elwes’ character tries desperately to grab the ringing mobile phone which is only centimetres out of reach.

When he realises he can’t, he takes of his shirt to use as a tourniquet to cut off his foot, instead of using his shirt to reach the godd*m phone.

– CheezyMcWang

10. Reservoir Dogs (1992)

It’s always kind of bothered me that Mr Blonde, a very loyal soldier to Joe and Nice Guy Eddie. Who actually did significant jail time for them and didn’t rat just completely loses his sh*t during the diamond heist and the aftermath.

– Rik78

11. Suicide Squad (2016)

In the Suicide Squad movies, the whole premise is that they need to have leverage over a team of super-folk to counter Superman (or a villain with similar powers) should he ever go bad.

So they put together a team of people who would be 100% helpless against Superman.

A guy who is really good with guns, which can’t harm Supes. A guy who can do fire stuff, which also can’t do anything. Throw in a guy who can get lizard skin and a guy who is good at throwing things. Oh, and a girl in booty shorts whose power is… being unstable? I’m not even sure.

And to top it all off, the team’s ultimate mission is to deliver an explosive… It’s almost like the US has the most well equipped and trained military in the world and their primary function is precision delivery of explosives.

– Phacemelter

12. Mean Girls (2004)

Mean Girls: How and why did Janis never receive any of the blame for what went down at North Shore? Cady wound up with all the heat, and while Cady does resolve to stop talking about people behind their backs… the whole d*mn “infiltrate and destroy the Plastics” thing was Janis’s idea! She confesses to it at the godd*mn workshop they hold in the gymnasium (showing no remorse), and everyone cheers for her, but Cady gets shunned? Because she was friends with the girls who wrote the Burn Book?

It just seems so backwards.

Plus, Karen was one of the nicest girls in the movie, and Damien and Janis rip on her for being so dumb. But it’s okay when they do it?

Just seems like they get away with sh*t they condemn others for, because they’re the outcasts in school.

– SimCityCrackhouse

13. The Nightmare Before Christmas (

In The Nightmare Before Christmas, in the song “What’s This”, Jack says “there’s white things in the air” meaning he doesn’t know what snow is, but then like five lines later, he says “there’s children throwing snowballs instead of throwing heads” meaning he DOES know what snow is

– Masterhearts_XIII

14. Super 8 (2011)

Super 8.

A beat up old pickup truck across the train tracks derails the train going full speed in a straight line with like 10 fully loaded train cars.

The truck barely even moves.

– areyouamish

15. By all accounts it doesn’t make sense…

How did Yzma and Kronk get back to the palace first?

– MooKids

At least the Emperor’s New Groove had the decency to lampshade it.

What other plot holes stick out to you?

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People Talk About Modern Practices That Will Be Seen as Horrible in 100 Years

I’m a huge Star Trek fan. It didn’t happen until I was in my very late 20’s, but I finally sat down and checked out The Next Generation and I was hooked.

Partially because of the engaging stories, partially for the imaginative sci-fi, and partially, and maybe most importantly for, the absolute sense of optimism and progress the series excluded.

Trek says that in the future of humanity, we’ll have done away with just about all that ails us. And I want to believe that. Which is why questions like this are so fascinating.

What do we do now that will be looked at as primitive and backwards in 100 years? from AskReddit

So, what are the next steps? What will we be discarding on the road to progress? Let’s ask Reddit.

1. Chemo

Using chemo therapy to treat cancer.

– CheetosnSalsa

2. Organ Transplants

Hopefully organ transplants.

Currently we take organs out of dead people to keep nearly dead people alive. Or living people who share an organ with someone nearly dead.

That’s why I’m here, my awesome aunt shared her liver with me.

– greffedufois

3. Toilet Paper

Wiping our *sses with toilet paper.

I am really looking forward to finding out what those 3 seashells do.

– ELPwork

4. Modern Psychology

Our field of psychology is actually woefully subjective and theoretical. We don’t even know for sure if some illnesses even really exist, or if they are a symptom of other illnesses or the result of multiple disorders occurring at once. We often have no idea if the medications which we prescribe for said possibly non-existent or misinterpreted illnesses will work. When Said medications do work, we often don’t why or how. We don’t even know what causes common well researched illnesses and disorders.

I believe that future generations will very much view our present grasp of psychology much like how we view alchemy in relation to chemistry. They knew there were natural processes between certain things that could produce an interesting, or even useful result, and they did use these results for practical purposes. They just really didn’t have any clue why or how any of it worked, and a TON of the stuff they held as “proven fact” we now realize was totally wrong.

– Vict0r117

5. Modern Gynecology

Gynecological practices that amount to “suck it up” and treat pain as an unimportant symptom.

– Shebolleth

6. Smoking

I was really surprised when I went to Europe how many people smoked. I met one co-worker who vaped, and he told me it was just catching on over there.

So many people smoked compared to the US. This was several years ago, but I imagine it will continue to go downhill.

– jajohns9

7. Antibiotics

Antibiotics. We basically use a WMD on our bodies to eliminate the single type of bacteria we’re targeting.

– Icedcoffeeee

8. Driving

Driving the cars ourselves. At the rate that self driving technology is going it’s probably gonna be about another 50 years before every car has it.

It will be the other 50 where it becomes the norm.

– Dumbdude22

9. The War on Drugs

Arrest and punish people for using drugs. The War On Drugs will be seen as huge Human Rights violation in 100 years.

– squarehipflask

10. The AR-15

The AR-15. In 100 years the phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range will be a much more elegant weapon for a more civilized age.

– ShadowDV

11. Weed Laws

Cannabis being illegal.

– TrooperJohn

12. Overworking

50+ hour work weeks

– pierso37

13. The Controversy Around Marriage Equality

Politically divisive social issues such as same-sex marriage will be something most people will likely take for granted.

People will look back on the controversy much how we look back on the suffragette movement.

– DarkReviewer2013

14. Everything

It is fair to assume that almost everything we do now will be considered barbaric in the future, and what is “normal” in the future would be considered horrifying by our standards.

– Ameisen

15. It’ll Just Get Worse?

Bold of you to assume that we won’t be primitive and backwards in 100 years.

– pourquoi-moi

Well that’s a cheery note to end on. Save us, Star Trek Universe!

What do you think will age badly?

Tell us in the comments.

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Stereotypes We Need To Get Rid of Immediately

The word “stereotype” supposedly comes from the days of printing presses, where commonly used groupings of words would be set aside and reused over and over to print up frequently occurrences and such.

Now it’s come to mean basically anything that a particular group can’t seem to shake, and it’s annoying.

What stereotype annoys you? from AskReddit

Reddit’s got some tea to spill for ya.

1. Cheerleaders

That high school cheerleaders are always stuck-up, shallow, and mean.

I definitely wasn’t part of the “in” crowd in high school, but I got to know some cheerleaders through various extra-curricular programs.

Sincere and smart girls who never hesitated to greet me in the hallway.

– p38-lightning

2. Asians

That, because I’m Asian, I’m a math wizard.

Boy, I break my calculator out if the number is greater than 5.

– gizmosbutu

3. Dwarves

That because I’m a dwarf I must have a really loud personality, fun at parties, and basically be the jester in a group.

Nah I’m just an awkward introverted nerd like the rest of you b**tards.

– Usidore_

4. OCD

That people are surprised when I tell them I have OCD because I’m not a neat freak or like to keep things clean and orderly.

Instead I get crippling obsessional disturbing thoughts that I can’t get rid of no matter how much I compulsively challenge them.

– WeenisPeiner

5. The mentally disabled

The “This person has a mental disability, therefore should be treated as a baby 24/7”

– FryingPanZ

6. Mafia glorification

the mafia stereotype!! Hate it when mafia culture is glorified and loved on italians, russians, and germans but on Pakistanis or middle eastern cultures its terroristic and barbaric.

mafia culture is nasty to began with but when people hear that my family used to be part of the mafia, they immediately link it to terrorism, like no bro, it was all drugs and theft.

– Siyah-Hidayat

7. Men

That men are more about chasing the rabbit than actually catching it.

Like, come on, I can’t play those stupid flirting games, just let me be in a happy relationship with a woman I enjoy spending time with and love already

– maciej_telecaster

8. Snobby Professors

That English professors are all a bunch of elitist snobs who would never stoop to the depths of reading anything that doesn’t come in a Penguin Classics edition.

Go poll a bunch of English professors on what they’re reading and you’re far more likely to hear Harry Potter or Twilight than you are Hamlet or War and Peace.

And you can’t even begin to imagine how much scholarship in English departments is focused on pop fiction, graphic novels, fan fiction and other supposedly “low brow” forms of entertainment. I still haven’t met an English professor who likes Fifty Shades of Grey though. There are some lines we won’t cross.

– schnit123

9. Southerners

I had a teacher who was in mensa, absolutely brilliant.

He joined the military and was consistently mocked for his thick southern accent (would say things like ‘fur’ instead of fire or ‘ ‘ul’ instead of oil), despite being one of , if not, the smartest person there.

So, he taught himself a northern accent and now it dominates his regular speaking.

– TheCoach_TyLue

10. Interracial relationships

White guy yellow fever.

My wife is Canadian/Chinese. I cannot express how much it annoys me that people will reduce my very deep rooted love and life changing, powerful relationship with my wife, the mother of my child, to me simply “having yellow fever” because I’m white and she’s Asian.

– LesPaulOnceAndForAll

11. Gay men

Gay men are feminine

Yes, there are plenty of gay men that are more feminine, there are also just as many gay men that are masculine, but most are somewhere in between.

But at the end of the day it doesn’t really matter, being masculine or feminine isn’t what makes someone gay, it’s who they are attracted to

– loganah76

12. Asian men

Asian men aren’t manly and are never portrayed as having sex appeal, at least in American Cinema. Im not asian but this one actually really annoys me. I was watching some old Kurosawa movies and I was thinking man you never see manly asian types like the ones in these movies in American cinema.

[…] Something happened in the old days and all of a sudden asian characters in movies were laundry workers, old, or a servant of some sort. If the character was supposed to be positive or masculine they would just cast a white guy in yellowface. Its insane.

– Rackbone

13. Women

All women want flowers and/or jewelry. Uh, no. Cut flowers turn brown and nasty, which is depressing. And although an attractive but modestly priced bracelet or pair of earrings will always be a hit with me, I’d rather a man buy me a new water heater or set of tires for my car if he feels inclined to spend a large sum of money on me. Don’t even get me started on poetry. Unless I have expressly shown interest in a particular poet, save it for your previous girlfriend.

I don’t say this to suggest that I’m typical, only that a man should get to know a lady and not just assume that everyone with two X chromosomes wants the same thing, which is an unfortunate assumption I encountered over and over during my dating years. I wouldn’t dream of giving my husband a fishing rod, for example, or a tie, since those aren’t the things he’s into.

When your loved one says they like this thing and don’t like that one, believe them.

– nakedonmygoat

14. Quiet people

Being quiet means you have nothing to say or contribute – typically I have a lot and most will add value, but I don’t feel the need to fight to say it.

– Mephistepheles13

15. Australians

When i visited America more than one person said i, an australian, am descended from criminals.

I mean, sure, my dad once stole a goat and my mum once stabbed a guy after he stole her goat.

But beyond that, it’s a harmful stereotype.

– youjustgotzinged

Personally my least favorite stereo type is Sony.

Which busts the stereotype my mom holds that says I’m funny.

Which one is your pet peeve?

Tell us in the comments.

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These Neighbors Took Petty to a Whole New Level

My parents moved a few years ago and while there were several reasons, one of them was that they lived next to an absolute lunatic who lived to antagonize my dad.

Among the things this man did for spite were erect giant floodlights that pointed right into their yard all night and buy a chicken which he had classified as a therapy animal to get around city ordinances so it could make a bunch of noise and bother everyone.

Neighbors can be nightmares.

What’s the most petty thing a neighbor has done to you? from AskReddit

Here are some other tales from Reddit.

1. The Carcass Killer

I had a neighbor, who I had never met, continue to throw dead animal carcasses in my yard. This went on for several months. Rabbit. Rabbit. Possum. Squirrel. Raccoon. You name it. One day, I witnessed him doing it and this was how I determined who was actually performing this strange act. He was probably in his 60’s. He opened his garage door, walked out with a pitchfork and something dead on it, then proceeded to yuck it in my front lawn.

I waited until that night, picked it up and hurled it onto his car’s windshield.

He never did it again. My other neighbor, who I eventually met, said he had some feud with the previous owner of my house. I guess he never realized I wasn’t the guy he feuded with.

– sump___erson

2. The Worst Woofer

A dorm neighbor was a huge d**k and didn’t care for anyone in the suite. So he did something like tip over his sub woofer, turn the music up and left for the weekend. The entire crew could feel it from our beds. I guess he didn’t know that RA’s have keys to the rooms. Maybe he also didn’t know that you could get ejected from dorms.

F**k you Bosco. You turd.

– GirlsPMYourSpreadAss

3. The Loser Litigator

Not me, but what the woman who did live in our house did to her neighbors.

We moved into a house up a long shared driveway. Our neighbors are an elderly couple and she has dementia. Sometimes she doesn’t know where she is or what she is doing.

The new neighbor came over one sunday night to ask if he could put his wheely bin in the end of the drive so the rubbish truck could back up the drive to empty it as it would save him trying to move it to the road. I said that was no issue. Turns out the old resident had her lawyers send the elderly couple a cease and desist letter over putting the rubbish bin in the driveway the first week after she moved in. No knock on the door and ask to stop or talking to them. Straight to get the lawyer involved.

We also found out she got upset about the neighbor with dementia wandering onto her driveway. Remembering she had dementia and didn’t know what she was doing. So she put a chain across the driveway to stop her wandering into her property. The chain was fitted and hung at about 8 inches off the ground and the first time the elderly lady wandered over she tripped on it and fell face first onto the drive, knocking several teeth out and breaking her hip. She spent some time in hospital and before she even got out of hospital, the elderly neighbor had a knock on the door from the police with a trespass notice…………

All the neighbors were ecstatic when she left and we moved in. I met the woman once and she seemed Ok. But what sort of piece of s**t acts like that towards neighbors?

– Amockeryofthecistern

4. The Salty Surveyor

He’s salty about a land survey that was done decades before I moved in. We have a decent neighborly relationship in general, but when I moved in he tried to convince me that a whole section of my yard was his. Fortunately, the previous owner had warned me he might try this.

Now we rent the house out. Every time a new tenant moves in, he walks the property with them and tries to move the property line again. Very petty, and so consistent!

– pachatacha

5. The Trashy Treasure Hunter

I was at this neighbourhood treasure hunt when I was around 11. It was in a big park with lot of trees and rocks, parking lot and a community centre next to it.

Me and my neighbours kid both figured out final clue and sprinted towards the finish, only for me to ‘accidentally’ bumped by his dad and fall.

Still salty about it till this day

– f__h

6. The Queen of the Streets

I had a neighbor who literally thought she owned the actual street and had some big beef with my landlord (she’d sued him several times for things that never made any sense).

My landlord installed cameras because she took him to court so often and he needed proof that she was making stuff up.

She would mark down the time that I or any friends of mine arrived at or left my house and would sit in her driveway watching us.

Once, my landlord was going out of town and told me I was welcome to use his grill and have friends over (he lived next door to me). I did so, inviting maybe 5 friends, max, and we had a nice, mellow cook out. No loud music, no drunken debauchery or anything like that. True to form, the nosy neighbor called my landlord and told him that she was calling her lawyer and threatening legal action over our small party. Thankfully my landlord had footage of our gathering and deemed it all totally fine and completely within the bounds of what he’d invited me to do.

She sucked. F**k you, Sandra.

– Violinist-Rich

7. The Counselor

Lived in a neighborhood for about a year that was also home to one of the city council members. This bitch would send notices to everyone for anything she didn’t like and she’d try and sway the council to crack down on those she deemed the “worst” offenders. We earned a spot at the top of her sh**list because we put our garbage cans at the curb in the afternoon rather than the evening. None of us were going out after dark and dealing with rats springing out of the cans like tiny, flea-ridden missiles.

We didn’t stop because legally, we weren’t doing anything wrong. She was a stickler for making the neighborhood look fabulous even though most of the houses were in sh**ty condition and as mentioned earlier, the entire city had (probably still has) a really bad rat problem. So every week, we’d get a new notice from her, though she always tried to say it was from the council as a collective. Yes, she hand delivered that s**t.

– rarestereocats

8. The Fruitful Foot

We were sort of that neighbor a few years ago. We were in the process of building our new house and had everything staked out before any of the groundwork started. I guess our neighbor thought we were too close to their property and had some city official come out to measure and in the process delayed our contractor.

Turns out we were 1 foot further away from their property than necessary and so, without even bothering to ask, our annoyed contractor picked up all the stakes and moved them 1 foot closer to the neighbor

– RxHumdinger

9. The Poo Pointer

People in the building were complaining that he didn’t pick up after his dog. All of the apartments except mine were accessible behind a security door. Mine opened right onto the porch.

One day I came home from work and saw he wrote this HUGE note in thick Sharpie that said, “Clean up after your dog!”

He must have told the neighbors it was me, and left that note so that they could all see it really was me. To prove his point.

Except it wasn’t me. It was him.

– waterbottlejesus

10. The Shady Shader

He had a tree in his yard that threw a lot of shade on my side, which eventually killed everything that was growing there.

So I spent a lot of time and money to plant a beautiful shade garden. He watched me the entire time, asking questions about the plants and how much they cost.

The following spring, he cut the f**king tree down.

– darkpixie1

11. The Buttpicker

Water people were out checking meters. Water guy asked me where our meter was – showed him where it was at.

Buttpicker neighbor comes out of his house hollaring to the world that was HIS METER and I was not to touch it. We shared the in-ground meter thingie, two separate meters. Water guy had a good laugh and instructed the neighbor that it was indeed where my meter was, neighbor was embarrassed at his own behavior and went back into his house but watched us for a bit.

They were sort of weird. Always remember that they smelled like dirty bedsheets. #andersonisland

– frenchkids

12. The Poor Pluggers

Mine was a downstairs neighbor and they would constantly switch the drier plug to our outlet to charge our unit for drying their clothes.

– Notsodarknight

13. The Trash Bandits

Stolen my green trash can. What the f**k am I going to do? Go up to them and accuse them of doing it? They only had one, but I knew they f**king did it, but what if I was wrong?

Would have been mortifying. Just unbelievably petty and shady

– 10Cinephiltopia9

14. The Big Dog on the Block

My upstairs neighbor (in an apartment) was peeved that I contacted the office about him and his loud wife. I had no contact with them directly.

So this grown man waited until I took my 15 year old, blind, dying of cancer dog outside to relieve himself, and he came out to loudly bark and growl at my dog to scare him since he couldn’t see.

Luckily, my dog didn’t care, but what a petty thing to do.

– Ok_Eye_3511

15. The Misguided Guardian

Called CPS on my family because we took a family vacation with our two older kids and let our youngest with special behavioral needs and violent outbursts spend the week with my mom.

They did movies, swimming pools, children’s museums, a food truck festival, and a fireworks show together in that time.

He had a blast, and the rest of us got some badly needed respite.

Neighbor thought it was blatant favoritism and reported us.

– bubblegum1286

Kinda makes ya want to just move out to the wilderness, doesn’t it?

What’s your worst neighbor story?

Tell us in the comments.

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Tricks That Might Actually Deserve the Title of Life Hack

I don’t when the term “life hack” first occurred.

I remember it starting to pop up around, I don’t know, 2013 maybe? It was a term that started getting applied to every asinine half-baked craft involving hot glue and old soda bottles that anyone could come up with.

But if you ask me, those are not the true hacks of life. The ideas in these posts? They’re the real deal. Let me show you how you can improve the following situations:

15. Being chased by an animal

Which animal doesn’t really matter, they all know the rules of the jungle.

14. Chip consumption

Don’t lie to yourself, you’re gonna eat them all.

13. Drinking efficiency

Now that’s what I call a well-balanced diet.

12. Job hunting

Just hope your friends are good actors.

11. Internships

You’d be surprised what you can get away with.

10. Shopping

Way to go?

9. Healthy cooking

Who on God’s earth decided we needed to start eating kale?

8. Socializing

They’re called universal for a reason, baby.

My dad apparently sneaks his remote into a local bar so he can change the channel when he doesn’t like what’s on. I’m equally embarrassed and impressed. from funny

7. Valentine’s day

You’re never alone if you’re forever haunted by your thoughts.

Life hack 100 from PewdiepieSubmissions

6. Accidental spills

Go from trashy to cultured in no time!

If you stain a shirt, you can simply outline the stain with a sharpie and give it a name. This will make it seam like you visit islands. from ShittyLifeProTips

5. Furniture assembly

A stand is a stand, man.

I figured out you don’t actually have to assemble these things. from funny

4. Landscaping and measurement

This is actually pretty clever. Take a thing of known height and compare.

My brother wanted to measure the trees in his yard. This is how did he did it. from funny

3. Disaster preparation

You don’t wanna be caught unawares.

Well if it works it works from memes

2. Kitchen decorating

It’s a hit at all the parties.

SLPT: If you’re broke and can’t afford coasters grab some flooring samples from Home Depot. They are free and come in a variety of colors and finishes! from ShittyLifeProTips

1. Dating

Good luck.

SLPT (Please Remove If Repost) from ShittyLifeProTips

With those kinds of tips, you should be out hacking away at your life in no time!

What other lifehacks do you suggest?

Share them with us in the comments.

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People Share Good Questions to Ask Strangers

Let’s get to know each other!

Hmm. How to start. Maybe Reddit has some ideas!

What is a seemingly mundane question you can ask somebody that will tell you a lot about their personality? from AskReddit

These questions are brilliant. I’ll provide my answers one by one, then you do the same in the comments.

Ready, go!

1. “You mean what you say.”

Favorite compliment they’ve ever received.

It tells you a lot about what people think of themselves, and what they tend to value.

– howdidthishappen2850

2. I agree with your friend.

How would you describe the internet to a caveman?

It will show you how they look at what the internet is used for. For example, some might say it’s a source of information, or it’s a way to connect people who are far away.

I know one person who said they wouldn’t explain it to a caveman because they wouldn’t go back in time without AC.

– not_a_library

3. Night, generally.

Do you prefer night or day?

– featoutsider

4. Pay off debt, go from there.

What would you do if you won the lottery?

For me, it’s a non invasive way of listening to people’s attitudes on finance in general, and also how they feel about the rich.

– Johnny_Vinyl

5. Honestly? Leftover pizza.

What are you having for dinner tonight?

It’s really cool to hear about what people like, what their culture is like (because food is a huge part of that), and generally just how they live.

Expensive or cheap? Quick or elaborate? Adventurous or safe?

– ShiraCheshire

6. A place without scarcity.

I had a TA ask me in a get to know you activity “What my vision was for a perfect world?” And I said round lol

– American-Dragon88

7. Being a child.

What was the last thing you did that gave you child-like joy?

– mntucker10

8. Flying, hands down.

What super power they want. – _-_bort_-_

9. Always return the cart.

My husband used to work for bed bath and blah blah.

He told me part of his job was to put carts away. He said that was his favorite part about the job, wasting time walking around the parking lot finding carts and putting them away. He got to be outside, chill by himself, not have to deal with other worse tasks etc. Of course this story only came up after I gave him some s**t for not putting the cart back one time.

This story was his elaborate rationale for not putting a cart back and to prove he was in fact a nice normal compassionate human. Normally, a fastidious cart returner, I started to leave my cart. Thinking I was actually being nice and even more compassionate than ever before! I probably only did it 2-5x until I realized, he’s just an a**hole. Who has now made me into an even bigger a**hole. I now get to think about how much we are both assholes in our own ways every time I return a cart.

– tigglewigglekiggle

10. Pterodactyl.

What’s your favorite dinosaur?

In my last year of college, I took a prehistoric history class and was loving it. I (a history major) commuted by light rail to school and would end up spending the hour or so on the train congregating with other history majors.

One day, I asked this group, “what’s your favorite dinosaur?”

Most of the people gave answers like velociraptors or that they hadn’t really been interested in dinosaurs since they were kids, which was fair enough.

But one guy said, “I don’t believe in dinosaurs” and that the earth was 6000 years old. This was a guy that was studying history, for the sake of teaching children history, and he was denying that most of the earth’s history didn’t exist, despite learning otherwise in the classes he was specializing in.

I lost a lot of respect for him that day, and now, having a favorite dinosaur is a barometer test of mine.

– Jibabear

11. Probably less likely they’ll get stuck.

My girlfriend’s dad always uses one interview question that makes or breaks a possible hire. “Why are man hole covers round?”

The goal isn’t to know the answer it’s to show that you are willing to critically think about a problem before you say you need help.

– SoftwareCycle

12. Sure it is, that’s why we make so many stories about it.

One I saw on a dating-site of all places (I forgot the name of it) was:

“Do you think the concept/consequences of a post-apocalyptic world is, in some ways, interesting?”

And it really resonated with me. It shows whether a person is interested in abstract thinking and imagining. Most people on the site voted no. I even had a conversation with someone who was like “no? Why would you want the world to end?!” – I don’t, but the idea of how it would be like, how the world ended, what society looks like afterwards, is interesting.

I probably don’t match up well with anyone who would vote no to that question.

– SuiTobi

13. Falcon, probably.

“if you could be an animal, what animal and why?”

Young and old, it’s a fun question that tells something about a person. – Eschew_Verbiage

14. Grilled cheese. Tacos fall apart too easy.

Grilled cheese sandwich, or a taco..who wins in a fight?

– shartnado3

15. !!

Did I just see you digging through the trash?

– TillikumWasFramed

Apologies if you haven’t played Stardew Valley and have no idea what that last one was about.

Now you answer!

Pick your favorite(s) and share your responses in the comments, please!

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Strange Questions That Will Help You Learn a Lot About Someone

First dates are intimidating. You want to get to know someone but you don’t want to go about it wrong, right?

Luckily, there are some great conversation starters you can try, courtesy of Reddit. Even more luckily, we can practice right now.

What is a seemingly mundane question you can ask somebody that will tell you a lot about their personality? from AskReddit

I’ll give some sample answers based on my own opinions, and you do yours in the comments.

Let’s test how just how insightful these queries really are.

1. Cults, probably.

Wow, coincidently just had this conversation earlier today and my friend proposed:

“What topic could you give a 30 minute presentation on with no preparation?”

I thought it was genius.

– theGrodon

2. Muppet Treasure Island

“What do you know Tim Curry from?”

– WhichSpirit

3. A falcon?

My father-in-law went on a job interview about 10 years ago and absolutely nailed the interview, as he was being shown around the office a high level person in that company who normally wasn’t there just happened to be there that day.

After they were introduced he asked my FIL what kind of animal he would be. My FIL said he panicked and picked bear (he’s a bigger guy) and the other guy said something along the lines of “that’s a little to aggressive maybe this isn’t the job for you”.

So he didn’t get the job but I guess it worked out because he’s got a pretty good job now and if I was him I wouldn’t want to work for someone who hires people based on what animal they think they would be.

– Darth_dubj

4. He stares into your soul.

Does Mike Wizowski blink or wink?

– legeume

5. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

What book would you like to live in?

– jealousofhiscat

6. With my teeth.

Got this one in an interview once:

How do you go about eating a muffin?

Learned a lot about muffin anatomy that day. It was a bakery after all.

– b_o_p_g_u_n

7. Call an emergency biologist!

Fav question I heard in an interview; what would you do if you came home and found a penguin in your freezer?

It ends up not only being an ice breaker, but a good personality tell.

– strongerone

8. For me it would be beer and failure.

It’s not a single question but by the second or third date with a guy I would ask him to go bowling.

As it turns out there’s many ways to play the game. Do they take it too seriously and get competitive or angry if they don’t do well? Does he act disinterested or bored of the game? Do they try to teach me how to play or do they just try to be goofy have fun with it? Do they order two pitchers of beer and get totally smashed?

In my opinion you can learn a lot about a person by the way they approach bowling.

– Billlliejean

9. Usually nothing.

Ask them what they like to cook for breakfast.

– BrainstormingNetwork

10. I freelance mostly, so, I call in sick to myself all the time.

In a job interview, ask your prospective supervisor how much vacation time and sick days they took last year. This is great because both extremes take pride in their answer and so will answer honestly. The no/low vacation boss is proud of how hard she or he works, but really it’s bad if they don’t take time off. They’re coming in when they’re sick, they’re not recharging by taking vacation, and the expectation — even if unstated — is that their staff should follow that example. You’ll feel guilty every time you call in sick or take vacation time.

You want the boss who says “I always take my vacation time and encourage my staff to as well. I called in a couple times last year when I came down with a cold.” Good boss.

– regular_gonzalez

11. Hosting live shows.

One of my standard job interview questions is “Tell me about something you like doing that you’re good at”.

I don’t really care what the answer is. I just want to see passion, effort, and creativity.

– ThadisJones

12. Yes, I’m not a monster.

Do you put the cart back when you’re done shopping?

– Dunsparces

13. Sold something on eBay.

What’s the last thing you did for the first time?

– Tmadred

14. WHERE?!

“Ooh squirrel!” – then check to see if they get excited at the prospect of a squirrel.

– moshritespecial

15. I plead the fifth.

where were you the night of the murder?

– Gretchiemations

Alright, now it’s your turn!

Pick your favorite(s) and give us an answer!

Leave it in the comments, please.

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Important Life Tricks That Might Even Be Useful

It’s tough to get through life…

Just kinda, all of it? Like it’s a big mess all the time and nobody left an instruction booklet?

Lucky for you, you live in internet times, and this information superhighway is full to the brim with tips and tricks to help you cut corners in all the best ways.

For instance, this crap.

15. Everything but the kitchen sink

Let the waters flow together, let two become one.

if it’s stupid and it works it ain’t stupid from redneckengineering

14. Pet protection

No doggo. Am shep. Very bah. Much wool.

SLPT/LPT: When your landlord says "NO DOGS!" from ShittyLifeProTips

13. Roll along now

They see me strollin’ / they hatin’

SLPT: how to have fun as a parent from ShittyLifeProTips

12. Do not disturb

Everybody starts paying attention when money gets involved.

Finally a useful “life hack” from funny

11. The immune system

This is why it’s important to recognize the limitations of metaphorical terminology.

SLPT: Vaccinate your computer from ShittyLifeProTips

10. Made in the shade

This is why on outdoor film sets you’ll see little tent thingys draped over monitors.

Because it’s sunny I want to work outside but it’s so bright I can’t really see the screen. Putting your laptop in a box blocks out the light, so your laptop screen is bright. It also keeps laptop cooler. Big up Alicia Clarke for the idea! Ben from MobKitchen

9. Just passing through

“I don’t care if there’s a flood, we still have to go to school.”

A flood can be a great opportunity to turn your home into an aquarium from pics

8. Bucket all

Looks like a night to never remember.

hmmm from hmmm

7. Living in luxury

This kid is gonna grow up to create a scam app, I just know it.

My 12 year old son modified his bike with carpet for barefoot riding from DiWHY

6. Oh, stuff it

Lottery tickets are the worst possible gift.
Either you lose (almost certain) in which case you’ve gifted nothing,
or you win (extremely unlikely) in which case you’ve just created a family rift.

SLPT: afraid those lottery tickets you got for stocking stuffers might actually be winners? from ShittyLifeProTips

5. Twix tricks

Yeah, I’ve been that tired before.

The man sitting in front of me on the train is using a twix as a pillow from CasualUK

4. Feel the power

I didn’t need to know this.

LPT: You have the power from ShittyLifeProTips

3. Start it up

Sometimes ya just gotta think quick.

SLPT: If your key breaks in half, just stick it into a potato like my friend did this morning. from ShittyLifeProTips

2. Spacing out

Hey thanks for the tip!

Cutting your tennis balls in half allows you to store two more balls in each can, saving space. from ShittyLifeProTips

1. Cool butt

I aspire to be as genuine as this dog.

Life Hack: Cool your butthole off on a hot day by pressing it against the cold door from AnimalsBeingDerps

There ya go. Now get out there and start living your best life.

What other tips and tricks would you add?

Let us know in the comments.

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