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What Was Your Worst Job Interview? Here’s What People Had to Say.

Have you ever been at a job interview and you know right from the start that it’s a bad idea and there’s no way in Hell you’re gonna get the job?

Yeah, I’ve been there, too! And those interviews are the worst!

But, like my father always said to me, every interview, whether good or bad, is practice for the next one, so you might as well do as many as possible.

Still though…not a whole lot of fun.

Folks on AskReddit shared their worst job interview stories. Let’s take a look.

1. Humiliated.

“The interviewer insisted on knowing why I’d left graduate school.

Now, I had left graduate school because my advisor died in a car accident and the whole small department was thrown for a loop and no one seemed to know or care what was going to happen to me or my just started research project.

The *sshole interviewer wouldn’t even accept “My advisor died suddenly” and dug into the gory details until I was almost in tears (even intimating that I must have had “feelings” for my advisor.)

I couldn’t wait to get out of there and in my haste to leave I knocked some solutions off a cart (which had no business being in his office BTW) on my way out. I’d never been so humiliated in my life.

After that, I was sure I’d never get a job in science.”

2. Downsizing.

“Company was downsizing.

All employees in a specific yet exclusive division were fired and ordered to reapply for their position plus two other jobs in the company. You’d either get one of those jobs or be terminated.

The subsequent interviews were conducted with a manager and an HR person.

First interview in executive suite: Manager asks why aren’t you applying for this key supervisory slot? (I had listed it second on my list.) Me: I would prefer to stay in my expertise in which I won a National award. HR: I didn’t know awards like that existed.

Second interview: Current boss likes me for my existing job (for which I was heavily recruited from another company). HR: Wow, so you’re the guy who does this job? I had no idea a real person did it.

Third interview: HR person says he’s never heard of my division or that employees actually worked at night. I had listed this job in which I merely served as a minor manager as third on my preferences. Really didn’t want it but had to list three.

The results: I was retained but transferred to the third dead-end day job. My old award-winning job was given to an aging staffer who never worked in that position or had a clue. The supervisor job went to a brilliant colleague who wanted and deserved it.

I quit very soon thereafter and joined a bigger company with better benefits. Skill pays off.

After all that, my old company, seeing the error of its ways in lost production and general lack of ability, offered me a bonus to return.

Nope, nope, nope. And I’m returning the corporate knife you stuck in my back.”

3. Not a good one.

“I drove an hour away to an interview at 8:00 am. I waited outside the interviewer’s office until 8:30 am with no one to tell me where to go or where she was.

Finally, another employee walks by and I ask if they know where this woman is to interview me. They had no idea where she was, why she was late, and told me if she wasn’t there yet, I should leave because she probably forgot (…ok?).

I decide 45 minutes is the cut off (especially standing in a government building looking like a creep waiting. 8:45 on the dot she rushes in, flustered, wet hair, and in casual yoga pants.

With all the resurgence of patience I could muster, I greeted her and was met with a passive aggressive scolding of how the interview was at 9, not 8. (Uh… I tripled checked the email asking me to interview and it was 8. We had conducted a phone interview and she followed up with an email request to an in person interview at 8. I was 100% positive on this, I hate being late.)

Even with this, and i did say, “I’m certain you said 8 am, ma’am” she wasn’t having it. Conversely, she also went on about why she was late, surmounting in, she went to the gym and forgot her underwear to change into and had to stop at a store and buy new ones after working out, before coming to work.

She told me this. In the first 5 minutes. Why? I didn’t ask her!

Regardless, she looks at my resume, apparently for the first time, because she proceeds to tell me how it is unimpressive and my graduate studies should have yielded numerous publications after 1.5 years. (In my field, most don’t publish until after 3-4 years.)

Even still, she kept saying how I had “moved up the interview time”, showed me the work spaces and told me I “probably wouldn’t be interested in what they do there”. I politely told her I had driven, at her request, to be there and interview for employment, I was VERY interested. She waved me off.

As we left, I just tried to hold it together (I was very poor and very desperate for a job), thanked her, and she told me how great it is to work for the government, how good the benefits, the pension, the time off are. On and on. She said, “If you can find an opening working for the government, you should try to check it out and get hired on!”

I just looked her in the face and said, “Yes, ma’am, that was my hope with today’s interview. Thank you.”

And left.

And sat in my car and bawled the whole drive home like the desperate loser I was.

That was a low one, to be sure.”

4. What’s wrong with that?

“Was invited for an IT “helper” position when I was 17.

Would help fix computers for people at a shoddy PC fix shop.

They asked me “Whats the first thing you check if a customer calls and says their screen doesn’t turn on?”

I said “Well, you gotta check if they have it plugged into a socket”

They laughed and said thank you that will be it. Then led me to the door and gently pushed me out.”

5. Ugh.

“At an interview, they asked me, “If you could be any animal, what would you be?”

I answered “Otter” because you know, fun, active, and work well with their hands. They debated whether or not to hire me because of that answer because, “We only hire predators, never prey”, and they weren’t sure how to quantify an Otter because none of them had ever paid the least bit of attention to any sort of animal documentary or read biology or you know, visited a zoo recently.

God that job sucked hard.”

6. A twofer.

“Two of them.

1- the recruiter started to fold my cv into a paper plane during the interview. (Didnt get the job)

2- was pawned off unsuspectingly to the CFO of a company five mins into my interview with the CEO. The CFO had no idea what to ask so he went the “tell me your biggest flaws” way. I was so dejected that I said “you’ll have to hire me to find out”.

Interview ended five mins later. I spent 30 mins crying at my hubris and stupidity in the parking lot. Got the job.”

7. Not a good start.

“In a group interview, the interviewer crossed a line through my name on the list he had after I told him what I graduated in.

This was within the first 5 minutes of a 40 minute meeting…”

8. Rude.

“I walked in at 2:45 for a 3:00 interview.

At 4:00 I asked reception for the last time if I was going to be interviewed. Finally they showed up 5 minutes later.

There were two people doing the interview. They were hostile. Rapid fire questions. Half of which had nothing to do with my experience. One kept asking me where I worked during such and such a time. Despite the other one looking at my application with all that info.

Then they told me that IF they hired me it’d be for a position below what I applied for. Much lower pay and I couldn’t take time off.

Finally they basically told me they’d be watching me like a hawk and if I did drugs I’d be fired and arrested. I have never even smoked pot. I stood up and told them this wasn’t for me and walked out.

It was bizarre. I felt like I was being interrogated for a murder investigation as the prime suspect.”

9. No, thanks.

“Job was for a vibration analysis engineer.

I knew how to do the job well. I knew the pay should be around 95k, and they stated 55k (in the interview). When I tried to discuss my point, they said, “don’t worry, there’s plenty of overtime”.

They also mentioned since they weren’t involved with many balancings at the moment, I would assist the cleaning crew with a lot of the cleanings.

I’ve never been so uninterested in a job in my life.”

10. Totally exessive.

“Five interview rounds with the last interview round being with the CEO all for an entry level customer service job.

During the last interview, the CEO said you weren’t allowed to get sick, and you weren’t allowed to leave at the end of the day until all of the work had been done. So even though the job was 8-4 the CEO said customer service reps often stayed until 6 PM or later.

She also asked if I would be comfortable secretly reporting to her about what the customer service team is up to. I declined the job offer and the company harassed me with emails asking why and what they did wrong.

Really glad I didn’t take the job.”

11. Let me ask you a question…

“In the middle of my interview, the manager asked me if my current workplace (that I was trying to leave) was hiring.

When I said I didn’t know, he asked if I’d be willing to drop off a resumé for him anyway.”

How about you?

What do you think is the worst job interview you’ve ever had?

Share your stories with us in the comments. Thanks!

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People Discuss the Scariest Experiences They’ve Had in a Hospital

Most people who spend time in hospitals as patients would say those buildings are not their favorite places. No one likes having to go to the hospital, or stay for awhile, even before all of this past year and covid happened.

You’re alone a lot of the time, you’re scared, you’re in pain, you’re dying to go home, you don’t know what’s happening – take your pick, because there are dozens of reasons not to be a fan.

These 14 people had experience that go beyond the typical discomfort, though, and what they went through might scare you into avoiding hospitals even more than you already do.

14. Kids should not have to be in hospitals.

As a child I was hospitalized a lot due to heart issues. One day I was out in the halls waiting for the play room to open up, I was about 8 at the time. There was a girl on my floor who walked with a huge machine that pumped her heart for her.

She was walking around too with what looked like her mom or older sister. Suddenly her machine started beeping, the nurses rushed. They were speaking German since this was a Berlin hospital ( I don’t speak German I’m Russian )

The look on her face before she collapsed was absolutely horrific, her eyes went almost blank and her lips were starting to go blue. Still haunts me, never found out what happened to her.

13. The fear of not being able to move when something goes down.

As a young adult I was hospitalized due to sepsis. I was in the hospital for a few months. The first day I was transferred to a new hospital I heard this loud terrifying noise outside my door late at night and the ground started to rumble.

I was in Florida so an earthquake was practically impossible but I had no idea what else it could be. I sat paralyzed in my bed, heart pounding out of my chest.

I finally worked up the courage to press the call button. You can imagine the chuckle the nurse had when she had to tell me it was just the floors being cleaned. I was panicked!

12. This hurts my heart.

It really wasn’t that bad but I was 5 and very very scared. It was after waking up from anesthesia after having my tonsils removed. Due to a genetic thing painkillers or anything anesthetic doesn’t really affect me.

So I wake up and I am in a huge amount of pain, I’m surrounded by strangers and I can’t talk. And then I see the bandage on my arm from the IV and start crying. It felt like forever until my Dad and Mom were there.

But definitely being alone, in pain and unable to voice it was the scariest thing for me

11. Thank goodness someone was there to talk to them.

I was strapped down and on a ventilator. I woke up and I was on heavy drugs so I kept thinking I was in a very bad dream and and trying to get out.

I only did that a couple times but I remember having to be told it was real and not a dream. Whatever I think is real is the dream. And after a few seconds it would clear up.

10. Sometimes you don’t want to know.

Toward the end of my father’s life (he had terminal cancer), we had to take him to the emergency room. We got him checked in and as we’re waiting for him to be seen, we hear several ambulances.

Without going into too much grossness, there were three teenage kids (and they were kids) that all shot each other over some argument. So much blood. I had just never seen anything like that in such close proximity. All I kept thinking was that these boys had mothers and fathers and siblings. They were rushing all three in for surgery, but I doubt any of them made it and if they did, there had to have been permanent consequences.

I hope I’m wrong and I never did find out what happened to them, but man. That was some crazy, disturbing shit.

9. That’ll get your heart going.

I was strapped down and on a ventilator. I woke up and I was on heavy drugs so I kept thinking I was in a very bad dream and and trying to get out.

I only did that a couple times but I remember having to be told it was real and not a dream. Whatever I think is real is the dream. And after a few seconds it would clear up.

8. What is the matter with some doctors??

After going out to drink one night and having not much at all, I blacked out. I was either drugged or had a bad reaction to hops, still not sure. Next day, I threw up nonstop for about 14 hours. When every muscle in my body was cramping bad enough I could barely move and my heart started acting real funny, I called an ambulance and went to the ER. They did every sort of test, gave me the runaround in a million different ways. But that wasn’t the scary part.

My parents had come, and the three of us were sitting in the room; at this point I was fine. In walks a doctor. He come in, says, “We got some tests back. Your white blood cell count is a little high. It could be leukemia,” and then walked out without another word.

They ended up shipping me off to another hospital to figure out what was going on and my dumb ass agreed. Other hospital was super confused, basically said you can throw up until you’re dehydrated enough to not be able to hydrate yourself again and I was perfectly fine now that I’d been rehydrated.

But that moment where we were sitting there contemplating the fact I may have fucking cancer in my blood….that was terrifying. I don’t have leukemia. I probably just have a hop intolerance.

7. A teen’s nightmare.

I had intestinal surgery when I was about 13.

Recovery was about 7 days to be sure that all the plumbing was working properly. Well about the 5th day I had woken up to a fairly large wet spot covering my crotch and gown.

Turns out I had a wet dream and was still unable to move easily to clean myself so I had to inform the nurse. I know it’s not much compared to these others, but to a 13 year old it was a nightmare!

6. They’ll hear them, always.

I was in a car accident with my mom back in 1999 here in Texas. A large van ran the red light at a four way intersection and t-boned us. The accident was so bad they took us all by ambulance to the emergency room.

The people who hit my mom and I were in the room next to us. The woman was heavily pregnant but explained to the doctors something felt off for many, many weeks but that her doctor in Mexico said the baby was fine. The ER doctors did an ultrasound and determined her baby was dead and that it wasn’t due to the accident – they figured the baby had been dead for WEEKS.

I’ll never forget that woman’s screams. It was heartbreaking. It was a mixture between heartbreak and disgust. She kept screaming “get it out of me, get it out of me”.

I’ll never forget that moment.

5. Unnerving indeed.

My wife used to work as a psych nurse at a hospital in the city we lived in. She was on the floor on the 4th of July about ten years ago. I get a call from one of her coworkers telling me she’d been assaulted by a patient. She took a pretty good sucker punch, and was down in the ER to get checked out.

Well, I’m with a couple of my friends, and we all head in to see how she’s doing. We’re sitting with her as she’s laying in one of the beds, when we hear this awful wailing.

We turn around, and there’s this kid. Maybe mid teens? I can see the blood on his arm, running down and straining his clothes and the gurney. Turns out, he had blown his hand to shreds playing with fireworks. The screaming was extremely unnerving.

My wife was okay, but that poor kid was not.

4. Curtains aren’t always enough.

I went to the ER three months ago for seizure-like symptoms (turned out to be convulsive syncope and pretty treatable with an adjustment of my medications). However, I’ve been in medical lockdown this pandemic because my asthma is out of control. My doctor, at my appointment over the summer, stared me down and said, “You can’t get sick, do you understand? Your lung functioning can’t drop any further. You have no wiggle room left.”

But seizures are an emergency, and could mean something bad, like a brain tumor. So I reluctantly went to the ER and sat in the waiting room. Ten minutes later, a Covid patient comes in. She announces to the front desk that she’s been diagnosed and is having trouble breathing. She’s instructed to take a seat and wait. Now, with all the social distancing, there’s limited seats available. The only one left is one exactly six feet away from me. There’s no place left for me to go, so I listened to her cough and wheeze and struggle to breathe for half an hour, absolutely terrified that I was going to catch the virus. I got called back for some tests and was given a bed in the non-covid area, but it was in the hall. The hospital was so full that all of us non-covid patients were crammed together in one ward. I was right by the doors that led into the covid hall, and got to watch doctors in full hazmat suits walk around. I kept thinking it looked like a movie in there.

And then a trauma patient was brought in and wheeled to an observation room. The curtains were pulled, but it was one of those glass-walled rooms, so you could still sort of see in. There were a lot of nurses and doctors running in and out. And there was a lot of blood – it was sort of pooling on the floor. The patient was yelling. Not screaming, but making those deep, loud, animal-like groans that says they don’t have the air or energy for a full scream. And all of us, stacked up in beds along the wall, tried not to look, because it felt like we were witnessing something private.

But those groans… they carried across the entire ward. It was terrifying. I could see some of the other patients trying not to cry. And to the other side of me, right over the cubicle wall, a nurse was on the phone talking about insurance and medical bills, and sounding bored and robotic, like she’d answered all of these questions hundreds of times before. It was absolutely surreal.

I got out a couple of hours later, but the entire experience was just… I still can’t find the words to describe it. I’d never been so afraid in my life. Afraid for myself, afraid for the patients, afraid for the doctors… just afraid for everyone going through it.

3. Textbook terrifying.

I was staying in a low security mental ward. I had let my insomnia get the better of my life and mental health and absolutely had to be admitted to get my medication and sleep schedule back to a productive place. While I there, you get to be friends with other people doing long stays.

I became friends with a guy that was a little bit younger than me and didn’t really think anything of it. However, this guy started to become a little.. unhinged? And really started only focusing on me. It got to the point of where he was waiting for me outside my room all the time, eating what I was eating, stuff like that. Hey, maybe I’m being a good example because I’m getting better and he wants to do the same! NOOOOOPE.

Turns out, he had paranoid schizophrenia and thought I could cure him. It came to a head one day where I was trapped in the rec room with him until our doctor could come since he would literally freak out if I left his sight.

The last time I saw him, he was being escorted to the high security ward, mumbling my name over and over again. He wasn’t breaking eye contact with a cold, unnerving stare and he held an outstretched hand towards me as the double security doors closed. I think about that stare when I don’t prioritize my mental health and get the shivers every single time.

2. Thank goodness for the happy gas.

When I was between 3 and 4 I had to have emergency abdominal surgery for a blockage. The scariest thing I’ve seen was either my parents having to stop at the double doors that visitors can’t pass, as they hurriedly rushed me to the surgical area. Mom crying on dad’s shoulder, dad looking very concerned.

Or, the guy they wheeled next to me in prep for the surgery. Back in the 70s they didn’t care about privacy and there weren’t curtains between patients, at least not in the surgery prep at this hospital. The guy next to me was an elderly man, unconscious with tape all over his face.

I have no idea what the tape was for, probably just to hold an intubation tube or something, but in my mind it looked like they just carved his face up and used tape to put it back together.

Scared the sh%t out of me! I didn’t know what they were going to do to me, if I would look like that guy etc… But shortly after that they gave me the happy gas and all was good.

1. You can’t forget that.

Was about 12 years old got bit by a poisonous spider. In ER for it. The guy in the next curtain was apparently shot and stabbed with knife still in him. Nurses opened the curtain didn’t realize me and my dad were in the next area over and so I saw a guy scream and holding in a knife in his gut.

I would not be ok if these happened to me, my goodness.

If something terrifying has happened to you in a hospital, share the story with us down in the comments.

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People Were Surprised to Learn That Not Everyone Knows These Facts

We spend quite a bit of time in our own heads – after all, we hang out with ourselves more than we ever do anyone else. That means we (hopefully) spend time musing on stuff that interests us, but it can also mean our perception of what other people know and like can be skewed.

Below are 22 cool facts that people (wrongly) assumed were common knowledge before someone informed them otherwise.

22. Just not many.

There’s actually male Calico cats. Of course they have a different variation of chromosomes (XXY instead of XY in most cases) but they do exist!

I had one as a kid and everyone told me it was impossible haha

21. Not just for Santa.

It’s genuinely shocking the number of people who don’t realize reindeer are real animals.

[EDIT] Another fact related to this thread is that caribou and reindeer aren’t the same even though they’re the same species. Some countries distinguish them by name and some don’t, which is where the confusion comes from.

20. Who…who has a mouse wheel?

You zoom in and out by holding control and scrolling your mouse wheel. It is so frustrating watching someone fumble for the zoom controls. But I don’t want to be a d%ck and call out the solution.

Just use your mouse wheel!

19. Simple and elegant.

In the US, odd-number highways are north/south, even-numbered highways are east/west.

Be aware that there are two systems in play for numbering exits, and they depend on state choice. If you’re traveling, be sure to know what you’re going to see.

Sometimes exit numbers are “Exit 15 is the next exit after 14” and other times it’s “Exit 15 is 15 miles from where they highway started.”

18. There are all kinds of tricks.

The order of the colors of the rainbow.

I was face painting and a girl was visibly upset, trying to explain to the other face painter that the rainbow on her face wasn’t ordered correctly.

Apparently, neither he nor the wife of the person running the gig knew that rainbows have order.

It was a weird day, to say the least.

They were both full grown adults.

17. Dude.

If you press the windows key and the period key at the same time, it pulls up a whole list of emojis.

16. Pass it on.

The fact that gum, when swallowed, doesn’t stay in your system for 7 years or whatever you’ve been told as a child. It just immediately passes through your system.

I have had this conversation too many times with people whenever I swallow my gum because there isn’t a trash can around.

15. If you’re ever stranded on a tropical island. With a straw.

You know the three dots on a coconut? One of them is “fake” and you can stab it with a steak knife and easily carve out a hole big enough to get a straw through.

Oh and just in case, you don’t need to use a lot of force to check, the knife should sink into the fake dot extremely easily and bounce off the real ones. Do not go all in on stabbing a coconut.

14. Thank goodness.

Mayonnaise is not dairy! I’m lactose intolerant and anytime I ask if a food has dairy in it a surprising number of people think mayonnaise is a dairy product.

13. They literally teach us nothing.

So much legal stuff that I feel people should have learned in high school:

when you are the victim of a crime, you don’t need a lawyer and you aren’t in charge of prosecuting the defendant. Criminal cases are always the government versus the defendant, so the government is represented by the office of the district/commonwealth/US attorney

pleading Not Guilty is how you get a trial. I can’t believe how many people say omg he is such a liar for pleading not guilty when everyone knows he did it. Well pleading not guilty does not mean he didn’t do it. It means he is making the state prove their case, which he is constitutionally able to do

“just get a restraining order”. No, you can’t just get one. There is a standard to meet, it varies by jurisdiction, but generally your life/safety has to be threatened. So no, you can’t get a restraining order against that company that called you 3 times

12. You don’t say.

Cyclists shave their legs to make massages more comfortable and for hygiene purposes in case of an accident. It has nothing to do with aerodynamics.

11. A wild time, indeed.

Ruby red grapefruit. Is the result of atomic gardening.

The 50’s were a wild time with ideas of how to “harness the atom”.

Fascinating.

10. You can ignore the numbers.

Once with a bunch of friends I was the only one to know that ingredients on food labels are written in order of quantity in the food item.

9. For my lazy peeps.

That “K” pauses YouTube videos. Spacebar does it but it also does the last thing you clicked.

More than that, L skips ten seconds and J goes back ten seconds. It’s from editing softwares. Professional editors use JKL often to move around the edit. Slightly differently than YouTube though. K is still pause, J is rewind, L is play/fast forward.

If you hit multiple times it goes faster. If you hit J or L while holding down K it will move one frame at a time. Quicktime uses JKL too, but it uses it like editing softwares instead of the way YouTube does.

8. They’re not the same.

Penguins only living in the South Pole while Polar bears live in the North Pole. Some people think that polar bears and penguins both interact with one another.

7. But do you want to?

You can eat the skin of a kiwi.

6. Bless.

You can get sharpie off smooth surfaces with expo marker

5. Shortcuts are life.

I just yesterday had a close friend of mine, mind you, he’s very knowledgeable of computers, be starstruck when i mentioned Middle Mouse Button could be used on Chrome to open stuff in new tabs or close said tabs.

He mostly uses keyboard shortcuts so he just used CTRL+LMB to do the same, which i had no knowledge was a thing.

4. The face I am making right now.

One fish, two fish if the same species.
One fish, two fishes if not.

I know, It goes against everything you’ve ever been taught.

3. I didn’t know this until I was an adult.

Narwhals are real creatures. Had conversation with a couple of grown ass adults that thought they were mythical whale unicorns… Had to show them multiple pictures, at that point I could not look at them without laughing.

2. So many weird English things.

That it is “should have” instead of “should of”.

I obviously don’t think I’m the only one who knows that but I’m baffled by how often I read that mistake.

1. Apostrophes are hard.

Not every word that ends in an ‘S’ necessitates an apostrophe.

I’m not telling how many of these are new to me, but I’m happy to know them all now.

What’s a fact you think more people should know? Share it with us in the comments!

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What Inventions Are So Good They Can’t Be Improved Upon? Here’s How Folks Responded.

I’ve never thought about this before, so I’m excited to see what kinds of responses people came up with!

And I’m curious to see what you think, so please reply in the comments after reading through these!

What invention is so good it can’t be improved upon?

Here’s what AskReddit users had to say.

1. Most likely.

“I’ve heard the Pin setter machine in bowling Alleys has never had a redesign.

It was perfect already.”

2. Good thing we have it.

“P-trap.

A simple and elegant way to prevent odor from coming into your house via sink, toilet, etc.”

3. XLR.

“The XLR cable.

Until they can beam something directly into your head, we kind of hit a dead end for perceived sound. The simplicity of what a cable can do by allowing both AC and DC power to flow through so you can power and draw signal from a microphone.

Plus the fact it’s so simple to remove the noise you get from outside interference makes it even more genius.”

4. It’s perfect!

“The paper clip.

Last major patent was in the 1880s.”

5. Use the bones!

“Those bones they use for tanning leather.

People have tried using all sorts of different materials but bone always works best apparently.”

6. After all these years…

“The brick.

It has been made of mud, then mud with straw, then mud with clay, then finally with clay alone. That is as far as progress has taken the brick, in the (guess) 8,000 years since it was invented, and it is still in use today.

Someone, lost in the obscurity of ancient history, realized that you couldn’t build really strong stone structures with irregularly-shaped small natural stones, and hewing huge lumps of stone into regular shapes was just ridiculously hard work.

That person also observed that mud that fell into a fire was left hardened when the fire died down. So they figured that if you shaped mud into regular shapes, big enough to carry one in each hand, you would have all the advantages of small irregular stones and large geometrically-carved stones, but with none of the drawbacks of either.

This thought must have taken a second to dawn on the inventor. The practical work to prove the concept must have taken a weekend, at most. Perhaps a week or two to get the shape just right. And here we are, thousands of years later, and the d*mn thing has barely changed at all.”

7. Perfection.

“Pizza.

You can change it up, you can ruin it, and you can fold it half like a crazy calzone munching madman, but you can’t beat perfection.”

8. Can’t beat ’em.

“Most professional classical music instruments are already in their final stage like piano and violin.”

9. That name, though.

“The spoon is a pretty incredible invention.

It can often sub as a fork or a knife, and it has a great name.”

10. Works just fine.

“The basic sewing needle.

It really hasn’t changed in thousands of years.

There is no need for change.”

11. We all need them.

“Windshield wipers.

My engineering professor always lectured us on how perfect the design is and how and new changes made are strictly aesthetic and don’t work any better.”

12. Steam turbine.

“The steam turbine.

It is such a useful way to convert heat into electricity that it would not be surprising to see one strapped to a fusion reactor (if one ever get built).”

13. What would we do without it?

“Gonna have to disagree with the TV remote.

It needs sharp pointy bits so people know when they’re sitting on it.

Also, less of those buttons that serve no purpose but to confuse grandparents.”

What do you think are inventions that are so good they can’t be improved upon?

Talk to us in the comments.

We’d love to hear from you!

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How Did You Get Out of Deep Depression? Here’s How People Responded.

If you’ve never dealt with depression before, it is really terrible.

You feel aimless, sad, exhausted, and something as small as taking a shower or eating a meal seems like climbing Mount Everest.

But the key is figuring out how to get out of that terrible state. And accomplishing that is different for everyone.

Folks on AskReddit talked about how they were able to get out of deep depressive states. Let’s take a look.

1. That helped.

“I dragged myself out of bed and went for a walk with my little cousin.

Having him hand me flowers and point out planes was the most hopeful thing I’ve ever experienced.

It was if I was seeing the world from his joyful perspective.”

2. Gotta start somewhere.

“I commit myself to brushing my teeth every morning.

I tell myself I don’t have to do literally anything else all day, but this one tiny, easy thing I have to do.

So I brush my teeth, with full permission to go back to bed and wish I was dead right after. But usually once I’ve done it, I feel like maybe I can do one more thing today.

But that’s all! I don’t have to anything else at all today, but I can probably manage to brush my hair. So I do that.

And I just keep doing tiny, easy things, and when I can’t do anymore, I already gave myself full sincere permission to call it a day, so I lay on the couch and wish I was dead, and sometimes while I’m doing that, I’ll think of one more tiny, easy thing I can do, and I’ll do that, and maybe a couple other things.

I want to be clear that it’s not about tricking myself into being productive; it’s about being accepting of my bad days and giving myself permission to do the absolute minimum until the next day, when I will reevaluate where I’m at and what I can do.”

3. Motivators.

“At first: my son. I HAD to get out of bed, he couldn’t take care of himself as he was way too young. (2,5/3 years old).

But it got worse and worse and worse. I realized it was very bad when he came up to me with his toy car and I had absolutely no energy or desire to even say “oooh yes! Car!”

What eventually helped was being dragged to therapy by my aunt. I have had therapy for 2 years. After the first session I went home with one specific idea from my therapist and it helped me most: I put a journal next to my bed and forced myself to write ONE good thing about/for the day.

It started with 30 pages of one line: “Made breakfast for me and son”

Gradually there were 2 things: “Made breakfast for me and son” “Got dressed”

Two notebooks later I could write things as “Thought of a morning routine” And eventually “completed full morning routine”

I have recovered but still have setbacks as I have recurring depression episodes. My son is now 9 years old and he kind of knows what is going on when I have one of the episodes and he knows about the notebooks. To this day I still use them. It has never gotten back to just one line a day. Most beautiful thing? If I can’t think of something……….. my son can think of something.

I have even come across some things HE wrote down for me without me knowing. They’re like secret little surprises to find at night. Those are the BEST motivators!”

4. Give yourself permission.

“I gave myself permission to do nothing. This permission removed feelings of guilt & anxiety about the inactivity.

Then, once I had given myself permission, I relaxed and rested. My body and mind needed that.

Eventually, I got better and felt like doing something again.”

5. You gotta do it.

“Forced myself to see a doctor and get on meds.

Nothing in my life and relationships with people changed, no trigger.

After months I just picked one of those rare “motivated enough to go make myself a sandwich” moments and dragged my *ss to the hospital instead.”

6. Big improvement.

“I had a bad bout of depression the end of last year. I wasn’t going to end it, I don’t think, but I didn’t care if I died.

Just straight apathy for living and everything.

On my absolute worst night, after an entire day of sitting on the side of the bed and staring at the floor, I called my mother. It was late and though we are close, I don’t often call her out of the blue. She knew something was wrong when she answered.

The next day I made an appointment with a doctor and a therapist. I got on medication to fix my non-existent seratonin and started opening up about my feelings with professionals, friends, and family. I realized how much people cared about me.

As the meds started to build up, I found myself exercising everyday, just like pushups and planks and stuff. I started buying more fruits. I eat a lot of berries. All this made me feel physically better.

After a few weeks I got passed up for a job that I had interviewed twice for, thought I had, really wanted, and kind of needed. It didn’t put me into a crashing depression. I was disappointed but it was just a problem to overcome.

Depression is a sickness just like anything else. I totally understand that many of the Americans reading this don’t have insurance but a month supply of lexapro using the Good Rx app is dirt cheap.

I hope the people reading this can find a purpose and a happiness. Life is neat. I know it sucks for you right now though.”

7. Man’s best friend.

“My dog has helped so much with my anxiety and depression.

I would see him just living in the moment and started making attempts at savoring the moment when I felt good. A nice breeze on a hot day, baby animals, a sunset. And then I discovered mindfulness, which led to practicing gratitude and loving-kindness.

I wanted to have more energy to play with my dog so I paid better attention to my diet. The way I used to before I developed a chronic illness. My dog is one of my biggest motivators.”

8. Support system.

“Honestly, my friends and family.

I’ve been so deep into depression that I spent 2 days trying to take my own life. Repeatedly. I remember that I texted my best friend how I was feeling but she didn’t answer so I immediately thought she hated me and wanted me dead. I climbed up on my balcony and almost threw myself off it. But my neighbor came home and I didn’t want to traumatize them.

I ended up in hospital hours later but I was released. My friend texted back and her message was “I wish I texted you back sooner.” But what really sealed the deal was that I was in the psych ward following another suicide attempt. My entire family (unknown to me) was cleaning and refurbishing my apartment. I called my sister to check on my cat when I heard my other little sister.

She didn’t know where I was exactly, she just knew I wasn’t feeling right in my head so she kept repeating “I love you, I love you” Over and over to make sure I heard her. Sometimes I still want to die but then I remember her repeating “I love you” And suddenly I can either find the strength to continue or check myself into a mental ward.”

9. It’s a big world.

“Astronomy.

Something about realizing how huge the universe is & still I was born. For what? Maybe just to be. For so long my depression came from not living up to the expectations I thought I should’ve been. So many people live searching for a purpose, but you ARE the purpose.

Out of all the planets in all of the systems in the WHOLE universe, we found ourselves in the one planet we know of that can sustain life.

Also changing the way I see religion as a result. I was taught (catholic) that we must live good lives to please this man in the sky. But with astronomy I started seeing everything different. To me, God is the universe. It created itself, & created us.

Not for a greater purpose, but just to live. We don’t have to strive to be a perfect human because we are already living in this heaven that as far as we know is the only one. I don’t want to live my whole life for this after life & miss the one Im in.

Perspective changed.”

10. Time to eat.

“Eating.

Doesn’t matter if you want to do it or not, your body needs it so badly. It takes a lot of work to get to the kitchen and scavenge some leftovers or a big snack, but it pays off wonderfully.

It might not make you happy, but it helps give you a little boost of energy to take care of yourself through the day.”

11. Time to move on.

“Quit my job.

On week 3 now of unemployment and never been happier. Turns out my soul sucking job of 6+ years as an accountant has been slowly killing me inside to the point of being suicidal. I’d been doing the job of 3 people for 2+ years (sh*tty company=high turnover issue – shocker) and I fully intended on sticking it out at least 1 more tax season before quitting.

But the first ~2 weeks of January were so bad, workload wise, the worst ever in my entire 6 years working there, that I put my notice in for the end of Jan.

Taking a few months off to work on myself and re-discover my hobbies and interests again before looking for another job, hopefully less soul sucking. I realize most people don’t have this luxury but quitting that sh*thole has given me life back.”

Have you ever been able to snap out of a deep depression?

If so, how did you do it?

Please tell us your stories in the comments. Thanks!

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People Discuss the Unrealistic Things in Movies That Really Bother Them

I have a very distinct memory of watching the movie Speed at the theater when I was younger.

It was really exciting, and when the part when the out-of-control bus being driven by Sandra Bullock jumped that HUGE section of highway and landed safely on the other side happened, two older gentlemen sitting in front of me started dying laughing because of how unrealistic it was…

But I was pretty young and didn’t pick up on the ridiculousness of it at the time, so their laughter hurt my feelings. And it ruined my life. And apparently, I’m still not over it…

The point is that all kinds of wacky things happen in movies.

AskReddit users opened up about unrealistic things in movies that really get on their nerves.

1. Painful.

“People who yank out their IVs.

I tugged on mine once and I f*cking cried.”

2. Seems like you’re doing fine.

“Working as a waitress, or some other near minimum wage/poverty wage job and having excessive time off and money and things like huge houses.”

3. He’s fine.

“The standard car flips over five times and catches on fire and every single time, Vin Diesel walks out unscathed.”

4. Doesn’t happen.

“Finding car keys “hidden” behind a car’s sun visor.

I don’t know a single real human who has ever used this method when stashing keys.”

5. Found it!

“People Googling exactly what’s happening to them and getting the answers they’re looking for. Happens a lot in scary movies.

A house is being haunted by the ghost of a tall man, and the owners Google “Tall man ghost” and find exactly the article that explains who the ghost is and what happened to him.”

6. No problem!

“”I need information from this computer.”

Tech guy runs over and starts hammering wildly on the keyboard, “I’m in!”

The keyboard is plugged into a xbox, and the OS is windows 2000.”

7. Let’s have a look…

“The fight or flight response doesn’t seem to exist in horror movies.

If I come across a friend’s dead body in the woods, my first instinct isn’t to investigate the scene.

I am getting the f*ck out of there and calling the police.”

8. What could it be?

“Most people in real life know what zombies and vampires and such are, but in a lot of movies people act all perplexed like “what the heck is THIS new monster thing?”

And scratch their heads…”

9. I like beer.

“When someone asks for a beer, they never specify what kind of beer they want but the bartender always seems to give them the right one.”

10. Not accurate.

“Why is Africa always depicted as nothing but dirt roads, bush and animals?

I live in Africa and have never had an elephant strolling by my window or a giraffe eating through my kitchen window.

Also, we have some really nice houses, not just huts. We also have high rise buildings, blue flag beaches, five star resorts, world standard airports (not just the dirt strips you see in movies) and much more!

And don’t get me started on the “African/Wakanda” accent they used in Black Panther….”

11. Hmmm…

“When they try to casually slip in something that you just know will be crucial later on in the film.

Like someone saying to the hero, “how’s that online course in lock picking going ?”

You know he’ll be picking a lock at some point later .”

12. Funny.

“Dressing room montages.

You waited for the last possible minute to buy that outfit you need (it’s going to change your life!) you’re not going to be laughing and goofing around in the dressing room.

You’re going to be going, “It doesn’t fit!” while your mom stands outside the door saying, “Do you think a different size would work? Do you want me to ask if they have a 12?” “NO I HATE IT THERE’S NOTHING HERE I’LL NEVER FIND ANYTHING I’M NOT GOING TO THE PROM”.”

13. This is true.

“In a horror movie, everyone acts insanely stupid.

No one ever believes each other, they go outside to investigate a loud noise when there’s been a string of murders, etc.

“Our best chance is if we split up”.”

14. All of this stuff.

“Getting a parking spot right in front of the address in a big city.

Falling 15 feet and then catching yourself by one hand on a tiny protrusion.

A character just enters the house and starts talking. Even when the scene is in an interior room. No doorbell, no getting the door.

Adults walking around an elementary school without being questioned or accosted by staff.”

What unrealistic things in movies really get on your nerves?

Talk to us in the comments and let us know!

Please and thank you!

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What Unrealistic Things in Movies Drive You Crazy? Here’s What Folks Had to Say.

I love movies and have since I was young.

But still, even I, as a film lover, admit that there are a lot of unrealistic things we see in movies that tend to happen over and over again.

What unrealistic things in movies annoy you?

Here’s how folks on AskReddit responded.

1. The battle.

“When there are 2 armies marching toward each other in formation but as soon as the battle starts it all breaks up into thousands of 1 on 1 melee duels completely ignoring the importance of unit cohesion, discipline, training, and morale.”

2. Just like in Die Hard.

“People climbing through ductwork to get in between rooms.

Most ducts are not big enough for a person to fit in.”

3. The law.

“Attorneys pacing around during a trial and attorneys approaching the judge without asking.

My personal favorite is when a new, d*mning piece of evidence or witnesses is presented in the middle of trial to the complete surprise of the opposing party.

Like sorry buddy but discovery deadline was a month ago. You should know this.”

4. Blasphemy!

“In medieval/fantasy, whenever there is a siege weapon they fire one shot and then “CHARGE!”

Like, “b*tch it took you a month to erect that trebuchet and you’re only going to fire it once?”

During the siege scene in “The King” they sat around for days and days hurling stones at the castle until the wall finally fell and I was like “Yes. Thank you.””

5. A bunch of weaklings.

“Grip strength.

People hanging off of anything, one handed, for long times, holding on to other people, pulling themselves up.

General population can’t do a pull up.”

6. Headshot.

“Blows to the head knocking someone out for exactly as long as is convenient for the plot with no long term consequences whatsoever.

Even otherwise “realistic” shows and movies are guilty of this. In reality, and blow to the head strong enough to knock you out is likely to cause brain damage or even death.”

7. Awkward!

“Walking up to a microphone and it squeals feedback.

Always.

In reality, that shouldn’t happen unless the sound person is a moron.”

8. Happens all the time.

“Any movie where the villain who is beating the sh*t out of the hero and decides to brag or monologue before killing them, which gives the hero enough time for a sneak attack or for somebody else to intervene.”

9. Isn’t anyone gonna eat?

“The food.

The poor, long-suffering food.

No one eats it. No one enjoys it.

People go to restaurants primarily to order something, have it arrive, and then have an argument and storm out.”

10. Take it easy!

“When people slice the palm of their hand open for a drop of blood.

That sh*t will take FOREVER to heal, just prick your finger.”

11. It’s all bullsh*t.

“Courtroom confessions, but also just courtroom scenes in general.

First, nobody confesses to a crime while on the witness stand at somebody else’s trial. Nobody.

Second, have you been to court? It’s 97% waiting around, 2% wondering if you have time to go to the bathroom, and 1% anything to do with you or your case.”

12. Every time!

“Turning on the TV and what they needed to hear is on TV on the right channel at the right time.”

13. Come on!

“Bad guy receives a mortal wound like a point blank gunshot to the torso or deep knife wound and just lays there bleeding profusely for a minute with the protagonist immediately forgetting about them.

Then is able to somehow stand up and have like an 8 round boxing match with the protagonist before finally being finished off.”

How about you?

What things do you see in movies that really annoy you?

Talk to us in the comments!

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People Share the YouTube Video That Always Makes Them Smile

In this day and age, I think most of us have found those YouTube videos or channels that we go back to when we need an emotional pick-me-up. The internet has so many things that are (or can be) downers, that we need to appreciate the good things it brings us, too – and these 21 videos definitely fall under this category.

My own contribution is Where the Heck is Matt – so check it out!

21. It’s the positivity that makes it great.

Best thing about this video is how humorous he is while he is obviously being pranked and can laugh about himself at the end. The whole video is pure positivity and fun!

20. The belly laughs are contagious.

Old man with the funniest laugh disrupts comedy show. This can cure anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Y4keqTV6w&t=81s

19. Man these two were national treasures. Sigh.

The Front Fell Off is always my go to.

18. Because cats really never get old.

Cat Runs Into Glass Door on French Bakery TV Show.

17. Who knew this was a thing?

For more information on the crack spider’s bi*ch, contact the Canadian Wildlife Service in Ottawa.

16. I honestly feel sorry for this mummy.

The Recreation of a mummy’s vocal chords… Never. Gets. Old.

15. You have never seen a more elated dog.

Guy dresses up as dog’s favorite toy.

The way the dog reacts to it. Its straight out of a blockbuster film. Can it be? No… no… it is. The prophecy has been fulfilled. schmacks and goob times ahead. Walking over with a cool air about him as if hes ascending to a plane thats far beyond us.

14. I need to know this couple’s dramatic backstory.

Nice, Ron! ? oh I’m not allowed to sneeze???

13. It’s not what you’re expecting.

Count: I **** the candles on the shelf

Me: hmm, what rhymes with shelf?

Count: and when I’m alone I **** mysellllllllf

Me: there it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA

12. I think he might need to give it another shot.

A video where a guy is talking about building a cage for a baby rhino. The rhino just runs out of it when he’s talking. Gets me every time. “Ohmygod”

11. You gotta roll with the punches.

Weatherman’s map displays temperatures in 1000’s and he rolls with it.

“I think steel boils at that temperature” … Can’t stop laughing

10. I’m literally crying laughing watching this one.

Guy has Facebook share what are clearly his favorite memories on ‘Friend’s Day’

9. Well now I need a ferret.

A man has a ferret that has babies and she wants his hand in the box with them. When he takes his hand away she runs after it and takes his hand back.

8. Pretty soon we’re not gonna be laughing about the robot uprising.

Runaway concrete buffer.

“Oh no, they have angered the machine!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KvxOuC7Bhc&feature=youtu.be

7. It makes him look kind of human.

a seal slapping his belly

6. This one is an absolute classic.

These guys even tried to set up a fan shop for their one successful video. How enterprising.

5. When you’re just having too much fun at work.

These two TV announcers losing their MINDS covering this downhill biking race:

4. You want to watch this but also you’re glad it’s not a closeup.

Man sneezes into his trombone during concert.

3. He’s obviously always been funny.

David Blaine street magic parody on YouTube. Never fails to get me laughing my ass off. Also the dude who’s in it now works on SNL, Mikey Day!

2. Kids getting harmlessly knocked over is always funny.

Kid gets beat up by carnival game. The 4th hit is gold!

1. I mean, it is ice cream.

That first taste is really something, though.

“I don’t know. Life is so uncertain. I may never get another chance.” -baby, probably.

I’m going to bookmark each and every one of these for future use.

If you’ve got another one to add to my list, drop the link in the comments!

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People Share the Terrible Things They’ve Heard From a Therapist

A therapist’s office should be a safe place.

We’re supposed to be able to talk about our deepest fears, the secrets we can’t tell anyone else, and be able to get help for the struggles that are impeding our lives.

It’s sad to think that there are many people who have gotten the opposite of help in that setting, but these 14 people have definitely heard some pretty horrible things from the mouths of people who were supposed to help.

14. That woman should lose her license.

When I was about 8 or 9 years old I went to see a counselor who was supposed help me deal with being repeatedly molested when I was younger. The bitch kept asking me “But didn’t it feel good? It felt good right? Just admit it felt good.” etc. until I was a sobbing mess. When i told my mom she refused to take me back, thankfully.

To answer a couple of questions:

I am female and the therapist was also female, which made it all the more difficult to deal with, coming from a woman.

It was over 30 years ago and yes, I did eventually find a great therapist who helped me deal with things.

I am in a wonderful place in my life now with an amazing husband who is always there for me, no matter what and is a great comfort on my occasional bad days. Never pushing and always willing to listen. He is a truly beautiful and kind soul <3

I know I am one of the lucky ones among survivors of assault, being able to trust again, and am thankful there are so many kind people like all of you. Lots of love to you all ? <3

13. A grown up bully.

At that time, I moved from Berdsk (a small city in the region) to Novosibirsk. In the new school, preventive conversations were held with a psychologist, all the children told about their dreams, hobbies and shared their views on life. I said that I love rock and would like to spend my youth traveling or working.

Apparently, the psychologist was not impressed. In front of the whole class, she said: “Are you from Berdsk? That explains why you’re so weird. Everything in your city is not of this world (interpretation of an offensive phrase in Russian, hinting that you are crazy).”

12. Best to just let that one go.

I was dealing with a lot of family issues at the time and my ex had just broken up with me that week so I was taking it fairly hard.

My therapist said “it’s because they found someone better” and when I said no and tried to explain she just dug in deeper that my ex had dumped me because they found someone better than me.

11. That doesn’t seem right.

I had a psychiatrist who was convinced I was anorexic even though I wasn’t.

It really sucked because my therapist and my psychiatrist worked at the same company and they had a policy where they don’t help people with eating disorders.

So even though I went to a specialist and they confirmed I didn’t have an eating disorder I was still banned from that facility and lost my long term therapist.

10. No one could blame him.

Not me but my late Father and I am still pissed off. My brother, his only son, had a nervous breakdown after our Mother died. He was good, through and through. It was like losing two people at once. My Father believed sadly, that my brother would find his way home but he never lived to see him again. We know he’s alive out there.

Now, I worked in a funeral home that assisted the coroner’s office. If someone passes away, they can take the fingerprints to identify them. Bottom line is, there are many ways that they can identify a deceased person.

My Father was a trucker, blue collar kinda guy. When he lost his leg, he lost his ability to work and he hated it. I am convinced he would have preferred to die in his truck. A provider. But, he was a good father and loved his children.

The therapist asked why he was depressed and he said he misses his son. She said, “you know there’s a good chance he’s been dead for a while. Yet you’ve continued to live.” He was quiet when we got into the car and I knew something was wrong. Finally he told me.

I called the therapist and asked her where the f*ck she got off putting that idea in his head. The man had lost enough. He refused further counseling. Who could blame him.

9. That’s definitely awkward.

Nothing..she fell asleep in her chair while writing notes….I was talking about the death of my parents.

I was 16. Never went to another therapist.

8. Good instincts, kid.

That my dad was in hell after committing suicide. I was 12. I ran out of there faster than anything.

7. Not really funny.

My therapist would literally order a meal and eat it right in front of me while literally saying nothing.

She did that for the entire year I wasted with her, just watching this lady eat her food while saying nothing, only to then give me snarky and 2 word replies.

I want my year back lol.

6. They trusted him.

My uncle is a minister.

He announced at an 18 yr. old kid’s funeral (he committed suicide after struggling for years with profound depression, but was dissuaded from seeing a psych or taking meds because they were “from the devil” and only given “prayer counseling”) and announced what a shame it was that the kid was burning in hell.

In front of the whole damn family.

5. Criminal.

My mom saw a shrink the year my brother almost died from a lung infection, she had had a miscarriage, and her husband lost his leg in an accident (all within about 4 months’ time).

The shrink asked, “Have you considered that maybe God hates you?”

4. That’s not how this works.

Go back to work, you’ll be fine, you don’t need different meds.

3 times being sent home and psych ward visit later.

3. You can’t come back from that.

14, telling my shrink about how I was bullied in school.

“Do they make fun of your nose?”

“…nnnno….?”

And thats how I found out I have a big nose.

2. Not the greatest start.

A couple of years ago, my partner was trying to find a therapist. In the first few appointments, this woman told her that if she didn’t start doing certain things, I’d “burn out” and leave her.

I’d never spoken to this woman in my life and she knew nothing about me.

My girlfriend never went back (after she struggled for a few weeks thinking it might be true before telling me what she said).

1. You never want to stun a therapist into silence.

“Well, you have a lot going there…” followed by an awkward silence and nothing helpful.

It was my first time ever opening up on that level.

I’m appalled, y’all, and it’s hard to appall me these days.

If you’ve been stunned by a therapist, share the story of what happened in the comments.

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Disturbing Facts That People Wish Weren’t True

People generally love facts, whether they’re weird or funny, interesting, or even a little bit gross.

There aren’t that many, in my experience, that horrify people to the point where they wish they weren’t true at all – but I can definitely see how these 19 facts fit into that category.

19. That’s reassuring.

in the NT (Australia) I remember seeing a government warning that crocodiles inhabit the area.

Among the few bullet points of advice on the sign, the last one read “If they see you, it is already too late”

18. I don’t want that to exist.

There is a parasite that will eat your brain. It’s called Naegleria fowleri and it lives in warm water lakes in the sand and silt in the shallows. It will swim up your nose and proceed to eat your neurons and your brain.

Usually symptoms occur around 4 hours after infection and include headache, sensitivity to light and nausea. If you experience any of these after swimming in a lake you need to go to the hospital ASAP. If undiagnosed, you’ll be dead within 24 hours.

To diagnose it, you’ll have to get a spinal tap and pray the tech working knows what to look for.

17. Stop it.

Snails have thousands of teeth.

And apparently there’s one who can grow their body back after decapitation.

16. You could have it right now.

You could have mad cow disease for 12 to 50 years before symptoms start showing.

15. That is a LONG time.

In 2009 a paralyzed Belgian awoke from a 23-YEARS-LONG coma, and it was discovered he was fully conscious and could hear everything around him the entire time.

Like.. What. The. Actual. F!?!?

Just imagine lying there not being able to move for two decades but also being aware of your surroundings.

That’s all kinds of messed up nightmare fuel right there.

14. Something is coming for us.

Long-dormant bacteria and viruses, trapped in ice and permafrost for centuries, are reviving as Earth’s climate warms

Gamma-ray bursts can kill all life on earth without any warning

Asteroids can mess earth up

13. Should we thank them? Or?

When you get a sunburn, your cells are dying to avoid becoming cancerous.

12. I have no words.

Some monks used to endure an intense spiritual practice.

They eliminated all their body fat through diet and exercise, ate wood lacquer tea to kill off internal bacteria, then sealed themselves in a tomb holding a string attached to a bell.

A year after the bell stopped ringing, the tomb was opened and if the monk’s body was found to be uncorrupted they were revered as a saint; if not, they were re-buried.

The process took years and as they continued the monks required more and more help from their brothers until they entered the tomb. And the whole time you’d hear bells ringing from the nearby tombs as the monks inside slowly wound down the last days of their lives, voluntarily poisoned, starved, and buried alive for a chance at sainthood.

11. Gotta be one of the worst ways to die.

Fatal insomnia.

I learned it from this other post I hope I get to sleep tonight!

10. I want to be surprised, but…

There is more actual lemon juice in lemon-scented Pledge spray than there is in Country Time Lemonade.

9. This never fails to freak me out.

Over 150 dead bodies of climbers are still on Mount Everest.

8. Don’t like that.

The youngest person confirmed to be pregnant was only 5 years old.

She had a C-section and she and the baby survived. There’s a disturbing number of young girls that have gotten pregnant.

And obviously they didn’t get that way by choice. It f*cks with my head.

7. That’s just depressing.

There are more Panda Express locations in the world than actual panda bears.

6. And that’s probably low for some other places in the world.

60 percent of murders are unsolved here in Pakistan. We simply dont have the technology and training of the police officers in the west.

5. Crime novelists everywhere, take note.

Pigs can dispose of a body with relative ease.

Actually, pigs will eat everything except the teeth, lobsters on the other hand will dispose of the whole body.

4. You just don’t realize.

An unbelievable number of people who die of dehydration do so with a fair amount of fresh water in their possession.

Yep, knew somebody that died this way due to horrible headaches (caused by an undiagnosed brain tumor found during her autopsy) that were so painful she threw up to the point of severe dehydration and died in her apartment right next to the sink.

3. Why is it always Florida?

In Mississippi and some parts of Florida, there is a Bacteria in the water at the coast that will literally eat your flesh off of you. Florida is much safer than Mississippi though. At least, in that aspect.

There is a mosquito in Florida that, when it bites you, can make your brain swell inside your skull and can possibly kill you.

2. Humans are monsters.

Elephants grieve like humans, and often visit the site of an elephant’s death. They’re also very emotionally intelligent, and our poaching of them is leading them to insanity.

The same applies with the killer whale.

1. Rabies is a waking nightmare.

If a person gets bitten by an animal who has rabies, he will continue to live on a normal life for 12 weeks, and after the symptoms develop, there is no way he’s making out alive.

You’ll know you’re gonna die.

These are so much yikes, y’all.

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