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What’s the Worst Idea You’ve Had During a Stressful Situation? Let’s See What People Had to Say.

Some people thrive in stressful environments and some really don’t at all.

I think I fall into the latter category if I’m being totally honest about it…

But some people are REALLY bad when the sh*t hits the fan.

Folks on AskReddit admitted the stupidest things they ever thought of during a stressful situation. Let’s take a look!

1. Not the pizza!

“Forgot I had a pizza box in the oven and started to preheat, not my best moment.

Ran down after smelling smoke to see the box on fire. Instead of using the fire extinguisher right next to the oven, I grabbed the box… and instead of throwing it immediately in the sink behind me, I ran outside with it…

My hands were pretty much cooked 1/4 the way through for a few weeks.”

2. Maybe?

“A woman yelled, “Did you sleep with my boyfriend?” and my dumb *ss said “Who’s your boyfriend?””

3. Mommy!

“My dinner was in the oven and it caught on fire.

Instead of attempting to put out the fire, I took a picture of it and texted it to my mom for advice.

I was 39 years old.”

4. A time to cry.

“Happened to me in college. Had been up all night studying.

It was 7 am, had a chemistry exam at 815. Went to shower, came back, I’d locked myself out of my room. Could have a gone and gotten an RA.

But logically I sat down naked, wet, only in a towel and cried.”

5. Hey, it’s cool.

“During the initial stage of an anaphylactic shock from my nut allergy, I didn’t want to kill the vibe of the party I was at, so I told my friends I wasn’t feeling well and left.

Everyone tried to help but I insisted I was just tired.

Called 911 about 2 mins on my walk back home when I realized it was a much worse reaction that practically paralyzed me on the sidewalk.”

6. Did it work?

“My hair was getting long, hard to manage, I was also just stressed in general about school.

For some reason I associated these two things and thought getting my head shaved was the answer to all my problems.

I actually went ahead with it.”

7. Not a good idea.

“I was once in a fight. The guy ran at me to tackle me and I put him in a headlock and fell backwards. So, my back was on the ground with him in a head lock.

A huge crowd was around us. I knew if I let him go, he’d have the advantage being I was on my back. So, I started just talking to the crowd, giving a commentary, and making jokes.

It just made him super mad and go into a savage state. I learned never hold a guy in a headlock that has a free hand.”

8. Don’t do that.

“Was having a panic attack.

Tried to calm myself with some whisky.

Turns out taking a depressant to relieve anxiety only makes your anxiety worse.”

9. This is amazing.

“When I was a youngster this guy and I broke out of of jury during the night. I suggested we go to this park where there are usually people smoking weed.

Nobody was there. Just 3 dudes off to the side. We went over to talk to them and after a bit we ended up snorting heroin for the first time. We both got really sick. Vomiting every 5 min. We were both in such bad shape with nowhere to go, we figured we only had one choice.

We broke back into juvy. Never got caught.”

10. Scary.

“On my very first backpacking trip, we had a bear encounter just as we were eating supper.

There were two small cubs coming toward our campsite, when we heard mama bear crashing through the brush toward us. My (now ex-)boyfriend and I were sharing a rehydrated meal, and eating it straight from the pouch, instead of splitting it into two bowls, because I couldn’t be bothered washing the bowls.

Anyway, I’ve had the saying, “A fed bear is a dead bear,” drilled into me from a young age, and I’ve always been really good about not leaving food out where bears or other wildlife might get it. So, as I was starting to freak out about this ginormous, pi*sed off mama bear lumbering toward me.

I thought I’d better make sure she didn’t get any of our food, so I quickly started shoveling the rest of that meal in my mouth and swallowing as fast as I could.

My ex and I are still good friends, and to this day he still makes fun of me for how quickly I stuffed almost two full servings of Mountain House teriyaki chicken and rice down my throat because I was afraid the bear would eat it.”

11. SPENIS.

“When I was in high school we had to complete a notebook full of work and get it graded. It was time to hand them in and my friend wrote PENIS on the front cover!

I panicked and wrote an S in front of it to spell out SPENIS. I’m glad my teacher had a good sense of humor.”

12. Dynamic duo.

“My kitten started choking and my family didn’t know what to do.

I said “should we do mouth to mouth?” and my dad leaned forward to do it but then stopped and realized that you don’t do that on a choking person.

So at least I wasn’t alone in my stupidity.”

13. Fire!

“When I was a kid I was playing with matches in my room. I started a small fire and began to panic.

My solution?

Direct the air from my fan towards the fire to blow it out. You can imagine how that went…”

Have you ever had a really bad idea during a stressful moment?

If so, we want you to tell us about it in the comments.

Please and thank you!

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People Talk About How Lucid Dreaming Works

Lucid dreaming is when you are aware that you’re dreaming and you can have some kind of control over the experience.

Think of it as a sort of Choose Your Own Adventure game! Or something like that…

It sounds kind of cool, doesn’t it?

Are you ready to learn a little bit about how lucid dreaming works?

Let’s see what AskReddit users had to say about it.

1. From a veteran.

“I came across lucid dreaming when I was in 8th grade and have been learning about it since.

Ill tell you my experience:

I fell asleep around 10:00am and I started to dream. I left my house in the dream and then realized I was dreaming, after I realized I looked at the floor and the detail of the flowers were so realistic.

Then I ran and flew in the air like superman than I woke up.

Here are some tips.

When lucid dream don’t get to exited or you will wake up.

You can do anything you want while lucid dreaming.

You can hold your nose and breathe out of it while dreaming to see if your lucid.

Having s*x in a lucid dream is very realistic and vivid but don’t get to excited because you will wake up.

If your dream starts to fall apart or you start to wake up spin in your dream in circles to stabilise the dream and you can also rub your hands.

You can summon anything you want by thinking of it while dreaming then turning around or by calling the person name out loud and then entering rooms.

I’ve been lucid dreaming ever since.”

2. Write it down.

“I’m a natural lucid dreamer but I never forced it (never used any techniques myself).

There are techniques to enhance your abilities of lucid dreaming. I’d advise you to stay away from (most of) those, cause you might get sleep paralysis, or worse case you might get trouble distinguishing real life from your dreams.

One ‘safe’ method is writing down everything you remember right after you wake up from (any) dream. Research other methods on the risk of getting sleep paralysis.”

3. Catch 22.

“I discovered it before I knew the term when I was a child.

I used to get nightmares pretty regularly and I remember one time having the thought that I didn’t need to worry because it was just a dream, while I was still in the dream. From there I started influencing it whenever I had that realization. It wasn’t until years later I learned about lucid dreaming.

It can be very realistic but it’s a catch 22, you have to realize it’s NOT real first in order to do it so anything you then dream is known to be unreal or it wouldn’t even be happening. Rarely I will lose myself in it a little.”

4. Here’s the plan.

“I was always a lucid dreamer and just assumed everyone else was.

It wasn’t until people started talking about strange dreams or nightmares and their inability to stop them that I realized anything was different.

To start the one thing I’ve told be that some people have said worked is start with plan.

Go to sleep with a grafted idea so when you’re in it you can recognize you’re dreaming. Also you not in control the whole time, as you go through the different levels of sleep you will gain control and lose it.

It can be as realistic, but I also dream in color and can smell and taste which I understand not everyone can do.”

5. Open the door.

“If you manage to realize you’re in a dream and want, say, a basket of kittens, don’t try to make it just appear in front of you.

Make it behind you and turn around to get it, or open a door and it’s on the other side.”

6. Does it for me.

“I learned by doing it, usually in nightmares, after realizing that a dream didn’t make sense or after waking up and then immediately falling back asleep.

To do it, I’d recommend just waking up and falling asleep a bunch of times in a row, that usually does it for me. I’d say to set aside a morning when you can sleep in, then after you first wake up, set an alarm for 15-25 minutes, fall asleep, wake up, reset the alarm and so on. Eventually you’re likely to find yourself in a lucid dream.

They vary in how real they seem. The more you concentrate on them being a dream and trying to control things, the less real they seem. Just flying or taking note of the fact that you are in a dream won’t usually disturb it too much, but altering the dream substantially will often wake you up.

For instance, I had a dream that I was on a mountain, being rushed by Tolkienesque orcish/goblinoid creatures and I tore apart the landscape (and a bunch of them) with my mind, to prevent them from reaching me. But this also led to me waking up eventually. On the other hand, just flying around is usually fine.”

7. Wild stuff.

“Step one is to realize you’re dreaming. Then I concentrate kinda like how they power up in DBZ. Then I fly away.

It depends on my mental strength how much I can do tho. Sometimes I can alter the real world and use my hands to open my eyes if I’m done with the dream.”

8. A little tip.

“I don’t do it on purpose but when I do lucid dream I try hard to stay in the dream. The most annoying thing is being in the dream and thinking about the real world because that wakes me up every time.

It could be something as small as thinking about what time it is or if I’m late for school. Try to stay in the dream state without being too aware.”

9. Time to fly.

“I’ve been able to do it for years. I’m deathly stupidly terrified of zombies so lucid dreaming is great.

A lot of times when I realize I’m dreaming it’s if there is a mirror and I look into it. I’ll get brave and continue my dream but when sh*t hits the fan I’ll yell at myself to wake up. The one thing I cannot do is run forward if I need to get away it has to be backwards but I can fly.

The flying is so real when I wake up I feel like I can still fly the feeling is so strong still until reality hits. If they’re good dreams I’ll finish them up the way I want. This doesn’t always happen I can’t control when it happens.

It’s just always the same bathroom I end up in with the same mirror I look into and I can control my dreams.”

10. Doesn’t always work.

“I learned about lucid dreaming when I was 12. I had a dream people were falling from the sky off of tall buildings with smoke pouring out of them.

It hit me on such an emotional level I wrote my dream down. 3 months later 9/11 happened and I saw my dream on tv — people jumping off the towers because it was a better alternative than burning alive or getting crushed by debris.

I started doing research about dreams that seem real and started trying to predict futures. This is also when I realized my dreaming in color was unusual. For a while I thought I caused 9/11 and that had it’s own traumatic effect on my life, but now I listen to quite a bit of youtube lucid dreaming meditations and every now and again I feel a deja vu moment like my dreams coming true again, but never anything as insane as 9/11.

I do wake up less rested after I lucid dream. It’s also good to bear in mind that intentional lucid dreaming doesn’t always work. Have realistic expectations, and understand it takes practice.

You are not going to feel like you are in a movie or t.v. show, it’s like you’re awake and dreaming at the same time. You can make decisions but it doesn’t always move the dream forward.”

11. Out of body experience.

“Lucid dreams are a type of “out of body” experience. In the simplest terms, when the body goes to sleep but the mind is awake, you’re “out of body.”

I had a lot of these experiences in my early twenties. I first heard about how to do it on some random internet forum. I experienced the vibrational state the first night I tried and quickly became obsessed with the mechanics of the process.

There are basically two ways to enter the OOB state. The first way is to split consciously from the waking state by concentrating on an object. This is a really bizarre experience that may or may not be accompanied by hallucinations. The second is to “wake up” inside of a dream, usually through a willful action that questions reality, like pulling on your finger to stretch it out, jumping up to fly, or walking through a wall.

When you enter consciously, there is a certain tangible aspect of the experience that is lacking in lucid dreams. Everything feels much more physical. I would basically “pop out” in a mirror image of the physical world and would feel like I was still in my body. Subconscious imagery could intrude quite easily, though, and then I’d fall into a dream.

When you “wake up” from the subconscious state, i.e., a dream, you’re basically doing the opposite of this. You realize that your body is asleep, but your mind isn’t fully awake. The problem is you are enveloped in subconscious imagery and often can’t dig your way out of it before losing that spark of consciousness.

This is why lucid dreams can feel a bit more “manufactured.” When the subconscious imagery is wiped away from your mental lens, you find yourself in the same state as you would in a conscious split.

The material there is basically super pliable and we can manipulate it with our creative imagination. This can pose a problem for those who are easily convinced by personal experience because it can be very difficult to determine the source of any particular projection.

Maybe it’s your subconscious, maybe it’s another being. Sadly, the experience itself can tell you nothing about the truth of the experience.”

Now we want to hear from you.

If you have any experience with lucid dreaming, please fill us in in the comments.

We look forward to it!

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What’s the Best Joke That Not Many People Know? Here’s What Folks Had to Say.

I don’t know about you, but I’m in dire need of some new material.

I’m talking about JOKES, people.

And we’re all in luck, because there are a ton of jokes to enjoy coming right up.

People on AskReddit were nice enough to share their favorite jokes that not many people know about.

Let’s check them out!

1. I love North Korean humor.

“Why do North Koreans draw the best straight lines ?

Because they have a supreme ruler.”

2. Elderly love.

“An elderly couple were celebrating their 50 year anniversary at the local pub. After a couple of drinks, they started reminiscing about their s*x life in the earlier stages of their marriage.

They remembered one hot and heavy session they had behind the pub, with the husband doing her against the fence. They decided to try it again, to see if they could still do it.

A policeman overheard their conversation, and decided to follow them outside as he didn’t believe an elderly couple would ever be able to pull off such a manoeuvre! Low and behold, the man had his wife up against the fence, going at it hammer and tong with loud moans and screams!

When they had finally finished, the policeman HAD to know their secret and went over to ask.

‘Well’ said the wife, ‘the last time we did that the fence wasn’t electric!’”

3. Wow…

“A horse walked into a bar.

The bartender asked “Why the long face?” The horse said, “My alcoholism is destroying my family.””

4. He was shamed.

“What did the elephant say to the naked man?

“It’s cute, but can you really breathe through that thing?””

5. Guys…

“Three men are walking one day when they are confronted by a genie. The genie, in his generosity, grants each man three wishes.

The first man wishes to be married to the most beautiful woman in the world, and a stunning model is willed into existence, madly in love with him. The second wishes for nigh infinite wealth, and he immediately gets a notification on his banking app showing a deposit several figures long. The third man wishes for his left arm to always rotate counterclockwise, and his arm begins making strokes in the air.

The first man then wishes for knowledge of all languages, and it is granted. The second man’s second wish is for a spacious, luxurious mansion, and the deed to the estate is his. The third man wishes for his right arm to always rotate clockwise, and both of his arms are now making wide circles in opposite directions.

The first man’s final wish is to return to when he was younger, and he immediately ages back to when he was in his early 20s. The second man’s final wish is for enlightenment, and the secrets of the universe are revealed to him. The third man’s final wish is for his head to always nod up and down, and his head begins making large bobbing motions.

The three men decide to reconvene years late to update each other on their wishes. The first man, with his eternal youth, seduces his beautiful wife in every language imaginable.

The second man used his wealth and spacious estate to teach others the secrets of the universe. The third man approaches the others and says “Guys I think I f*cked up.””

6. Breakdown.

“A man’s car breaks down outside a monastery, the monks inside see that it’s late, so they put him up for the night. Whilst sleeping, he hears a strange noise, hard to describe.

When he wakes up, he asks a monk what the strange noise is. “I’m sorry my friend, I can’t tell you because you’re not a monk”. So he fixes his car and is on his way. Three years later he’s driving and breaks down next to that same monastery. The same happens, and he’s allowed to sleep there once more.

He hears the strange noise again, and the next morning he asks yet again. “I can’t tell you, you’re not a monk” “Alright then” he says,”How do I become a monk?” The monk tells him that he must count every blade of grass on the earth, and every grain of sand, and only once he has done that, will he be a monk. So 70 years later, the old withering man returns.

He tells the other monks his count, and is allowed to discover the source of the noise. He is taken to a door, that he opens, and behind it is another door. And another. And another. And so on. He opens doors for many hours, until finally he sees it.

He knows what the noise is. But I can’t tell you, because you’re not a monk.”

7. Lost in the desert.

“3 guys are lost in a desert, and keep traveling.

Eventually, they find an Oasis and drink from it, but what they don’t know is that the Oasis is frequented by a patrol from a nearby tribe. They’re captured and sent to the tribe.

The tribe is basically in a jungle of sorts with all sorts of fruit trees around them. The chieftain tells the travelers to pick one of a fruit of their choice for a challenge. Some time later, Traveler 1 comes back with a berry.

The chieftain then reveals that the challenge is that they must put the fruit of their choice up their bums without moving or flinching. Traveler 1 does this easily.

Traveler 2 comes back with an apple. They tell him the same thing, but Traveler 2 fails the challenge and is killed on the spot.

All of the sudden, Traveler 1 busts out laughing, and is killed on the spot.

In the after life,

Traveler 2: “Why did you bust out laughing like that?! You were so close to living!”

Traveler 1: “I saw Traveler 3 coming back with a Pineapple.””

8. Nerd alert!

“A neutron walks into a bar and gets a drink The Neutron asks how much for it?

The bartender says: For You, no charge.”

9. At the musem.

“The Museum of Natural History in New York wanted to put up a mural in honor of General Custer called “Custers last stand.” The commission finally found an artist to do and they went to work.

Huge curtains up around the exhibit were up for weeks. Management asks him “what’s taking so long?” The artist says “I’m almost done.” Weeks and weeks went by and he finally emerges out of the curtain. They set a date for the reveal and hundreds and hundreds of people show up.

They drop the curtain and the mural is as follows: There’s a fish jumping out of water with a halo over with thousands and thousands of Native American Indians having s*x over the landscape. In the bushes. The trees. Falling out of the sky. Management is furious “how could you do this to us?” They asked.

To which the artist replied “well what do you think Custers last words were?” “Holy mackerel! That’s a lot of f*ckin Indians!!!””

10. Smart*ss.

“Old man sitting on a park bench, little girl comes and sits at the other end.

She takes out a candy bar and gobbles it down. Pulls out another one, gone in two bites. Takes out a third, nom nom nom gone. “Gosh little girl you sure do eat a lot of candy bars.”

“Yeah, well, my grandfather lived until he was a hundred and four.” “How’d he do that, by eating candy bars?”

“No, by minding his own d*mn business.””

11. A horrible headache.

“One day, a man began experiencing a horrible headache.

He went to multiple doctors, all of whom couldn’t give him an explanation or a solution to the headache. After years of the same symptoms, the man finally found a doctor who can fix the situation.

The doctor told him, “The good news is I can fix your headaches so you’ll never have them again. The bad news is that it will require castration. You have a very rare condition, which causes your testicles to press on your spine, creating one hell of a headache. The only way to relieve the pressure is to remove the testicles.”

The man was depressed because two of the three things that made him a man will be removed. Realizing he had no other choice, he agreed to the castration.

When he left the hospital he was without a headache for the first time in 10 years. He decided he would make a new him, where he has no worries of headaches. He saw a tailor shop and thought, “A new suit is fit for a new man, a new me”.

After entering the shop, he asked the tailor for a new suit. The tailor said, “Hmm… Looking at you, you are size 44 long.” The man surprised asked, “That’s right, how did you know?” “Been in the business for over 50 years!” The man tried on the suit given and it fit perfectly.

The man realizing he needed a shirt for the suit asked for one. The tailor looked at him and said, “Hmm… you are a 35 sleeve and 16 neck.” Again, Joe was surprised, “That’s right, how did you know?” The tailor responded again, “Been in the business for over 50 years!” The man tried on the shirt, and it fit perfectly.

The man decided he needed new shoes with his suit and shirt. The tailor looked at him and said, “Hmm… you are 9 1/2.” The man was surprised and exclaimed, “That’s right, how did you know?” The tailor responded again “Been in the business for over 50 years!”The man tried on the shoes and they fit perfectly.

The tailor said “How about some underwear?” The man was startled but realized the logic. Since he already got everything else, he said yes. The tailor looked at him and said, “Hmm… you are a size 36.”

The man laughed catching the tailor. “Ah ha! You’re wrong! I’ve worn size 34 since I was 18 years old.” The tailor shook his head, “No, you can’t wear a size 34. A size 34 underwear would press your testicles up against the base of your spine and give you one hell of a headache.””

Okay, wiseguys and wisegals, now we want to hear from you.

In the comments, tell us some of your favorite jokes.

Thanks in advance!

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Things That People are Really Sick of Explaining

Life is tough enough without being asked to repeat yourself time and again. Especially when it’s because people can’t mind their own business.

From work, to health, to life, how many times have you found yourself sick and tired of explaining these same 15 things to other people?

Let’s take a look!

1. The truth can be harsh

Just because I said it’s true doesn’t mean I like that it’s true.

2. The law isn’t always right

Legal does not equal moral.

Moral does not equal legal.

3. Silence is golden

Nothing is wrong, I’m just quiet.

4. Invisible disabilities exist

Some health issues are not visible.

Chronic fatigue is real.

5. You can’t choose your family

Why it’s ok to go no contact with toxic family members.

6. Math can be hard

Revenue =/= profit.

7. Reading can be hard too

Read the god damned error messages.

8. People are different

That your anecdotal experience is not fact, u don’t know everyone so save the generalizations for the toilet.

9. Mind your own business

That’s it’s okay to let people live their lives even if you don’t agree with them.

10. My body, my art

That my tattoos don’t have to have a big meaning.

I liked them back then and I like them now.

Only reason I got em was cause I thought they looked cool.

11. Things are what you make of them

You can enjoy a game without winning, and you can win but still not enjoy the game.

12. Wear sunscreen

You can still get a sunburn on a cloudy day or in the winter.

Melanoma sucks.

Trust me.

13. Women aren’t just baby factories

That I, a woman, don’t want children.

People either think you’re lying or you’ll grow out of it.

14. Kindness is key

Why basic empathy for other humans is good.

15. There are consequences

That free speech doesn’t mean there are no consequences for what you say.

It just means that the government can’t dole out those consequences.

Your friends, family, employer, school and the public at large have every right to not want to associate with you.

After reading all of those comments, I can totally understand why people get bothered by having to explain that stuff.

What are some things you’re the most tired of always having to explain to other people?

Tell us in the comments!

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People Talk About the Glitches We Might’ve Missed if Life in Indeed a Simulation

I remember having a conversation once with a friend of mine about what we were doing with our lives and he said, “well, it doesn’t really matter anyway. This whole thing is just a simulation.”

Huh? I was dumbfounded.

He explained that life is actually just a simulation and that everything is predetermined.

I listened carefully, told him that he was full of sh*t, and then finished my drink.

But I guess some people really do believe that…

Folks on AskReddit discussed what glitches we might have missed if life turns out to be one big simulation. Let’s take a look.

1. Think about it.

“The “Observer effect” in quantum mechanics. When something is in multiple states at the same time and when you measure/watch it, you force it to take a state.

Just looks like a computer saving resources by not loading useless sh*t

edit: I got that there’s probably something behind and it’s not actually the fact we’re watching it that does something.

But if tomorrow we were able to prove we live in a simulation. Then this would have been a hint.”

2. I’m seeing things.

“The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.

When you learn something new it seems like you see it everywhere right after that.

Like a video game when you learn some new move then it is immediately applicable to your life.”

3. Light waves.

“The dual slit experiment.

Basically, light acts like a wave when you look at it

But if you look at light really really closely, you see it’s not a continuous wave but made of teeny little particles called “photons”.

These photons, when there’s loads of them, affect each other so they act in waves. Seems simple.

However, when you fire photons one at a time at a piece of card with two slits in it, they still act like they’re being affected by lots of other photons around them.

So whoever designed our simulation wanted to model light using waves, but it was too complex so made photons instead; the same way a “curve” in a video game is actually made of square pixels.

They never figured we’d get smart enough to experiment on individual pixels.”

4. Can’t prove it.

“Every field of study, including science, runs on assumptions that we can’t prove, and no matter how much research we do we end up with loose ends.

For example, we can’t prove that the “laws” of physics have always been the same. We just have to assume they’ve always been that way when we run our models.

My buddy (who just finished a PhD in material science) likes to say that when you go deep enough into research, you find out that everything we do, all the structures and theories and everything else, is resting on clouds of uncertainty.”

5. This looks familiar.

“Children who are convinced that they’ve lived before, and know sometimes verifiable facts about the person they think they were.”

6. Already convinced.

“Constant speed of light.

Quantized space, time and energy.

Slowing down time as speed increases.

No information out of event horizons.

Increasing quantization at higher energy levels.

I’m convinced we are in a simulation already.”

7. What are the odds?

“The fact that the moon and the sun can just about perfectly eclipse each other.

What are the odds that the moon and sun would be the sizes they are and distances from the earth that they are to allow that to happen?”

8. Can you explain it?

“Being depressed despite any reason.

I have a perfect family, I am annoyingly optimistic, I do everything and yet, here I am.

It’s like someone is just pushing the “Be more depressed” button for sh*ts and giggles.”

9. Reset button.

“I have epilepsy and I swear when I have a seizure it feels like I have been reset. It’s the strangest thing.

I feel tired but it legit feels like my body is booting up. Like my seizure was a deletion of unneeded data, an update and a reboot.”

10. They’re everywhere!

“I’m sure it’s been said already and this comment will be hidden under others but…doppelgängers!”

11. It is quite odd…

“Pain.

One time I will literally fall face first into the ground and be fine, then I will maybe just accidentally walk into a table with my toe and start planning my funeral already.”

12. Let that sink in…

“Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.

Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.

Both were shot in the head.

Kennedy’s secretary, Lincoln, warned him not to go to Dallas.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.

Both were succeeded by Southerners.

Both successors were named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth was born in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their three names. Both names are comprised of fifteen letters.

Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse. Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.”

Okay, now it’s your turn.

In the comments, please tell us what things you think might prove that we’re living in a simulation.

We’d love to hear from you!

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People Discuss What They Think Will Be the “You’re Not Going to Always Have a Calculator in Your Pocket?” Saying in 2040

We like to believe that the generation we grow up in is the peak of technology and that things can’t get better…but then you get a little bit older and you realize that you’re just a blip on the radar…

But technology keeps on keeping on. And those teachers who used to scold us about relying on our calculators had no idea what was in store, did they?

What will the equivalent to “you’re not always going to have a calculator in your pocket” be in 20 years?

Here’s what AskReddit users had to say about this.

1. Could happen…

““And what if your phone doesn’t have service?”

Dude I went to a mini mall today to pick up some supplies and lunch and I couldn’t get cell service for the first time in what felt like 10 years.

Literally felt like I stepped back in time.”

2. Let’s hope not…

“You won’t always be living with your parents!

52% of 18-29 year olds are apparently now. Which is nuts.

This generation is f*cked. As an older person, I have a lot of sympathy for the cupboard being left bare for younger people.

I’m sure (I hope) a pretty big chunk of the 52% are college students since with college costs being so high, living with your parents then is such a no-brainer.

And I hope most of the rest are by choice and not necessity, but that’s probably not the case.”

3. We’ll see about that.

“”I have a right to online privacy.”

I hate their reply: “if you have nothing to hide why are you worried.”

Wanting some privacy doesn’t mean you are hiding something.”

4. Living in strange times.

“”Well you can’t automate everything.”

Tell that to my car that drives itself, house that cleans itself, yard that mows itself, and coffee that makes itself.

But, sure, that one thing you’re thinking of totally can’t be automated.”

5. Oh, really?

“‘You’re not always going to have someone to clean up after you.’

‘Meet my robot butler!’”

6. Are we making progress?

“Fingers crossed: “Finish your food, there are people in Africa starving”.

I always hated that line. Like what would you like me to do?

Mail it to them? Or force myself to to keep them that way?”

7. Kind of depressing.

“”There’s plenty more fish in the sea” won’t make any sense.

I know people don’t like to hear this, but there’s still hope if we stop fishing and eating them.

We currently fish trillions per year (literally). Fishing is also responsible for more than half the plastic polluting the sea.”

8. Teachers…

“Teachers saying “you’re not allowed to use a Wikipedia article.”

I hope that doesn’t change, encyclopedias in general have always been frowned upon as sources because their entire purpose is to give an overview.

Wikipedia’s biggest advantage is that it makes it easy to find primary sources, such as books or articles, which are then acceptable to cite because they should go into more detail.”

9. No more pandemics, please!

“”This restaurant doesn’t deliver.”

Although hopefully not because we end up with another global pandemic so f*cking soon.”

10. Watch this!

“”You can’t just make stuff appear out of thin air you know!”

*3D printer go brrrrrr.”

11. Let me access my brain.

“You’re not always going to be able to access your brain’s memory files, sometimes you may need to remember things off the cuff.”

12. Electric cars.

“You won’t always have a gas station (electric cars are coming, folks!).

If we’re optimistic, electric car production will have surpass ICE by 2040.”

How about you?

What do you think are some good examples of this?

Share your thoughts with us in the comments. Thanks!

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People Share Stories About When They Dreamed So Hard It Felt Real

Have you ever had a dream that seemed so real that you woke up and said to yourself, “did that just really happen to me…?”

And sometimes that can be a good thing or a bad thing, FYI…

Has that ever happened to you?

AskReddit users opened up about the most vivid, realistic dreams they’ve ever had.

1. Where are my blades?!?!

“As a kid in the 1990s I dreamed that my neighbour had a rollerblade shop in her backyard and she said I could pick out any pair I wanted!

The next morning I went out and popped my head over the fence and it was just a stupid normal backyard.

No rollerblades for me.”

2. Where’s my son?

“I once dreamed i had a son and i haf to go get him from school but I couldn’t get there in time.

When I woke up I searched the number of his mother in my phone to let her know I couldn’t get there in time.

It took a minute before I realized I don’t have a gf or a son.

I was 17 at the time.”

3. Like an action movie.

“I sometimes have super intense action dreams where a good friend and I are up against the world in some dire, overused Hollywood plot.

Conspiracy thrillers, taking down billionaires in covert missions, overthrowing a corrupt politician, it’s all there.

I know they’re not real, but it makes me feel a little more empowered when I wake up to make the coffee.”

4. Woke up in a panic.

“Had a dream a few years ago that grandma died. Woke up crying and called her. Didn’t get an answer because she was asleep.

Started freaking out and asked mom if grandma was okay. Mom laughed at me. I got a call from grandma after she had woken up and saw that I’d tried to call her.

She was perfectly fine…”

5. Are you okay?

“I killed people in my dream and stuffed their phone in their mouths.

When I woke up, I felt an intense sense of guilt and checked my room for bodies. After about a minute, I realized that was highly improbable.

And yes, I’m a dumb*ss.”

6. Work nightmares.

“I have had dreams where I am at work and they seem so d*mn real. I actually had a work nightmare come true.

I had this nightmare that I would not realize I was scheduled and not show up to work.

I actually had that happen a couple years ago. I made it in after my boss was like ‘Hey where the hell are you?’”

7. Every night.

“Every night I have hyper-realistic dreams.

Some times it’s me in a huge space ship entering a new world to colonize it. Other times it’s about ghosts crawling out of holes in the walls. Both I can tell when I wake up were dreams.

But there are some…Sweet bees are they annoying. They’re just me at work, and I move some bottles to another shelf. When I go to work the following day, I go to the shelf to get them. No bottles. It was a dream. Or I’ll have a conversation with someone and only when I reference it do I realize it was a dream.

Every night I dream so vividly. I hate it 95% of the time because I always wake up feeling exhausted, either emotionally or mentally. I even asked my doctor once if there is medication to prevent me from dreaming.

I remember dreams from years ago that pop into my head randomly like they’re memories. I wish I could sleep and not dream.”

8. Italy.

“I had what felt like a really long dream that I was living in Italy. Now, obviously it was just a dream and couldn’t have happened because I was just an average American in my early 20s at the time living in the bumf*ck country side.

But, it felt so real. I had a full-time job in my dream (can’t recall what job though) and even remember that I was invited to some party after a day of work. I had two pet dogs in my dream, one a Chihuahua and one a mix that I can’t recall. I was living alone but generally enjoying my life in Italy.

Again, it was all just a dream but it felt so frickin’ weird waking up and realizing it wasn’t all real, that I was still in my messy bedroom in my parent’s home. I had a mild panic attack when I woke up utterly confused at what the heck happened. For a brief moment, I genuinely thought that I was actually in Italy and that me being in my parent’s home was the actual dream.

It’s been years since then and I am nowhere near Italy or even have plans on going to Italy but I still think about that dream at times.”

9. So realistic.

“It happened to me when I was on cardiac medication, that cause sleeping issues as side effect. I had super realistic dream about my ex boyfriend cheating on me and bragging about it everywhere with his new girl.

When I woke up, I was genuinely sad and almost had tears in my eyes, but after a minute I realized it was just a dream. Day after that I had a dream, that I was stabbed to death by some creep I was running away from.

Or another time I woke up waving hands around my head because I thought, that wasps are attacking me. Dreams were so realistic, I was even little afraid of going to sleep.”

10. What are you doing?

“I dreamt that I had forgotten to schedule a meeting for my boss. I ran into work early the next day and sent out a meeting invite to my boss and the clients concerned.

My boss came into work and asked me what I was doing. I then explained he had asked me to set this meeting up yesterday and that he could send me the documents he needed printed.

Midway through explaining this I realized it was, in fact, a dream. He was not pleased.”

11. Bring on the meat.

“I dreamt of eating buffet of meats. I woke up with saliva coming out of my mouth like I can smell and taste the meats.

I waited till lunch got out to my favourite meat buffet restaurant just to find out it is closed because of quarantine despite of my government allows restaurants to open since they are necessity sector.

I was p*ssed off the whole day. F*ck that dream.”

12. Whoa…

“I had a dream that the space shuttle blew up in one of the most vivid dreams I have ever had…two days before it happened. That made me question some things, but was probably just a stupid coincidence.

The dream was so vivid that I jumped out of bed as soon as I woke up and typed out the dream and sent it to some friends on ICQ. Two days later I woke up to phone calls and a whole cr*pload of new messages on ICQ and IRC. I eventually picked up the phone and was told to turn on CNN.

I will never forget how vivid that dream was. I was watching a space shuttle launch on TV, which was for some reason being held in Central Park in NY.. along with my family. This is when I remember the dream starting to get lucid. I looked closer at the TV and it looked more and more sharp and vivid and I ended up being pulled right into the TV, at that point being aware that I’m dreaming.

I remember sort of looking over central park from a great height, the same vantage point that I saw on TV. I slowly descended and ended up on top of a skyscraper just south of central park. It was some sort of a residential tower that doesn’t actually exist (in my dream it was very tall). I remember feeling the breeze of the wind on my skin and the sunshine on my face, as I stood on the roof of that building.

In the distance I could see the space shuttle being set to launch right from central park. I was lucid so I knew that this made no sense, but there it was.. It was so vivid.. felt so real.. if over-exaggerated in the way everything appeared. Super tall skyscrapers, an oversized space shuttle, the perfect amount of sun shining on everything, producing an epic scene right in front of me.

I remember being up on that skyscraper with a bunch of people all cheering and watching the launch. There was a countdown and the space shuttle slowly took off.. but immediately had problems, as it for whatever reason started moving off to the left… eventually there was some sort of explosion, and the space shuttle flew right into one of the skyscrapers. The skycraper started falling, and the whole scene basically changed to a dark gloomy sky, as this was all happening.

The last thing I remember is our building being hit by another one, fire, and smoke, and I woke up… jumped out of bed, ran to my computer, and typed out the most vivid dream I have ever had.

Two days later it was February 1, 2003, and Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated on reentry, as it was returning home.. A completely different scenario than the one I saw in my dream.. but I felt that tragedy in a strange way when it happened.

That was a super weird dream and I haven’t really had any like that since from what I can remember.. except for maybe some strange dreams I had when I was in New Orleans.”

Have you ever had a dream that felt totally real?

If so, please tell us all about it in the comments.

We can’t wait to hear from you!

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People Talk About Their Worst “HR Is Not Your Friend” Stories

A lot of us have our struggles with human resources at jobs at some point in our lives.

You might think they’re on your side as a working stiff when you’re young and idealistic, but if you’ve ever had a bad experience with them, you know they can be downright brutal.

Folks on AskReddit shared their “HR is not your friend” stories. Let’s take a look.

1. Huh?

“Pulled into a meeting with two HR reps in the middle of my shift. Taken to this really nice boardroom, which was confusing because I was just a grunt and this is literally floors above where I should ever be.

They sat me down and said basically what do you have to say for yourself. Me, still confused, tells them I have no idea what they’re talking about. Everyone is really quiet and serious and I’m scared sh*tless. And they say you know what you did, this is cause for termination, blah blah.

I’m literally thinking this is really excessive for being a few minutes late sometimes. I insist I don’t know what’s going on. One of them maybe realized something was wrong and flips open a file and says you’re xxx right? Turns out they got me mixed up with someone else who has the same name.

On the elevator ride down by myself I was still sweating. Don’t know what that other person did but man, HR does not play.”

2. Ripped off.

“I went to HR to report that my team’s manager was illegally shorting all of our paychecks. HR’s response was to adopt a new, company-wide policy addressing the paycheck issue and back-paying most people for a certain amount, and also to frame me for work avoidance.

HR and IT disabled part of my login account to a tool we used, and then fired me a few months later after failing to fix the problem and allowing me to actually do my job.

They tried to deny my unemployment claim afterward. Told the unemployment rep that they “had logs” showing that I did something to break the tool I don’t even have access to break in the first place. They also didn’t think to disable my email access in a timely manner, so I was able to back up all my emails with IT documenting exactly what went down.

Unemployment approved my claim and hit them with a major penalty to their insurance.”

3. Shady.

“HR ordered me to downgrade my three excellent employee reviews to satisfactory because management didn’t recognize their names. I got written up for telling my employees this.

HR denied that they told me anything, even though I had the emails from them documenting it. Totally worth it. My employees were excellent and got the raises they deserved.”

4. Stabbed in the back.

“HR hired consultants to run morale building employee input sessions.

Basically saying “We’re not from the company. You can tell us all the things you don’t like about working here and would like to see changed and we’ll put it all into a report for management. Don’t worry, everything is anonymous, we just need material for our report and you guys get to have your say in improving things around here.”

Turns out HR and the consultants recorded all the sessions and played the highlights for management. People were disciplined for criticizing the company or their immediate superiors and any shred of faith or trust in management that the employees may have had was instantly incinerated.

Managers now complain that they don’t know what’s going on in their teams because nobody tells them anything. I wonder why.”

5. Don’t go to her.

“I worked at a smallish company that grew big enough to hire an HR person. Her office was down from mine so in the mornings I’d swing by and say hi.

That turned into grabbing a cup of coffee she had just made, the into having a pastry and talking about life. I found that if I mentioned someone’s name in passing, a few minutes later she would spill the beans about that person’s life.

What work issues they had, health issues, family issues etc. I learned really quick any issues I had not to take them to her. She made it like 6months before she got fired.”

6. Speakerphone.

“I asked my boss for a desk phone with a speakerphone function because sometimes I need it at work to conference people on the phone with people in my office.

We had these old, yellow phones. So he told me to make a request to him and CC our office manager, and he’d send it to the HR department of our region via e-mail.

So I put forth a nice e-mail outlining what I am requesting, and why I need it for HR’s request. My office manager replies all and asks HR “per lazarus870 request, should I order the phone through the same channels I have used before or is there a new policy?”

HR responded livid. She demanded to know why I needed this phone (it was in the e-mail…) and then accused my office manager of going behind HR’s back in ordering phones before without approval.

My office manager told my boss, who called HR and chewed her out and I could hear yelling. My boss came out of his office and yelled at me, “See what you’ve caused?!” He was fired up but I know he didn’t mean anything malicious by it. I just laughed.

HR had to apologize to office manager for accusations. Turns out, after everybody yelled their f*cking lungs out for an hour, the speakerphone I needed was literally free and we had boxes of them in storage. I had it for a month before HR rolled out new fancy phones that were actually expensive and convoluted, requiring training to set up and use…

At the company picnic we had to wear f*cking name tags and I had never met HR lady face to face and she came up and said, “Oh we haven’t met, what’s your name?” and I was trying to hide my nametag but she read it and didn’t seem happy to see me.”

7. A terrible place to work.

“At my last “real” job before striking out on my own I had an exit interview with the HR lady who was actually just someone who was friends with the company president who was filling in because the actual HR lady with a degree in HR and everything quit.

A lot of people at this place quit. It was a terrible place to work with out of touch management and delusions of grandeur limping along building websites for a business niche that was mostly old people who thought the Internet was magic.

During the exit interview she asked why I was leaving. I told her I liked my coworkers a lot, but hated the company. She got this exasperated look and got genuinely upset, and told me that she’d been getting that same line from everybody else who quit and had their exit interview recently.

It boggled my mind that they could hear the same thing over and over again from so many people putting in their time until they could go on to something better and not stop to think they should change something.”

8. Creeper.

“I worked in the bakery at a Fred Meyers for about 6 months when I was freshly 19.

There was this like 45 year old guy in meat/seafood who was super creepy and all of the women in my department and even one woman who was previously in my department but was moved to another TO GET AWAY FROM HIM warned me about this man from day 1.

Somehow, any time I was on my break, he would “be on his break too” and he’d follow me into the break room and try to flirt with me the entire time.

Not only did he follow me on my breaks and lunches, but if I had to walk to another part of the store to get anything he would run to catch up to me and walk with me, he followed me to my car a few times after I got off shift and the scariest time was when I was closing by myself and he came into the back of the bakery and kept following me around the long table, trying to grab me while telling me how much he liked me and how badly he wanted to be with me.

I told him no and to leave me alone CONSTANTLY while managers just shrugged and said “that’s just how he is”. My boyfriend threatened him when he got off work one time hell even my father came in and threatened him because NO ONE was doing ANYTHING.

The final straw for me was one night when I was closing alone again he came into the back area and followed me into the freezer and tried to kiss me and he grabbed my *ss. I pushed him and f*cking ran to the closing manager who also functioned as HR. He said he’d “watch the store footage” and talk to me the next day.

Next day comes and he pulls me into his office and says that he saw the video and saw this man stalking me inside and outside of work and that he “talked” to him about his behavior to which the man responded that it was just a “misunderstanding”.

I replied that this had been going on for months and I wasn’t going to take it anymore and he had the f*cking NERVE to tell me that “He just does this to all the new girls. As soon as another girl gets hired he’ll leave me alone.” I told him he was a bastard and quit on the spot.

Turns out the creep was the brother of the stores owner who had been to jail in the past for s*xual assault and R*PE but was now “cleaning his life up”.

9. That sucks.

“I reported s*xual harassment to HR at a large international company when I was 21.

They notified my harasser (an older VP) before I even made it back to my desk.

I was fired a few days later, despite an excellent performance review the week before he propositioned me.”

10. I believe I deserve a bonus.

“The HR/Payroll manager at a small hospital I worked at had a bad habit of not paying out the sign-on bonus that was paid out incrementally in three payments through the course of a year and sign on bonuses for picking up extra shifts. After repeated request to be belatedly compensated, I took it to corporate who addressed my issue immediately.

A couple weeks later I was terminated on what amounted to a technicality where I forget my badge one shift and my relief was late to take over sitting with a patient, causing me to receive more points against me than if I had called out for that shift.

When I was called in to receive my notification, the director of nursing was shocked but ultimately not much she could do.”

11. Fender bender.

“A co-worker accidentally backed his company truck into my personal car while it was parked. He alerted me and our local manager immediately, we took photos, filled out the incident report, yada yada yada.

Everyone in our office was in agreement about what happened, that it was an honest accident and the company’s insurance should cover the cost of fixing my car.

Then the HR director got involved. First he tried to get me to assume liability since it was my personal vehicle that “caused” the accident. My car was parked in the parking lot and I was inside at my desk when it happened. When I pointed this out he backed down and said he would file the claim.

Next I got a call from a hostile insurance adjuster from my company’s insurance demanding that I provide my insurance information or they would be pursuing legal action. It turns out the HR director had filed the claim saying that I had run into the parked work truck with my car and tried to flee the scene but was witnessed by a co worker who reported me.

I informed the adjuster what had actually happened and emailed her the photos and signed incident reports and witness statements that we had filled out and she changed her tune pretty quickly and said she would get back to me.

The next day I get a “settlement agreement” from HR asking me to accept $1100 for repairs and to sign a form releasing the company from any further responsibility. I had only just dropped my car off at the body shop and hadn’t even gotten the estimate back yet. I declined and was told that I either had to accept their offer or be out of luck.

At this point I reached out to my own insurance and told them what had happened. As I went through the sequence of events I could hear my agent getting almost giddy about all the blatantly illegal tactics HR had tried on me. In the end they processed my claim and pursued my own company’s insurance through subrogation. He also mentioned that they would probably be seeking additional damages due to falsification of statements in the initial claim. Don’t f*ck with USAA.

In the end the damage ended up costing over $4,000 to fix but I didn’t have to pay a cent, not even my deductible. I don’t know if the HR director experienced and consequences, but there was a comment in our finance VP’s year end report about needing to “reduce extraneous costs due to reporting delays and inaccuracies in liability claims.””

Have you ever had any bad experiences with human resources at work?

If so, please tell us all about it in the comments.

Thanks in advance!

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People Share the Most Inoffensive Thing They’ve Seen Someone Get Offended by

I don’t like to use the word “snowflake” because it gets thrown around so often, but it’s pretty true…people out there really do get offended by everything these days.

Hey, a lot of things are definitely worth getting worked up over but others…not so much…

AskReddit users talked about the most inoffensive things that they’ve seen people get upset about.

Let’s take a look!

1. Everyone just calm down.

“Someone once got offended because I used the word black in conversation…..I was talking about an article of clothing/the color black.

They tried to make in to something about race, and that I shouldn’t use the term black anymore, and should say African American, I said that makes no sense I’m literally talking about the color black.

Am I supposed to say I’m wearing an African American colored shirt?! Maybe I’m crazy but I think that’s actually offensive”

2. She sounds like a blast.

“This guy at a Halloween party I was at was dressed in a giant bacon costume.

Some girl was yelling at him for being so offensive toward Jews and Muslims (she was neither Jewish nor Muslim). One of the Muslim guys at the party asked her what the f*ck she was talking about but she didn’t back down.

I have no idea why people feel they need to go out of their way to be (inaccurately) offended on behalf of other cultures/religions.”

3. Makes perfect sense.

“While working tech support back during the dot com boom I had a customer get upset with me over the use of the word “icon”.

He said it had religious implications and he insisted I call Windows icons “little picture things”.”

4. Get a grip.

“A f*cking picture of an eye.

We have an organization-wide theme every year and all the PC’s on our network have the same background and theme which can’t be changed. So this year’s theme is “Vision is 2020” and the background was a zoomed-in picture of an eye in really awesome colours.

Two women on staff wrote letters to complain that the picture was “heathen” as it drew from “Illuminati” imagery and paid tribute to the “all-seeing eye of Eqyptian deities”.

They wined and complained to such an extent that the picture was eventually changed to shut them up and let the normal folks get back to our actual work.”

5. Oh, Jared…

“I sang the song “hit the road jack” to a kid I just beat in a game while in the 3rd grade mockingly.

He took that as me calling him a jack*ss. He told the recess monitor this. I was told to stand against a wall away from the rest of the kids with the recess monitor.

I am now 27 now, married with two kids but I will never forget this.

If you ever see this I DIDNT CALL YOU A JACK*SS JARED, BUT NOW, F*CK YOU FOREVER.”

6. That’s how they do it.

“Got chewed out once for saying, “yes ma’am,” to a lady.

I’m in the south, that’s what we do.”

7. Was he a total psycho?

“A sandwich. I kid you not.

My ex husband was given a sandwich by our then 13yr old daughter and because she cut the sandwich he went off on a massive strop about how his sandwiches should never be cut etc.

The poor kid’s face, she was crushed. It still winds me up no end every time I think about it.”

8. People can be terrible.

“I worked at a movie theater. Went above and beyond for a customer who only wanted a certain amount of oil and salt for his popcorn.

I had to make him his own batch and risk burning myself to catch some of the hot oil in a cup before it went into the kettle. He then realized he was late for his movie. He asked if there was any way I could bring his food to him in the theater. Never heard that before, but sure! I don’t mind.

Bring him all of his food and he says thank you. I smile and say “no problem!” I was genuinely happy to do this for him.

He throws a fit and complains to my manager. Me saying “no problem” somehow insinuates that when customers ask you to do something it can be a problem. Said I should get written up for not saying “you’re welcome” instead.”

9. Violent imagery.

“I managed a small, new team that had no procedures or policies, so I set about instituting some.

“I mean, you never know, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow and then no one would know how to process these requests,” I told them, when asking for their feedback and for them to write up how they did their tasks. Then we would come back together and decide best practices in a meeting.

Little man filed a complaint to the manager for my use of “violent imagery” and said that he felt threatened. It was a whole thing. Ultimately, he got fired.”

10. You’re wrong.

“I’m a white South African.

Born here, my nationality is South African.

Some American girl got offended that I called myself South “African” as a white dude, and said that only people of color can call themselves that.

Uhhh, it’s a nationality.”

11. I’m being persecuted!

“At my wedding we marked the vegetarian items as vegetarian.

This made the one vegetarian at my wedding (sister in law who hates me) fly into a catatonic rage because we are singling out the vegetarian food as vegetarian and not treating it as normal food.

Then how the f*ck are they supposed to know its vegetarian?”

12. This is offensive to me.

“This happened just last week.

I work at a bank in an affluent part of Atlanta (read: Old White Money), and a woman called in to let us know she was offended by the security questions for her online banking.

The security questions. She herself setup.”

13. The nerve of these people!

“My dad loves to tell the story of how, shortly after they were married, he and mom went to get some fast food.

As they pulled up to the drive through window, my very conservative mom saw a sign that said “Condiments available upon request” and said “OMG, that’s disgusting! WHY would a restaurant feel the need to give those out!?”

She had misread it and thought they were giving out condoms upon request.”

Now we want to hear your stories.

In the comments, tell us the most inoffensive thing that you’ve seen people get offended by.

Please and thank you!

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Want to Hear Some Stories About Hypocrites? Here’s What People Had to Say.

There’s almost nothing worse than a hypocrite in life.

It’s really enough to make a person’s blood boil! Myself included…

But, as you already know, they’re everywhere and we have to deal with these people whether we like it or not.

Folks on AskReddit shared stories about the most hypocritical things they’ve ever seen.

1. Gross.

“When I was in college there was a super immature guy that I believe only got into our private school because his parents had money.

One day we were sitting in his dorm room watching tv, and he speaks up: “god, don’t you just hate people who steal things for no reason?” The rest of us turned and stared in disbelief. Behind him on a shelf was a collection of all the things he’d stolen from businesses. I remember Red Robin seasoning and bowling shoes, but there was a lot more.

A glimmer of self awareness pierced through his thick skull and he back tracked somewhat. “I mean for me, it’s like ‘my thing’, but still!””

2. All over the place.

“A post saying stuff like “don’t forget to wear a mask, we’re all in this together, stay safe everyone!”

Followed by a series of videos taken inside of a crowded club, bumpin’ and grindin’ up on each other, not a mask in sight.”

3. Oh, really?

“People who watch TV for hours on end saying playing video games is a waste of time.”

4. Oh, Mom…

“My mom got very angered that our governor was allowing people to have family over for Thanksgiving, and not doing his part to stop the pandemic.

A week later, she was very upset about how my grandma had declined her invitation to come have Thanksgiving with us.”

5. Terrible.

“I work in a courthouse.

People who abuse children for years and years and when they get on the stand they breakdown crying and plea for mercy.”

6. Typical.

“When I was going through my college party phase I ended up hanging with kids who graduated from a local Christian school. They drank, did drugs, and bragged about premarital s*x like a lot of college students.

When you talked about politics tho they immediately would go on and on about the moral failings of society and how it needs to be more Christian yadda yadda.”

7. Some of the worst.

“Televangelists preaching how we should live modestly while they own several private jets to fly around the country spreading the word of The Lord.

Sometimes they’ll come on TV saying God came to them in a dream saying they needed more.

Jesus would fly coach if he flew at all.

I believe Jesus also preached about taking in the displaced, etc?

Iirc in 2017 Joel Osteen was not allowing hurricane evacuees into his megachurch.”

8. Very annoying.

“My friends who complain about people who break lockdown and then go on to break lockdown for “sleepovers” and “girly nights” the same day they were criticizing others.

Infuriatingly entitled.

“Others must follow the rules but they don’t apply to me”.”

9. Harassment.

“I’ve been repeatedly s*xually harassed by a gay man before and have even had to make sure he didn’t find out where I lived so he couldn’t keep doing it.

When I explained this one time to my co-workers one sneered and said I was just being homophobic and assuming it was harassment. I said the man has repeatedly attempted to convince me to sleep with him despite my refusals, attempted to find my home, and once tried to trap me in a public restroom to make sure he couldn’t lose track of me.

If I was a woman in this situation would my coworker even think of telling me that I was overreacting? Fortunately the rest of my crew supported me and tell him it was hypocritical to assume s*xual harassment can only happen to women.”

10. Hmmm…

“A chick who posted about how she doesn’t eat beef because she loves cows, the next day posted a photo of her new designer leather handbag.”

11. Dear Old Dad.

“Just my dad in general. Here’s some highlights.

As a child, he’d often tell me I had to think for myself, but then he’d beat me if I said things he disagreed with. Sometimes, he’d pose questions to me, and then hit me until I guessed the chain of logical jumps that led to the conclusion he was looking for.

He once went on a 4 hour rant about how my generation are all dirty communists and Muslims are all terrorists and a big gay conspiracy and other such nonsense. I couldn’t get a word in edgewise, but he had the gall to end with “I’d be willing to change my mind if anybody were willing to have a discussion with me, but nobody’s willing to talk with me”.

When Trump got elected and people were complaining about it, his response was “how dare they question the president; that’s disrespectful to the office.” A month earlier, he was still aboard the Obama birther train. These days, he thinks Biden stole the election.

In high school, he sometimes made fun of me for being a creature of habit. He’s had the same routine, worn identical outfits, and eaten the same lunch every day for the past 20+ years at least. I didn’t have much say in my routine back then anyway. School ate up most of my time, and it’s not like my parents allowed me to get together with my friends.

Similarly, he’d make fun of me for not having friends. I did have friends, but to him they didn’t count because he’d never met them, because he never allowed them to visit, because he’d never met them. He has one friend that he sees outside of work once a year, and often times not even that.”

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