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50 Funny, Wholesome And Unhinged Acts That “Chaotic Good” People Did With Good Intentions In Mind
In the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game, a character's identity is partly determined by their “alignment”—a general guideline that broadly describes their moral and personal attitudes, typically categorized along the axes of law versus chaos and good versus evil.
This allows for nine combinations, one of which is "chaotic good." Someone who belongs to this group has a kind heart and a free spirit. They act according to their conscience, with little regard for what others expect of them.
People are big fans of this archetype, and to showcase its true potential, they’re even going online to share stories of what it looks like in real life. Here are the most interesting ones!
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#1
Was at a market in Mozambique with a guide. Guide asks stall seller if he has any "really fresh" pangolin (illegal as hell and endangered). Seller shows him a box with two live ones. Guide turns to me and yells "run," punches the seller, grabs the box, and books it across the market toward where we had parked. He released the critters later that day. It was an interesting trip.
Purple Gurl 6 hours ago
Had to stop myself from cheering like a sports fan in the office at this story
person (i think) 1 hour ago
Five upvotes from me. That’s how I feel too!!
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#2
Friend of mine named Ivan, years ago I was really poor. I was so poor that I when rent was due, I had to fast for 2 weeks until I got paid.
Anyway, my friend Ivan dropped by and asked for something to drink and I told him I had water in the fridge.
He saw that was all I had in the fridge, one gallon of water. He checked my cupboards, I thought he was looking for a cup - so I told him which cupboard the cups were in.
He just said "dude, I'll be back in 30 minutes."
30 minutes later he shows up with 10 bags of groceries. At first I was like "dude you didn't..."
He cut me off and goes "When's the last time you ate?"
I couldn't bring myself to say it and he just went "uh huh, yes I did bro."
I'll never forget that.
Siege Rook 1 hour ago
When Ivan walks, phonk music plays in the background.
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Detroit Citizen 8 hours ago
I had an Ivan too this Thanksgiving. I'll (48M) call her A. She was my first love when we were 17-19 (why my age is important). Young, first love, ya know how it goes lol. Throughout the decades weve lost touch for times (decade the longest) but reached out every few years. Weve reconnnected now, A is happily married and doing quite well. My mom passed 2 years ago and her birthday was 11/27. Thanksgiving was her favorite holiday and when her bday fell on it, it was extra special. Ive been struggling as of late. Thanksgiving, i just planned to eat whatever. About a week prior A and I were texting all day. She was asking me my dislikes and likes. Im thinking were just getting to know each other again. While we were texting I get a knock on my door. I never have visitors unannounced. She doordashed me groceries for a week and a complete thanksgiving meal. No one has ever done that, or showed me that kind of idk, compassion, concern. My mom adored A. I can never thank A enough
Bored Birgit 59 minutes ago
Keep in touch with A. And be a friend for her. She is really worth it.
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detective miller's hat 6 hours ago
I had friends do that for me years ago. It was while they were watching my cats (and refused payment for that). When I got home, I found my fridge and pantry stocked with food. Lost them both to the MAGA cult during covid lockdown.
Cindy Brick 6 hours ago
We had someone anonymously give us several bags of groceries, at a time when we badly needed them. I have never forgotten that. (And given away groceries myself, on their behalf -- whoever they were.)
Lee Gilliland 4 hours ago
I think everyone over a certain age has been the poor starter and the rescuer here - it's a pass-along that enriches all humanity.
#3
I worked in a Starbucks as a student. One day, one of our regulars came in crying as she found out her boyfriend had been cheating on her.
Our shift supervisor took out a full chocolate cake, dropped it on the counter from a height of about 2cm and said "oh no, I dropped it. Can't sell it now."
Handed her the cake, a fork and a canister of whipped cream while I made her a free drink.
He then proceeded to tell people that we were out of cake for the day.
10 years on, still remember the smile she gave us :)
Just me... 4 hours ago
The senior sales clerk at the dime store where I worked very often found "open" seasonal candy. Can't sell it but just can't let it go to waste. We all enjoyed that special treat.
The Other Guest 9 hours ago
I'd find this more believable if Starbucks actually sliced/prepared their baked goods in-store rather than receiving them pre-packaged in individual servings. Don't think I've ever seen one that sells cake either.
So does the end justify the means? Peter Singer, a moral philosopher and Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, says yes.
"I rejected and still reject the idea that there are some things that are always wrong, no matter what the consequences," he explains in an interview for NPR.
"I think that the consequences do determine what is right or wrong. And there are no moral absolutes where you must never do something in any imaginable circumstances." The chaotic goods would be delighted to hear this!
#4
About The Great British Bake Off hosts:
When contestants do cry—out of frustration or disappointment, generally—Mel and Sue stand near them and use un-airable language so the embarrassing footage is tainted, and won't make it into the final edit.
Bill Swallow 6 hours ago
How sad is it that without this, the producers would apparently gleefully include that footage for ratings?
highwaycrossingfrog 5 hours ago
I worked with them both for nearly 2 months in 2021. They are two of the best people I've ever met in my life
Sam Trudeau 7 hours ago
"This person is crying! F*ck you, you motherf*cking a*****e ****-f*cking c**t b****!"
Nova Rook 7 hours ago
Shatner did this to ensure the first alleged interracial kiss would make it to air. He did several takes where the kiss would not be seen but he made obnoxious faces. When they shot it showing the kiss he did it right and that was the only shot they could use so it made it to air.
Apatheist Account2 6 hours ago (edited)
The original script had Spock doing the kiss, egotistical Shatner got it rewritten so that he did it (although there was an argument that it would have more impact than an interspecies kiss, and he was in a better place to withstand any backlash). For completeness, it wasn't the first, Nancy Sinatra & Sammy Davis Jr. in 1967 on Movin' with Nancy, and even earlier, British TV had a kiss in 1962's You in Your Small Corner.
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Kid I went high school with was a 2 time state champion wrestler. He was terrifying, built like a brick house by the time he was 14, by the time he was 18 he was a solid wall of muscle. He was also a vicious jerk, highly aggressive, and a big time bully.....to other bullies
This kid would beat anyone who messed with someone that couldn't defend themselves. If he saw a bigger kid bullying with a smaller kid, they were toast. Dude was the superman of my school. If anyone was giving you trouble, you went to him. He'd take care of it after school.
Thee8thsense 18 hours ago
He spoke their language to them louder than they knew it could be done.
Mike F 18 hours ago
I was bullied really badly in elementary school. There was a guy I didn't know at all just showed up and put a quick stop to it and befriended me. We hung out on the playground together and the bullies gave me a very wide berth thanks to their mortal terror of Joe. I don't know what ever happened to him but I think about him 60 years later and hope he's well.
Midoribird Aoi 6 hours ago
This is why my little bro never got more than a detention for fighting. He would not let his friends be bullied. The hall lady knew it. She made sure that he got the bare minimum punishment for fighting, when he would have gotten suspended or expelled. He knew it too. He told me later how awesome she was for having his back. She also told me later he was a good kid doing the right thing. Respect.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 27 minutes ago
That’s rare. Most adults in schools side with the bully.
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CP 6 hours ago
This right here is what actual strong people do. Weak people, like Trump and MAGA, bully people who aren't as powerful, like trans people.
#6
One day my mother was sitting on a crowded tram. Beside her was "some punk with safety pins on his clothes" chewing a wad of gum. Opposite was a woman with a little girl, maybe about 8 years old.
The kid is swinging her legs like kids do and keeps kicking my mam in the shins. Mam politely asks her to stop. The kid's mother tells her that she won't tell the kid to stop because her parenting coach has said she has no right to impose rules on her kid's choices and that everybody should be able to do whatever they want, whenever they want.
Tram pulls in, and the punk beside my mother takes the gum out of his mouth, reaches over, squishes it between the lady's eyebrows, winks at Mam, and leaves.
Upstaged75 18 hours ago (edited)
Parenting attitudes like that are why the US has a moronic man-child running the country. Also, I'd tell her what I wanted to do at that moment was punch her in the face - and according to her rules she's fine with that.
Jan Rosier 13 hours ago (edited)
Belgian varition on this urban legend: kid and mum in line at checkout, kid punching older woman with cart, gets complaint, same answer 'my kid is being raised in free parenting style'. Punk behind them picks pack of yoghurt out of their cart, pours over the kid, mom mad. Punk says 'I have been raised in free parenting style as well' and everybody applauds...
Fellfromthemoon 12 hours ago
Hungarian version: the punk works his chewing gum in the mother's hair and tells her that nobody imposed any rules on him either.
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amy lee 7 hours ago
It gets worse if you've got boys that don't take well to bring told no... In 10-15 years they're not going to be boys anymore
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Boop the Snoot. Pound the Paw. 1 hour ago
The right to swing you fist ends where my nose begins. Same goes for shins.
Philosopher Peter Singer has built his life around the idea that logic and calculation are better guides to moral behavior than feelings and intuitions.
Reason dictates that your suffering doesn't count for more than someone else's suffering. If you believe that all lives are equal — and most people say they do — you should make choices that limit the greatest amount of suffering, regardless of whether that suffering is your own, that of an animal in a factory farm, or that of a stranger halfway around the planet.
#7
When I was still in my medical training in Westwood, I often saw a middle-aged gentleman putting coins into expired meters. The one time I saw a meter maid try to approach him and he ran off giggling. A few months later I saw him at a stop sign in a Maserati. Basically the definition of chaotic good.
Sally Moen 18 hours ago
Before Seattle got a phone app for meter payments (basically you pay using the app for a space with your license plate wherever you park, it's not a physical space it's a timer), they used the coin-paid parking meters. There were a few people ticketed for plugging money into nearly expired meters. I guess the city preferred parking fines rather than coins in the meters
Maren Villadsen 17 hours ago
We haven't had coin-paid parking meters for 6 or 7 years. We use app's and parking garages have automatic number plat scanners. It can tell when you arrived and left, and drow the amount from the card you have set up for payment. Denmark
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Bob Brooce 4 hours ago
Not saying don't do such things, of course, but parking limits are often intended to free up parking spaces for other people. A 2 hour limit is often intended to let at least 4 people find a spot during an 8 hour business day rather than letting somebody park for 8 hours as long as they move the car every 2 hours. Of course the subtext is that parking is often a limited resource, and if a business expects employees to work a typical day they shouldn't expect them to find street parking.
KatSaidThat 5 hours ago
Allegedly - because I don't know if it is true or not, but someone used to stick gum in the meters near a hospital, rendering them unusable but also meaning wardens couldn't give out fines. I really hope this story is true. This happened a long time ago so google is proving useless at finding it.
Bob Brooce 4 hours ago
I'm sure it's true somewhere even if the specific story you heard isn't true.
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Lee Gilliland 4 hours ago
Theoretically, this against the law, although I do not understand why.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 5 minutes ago
As long as *somebody* is paying, why would the meter maid care?
Jan Rosier 13 hours ago
Parking meter Robin Hood... another urban legend going round all over the world. Unless, people are now taking an example from the urban legend.
Lila Allen 7 hours ago
Or you could accept that there are good people in the world who do little things to help others
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#8
My mum. She’s a guerrilla gardner. She’s in her early 60’s and she goes out at night with a group of her pensioner mates and plants flowers, sows seeds and tidies neglected public land (like roundabouts and grass verges).
I’m pretty sure she knows who’s been yarn bombing round here too, but she refuses to grass them up.
Remi (He/Him) 13 hours ago
That's awesome! Btw for any newbie guerrilla gardeners out there: Remember to research what you should and shouldn't plant. There are invasive species and if you intend to plant something edible, check out where you're planting and which plants don't transfer ground pollution into the edible parts etc. I bet a gang like op's mum's could give pointers
Serena Myers 6 hours ago
I thought at first it was a typo, but it seems that "yarn bombing" is a type of street art using crocheted yarn instead of paint.
Load More Replies... Damned_Cat 6 hours ago
What a world when you have to go out under cover of night to beautify your neighborhood! I'm glad they do though - bless them!
Earonn - 12 hours ago
Nothing stops you from becoming a guerilla gardener yourself!
Load More Replies... Boop the Snoot. Pound the Paw. 44 minutes ago
One of my husband's very elderly friends decided to implement a neighborhood natural fertilization program for yards and gardens. His letter to everyone in the neighborhood was very articulate. He laid out the relevant information and scholarlily references to support his effort to introduce natural fertilizer to our neighborhood. Reading though the letter, you would nod and agree and think the concept was excellent, until you got into the details. The actual proposal was everyone in the neighborhood should go p**p in a neighbor's yard at least twice a week as an exercise in community involvement and environmental protection. He was a hoot. How he came up with crazy stuff like this (which was obviously a joke), is beyond me. RIP Henk.
#9
Was working at a coffee shop. This lady was on her phone and it was time to order. Generally I handle this by going lawful evil and asking, as loudly as possible as many applicable questions that require more than a yes/no answer as I can think of. On this particular day the tall man behind her just starts screaming "HANG THE PHONE UP AND ORDER!" then berates her publicly for being rude. It was everything I had ever wanted to say. He scared the hell out of the rude lady too.
Vexed Panda 14 hours ago
I like to just ignore anyone with a phone on, then when they get huffy, i say, "Oh, i didn't want to interrupt your conversation. That would be rude. I can wait till you finish your call."
Apatheist Account2 6 hours ago
There's a sign in our local Post Office that says "We understand that your call is very important to you. That's why we won't interrupt you by serving you while you're on the phone."
Bob Brooce 4 hours ago
I like that almost enough to think it should be a legal requirement.
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My husband and I once had a small farm and sold our excess eggs when we had them. We had a sign out by the main road directing folks down our lane. It was nice. People stopped by , chatted, and got eggs cheaper than they would at the grocery. It was all fine and good until people started showing up and being jerky, to include driving in our driveway way too fast, and honking to get us to come outside. The real burners were the people who did this AND were talking on their phones the whole time. They'd waive their two bucks at us while still talking on the phone, get their eggs, and speed off. Um. No. We were not a grocery store. We eventually stopped selling eggs because of the entitled crowd stopping by. Put down the phone and talk to the person in front of you!
Rick Murray 2 hours ago
The best one is people that put their phone on speakerphone (or video call). Feel free to join in, after all that is why they're sharing the call with everyone, right?
Rick Murray 2 hours ago
That usually freaks people out. But one time it went totally the opposite way and I got introduced to a very large family in Kenya, the woman pranking her mom by pretending that I was her boyfriend. 😂 Still, was fun.
Load More Replies..."I do think that the end justifies the means," Singer adds. "I think that that's the point, in a way, that, of course, bad ends don't justify means. And if the means involve harming people and there are other means that you could have taken, then you should take those other means."
"But if the only way to prevent something very bad happening is to do something which would itself be bad but not as bad as the very bad thing that you're trying to prevent happening, then you're justified in doing the lesser evil rather than allowing the greater evil to occur," the philosopher says.
#10
When I used to walk home from class at night, there’s this dude always there that would always call me “gangsta, major respect” but never anything else (for reference, I’m a nineteen year old short Hawaiian girl, and not very threatening looking). We’ll call him JD. He’d ask how my day was, if I’m getting home okay, if I had any problems getting home, etc. I began to look forward to it when I walked home from class. A couple of times I would be having a bad day and this fella, who was outside rain or shine, would always say hi to me.
One day, I was walking back and he was talking to a buddy. Said buddy looked me over and whistled, to which JD whacked him on the shoulder and said angrily “show some respect!” and smiled at me and said “you have a good night, gangsta.”
I hope he’s doing alright.
Boop the Snoot. Pound the Paw. 56 minutes ago
I was in a law enforcement adjacent job. I had one guy I handed off to the prison system a few times. We always chatted when he was out. If he was hitch-hiking, and I saw him, I'd give him a ride. I was at a gas station once with my young daughter and he was there. All my kids knew him. (In fact, he knew they were in home school. He would send them educational postcards from various places when he was absconding from the court. He'd always write, I thought I'd write you and say "high" just to tweak me.) At the gas station, some dude who was a big problem came in. I told my daughter to go to the bathroom immediately. My guy said to my daughter, hold up shorty, I know that joker. I'll walk you two out to your car. There won't be any problems. He did and there wasn't. He was good guy who fairly consistently made bad, unlawful, dangerous decisions. His crew was really taken aback when I showed up at his funeral. RIP Chester.
#11
Once a year, there's this old gentleman who buys out the entire Alamo Drafthouse in Kansas City, all six theatres, and makes it an admission-free day for everyone to come see the movies, to honor his late wife. He's really chill about it too, doesn't show up in person or ask for anything.
Geoffrey Scott 11 hours ago
It's always the little stuff that makes folks happy, works on me.
Load More Replies... Brian Droste 6 hours ago
I don't know ithey still do this but in one town nearby where I live there was a movie theater in the summer time on Tuesday mornings they would play the same movie in all the theaters for free. You still had to pay for consessions though.
#12
This one actually happened yesterday at work. A girl and her mom came in and got a few sandwiches, but the girl wanted a brownie. They were paying cash, but were like 3 bucks short for the brownie. The girl didn't throw a fit or anything, but was pretty sad. I was just gonna let them take it, it's just a brownie, but before I can say anything, the guy behind them says "I would like all but 5 of your brownies." Mind you, this is like 40 brownies, which costs like a 110 bucks of just brownies. He proceeds to then give the girl all of the brownies, which needed 3 bags just to carry all of them. The girl was ecstatic, and everyone else was laughing. We'll never forget you, brownie man.
GalPalAl 8 hours ago
Recently having a conversation where I wish I could meet like minded people like this because I feel like I am constantly surrounded by selfish inconsiderate people. I know there are others who do good deeds for people like me, just wish there were more of them near me and wanting to be friends
Bob Brooce 4 hours ago
Good for him, but depending on what the kid wants it may be good to check with the parent first. Sometimes "we can't afford it, sweetie" really means "you eat too much candy as is".
Brian Droste 6 hours ago
I don't know why the guy just offered to pay for the brownie or bought two and offered one to the girl and take the other one for himself?
#13
A friend was working in the ER when she was going to school and a woman came in who had her arm broken when someone stole her purse. As that woman was being checked, a man came in who was hit by a truck after the driver saw him stealing a woman's purse and running away. Purse was returned.
Bob Brooce 4 hours ago
Plausible deniability means keeping an appropriately upset face when you say "He came out of nowhere" to the cop taking the accident report.
#14
My grandma was a kindergarten teacher for 50 years. Yup, you read that right. She retired at the mandatory age of 72. It was a small community, most economically ok, but some poverty. Every few years grandma would develop a case of the clumsy. She'd trip while watering the plants and wouldn't you know it but she'd spill a bit of water on the child that was unwashed and wore the same clothes for weeks. Nothing for it but to make up for her mistake by giving him a bath and clean clothes...then return the clothes she messed up after she cleaned them. A case of clumsy would last the whole school year and oddly enough she tripped near the same child every time.
The case of clumsy often meant she miscounted her grandchildren every morning and made an extra lunch. Would you mind taking it so it doesn't go to waste?
#15
I remember in middle school there was a lunch lady who would ever so slightly overcook cookies or pizza or fries from the snack line so that she could say that they were not suitable to sell and then she would give them to the kids who were getting the disgusting meal because they had no money in their lunch accounts.
Geoffrey Scott 11 hours ago
As conservative as our Michigan legislature is, they recently passed a budget that retains free school lunches. Prior to Covid, as the custodian, I would clean up basketball games and take the 10 cent returnable soda cans back to my closet and toss 'em in a big bag. About every couple months I'd take 'em in, redeem them, and give the proceeds to the lunch ladies to offest the lunch debt for those who truly needed it. They know which kids deserve it.
George Costanza 4 hours ago
"the kids who were getting the disgusting meal because they had no money in their lunch accounts" The fact that this sentence exists is a pox on us.
Bored Trash Panda 1 hour ago
The fact that the term "lunch debt" is actually a thing is freaking disgusting. ALL kids should get free lunch while in school.
#16
We have a few (technically illegal) graffiti artists around town, who all have different tags. They also seem to have different territories, as you only see one tag in any specific area. A lot of us love their work, and they all keep it "G rated" so the city/property owners never minded.
Then, overnight, an extremly racist drawing appeared on a black business owners front windows...along with a tag from a guy we'll call J. It was quickly removed, but understandably many people became worried about the graffiti artists in general.
Over the next few days, Js entire territory was plastered with drawings from different tags. They covered every bit of his work with puppies, rainbows, cupcakes, anything considered cute. Each time he did a new one, it was covered up the next night.
Eventually he stopped trying, and his territory remains a sort of neutral zone.
Upstaged75 18 hours ago
My brother used to be a tagger when he was a teenager. Recently my parents cleaned out their attic and gave me all my old yearbooks. I opened them up to find that the little sh!t had tagged most of the pages. 🙄 He's younger, so I was away at college while he was practicing his "art" on my stuff.
Bill Swallow 5 hours ago
Too many times, we see cases of "One idiot messed it up for everybody". Nice to see one group nip that in the bud.
Miki 8 minutes ago (edited)
I think that's how most of laws came to existence. :(
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Cee Cee 17 hours ago
Taggers really hack me off. My property is regularly tagged. I've now given up getting it cleaned and repainted.
Lila Allen 7 hours ago
Easier to befriend an artistic tagger and have them do you a mural.
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Restaurant. Down a cook. Down two servers. Getting busy. Both cook and server doing their best. One mother from a table steps up, talks to server, and suddenly she's delivering plates to tables, taking drink orders and filling/delivering for a solid half an hour until another server rocks up for work. Hope like mad they got their meal comped.
UnclePanda 9 hours ago (edited)
I've gotten up and retrieved the coffee pot for my table when the server was overwhelmed. Every single time, I ran a gauntlet of empty coffee cups politely held in the air and did my best to get them all on the way back.
Amanda Reinstatler 2 hours ago
I worked in resaurants for 20 years. Trust me - THey DEF got taken care of! : )
#18
Definitely the French Secret Society les UX. They built an amazing, fully stocked wooden bar and movie theater in the catacombs that had been in use for some years when it was discovered by Parisian utility workers.
Later, a team of UX commandos secretly fixed an iconic broken clock in the Pantheon. From wikipedia:
"The UX (for Urban eXperiment) is an underground organization that improves hidden corners of Paris. Their works have included restoring the Pantheon clock, building a cinema, complete with bar and restaurant, underneath the Trocadéro, restoring medieval crypts, and staging plays and readings in monuments after dark. The group's membership is largely secret.".
Brian Droste 6 hours ago
Is this the same group where recently I read here on BP where some authorities were inspecting some catacombs and they noticed a door or area that said do not enter so they went inside and nobody was insideb but it was a complete restaurant/movie theater. By the time they got legal authority to investigate it, the area was completely empty with a note saying something like "Don't look for us. You will never find us."
Lila Allen 7 hours ago
So France has a secret society of chaotic good theater kids??? This made my day
Bartlet for world domination 7 hours ago
There's more than one pantheon (="for all the gods"). This one was built around the time of the (French) Revolution in the location of the Roman predecessor of Paris.
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In my country, potholes are notorious for going unchecked. A facebook group sprung up called "Adopt a pothole" and it started as just posting pics of potholes and tagging the government agency in charge (the government is responsible for damages to cars caused by potholes *that they are aware of* so they tagged them as proof). But they still weren't getting filled. And that's when it got wild. People started planting palm trees inside the potholes and posting those pictures. I can only assume it was effective. Because I saw a pic of one near my neighborhood, went and saw it to confirm and within a few days it had been filled.
Edit: Felt the need to share some of the pics from the facebook group.
God I love my country and my people
Edit2: Yes, those are banana trees. Sorry, in Spanish they are considered/classified as a palm tree.
Mike F 18 hours ago
IIRC there was a group using guerrilla tactics in the UK painting p3nis symbols on them to get them taken care of.
Gabriel Camomescro 6 hours ago
Dominoes fills potholes in (in some parts of the country/world) and spray paints their logo on the patch.
Load More Replies... highwaycrossingfrog 4 hours ago
There's a terrible pothole problem in my town, one time someone went around planting flowers in them which made them so much nicer to look at and did make the local council pull their thumbs out on getting them filled. Another time, Sir Rod Stewart, who lives nearby, went round his area fixing them himself
Zig Zag Wanderer 15 hours ago
And we call them palm trees in Australia. Although they're not actually palms, and technically they're not actually trees, but shrubs. 🤔
Bill Swallow 6 hours ago
BRING ME ... A *SHRUBBERY*!!! (Banana. For Scale.)
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Harry Gondalf 15 hours ago
I was going to point out it's a banana, but you beat me to it. Here in S. Asia they'll just stick the branch of a tree in the hole, sometimes adorning it with a scrap of cloth.
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I sometimes call apartment complexes that I know don't offer recycling service and I pretend to be interested in an apartment. Then I ask if they have recycling and back out once they say no. I do this to the same ones from different numbers over the course of a few months so they don't get suspicious. Sometimes I have friends call too.
So far only one has added recycling, but I'm still working on the others!
Zac 2 hours ago
i wish someone would do this for my whole city. the city no longer offers recycling services due to "increasing costs" which is funny because they make it seem like they are doing us a favor by saving us money but i pay at least 20 dollars more for the trash pickup every single year. it used to cost $50 a few years ago for trash and recycling, now it costs $160 a month for just trash.
Peter Bear 2 hours ago
Doesn't matter, at least not if you're in the US. Recycling programs are the great lie of our time. All the 'recycling' used to get shipped off to China or other places, and burnt.
#21
I once felt bad for a little old lady waiting at a crosswalk with me. She was moving so slowly and carefully with two canes. Not sure what the story behind having two canes is but I really wanted to say something. Watching her take almost a minute to manage her canes and push the button to cross made me feel bad for her.
Now most sane people just say hello, mention the weather, something trivial. Me? I challenge her to a race across the street. I'm still not sure why I landed on that as my choice but it came to mind and... well... I just said it.
After thoroughly crushing me in said race (I was carrying groceries and totally caught off guard). She literally jumped up and down laughing at me when she got to the other side. Looking back I'm a little hurt at the deception and cannot believe her dedication to her slow, innocent old lady routine.
100% glad I did it though, she was thrilled.
#22
I teach English as a foreign language to highschoolers. I have one class where the "class clown" is always trying be disruptive, but his method is to shout encouragement whenever someone answers a question. Like, "you a genius!" or "you so intelligent!" I have to act annoyed because I know he'll stop doing it if he ever knew how much I f*****g love it.
Lila Allen 7 hours ago
Seriously the weirdest perk of being a teacher is the little stuff you see your students do to help one another. Really makes the job worth it to see their compassion shine.
Faye Bosworth 5 hours ago
Definitely agree. I love seeing them develop as awesome people. However its weird af watching a small few develop the other way..
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Some homeowners were sick of ppl illegally dumping trash on a corner of their street & graffitiing the area too. So as a kinda joke, they put up a Buddha in that corner in an effort to stop people from trashing the area & kinda hippy positive vibes “cure” the area of the negativity (or whatever).
Turned out the Vietnamese community appreciated the gesture so much they cleaned up the area & started making offerings & pilgrimages to the “illegally dumped” statue.
PRI did a cover on it
Stardust she/her 12 hours ago
Maybe this would work in my country as well since people here for some reason respect the idols of our gods more than the place they inhabit. I remember at one point parts of North India were getting flooded during a festival and some people were quicker to evacuate the idols of the gods than other possessions
#24
The year is 2003 and I am visiting family in England. I had walked a mile to a game store that had a deal of two ps2 games for 60 pounds. I was excited to purchase two games for my brother that I knew he would enjoy but wouldn't buy for himself.
As swiftly as I could I took out the 100 pound note my cousin had gifted me and purchased these games, excited to run back to my cousins place so I could message my brother and tell him what I got him.
I run back and send him a message and eagerly wait for his response. He then informs me that the games wouldn't work on our US console. Unfortunately the game store had a no returns or refunds policy. My cousin told me to go there and explain the situation with the hopes that maybe something can be done.
The next day I trudge back anticipating entering a no fly zone in regards to this return. I mention it to the individual behind the counter. Now this fella was no normal fella. He had a mohawk, tats, and more piercings that I could count. He was in a different league of cool than I could ever fathom attaining.
He gives me the no returns or exchanges or refunds talk and then opens the case to the game and scratches the disc, proceeds to do the same with the other disc as well and looks me straight in the eyes and goes, "Ohhh no, looks like these were sold to you damaged... I'll refund you right away."
No wink, no smile, no smirk, no nonsense.
Brother, if you're reading this, you altered my way of thinking that day, you are a true and real bro and I admire and appreciate you beyond what my meager words can convey.
Thank you!
**edit**
To those of you correcting me about the denomination, I must have misremembered the denomination of cash my cousin gave me, I remember being given a 100 pounds, when ever I would visit them when they lived in the US, they would give me a hundred dollar bill... my apologies for getting that wrong.
In the ever famous words of that dude on the train in the movie Eurotrip, Mi Scusi!
Glix Drap 12 hours ago (edited)
The Scottish banks issue £100 notes and these are generally accepted in England.
Robert T 6 hours ago
Scottish banknotes are very reluctantly accepted in England, and anything higher than a £20 would likely be refused these days due to counterfeiting. I had to pay for something big in cash once and even the bank wouldn't even give me £50's - had to be a big wad of £20's.
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Your Friendly Dragon 6 hours ago
why would it not work on US consoles? I thgogut that kinda BS only happens in countries with banned video games? PS I'm not trying to be an American Exceptionlist just confused,
highwaycrossingfrog 4 hours ago (edited)
UK discs would have used PAL encoding which displayed at 50Hz, and US ones NTSC, which was 60Hz. This affected all types of display, not just PlayStation games - DVDs, videos, television signals. The display was incompatible due to different technological standards between USA and Europe.
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#25
In highschool two random girls who had nothing to do with me and never spoke to me before or after that occasion came up to me. They said: "We saw M. treat you like trash and heard her talk smack about you and your family. You're coming with us now and you're gonna confront her and if she doesn't say sorry you're gonna punch her until she apologizes and promises to never mistreat you again. You can't let her do that to you but we know you won't say anything so we'll help you out with this. If we get caught, you tell them (the teachers) we forced you to do it."
Of course such a thing was against the rules, we were supposed to inform teachers about bullying and not confront others by ourselves, except the teachers didn't really care and so the bullies got away with it. This resulted in the school having a rampant bullying and violence issue.
I knew fighting was against the rules and was scared of being suspended or worse, and besides that I'd rather let someone bully me than hurt anyone. But no matter how lil ol' me tried to get out of the situation the girls would not accept no for an answer. So I was forced to go up to my bully who had been mistreating me for the past couple months and confront her, with the two girls right behind me.
They were hell-bent on not letting me or her continue with this any longer, they even said "Hey, this girl here has something to say to you" so that I had no other choice than to actually do exactly what they told me to do. Once I confronted her the girl went real quiet, apologized all nicely and never bothered me again. And that's how two strangers, who saw that I was being mistreated and didn't care about breaking the rules, taught me how to stand up for myself.
Lila Allen 7 hours ago
Reminds me of a student. He was awkward and gangly and on the spectrum. Out of nowhere two cheerleaders "adopted" him. They decided he was sweet and just started hanging out with him, inviting him to parties and being his social ambassadors. By senior year he was so popular thanks to his own sweet nature and those girls advocating for him that he was elected class president. He owns his own pub now and does well for himself.
#26
A personal one:
When my little brother was nine and I was eleven, he came home from school with a black eye. He told me who did it, some local kid who lived nearby. I knew the kid rode his bike past a park down the street every evening.
I hid in the bushes next to the sidewalk and waited. When the bully rolled by, I nat-20 leapt from the bushes and flying kicked him off his bike. I climbed on top and hit him until he cried.
The whole neighborhood knew he got beat up by a girl, and he never picked on my brother again.
Harry Gondalf 14 hours ago
11-YO girls are bigger/stronger than 11YO boys. Not so for kids older than 20, no matter what the Marvel movies suggest.
Carol Culhane 9 hours ago
Plenty of 20 year old female athletes are stronger than 20 year old male couch potatoes. C'mon now
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#27
A woman was walking around our apartment complex sticking printed out MLM fliers on peoples' cars.
Guy followed her about 100 yards back, collecting them up again.
Jaya 6 hours ago
If Grindr had a pyramid scheme set up, where people would be rewarded for bringing in more gay/bi men, then you'd have a MLM MLM company 😄
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SCP 4666 6 hours ago (edited)
Aw, now they will never know how to get 10k a month via passive income
Bob Brooce 1 hour ago
Just read the posts at the bottom of the page. There's probably an offer there right now.
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#28
My parents stole my neighbors dog and rehomed it because they were mistreating it.
Gingersnap In Iowa 17 hours ago
My neighbors got evicted and left their cat behind. She rehomed herself in my house!
Jennik 14 hours ago
My mother stole a Manx cat from the neighbours when she was moving house because the owners were mistreating it. I was born a couple of years later and that cat helped raise me! I had two older siblings who were sick a lot so Mum couldn't always keep a close eye on me. When I was learning to walk the cat acted as a kind of balance bike for me (I was very undersized so no harm to the very solid cat) and if I fell over he would trot off and fetch Mum.
Amanda Reinstatler 2 hours ago
Bless everyone that looks out for, rescues and takes care of animals <3
#29
Not something I saw, but something my brother saw. He was on a bus in London, and this elderly woman got on. There were no free seats, but this was largely because two teenagers were spreading themselves out across two seats each. This big, hulking South African guy tells them to move up and make room for her. They swear at him and give all that cocky attitude teenagers are famous for. He gets up, yanks one of them to his feet, shoves him back so that he’s sitting in one seat, and in the thickest Afrikaans accent you could possibly imagine, tells him plainly “You must be very careful who you’re rude to, hey.” They backed down after that.
#30
When I was in highschool, there was one kid who was about a foot taller than everyone in the class and built like a rhino. He would beat up kids every day for no reason and would get away with it because no-one would do anything about it. One day we had a casual teacher spot him from across the school beating on some younger kids. This teacher ran at him and hit him like a train. Flipped this kid like an egg. The bully left the school a few weeks later and the teacher lost his job. But he will always be remembered as the one who saved the school. I've been out of school now for a few years and it still comes up in conversation.
Amanda Reinstatler 2 hours ago
So they do NOTHING - and when a teached finally DOES solve the problem, he gets fired. I cant wait to never have kids.
T'Mar of Vulcan 11 hours ago
When I was much younger there was a girl (call her Anna) in one of my classes was rude, snarky, would do other subjects in my class, etc. Got into an altercation where I tried to take her book away and she held onto it until the head of department came (I sent for her) and made her let go. Anyway, the next year Anna is in a different class with a black teacher and is reprimanded. She starts swearing at this teacher in her own language. Unfortunately, the teacher understands and tells her to watch her mouth. Anna gets up and tries to hit teacher. Teacher punches her to the ground, climbs on top of her and is punching her in the face. Same h.o.d as previous year is called by the head prefect and physically pulled off Anna. Nothing happens to teacher, Anna behaves for rest of year. Gets pregnant in Grade 8 (different school). Saw that coming.
#31
A notorious gradeschool bully ripped my Gameboy Color with Pokemon Red out of my hands and said "Gimme that." while I was headed to the back of the school bus.
In defeat, I waddled to my seat and started to cry just thinking about how I was going to explain to my Mom that my birthday gift had been stolen, but before I could let out an audible whimper, he marches back and tosses my Gameboy in my lap casually and says, "Here ya go crybaby have a look hahaha", while pocketing a Game Genie and walking away.
Through hot tears I looked at my screen and saw a brand new Pokedex entry: Mew (during the height of all the playground SS Anne/truck rumors)! I was confused and happy all at once, but just mostly glad he wasn't going to beat me.
If you're reading this Big Devin, you weren't all that bad after all.
*Edit: I a word! Sidenote: That bully grew up to be a fire captain in my hometown! Absolute unit, that guy...
zububonsai 18 hours ago
Can someone translate this into easy "old person and foreigner English" to me, please? I read it as the "bully" didn't steal it but gave it back after a kind of updating (?) but I'm not sure.
AtMostAFabulist 18 hours ago
You are absolutely correct. Bully took the Gameboy, but instead of keeping it, added a game, a d gave it back.
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bully takes gameboy away from kid, kid thinks bully is going to steal it. instead bully uses a game Genie (think of a gameboy game, but meant for cheating before online games were a thing) and adds a really rare and hard to get character to the game for the kid. he took the game, and gave it back better than it was when he took it.
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#32
I like putting coins in the treat machines at the local zoos goat feeding sration. It's fun to see the kids so excited and the parents pissed that they're forced to stop and let their kids feed the goats. Not super chaotic, but hey, twenty bucks goes a long way.
Sally Moen 18 hours ago
A couple of quarters in the gum machines or sticker dispensers at laundromats and such is all that is needed to make somebody else smile. Used to be leaving your returned coins from the phone booth, but phone booths are pretty rare in the US and most don't even take coins, so...
Scott Rackley 2 hours ago
Way back when you could win replays on pin ball games, I would always leave a few on the machine for the younger kids
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The piles of pennies at "Sandy", the 1 cent/ride mechanical horse has at Meijer stores, everywhere you go.
#33
I knew someone who once played a extended prank on a friend where he filled up his gas tank. When the tank was low he'd steal his keys, sneak out, go to the station, fill it up, bring the car back and put the keys back. Took him months to figure out what was going on.
Brian Droste 5 hours ago
Is this really a prank or a friend doing a good deed? Why would anyone leave there keys in the ignition anyways? That is a good way to get your car stolen.
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 1 hour ago
He didn't leave the keys in the ignition. The friend would steal them from where the person left the keys- perhaps they were roommates of some sort.
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#34
I was at a party and someone wearing kilt was forcing sunscreen on everyone. He would say hi in the nicest voice and offer you one of his beers, but only if you put sunscreen on.
He was the coolest.
Boo 3 hours ago (edited)
It's a sgian dubh, it goes into the top of the kilt hose, but a dirk usually sits on the belt, often near the sporran on the right side of the body, connected to a belt loop.
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#35
The time I did something like this:
I worked in daycare and over the summer the kids had to bring their own lunch. One extremely undernourished and developmentally behind toddler only got things like chocolate frosting between slices of white bread for lunch. I started packing extra of my own lunch (with healthy stuff like yogurt and fresh vegetables) and sat her on my lap each lunchtime and coaxed her to eat. It was totally against the rules and probably illegal, but the lead teacher and I couldn’t just sit there and watch her literally eat frosting for lunch, so I got permission to take over myself. We just kept it quiet.
Geoffrey Scott 11 hours ago
"What is wrong with these kids today?"...Seems we must go back a couple generations to explain it.
Peter Bear 2 hours ago
It's all the boomers, always has been. Fortunately, soon enough Gen X will be in charge, and I guarantee you we will straighten things out.
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US. A man was making a distributing peanut butter sandwiches to homeless people. Was fined and told to stop. It’s illegal. Restaurants throw out food at the end of the night. Not allowed to donate it.
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Bi.Felicia 6 hours ago
I'm wondering if the kid was given a Nutella sandwich and the daycare worker mistook it as chocolate frosting?
#36
When I was like 11 I was at the beach with family. I found this stuff called fart spray (exactly what it sounds like) and really wanted it, but my dad said no. My aunt decided it'd be funny to buy me it, so she bought it in secret.
We met my dad and some other family to all ride this shuttle further down the boardwalk, I couldn't hold my excitement and blabbed immediately about my new purchase. My dad took it from me and "scolded" my aunt, I sat down defeated.
Few minutes later this drunk lady and her friends get on the bus, clearly out doing a night of bar hopping. The one lady is being really loud and cussing alot, my dad asked her to tone it down and was berated with profanities. He sat quietly through it, then as the lady went to get off the bus I see him hit her with a squirt from the fart spray.
Out of chocolate 10 hours ago
“We have fart spray at home” (Fart spray at home: 🐕)
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Auntriarch 6 hours ago
I don't need to be that aunt because all of my niblings are champion farters
Sally Moen 18 hours ago (edited)
I have wanted to get some of this to use on smokers who won't move away from me ("we're outside! What's the big deal?") but I'm not confident the spray won't back spray onto me
#37
Was driving 130 km/h ( the legal limit here ) on a 2-lane highway, just about to overtake a small van that was right behind a truck. When at the last second the driver in the van just sways into the left lane forcing me to choose between swerving to the left a bit while braking hard or basically have a high-speed car crash straight away. So I regain control of my car and out of frustration honk once to let the guy know I was there and he just nearly k****d both of us, thinking he must have not seen me because no sane human being would do that otherwise. Wrong. Instantly the guy decides to brake-check me, while refusing to pass the truck to keep us both there while he kept braking and braking again. He eventually even passed the truck and went to the right lane to lull me into thinking he had calmed down, only to slam his van back to the left as soon as I'd nearly passed the truck and start the whole process again.
At this point I had kind of settled into my fate and accepted I'd be stuck behind this truck until the lunatic in front of me would calm down and decide to move on. All of a sudden a driver in a pretty fast Audi that had ended up behind me due to Mr. Brake-check slowing down traffic had enough of this whole mess. He overtook the truck using the emergency lane, quickly overtook the Van-man and decided to pull the mother of all brake-checks on this guy, literally forcing him off the right side of the road by instantly cutting off any route the guy could take without hitting the Audi that was now in front of him. I took this opportunity to finally pass the truck and resume my journey while in my rear-view mirror I saw a cloud of dust where the van had come to a stop somewhere beside the road, unscathed as far as I could see.
A minute later, while I was sitting behind my wheel, somewhat baffled at the events I had just witnessed, the vigilante road justice warrior in his Audi pulled up to me on the left lane, gave me a quick nod, and quickly accelerated off into the distance.
#38
Me and a friend got some black spray paint, and went to an underpass near us that had a bunch of gang tags and profanities all over it. We covered as many as we could before the cops saw us. The cop was super chill, let us finish covering everything up, but forced us to give him the spray cans we had, and brought us home.
He was chill enough to drop us off a little distance away from our houses so we didn't get seen by our parents or anything. Told us we have a great mindset, but needed to apply ourselves to more legal and beneficial things.
Sally Moen 18 hours ago
Helpful hint: If you're gonna use spray paint to cover graffiti, wear gloves.
Brian Droste 5 hours ago
I have a friend that lives by a covered bridge. People, I'm assume teenagers will go inside and graffiti it. My friend will get paint that match's the wood and goes inside and paint over the graffiti. .
Min 59 minutes ago
You can do anything or go anywhere if you have a hi-vis and a clipboard.
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#39
I was at college and walking down the street. I saw what I thought was a friend about to get in a huge fight with another group. I'm white and they were all black. I thought it was the black fraternity I was friends with getting into a fight between themselves. I ran over screaming not to fight and saying things like you're all idiots don't do this. Everyone stopped hitting and yelling at each other when I ran over. It turns out they were two different groups who were on campus for a big party in the event center. They were so confused about a white guy running over that they all got weirded out, stopped fighting, and justwalked away from each other. I didn't know any of them but I prevented a gang fight and it's one of my proudest stupid moments.
#40
One of my friends stole a ladder from a garage to help a kid down from a tree and then put it back.
Upstaged75 18 hours ago
I think that's called borrowing, not theft. And I'd be totally cool with it if someone borrowed my ladder to help a kid.
Sofia 14 hours ago
"emergency borrowing" that doesn't require asking first due to the contingency
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For my engineering senior design project our team leader assigned me to research a bunch of businesses and hubs in our area to determine the cost of 3D printing a part that we needed for our project, then send him a report on what I learned. Instead of doing that, I ignored him and spent the day asking around until I found someone who would let me borrow their printer. Then I spent the next day teaching my myself how to print the prototypes we needed, and I showed up at the next team meeting with a working prototype for our project that put us days ahead of schedule without doing a single objective I was assigned.
Fellfromthemoon 12 hours ago
And the management still doesn't know how much it will cost if they decide to make a series of the aforementioned part.
Anonymouse 10 hours ago
nice out of the box thinking, unless the objective was to learn how to research and cost/price. As @fellfromthemoon posted - they still don't know how much it will cost to manufacture.
#42
My two cousins (4 and 6 respectively) were picking on my sister, due to the very deserved fact that she didn’t have a certain Barbie doll (forgot which kind) that they did.
Cousin walks over, about 9 years old, takes the doll, snaps it in half, walks away, sister sitting there smiling away.
My two cousins later apologized to my sister, but my older cousin still laughs about that, even 3 years later.
#43
When I was in middle school, there was a kid who knew Muay Thai and would beat kids up for their literal lunch money. Towards the end of the school year, a kid who had just moved to the U.S. from Russia asked me about Bully. I explained to stay away from him, and why.
Next day, Bully leaves his backpack at the usual lone table in the lunchroom while he goes up to get his lunch. Russia waits until Bully is deep in the line for school lunch and distracted.
Russia walks over to Bully's table, casually opens a pocket, and steals his wallet. He goes up to a lunch lady, tells her his dad is rich, and Russia wants to buy everyone chocolate milk.
He pays her, they distribute milk to everyone, (including Bully,) & Russia throws away the stolen wallet, again when few would notice.
Icing on the cake: when Bully had someone rat on Russia, he "jumps" him in the hall. Turns out 4 years of twice a week Muay Thai didn't stack up well to 6 years of daily Sambo. Russia snaps Bully's leg in three places. When the hall monitor asked shrilly what the hell Russia was doing, he calmly responded: "Teaching him what happens to every bully in the end of the day."
Russia getting expelled was the saddest day of my childhood. To our knowledge, he never stole from any of the other kids, nor lifted a finger against them... Even if he didn't like them.
Bill Swallow 5 hours ago (edited)
... You never met a school board, did you? A more sniveling bunch of pusillanimous cowards was never seen. And they are bound and determined to make everyone in their charge into the same archetype.
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My sister and her husband tried to train their corgi to bark at their cat whenever the cat broke one of the house rules. Unfortunately, the corgi never had a firm grasp on the cat rules and at this point he’s just making up his own cat rules to try to enforce.
Sister just had her first baby a couple weeks ago. Corgi feels like this is an important development and he should have a role. Corgi decides that his role is to protect the baby from the cat, which involves a lot of barking at the cat while the baby is sleeping.
Upstaged75 18 hours ago (edited)
Well that certainly backfired. Poor cat. If you want an animal that follows rules get another dog!
Greymom 1 hour ago
Not my dogs! Got a playmate for my wild 4 year old beagle mix girl. Now I just have TWO partners in crime!🤣🤣
Load More Replies... Sally Moen 18 hours ago
There's some clicker training involving treats that will train the dog to watch over the baby but not bark. Takes a bit of time, not too much, and corgis are really good at guarding
Brian Droste 5 hours ago
So the dog is making a lot of noise by protecting the baby from the cat which in turns probably wakes the baby up. Isn't this self defeating the purpose?
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 1 hour ago
Don't babies do better if they're trained to sleep through loud noises?
#45
1998, tense elections in the Caribbean, Dominican Republic. Guys campaigning off a truck dropping free produce to locals. Some lady down the road from my aunt's house got hit with 40lbs of a plantain batch to her face! See got up, smiled at the free food, and limped away happily.
Sally Moen 18 hours ago
That's quite the story to share, "oh this bruise? Just a couple of plantains that fell off a truck, no biggee."
#46
There was a playground by my childhood home that was broken and fenced off for several months. I set it on fire and after it burned down they replaced it within a few weeks.
Lila Allen 6 hours ago
Might have been better to run a fundraiser and have it repaired or replaced than going straight to arson.
Your Friendly Dragon 5 hours ago
A is for Arson B is for Barson C is for Comit Arson' D is for Don't look now I'm going to commit Arson
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Tipping the waitress like 40%, but at least 10% of that in loose change.
Anonymouse 10 hours ago
I try to have an extra $5, so when I charge my meals, and tip on the charge, I can slip the extra $5 "under the table" if the service is good.
Sally Moen 18 hours ago
I don't get it. Is it so the server doesn't put the change into the shared tips jar?
T'Mar of Vulcan 11 hours ago
No, so the server doesn't have to declare it and pay taxes on it.
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I was on the subway with a friend and all the seats were taken. She was sitting I was standing up. There was a pregnant lady and two old ladies coming in from the next step. No one was willing to give up their seat and she couldn't decide who to offer the seat to. Without saying anything she just gets up and walks away and let them duke it out for the seat. Maybe it's more chaotic neutral? Lawful neutral?
#49
When I worked retail IT, there was a rule about dropping customer gear. Of course it was heavily frowned upon, and to prevent being sued over future hardware issues we were to replace with the closest option we had free of charge. Anyone could reasonably say “well, brandnamenerd dropped my computer so that’s why it has this new problem” - way cheaper than court and arguing.
Of course this was for the company and not the employee, and having butterfingers can mean losing your job.
There were very few incidents where I needed to pull that card. Each time was on purpose, and for extreme situations I knew management wouldn’t cover.
Oh no - moms sick, phone is busted, no warranty or upgrade? Whoops! Butterfinger’s here just slipped it off the counter and now I have to replace it alllll for free. My bad! Kid learned the hard way that counterfeit devices are way cheaper than the real ones? Tough lesson for a 7 year old, let’s lessen the blow with an MP3 player they don’t want but works as intended.
#50
My sister's Valedictorian began roasting people (including himself) at graduation, and called out a guy for cheating on his girlfriend with multiple other girls.
TheMFKNXerdo 9 hours ago
Conspiracy theory: What if he wanted to get with the girlfriend himself, so he started a rumour from his bully pulpit? I have seen this done before.
What do you think ?
Mr. Robinson 7 hours ago
My husband is a gay Army Combat Veteran and we joke that it's always a good day when he doesn't tell anyone to f**k off because he stands up for everyone. We were downtown on a busy summer day and we had gone our separate ways to do some shopping and were meeting at a pub. I happened to walk out of a store and see him berating a man for bullying two older people trying to get their spot. He handled the situation like a champ and made that guy feel really stupid. He doesn't know I saw him do this. When I met at the pub later, I asked how his shopping went and he said it went well and never mentioned that he stood up for that couple. That's the kind of guy he is. He lives for standing up for people and random acts of kindness and never brags about it or posts it online. He just does it. We need more people like him.
Peter Bear 2 hours ago
If you have good morality, ethics follow. That's why Chaotic Good is better than Lawful Evil.
Cindy Brick 6 hours ago
LOVED this post. Caught me a little off-guard, but that's BP's job, in my opinion.
Mr. Robinson 7 hours ago
My husband is a gay Army Combat Veteran and we joke that it's always a good day when he doesn't tell anyone to f**k off because he stands up for everyone. We were downtown on a busy summer day and we had gone our separate ways to do some shopping and were meeting at a pub. I happened to walk out of a store and see him berating a man for bullying two older people trying to get their spot. He handled the situation like a champ and made that guy feel really stupid. He doesn't know I saw him do this. When I met at the pub later, I asked how his shopping went and he said it went well and never mentioned that he stood up for that couple. That's the kind of guy he is. He lives for standing up for people and random acts of kindness and never brags about it or posts it online. He just does it. We need more people like him.
Peter Bear 2 hours ago
If you have good morality, ethics follow. That's why Chaotic Good is better than Lawful Evil.
Cindy Brick 6 hours ago
LOVED this post. Caught me a little off-guard, but that's BP's job, in my opinion.
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