When Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022, there was a lot of talk about how the so-called "bluebird app" would change. And when he renamed the app “X”, many people were left scratching their heads. Musk later announced that tweets would be called “x’s”. Nowadays, they are referred to as posts.
There have been quite a few changes since Musk’s $44 billion acquisition. But one thing remains: the amount of hilarity that can be found on the app. Whether you call them tweets, x’s or posts, there’s no shortage of content to give you a good cackle. Bored Panda has scoured the app to find the best posts from this month. Keep scrolling for some epic September humor, and don't forget to upvote your favorites.
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In the first photograph the dog is not to sure, but in the second, he knows good things are in his future.
Load More Replies...First picture, buddies toasting with a beer.....notice the aluminum pan/bowl for doggo? Looks like the lager is about to be shared. Second picture, doggo is loosened up a bit (beer will do that) and is enjoying the party! Lol!
He would probably preferred a nice, juicy steak. Dogs shouldn't eat fries. I'm not sure people should either, but I will continue to do so.
so bad for labs... food just goes right to the waist line (not unlike humans) lol
Why is nobody talking about how this is from a fake roleplay account of the cruel prince
There are over 540 million X (formerly Twitter) users worldwide, with around 350 thousand tweets sent every minute. America has the highest number of users. And some of them are hilarious. They manage to make us laugh, even with a 280 character limit.
Experts say using humor is a great way to build your social media following. But there’s an art to writing a funny tweet. “You don’t have to be a seasoned comedian to write funny tweets. A little practice and the willingness to indulge in some self-deprecating humor can go a long way,” reads this blog.
Being with my mom at concerts has really opened my eyes to how ill-equipped venues are for disabled people. They're great at taking their money for special disabled tickets, down right close to a human rights violation in actually GETTING those people to their seats.
I'm disabled and laughed as well, so don't feel too bad. Although sometimes you have to laugh or you'd cry when it comes to accessibility.
Load More Replies...Like most Gen X men, I can hold entire conversations using only movie quotes. "Cats and dogs living together! Mass hysteria!" "Get to the Choppa!" "Yippee -kai-aye, Mother***er!"
I dare you, I double dare you say what one more g*dd*mn time!
Load More Replies...I can drive a vehicle that has a manual shift transmission. In fact, I prefer it. Oh yeah, and it will be a smooth ride.
I was born before 1960 and I find myself looking up who played the maid and which hotel did they film at. But that's because if I leave it till after I will forget. And I'm currently binge watching Poirot.
I've gone down a complete rabbit hole with some actors - I think I'll make a CIA like wall map of which actor played what and where and with what other actor. But I'll still need my phone so I can keep the map up-to-date. (See: Hinterlands, Hidden, Tree on a Hill)
Load More Replies...I know how to overhaul and operate a McCormick-Deering Grain Binder - Grain-Bind...17c808.jpg
Illustration 13!? How many pictures of a McCormick-Deering Grain Binder did they have?
Load More Replies...Meh..I can go an entire day without my phone. Maybe two. As long as I have food & books (or tv..)
see i rate movies and shows based on whether or not i'm still on my phone during, and i was born in '87
She drink an entire bottle of freon, and now she's compressed.
Load More Replies...That's not an air conditioner, it's a robot sent by the alien meat ranchers from outer space to inspect the herd...you are the herd...
Go! Take my upvote! Rise, child, for you are the chosen one!
Load More Replies...Before you start thinking up your 280 character jokes, you need to research your audience. And find out what they think is funny. One way to do this is by using Google Analytics to determine who your followers are. Where do they stay? What’s their gender? You can also look into their topical interests. And tie these into your funny tweets.
Before I got my first Covid shot, I went tot he grocery store. After I got my shot, I said to the nurse: ‘Now I deserve a lollipop!’, and treated myself to the lollipop I bought. I was 59 years old then. The nurse laughed so hard!
I told the allergist I deserved a lollipop after doing the skin prick test. A minute later she came back with one for me.
Load More Replies...I took a 68 year old to get his vaccines the other day. The nurse jokingly said he was too old for a sticker. He didn't think so. He came out with a yellow smiley face saying he was brave! It was hysterical.
I’ve worked in covid swabbing clinics, vaccination clinics and a women’s health clinic. At every single place I have suggested giving out lollipops for patients and none of the high ups ever take my suggestion seriously. Like, we would get SUCH good reviews from that tiny gesture, it would totally be worth it!
*bats the lollipop under the sofa*
Load More Replies...My dentist gives out bouncy balls with angry faces to the kids that scream XD
I would totally scream at the dentist for an angry bouncy ball. Acting like an adult sucks.
Load More Replies...I took my 70-something mother to get bloodwork drawn. She came out with a Spiderman sticker for "being a brave girl." I would love to have heard that particular conversation.
Next time I will definitely ask for a sticker. I got an ear infection, probably from the pool water, and there was a blister in the ear canal, which, in addition to the nurse, two doctors took turns wondering about in my ear. Another doctor came in because he definitely wanted to see something this weird. No one knew what it could be and I felt like a circus freak. I spent two weeks half-deaf with a mystery blister before my hearing returned. A sticker would have definitely helped.
My dad used to buy me Reece's peanut butter cups after getting a shot. I still crave them after a shot decades later.
My hubby still (occasionally) gets a smiley face on his bandage/sticky plaster.
To be fair, that's $2169.69 in today's US dollars. Ouch.
Load More Replies...I'm 53. To this day, I've never had a Toblerone because I was conditioned as a kid to stay away from the mini-bar or else. I've only ever seen them in hotel rooms until one day as an adult I saw them for sale at the airport. I was so conditioned at that point, I didn't want to go near the thing. Probably my biggest Pavlonian response. I still really want to try one someday.
Same goes for buying anything out of an airport vending machine. Used to cost an arm and a leg; now you're forced to give up your firstborn as a down payment for a Diet Coke.
Can hear my mother's voice. That nut you ate cost the entire holiday
As a kid, we couldn't afford a hotel fancy enough to even HAVE a mini bar. I was an adult before I even knew what a mini bar was and I still can't afford a hotel fancy enough to have one.
Got to admit, I read it as Heal Thy Burgers even before I scrolled down to the meme.
I did that too. Worst part was, it didn't even strike me as an odd title! 😄
Load More Replies...How do people paid as graphic designers/marketers make these mistakes? We learnt about positioning of words/letters in one of our first 'visual communication & design' lessons in year 7 (13years old)!
It also helps to research the funny people on “X”. Check out their writing style and some of the conventions they use. “For example: hashtags, the use of understatement, all caps for emphasis, all lowercase with no punctuation, sentences that get cut off on purpose, abbreviations like tfw and tbh, etc,” suggests the Gold Comedy site.
My first tablet was a wax slate with a stylus; when you were done you'd peel up the plastic sheet to erase the picture.
You save this saying about plastic sheet. or I think you are an ancient Egyptian.
Load More Replies...No, but only because that's too high tech for me. 😃
Load More Replies...We used to have a slate and chalk at school instead of paper and pencil. Tablet? Kinda??
Yes, I had one of those to learn to write. My Mum kept to use for messages like 'in the garden' because she wouldn't hear the doorbell if she was out the back.
Load More Replies...That was me some tenish years ago. Then I found a person that truly believes in me and finally had the strength to change.
I deal with so many parents that spend lots of time worrying if their child is “talented” enough to do any given thing. Like, who the hëll cares? Let kids try stuff, let them be bad at it for a while. Maybe someday they’ll get good at it and love it. Maybe just support and encourage them rather than having them quit when it gets tough.
But it is very hard to let them not quit. Many fights, many strenuous talks although we encourage and help and support...
Load More Replies...Yeah, which is why I retired, "what did you do that for?" In other words, it works, but it's not the way I would have done it. Ok...bye now.
That's actually the source of that saying. It's a hunting saying. If you've got your ducks in a row, they're easy to kill.
Load More Replies...I'm surprised that BP hasn't got around to censoring "ducks". You know, just in case.
I've never understood the need for linear arrangements of waterfowl....
One characteristic that sets “X” apart from other apps is the need for tight, concise writing. You only have 280 characters to get your point, or punchline across. The Gold Comedy site likens it to being stranded on an island… and writing a letter in a bottle. “You would need to maximize each sentence in order to provide the most information,” reads the site.
“Regardless of whether you’re writing comedy/drama, words are a currency that fund your message. Always think, can I say the same thing in one word instead of two? Which is actually a great exercise to apply for joke-writing in general.”
No, it does not. You are either drowning or cold. It's slippery in all the wrong places.
Load More Replies...Ok. sex under the shower is horrible. but not the actual shower with somebody.
Agreed. Water makes things less lubricated. It's not fun. Have sex, then take a shower together. Much better!
Load More Replies...Upvoting to cancel your down vote because you're right, stalking and other threatening behaviour has often been romanticised in films and other media, but it's a horrible thing. Just watch The Notebook. Everyone loves it, it's so romantic, but he does basically hound her and actually puts his life in danger to manipulate her to agreeing to date him
Load More Replies...I wouldn't say "horrible," but I can say I've only had about a 30% success rate. It's slippery in there! And no matter how good you think you have a grip on something, let me tell you a surprise fall in the shower or having someone fall on you is not fun.
Depends on the ground. Ours has an anti-slippery surface.
Load More Replies...In movies, someone takes a trip by bus: Joyful occasion. In life: A NIGHTMARE!
I'm going to be tired, regardless. I may as well get up an hour earlier so I don't have to rush anything.
Same. Also because my cat comes and sits on me as soon as the alarm sounds. We like extra cuddle time.
My cats and I have a conversation while I make their breakfast.
Load More Replies...Yes! Alarms - plural... Step 1. Alarm! Step 2. Laying in bed being angry about having to get up. Step 3. Dozing off. Steps 4-15. Repeat steps 1-3 four times. Step 16. Get up. Step 17. Drag your a**e through the day. Step 18. Miss bits of whatever you're watching on the telly as you doze on the couch. Step 19. Drag your a**e to bed. Step 20. Be the most awake you've been all day while scrolling BP and writing unnecessarily long replies to posts
I set mine extra early to be sure I can hit the snooze alarm enough times to be late for work.
Today was my day off after my first week back at work following three weeks leave. I set my alarm an hour later than normal so I could sleep in. Instead, I was half asleep not long after my normal alarm time, thinking about work so I was really angry by the time I was fully awake!
Bc of my bad English, at first I thought that you made that little goblin from your friend, you witch!!
There is nothing wrong with your English. The reply above the post is saying the same thing. It's more of a play on words than a mistake. 😊
Load More Replies...Many of the funniest tweets are one-liners. And while they’re short, they need to have two parts. The first is the setup. It’s what gets the reader hooked and leads them down a particular journey. The second part is the punchline. “This is where you deliver a surprise twist, making the joke funny,” reads Tweet Hunter.
“There are two basic rules to follow when writing one-liners. The punchline should always come at the end of the joke. The distance between the set-up and punchline should be short to make it funnier.”
I love how two astronauts are trapped in space and everyone is so nonchalant.
... Maybe because they're safe and sound, in no imminent peril, and have a return plan in progress? Unlike many, many, many people on the ground who don't warrant press coverage.
Load More Replies...The 2 astronauts trapped in space make the 100 tampons thing a little more reasonable.
Jack Swigert, of Apollo 13 had originally been the backup command module pilot, and was bumped to prime crew two days before launch, as Ken Mattingly, the man he replaced, had been exposed to the measles. Having to get his shiit together in two days had to have been a struggle, and he didn't get his income taxes filed. The launch was on April 13th, and taxes have to be filed on or before the 15th. Swigert was given an extension, as he was quite definitely out of the country.
Honestly I can't vote so I don't care much about it (makes me depressed) BUT I really hope someone's taking care of their pets!!!
I think I'd find it insulting, it's like saying you're ignoring the easy way out and if you're in therapy there isn't an easy way out of what you're going through.
Agreed. This picture isn't a tool that any decent therapist would use. I highly doubt OP is telling the truth. Pretty easy and common these days to try and elevate your post by saying your "therapist said it." How would anyone check the validity ?
Load More Replies...Listen to the therapist, go out the other exit and realise the rest of the room is full of feral cats
I'm semiambiclockstrous - I can do it but there's a lag. So I can tell you it's 10:10 on that clock but not nearly as fast.
Load More Replies...Society needs to stop blaming young people for not knowing the things no one bothered to teach them. Analogue clocks, cursive writing, driving a manaul transmission car, etc.
It IS actually taught - clock reading and cursive writing - in 3rd and 4th grades and then never again. If you don't use it, you lose it, just like anything else. When I was young the other kind of clock was rare and all written assignments had to be in cursive. If the teacher couldn't read it you automatically failed.
Load More Replies...Then TEACH them! It took my breath away when my nephew didn't know what clockwise was.
Here, schools and kindergartens teach reading the clock? Plus I made sure she knows how. I prefer analogue, I just need to look to know the time. For some reason I take longer to process digital times.
If past education was so bad, how come we learned more than they do now. Let teachers teach and take politics and government mandates out of the classroom. They did fine in the past.
As a teacher, I agree with you. My students ask me "can you teach me this?" and most of the time I have to answer "no" because it isn't part of the 'approved curriculum' which is so wild any more.
Load More Replies...You can teach them things... And it's in a school.... Coincidence? I think not
Experts say it’s better to avoid offensive jokes. They probably won’t help increase your following. And could even cost you followers. Another tip is to time your tweet well. And be witty. This means posting when your followers are most active but also taking advantage of trends or events.
When Facebook changed its name to "Meta" in October 2021, Wendy’s was one of the first to jump on the bandwagon. Their simple tweet “Changing name to meat” quickly went viral. It was reposted by tens of thousands of people. And received hundreds of thousands of likes.
Beagle puppied behave so even if you are dressed like a puppies mass killer..They are beagles.
awwww - they do NOT deserve the abuse humans do to them - I hope all lab people who hurt animals get everything they deserve
Animal diseases cannot be cured if Clinical Trials cannot be performed on the animals afflicted by these diseases.
I would give up AI if Amazon would display only the item that you asked to see and not 500 totally unrelated things.
I'm fine with unrelated items. What I don't get is why after every purchase they keep pushing variants of it. It's fine if I bought a pack of sweets, but I don't need multiple laptops.
Load More Replies...so far the things everyone's calling AI are mostly not AI and only a few of them have any reasonable use
I don't know why you got downvoted - you're absolutely correct.
Load More Replies...I'm just sitting here hoping I don't live long enough for AI to become our new overlords. I can't even handle the ones we already have anymore.
I would give up access to current AI to go back to old text generation AI.
I'm ok with that thought but again I would never EVER press the "I'm feeling lucky" button Google used to have. Bad, bad Google giving my son an education he didn't need!
I spent a little too long wondering what kind of a dog this person considers hot and if they want a picture or an actual dog before realizing they mean food
Me: Doing research for a story: I need to know the weather conditions in Honduras in August. My computer every time I log on for the next three months: Here's a list of vacation rentals in Honduras.
If you ever have to look up anything about a new car you're doomed for at least 6 months.
Load More Replies...Im an STI researcher and my computer algorithm must think I've caught HIV like 8 times
I hovered over a meme in hindu accidentally and kept getting hindu memes all the time after they
You mean Hindi? Hindu are a religious group, Hindi is language.
Load More Replies...I whatsapp my mother about a fly my cat caught and ate. Next day, aliexpress floods me with offers of fly catchers.
Once you have some ideas, test them to see what works for your personal style. Run your jokes past your friends. And practice practice practice. “The best way to decide whether that new joke you made up is Twitter-worthy or not is by first testing it out on a few people,” reads the Tweet Hunter’s blog. “Having a vetting process will help you weed out the not-so-good jokes from the true gems.”
If I can't actually see it from the interstate, I'm not taking that exit. At the very least I need one of those 200 feet tall Golden Arches signs.
Actually, the signs on the offramp do - 1.3 miles right, 0.5 miles left, whatever
Load More Replies...In the UK, there are wonderful things called 'motorway service stations'. You take a slip road off the motorway, and there's a tiny shopping mall. There's lots of parking for cars and trucks. There's at least multiple places to eat, clean loos, a place to re-fuel, a place to walk dogs, a couple of shops etc. And, another slip road to easily get back onto the motorway. There's good lighting, and they are open 24 hours a day.
We do have these in some parts of the US as well, but they are not everywhere, and in larger states they can be fewer and far between.
Load More Replies...OMG YES!!!! Looking at you Maryland highway signs! I shouldn't have to drive for thirty minutes to get to that gas station you said was at that exit
100% agree. Got off one time because wife was starving, damn McD's was 3.4 miles off the exit. No. Just no.
Actually when you exit there are more signs that point which way to go and give you the distance.
Same for gas stations. I once had to drive 6 miles for one. (La Salle exit on I-39)
Tertiary colors are the most beautiful. I'm talking about turquoise, coral, ochre, fuschia, violet.........
This is true, but only when you get to choose how much drama you are exposed to.
Load More Replies...Nope. I don't want any part of anyone's drama. If you need to vent or need a reminder to breathe, by all means, I'm here. But if all you want to do is tell me that Cindy cheated on Tony with Mark, GTFO. It's none of my business and I don't care.
Same. I never got the appeal. Not even (or maybe especially not) with celebrities or soap operas.
Load More Replies...I don't have any drama or very little drama in my life and I don't need anyone's else drama in my life either. I don't need to know any one's problems so I don't watch any of those court shows.
Well you can have stickers, you just need to buy your own. My food in the fridge at work has flamingo stickers on it for identification
I am absurdly disappointed when I do not get a sticker after I vote.
Load More Replies...Adulthood is just that time in life where you gotta give yourself stickers. This is coming from a 44 year old who has a star chart on my fridge for when I complete my own chores. Stay young folks. Be hopelessly juvenile for as long as you can.
I work in a post office. People buy stickers for me to put on their mail.
Meh. You just have to ask. A 50-something guy saw our sticker basket and asked if there was an age limit. Never seen a grown man get so excited. Lol
I have a shoe box full of stickers. All you have to do is donate $1 to a couple non profits and they will send you stuff for YEARS trying to guilt you into donating more.
i have stickers all over my water bottle, my laptop lid, and my bathroom mirror! it's just that unless you tell your friends you like stickers, you're not going to get given stickers
My niece sent me a pack of three 3x3 Post-it Notes: Oh, for f*****k's sake; This is bulls h i t; and What. The. F U ck. (Obviously the curse words were spelled correctly). There's a reason she's my favorite.
Also, why are many face creams, moisturisers, other creams in little tubs so you can't use them without getting the product under your nails?
Sometimes I use a spatula,sometimes I take the creme out with the (upper side of my) fingernail instead of the fingertips. That works for me =)
Load More Replies...I've seen them that sort of shape, a little wider than a Bonne Maman, and about two thirds of the depth. Good for dipping
Then everyone would b***h about the size of the container.
Load More Replies...No one: Suzy: if the jar was shaped like the second picture, you could not open the lid because you would not be able to get enough torque given the size of your hands
If a robot can't tell you how many traffic lights there are, why do you think I can?!
Load More Replies...It's not just that, but every 2FA I deal with in a day is through a mechanism separate from all the others.
I would be happy if the cursor automatically just went to the place you are supposed to enter the data.
Load More Replies...True. But you likely didn't lose all your savings or Bitcoin to scammers. So, yeah.
I work in software support and spend my life with Multi factor authentication for all my stuff and for every customer. I have a new phone and I'm paralysed with anxiety about switching. I can't face setting up 100s of MFAs from scratch.
I've shaved more years off just from the STRESS of the captcha tests! It's like being in 3rd grade again. And my self-confidence will never recover from those evil pop-quizzes.
Shout out to people with tattoos because the concept of having needles jammed into my skin for a prolonged period of time is horrifying
NGL, when I treated myself to a nose piercing for my 40th, I was totally chuffed when the piecer said to me "You didn't even flinch!" He might as well have said "Who's the bestest girl?"
Well I haven't gotten a tattoo, so maybe other pandas would care to enlighten us?
Meaning you didn't jerk or squirm while the artist was trying to work.
Load More Replies...When I got my tattoo, the tattooist said I was the most nonchalant person he’d ever had sat in the chair. I was just yakking non stop!
I just don't get it : why people spend so much money on tattoos ! Horrible things.
I was sort of disappointed I didn't get a lollipop after my first tattoo.
After a 3 hour delay for equipment repairs on the plane the pilot told us "No need to worry about if the repairs are done. I make the final decision on if we go or not - and I'm on board too!"
Same could be said of bus drivers, taxi drivers and train conductors but oddly not of uber drivers.
"Nat the Rat", could be a good title for an illustrated storey book for children
"Nat the Rat and the cat" for either a cheeselicious friendship story or a 'tough luck, Nat died' story.
Load More Replies...They will line up, get on their phones and chat and jabber away to each other sharing tik toks and igs, comparing notes and giggling for hours on end and call it a great day out.
Or maybe the US could get itself organised so people don't have to wait so long. If India can do it then why can't the US? (I picked India because they always say but we're so big it's different if you're comparing them to most other western countries). India has rules on how far away a polling station can be and will even bring them to remote areas with a handful of voters.
it's because it's up to the individual states. Washington State (not DC, opposite side of the country) has a great mail-in/drop box voting system for several years. It was created by a Republican. It's efficient and secure and works very well. I wonder sometimes how the woman who created it feels about her party tearing voting access apart. That's part of why the Postmaster General was appointed by Trump, to slow the mail down significantly and mess with mail-in voting.
Load More Replies...Why not have a functional voting system with no lines? Or is this a way to have all the boomers not being able to stand in line to not have their say... are voting lines a leftist conspiracy so only young healthy people vote not the people in need of mail-in votes... is bizarre trump a secret leftist sleeper agent made to break the republican party from the inside....the plot thickens.
Haha. Not only are the Swifties not afraid of a line, they are passionately pissed off at T***P!!!! How the heck did he think he was going to get away with FALSIFYING her endorcement?? She wouldn't have even made an endorsement if his idiot squad hadn't publicly lied. Like... Did they think the goddess of social media was just gonna let that slide?? Young Women Across America Unite!! Girl Power 2024🩷
I mean I can't wait in line but that's because I'm ADHD. Do you know how long we had to wait to get our Eras tickets?
What a familiar sight. For some reason BO won’t let me upload a picture I have of my dog Scruffy (RIP, Scruff-Puff!) looking up at me really plaintively, as if saying “So where am I supposed to sleep now?”! while a tiny kitten is sprawled, fast asleep, in his dog bed. He loved his Cat Pack, and would never disturb the kitten to get them out of his bed, so the poor little guy was always SOL if any of the cats beat him to his bed.
My cat would always sleep on my bathrobe if I left it lying around, so I gave it to him and got a new one. Now he won't lay on it anymore! Nothing says "I'm a cat" like that. I even tried re-scenting it by wearing it but he's not fooled. If he isn't inconveniencing me its totally not worth it.
Happy belated birthday Slim Shady, hope it was a good one.
Load More Replies...yup- I've seen that look before... as my dog sleeps in the doorway to the bedroom as her bed is 'contaminated' by cat hair.
Wow, airlines are really going overboard. Soon they will charge for breathing too much
"One time I saw this wino eating grapes. I said, "Dude, you have to wait!"" - Mitch
I'm the US I'm pretty sure there's a law that any place that serves food must give free water.
Water indeed should be free ... but: They have to load it, store it and fly it around for you. Everybody demands cheap tickets, cheap includes DIY a lot. Take an empty drinking bottle through security and fill it with water. It is free and drinkable from the tap at drinking fountains and the bathrooms - at least where I live.
Right on, Verena!!! All I see in this photo is a waste of a plastic cup and the knee of someone who decided not to plan for their own needs.
Load More Replies...You wanted cheap airfares, you got cheap airfares. If you want flying to be like it was 30 years ago it's going to cost you.
I've translated so much Gaelic tonight. Thanks to you guys..🇮🇪🇮🇪
Lightweight. Come back when those numbers are at least a thousand times bigger.
That's not a trick, that's my brain while sleeping or trying to sleep, depending on the amount of things I have to worry about.
Once when I was a kid, I accidentally said that a teddy bear "squoke" instead of "squeaked".
My husband was born on the 26th December. It's the second Christmas holiday in Germany. My husband hates it because when he was a kid other kids never had time for him because family stuff and since he's an adult nobody feels like celebrating because they just celebrated two days with tons of food and drinks and chatting.
I mean, no one is actually enforcing birthdays on the actual day. He has the power to decide; from now on his birthday is May 26. Invite everyone, make sure there is torte and beer a d he'll be fine 🎉
Load More Replies...Try January 2. Christmas and 5 days later is New Years Eve them New Years day, then Jan 2. Everyone is broke and still hungover from Christmas Eve to even text a cake emoji.
December 28 here. My parents said they always made sure the spending on presents was equal, but that didn't change the fact that my sister got presents twice a year, and mine all came at once. And we were kind of poor, so we mainly only got new toys and such for Christmas and birthdays; if you asked for something at a store, the answer would be, "put it on your list!" I only got one list! It's fine now that I'm grown and I can get myself stuff throughout the year, and I like that the whole family is around to celebrate it, but when I was a kid the present situation really stank.
Load More Replies...My birthday is in August so it's away from any major holidays, at least in the US.
Yup. Week before Christmas. Was in college before I got a bday present not wrapped in Christmas paper, when anyone bothered at all.
It depends. A durable, repairable product produced locally, with respect for the environment and employees rights & fair salary tends to be more expensive than one produced in faraway, polluting the environment and with horrid work and life circumstances for those producing it - despite the extra costs for transport. Imo everybody demanding a sound environment and sufficient salary has to buy local as much as possible, instead of exploiting people faraway. However, I work in Western Europe for a very US American company, I can only imagine the confusion of the HR there, when they have to deal with our work conditions, which are under local laws, which are one of the best in the world for employees.
Load More Replies...My aunt was a Tupperware distributor for more than 40 years, so I can attest to this. I have some Tupperware pieces that are older than I am.
So do I. My mom still has pieces she bought when I was a kid. I always wanted to tour their headquarters in Orlando but we only have time to do that big parks.
Load More Replies...Too many competitors and an inefficient distribution system. In the 1960s/70s Tupperware made more sense. You didn't have the Rubbermade / etc choices you do today. You also didn't have internet, big box stores like Walmart and Costco and in many towns no mall. So someone having a "party" at your house to bring a product to you that isn't available elsewhere is more appealing. But that business model isn't valid 50+ years later.
I can only guess that the reason they are bankrupt is that so many people don't bother to cook any more or simply throw away their leftovers and have no need for Tupperware. Also loads of cheaper alternatives around.
Well I found out you can re use take away boxes loads of times, and they go in the dishwasher.
Load More Replies...It does last but you lose the lid or the bowl of each set. So you end up with a load of lids without bowls and bowls without lids.
My parents owned a kitchen store in the 1970's. They closed after not too many years, one factor they attributed was exactly this - they sold good quality products, then nobody would need to come in and buy a replacement. It was a struggle to reach new clients constantly who had the money for high end products. My mom still has many of the cookware from that store (a knife, original Calphalon pots & pans, a crock pot.)
In the 70s / 80s they were sturdy enough to survive nuclear war.
Tupperware changed how the products were made a bit before they started looking into adding retail locations to their selling mechanism. They eliminated their replacement policy, and the quality of the products is vastly different than it has ever been (and this has been going on for some time, it's not some recent thing). The company has been struggling for a long time, especially given the fact that sales people weren't making anywhere near the type and amount of financial gain they have in the past. Before changing the products, then seeking out retailer relationships, the company was already in serious financial trouble. They just went rapidly downhill after those actions. They never really had a snowball's chance in heckfire to recover without filing chapter 11. The company isn't anything close to what it once was, neither are the products. The quality now is on par with your average similar product you can find in any big box retailer.
Wasn't that the purpose of the event? Scholastic was a business. The mandatory 20 minutes of reading after coming back from lunch break was what inspired love of reading. You had to find a book you wanted to read, or get handed a random textbook, so even non-enthusiasts would eventually get a Goosebumps or an Asterix from the library.
I have a niece and nephew and last year I looked through their scholastic book catalogue and found 2 things I legitimately wanted.........my sister refused to let me get them-something about me being "to old for that stuff!".......I BEG YOUR BIGGEST PARDON!- one is NEVER to old for a book about sushi that comes with fluffy stuffed toy sushi toys!
Why not both? You should see my collection of books that I have shopped for.
Not usually in public schools. In many private schools and at University, we do. The Scholastic Book Fair was an annual event where a book company would come to school and set up a store for kids to shop. But in addition to books, they sold posters, stickers, toys, fun pencils and erasers...So the original poster is correct--it taught us how to be shoppers, not necessarily readers.
Load More Replies...Scholastic was much better when it only sold books and the random poster. Now they push too many items that aren't related to reading.
My Uncle Justin use to say, "Why stand when you can sit and why sit when you can lay down?"
That's a Winston Churchill quote. And he was so right!
Load More Replies...I work in a hospital and every time I pass an unoccupied wheelchair in a corridor I am seriously tempted.
And why the *ELL don't they provide a bench or 2 in grocery stores? Sometimes I can't last long enough to get all the stuff on my list. Your customers are getting older, Grocery and Big Box stores!
Can you imagine the Karens fighting everyone for the bench because they deserve it more. Nah. Do your shopping and get out quick. If you are tired, you will buy less so you don't have to stand longer.
Load More Replies...If i'm looking for something specific (like music) in Thrift stores, I will be pulling up one of their chairs to go through it all! One worker even brought me a stepstool because I was too short for the top shelf
When I traveled to Biltmore Estate years ago, it was a super hot day. They had the windows open, but no AC. And there were so many stairs in the house. A group of elderly visitors started a coup and removed the ropes from chairs in order to rest. The security people initially tried to intervene, but the elderly people became belligerent.
Think I'll start adding that to the end of my comments. If you even care...
The PNG is being downloaded on a 2800 baud modem, circa 1996, of Melissa Joan Hart
Unfortunately I have some bad news: The course "how to deal with disappointment" has been cancelled.
Is there, like, a course summary so I know how to deal with this news?
Load More Replies...I read this while listening to a better help add in a podcast this is crazy. Also agreed if I hear one more ad I'm rioting.
Same with squarespace. I forever associate squarespace with pictures of celebrities turned into horses.
Bull pucky. I get so much more done from home than from an office. I don't think the 3 minutes to switch laundry is doing more harm than the 39 minute gab fest some random drop by my cubicle is.
I never get much done in the office because the mail man comes then I'm sorting out everyone's mail. The office junior is asking 100 questions, colleagues are asking me to print and send letters for them and then they'll be a few meetings too. At home I log on in my pajamas and have my to do list sorted before 8am. Not having to worry about commuting time i can be generous with extra half hour to hour work here and there too.
It's not about getting work done. It's about control, keeping up real estate values and keeping nearby overpriced restaurants and businesses going.
Bored Panda here, Bored Panda there? Not much difference, except whether I'm wearing pajama pants or not.
I think it all depends on the worker. Some of us are wired to be more productive and self driven. Others are more driven to find creative ways to fake their presence while they go off doing whatever.
It weird how many people think that if I work from home all of tasks I have to do suddenly disappear. "Hey that power point presentation I asked you to finish by the end of last week, where is it?". "Oh I was working from home, which automatically means I don't have to do anything like that. Want to see the outdoor BBQ area I built instead?".
The only reason I'm productive in the office is because they let me listen to my own music while I work. No distractions, mindless data entry, good tunes, it's perfect for zoning out and getting a lot done.
Can I get a jar of that positivity from you for future use? My first thought was that said lawyer probably made cash twice: once with the fee that OP paid her, and once because she may have undercut on OP's financial support to keep more for herself and Ex. (All conjecture, of course. I'm cynical)
Load More Replies...Sometimes the best revenge is to just let her have him...
Who's to say he was the problem, some people are blind to themselves!
Load More Replies...Wouldn't that be a violation of ethics? You can probably file suit against them if your settlement wasn't favorable. I would at least file a complaint.
There may have been years in between divorce and getting together/marrying. Unlikely, but not impossible.
Load More Replies...Good. Since he's married to a lawyer, he'll have the money to pay the alimony and the child support.
It's getting harder and harder, but I only buy dumb appliances.
smart bathtub...????you mean you actually plug someting electric into your tub ?? struth i love the outback
Me: I'm getting out now! Tub: Like hell you are! ::cover slides into place::
Signed up for LinkedIn maybe ten years ago because that's where my boss would list photos and such about corporate events. Sadly he passed away several years ago, so I haven't been on since. Recently though, I must have done something to let them know that I'm still alive because suddenly I'm getting the "we found a job you might be interested in" emails. Ironically, a lot of them are for the company I already work for.
Happy for you to do your little group thing. Just don't walk all beside each other across the whole damn path!
Can you make it between 9 and 10? That way my kids have gone to be but I can still had grown-up time.
I recently went back to work after a long period of unemployment: I miss my afternoon naps!
They are very discrimatory. Insist everything in Canada be labeled in English and French, EXCEPT in Quebec where it is ILLEGAL to have signs in English unless the French text is "markedly predominant", i.e. much bigger. All businesses, companies or organizations that offer products or services in Quebec must have a French name. You can use family names, place names and expressions in English or another language to specify a generic term in French, such as “quincaillerie” or “restaurant.”
Je suis nice en public, mais mean en privé. J'essaie de ne pas être mean en public, mais des fois c'est difficile hahaha
Don't be so impatient; he's obviously still running diagnostics!
Maybe it would take longer, but I wouldn't mind. He's the cutest mechanic I've ever seen!
That's why I spend my sleepless nights doomscrolling Bored Panda instead of Amazon. Snarky comments are free!
Except it feels like every second post is trying to sell you something now
Load More Replies...Every day I wake up and there's another utility company wanting $120!
I never learned to - and it did NOT help that my first introduction to the stuff was my aunt's homebrew...which looked like a decaying jellyfish floating on a bucket of mouldy dishwater. I've tasted worse - but I'm definitely not fond of it.
Load More Replies...Technically, it's delicious, probiotic, fruit flavored fungus brew. You're welcome.
We actually get emails reminding us to take any remaining PTO by the end of the year.
My manager mentions it at every supervision. We get told off if we're not taking our leave.
Load More Replies...My company gives me 2 weeks PTO, but the state I live in also has a law which requires them to give me 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked. You can only accumulate up to 40 hours of sick time, but the meter restarts any time you use those sick hours. Our scheduling system doesn't differentiate between PTO and sick time, so with proper planning I can usually squeeze an extra two weeks of vacation time out of that loophole. (Ok, Europeans, start making fun of how hard Americans work now.)
If I get sick on vacation I get the PTO days back. Because sick leave ≠ PTO.
Load More Replies...Actually dogs can see yellow and blue. So you either ran the yellow light or the blue one.
but everything has bacteria even air transport bacteria and water is not a cure all bacteria solution, it a lot of time spread bacteria faster... and some bacteria are good for you. be aware of public bathroom air dryers, they spread bacteria like crazy
Well it is kinda strange if think more/deeper about it imo.
Load More Replies...And wouldn't anyone want to meet my skeleton Charlie in the flesh, as it were
They will walk away as friends not fighting each other over some perceived slight or "disrespect".
Load More Replies...Because heaven forbid anyone ever play anything simply for the fun of it.
How dare they treat basketball like a game and not like a religion! Almost as though they derive their life's meaning from someplace other than sports! Heathens!
Replace 3 words here - American for French, basketball with election and sport with politics.
Ok, might have got some words around the wrong way way but you get the gist.
Load More Replies...Seems like they were having fun and without all that toxic masculinity of almost violent competition you get in the US (although if they'd been playing football it might have been a different matter)
And if they're playing against Germans, they forfeit the game. (Would like to feel bad about that joke, but given all the uncalled for sh*t America takes on this forum, not gonna happen.)
You should! You did it wrong! It should have read: "I feel personally attacked!" (joking here)
Load More Replies...What are dirt spices? But go ahead and eat unseasoned food like a toddler.
She probably thinks ground spices means spice from the dirt on the ground.
Load More Replies...Obviously, elites now don't want to associate themselves with peasants littering their spices all over the food, so now a new aristocratic way to eat food is without any sugar or spices at all. Which was the opposite not so long ago.
Wait, we're criticizing food for having spices in it now? As opposed to...what? Just unseasoned meat and vegetables? Does she not know that salt and pepper are also spices? Who is this dolt?
Must be someone incredibly boring. Give me their seasonings whether ground, crushed or otherwise. I'll make the sacrifice!
Load More Replies...That's why I loved teaching high school students - old enough to get my jokes, young enough not to have heard them before.
@BeesEelsAndPups since I can't respond to you directly: you're right and I wish I could upvote you enough for you to see this.
I still prefer the "passive" kind to actual aggressive behaviour - and I'd qualify OP's remark more as sarcastic than PA, but I guess that would depend on the tone she used.
Load More Replies...No soup for you! (Come on, you know somebody was going to say it; I just got here first.)
Does look like someone who would be into podiatry
Load More Replies...I needed spread sheets 'cause I had none. I fought Excel and Excel won.
Math has its roots in logic. If A then B does not mean B implies A . Sometimes in math it is easier to do a negation proof. Example: all numbers are divisible by 2 with no remainder.The negation proof takes the number three and shows there is a remainder, therefore Not all numbers are divisible by 2.
Load More Replies...This statement is not true......... Oops! Opened a hole in spacetime....
11th graders are basically grown-ups. This can't be true.
Load More Replies...I would strongly advice against following any plan devised by Gwyneth Paltrow.
f***k, that looks delicious, i've still never eaten at five guys
It's really, really greasy and way overrated imo.
Load More Replies...If you have never been to Five Guys, bring three friends with you and only one of you needs to order fries.
Their burgers are ***AMAZING*** yes, costly but still not as much as you'd pay for a 3rd rate burger at some county fair or whatever. The fries are spectacular.
How can FFs look overdone and soggy at the same time? This is not appetizing. Is that a tiny burger, or is it just tiny next to the giant tub of soggy, overcooked fries? I've never eaten at a five guys, and I doubt I ever will.
It's like when chicks get upset when I call them dude... Dude, chill, I call everybody dude...
"i'm not a dude, i'm a dudette!" girlipop, I would rather eat an entire ice sculpture and die of sensory issues than willingly call someone a "dudette"
Load More Replies...Ask them for Szechuan sauce and one of the deep fried apple pies with filling the temperature of molten lava. That should shut them up for a hot minute.
The deep fried pies were the best! With the crunchy crust! And proper technique was to huff the mouthful until it reached a slightly lower temperature
Load More Replies...Actually the pressure. No matter what they fo, 50% of the country will hate what they do and consider them traitors.
Remember that approval from certain people is much more worrisome than their disapproval.
Load More Replies...Trust me, you don't want to be. Do you know how many political ads I encounter on a daily basis?
Poor guy. We've all had days like that. Sometimes I get home and wish my driver were longer.
No, you fold it into a triangle and fling it shuriken-style at the person it's intended for. That's how we tweeted in the dark ages of the 1980's.
When Ben cannot imagine that there are things in life besides working which shouldn't get disturbed by notifications...then something is deeply wrong with him
Maybe the unemployed friend is running errands, or catching up with another friend in person, or watching a movie at the cinema…
I work nights at a job where I fold linens and towels and only very rarely have to see or speak to another human being for that time. It's like a vacation from my anxiety. I have a friend who seems to think that working alone means I want to have a 4 hour phone call of him blathering on about whatever pops into his head. Nope. Just because YOU can't be alone with your thoughts doesn't mean I can't be alone with mine. I've had to stop taking his calls entirely because they're so draining.
There's no crying in baseball! (See my earlier post about pre-2000 life skills.)
I am not calling it X to satisfy the delusions of some guy who happens to be smart but is stuck with the mentality of an edgy 14 year old.
How dare you compare him to us? Who do you think we are? Even the edgy ones are nothing like HIM.
Load More Replies...side note: Anyone else get warnings from their antivirus programs when you have BP open? Like, scan computer now because of scam related link. When I close BP, I don't seam to get these warnings?
If you're on a PC or laptop then you need to install an adblocker, my preference is uBlock Origin.
Load More Replies...Thank you for funny tweets; I deleted my account years ago and miss the 1% of Twitter that’s still good.
I am not calling it X to satisfy the delusions of some guy who happens to be smart but is stuck with the mentality of an edgy 14 year old.
How dare you compare him to us? Who do you think we are? Even the edgy ones are nothing like HIM.
Load More Replies...side note: Anyone else get warnings from their antivirus programs when you have BP open? Like, scan computer now because of scam related link. When I close BP, I don't seam to get these warnings?
If you're on a PC or laptop then you need to install an adblocker, my preference is uBlock Origin.
Load More Replies...Thank you for funny tweets; I deleted my account years ago and miss the 1% of Twitter that’s still good.
