50 Confusing Posts That Are Funny And Sad At The Same Time (New Pics)
Interview With ExpertTragicomedy, as a genre, has existed for more than 23 centuries. It paradoxically blends the sad and the funny, proving that things are rarely just black and white. Seriousness as well as absurdity coexist in real life too, and the “Funny and Sad” online community is just one proof of that.
With more than 1 million members, it shares life's moments that are equally as tragic as they are comedic. After all, life can’t always be sunshine and rainbows, and when hardship hits, it can be better to deal with it in a humorous way.
While you’re scrolling through, don’t forget to check out a conversation with Jennifer Toof, LPC, NCC, an expert in trauma and owner of Trauma Informed Counseling & Consulting, who kindly agreed to tell us more about coping with humor.
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I'm Sure This Is Just A Coincidence. Nothing To See Here
I upvoted this because it needs attention. Personally, I down vote this practice of average people paying for some rich dudes stadiums that allow them to fleece the public of even more money! Subsidizing big oil, big pharma, big tech, and sports is immoral.
Well duh, obviously a sports stadium is more important than children and family services.
Plus it's the Bills. They're just going to choke anyway.
Load More Replies...This is going on all over the country and deserves a heckuva lot more attention. It's sick and is a total waste of tax dollars.
Funny thing is, I work full-time and still can't afford to take my family to anything that would happen in any major sports stadium! For the people right
So far Chicago has resisted giving the White Sox money for their new stadium...so far. But our mayor is a wimp. Hopefully our governor will stop it. Again the team owner is worth billions.
And the Bears. Go J.B.! Also I haven’t met a single person (of any color) who likes Brandon Johnson. At least the police chief seems on the ball.
Load More Replies...Another Chinese Propaganda. /S
If they would relax child labor laws, they could put the fetus to work and make a profit.
Load More Replies...At least in my experience, too many people in the US blame diabetics for having diabetes. They'll say the person must have diabetes because they're fat and eat only junk food, and therefore deserve every bad thing that happens to them. Similar to lung cancer - anyone who gets it must be a smoker and deserves it so why fund lung cancer research? The minute you talk about Diabetes I (a genetic disease that has nothing to do with diet) or why those with Diabetes II should have affordable healthcare, they either clam up, or double down on how those people's could stop having diabetes if they tried harder. It's getting better, but I still hear that argument from a lot of people.
I get that with pancreatitis (especially when it's chronic, like mine). "Well, if didn't put so much importance to being a drunk". I've never had 1 alcoholic drink in my life. Only a small percentage get it because of alcohol use.
Load More Replies...To Republicans, females are seen as mere chattal to serve males and to be forced to breed and birth at male's will.
Shh!!! They don't want to hear your questions!... They want you to shut up, cook, clean and f@k your appointed man!!!
Many countries have funded free healthcare and pharmaceticals. Well civilised ones
Thank God It's Not The 1920s Anymore... Right...?
Back then it was the 'roaring twenties'. Now it is the 'groaning twenties'.
And a lunatic seeking power who rants about the mentally ill, foreigners entering the country etc. Close the borders, build a wall and kick them out he says. At least no talk of gas and ovens...yet
Kids in gade 5 a few generations ahead are going to begrudgingly write comprehension tests on how uneducated and moronic we were for "allowing" all.... This..
Hopefully. That means something survived. I don't have that hope.
Load More Replies...“Humor serves as a defense mechanism, meaning it can be an unconscious psychological response to protect people from feelings of anxiety, threats to self-esteem, and things that they don't want to think about or deal with,” trauma expert Jennifer Toof told Bored Panda.
“So in tragic or sad moments, some people turn to humor to cope, and, since it's unconscious, they may not even realize they are using humor in that way,” she said.
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I have a friends who calls teeth "luxury bones" because she was told they weren't needed to do her job when she asked why insurance didn't cover dental...
Who needs to eat! Just sit in a tub of marinara and...
Load More Replies...Not to mention our EARS. *Real* hearing aids (not the cheapo gadget mini amplifiers advertised everywhere) are insanely expensive yet usually not covered by health insurance.
Bless your heart, UK NHS does not cover teeth and eyes unless you are a child or bearing one
Load More Replies...Tell me about it! I just paid $800 for new glasses a few weeks ago. That included the eye exam, frames, and lenses, but still it seems excessive to me. I can afford it, but what the hell do people with less means do? Just deal with not being able to see?
Yeah. That's exactly what we do. I'm on Medicare so the exam is free but I can't afford new glasses. I finally, after2 decades was able to get some a couple of years ago. I was so cool! I got to see the stars. I'll miss them
Load More Replies...Also our ears. For deaf people like myself, Hearing Aids (real ones, not the cheapo amplifiers in ads) are mandatory, insanely expensive and usually aren't covered by health insurance.
Thanks Aliens
And healthcare. Even zoo animals get free healthcare.
Load More Replies....... Can you also make sure that hot dog buns and hot dogs are sold in the same numbers....
Aliens always only invade the US, so the rest od the world doesn't even care.
Not quite so. They also destroy the Eiffel tower almost every time.
Load More Replies...*chants in the background from the humans of: "TAKE US TO YOUR LEADER!!"
I can see someone say, "Oh, so you can do better? Let's see!!" First decision aliens make, "Nah, our previous leaders tried that."
And The Cycle Continues
And eat Avocado Toast. Can't forget to blame that as well
Load More Replies...Poverty isn't an accident. Its not a problem. Its not a disease. Poverty is a system to keep the rich thriving and with a constant supply of cheap labour. Poverty is not an incurable thing, or even extremely complicated, it is solely the result of corporate greed and the need for labour demand.
"people in poverty have to buy cheap and subpar products that need to be replaced repeatedly, proving more expensive in the long run than more expensive items" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
Governmental and corporate greed causes this. NY granted the Buffalo Bills over $850 Million to build a new stadium, then cut services to the poor by $800 million.
Dealing with hard times with humor has physical and emotional benefits, according to research. “Laughter releases endorphins, dopamine, oxytocin, and serotonin, all of which are associated with improved mood,” explains Toof.
“It also decreases the release of cortisol, the stress hormone, meaning it can make people feel less stressed and more relaxed. Even the act of smiling has been found to release chemicals associated with happiness and stress relief.
Humor can also distract us from things that are overwhelmingly difficult, and it helps us reframe situations, making a potentially scary, sad, or traumatic situation appear less threatening.”
Wish There Was Hell; Oh Wait We Live In It
Yes, and can only use the toilet during his designated break. And have a boss like himself as his allocated demon.
My daughters senior year of highschool, there was an assembly and parents were sent emails on "jobs that earn $100k so you don't have to move out of the bay area." During the assembly students were adamantly cautioned against going to work for amazon. That was the ONLY company they warned about. At our church, stories of employees peeing in bottles were rampant
Load More Replies...With Elon Musk and Donald Trump as the annoying coworkers who keep messing up
While the price of groceries goes up every week and health insurance is a dream.
Kinda the same topic, but could you imagine how much better public housing, minimum wage, snap/welfare benefits would be if our elected officials were forced to survive on their areas poverty rate? It would also help deter horrible people for running for office. It may lower the crime rate within our government. Perhaps it would have helped avoid 34 felonies (and counting).
Damn Lol
An interesting actor who plays interesting parts. Always worth watching, and cute too!
I absolutely adore him. You should see the movie “I Care a Lot”.
Load More Replies...Modern Problems, Modern Solutions
I'm sorry,but I lived in the states for 10ys,travelling everywhere. Beautiful country. But your laws are 100ys old. I don't think of the US as a modern Western civilization. More Middle East where they have morality police. So very sad
Good idea for when we have to get a new underground railroad for women's health and LGBT refugees. Our own fellow citizens are F*****g refugees in the US🤬👎a friend of my daughter is trans and had to move from Florida to Washington State because they are in middle school and can't get therapy anymore. Now they are worried that they will have to go back because of pressure for family who don't agree with their identity. Women are being emergency airlifted out of Idaho to get medical attention in Oregon. I am absolutely pissed.i was hoping to be further down the list before I felt like leaving an angry rant. I really would like to have word with the manager of this place!
At least a handful of states are exploring laws like this. Check out project 2025.
Load More Replies...Right? We barely go out of being treated like things, and now we are heading there again.
Load More Replies...I am going to hide behind the Sierra Mountains and hope that the rest of US does not find us.
Meanwhile, only focusing on the bad things in life can trap us in a loop of anxiety and even self-criticism.
“Negative thinking patterns can include only paying attention to failures and ignoring successes, black or white thinking (e.g., ‘If I get anything less than an A+ on this test, I’m a failure’), labeling oneself based on mistakes (e.g., ‘I’m a loser, an idiot’), [and] mind-reading (e.g., ‘Everyone will think I’m a loser for not getting this promotion’),” said Emma Morton, an expert of psychology, in a previous interview with Bored Panda.
And Schools
In reply to Spike Hodge, part of my work involves child protection. Most of the offenders are relatives. Fewer than 20% are teachers/church/scoutmasters or other people in a position of trust. So far (and I confess we are a largely rural area) absolutely no drag artists.
To be fair, making them wear a deer costume and sending them out into the woods during hunting season would be much safer.
Not all drag performances have sexually suggestive stuff or innuendos, some drag artists never do anything sexual at all. Lots of regular drag shows are not meant for kid's eyes, but there are plenty of drag performances that are totally fine. And drag readings for kids are completely child appropriate, they're just a man in a princess dress reading out a children's book, or a woman in a knight's costume playing out the scene from a book. They only show kids that boys can dress up as princesses too and girls can dress up as knights too, there is no harm there. Saying a kid can't see a drag reading that is meant for kids, is like saying children can't watch a children's movie if the main actor has also played in horror movies. They are 2 completely different performances by the same person.
My wife and I have taken our girls to drag shows. They were not sexual at all. And my daughters were well adjusted, well mannered, intelligent, caring individuals when they went in and they were the same girls when we left.
Load More Replies...Not for nothing, but I trust a drag queen to "Oh HELL NO!" and take down almost any threat more than I trust a would-be pedophile priest or pastor. I would feel safe leaving my nieces at a drag show, but I would need to supervise to make sure they're safe in a church. The only thing the drag queen is gonna teach kids is to love yourself and be fabulous. A religious figure is gonna tell them why you should be ashamed of everything and how to target people who aren't like you.
Lol. I agree. Safer in a gay bar than many religious schools.
My ignorant self is wondering. Do drag kings (something I just recently learned about--I know, sad) provoke the same outrage in some communities as drag queens? I, for one, would adore a drag king/queen story time at my library.
Of course not. Women can wear men's clothes but if a man wears a dress GOOD LAWD
Load More Replies...I would feel more comfortable at a drag show with my kids. I have yet to have drag queens accost me and tell me how terrible my style is and try to force a makeover and drag persona on me under threat of eternal punishment. Yet I have church people come to my house to tell me I need to get to know their indoctrinated interpretation of life. So yeah as for toxic indoctrination imma stay away from the churchs.
Jesus Was A Pacifist
...they think we were created specifically as a Christian nation, a lot of them. Fools, bullies, goons, and hypocrites...
they apparently need to be reminded, it was left open to welcome ALL religions, and to leave religion OUT of politics and government so that everyone has equal say. America was designed SPECIFICALLY to NOT be a Christian country. VALUES perhaps but not religion.
Load More Replies...Oh yeah. Born and raised christian, taught to love everyone, come out as gay, suddenly I've apparently been manipulated by the internet and am a sinner :/
Homophobia only got in the book in later translations (I think 1946 or 1962 or so). The biggest commandment is love thy neighbour as thyself, so sad to see a lot of christians forget that. Hope you've found people who accept you as you are! (If sexuality really was a choice, wouldn't there be more lesbians? :P )
Load More Replies...Wait until they get to the pearly gates and someone tells them about this guy Jesus. Spoiler alert: he was neither white or American.
Biblically, you can love people without forcing others to pay the expenses of those who refuse to work, and you can care for others and disagree with their politics. It's not that Christianity is a sham, it's that it's easier to mock than genuinely understand.
Some "Christians" don't actually follow the actual teachings of Jesus Christ. I am a follower of Christ and I live buy Ĥis teachings. Jesus gave us two (2) laws to live by. Matthew 22:36-40: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Alot of "Christians" cherry pick or interpret a passage to fit THEIR agenda. Not sure what to do? Read the 1st 4 books of the Bible. Read what Jesus ACTUALLY taught!!!
American Healthcare
Insuline is one of the cheapest medecine on earth. I mean we know how to produce it very easily and for not much money. Work in hospital in France and i feel bad when i think at how much insulin we just waste. At some point americans should just ask to european to send them insuline by postal service. I mean in France not only insuline is really cheap but it's also refunded by social security for every person suffering from diabete. Diabete is on a list of 30 chronic disease and social security pay everything related to these disease.
And in the rest of the world...my mum has had several hospital stays, all extensive, she is 81 years young. Each time her insulin regime has been reviewed and amended, sometimes to different brands etc. Welp, she leaves with a bag full, about 6 months supply and new instructions for me each time, NO COST. We also have enough testing machines to open a shop, handed out each time, one visit she got 2. She isnt even there because of her diabetes, they just do the review cos its convenient to giver her an overall health check while they have her. Australia.
Load More Replies...Even more sad is that the inventors gave away their patent because they wanted everyone to have access to it. Big pharma sucks!
Insurance sucks, you pay for the insurance, then you have to reach an out of pocket deductible which mine is 1500, before insurance kicks in and pays 100%never reached it so everything I pay is out of pocket, then there’s the co-pay which it’s different for each kind of dr you see. It’s pathetic and our government should be a shamed that they let this greed go on
Load More Replies...The reason why it is so expensive in the US is due to US regulations that force high prices, and when states set caps, the expenses get put onto other meds. Professor Robin Feldman in her book "D**g Wars" explains how a simple 1 paragraph change in US regulations would crash the price to about 10-15 for insulin. A lot of regulations are not there to protect people, but to protect the industry
Insulin is so extremely cheap. When it was first created, by the University of Toronto, the patent was sold for 1 f****n dollar. The profit margin for insulin today is just over 17,000%. A 17,000 percent profit is absolutely INSANE for any product, let alone a LIFE-SAVING medical necessity.
One of the major reasons the Republicans fought the Trans Pacific free trade agreement (America ultimatelty didn't join up) was they didn't want Australians getting cheaper medicines as our government heavily subsidises medication for us in Australia.
Tell any Australian 65 yo and over that the Govt pays for the shingles virus. That’s 2 doses of Shringrix at AU $285 a dose,FREE.
Load More Replies...Insulin is free in the whole of the UK as it's a life-saving medication. Strangely, inhalers, which are also life-saving, are not considered to be so by the government in England. Edited to add: We have to pay a prescription charge for each inhaler or asthma medication we take. If I didn't have a prepayment certificate I would be forking out over £60 per month on prescription costs.
Load More Replies...Didn't the Democrats pass the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022 that capped it at $35 a month if you're on Medicare?
I've lived this scenario and it's not a fun experience. I once mail ordered some vials from some other country b/c the 4 vials I got from them were still cheaper than the one I had an Rx for here.
Question - my understanding of insulin is low. I know the stuff my cat uses (Lantus) has to be kept refrigerated. How did the insulin you ordered stay fresh enough for you to use?
Load More Replies...Despite all the benefits of coping with humor, like any defense mechanism, it can become an issue when it’s overused to avoid dealing with problems, says Toof. “In the short term, after a difficult situation, humor can help someone put distance between themselves and an overwhelming experience, but the underlying trauma will remain there if it's not addressed and resolved.”
The Ideal Utopia, Simply Being Allowed To Be Safe
I'll help you, while I wait for Mr Auntriarch's return
Load More Replies...I would organize an outdoor pajama party that would go on through out the night! We would eat and drink and watch movies under the stars. Play music and dance in our underwear. Skinny dip in someone's pool. Naked dance around a fire....basically I would create a coven of witches for the night lol
Just general relax in the open somewhere without the feelers out or eyes on the back of my head
Leave my drink at the bar or table to go dance without fear of being roofied....for one
Happens Every Night
I have started to cheat my brain and it works. When i go to bed i say to myself i'm gonna read at least 50 pages of this book or i will watch this entire movie, i don't care i'm not gonna sleep early. And how surprise i fall asleep. Same for the morning, if i'm motivated to sleep more and add minutes to my alarm i usually feel pretty woke up. Reverse psychology on myself helps me and that's so weird.
My body clock is naturally about 26 hours long, and trying to shove it into a 24 hour box all my life has basically resulted in me being a night owl constantly struggling to go to bed and get up at a reasonable time. However, after photographing the Northern lights many days, and waking up later and later in the day and evening, often 8 or 9pm, one day ended up one day waking up so late it was early! (4am).
That or, hey, let's make him have to pee one hour before his alarm goes off. Just enough to make him aware he has to go, forcing him to open his eyes to see the time.
I'm used to being awake until 2-5 am without any problems at all. But my Sister gets off at 11:30 pm and needs to stop by on her way home for some reason and suddenly I'm struggling to keep my eyes open...WTF is up with that?!
This is exactly every single night for me. Most nights I don’t sleep at all
Yes!!!
it’s a perfectly respectable way to say it. maybe not in your dialect of english, but that doesn’t make it wrong
Load More Replies...And you never learned not to talk back to an armed police officer? SMH …
Another potential downside is the possibility of hurting others. “That is, humor that is inappropriate or at the expense of others can be hurtful and harmful,” explains Toof. “People would be wise to their best judgment about what's appropriate or hurtful when making jokes in front of other people during hard times.”
#medicare4all
Trust me when I say that many of us don't actually want it to be this way.
Load More Replies...The reason why medical care in Europe is easy accessible for almost everybody is the "we care"-idea. The money comes from the mandatory health insurance* (supported by government for those who truly cannot afford it) and taxes. Because of this, the rule of "no job without health insurance" works. Even if workless you do have a health insurance. *Contribution varies per country, it is either a fixed amount per month or % of monthly salary and includes the children.
Because we care more about if people dying because of the medical costs, than that people may call us socialists.
Load More Replies...When both in Greece and Portugal, (both different trips) I became really sick. Went to the pharmacy. They took one look at me and start pulling meds from their back stock; explained how to take them. Paid less than 5 Euros. Here in the U.S., probably over $100.00. Thank you, Europe, from the bottom of my heart.
it wasn’t such a hard sell. Because all of those benefits would equally go to Native people, Black people and other people of color, and Dems and Repuglikkans are literally willing to set this country on fire to prevent that. Never underestimate racism as a motivating factor for these people. It’s bred into their bones, fed to them with their mother’s milk.
Lucky you! Doesn’t that tell you something about the system you live in? Got free emergency dental care in Rome, myself.
And that is because you are a foreigner. For spanish people is even less.
A friend got really ill from altitude sickness in Peru. She received a day and a half of care including a hyperbaric treatment in a PRIVATE hospital and when she told me the price, I was so angry. $800 USD. It has got to be the labor rates or something.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Sports
Wait til this person finds out how much the failing US high school system spends on team sports.
Some of those millionaires on that ball field have raised their families and themselves up from poverty.
What incredible achievements have been made over the past few years. That is a questions and not a stetement.
It's a point of view for the joke, but i'd say what this guy doing thing 99% of people can"t do throw the ball to the other guy doing what 99% of people can"t do.
99% of people can't lick their own elbow either, but it doesn't mean that it's a skill valuable enough to society that we should give them millions of dollars for it.
Load More Replies...If And Only If You Have A Job In The First Place
... it's almost like capitalism is a private game for a handful of folks to really stick it to the tremendous majority of decent folks...
The stock market likes it when a company sacks a lot of people, not realizing that a lot of customers just got too poor (and angry) to buy their products. Workers are customers too, ya know.
Elon wants it to go up to get paid his $46 Billion pay. There os a cost of living issue and man he is struggling
Who said anything about not working? It's not the same thing as being fired because a company cut their workforce. This one clearly went over your head.
Load More Replies...Interestingly, many comedians use humor to cope and hide their struggles behind comedy. Like Robin Williams, who prematurely passed away at 63, or like Ellen DeGeneres, Sarah Silverman, Richard Pryor, and Woody Allen, who spoke or joked about depression and lack of self-worth that followed them in the past or even present.
Us History Is Full Of Darkness
... we've always lied to ourselves, we looooove our own particular brand of booolshit in the USA
History is written by the victorious, the victorious always have a back story AND skeletons in their closet. They try not to include the events or horrific behaviour that secured their victory. How DID our British Empire get so dominant and so large? Hmmmm 🤷🏻♂️
And the slaves were happy in their lifelong job security, as many revisionists would claim.
And learned "valuable" skills. But the owners were the only ones that got value out of the skills.
Load More Replies...Very few countries have the collective maturity to look at their history without rose tinted glasses. Maybe Germany is the furthest along, with their full recognition of their role in WWII, but the USA, Britain, Japan, France and dozens of others all can't seem to quite make peace with reality. Its much healthier to love your country whilst acknowledging and accepting its many flaws. Sadly huge numbers of people would rather live in a fantasy world where their country is perfect and won't tolerate any criticism. They call it patriotism, but that's not loving your country, its childish infatuation.
And despite that, right-wing nutjobs seem to be in the rise again in Germany....
Load More Replies...And we don't talkabout Vipeholm experiments. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipeholm_experiments and other things as well.. 🤫
In the usa growing cotton seems like it was a far more deadly and socially harmful occupation. Luckily they amended the constitution. But it cant be amended to stop people shooting kids at schools
I didn't learn about West Tulsa until I was 40 and living in California.
Thought This Would Be A Good Reminder For The Super Bowl Coming Up
Okay here's my view, take it or leave it. I don't care what y'all say about it. I think that Marijuana should be used medically, like for instance fixing seizures or other medical problems. My problem is with recreational marijuana use, both of my biological parents used marijuana when I was a child and needless to say they weren't present at all. They also used heroin but the Marijuana contributed a bunch. So in short, medicinal use is good and should be promoted, but recreational use is destructive
Sigh- Marijuana has changed so much since I was a kid. It is way, way stronger and people use so much more than we used to. People sing it's praises, but if you rightfully treat it as a medication you must also admit that most medications have side effects for some people. Because usage has increased so much it is becoming painfully obvious that this should be researched and publicized way, way more than is currently being done. While severe side effects are not very common I have seen true damage done to my son and to a friend by this allegedly harmless d**g. And please don't tell me it is not addictive when people deny it is the pot when they are confronted with the facts; refusing to see that there COULD be a problem with a substance is the first and foremost indicator of addiction. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8686926/ and also https://www.cedars-sinai.org/health-library/diseases-and-conditions/c/cannabinoid-hyperemesis-syndrome.html
Load More Replies..."Let's outlaw the mild drugg with a 10% addiction rate, that can be used to treat a lot of terrible medical disorders. Meanwhile, you have the RIGHT to use a mild drugg to which a full TWENTY PERCENT OF THE POPULATION is currently addicted, and that causes millions of deaths per year." [sources: only 10 percent of people who ever use marijuana become addicted: https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditions/marijuana-use-disorder 20% of all US-Americans have a current alcohol use disorder: https://www.addictioncenter.com/addiction/addiction-statistics/ ]
Add to that, the Super Bowl is the biggest day of the year for men to use prostitutes.
I was expecting this to be a story from the '90s or something. It's from 2019: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-rejects-super-bowl-ad-touting-the-benefits-of-medical-marijuana/
Actually rest of world marvels at the d**g zombies who think weeds is actually helping anyone except that industry. The usa now smells like a bong.
We Are All Capitalist In Us, Reason We Pee On Corporate Time
Implode faster!! Wonder how we could all help hasten capitalisms end? K!ll it before it k!lls us.
Stop shopping.. people b***h about bezos, complain about delivery, hate Amazon and talk about nothing but "waiting for their packages"👀
Load More Replies...Farmers... I grew up in Southern Alberta. No one cries "Subsidize!" louder than a lifelong conservative farmer! Bad weather? Subsidize! Act of god? Subsidize! Climate change ruining everything after you voted in conservative governments that made no plans and denied science? Subsidize! But if anything is done to live in the real world or help the weakest among us, well, that's socialist b******t!
Yeah i wonder that too! Its like they have been brainwashed . Why cant they just reframe it? Healthcare and social systems are also a benefit of democracy.
Load More Replies...Wait a minute, are you insane? Health care? Living wages? Hell no. Communist!
Lee - Actually, not all of us are either! Your prejudice shows in your posts. Too bad that only America has problems. Wait . . .I'm thinking all countries have some sort of problems. It's funny to me that you all keep putting America down, but don't have a problem coming to us when you're in trouble or need something! If I was in charge, I'd keep the money/support here at home.
One of the earliest psychological studies of comedians, carried out in 1975 by Samuel Janus, found that 80% of them reached out to mental health professionals at some point in their lives. He included a comment in the article saying, “They repeatedly expressed the fear that if they were successful in analysis, to the point where their suffering was greatly relieved, they would then cease to be funny.”
He's Not Even
Just read an article about a couple that did just that after 50 plus years of marriage to insulate the wife from an inevitable medical bankruptcy duento his cancer fight.
As soon as my grandfather passed away after a few months in hospital, we had to help my grandmother declare bankruptcy because it was well over $200,000. Ridiculous.
Load More Replies...My best friend had to quit her job to qualify for healthcare. It's such a screwed up system. You basically have to be homeless to qualify for any assistance in certain states. Ironically, those states happen to be the ones outlawing all forms of abortion. So a nonexistent safety net will become even more overburdened. In the end, it means desperate parents will work for desperate wages. They have people believing the problem with this country has to do with the color of a person's skin. In reality, the only color destroying our nation is green.
I do not deny we have a problem with systemic racism (and sexism and lots of other -isms), but your statement is so spot on that I screenshotted it for future use. Thank you!
Load More Replies...I've been on Medicaid for low income, and it was surprisingly good. I lived in a relatively rural area (central Pennsylvania) and almost all the doctors in the area would take Medicaid, and the Medicaid would cover just about anything, and the most I ever paid for a prescription was like $3. It was fantastic. Then I moved to the Philadelphia suburbs and it was SO HARD finding doctors that would take Medicaid. The ones that would, the practice was clearly geared toward low-income patients specifically. Doctors in more expensive areas can expect to make more money, so the amount that Medicaid will pay them isn't high enough. In places with lower cost of living (and fewer people on Medicaid because of lower population!), the Medicaid payments are fine. Food for thought...
My brother is on medicaid in west virginia. He stopped using it because the hospital would charge as much as they could, but he still had a copay. So he got other insurance, and even the percentage of copay is higher, what he pays is less because the overall bill is cheaper. Note: for those outside USA, billing is based on what your insurance negotiated, not actual cost. So one compay may agree to pay $2000 for a treatment but another negotiated to only pay $1000.
Load More Replies...You can't live in the same address after the divorce. I know this because I have to do this. They do not want you living at the same address after divorce separation. I tell people don't get married unless both parties have good jobs.
In my American state it is not legal to divorce if one of the spouses is pregnant
That's Why It's Called The American "Dream"
Switch to a mutiple party system. In Germany you can choose from 30+, of which 10 will have good chances to get a seat in parliament. In the Netherlands 40+, with 20 enteting parliament. Bribing is known here, but very, very, very difgicult and usually does not pay off.
Load More Replies...It's technically legal eugenics. They make things as hard as possible to live hoping we won't reproduce. Forget about marriage or sharing expenses. Same to any older person on Social Security. They make sure to remind you and anyone else helping you that you are a burden.
If they really didn’t want poor people to reproduce then they should let schools teach sex ed (factual, not biblical), promote the use of birth control/contraceptives, legalize abortion and fund planned parenthood….and support gay marriage since they’re not likely to have kids of their own….oh, they don’t do any of those things? It’s almost like they’re part of the problem, isn’t it?
Load More Replies...If you are in the US and on SSI social security disability payments (which means that you are entirely disabled, cannot work, and have never worked a job, probably because of your disability), you legally cannot own more than TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS or they will stop sending you payments to live on. If they find out that someone helps pay for your rent, mortgage, food, or utilities, the government reduces the amount of your disability payments. If two people on SSI get married to one another, their SSI payments will be reduced. Going on SSI disability puts people in permanent, grinding poverty, only two steps away from homelessness at all times. We literally punish people for being disabled. [Note: There is also SSD disability, which means that you've worked for at least 10 years and paid into social security for that time. They give you more money on SSD and don't control how much you own. Because all that matters to the government is that you be a good little drone and work work work]
Load More Replies...And the wealthy people only have to pay into social security on up to $167,000 of their income. The rest they get to keep while the rest of us that make anything below that pretty much funds the whole system with our 100% paying. Should be the other way around. Anything over $167,000 you pay for the whole system.
The way i see it, the 'American dream' really is: "Oh, he is rich so he can hire an army of most expensive lawyers and get away with pretty much anything! He is my hero. If i daydream hard enough, i might become like him. I better vote him into the office!"
Well, depending on the actual disability. You apply for disability because either you're unable to work, unable to work full time, unable to work a job with a living wage due to disability. I sorta understand (speaking as someone whose disability no longer allows me to work!
Oh No!
I used my organic chemistry book to put me to sleep. Can I claim that as durable medical equipment?
No, that falls under over-the-counter medications. Should be FSA eligible though.
Load More Replies...My favorite thing about college was buying a book at the campus bookstore and it included a bookmark advertising their trade back program. Except, when I finished the class they "won't be using that book anymore so we can't buy it back" every got darn time.
I had an engineering teacher that was the head of the engineering dept at my school. He had written the book for his class. Went to the school book store and the brand new book cost $160 but I found a used one for $60 and promptly purchased it. The first day of class he begins a lecture out of chapter 2 and I am very confused, my book covers a different topic than the lecture. Well, c**p, this book won't work, I have to buy the new one. I go to return the used one and it turns out there are no returns on used books. So I buy the new book and have now invested $220 in books for this class. However, now I have both books, when I get time to I open them both and my jaw dropped. The only difference was the chapter order, the text was identical. This total a*****e had taken his previous book, rearranged the chapters and slapped "2nd Edition" on the cover so he could sell more of his books at the "new" price.
For sure, textbooks are EXPENSIVE! It's not so funny that the title suggests that the OP hopes the cops got the TWO books back!
One thing is clear: humor is a great aid in helping us cope with hardships, but jokes alone can't eliminate the issues that plague our lives. As the author of Brain World Magazine perfectly put it, “Laughter may be the best medicine, but it isn’t a perfect medicine.”
American First vs. Socialism !
I loved how in the movie Day After Tomorrow the whole of america has to flee to mexico. Oh, how the tables have turned
When someone says something like "We shouldn't help refugees when we have homeless people!" I like to say "Good point, what do you do to help the homeless?" and I watch them not reply because it's not about helping one group over another, it's about not wanting to care about people.
That was from a transcript from the last Presidential debate….and probably this upcoming one as well.
Um, Mexicans are Americans. They don't come from the Continent of Fred.
Poor, Billionaires
Or classified documents in their bathrooms...
Load More Replies...When one out of seven children suffer from food insecurity, there should be no billionaires. Period.
Three people are eating lunch and the check comes. One of the people at the table suggests that they split the check 3 ways evenly. The 3rd person comments that they only had a salad. "But you make more money than us! You should pick up the whole check", the other two cry.
If you took ALL the money that ALL the billionairs have, it wouldn't pay the US debt down one day.
BS! They "may" pay more dollars but as a percentage of disposable income they pay much less. ( plus they can hire expensive help to find ways to avoid declaring income - offshore açts, shell companies, incorporation etc, etc)
Load More Replies...What's Next? Society Better Wake Up Before Its Too Late
Clarence Thomas was a lawyer for Monsanto. He will not recuse himself when there's a Monsanto lawsuit he has to consider.
Load More Replies...Yes you can. And even worse: specific breed of animals can too
Load More Replies...If you have a pile of money so high you can't see the top of it, the only reason to throw more on the pile is to keep someone else from having it. Instead of suing those farmers, why not give them a load of seed potatoes that they CAN use?? Think of the good press they missed out on.
The worst part is that it isn’t even about the settlement money, it’s about forcing the farmers into bankruptcy so that they can swoop in and buy up the farms for cheap and take over…probably bought with the same money they received in the settlement. It would be too easy (and generous) to simply contract with the farmers so they can buy their potatoes….no, that isn’t petty enough for them.
What do you mean BEFORE it's too late... we are way past too late
So Many True Words Here
I've actually met some Americans and they really do go around saying 'America is the best country in the world'. Bizarre, it's like they're brainwashed. Other western countries look at America as an example of how not to be.
Most people who think America is the best country in the world also believe we need to Make America Great Again. If we live in the best country in the world, why do we need to make it great again?
Load More Replies...Some of them really believe that in Europe we are not free. I've never understood that.
Same for Australians. I often see that comment "At least WE'RE free!".
Load More Replies...3 months in the UK? Yeah right... not. Meanwhile here i am in Belgium with 4 weeks. Not complaining though.
Could be a teacher, minimum 13 weeks off per year.
Load More Replies...Plus public holidays it is +/- 40. 40 days divided by 5 work days a werk = 8 weeks.
Load More Replies...Coming from a former Communist country watching movies, one grew up believing that America was the be all and end all. Now living away from that b******t and living in a free country. America isn't what one grew up with. Better living in Australia any day
It reminds me so much about Russia. Their people are so brainwashed, that they think, Russia is only free country and people in other countries are soulless!
‘Murica 🇺🇸 🤦
I had someone tell me once that other countries don’t have freedom. I’ve lived in Canada, the US, and the UK and I had the least amount of personal freedom in the US than the other two.
The problem is that the freedom becomes a game of Monopoly and in the end only one player is free.
Land of the free*. That * says "if you're a white male billionaire."
Let Em Take My Surplus, I Have Freedom
Actually they're rich because we're poor. Like an earlier post pointed out: Being poor means we can't afford basic necessities or basic care of ourselves or belongings (like car maintenance), which sets us up for a sh!t ton of expensive problems down the line. Our poverty makes them rich. Their wealth doesn't make me poor. Their conniving thieving greedy shortsighted selfishness that places basic necessities out of reach makes me poor.
Been saying for years that they need us to be poor, or being rich isn't fun
You can also find videos where rich people explain how poor people will remain poor even with support, because "they would use that money for food" whereas they [the rich ones] would double that money in no time. Sure, b***h, how about you try doubling that money outside of your insulated rich bubble, with no connections, no yachts, no funds, no trusts, no million dollar accounts to your name.
Sad people believe such nonsense. 1) you are not poor. go see how poor people live in really poor countries and see you are fukin wealthy. 2) you only feel "poor" compared to rich people, that's why you hate them/ it's like a homeless person see you drive your car and buy food and throw some of it and hate you for "taking his money" 3). take the richest man in the US wealth, divide it between every American, you get 250$ each...
Also if you make better choices and lifestyle changes...it'll all get better... (Not my philosophy)
The Future Of Ai In America
Or so the Rx bot can be told it needs Doctor bot to prior auth the prescription it just sent so Insurance bot will approve the Rx. oO
Oh good. I *finally* have a chance for a doctor to actually listen to me. Can't wait. 🫠
But Us Is A Free Society
There are actually four. But one only is a multi billionaire because he faked his financials and lied to lenders and the IRS know cause he is broke and pays no tax. He wants to destroy the lives of all but himself. Go ahead i dare you to vote for him. He will sieze power like putin and Xi. You wont get rid of him
I have wondered for a while if this is part of his motivations. He doesnt show tax records because he is broke. I also think he kept the documents to sell.
Load More Replies...Hmmm....what country that America absolutely hated in the 20th century also has oligarchs?
And the bottom 30% will vote for a raping, lying, convicted felon who steals from the poor to give to the rich.
….and they’re all building spaceships of their own so they can spear their greed and hubris to other planets.
But... but... OUR oligarchs are better than those Russian ones. Right?
In German "Reich" means "rich", which is funny in this case.
Load More Replies...Customer Service: Hello, We Are Here To Help You
You guys are doing great! Have a food truck that you have to pay for! Oh and we really need to get this project done before the end of June, so how about some voluntary overtime? BUT if we don't get enough volunteers, we're gonna have to make it mandatory.
I have been training since birth to set the bar low enough to make life easy but high enough so that they will still hire you
Not I can attest to. I work in a Walmart and I am one of the fastest on my shift and I get more than anybody else. No I'm not bragging. Lol Js
Found On Fb
That's why Denmark has low reoffending rates. Prisoners who are treated with respect and given the opportunity to get an education, a job and a home upon release are much less likely to go back to a life of crime.
It helps that they likely treat ALL of their citizens with respect and give them those opportunities. My guess is that the bulk of US prisoners wouldn't BE in prison if they had those opportunities beforehand.
Load More Replies...Maybe America was never really great to begin with. It was all a facade that has now cracked and is crumbling to dust.
The same BP article with a stream of fist-pumps for disappearing all men for 24 hours, regardless of any behavior, also advocates the worst of the worst men be treated like little lost lambs.
Pain And Suffering
i would probably keep $12 for myself to buy a few bags of gummi sharks
I guess someone is smuggling in Dollar store candy to the Saturday matinee.
A Party That Has Drifted Off The Political Spectrum
I still can't believe this is real, and not some lunatic plot of The Handmaids Tale.
It's not "having a baby" ... it's "STOPPING having a baby for any reason including medical crisis."
The only difference with Democrats is that they will say that women have the right to choose, but won't do a damn thing to protect it.
It's so you don't kill someone else. I'm a victim of childhood and spousal abuse but never wanted to kill others on my way out.
Load More Replies...People In Us Need Critical Thinking More Than USD
This implies Russia is more civilized than the US, if I'm understanding this right, by the date in the Tweet. Unless there was another war going on. But if it is implying that Russia is more civilized than the US...don't tell the Boomers. They will flip out. However, last I heard Russia still thinks homosexuality is a mental illness and same sex marriage is illegal. I'm not even sure you can be gay in public in Russia. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Same for Canada, we aren't as civilized as others think... but the syrup helps.
Let's Be Honest... Companies Don't Care
... That's not an acceptable excuse, unless you have a doctor's note. Drrrr.
There is zero chance I wouldn't have taken his ashes to the receptionist's desk and tell her to let me know when I can pick him up and when I did talk to the urn about how his day was and that paycheck better freaking show up.
When my Aunt died we got an invoice from her pension fund for three days worth of payment, since she had the absolute nerve to die three days before the end of the fortnight.
When my mom and stepdad died and my sister was executor of their “estate” (trailer home), a credit card company actually threatened to ruin their credit rating. Another (bank?) wanted her to have them sign power of attorney documents. It was as if no one had ever died before and they just didn’t know how to handle it.
Proper reply to those calls and letters: "He's dead." Them: "What do you mean, h'e's dead'?" You: "He's dead. Because you denied the medical coverage that might have saved his life. If you'd wanted him to come in to work, maybe you should have covered it."
Deer Interview
Deer hunting was extremely popular where I grew up. Of course, deer were also EXTREMELY PLENTIFUL where I grew up. A deer hit my mom's car once. Yes, you read that correctly.
Same. It literally ran into me as I was driving by celery flats on freeway. It came in from left side. It hit car, and kind of rolled over hood, then ran off to right side. We were fine. Didn't even swerve car, and we were going 55. Made police report for insurance, and that was it.
Load More Replies...As in females who hunt, or people who hunt females?
Load More Replies...As a foreigner i do wonder what the use of a AR is? Whats left if its used for hunting,? And its not for protection. Its literally named an assault weapon. But why cant americans carry grenades,? Oh the constitution...right
Americans are more interested in shooting each other than us. Eventually they’ll all kill each other and we’ll be left to take over. We think we could do a much better job running things.
Actually, tightly controlled hunting of deer is very necessary, especially here in the upper Midwest. DNRs strictly control how and when deer hunting occurs, but without deer hunting, the deer population would exponentially explode. Why? Because natural predators were almost eliminated to extinction. So hunting is a good thing, but only because humans messed it up in the first place.
I know of a couple of people at my work who hunt. Some for food. Then there's the white a******s who just like to kill things.
This is so true. My husband and his family were hunters/fishermen/shellfishermen, but none of his kids, nieces/nephews are interested at all.
Very Rare Photos Of The Us Army Seizing The Weapons Of Mass Destruction Of Iraq
It's like there was an ulterior motive to the whole war but I just can't imagine what it could be.
Over 300,000 Iraqi civilians were killed by US (and allies) forces for it too. Additionally, the USA sanctioned ICC investigators and prosecutors for looking into US war crimes and violations of human rights in the region. One nation under hypocrisy...
Under international Law the ICC only has jurisdiction over signatory members, the US is not a member. In fact the UN Charter states that any independent international orgs cannot exercising jurisdiction over non-members, or else the UN under international law will consider that group a rouge organization, and legiminate targets under international law. The US sanctioned them to get them to back off, or else the CIA would have been lawfully allowed to knock them off under the UN Charter. The ICC today is now doing the same illegal actions with other countries.
Load More Replies...Some years ago the CIA came right out and admitted that the Iraq War was based on falsified information, and that none of the reasons for the war were true. It is interesting though how many high ranking officials made billions off of Iraqi oil they obtained through the war...
We did find some WMD's, not massive stockpiles, but Ukrainian Troops, operating under the Polish controlled "South Central Zone" (only Iraq area not under US or British control, the Poles were given a sector with a dozen nations troops under them). They found enough Sarin gas to take out a major city. Polish troops also captured nerve gas being sold on the black market in their zone. Not huge stockpiles, the Poles and Ukrainians did find. BTW the combat experience in Iraq helped Ukraine develop the strategy that has allowed them to fight Russia and the combat experience.
"Well That Was Antifa"
Actually, it's the battle flag of the Armies of Northern Virginia and Tennessee. It also served as the battle flag of the Confederate Navy. The actual Flag of the Confederate States of America, had 7 white stars on a blue field in the top left third, and the remainder was 2 red bars separated by a white one (attached). Flag-of-th...b6e446.png
But remember folks. It was all just a peaceful protest to stop the steal right? Lock that traitor up.
Free If You’re Under A Specified Income
Well, in the Netherlands you know how much you ow them and you receive a pre-filled tax form with all positive and negative factors. You are obliged to check it and add everything omitting, then send it back.
I just check mine once a year to see if im getting money back or paying. Usally its neither.
Load More Replies......when a guy like tRump says everything is rigged, he's right. He's just misleading folks about the things that are rigged in the favor of corporations and the very richest among us .
the swamp definitely needs to be drained and fake news needs to be called out. Just not the way he wanted.... Propagandists and cult leaders take a kernel of the truth, twist it, and then use their new reality to control people.
Load More Replies...[Really] like how it is here. They know how it is,they tell you, and if no changes you just approve of them. 👍
You don't HAVE to use Turbo Tax. I've been using Cash App Taxes (Formerly Credit Karma) for years now and it's 100% free. People just assume they need to use TT for some reason.
Elizabeth Warren is changing this. In fact, she thinks TurboTax is a huge scam.
Us Can See Everything, Except A Revolution
Hey, Lee, If it wasn't for Medicare Senator Rick Scott wouldn't have had anything to steal from.
And to think, he's learned it all from Ron DeSantis...
Load More Replies...Sure, but that's the Tory government slashing funding. A properly funded NHS would operate like the Australian system, which is also not perfect but is pretty solid.
Load More Replies...She Forgor 💀
This is my absolute WORST nightmare! I've seen 4 family members die that way and my husband is in a nursing home with MS-related dementia.
Sometimes you have to laugh in c**p situations or you'll cry.
Load More Replies...Take A Chill Pill
Isn't it brilliant that adults get to go back and study. I know in certain countries its not free, like it is in mine. I just always hope that everyone gets a chance if they want it. I was a teacher of mature students and i taught in womens prisons and its just wonderful watching people get interested in books, reading, writing. My oldest student was 72 she had married at 14 had 15 children countless grand kids and great grandkids. She never went to school. She learned to read and write , she did her exams equivalent to secondary school and she tutors now. Education is a wonderful thing.
That's not what is funny here. Parents are always telling their kids other people's kids are doing something better, got married faster, what have you. This is about turning the tables and asking "Dad, how come you're not a doctor?" :-)
Load More Replies...Not Sure If It's Funny Or Sad That Trump's Nfts Sold Out In Just A Day
And now they're donating because he was pronounced guilty in court. These people have too much money.
They really don’t. That’s the shame of it. They aren’t well off. What they don’t have enough of is common sense
Load More Replies...Trump is a ponzi scheme. Nobody will benefit when he takes control. He will make sure he becomes a lifetime president in complete control.
And pardon himself as soon as he takes office
Load More Replies...If someone hated trump, would it be ethical to make pro-trump NFTs to make money off of stupidity and racism? Hypothetically speaking.
Ethically, maybeish, do it anyway though. Fools and money...
Load More Replies...I love that my add-on replaced the picture of Trump with two black kittens.
Everyone knows this is just laundered money and poor hungry kids don't have money.
….but why ask us for money to build the wall if he’s going to get Mexico to pay for it? Is that money going to go to paying the (Mexican) workers that are going to be doing the construction?…Why are you laughing?
If you have to donate money for the court costs of a billionaire, you're in a cult.
A few months ago, a news segment reported that approx. 17 Republican Governors refused Federal money to help feed children during the summer when school's out. Didn't see any explanations of why the refusal.....yet " No Kid Hungry " charity organization needs donations to feed kids ,especially during the summer.....and yet, we claim to be the greatest country in the world.....The greatest country in the world doesn't need a charity to feed kids.......you know what the greatest country in the world does.....it feeds its kids
I Was Trying To Prepare Your Schedule
I feel that the Queen (who was a very good one) should have abdicated and let Charles rule a bit longer.
Except for the bit when she enabled her son to avoid being sued for abuse of a young woman. That bit was definitely not the action of a good person.
Load More Replies...I've never seen a more ineffective man in my entire life... Seriously, he should have gone first...
State jobs: I applied for what? How many interviews? I'm sorry, which state is this again?
I Thought I Was Special
Yes they have a very similar look indeed, tough choice.
Load More Replies...Exactly. Its Tinder, people match with people
Load More Replies...Meanwhile, the fat guy who created the Tinder profile just exploded.
But it kinda forces her to feel bad no matter who she accepts/rejects, knowing they are all in right there waiting with each other. Or makes her feel she has to accept or reject all just to not hurt feelings.
Am I misunderstanding something? Don't you choose to match on Tinder? So she willfully matched all five and would have had to make this choice regardless.
Load More Replies...…then she saw this picture and chose none of them because being attractive doesn’t make up for being dou€hebags.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and take the weekend off.
I Know. I Just Need To Work Harder!
My poor great-grandma lived through the balkan wars of both 1910s and 1990s, ww1, ww2, fascism, communism, the cold War, and an occasional famine. I have it surprisingly easy with only one war.
One war so far…and that’s throughout her lifetime….this one specifically says “before they’re 40”. This isn’t to take away from what your grandma went though because it’s still incredible…and it doesn’t even include her surviving bother the Spanish flu (from WWI) and COVID.
Load More Replies...Boomers living through: post-ww2, 2nd economic depression, korean war, cold war, vietnam war, need I say more?
Boomers living through: the most robust middle class expansion in history due to union and labor rights support, affordable college, affordable housing, employer-worker over employer-shareholder business strategy, affordable insurance, the space-race tech boom, modern pharma, evidence based healthcare, "functional" politics, no mass shootings, no school shootings, trickledown not suffocating all but the 1%, and now voting against everything that set yall up, need I say more?
Load More Replies...Gen X, who had to be raised by boomers, went through all of that, plus the AIDS crisis and Ronald Freaking Reagan. At least we get to sit back and watch the Millennials blame the Boomers for everything.
Little known fact-many other generations lived through very similar s**t before 40.
uh.... think again... Gen X, born during VIET NAM, living through the serious constant threat of nuclear war, crack epidemic, uncountable recessions, the most insane inflation EVER, the gas crisis... yes we had to WAIT IN LINE FOR GAS and only could get it on "odd license plate" and "Even license plate" days.... y'all remember that??? And then y2k, 9/11 and the dawn of the interwebs (which straight up ruined everything)...... all before we were 40....
Sorry but most of you were children at that point. I was born in the 50s and do remember hiding on my desk From the threat of nuclear weapons, Insane inflation during the 80s, the gas crisis oh my God you got this all wrong sweetie. You need to open a history book again!
Load More Replies...Can't Win
I Quit Eating Avocado Toast And Still Can't Afford It!
Ideally, the cost would come from the CEOs and other big wigs living on several million dollars a year instead of several billion. Companies don't have to increase prices.
Load More Replies...Save The Children!!!
perfect photo, i hate that show, I looked only once, they’re real thieves
Why not ban sickness.. 🤷♂️edit: cancer, the flue, hiv, Lyme, borelia, et cetera! If there was any confusion with my wording! Edit two: kinks and lifestyle choices = 👌 edit 3: edit #1 are though not really related to poverty but my thought was at least free healthcare, or something. It as early in the morning..
Fake show, and the people on it are admired by fools. Just like "The Apprentice."
Letting drag shows exist isn't sexualising children though. Not all drag performances contain sexual suggestiveness or innuendos, some drag performers never do anything sexual in their performances at all. Drag shows that aren't appropriate for children, won't allow people to bring children. And drag performances that don't continu anything sexual, aren't problematic for kids at all, there's no reason children couldn't see those.
Load More Replies...Long Showers Have Meaning
No. Single people take longer, hotter showers or baths because they can use all the hot water is just for them.
I take longer, hotter showers because the utilities are already included in my rent, so the bill doesn't go up at all...
Load More Replies...Once upon a time i enjoyed taking a shower.. now i can barely bear the water droplets running on my body, because it hurts and I can't bare anymore pain
My Brain Turned 35 On My 19th Birthday
You'll get there eventually. After all you still have almost 15y to get 16$ in savings.
Load More Replies...I'll have you know that i have $25 in my savings! Because that is what is required for it to stay open! 😂
The future looks bright. Wait, never mind it's just a dumpster fire.
Hard To Justify Not Doing It
In order to qualify for student loan forgiveness you have to pay on time for 10 years. These people are not freeloaders
I Would Hate To See Mine 😅
Mine would say Taco Bell breakfast a LOT. I love their breakfast.
hey...my credit card does this...a end of year summary of everything i have charged, broken into category and then who the charge was for...had this for over 20 yrs now...of course, it doesnt tell me how many crunchwrap supremes i bought (gawd, i miss gorditas)...but it does tell me how much i spent at taco bell...
Mine does! Or at least it will break it down by category or business. Seeing what a ridiculously large percentage of our spending was Amazon lead to my husband and I cancelling our prime membership. Now if only we could find a way to stop giving all our money to the grocery store.
Omg, Haha
BP left out the best part: when Chili's saw her tweet they made her a certificate of employment so she wouldn't be a liar to the kids https://x.com/Chilis/status/1006955626981986309
That's awesome. Even if it's just for pr, win it still helps others, it's a win win, and that's not bad.
Load More Replies...Bruhh!!
Sad Indeed
No kidding! Last year the EPA put an advisory against eating all freshwater fish in the US. PFAS are so high in them that eating one fish is the equivalent of drinking contaminated water for over 4 years. I live in an area where people routinely catch and eat their own fish, and often eat local fish every week. The EPAs warning hit all the major news stations and then was ignored in favor of more Trump-Biden rhetoric. This stuff causes cancer and is only going to get worse.
Load More Replies...Exactly. Every generation had horrible things to deal with. Which doesn't mean that we shouldn't do everything we can to fix it and to prevent similar stuff happening to newer generations of course. We should absolutely do that. But we shouldn't get caught up in this 'our generation is the only generation that suffers' mind set.
Genius Level Intellect
This guy gets a lot of mileage out of posting all the things his kid didn't actually say.
Good News For Capitalists, But Not For Workers
You can be capitalist country with social care, you don't have to go full soviet.
Every single one of the ...5 self-proclaimed "communist" countries existent today is fundamentally flawed and are also direct results of existing within a capitalist economy. There is no country today that enacts any sort of true communism, whether Leninism of Marxism.
Load More Replies...That Psychopathic Lizard Brain
This happens to working presidents. Drumph just got fatter and cheated at golf all the time.
Fake picture. Morgan Freeman was never young. He and Wilford Brimley were born that way.
Ummm.. Speechless
For those too lazy to google the facts: She was in jail in Russia, because she had a small vial of totally legal medicinal weed solution in her bag. If I was a mean person, I would suspect some lesbophobic vibe to that post, but I am willing to file this under "telling the correct facts on SM won't achieve enough likes".
But they won’t mention the white female athlete that they just let go, no arrest no nothing.
Let's Turn The Tables On Them!!!
That Boss Move
My coworker got broken up with by his boyfriend 10 minutes before shift started. My Supervisor and all coworkers urged him to return home and make sure everything is solved cleanly, that the now Ex didn´t take anything that wasn´t his.
The Fear
I also just googled it and am feeling bad for her. Thank God I don't have panic attacks anymore or it could have qualified for a second hand one
Are you going to share. Or are you going to make me look it up? Which means I will have to leave this site to do so.
Load More Replies...James May: Well, it’s not one of the seven dirty words … [starts googling] … oh, bollocks.
Like it should rhyme with Krumkake, but it doesn’t. Which is good because I don’t want to think about both at the same time
Sometimes misusing word reveals you have a mere splattering of knowledge.
American Theft
Thankfully in Australia the Tax Office can't get its grubby little hands on our lottery winnings
Okay... I don´t have anything against taxing lottery winnings. But two thirds? 66% of it? That´s ridiculous.
Tax Breaks For The Rich & Budget Cuts For The Rest Of Us
"It Was A Gun Free Zone". No It Wasn't Stfu
The police couldn't stop the shootings but I'm sure Doris the 77 year old lunch lady with a bad hip can take out that school shooter! She just needs to pack more heat! /s
What Stage Of Capitalism Is This?
The Republikkkan Way
It took me a minute to realise what this meant! I can't believe it. That's just so terrifying
... unfortunately, most of the good people in those states have very very very low levels of reading comprehension..
Good people don't need a sign that tells them not to f**k their daughters
Load More Replies...But Bernie Is A Millionaire And There Is No Difference Between A Millionaire And Billionaire
But he pays his taxes, doesn't complain and would continue to pay if his taxes increased
No difference between a millionaire and a billionaire? Somebody needs some remedial math lessons.
A decent house costs a million dollars where I live. Being a millionaire isnt even a flex anymore
I'm not convinced it would work anyway. The companies would just raise the prices of their services to cover their losses.
Really? What's Bernie doing to fix it? Probably more than anyone single politician alive today. The guy is a hero of workers' rights, poverty and fair play. The real shame is that there are so few people like him.
Load More Replies...I Am The Main Breadwinner In My Landlord's Family
Really Surprised How This Didn't Become A Big News!
Masks Are Traumatic
Plan Accordingly
Kinda Genius
It's from "Toy Story 2". The toy (Woody) used to belong to a kid called Andy. The toy fell into the hands of a toy dealer who erased Andy's name from the bottom of the boot
Load More Replies...Ahh Everyday
Yet Have Freedom… To Die!
Tho technically Canadians, Mexicans and everyone else in North/Central/South America are Americans. That's why US companies can claim that stuff made in Mexico was "Made in America". USA has the stupidest people in the world.
Load More Replies...In my western world having as less than possible debt is a good thing. Credit cards are balanced every month.
That's a good thing everywhere. But it isn't possible for a lot of us.
Load More Replies...From what I understood, the Orwellian part was that the score was tied to your cell phone and people walking past you on the streets could see it.
Better Luck Next Time
Poor? Have You Tried Starving?
Who Said It’s Made Up?
I appreciate the discourse comparing the US to other places and hearing perspectives straight from Europeans or Australians. So many here have normalized our sh!t schedules, commutes, food, etc. We're exploited af and it's only going to get worse.
It doesn't help that Americans are basically brainwashed from birth with the idea that this is the greatest nation on earth.
Load More Replies...Depending where you are it's a good warning for the rest of us. This is what conservatives are aiming for everywhere.
Load More Replies...So for serious, anyone in Europe/Canada/Australia want to get married to me? 😸
Let me know if they reply and have a single friend!
Load More Replies...100% of this list is just repeats of stuff that's been posted about once every two weeks since the dawn of (BP) time...
Honestly, as an American, I'd rather read stuff like this that points out problems we face than posts like "lol Americans are so dumb because they don't walk to the grocery store".
Load More Replies...Gotta love the way Bored Panda alternates these "Consumerist culture is evil' Capitalism sucks man" articles with '30 Things You Need to Buy Right Now! articles flogging consumer tat...
Eeehh, they're starting to try and go more towards what the US is doing
Load More Replies...This article seems even more sad considering the election results ( It is November 2024) :(
I appreciate the discourse comparing the US to other places and hearing perspectives straight from Europeans or Australians. So many here have normalized our sh!t schedules, commutes, food, etc. We're exploited af and it's only going to get worse.
It doesn't help that Americans are basically brainwashed from birth with the idea that this is the greatest nation on earth.
Load More Replies...Depending where you are it's a good warning for the rest of us. This is what conservatives are aiming for everywhere.
Load More Replies...So for serious, anyone in Europe/Canada/Australia want to get married to me? 😸
Let me know if they reply and have a single friend!
Load More Replies...100% of this list is just repeats of stuff that's been posted about once every two weeks since the dawn of (BP) time...
Honestly, as an American, I'd rather read stuff like this that points out problems we face than posts like "lol Americans are so dumb because they don't walk to the grocery store".
Load More Replies...Gotta love the way Bored Panda alternates these "Consumerist culture is evil' Capitalism sucks man" articles with '30 Things You Need to Buy Right Now! articles flogging consumer tat...
Eeehh, they're starting to try and go more towards what the US is doing
Load More Replies...This article seems even more sad considering the election results ( It is November 2024) :(
