Sometimes people use the internet to think aloud and share their inner most thoughts, but along with this oversharing comes bored internet commenters armed with rapid-fire comebacks. Tumblr is the perfect site to witness some of the most entertaining internet back and forth exchanges. You might think you know where a thread is going, but in these examples you will see that things can take a turn with the push of a button. In some of these threads users chose to share witty fake facts, while others chose to troll the poster on a more personal level. Bored Panda has rounded up some hilarious Tumblr conversations that took a surprise twist. From the brutal to the random, don’t forget to upvote your favorites!
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Actually, 1 Mile started out as 'mille passus' Latin for '1000 paces" or 5000 Roman Feet. The measurement was adjusted to fit a specific monarch's foot much later on. The Roman mile also equals 8 furlongs which fits in with the fractional system much of the rest of imperial measurements are based on.
Load More Replies...As far as engineering and science are concerned, we largely have. Even with the imperial system, engineering calculations are always done in .001, or .0001 of an inch, we don't use fractions in design. When you think about it in the context of the construction trades, fractions of an inch make much more sense than millimeters. Most wood-frame or concrete construction doesn't need to be much more accurate than 1/8", and it's easier to do math with larger units.
Load More Replies...Why is no one getting this Joey reference?! It's the best!
Load More Replies...I was so confused with the tomato thing coz I pronounce it 'too-mah-toes'
As an American, I have started only using metric system in any way I could and it drives my friends nuts. I just tell them to look it up if it's too hard.
I use it, and I love explaining how they derived things like the mL, etc. Drives them wild.
Load More Replies...This little thing about America and not changing is so Silly. The metric system is the same way as the c**p we use. It is based off something. I obviously wish that we had converted long ago and my kids will grow up understand both. To act like it is something archaic is little overboard. It is a unit. Something logical made to allow understanding. My mile will work just as well as someone's meter or kilo. One of these days when we people have mastered travel to the stars we will look back at how weird it was we chose what a meter is.
America's measurement methods are weird, but we're used to it. It's pretty easy for me.
And England needs to lose the expensive welfare recipients they call the Royal Family and join the 21st century like the U.S.
the royal family brings more money to UK thx to goodies, events and stuff like that than it cost UK, do you know a single president who do that?
Load More Replies...Yeah! Those stupid tress making oxygen so we can breathe. It pretty unbelievable if you ask me.
Can forget them removing Carbon Dioxide from the air so we don't suffocate, it's ridiculous that they would do that... dumb trees
Load More Replies...I really wish I could say this was an over exaggeration but it's so true
Logic dictates that trees couldn't give off wifi signals - they'd get caught in the branches.
if i recall, the ocean produces the most of our oxygen, 70%??? i think, yet the state of our oceans is largely ignored sadly
Me neither!! But am Igoing to Hell forlaughing at it?
Load More Replies...Oo, slow clap. How many of us are wishing that we'd said that? :-)
100% Agreed. I mean no idiot would buy an advertised on craigslist kid!
Load More Replies...Just image of she were Asian -with skin as yellow as _____.
Load More Replies...Is it a bad thing to test this theory on my future children? One is allowed to look at the moon, the other isn't... will the latter be immortal?
its also been found that mass murderers, rapists, and child molesters consume water in varying amounts. tequila will save us.
Then there’ll be no tides... the songs about the moon won’t make sense...
Load More Replies...instead of the ladder against the window, he's branching out....... i'll just leaf now.
Load More Replies...I change in front of my best friend. I'm not interested in him like that. He's not interested in me like that. He's just my best friend and I'm completely comfortable around him.
Don't the vaccines need anything? Won't someone think of the vaccines!
Kids don't need meat, they need protein which can come from many sources.
Indeed. The constant obsession with meat=protein and "where do you get your protein" being asked to vegans... All protein is created by plants. Animals don't create protein.
Load More Replies...Except I'm a vegetarian and I'm strong and fast and healthy! And I'm a kid! But all the rest are VERY true!
Yeah, you could live in the middle of the wilderness where you barely see any people but you'd still want glasses if your vision isn't that good.
Load More Replies...Sometimes I'm not in the mood so I take off my glasses and enjoy the blurred view.
At night I sit outside without mine on and look at the light flowers.
Load More Replies...Just think, before the time of glasses, there would have been a HUGE percentage of people who were just - useless! I'm BLIND without my glasses... i just can't imagine living in a time where theres no other option. SIGHT SHOULD BE FREE!!!!
Babies and mothers can swap haematopoietic stem stems and thus become chimerae of each other. Probably a good reason to look very carefully at potential mothers-in-law before committing to your beloved... :-)
This is the key to immortality. When your old and dying just transfer your blood into a youth. Then repeat for infinity
YOU POP ME GIZZARDS LAUGHING THA A BANGER OF A JOKE RIGH THERE
Load More Replies...it is indeed funny lol, im guessing hope floats is English lol
Load More Replies...Nothing wrong at all. I still thought it was a funny burn and twist to the conversation, even though I have no problem at all with England and don't think it is a "trash island" in the least. I would've laughed no matter what country or place they put in the sentence.
Load More Replies...I am able only to comment about the part of England I live in, which is around the dead centre of the country. The roads are terrible, some are like cart tracks due to disrepair. There is litter everywhere you look because nobody watches the litterbugs. They should be fined on the spot, but no, the council don't employ wardens. Anybody got an old fridge/washing machine/TV? Whang it under the farmer's hedge with all the rest of the scrap. If you're planning a journey by car you had better add on an hour or so for the inevitable hold-ups at road junctions, traffic lights, road works etc. The transport infrastructure is overloaded to the point of collapse. Members of the populace have no pride in their appearance. Charity shops are clothing very many people because we are a breadline nation now. Austerity has ground us all under foot. The politicians think we are all too stupid to realise that their game is to bring down wages and living standards to the level of the poorest countries.
Load More Replies...United kingdom includes Northern Ireland. Great Britain is the Island you're referencing.
Load More Replies...It to bad that the third movie didn't do well or we would of gotten more of that Spider-Man
Viva Tom Holland...best Spidey yet!! "I don't feel so good, Mr. Stark..." :(
Load More Replies..."does he flip his entire F**k?" Everything about this sentence is wrong in the most hilarious way. I mean, most of this is written funny, but that sentence makes it great.
but black dots are OVER the white background? They are trying to seize our lands and steal our bread!
Load More Replies...They aren't all black dots. Every second one in that list is white.
No yellow squares! No pink triangles. Do you think this is a gane? ;)
Load More Replies...I once got asked by a Canadian (online) how Sydney could host the Olympics, they did not know we had cities, thought the whole country was the outback.
Are you telling me you don't live in the desert with pet kangaroos
Load More Replies...As an Arkansan, I can relate- once had a national level news organization coming to do a story at a local university because the oldest (at that time) person to graduate college was getting their degree. I got a call because they were frantic that they would not be able to rent off-road vehicles at the airport to reach the university. Cause, you know, Arkansas doesn't actually have roads...
Well, at least they were not looking for a stagecoach.
Load More Replies...My Egyptian ex was asked if he brought his camel with him to the US. "No, he was scared of the airplane, so I brought my donkey instead."
I was raised Methodist and had someone who was raised Catholic ask me if it were true that we sacrificed cows. She was serious. She was 40-something.
As a former Methodist (the church leadership is becoming far too conservative, forgetting that we are saved by Grace, not acts). I can confirm. Cows, typically in the form of stew, are regularly sacrificed via consumption in the Fellowship Hall during potlucks.
Load More Replies...Has to beat the Australian broadband network - the conservative government here decided that fibre-to-the-home was too expensive, so now we have an already-obsolete network that cost more than it would have to do properly, and bandwidth-wise it's already not fit for purpose...
To add to the above, they used the old 20th century copper telephone network, which even the owner Telstra didn't want because it was falling to pieces. Go figure.
Load More Replies...I remember talking to an american online once, he was really amazed I had a working computer inside my igloo.....
Remember the BP tattoo thread with the lady with a "galaxy" of dots over her breasts, and a guy with abs depicted by dots? It seems that they should each have an entry in 'World Geography 1948' too...
It appears that the US is the only place not fully taken over by the hogs. But one day they might even get the United States
It already started, the US has the biggest hog of all for President ;)
Load More Replies...It's not that small I'm 5'2" I often see shorter people than me, and know a lot of girls my height. But I've had mostly tall boyfriends I.e. 6'+ (180+ cm). But I often thought about that angle thing, because I'm short tall guys see me from a great angle ha ha ha think that's why my bf says I'm beautiful all the time. He's seeing me from above (best angle).
I'm 5'2. It's true. :) They're all taller. {Well, my mother was 4'9 {and a half, she never let anyone forget that half,lol}.
I'm 5'0". I always wanted the tall guys I dated to have interesting belt buckles because that's what I saw when dancing with them. Also, dancing cheek to cheek meant I was behind them in a conga line.
I bet they actually hate wasps but many humans are specists who don't learn how to distinguish the two.
Dude you eat their vomit all the time...it's really no wonder you hate them...
Was I the only one that grew up traumatized by the movie "My Girl" where the kid dies because of the bees and was inevitably scarred for life?!
I think I got scarred for life when I swallowed one not because of the movie...
Load More Replies...What kind of moron hates bees? If all bees disappeared we'd literally only a few years to live, but I mean who needs bees
Exactly, there are other pollinators such as beetles. Bees are NOT needed.
Load More Replies...why are you getting downvoted? this is true
Load More Replies...i'm sleepy and i read as "That's why Texas should probably just stick to ukulele..." and i was about to ask what doe Texas have to do with a dinosaur? then i reread it.
Load More Replies...It all depends on what they're playing. Jason Mraz? F**k no. Dethklok? F**k yes.
I created a word with my friends: Disamnoytience: disappointment, annoyance, and impatience. We based it off the scenario when you are waiting for a screen to load, and the wheel just keeps spinning, and spinning until you are so annoyed, that you exit out right after the screen pops open. So now you need to reload it again.
Well, it takes a pretty big logical leap to get there.
Load More Replies...I just cant see a cat enjoying garlic bread, this was clearly done out of spite. I love cats but they can be utter bastards
And now the cat has garlic breathe. And will insist on licking its owner's face.
Load More Replies...Cats will absolutely do that sort of bastardry. My sister had a cat that ate through the plastic wrap of her lunch to eat the sandwich - the same cat also used to eat capsicums from off the kitchen bench... Odd cat!
Feel in' for you...bet it breathed in your face come morning too...
Entirely out of spite, since cats can't eat garlic - "In fact, garlic is extremely toxic to dogs and cats and the consumption of even a small amount can lead to severe poisoning and, if not treated in time, death." https://phz8.petinsurance.com/pet-health/pet-toxins/garlic-toxicity-and-pets
Wear it on a chain round your neck and no-one will know you are desperate.
My ex had a pouch full of condoms. He was my most prepared guy ever. We were ready whenever we wanted. And whenever other girls wanted to as well. Guess now I know why he was always so f*****g prepared.
Imagine whipping out your gameboy case when asked if you had any protection - they'd look at you and run.
I've actually heard of this fact but yeah so I guess that monster in my nightmare is just probably Jeff from work
This is like that statement that no two snowflakes are alike. Did someone measure them all?
I doubt that this fact is true, because if it were impossible to forget a face I wouldn’t have face blindness.
Oh. My. God. The things I have seen in my nightmares are truly horrifying. IVE SEEN THOSE THINGS??????
It would have been scarier if ninepulse had put an apostrophe in “can’t”
Because improper grammar always makes things less scary
Load More Replies...Afaik this is not a fact per se but a theory some scientists believe(far as human faces go, anyway). I think Freud may have actually been its founder(along with founder of many other amusing things, some of them probably more true than the others:P). He did mention some investigations he did on unfamiliar faces in his own dreams only to discover these were random people from his early childhood whom he'd only seen a few times and never remembered *consciously*.
So I'm American and I mean this in no way condescending, I'm just honestly curious. I have never really had tea before. Is it all about a specific type or brand that Europeans love? Or is it just any tea?
Load More Replies...If you drink a hot drink when it’s hot it’ll cool you down. The heat is sensed in your body and a hormone reaction is triggered to make your body cool down
What are you talking about? We've already had our summer this year, between the 12th and 18th of May.
Load More Replies...People in certain hot countries/places actually believe that hot tea helps you tolerate the heat better - it will make you sweat more and the excessive perspiration will then cool you off better or something along those lines. Personally I'm not buying into this but that's a thing:P Hot tea with *salt* is also a thing in some of those places btw. Yikes.
the look on the cats face in the picture really compliments this one
Where the hell is the damn camera !?!?!?! HOW IS THIS PICTURE TAKEN ? IT SEEMS AS IT THE PERSON HOLDING THE CAT AS CAMERA LENSES IN HER OR HIS EYES. the robot apocalypse as begun . gather the cats. we need their help
Hands come from too of center so my guess is two people, one holding the cat and another taking the picture. If it really is a single person then the camera is either "mounted" on the side of the head (a.la GoPro) or they are craning their neck way too far to the right to be comfortable.
Load More Replies...It's not angry, it's scared as hell. Just look at its tail. Poor little thing.
Load More Replies...There was this girl in my class who had a strong American accent purely from watching too much tv as a kid. Nobody in her family or friends group were American.
I'd seen a child like that, too. Ignored by her parents, she learned to speak by watching cartoons.
Load More Replies...I'd love to hear this so called "British" accent because Americans are dead awful at doing any accent.
Most adults are dead awful at accents because our brains stop hearing nuances in language beyond a certain age. It's why you can tell someone how to pronounce your name 57 times and they still get it wrong.
Load More Replies...That's like Madonna's fake British accent. When she uses it I think, "For the love of all things beautiful, SHUT THE F**K UP!!!"
A lot of Australian kids are cultivating slight USAmerican accents from watching so much US TV. It kinda, like, sucks...
Fun Fact - you can have a British Accent and not be from England by growing up in one of the other countries in The UK. England and Britain are not synonymous
British accents, mouth breathing and lip smacking are the three most annoying sounds imo. I'm fine with any other accents.
Darn. I love walking around alone in the middle of the night, and now I'm going to be doing it with the idea in my head that everyone is feeling me...
Not EVERYONE is feeling you. Some of us just like to sniff.
Load More Replies...The passive aggressive smiley faces at the end of sentences like that really irritate me for some reason.
It's called a light switch and it prevents you from touching the buld...
I've actually done that once, I accidentally left the light on when I was running an errand, and when I got back home the lamp was so hot it burned my hand.
LEDs will fix that problem for you - as long as the ballast isn't in the vicinity of skin!
A lot of people are awake then. Insomnia, 3rd shift workers, hospital staff, janitors, etc.
Load More Replies...Yeah...the sun has burned me many more times than anything electronic has.
My cat was a stray when we found her at 8 weeks and is often a bit aloof, but this is the one thing she doesn't mind. I kiss her tiny soft little forehead all the time!
Load More Replies...I smooch my kitty cat on her forehead every day, and also occasionally tell her off for trying to eat plastic, or a frog, or her sister
My Cat has tried to chew my toes and fingers before It hurts a lot
My cat hates being kissed. He'll try to avoid it, if he can't you can literally read all the disgust of the world on his face, like it has YIKES written all over it in giant letters pretty much XD He also doesn't eat anything but catfood...and sticky tape. Don't ask me why, apparently it smells and tastes super nom. I absolutely love my cat:)
Mine just chews plastic. He'll get into the trash and pull out something plastic and chew it all over. Then I find it go to pick it up and its covered in gross cat spit with tiny holes everywhere on it. He's rather meticulous about it.
You can have sex when you're married? Oh boy have I got something to tell my wife!
When I first moved in with a girl the coworkers were all "Dude, but you're limited to one chick". Yeah, those random, sloppy, drunken messes you get lucky with once per month sure beat guaranteeing you go to bed with a hot girl you actually like every single night. *palmface *
You can have all that also without marriage but hey don't tell anyone :-)
Yeah but marriage is nice and really we should bring it back.
Load More Replies...Got married at 22. Am 37 now and still happily married to the same man. We've grown up together and it's not been easy at times but we'll worth sticking through the tough parts.
Smh, fake grammar nazi. If they were talking to the round cheese, they would have said “you win this, round cheese.”
Nah crabs are more like sea spiders. There's literally a breed called the spider crab (look it up if you dare)
Boys waxing facial hair would be a bit like waxing your scalp. I would recommend you try it - if I was a sadist.
Load More Replies...if you can pull it off, I think you have a problem...just a thought.
Aha, the infamous I am a vegan and I haven't said anything about it in the last five minutes post.
Load More Replies...Actually, many British Iron Age gold coins are only stamped on one side....
Yo Socrates it’s a f*****g cookie is the best sentence I have ever heard
Ok but: - separate the cookies from cream - roll cream into ball - munch on cookies - eat cream ball
i disagree. i'm one of those people who eats just the cream and doesn't like the cookie. and if you wanna marry me deal with it
Oreos taste like charcoal. Revolting things. Are they supposed to be chocolate? If so, they have failed
Eat, sleep, breathe and reproduce much like everything else!...what do you do with your time?
Actually two people might've noticed how dusty the car is and pulled a prank, judging by the lack of smudges, and imprint of jeans.
I think we should strive, as a species, to add a third type of person.
Load More Replies...Creepy and beautiful at the same time! Never heard of this condition
I read James Brown. It's a generational divide.
Load More Replies...And Jesus said, 'That's when I carried you' . ( cracks up) Had to.
*raises hand* I'm one of those people who orders ginger ale on a plane.
I order vodka and ginger ale and make my husband get the same . Then I chug both mini bottles vodka and pray we don’t crash.
Load More Replies...I order apple juice. If you say it’s a kids drink I will fight you.
We wouldn't need to. A slight movement when rinsing your hands would scrape against it and cut you.
It stands for the National Anthem, the Pledge of Allegiance, and passing funeral corteges.
It's an arti that was choked of course. Oh, the cruelty of it all!
The real crime was his parents spelling Arti with an "i"
Load More Replies...I mean plants are alive and you could argue that the energy pulses in an artichoke heart is like beating...
"Yeah, I went out with a Roman once - Climax. The I went out with his twin brother, Anticlimax..."
Unless, if you are a female: In that case, neither rights or land...
Load More Replies...The rules have changed people....today they would be Steve and Stevn't, Geminus and Geminusn't.....*muahahaha*
Don't worry, that's just the proof that we live in the darkest timeline
Load More Replies...The funniest thing is that the person who made this post is called 'rough rimjob'...?
I have to spend the rest of my day convincing my brain it doesn't need to imagine what a rough rim job is.
Load More Replies...Something tells me that this person had a guy actually say that to them. The real question is this- did they let him?
HAVE YOU EVER TRIED WHISPERING ABOUT BOOBS? IMPOSSIBURU!
Load More Replies...I READ THE ENTIRE THONG WHILE SHOUTING IN MY BRAIN! WAIT...WHY AM I SHOUTING IN MY COMMENT TOO?
Yes, we can and yes, we focus on it the most while it's happening. :) It's nice.
actually, depending on how little money you have, being married comes with what's called the "marriage penalty" because you are bumped up in tax brackets with your combined income. i've known couples together for decades with children that won't marry because they can't afford the taxes.
L is for the way you look at me, O is for the only one I see, V is very very extraordinary, E is eggs for you and me. Finished the poem ~ ❤
l is for loaves of bread o is for omlet v is for vanilla ice cream eating is all i do
I think the reason I thought this was so funny is because you know one of the people that finished the other parts of the song got SUPER mad that it was messed up
L= with disdain O= that random dog V= that random dog E=trans person in denial!
Egg is for when I find you cheating on me and I throw eggs at your head until you're dead. :)
Well the same person posted each line so I assume it is a joke.
Load More Replies...Reminds me of the time someone on posted a close-up of a fruit and said that it's a microscopic view of the inside of a vagina. Too many people fell for that one.
nice! wondering if someone would remember that while i was scrolling through the comments
Load More Replies...I love pomegranates but for some strange reason I only ever buy and eat them at Christmas?
i haVE THE SHINIEST MEAT BICYCLE (sorry watching a BL2 play just before)
I know this is four years old and I’m sorry but It’s spelled “remy”
Load More Replies...Ermm…It is actually referencing to Frankenstein and Frankenstein’s monster since the two usually get messed up
S**t. Your post was at 42 likes and I would've liked but I just couldn't disrespect the answer to life the universe and everything like that
Load More Replies...Jesus, sometimes I think something went wrong along the way as tumblr developed... it's the craziest (and most fun) social media site out there.
we all are gay, love frogs, and like Halloween way tooooo much!
Load More Replies...Jesus, sometimes I think something went wrong along the way as tumblr developed... it's the craziest (and most fun) social media site out there.
we all are gay, love frogs, and like Halloween way tooooo much!
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