35 Of The Biggest ‘Screw You’ Moments Ever Witnessed In History, As Shared Online
Everyone has their limits, but why do we always try to conceal our anger? Gracefully telling folks to get lost can be healing and pretty satisfying, of course, but only if the setting is suitable for doing so.
Hiding our emotions for the sake of avoiding heated reactions will eventually backfire, where a minor inconvenience might set us over the edge.
Perhaps it would be in our best interest to start challenging ourselves and learning that swallowing our feelings and putting on an act of politeness will only harm us and our mental state.
However, sometimes words don't hit the right spot, and life calls for creative solutions:
“What are some of the greatest [screw yous] in history?” – this netizen turned to one of Reddit’s most thought-provoking communities to ask fellow members to share the shadiest and most satisfying moments known in history. The post has managed to receive nearly 24K upvotes and 7.8K comments discussing the famous events.
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Frank Zappa was interviewed by an abrasive radio host named Joe Pyne.
Pyne commented to Zappa, “So I guess your long hair makes you a woman.”
Zappa replied, “So I guess your wooden leg makes you a table.”
Pyne had lost his leg serving in WW2.
Love Zappa my dad had me quoting his songs as a kid. Very inappropriate 😆
Someone get this person to a hospital because they just got SEVERELY burned
Because the biggest insult to a man is calling him a woman. Nothing worse in the world than being a woman.
Although I'm sure he wouldn't have called it a "f**k you" because he had way too much class, I'm going to say Mr. Rogers sharing a wading pool with a black man while people were fighting to keep blacks out of public pools.
He really did try to fight to change the system from within. he practically saved the PBS single handedly. True class and character.
Grew up watching him on PBS. He was great and you learned a lot and his voice was very soothing kind of like Bob Ross.
Load More Replies...It's never too late to add Mr. Rogers to the list of people you want to be like when you grow up.
one time he got a letter from a blind girl who said she was afraid he was forgetting to feed his fish so from then on he narrated when he fed them 🥰🥰
There is literally nothing even remotely bad about this man. Him and Bob Ross restore my hopes for humanity. Beautiful men.
He's one of the reasons MY generation, (whatever came just after boomers,I am a little off on that) cans out as good as we did. As far as t.v. my biggest influence were. Mr Rogers, capt kangaroo, seseme street and Bob Ross. Not too shabby.
Gen X? We didn’t have Mr Rogers in the UK (never seen any o of it) but we had Sesame Street from the US and oh yes it was marvellous!
Load More Replies...François Clemmons is also homosexual so Mr. Rogers was ahead of times with that as well
When France was invaded during WW2 they cut the lines to the elevator up the Eiffel Tower so when the nazis went to put their flag on ot they had to take the stairs all the way up.
Which is harder than going up. There is always room for petty revenge under the right circumstances.
Load More Replies...Speaking as someone who has taken those stairs, I can tell you that is indeed a huge task. I was 21ish at the time, and active duty military. Stull took a lot out of me!
In 1962, a wealthy Italian businessman met with Enzo Ferrari to discuss his displeasure with the famous luxury sports cars. His chief complaint was that the clutches didn't seem to hold up well. Ferrari responded, "The clutch is not the problem. The problem is you don’t know how to drive a Ferrari and you break the clutch.”
The businessman happened to have founded and owned a successful tractor manufacturing company, so he knew a thing or two about vehicles. He was incensed at the reply, and not only vowed to never buy another Ferrari, but to begin building his own supercars to show Ferrari how it was done.
And today, the cars of Ferruccio Lamborghini are famous worldwide.
Ferrari was right, though. There's no reason your clutch should "break" unless you're using it wrong. I had my last standard transmission car for 14 years on the same clutch, and it still worked when I sold the car.
In Lamborghini's words, they were substandard quality parts. A substandard clutch can easily break with normal use.
Load More Replies...David Brown... Tractor manufacturer... Created the Aston Martin sports cars... Hence the 'DB' in the DB9 model number and other model numbers... https://www.astonmartin.com/en-gb/models/past-models/db9
Brown did not create Aston Martin, it existed way before the man was even born. He merely bought the company when it went up for sale due to cash problems.
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I've always been fond of the exchange between John Montagu and John Wilkes, both British politicians in the 18th century (Montagu was also the 4th Earl of Sandwich, the namesake and possibly inventor of the sandwich).
During one of their many verbal battles, Montagu reportedly spat at Wilkes and said, "Upon my soul, Wilkes, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox."
Wilkes replied, "That depends, my lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress."
Robin Williams once referred to the British Parliament as ‘Congress with a two drink minimum’. There are a lot of well crafted insults flying :)
Lady Astor once told Churchill, "If I were married to you, I'd put poison in your coffee." Churchill replied, "If I were married to you, I'd drink it."
Australian PM Menzies (1939-41 and 1949-66) was giving a speech when a woman shouted 'I wouldn't vote for you if you were the Archangel Gabriel!'. 'Madam' said Menzies 'if I was the Archangel Gabriel, you would not be in my electorate'.
Joan of Arc’s trial was known to be tedious as the Church tried their hardest to find grounds for a conviction. In an attempt to trick her, she was asked whether she knew if she was in God’s grace. Since the Church believed no one was able to know if they were truly in God’s grace, either a yes or no could be condemnable. She responded by saying, “If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me”. Reports on the trial say that the court was stupefied by her deft answer. It was basically a mic drop in the face of the Church at the hands of what they saw as an illiterate and heretic farm girl.
The church was definitely not a fan of strong independent women at that time of course they had to be witches and heretics./s
Load More Replies...They eventually convicted her - and killed her - for "wearing men's clothing". Oh! The Horror!!
That was the technicality they nailed her on. I suspect that the real reason why they wanted her dead was because the "they" were the English, against whom she had been leading French troops to victory.
Load More Replies...And the patriarchy couldn't handle her superiority and they killed her -- like so many, many other people in the name of "God."
It's all political. A few years after her death, France basically canceled her trial because the king could not bear being supported by a heretical woman. It was England, and its French allies, Burgundy, who condemned her so that France could be seen as guided by a witch
Load More Replies...Yay organized religion!! Let’s keep it up! Been working for thousands of years!
When that dude on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? used his only lifeline on the final question to call his dad… Not to ask for help, but to let him know he was about to win because he already knew the answer.
I have nothing against this guy, but it would have been glorious to watch if he then turned out to be wrong.
I went to the video on YouTube and the comments have me laughing 🤣🤣
i didnt see this one but it wouldve been hilarious if he got the answer wrong😂
Explain this one in a similar form but it keeps getting buried.
After the second World War, a group of soldiers, all Jews, held a memorial service during the Passover and prim for the fallen Jewish comrades. The ceremony was carried out at the summer home that once belonged to Joseph Goebbels, a known hater of Jews.
Goebbels wasn't shy of saying f**k the Jews. So, for a Jewish memorial service on his estate was a "f**k you right back" from Jewish soldiers.
During WW2 the Nazis awarded three Finnish Jews the Iron Cross. All three of them obviously refused to accept it. One of them, a medical officer named Leo Skurnik famously replied: "I wipe my a**e with it!". The Germans were furious, but there was nothing they could do, because Skurnik had the full support of his superiors in the Finnish Army.
And millions of Jews who could no longer speak for themselves. A”H ע״ה
It's not like the Nazis didn't take possession of all of the Jewish homes they could. Good payback!
King Philip II of Macedon sent a note to Ancient Sparta saying:
“You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city.”
Ancient Sparta replied to King Philip’s threat: “If"
It was specifically, people from Laconia (the region including Sparta). Therefore, it was a truly laconic answer.
King Philip (nor his son Alexander the Great) went on to try and capture the city but King Philip was also reported asking Sparta if "he should come as friend or foe" (as in surrender or face my armies type thing) and they replied with another single word answer: "Neither"!
He probably couldnt. The spartans were the best soldiers in the world
Upon being handed his death warrant, the Marquis de Favras quipped, "I see that you have made three spelling mistakes."
"Le Marquis de Favras ; convincu de crime de lèze nation, condanné par le châtelet de Paris à faire amende honorable et à être pendu en place de Grève le 19 février 1790". It should be "convAincu", "lèSe nation" and "condaMné".
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Tolkien was in negotiations to sell *The Hobbit* in Germany. The Nazis were in power, but WWII hadn't started yet. The German publisher asked him to provide proof that he was Aryan. This was his response, with emphasis by me:
25 July 1938
20 Northmoor Road, Oxford
Dear Sirs,
Thank you for your letter. I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by "arisch". I am not of **Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian;** as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, **Gypsy**, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that **I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people**. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject — which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that **if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.**
Your enquiry is doubtless made in order to comply with the laws of your own country, but that this should be held to apply to the subjects of another state would be improper, even if it had (as it has not) any bearing whatsoever on the merits of my work or its sustainability for publication, **of which you appear to have satisfied yourselves without reference to my Abstammung.**
I trust you will find this reply satisfactory, and remain yours faithfully,
J. R. R. Tolkien
Most eloquent '$%&^ off you $%*&ing racist trash' I've ever seen in my life.
Agreed, while encouraging them bend over for some more $%^$#@ and a little additional &$%^*^$#@.
Load More Replies...It proves that there are more eloquent and creative ways of telling people off than just the traditional curses. Whenever people call me a fat b***h I just say "ha like I haven't been called that before think of something more creative. "
Load More Replies...Fun facts concerning the level of enlightenment elsewhere in the world as of 1939: - Canada was amongst several nations who refused to take in a mere 900 Jews who had been sailing from country to country trying to find a new home. Eventually the ship had to return and 254 of them died in the concentration camps. - Harvard, like many universities around the world, had quotas to severely restrict the number of Jews who could be admitted. - Eugenics, which originated in England in the 1880s, was alive and thriving in the US - Norway was busy heavily discriminating the Sami people - Race segregation was firmly entrenched in the Southern states of the US, and most Northern universities did not accept African Americans - The Belgians erected a statue to honour Leopold II, who is responsible for the unspeakable atrocities in the Congo. Not excusing Nazis by any stretch of the imagination, but thought people might want to know how easy it is for any country to slip into that horror.
Eugenics was also a big thing in Sweden, we were considered to be at the forefront back then with a big research institute. Doctor Herman Lundborg developed ways to "identify" different types of people (i.e low intelligens, criminal tendencies and b******t like that), and among his admirers were one Adolf Hitler...
Load More Replies...I agree. I would much rather read the original of what was actually written.
Load More Replies...I love it when someone can use language in such a way that the person on the receiving end has no idea that they’ve essentially been told a big f*ck you :D
Bette Davis, who had a decades-long feud with Joan Crawford that lasted right up to the bitter end, was quoted upon first hearing of her rival’s death:
*”You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good…Joan Crawford is dead. Good.”*
Crawford once stated that she had the body of an eighteen year old to which Davis replied "Well give it back, you're stretching the hell out of it."
And that my friends, is why she is my favorite actress of all time. Serious Balls!
Well my mum responded to Bette Davis' death with "oh good, it always annoyed me how she spelled her name" so I guess what goes around comes around!
There's a really good limited series on FX and maybe Hulu called Feud on Hulu that can answer your question if you're interested. It's been a while since I watched it but I think it was over movie roles.
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One general in WWII wrote to gen. Patton: "you can't take Trier wtih less then 3 divisions"
Patton wrote back: "I took it with two, should I give it back?"
The Allied Capture of Trier – The city of Trier, located in the Rhineland, is the oldest city in Germany. Situated on the banks of the Mosel (Moselle) river. On March 2, 1945, Trier was captured by the US 10th Armored Division of Lieutenant General George S. Patton's US Third Army.
Calvin Coolidge, one of our late American presidents, was nicknamed “silent cal” because he was a man of very few words. A person once seated next to him at a dinner said to him, "I made a bet today that I could get more than two words out of you." Silent Cal replied, "You lose."
It reminds me of the old Twilight zone where a guy makes a bet because he's broke and his friends bet him that he can't stay silent for a whole year for a million dollars. He ends up going through the whole thing as they tease him about his wife being out there with other men finally he comes out of it they all clap and said how did you do it. He had cut his tongue out. He knew he couldn't do it so he had cut out his tongue. The real twist is that the guy that offered him money was broke too so there was no million dollars. He didn't think the guy could really stay silent either.
It’s actually that he severed the nerves to his vocal cords, but otherwise, quite close.
Load More Replies...Because his wife had a cold, Coolidge attended church alone one Sunday. When he returned, his wife asked him what the minister preached about. "Adultery", replied Coolidge with typical succinctness. "But what did he say about it, Calvin?" Coolidge replied, "He was against it."
He didn't have anything to say because he was about as interesting a person as milk toast.... he was also monumentally ignorant...
Sara Bareilles was pressured to add a "catchy love song" to her debut album. *I'm Not Gonna Write You A Love Song* was written as a "f**k you, I quit" message for the label... except it backfired: They actually *liked it* and they put it on the radio.
or a reversed uno reverse card reversed? I'm confused now
Load More Replies...🎶I'm not gonna write you a love song, just 'cause you asked me, just 'cause you need one. Is that what you wanted? A love song? I'm not gonna write you a love song today. 🎶
Aaaand now I'm gonna be hearing that play in my head for the rest of the day.
Load More Replies...It’s a great song, too. I wonder why she tried so hard just to attempt to quit.
Apparently they had already threatened to fire her if she didn't give them a nice catchy love song, so she was probably thinking "screw it, I'm getting the sack anyway, might as well make the best of it"
Load More Replies...oh really? thsts one of my fave Korn songs and one of the.. few i know haha
Load More Replies...I really like that song. Aaaaand now it's stuck in my head. Lol
thnks fr th mmrs vibes (people told fob they needed shorter song titles so they just cut out the vowels)
Danny Brown has a song called "Radio Song" because his label was pushing him to make something more mainstream that would blow up the charts. It's about how boring radio songs are.
John Paul Jones when, in a naval battle that he appeared to be losing, the British called for him to strike his colors (surrender). He replied with "I have not yet begun to fight." He won, and sailed both ships home.
I didn't know Led Zeppelin's Bassist also was a navel captain in the 18th century. That's amazing He even names his ship after one of his band mates, but since it was in the 18th century he kept old spelling.
He was in his ship Bonhomme Richard, fighting HMS Serapis. both ships were beat all to hell, he uttered his famous line, won the battle, and took possession of Serapis (no longer HMS 😁). They tried to get back to France with both ships, but the "Bonny D.i.c.k" sank en route. Some historians say he didn't say that, but I choose to believe that he did, because historians seem to want a recording before they will accept an heroic statement. Seems like they don't want heroes.
I have it on authority that John Paul Jones is a pirate, and no loyalty does he posses.
During the Korean War, a coastal battery got lucky and hit the battleship USS Wisconsin. It did minor damage but was the first direct hit on the Wisconsin. The USS Wisconsin then returned fire with all nine of her 16" guns and pretty much reduced the coastal battery to atoms. The funniest part is that one of Wisconsin's escorts sent a message to the Wisconsin afterwards that just said "Temper, temper."
Firing on an Iowa-class battleship from a fixed emplacement was pretty much "asking for it"
They went after Wisky with 6 inchers, which is criminally insane.
Load More Replies..."... that said" As often, the text just ends above the image, without a "Read more" button. That's really annoying.
More on the tame end, but in the 70s Rush’s record label was pressuring them to not make any more albums with long rock operas because it would kill sales.
They went ahead and made another album where one side of the vinyl was a 20 minute song and it ended up being their biggest seller at that point in time.
Most obligatory concert drum solos are pretty ho-hum. Neil Peart's was the only one I have ever experienced that I didn't want to end.
Load More Replies...This is the photo of Rush at the time of their first album. Drummer John Rutsey was replaced with Neil Peart, who played oh 2121, and all other albums. I ❤️ Rush.
I would listen to atleast 15 mins of a song w no lyrics just pure rock and guitar solos. That’s my kinda record.
Acid Rain by Liquid Tension Experiment if you have not heard it before. The live version.
Load More Replies...I totally thought the guy on the right was grabbing the middle guy's crotch at first.
"Guy on the right" = Geddy Lee. "Middle guy" = original drummer John Rutsey, who left the band due to health reasons and was replaced by Neil Peart, drummer par excellence. Guy on the left = Alex Lifeson.
Load More Replies...Neil Peart's book saved my life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Rider:_Travels_on_the_Healing_Road
Saved his life, too. His motorcycle escape took place after losing his wife and 19 year old daughter within a year.
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When the Royal Navy had finally cornered and were engaging the German warship Bismarck, one of the ships in the taskforce was actually made up of Polish navy crewmen who had escaped the country after the occupation. As the crew fired upon Bismarck they used their lights to signal the message "I am a Pole" for the Bismarcks crew to see.
Good this is kind of why I like the movie inglorious bastards. They deserve a taste of their own medicine from the people they hurt.
Germany invaded Poland which triggered the start of WW2. A few Poles managed to escape and some joined the British armed services. The Bismarck was the flag ship of the Nazi Navy and was hunted down and sunk. There were some Polish seaman in the Royal Navy and they took part in the sinking and they wanted the Bismarcks crew to know. A f*ck you as Germany had taken their country
Load More Replies...Ah yes, the ORP Piorun (G65). The best thing about this is Piorun was a 2,384 ton destoyer armed with 4.7 inch guns, while the Bismark was a 50,300 t battleship armed with 15-inch guns. And Piorun charged Bismark by herself firing everything they had, including AA guns while constantly flashing "I am a Pole" on the Aldis lamp and retreated only after running low on fuel and being ordered back to port to refuel. And this was the day after Bismark had sunk the Battlecruiser HMS Hood with only three survivors out of a ships' complement of 1,325 people.
In 2007 the website Gawker posted an article that outed Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel as gay. Not being able to sue defamation himself (it's not defamation if it's true), he instead started funding lawsuits brought against Gawker by others, including the lawsuit by Hulk Hogan that ended up bankrupting Gawker.
There are lots of ethical issues surrounding the idea of a billionaire targeting an outlet like Gawker, even if the outlet is utter trash like Gawker was, but I still consider it a glorious F**k You.
Yup it was a glorious f***k u. Also, no one should ever out someone against their will!
With one caveat- if they use a position of power to oppress others who are also gay, then it may be justified.
Load More Replies...Just coming here to say this... while normally I would be mad at someone outing someone against their will, outing a Nazi is perfectly acceptable.
Load More Replies...If I remember, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker is himself gay and thought you shouldn't have to be closeted.
It wasn't a secret amongst his social group. Pretty much everyone who knew him for 10 minutes knew he was gay.
Omg this makes me so MADD!! no one should ever no matter what our someone as anything. Ik I was outed as trans and my parents didint support and now they are more reluctant to let me shop in the boys section and wear mens underwear becuase they feel I’m still trans (I am and these things keep the DYSPHORIA away)
Outing someone is never acceptable. Until we live in a world with no bigotry it is not safe to out someone.
The irony here is that noted fascist Peter Thiel bankrolls the politicians who legalize and promote bigotry against the LGBTQ community.
Load More Replies...My dyslexic a*s read this as 'outed Peter Gay as a thief' I was confused why everyone in the comments was positive towards him till I reread it
When DeGaulle told Lynden Johnson to removes all US troops from French territory and Johnson asked him if he should “take the ones buried in Normandy.”
Most people misspell his first name. And he was fanatical about the "B" being included when he was introduced. He was also an alcoholic and quite the a$$hole at times, apparently. I'm a certified grammar & spelling nazi and would hope people would correct me (nicely) when I make mistakes. How can we ever improve if we don't know we're doing something the wrong way to begin with? Of course I was a psychology & English major, so I really enjoy that kind of stuff. I was that student who took British Literature in HS for fun. Same in college, community College. 17 psychology classes and 12 English/literature classes. Didn't need them, most credits wouldn't transfer, but I just love that stuff, enjoy(ed) it, so I took the classes. Even if the OP doesn't see the correct spelling, maybe someone else learns something. 😁
Load More Replies...That's funny and all, but that was a d**k move from Johnson. It was basically an early form of "If it wasn't for the US, you would be speaking German" toward a country that was grateful and friendly to the US and treated the fallen soldiers with a lot of respect but didn't want to be under US military domination.
The problem was tha DeGaulle was to tactful diplomacy what hell is to ice water.
Load More Replies...Charles de Gaulle was an a#$-hole. His "vive le Québec libre" in Montreal in 1967, with the very violent FLQ separatist movement at the time, was unforgivable. As if Canada had not helped liberate France twice, too.
Domestic policy, yes. Foreign policy, noooooooo!
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Where Abe Lincoln criticized James Shield to the point where Shield challenged Lincoln to a duel. Lincoln 6’4” vs Shield 5’9” Lincoln being the challenged party got to pick weapons. Lincoln picked broad swords ⚔️ seeing the huge disadvantage Shield had to suck up his pride and forfeit the duel.
He could have also said none and just wrestled, Lincoln was a very very good wrestler
Shields (there's an "s" at the end) was an interesting guy. He was elected a US senator from three different states. Lincoln didn't hold a grudge. During the Civil War, he made Shields a Union general. Shields was the only Union general to defeat Stonewall Jackson in battle.
If it isnt apocryphal, the story goes he walked up and cut the limb off an oak tree with a single swing before the duel, then shield forfeitted
That absolutely could have happened - in his youth Lincoln competed in wrestling matches for more than a decade and rarely lost because he was very strong and had long limbs, so his preferred tactic was to just bear-hug his opponents, lift them off the ground and squeeze them until they gave in.
Load More Replies...You should look up Mike Rowe's the way I heard it podcast on this one, it's great
can you imagine today's gen even being challenged to a duel, let alone being in one.
Chesty Puller - They're in front of us, behind us, and on both sides. They can't get away this time!
Also Chesty - "We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem."
"Puller is the most decorated Marine in American history. He was awarded five Navy Crosses and one Distinguished Service Cross. With six crosses, Puller is second behind Eddie Rickenbacker for citations of the nation's second-highest military award for valor. Puller retired from the Marine Corps in 1955, after 37 years of service. He lived in Virginia and died in 1971 at age 73."
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Load More Replies...And, in Boot Camps at Parris Island & San Diego, recruits wish, "Good night, Chesty, wherever you are." Woman Marine, here. 😉
Basically anything that the Greek philosopher Diogenes ever did. The entire basis of his teachings and actions were to critique society and social norms, and make a mockery of contemporary teachings. Perhaps the most famous incident is when Alexander The Great, a fan of Diogenes' philosophy, went to Sinope to speak with him. Alexander offered Diogenes anything he wanted in exchange for teaching his wisdom, and the philosopher replied "stand out of my light". The man also had an infamously bitter feud with Plato, who was attempting, among other things, to define a human being in its most fundamental of forms. After arriving at "featherless bipeds", Diogenes gate-crashed one of Plato's symposiums with a plucked chicken in-hand, and presented it to the crowd declaring "Behold! I've brought you a man!".
I love the other story with Diogenes and Alexander, where Alexander said "If I were not Alexander, I would like to be Diogenes", and Diogenes responded with "If I were not Diogenes, I would also like to be Diogenes."
Someone contemporaey to him who knew Plato was a twatbucket. ❤️
The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
It was proposed by the first-ever Congress in 1789 but stalled and was forgotten about. In 1982 a 19-year old college kid named Gregory Watson wrote a paper for his poli sci class arguing that it could still be ratified.
The teaching assistant disagreed and gave him a C on the paper. He then appealed to the professor, who chose not to overturn the grade, so he decided to start a national campaign to prove that he was right. In order to do so he had to convince 28 state legislatures to ratify it in order to reach the necessary 3/4 of all states (10 states had already done so many years before).
In 1992 the Twenty-seventh Amendment officially became part of the Constitution when it was ratified by Michigan.*
Perhaps funniest of all is that it's a relatively obscure amendment that prevents any congressional pay raises or pay cuts from taking effect until the next election, as a way to give voters a say on the matter.
EDIT 1: Turns out that in 2017, his former professor signed a letter to get his [grade changed to an A]! A happy ending.
* At the time, the popular belief was that only 9 states had ratified it, so Watson set out to convince 29 more states. When Alabama ratified it everyone thought he needed one more state, so Michigan (which ratified 2 days after Alabama, so not a big difference) was believed to be the decisive 38th. Turns out that Kentucky had ratified it in 1792, but this was only re-discovered in 1996, meaning Alabama was actually the 38th state. The total is now at 46 states.
No sneaky pay hikes. And this is why now a proposed amendment has a ratification cut-off date in it.
Massachusetts, Mississippi, New York, and Pennsylvania chose to abstain.
Maybe their congresscritters wanted to sneak raises through.
Load More Replies...Showing results for 27th amendment The Amendment provides that: “No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of representatives shall have intervened.”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it (Also note to self, never annoy this person, he will get you till the end of time)
Check out how Federal Express got started. the founder wrote a paper in business school essentially a business proposal for the company. The professor gave him a C. The company was founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1971 as Federal Express Corporation by Frederick W. Smith, a graduate of Yale University. He drew up the company's concept in a term paper at Yale, in which he called for a system specifically designed for urgent deliveries. While his professor didn't think much of the idea, Smith pressed on. He began formal operations in 1973, when he moved operations to Memphis. Smith cited his reasons for choosing Memphis International Airport included its location near the mean population center of the country and its lack of frequent inclement weather. That last bit stolen from Wikipedia. Smith retired a billionaire.
Not really well known John Hancock had a warrant for his arrest before the signing of the Declaration of Independence and they never caught him so when they said he could sign it he basically signed his name so large as to say f**k you to the king
While the exact statement is lost to history, it is well established that he said something to the extent of “i want it large enough that someone can read my name without spectacles.”
It was a duck you, just not the way described in this listicle.. it had nothing to do with the warrant. Hence the saying, give me your John Hancock, when asking for a signature
Load More Replies...Yup, he signed it so large that the king would be able to read it without his spectacles!
Hmm...it's almost as though the Brits thought that becoming independent from them was illegal. I wonder how many former colonies have ever wanted to rejoin the empire? (NB the reference is Scottish independence and the UK govt's refusal to allow a referendum despite it being the wish of the majority)
That's why when they say sign a document, they say give me your "John Hancock". Or, they used to, anyway. It was slang for important signature.
King George was already salty about losing the colonies this was great
You do realize that King George didn't lose the colonies until seven years after the Declaration of Independence, right? The British were winning at that point and George would not have cared about John Hancock.
Load More Replies...This is untrue. He signed his name large because he didn't know the exact document was being taken to each of he others to sign and that he was the first. He was under the impression that they would each have a separate copy of the document to sign themselves and so he didn't know that he needed to leave room for the others signatures.
50 Cent bought 200 front row tickets to one of Ja Rules concerts in 2018 and left the seats empty in response to something Ja said on Twitter.
I mean congrats on directly giving him your money? (But I guess the statement is worth more than the ticket sales?)
If I had been Ja Rules, I would have sent him a message. "Here's the dates and locations of my next tour, in case you want to continue taunting me. And, oh, are you sure that 200 seats are enough?"
Load More Replies...Ja Rules should have brought 200 people from the cheap seats down to fill those seats. Woulda been awesome
So 50 Cent is out the money, Ja Rule still gets the money, and 200 fans miss out on seeing the concert. Yeah, way to stick it to him...
Alexander the Great.
One of his tutors was a man named Leonidas of Epirus. One time, when visiting a temple and making an offering to the gods, the eager and pious Alexander scooped up as big a handful of incense as he could hold and threw it into the flames. Leonidas chastised the young prince and told him not to be so wasteful of such a rare and expensive import--and that he could use as much as he wanted if he ever owned the lands where it was grown. Many years later, Alexander DID capture those lands and promptly sent his old mentor a reported 600 talents (the equivalent of 15 to 30 tons) of rare and expensive incense and myrrh as a retort, along with a note that now his old teacher wouldn't need to be so stingy and sparing in his offerings to the gods in the future.
And of course the Gordian Knot. A fabled knot that was said to be impossible to untie, though an Oracle had prophesied that if anyone could undo it they would rule over all of Asia. It was said many tried and all failed. Until Alexander walked up to it. He looked it over, took out his sword, and just cut it in half. And went on to conquer huge swaths of Asia afterward.
And as an aside to all of those places that now regard Homosexuality as abberant / illegal / against 'god', he was a practicing homosexual all his life .....
Load More Replies...It's not well-known, but it was this incident that caused Leonidas to make his delicious chocolate. (it's a joke)
During the Battle of Bastogne, the Germans sent a team of two soldiers and two officers to offer the Americans a chance to surrender.
The written message, in both English and German, was roughly two pages long, and detailed how the Germans had them surrounded and would move in for the kill if the Americans didnt negotiate.
US Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe's written reply, passed to the German commander, was a single word - "NUTS!"
Baffled, the German Commander wondered what it meant, and was told "It means you can go to Hell."
You also need to know that at the time words like nuts and screwball were considered vulgar language, and "nuts" was used much like "bollocks" in the UK. So a modern equivalent would be like telling the German commander to "get f****d."
The modern version is: "Russian warship, go f**k yourself"
Load More Replies...He was ahead of his time. NUTS is an acronym for Nuclear Utilization Targeting Strategy
Deez nuts jokes got a little more darker after knowing this fact.
Load More Replies...Similar situation is the reply "Molon labe" (Come and take them) by King Leonidas I of Sparta to Xerxes I of Persia's demand at Thermopylae to surrender their weapons. Of course, Leonidas didn't have General Patton available to relieve them so the 101st survived Bastogne.
This is the version as reported in newspapers and recorded by history. I was told by a WWII veteran, whose friend was with the 101st in Bastogne, that McAuliffe's reply was actually "Go f**k yourself". McAuliffe reportedly would never use strong language, but this version has the ring of truth and he might very well have made an exception. The newspapers wanted to report his defiance so "NUTS" was substituted.
And in the TV show Jericho, they recounted this story, then at the end of the first season, that was the last word spoke by the main character. The show was cancelled, but then brought back for a short final season after fans sent CBS twenty tonnes of nuts!
Pete Best - whom the Beatles dismissed in favor of Ringo Starr just before they began recording their first album - released an album of his own in 1966 titled *Best of the Beatles.* Buyers were disappointed to find out it wasn't a Beatles compilation.
Yes but I'm sure the sales were horrible it's not exactly the Best F you to The Beatles
its a pretty damn good fu, they can never call their albums that
Load More Replies...The Beatles certainly got the last laugh with the best-of 1 (every song on the album was a number one hit, FYI).
I will forever love that in ancient Greece they had to make a law against prisoners stripping naked at trial because one woman managed to acquit herself of blasphemy by way of being too attractive.
After all, if she had truly blasphemed against the gods they would revoke the gift of her beauty?
I have to imagine that the session where they made that law was the saltiest runback.
Edit: Quick definition. Salty refers to being angry and a runback is (an attempted) rematch. Thought that the term painted a fun mental image of the forum.
Phryne of Thespiae. The woman who offered to rebuild the walls of Thebes if she could have carved on them "Rebuilt by Phryne the courtesan." Quite the figure.
Interestingly, the word Phryne (I say 'word' as it wasn't her actual name) means toad
Load More Replies...It makes absolute sense in context, because Phryne was a courtesan who had been the model for a statue of the goddess Aphrodite made by the sculptor Praxiteles, after which she had been accused of "asebeia" (lit- "impiety") for bragging she was as beautiful as the goddess. At her trial, as per Plutarch's version, her lawyer, Hyperides, was bombing, and, realizing she's about to lose, Phryne unhooked her peplos from her shoulders and let it fall to the floor and demonstrated to everybody there that she really *was* that beautiful which meant she had the favor of the gods, ergo she could not be a blasphemer. Oh, and we know exactly what she looked like, because the statue was widely copied - just google "Aphrodite of Knidos".
You'd be a fan of Jacob, then. He once got in a fight with God, was winning, and God had to cheat and zap his hip. Punching your deity in the face is a solid challenge.
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Well, there is always that time when Amsterdam sold cannons to the Spanish army during the 80 years war, only for the Spanish to fire those cannons at the city.
Came here to say that. We gave Afghanistan the artillery they used to push us out of their country and retake the government
Load More Replies...My Tante Willie lived in a house in Bergen Op Zoom that still had a Spanish cannon lodged in the outside of the house.
Then there were the French, who, before the Iraq war, sold missiles to Iraq, only to have those same missiles fired back at them. Unbeknownst to the Iraqis, the French had installed failsafes that allowed the missiles to be detonated in flight if ever launched back at them or their allies.
“I hope they show that time where the Springfielders traded their guns to the Indians for corn, and then the Indians shot them and took the corn.”
At this time, the Netherlands were a part of the Spanish Empire .....
President Ronald Reagan sold weapons to the ayatollahs of Iran.
I had a cousin/"friend" who slept with three (out of three) of my boyfriends in high school.
Senior year her longtime crush finally paid attention to her. I f****d him. It was my first time. I wasn't even into him, I just REALLY wanted to hurt her.
The strangest part is that he won me over. We're still together and he has zero interest in her.
She has to see us at family functions.
I dare you to say that's not the greatest f**k you in the history of humanity.
You mean you sank to her level? That's more sad than great no matter how it worked out.
That is pretty good. Tho I don’t agree with hurting her even tho she hurt you. But congrats on still being together!
Napoleon’s whole life was a huge f**k you, democratic revolution—> f**k I’m emperor although he was just an regular artillery office, all the European powers against him —> F**k You takes over most of continental Europe, Gets Exiled —> gets back to France and almost does everything again
Man was LEGEND in his time. The English had such a love-hate relationship with him lol. Convinced if he set foot in England he'd conquer it.
Never understood why he is admired. He was just another mega-authoritarian invading countries to fuel a mega ego. There are a lot of these guys in history and one currently wreaking the same kind of misery on the Ukrainians with some flimsy excuse about making Russia great.
Authoritarian? During his rule, the French were the freest people in Europe, especially in the areas of religion and speech. And many of "his' wars were caused by other countries declaring war on France in order to restore the overthrown Bourbon monarchy. But I will say that, in the end, Europe would have been better off if Napoleon had just stayed an artillery officer. The Bourbon monarchy was restored despite him, so the blood shedding was for nothing..
Load More Replies...Bunnies: F*** you, we'll see who gets hunted today. (1807, he arranged for domesticated rabbits to be released into his grounds for hunting following the signing of the Treaty of Tilsit. Unfortunately the bunnies did not flee, but instead swarmed Napoleon and the rest of the hunting party until they were forced to retreat.)
Just a reminder that Napoleon was 168cm/5'6" tall. About average for men at the time. The reason he is often portrayed as short stems from a James Gillray political cartoon from 1805 that appeared in Punch magazine: 1-Plumb-Pu...7-jpeg.jpg
The Brits were so worried about a second return after Waterloo that they sent him to tiny St Helena, in the south Atlantic.
The original Streisand Effect. Now it's *named* after her.
Looked it up and apparently in 2005 she tried to get a picture of her home taken off the internet. The article original posting was about climate change. Her photo had only actually been viewed 6 times before her attempted removal of it and after was viewed millions so it definitely backfired on her
Is that her having her sewage pipe going directly to the ocean until she got caught? Or does it mean something else?
Someone published a photo which had her mansion in it. She tried to have it withdrawn, as a result of which a whole lot of people suddenly wanted a copy so they could see what all the fuss was about. Hence the Streisand Effect, which basically means that the best way to make everybody want something is to make it forbidden.
Load More Replies...Yes, the rich have a habit of doing this. Ryan Giggs (currently on trial in England for assaults etc on his former gf) tried to sue Twitter for one of their users identifying him as being one of the people who had a super injunction. Most people hadn't read the tweet but they read it afterwards and everyone found out he had been having an affair with his brother's wife for eight years. Not a nice chap. NB he's a famous former footballer and now manager..
Many years ago I was involved with a fanfiction page (which no longer exists). I was posting my fanfics there and I was one of the three most popular writers they had. As it happened a friend of mine was the moderator of the associated forums, and she got into a fight with the mods of the fanfic page. They, being spiteful jerks, started picking on me because they knew I was her friend. And so to get back at them I wrote an all-new fic... which I posted only on the forums. And added a big link to it on my fanfic page signature directing my readership to it. The fanfic mods gave me a temporary suspension a few weeks later, claiming an offense which was 100% fabricated, because what I had actually done was not against the rules. Whereupon I moved ALL my writings to the forums and deleted my fanfic page account, and a whole lot of people followed me. Suck it up, Lindsey - you were asking for it.
Like pretty much all fan fiction, I couldn't follow this storyline.
Load More Replies...In HS, I went out with a guy to Pizza Hut. I had eaten one slice of pizza and was reaching for a second when he comment that "maybe you shouldn't eat that, I don't like fat chicks." That was the day I discovered I can fit an entire medium slice of thin crust supreme pizza in my mouth and still chew. There was no second date.
One time I was playing darts with friends and one said "you're only behind 60 points" 😏🕶️🤏 I threw 90 😎🤏 it was pretty funny tbh 🤣
Best one of the modern era: Patti Lupone on stage yelling at an anti-masker (who has pulled the "I pay your salary" card) CHRIS HARPER PAYS MY SALARY, WHO THE FÜCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE
Another war related F you: In the US, Arlington National Cemetery is a personal F you to Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The estate belonged to his wife and it was their home. In 1864, the current military cemeteries were full. That part of Virginia, by this point in the war, was Union territory, so the US quartermaster not only selected Lee's home as the burial site for our war dead, he had his own son, who had died in battle, disinterred and reinterred in what used to be Lee's beloved rose garden, complete with a bronze effigy of his son trampled by horses in the mud of a battlefield.
One of the biggest divine paybacks ever was the British maritime disaster known as the Scilly naval disaster of 1707. A seaman tried to warn the officers and Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell that the fleet was sailing through dangerous waters at the Isles of Scilly. The sailor's warnings were not heeded. The seaman was charged with mutiny. He was unjustly hanged. His last words were to quote Psalm 109, an imprecatory Psalm. This Psalm predicts Judas Iscariot and his fate. This became a curse against the Admiral and his officers who hanged him. The fleet wrecked on the shallow rocks as forewarned with four British ships lost and others damaged. Admiral Shovell and 2000 crew members drowned. This story was reported by survivors who made it to St. Agnes island nearby and was later documented by their descendants.
Many years ago I was involved with a fanfiction page (which no longer exists). I was posting my fanfics there and I was one of the three most popular writers they had. As it happened a friend of mine was the moderator of the associated forums, and she got into a fight with the mods of the fanfic page. They, being spiteful jerks, started picking on me because they knew I was her friend. And so to get back at them I wrote an all-new fic... which I posted only on the forums. And added a big link to it on my fanfic page signature directing my readership to it. The fanfic mods gave me a temporary suspension a few weeks later, claiming an offense which was 100% fabricated, because what I had actually done was not against the rules. Whereupon I moved ALL my writings to the forums and deleted my fanfic page account, and a whole lot of people followed me. Suck it up, Lindsey - you were asking for it.
Like pretty much all fan fiction, I couldn't follow this storyline.
Load More Replies...In HS, I went out with a guy to Pizza Hut. I had eaten one slice of pizza and was reaching for a second when he comment that "maybe you shouldn't eat that, I don't like fat chicks." That was the day I discovered I can fit an entire medium slice of thin crust supreme pizza in my mouth and still chew. There was no second date.
One time I was playing darts with friends and one said "you're only behind 60 points" 😏🕶️🤏 I threw 90 😎🤏 it was pretty funny tbh 🤣
Best one of the modern era: Patti Lupone on stage yelling at an anti-masker (who has pulled the "I pay your salary" card) CHRIS HARPER PAYS MY SALARY, WHO THE FÜCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE
Another war related F you: In the US, Arlington National Cemetery is a personal F you to Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The estate belonged to his wife and it was their home. In 1864, the current military cemeteries were full. That part of Virginia, by this point in the war, was Union territory, so the US quartermaster not only selected Lee's home as the burial site for our war dead, he had his own son, who had died in battle, disinterred and reinterred in what used to be Lee's beloved rose garden, complete with a bronze effigy of his son trampled by horses in the mud of a battlefield.
One of the biggest divine paybacks ever was the British maritime disaster known as the Scilly naval disaster of 1707. A seaman tried to warn the officers and Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell that the fleet was sailing through dangerous waters at the Isles of Scilly. The sailor's warnings were not heeded. The seaman was charged with mutiny. He was unjustly hanged. His last words were to quote Psalm 109, an imprecatory Psalm. This Psalm predicts Judas Iscariot and his fate. This became a curse against the Admiral and his officers who hanged him. The fleet wrecked on the shallow rocks as forewarned with four British ships lost and others damaged. Admiral Shovell and 2000 crew members drowned. This story was reported by survivors who made it to St. Agnes island nearby and was later documented by their descendants.
