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A group chat is a great way to connect with members of a group, team or organization and quickly exchange information through messages. They’re especially handy for getting in touch with people you might not see as often, like high school or college friends or organizing a birthday party or planning a gift for the said occasion. However, one downside to it is that it doesn’t take much for it to spiral into complete chaos, whether due to an ignorant comment or a wrong text.
Recently, X user posed the question, “What was the incident in your group chat?" that resulted in many answers detailing the unfortunate events that took place in them. Bored Panda handpicked the juiciest ones to quench your thirst for drama. To find them all you have to do is scroll down.
While you’re at it, don’t forget to check out a conversation with writer and author Miles Klee, who started this discussion in the first place.
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Lena Flising 1 year ago
That was a bit kind too, to not send all those yucky photos of dead animals to her.
ArcanaPanda 1 year ago
Yeah, I view it as a kind consideration toward the sister instead of it being based off any cattiness.
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Marie Gauthier 1 year ago
You sound like petty, nasty people who have too much time on their hands. I feel sorry for your sister.
ArcanaPanda 1 year ago
Or it could be, as Lena Flising pointed out, a kind gesture from loved ones so she didn't have to confront distressing images.
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Writer and author Miles Klee was inspired to pose such a question online by another popular one about school.
“The question "What was the incident at your high school?" has always been a popular topic of discussion on Twitter, and group chats (because of their gossipy nature) sometimes replicate the dynamics of social systems at school. It just felt like a fun twist on the original prompt,” he told Bored Panda.
Miles himself is a part of quite a few group chats that revolve around a shared interest or background, ranging from fantasy football league to his colleagues in the writing world. “It's a fun way to keep in touch with lots of different friends who come together around different topics.”
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Passerby 1 year ago
Two of my game friends told me separately that I type so properly. I use capitalization and punctuation in my game chat, which I guess is somewhat rare for a game chat. I can't help it. I am an English teacher after all.
Wondering Alice 1 year ago
I assumed that writing like this in game chat led to less problems with translation. To be fair, I tend to play games that attacked older people, but I find game chat written well by people with English as a first language.
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KnightOOwl 1 year ago
I use proper spelling, grammar and punctuation, it drives them crazy, they prefer txt speak and abbreviations. I only do this with certain people, simply because I know it annoys them!
Cooking Panda 1 year ago
The thumbs up is my go to emoji when I couldn't find the right respond to a chat 😂
Joe Reaves 1 year ago
I vacillate between correct spelling and punctuation and typing like I'm having a stroke.
Damned_Cat 1 year ago
I once responded to a new employee's request for information with a full explanation that was about 3 paragraphs long. She went to her boss in tears saying that my email to her was mean. When her boss asked what was mean about my response, the employee replied "Well, it's so long". She then admitted that she didn't even read it all.
Robin Childers 1 year ago
I got flamed on a fanfiction a few months ago for telling the author that they needed someone to help them with punctuation. They said 'It's fiction', as if that's an excuse for shoddy grammar, an anemic ego and vapid writing. I just let them rant, let them show their a*s.
Na Schi 1 year ago
Absolutely agree. I don't even bother to look at stories anymore were punctuation is c**p an they don't bother to capitalize the first letter in a new sentence, let alone the names of characters. Way to annoying to read.
Load More Replies...While being part of group chats, he also had some of them blow up due to people getting into fights and making it awkward for everyone. “That's partly what inspired the question I posed. I think people do have a tendency to behave a little more extremely in virtual settings, which probably contributes to the breakup of certain chats.”
When it comes to sharing information in group chats, Miles believes that the boundaries of what people talk about in them should be determined by their relationship. “You can probably feel safe saying just about anything in a chat with friends you've had for years, because you know that any misunderstandings can be worked through,” he says.
But if there’s just a group of practically strangers from the internet, there’s a potential to cross the line, Miles says. “I think it's nice to have places where you can say something in confidence that you wouldn't necessarily say in public, but there should be mutual trust for that to happen—just like in any good friendship.”
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
May ye get to Heaven a half hour before Ol' Nick knows ye're dead.
Papa 1 year ago
My wife's grandmother lived to 103. I joked that she lived that long because she was so mean that God and the devil were arguing over which one had to take her.
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On the right side of the turf 1 year ago
"May the road rise to meet you, and the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm on your face and the rains fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again May God hold you gently in the palm of his hand. And a less reverend one... "May you be in Heaven, a full half hour before the devil knows you are dead!"
HarriMissesScotland 1 year ago
I have a male sibling that I have been NC since 1999. He hurt, both emotionally and physically, so many people that we call him the Spawn of Satan. He moved to Ireland, and lives near the Hellfire house. My cousin told me, otherwise I wouldn't have known.
Amy 1 year ago (edited)
Sarah? T is right next to r, and n is right below h. It would be easy to mistype and get autocorrected.
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A study has found that an average person is a part of a whopping 83 different group chats.
A poll of 2,000 adult social media users revealed that 36% communicate using these chats more than they do in person. 52% opt for group chats instead of phone calls and 26% are more glad to text than have one-on-one conversations.
The most common themes of group chats were family (66%), friend groups (30%) and night out planning (30%).
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Rider 1 year ago
Had this happen to me. My step niece/roommate planned to host easter at our house. My partners and I (poly triad) were uninvited to my family's holiday at my house. I was so upset I left for the weekend. It actually worked to my benefit though. My conservative christian parents didn't agree with it and finally accepted that I am going to be me even if it means losing them.
Roni Stone 1 year ago
This one is a bit hilarious. They expected to, what, send you out on a snipe hunt that day or something? How did it end up? Details!
Jack and Coke 1 year ago
Snipe hunt! Haven't heard that phrase in a c**n's age. Good one.
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Invisible Potato 1 year ago
"hey, we want to throw a party... without you.. at your place, so can you just.... not be there?"
Stuey Bassfish 1 year ago
I gave 2 months notice to leave a c**p covers band I was in. They failed to replace me due to the aforementioned crapness.They had a decent booking after my leaving date so I offered to make that my last gig. The drunk guitarist accidentally messaged the whole band at 2am , including me, "should we allow him to play this gig?" . They got a dep, embarrassed themselves more than usual and split the next day.
CC McSniggles 1 year ago
I hope they uninvited that group, invited a new group of people, and posted pictures in the old group's chat
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Vidas Zlioba 1 year ago
I prefer hot and spicy revenge. You get to relive it.
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KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Long game. I waited five years to sign my jewish ex-boss up to all the Scientology lists I could find.
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Aurora 1 year ago
So this person took pictures of a passed out person, held on to them for two years as blackmailing material, was incompetent enough to get fired, and he's supposed to be the good guy?
David Martin 1 year ago
Am I the only one who thinks this was just a real sh*tty move? There's no indication the boss did anything wrong, mean, or out of line to the OP...so why take a picture to hang onto, just for possible blackmail material somewhere down the line, maybe, possibly?
Brazen 1 year ago
I think "she got me fired" and not saying "I was fired" probably set off the revenge. I still think it's a weird thing to do though.
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der sebbl 1 year ago
I don't know. Maybe, on the other hand, op took that picture obviously to have some blackmail material
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Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
I love everything about this from the username to the perfectly executed revenge.
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BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
I never realized I thought spiderman was sexy until just now
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Robert T 1 year ago
Reminds me of one on a car forum. Poster was trying to say "count us in", but missed the 'o'. LOL
ArcanaPanda 1 year ago
And that reminds me of when one of my favourite content creators was doing a competitive thing on a family-friendly, heavily moderated stream where his mother came into chat and tried to cheer him on by saying "Nice shot"... except she make a critical typo error with the second word and got temporary banned by the mods.
Load More Replies...Professor of evolutionary psychology Robin Dunbar, who was a part of this study, commented on these findings by saying, “Maintaining contact with our networks is one of the most important things we can ever do. Not just because they are fun to spend time with, but because research shows that having a small, cohesive group of friends and contacts massively improves our mental health and wellbeing—and even our physical health.”
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Lesbitarian Lady 1 year ago
Means you're a bigger and better person. Find yourself a group chat that deserves you
Lena Flising 1 year ago
Well, now that gc might go dead also, and the talkative one will not be included in the new one either.
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Emie N. 1 year ago
Go to the original twitter account you can click on to find out. I'm sure they explain more there.
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Kit Black 1 year ago
There's no way you don't know why you've been excluded, and since you don't mention the reason, you're probably the problem
arsphidius 1 year ago
This used to happen to me all the time. I am the only girl of 4 siblings, and my parents only wanted boys. But they are dead now, and I am much happier.
Emie N. 1 year ago (edited)
I'm so sorry for that! What is your relationship with your siblings?
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BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
Or.... and hear me out here... this dude got out of an obnoxious family get together, and he shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.
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Delta Dawn 1 year ago
Did they realize you’re not in the group chat? Big group chats it can be hard to tell
arsphidius 1 year ago
That used to happen to me all the time. But now my parents are dead and I am much happier.
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Raquel Mencke 1 year ago
Surprise party for birthday? We can only hope. Probably not though. Shame on the boss for fostering and participating in that environment.
Lena Flising 1 year ago
A lot of my colleagues are on Snapchat, and I notice now and then they have contact each other there. The difference is, they have asked me if I'm on Snapchat, and if I want to join. I can't handle one more platform, FB takes up too much time already. Both my Twitter and Instagram are more or less dead (long before Musk got involved, so it was still Twitter). So I opted out, I'm not left out.
In addition, the study found that 50% prefer group chats out of convenience of sharing pictures and videos and personal updates (56%). Around 53% favour this way of texting because it’s easy to plan things and 35% opt for it so everyone can hear news at the same time.
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Darthest Starfish 1 year ago
....................it's porn. It's VERY much in the public sphere already. Maybe not tasteful, but she is absolutely NOT in the wrong on this one.
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Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
This being bp censorship, I actually thought she did pãwn somehow for a second
The Other Guest 1 year ago
That could make a fun game: when BP censors a word, list as many things as you can about what it might be. Plan, prawn, peen, peon...
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María Hermida 1 year ago
She sent the video to the entire family group chat by mistake. Yes. Sure. Sorry, but your best friend is a bad person. Be very careful with her.
Lena Flising 1 year ago
She should have just discussed it with the girlfriend. It's not illegal, to my knowledge, maybe the dad knew.
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Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago
Lederhosen do create a lot of Leid, so she's not completely wrong
CK 1 year ago
She didn't say lederhosen. Maybe they're just really bad pants.
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
My family has one chat that is just my siblings, mum and I and one that includes my stepdad and step sister because my stepdad doesn't get why we talk about 'unimportant' things or send memes. He just wants to be included in plans for catch ups, which he then forgets until the day before.
Eastendbird 1 year ago
Jesus this is badly written and punctuated. Took me 3 or 4 times reading it to understand what it said.
v 1 year ago
I would expect that someone with Ph. D. after their name would be better able to construct a sentence that makes sense.
Boredest Panda 1 year ago
First of all, there are other languages that are not English. Second of all, a Ph.D. does not mean you are suddenly not allowed to use informal language/have fun sharing your experience on the internet, WITHOUT having to worry about other people judging your English.
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Nicola Roberts 1 year ago
I've seen it quite a lot on twitter, only it's worded in such a way that there is no doubt. In this case NTA.
fan of phish 1 year ago
When my best friend (and also the love of my life even tho we weren’t together) passed, his sister called me using his phone. As we had plans to see a movie that day, I answered thinking it would be him. The only time in my life that my legs gave out and I crumpled to the floor. RIP Richard. 12 years later and I still miss him so much
#14
Chaotictomybone 1 year ago
My 38 year old ex friend with a kid disclosed he has been in a relationship with my 18 year old cousin for the past year or so, FYI she just turned 18 this year. We just found out last week
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
So your 34y friend is in love or lust with another adult? That happens regularly. Sometimes the relation lasts and sometimes it doesn't.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 1 year ago
So - is this real, or does this friend just have a crush on an unavailable person. It's not quite clear what the "" mean. Why not have some sex with a younger person if both are over the legal age and consenting? I really don't see all the outrage if BOTH ARE OKAY WITH IT. (I have to caps just in case people come at me). Young people can just as much fall in love with older people than vice-verse. Everyone's all (rightfully so) asking for being taken seriously when you're old enough to know your own mind, but in this issue for some reason this community always gets in uproar when young people decide who they want to have sax with.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Gross, but at least he's over 18. If he wasn't I'd be calling the cops.
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ArcanaPanda 1 year ago
I wonder if said outside furniture was on a verandah
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TribbleThinking 1 year ago (edited)
Only if you fail to support it, you monster. /jk
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Vinnie 1 year ago
What was the father thinking - that his son had bad friends who taught him to swear???
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Vinnie 1 year ago (edited)
I swore while trying to get the sound to work in an online meeting. Got off easy - the people already there were laughing. Hey, we've all had those moments with technology. Probably doesn't hurt that I'm rather non-threating: quite short, gray-haired and could lose a fight to a fruit fly.
Bec 1 year ago
I dropped something while teaching an online community college class and inadvertently said s**t! My students jokingly oohed and said - you said a bad word and we all had a laugh
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Steve Robert 1 year ago
The most uncomfortable I ever was, was watching poorn with my dad at my future brother in law's bachelor party. I left early saying I already had the cutest girlfriend at home waiting for me.
Sophia Athene 1 year ago
I tagged along with my mom to my aunts' get together when I was 14. Then we find out it's a lingerie MLM (Mary Kay but with lingerie). Nobody bats an eye until the seller starts playing a soft porn to get everybody in the mood to play sex themed games and buy lingerie. They all turn towards me and realize that I'm there despite saying it was fine for me to come. Worse, I somehow got talked into modeling the lingerie the seller had on hand. I was athletic and boob endowed. At least they only put me in the more tame outfits. It took me a while before I could look my aunts in the eye again. My mom and I never spoke of that day.
Load More Replies... Kit Black 1 year ago
Sounds like a close call- you almost wound up, committed to spend a great deal of time with those people, and it's never fun to be a part of a wedding where the groom is emotionally twelve years old...
Vinnie 1 year ago (edited)
...or the groom's father thinks the groom is far too young to hear (let alone say) "Oh cr@p, who the f#ck replaced the wine with strawberry kool-aid???"
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StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
HP sauce? HP printers? Harry Potter? Probably the last one - I got murdered online by someone who insisted that because I had read Harry Potter, I was clearly okay with slavery (because of the house elves).
ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
"the whole thing kinda died after that" .... wait but I thought it was the artist who died?
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
They were an artist. They died slowly, with a lot of angst.
Load More Replies... Delta Dawn 1 year ago
How ya gonna decide to sit and stew on something like that which was communicated over text?? Text is a weird way to communicate under the best of circumstances. That’s deeply weird
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Who are the morons downvoting Eric's post? The only bad things about Scalia dying was that it didn't happen soon enough and McConnell stole Obama's legal right to appoint a replacement.
ArcanaPanda 1 year ago
There are a distressingly high number of reactionaries on this site
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Lena Flising 1 year ago
Just turn the comments around to focus on them, and they will probably not think it's nothing any more.
Delta Dawn 1 year ago
Maybe those boys needed to be told what people consider to be sexist and degrading
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UKGrandad 1 year ago
There is a big difference between a woman beating coworker and a woman-beating coworker.
Regina Holt 1 year ago
I hate when when a hyphen is called for but not used.
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Ace 1 year ago
I can't work out half of these, so badly are they written.
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Communist Ferret 1 year ago
Once I had a D&D group set a date I couldn't attend. I was also the one and only dm. Idiots
Sophia Athene 1 year ago
D & D is the game Dungeons and Dragons but the abbreviation has been around since the 80s. It could be why no one explained it.
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KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
I had my cousin's permission to keep texting my aunt who died in December, and he wouldn't read them. Her phone was finally cut off about a month ago. I was closest to her in my entire family and it still burns.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
On the flip side, our family WA expended after her death to include cousins and great aunts. :)
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Teutonic Disaster 1 year ago (edited)
If it was completely online with no IRL interaction, she could've just not mentioned the pregnancy, no need to ghost the chat completely. I'm guessing she was either in prison or some kind of clinic or a bad situation (mental) health wise where she simply didn't have access to the internet or the energy to interact with others even just online. Edit: spelling error and weird phrasing fixed
Load More Replies... Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Everybody needs to take a mental health day now and then. Sometimes somebody needs to take a mental health year.
weatherwitch 1 year ago
Depression? Anxiety? Illness? Assaulted? Struggling with something that's for sure. Her sister may not have had the facts or wanted to share them.
Sara Frazer 1 year ago
Meh, that's fine, we should all be allowed breaks from the crushing pressures of reality once in a while.
John Dilligaf 1 year ago
you guys really need to step up your "why she was gone" speculation game. ...... She was an undercover agent for a secretive gov't agency. She was betrayed by someone close to her, so she had to drop off the grid and go on the run. For the past year she's been criss-crossing the globe hunting those that betrayed her. The last of the traitors was finally run to earth in Istanbul. He died well, but in the end he died. So now she's free to resume her previous life.
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#30
Trillian 1 year ago
Only psychopaths send voice notes. If you want to talk, call me. But don't expect me to listen to your stream of consciousness for minutes on end.
Passerby 1 year ago
So you were cheating and even had the nerve to compare them? You deserve that then.
Zaineb Bookwala 1 year ago
Not necessarily cheating. Maybe casually dating 2 guys. Not exclusive with either.
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MushroomHead22 1 year ago
hide the bongs.. damn auto-correct i meant the bags, hide the bags so-and-so it coming home and i dont want them seeing their gift.
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My O My 1 year ago
Sort of. It's a pic with trousers on but clearly visible where the d**k is
Load More Replies... Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
Hope you weren't looking for sympathy bc that's a dumb thing to do in the first place.
UKGrandad 1 year ago
Infinitely better than sending it unsolicited to whichever girl it was intended for.
Tropical Tarot 1 year ago
From the context of the post I do not think it was intended for a girl.
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Kit Black 1 year ago
So she's being creepy, but you feel bad about people knowing she's being creepy, so you don't want them to know why you think she's creepy??? That makes no sense.
MushroomHead22 1 year ago
its called lying to your friends to make them happy because your life would be in shambles if ever you spoke honestly about someone you "care about".
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Debbie 1 year ago
Maybe they were no admin there and admin was unavailable.
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Montanavanna 1 year ago
Finally, a post with proper punctuation that I don't have to reread 3 times to understand.
Kit Black 1 year ago
Why would you need to create a new group text for a group of people in their 80's??? Just add the new people, yeesh
SDLT010 1 year ago
Maybe the old ones admin was unavailable due to death or something so nobody could be added, but you could make a new group chat to add people to like in the post.
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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
someone on the football team used naughty language not realizing the coach was also a part of the group and saw it. Coach made said teammate run a lot of laps at the next football practice because apparently that's a no-no.
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SDLT010 1 year ago
You won't get an answer if you don't go to the actual post
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MushroomHead22 1 year ago
who is bro? the dad? why do people feel the need to type how they speak?
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Doesn't sound like they were really friends to begin with, if they're arguing on a GC.
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Julie S 1 year ago
Someone has written at the top of the page "I'm quitting"
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SDLT010 1 year ago (edited)
I don't think people organize congregations of coming out as gay
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UKGrandad 1 year ago (edited)
"47 Hilarious Times One Wrong Text Wrecked A Group Chat’s Peace". Interesting use of the word 'hilarious' in that title.
BookFanatic 1 year ago
American. One of the girlies in our group chat is very vocal and pro-Harris. The other is equally vocal and pro-Trump. You can imagine the fireworks, I'm sure.
Stina Kolling 1 year ago
I can't help but think that if there's a group chat with everyone you know except you, you're the problem.
Erika Rasmussen 1 year ago
The "secret meat up" was good though but other than that pretty much lame sauce.
Erika Rasmussen 1 year ago
Honestly dissapointing, and some were far from humorous and more depressing or sad. Except for the "secret meat up" that was a good one
Lena Flising 1 year ago
Just a bit awkward; we have many different gc's at work, and sometimes people post in the wrong one, talking about department A in the gc for the Department C.
Mr. Toast 1 year ago
Yep me. University friend, dope head, best mate 30 years. Few glasses of red wine on FB joking with other Uni friends and him about uni days, I posted pic of New Year Party of mate in,my girl flat mate's bed thinking oit was between the group. Turns out he was using FB as a wider family communication including religious parents in law, sister-in-law, etc, work colleagues. went a bit south after sister-in-law steamed in, had a go and red wine sent me south about knowing my mate longer than she did. Lost my best mate of nearly 30 years. Strange he is now a head of IT Internet security but never warned me.
UKGrandad 1 year ago (edited)
"47 Hilarious Times One Wrong Text Wrecked A Group Chat’s Peace". Interesting use of the word 'hilarious' in that title.
BookFanatic 1 year ago
American. One of the girlies in our group chat is very vocal and pro-Harris. The other is equally vocal and pro-Trump. You can imagine the fireworks, I'm sure.
Stina Kolling 1 year ago
I can't help but think that if there's a group chat with everyone you know except you, you're the problem.
Erika Rasmussen 1 year ago
The "secret meat up" was good though but other than that pretty much lame sauce.
Erika Rasmussen 1 year ago
Honestly dissapointing, and some were far from humorous and more depressing or sad. Except for the "secret meat up" that was a good one
Lena Flising 1 year ago
Just a bit awkward; we have many different gc's at work, and sometimes people post in the wrong one, talking about department A in the gc for the Department C.
Mr. Toast 1 year ago
Yep me. University friend, dope head, best mate 30 years. Few glasses of red wine on FB joking with other Uni friends and him about uni days, I posted pic of New Year Party of mate in,my girl flat mate's bed thinking oit was between the group. Turns out he was using FB as a wider family communication including religious parents in law, sister-in-law, etc, work colleagues. went a bit south after sister-in-law steamed in, had a go and red wine sent me south about knowing my mate longer than she did. Lost my best mate of nearly 30 years. Strange he is now a head of IT Internet security but never warned me.
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