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“My Jaw Has Never Hit The Ground Faster:” 50 Times Out-Of-Touch People Got Shamed Online
Everyone sometimes has those jarring moments where you really have to wonder if somehow along the way, you’ve managed to lose touch with normal beliefs or behavior, which is sadly a lot more common in the age of social media. One way to test that is to compare to the truly worst takes out there.
So we’ve gathered some of the most extreme examples of folks being so deeply out of touch that people had to share them online. So get comfortable as you scroll through, prepare to look somewhat confused and bewildered, upvote the worst ones and be sure to add your own thoughts in the comments below.
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#1
They are eating the dogs.
They are eating the cats.
They are eating the pets of the people that live there.
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#2
I was required to see a counselor as a pre-requisite to get on a low-income housing list. During the appointment, I was discussing the stress I was under due to my situation and my counselor said "Whenever I'm stressed, I take a long hot bath. Why don't you try taking a hot bath?"
"Because I'm homeless.".
#3
"If you give a homeless person $100 they'll spend it in a day, if you give a rich person $100 they'll put it into savings". Yea Mason, give money to someone with no money they'll use it to meet their needs. Give money to someone who already has their needs met they can afford to put that money away for the future.
#4
'It was God's will'...when a child dies. Nothing makes my blood boil more than that.
Quiet-Willingness937:
This is the way my B- and SIL talk about their OWN BABY. They do objectively dangerous things (like giving their infant raw milk, SIL will hold baby in a moving car instead of using a car seat) and then talk about how "this is the way we parent and if it's God's will..."
Gets my adrenaline pumping just talking about it.
#5
My own brother told me that my severely disabled daughter (from birth, and also not my fault ) is a manifestation of all my shortcomings 😭😔 can you imagine.
#6
I live in Australia and in primary school there is a subject called religious education. My parents are atheists but have always said we are free to choose religion if we wish. So my best friend and I were in the same class in grade 2. We had the religion teacher come in at the end of the day to teach us. I don’t remember how it came up but the teacher tells us that if you have a miscarriage you’re going to hell. School finished and we leave the class to find our parents who usually waited together and my best friend just broke down into tears. Our mums looked at me for answers and I was confused as well. My best friend goes “is my sister going to hell?” While still crying. So I go “oh! The teachers told us that anyone whose has a miscarriage is going to hell.” And that’s how I found out her sister has had 7 miscarriages and that my mum had had 2. Needless to say neither of us participated in religious education again and our mums got the teacher fired.
Marianne 1 month ago
What on earth is wrong with these people? Sometimes I think there is a conspiracy of people who infiltrate Christianity and deliberately pull shít like that to make others leave the church. Seriously, are there really people who think you will go to hell for losing a child???
#7
“You can just have another” After I lost my baby, I did end up having another and now have a beautiful rainbow baby, but that isn’t the point. I would’ve loved to have BOTH babies.
#8
All the millionaires saying "we're in this together" whilst sat in the mansions during COVID. That was great 👍.
#9
Driving past a large group of tents belonging to homeless people… “I just don’t understand why they would want to sleep outside when it’s so cold out.” Ummmmm they don’t.
HangryHangryHippo 1 month ago (edited)
I went to break with some coworkers, and when coming back found another group that were smoking at the door. As I had time left, I stayed chitchatting for a bit. A homeless man passed by and asked for a cigarette and/or spare change. We gave him some and he went on his way. Among these people, we had the son of the owner doing some kind of 4-weeks internship during summer (basically, "this is going to pass to you at some point, get some idea of what we do here) and he bursts out "I don't understand how can you reach this point, you always have some money left so you can rent something". Ours jaws dropped! We were paid just above minimum salary, barely surviving, while he was going on vacation at least 4 times a year. It stills makes my blood boil
#10
Picture this: I am in high school. My mother and I are told that I have a terminal heart condition, and she takes her own life, I found her body, and my father was away on a business trip for days, and nobody knows where, until they find someone at his office that knows. So I, alone as a teen, have to handle the police, and all that. My dad comes home, decides this is a perfect time to restart his own life, and evicts me. I graduated high school homeless crashing in people's guest rooms and basements. College dreams dashed. My best friend, my only lifeline, says this:
"Will you stop pining about your mother? That was like, 6 months ago. Get over it. I lost my bomber jacket at Clyde's and you don't see me still going on and on about. For chrissake, that was back in high school."
Now in their defense, they were 17 years old, and teens say some pretty dumb things (myself included). But that was the hardest verbal slap in the face I ever got, and was the beginning of the end of our friendship.
Oh, and yeah, the "terminal" heart condition was not terminal, since this was nearly 40 years ago.
#11
For me it's gotta be during the 2012 presidential campaign when Mitt Romney's wife went on about how the hard times they went through during their college years. Mitt even had to sell some of their stocks, just to survive. Can you imagine.
R.C. 1 month ago
Reminds me our Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland in 2023 (Canada). While attempting to relate on the cost of living, she said, "I personally, as a mother and wife, look carefully at my credit card bill once a month, and last Sunday I said to the kids, 'You're older now. You don't watch Disney anymore. Let's cut that Disney+ subscription."' Needless to say, in a time when people are struggling to afford housing, food and other basic necessities, that did not go over well.
#12
I was fortunate enough to go to a slightly pricey summer school and one of my classmates (whose parents were loaded) said "I don't see why everyone doesn't just go to private schools" and "It's so unfair that poor people don't have to pay for college".
Serial pacifist 1 month ago
Yeah, and like, why doesn’t everyone just book charter flights, it’s like so much more convenient?! Entitled brat
#13
At university, when I was searching for a new job all day every weekend and my girlfriend (now wife), who had never had a job, said “I don’t get it, why don’t you just get a job. If one my friends wanted a job… they just got one.” Found out her friends all worked for one of their parents companies. I reminded her first time she looked for a job.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
The people who organized my high school reunion decided on a Wednesday luncheon at a downtown hotel. They saw no problem in getting their employer to give them the afternoon off. They just went into their boss and said "Dad, I'm leaving work early on Wednesday."
#14
I was on maternity leave and staying at my MIL's for a few days. I was worried about bills and debating about going back to week when my daughter was 6 weeks instead of 8. My MIL was asking about my mom and I told her that my mom was really sick and dealing with being sick. Aside from her MLM down line (that I hate) my MIL hasn't worked or made an income in 10 years, she lived off my FIL's social security until he died and my husband has been helping her since FIL passed.
My MIL says "Well at least she'll get some time to lay in bed and recover." I said "No she's still working," "I just don't understand why someone would work when they're so sick. It just seems so irresponsible to me." "Well not everyone has someone to help them with bills. That's why I'm going back to work 2 weeks earlier than I should."
RomanceRadish 1 month ago
This is absolute truth. Taking a few weeks off to have a baby costs a lot. Getting sick costs a lot.
#15
Have you seen the Mariah Carey interview where she's surprised that "you have to pay for electricity in your country?" Because Mariah thinks that "electricity is free in America".
#16
I have an extremely severe eating disorder. On the same day I found out I had weeks to live if I didn’t change immediately, my mother “took away” the food in the house because she was angry at me.
It was like an ohhh s**t moment because I realized she would NEVER take me seriously. And she’s probably a big reason why I’m even like this!! So I stopped waiting on her and took control of my own life.
#17
When told Norway has a speeding fine proportionate to income, my mother loudly exclaimed "that's discriminatory to rich people!"
Sam Trudeau 1 month ago
Come to think of it, if there's a negative word to refer to rich people, would BP censor it? Shower thoughts (metaphorically)
#18
A regular at my work just lost her 17y/o son in a car accident. My co-worker said to her not a week after, “I know just how you’re feeling. My son (college age) stopped talking to me six months ago and blocked me everywhere. It’s breaking my heart.” The look on the lady’s face when she said that to her is what broke my heart!
#19
I worked for a major insurer during the recession. We had two people running our local office- they were husband and wife and made millions. During the annual All Associate Meeting, the Mrs was trying to warm up the crowd by telling "relatable" stories about her personal life.
The first story was that she was taking motorcycle lessons, because she just bought a brand new, completely decked out Harley. She made sure to describe all the bells and whistles, as well as her new leather jacket and motorcycle wardrobe.
The second story was her mocking one of her executives because when she was telling him about her brand name purses, he didn't know Coach, and Prada were purse brands. She laughed hysterically as the crowd (which had been informed the week prior via email that we were not getting raises) sat stone-faced.
At the end during the Q&A, she had the balls to tell us we just didn't have the budget for cost of living raises. People actually booed. B***h, you just spent THIRTY MINUTES flaunting your lifestyle. I'm wearing second-hand clothes because it's what I can afford, and you're telling us about your new Vuitton wallet and matching bag. I hope your drive your f*****g new motorcycle off a cliff, Sandy.
We didn't have any more in-person All Associate Meetings after that.
#20
“By no means was my family well off, there were times I would only get 10 presents for Christmas.”.
#21
"You can't be African, you look white" said by a European dude, who was a tourist in my home country, in Africa!
#22
“I mean it’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost? 10 dollars?”
#23
When a teacher said to me, "You're not slow like these others. It's hard to believe you grew up poor. It's almost like you're white!" I think I was 10.
#24
One person I know does not understand why poor people cant go on holiday and said "why don't they just choose a cheap destination?"
#25
Over a decade ago I drove a yellow cab for a living. I picked up a well off gentleman and took him to the local country club. He was surprised that I wasn’t interested in joining when the club charged most of my yearly salary to join. According to him it was only $50,000 to start. When we got there, he tried to negotiate a lower fare.
#26
I was leaving a job site (residential renovation) one day, loading up my tools into my big military style backpack because I was riding my 2007 CBR600RR, when this slick black BMW rolled up the driveway.
The mom was driving and her son was in the passenger seat but I had heard from my boss that the BMW belonged to the kid, he just couldn’t drive yet.
Anyways they parked and he came running up to me, gushing about my bike, then he says “Man, that is SICK, how did you get your parents to buy you one?? They’d never get me one!”
I told him I worked my a*s off and bought it all on my own. I’ll never forget how he looked me dead in the eyes and said “oh man that really sucks, I hope I never have to do that”
Really made me realize that some people are playing a completely different game than the rest of us.
#27
“I don’t understand why people are poor. There is so much opportunity.”
- My brother, who is an Ivy educated doctor and MD PHD.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Actually, our society does offer a lot of opportunities to be poor. And the current administration is trying to expand them.
#28
My wife and I had a stillbirth.
A friend of Mine's baby was a little irritable and so my friend turned to us and said 'are you sure you want kids?'
Also got a comment from a work colleague; 'It's all for the best'.
Tabitha 1 month ago (edited)
I have miscarried a couple times, and finally got too old to have kids, but that’s so so different than a stillbirth. My pregnancies ended early, before the 12th week (one was four days away from 12 weeks). I never actually gave birth to my babies, knowing they weren’t alive. That’s incredibly devastating.
#29
A white guy once told me he could relate to experiences of racism because he used to have long hair and a beard and people thought he was up to no good.
#30
A friend of mine once said you can’t have a real wedding for less that 40k.
Tabitha 1 month ago
I had one for way less than that. We were married at the courthouse, our friends who were also our witnesses took us to a wedding dinner afterward, and one of them handed us the keys to her beach house for our honeymoon as a wedding gift. Perfect wedding and honeymoon, as far as I’m concerned. BTW, that was 24 years ago and we’re still happy together. Most of the people I knew who had the big expensive weddings and honeymoons have been divorced long ago. Some of them twice by now.
#31
I was in a restroom once and overheard a group of girls at the sinks. One girl says she wanted to buy a leather jacket but was going to wait because it's a big purchase. This other girl responds immediately with "You should just go to Turkey to get a leather jacket!". There's a pause, and then the first girl says "Are...are leather jackets less expensive there?" The 2nd girl takes a second to consider what was just asked...then dismisses it with "You should just go to Turkey for the vibes and then pick up a jacket while you're there!"
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 month ago
Had the same experience when I got some punjabis on sale in Lens. Was telling an Indian parent at school about this and she says, "Oh, punjabis are so expensive here in South Africa. You should just go to India where can can get them for practically nothing!" Um, lady, what about the plane fare?!! (South African Indians call a salwaar kameez with pants a Punjabi.)
#32
My truck needed an oil change which i do myself for the cost of about 35$ and maybe 20 minutes of my time and the girl i was seeing at the time said "Just get another car when the light pops up." also the same gal who said I was stupid for paying my phone bill " Why do you pay that." Because I want to use my phone I said. She responds. "Thats stupid just make your parents pay that." My parents could barely pay for their loaf of bread lmfao guess her parents helped her out a bit too much good for them and her but I think it sure f****d up her mentality. She was blonde and pretty on the outside but oh so ugly on the inside (figuratively).
#33
**Avocado toast is the reason millennials can't afford houses** - example of how out of touch wealthy folks can be with the realities and struggles of everyday life for the rest of us.
Wild Cream 1 month ago
Bread here is like $3 a loaf (for my favourite kind) and an avocado is ~$2.50. So it probably costs me about $3 to make two pieces of avocado toast. Not the cheapest breakfast but certainly not the reason I can’t buy a home 😂 in my neck of the global woods, homes start around a MILLION DOLLARS.
#34
2 weeks after I (29F) found out I was pregnant with my first child my husband (30M) was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer with mets to the peritoneum. 5 year survival rate is 5%.
When breaking this news to my boss she said “Oh you shouldn’t be sad, you should be happy that there’s still a chance!”
My jaw has never hit the ground faster.
#35
"At least you know you can get pregnant" - ER doctor to me, whilst I was bleeding from a ruptured ectopic pregnancy and about to have emergency surgery.
Serial pacifist 1 month ago
And although he can’t, he was by far the biggest cünt in the room.
#36
When my mom passed away, my paternal grand father told me “don’t worry, you won’t even miss her because daughters always prefer their fathers” … my blood still boils when I remember that….
#37
For context, this is when I just finished uni and started my first full-time job.
This person asked “How much do you earn?” I replied ‘around $50-60k’
And then he responded ‘is that for a week or fortnightly?’
You can only guess what sort of spending he is on a week.
#38
« Why don’t you ask your father to pay for it? »
I was working in a French private school with out of touch teenagers from wealthy families.
EACH year, they’d do a school trip either to Asia or North America.
One of my student just couldn’t afford it, the trip was so expensive. And the others couldn’t understand WHY. Like… can’t the parents pay for it, as theirs do ? They were nice kids, but sincerely could not understand that not everyone was as privileged as them.
Rachel Pelz 1 month ago
I'm privileged in many ways (like food, health, safety) BUT I take it as a duty to teach my kids that not everybody has our privileges. Privileges are random, nobody deserves them or earns them (by birth).
#39
An aunt of mine told my mum just weeks after my dad died "Sure you can always find someone else"
I knew this aunt never got on with my dad but I still found it heartless.
#40
This one time my shrink suggested that I approach strange women on the bus and tell them they smell nice. I... I just don't even. Is there anywhere where this wouldn't be creepy AF?
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Maybe the shrink was trying to give those women traumatic experiences to drum up business.
#41
My very very wealthy boss was telling me about her recent vacation with a private plane to a private yacht anchored off of some beautiful island once and she looked right at me, while knowing exactly how much money i made because *she hired me* and said “if you ever get the chance to do this, you really should”
i just sort of blankly looked at her and said….you bet. 😐.
#42
My washer and dryer broke. I was complaining about having to go to the laundry matt to the doctor I work for. She replied with “why are you stressed, you just drop off your clothes, they wash it and will even will fold it for you!” She pays for the laundry service there. I obviously have to use the coin machines and wait while I do it myself.
#43
Vaccines cause autism and should be avoided.
Gunný Petersen 1 month ago
Fuckthat s**t and the people who believe it! Just f**k them and their stupid brains!!
#44
I was visiting my girlfriend's family in California in 2012-2013. Fuel was super expensive - like pushing $5 / gal, but in 2012 dollars.
Her dad said something like "I don't understand why people don't just fill up the tank. It's so much more effort to come back later!"
I believe you, that you don't understand. You own a commercial real estate business that owns over $100,000,000 of property. You retired at 52. Your parents are old money and were social elite at Stanford. It makes total sense that you have never had to choose between eating for a week and putting 10 gallons of fuel in your tank.
DrBronxx 1 month ago (edited)
I can now afford to fill my car up. It's a compact SUV. I caught myself a few weeks ago thinking "why did I only use to fill my car up $15 at a time? Filling up makes much more sense". Then, I almost slapped myself in anger and embarrassment. I filled the car up $15 at a time because THAT'S ALL I COULD AFFORD. I still can't believe that I had almost forgotten that.
#45
My boss, who owns the company and gains around £3 million a year, once took me out on a job with him and when I said I was going to get lunch he said " I don't know how much it costs, but get yourself something from McDonalds" and handed me a £50 note.
#46
My father-in-law, who was born in 1953, told me it would have been wise to invest in apple in the 80’s. That way I would be rich now.
I was born in 1995.
He’s a retired doctor with more money than God and lives in a massive house and buys his cars outright with cash. And has a $1,250,000 boat.
He also asked, “Are you guys maxing out your 401k’s?” To which I replied, “No, we can’t” and he couldn’t understand that we couldn’t budget in such a way to max them out without missing rent payments.
Lynne Hammar 1 month ago
An old friend of mine had a good reply to this. Her in-laws were planning to visit Germany and wanted her & her husband to join them ... On their own dime. She said they couldn't afford airfare & was being questioned about how they spent their $. She said, acting very serious .. "Next time, I'll bring all of our bills, and you can go over them & show me how I can afford it!"
#47
Talking to my Gen-Z niece and nephew during the time of the stimulus checks(only people who made less than $80k recieved it)
we were talking about receiving it in the mail and she made a face and says “wait you make less than $80k??”
i live in a low-cost-of-living area where the average income is like $50k. and my niece has wealthy parents who bought a business for her to “run”
i just laughed and said, “yeah, a lot of people around here make less than $80k.”.
Wild Cream 1 month ago
The amount of money you make isn’t tied to your worth as a human being. I wish more people u feed told that. Too many people love mocking and looking down on others just to give their ego a sense of superiority, it’s so sad.
#48
"You're having trouble getting a job? Well, make sure your resume is printed on the nice paper, it really helps!".
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Gee, why not just go to the business and ask to see the manager. That's sure fire!
#49
Ordered a taxi to drive them to the gym next door.
#50
I was just out of college, working as a farmland for room, board, and about $100 a week. I was getting ready to start a new job across the country and saving up to pay for gas and new work boots. A couple weeks before I was planning to leave the transmission on my car completely gave up, and I was panicking.
Another one of the farmhands who was from the bay area and just passing through (when he got tired of taking trains and planes, his parents sent him money to buy a new car in cash), asked me "why don't you just get some money? That would solve everything."
I just sat and stared at him.
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PunchinelloTX 1 month ago
People just don’t think. Often they mean no harm. I recently had an acquaintance say, they wish they could be as thin as I am and asked my secret. “Ohh… fatal blood cancer” was not the answer they wanted. Of course they know that’s what’s happening with me but in that moment they were only thinking about themselves and their own image and problems. Most people do. People are selfish and life’s too short, truly, to be outraged all the time because of that reality.
Shadow 1 month ago
These reminded me of of something that happened on the 30/11/22. I was in work, and I was talking to my colleagues about my stepdad, who was home under palliative care. A woman heard me and demanded to know why my stepdad wasn't in church as it would "cure" him. I said that it wouldn't help him in any way shape or form. She demanded to know the religions in my family. I told her that I was Roman Catholic (non practicing) and my sister is a pagan. That resulted in her saying that my sister was the reason my stepdad had cancer. My colleague stepped in to defend me whilst I cried and her child tried to comfort me, whist my supervisor forced the woman to leave. She isn't banned, but if my colleagues see her make me cry again, she will be banned. Also, on the 4/12/22, my stepdad passed away. On the 1/12/22, he insisted on us opening our main shared gift, as he wouldn't see us open it Xmas day. He had bought us a Nintendo Switch, with some games. I miss him so much.
PunchinelloTX 1 month ago
People just don’t think. Often they mean no harm. I recently had an acquaintance say, they wish they could be as thin as I am and asked my secret. “Ohh… fatal blood cancer” was not the answer they wanted. Of course they know that’s what’s happening with me but in that moment they were only thinking about themselves and their own image and problems. Most people do. People are selfish and life’s too short, truly, to be outraged all the time because of that reality.
Shadow 1 month ago
These reminded me of of something that happened on the 30/11/22. I was in work, and I was talking to my colleagues about my stepdad, who was home under palliative care. A woman heard me and demanded to know why my stepdad wasn't in church as it would "cure" him. I said that it wouldn't help him in any way shape or form. She demanded to know the religions in my family. I told her that I was Roman Catholic (non practicing) and my sister is a pagan. That resulted in her saying that my sister was the reason my stepdad had cancer. My colleague stepped in to defend me whilst I cried and her child tried to comfort me, whist my supervisor forced the woman to leave. She isn't banned, but if my colleagues see her make me cry again, she will be banned. Also, on the 4/12/22, my stepdad passed away. On the 1/12/22, he insisted on us opening our main shared gift, as he wouldn't see us open it Xmas day. He had bought us a Nintendo Switch, with some games. I miss him so much.
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