“This Person Is Out Of Touch With Reality”: 40 Delusional People Who Proved They Don’t Understand A Thing In This World
As we experience our surroundings, we come to have questions about them and usually go above and beyond to seek answers. After all, learning about our world and understanding how it works propels humanity forward. At the same time, there are people who decide to put on rose-tinted glasses and create their own tiny naive bubbles to glide through life without a care in the world.
But even if ignorance may be bliss, it won’t get them very far at the end of the day. So jonallenmaking decided to ask Reddit users to open up about the moments somebody said something so ridiculous that it made them think, “This person is out of touch with reality.” Over 18.6K comments later, we get to be reminded there are plenty of folks out there leading very different lives from most of us.
From hilariously delusional to painfully upsetting, these stories serve as proof that no amount of logic will make these people realize what’s right in front of them. Bored Panda has collected some of the most perplexing answers from the thread, so keep scrolling and upvote as you go. And if you have any similar encounters to share, be sure to tell us about them in the comments!
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A guy at a party was talking about how great technology was. I agreed. He then proceeded to talk about how there are people made of computer chips walking among us and we don't know who they are. I took the opportunity to say, "I know. You could be one of them." And walked away. I stared at him from across the room off and on the rest of the night. Good times.
Tilt head slightly and look distracted for a second or two. Refocus on the person, reply "No, there aren't - and I'm not one." Then walk away. EDIT: changed to TILT because BP censored a male chicken. *sigh*
It was a big mistake, very big one. Now we know you identified 'AZ8+A'. We are coming for you. Don't go to sleep.
Why? It's too much trouble to wake him up? Boy, you are lazy.
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"Don't vaccinate your kid" is at the top of list.
It must be second on the list, because your kid cannot choose whether or not to get vaccinated
Load More Replies...I find those people deeply offensive and insulting. I am Autistic (Asperger Syndrome, and you "woke" people can shut the f**k up about me calling it what it is, my right) and when people parrot that false claim from a single debunked "study" that was later proven to be a complete hoax, that vaccines cause Autism, it pisses me off on several levels. 1. I have had over 100 vaccines. I am 62 years old. I think that those vaccines played a part in my living this long. Even if they DID cause my Autism, which is do not believe for a second, I'd rather be Autistic and 62, than DEAD, or worse, before 18 from a preventable disease. 2. What those people are REALLY saying is this: "our DNA is perfect, therefore it HAD to be a vaccine that made my kid a f*****g r****d (I'm Autistic, so I have the right to use this word)", rather than accept that NO ONE KNOWS what actually causes most ASD conditions and syndromes. Yeah, I have no qualms about using the exact word the situation calls for.
Ah God I'm so f*****g terrified of needles why did I have to see that image (I promise you I'm not an anti vaxxer I'm just scared of needles)
4 doses of the current vaccine, and I still don't have wi-fi in my head. I feel ripped off.
An American tourist I met (I live in South America), when I asked her how it felt to be so far from home, told me that she really isn't that far because these "so-called foreign countries" are actually located within the United States and they just fly the plane in circles for hours and hours to convince you that you're in another country.
We are all surprised down here that we don't fall off!
Load More Replies...For everyone who doesn't live in the US who can't understand why there are so many stupid people, republicans are doing everything they can to cut funding to public schools. They claim it is to reduce taxes, but if that was true they wouldn't be passing laws to redirect public school funds to "christian" private schools. Critical thinking skills are their worst enemy. Here in Arizona, the Republican-dominated state government has cut funding so much that teachers have to buy their own whiteboard markers for class. Each election, there are special propositions to temporarily increase taxes for residents of the wealthiest school districts. They pass every time. Now the republicans are passing laws to disallow these propositions from being on the ballot. There is nothing "christian" about these people. If it isn't obvious, it isn't religious people who benefit the most from these actions. It's the "1%" who pay the least taxes, and fund the majority of republican election campaigns.
Wow. Is this true? Why do they want to raise generations and generations of increasingly stupid people?
Load More Replies...There is "out of reality" and there is "dumb". This person is just plain dumb
Idk think there's no such thing as another country is pretty out of reality
Load More Replies...Okay so why doesn't she just drive *there* (I can not believe I used the wrong "there" 🤦🏽♀️)
Because all the countries are surrounded by walls put up by that nice Mr Trump!
Load More Replies...The more I see things like this the more the movie 'Idiocracy' seems to get more and more real.
I think I read somewhere that the producer or director of Idiocracy complained that it was never intended as a documentary
Load More Replies...That's gotta be a flat earther. Very common in the US. They make up things like planes flying in circles to fit their theory.
What? No its not common. You literally only hear about it on the internet. I've never met a single person in person who actually believes that garbage. Not common at all.
Load More Replies...When you ask me who are i'm scared of the most in the world the way it is right now,- racists, politicians, Karen's, etc-- it's the conspiracy people who scare me the most. There's just no logic or reasoning with them and they truly believe what they are saying. And then they go and vote or breed or teach. It's so scary. We don't need conspiracies anymore- companies and politicians will happily tell you what they're doing with a smile because there's no real consequence. Worry about that, not contrails.
All this time I’m thinking I’m in England and the whole time I’ve been in Detroit ffs
And here I spent thousands of dollars traveling only to have never really left America??? How does this brain donor explain other languages?
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A friend's uncle, who is a spiritual healer of some sort, claimed one day he would be known as the first man to cure cancer with "spiritual healing techniques" whatever that mean.
The woman he "treated" stopped her treatments because she was "cured" and died inside six months. Apparently no one saw fit to bring that guy to justice.
His explanation was : "She died from a different cancer that was at the same place with the same symptoms at the same time and the first cancer was hiding the second one so he couldn't treat her properly because, you know, I couldn't feel the second one...."
I wish he would go to prison.
There was a well known Dutch actress who was "treated" by a spiritual healer. She passed away and that so called healer was never sent to jail.
The problem is that these people choose to be treated by those people and refuse to be treated traditionally. They even sign the paperwork to make clear that it’s their intent. Legally, there’s nothing that can be done. Steve Jobs died the same unnecessary death and his estate certainly would have had the money to sue anyone involved if there were a point in doing so.
Load More Replies...I had a good friend die because he was a member of the Christ Scientists. He could easily have survived if he'd just gotten medical treatment, but nope. He thought nothing but prayer would cure him. He died within three months of his diagnosis.
The whole "praying illness away" thing is ridiculous. God gave wisdom and education to doctors, medications and treatments. God was trying to save him but they don't use God's tools!!!
Load More Replies...Well, it would be hard to prosecute. He didn't "prevent" her from getting treatment and how would you prove in court that she stopped treatment, solely based on that spiritual treatment? I get the frustration, but never confuse morality with legality. They are not equal nor analogs.
Steve Jobs first sought treatment for his cancer at a natural health place in Mexico. Who knows if he could have had more time on this earth if he did not delay seeking effective treatment.
I'm an oncology nurse and you'd be amazed the number of people who want to go the natural route with vitamins and noni juice and bat wings soup (jk). And the number of people that have been told by family members to stop treatment and eat broccoli stems or whatever. I think these people are dangerous to the frightened and desperate. But there has to be some accountability as well. They choose to go these routes.
Don't forget eye of newt & song of Groot.
Load More Replies...If anyone is wondering, most religious people are not like this. Sure, there are delusional people and scam artists, but God gave us brains for a reason, we take our medicine AND pray to get better, it's not one or the other.
I take my meds and fart, has the same effect. God didn't give you anything because God is a man made illusion to explain what man doesn't understand.
Load More Replies...Those that believe that cancer can be cured by fresh fruit, waving coloured crystals around, praying, water's memory, or faith healers etc........... fine, but please, please, please also take the real medical advice and treatments too. Then we can debate which of the methods saved your life later hopefully, but never ever trust anyone who is trying to get you to put all your eggs into just their basket.
Overheard from a girl at college freshman orientation in 2008:
"I'm definitely worried! The economy is SO bad my parents had to sell our vacation home! Well you know the second one we don't visit as often...."
Yeeeeeeaaahhh.... don't mind me with my flat of ramen...
That is beyond first world problems. Not everyone owns multiple homes.
Load More Replies...In all honestly, even from a neutral point of view, as soon as even the rich are selling assets like that, not purely for profit, that is actually a bad sign, no?
"Flat of ramen" do you presume to tell us your flat is compiled of ramen bricks?
I believe she meant the flat of ramen she keeps available as a food source. Although, if you let them get *really* old they can qualify as bricks...🙄
Load More Replies...I don't think this was intended to be insulting. Just because you have more money than some people doesn't mean you shouldn't be worried if you start to lose a lot of money. Everyone is capable of becoming impoverished no matter how much money they have, and that is a valid fear.
And what about your nail appointments, tell me they didn't make you give them up? Just saying.
I watched my grandmother shove a load of books off of a shelf at the bookstore the other day because she wanted one that wouldn't come out. When she walked away and left a pile of them on the ground, she looked at me and said "It's okay, it's their job to pick that stuff up." Speaking from a retail experience, no it's not. You're just adding extra work.
I would have started picking them up and saying loudly, "I hope none of them are damaged, or we could end up getting arrested for damage to private property. I hope they will still sell us the book you wanted, since they don't have to". Because it's true.
Load More Replies...Surprisingly this will get you banned and escorted from the premises in about every other country. The US just took "the customer is always right" too far.
Because some idiots forget that it starts with "in matters of taste".
Load More Replies...My SO's mother did this to us one time. Although, she pulled a ton of books out of a discount bin and left them all over the floor as she was going through them. She started walking away and when my SO asked his mom if she was going to pick up the books she also said that it was ok to leave them because it was "their job to pick them up." My SO and I stayed and started picking up the books because that wasn't cool with us. She was shamed into helping, but complained the whole time.
I work in retail now- pet store... worst things customers do: -grab a can from the middle. Do they know I have to take all the cans out to re-face? ALL THE CANS ARE FRESH -grab a bag from one aisle and leave it in another cuz you found something better. sigh -leave your Starbucks on a shelf along with your candy wrappers -pull all the toys off the wall and just leave them on the floor. -pull out all the clothes and randomly put them back on the wrong hangers
I used to work in a national chain grocery store and my biggest pet peeve is when someone places a refrigerated or frozen item on a dry goods shelf. The first thing early shift employees do is make their rounds checking all the shelves... I've seen them sometimes with 2-3 shopping carts full of ruined products. My husband would roll his eyes at me for taking cold products I'd found sitting on a shelf back to the right department, I'd do that for years after I started working elsewhere. Now that I am disabled I unfortunately don't do it as often.
Load More Replies...I’ve publicly called out people for this s**t, especially in places like Walmart where the treatment of employees should be considered illegal. When it comes from a fellow customer, and one who is well spoken and older, you should see how much they flounder and try to backpeddle when they’re chastised. They know they’re in the wrong, but businesses have been letting them slide for it way too long. I worked jobs like that when I was young, and had to take bad treatment from customers, so I know whereof I speak. I let them know it is NOT the employees’ job to to clean up after their laziness, and to just push the cart the extra three feet to the cart rack, or put stuff they decide not to buy back where they found it! I swear it’s like teaching badly brought up children how to act properly and think of someone else besides themselves.
This is why "respecting your elders" is complete bs. Reminds me of when old people say racist s**t and everyone just lets it go just because they're old.
Where you loudly apologize to the workers for her being so rude as you help them pick them up. No blood relationship is worth not doing the right thing.
I am a waitress and someone wrote “get a real job” on the line for my tip. It was a $150 tab with an incredibly demanding table. I work another job and I go to school full time, but whatever floats your boat.
I 100% agree and the worst thing is that they'd go absolutely Karen over such a scenario: these assholes condescendingly tell others to get "real" jobs but go absolutely insane in public when they don't get service immediately, no matter if it's at Starbucks or an auto repair shop. The whole, "I want it and I want it NOW" attitude towards the poor souls who actually work for a living is inexcusable. My mom used to complain endlessly about what was being cooked for dinner until my brother got fed up and told her, "If you don't like what we cook for dinner, then please feel free to make dinner yourself". Our mom had been displaying some nasty Karen tendencies until we started speaking up. Oh yeah, and any job is a real job to me, sex work included.
Load More Replies...Yet they go to an establishment where they expected to be served, ie: where someone was required to do a job.
No, no one is required to be abused at their job. Your thinking is why shitty businesses complain no one wants to work.
Load More Replies...If all wait staff "got a real job" then no one would be there to serve these f**k heads.
Which is EXACTLY what's happening now. For all the assholes who think they shouldn't have to tip??? Well--NOW YOU DON'T have to as NO ONE is serving you!!! LMAO
Load More Replies...They would freak out and cry if there were suddenly no places for them to order food and drinks. Affordable, anyway if they're not uppity, whiny "well-off" bitchfungi.
Load More Replies...I treat "service" industry workers with the attitude that they are "professionals". In many cases they are there to take care of the chores I didn't feel like doing that day. Thanking them by treating them with respect and gratitude seems to make more sense than treating them like lesser citizens.
If they ever come in again, tell them their food is in the kitchen and they need to go and get it themselves!
This completely baffles me. They sit in a restaurant, expecting service, but can't see being served as a real job? Makes no damn sense!
AND think that the workers should just do it for free. Even worse--servers are taxed as though they received tips whether they did or not. It is ENTIRELY possible, it happens, and it has happened to me that servers sometimes actually have to PAY for the PRIVILEGE of serving a**holes who refuse to tip!
Load More Replies...Just another reason I would HATE tipping culture! It should be the people who hired you to work for them, that pay your wages- instead of staff having to rely on people who can be either outright assh*les or just having a bad day, in order to earn enough to live on!
Can you IMAGINE how much your meal would cost?!?! People who don't tip and scream that they need to pay living wages to the servers will DIE of SHOCK when that happens, lmao! I say "when" because people are getting so bad at tipping that there will be (and it's happening already) no more servers!!! Oh how I'll LOL at them then!!!
Load More Replies..."If you're depressed, just cheer up!" Woah, if you're drowning, just drink the water! Duh!
A doctor once genuinely told my sister that her eating disorder would be cured if she just ate more. Even a medical degree can't cure stupid, apparently.
There is actually medical proof that eating more food increases appetite as well as stomach size. But eating disorders are not just physical, they are psycological. Doctor should have encouraged her to join a help group or see a dietition.
Load More Replies...My sister has systemic lupus. It's taken many years (and tears) to get our extended family out of that kind of mindset. My mom had to censure me because I cussed out too many elders. 🤷🏾♀️
My friend said that you can't have stomach flu if you don't throw up. If you feel sick, just don't barf! Problem solved. This works in other situations as well, e.g. hangovers, food poisonings, whatever it is, just don't! Basically.
Wow, I hope your friend is all right. Vomiting and pooping are the only two ways to get poisons/bacteria/viruses out of the digestive system. She might as well pretend other serious ailments are imaginary.
Load More Replies...Give me your hand. We'll try it together...that way we can chant each other along
Load More Replies...When you suffer from depressions, the worst thing is that no one understands how you really feel. After many years and attempts to explain to others I am not lazy, I just gave up and let people continue with their disprovement and guilt trip...
"You don't have anything to be depressed about." If only it were simple.
I was struggling to pay bills and a friend was like, "Don't worry, your mom and dad care about you, they'll pay them for you". I told her I wanted to be a self-sufficient adult and my parents didn't have the money to cover my bills anyway. Her mind was blown.
Caring about someone doesn't make money magically appear in someone's bank account. Otherwise, I would be rich and able to help out my family and friends when they struggle.
My daughter rents a condo where we (unfortunately) bought. Another owner told her she should buy a condo too. When my daughter snort laughed and mentioned that she was a struggling single parent with no way to save a down payment, the lady said she should ask us to help. We bought a crappy condo in a s**t area just to get into the market. Believe me, we have no extra money. But this lady was really upset that we couldn't help our daughter. She literally didn't get it.
I’ve never asked my parents for money. Because they’re both on disability and broke af. When my sister needs money, she comes to me. Not everyone’s parents have money.
My parents paid some bills till i started earning. But even I never was so stupid... I was aware that my middle class and had to maintain a life etc... I started splurging a bit when i started earning. And i spent a bit on my parents too. They deserve it
It would be so scary to be her depending on everyone but herself. Sometimes a diognosis is not treatable with money.
A family friends son has autism.
I overheard my grandfather say, “when’s the kid gonna snap out of it and get a job?”
Eff that S****. with a broomstick in a cornfield under the full July moon...
On Thursday when the Vogons arrive to destroy the earth to make way for the new hyperspace bypass.
Load More Replies...Why does the picture have a kid with downs? Autism and downs are not a comparable disability... Your grandfather is a bit of a spotted d**k though
A friend of mine worked with a complete **** who complained about a coworker who was either always a bit early or always a bit late because of how the buses worked. This ****'s complaint? "When is he going to grow out of his epilepsy and learn to drive like everyone else?"
My son is a high-functioning autistic. He works and supports himself, but still needs the guidance of his dad for daily stuff like eating right. My folks never have understood why he is 'so rude'. I have explained it often enough that I gave up.
When is grandpa going to snap out that arthritis he always is moaning about? Grow back the hair he has lost? See without cataract surgery? Autism is a lifelong, biologically based disorder. While many people with autism can and do work, its not something you "snap out of."
My grandmother tried to get me to participate in a self-exorcism. She said I was posessed by "socialist demons".... because I visited Canada.
Well, we do have Universal Health Care and a lot of other social programs so... Not sure about the demons tho.
If there are any, they'll be the super polite type.
Load More Replies...These people need to leave their county, their city, their state, maybe even leave their nation for a while. They just need to experience something other than their normal echo chambered environment
It wouldn't do any good. Willful ignorance is strong.
Load More Replies...Yes demons of caring for fellow citizens and people not losing their house because they got cancer. I will take those demons! 😈
Unless you look at a goose in the eyes, there is no way of being possessed by our socialist demons.
That what the goose wants you to do. It distracts you while six other Canada geese circle around behind you.
Load More Replies...I would LOVE to have access to the services Canada has on offer for its citizens...
I am so sorry you had to go through this! I can relate. When I was 12 my grandmother (Jehovah's Witness) told me that my little sisters and I would be going to hell because Mom wasn't raising us as JWs.
The rest of us socialist demons in Canada welcome you! I hope you had a nice visit, come back anytime. And bring your grandmother, she'd have a great time!
Someone seriously asked me“Wow, howd you get your baby so tan?” My Native American wife holding the baby. I always avoid this person when i can...how can you be so dumb.
ikr the answer is sooo obvious, doesn't everybody use johnson and johnsons baby tan?
This pic is clearly a black women.... but the story is about a Native women....two posts back they talked about Autism and had a.kid with downs in the pic Why does this thread have so many mismatched picture for the short stories...
I imagine the curator either didn't know or care enough to pull applicable photos.
Load More Replies...I have mixed race children. Someone once said to me "you can tell them have some ethnic in them" girl, hold my earrings.
Friend of mine with her mixed race baby, a stranger asks her "is he adopted?" No, he's mine. "But you are white, that's not possible..."
I'm not sure you can expect much from someone who clearly didn't even make it through junior high biology.
Load More Replies...I was asked by a complete stranger on the train who was older than water why was I brown. Never could figure that one out.
Kind of like my old pharmacist when my son was born and she saw him for the first time. She practically gushed at me, "Oh, is that an ASIAN baby? You didn't tell me you were ADOPTING!" when she saw him (to answer the question, yes he is Asian. I'M half Chinese, my facial features are very obviously Chinese, and my now ex husband is Cambodian). She even asked my nephew, whom I raised and was four at the time, "Do you love your baby brother?". He looked her right in the eyes and, barely concealing his distaste for being repeatedly asked the same question from many others, simply said, "Yes". I guess she thought they maybe he too was adopted because although he's immediate family, he looks very Caucasian because his mother is very pale with green eyes and VERY pale blonde hair due to her family's Swedish descent.
same for me, im dominican american. i get "wow howd you get so tan??" because I'm spanish, Patricia.
I had a doctor ask if I was a sun worshipper. My daughter in law and I laughed because I hardly get any sunlight. I said, No, I'm part Native American. That got no response.
Load More Replies...I watched one of my old bosses, a gorgeous woman with tanned skin, put down a man trying to flirt with her who said "you have a gorgeous tan, where did you Go?" Her response: "dude, my father is black, nobody has enough time on their hands to lie out under the sun to get this dark." I miss her.
I work as a psychologist at a school. One student had missed nearly 30 days of school in one term (55 days), so I was asked to investigate. The mother straight faced told me that she didn't want to drive the 2 minutes from their house because they had to cross a train track, and she thought having to wait for a train to pass was simply unacceptable. I thought she was joking. She was not.
Because this is America where you drive your car to your mailbox.
Load More Replies...In some states parents can get in trouble for student truancy. I used to think that was crazy but stories like this make me realize the parents are sometimes to blame.
I knew a girl that had graduated at law school, a friend (who was a lawyer) fixed her for a great entre level job at a top law firm my friend had left recently. When my friend found out she had turned the job down after he had stuck her neck out for her he called her. The reason "to many bends in the road to get to the office" Honestly the road has a few bendsin it but as my friend said, doesn't her car have a f8&*^ing steering wheel!!! Where we live there are hills and mountains any were you go the roads are winding I know another guy who didn't take a great job because it was a 70km round trip and his car was new and didn't want to wear it out.
I don't drive so I walk my kids up to school, then I get 5hrs and 30minutes if blissful silence - why would I refuse such a gift?
In my state any more then 6 absences without a drs note automatically gets child services involved , parents are taken to court & hit with a fine .
If she HAS to drive, leave home a few minutes earlier, so they get to the track before the train!
My assh*le of an uncle once told my grandmother that it was her fault my grandfather got Alzheimers because she didn't take care of him well enough.
I have family I will never forgive for doing this sort of thing to me. My mother had multiple health issues and I cared for her by myself for years while her brothers judged and criticized and never once tried to help. If you aren't lifting a finger to help a caregiver, you have no right to judge.
I would have beaten the stuffing out of the uncle why would anyone want to cause any more hurt to a person that will slowly lose the person that they love while they are still in front of them
Unfortunately, that is fairly common with Alzheimer’s patients. They obviously don’t mean it, but they lash out at those closest to them!! It’s part of the progress of the disease and it hurts, but it’s not them…it’s the disease!!
It wasn't the grandfather with Alzheimer's that said it, it was his brother. She said " my uncle told my grandmother...."
Load More Replies...Of course. These types learn that "the woman is always to blame" from the time they are children.
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My dad retired last November. After being out of work for a few months he decided he needed a simple job to keep him busy. He applied at Total Wine as a cashier and asked for $20 an hour because that’s what he thought minimum wage was up to.
This is why i hate arguing economics with older people. Because they start telling me s**t saying they know and i always end up asking "when was this? 30 years ago?". Usually its around that timeframe. Telling me how to do interviews and that you start at the bottom and work your way up when you haven't applied for a job in 30 years, then when i tell them that the world has changed, and none of that is true, just like we dont use fax anymore, they try to convince me that im wrong. Yes your experience from 30 years ago is obviously more real thant the s**t i did yesterday. Heck even if i move up at my retail job, my manager makes like $1.30 more. The world has changed, why is that so hard to believe.
The world has changed but not all shitty employers who want to exploit workers, harass women and ignore WHS whilst paying slave wages.
Load More Replies...More than $20 in Australia and most are on a bit more than minimum. https://www.google.com.au/search?q=minimum+wage+australia&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-au&client=safari
Me sitting here in Australia- "wait that's fair- minimum wage here is like $20+ - surely America's minimum wage is higher than that right!?- considering our dollar is worth less then theirs!?"........goggles minimum wage in America...."well DAMN!" So much for America the Great!"
Ha ha ha! That's what it SHOULD be if it were even coming CLOSE to keeping up with inflation!
My mum. She once told my husband - a guy that's been working to help support his struggling parents since he was 13 - that we should just have kids and God will provide for us. Her rationale was that she had seven kids and never once struggled. Thanks mum, we can't all just quit college to marry a multi millionaire a decade older than we are.
Once heard someone use the "god will provide" and used the "birds of the air" bit as an example. The person being told this replied "maybe, but he dosen't drop the food in their f*****g nests"
Everyday i become more convinced that people should be chemically sterilized until they are old enough to have children, At which point they must complete a parenting class which covers the basics of being a decent parent as well as covering what it costs to raise a child and the expected cost over the next 25 years (lets be real, 18 year olds are the new middle schoolers at this point), a class on time management and how to run a household, show that they have the financial means to AFFORD TO RAISE A CHILD, with savings set aside, backround checks, psych exams passed....at which point they will be granted a license to have ONE CHILD. The current bar of "find someone to sex" isn't working out anymore.
My grandmother once told me that marrying for love should be a second choice, that if I want a good life I should marry for money. I love that woman and miss her dearly, she immigrated from Germany during ww2 and her life was hard before then and for a while afterwards, but saying that in front of my grandfather who spent everyday working from the moment they stepped into Canada so she could be a stay at home mom was heartless. His estate was valued at 3 million dollars when he died so I guess she married for both, it just took a while.
Yeah no. God will provide for you, but you can't just sit in a chair on the beach waiting for money to fall out of the sky, you have to put in effort and He will simply help. And He also gave you a brain, He expects you to use it. When you run out of money, you stop having kids, it's that easy.
It would be nice if she credited her kids who are actually supporting her and not some absent God.
I don't think her kids are supporting her. (Her son-in-law is supporting his parents). Apparently, she married a multi-millionaire.
Load More Replies...Maybe mom should recognize god is encouraging her to be a super generous grandma.
I grew up in a rich town not being rich. I will never forget this one girl saw me with my iPhone 3G in highschool (and I was super lucky to have it), and the iPhone 4 had come out the weekend before. She then asked me 100% seriously "Why don't you have the new iPhone?". She didn't really understand not everyone could afford the new iPhone every time one came out...
those are the people who destroy the planet with thoughtless buying for the sake of buying
Mindless consumerism, as my family likes to say.
Load More Replies...Even if I could afford it, paying that much for a phone is ridiculous!
Even if I could, I wouldn't because my current phone is perfectly fine as it is.
I still don't understand why parents are buying their teenage kids iPhones.. or any kind of smartphone. Only need a phone for texting and calling and when they are old enough to buy their own smartphones, hopefully by then they mature enough to know how to use them.
In some areas, it’s hard to manage without one once you get to high school. People start expecting you to have some kind of portable device by the time you’re 15 or 16.
Load More Replies...I don't even understand why people who can afford them buy the new phone the moment it comes out, I've never understood that. Your phone works fine. My own sister does this and asks me why I don't update mine when a newer model comes out. As long as it still works and doesn't have a cracked screen, it's fine for my needs.
Whether I can afford the new one or not isn't the point - why would I replace a phone that works fine? Goes for myself, my husband and the kids
A colleague and I both had our laptops out at work. He had some movies on his that he was offering to share onto mine for later viewing. I suggested an ad-hoc wifi network as a means of quickly and painlessly transferring the files.
"Oh no I don't believe in Wi-fi".
Sorry what?
Aka: Although my job depends on it, I haven't got a f*****g clue about any sort of technology. I literally leave my laptop running 24/7 because I can't be arsed to workout how to safely turn it on/off. Also it takes forever to shutdown/bootup since it's supposedly riddled with viruses. Personally I think its IT giving us s**t cheapo Laptops and saving the money for themselves. This is the 5th laptop I've had off them this year.
I'll admit that I prefer a wired connection. To say I don't believe in WiFi is to say I don't know what the word believe means.
They probably think that 5G causes COVID or some similar dumb s**t...if they even believe that 5G is a real thing.
therapist: why don't you believe in WI-FI? colleague: because there are fire gators surfing WI-FI therapist:...but...there are no such things as fire gators... colleague: oh yeah therapist:...yeah colleague: oh okay, but then there are demon horses...
I only belive in what i can see and touch, like a usb-stick.
"You know, if a baby is born underwater, it can live it's whole life underwater!" I laughed a bit because it's a fairly well known dark joke, but then told her not to joke about that stuff because our coworker was pregananant. She was confused when I told her not to joke. "It's not a joke, it's a fact!" After some debate, I learned she genuinely believes if a baby is born underwater, it will grow gills and learn how to breathe underwater. Same lady, 6mo later. "Yeah, I'm saving up right now to buy a car. I have my eyes on this great 2007 Holden" Her: "Why don't you just buy a new one?" Me: "I don't have a lot of money, I wouldn't be able to afford a new car. I'm stretching the limit with this one as it is." Her: "Ugh, it's not even that hard to afford things. Just budget!" We were on the same salary, but she sold drugs on the side, her grandpa paid her $200/month phone bill, and her mom gave her a $250 a week allowance. She was also GIVEN her car, by her parents, and was constantly complaining about how old it was and she wanted them to buy her a new one.
I just googled it : Pregananant - it means you'll give birth to satan after eating 100 Ghost peppers like a dumb ass. WTF 😂
Load More Replies...It‘s not the stupid one who was pregnant. It was another coworker
Load More Replies...Wow somebody rescue the kid pretty sure she can't possibly take care of child.
My grandmother (who doesn't live with us) told my out of work brother that he needs to "stop doing work around the house" because I, being female, should be the one doing it all. Never mind I'm the only one with any sort of income, lemme do all the housework too, k thx. We had a good laugh at that one.
My fil actually thinks the same and expect me to wait on him when he stays at my home. My husband put him back in place and told him to get up his ass and do it himself.
As a young married woman, my bil stayed with us for a while. Because I was the only woman in the house, he thought I was supposed to do all the housework, including picking up after him and doing his laundry. We had some fights over that, especially since my husband agreed with his brother. I wasn't working out of the home, but I had 2 young children to care for, and I wasn't his maid.
If you had two kids, you were working *more* than a full time job!
Load More Replies...Doesn't matter who is working or not. Every person living in a house has a responsibility to maintain it.
My brother used to say housework was for women. I told him going out and getting a job was man's work but I didn't see him doing that, either.
My granny (a small town girl, yet), said that every young adult should live by themselves for a year or so. Have a job, cash their checks (this was a while ago), pay their bills, shop, cook, and clean all their stuff, know how to change a fuse, plunge a toilet, etc. Take care of themselves, basically. She knew too many old men who couldn't make anything more complicated than cold cereal if their wife was sick or dead. She knew too many women trapped in loveless or outright abusive marriages because they didn't know where they could go or how they could live without a husband. If your spouse is in the hospital, left you, dead, whatever, you need to know that you can manage without them. And knowing that is empowering.
A girl from my town thought the average income in America was 500k and that she was lower middle class.
I wish she was the only one with this believe. There is the reason and result of omitting basic economy from the curriculum.
I think the biggest reason for this is social segregation of the rich and poor. Even if you learn about the real average income that is just an abstract number, and you can still tell yourself that the poor are doing something wrong to be poor. Require the rich to mingle with the middle and lower classes as part of their everyday lives, and they will be confronted with the fact that these people are no different from them except for the fact of not having been born into a rich family...
Load More Replies...A reporter recently asked a number of Senators and Congressmen (both D and R) in the USA what they thought the average wage was in the USA; they all thought it was in the $100,000 range. Talk about being out of touch with reality.
If their family's that rich they should at least raise their kids better and teach them something
Average is useless anyway. You have to look at the median. If you have nine people earning 50,000 and one earning 1,550,000, that average 200,000 salary means nothing. The median is still 50,000.
When the GOP did their new tax breaks for the rich, they said that the average middleclass income in America was $450,000 a year. I don't know where they live in this country, but people should find out and move to those states.
To be fair, I legit thought my family was rich when I was growing up because we were very well provided for, our parents always seemed to have the money to take us four kids on many vacations, and we got a lot of things less fortunate kids didn't get. I'd say we were spoiled but our parents deeply instilled gratitude and hard work into us from an early age. Turns out we weren't rich but comfortably upper middle class due to both of our parents being college graduates and extremely hard workers. They busted their asses to make sure we were happy, healthy, and safe.
When I was young, I thought we were well off cause my dad was white collar instead of blue only to find out how low down the ladder we really were. (We were well enough off because my mom new how to pinch pennies.)
“All it took was a small loan of a million dollars.” “Why can’t poor people just get better jobs?” “Everybody who get shot by police must have been a criminal.” “Just go in there with your resume and don’t leave until you have a job!” Disclaimer - these were said by different people.
how about 'when I was your age, I worked my way through college with a part-time job. Took a few classes at night. Why don't YOU have a part-time job?'
Lol the last one is my favorite because I struggled with finding a job for like 6 months. I have a master's degree and I have real-world experience and there were just no jobs. If I did what that person said, I would have been escorted out by security.
Dr: Yes, Yes. Believe me! You need treatment! Person: Noooo, I believe the tumer is my happy little friend. See doctor, I'm perfectly fine.
Load More Replies...My dad has said that last one to me. I love the man and am grateful for all he's done but he's worked the same job since he was 23 years old. 40 years later he's contemplating retirement. That tactic may have worked for his industry back then but it doesn't work now. And it sure as hell doesn't work in most industries either.
You need to change the kind of people you hang with darlin! Full disclosure--my family sounds just like this at Thanksgiving. I'm disabled from a car crash...I don't go there anymore.
The Guatemalan lady who lives near me who said she supports Trump and thinks that because she voted for him he won't have her illegal relatives deported.
Oh, wait, she's serious? Let me laugh louder (and harder)
Load More Replies..."I didn't think the Leopard would eat *MY* face" says the woman who voted for the Face-Eating Leopard Party candidate.
A coworker of mine: came into Italy as an extra-EU immigrant. Finally became an Italian citizen, got his mother, daughter, son-in-law and nephew to come to Italy as well. Whom did he vote for? The most racist, "throw-out-all-immigrants", "let-them-drown" party there is. I guess now he's "Italian", f**k his fellow immigrants, right?
In the 90s a lot of people from Russia immigrated to Germany. Their grandparents had been of German ancestry (WW2 shifted frontiers and regions changed sovereignity). They'd felt discriminated against in Russia and immigration was made easier for them. Now those same communities have a sizeable portion of right wingers who hate all those immigrants (especially from African or Arab countries) flooding the country and getting everything for free. 🤮
Load More Replies...My sister's neighbors had their adult daughter and her illegal immigrant husband living with them. They all voted for Trump, believing their family member would never get deported. They said "that only happens to other people." Guess who got deported and guess who acted like they just couldn't believe it? 😲
Thing is, that's how it often works in countries with, shall we say, more flexible approaches to transparency and accountability.
My rich friend complaining that "the cleaner broke her back so I had to do the hoovering myself and feed the dogs! ". It was actually comical to listen to his hysterics, no regard whatsoever for the poor cleaner's well being!
"Having" dogs and not care about them yourself is a red flag in a person.
Priority of tasks in our house is to take care of our pets, then anything else whatever...
Load More Replies...People get so angry at people who have money. If you're wealthy because you work 70-80 hours per week, then it makes sense that having to do chores you wouldn't normally have to do on top of that work would be stressful. Consider the reverse, if a person who normally does their own cleaning said to you "man I had to work 20 extra hours this week, it was brutal to get that and the laundry done" you would feel sorry for them.
Used to have a friend who was really into crystals. She dropped 300 dollars on a thumb-sized piece of rose-quartz because it "is totally aligned with [her] body's natural frequency". I didn't even try to tell her she had been scammed.
I have a piece that size. It cost £2.50. It’s not a rare or expensive stone at all, unless it’s been crafted in some way.
Load More Replies...Central NC here. You can pick rose quartz out of any stream bed for miles.
Very common in Victoria, Australia too. It is also often found in the gravel mix for driveways.
Load More Replies...I spent like £6 on a piece of rose quartz shaped like a star, and it came with a necklace chain.
I was in my local electronic spares shop, a lady walks in with what I could clearly see was a light bulb form a fridge light. She opened by saying, I'm not sure you will have this special bulb, it from my crystals that absorb the negative energy from the WiFi. She'd bought it from some place in peru and never turned it off and since she's had it everything electronic in her house worked better because the force of the crystals paired with the energy from the bulb clear the bad waves. The owner and I look at each other and just burst out laughing
I like pretty rocks. I hate this culture. I kinda hate diamonds because i think theyre boring, and i love colorful stones like lapis and opal. This is great from a price point of view because everyone wants diamonds, so theyre expensive, no one wants star Sapphires though, because they're cabochon cuts, and so despite them being mega cool, theyre dirt cheap. But it sucks from a supply perspective, since theyre unpopular, they're hard to find. So yeah, a lot if the time I end up in those weird shops and I hate it. Because the shop keeper always starts looking at me weird, and inevitably tried to converse with me asking about spiritual s**t, and im just like "man im just looking for a pretty rock...." And i think their whole thing is somewhere in between insanity and a scam. Worth mentioning that i dont just buy rocks either, i buy jewelry, cause i wanna wear it. And not align my chakras, and can you please stop looking at me like you want to induce me into your cult....
"..man I'm just lookin for a pretty rock..." I love it!!!
Load More Replies...Sounds more like the price for an amethyst geode that size - I would not trust OP to know the difference, to be honest...
Ugh theeeese people. It's so insane that people truly believe in this stuff. If I ever went into my doctor's office and saw a poster talking about the 'power of the crystal' I'd literally leave and never come back.
The amount of stupidity going around really really scares me more than any horror story, or movie.
The old saying is "A fool and his money are soon parted." Actually, a fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.
I have a few health conditions that my parents and grandmother never allowed me to disclose to my family or friends because "it would be difficult to get me married".
It's worse that she obeys them and doesn't just disclose things herself!!!
Load More Replies...I remember an advice columnist asking readers to send in a holiday horror story and one woman said she had several health problems, diabetes maybe, and was unlikely to have children. And at a gathering, her mother-in-law pointed at her and exclaimed, 'THAT is why I'm never going to have grandchildren!'
My father-in-law did the opposite to his son. Because he's a hard-core JW, he was worried I'd lead his son astray from the church and tried to discourage me from pursuing a relationship by informing me his son has tourrettes. Hah! I could figure that out after two days of knowing him and I already had friends with the condition. My husband works hard to control it. Nice try FIL, I married your son anyways and discovered your son never followed your beliefs.
Worked with a guy that was a major conspiracy theorist. He said Zip codes are used in the case that the government wants to drop bombs on US soil. Yeah. Because they wouldn't ever use coordinates, right Matt?
So if North Korea, Russia and Iran simply abandoned Zip codes, they'd be immune to American bombing because apparently US bomber pilots are too stupid to hit anything without a bumber attached to it?
lol Zip codes meander all over the place. Does he think that the blast will conform to the lines???
Actually, they WERE used for that initial purpose from way back before they had satellites and GPS systems, this was of course during the early days of the cold war and everyone was paranoid about the Russians(kind of like a certain political party of today). Just like the interstate road system was for military reasons as well.
HA! Everybody knows they use the shots to insert little chips. DA.
I read this year's ago in some old magazine. Well it wasn't old then. And it was a letter to the editor thing. I remember being sort of snapped from my "reading valium" haze, and thinking , either this person never heard of coordinates, or is just that stupid. Glad to see someone concur.
If they were for that purpose they'd be way more precise. The UK system narrows it down to 20-30 houses. Sometimes you can even tell which side of the street the house is on from the post code. But I suspect we'd still use GPS rather than a postcode lol.
I worked with a guy who believed the failed Mars Climate Orbiter didn't actually fail but was being used by the government to spy on us. Like, the hundreds of satellites orbiting the Earth weren't better for the job?
My sister’s mother-in-law told her that my niece can’t naturally be left handed and that if she is that it is part of my sisters job as a parent to teach her the “correct” way.
I wonder how many lefties, were screwed up over the years, by people that had / have a similar mind set?
So many lefties were forced to use their right hand because that was the dominant way that schools taught back in the day. Schools fortunately are much more enlightened these days.
Load More Replies...My brother is a leftie. In my culture, giving something to someone with the left hand is seen as a sign of disrespect, so whenever he visited my grandma, she would slap his left hand, if he did anything with it. In school, when he was about 4, still learning how to write, his teachers would continually make him write with his right hand, sometimes telling him to copy his sister (twin and rightie). It got to a point that he started refusing to go to school. When my mum learnt what the teachers were doing, she went to the school and caused a scene. They never forced him to write with his right hand again. But my grandma refused to change. A*****e!
My Dad was a child in the 1930's. He was left handed and literally had it beaten out of him with a ruler. His right handed writing was illegible his whole life because he was fighting the freaking natural order of his body.
I was born lefty and my Greek-village-superstitious mother switched me to righty. My handwriting is abysmal (can't write cursive. I'm an old). There are some things that I'm more comfortable doing lefty including certain sports (but not others).
I‘m a leftie and I like to draw and write. I got quiet good at it over the years. It sometimes still happens that an elderly person is completely amazed that I‘m doing it with my left hand, as if it was some sort of Handicap or disorder.
My baby brother was Left handed, Dad took his teacher to task when she told him NOT to use the Devils hand. He was 6.
“I get a lot of info from dr. Phil and dr. Oz, they are a great resource without having to do more than turn the TV on”
I watched Dr Oz once, until he started going on about drinking apple cider vinegar daily and how it was an amazing cure-all and then I could nottttt continue 🙄
Load More Replies...In my dad's doctor's office there is a large sign in the reception area that says, "Thank you for not mentioning Dr. Oz."
my mom listens to Dr.Oz a lot, but what she does is he gives her ideas, and then she looks into them and decides if it's real or good, she's actually found out a lot of stuff about her sicknesses through Dr.Oz said something that made her look up if it was true, then it caused her to look if it could mix with something with what she has, and then she brings it up to the dr, she has managed to find her cancer faster then the dr did wit ha scan and knew her kidney was failing before they told her, as well as finding out that one of her meds had a bad reaction when her dr didn't know it would, all-cause of something she heard from Dr.Oz, she just had to look up more about it {by look up more she didn't just google she actually looked in med books and such}
My ex mother in law. Apparently Dr Oz told her fat people's DNA unravels and can't ravel back up. Lord help me.
Load More Replies...And now this a-hole acts like he cares about and is running in my state Pennsylvania. He's not even from here!
Like the old mariners used to say about uncharted waters, “That way be dragons”.
I always thought Dr Phil was a condescending pompous prick to have those poor people on his show and tell ALL their business on national tv for his “help” What exactly happens to HIPPA in that situation? Is it because he’s not a real doctor in the first place he can make a tv show out of people going through addiction and mental illness and tell the world about it? “Dr Drew” too. Smh I could never watch that s**t. I felt too bad for the people.
Nobody FORCES them to go on the show. I'm sure they sign all kinds of documents beforehand, if the show offers to pay people, there are probably year long waiting lists.
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A very close friend “my money is my money but my partner’s money is also my money”.
To clarify she wasn’t going to accept her partner having access to her money but only her to his.
Also she’s single.
Her head is so high in the clouds that she needs an altitude adjustment.
Load More Replies...My future ex-wife told me, "What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine." I thought she was kidding.
My husband and I say that to justify taking each other's coffee. Your future ex is likely to be selfish in other ways (and well beyond swiping coffee).
Load More Replies...I have come across this attitude so many times. It is very unfortunate when they marry. Unless they marry someone with the same attitude and then it's Karma.
Pretty sure she's wondering why she hasn't had much luck in the dating department but I gather we all know the answer to that XP
I worked at a little all-local, all-organic grocery store for a bit. A lady comes in with a friend, they are looking at the eggs. She goes "Are these eggs organic?" "Well, they're not certified, but these are grown here in town by someone who feeds them a non-soy, non-gmo supplemental feed. But they're on pasture most of the time." "So they eat bugs." "Well, yes, quite a few of them, it's good for organic pest control in the gar..." (to her friend) "Those bugs could come from anywhere. This is why you have to ask the hard questions about your food, and really know what you're putting in your body. King Soopers has actual organic eggs."
"Organic" is certainly often used purely as a gimmick. However, there are independent, non-profit organizations such as Oregon Tilth which certify food as organic which can be trusted. I am more skeptical of USDA Certified Organic because the USDA is heavily lobbied by large agrobusiness corporations.
Load More Replies...I hate the "organic" marketing scheme with a passion. During the one and only time my EX inlaws came to stay with us and visit they refused to eat the veggies I had made because they only ate "organic" foods and I really should be buying "organic" vegetables from the store. Instead of, you know, the ones I we were eating that I had personally started from seed and grown in my own garden.
This is why i hate organic. Most people dont even understand what something being organic means, much less that it is in no way synonymous with being healthy. Also as someone into chemistry, i hate the misuse of the word. I actually wonder how it got co-opted for this purpose. But yeah always remember, all organic, all natural, no pesticide, non GMO hemlock, will still definitely make you dead.
Understand what your saying but trying to keep the man made poisons out of your food is important for health. But your right, simply being labeled organic does not always make it healthy..organic canola oil is still not healthy.
Load More Replies...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 "organic" "free range" and "cage free" are all marketing gimmicks as there really is no regulation on it. Funny how people get hung up on these buzzwords instead of actually taking the time to go see how the chickens are being handled by going local. Farmers are friends.
Free range is pretty well regulated in the EU. Which is why, currently, there are no free range eggs available from UK birds - there is bird flu around so all hens must be kept indoors so they've had to stop calling them free range. You're spot on about those terms in the US though unfortunately.
Load More Replies..."those bugs could come from anywhere" Well no s**t lady! Like they never leave home to explore other fine establishments. Sheesh!
Pretty much every single animal we consume has eaten bugs 😂. They are nutritious! Lol Especially chickens!!... chickens eat bugs very much on purpose. Nature doesn't care about what we think is gross. Its all about survival.
My mum once said that the sun couldn’t be a star because ‘stars only come out at night’. She hasn’t lived that one down haha
Did you tell her that the sun shines on other places on earth when it's nighttime at your place??
While watching an emergency medical type program where a guy lost his eye, my lovely SIL asked if he was able to see through his prosthetic eye, god love her
My mum was worried that about a baby (a few weeks old) not having its eyes covered during an eclipse because it might look at the sun directly (we were being reminded it was a bad thing because we were interested in looking at the eclipse).
Former friend. He was the stereotypical "nice guy." Always going off on how he couldn't understand how girls weren't flocking to him cause he was so nice and intelligent. So one night a bunch of us are at a restaurant getting dinner and he proceeds to tell us how if he can't get a girlfriend, his backup plan is buying a mail order bride from Ukraine. Says he has it all planned out. When we all try explaining that mail order brides are essentially human trafficking, he was devastated. His whole plan for getting a girl was ruined, lol. Eventually he blocked us all from his social media and stopped talking to us, but that was more because he couldn't stand that we wouldn't bend over backwards for his every whim
I just realized something.
I remembered my grandfather was here with his wife, and 5 kids, she died. He went back to Poland to get a bride to help raise his kids, and brought back My Babci.
My Babci was Human Trafficked to America.
This is blowing my mind. Babci-smal...a-jpeg.jpg
I’ve always thought “human trafficking” was more specifically against their will, or with coercion under false pretenses, or not allowing them the freedom to leave. I’m sure some brides from the old world were trafficked but I’d assume that many were legitimate immigrants.
Load More Replies...Well, at least he recognized that it was wrong once y'all explained it. There's definitely people out there who would still think it was a viable plan. He wasn't entirely awful - just *mostly* awful.
I think he blocked them because he was going to do it anyway
Load More Replies...Plot twist: They sent him a Ukrainian bride. The 2022 version that will kick your brass, baby!
Epstein and Maxwell introduced Bride from Olde Country...
Load More Replies...Years ago (before internet) my friend’s brother was going to get a mail order bride because he “could replace her every few years like trading in a new car.” It was pretty obvious what he was planning to do to the current one before getting an “upgrade.” As far as I know, it never went beyond contacting a few agencies… probably because he had no job and lived with his mother. Sort of a proto-incel.
I'm a nice guy = I feel entitled to sex and adoration. Just think: fair and balanced = skewed rediculously past the Right to the point of absurdity.
I know a lot of nice guys and they all ended up having gfs and wifes. The majority of woman can sense a selfish ass. If they don't it's usually because they've been conditioned by their family to be a doormat.
The grandparent of the child I nanny says things that make me think this all the time. My nanny family doesn’t use any physical punishment at all. Well she said if we don’t start spanking the kids a (3 and 1 year old) they’ll become unruly demons. Despite the no spanking policy she still spanks the 3 year old. We stop letting her babysit after that. She still wants to babysit and after a lot of begging we finally let her have the 3 year old for the weekend. Well the 3 year old came back and was obviously spanked. Also despite her being potty trained she came back in a diaper too. Somehow she managed to undo days of potty training in a weekend. Now the 3 year old is back in diapers full time because she refuses to use the potty now. Most older generations are so out of touch with reality when it comes to childcare.
So you let a proven child abuser babysit a child for an entire weekend, but somehow it is not you who is delusional? Right then...
I'm sorry, it really gets my hackles up when someone has a bad encounter with an older person and trashes an entire generation of "older folks" based on that one encounter. Likewise, I feel the same when someone says something disparaging against the "younger generation." As an "elder millennial," I sit in that transitional period where both generations have their valid points. That being said, I agree, who is really in the wrong for continuing to send a child to someone who physically punishes them, so much so that it causes regression in their potty training?
I'm 57yo and never spanked my daughter. Hitting a child is abuse, period.
Well, that's a sad story (speaking as a child whose father never missed a chance to use the belt), but one person doesn't constitute most older generations." Plenty of us older parents and grandparents still know how to read and do educate ourselves on modern ideas in childrearing.
Regression in a child of that age in those circumstances is a sign of trauma and abuse, not just “spanking.” The parents should be publicly flogged for allowing their child to be placed for that length of time with someone who has proven to use physical correction. If you allow abuse to happen you’re just as culpable as the abuser.
Mandated Reporter - That type of regression is a huge red flag. I hope that she was only spanked and other abuse did not happen.
No, it is not the entire generation. It is a few rotten apples who think their way is the only way. I cannot believe that they let her have the baby for an entire weekend. I would not have let her have her for an overnight! My MIL gave my toddler son Aspirin when he hurt himself. I blew a gasket. She explained that it was Baby Aspirin. I explained Reyes Syndrome. She never watched him or any of my other kids, again
I'll buy the grandma believed in spanking; but, not that she was okay with a 3 year old wearing a diaper. Grandparents that the ones that started potty training their own children when they were barely a year old and punished them for every single accident.
I worked at a vet clinic, and a woman came in with her dog who had a horrible skin problem stemming from a flea infestation. Before I could even say anything, she claimed someone was after her, and had been stabbing her and her dog in their sleep with tree bark. It took me a few seconds to process that one.
She also told me that she knew we hadn’t actually euthanized her old dog (that she had YEARS ago) but that we had sold her to Hollywood. Apparently she saw her in a commercial and that was her proof. The dog would have been like 20 by that point so no, we didn’t “sell her to Hollywood.”
Honestly kind of sad, but the only person I have ever directly interacted with who was truly out of touch with reality.
This isn't being out of touch of reality. This is serious mental illness. It's not funny, it's not even sad, it's tragic when someone COMPLETELY loses touch with reality and not only a small segment of it. Please people take mental illness seriously.
It is quite literally being out of touch with reality though. Mental illness does that to people, the two aren't mutually exclusive. Heck being out of touch with reality is often one of the diagnostic criteria.
Load More Replies...Schizophrenia would be a tragedy even if American didn't simply dump its mentally ill on the street.
At one place I worked we had a very mentally ill lady decide that one of our Directors was conspiring with "Aliens" and had put an implant in her head to track her. (Or something equally crazy like that - can't remember all the details) We were a non-profit that had nothing to do with space at all, so I have no idea what made her think this. I believe she found him on our website or something, because we were not the type of company where customers were able to enter the building and speak with employees. There was an official protocol in the event she showed up and tried to get in. One of the weirdest things I've ever experienced! And no, I never saw her or anything - I just heard about it.
My Aunt is a really nice woman, and very giving to everyone, but she once said, "I don't know how anyone survives on $100k per year." This was probably 15 years ago. For reference she lives in a $10MM house.
I'm sure that your aunt is completely correct - She really doesn't know.
Once on 2005 a lady complained how hard it was to live on 100k a year, and I told her I survived on 25k per year working three part time jobs, taking college classes for my BA degree, and paying 12k for rent with 5k for utilities. Entitled woman felt a little better after that.
She may have a heart attack over my Twelve point five Grand a YEAR. That's what I get on Disability.
God, I'd LOVE to try surviving on $100 thousand a year! Oh the things I could suddenly afford!
Certain people have more bills than other people. Some people care for multiple elderly family members, some people have a lot of kids, some people have 6 figures worth of student loans. Some people have all of those things. Just because you earn "a lot" doesn't mean you keep it all.
Hey, she's right. All of us making under that are generally struggling unless you are single. Soon a million dollars won't be enough to live in this country.
A woman I work with once said "I'm convinced I'm immune to cancer because neither my mom nor my grandmother had it."
Said lady has smoked more than a pack a day for 30 years but uses the above "evidence" as a reason why she's never had her lungs checked.
Not condoning this kind of insanity (a full-time smoker for 30 years KNOWS they could have cancer, they just don't want it confirmed), but cancer is a weird b***h. Hubby's just recovering from a 10 year struggle with Stage 4 throat cancer. Never smoked a day in his nearly 60-year-old life.
When you say "recovering", I hope that means he's cancer-free. I really hope he's doing well. A ten year fight...man, that's intense.
Load More Replies...I have colon cancer and never smoked nor dipped. Have a friend who dips and won't get checked because "he doesn't want to know."
Lungs get other disease besides cancer .. they aren't a picnic because they aren't cancer
Weirdly, quite a lot of smokers don't die of lung cancer. Mainly because they die of A LOT of crazy things related to blood clots and blood flow first such as heart attack, Buerger’s Disease that can lead to gangrene and amputation of the limbs, stroke, and so on.
This girl I went to middle school with wouldn't wear a tampon because that counted as losing her virginity.
Tbh I feel bad for her she was probably taught that by someone :(
Probably in a conservative area with no sex education, and where women are only worth it if they're virgins.
Load More Replies...Christian here, I have no idea why so many people believe this. As if God doesn't know the difference between a feminine hygiene product and actual intercourse.
And yet men set up the 'rule' book. Although I do wish they would see that their God is pro~abortion. Old Testament.
Load More Replies...I feel so lucky to have had the mother I did whenever I read this type of thing. She had tampons available and encouraged me to try them whenever I was ready. By high school I was using them as my main protection. She also answered honestly all our questions about the facts of life. Miss you, mom.
Poor thing, I honestly think that. Who knows which idiot taught her such stupidity.
I do believe that in some religious circles this is their viewpoint.... however I could be wrong.
Yeah, some denominations of Christians and some other religions do. They define virginity as having an intact hymen, and a tampon may do this. It does seem to be a less common belief these days though. (I had to explain this to my best friend because her family were exclusive brethren and had this belief)
Load More Replies...Let's assume this drivel was true for a moment...so what? It does my head in that, STILL, virginity is somehow tied to some imaginary worth of a woman, or some commentary on her character. Archaic, stupid bull s**t.
The question of whether using tampons can break the hymen is still addressed on the Tampax website. Answer: yes they can, but so can a lot of other things not relating to sexual activity. Depending upon the structure of a hymen, it may be possible for some women to engage in PIV sex without breaking the hymen. Which is why the presence of or lack thereof of a hymen is not a reliable indicator of whether a woman is a virgin.
I was taught that growing up. "Good girls don't use tampons." As it turns out tampons give me migraines, so I can't use them anyway, but the horror of tampons destroying your womanhood is insane.
When the new store manager was introducing themselves to our team she started off with "i love retail, the reason I started my career in retail is because at the age of 14 I wanted a second horse". One of the worst managers ive every met. Incredibly out of touch and just a bit racist.
This is not bad. She actually started working to pay for the second horse herself!! Not relying on parents paying for it. Who cares how many horses she has if she's paying for them??
I mean, would you have complained if she had said that she did it because she wanted a second dog??
Load More Replies...Def. don't trust me. I retired from a very stressful job this year to work in a pet shop. Best job I've ever had. No stress, just pups
Load More Replies...Some people feel there is a scale to prejudice. My big ol' antisemitic former colleague was way nicer than Adolf Eichmann and Heinrich Himmler. He didn't mind if I was Jewish, as Iong as I didn't talk about it. Oh well, so I had to find someone else for a post-Passover tennis match with leftover matzo balls...
Load More Replies...You can actually buy a horse for around $100. So, yeah...not at all out of the scope of possibility. Yeah, some horses can run in the 10's of thousands, but she just said she was buying a "horse," not a champion Thoroughbred. What I want to know is why is everyone so focused on the horse, and not that her boss was "just a bit racist"?
But the other thing is horses are expensive when it comes to maintenance and caring for them. They need adequate space, shelter, food etc. If she's trying to buy a second horse, it means she's already paying all the expenses for one currently and adding another, doubling some of the expenses. It's not just about "buying a horse" , it's all the financial burden that comes with it that she can apparently afford and still manage a comfortable life
Load More Replies...First off "I love retail" did she actually meet a customer? "I know it's not on sale but it should be, I want the manager!" "If it doesn't scan it's free" "why can't you make a key" because we're in outside garden ..yes she's definitely out of touch
No such animal as 'just a bit racist'...you wither are or you're not. She has the smallest sense of propriety and so keeps those REAL rotten thoughts to herself.
“I mean, it’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, 10 dollars?”
or probably $1.5 million if you make it into an NFT...
Load More Replies...This lacks context. Is it because of the price? From all we know, the banana could pretty much cost 10 dollars. Are those American dollars? Canadian? Cambodian? Ecuadorian? Why do you need the banana for? Are you complaining that someone is berating you about the price of a banana? And you don't want to buy it? Or just disagree on the price? Too many questions, not enough answers.
Ooh, ooh, I actually know this one! It's a quote from Arrested Development. (Insert meme of Captain America understanding a modern cultural reference)
Load More Replies...my dad once gave me 8 dollars to get him some bananas, I came back with many grocery bags full can't remember how many. He didn't say anything to me but when my sister asked about why he had so many he said because your brother is a smartass.
“Say what you will about America, 13 dollars still gets you a hell of a lot of mice,”
I heard a guy complaining about the local christian college having a LGBTQ group on campus. apparently the school has an abstinence pledge or something and he said "if they choose to be gay then aren't they admitting that they are sexually active?" he's nice but definitely out of touch
I think a lot of straight people subconsciously equate "gay" with "sex." I've known plenty of people who are not homophobic, support gay rights and gay marriage, etc., but if they see two men or two women kiss it's like "don't they know kids might be watching this TV show/movie/public place?" They don't feel hatred, it's just subconscious. If their kid watches a man and woman kiss, they think "My kid is watching something sweet and wholesome." If their kid watches a same-sex couple kiss, they think "My kid is watching sex." In the past, I often felt this myself, but the logical part of my brain told me that didn't make any sense. Took a few weeks of soul-searching to figure out the irrationality going on in my subconscious.
Thanks for figuring yourself out there! Gives me hope for humanity
Load More Replies...'If you choose to be straight then aren't you admitting that you're sexually active?'
My junior year of high school, in small town North Carolina, I took a psychology class for fun. My teacher, who otherwise seemed normal, heard a student playing Umbrella by Rhianna on their phone and said, "Turn that off, she's praising Allah and it's illuminati propoganda." I assume he meant the repeated 'ella's but I could never get him to explain the rest of it.
Nutjob psychology teacher. Good combo! “The primary difference between Bipolar Disorders Type I and II is whether you are possessed by Satan himself or merely one of his lesser minions. If a patient is possessed by Satan, they’ll need a full exorcism, but if it’s merely one of his minions, a simple prescription of citalopram and a thumb-sized rose quartz crystal should be sufficient.”
"THEY'RE PUTTING CHEMICALS IN THE WATER THAT ARE TURNING THE FRIGGIN' FROGS GAY"
Remember to buy his crap flavored protein powder and silver supplements so you can be in fighting shape for when the new world order tries to take over 🙄
Oh no, they might sing showtunes! "Hello my baby, Hello my darling, hello my ragtime gal!!", Oh wait...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/our-birth-control-undermines-amphib-12-02-22/#:~:text=The%20most%20common%20types%20of,with%20the%20courtship%20of%20frogs.
Load More Replies..."Why are the feminists, but not menmenists? I feel like men have had to fight for their rights for a long time." Said by my uncle that everyone in my family hates.
no no, from those wild feminists!! because women have always had the right to vote and have always had the same pay as men!! women are just selfish!! /s
Load More Replies...Hmm… I think this is a valid question. I always say them men need their own emancipation. For these reasons (among others): to wear pink without censure from others, to show feelings without censure from others, to it being ok to play with dolls, to be more feminin without being gay …
But isn't this something feminists already stand for?!
Load More Replies..."You should get a part-time job so you don't have to take out student loans" - My dad to my college-bound son
Except in some countries if you are on an international education visa, you are limited to a certain number of hours work a week, which is not very much.
Load More Replies...I’m probably missing something here but, when I was at college, I had several part time jobs to help make ends meet (as did many of my contemporaries not blessed with rich parents). How is that weird? 🤔
I think it's possibly because the cost of tuition has gone up so much that even with several part time jobs you still wouldn't be able to afford it without a student loan or scholarship. Some places have 3-4 year degrees costing six figures, plus accomodation and living costs. If you are bringing in over six figures, even in multiple part time jobs, you don't need the degree!
Load More Replies...This is obviously out of touch for the present day, but this logic actually kinda works IF this were the 80s, when I went to college (and if you go to a state school). I was an independent student in college (no parental support), had a part-time job all the way through, and came out with only $6K in student loan debt.
Weird guy I used to work with was explaining to everyone that scientists can record and play back people’s dreams in video form. He was convinced this was the case.
I hope the scientists enjoyed my recent dream about being attacked by zombie carrots. (Nope, me either!)
Forget the weirdo scientists, I would love to replay some of my dreams! These days, I'm lucky if I remember them at all.
Sophomore year of high school, in my chemistry class, this one girl got into a conversation about what causes the winter season with the teacher. And she goes, “winter happens because the sun turns cold, right?” Honestly, I’m still having trouble processing that one, and it’s been four years.
I once convinced a mate of mine that the days are longer in summer because heat expands
Reminds me of the person who claimed that global warming was caused by daylight savings time, because it somehow created an additional hour of daylight.
I work with a girl. She's 21, bit of a stoner, living with her boyfriend who works at pizza hut. We also work in food service. She thinks she wants to marry him, but he HAS to spend at least $10k on a ring. And when she gets married, She wants one room in her house that is all pink, so she can get ready and put her make up on. Then she's going to sit around the house all day smoking the "dankest weed" in a pink fur lined house coat. Then when her man comes home they "can do their thing".
In today’s episode we shall know if she was put back in touch with reality or if her boyfriend broke up with her
Load More Replies...i kind of want to hang out with her 🤣 she sounds delusional, but i think it would be fun.
In Portland, Oregon.. USA. I asked a traveler, "How do you like Portland?" And she replied. " I love it! It has the aura of a lizard" and I just got up and walked away. Portland can be weird but sometime I just can't.
You haven't been or lived in Portland then ro understand LoL
Load More Replies...I've seen some weird things in Portland that's why I try to stay away from that area
I used to love portland, I lived there for a while, it's seriously gone downhill though, as a lot of cities have.
Ironically, it's all the rich wannabe-weirdos who ruined it. We lived there for about 15 years but had to leave bc we couldn't afford it due to all the ultra-gentrification. People who try to be weird are the worst.
Load More Replies...Oh! So *that's* where the lizard government people come from! And here I thought they came from outer space! Silly me... :)
Portland used to be so beautiful, but some things have just gotten out of hand. It’s hard to feel safe there anymore….. :’(
My 50 year old brother asked me if I don't believe in God and hell what stops me from killing people.
Maybe common sense and basic human decency. I can think of a few reasons but those are the main ones
My own list of reasons starts with "why would I even *want* to?", followed by "a world where people help each other out is more comfortable than a world of backstabbers". Sure, backstabbers exist, but I try to avoid them wherever I can. With an immediate social circle of only decent, non-backstabbing people I can otherwise live a relaxed life. I wonder how stressed-out and anxious people with a different world view are. They must see enemies in every corner...
Load More Replies...Wow. Imagine the number of people who refrain from murder only because of religion. Now, imagine if something suddenly happens, that causes the world to stop believing in a god or gods... that's a frightening imagination.
If anything, an atheist has even more moral values than a believer, because they don't need religion to instruct them that killing is wrong, etc...
A moral compass doesn't need religion to make it point in the right direction
If you require religion to stop you from killing people, you have a problem.
If your fear of hell is all that's keeping you from killing people you're a psychopath and an arsehole. Please find a quiet and peaceful pastime far, faaaar away from others, preferably behind a locked door.
My dad, after watching countless hours of the History Channel, told me with a straight face that Eastern Asians are descended from aliens. He claimed it was "the only way to explain their squinty eyes."
He's not very observant. Aliens have the opposite of squinty eyes - their eyes are massive. Eastern Asians are the native terrestrials and those of us who have more open eyes are the ones descended from aliens (shouldn't need the sarcasm flag, but you can never tell, so, just in case, this. is. a. joke)
Where can I get a sarcasm flag? Asking for a friend...
Load More Replies..."Everyone has depression. It's impossible to be depressed every day." ????
Lots of people do not know the difference between "depressed" and "depressive".
More accurately, the difference between "feeling a bit down from time to time" and "clinically depressed". The term depressive can be taken, by some people, to imply that it's some sort of character trait that can be changed, rather than a serious illness, so actually perpetuates the myth.
Load More Replies...People don't understand the difference between chronic depression and depressive episodes. It is true that nearly everyone will be depressed at some point in their life. For most people though, that is in relation to a tragedy occuring and is something they will recover from. Chronic Depression is me, a 27 year old, who has been medicated for ten years to keep me pseudo functional and I still don't have a job or live on my own
My mom was ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that corn could only be harvested by hand. I showed her videos of corn harvesting machines, and she insisted they were all CGI. It grew into a pretty significant argument.
Eventually she called my sister, who is a librarian, to ask her. When my sister agreed with me, she said "ok then" and never spoke of it again.
That you don't know something is okay, nobody's born a living dictionnary. But that you hold on your wrongful thoughts and come up with nonsensical explanations to defend them is stupid.
So you have no credibility with your mother. My heart goes out to you.
Should've took her to a farm where they grow corn and let her see the machine in real life
I think I actually have a video of last year's corn harvest that I could show her lol
Load More Replies...Show her a video of pecans being harvested. It would blow her mind. They have these trucks with a huge grabber thing. They use the truck’s giant claw to grip the tree and shake the living daylights out it causing all the ripe nuts to fall.They then basically vacuum the nuts up.
After getting a "Dear John" letter from my ex that explains why she wants to get divorced, we were sitting in the car and she asks me... "So after we get divorced, do you think we could get together sometimes and have sex." She leaves me for another guy and has the balls to ask for casual sex after our divorce. Really quite pathetic. I noped the f*ck out of that.
A guy from my school turned in a report on how smacking your son for "trespassing" in your neighbor's lawn is the same as shooting Mexicans crossing the border. He also claimed that a My Little Pony was his headmate and that he could build a portal to the Pony World using wheat bread, melted copper, and a gallon of goats blood. I wish I was making this up.
I’ve got a few, all for the same guy. “My art is famous in 31 countries.” mid thirties, lives on his brothers couch “Thanks to a loophole I had found in the bank system,I used to have so much money that $300,000 on my coffee table was no big deal. I also used to rent the biggest I haul truck I could find, take a few friends to the mall and we would load shopping carts up full of whatever we wanted and fill the uhaul up.” mid thirties, lives on his brothers couch “I’m one of the top ~insert genre~ artists in the world.” I could go on for a while.
"Delusions of grandeur" is a pretty frightening symptom of many serious mental illnesses. Especially considering this person KNOWS you know he's lying (or, rather, a person with proper mental faculties would know).
My bil at the time came over to see us awhile back, we were just hanging out watching tv, MTV cribs was on, he told us to please change the channel because watching this makes him feel poor( lives at home-always in between jobs, lives off his mom on her ssd , til this day) my husband had to tell him” you realized you are poor right ?, got upset and left
A friend of mine is dating a woman far younger than him (he’s my age, almost 50, and she is about 20). I would be congratulating him on such an accomplishment (she is very attractive), were it not for the fact that she is so utterly stupid and completely out of touch with reality. Her most absurd statement is when she told me that “stem cell research” is all about using the cells from aborted fetuses as flavoring in canned food and that therefore, all canned foods contain small amounts of dead babies, so she will not eat anything that comes from a can.
Guy: I'm 50 & having sex with a hot 20 yo girl. Girl: I don't know you and we're at a funeral. Why are you telling me this? Guy: I'm not just telling you.....I'm telling EVERYBODY!!!!
You’d congratulate him for what now? I guess OP is the out of touch one here. And a moron on top of that
Why would you ever congratulate someone for dating a person 30 YEARS younger than them?
To give him the benefit of doubt: Because he is still good looking, fit and charming enough to attract somebody so much younger (and not just rich enough to act as a sugar daddy)...
Load More Replies...I was dating a woman who was seven years younger than me. I know it’s not that bad but one day I realized when I was seventeen she was ten. Completely creeped me out. I was never able to convince her that I was not making it up when I broke off the relationship. I can't imagine what it would be like with a thirty year age gap. Edit: I was twenty eight at the time.
Load More Replies...Awww. She must have other qualities that her BF clearly values more than intelligence.
Any person that makes a blanket term about a whole race or group of people, to me, is out of touch with reality.
When the subject of a sentence is "you people" I tend to tune out.
Agreed, usually they’ve had a bad experience with an ethnic person an assume their whole race is the same , every race has an a*****e
Load More Replies...I see what you did there. Thanks for pointing out that irony isn't dead.
Load More Replies...I am 52 years old and caucasian. My father was significantly older when I was born- 43 - think WWII era mentality as he was in the war. One of his favorite sayings was doesn't matter what color you are there's good and bad. There's white people that are good and there's white trash ... etc. Trash doesn't discriminate. He kinda taught me reverse discrimination in a way I guess, but I have never and still don't look at anyone different because of their skin color. I judge the person and nothing else. He's been gone for 27 years and that still sticks in my mind to this day. I'm not trying to say anything special here just putting my 2 cents in, because when I read these kind of things I always wonder why he had that mentality. It was way before his time.
What's funny to me, a Black woman in the US, is how they think that they can hide their racism. Honey Chile, I was first called the n-word at age 9 by a deacon of a Baptist church. I have decades of experience. I KNOW a racist when I encounter one. You can't piss on my head and tell me it's raining.
What sort of troglodyte would down vote you?! Have an upvote from me. Further, I'm sorry you've had to experience some of the worst of humanity. Some people are just stupid assholes.
Load More Replies..."Good thing I'm not human." ...kay. Edit: Folks wanted elaboration. Dude in question was this obnoxious neckbeard who worked in the same warehouse as me, I'd done my best to avoid him, but as he tended to be loud, I knew he didn't just look like he fit the stereotype. One day, I was waiting in line to clock in (place was really particular about when you clocked in), and he was ahead of me. He starts bitching, to nobody in particular, that his upcoming holiday (it was around xmas) was going to be sh*tty and lonely. At this point, I'm feeling just a little bad for how much I've judged him, so I try to cheer him up a tad and engage in conversation: Me: "Eh, it doesn't HAVE to be that way. You can decide it's you time, relax, do sh*t YOU want to do. I know I enjoy having time off where I don't have to answer to anyone. Him: "Yeah, I guess. I'm just pissed. I was supposed to be going to this holiday party, it was gonna be great, but APPARENTLY [host's girlfriend] decided I wasn't welcome and now I've been banned." (My will to encourage starts to deflate, as I can assume MANY reasons why this came to be, but I don't know for certain, so I decide to try to be kind while finding my way out). Me: "Aw, that sucks. People can be frustrating." Him: "Some people just can't be happy unless they're excluding someone, and for some reason it's ALWAYS me." Me: "Yeah, I hear ya. To a degree, that's human nature, but it's no fun to be on the recieving end of that." Him: (Voice dripping with arrogance) "Good thing I'm not human." (At this point I've given up, my attempt to let go of my first impression proved thoroughly pointless. I nod, make a show of spotting a friend of mine, and scurry off to another line.)
Just because he looks like a human doesn’t mean he’s not an alien.
How many times do we have to tell you, DON’T DROP YOUR COVER UNTIL THE INVASION STARTS!
oh it's my husband! my one big dislike of him is his disdain for humanity. he's decided he's superior and therefore not human. i think he has some self-esteem issues and this is his way of feeling good about himself. and for anyone who wants to tell me to toss him, no thank you. i'm allowed to loved a flawed person.
My friend was going on about how the stock market is hitting records under Trump, and I just point out that we've been in a bull market since a few months after Obama got into office and we've been hitting records every week since 2013. I showed him a chart of the S&P 500 and he goes "I don't care about that chart".
Yes, the S&P did do quite well during the Obama administration. But, it did not hit records every week since 2013. Everyone should look at the chart for themselves, you can find it on the NASDAQ website under SPX Historical Data. I count 63 weeks in the 2014-2016 period when the S&P fell, that's more than a third of the weeks. So what chart did you show him?
The earth is flat.
They've got a point...every part of the earth that I've tasted certainly wasn't carbonated.
I want to know if Flat Earthers believe in God and heaven and all that.
They funny. I want to get on some of their sites to find out their reasoning but bloody algorithms won’t let me go deep. Algorithms suck!
I don't know how deep you've managed to dive but the whole story surrounding 'Mad' Mike Hughes, a daredevil who turned flat-earther and wanted to send himself up high enough to prove the earth was flat with his own eyes was pretty wild.
Load More Replies...*Of course* the Earth is flat! How else could we go to the four corners? (isn't there something about the four corners in the bible? oooh, oooh! so you *know* it's true! also, I read it on the Internet... :)
Actually, the Bible refers to the earth as a sphere or circle at Isaiah 40:22 and states that God created the earth by "hanging it upon nothing" at Job 26:7, proving that science and the Bible agree.
Load More Replies...“I can’t go to jail, I’m Canadian.”(over heard a guy in cuffs say it to the American police officer who just arrested him)
Wait,,, does this guy think he has diplomatic immunity because he's not a citizen?
I've heard people from the US say this in any country that isn't the US. They think their passport will protect them. In a similar vein my daughter lives in a touristy place where some visitors act badly and are surprised when the police consider this unacceptable as they are 'on holiday' and should be allowed to do what they want..
You do realize other nations have idiots too, right? America has smart people too, btw.
Load More Replies...You have a degree so that means you will get a job with high pay.
Try telling that to teachers. Alas, we never did get high pay regardless of how many degrees any of us had.
Had a roommate a few years back. A mutual friend of ours helped us move in. The mutual asked us if we could let him keep a table and some chairs at our place until he moved into his new places as well and we agreed. After a few weeks I helped our mutual move his stuff from our place into his new place while my roommate was out. When he got home he asked where "his table and chairs went". When I reminded him that our mutual friend was going to take them back eventually he then proceeded to argue with me about how he had brought the table and chairs from home. Thankfully no longer living with that bundle of joy anymore.
I had a roommate once, moved in with nothing but the clothes on her back. When she left 6 months later she took all my towels and insisted they were hers - when I said no, she backed down and then ultimately stole them on her last day so I was left with one towel 😂 when I tried to talk to her she shrieked at me, I asked if she was drunk and she accused me of gaslighting her. I just shrugged and bought new (shitty) towels (she took two plush soft fancy towels I spent $25 each on - I’m usually broke so these were a favourite splurge of mine) lmao, not worth the effort.
My boss has some very weird one-liners. He's often (not joking) told me he was born in the same year as me, when he's a 60 year old man, and I'm in my twenties. He also also often refereed to himself as 'Little Boy Blue.' Nodding politely is 90% of my job at this point.
LOL, google images has him matching to Ted Danson.
Load More Replies...Sounds like your boss is just trying to make people smile. Hopefully he doesn't read your post, admitting to giving your job 10%. You might end up being 'Little Boy Blue'
When I say "Google it" and they respond with "I can't do it/I don't know how"
It's almost 2018 and that person has 1000$ (1150€ in my country) smartphone in his pocket.
With a smartphone you can literally just ask your phone most questions. Some are answered outright, others they google for you. Even my grandma knows how to use alexa too btw.
That is very wrong actually. In some countries you don't have Alexa/Siri or if you have it, it hasn't been developed enough that everything will be understood when they ask in their own language. Stop assuming that everyone speaks English.
Load More Replies...Searching on the internet for something is such a modern and wonderful development, but you still can't beat listening and learning information off someone who knows their s**t and is passionate about it. Just check it later with the googles.
When was this posted? Seems a little late (Maybe I'm just "out of touch with reality").
My family argued that the fight for net neutrality was stupid because nobody actually needs the internet, we got by fine without it in the old days.
This argument could be spinning back to the stone age and “why do we need caves, it worked fine without before”
"Why do humans need beer, we lived just fine before it."
Load More Replies...They don't realise just how long we've been using the internet (or networks just like it) If they TRULY went back to before big businesses used them then we would have to go to a time where records weren't accessible except locally and that a 'misfiling' could cause someone to die. (thinking of hospital settings and how a patient may be sensitive/allergic to medication)
"Do squirrels lay eggs?" By my mom while discussing the squirrels in the rafters of her very old house.
This is ignorance, not stupidity. Ignorance is not knowing the answer to something - we are all ignorant about many things. Asking a question demonstrates intelligence; she recognizes she doesn't know the answer and wishes to learn. Stupidity, on the other hand, is steadfastly believing something despite being shown it is not true. Also, making fun of someone for asking a question.
Well, maybe that client didn't live in Texas. Median housing price in Santa Clara county, CA, where I live: over $1.5 million. In my area, yeah, in fact, $200 grand would be scary ghetto stuff. Or a dog house. One of the two.
I used to work with a spiritual healer. He claimed he had that third eye. He said he watched himself drive his car though traffic in an out of body experience while not even being in the car at the time of driving the car. He used to suck out my bad energy as well as give me energy balls. (These were actually really fun. It felt like real life Dragonball Z)
I once dated a girl who a third breast. On her back. I enjoyed going out dancing with her.
There's a lot of sucking and ball giving in this story. I guess that *could* be spiritual...
"God pays your medical bills"
If you are a big church pastor, he might. He'll also pay for your mansion and your private plane.
And your vacation homes, and your yacht and private island. And don't forget, your income is tax free.
Load More Replies...Kinda contradictory, why would you have medical bills to begin with, you know what I mean
When I was discussing how the Civil Aeronautics Board helped reduce travel prices around the country benefitting the consumer my rich aunt said thats why they should buy their own planes.
I would love to have one journey in a private jet, even if it just circled around an airport a few times.
I got to ride a small (15 passenger?) commercial flight to Milwaukee; my least favorite flight, plane rocked too much.
Load More Replies...My God, what are they teaching people these days? The Civil Aeronautics Board kept prices HIGH through over-regulation. Prices began to drop when Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act in 1978, which provided for the eventual dismantling of the CAB, which thankfully happened at the very beginning of 1985.
I have an aunt who married a rather wealthy man. Like, she lives next door to the owner of the Dallas Stars and Texas Rangers. My cousin went to Spain a few years back to look at yachts her husband was thinking of buying. She said while I was visiting "And pretty much everyone has at least a few million dollars in real estate." Words failed me.
i had a person at work once say that you'd get hypothermia and literally freeze in about ten minutes..... it was around 20 degrees Fahrenheit..... his reasoning, your body is mostly water. (p.s. he told a skinnier kid that it would only take him 8 minutes for the same to happen)
Perhaps is you were naked and soaked in water? I know that you can freeze in the North Sea within minutes..
You can get hypothermia and your heart can stop from the shock, but you don't freeze solid like an icicle. That would take a lot longer, maybe a day or two.
Load More Replies...I once had a drunk guy explain to me that he knows "what part of water freezes! It's made up of hydrogen and oxygen, y'know, and it's gotta be the hydrogen, 'cos if it was the oxygen it would drop out in frozen bits from the air in winter!" Sound resoning. I was impressed. Didn't even know where to start 😂
I worked at McDonald’s (Sydney, Australia) for the good part of my teen years. One shift I was on register taking orders and this lady came up to me, she must’ve been in her mid to late 40’s. She said, “wow McDonalds, you guys still exist? Haven’t seen you around in years!” That is word for fkn word. I was like .. wot ¿
Maybe she'd been incarcerated for years. Or maybe she's just running on a lean mixture.
"New fridges cost close to $10,000" - says my MIL who has a fridge that hasn't been working for almost a month. They are using one of the drawers to keep everything in as apparently that part works. But all the shelves are empty. Update: NOT talking about a built-in fridge. They spent about $5k on their current one, purchased 5 or 6 years ago. Refuse to get a repair man in.
This must be an exchange rate or cost of living difference! $5k on a refrigerator? Is it an industrial one? I'm assuming it's USD, and this works out at around £3925. The most expensive free standing fridge I can find online (pre any residual Easter sale discount) is £2329 for a fridge freezer, and I had to be highly specific with my search criteria. Average fridge freezer prices in the UK are maybe up to £700. And as part of my research, one website lists US fridge costs at being up to $4100 for a *smart* fridge, possibly smarter than this person's MIL...
I'm in the US, and it's been awhile since I last bought appliances so I checked the website of my local chain home improvement store. Right now they have standard household fridge/freezer combos with prices ranging from $600 to $5000. The scientific laboratory I work in recently bought an ultra low temp (-80C) industrial freezer for about $10,000. You would have to work really hard to find a household fridge for $10,000
Load More Replies...“What’s more important, a friendship or a job?” Considering I’ve had that same job for nearly 20 years and plan on retiring from it, combined with the fact that I’ve only known the friend for five years and caught him in more lies than I can count... well, I gotta go give that one some serious thought.
Wouldn't have a friend that's been caught lying more times than I could count, that'd be a hard no!
Load More Replies...Really late to the thread, but I had a client call houses in the ballpark of what mine cost "scary ghetto houses." I live in Texas, so you can surprisingly get a non-scary house for around 200k. I'm not ashamed.
I live in north central Ohio, where you can get a pretty non-scary house for $100K or less.
Well, maybe that client didn't live in Texas. Median housing price in Santa Clara county, CA, where I live: over $1.5 million. In my area, yeah, in fact, $200 grand would be scary ghetto stuff. Or a dog house. One of the two.
Housing where I am is INCREDIBLY cheap and, for the most part, has gorgeous views. Still handy for the closest city too. I can understand if you were born somewhere that is expensive but I don't understand the desirer to move there. I can have a better standard of living than someone with twice the earnings..
outside of oklahoma city, 10 years ago... got min for 68k. it's just under 1000 sq ft.
I live in Central CT, you can get a nice not scary house for 200k. A really nice house for 275k.
"Emotional labour isn't real."
In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!
Thanks for your input Trump. The thermonuclear warheads to stop hurricanes idea was genius too.
And he was absolutely right when he said windmills cause cancer as well.
Load More Replies...“Global Warming” was the worst naming EVER. The MAGA idiots can’t process the idea outside of that misleading title.
They also can't seem to understand the difference between climate and weather.
Load More Replies...Global climate change. Weather is unpredictable, storms more frequent, sea level rising, etc. One record cold day doesn't change the rest.
“I SWATTed someone for attention”
Here is a pretty good example of textbook "delusional": I taught junior college for 7 years. One semester I had a waitress sign up for a night class. She asked if I would work with her since her schedule would present special problems for her to take the class. I agreed with the provision that she do all the work anyway and learn all the material. Sure enough, she only attended three times during a 16-week semester class. I emailed her the assignments and mid-semester test which I never got back. I even sent her the final exam to take as a homework type assignment for a final grade. She took 3 weeks to send this back to me. She did not bother to complete the final exam and earned an "F" on it. How can you fail an open-book, take-home final???? So she earned a very failing grade for the class. She was outraged. Her position was that she had attended three whole times while breathing, and therefore deserved at least a "D" for a passing grade. I said no, she didn't do the work, and she didn't learn the material. She complained to three levels of management to these professional educators. They supported me and agreed she should fail the class. She never took a class in that college again because she was so offended at how unreasonable everyone (especially me) was in their treatment of her.
Years ago, I had one class which conflicted with my work schedule. Since I had the same professor for different classes, he was willing to let me just read the coursework at home, do the coursework at home, etc, even if I couldn't physically attend the class. If I had any questions about that night's work, I'd ask him about it when I saw the prof in class the next morning. I passed all my classes with flying colors, and it never once occurred to me that my grade for the class I couldn't phyiscally attend should be a "gimme" out of the goodness of my professor's heart. I, you know, actually did all the relevant coursework and took all the relevant exams. What a concept!
Load More Replies...I mentioned how fast the clouds were moving while walking to class with a room mate in college. She said, "Its not the clouds that are moving, its the Earth that is moving so fast today"..I didn't say anything back.
I also thought I could see the Earth spinning! But in my defense, I was 5 years old and sat on the edge of the sandbox looking at the clouds.
Load More Replies...We've survived a lot of ignorance before, it's just easier to see now because of the internet. We're not actually more ignorant than before, it just looks worse.
Load More Replies...My mother's brother told me that the reason my mother was unhappy with my physically and mentally abusive father was because she reads too many romance books. My grandpa (Mom's dad) told me that the reason so many couples are getting divorced is because women are allowed to drive. I told him that women will not leave a good husband simply because she has the ability to get away from him. My sister told me that I shouldn't keep a family member ,who is a suspected child molester, from having alone time with my 2 year old daughter because even if he did molest her, it wouldn't kill her.
…You and your child need to run far, far away from this toxicity
Load More Replies..."Being homosexual is a mental illness" "Only n***as and illegal foreigners are criminals" "The covid vaccine is not safe because they made it so quickly. All the other vaccines were made over decades, so they're safe" "What's the point of being a woman if you don't have kids?" All things said by my aunt at one point or another.
I guess she never heard of the polio vaccine and how quickly that was made in top of the lack of rigorous testing. I’m so sorry you had to hear all of that.
Load More Replies...When I was in high school, gas was getting extremely expensive. A girl in my 9th grade history class said one day "I don't understand why someone doesn't just charge 50 cents per gallon for gas." When we told her they would lose money she said "no because they would get a lot of customers so eventually they would make a profit." It took twenty minutes to get her to understand that the business has to pay for the gas before the customer and more customers would mean more money lost than gained.
I need more information about how you got God to pay your medical bills.
I invited my soon to be mother-in-law to travel with us. She pointed to her shoulders and said she couldn't go because humans don't have wings and aren't meant to fly.
That's probably just fear of flying with a easy excuse.
Load More Replies...Number 34 made me mad. You knew about abuse and gave the kid to this person again? F**k you.
Here is a pretty good example of textbook "delusional": I taught junior college for 7 years. One semester I had a waitress sign up for a night class. She asked if I would work with her since her schedule would present special problems for her to take the class. I agreed with the provision that she do all the work anyway and learn all the material. Sure enough, she only attended three times during a 16-week semester class. I emailed her the assignments and mid-semester test which I never got back. I even sent her the final exam to take as a homework type assignment for a final grade. She took 3 weeks to send this back to me. She did not bother to complete the final exam and earned an "F" on it. How can you fail an open-book, take-home final???? So she earned a very failing grade for the class. She was outraged. Her position was that she had attended three whole times while breathing, and therefore deserved at least a "D" for a passing grade. I said no, she didn't do the work, and she didn't learn the material. She complained to three levels of management to these professional educators. They supported me and agreed she should fail the class. She never took a class in that college again because she was so offended at how unreasonable everyone (especially me) was in their treatment of her.
Years ago, I had one class which conflicted with my work schedule. Since I had the same professor for different classes, he was willing to let me just read the coursework at home, do the coursework at home, etc, even if I couldn't physically attend the class. If I had any questions about that night's work, I'd ask him about it when I saw the prof in class the next morning. I passed all my classes with flying colors, and it never once occurred to me that my grade for the class I couldn't phyiscally attend should be a "gimme" out of the goodness of my professor's heart. I, you know, actually did all the relevant coursework and took all the relevant exams. What a concept!
Load More Replies...I mentioned how fast the clouds were moving while walking to class with a room mate in college. She said, "Its not the clouds that are moving, its the Earth that is moving so fast today"..I didn't say anything back.
I also thought I could see the Earth spinning! But in my defense, I was 5 years old and sat on the edge of the sandbox looking at the clouds.
Load More Replies...We've survived a lot of ignorance before, it's just easier to see now because of the internet. We're not actually more ignorant than before, it just looks worse.
Load More Replies...My mother's brother told me that the reason my mother was unhappy with my physically and mentally abusive father was because she reads too many romance books. My grandpa (Mom's dad) told me that the reason so many couples are getting divorced is because women are allowed to drive. I told him that women will not leave a good husband simply because she has the ability to get away from him. My sister told me that I shouldn't keep a family member ,who is a suspected child molester, from having alone time with my 2 year old daughter because even if he did molest her, it wouldn't kill her.
…You and your child need to run far, far away from this toxicity
Load More Replies..."Being homosexual is a mental illness" "Only n***as and illegal foreigners are criminals" "The covid vaccine is not safe because they made it so quickly. All the other vaccines were made over decades, so they're safe" "What's the point of being a woman if you don't have kids?" All things said by my aunt at one point or another.
I guess she never heard of the polio vaccine and how quickly that was made in top of the lack of rigorous testing. I’m so sorry you had to hear all of that.
Load More Replies...When I was in high school, gas was getting extremely expensive. A girl in my 9th grade history class said one day "I don't understand why someone doesn't just charge 50 cents per gallon for gas." When we told her they would lose money she said "no because they would get a lot of customers so eventually they would make a profit." It took twenty minutes to get her to understand that the business has to pay for the gas before the customer and more customers would mean more money lost than gained.
I need more information about how you got God to pay your medical bills.
I invited my soon to be mother-in-law to travel with us. She pointed to her shoulders and said she couldn't go because humans don't have wings and aren't meant to fly.
That's probably just fear of flying with a easy excuse.
Load More Replies...Number 34 made me mad. You knew about abuse and gave the kid to this person again? F**k you.
