Get Premium
Dark mode theme is available exclusively for premium users. Learn more about the benefits of subscribing.
No fees, cancel anytime.
Dark Mode 
No fees, cancel anytime 
then open in external browser
and click "Open in External Browser" 
“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence
We probably all have that one hill that we're ready to die on. That one truth that we have no proof for but still believe no matter what. Some can be quite entertaining, like the now-memed-to-death claim that Keanu Reeves is immortal. Others, like thinking that your phone is always listening to you, are easily proven or disproven.
So when one netizen asked, "What are you 100% certain is true despite having no evidence to confirm or disprove your belief?" naturally, a whole bunch of commenters delivered. From theories that cats and dogs purposely break things just to wind us up, to some conspiracy-like opinions, the Redditors were ready to share. Read the most captivating entries below and don't forget to upvote the ones you like the best!
Image credits: GentleBoneCrusher
This post may include affiliate links.
#1
The number of stupid people is outpacing those with average intelligence resulting in the overall dumbing down of society.
Robert T 1 year ago
I still maintain that Idiocracy (the film) is a documentary that was only a couple of years ahead of its time!
Load More Replies...
PeTeH 1 year ago
Society can educate it's people, if it chooses to. But educated people don't vote for liars
Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 1 year ago
I question anyone that thinks they've found the truth about political figures. I'm convinced it's all propaganda.
Load More Replies...
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
No, it’s just that the stupid people are louder, and the internet gives them a much bigger platform to be heard. I need to believe this.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
Thank you for boldly stating that on this internet platform.
Load More Replies...
MR 1 year ago
No, the problem is it's always been this way. What's happened is in the past their ideas couldn't get a foothold as, outside their small circles, no one would listen to them, let alone validate them. With the internet, it's easy to find like minded fools who will not only valid you, but amplify you. Even offer funding to your ideas out there.
Marie Clear 1 year ago
I think by funding, you mean campaign contributions?
Load More Replies... Kathleen McGann 1 year ago
We could fix this with an education system that teaches logical thinking rather than one based on taking standardized tests
SM 1 year ago
I recently saw something that shocked me. A study of 2000 gen Z people if they thought Trump did a good job when in office, and 57% said yes! I thought gen Z was going to be "our hope". https://www.newsweek.com/generation-z-trump-approval-rating-poll-young-voters-1873701
Load More Replies...
Der Kommissar 1 year ago (edited)
At least in the USA, the quality of schools has been declining since I can remember. It has gotten to the point where people know nothing about history, geography, etc. and cannot spell properly or write a coherent essay. I was at the beach once (Santa Monica) and a woman was jumping around in the waves with a shiat-eating grin on her face. She was from Kansas and had never seen the ocean before. Then she asked me if it was the Pacific or Atlantic. Nothing personal against the Kansas educational system. My kids went to LAUSD and said there were many kids who just didn't care about school, and some that were outright delinquents/gang members.
geezeronthehill 1 year ago
There is no advantage to those in power to have an educated populace who can think logically. Hence our current education system.
Load More Replies...
Ace 1 year ago
I think this persons needs to redo some basic maths and gain an understanding of what is meant by "average".
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
"Stupid" lowers the average, which is what dumbing down is. There is nothing wrong with the statement. For example, the world IQ (median) is a constant 100, the US is 98 and dropping. The average (median) is recalibrated to 100 with each change.
Load More Replies...
WonderWoman 1 year ago
I think it is gullible, angry, undereducated people who can't take responsibility for their own shortcomings and are looking to blame something, someone, anything else but the person in the mirror, and then they go on facebook, twitter, watch fox, or dare I say go to church and they are told that their lot in life is because women work, the POC stole their jobs, immigrants moved into the neighborhood. It is reinforced over and over- they are GROOMED to BLAME and not take responsibility. This goes on for years and you have the whole of the republican party in the USA
Westy 1 year ago
Wouldn't it have been easier to just say, "white Christian conservatives"?
Load More Replies... Jason K 1 year ago
The problem actually isn't IQ, which doesn't change significantly, primarily due to being primarily influenced by genetics. The issue is actually bias, with people believing things without investigating or assuming things that aren't factual. We're a society of echo chambers, and fewer and fewer people actually interact with people who differ significantly from themselves.
SM 1 year ago (edited)
I agree with this and that is why the problem is getting worse, because the "echo chambers" are "better" at separating people that have different points of view. AI is being trained to do exactly that, learn what you want to hear, and give it back to you. Also, people believe that they are making decisions based on logical conclusions, but in reality, a lot of decisions are being made emotionally, and that is one of the reasons it is really hard to change a person's point of view by showing them facts. In fact, the more intelligent the person is the more they will look for crazy off the wall "facts" to justify their point of view.
Load More Replies...
RELATED:
#2
Our dog knew my wife was pregnant before she did. Normally she was a sweet and lazy lovable dumb*ss who would hang out with whoever wasn't moving. (The dog, not the wife) Then one day, she decided she wasn't going to leave my wife's side. She wasn't aggressive, but she wasn't going anywhere either. Followed her everywhere for a few weeks, then spousal unit started getting sick, and went to the doctor, and the doctor said "Lets check the obvious"... And now I have an eight year old daughter, and that dog is her constant companion.
Jeff White 1 year ago
There have been many demonstrated cases of dogs detecting health changes in humans, like through their very sensitive sense of smell. I don't doubt this idea at all.
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 1 year ago
There are medical support dogs (PTSD, heart conditions, diabetes, etc) that can detect changes in their humans long before they can themselves. Saw a video recently where a medical support dog for a girl with a heart condition alerted her to sit down and relax because she was about to have an episode. The dog brought her medication, water, and phone to her and then stayed near her, cuddling and watching over her. Dogs are amazing.
Load More Replies...
Caroline Nagel 1 year ago
I believe this. If dogs can smell Parkinson, then they can detect a pregnancy.
MonsterMum 1 year ago
My brother's dog also knew I was pregnant before I did. He always used to jump up on me for fuss and suddenly stopped. I wondered why as he was still pleased to see me. He obviously knew not to jump on pregnant women (he was a very good boy).
Red PANda (she/they) 1 year ago
Dogs have a sense of smell like 10k times better than ours, they can detect when there are chemical changes in our body. They can even be trained to smell stuff like cancer and COVID. They also have excellent hearing and can hear our heartbeats, and they can sense heat kind of like a snake. They can tell when something’s up. We’re so lucky to have them :)
#3
Conspiracy theories are purposefully circulated in order to create dissonance and divide people so that we forget about legitimate issues.
PeTeH 1 year ago
Russia actively used conspiracy theories and such to create division. And now the Ukraine support is stuck because of right wing maga loonies and russia is advancing because of shortage of supplies...
Rosecrucian Roeth 1 year ago
And good ole Murica is on the final spiral down the toilet........................
Load More Replies...
Giraffy Window 1 year ago (edited)
Plus all the age gap divisions "Boomers will only ever" "Lazy Gen Z can't even" "Millennials won't" "Gen X believes"
Flora Porter 1 year ago
True, more or less. Literally every media outlet has an agenda and an editorial policy that supports it.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Conspiracy theories, "culture wars", and demonizing minorities are all distractions. Those with power can only control small groups, which requires separating people into groups who view each other as "the enemy". They can't stop an organized populace.
Some of the 'truths' people list here actually have evidence behind them. Like the fact that drinks taste better in glass bottles than in plastic bottles. Even if Coca-Cola's spokespeople claim that their Coke tastes the same regardless of the packaging. Food chemist Sara Risch told Popular Science that there can be a subtle variation in taste when your drink is in an aluminum can, or a plastic or glass bottle.
"While packaging and food companies work to prevent any interactions, they can occur," she explained. Aluminum cans, for example, have a polymer lining, and it might absorb some soluble flavor from the soda. When it comes to plastic bottles, a chemical named acetaldehyde can find its way into your drink as well.
And while it might sound alarming, there's no need to think that it's harmful. Public health departments track this kind of potential chemical contact. So the only thing we should worry about is the slightly different taste.
#4
Allowed to operate freely, corporations would gladly abandon any semblance of ethics to turn a profit, including ushering in the slavery and or deaths of their customers.
GettingCereal 1 year ago
Aren't they already doing this? Especially with illegal immigrants, stealing their passports and forcing them to work is disturbingly not as rare as one would think. Then there's the whole "moving production to overseas" with child labor and massive exploitation.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Some maybe. Definitely not all. I suspect the worst suspects are the biggest ones. While companies are still relatively small every name still has a human face. But once you're into the thousands of employees they start turning into numbers or position descriptions.
Load More Replies...
Jrog 1 year ago
Just see the difference in corporate behaviors between heavily unregulated markets (USA) or strictly regulated (EU) to prove this true.
ADJ 1 year ago
In USA corporates can buy laws by bribing politicians. It is called "campaign donations".
Load More Replies...
Tee Rat 1 year ago
Check out some of the Superfund sites in the US. The amount of taxpayer money being spent to clean former companies' toxic messes is ridiculous. Many companies operated like this around world, raked in massive profit then shut down
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 1 year ago
Landfills are a perfect example of this. Company forms a LLC, digs a whole, fills it with garbage and walks away (limited liability protects them from most lawsuits and penalties). Landfill gets declared a Superfund site and taxpayers foot the bill to deal with it. Company forms another LLC and moves down the road to dig another landfill.
Load More Replies... Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 1 year ago
I wish I could remember the source. Right now there's a case making it's way to some state supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of the department of labor. if this case is won, 40 hour work weeks, child labor laws, overtime pay etc will be a thing of the past. The company making this argument is being sued for not paying overtime. Damn I wish I could remember where I read this.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
they used to do this till labour laws came into effect and the EPA started getting on their case.
Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 1 year ago
This is a truth. Sadly, deregulation is a central tenant to the Republican party.
#5
Electronic appliances, phones, washing machines ... are intentionally made to break down after few years just so you have to buy new ones, cause repair is usually not worth it. My parents have 35 years old washing machine, mine broke twice in 2 years.
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 1 year ago
Let's make cheap products to force consumers to replace them at regular intervals. The amount of garbage that planned obsolescence has created is obscene.
Load More Replies... Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 1 year ago
https://www.classaction.org/lg-refrigerator-linear-compressor-failure-lawsuits. Here's proof
Load More Replies...
Jrog 1 year ago
Common misconception. Planned obsolescence doesn't mean designing an appliance to break down on purpose. It means designing an appliance according to a reasonable projected life span and use case, without wasting money on overdesigning and overengineering parts. The ultimate goal is to build a product with the right market price, that serves its purpose at least until using/repairing it is not economical anymore and replacement is more efficient.
Jrog 1 year ago (edited)
An example I often bring into this discussion. Many people talk about those 1970s washing machines that never break down. They basically consist of a huge motor, a heating element, a water valve and a mechanical timer. In 1970 that would have cost $800 (about 8% of annual income), or $6300 today. A fancy electronic washing machine today costs... $800, eight times less. A 1970s washing machines consumed on average 40 gallons of water and 8 kWh per load; today's average is 10 gallons and 0,8 kW. With the cost of wasted energy on the old machine alone you could have bought and used a brand new washing machine every 4 years, dramatically reducing pollution, improving cleanliness and reducing damage to clothes (LCA approach. Yes, this takes into account the recycling of the old appliance and the energy cost of producing a new one). Was it worthy to have such an expensive and overengineered machine at the time? Or would have been better to save 3/4th of the cost and have it replaced every decade with a better model?
Load More Replies...
Giraffy Window 1 year ago
We replaced a part that half broke in our newer model dryer and I took the half broken part to a metal scrapper with the part number and machine model on a piece of paper. Dude was pretty pleased to have it.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
If we want something to last a seriously long time, it will need to be constructed from more expensive parts, Then we go into the shop , look at the price of the high-quality stuff and walk on by. You can't expect high quality for low price, but so many people buy on price. We are our own worst enemy.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Unfortunately price is a poor indicator of quality. If we could actually trust price to be a genuine indicator of whether something is good or bad I'd always pay more. But the reality is many pricey items are no better constructed than cheap ones. They're just gouging you harder.
Load More Replies... Ace 1 year ago (edited)
It's simply not true. Appliances are designed to a price, meaning that parts are chosen that will last a minimum specified time. Yes, they could (and some do) make machines last a lot longer, but would you pay four times the price for something that lasts twice as long? Long-lasting machines are the exception, not the norm, and just because your parents' one has lasted that long doesn't mean that they all did - many thousands of the same model will have been discarded years or even decades ago. Edit: Jrog has already said it, perhaps more eloquently than I did.
Robert T 1 year ago (edited)
Production methods have changed and a lot of wear and tear items are no longer easily replacable. A few decades ago, replacing the bearings on a washing machine was a relatively cheap thing to do and kept the machine going. Now it costs more than half the price of a new machine if they can replace them at all without having to replace the drum and a bunch of other stuff as well.
Load More Replies...
#6
There is at least ONE giant creature deep down in the ocean that we don’t know about because we have never seen before. Like maybe one of those megalodons/plesiosaurs. We thought giant squids weren’t real until we found one.
Dirk Daring 1 year ago
The ocean is deep and dark and terrifying and it's like a completely different planet down there with unimaginable unknown horrors and I don't want to talk about it any more or ever again.
Simon Kendra 1 year ago
Most of the ocean is “unexplored” because it’s a dark body of water, with nothing just sand on the bottom. Corals, rocks, islands and shallow water is but a percentage of that. There might be some tiny or weird creatures we haven’t discovered yet but an apex predator? No. Yes, we didn’t know the colossal squid existed still but we had a lot of proof, including scars on whales.
Load More Replies...
Russell Tilling 1 year ago (edited)
No. Humans have in the last 400 years killed-off the majority of what previously lived on land and in the air. Also a good proportion of what lived in the seas. Fact. No big, secret, scary monsters in the depths which Jason Statham can go and, er, kill. That's just your evolutionary, where are the monsters, dna talking. They're.all.gone. Now we are the monsters!
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
More importantly, monster predators need monstrous amounts of food. Even aside from the inverse square rule debunking creatures like Kong or Godzilla the amount of food they'd need to consume is ridiculous (not to forget the amount of excrement they'd produce). So if something truly huge lurked in the oceans chances are good we'd have indications of it, even if it hadn't been spotted.
Load More Replies...
Laura Williams 1 year ago
I would be fascinated and will definitely not swim in the ocean not even wading.
Bookworm 1 year ago
Probably not either of those. Plesiosaurs breathed air, so we'd have seen one by now. We know Megalodon is extinct for a lot of reasons, but primarily because we'd see evolutionary pressure on the whales they'd be eating. I'm on board with the idea of something large we haven't seen yet, but it would need to have gills, and probably be a scavenger with a very slow metabolism and growth rate, similar to the six-gill shark. It's very, very difficult to make a living as a big animal at the bottom of the ocean. You either go slow, and subsist on big windfalls with long periods of starvation in between, or you go the giant squid route and become an active super predator that can eat absolutely everything you run into.
Kris Tyler 1 year ago (edited)
there can't be just one or it would be the last one. there'd have to be at least a small population. but yes
Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
Ya know, I'm cool just staying up here well away from any of these guys, big or small: https://www.buzzfeed.com/myanmercado/deep-sea-creatures-that-legit-look-like-aliens. Two fascinating videos they reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1jXo4_1YtM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryRcPeOM1sY. The second one is much more scientific, less flashy. I love looking at 'em from FAR away!
Next up, the Big Mac debate. People have been saying for a while that the meat patty has been getting smaller and smaller throughout the years. It's a popular theory on social media, with posts on Quora and Reddit, and even TikToks where people call out the fast-food chain for the now-tiny patties.
What officially is the Big Mac? According to the McDonald's site, it's two "100% beef" patties, a special sauce, and a sesame seed bun. It also has "pickles, crisp shredded lettuce, finely chopped onion, and a slice of American cheese." And while the official photos look quite nice, the burger often looks different in reality.
A McDonald's spokesperson denies these rumors and told Yahoo News Australia that the size of the burgers has not changed. Interestingly, a former McDonald's corporate chef went on to TikTok to explain why the Quarter Pounder might have shrunken down. He says it comes down to the fast-food chain giant wanting to cut costs and make the burgers more affordable.
#7
My bond with my bearded dragon goes beyond “he’s warm”. I understand the limitations of his tiny nervous system and that he isn’t capable of affection. I just firmly believe that he not only wants heat and food, but that he finds my presence to be pleasant. That boy will come off his basking log as hot as hell ever need to be, with a belly full of bugs, and still come hauling over just to fall asleep on me. I don’t know what it is, but it’s more than just him seeking the necessities.
Kira Okah 1 year ago (edited)
Reptiles release a different hormone than mammals in response to safety and happiness. This hormone is released in the presence of humans in captive bred reptiles. They do recognise their people, pick favourites, seek play, and seek attention from their person. I've worked with reptiles and have cared for sneks.
rorschach-penguin 1 year ago
This is why I myself have a warm-blooded creature that is demonstrably capable of love and affection.
PiAnisum 1 year ago (edited)
I definitely believe the evolutionary base of emotions we have today started somewhere lower in the evolutionary chain than we know yet. Reptiles show a lot of similar reactions to mammals but humans are not very good in recognizing any of it. Humans are still very egocentric about how emotions and intelligent behaviour are defined. Also the naked ape called human was very blind for a long time about nature and its abilities. Look at plants for example, apparently the roots have a way more important role in a plants life than a lot of people think. scientists discovered that the tip of the root has senses that allows the root to experience its surroundings and if you cut it off the root grows just into one direction. With the tip on it is growing while feeling its way around growing according to it's surroundings. So I'm sure reptiles have more feelings than the necessities. Edit: Taming the usage of apostrophes
Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 1 year ago
The secret life of trees was an amazing read. That trees will keep a stump alive blew my mind.
Load More Replies...
Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 1 year ago
I think we all underestimate the emotional intelligence of animals.
Ephemera Image 1 year ago
I had a friend who had a little turtle that raced after her wherever she would go.
KombatBunni 1 year ago
My cockatiels will sometimes take naps along with me when I have one in the afternoon, it’s adorable :)
Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 1 year ago
I'm always tickled at how affectionate birds are.
Load More Replies...
#8
Coke/soft drinks taste better in glass bottles than plastic.
Tabitha 1 year ago
YES! Say it louder so the people in the back can hear it.
Load More Replies...
Jrog 1 year ago
PET Plastic bottles are not 100% impermeable to CO2 seeping through. 1980s PVC bottles were, but they also leaked harmful compounds into the acidic liquid so they were phased out. After manufacturers shifted to PET, they had to resort to increasing carbonation to compensate for CO2 loss over time. CO2 changes the flavor of the drink, so if you drink a freshly made bottle or a older one you feel the difference: more CO2 on the tongue translates to a sour and slightly metallic taste, and the mechanical stimuli of the bubbles increase perception of sweetness. Glass bottles and metal cans are immune from the problem.
GlassHalfWay 1 year ago
Beer also tastes better from a glass bottle. And vodka. And Gin. And...
realenancy170 1 year ago
Mexican coke tastes better because of the cane sugar and the glass bottles. The sugar has a less syrupy texture and the glass does not transfer any metal or plastic aftertaste. I drink one 12 Oz bottle every single day. It is my favorite vice!
Eric Williams 1 year ago
Coke was once nectar of the gods. The swill being peddled nowdays is not.
Kurtz Frausun 1 year ago
I HATE sodas. Maybe have 1-2 a year. But Mexican Coke, in a glass bottle with real cane sugar? I could burn through a 6 pack a day easily.
#9
Religions are man made.
TheElementalGod️️ (He/him) 1 year ago
true. If all traces of both science and religion vanished, there would be whole new religions, but science would stay the same, albeit slightly different. Science can be proven systematically, while religion jumps to conclusions about the unexplained.
Load More Replies...
Lyone Fein 1 year ago
Of course religions are human made institutions. Not even religious institutions argue with this. The real question is regarding the nature of the phenomena/events that inspire religious traditions to form.
edward 1 year ago (edited)
As well as, regarding the "real question," the nature and definition of truth. For spiritually inclined persons who desire spiritual experiences to take place within themselves, yet are (quite properly) inclined to accept and delight in their understanding of the subjectivity of all personal experience (i.e., completely disinclined to accept the stupid archaic way that religions and religions persons and institutions define subjective spiritual experience as if it were non-subjective "truth"), the western esoteric tradition offers the opposite of organized religion in this regard, and can be rewarding and fun. The only drawback is, most esoteric groups are small, scattered, and, even if one is a part of one, often dont include any form of regularized communal expression of "reverence for creation and thankfulness for existence." Which at its root, is what religion is for. Communal expression of reverence for the condition of "existence." There are many well documented sociological benefits to be had by the individual from such regularized communal practice. But if one wants to inculcate "spiritual experience" within themselves, while wishing for this to take place through the use of apparatus which declares itself, from the outset, to be openly and completely subjective, then "magick" is a possibly a better route. But mostly a solo route.
Load More Replies...
Robert Millar 1 year ago
Religion is a way of extracting money, labour and loyalty from easily duped adherents. It is a human failing which is easily exploited.
Dave M 1 year ago
The OP is confusing religion, which is the man made organized worship of a deity, with the existence of a supreme being.
Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
No, not necessarily. Reread what he said. He seems to be defining religion precisely as you did. It is not he who is introducing a confusion. He made no reference or comparison, direct or indirect, to any supreme being.
Load More Replies...
McDonald's can make their burgers cheaper in some ways. One of them is to mix some frozen beef into fresh patties. However, at least in the U.S., McDonald's prides itself on never using frozen meat. That said, there might be loopholes where a certain percentage of frozen beef might be acceptable.
Another way to make the patties cheaper (and possibly smaller) is to reduce the lean-to-fat ratio. "If the fatty beef portions are cheaper than the lean portions, then they can actually make a fattier beef patty still hitting the appropriate weights. But when you cook it, more of that fat is released and you might have a smaller-looking patty," the former chef Mike Haracz explained.
#10
Facebook and other apps listen and advertise accordingly.
Jeff White 1 year ago
I treat this "belief" and ROCK SOLID TRUTH. I hope the Tech executives take note, because if this is ever proven true, I believe the backlash would be unhinged.
Surenu 1 year ago
For about two weeks, realistically. Then the next big thing hits the media and all is forgotten.
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 1 year ago
Definitely. The other day I was talking about a harness for our dog. Guess what is the first ad I see on google when I do my next search?!? Yep. A f*****g harness.
Robert T 1 year ago
They don't "listen" to sound. That is too messy and takes too much processing power. They do however collect information from a number of sources, such as what you search for, the website you visit, if your location is turned on, where you are, which other devices are in the same location, and they pull it all together to try to predict what interests you. This means that even though you didn't personally search for something, but mentioned it to someone else you were with, who later searched for it, you can start seeing ads for it.
the quickening 1 year ago
With the amount of information we willingly leak out, they got plenty to work with without dedicating resources to this kind of thing. It's scary how much Google, for example, knows of us.
Load More Replies...
Cathy 1 year ago (edited)
with regard to android, not true. And often disproven. Read up on personalized ads and how it works. It is true that everything is connected so sometimes it appears this way. You can also easily test this yourself by talking about something way out of your interest zone. We used red fire truck. Talked about it for two weeks. About how we want to buy one for 'sinterklaas'. Never showed up in an ad nor did any other (traditionally) male toy. We don't have kids.
ADJ 1 year ago
Actually I can prove to you (well I can't because I don't have screenshots) that Android phones do that too. Case 1. I bought myself an Acer Swift computer. I haven't done any searching and comparing, just went to the shop my friends owns and bought computer off the shelf. The same day I talked on the phone with my friend about this new computer and I used these words "Acer" and "Swift" for the first time ever on the phone, because these words do not exist in my language. Lo and behold, since next morning I am getting ads everywhere I go about Acer Swift laptops. Coincidence? Doubtful. Case 2. I was talking with my friend about his whereabouts and he told me he is on construction site of new apartment building owned by company "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie" (name is false of course), company that I never heard about earlier. We talk a little more, name of the company gets mentione maybe 3 times. Next morning - ads of "itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Construction Ltd" are all around my phone.
Load More Replies... Russell Tilling 1 year ago (edited)
3rd party cookies. The 1st party (you) communicates online with a 2nd party (a search website) who pass on the information to a 3rd party for a fee. The 3rd party then targets you with advertising based on that information. I find it quite amusing. I buy a chair and am then bombarded with adverts for chairs! I don't need another chair! I think Apple Safari has blocked it somewhat and more recently Google Chrome (or the other way around!).
BPisaddictive 🇮🇹 🤌 1 year ago
Every time you have a microphone open, assume someone/something is actually listening. After all we use Google to search for something and the search results are clearly used for advertising purposes. It's the dame when you make a voice search. Turn off the microphone consent on the apps on your phone, don't have Alexa turned on all the time and look at your phone screen. A small green dot shows whenever your microphone and camera are on and working. As far as I know this feature is now mandatory.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
I know I yell at Google about stupid ads I've seen enough to sell the product. Stop showing the same ad.
#11
My cat knocked over the water glass on purpose.
TheElementalGod️️ (He/him) 1 year ago
I don't care if it was on purpose or not, they are innocent!!!!
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 year ago
The reason we know the earth isn't flat is that, if it was, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
We always knock over the glass on purpose. Why? Because we are gods, and we do whatever we want.
JB 1 year ago (edited)
One of my cats has figured out that deliberately knocking something (e.g. my water mug) off the bedside cabinet is a sure route to getting me up. His nickname is “lil $h1t” because he talks, then looks me right in the eyes, before batting whatever onto the floor. He’s absolutely convinced that if he repeats a vocalization often enough, while staring deep into my eyes, I’m gonna figure out what he wants. He’s right. I am trained to understand “food” and “litter box is unacceptable”. Hopefully, one day, I’ll understand all the other stuff he says.
BPisaddictive 🇮🇹 🤌 1 year ago
Someone say that if the Earth was actually flat, cats would have knocked everything over the edge
LGBTQpanda 1 year ago
I, for one, worship my furry overlord. If he withdraws cuddles, or knocks over my drinks, I must find out what I did to cause his displeasure and rectify it immediately! All Hail, Sir Claw!
#12
Some modern art is priced so high because rich people utilise it for money laundering. Saw it on a Reddit conspiracy comment and I haven’t been able to shake it since.
Kira Okah 1 year ago
Money laundering through art is not something without evidence, it very much known about.
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
never mind reddit, I was a documentary about it. Not only that but some of the rich moguls get tax breaks because they loan the art to public galleries.
Šimon Špaček 1 year ago
We have a politician that sold some of his pictures for hundreds of thousands. It is not a bribery, it is "supporting art".
ZGutr 1 year ago (edited)
it must be. look at the c rap the make, not it even lost it's value as raw materials
Tiny Dynamine 1 year ago
You need to understand that what you said is your opinion only. The same is true for art. It's only good or bad depending on what you like.
Load More Replies... 
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
On the other hand. "Art is what you can get away with" - Tracey Emin ? Or, it's priced so high because rich people will bid against each other for it?
A. Starhawk Hunt 1 year ago
Well known to be true. And most of what passes for modern art could be done by a drunken tarantula dipped in paint.
Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago (edited)
Like George Carlin said "Nail two things together that have never been nailed together before and some schmuck will buy it from you!"
#13
That corporations prevent nationalized healthcare in the US so they can exert control over their employees. If employees didn't need a job for health coverage, they could quit any time a better offer came along.
Jeff White 1 year ago
Whether true or not, it is time to decouple health care insurance from your job.
Tarik Dursun Zorgulen 1 year ago
Yep, but tell that to people. All of a sudden you'll become a socialist, a communist and what not.
Load More Replies...
Tina Girard 1 year ago
Personally, I think it is because the whole healthcare industry makes too much money to allow their cash cow to be nationalized.
Khavrinen 1 year ago
It can be both things at the same time. And probably is.
Load More Replies...
Amy 1 year ago (edited)
Within the last month and a half, I had surgery and was hospitalized three separate times for complications. The total billed to insurance for just the first two is $315,000. Once the third one hits, I expect it to be close to half a million dollars. Of courses, the insurance we pay ridiculous premiums for still expects me to pay thousands of dollars, and as the cherry on top, they refused to pay for any pain meds after surgery. I know other people who have had it worse than that. If I didn’t have insurance I probably would have just died. And I’m lucky the insurance is tied to my husband’s job and not mine, because I likely would have been fired and lost my insurance for missing so much work. It’s absolutely disgusting that healthcare is a for-profit industry in America. People should not have to choose between forgoing care and possibly dying, or getting care and facing financial ruin.
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
in France, we have nationalized healthcare and s****y job stil exist
Amy 1 year ago
S****y jobs exist everywhere, but when you have nationalized healthcare you can quit them and at least still be able to see a doctor.
Load More Replies...
David Scotman 1 year ago
I will say it again, basic healthcare and education should be accessible for all. The stability of society depends on it.
Eric Williams 1 year ago
It's not about controlling the employees, it's about profit, pure and simple. They will do ANYTHING to make a buck anyway they can.
Kira Okah 1 year ago (edited)
This was the result of a president in WW2 limiting wage increases during a labour shortage - coupling the job with benefits was to attract workers when they were being prevented from paying them properly. It was kept in place because the benefits retained workers. Note - explaining the history, nothing more.
pep Ito 1 year ago
It was actually the result of a McKenzie study. I am talking about replacing salary with benefits and it is independent of the strike and no salary increase.
Load More Replies... Kathleen McGann 1 year ago
It started with Kaiser Permanente during Mr Kaiser's friend Richard Nixon's administration.
#14
Sandwiches made for you are absolutely better than sandwiches you make yourself.
Trainingfortheballetpotteh🇺🇦 1 year ago
A sandwich I make, and a sandwich my mom makes(with the same exact ingredients and proportions) taste completely different. Love my mom❤
Load More Replies...
Cathy 1 year ago
Nah man, sandwiches I make for myself are the best. With all my favorite ingredients 😋😋😋
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 1 year ago
Yeah, I've never had anyone (spouse, Mom, Grandma, or restaurant) make a BLT as good as the ones I make myself.
Load More Replies... 
Tuna Beach 1 year ago
Oh God no. I make THE best sandwiches. And there's honestly no point in eating a burger unless I made it.
Norah Reilly 1 year ago
Maybe it's just me, but I make the sandwiches that I like the best - always.
#15
People with lower IQ's are happier because they aren't constantly overthinking, looking for self-transcendence, analyzing everything around them, and expecting too much of themselves.
JoMeBee 1 year ago
I can appreciate the rational here, but there are some pretty angry, dumb people too.MAGA anyone?
CK 1 year ago
They're angry because people are asking them to think and they don't have the equipment.
Load More Replies...
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
I don't think this is true at all. I also think dumber people are more prone to petty jealousy, ax grinding, and rehashing.
Salty.Hag 1 year ago
Well studies have shown the main statement to be true, I don't know...just saying. Plus jealousy isn't exclusive to dumb people.
Load More Replies... 
Ingeborg Børch 1 year ago (edited)
I'm sure the guy on the photo is thrilled to be the poster boy for this one
I’ll have a treble thanks. 1 year ago
Probably won’t overthink it though.
Load More Replies... 
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
Not sure about this, but I absolutely believe if you are average, life is easier. Worktops built to an average height, classes based on average level of academic achievement, feet average size etc…
KC Lancaster 1 year ago
Annie in Bull Durham, "The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness."
#16
This isn't the first universe. This isn't the first time any of this has happened.
Jeff White 1 year ago
Excellent example of something we really can't prove, yet still feels true
Mayhem 1 year ago
I do believe that the universe is so vast it's unlikely there isn't other life out there, even if it doesn't look like us or the aliens we've depicted.
Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 1 year ago
It's more than universe. There are realities that are 3 inches removed from right here, right now.
Load More Replies... ninjaTrashPandaBoom 1 year ago
We barely understand the concept of time as we perceive it. We have just begun unraveling quantum states. We have no idea what happens inside singularities (black holes). 95% of the universe is dark matter and dark energy. This universe holds so many mysteries that we have only begun to understand.
Michael Fernandez 1 year ago
“All this has happened before; all this will happen again.” - something the Cylons kept saying
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Therefore, the Cylons were not the first to say that.
Load More Replies...
Austin L 1 year ago
They just restart the simulator, hehe. I heard another one on this subject: The reason physics of the very big and very small don't perfectly align is because we are already inside a black hole singularity and our concept of space is being warped, and what we think of as background cosmic radiation is actually the black hole's event horizon.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
hmm I agree with bouncing universes theory but absolutely not, the events that happen in this universe will not recur, unless there are an infinite number of universes ... and even then, the chances of each event happening in recent time (ie the universe just before ours, or after ours) the same way are infinitessimal, even if they definitely WILL occur in the time line at some point.
Eric Williams 1 year ago
"It's all happened before - It will all happen again." (Battlestar Galactica)
Austin L 1 year ago
"Your theory of a doughnut-shaped universe intrigues me, Homer. I may have to steal it"
Load More Replies...
Display Name 1 year ago
or its happening on such a micro scale we think so but at the end of the day it's so huge to us we don't understand
#17
Hummingbirds are fairies.
It‘s the last bit of whimsy I have left. Don‘t ruin this for me please.
Jeff White 1 year ago
Whimsy is an underrated characteristic. It should never be quashed or ruined.
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
One should always keep back a bit of their childhood wonder and whimsy, to help balance them through their adulthood. Like a touchstone. You can always tell who did and did not save a little.
Load More Replies...
Mabelbabel 1 year ago
Bumblebees are fairies. They go to sleep inside flowers with their little fuzzy butts hanging out. Only fairies would sleep inside a flower.
#18
Humans can communicate telepathically. We just don't know how to use it on purpose.
fizzle_jizzle:
When one of my friends was in his last stages of cancer, I woke up at 5 in the morning just completely heartbroken and sobbing. I don't think I have ever felt the same kind of sadness I did in that moment.
I woke my boyfriend up and told him I needed to call my friend's wife because something was wrong. He said I couldn't call her at 5 in the morning because if she wasn't at the hospital with him she would freak out. He was of course right. She called me 30 minutes later and told me he had passed away at 5.15. I was supposed to visit him in the morning but I was to 4 hours to late.
I don't normally believe in anything supernatural or the afterlife, but I just know deep down in my heart, that it was him saying his goodbye.
Peet 1 year ago
The night my grat grandmother died, a country away, I dremed of her. We had a chat on a bench at a lake. The next morning my mother called and I just said great granny died...
KombatBunni 1 year ago
I had a similar thing happen with my grandpa before he died. I had a dream I was with him in his room at the nursing home and he was upset that he wouldn’t get to see me before he had to leave. I was holding his hand and I said it’s okay, I’ll see you when I get there and when I woke up my stepdad was calling me to tell me that grandpa had passed early that morning :(
Load More Replies...
Candid Panda 1 year ago
The exact thing happened to me as the OP. An overwhelming wave of sadness and regret hit me that left me uncontrollably sobbing and shaken. I had no idea at the time but later in the day found out that someone dear to me had passed. Not sure if I would call it telepathy, but there are certain inexplicable forces that connect us.
Who cares what I think, but... 1 year ago
Never had a dream about my uncle except the night before he passed. Never since.
Libstak 1 year ago
The morning my brother passed I woke up at 4am with the worst pain in my core from chest to stomach, I lived alone, nearly called an ambulance but then realised my actual heart was not in pain and I could breathe just fine. I stayed up for over 2 hours, gave up sleeping, went to work early instead. My nephew rang me at work at 930am to tell me his dad had died sometime after 630am to 7am as he was walking in the kitchen, found out he had a bad night's sleep in alot of pain before that.
Louise Clarke 1 year ago
I felt my late Opa sit on my bed on night, and that was the day my uncle(his son with the same name) was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Believe what you like, but never underestimate the power - and frequency - of coincidence.
#19
At least half the US government can't beat a 5th grader in 5th grade trivia.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
And yet 99% of them have utter, sneering, blood-boiling, seething hatred for their constituents. Doing anything their constituents want is considered, "pandering" and is the one thing that nearly all Washingtonians consider evil. The traditional meaning of "to pander" is to indulge in an evil pleasure. The Washington definition is to obey the will of the electorate.
Load More Replies... kissmychakram 1 year ago
To be fair, 5th graders might have just learned that stuff yesterday whereas for the government folks they might have learned it 40+ years ago and since forgotten.
Robert T 1 year ago
Considering the age of some of them, I think you might need to up that to 60 or 70 years ago.
Load More Replies... WonderWoman 1 year ago
A fifth grader JUST learned the trivia, the governmental worker probably left 5th grade at least a decade earlier.
Happy to be a wallflower 1 year ago
Neither can most citizens probably. Of any country btw, because everyone tends to forget information that isn't important
Miliukov Oleksandr 1 year ago
which could also mean that 5th grade trivia is not so important to know
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
And at least half the 5th graders can't run a country. You may have your own opinion about where this takes us, but I couldn't possibly comment...
Tobias Reaper 1 year ago
i think this actually shows how much useless knowledge we are taught in school that we wont use in adult life so it says more about what is being taught than how dumb some adults are
Ubiquitous 1 year ago
Also because a lot of stuff we teach little kids isn’t actually needed in adult life so it is forgotten about
Debby Keir 1 year ago
OK, get the meaning behind this, but 5th grade trivia is about the 'memes' popular NOW, amongst 5th graders. If you're not a 5th grader, then you wouldn't know - even the parents struggle to keep up....
#20
Politicians at the highest level of the government are all crooked as hell.
David Paterson 1 year ago
And FBI, CIA, Secret Service, Defence financing, and all of the political lobbyists.
WonderWoman 1 year ago
Highest? Damn, just about every level they are crooked as hell. Give people power and they will do near anything at all to keep that power and garner more power. Not responsibility - power. Just look at police - they love to lord the power they have, yet they refuse to accept more responsibility.
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
Show me an honest politician and I’ll show you someone that’s never won an election. People like being lied to so long as the lies are the ones they want to hear.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
That's like saying head chefs are all cooks. In both cases, it's part of the job description.
#21
That the leader of Scientology k*lled his wife and burned the body. And bribed the police to get away with it.
Kira Okah 1 year ago
For anyone curious - this is about the disappearance of Shelley Miscavige. She disappeared in June 2006 and hasn't been seen in public since a funeral in August 2007.
Nicola Mawson 1 year ago
Didn't she then actually disappear in August 2007?
Load More Replies...
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Be cautious about your comments, pandas - Scientology may not be much of a 'religion' but it has some damn good lawyers. A suit for libel can ruin your entire day...
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
You mean Miscavige? No apparently she was recently sighted. Look at the youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@GrowingUpInScientology
Sue User 1 year ago
Took them 17 years to find a convincing look alike. They can claim any differences are due to age.
Load More Replies...
#22
I'm 100% positive my sister died of covid before covid was supposed to be in my state.
We had something really bad going around in the fall of 2019 and the Winter of 2020. It sent many people to the hospital with pneumonia or breathing difficulties. Several customers at my place of work were diagnosed with COPD even though they never smoked. Others coughed up blood. My coworker came to work sick as a dog in January 2020 and I sat across from him at lunch along with another coworker. The next week I got sicker than I have ever been. My sister and her husband also got very ill even though we hadn't been in contact. I could barely breathe and had to sleep for 3 days leaning upright on the back of the couch. I was so ill I almost broke down and went to the ER even though at the time I was uninsured and never went to the doctor. My coworker that I got it from went to the doctor and they did a test for the flu but it came back negative. The other coworker that sat beside me at lunch also got sick and she too came back negative for influenza. A week later my sister and her husband fell ill and ended up at the doctors office. They both tested negative for influenza.
Two days after my sister went to the doctor, she got out of bed and fell dead to the floor. That was February 18th, 2020. We assumed she had a heart attack, the cause of death was a heart attack only because of the sudden death and her history of having a heart attack a few decades before. No autopsy was done and she was cremated. This was about the same time Covid showed up on the West coast. We live in North Carolina and no covid was supposed to be in the state at that time. My coworker that got it the same time I did had a brother who also had it and ended up in the hospital with a very virulent pneumonia (tested negative for influenza) and died the same day my sister did.
I swear to this day my sister and my coworker's brother both died of covid but no proof and no way to prove it.
TomCat 1 year ago
This also happened to my husband. December 2019 he is sicker than he has ever been. Couldn't breathe, cough and basically an invalid for a week. He is never sick. He swears it was COVID.
Tabitha 1 year ago
My husband and I were both sick in bed the end of January 2020. We were so sick neither of us moved all day. Appetites gone, energy gone, lots of coughing and wheezing taking the rest of our energy out of us. We were miserable. A couple weeks later we started hearing about COVID in the news. Hell, when I went to the doctor for it, and they swabbed my nose and tested it, their tests were inconclusive (didn’t have COVID tests in January 2020). So even the doctor didn’t know what it was. Plus, ever since then, I’ve been feeling like I get short of breath way sooner and more easily than I did before January 2020—and I always had great lung capacity—-which in turn has greatly reduced my energy level, which sounds a lot like Long COVID. So if what we had wasn’t COVID, and wasn’t the flu (which I suspected before getting tested, because it was unlike any flu bug I ever had), then WTF was it?
Load More Replies...
Crouching hippo hidden panda 1 year ago
With the amount of air traffic and international travel it’s impossible that is wasnt already there. I still don’t understand why people contest this. We went into lockdown March 2020 here, but when they tested the sewage systems they found traces of the virus apparently as far back as October
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
Had a weird flu late January in 2020 after indirect contact with a person who'd been in north Italy. The thing was, I couldn't breathe properly, my bf lost his sense of smell and I was semi ill for months after. This was before any documented cases of COVID in Finland. It was later that we found out how long covid had been going around in Italy. We couldn't get tested because there was no covid in Finland and there was no covid in Finland because nobody could get tested, funny that
Jessica Bertram 1 year ago (edited)
Same. I got sick in February of 2020 and the doctors wrote it off as a panic attack. A panic attack that made me feel like a band was around my chest, coughing, low-grade fever...for a whole week. About six weeks earlier, my brother and his partner were both hospitalized with many unexplained tiny clots in their lungs....plus other respiratory symptoms. covid wasn't in colorado yet, supposedly.
David Paterson 1 year ago
Even among the first 30 people diagnosed with Covid on China, a few (3 or so) had to be taken off the list of Covid patients on the grounds that they just had ordinary pneumonia. Pneumonia can be indistinguishable from Covid. A month later the same thing happened in Hong Kong where pneumonia was misdiagnosed as Covid and some people had to be removed from the list of people with Covid.
I’ll have a treble thanks. 1 year ago
Me too and others I know (France ) took months to recover and apparently Covid wasn’t in Europe until February/March 2020 🙄
Load More Replies...
the_avenging_knight (her/she) 1 year ago
Same thing happned to my cousin, he died in December 2020, his husband was a doctor when covid hit, and swears on his life it was covid.
Sheila who? 1 year ago
I'm in nc as well and I've said this this all along!,my son and I had it. Thank God ( seriously)we survived.
#23
Aliens exist all over the universe.
Astro 1 year ago
Yep :) Alien life could be out there in very simple forms
Load More Replies...
Caroline Nagel 1 year ago
Considering the amount of Galaxies and the amount of planets in the universe it seems to me that it is quite likely there is other life in the universe. But whether it is sentient life or if we could ever communicate with these aliens is debatable.
Katrina Nixon 1 year ago
I imagine them with posters that say " I want to believe" with pictures of fat people.
DadManBlues 1 year ago
They must exist. If we just take that there are at least 1B habitable planet in the Milky Way and there are billions of galaxies, it would be an amazingly huge coincidence if life had only been born on Earth.
Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 1 year ago
Anything else would be mathematically improbable.
Load More Replies...
CooperDooper81 1 year ago
I absolutely believe they are out there but Im of the belief we are intentionally placed so far apart that it is, and always will be, physically impossible to encounter eachother or communicate. I think it's quite deliberate.
#24
PETA is a conspiracy by the meat industry to raise societies distrust in actual animal right activists.
Only evidence i have is that not a single human being could act as stupid and pretentious as PETA does very often.
Jeff White 1 year ago
I don't know whether to hope this is true ... or not. I'm thinking 50/50.
Tarik Dursun Zorgulen 1 year ago
I'm not really sure. Countless times in my life I've thought "no one can be THAT stupid" to be proven wrong. So, I'm not underestimating the stupidity of people anymore.
Nicole 1 year ago
How is not wanting to hurt or eat animals stupid? Seems to me like you're the stupid one.
Load More Replies...
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
"Only evidence i have is that not a single human being could act as stupid and pretentious as PETA does very often." - You underestimate the human stupidity
Robert Trebor 1 year ago
Oh, the human capacity for stupidity is huge. PETA once told the village of Fishkill (stream with many fish), New York that they had to change their "brutal, unfeeling" name.
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
Many places in the lower Hudson valley have "kill" in their names. It's an old (Dutch?) word meaning stream or creek. Fresh Kills, Arthur Kill, Spuyten Duyvel Kill...
Load More Replies...
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
I'm convinced it's true, just like those "eco-activists" who, like, throw soup at valuable artworks or glue themselves to roads. It makes sense they're just paid actors used to make all activists look like loonies so the conservative ways can be kept.
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
Oh, those specific "eco-activists" are funded by an oil heiress. Their job is to make all eco-activists look unhinged.
Load More Replies...
Rosecrucian Roeth 1 year ago
I think PETA has become like the politician who is voted in power for too many terms.. it has become a caricature of itself and no longer makes sense. It has also become too full of itself!
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
The PETAphiles are infamous for their mass slaughter of animals. [ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/peta-kills-puppies-kittens_b_2979220 ]
#25
Big Mac keeps getting smaller.
gdimstilldrunk:
Pretty soon it'll just be 3 buns with a little grease stain between them.
similarly 1 year ago
I remember about 25 years ago, I was in a subway, and an employee came in with a mcDonalds bag (lol) and said "If McDonald's keeps making their burgers smaller, pretty soon they'll have to sell them as biscuits."
Ace 1 year ago
Proof, is any were needed, that people have been saying this for ever - if they'd really been shrinking all that time there would be nothing left by now. Nobody anywhere has ever sat down to a Big Mac that looks exactly like the ones you see on adverts. (Although some might say the Japanese ones come closest).
Load More Replies... Donna Peluda 1 year ago
Never understood the notion of fast food chains. They have put many great small local business under when, at least were I live the small bars a cafes are 200% better value for money. It's like people are brain washed in to eating Xit
Jrog 1 year ago (edited)
A BS theory made popular by some misguided tiktoks and social media posts. McD portions on average DOUBLED since the 1950s. Burger is now 7oz, originally was 3.7 oz. Regular OG fries were 2.4 oz, smaller than today's small serving, while the regular is 2.5 times that. Current large soda is 7.5 TIMES larger than the soda served back then. That menu, that had everything at best half as large as any current small combo items, cost the equivalent of $7 today. Average price of a regular Big Mac combo meal in the USA is $8.64
Jrog 1 year ago
Part of the misconception comes from the fact that the comparison in made between current real items, and older photos, ads and media. The items represented in those media were heavily edited (they still are, but regulations nowadays prevent egregious misrepresenting). Also, memory is very fallible when comparing sizes over time, with the past experiences usually erring on the side of excess.
Load More Replies...
I’ll have a treble thanks. 1 year ago
Eat sh!t and complain about it! Make your own, it’s easy and yes it is easy 🤷♀️
#26
The loch ness monster is a lil dinosaur ghost. I would highly recommend believing this, since it doesn't hurt anyone to do so. Makes me smile thinking about him.
Neffla Parsons 1 year ago
Don't give it to him! He'll keep coming back for more...
Load More Replies... 
Tuna Beach 1 year ago
Well,in reality, The Loch Ness monster is wind causing an unusual current in the lake. So actually ....that's really the same thing!
#27
Garbage trucks have loud brakes to give us one last chance to get the bins out.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
But, ice cream trucks only make the jingly noise if they've run out of ice-cream! My parents told me that!
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 1 year ago
hahaha! Ours are accompanied by a team of guys loading the truck and they whistle loudly while working, so that's what we generally hear first.
Petra Schaap 1 year ago
ours back into our small cull de sac, start collecting at the end. We live at the beginning so for us its the BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP :-D
Eric Williams 1 year ago
No. It's just an artifact of having air brakes used on most heavy vehicles. It's good to hear them just around the corner though.
Robert Trebor 1 year ago
School buses going by are usually the noisiest morning traffic here. They have automatic transmissions that sound like the driver is shifting gears.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Where I live, they play music. Not loud enough to be painful (i.e. no bass at all), but loud enough you can hear it 100 metres away from inside your home. Here, the trucks slowly drive down roads and alleys and people throw it in from their front doors.
#28
I’m convinced that theme parks/fairs/carnivals pay people to walk around with giant prizes to make the games look more winnable and convince more people to play.
Jrog 1 year ago
Don't know about carnivals, but I was part of the organization committee at a yearly charity fair, and we took care of giving away very early on a couple of the major prizes at the skill games, so people would be drawn in. The kids who scored anything above average early into the afternoon would win one of the RC cars, or Barbies, pro-league footballs and jerseys etc, while later on to win those would have required a nearly perfect score.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
8 points for charitable intention. Minus 11 for ethics.
Load More Replies... CK 1 year ago
Some claw machines randomly make the game winnable for certain players. Maybe carnivals do something similar.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I suspect you're right. It's like any gambling. Someone gets a big prize (either randomly or because the carnie thinks they look cute) and that makes people think they can win too. It's an investment to increase customers.
Load More Replies... CD Mills 1 year ago
They do do that, the year I was 17 a friend of mine was "Paid" with the big teddy bear for acting like she won it and directing people to different booths the whole night. They literally told her that when guys saw her with a big prize it would push them to try and win one for their girlfriends. If a mere girl could win that big prize every guy should be able to win one too. They do it because it works.
ffeineandsugar 1 year ago
The real kicker here is that the stuffed animals are bought wholesale at ridiculously cheap prices. The carnies call them 'slum'. And whether or not the games are gaffed, the profit is definitely there.
Lola Rogers 1 year ago (edited)
Actually they don't need to pay anyone. They just let people win in the first hour or so after opening every day, and those people wander around with giant prizes and do the advertising for free.
Lee Gilliland 1 year ago
You're correct. Read _American Oz, it's about a guy who blabbed about everything that goes on behind the scenes at a carnival
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Why not? Department stores pay security people to walk around all day pretending to be a "shopper". They watch for shoplifters.
#29
Software updates at the end of a product lifetime will brick the device.
Jeff White 1 year ago
I "think" this position has been proven and the EU has sued and won significant damages regarding this action
Jrog 1 year ago
Also in the US Apple settled for $113M after it was proven they were purposefully throttling down older phone performances with their updates.
Load More Replies... Robert T 1 year ago
Not necessarily brick it, but there are couple of nasty practices that you might want to avoid. The first relates to HP printers. HP issued an update to their printer firmware some time ago that made their printers only accept genuine cartridges. Then they stop making cartridges for your printer, forcing you to buy another one. The second is devices that require cloud services to function, such as security cameras, camera doorbells and music players (with or without a subscription). At some point they will terminate the cloud part of the service and you are left with a brick.
Kira Okah 1 year ago
Apple got a nice fat fine of 25m euros a couple of years ago for releasing software updates that purposely slowed down older models without informing buyers.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
25 million to Apple is the biscuits fund. For a week.
Load More Replies...
Luttjetrut 1 year ago
Fitbit! After the last update my battery suddenly dies at all percentages all the time. Before that: never had one battery problem and I could do with approx. one charge a week.
Eric Williams 1 year ago
Programmed Obsolescence. It never ceases to amaze me how stupid corporations think their consumers are.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I think there are two sides to this. Firstly, I do suspect some companies are willing to deliberately brick a device to force upgrades (not many but some). Secondly, rate of change on phones and tablet hardware is ridiculously fast. And more importantly software features are becoming more and more demanding. What were the games on the first smart phones? Stupid c**p like popping bubble wrap or whatnot. Now phone games are AAA products that need serious GPUs, a ton of ram and a full HD screen to get best use out of them. And it's not just the third party apps (like games) that this is happening to. The core OS is being updated all the time to add extra functionality. That all adds overhead and creates higher demand on the processor, ram, GPU and storage. It's no surprise that a low or even mid range device from 3 or 4 years ago struggles to manage the latest OS along with the latest apps and games. You can't run Crysis on a 386 why would you expect an old phone to be any different?
M O'Connell 1 year ago
Roku absolutely does this. The rate at which they "no longer support" older devices, even though their new ones have exactly the same capabilities is appalling. The one I own now will be my last, it will probably won't be replaced by anything when it goes.
Load More Replies... Crouching hippo hidden panda 1 year ago
Why I’m always refusing upgrades until the app literally doesn’t work anymore. I’m probably doing more harm than good, but I can’t stop being skeptical
#30
The ER gets crazier on nights that the moon is full. It's usually busy, theres lots of psych patients, traumas, and all around weird stuff goes down.
David Paterson 1 year ago
The advent of street lighting means that lunatics no longer have to wait for a full moon.
Nicola Roberts 1 year ago
Not sure where you are David, but my council is turning the lights off earlier and for longer. The OP may just get to prove their theory.
Load More Replies... TheAnimalGoddess 1 year ago
My partner worked at a nursing home for years & he talked about this happening every single time.
Jeff White 1 year ago
But that is true, almost certainly that the better lit night results in people be outside more at night which leads to more "accidents" which fills ER's. I don't think this is anything suspicious.
ILoveMySon 1 year ago
My BIL, a retired NYPD Detective, told me this as well.
Load More Replies...
CooperDooper81 1 year ago
There have been studies on this that analysed the data for emergency services call outs on nights of a full moon. There's no change. Our behaviour doesn't change and there's no societal change.
Salty.Hag 1 year ago
There was at one point, crimes were higher on a full moon, but I believe that was about 30 years ago. Not sure it's still happening. Maybe coincidence?
Load More Replies...
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
Disagree. I'm a retired nurse and spent the last few years of my career working night shift in one of America's busiest emergency departments. The night of a full moon was often our slowest night.
Christopher Preston 1 year ago
My Dad was a police officer in Salford and said that it looked like the video for 'Thriller' in the run up to a full moon.
#31
That my sweet, innocent, shy dog is a diabolical mastermind who creates scenarios that get my hyperactive dog into trouble in order to maintain his "favorite" title among friends and family. I've seen some things. Poor Wendy.
Me Oh My 1 year ago
My younger sister does this to me, but thankfully most of the family has caught on by now.
Load More Replies... Ken Beattie 1 year ago
My older dog used to think he needed to be my "enforcer" when my younger dog got overly excited and hyper. He'd woof at her and chase her a little bit to quiet her down. "Hey stop it, you're annoying the boss!" kinda thing. Lost him a year ago, and now I have my excitable younger dog and an even younger and more excitable puppy (well 14 month old dog) that just egg each other on.
Nicola Roberts 1 year ago
I have two cats (sisters) Cleo and Athena. Athena wants to play and run around, Cleo spends half the day hissing if her sister gets within 10ft of her. But for the life of me I can't decide who starts the fights. It looks like Athena because she too dumb to stay out of her way but some days it looks Cleo just sets her sister up, all the while looking like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
Sienna Kuhlström Ahlgren 1 year ago
Yeah one of my cats do this. Starts a fight with her brother who is much bigger and stronger then her. He grabs her and she starts screaming and hissing at him. I yell at the brother, she runs away. Then a couple seconds later she goes right back to him and repeats. Sassy lil thing…
#32
I’m being pushed aside for leadership roles at my company because I’m a good reliable worker and they have a shortage of those.
Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago
If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted! And sometimes, those that give head, get ahead.
James Doe 1 year ago
Yup, and what you just mentioned is the fair reason. A good leader needs to empower others. If you can't empower your coworkers to do your job (make yourself replaceable) "you won't be a good leader either
Load More Replies... Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
Or you’re simply not either related to or having relations with anyone who can pull strings for you. Or anyone who went to school with them, or plays golf with them, or is a member of the same country club as they are. You get my drift. It’s f*****g unfair, because most of those with those connections were D students, which means the A students with the true intellect and abilities are getting passed over and never get the chance to go as far as they should in their careers. It also mean companies are being “led” by wealthy incompetents, who are responsible for the out of touch and downright stupid policies, plans, changes, and “directions” those companies end up going.
Bruce Horton 1 year ago
Sure everyone running a big company is really easy and the more incompetent people at the top the more successful it will be. Who believes such drivel.
Load More Replies...
shawna Reich 1 year ago
happened at my last job - knew every dept in and out but wouldnt make me part of leadership roles because of what i know..wth?
#33
Over half the people who got PPP loans don’t even have a real business.
WonderWoman 1 year ago
What they ALL have in common - friends in high places that helped secure the loans and then assisted in getting that loan wiped away
dayngerkat 1 year ago
"Paycheck Protection Program" from the government. Given out during the pandemic to help keep businesses open and to be able to pay their employees. They would later be forgiven so it wouldn't need to be paid back. A lot of people made up fake businesses to scam the government and get money. They are now being investigated and will pay for what they did
Load More Replies... Lola Rogers 1 year ago (edited)
Estimates are that about 10% to 20% of the PPP and EIDL money was fraudulently obtained. https://www.sba.gov/document/report-23-09-covid-19-pandemic-eidl-ppp-loan-fraud-landscape
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Probably a yank said that. Look up the UK and it's "vip lane" where the wealthy and politically connected scammed billions from the public coffers, and the tory government deliberately refuses to investigate or prosecute their friends.
Lauren S 1 year ago
My husband owns his own business, it’s very small. My husband wasn’t able to get one. We were very financially affected. Our savings grace was that we pay our mortgage out 6-12 months in advance so if things go to hell we still have a place to live. (It also has to do with the influx of money not being constant or steady, he’ll make $10K in 3 days then nothing for 3 weeks then $2K over a week then nothing for a month, when we get money in, we pay ahead to give us piece of mind).
#34
At least 1/3 of the "human" in the internet and social media are bots or IAs.
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
I feel guilty whenever I tick that "I am not a robot" checkbox as I know I am not being truthful
BarkingSquirell 1 year ago
Ha ha! I've always wondered why they even ask this when surely the bots already know how to outsmart it.
Load More Replies... Robert T 1 year ago
One of my joyous jobs is telling bots apart from humans when they join a forum I run. The bots are the ones that fill in all the fields. The humans often don't even fill in the bare minimum. Please don't tell the bots this.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
Sometimes I see that little checkbox that says "Are you a robot?" and I wonder "Am I a robot?"
Lola Rogers 1 year ago (edited)
And a large portion of service labeled as AI actually relies on human workers to run. https://doctorow.medium.com/what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai-d02040b5573a
catzrule4life 1 year ago
Juuuust wondering... Could you maybe DELETE that little post there???
Bewarethere@gmail.com 1 year ago
This has been one of my worst fears coming true! I warned people about ai but no one listened. Then there was bitcoin I warned about and what happened?!
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
This is why I never "friend" anyone on farcebook that I haven't met face to face. But even then, the site could create fake posts with their names on it, or fake "like this business" attributed to them that only I can see.
Kittylover368 1 year ago
My mom loses it when she has to take those tests. One time, it asked her to type the letter “h” and she lost it.
BPisaddictive 🇮🇹 🤌 1 year ago
About the I'm not a robot stuff, as far as I know it's not a matter of how many right boxes or images are checked, but how they are checked. Humans go quick and direct in the checkbox, bots and the like explore the page with a search pattern, different from the one average humans use. Both with a pointing device like a mouse on a pc or your fingertips on a touch screen
#35
Companies are offering monthly payment plans in an effort to normalize having a low income and high debt.
Jrog 1 year ago
Also, monthly payments are better for company books. They represent a constant and predictable income stream, that for management is better than highly volatile and unpredictable quarterly sales. The reliable income allows for expense optimization and better planning of investment, while presenting a more enticing financial scenario to investors.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
It also makes it easier for a person to manage a series of smaller payments than a single lump sum (or even mid sized quarterly sums). The good thing now is that in the past many companies charged an extra "Admin fee" for the privilege or monthly or even quarterly payments. Now most of them don't charge any extra.
Load More Replies...
Lyone Fein 1 year ago
It's just a way to tempt people into purchasing more stuff. But we don't need most of what we buy. A lot of it is psychological buying.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Legalized slavery through indentured debt. That's how serfs lived in medieval Europe, effectively slaves owned by a lord and couldn't go anywhere without permission. See also: sharecropping after slavery ended.
A. Starhawk Hunt 1 year ago
I have nothing wrong with monthly payments for things. I don't have the money to buy things outright most of the time, like cars, and a years insurance, etc. If you do, more power to you. I don't and likely never will
Cindy Brick 1 year ago
They also figure we're too undisciplined to pay regularly -- that way, they can slam us with a boatload of interest when we miss a payment. Don't let them!
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Monthly payments cause debt, which causes interest on the debt. You pay more for delayed payment. A lot more, if it's a delayed payment over many years. And, of course, monthly payments allow people who can't afford the thing now, to buy it anyway. Two barrels to that shotgun.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Only if it's purchased on a credit plan. Take phones for example. Many places sell the handset for $1200 as a lump sum. Or you can buy it for $100 a month over a year. Or $50 a month over two years. The end price is no different to the customer. It just spreads the cost out over a more manageable period. In that case it's the phone company wearing the initial debt. The do so because they're hoping to make money of your phone plan not the physical phone itself.
Load More Replies...
#36
That my dryer eats my socks. I can’t prove it but I know in my heart it is true, there is no other explanation.
Passerby 1 year ago
Teach those machines a lesson by eating the socks yourself before they have the chance to eat them.
Load More Replies... Surenu 1 year ago
The specific rotation of a dryer and/or washer, combined with exotic materials secretly used in their production, manipulate local gravity levels to accomodate small but stable wormholes. This all started out as a tech demonstration at Area 51, but it was also found out that this greatly helps with laundry for some reason, which is why they're still sold that way. The fact that the occasional sock disappears, only to reappear in an unstable orbit around Alpha Centauri is apparently a small price to pay. At least, that's my hypothesis.
Gretchen Esquilin 1 year ago
I know where the socks go! It's not the dryer, it's the washer! We had ours repaired & when the tech opened up the washer's frame there were about 13-20 different socks around the base of the drum. Socks were there that were now too small for my kids! LOL
Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago
Socks disappear and come back as either coat hangers or tupperware lids that don't fit anything.
#37
Lunch meat cut as thin as possible just tastes better.
T. 1 year ago
It's a known fact in cooking, that the higher the surface, the more taste you can generate: Think of vegetables cut in cubes of 10mm (60mm2) and then again in cubes of 2mm (24mm2 x 15 = 360mm2) -> so cut 5 times smaller, to get sixfold of surface.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
125 x 2mm sided cubes make 1 x 10 mm side cube; so it's 5 times the surface area. Took me 3 goes to get this right, though...
Load More Replies...
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
yes. Chemical reaction surface area is increased by reducing particle size. This is why we use gunpowder as powder not as logs.
Thomas Kroplinski 1 year ago
MOST People who work at the deli counter PURPOSELY cut meat thicker so they don't have to move the slicer as many times. Show me a deli person who cuts meat very thin, and I'll show you someone who'll be promoted out of the deli all too soon.
Salty_Sasquatch 1 year ago
Our grocery store has a little sign on the deli window that shows the different thicknesses they can slice meat to, so you can how thick you want it.
Load More Replies... #38
That Goodwill is actually a very cleverly designed money laundering scheme.
CK 1 year ago
It's a "not for profit" that pays executives high salaries while they pay their workers as little as they legally can, including paying disabled workers below minimum wage. That's not a secret, though.
Lily bloom 1 year ago
Not every district is like that. I work there and know all employees are paid at least minimum wage in our district.
Load More Replies... Jeff White 1 year ago
It has certainly made the owners of Goodwill rich, especially for a non-profit. Their widespread employment of reduced capability people is a good feature of the organization. But it can also seem to be flipped to further deflect the "shady" appearance of their money distribution.
girl_bug3_14 1 year ago
I work for Goodwill. They treat their employees HORRIBLY and pay them terribly. I am currently looking for a new job.
Megan Conner 1 year ago
I was homeless and asked one of the workers unloading if I could maybe get a blanket or a jacket(I had neither and it was a crazy Midwest cold snap,like 70 degrees to 30 in a couple hours) and was told by the employee,then the manager,that it was against policy. And a woman was dropping off dozens of jackets she thought would go to the underprivileged. I cried so hard. Salvation Army is the worst. Donated furniture selling for hundreds of dollars as refinished when it was just a guy with a scratch repair marker in 3 colors for 2 minutes. Gross
A. Starhawk Hunt 1 year ago
I don't know about it being a money laundering scheme; executives with education/experience do deserve equal compensation to others in the field. But it is surely not what it once was....
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Try the Salvation Army! If you work at one and go to get married, your spouse to be has to be employed by them too!
#39
Phone and internet providers start out solid and overtime purposefully make the product worse to encourage you to upgrade.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Not sure what service they're making s**t and what we're supposedly upgrading to? My current phone service is cheaper than it's ever been has unlimited free calls and texts and more than enough data. It's also the fastest it's ever been. My internet service is as good as it's ever been, unlimited data and I'm getting faster than the rated speeds 99% of the time (100mbit plan getting just a touch over 100mbit). The only complaint I've got is that after 20 years they decided to move the email addresses to a 3rd party provider instead of hosting them in house.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Cory Doctorow has an article on "ensh*ttification" that explains how and why this happens. Look it up.
PattyK 1 year ago
You’re assuming phone and internet providers are intelligent enough to do this.
Astro 1 year ago
I mean they’re already smart enough to make phones and computers. It’s not about intelligence, it’s about greed.
Load More Replies... #40
Lately, Disney has been trying to revive the old “steamboat Willy“ version of Mickey Mouse through merchandise and new cartoons drawn in the old fashion that nobody really asked for. I think they are doing all of that deliberately so that they can try to fight the scheduled copyright expirations on their old cartoons.
Jrog 1 year ago (edited)
That's a very well known tactic, no conspiracy here. Disney included the character in movie logos and made merchandise because they are turning it into a trademark instead of a intellectual property. IPs expire and go into public domain, trademarks do not but are limited in scope and application; also, the protections granted are different. Disney is trying to convert the expired protection into a new, enforceable one, hoping to limit the availability of the character either through proper brand protection or through "scare tactics": this kind of conversion is a gray area, so if you want to use the character for anything you may be into uncharted waters. Are your pocket deep enough to go to war with Disney Legal, or is it better not to take the gamble?
El Cucuy 1 year ago
Actually, trademarks can and do expire (at least in the US). In order to prevent them from expiring and in essence, last forever, it has to be is used in commerce and renewed on time every ten years. To renew a registered trademark, the owner must file the maintenance documents with the United States Patent Trademark Office (USPTO) and meet certain legal requirements.
Load More Replies... Thomas Kroplinski 1 year ago
What's worse, big pharma uses this scheme to extend their patent protection for expensive d***s.
Marie Clear 1 year ago
This is why Universal Pictures, for example, throws a series of their old logos up before morphing into the newest logo. Viewers take it as nostalgic, but their legal team knows it's all strategy.
WonderWoman 1 year ago
The patent for the old Mickey Mouse expired, it was known that it was expiring from the get-go. There is nothing nefarious going on
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Well it's too late. The Steamboat W***y version IS now public domain and a bunch of stuff has been done with it. There is a Mickey Mouse horror movie in the works now that the copyright is up. It's called "Mickey's Mouse Trap" and it look awful from the trailers. Every bit as bad as the one they did to cash in on Winnie the Pooh going out of copyright.
Jrog 1 year ago (edited)
the character is public domain, but it's much more difficult to use it if it is also a recognized brand in multiple fields. Using it in cinema is definitely possible, but it's trickier because it's on the user to make sure the character is never in a position that resembles the trademarked image. Also, merchandise becomes basically impossible. This situation never happened in real life before, so as soon as someone tries to go down that road we may see a landmark case dicussed.
Load More Replies... Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Judging by the number of YouTubers posting the cartoons now, I'd say di$ney failed to prevent it.
#41
Michael Jordan didn’t “retire” to play baseball. He was serving a suspension related to gambling and he and the league agreed on a mutual cover up because he was too valuable a marketing asset for the league. They didn’t want to tarnish his image.
Jeff White 1 year ago
I virtually NEVER believe in cove-ups. But, I have to admit this is one of the most believable I have heard.
Surenu 1 year ago
I fully believe coverups exist in the private sector. Government entities are usually too bloated and/or incompetent to run any sort of coverup or conspiracy without getting detected or their stuff leaked.
Load More Replies...
Candid Panda 1 year ago
So is the post saying that the league forced him to retire to cover up his gambling addiction since a player who bets on his sport is entirely unethical?
Ken Beattie 1 year ago (edited)
That's the gist of it yes. In practically every sport it's banned for the athletes to bet on their matches. In some sports (cricket) even being approached by a bookie and not reporting it (even if you never accepted money or threw a game) can get you banned. edit: Sorry, if you meant gambling addiction in the sense that he was betting on OTHER sports then probably not. But betting on basketball, absolutely plausible.
Load More Replies...
Ananda Ghosh 1 year ago
One of the main points of punishment is to deter others from doing it. What good is it to suspend MJ for gambling if you cover up the reason? Just that he loses money? Oosing money doesn't make you not gamble again. As you say, as such a valuable asset, the NBA also loses money. If you were going to cover it up bc he's such a valuable asset, you also just wouldn't suspend him. This theory sounds plausible at first but it really makes no sense.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
I went to the same high school. They've renamed the gym after him 🙂
#42
Spirits of nature. Anyone who has lived close to a forest for some period of time has weird, unexplainable stories to tell. I've seen some real weird s**t (i live very close to the Atlantic forest in Brazil).
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago (edited)
I saw some interesting things in Kakadu NT, I worked the balls up to ask a few locals from the Oenpeli tribe, and was told there’s a lot of spirits out there and it’s not unusual that I kept seeing what I saw - almost like a ghibli film 😂 just black shadows walking or in the act of sitting down on grass etc. tripped me out so bad. Other locals talked of unexplainable things they’ve heard or seen while hunting and camping etc. it’s such a fun place
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I honestly think it's just our mind playing tricks on us because we know we're far from "safe ground". It's incredibly creepy to a kid being left home alone because their safety net is gone. It's no different to that in my view. *shrugs* Sorry I have an imagine but I'm also too rational for my own good sometimes.
Load More Replies...
Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
Scarier than what you don't, can't, know is what you can. Predator animals exist out there. Other people exist out there. The forest can be peaceful, but also unkind, unforgiving, unrelenting - may you not cross it, for the results of doing so are deadly.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Ghost stories were prevalent when lighting a candle took many seconds, and when stray draughts moved curtains unexpectedly. Since double glazing, electrical lighting and cameras on phones, there are remarkably fewer claims for the existence of ghosts. Can't imagine why ...
Alias Fakename 1 year ago
My friend's backyard is basically in this bird sanctuary. He has some weird stories
Kittylover368 1 year ago
Y’all know skinwalkers? My brother had a sleepover, (our backyard is a forest sorta) and kept yelling into it ‘I know you’re not real skinwalker!’ I swear I saw one. Never want to go outside at night or see a deer. 🥶
Bret Sander 1 year ago
Can't get ten miles outside of my lovely mountain town without them being ubiquitous.
#43
That my dad might be alive. He supposedly died in 2009. He was a huge paranoid conspiracy theorist to the point where he would bury his money, planted bushes to hide behind incase the government had a shoot off with him, and at one point thought we all had been replaced by clones. The only people who saw his body are one of my aunts and my grandma who had Alzheimer’s. They told us he was cremated and at the funeral there was no coffin, no urn, all there was was a black and white photo from when he was 10 (he was born in the 50’s). I’ve yet to see his urn or death certificate and it’s been 12 years. He had connections to people who could have easily helped him fake his death, he also had the money to do this. People have also supposedly seen him in Indiana (they took a picture and tbh the guy looks just like him only a bit older, same hunchback, same tattoo on his leg, and he even walked with the same little limp).
TomCat 1 year ago (edited)
The county he died in should have a death certificate which is public record. Seems like an easy, $5 way to find out.
T J R 1 year ago
They can also get a copy for free just because they are the daughter/son. At least in my State.
Load More Replies... rorschach-penguin 1 year ago
If your father's alive, I think he's in a very specific kind of hospital.
Idgafwyt 1 year ago
This very well seems plausible, what are the chances that someone who looks and walks the same as OPs dad, would also have the exact same tattoo in the exact same part of the body? This should be easy to find out because death records or certificates are kept as a public record, similar to marriage or birth records. Just go down to the local registry of deeds or whatever, wherever he supposedly died and you will get your answer.
BPisaddictive 🇮🇹 🤌 1 year ago
I don't know elsewhere, but in Italy you can ask a court to declare someone's presumed death if they don't give signs to be alive in 10 years. You can then be entitled to their money or pension (if any), marry again in church (catholics can only if they are widows or had their marriage nullified by the Vatican) and so on
#44
There is something beyond this material life. A week before my mom died she told me that "I have to go home soon, but you have to stay here". As she was actively dying she kept waving, as if to people, and once even told me to move out of my chair, as if I was blocking her view. I pondered this once in a while ever since; and then I came upon " Hospice nurse julie(I think that's her name; I know it started with a J) on tiktok. She simply describes, without religious or any other bias, the process of dying that she has witnessed. Apparently, a dying person often says that they are going home, and also says that they see lost loved ones and even pets who intimate or even say outright not to worry, and that they will help the dying person pass, as much as a month before they die.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
yep I've heard this but it could be brain illusions like a dream state, it doesn't mean the "seen" persons still exist.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Indeed, I find it much more likely that people are hallucinating. Their imagination is showing them stuff they *want* to see to make the prospect of dying less terrifying.
Load More Replies...
catslave6 1 year ago
Ok, here's a little story for you. In 2006 I met my elderly neighbor, Jackie because her little Shih Tzu, Dolly, escaped the yard. Jackie was very limited physically and could not catch the little dog. Jackie was 80, Dolly was about 4 months old at the time and mischievous. I closed off the escape route and our friendship began. I walked Doll, and dog sat her for Jackie many times until 2010. Jackie knew her days were numbered and asked if I would take Dolly when she passed. In December 2010 the fateful day came for Jackie while she was visiting family in CA. Doll and I spent the next years together happily until January 28th, 2022. Dolly's poor little body at 15 years 4 months was just flat worn out. I took her to the vet. As we waited for the meds to take hold, I told her she was a good girl. I also told her repeatedly to 'go look for Jackie'. As she expelled her last breath she barked! Startled the vet. Doll saw Jackie waiting and barked with joy. I know it's true. They met again!
Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
I know I'm not responding to OP since they're on reddit, but for those curious: Yes, Hospice Nurse Julie. She was a part (albeit indirectly) of the group of people who helped me deal with my grandma's end-of-life. Highly recommend checking out her work.
Idgafwyt 1 year ago (edited)
I'm not on TikTok but my first thought was Nurse Jackie. I didn't realize that this particular person was a hospice nurse specifically. Anyway I'm glad you were able to find some support and comfort during your time of grieving.
Load More Replies...
Anna Marie Hinnant 1 year ago
I was a caregiver for a sweet 98 yr old lady. The morning before she died she told me she needed to go home. Something told me not to reassure her that she was home in the assisted living facility - I just told her I understood.
Mabelbabel 1 year ago
There's a phenomenon called terminal lucidity that is sometimes seen in people with dementia, confusion or unconsciousness who are dying. They get a short period just before death where they rally and become more alert and oriented. The cause is unknown, but its like they wake up one last time to say goodbye.
Angeemanangee 1 year ago
When you are dying, your body creates painkilling chemicals to help your body cope and this is the most comforting thing I have ever learned from end of life nurses
meeeeeeeeeeee 1 year ago
My sister in law is in pallative care and said this happens and it happens to the least likely people too, people who have zero beliefs about anything
meeeeeeeeeeee 1 year ago
and she says it doesn't seem to be people you'd expect, like a parent or someone really close, it's someone they know but not that close
Load More Replies... #45
“People” who buy NFTs don’t actually exist, it’s just a money laundering scheme.
Salty_Sasquatch 1 year ago
I got smart and googled NFT before I plaintively asked here 'what's an NFT?'
Kira Okah 1 year ago
It was a speculative bubble, but like all those speculative bubbles that are part of collectors markets, it relies on ordinary people getting swept up in it with the hope that they could build a nest egg and are the ones left holding the now worthless items when the bubble bursts.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
Yes, my husband is one of those (eyeroll). Got swept up in some Reddit s**t, quit his job without telling me and invested money. He finally told me about having quit his job and his big money-making plans (which turned to s**t) a week before the baby was born. I'm still pissed off with him about it but had to figure out how to make it work before the baby arrived. I had huge problems bonding with the baby because of unresolved anger. All because of effing Reddit bros.
Load More Replies... Andrew Keir 1 year ago
NFTs resemble Bitcoin - they may well be Nature enforcing the rule "a fool and his money are soon parted"
Foffy Skrimshaw 1 year ago
Bitcoin is doing ok last time I checked though. NFTs are not.
Load More Replies...
#46
That chapstick companies make their chapstick to actually chap your lips so you need more of their chapstick...bastards.
CK 1 year ago
I think they put a magic spell on the tubes that makes them get lost before you can use them up.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago (edited)
Somewhat related, I recently was looking for my really fine pen for inking something and while I didn’t find it, I did find no fewer than seven different tubes of lip balm under my bed
Load More Replies... 
Spooky Demon Bat (she/they) 1 year ago
I believe this one, for sure. If I'm not using chapstick I don't need it, but when I get a new tube of it for some reason, all of a sudden I'm constantly needing it.
#47
My co-worker lies about her medical conditions.
She lies that she has seizures, and while I can’t prove it, I know it’s a lie because she’ll drive the same day that she claims to have a seizure.
Any time you mention any medical condition, she has it and it’s worse than your case.
She has mentioned having toxic shock syndrome, colitis, and a bunch of other things I can’t recall at the moment. One day we were talking about Autism, and she mentioned that her 22 y.o. daughter (who also happens to work with us) was diagnosed as a child. A few days later the daughter casually mentioned that she had found out just recently that she’s Autistic. I wanted to tell her that she only JUST found out because her mom just recently made that s**t up.
Danni 1 year ago
we call it "elevenerife", if you've been to Tenerife, they've been to elevenerife!!
Hugh Cookson 1 year ago
That sounds like she has a form of Munchhausen syndrome (and proxy, re her daughter)
shawna Reich 1 year ago
my aunt does the same thing....she strongly believes wherever her finger lands in the medical book, she has. She eats clay...she thinks that is helping he with her many "medical" issues yet no doctor can find anything wrong. she strongly believes she has every illness every few months
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
The Dilbert cartoon had a character like that, "Topper". Whatever you claimed, he'd done that younger and higher. Fun to read about, not so much when you have to deal with it. The best cure is mockery - "You got your pilot's licence at the age of 14? I got mine while still in the womb, Mum had to sit very near the controls..."
Salty.Hag 1 year ago
You thought right! If you suffer from seizures you can't have a license.
Load More Replies... Idgafwyt 1 year ago
I had a coworker like this. Definitely a one upper, and also a pathological liar. This woman was in her mid forties, born with a silver spoon and honestly one of the dumbest ppl I've ever met. She claimed to have a Bachelors in interior design but didn't know how to do square footage. She was also an alcoholic and addict on suboxone who would drink in the office bathroom. She also claimed to be pregnant, which we all knew was bs. During this pregnancy she said she went to ER they found cysts and they went in and removed them, somehow going around said baby. She also had hemorrhaging another time, she screenshot ultrasound pics and made up so many stupid lies, she even began to excentuate her booze belly instead of hiding it and would rub it often. 🤣 🤦♀️🤷♀️
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
We had a co-worker who lied for 2 years about traveling and sales meetings all over the country. She was at home all the time, claimed expenses, paid for hotels and flight she was never took.
Ariom Dahl 1 year ago
She's apparently incredibly self centred and apart from that, I think there's a medical name for this condition; might be hypochondria. ;)
#48
I am convinced that the electronics items sold at steep discounts on Black Friday are the ones that don't test as well at the factory. Like, when they do quality control tests, the ones that rate 90% or whatever are the ones that are tagged and sent out for Black Friday sales.
Jeff White 1 year ago
Never thought of this, but it makes complete sense. Excellent observation / belief.
Jrog 1 year ago (edited)
No mass-manufacturing company tests *all* their products. They rely on process validation instead of product validation. If your manufacturing process is good enough, you know the product is good enough and any bad product falls within a very small percentage of acceptable error (in automotive, it's usually 3,4 defective parts every million units, the mythical "six sigma"). Products discounted on black Friday are usually the last units of large batches already sold (often taking up warehouse space that is more valuable than the product), products that have been purchased in small lots to test sales and didn't to well and must be "purged out of the system", or products where the retailer had massive discounts due to volume purchase and can sell at greatly reduced margin to bring people into the store, hoping to recoup on other sales.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Makes more sense that they're the items that haven't been selling so they have a surplus. Or they're items that are (or about to be) superseded so they're getting rid of old models before *no one* wants them.
Momma Jess 1 year ago
I worked at a membership retail chain years ago, and management did elude to something similar.
Laura Roney 1 year ago
I bought tv (19 in) on Good Friday 8 years ago and it still works like a charm
BPisaddictive 🇮🇹 🤌 1 year ago
Or they could be the items sent back by unsatisfied customers. Nice observation, though
Eric Williams 1 year ago
Please Tell me that's not a little kitten in the blender!! The tatts have me worried!
#49
The NFL politicized kneeling to distract from CTE research.
panther 1 year ago
So parents won't stop their kids from playing football. Health care liability after players retire. Prevent more safety regulations. And those are just off the top of my head, I'm sure there are other reasons.
Load More Replies... Cuppa tea? 1 year ago
In rugby, concussion became an issue few years ago. They swiftly came with medical check up during the game and rule that after certain amounts of confirmed concussions over certain time period player is mandatory to rest for some time. Even Ireland's best player Johnny Sexton was off for couple of months because of this rule. Actually, the number of confirmed concussions dropped significantly.
#50
An eye-rolling one, but Jeffrey Epstein’s island, to me. confirmed the existence of depraved headhunting and Squid Game like sadism.[The sun dial with the pastel colored stools?](https://imgur.com/a/JIpFttO) Come on.
There are too many people who go missing without a trace and never found to consider that at least many of them don’t end up in a sick situation like that.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Aw come on, look at WHO was at Jeffrey Epstein's island. Not who happened to meet him, but who actually went to his island or toured the world with him. Random rich people? Nope. Politicians. Thought leaders. Why? They go there, get photographed committing statutory rape, and now they're under control.
Der Kommissar 1 year ago
If your stools look like these "pastel colored" ones, see an gastroenterologist
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
sadly many of them did end up in sick situations but it's nothing grandiose or cabal-ish. Usually it's just a sadistic rando who does it. https://www.ncchomelearning.co.uk/blog/uk-serial-killers/
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Mountbatten (cousin of queen Lizardbreath II and related to her son Randy Andy, Epstein's pal) was alleged to be a pedophile along with his pal Jimmy Savile. There are rumours of children sexually abused on boats and thrown overboard at sea. Given the uk royals and their history of scandals and abuses, plus Mountbatten's participation in war crimes, it's not far-fetched. [ https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/fbi-files-claim-lord-louis-mountbatten-had-a-perversion-for-young-boys/news-story/3647da9b3e938ae4aa5d0f3608639479 ] The IRA had no idea how much of a favour they did children when they blew up Mountbatten's boat in 1979.
I’ll have a treble thanks. 1 year ago
This comment is offensive and spurious to the point of libel, BP you allow this shite !?
Load More Replies... #51
That my aunt is my sister.
My parents dated in high school, my mom said that she felt like her daughter, and people in high school suspected that she was my parent’s as my mom transferred schools for a year and went back a year later with a baby sister who looked like her except she had my dads curly hair.
This was in the late 60s where my mom of all people said it was common for the parents of the mom to raise a high schoolers kid as their own.
My parents always helped her more than other family. My mom helped her through her divorce, my dad paid her mortgage when she got laid off.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Jack Nicholson discovered that his "older sister" was in fact his mother. The family never told him. He found out from a reporter in the middle of an interview.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Either way, not her fault - treat her as a human and ignore what happened before she was born.
MiriPanda 1 year ago
The first paragraph is indeed hard to read: high-school kids date, girls falls pregnant, 'transfers school' for or a year, comes back with a little 'sister', high school kids remain a couple and have at least one more kid (OP), but keep alive the lie that her 'aunt' is actually the result of a teenage pregnancy and really her sister.
Load More Replies... 
Daune Tullina 1 year ago
My half brother's Aunt was his Mom. Hes is older than me. We are half siblings nad have the same Mom. Late 60s things were done differently.
#52
Ghosts. I've had waaaay too many experiences, especially while relatives are on their death beds, to be told otherwise. Don't care what you say.
RabidChild 1 year ago
I've had relatives stop by on their way to the light and also shared a house for a few years with the previous owner. He died in the house a bit before I moved in but he was quiet and most of the time it was like he wasn't even there. Aside from startling me a couple of times, he was probably one of the best roommates I've had.. I've seen some things! I'm firmly on OP's side on this one
cerinamroth 1 year ago
I've had no similar experiences, either when I myself was close to dying or others died around me.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Yeah, considering the sheer volume of people who've died we should be literally tripping over ghosts all over the place. Even if you subscribe to the belief that only traumatic or unfulfilled deaths create them there should be millions of them all over the place.
Load More Replies... #53
Mini M&Ms taste much better than regular sized ones.
rorschach-penguin 1 year ago
It's demonstrably true that mini m&ms do not have the same ration of candy coating to chocolate filling as standard m&ms. Whether you believe this improves the taste is a matter of opinion.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
well it depends on whether they're filled with actual chocolate or american chocolate.
Load More Replies... Regina Holt 1 year ago
I like the holiday shapes of Reese's peanut butter cups better than the actual regular cups. The holiday shapes have a different texture of peanut butter, which makes a difference. I have a friend that says the same thing,
#54
A supervisor changed my days off at the last minute without telling me in an attempt to get me fired for attendance.
Idgafwyt 1 year ago
I'm sure there is some way you could prove this. Usually people take a picture of their upcoming work schedule, if it differs or had to get your days off approved prior? Idk but I feel like this could have been proven easily, especially if one is being proactive and covering their own àss.
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
I gave a 2 week notice at one job (there's a lot of history with this one) and about 3 days before I was going to leave, my supervisor asked me if I just wanted to quit early, as she didn't really need me there. I didn't really need the extra 3 days' pay, so I said sure. That was on Wednesday. On Friday, I got an express delivery stating that I was fired for no call, no show and what was even more bizarre, the supervisor had set my "firing" to take effect back to when I had given her the original 2 week notice. You better believe I called HR and gave her a mouthful and got all that changed fast. And in return, I believe I got that supervisor fired, although that's a whole 'nother story.
#55
Recycling is a scam.
Surenu 1 year ago
Depends on the recycling. Metal recycles forever, and recycled aluminium is better for the environment and cheaper to boot, which is why private companies that use lots of aluminium (can and airplane manufacturers) have a vested interest in keeping aluminium cans off the landfills and in the cycle. Plastic though? The best (as in, least bad) option is to burn it unfortunately.
shawna Reich 1 year ago
burning plastic releases toxic fumes and are not good to breath in
Load More Replies...
Awesome At Being Autistic 1 year ago
Plastic? Definitely a scam. Metal, glass, cardboard, paper, not a scam.
Eric Williams 1 year ago
Why stop with recycling? There's many more scams you could have mentioned!
Jeff White 1 year ago
I know recycling is shockingly inefficient and am confident it is smokescreen to make many people feel better. The money made to create this false feeling could well be up to the level of outright scam. Hmmm, have to think about that more.
#56
That those people who "accidentally" show p*rn in class are secretly getting off on it.
Me Oh My 1 year ago
You know, I've never seen this happen, but I wouldn't be surprised at all.
Load More Replies...
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Have you ever heard of "ebay p~rn" (photographing reflective objects while naked)? It's intentional.
#57
Something in my old elementary school is causing people to get cancer.
I lived in a small town, right around 4,000 people. I went to the private Catholic school in the area which was even smaller, I graduated with 15 in my class and there were less than 300 students total at the time. Despite this very small amount of people, 6 students and faculty members have been diagnosed with cancer over the past 5 years. The odds are so unbelievably slim that I’m sure something cancer causing is in the building, but who knows what or where it is.
rorschach-penguin 1 year ago (edited)
The odds of six people out of hundreds developing cancer in a five year period—in a small town where everyone knows everyone else's business—are not at all unbelievably slim. I don't know how many of these were adults or how old they were, but 40% of people eventually develop cancer, and about 1/250–300 kids are diagnosed with cancer. I also don't know if any of the children were related, what kind of cancer was involved... It's unfortunate and unlucky, but not indicative of a contaminant.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
My uncle passed away from ALS. The area he lived in has what's called a "cluster" of cases. Which means it has an abnormally high level of people who have developed ALS. (It's in Kentucky if you're curious)
Royer Potts 1 year ago
Totally plausible. There was a middle school where I grew up built in the late seventies. After it opened, many students and faculty experienced fatigue, headaches, and other symptoms. Turns out it was built on the site of a creosote treatment plant from when there was a lot of logging in that part of Texas.
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
Something like this happened at a federal tv station building here in Oz. A lot of employees specifically from that building developed cancer. There was a big investigation into it, and the building ended up being condemned and torn down.
PattyK 1 year ago
Have they all been diagnosed with the same kind of cancer? If not, the school did not cause the cancer. The six cases were coincidental.
rorschach-penguin 1 year ago
That's not how that works. At all. Exposure to the same carcinogen doesn't cause the same reliable cancerous output. Cancer is all about random chance. Hiroshima, for instance, exposed everyone to the same radioactive material, and survivors did not all develop the same kinds of cancer. They developed different kinds. I do believe the cases were probably coincidental, but for different reasons I elaborated upon in my own comment.
Load More Replies...
#58
DeflateGate was intentionally spurred on by the NFL to distract from concussion lawsuits and domestic violence headlines.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Or, a very highly paid athlete was getting an edge in a very high-profile competition. Occam's razor might solve this.
WonderWoman 1 year ago
Tom B is a cheater in life, there is no reason to doubt he was a cheater on the field as well.
Load More Replies... Idgafwyt 1 year ago (edited)
This is on here twice now, essentially. It's possible that the NFL did create these issues, to distract people from learning about the awful condition of CTE, that has affected many NFL players. I personally don't think the NFL was behind any of those scandals, especially not to deflect the public from learning about CTE. There has been documentaries made and more and more research is being done on it. Yet each year new players are being drafted, even with the knowledge of CTE, with no shortage of prospects to choose from. They have begun to develop equipment that better protects the players and are coming up with new ways to make the game safer. Edit- autocorrect errors
#59
The big hot pockets from a convenient store have different fillings than the small ones from the grocery store. I swear they taste different.
#60
Facebook used the outage as an opportunity to delete any emails, memos, or other work product that would be incriminating in the event of a subpoena. Employees were locked out of the buildings.
Salty.Hag 1 year ago
True, but not in that instance, Facebook did use that outage as an excuse, it's not news or a mystery.
Load More Replies... #61
Dollar slice pizza places are fronts for money laundering schemes. Yes, yes, I know pizza is inexpensive to make. Flour, c**p cheese, a thin patina of sauce...but a dollar? Nope. It's a front. A delicious, I'm staggering home drunk type of delicious, but a front nonetheless. For context, I'm referring to dollar slice pizza places in NYC, my hometown.
Idgafwyt 1 year ago
I mean they are still making roughly $8 per pizza, assuming they are cutting them into standard sized slices. Selling by the slice also gives people a taste of your pizza and if they like it they would most likely end up ordering an entire pizza to go. It's just another form of marketing in hopes for increased profits.
#62
Law schools have made the vast majority of the legal profession a huge echo chamber.
Stephanie A Mutti 1 year ago
Law school does a good job at winnowing out those who won't pass the bar but unless you are going into some sort of appellate work, it's not great for preparing the young lawyer to practice, or at least those of us who end up litigating.
#63
Deja Vu is the equivalent of "You died at some point. This is your respawn. This moment didnt get wiped from your memory". Along with this, some events are destined and unavoidable no matter what you do. What happens in between these "checkpoints", however, IS within your control.
Eric Williams 1 year ago
Deja vu is the result of the hemispheres of the brain momentarily out of sync with each other.
Dirk Daring 1 year ago (edited)
That odd cut / scratch / bruise / sudden sharp pain that you don't know how it happened? That's how you just died in an alternate universe.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I wonder if sometimes it's a literal memory, but a memory of a dream. I don't mean that the dream is precognitive either. Just that you have a random dream with a certain number of specific details. When you bump into a real life scenario with enough matching details the memory comes to the surface as deja vu. You have on average 3-5 dreams a night. Often they're about mundane things. Stands to reason that sooner or later you'll bump into a real scenario that matches one of those dreams.
Miliukov Oleksandr 1 year ago
Nope. Only faced some aliens and then man in black erased your memory
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Ummm...I have personally had dreams with people in them I did not know. Several months later, BOOM! There they are, same convo, same place. I submit we foretell things.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
This happens when your memory -forming process gets entangled with your memory-checking process. You 'file' a memory of something that just happened, then you look for anything like it, and there it is ...
François Carré 1 year ago
If you haven't read that book yet, you might like it : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Fifteen_Lives_of_Harry_August
#64
Holiday-shaped Snickers taste better than regular Snickers bars. Same for special-shaped Kraft mac and cheese.
Me Oh My 1 year ago
Consumerism and capitalism merging together to make the wonder that is 'Murica.
Load More Replies... Stephanie A Mutti 1 year ago
Reeses Peanut Butter cups in the holiday shape ABSOLUTELY taste better. I believe it's the peanut butter to chocolate ratio that makes the difference.
Mrs. Ginger McSarcasm 1 year ago
Absolutely. The holiday ones have more peanut butter and less chocolate than the regular ones.
Load More Replies... Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
True though, especially with the special Kraft. Different noodles are just superior sometimes - the wheels in particular are so good for capturing some of that fluorescent cheesy goodness, whereas with the elbows you just end up with sauce-covered noodles with sad, empty insides.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
That's the whole reason pasta comes in so many different shapes and styles. It's all about the sauce it's matched with. Not sure about the holiday shaped Snickers though (never seen them).
Load More Replies... Carla Phillips 1 year ago
Also, holiday shaped Reese cups. Better chocolate to peanut butter ratio
KillerKiwi 1 year ago
Nope. Special shaped Mac and cheese is more of an abomination than regular
Johnnynatfan 1 year ago
Snickers arent shaped different for the holidays. Reses peanut butter cups are.
#65
No hate at all but I believe that Khloe Kardashian's father is not Robert Kardashian and is Kris' old hairdresser. They look crazy similar too.
John Bababuie 1 year ago
Not to be rude, but all the plastic in her face makes it kind of hard to distinguish.
Jeff Hunt 1 year ago
Perhaps the father is Mr. Potatohead. You know, interchangeable face parts.
Load More Replies... Candid Panda 1 year ago
Why is it so shocking to believe that anyone in that family would lie or do something suspicious or unscrupulous. I mean isn't that their brand?
Shark Lady 1 year ago
I think his name is Alex Roldan, lots of people believe this since Khloe looks so different to her sisters. Her middle name is also Alexandra. Whatever the truth is, it must be incredibly painful for Khloe to constantly having people suggest her father isn't the one she grew up with.
CF 1 year ago (edited)
"Oh, the pain! Must go buy another mega-estate to drown my sorrows!"
Load More Replies... Regina Holt 1 year ago
same here. How the hell did that show get on the air? I've never watched it, but, why would anyone?
Load More Replies... 
LinkTheHylian 1 year ago
Which one married Travis Barker? She gets kudos for helping him overcome his fear of flying, and having his child, but that's all. Still in the red for living the Kardashian life.
#66
That by-and-large the boomer generation was lead-poisoned due to the massive increase in lead usage in paint and gasoline as urban sprawl took over the country after WWII and as a result a vast majority of them are narcissists and incapable of empathy.
rorschach-penguin 1 year ago
This would be a great theory if lead poisoning caused symptoms of narcissism and loss of empathy, which it does not.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
"As adults, those with higher childhood blood lead levels were less agreeable, less conscientious, and more neurotic." https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2020104118 I dunno, disagreeableness could be mistaken for loss of empathy.
Load More Replies... Lyone Fein 1 year ago (edited)
Also, another problem with this theory is the actual facts on the ground, so to speak, of the selfless service that so many people in the baby boomer generations performed. Peace Corps, Teach For America, Habitat for Humanity, Big Brothers and Sisters, Rotary Clubs, Shriners, on and on. Hundreds of national and international charitable and volunteer organizations were founded and operated by baby boomers. Regular working men and women who donated time, labor and money for decades to help others.
Anonymouse 1 year ago
While I do believe that a large spike in urban crime is directly related to lead
Eric Williams 1 year ago
Not to mention kids running behind the DDT spray truck to play 'in the clouds' ! I'm just fine you f****r!
Simon Chen 1 year ago
Can not read the word boomer anymore. It makes me so angry. Usually used by some millenial crybaby or gen z freeloader. Honestly, those people worked their ases of so their children can get a pointless degree somewhere and do a one year holiday called sabbatical. Sabbatical from what remains to be a mystery, however. I work in service and people who make my life more complicated than it has to be are rarely so called boomers but far more likely some demanding 20 year old pothead. There are surely people that age who are narcissist and lack empathy. You will find them at any agerange. So, please stop this boomersht, it is disrespectful, it stereotypical and just obnoxious. Thanks, not a boomer
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Yes, let's all label everyone else and hate them...
Load More Replies...
#67
That there is a cure for cancer but there is no money in curing people, only in endless treatment.
Chocolate llama 1 year ago
"Cancer" is not 1 single disease. Some cancer types are curable and are being cured every day. There are even vaccines that can prevent certain types of cancer. Other types are so hard to detect that they can usually no longer be treated once they are detected. Please stop spreading these type of anti-science conspiracy theories. The mistrust in science is already high enough.
Johnny ro 1 year ago
science and USA big Pharma are two different things. I am OK with scientists.
Load More Replies... rorschach-penguin 1 year ago
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm systematically downvoting the beliefs that are just moronic.
Jeff White 1 year ago
This "belief" is incomprehensibly idiotic. The near God-level acclaim that would be given to any people who cured Cancer would ensure that such information would "get out." While it is inappropriate to tell someone they are of sub-human intelligence, it is more inappropriate to let such malignant recklessness go unchallenged. Please do not talk to other people.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
punished with a downvote. NO self-respecting scientist would hide this. ALSO, there are a range of cancers which can be cured. ALSO if you ACTUALLY follow the REAL research like I do, you will see they are now considering mRNA viral delivery like they did for covid. So... f**k off.
CK 1 year ago
There is money in curing people. Maybe not as much as for ongoing treatment, but there are plenty of people who are not currently making any money off cancer treatment, so if they can find a cure, they win.
Cathy 1 year ago
Not to mention eternal fame and going down in history books!
Load More Replies...
Fellfromthemoon 1 year ago
Wrong. Some malignancies are treatable with a 97-98% success rate and a life expectancy of 50-70 years after the diagnose.
Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
There are some great folks out there making huge strides in cancer treatments. There have actually been a lot of really helpful new treatments pretty much continuously, but some incredible successes in the last decade. The new things around the corner are very exciting too. I think something with MRNA in the works? sounds very good.
Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
Grandma was on something that was...not necessarily in trial but fairly new, and it helped tremendously for a bit. Her original doctor was working on publishing some information/study of its efficacy. The point where she was with cancer was too far, but she did live for 7 years after her stage IV lung cancer diagnosis, and a big part of that was the treatment in question. (I don't remember what it is, I'm sorry)
Load More Replies... Guess Undheit 1 year ago
That statement is as ignorant as claiming "big pharma doesn't want a cure for the cold because it's profitable!" Colds don't kill and they mutate constantly, that's why there's no cure and no effort put into it.
Explore more of these tags
What do you think ?
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
I am sure that efficient, green and renewable technology has existed for a long time but that the oil industry is keeping it until their stock is empty
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I think that they bought out designs for electric cars and stopped them getting them made. But I also believe that the tech at the time was just that - tech from that time. If you implemented some of the designs people would not be impressed because they're 20, 40 or 100 years out of date. Just as an example, they had electric cars before the Model T, but they were rubbish compared to modern ones in terms of performance, battery life etc. And of course the infrastructure to support them just didn't exist. What would be interesting is if they'd proceeded along those lines. How far advanced would electric vehicles be if development hadn't stalled for nearly a 100 years.
Load More Replies... the_avenging_knight (her/she) 1 year ago
I will swear up and down for the rest of my life that i have a great uncle who was locked away in an insane asylum. All the facts fit! He was most likely born in about 1940, and since my family has owned the house we live in since the 1800s, he lived here. i think I must have his bedroom. I found a box with a journel and a few pictures that were enough to convince me he was probably abused by my great grandpa(he was a pretty s****y guy from everything my grandma says) and also most likely gay. Grandpa being the a*****e he was, sent his oldest son away to an insane asylum so he wouldn't stain the family legacy. My poor great uncle died there at around 26. Grandma is geting pretty old and will occasionally tell me stories involving an older brother. According to the rest of the family, she never had an older brother. So either my grandma hallucinated a brother untill she was 9, or he was sent to an insane asylum. I'm planning on check public birth and death reccords to be sure.
the_avenging_knight (her/she) 1 year ago
If I am right, i plan on moving his body to the family plot and getting all the family photos from before grandma was 9, added back into the house.
Load More Replies...
Michael Fernandez 1 year ago
Washing birds with detergent after oil spills is performative nonsense; most die anyway. Better to spend energy preventing spills.
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
why downvoting, it's saddly true, despite the delicacy of the healers, cleaning is a very aggressive process for the bird, it is very long with a lot of chimical products. And when the birds survive, it’s not for long. in 1999, ERIKA polluted an entire coast, I joint a group to find and bring the birds to the care center, we were 15 volunteers, we all "adopted" a bird to save, none survived :'(
Load More Replies...
Himory TheDreamer 1 year ago
I have horrible nightmares since I was a kid and also intrusive thoughts and other borderline hallucinatory stuff. I find comfort in thinking that no matter how bad reality and crimes and people being evil gets, it will never be as bad as what my brain can create.
Seedy Vine 1 year ago
One time the cap to my pill bottle was askew, and since I would never leave it that way myself, I suspected that someone's been breaking into my apartment to take my pills. I still hide them now. Maybe they're not working so well!
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
I am sure that efficient, green and renewable technology has existed for a long time but that the oil industry is keeping it until their stock is empty
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I think that they bought out designs for electric cars and stopped them getting them made. But I also believe that the tech at the time was just that - tech from that time. If you implemented some of the designs people would not be impressed because they're 20, 40 or 100 years out of date. Just as an example, they had electric cars before the Model T, but they were rubbish compared to modern ones in terms of performance, battery life etc. And of course the infrastructure to support them just didn't exist. What would be interesting is if they'd proceeded along those lines. How far advanced would electric vehicles be if development hadn't stalled for nearly a 100 years.
Load More Replies... the_avenging_knight (her/she) 1 year ago
I will swear up and down for the rest of my life that i have a great uncle who was locked away in an insane asylum. All the facts fit! He was most likely born in about 1940, and since my family has owned the house we live in since the 1800s, he lived here. i think I must have his bedroom. I found a box with a journel and a few pictures that were enough to convince me he was probably abused by my great grandpa(he was a pretty s****y guy from everything my grandma says) and also most likely gay. Grandpa being the a*****e he was, sent his oldest son away to an insane asylum so he wouldn't stain the family legacy. My poor great uncle died there at around 26. Grandma is geting pretty old and will occasionally tell me stories involving an older brother. According to the rest of the family, she never had an older brother. So either my grandma hallucinated a brother untill she was 9, or he was sent to an insane asylum. I'm planning on check public birth and death reccords to be sure.
the_avenging_knight (her/she) 1 year ago
If I am right, i plan on moving his body to the family plot and getting all the family photos from before grandma was 9, added back into the house.
Load More Replies... Michael Fernandez 1 year ago
Washing birds with detergent after oil spills is performative nonsense; most die anyway. Better to spend energy preventing spills.
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
why downvoting, it's saddly true, despite the delicacy of the healers, cleaning is a very aggressive process for the bird, it is very long with a lot of chimical products. And when the birds survive, it’s not for long. in 1999, ERIKA polluted an entire coast, I joint a group to find and bring the birds to the care center, we were 15 volunteers, we all "adopted" a bird to save, none survived :'(
Load More Replies... Himory TheDreamer 1 year ago
I have horrible nightmares since I was a kid and also intrusive thoughts and other borderline hallucinatory stuff. I find comfort in thinking that no matter how bad reality and crimes and people being evil gets, it will never be as bad as what my brain can create.
Seedy Vine 1 year ago
One time the cap to my pill bottle was askew, and since I would never leave it that way myself, I suspected that someone's been breaking into my apartment to take my pills. I still hide them now. Maybe they're not working so well!
You May Like 35 Conspiracy Theories That Some People Believe Are Completely True 43 Foreigners Share Traits That Instantly Reveal Someone Is American “Gave An OSHA Inspector A Stroke”: 50 Times People Fixed Their Problems In The Most “Genius” Ways (New Pics)
Aivaras Kaziukonis
Dominyka Proškėnaitė
Justinas Keturka
Related on Bored Panda
