This Instagram Account Posts “The Funniest Tweets You’ll Ever Read” (50 New Pics)
Interview With ExpertX (formerly Twitter) is a place where comedy geniuses reside. Unbothered by the 280-character limit, they turn simple life situations into short humorous masterpieces that many of us can easily relate to.
The “Really Dumb Tweets” Instagram account collects such gems and shares them with their 1.6 million followers daily. We’ve selected the best they have to offer as a little midweek pick-me-up for you, dear Pandas. All you have to do to embark on a sidesplitting journey is scroll down!
While you’re at it, don’t forget to check out a conversation with comedian and comedy coach Manny Garavito, humor coach and keynote speaker on communication Jeremy Nicholas, and comedy writing coach and director Chris Head, who kindly agreed to share a few insights on why X is brimming with funny content.
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Someone stole the toilet out of the local precinct office, and the cops have nothing to go on...
20.000 light bulbs stolen from street lights, police forces are groping in the dark
Load More Replies...I may get accused of being anti-capitalist, but nobody needs to type like that.
I may be misquoting this, but I believe there’s a study that said more money DOES make you happier - up to a personal salary of about $75,000 per year. Above that, the “happiness level” kind of plateaus. There’s obviously a lot of factors involved (like if you’re single or the sole breadwinner of a family etc) but having all your needs taken care of plus enough for your wants like dinners with friends and good quality new clothes or furniture when you need them and a sweet vacation somewhere exciting every year, plus enough to build a good savings account and retirement fund - wow that would just make me so incredibly happy 😊
Yes there is a study by the famous Daniel Kahneman, although that was almost 15 years ago and many subsequent studies do not mirror their findings. Some find a near linear correlation between the two, others an L shape, and others a concave relationship (like Kahneman) however, the regression line plateaus and dips at a far, far higher amount.
Load More Replies...Rich people say "money doesn't buy happiness" because they don't want poor people to eat them.
Money pays the doctor who can prescribe high blood pressure meds, or mood stabilizers, or whatever.
this is the first year I have been able to go on trips with my friends. Having extra money helps me be happy. Being broke all the time sucks, and having to make up excuses to why you cant go on the trip with your friends made me feel like c**p.
Aww I did the same for our local homeless guy outside the gas station. Asked if he was hungry, he said yes, then as I opened the door he stopped me again and said “I’m so sorry, could I possibly ask you for a Kit Kat bar, I’ve wanted one for so long.” 🥹 bought him a big ol sandwich, a gatorade, and 3 Kit Kats.
I asked a homeless guy the other day if I could get him anything and ALL he wanted was a banana MIlkshake. I got him a meal and the milkshake as on its own it didn't seem enough :(
It's got a lot of good ingredients, almost the perfect food. I hope you can have all the milkshakes you want now.
Load More Replies...Humor coach and keynote speaker on communication Jeremy Nicholas believes that X’s instantaneous nature might be why there’s so much hilarious content on the platform.
“It’s perfect for topical jokes, reacting to topical news stories. Of course, that does mean you need to be careful not to post something without thinking it through. It’s best to run it through a few filters in your head before you post it,” he advises.
This has nothing to do with college frat parties 😂 just make a rule that the dogs can’t go to frat parties!
Load More Replies...Ideas that sound great until you realize there are horrible, horrible people out there.
Lots of shelters essentially so this. You go to a volunteer training, and then you can take dogs for walks whenever you want. Some shelters do overnights so you can take dogs camping. Go sign up at your local shelter.
But shelters are often a bit outside town. It's what keeps me from following your excellent advice - the extra hour it costs just to get to the shelter and back.
Load More Replies...Not sure it will work here. I have been looking to adopt for years but almost every dog is of the tougher breeds (amstaff, pitbulls etc) and comes with demands of "no kids, no pets, must be really experienced with aggressive dogs, one person at home at all times" and similar. I have had plenty of adopted dogs before, but not prepared for that level of expertise. Also have both kids and cat at home.
Most people have a soft spot for animals. I was at a BBQ and some random guy had a frog he'd found and was grandly telling all that he was going to put it in a pot on the fire. That was until the meanest roughest guy in our group of friends picked him up by the throat and said very quietly "Put the frog back where you found it"....He did as was told!
There are a couple rescues near me where you can volunteer to hang out with the cats and walk the dogs. It's a very nice way to spend a Saturday.
I was going to ask where the hell does someone get a grenade, so I looked it up. you need a $500 license to be able to buy it then you need to pay $200 for a class 3 weapon stamp for each. Then you are able to legally own a grenade. They cost $45 each. So for $750 you too can toss a grenade off a cliff. Then get hit with a $10,000 fine for setting off a class 3 device in a unlawful area.
He's lucky DAD didn't cause a landslide from the concussion. What a dipwad! Sorry for any animals killed. Senseless!
Yes, jokes are always factual and true. The more factual a joke is, the funnier it is! Pointing out the flaws of a joke will only improve humour over time.
Load More Replies...Sad to say, but back in her day they probably weren't legally able to open a bank account without their husband's permission.
Load More Replies...She's right; all women should. So many women don't leave toxic relationships because they don't have finances to go anywhere else. If your husband isn't toxic, then you have a big surprise trip for your 20th anniversary so no-one loses
Every West Indian/Afro Caribbean woman in the diaspora. I found $16,000.00 hidden in my mothers closet after she passed. Plus several hundred more hidden around the house.
In 1975 I was a junior in high school and walked into a savings and loan, opening an account in my name. No issues. Wanted a place for my babysitting money. This was in the U.S. I didn't realize I was one of the first kids to do this. Mom was sure Dad needed to OK it. Nope. Maybe because it wasn't a bank? Dunno.
What? That's the worst take on this idea I've seen in a long time. Of COURSE you can re-introduce the money. "I've been putting a little aside in case of emergency" is all that someone in a safe marriage would need to say. Someone in an unsafe marriage would NEED that money. Also, that was a hella rude thing to say about the other commenter. You should be ashamed for being so judgmental. Babe please. Blink if you need help.
Load More Replies...Another factor that contributes to the plethora of jokes on X might be its huge user base. Since there are around 429 million X users worldwide, it’s a great place for comedians or funny people in general to get noticed and shared more. Because the platform’s audience is so wide, it’s also easier for people to find an audience or the type of content they enjoy on X, no matter what they like.
In addition, comedian and comedy coach Manny Garavito mentions X’s algorithm. It learns what type of content the general user tends to interact with and feeds them more of it. This essentially eliminates the search needed to find posts that are enjoyable for people.
Reading books is so underrated (even if it’s on like the Kindle app). It’s NOT the same as reading random things online. One of my favourite things is hearing people (who have English as a first language) mispronounce a word, because you can almost guarantee it’s because they learned it from reading. Alternatively, mistakes people make like “should of” (rather than “should have”) can often indicate a lack of reading as a child.
If my parents had done this and put the money in a bank account for me I’d be set for life. Between the walking distance library that I could get any book I wanted thank you very much and the used book store I found when I was able to drive that I could trade in books for more books 🤦🏻♀️ I’m so glad I could read whatever I wanted. I still have about 20 unread digital and paper books I need to read. Not counting the books I want to re-read.
Yes, me too! I remember vividly how my father had a "one last look over my library books before vacations, because I would ruin the max weight I was allowed every.time.
Load More Replies...Do you test him to see if he read the book (did you?) or is he just saying he did?
My toddler never wants to go to sleep and I thought this was just normal kid behaviour. And then yesterday I asked her why she didn’t want to go to bed when she was obviously so so tired, and she bawled out, "Because then papa will go to work!" Her father usually leaves for work before or shortly after she gets up… Broke my heart. Dads, it may not only seem that way, but you matter so much to your kids!
My brother and his family live several hundred miles from my parents. When my nephew was very young, he always refused to give my parents hugs when they came to visit. My (now ex) SIL asked him why and he said because whenever he hugs them, they leave and he wanted them to stay forever. Now he's a high school senior and planning to attend the university in the city where my parents live.
Load More Replies...From the day my daughter was born I promised myself that I would always says yes if she asked for a hug... to be honest... best decision I ever made!!! She is 18 now and we are super close and she knows that no matter what I am the one person on this planet that is there for her 100%. Love it!
One of our hospitals built a paid parking garage that's at least a 5-minute walk from the emergency room. Parking in front of the emergency room is 3 spaces for ambulances only. I wouldn't have any idea of what to do if I had to drive myself while sick or injured.
How about the university where you work?! Yes, $23 a month please. And you will get a ticket if you park in the wrong places.
I think this might be restricted to certain countries, I have never paid for hospital parking, and most students I know use public transport or bikes.
I only wish hospital parking was free here (UK). Students are too impoverished to have cars, so no parking needed there.
Load More Replies...Unfortunately what I've seen with hospitals that don't charge is that all sorts of people park there and block out all the spaces. The best option is that you get the cost back if you are actually using the hospital.
Paying for parking to see the doctor should be illegal. Most of the time, it's more than your co-payment! It's utterly ridiculous to pay more for parking than to see a doctor.
That's what happened when my wife was giving birth. London St Thomas hospital, congestion charge + like 4-5 quid an hour, can't recall. That time I was broke as f*ck, total bill came to like £50 just to get there and park, I couldn't even stay for the surgery she needed after, because I had to move my car out to a free zone. I nearly cried.
Since X posts are limited to 280 characters, we were curious to know if writing short-form jokes is more difficult than longer ones. It turns out it’s not. “Humour works best with fewer words,” says Nicholas. “The best jokes have no fat on them at all. If a word doesn’t add to the setup or the punchline, it should be cut.”
“The real challenge is turning a long joke into a short one without losing the punch—or stretching a short joke into a TED Talk without losing the audience,” says Garavito.
AFAIK she needs to disclose this "conflict of interest" to her client and it's up to the client to still hire her or find a new attorney.
Load More Replies...She's not ripping him off, he agreed to the vows and then decided to cheat, he's just paying the price
I am not a Swiftie, but this lyric immediately came to mind, when I read this; "Sweet like justice, karma is a queen..."
My villain origin story: The freakin' paper chase and the rat race that followed XP
I know so many people with a PhD or Doctoral degree who are total idiots. To me, having a PhD only means that person paid tons of money to write tons of papers. The initials don't carry any weight
Should be known as, 'Phids.' Rhymes with, Can't save lives but can talk your a*s-off about useless nonsense.' That'l be $195 for these useless 40 minutes...
A challenge that writers of short jokes might face is resisting the urge to skip punctuation, says Garavito. Meanwhile, Nicholas adds, “You can’t be rambling when you’ve only got 280 characters to play with, but that’s a good thing. No one has ever said ‘I enjoyed that joke, but just wish it had gone on longer.’”
You can. You just might have to find a new doctor afterwards.
Load More Replies...Toddlers have no concept of polite & rude yet. Maybe they wanted to show off the latest word they learned. Maybe the parents said something along the lines of, "Does the doctor not know what a clock is?" and the toddler wanted to be helpful. Or maybe they just heard that somewhere. Toddlers say a ton of stuff that they hear wherever… I was driving mine to kindergarden the other day, when out of nowhere she starts chanting, "Nuts, nuts, we demand."
Load More Replies...For years I received my healthcare, including bariatric surgery, at the county hospital in Denver. They make it a point that you are seen precisely at the time of your appointment. Likewise, if you are more than 15 minutes late your appointment is cancelled. They also have free parking (see above.)
I was onboard my ship one Saturday, and sitting reading in the wardroom (officers' lounge) and another officer came in, turned on the television, stood looking at it for a few minutes, then left. I got up and turned it off. Two hours later, he came back, turned it on again, looked at it again for a few minutes, and started to leave again, so I said "Could you turn that off?" and he said, "Oh, didn't you want it on?" Aaagh!
My mother and father have recently started doing this. I sit there reading, she comes in, TV on (some medical show, quiz, crime show or scripted reality) and leaves the room. I switch the sound off (because I'm reading) and in comes my father. Looking for something (news, something science-ey or lately billard) and three minutes later off he goes. Sound off again (unless science, I like that), and another five minutes later my mother is back, switching to her channel, watching for five minutes, and away again. Rinse and repeat at least twice more. Drives me bonkers 😂 (BTW I'm 45)
Load More Replies...She could nap for two hours? First I am impressed. Second . I can't nap for more than half an hour.
Really? If I don't set an alarm it can turn into 2 hours no problem. Then I'm f*cked that night.
Load More Replies...Maybe airlines need dogs on their fleets to let people hold and pet the dogs. Keep people calm down hopefully.
Not for the pug though, as for most of them, just trying to breathe is a bane.
Load More Replies...I would have kept mystery pug. Screw the irresponsible owner
What can help while writing funny content on X is staying as honest as possible. “The closer a joke is to the truth, the funnier it is,” says Nicholas. “I work a lot with professional speakers on adding laughs to their keynotes and the same rules apply. If you go too far off the track of truth, it becomes unbelievable and not as funny.”
“Spot the trend, call out the obvious, then flip it on its head,” recommends Garavito. “The punchline should feel like the joke will lose you followers and gain you some new ones.”
It’s actually a good hefty mouthful of m&ms 😂 for $1 it’s so worth it
Load More Replies...Ladies and gentlemen, a round of applause please for the 50th anniversary of that joke.
If you did that in the 90's, half the guys there would have stood up.
a guy walks up to microphone, grabs his balls and says"testes,testes, one two.. we're good"..
I for sure thought dude was responsible for eating all the reeces! A fav in our family. Peanut butter covered in soft melty chocolate, yes please & thanks.
Just pulled into a Dairy Queen drive through for a Blizzard ice cream. Dude tells me they are out of Reese’s for said Blizzard.
Load More Replies...“A good way of writing jokes for X is to start with some source material and then add your own comment,” adds comedy writing coach and director Chris Head.
“A great way to arrive at topical jokes is to do this with news headlines," he says. Statistics or proverbs can also be great material for a joke. “Find some stats as a starting point for a joke. You could take a surprising attitude to the stat—or deliberately misunderstand what it’s saying. You can also interrupt a well-known saying and change how it finishes, or try looking up inspirational quotes and adding your own afterthought.”
A lot more than 50%. A lady or a child needs your seat, unless you are ill, elderly, exhausted, or injured you offer up that seat. Equality of opportunity doesn't mean you can't have good manners.
Load More Replies...That has nothing to do with equality even. She didn’t ask for the seat because she was a woman, she asked for it because she felt sick. If someone is sick, they should be offered a seat, no matter if they’re a man or a woman.
She didn't even ask because of the pregnancy itself, just that it was causing her to feel sick!
Load More Replies...I went to the doctor to ask him to change an antibiotic I was on because it was causing horrible nausea. He told me to power through as it wasn’t that bad so I threw up in his wastebasket. He’s lucky I didn’t throw up on his shoes because it crossed my mind. Anyway, he prescribed a different antibiotic.
He wanted equality, so when is he going to get pregnant? And, good for her!
I had a doctor claiming it was impossible to have hyperrmesis more then a few weeks. I had a big lunch right before my appt and threw up all over the office. That was the last of that discussion..
Yeah, similar situation on the tube sadly I didn't throw up on the man sitting in the seat reserved for pregnant/disabled/with baby people
If you were a time traveller born in 2094, surely you'd go to the 1990s rather than the 2020s
My son once got a chair and got out his medication and ate 2 of them. He was 4 at the time and because they tasted good he decided he wanted more. I called his doctor and told them he was 4 yrs. old and he had eaten 2 of his pills. The guy asked is he 4 mos. old or 4 yrs. old? They were a tums like med for his acid reflux.
I can relate. I get so done with the smell and effort of my own cooking that I'm sick of it by the time it's ready to eat. And then I have to clean it all up. Not worth it!
I feel this way every holiday. I plan, I shop, I set up, I pre-cook, I bake, I cook and when it gets to the table I'm so sick of dealing with it that I just nibble.
Load More Replies...Welcome to the world of parenting a toddler. It's a wonderful land of irrationality and weird clothing and entertainment choices you don't understand. The good news is it only lasts for a couple of years, then evens out. Until they reach pre-adolesence. Then you go through it all again, except you can't just pick them up and leave when they have a tantrum.
The type of comedy that is shared on X isn’t significantly different from the one that is told on a stand-up stage. The main thing they have in common is putting the punchline of the joke (the big reveal that explains the whole point of a joke) at the end. Doing this is crucial in making people laugh, whether a person is typing an X post or standing in front of an audience.
Knowing the basic structure of a joke can actually help people be funnier online or while writing posts on X. It’s usually comprised of a setup and punchline. The latter was already discussed previously.
The Last Podcast on the Left. I've nearly crashed my car a few times from laughing so hard.
Load More Replies...I'll spend more time looking at the Wikipedia pages for various species of sea squirts than I do studying for my classes, lol
anyone heard of the lightbulb sea squirt, Clavelina lepadiformis? it looks like this and it's rlly cool edit: ugh, I forgot to attach the image before hitting reply
Load More Replies...When I was in high school many moonsvago I wasn't much interested in history or really about learning. Now I am much older. I am ki d of interested in history. I see something on a station about historynI become interested in watching those programs.
Excellent! You are embracing life-long learning. Please be sure to compliment your interest in history to reading about history, also. And check that the source(s) is/are reputable whatever the medium(s) you choose to access information. There is a plethora of the nefarious attempting to re-write history to serve their agendas. Much of factual, true history will make one uncomfortable, angry, sad, etc. If it does not, it is not true and factual.
Load More Replies...Gives the same energy as that video Steve from Blues Clues put out a while ago
I was 16yo and working in my local library for the first time when I was put in charge of welcoming the local preschoolers. When I opened the door, I saw all the little 4yo, and their teacher who had wide eyes and shouted out "Sarah ? Is that you ?". Yes, she was my teacher when I was 4 and she recognized me 12 years later !
My brother drove an ice cream truck one summer. He needed to give a kid ten cents in change but didn't have any change so he gave him a handful of bubblegum instead of $.10. The kid's dad came out a few minutes later with a gun. A GUN for bubble gum.
The former is essentially the topic that the joke is going to be all about. It can range from personal experiences like relationships, work, and traveling to politics and various world events. The important part is that the topic has to be introduced as a weird, absurd, or problematic thing. On top of that, the start of the joke shouldn’t be funny. It should be the original, truthful, or interesting segment where the person has some kind of opinion and attitude. For instance, “I went to the dentist last week. I usually hate it, but this time was different…”
Having such knowledge can not only help on the stand-up stage but also entertain others online, as X works similarly to comedy, as you have to be quick and to the point.
Way back when, when I was in 5th grade, my family moved from the South to Massachusetts. It was a shock to find that Lee/Jackson Day and Jeff Davis’ birthday weren’t holidays
1) I was in (a Southern state) school when these holidays transitioned over the course of four years to match the rest of the country. 2) Recontextualizing it as an insurrection helps to explain why widows from the South had to go all out to get the CSA soldiers reburied individually from a Gettysburg mass grave. The constant drumbeat of 'nope nope NOPE not listening' we've had to put up with these last several years sure does make me appreciate Lee's pleas to go home and acknowledge the loss. Ultimately, I was already well past the one-sided and deliberately misrepresented US history I got fed as a kid. But I am now much more hardened against the nonsense of people who fantasize about their righteousness and toughness - they refuse to acknowledge or do anything that exposes the tiniest edge of their fragility, no matter the cost. They are all in on delusion.
Load More Replies...Our district will have "safety day" (deer season opener) on 11/15...no school.
I live in a mountain town and while it's not a "yeehaw" town, the university here does remind the students every year that deer and elk frequently come into town every autumn (we're surrounded on 2 sides by a state park and a third side by a national park) and to be careful driving during dawn and dusk.
I can relate. I thought the day of national ploughing championship was a shool holiday too until I went to secondary school (high school) and realised our school was the only one that did that!!! We were the only culchies apparently! (Culchies are people from rural farming communities, though people from Dublin tend to think everyone outside that 1 city are also culchie).
I thought the school I went to was rural...but, I guess they took our education seriously.
The guys also came to school with their shotguns just sitting there on the gun rack in their trunks
My kid's school is closed tomorrow for opening day of deer season. Most of our surrounding counties do the same.
Are bank tellers allowed to say a customer's balace out loud? Don't they have to write it down and show the customer?
That's not fair. Country guy has a job. He's always either the shrimp sorter at the grocery store or the nail remover for a local remodeling conglomerate.
Hallmark is fantasy-land for 15-year-old virgins of any orientation.
I tell people my marriage started out as a Hallmark movie, and ended up being a Lifetime movie.
Hometown guy is always a lawyer or high finance guy who opted for an easier life in the country.
The guy in the home town usually is in a financial pickle though, saved by the woman for maybe one season of running a niché business
Load More Replies...I don't understand sibling rivalry. From what my parents, relatives tell us we were overly protective of each other and even hated to see each other playing with other kids.
Lol, my brother punched my tooth out once. But only he and his best friend got to mess with me. Anybody else had to answer to them.
Load More Replies...I gotta tell ya, by the time you get a Masters, that joke is well past its use by date.
Untrue. "Tequila mockingbird" will always be an excellent phrase. At least among the educated and well-read portion of the population.
Load More Replies...... wasn't it, at some point, that every US student in 8th grade or so got to read that book?
You DO realize..that book is banned in some states. You may not find anyone.
How dare kids learn about important society-changing culture that reflects the unfortunate reality of history! They might *feel* bad! /s
Load More Replies...I would have got it but I wouldn’t have been there coz I hate tequila. Bitter
If it is car insurance then yes, UK insurance companies pull the numbers out of their arses.
Home insurance too! I renewed mine with a different company for about 1/3 of the price and the old company was astonished I was getting the same coverage. My dudes, *everyone else* I got quotes from was 1/3 the price!
Load More Replies...I do this with EVERYTHING: insurance, cell phone plan, internet, etc. I've been paying close to nothing for my home internet for like 10 years, and I managed to get a cell phone plan with unlimited data for less than the plan I previously had with limited data. This is an important life skill.
Last time I renewed my car insurance, I was already paying $99 a month but decided to add a little extra coverage. Insurance bro warned me my monthly cost would go up, and I said that’s fine. A few clicks later, and my total new insurance cost was now….$97 a month. We were the only ones in the insurance office and we both lost our minds, jumped out of our chairs and danced and high fived like F YEEAAAH BOOII!!! No idea how it happened but it was a cute moment 😂
Ok I'm curious to know what vehicle you drive and what kind of insurance you have because that is a lot of money to pay for insurance.
Load More Replies...I'm trying to work out how 'uncle roy' thought it was in any way acceptable to divulge personal information like this.
I've always assumed (benefit of the doubt) that it was a made up name and Taiwan was playing along for fun.
Load More Replies...i mean taiwan's got it's own thing going on and it's still controversial...so...imma do a ????
Load More Replies...Kings 😂 when I was a server, youths tended to tip terribly, if at all (which I didn’t mind since they were probably using their own allowance or something).
Or they didn't know quite the understanding of tipping was at that age.
Load More Replies...Too bad It’s illegal to date an 11-year-old… L O L sounds like the perfect guy 😀
One of my best friends from childhood is now the main actor in one of the most popular tv series of the last 5 years. I already missed their friendship before their face was plastered everywhere, but I would feel weird reaching out to them because I don't want them to think I am only reaching out because they are famous. And I don't know if they will remember me.
They’ll remember you if you were best friends from childhood :) reach out! Tell them you just miss them and are wishing them well and I’m sure they won’t think you’re just doing it because they’re famous.
Load More Replies...Anytime I have to use a four-digit pin. It is still the two jersey numbers from my 5th grade crush. He is happily married to a nice real estate man in two towns over.
I still have friends for more than 50 years. Some are senior government servants and others are in other fields. But when we meet, nobody mentions that he is someone bigshot than others. AND nobody asks the other for money even when in need.
I feel like I've been seeing this damned tweet every day since I was 16...and the internet hadn't even been dreamed of that long ago.
Load More Replies...I tried to take some frozen M&S pate through and was told the same thing; I could have taken it if it had not been frozen so be aware that ice is liquid now apparently (short flight so it wouldn't have melted)
I once had a client who murdered his upstairs neighbor for playing his music too loud. I guess listening to someone's death metal music can have that effect.
At least 3 people I have met have murdered someone with various legal consequenses. Then they sort went on with a regular bland life.
This dude absolutely should have made breakfast for her and the kids, because that was a weapons-grade d**k move.
I would practice my a*s of, google all the tricks and eat his face of in the game, and still only make breakfast for the kids and myself. He sounds like a dude who will then go on and complain endlessly that she wont play with him. I would take away his pleassure of the game entierly instead. It may be my PMS talking. But I have done it before, but without google or marriage cpmplications to worry about 😂
And that, my friends, is how ignoring red flags by turning them into humour looks like. In the next episode, we'll see gaslighting, manipulation, humiliation, guilt trips and shattered childhoods.
COD players are the angriest, most unhinged gamers I've ever encountered. One dude was absolutely DOMINATING in a deathmatch and he sounded like he was having the worst day of his life.
Hubby and I play Apex together and in showing me how it works we turned on pvp during practice bc I wanted to know how it's played. He never once just was an a*s like this. There is a difference in teaching and just being straight up cruel and making it to where your spouse doesn't want to play with you. Dude is oblivious and a moron.
My husband once took a controller out of my hands to "show me" how to play a game. As if I hadn't been playing video games for the 27 years before I met him. To this day, almost 10 years later, he complains that I won't play video games with him. I remind him of that day every time.
Bro mansplained so hard that he’s not forgiven for 10 years
Load More Replies...So much better than him having a great date with your mom, and now the family dynamic is weird.
I know a family like this. Two teens start dating, his single dad and her single mom meet. Kids break up, the parents get married. The "kids" are adults now, but they were both still living at home when the parents moved in together. I can't imagine how awkward that was for them
Load More Replies...My husband dated a woman in high school, moved to CO and met me. Our oldest kids met at Baylor and got married. It's so weird.
Lol lol lol. The teenager probably recognized the details of the woman as her mom. That is why she straighten up and asked what her name was.
You think so? Not sure where you’re getting that from but okay.
Load More Replies...I really don't get how a parent can do this. I've never hidden my mental health challenges from my kids, but I've always just explained it like "Mommy's brain is angry today" or something. It never once occurred to me to tell them exactly what was going on in my head.
I wish mothers and step-mothers would stop doing this. Its bad enough with all the playtime we miss because we have to help when noone else has to. But its so f****d up to add to that all the emotional burdens of adulthood too. Then they tell us to sitt nice and quiet, even tho we are bursting with displaced anxiety and fear of the future we are shown.. please, break this circkle ❤️
I lived this with my mom. It was exhausting having to be the adult in the relationship when I was a child. Farking hell, I just wanted to be a kid, not having to ask if bills were paid. From the time I was 10, I was the 'Official Family Navigator' I had my own Rand - McNally Road Atlas. Mom would come home, announce that we were moving again so we would pack the car up & go. I'd plot our best course, & stay awake, talking to Mom to keep her awake, & also tell her of upcoming exits. Our trips averaged 1,200 miles and she liked to drive it straight through. I love NOT doing that a LOT. I turned 18 and told her I didn't care if she kept wanting to move all over the country, but I was DONE!, just done. I haven't left my favorite state since I was 18. I lived in six states by the time I was 14, I just wanted some roots. I wanted not to lose my friends and boyfriend again. I stopped even trying to make friends by the time I was 11. I just hung out with my older bro and his friends.
wait, your mom knows AND acknowledges she uses you as a therapist AND thanks you for it?!
my mum told me last year (i was 43) that she was going to stop telling me about her relationship problems because she heard it's not healthy for the child. thanks mum. a little late, but thanks nonetheless. also, i told you i had a bad feeling about Patti!
Load More Replies...It kills me when people refer to their favorite sports team as "we". "We" just didn't have it today, "we" need to reevaluate our strategy...Excuse me? What's this "we" business? I watched the whole game and didn't see you out there playing for even a minute.
But I cheer for them; that makes me part of the team! I pay their salaries and subsidize their arena! I wrap up a large chunk of my identity in that team so of course it’s “we”.
Load More Replies...Reminds me of the old doctor joke. What do you call a doctor who graduated at the bottom of his class? You call him "Doctor."
I like how someone is the 32nd best at his job in "the entire world" at a sport that only one country participates in...
Just because no else does it doesn't mean he's not the best in the world.
Load More Replies...It is a studied and documented fact that when the team/group one roots for is winning, people say "we," but when the team/group is losing, the term changes to "they." So, it's more likely they said "their" quarterback sucks.
I called my statistics teacher from my college parking lot because of this exact situation, except goose instead of bug. He brought the whole class out to watch.
Oh, the RAF has resolved that - fly your Spitfire, preferably a twostage-twospeed variant of the later years, side by side with the Doodlebug, and then, hit him on the wings with yours. He'll spin half a turn and crash down with his upside facing down. Well ... no, wait ... no, other sort of doodling bug, not a true Doodlebug. Don't wonder, look it up, that's how it's done!
I was somehow able to shift my anxious mindset from “if I talk to them they’ll hate me” to “if I don’t talk to them they’ll hate me,” no clue how I did that but at least I’m not a recluse anymore lol (not that there’s anything wrong with that, I was just getting lonely)
I've had phases where I think and do the same thing. Ruined a few good friendships like that.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted for that. It happens to all of us.
Load More Replies...Still not fire.By definition fire requires oxygen, and that is in short supply In the sun. It's a literal ball of incandescent plasma.
Load More Replies...Apparently calling a sunburn a radiation burn makes people take them more seriously. It isn't inaccurate.
Where can I find cheap but still working sun cream? The cost here is sky high. I dont buy cream, I use protective clothing and hata.
I'm not sunburned. I'm a natural red head. And face, arms, chest and legs.
Why is this being downvoted? If I'm reading it correctly then what Karina is pointing out is the stupidity of people who get sunburnt over and over because they won't use sunscreen despite having suffered the effects first hand. If you defeated a cancer and you knew which carcinogen caused it, you wouldn't continue using that carcinogen so why do people repeatedly expose themselves to the sun's UV rays without protecting themselves?
Load More Replies...One I time I read here on BP about two brothers that their patents were not home. They were not getting along. One of them went into a room and tried to shut the door. The other one was trying to pus it opened to get to his brother. They somehow broke it. Instead of keep fighting. They came together. There was another door in the basement. They replaced the broken door with the good door.
I'm a 45 year old University student and I absolutely use my student discount card.
I'm 41 and do the same. Why tf wouldn't I use my card to get a discount on bus fare I use daily or at the movie theater? It's just good financial sense!
Load More Replies...My husband is a teacher studying for his doctorate. He once got a teacher's discount and a student discount in the same day. (He is in his 50s)
At least you don't make up a fake credential like Ph.D. Cand." which I've seen some poor slobs using. Good luck and tell us when you get your degree!
Or they got married because Aly is a nickname for Alyssa, and the boyfriends last name could be mcclung it was from 2018
Load More Replies...And the girlfriend is crying because that shower cost her 60 bucks in products.
Kathrin Pukowsky, reminds me of a story about a guy who started using his wife's stockings to filter her oil. He decided he was saving money on the ordinary oil filters. That was until his wife sent him a bill for the pair of silk stockings he ruined. He was not prepared for that price tag!
Load More Replies...I first understood that as his whole class was having a shower at his girlfriend‘s place and was rather confused.
I took it up another notch - read that as his "fúcking class" having a shower...
Load More Replies...Every second Sunday of the month is my husband's special treatment day where I give him facial, pedicure, manicure, hot oil head massage followed by shampooing. He loves those days.
Love this! Hopefully he reciprocates. Everybody needs a pampering day from their S/O!
Load More Replies...Yes, we absolutely and positively want pirate raccoons! Just picture those cute little eye patches on top of their bandit masks!
Load More Replies...What could possibly go wrong with that plan? Other than a bunch of rabid and armed Corsair Raccoons, with the ability to invade from sea. Nope, I see no issues here. Hell, it will probably be the next new military branch. You know, like when Space Force was created.
Unfortunately, the ocean garbage is mostly plastic, and having the raccoons eat it wouldn't really help much.
Ah yes, the sense of humor failure is strong in this one.
Load More Replies...My ex-husband had a baby face until he was in his mid-thirties and I always looked older than my age until my mid-thirties, so I was frequently asked if I was his mother. It was embarrassing when people would see us showing affection and think he was my boy toy, I always wanted to say "He's actually a year older than me!"...
I had an extremely similar experience when I was 18 and went with my 17-yr old boyfriend to first aid at a festival after he burned himself. In the noise & confusion, I heard "are you the mother" as "are you together" and answered yes. The first aider was then very confused when I couldn't remember his date of birth.
Honestly, when I was in Abnormal Psych in 1987, decades before remote classes, there were a few lectures I could have described like this...
I'm just going to assume that this was a remote lecture. Because there's an obvious solution if not.
How many in-person lectures have you attended where the professor can't hear when his computer is muted?
Load More Replies...I would have then got in trouble for breaking the screen and for leaving the house without permission
Some consistency with capitalization wouldn't be a bad idea either.
Load More Replies...My boyfriend once found a blank card with an image of two little girls having a tea party on the front. He’s this big bearded tattood guy, so he drew a smiley face with a huge squiggly beard on a piece of paper, cut it out, and taped it over one of the little girls’ heads. When he gave it to me he’s like “look it’s us having a tea party.” I don’t even know if he realizes how cute he is 😂😂
In 2017, my wife and I gave each other exactly the same Valentine card. A simple heart design on an off white background. I framed them later that year as one of her birthday gifts. It’s hung in our porch. Christmas 1999, we gave each other exactly the same model of personal minidisc player. That one has not endured quite so well.
Lol lol lol. I am past middle age. I am officially an old person since Oct. 1st. Now I think about it. That is depressing.
No no no. No. Noooo. When we're in our 20/30s, 50+ is old. When we're in our 50s, 70 is old. In our 60s, 80 is old. 80s, it's 100. 90,its 110. You're not even close to 'old'. ❤️
Load More Replies...I adamantly used OLDER for myself until this year when I had my first major medical issue (Giant Cell Arteritis), and turned 75, and I am OLD.
Exactly. I’ve heard stories of women surviving assaults because they remembered a tip they learned from tv, like keeping your keys in your fist etc.
Load More Replies...More like if Top Chef started with a plate of chicken, and the episode was about determining who prepared it, and then hunting them down and bringing in the police.
I've heard a theory on this: true crime shows are generally about criminals who have been caught, so we're taking comfort from a danger being removed.
My mom and aunt both liked those 'true crime' magazines. I looked through one once and, holy moly! They had graphic crime scene photos, they used black bars over eyes and naughty bits but they would show wounds, it was grotesque. After that, anytime I saw one out I would take it to her room. I don't understand people wanting to read about and see that kind of thing unless you investigate those types of crimes. However, if you were an Investigator, you might completely avoid things like this on your off hours.
The company I used to work for is a tour operator, in one of the hotels, one of the kitchen staff mixed up the onion rings with calamari rings. So for that lunch, people ordering the burger got calamari rings instead of onion rings. Feedback was excellent for that lunch service
About ten years ago my daughter worked at a restaurant that had whole boiled eggs on the salad bar. One day they ran out, and the new guy was told to add more eggs. He did. Raw eggs.
Load More Replies...The word kalamari means caviar in Estonian, so he was not universally wrong, just in the wrong country.
Finish your coffee and slowly, quietly back out of the door away from the carnage
I have my grandma’s ashes in a beautiful glass pendant that I hang on the rear view mirror of my car (because it’s actually her car, I got it after she died). People sometimes comment on how pretty it is, and I love answering “thanks, it’s my dead grandma” 😅 (she’d find that funny lol)
I have my grandparents in a necklace that I sometimes wear. One time I was wearing it and a lady got all close to me, like literally 5 inches from me, grabbed it, and was like, "ooooh what's in it?" I told her "dead people, there are dead people in it"
Load More Replies...High school always has that one teacher who is a sarcastic power hungry arrogant jerk. Wait, I just also described a doctor I recently went to.
Imagine if he were starting off towards brain surgery: "Yeah, that's a brain all right"
Important to have a solid grasp of the fundamentals, IMO.
Load More Replies...Well, not everything that looks like a contract necessarily is a contract. He might just find that something you thought was a binding contract is actually not because of technical errors or legal procedure not followed
Exactly: I needed to learn contract law as part of my degree, and it’s quite important to understand when an offer is made, when it has been accepted, what constitutes consideration, etc.
Load More Replies...That’s like being a threat analyst and pointing to North Korea and saying “they’re a threat”.
This is sending me down a rabbit hole. Here’s a random thing i found: “Chicken eyeglasses, also known as chicken specs, chicken goggles…. and under other names, were small eyeglasses made for chickens intended to prevent feather pecking and cannibalism.”
Now I'm stuck down that same rabbit hole, wondering just how shortsighted one would have to be to mistake a fellow chicken for some corn.....
Load More Replies...Natural selection only lets those with the good eyesight survive. If eyesight is not particularly important for their survival, they’ll have bad eyesight. For example, dogs and rhinos are naturally nearsighted
I seem to recall a movie from the 60s (I think) called Clarence, The Cross-eyed Lion where they did, in fact, fit a cross-eyed lion with glasses.
My last boyfriend was an utter dipshite and locked me on the patio after a party one night when all his friends were leaving. I was so done with his BS. He was alone in the house and thought he was being funny. The patio was ground level so 2 of his friends were standing there with me yelling for him to let me back in and hammering on the windows, because it was December in Canada and I didn’t have a jacket. One friend left, but the other friend refused to leave until I had somewhere warm and safe to stay for the night, gave me his jacket and sat in the cold with me for as long as it took. That guy has now been my boyfriend for over 10 years 😊
Your current boyfriend sounds like a really good guy. He's kind, and not prepared to stand by and watch others being abused.
Load More Replies...Female friendship is being delusional together and then trying to convince your bestie to come back to reality
I'm pretty sure people with penises go into fits of hysteria with their male besties just like us.
Load More Replies...Or: I'm European and this is just how most cars are made, and I can't afford electric yet.
Electric and automatic are two different things but automatic is rather uncommon in Europe still.
Load More Replies...I can drive both, but I prefer automatic. I want to drive my car and enjoy the curves of the road and my music and a good coffee, not have to be constantly shifting up and down and checking the RPMs. I travel to the city a lot and encounter frequent stop-and-go traffic too, which is annoying af in a manual. I’m just so much happier in an automatic. To each their own though, I enjoy a manual on the track but that’s a very rare event for me lol. Daily driving is so much easier with an auto trans.
Same to pretty much all of that (except that I've never driven on a track). I never understood why people would want the extra mental load if they didn't have to. Driving is fraught with enough distractions, dangers, and anxiety as it is.
Load More Replies...I learned to drive manual, when I met my wife we got automatic, now we have an EV that can be driven using one pedal, next car will probably drive itself. I miss my manual though...
I drive both types. They're just transmissions. My work truck has a manual, but I don't drive it in all caps.
Some of us are like Caboose from RvB. We can only drive standard and that just makes sense to the world.
I once had a pickup truck with a five speed manual transmission. I did service calls, had to drive a lot around the city. Total pain in the butt hitting a hundred traffic lights a day and basically steering with one hand.
Ok I’m a pretty old-fashioned person for my age but why was that such a turnoff😂😭
Goosey, goosey gander, wither shall I wander? Upstairs and downstairs and in my Lady's chamber. There I met an old man who wouldn't say his prayers, so I took him by his left leg and threw him down the stairs. Childs nursery rhyme.
No, not at all. It means one person or situation should be treated the same way that another person or situation is treated.
Load More Replies...It’s a joke, and even if it wasn’t, it won’t traumatize the kid or anything, it’s just a game 😂 I used to laugh my butt off when my stepdad hit me with the “too slow” as a kid. We don’t need to protect our children from the “too slow” part of high fives, there’s more important things to worry about 😂
Load More Replies...Same. I was already completely sick of all the nasty, toxic responses I was getting, and now it's apparently a hundred times worse!
Load More Replies...Quite a few repeats and not all of them funny but maybe I'm just having a bad day.
I personally believe that logging on to BP allows me to get all the benefits of Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Tumblr. etc., with much less of the toxic effects of de t'internet.
Same. I was already completely sick of all the nasty, toxic responses I was getting, and now it's apparently a hundred times worse!
Load More Replies...Quite a few repeats and not all of them funny but maybe I'm just having a bad day.
I personally believe that logging on to BP allows me to get all the benefits of Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Tumblr. etc., with much less of the toxic effects of de t'internet.
