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The history of humanity knows many cases when literally one person ruined everything good for all other people. Whether it's a traitor opening a hidden gate in a besieged impregnable castle, a coward who abandons formation, rallying against a cavalry charge, or a kicker who misses a decisive field goal in the final seconds of the Super Bowl...
A distinctive feature of such situations is that they are remembered, cut into the public memory no less than a cavalry wedge bursting into a gap in the infantry monolith of Roman legionnaires, or, for example, the desperate commentator’s cry: "It goes wide!" And then in threads like this one by the user u/KeanKho, netizens eagerly bring up this and many other similar stories. And we, Bored Panda, then collect for you a selection of the best...
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#1
The guy who claimed vaccines caused autism has some serious blood on his hands.
Lace Neil 2 years ago
Even if he was right, (spoiler alert: he's not) I find the implication that being autistic to be a fate worse than death to be extremely offensive.
the quickening 2 years ago
"I rather have my kid die than be autistic." —a lot of parents apparently
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Karin Smit 2 years ago
Also, it is insulting to say you would rather die from a preventable disease than to be autistic
Sonja 2 years ago
That was Andrew Wakefield, and he's still on it and keeps spreading his misinformation. The thing is, he was an accredited doctor and scientist, but his research was sloppy and there's no proof that it's true. But I argue that if academia wasn't so snobbish and real science and scientific research was openly accessible, fraudsters and false scientists couldn't get that far. But the fact is, despite the scientists themselves not getting payment for their scientific research, the magazine's they are forced to use for punishing are gatekeeping the knowledge. Every research is hidden behind paywalls and people, even other scientists are kept away until they pay absolutely ridiculous fees. Those fees do not contribute to science! They all solely go to shareholders and publishers, lining rich pockets. The access to real information is severely limited to whatever you can find on blogs and in articles, checking the sources is almost impossible. The way to stop misinformation is giving access
hitex 2 years ago
Irony is that most adults diagnosed with asd is due to their child's diagnosis first & adult realized they had same characteristics. That alone tends to disprove the whole vaccine causing asd bs
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KnightOwl 2 years ago
I know this isnt true but if it was, so what? I'd rather have a healthy autistic kid than a dead or sick kid. I have a lot of autistic people in my family and they are all amazing, unique people. The idea that people would rather risk their child's life than risk having an autistic child is both baffling and utterly disgusting to me.
hitex 2 years ago
It's genetically linked. However just so happens that first signs of asd happen to appear around time child has rounds of vaccinations. But no, vaccines don't cause asd. Your genetics do
Libstak 2 years ago
Correlation is not causation. It's the first and most important rule for any research or investigative studies.
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Tracy Wallick 2 years ago
What really pisses me off is that he didn't actually believe they caused autism. He was trying to discredit the existing MMR vaccine because he wanted to sell his own.
Paul Pienkowski 2 years ago
Over the years, that man has probably killed enough people to qualify for "Crimes Against Humanity".
Celesta 2 years ago
We are facing a resurgence of measles, rubella, Tuberculosis and even freaking POLIO bc of him. All of which were almost completely irraducated until his "research" He DEFINITELY should be charged w crimes against humanity.
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Ellie Ahmed 2 years ago (edited)
Before the MMR vaccine was available, my grandmother contracted rubella during her pregnancy. My aunt was affected by it in the womb and born with a condition called 'congenital rubella syndrome'. She is profoundly intellectually disabled - she has never spoken, she needs 24 hour care, her mental age sits somewhere around that of a 3 year old, and despite having the great fortune to have found a wonderful and supportive care team she spends a lot of time distressed by a world she can't understand. She is very deeply loved as she is, but we are very realistic that she hasn't had as rich a life as she could have without this. She is towards the extreme end of the spectrum for people with this condition, but many others have experienced congenital heart disease (sometimes fatal), deafness, blindness and varying degrees of intellectual impairment. My grandmother having been vaccinated would have prevented this. Get your MMR shot
EarthGrowl 2 years ago
This needs to be higher! Vaccines save lives. I contracted chicken pox at age 28 and it put me in the hospital. My fever was 103.9, I started to get delirious and nearly tore my skin off in strips. They had to sedate me and tie my hands down. You do not want to tangle with a "childhood" disease as an adult.
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the_avenging_knight 2 years ago
He deserves a visit from some very angry pandas. Or at the very least a very angry avenging knight.
Spencer's slave 2 years ago
I know someone who would make it his life's mission to be that knight.
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#2
Maybe this isnt a single persons fault. But, i feel like for those of us with chronic pain from major accidents (or syndromes or diseases), the people who abused opioid use has made it hard for everyone with legit problems.
I broke my neck, hip, and 20 other bones in a car accident. My drugs are so tightly regulated, that if theres a hang up of even 12 hours, i can run out of meds. And im not even taking heavy pain meds just enough to work. I feel like im the lucky one vs stories i hear of cancer patients, people with longer term issues, or diseases. Between the pill mills and the pharmacies, those with real issues were f****d.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
And don’t even get me started on ADHD meds. Every single time, I must be a drug seeker because I have ADHD and StiMuLaNtS bAd
Grudge-holding Treefrog 2 years ago
I feel ya. I recently started on them so I can get through school, and the pharmacies outright refused to give them to me for about a week, despite my prescription
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Bookworm 2 years ago
This isn't the fault of the people who are addicted; blame the Sacklers for treating opioids like a get-rich-quick scheme instead of a vital but dangerous substance.
Oleander 2 years ago
I wish I could upvote this 1000 times. People who struggle with opioid addiction are victims. Most of them started out just like OP, trying to get pain relief after accidents, surgeries, etc. The Sackler family got filthy rich at the cost of thousands of lives being destroyed and lost. Such evil!
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Laughing otter 2 years ago
I hate this argument. I work in the addiction treatment field, and roughly 80% of the opiate addicts I work with started taking pain pills out of legitimate medical necessity. Some people can take opiates as prescribed without a problem; others, even if they take them as prescribed, are in trouble from the get go. In addition, lots of opiate addicts really do have chronic pain that they have to deal with when they get sober. Addiction is a multifaceted, complicated disease with strong genetic components. No one sets out to be an addict. Instead of blaming people who become addicted, blame the pharmaceutical companies who lied about the addictiveness of opiates like OxyContin, and doctors who prescribe them indiscriminately.
Yer maw 2 years ago
I'm really lucky as I have zero addictive traits regardless of the fact I take very strong opiate painkillers that can be super addictive. I take them as needed and don't even think about them in between and I often find myself wondering what about them makes then addictive to so many people but I know I'm an exception rather than the rule. It's definitely not the people who become addicted that are the fault but the medical community treating people with suspicion with no evidence that is the case. I have zero issues getting my meds but my condition is chronic and not something that will ever be cured but those who have injuries yet get strong painkillers unmonitored for years are set up for addiction
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Nancy Marine 2 years ago
I'm a chronic pain sufferer because of RA and most times I can handle a flare up. However, Occasionaly I need a steroid shot and a very low dose of morphine to get me thru it. Not a lot, just a day or two. I can go two years between flare ups this bad.and have no scrips for pain meds at all. I'm STILL treated like a drug seeker every damn time and am treated like lower than dirt by the ER staff.
Hannah S 2 years ago
Don't blame addicts for this. Blame pharmaceutical companies (Perdue)who advertised oxycontin as none addictive while knowing full well it was and the doctors who over prescribed these opiates for years and then cut patients off without getting them resources to deal with the addiction they caused.
athornedrose 2 years ago
friend's father dying of pancreatic cancer was told they couldn't approve morphine because "he could get addicted". Dude had 3 months to live. He'd pass in 2. Who cares if he's addicted at that point?
Carla Phillips 2 years ago
I had a PHARMACIST literally mock me because I waited at the pharmacy to pick up my pain medication. It humiliated me. Like I want to be 43 and have RA
MakeupMama68 2 years ago (edited)
I had back surgery for a 14mm herniated disc on my tailbone. When I was released from the hospital, my surgeon prescribed pain meds, I had to pick them up myself. Im hobbling in with a cane and Wallgreen's wouldn't fill it because I had never been to their pharmacy before that. It was the closest one to the hospital. They treated me like a drug seeker, so I called my surgeon and he called them and tore them a new one lol. I was so stressed out.
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Teach Harmony 2 years ago (edited)
YES, THIS!! And diabetics who are now in competition with people trying to lose weight and taking things like Mounjaro & Ozempic, originally made as diabetes meds. Now they're prescribed for someone to lose 10lbs. Diabetics everywhere can't get these meds because everything is on back order!
Bookworm 2 years ago
Again, not the fault of the people taking the drugs. The company failed to scale up their production to meet demand.
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Mylittlecorgi 2 years ago
Every chronic pain patient has horror stories like this. And we are not all addicted to our opioid pain meds; we legitimately need them to function.
#3
That executive at HP who said, "You know, people love our printers. They are tough and reliable and work for decades. We should make them suck, break constantly, license the ink, make it all internet-linked so the printer won't even work when the wifi is down."
Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
HP executive Carli-f*****g-Fiorina, everyone. Former Republican presidential candidate.
Robert T 2 years ago
I have just ditched my HP inkjet after 16 years of reliable service as HP have stopped making ink for it. Doesn't sound so bad, but it appears that it had a software update that causes it to vent ink from "compatible" cartridges all over the inside of the printer, and the desk, and me. If that really is true (the ink leak definitely was, but whether it was cause by a software update was speculation by a supplier), then they deserve to be sued into oblivion.
eMpTy 2 years ago
At one time it was cheaper to buy a new HP colour printer than buy the four CMYK ink cartridges ($84 vs $105). That was until they included "startup" cartridges that were only 1/3 full with new printers.
Dorothy Stovall 2 years ago
And unless you have the start up cartridges your printer is worthless. I was told you cannot purchase them either through HP. I have a brand new big-a$$ printer that doesn't work - and I'm pretty unhappy about it.
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Brian N 2 years ago (edited)
Yeah I tried to cancel my subscription once and they said the remaining cartridges I had purchased for hundreds of dollars over time through them (subscription) would not longer work if I did. Full cartridges! I am using them, canceling my subscription, and penning an angry old man letter.
bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago
Please pass on my sincerest, "That's a D**K move!"
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PurpleUnicorn🇮🇪 2 years ago
Everyone at every company who said "let's make this reliable, durable product unreliable and plan it's obsolescence"
Danny rodreaming 2 years ago
The printer still has an ethernet port, so you know, you could just plug it in.
MurderMittens 2 years ago
I don't know what kind of c**p y'all have been buying. Our printers were cheap and reliable. It's the ink that cost an arm and a leg.
Astrophile 2 years ago
My office has about 8 different printers and almost all of them are different models. We have Lexmarks, Brothers, HPs…..they all suck equally. I can’t stand printers. One of my favourite jokes is “you know the band Rage Against the Machine? I think the machine they were talking about was a printer.”
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DeoManus Argentem 2 years ago
I bought my printer years ago, and only printed very few things when I first got it, then it's been dormant for ~five years. Naturally, the ink has dried up, and a new set of cartridges is $41, but I only paid $35 for the whole printer and "starter cartridges" when it was new... You can still, in these highly inflated times, buy an whole new printer for less than the cost of new ink! I hate the waste, but if I ever need to print something again, tbh I'd just buy a new one to ensure everything works and I'm behind a fresh warranty.
David 2 years ago
SO TRUE. HP printers and computers used to be rock solid back in the 90s. The HP Laserjet 2 came out in 1987. I bought a used one in the early 90s. I used it for YEARS and it still worked fine when I gave/sold (don't recall) to another person years later. Their inkjet printers are a sad rip off both quality of the hardware and the ridiculous ink prices. I've had a couple of them work perfectly fine one day, be a brick the next day. About 10 years ago I bought a Brother laser printer and it continues to work fine.
In fact, traditions and precedents play a big role in such stories. After all, if something unpleasant happened once, then it definitely can happen again and then over and over. And if so, it should be prevented. And it is not in vain that they say that every line of the army charter is written in blood - this is absolutely true, just to ensure that one person does not later ruin everything this exact way. And it actually works... or that guy ruins everything in another way. That happens as well, you know.
#4
The religious fruitcake mother who said that Halloween was satanic so that ended the kindergarten costume parade.
Tamra 2 years ago (edited)
A shame the other parents didn't stand up to the school board on that one. Why cater to one religious nut? Or any, for that matter?
Rachel Ainsworth 2 years ago
Because they know where they are going for all the s****y things they do.
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Captain McSmoot 2 years ago
There was girl all throughout my education (K-12) who was from a Jehovah's Witnesses family who would simply either not come to school that day or choose to go help with another class during holiday events. Once she hit middle school age, her parents let her decide for herself; she still attended their church, but participated in events how she felt comfortable.
Spikey Bunny 2 years ago
I'm actually surprised they treated this child with respect and let them learn to make "appropriate" choices for themselves... I usually only hear about parents/clergy being more unreasonable/forceful in these situations. Good for them!
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Hokuloa 2 years ago
October - protest Halloween as satanic and get it banned. December - pitch a fit about schools calling it “holiday parties and holiday break” instead of Christmas.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 years ago
Of course. Your religion isn't valid.... But mine is... 😉 /S
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Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 2 years ago
If only one parent said that, then another saying it wasn't, should cancel it out. If one person complains about a book in a library and another parent praises it, they cancel each other out. Totally unfair just one person can ruin something for everyone else.
Spikey Bunny 2 years ago
My kids' elementary school called it "Book Character Dress Up Day"... not Halloween.
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IamMe 2 years ago
My kids have been to a couple schools with a no Halloween party rule . Neither one gave the evil pagan excuse. One, claimed it was because there would be candy, and that's against the health food policy. The other, said that if everybody was dressed up, some gun wielding madman could put on a costume, and enter the school undetected. To be fair, those schools didn't allow the celebration of any other holiday, either. Might get in the way of studying for that end of the year test that gets them school funding, you know.
Nick (He/Him) 2 years ago
Well according to MY religion, standardized tests are equivalent to killing someone, so you guys cant do that either.
#5
The guy who attempted to smuggle a bomb in his shoe in 2001
Now we all have to suffer taking our shoes off at airport security every damn time we fly
LizzieBoredom 2 years ago
A man wearing a cow costume tried to smuggle a bomb in his cow shoe. It was a Moo Shoe Guy Plan.
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
Great...so now I can't even wear a cow costume at the airport any more without arousing suspicion
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Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
Richard Reid. Every time we take our f*****g shoes off and get groped by a sweaty TSA agent is another win for terrorism.
Rachel Ainsworth 2 years ago
The shoes off thing only happens regularly in USA. So its not the problem of the one guy, its a USA security problem.
Marcellium 2 years ago
Getting through security extra sucks when disabled. Nowhere to sit, they take my cane, it's all a rush. Like man, I'm going to fall over without my shoes and cane. Please
Frost the Icewing 2 years ago
And the guys who blew up a plane with orange juice so now we can't bring our own drinks on a plane
Fakeus nameus 2 years ago
I think we’re forgetting the other time in 2001 where some guys just wanted to do some arts and crafts
#6
The American bastard who said “all cashiers must stand for their entire shift because that’s good customer service”
Because OBVIOUSLY when you’ve got a s****y worker that treats customers like c**p, you blame the damn seat. Now get back out to the front of your register Samantha, I don’t care that you’re recovering from foot surgery, if I gave you a chair, I’d have to give everyone a chair and that’s not good customer service.
Goose of the Ahonkalypse 2 years ago
It's so wild that I never even thought about it before until I started seeing questions about sitting vs standing on BP. And I was a cashier for years (in the US). I think it's part of our "it's a privilege to work" and "you can't just work, it has to also look hard" type of attitude. Sitting down is associated with lazinessness in non office jobs. It would be cool to see it change.
SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
Work harder, not smarter. It's the American way!
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Deleila Charlie 2 years ago
I've been to Malta, UK, Germany, France, Belgium, Austria and Italy. I live in the Netherlands and in none of these countries cashiers have to stand. They usually sit but they can also stand if they want to. Sitting is the normal around here. The USA seems to have an intended dislike for its inhabitants
VioletHunter 2 years ago (edited)
It's really bad for your health and can cause chronic long term issues. Humans are made for walking, not standing in the same spot without moving.
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Luke Branwen 2 years ago
I guess because American workers must be as miserable as humanly possible at all times, idk... it must also be an American thing since here in Europe, the cashiers have chairs.
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Alyssa Phillips 2 years ago
Had a boss would always say "if you can lean you can clean". He thought he was hilarious.
bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago
That's what I was gonna say. It's the only place I know of. Other places have signs up saying "If you have time to lean, you have time to clean" Like, b***h, are you serious? I can't LEAN??
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Stephen Smith 2 years ago
WHAT cashiers have to stand in the US what sort of backwards country is it?
A B C the Third 2 years ago
BP, you got some weirdly illegible words there. I believe it's shítty and cráp. You're welcome :)
What can I say, after all, we all know one story about two people who ruined everything for literally everyone on Earth. As Paul Anka sang, “there was a story I'm sure you all know, I'm sure you remember and I know you believe - the story of Adam and Eve!” And if the whole of human history, at least according to one of the common versions, began with something like this, what can we expect from the humble and imperfect descendants of Adam and Eve?
#7
My primary school used to do relatively frequent trips to a local zoo, until one boy decided to vault the fence and punch a penguin.
I wish I was joking.
Der Kommissar 2 years ago (edited)
There is a beach on the West Coast, near Cambria, (Pismo Bob is correct, it is just north of San Simeon/Heast Castle)that has elephant seals, which like to bask in the sun. One girl was there with her family and she was throwing small rocks at one of the seals. Her family said nothing so I had to yell " CAN YOU PLEASE NOT DO THAT ! " to get her to stop.
Bookworm 2 years ago
The family must not like their kid very much. Those things are dangerous
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Mila Preradović 2 years ago
My kid's school used to go for 3-5 days long trips to the coast at 8th grade to celebrate "the ending". This is common in my country. One time a boy jumped into the pool in spite of teachers telling him not to. He hit his head at the bottom but told noone. Later that day he got severe headache so he was taken to the ER, where he STILL told no one about the pool jump. His condition got worse and sadly he died the next day. That was more than 20 years ago but school still forbids 8th grade trips to the seaside.
Rabbit Of ill Portent(she/her) 2 years ago
Someone should have punched the kid. I know I'll most likely get bombarded with all the reasons not to but I stand by what I said
#8
Other firefighters constantly ruin any sort of appreciation restaurants give out. We had a BBQ restaurant that would give a flat 10$ off your meal. If you didn't spend 10$ it was basically free. One guy ruined it on an 8$ order by demanded the 2$ be given to him as well.
Had people going in uniform on days they didn't work. Had one guy have a family reunion at a local restaurant then made a big issue they wouldn't give his entire party the discount.
I don't understand how out of touch people can be.
David 2 years ago
I hate it when people abuse kindness. Costco has a super liberal return policy. I appreciate that it exists and I avoid abusing it. But there are others who return their BBQs in the fall, their big screen TVs after the superbowl and stuff like that. I've witnessed it many times but one of those times I asked an employee about it and they were like - yeah, you have no idea. And some day I may not have a nice return policy because of those people. Many other stores have seriously downgraded their return policies over the years due to theft and such.
David 2 years ago
Kind of related - A church I used to attend used to receive all of the dated bread from a local grocery store. It was a kindness as many in our church were poor. Then one day one of the people in the church went in and complained because they got a loaf of bread with a touch of mold. I think they even wanted to 'return' it even though they never paid for it in the first place. That was then end of free bread for dozens of people. (sigh)
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
I mean I don't blame the person for going back at that point. Yes it's charity and that's wonderful, but I wouldn't call giving someone moldy bread a charitable act. "Here have this food that you probably shouldn't eat!" Unless that person acted like a spoiled idiot when they returned it I'd blame the church for this.
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DeB. 2 years ago
We had a store that offered teachers discounts on school items for their classroom and one woman freaked out when they wouldn't give her a discount on everything. She started screaming that makeup and moisturizer were for her students. She taught first grade. Good bye 20% teacher discount.
Kallen Kneeland 2 years ago
This reminds me of a joke making the rounds about a barber offering free haircuts on a certain day, and the response from regular citizens vs. that from politicians.
#9
I worked at an office that had casual Fridays. One day a lady came to work on casual Friday in her gym clothes, and management was uptight and appalled by it. Instead of telling her that she couldn’t wear gym clothes to work, they abolished casual Friday for everyone. It pisses me off to this day.
Sonja 2 years ago
In such cases they most likely wanted to abolish it anyways and just found a convenient scapegoat. Otherwise they would have just told her not to do it.
TiNaBoNiNa 2 years ago
My work still has a dress code for casual Friday, so we can't just wear anything we pull out of the bottom of the closet.
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Hey! 2 years ago
Where I worked, one "lady" came with one of her husband's white shirts worn over a red thong. Casual Fridays then came with a list of no-nos. OMG, it was long.
bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago
Being that they apparently have to cover EVERYTHING for people who are "challenged," I'd assume it must be LONG.
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Let’s Be Kind 2 years ago
This is where a very well written and clear handbook comes into play. Defining the “casual Friday” dress code would have saved this entire situation.
Super Beast 2 years ago
yeah it seems like this isnt one person ruining it. your management was sexist
MyMindWanders 2 years ago
We had a few new hires at my job who ruined the dress code for everyone by wearing t-shirts with vulgar expressions, sweatpants, and flip-flops. So after that, instead of our usual jeans, casual tops and sneakers, we went business casual. Slacks, button-down shirts, dress shoes. Naturally all the problem people got fired or quit and we got stuck with the new dress code.
Farnzy 2 years ago
Guh...I hate the idea that if ONE person is doing something not preferred or even wrong they gave to tell EVERYONE not to do it. Usually it results in the wrong person continuing to do it wrong because they're ignoring the "all staff email" anyways. Just tell the ONE PERSON!
Nightshade1972 2 years ago
My wife's former employer did casual Friday. My wife's specific department generally wore jeans every day anyway, because the department head didn't care. Then my wife got promoted into management, and she had to start dressing up again "because you're management, it's unprofessional for you to wear jeans every day." It wasn't until after she left that company that they decided to make it company-wide that everyone could wear jeans, every day, including management, and the only time after that when they cared about employees dressing up was when they had "client days," outside clients would visit the company.
TheStormIRide 2 years ago
one manager back in place i used to work complained once that we were wearing shorter pants (like 3/4 lengths, not short over the knee shorts). Said manager loved to wear miniskirts. I asked our TL if it is okay to wear quilts then...
“Probably, each of us has a similar story behind us, and sometimes we ourselves act as such a weak link,” says Valery Bolgan, a historian and editor-in-chief of Intent news agency from Ukraine, whom Bored Panda asked for a comment. “In any case, when we are in a hurry to stigmatize the guy who suddenly made everything bad, we need to try to put ourselves in their place. After all, in the end, it is they who often feel the worst of all, desperately trying to overcome such a burden on their soul."
“A classic example can be cited from sports. In 1994, the FIFA soccer World Cup was held in the USA, and it was marked by two dramatic stories. In the match between the Colombian and the USA national teams, the Colombian defender Andres Escobar, by coincidence, sent the ball into his own goal. Colombia lost - and a few weeks later, Escobar was shot dead in his hometown, and with each shot, the attacker hysterically shouted: 'Goal! Goal! Goal!'"
“But in the final match, another tragedy broke out, though not fatal. In the penalty shootout that determined the world champion, the best player on the planet and that tournament, the Italian Roberto Baggio, missed at the decisive moment. He was subjected to devastating criticism, but he managed to cope with nerves - and at the next World Cup, when he went out to shoot a penalty (and this happened several times), he scored every time. Therefore, when we accuse someone of causing us inconvenience - just think, how do they themselves feel at that moment?" Valery ponders.
#10
Previous job I had used to be hybrid twice a week. One person, on their hybrid day, decided to slack off work and go out. They got a call from their manager because they were late for a virtual meeting and the manager heard a lot of background noise like they were at the mall or something. Said person eventually admitted they were not home working, got fired, and now everyone had to be in the office 5 days a week.
Panda 2 years ago
Being physically in the office does not necessarily mean one is working. I work remotely 100%, During the day, I go to the gym, run errands etc. Still work much more compared to how much I worked when I used to go to the office. Asking people to return to the office just to see them there is stupid.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
I need to point out that it depends on the job and scheduling. If you have a "fill out x number of forms in a week" type job then fine, who cares if you do the work at 11am or 3am. But many jobs have an expectation that people are available to discuss work during set hours. In those scenarios I can understand a boss being pissed if they're trying to discuss work with an employee and they're at the mall/gym/pub/movies.
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My “in my head” Voice 2 years ago
They were looking for an excuse. Micromanaging bastards can't stand the thought that they're really unnecessary.
Daniela Lavanza 2 years ago
I don't know in OP's country but in France, this would be illegal unless the manager can find a good reason to cancel WFH. One employer leaving home doesn't fit, of course: it has to be general reason and not a punishment because of someone's behavior.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
Exxxxactly. We have a running joke at my job. When someone arrives, they announce "I'm home everybody!" We all say yayyy :,)
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Surely there was more than one incident of this? If not, that's pretty brutal.
Dar Mal 2 years ago
Similar: snow days we were to teach zoom classes from home so that corporate would not have to give us "snow" days off. High number of staff did not zoom classes. Now we have to GO IN TO TEACH ZOOM CLASSES to the students (who are still home--only we risked injury by coming in). The teachers who didn't zoom? They stay home and claim a personal day.
#11
Kanye West was ruined by Kanye West
Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
Or people should just... stop listening to him and stop paying attention to him?
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KnightOwl 2 years ago
Never understood the hype around him. I don't know anyone who actually likes or listens to his music. He's always came across as very arrogant and big-headed, as my gran would say "he thinks he's God's gift to the world"
coko 420 2 years ago
His first 3 albums were absolutely great…then he went completely off the rails, for the most part.
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Michael None 2 years ago
This is making the assumption that he was ever anything special to begin with. Like most rappers now his lyrics are self indulgent, he talks about his D and P constantly, he has no originality oh and he's a Trump supporting Nazi sympathizer. Anyone who says they support women should have been appalled by this A-clown but they fell in line like good little sheep because he called himself a visionary.
Skinny Pig 2 years ago
He went from "George Bush doesn't care about Black people" to "Slavery was a choice!"
(Taylor’s Version) 2 years ago
I hate him and what he did to certain people *ahem ahem Taylor swift*
microwaved mcdonalds fries 2 years ago
wait are they different people?? /genq
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T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
What I don't get is why that woman - the one with the name like a Star Trek race - Kim Romulan or something - would have kids with him when mental illness can be genetic. (I have genetic mental illness on both sides of my family - one side is alcoholic and the other has craziness/unaliving oneself - so my brother and I both decided not to have kids. No, it's not like that episode of Elementary.)
Skinny Pig 2 years ago
Star Trek race? It's an Armenian surname. You can dislike and criticize an individual without being xenophobic
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My third grade bully got mad because I didn’t want to include her in my version of tag game. She went to the teacher and told on me and then it had to be announced in front of the class that my game was officially banned. F**k you and your big onion head, Rayna.
JK 2 years ago
I got Red Rover banned in our primary school, when I called out for the b*tch in our class who had been picking on my friends. I knew she'd run full pelt for me, trying to prove she was stronger than I was, thing was I was using my brains instead and the split second she'd connect with our arms I let go of the girl next to me so bully-b*tch went full speed into the brick wall I'd just happened to set the game up in front of. F**k you Josephine I hope it f**king hurt - 250 lines and lost breaks were worth the memory of hearing the thud of your face connecting with brick!
bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago
The pettiness is strong in this one. I can appreciate and relate.
Load More Replies... VioletHunter 2 years ago
This is 100% on the teacher. Who comes up with the dumb idea of banning an entire game just because two kids had a disagreement over it?
H Nunya 2 years ago
Many elementary aged children are often not taught proper social and problem and conflict management skills so they’re usually quite annoying about many things and find any reason to disagree over most anything so the quickest solution they can find is banning.
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Arctic Fox Lover is Back! 2 years ago
Happens a lot to elementary schoolers, I can imagine. Play a game, one kid gets hurt or is excluded, game gets banned.
Kangaroo Ratz 2 years ago
two kids in my school kept going down the slide two at a time and getting hurt, recess got banned for all of us.
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Dread Pirate Roberts 2 years ago
Ugh, everyone knew one of those kids. The big onion head part though LOL
A B C the Third 2 years ago
BP, you have a weirdly illegible word there. I believe it's fúck. You can thank me later :)
Be that as it may, among the stories that are collected in this list, there are both small and completely epic, global scale, sad and funny, great and petty... So please feel free now to scroll and read this selection to the very end, comment on your favorite submissions and perhaps add your own stories of how anyone ruined everything - even if it was you yourself... After all, self-irony is a great feeling inherent in truly outstanding people!
#13
At a previous job, we got full uniforms. Shirts, pants, hats, hoodies, winter coveralls, winter coats, gloves. But we dont get shoes or boots.
Turns out a couple of years before I was hired on, they used to give boots. But one guy would take his boots and sell them, then request a replacement, then sell those. He did this about 20 times before anybody caught on because of municipal bureaucracy being slow to notice. When they caught on, they stopped giving out boots to their employees.
Edit: I worked as a park maintenance groundskeeper for Parks & Recreation
edit edit: No it is not like the show.
Happy Okapi 2 years ago
Why not put a limit on the number of shoes someone could get instead? Such a shame.
just me 2 years ago
Or you have to return the worn out pair to get a new one? If you lost them, tough luck.
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Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
Why not just get people to turn in the old boots in order to be issued new ones?
Chez2202 2 years ago
My partner works for a very large online delivery company in the yard directing vehicles and ensuring they are loaded safely and leave site safely. Every year he gets given a huge amount of high visibility clothing to wear on his night shift. After 4 years we have no less than 15 coats ranging in thickness to cover all weather conditions, waterproof trousers, vests, t-shirts, you name it. I could fill a double wardrobe with it. When the coats get dirty they give them a new one. They also just hand out waterproof safety boots whenever someone requests them. It’s mind boggling that they don’t keep track.
Stephanie Choong 2 years ago
Thanks to people like these, my company policy when it comes to PPE is that they need to bring in the alleged damaged work-issued PPE (Boots, coverall, hard hat, etc) before they can be issued a replacement. Basically you had to swap the old damaged one (If it was indeed damaged) for a new one, and we will recycle (Turn old coveralls into scrap cloth after washing) or dispose the old ones.
#14
This is going to be buried but I have to share it in hopes someone sees this and laughs.
I used to work for state government in Alaska. I was reviewing some department policies to update and I noticed a particular statement in the employee behavioral policy about adhering to basic hygiene (expected) and wearing clothes at work (not expected). I went to my boss to ask him about that and the look on his face told me I was in for a good story.
Our department had satellite offices all over the state and in some very rural, very isolated areas, these were nothing but glorified shacks. Local fire brigade shows up to one of our shacks in middle-of-nowhere to find a department employee standing outside the burnt building, in the nude. In February. Turned out that the guy, who was the only on-site employee, happened to be a nudist. Now, no one can work naked for the state of Alaska. What a bummer. 🥲
SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
Just exercising his right to bare arms. And bare legs, bare hips, bare shoulders, bare junk...
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
I know a man from Fairbanks who told me the temperature is quite often below -35 (-37C). I think all the sticky out bits would fall off!
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
For the guys anyway the outties become innies in those temperatures :P
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#15
The Tylenol poisoner—I figure he’s directly responsible for the ridiculous amount of overpackaging in otc drugs, vitamins, etc. Plastic lid wrap seal, cap, sealed bottle, cotton…all inside another box or (shudder!) clamshell package. What a jerk.
Terry Tobias 2 years ago
Add the Sudafed abusers to this. Once people started using pseudoephedrine to make meth, you couldn't get it over the counter anymore and restrictions were placed on its purchase. Sudafed PE (phenylephrine) doesn't work as well for me so I have to go to the pharmacy counter and purchase my decongestant like it's a controlled prescription medication.
Maisey Myles 2 years ago
And forget it if you don't have your ID with you
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Spikey Bunny 2 years ago
I think the girl who started that one had to pay a huge fine and/or serve jail time.
Load More Replies... ArodTheHorrible 2 years ago
The cotton isn't to protect the contents from contamination, but your point is sound.
Spikey Bunny 2 years ago
Yes. The cotton keeps the pills inside from rattling around and getting broken during shipping...
Load More Replies... Dread Pirate Roberts 2 years ago
Same with the dumb teens who thought it was a good idea to get high off Sudafed liquigels -_-
Tracy Wallick 2 years ago
I really don't think the tamper-proof seals are a bad idea. The rest I can agree with though.
Maisey Myles 2 years ago
With medicines I agree but excessive, wasteful packaging is everywhere now. Food packaging is ridiculous.
Load More Replies... Happy Okapi 2 years ago
Horrid. But I suppose, had he not, someone would've sooner or later, perhaps with more drastic effects.
Kelly Scott 2 years ago
I always say if I ever catch that guy, I'm gonna unalive him. This is usually after I've had to fight with some sealed bottle.
Maisey Myles 2 years ago
"Unalive" I love it!! I will be using that for the rest of my life!! No more death threats. Thank you!!
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The name Adolf has gotta be up there
geezeronthehill 2 years ago
Used to know a guy named Attila. Apparently a popular name in Hungary.
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
I use my middle name for exactly this reason. My real first name is Genghis
Dread Pirate Roberts 2 years ago (edited)
My great-grandpa's name was Adolf >_< he was Austrian-Polish, born before the war. He still changed his name to Mike lol plus, especially here in America, Adolph's Tavern wouldn't have gotten much business.
Bonesko 2 years ago
I was just talking about this yesterday. Wonder what other Adolf's think of their name
Laura Mende (Human) 2 years ago
There even is a german film about this issue. It's called "Der Vorname" (the given name) and is about parents in todays time who want to name their son Adolf. They announce it at a party, and everybody there loose their mind and try to talk the parents out of it. I don't know if there are English subtitles or something though...
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JK 2 years ago
I actually worked with a guy called Adolf, this was back in the late 90s, he would have been in his early 20s at the time, I think he was Hungarian, when I asked him, he said it is still quite a common name in some parts of Europe.
#17
I'm going to go with red baseball caps. It's tough being a KC Chiefs or even a Limp Bizkit fan these days if you are not a conservative.
Edit to add: I should have specified MAGAt instead of conservative in general. I do know quite a few conservatives that would love to go back to supporting a sane political party. They don't wear the hats.
Goose of the Ahonkalypse 2 years ago
It blows my mind that any party, and the large majority of it can support a candidate with 91 felony charges.
Tamra 2 years ago
At this point, I can only conclude that the people who still support the orange douchebag are either mentally ill or mentally deficient. Or both.
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Thor Haugen 2 years ago
My red hat says make racism wrong again. Lots of double takes when I go for my walks.
Michael None 2 years ago
I actually like the MAGA bright red hats. It's better when they self identify so I can avoid them.
Happy Okapi 2 years ago
There are some funny things people can do with the red hat presumption though, I saw one recently which said something like 'haha made you look. Black lives matter.' Only problem with them is if someone doesn't look carefully, you look like a MAGA supporter.
Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago (edited)
On the bright side, when I see a red hat now, I automatically know the person is a piece of s**t. If someone was laying beside the road on fire in a red hat, I wouldn't stop to pee on them and put them out. Same goes for the Gadsden flag as well.
Deleila Charlie 2 years ago
Except you don't know what's on the red hat, so you're making an assumption. Better read the hat first in case your pee is needed.
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Der Kommissar 2 years ago
They will still vote R because they are sheeple. I saw a red baseball cap with "TRUCK FUMP" embroidery
MagicJacket 2 years ago
I understand, but Limp Bizkit fanship is not something to proudly display.
Skywitness 2 years ago
I happily wear my read hat. It was a gift from my daughter. It says, "Make Red Hates Wearable Again." I get lots of confused looks when I wear it.
#18
The elementary school I went to let 6th graders go on an overnight trip to a lodge where we could go skiing and snow tubing. My dad volunteered as a parent and was “supervising” by letting me and 5 other girls pile on top of one tube down a steep hill and we all went flying. Two of the girls busted their arms when we all landed in a pile. It looked like a cartoon. Anyway, after that no more sleep overs at the lodge and tale has it 30 years later everyone at the school still blames my dad lol.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
Yeah that’s justified. Your dad shouldn’t have let you do that.
bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago
At least he didn't Clark Griswald it and spray the thing with Pam.
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detective miller's hat 2 years ago
My father was also the cause of much reckless endangerment, but not gonna lie, he was a blast when we were little. "Don't tell your mother," was said many times.
R.C. 2 years ago
Ahhh the 80's/early 90's. Back when fun meant there was a hint of danger and no one was bubble wrapped. Lol, the memories.
Just BeSee 2 years ago
late 70's / mid-late 80's I sometimes feel guilty telling much younger kids all the cool things that they will never be allowed to do. Just in case they are able to visualize it enough to realize WHOA.. That does sound cool. This may just break their hearts.
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Melissa Harris 2 years ago (edited)
Dad's lucky he wasn't sued by the other students families. As a volunteer chaperone it was legally his job to prevent this very type of unsafe behavior.
Stygtand 2 years ago (edited)
Sounds like a great guy. When i look back im amazed i survived my childhood. So many stupid decisions and lethal playground. I remember for a long time swings were made of old telephone poles. They had so many chemicals in them you could leave it outside for a 100 years and not a damn thing would happen to them. Sandboxes where made from old raileoad lumber, same wonderfull chemicals. The slide was nicknamed the slicer. Just thin sheat metal on wooden boards. And in the summer you could cook an egg on them. So yeah a broken arm or two was just a normal wednesday.
Quarkbeast 2 years ago
Oh no, god forbid kids should mess around and break a bone! That's called learning from experience. No-one died so why the overprotectiveness, little kids heal fast.
Kat 2 years ago
Are you kidding? Dad allowed them to do something dangerous. Kids got f*****g hurt. Breaking a bone can have lasting consequences.
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GoldfishCrackers 2 years ago
Tubing is fun. I loved tubing with friends when I was younger. However I will never go tubing again. And I don’t want my kids to go either. They can sled and have fun that way, but I’ve now seen too many tragic accidents because of tubing. You need to be on something you can steer and/or slow down. Speed with no control is not okay.
#19
Every policy at every company I've ever worked at or owned was because of one person abusing something. So whenever you wonder "why the hell do we have to do this?", it's because of one a*****e who ruined it for everyone else.
Alison Reddick 2 years ago
HR HERE - that is absolutely the truth. Look at every policy. Why can't you and your SO work for the same boss? Because of physical fights that had to be broken up by leadership. Why is there a Solicitation policy? Because some idiot strong-armed his peers into buying that gross band candy, ruing Girl Scout cookie sales for the rest of us. And the list goes on.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
We had rooftop social club gatherings ruined because one idiot (not even an employee - a friend of an employee) lobbed an empty beer bottle off the roof of a 7 story building. In office work xmas parties with alcohol were ruined because one guy abused the boss (I worked with them *sigh*).
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Mabelbabel 2 years ago
In my last department, there was a policy preventing collections for engagement, wedding, baby or retirement gifts, which sounds mean initially. The reason it was brought in was because one of the admin officers usually arranged the collections and organised the collective signing of the card. She got progressively more and more aggressive about it-if you handed over £5, for example, you'd get it thrown back saying it wasn't enough, and she used to send departmental wide emails saying "the following people have not yet donated towards X's gift..." and list them. It was eventually discovered that she was skimming off each collection-someone worked out the value of the gifts she was buying was only about 50% of the money she'd collected-she claimed the rest went towards her expenses like driving and parking when she went shopping, and towards giftwrap and sticky tape. She was disciplined but not sacked, though she left soon after. But no collections were allowed after that.
just me 2 years ago
Of course not. After all, she didn't steal from the company, just the other employees.
Load More Replies... David 2 years ago
This applies to the world in general, not just corporate. When I was a kid back in the 60s you didn't have warning stickers on irons saying they get hot when in use. The link below is to a PDF with a lot of silly warnings on products. Some of them I have seen in the wild. Like another iron one about not ironing your clothes while wearing them. All of them came into being because someone was an idiot and/or sued. -== https://www.rrcs.org/Downloads/silly_warning_labels_list2.pdf
Renee Kamphuys 2 years ago
Yup can't bring water bottles with the cap on to music festival, because some a******s one time filled it up with sand at a festival and threw it into the audience, injuring several ppl
Elio 2 years ago
I was wondering why you couldn't have a cap on the water bottle.
Load More Replies... Chez2202 2 years ago
We just got a HR person 10 years after the company was formed. The first thing they did was send out a questionnaire about our working from home situation. One of the questions asked if your feet touch the floor when you’re sat in your chair. My answer was no. The response was that I could do 5 days a week in the office. My feet don’t touch the floor in the office either because I’m tiny. Apparently everyone who said no to any question got the exact same response!
SingingCatMom 2 years ago
I always wonder why they can't punish/make an example of/fire the person who screws up rather than punishing everyone. I have NEVER understood that mindset.
A B C the Third 2 years ago
Another one of these weird illegible words. Gotta be ásshole, right? Just trying to help, BP :)
Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
So is all those crazy advisory notices like “Do not use hairdryer while using shower”. Say what? They have to put it there because one stoopid idiot thought it was a good idea because they could get ready faster. Darwin Award winners all.
jmdirks 2 years ago
Didn't ruin it for everyone. Just me. The store I worked at had an employee bingo game where you could win a small dollar amount gift card. Completely random thing. I won four times in a three week period. I was the only employee not allowed to play after that out of the whole store. Also not the first time something like that happened to me.
zgillet 2 years ago
That's targeting and should have been fought against.
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At one of my previous workplaces, management played music as a way of promoting good mood. They played all sorts of genres so everyone got a chance to listen to something they liked. *One* person complained that *sometimes* they had to listen to music they didn't like, so they stopped playing music altogether.
Ace 2 years ago
TBF I can imagine that of they include _all_ types of music it could be pretty terrible. Imagine being subjected to full-on death metal, gangster rap or Justin Bieber all day! Or even just once.
Zedrapazia 2 years ago
I have ADHD and I can't focus when any music plays as I work. I'd be happy if they shut it down no matter if I like the music or not
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Zophra 2 years ago
I don't know. I would rather wear headphone and listen to what i want; there are some genres that are distracting or I really don't like - lookin' at you, country music.
Mila Preradović 2 years ago
I'll take country over folk-ex-yugoslavian music any time🫣😳
Load More Replies... detective miller's hat 2 years ago
I am so happy I can control the music at my office. Used to work across the hall, where the admin there controlled the radio and she only played like top 100 type stuff, used to drive me mental. Now we have classical music when the boss is in, and heavy metal when he's out.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
Where I work, we've discovered the manager plays a certain genre depending on his mood, so we know what to expect when we come in for work. If it's Country or Pop, he's in a good mood. If it's Death metal, watch what you say or do..
Zoey Rayne 2 years ago
Everyone should have been allowed to wear headphones and choose their own music.
Petra Schaap 2 years ago
work as a cleaner. One of the places i clean is a small factory/workshop with office. Music depends from whos working in the workshop, or who's first i guess. One day i was cleaning next to the workshop and thought "what kind of stupid music do they have on now?!" when i went to throw the garbage away i saw it was two different radiostations blasting from two different big outdoors radios. 10 meters away from eachother.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
They could have decided that they didn't like listening o that person and got rid of him.
devotedtodreams 2 years ago
If the job's activities allow it, just let people listen to their own music via headphones as long as it doesn't inhibit their work - then everyone can be happy with the music :) I work in an open space office, and being allowed to listen to my own music is a godsend.
#21
That one kid in the classroom that can't just leave their f*****g phone alone. Now they're all in a box at the front of the class.
SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
We left our phones at home when I was in school. Because they were plugged into the damn wall.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
Mine only worked when my car was turned on and it was plugged in to the cigarette lighter. :)
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Claire Bailey 2 years ago
My kids school at primary school they hand them in at the office on the way in, they go in a bag with their name on. In high school they stay in their locker. If seen using them in school time they are taken by the teacher. My kids only had one in primary school because they were having to catch a bus home by themselves.
Hey! 2 years ago
I never understood this. My kids didn't have phones while in school; they got them when adults. But what I don't understand is how you make sure someone doesn't pick-up YOUR phone instead of theirs and some might do it on purpose. It's like going through security at the airport, running to make sure no one takes your stuff.
Scented Candle 2 years ago
That happened in one of the schools I went to. A random lady came in claiming to be with reception to take the phones. New policy the teacher thought. Not one phone was returned to anyone in that class
Load More Replies... Der Kommissar 2 years ago
My friend taught high school in L.A. for 25 years. He said if the kids lost interest in class they would immediately go to their phones, and there was nothing he could do about it except try to keep their interest.
#22
Lately, artists who are performing on stage are not having fun anymore.. why?
Because One clown threw an object that actually hurt the artist and suddenly it started happening over and over again, along with making more artists reluctant to perform or interact with the crowd...
Edit: I guess I need to clarify, I mean throwing phones, ashes and other objects directly at the artist to hurt them, not harmless things that used to be thrown like panties and bras...
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
When I read "throwing ashes" I was imagining someone bringing Granny's urn to the theatre...
Na Schi 2 years ago
Exactly this happened - though it was Mom's urn and a Pink concert.
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Marnie 2 years ago
I saw a Metallica concert around 1995 and people started throwing beer bottles at them, along with someone throwing a flaming thing up there. They stopped in the middle of a song and said if a******s kept throwing stuff on stage, they were going to end the concert. They were PISSED, and rightly so!
Der Kommissar 2 years ago (edited)
That all depends on if the performer enjoyed getting ladies' underwear thrown at them. I saw a Zappa show where he urged the women in the audience to do just that. They had a clothesline on stage with all of the panties, and every time the drummer would hit the bass drum the panties would flutter. Frank picked up one pair and said " they're still warm. "
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BluEyedSeoulite 2 years ago
My sister managed to go to ONE concert as a teen in the 90s. Someone threw a rose and it got stuck behind one of the singer's sunglasses. He left the stage and the audience was warned if it happens again, they will end the concert. Literally an accident and it was a rose. My mom refused to buy tickets to a concert ever again, she didn't want to waste money
René Sauer 2 years ago
Like that one singer who got something thrown at her. Her reaction: Throw the micro back 😂 absolutely funny.
Frank Russell 2 years ago
Blues Brothers movie where they're playing at Bob's Country Bunker. Freaking hilarious.
Susan Bosse 2 years ago
This is so ridiculous and awful. We go to lots of rock concerts. I'd love to see someone try this at one of them. Then entire band would jump off stage and beat that a*s!!! Hahaha
Frank Hammer 2 years ago
In one band I played in, we used to throw a party on stage every night and get the audience involved, streamers, party hats, party poppers, foam frisbees, you name it - and the crowd loved it. By the end of the night the place was a mess, and all the frisbees were torn into chunks. Then one night, two bikie gangs started fighting, which spilled onto the stage, and nearly turned the entire pub into a riot. I felt like I was in the band on the titanic! We ended up toning it all down, but by the end of that residancy we were still pulling in over 500 people per night!
#23
The guy who [cut] the most isolated tree on Earth. Same with that woman who burned down the oldest tree. Imagine the history the trees lived through.
Kitty White 2 years ago
This post doesn’t make any sense in the context of what was asked for. How did this ‘ruin it for the rest of us?’ *That* was the whole point of the article.
SingingCatMom 2 years ago
Why are people such a******s? What do you get.from hiking mile and then cutting down the tree. What did .lilling the innocent tree.get him? My grandmother used to say "People are.no dn good". I TOTALLY agree with her!
Chris Landrum 2 years ago
I read about an arborist was researching the oldest tree and took a core sample to count the rings and ended up killing the tree
StPaul9 2 years ago
The Tree of Tenere stood in the N***r desert, was estimated at several hundreds of years old and was famous for being the only landmark in the middle of a huge sweeping barren, well, desert. In 1973, a spectacularly dumb Libyan truck driver managed to hit it. Nothing around for miles and he hits it. Attempts to regrow it failed because it had such deep roots, and now there's a tin and metal replacement there.
The Other Guest 2 years ago
Hey Bored Panda, Niger is a country, not a slur. @StPaul9 I hadn't heard of this & looked it up. Such a shame - and apparently they never caught the person who killed it. The tree's remains are in a pavilion now, like a shrine almost.
Load More Replies... SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
Oldest tree... Methuselah? Still alive, location is still not published, specifically to avoid that kind of thing.
LadyManx 2 years ago
If you're wondering how in the world a tree that can make a difference to anyone, may I suggest reading "The Golden Spruce: A true story of myth, madness and greed" by John Vaillant. It will make you heartsick. A man swims, swims mind you, towing a chainsaw to a sacred supposedly secret place in British Columbia where a unique 300 yr old unique Golden Spruce grows. He, then, cuts it down. What is the price for a complete outsider to come onto your land and destroy something your family has honored and protected for centuries? This was an act of deliberate cruelty and delusion; so yes, a tree can make a difference.
Frank Russell 2 years ago
Bigger problem: Since homo sapiens evolved we've cut down half the world's forests. Highly unsustainable.
#24
That influencer who jumped into the alligator habitat at Busch Gardens, now there's a big chain link fence and you can't see the alligators anymore
Diana Wilcox 2 years ago
Just gotta appreciate this beautiful photo of the alligator. That shot is incredible!
Kitty White 2 years ago
Now that you mention it, there are plenty of instances where the antics of an influencer/influencers have made businesses adopt new rules for visitors. This ranges from where you are allowed to go and what you’re allowed to do, to warnings and disclaimers on web sites and on shop windows. On social media, I’ve seen all kinds of pictures and screenshots that carry the same warnings: The price is the price. Unless you ask for a discount, or for something for free, to promote us to your followers. The price is now double.
#25
Back around the mid 2000s I was around 10 years old and I used to go to this place after school called “the Boys and Girls club”. They had an area with multiple basketball hoops on a court which we used to play all kinds of games in; one of those games being dodgeball. These were not those big rubber balls but instead the styrofoam filled balls with kind of a thin layer of plastic so otherwise… harmless. One of the kids thought it would be a good idea to shove a rock into one of the balls and throw it at someone he didn’t like; well he ended up throwing it right into that kids face and broke two of his front teeth. We never played dodgeball again.
DBear 2 years ago
Where I grew up Boys and Girls clubs were just gathering places for junior criminals.
Random voice 2 years ago
Lol for us it’s like a place where if you say one wrong thing you get talked to
Load More Replies... Kitty White 2 years ago
Lots of comments about dodgeball being “cruel.” I don’t think it’s *inherently* cruel, just that there’s a lot of opportunity for cruelty. Let’s face it- some kids can be mean, petty, bullying, and stupid. Many haven’t developed the ability to understand the consequences of their actions, and certainly not “worst-case scenarios.” Dodgeball Boy just wanted to hurt his classmate a little bit, and did not foresee breaking teeth. Using the right ball for the ages of the kids AND an adult who knows them well enough to know who to keep an eye on are crucial.
SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
FYI, Boys and Girl Club is a national (maybe international, I don't remember) organization.
Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
Not inclusive for non-binary and trans then... (I jest)
Load More Replies... bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago
Apparently that kid didn't know to dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge!
a_smol_berry 2 years ago
I don’t like dodgeball either, I’d rather to anything else. In gym there’s a guy who is notoriously known for being like crazy good. So I never really ‘play’ dodgeball, I just hang around in the back wearing my gym clothes- so like shorts and a T shirt. So one day I’m just sitting and talking with my friend in a back corner.. when BAM dodge ball right on my thigh. There was this huge red mark on my thigh. And like it want that bad but then now it drew attention to my thighs and people were making fun of my big thighs and stretch marks. :’)
Deleila Charlie 2 years ago
We had foam balls for dodge ball. And when I got a baseball to the face, I was told to duck. It wasn't canceled because accidents happen when playing sports.
Mary Bricklin 2 years ago
A kid purposely shoving a rock into a ball is not an accident.
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#26
Had a job where as a dialysis nurse where we added a position to pick up add ons and emergency cases that came in later in the day. In this role we worked noon to midnight which helped us cut down from needing a nurse on call every night to maybe once or twice a week. Whoever took this role didn’t have to take call and had weekends off. We loved rotating through this role and enjoyed taking a break from having to be on call and enjoyed having weekends off.
Then there came the nurse who went out at 7 am instead of noon, and finished at 5 pm. When there was an add-on or an emergency case she wouldn’t answer her phone, which meant which meant everyone had to go back to picking up extra patients and being on call again.
She did this every time it was her turn to go through the rotation so they eliminated the position and we went back to having to be on call all the time.
Kallen Kneeland 2 years ago
Why not just fire the b!tc# and re-clarify the hours of the position? For so many of these things there were simpler solutions available if someone had the fortitude to just punish the culprit instead of the entire population. Pure bureauocracy at its worst.
Nightshade1972 2 years ago
Probably because they were afraid of being sued for "They didn't fire me because I was terrible in the role, they fired me because I'm female/disabled/LGBT/not white/etc." Hospital management decided it was easier to just eliminate the position in its entirety, rather than telling her to her face that she was fired for her total lack of work ethic.
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Justin Thyme 2 years ago
Easy fix-- ask for volunteers for the schedule-- make it so you gotta earn your way in
#27
Not one person but two people ruined my work’s break room. I work at a YMCA as a swim instructor, so two people decided to [make love] in their break room at a different Y in another city. Apparently the higher ups decided that every other YMCA in the area or state should lose their break rooms because “it could happen again.” Like yeah, it could happen again but don’t take our break rooms away, at least get rid of theirs and not ours! It’s so frustrating, now when we’re all cold and damp in between lessons, and after lessons are done, we can sit in the lobby, or sit somewhere on the pool deck which takes away spots for kids or parents. Thanks Milcreek YMCA, you guys suck, go somewhere else and have sex but don’t do it at the Y!
RabidChild 2 years ago
That's a stupid over reaction on management's part. Which really is the case in most of these posts. Zero tolerance policies are asinine.
Phoenix 2 years ago
20+ yrs ago I worked at a place where two employees were dating and ended up "doing it" in the manager's office because it was the only room that had a lock on the door (bathrooms were open to customers). They just transferred one of them to another location about 20 miles away.
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Monarch cat lady 2 years ago
Just fire the 2 a******s and move on... it wasn't an orgy that EVERYONE participated in
Goose of the Ahonkalypse 2 years ago
I wonder if that was actually Millcreek, in which case my mom used to have water yoga there.
BluEyedSeoulite 2 years ago
Probably is. We have a Mill Creek nearby my hometown but it's a tiny place, no Y. They do have a rotting former Jr High School that is still rented out for events
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Haywood Jablome 2 years ago
The Village People led me to believe the YMCA was the perfect place for such activity
Kitty White 2 years ago
This is the perfect example of what the article is supposed to be about. Those two “lovebirds” not only ruined having a break room where they worked, but in the surrounding community. I hope that the OOP was able to resolve this somehow- perhaps it is a workplace health and/or safety violation to deprive workers of a clean, dry place to rest in between classes. Perhaps, the Y has violated some sort of fairness standards by only closing the break rooms in certain locations, and not across the entire country. I hope they have contacted their Union (yeah, I know- a Union, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!), their state Labor Board, the Federal Labor Board… someone. We Americans are so used to having our rights as workers disregarded and stomped on that we often don’t recognize it when we do have them, and don’t even consider speaking up. It’s sad. It needs to change.
#28
The person who apparently choked on a lollipop at my bank and now we don't get lollipops anymore.
les 2 years ago
i know a few chokes that are so funny you'll be gasping for breath
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Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
Trust me, almost choking to death is terrifying. I didn’t do it on purpose. It just happened, in one second. And what I choked on was smaller than a lollipop, but it still could have killed me.
Arctic Fox Lover is Back! 2 years ago
Maybe they stopped giving them out because they were also psychedelic, like in the picture!
#29
The guy in Texas (I think?) Who ordered a huge meal for his last meal on death row and refused to eat it. They no longer offer a last meal request because of him.
Synsepalum 2 years ago
That guy is an even bigger dirt bag because he was a racist who killed a black man just because he was black.
Kitty White 2 years ago
I get what you’re saying, but I think that as citizens, we should all worry about our criminal “justice” system, and how we treat prisoners- especially those who have been sentenced to death. I have struggled with cases like his myself; on one hand, we want the most harsh and severe punishment for a man like this. “He killed a black man simply because he was black” doesn’t even *begin* to describe his horrific, inhumane acts.OTOH, there are statistics galore about how the death penalty targets minorities, the poor, the young, the mentally challenged- and DOES NOT act as a deterrent. Don’t even get me started on how many folks have later been found innocent due to advances in forensic science. Sometimes found innocent after it’s too late. I believe that we need to err on the side of not executing anyone. For those who are guilty, spending life in prison is the harsher punishment. For this monster especially, death was “the easy way out.”
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Captain McSmoot 2 years ago
Again, another thing I learned because of a Stuff You Should Know podcast episode!
Astrophile 2 years ago
Oh I just listened to that one too, the Last Meal Ritual episode right? :)
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Nicholas Kramer 2 years ago
While this is true, the cook that used to prepare the food still does it. He just pays for it out of his own pocket.
Catherine Monelle 2 years ago
I mean, I'm not sure a violent racist who's about to be executed is someone anyone can expect to selflessly think of how his actions might affect those who come after him.
#30
At a certain point in US Army basic training, your platoon is givin the "opportunity" to sit and eat without having to wait for the entire company, AND with that comes the fact that if one person is finished eating, we're all finished eating.
This one trainee who happend to sit early finished his dinner before the other side of the table even got to start. He stood up, the the DS promptly made everyone else get up too, eaten or not.
This same trainee did the exact same thing the next day, except now it was breakfast, so a few people didnt get dinner OR breakfast.
I'll never forget the nasty s**t they did to his bunk and locker dude. Couldnt really feel bad for him, and you best believe NOBODY stood up early for the rest of BCT.
Edit: Wow this blew up overnight! Im gonna try to answer a couple questions I've read.
What'd they do to his bunk?
They took the used/dirty mop bucket water, pissed in it, and dumped over his bunk and foot locker. This happened on a Sunday morning which is the one day the DS will leave u alone till noon. The perpetrator was at church lol
Was it intentional?
No. The first time was a genuine mistake as it was a brand new rule. I actually watched him the second time. He started to stand and realized his mistake, but the grumpiest DS saw him do that awkward stand-sit movement and that was it for the table. Luckily I wasn't on the table that lost the breakfast, but I still felt no sympathy for him. No dinner + "whatever you can eat out the door" breakfast woulda had me join in too.
Was he stupid?
Yes.
Justin Rogers 2 years ago
How is that a stupid rule? It makes you aware and responsible for those around you. Part of being a team is being aware that your actions affect others and not just you. Tell me you don't think/ consider other people without telling me you are selfish, ignorant or narcissistic
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Xenon 2 years ago
I'm a slow eater, went hungry a lot in basic. By the time basic was about done, I had learned to wolf my food down. I was rapidly stuffing my face one morning when I looked up and the seriously cute line cook was smiling at me, lol.
Joe Average 2 years ago
I'm 30 years removed from boot and I'm still wolfing my food down unless I consciously slow down i.e. important meals for work with colleagues.
Load More Replies... Rachel Ainsworth 2 years ago
Wish we could send all the entitled people in the world to a boot camp with this rule.
Justin Thyme 2 years ago
Boot camp rules aren't for any other reason but making you all responsible for each other. It ain't supposed to be logical, sensible, or fun.
Graham Berry 2 years ago
This must have been a long time ago because any DS trying this today would be brought up on charges and or forcibly discharged from service. The US army has it written that every soldier is to be provided the opportunity of 3meals a day. It may be eat and go or stuff your mouth and get out, but you will be given an opportunity to eat.
Azure Adams 2 years ago
That is still too easy on him. Good ol' blanket party would have been more appropriate.
Persephone 2 years ago
Wow. Let's encourage hazing and abuse to force everyone into a mold... 🙄
#31
whoever decided to add Youtube Kids on youtube, now everything is demonitizable
Zedrapazia 2 years ago
Some channels add a blurb of swearwords at the beginning or end of each video to prevent Kids from grabbing their content now because of that
BluEyedSeoulite 2 years ago
But advertisers don't like that, less revenue. You have to choose if your videos are suitable for kids or not when you upload them
Load More Replies... Spencer's slave 2 years ago
Yes but YouTube Kids has a parental lock and filter which means parents/caregivers can take responsibility for what kids have access to.
BluEyedSeoulite 2 years ago
This. You can green light channels and block everything else if you want
Load More Replies... Zoey Rayne 2 years ago
Considering how inappropriate most YouTube content is for kids and how many videos are made specifically to look kid friendly, but then contain scenes that would be scary to them or teach bad behaviors, I don't see this as a problem. YouTube Kids is not the problem, it's the creators who make videos with popular children's characters that turn out to be upsetting for young viewers.
juice 2 years ago
well demonetization means that the video creator doesn't make any money from people watching the video. it remains free for the consumers regardless, but the creator loses money
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KittyGaming 2 years ago
I once had youtube kids just to check it out, most of EvanTubeHD's vids weren't on there, he is a toy review youtuber, a kids youtuber, his videos do censor swear words
BlueBlazer999 2 years ago (edited)
Beeped or blurred swears are actually specifically called out as non-kid friendly on YouTube’s creator help website. They apparently go so far as to train an algorithm to recognize the beeps used to mask swears, which will scan every video when uploaded. Edit: just read some help pages, it’s not too harsh unless it occurs “excessively” so the creator might have just opted out of YouTube Kids.
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I'm a contractor and I work in different kinds of plants and mills. In one mill I worked at, we had a gravy job, two hours of easy work, and get paid for twelve hours. Well, one guy decided he was going to charge them for sixteen, and now we get two hours for the job.
Super Beast 2 years ago (edited)
please do yourself a favor and internalize the reality that YOU CANNOT STEAL FROM A COMPANY. your work earns them 20 and you get 1. if you buy something for 100 you better believe they buy it for 0.005.
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Remember that stupid woman that held up a sign in front of the Tour de France riders?
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
I do. It caused a huge bike crash. Now bikes are banned at the Tour de France
Marnie 2 years ago
I just read a few articles about it and watched a recording of the original live coverage. They are all annoying me because they said what happened was the cyclist hitting the sign. The sign was cardboard and would have posed no problem other than a paper cut. The issue was that he hit her out-stretched ARM. Anyway, your response was hilarious!
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Chewie Baron 2 years ago
We’re you injured in an accident that wasn’t your fault?
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#34
Airport security... I remember waiting for my mom to come off a plane at the gate.
#35
That stupid baseball player that took like ten ephedra and died of a heart attack. My mom and I used to take one and clean the whole house! Why can’t people be responsible with their drugs.
Ken Bascom 2 years ago
If you DON'T need drugs to clean your house, you have a problem! :-)
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You can still order ephedra online I think. The law is hinky in the US, it's illegal to sell but not to have (or something like that), so you can just get it shipped in from another country and that's legal.
Clown fish 2 years ago
Yeah because seizures, heart attacks, high blood pressure, irregular heart beat, vomiting, nervousness, Stroke, death all sound like fun. Maybe it's a good thing it's been band
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SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
Abusing prescription drugs is not a responsible use for them, no matter what lame excuses you use to justify getting high. I mean, dude. If you want to get high, fine, that's none of my business. Sharing is caring. But don't try to make like you're the one "responsible" user among all the junkies -- that just makes you a druggie AND a hypocrite.
RabidChild 2 years ago
The guy who died was the one who abused the drug. The rest of us want to be able to have access to an effective pharmaceutical that's been around for centuries.
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RabidChild 2 years ago
I really really miss ephedra diet pills. I say bring back the Mah Huang!;
Zedrapazia 2 years ago
Diet pills won't help you, you'll get fat immediately again once you stop taking them. The only way to effectively lower your weight and keep it is by changing what you eat and your lifestyle too in some instances
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The first hotel I worked at allowed employees to become patrons and have drinks in the hotel bar after their shifts. My coworker and I noticed the security guy giving us the stink eye from the lobby while we chatted up two young ladies who were guests of the hotel. Insulted that he would assume we might try and get frisky with these women, we called it a night and headed out. We went out the back employees-only door, and in passing the security officer’s office, we decided spitting all over his door was a justifiable response. Turns out the security guy had followed us out, stealthfully beating us to the exit by way of the hotel’s second floor. He stood silently in the shadows of the 2nd floor stairwell and watched as we defiled his office door. That’s why since 1996, employees can no longer grab after work drinks in that hotel’s lobby bar. Because of me. I’m sorry…
daniel ikelman 2 years ago
Hotels will fire you for fraternizing with guests anyway and all employees know it. This dude is an idiot
#37
That time outside of the Cage at UMass Amherst when there was a looong line to get into the basketball game, and me and my friend tried to slickly cut with a friend who was closer up in line, but another friend saw us quietly moving and frantically ran to catch up to us, and this caused EVERYONE to start running toward the front and it turned into a near riot, with people trying to squeeze through the doors. Eventually everyone made it in okay, but it did make the evening news as a ‘riot’…
So, thanks Jeff 😂
daniel ikelman 2 years ago
Except nothing was changed because of the situation. No relevance here
Coralinea 2 years ago
I don't currently wear my glasses (naptime), and I thought that the picture was a weird sawblade.
Drinking my Covfefe 2 years ago
I had to squint looking at the picture and YOU'RE RIGHT!!
Load More Replies... WonderWoman 2 years ago (edited)
Do not cut in line - do not hold a place in line for others- unless you announce to people around you that you have X# of people joining and people agree to let them in. That is the LAW of humanity.
#38
The guy who flew the plane into the Twin Towers ruined airport security for everyone in America.
Der Kommissar 2 years ago
Two planes hit the twin towers. One hit the Pentagon and one crashed in a field due to the bravery of some passengers who broke into the cockpit and incapacitated the hi-jackers.
Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
No. Our overreaction ruined it. Everyone got in a big hurry to hand away their rights for the illusion of security.
Load More Replies... Paul Pienkowski 2 years ago
9/11 ruined everything. It literally changed the world, despite happening only in the USA.
Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
Thank you religion. Irrespective if it is Islam or Christian, if you are overzealous it screws it up for all.
Mrs. Ginger McSarcasm 2 years ago
One if the most insensitive posts I've ever seen.. I'd rather go through 2 hours of secutiry checks if it means i dont have to worry about a bomb being on my plane.
Sprouted Tater 2 years ago
Thank u Ron for reminding this guy why we must continue with airport security
#39
In the 80s we had this game called British Bulldog, it was fun and a laugh for all involved. Then Barry had to clothesline a skinny kid and collapsed his wind pipe and all of sudden Bulldog got banned and we couldn't choke each other out anymore.
Thanks Barry.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
Had to look it up. I guess it's like playing tag but instead of just touching someone (tag) you have to tackle them lol
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Amo Mazzuchelli 2 years ago
Banned at out school, apparently the tackling was too rough ... let me guess we are Aussies?
KnightOwl 2 years ago
My school never banned this which is surprising considering how many severe injuries it caused on a regular basis. Eg. My little sister ran head first into a brick wall and burst her head opened when she was 5, she needed 32 stitches and still has a huge scar just beneath her hairline nearly 30yrs later. My step brother once got a severe concusion and spent 3 days in hospital unable to remember his own name and a few yrs later had to have surgery on his eye after crashing into a taller boy and somehow burst his eyeball opened. (So freaky and gross to witness)
Alethea Fletcher 2 years ago
It was banned in my school because of me.. I rebounded off, landed badly and was knocked out completely. Severe concussion.
Nelson 2 years ago
Young age concussions can be particularly damaging and can lead to lifelong problems/disabilities/early death
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V Martinez 2 years ago
I hate the fact that so many people and places (schools, businesses, etc), will bow down to 1-2 people and cater to their wants of being anti-whatever. They don't care about the majority of people, nor will they ask those 1-2 people to leave or deal with it. Eff those anti-fun turds!
Leigh Pierce 2 years ago
Exactly. I'm a librarian and at our branch a local church would donate a basket of water and snacks to put out on the table because we have a set of regular homeless that came in throughout the week and would use it. Well, from what I heard it only took two people to shout at the city that CHURCH and STATE should be separate and not together. And we had to tell the church they couldn't bring it any longer. I felt bad for our regulars who looked forward to that when they came in.
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Cyber Returns 2 years ago
The a-holes who keep buying up all the Ozempic just to make a profit from the 'rich and the wide' at the expense of diabetics
Clown fish 2 years ago
Hey how are you? And do you still have the tab to open at 39 posts? It's seems to have gone for me.
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Toothless Feline 2 years ago
So many of these are cases of the people in charge deciding that they should punish everyone for what one AH did. That's one of the stupidest ways of handling problems, because it just pisses off everyone. Discipline the errant dumbass, and leave everyone else alone.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
The first guy who sued a doctor. Responsible for the high price of medical treatment in the USA.
michael Chock 2 years ago
Oil companies. Republicans. Leaders of organized religion. Reagan. Billionairs. Global corporations.
Lee Henderson 2 years ago
I graduated high school in 1978. Each year, the senior class took an overnight field trip. The class of 1977 went to Gettysburg and screwed up so badly it was the last class trip. You know, there's going to be sex, drugs, rock-n-roll... chips, dips, chains, whips... You know, your basic high school orgy type of thing. I mean, uh, I'm not talking candlewax on the nipples, or witchcraft or anything like that, no, no, no. Just a couple of hundred kids running around in their underwear, acting like complete animals.
walkabout 2 years ago
Our HR gave us an enormous break on our PTO. All of our time, sick, vacation and personal without expiration, was distributed to us evenly and timely, into one bank. A handful of guys out of 60 treated it as 51 sick days a year. They called in when they saw a difficult task coming. They clocked out early without asking permission.They string multiple days together. They'd leave on vacation and then call in additional days. Staffing became a nightmare. Payroll became hassle. So back to the archaic system we went. On the very first day of the revision the biggest offender called in and told the manager that he was using his last two available days. That guy mows lawns now.
Diego 2 years ago
We had a personal mental health day(like a day off that is planned outside of vacation/sick time) at my old job. This one woman, who constantly had to be "different" (main character syndrome) said that due to her mental illness she needed more mental health days more than anyone , and began demanding that using her sick time after the one day was discrimination. They removed that one day because of her, and now we had to use sick time just to have a day off for ourselves.
LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago (edited)
My secondary school class was banned from one of our local science museums after a bunch of kids were caught having sex and making out in the "star tunnel" during a dance event. Our school had rented part of the museum for a dance and fun end of the year event...yeah that went well.
V Martinez 2 years ago
I hate the fact that so many people and places (schools, businesses, etc), will bow down to 1-2 people and cater to their wants of being anti-whatever. They don't care about the majority of people, nor will they ask those 1-2 people to leave or deal with it. Eff those anti-fun turds!
Leigh Pierce 2 years ago
Exactly. I'm a librarian and at our branch a local church would donate a basket of water and snacks to put out on the table because we have a set of regular homeless that came in throughout the week and would use it. Well, from what I heard it only took two people to shout at the city that CHURCH and STATE should be separate and not together. And we had to tell the church they couldn't bring it any longer. I felt bad for our regulars who looked forward to that when they came in.
Load More Replies... Cyber Returns 2 years ago
The a-holes who keep buying up all the Ozempic just to make a profit from the 'rich and the wide' at the expense of diabetics
Clown fish 2 years ago
Hey how are you? And do you still have the tab to open at 39 posts? It's seems to have gone for me.
Load More Replies... Toothless Feline 2 years ago
So many of these are cases of the people in charge deciding that they should punish everyone for what one AH did. That's one of the stupidest ways of handling problems, because it just pisses off everyone. Discipline the errant dumbass, and leave everyone else alone.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
The first guy who sued a doctor. Responsible for the high price of medical treatment in the USA.
michael Chock 2 years ago
Oil companies. Republicans. Leaders of organized religion. Reagan. Billionairs. Global corporations.
Lee Henderson 2 years ago
I graduated high school in 1978. Each year, the senior class took an overnight field trip. The class of 1977 went to Gettysburg and screwed up so badly it was the last class trip. You know, there's going to be sex, drugs, rock-n-roll... chips, dips, chains, whips... You know, your basic high school orgy type of thing. I mean, uh, I'm not talking candlewax on the nipples, or witchcraft or anything like that, no, no, no. Just a couple of hundred kids running around in their underwear, acting like complete animals.
walkabout 2 years ago
Our HR gave us an enormous break on our PTO. All of our time, sick, vacation and personal without expiration, was distributed to us evenly and timely, into one bank. A handful of guys out of 60 treated it as 51 sick days a year. They called in when they saw a difficult task coming. They clocked out early without asking permission.They string multiple days together. They'd leave on vacation and then call in additional days. Staffing became a nightmare. Payroll became hassle. So back to the archaic system we went. On the very first day of the revision the biggest offender called in and told the manager that he was using his last two available days. That guy mows lawns now.
Diego 2 years ago
We had a personal mental health day(like a day off that is planned outside of vacation/sick time) at my old job. This one woman, who constantly had to be "different" (main character syndrome) said that due to her mental illness she needed more mental health days more than anyone , and began demanding that using her sick time after the one day was discrimination. They removed that one day because of her, and now we had to use sick time just to have a day off for ourselves.
LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago (edited)
My secondary school class was banned from one of our local science museums after a bunch of kids were caught having sex and making out in the "star tunnel" during a dance event. Our school had rented part of the museum for a dance and fun end of the year event...yeah that went well.
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