People Share Times When “There Was An Attempt” And Here Are 50 Of The Most Amusing Ones
We all know very well that things in this world tend to backfire. Call it a law of nature, a frequent twist of fate, or destiny. “Look who’s laughing now” is a phenomenon that has happened to virtually every one of us, and no matter what you do, it repeats again and again, and again.
The Reddit community “There Was An Attempt” is dedicated to precisely the comic absurdity of all the attempts in life that went against the plan, or turned in the wrong direction. Created in August 2015, the subreddit now has 1.9m members that are not immune to the funny attempts that “were there.”
“People enjoy the slapstick comedy of it. At the end of the day, everyone is laughing,” the subreddit’s moderator told Bored Panda in the interview that you can read in full below. And now we leave the stage to the ensued hilarity.
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To Make The Special Olympics Look Bad
To Complain About A Child Selling Hot Dogs
To Clean Up After Himself
Bored Panda spoke to redditor u/F4T4-M0RG4N4, the moderator of the r/ThereWasAnAttempt subreddit, who said that the community has evolved a lot since it was created 5 years ago.
“When I first joined the team, it was mostly a screenshot sub. A few months back, there was some drama about how there were only three mods who ran the subreddit (which at the time had around a million members).” As a result, they invited more people to join the moderator team and removed the screenshot posts.
To Get Drinks
To Make Speaking 2 Languages Sophisticated
To Sound Literate
For those who’re wondering what, precisely, “there was an attempt” refers to, u/F4T4-M0RG4N4 explained that it’s basically about “someone attempting something but ultimately failing.”
Conceptually, it’s similar to “if someone tried jumping off a trampoline into a pool but when they tried to jump, the trampoline tore. In that case, you could say, 'Well... there was an attempt, at least' and that’s where our subreddit comes into play.”
The posts are mainly about “some people having a dumb idea, trying out that idea, and failing.” This misery is what makes it so funny.
To Prevent The Homeless From Sleeping Here
To Start Cat Racing
To Prove That Patton Oswalt Is A Failed Comedian
I love him! He is the narrator on the Goldberg's.
Today, the moderator team only allows video submissions and cross-posts, “which are posts that were in one subreddit but were reposted to another (kind of like retweeting.” This format works better for r/ThereWasAnAttempt, since screenshots can more easily become reposts, for one.
Especially when there’s one similar subreddit that’s specifically for social media clapbacks and comebacks, but its content mainly features screenshots.When it comes to their 1.9 million member count, the moderator said that “I don’t think we have the exact same post frequency as, say, a meme subreddit.”
Partly, it’s because it isn’t easy to repost something from r/ThereWasAnAttempt. “I could probably look at the new section for r/memes and see quite a few frequent reposts.”
...to Photograph Birds
To Be Responsible And Uber Home
To Scare Your Boyfriend
At Going Outside
To Shame Atheists And Take Away Their Holidays
I Mean... You Tried..?
'Having Voldemort trying to kill him at every opportunity finally took its toll on Harry Potter'
To Be An Animal Activist
To Arrest A “Drug Dealer
To Make Fun Of A Bird
To Shame Men
To Sound Intellectual
To Take A Cute Picture
To Convince People To Be Pro-Life
To Defend God
Or when he flooded the earth, you know the whole Ark thing.
.... To Find Buried Treasure
To Be Racist
Am proudly a Muslim just like a Christian proudly a Christian and also like an atheist who is proudly an atheist!!!!!!! It's our believe when people think about freedom of speech, they forget about hurting other people's religion, but when we stand for our rights we are themed as paranoid. Just leave us alone, stop looking for trouble which you wouldn't get and exercise Human Rights fairly not partially degrading other people's religion. I quote everyone is different yet you try to make everyone the same religion, race, tribe all " Differences matters, yet that makes us who we are, denying our differences is denying the truth " I am A PROUD MUSLIM, it's me not you allow me to practice my religion in peace and stop popnosing on my affairs, everyone deserves right to religion just as u think!
To Suggest A New Idea
To Glorify The President
To Eat A Mozzarella Stick
To Motivate
To Betray Coca Cola
There Was An Attempt To Run For Mayor
To Replace I'm Sorry With Thank You
But actually this is a technique I used in customer service. For example when you put a customer on hold to go get more info, you ask them if they’re happy to wait. When you get back you thank them for waiting. If you say “sorry for the wait” it suggests you did something wrong, when really you were just doing your job. It leaves a different impression on the customer and genuinely impacts satisfaction.
To Prove How Unfashionable These Jeans Were
To Be Neighborly
To Provide Front, Side, And Rear Photos For The Car Insurance Rep
To Virtue Signal...
To Get A Cardi B Tattoo
I never realized that there is a level of messed up that someone would want to get an Anne Frank tattoo on your damn FACE
To Be Deep
To Display Plus Size Clothes Without Causing Offence
Considering that there are no plus sized mannequins, I think its good improv. (I'm on the larger size myself, and I'm nowhere near offended)
I don't see what's wrong with this. I see plenty that's wrong with having two people in the same pair of leggings, particularly when neither of them appears to have a torso.
You’re basically telling a plus sized women she’s two small women combined. As a plus sized woman, I wouldn’t shop here as it actually offends me and hurts my feelings.
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Representation matters. You can’t be telling a fuller figured person they are the size of two people. The typical mannequin is small to begin with. On a second, lighter note, asking someone if they want to see if we can both fit into my pants is a new pickup line for me.
I think it's genius?!!! Gives me a glimpse into what people behind me would see if I were to wear them!! I'm chunky, not offended 1 butt!!!
It actually looks quite natural................. until you see the feet! But it doesn't offend me either, I'd rather see a more realistic version of what they'd look like on larger women!
There are shops in the UK that specialise in plus sizes, at least one chain of shops for men and one chain for women, that I know of. I'm sure these also have branches in other countries. How would they display their clothes if there were no plus size models?
Plus size shops usually have regular sized mannequins, use the smallest size in each item available, and then stick pin or safety pin 🧷 everything in place to fit the mannequin. And a lot of plus sized shops don’t use mannequins at all.
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I cant say I have ever worn plus size clothing. So I have no say whether this offends me or not. I totally understand though
I am plus sized and I am not offended, but just wish everyone who makes fun of women who are plus size know that we are not all overweight because we over eat, nor because we do not exercise or are lazy. There is more reasons why people are overweight than you know!
s'ok by me..... And this is probably far more accurate that those 'plus' sized mannequins that are size 10 instead of size 0.
I seriously had to look twice before understanding what was wrong or offensive here. So job well done, I’d say. It is nice to look at, not a mockery feeling or vibe at all (yes I’m overweight too) Btw, just look at those clothing mannequins that can be altered for different sizes and then come back to this. You can easily mistake those 4 feet as two feet with gaps within the feet and the two waists like one with that gap in between). It’s the view from the sides that would be less “normal” because then they’re all skinny again so yes I do see the problem but it’s not offensive
Depending on the plus size, this is not always going to work, but it is better than all the skinny mannequins at plus size stores. They put the smallest size on them and pin everything in place. All it tells you is how it would look on a small figure.
No one would notice the use of two mannequins in each leg, if each leg didn't have two feet.
LOL , only realized, that there is a skinne mannequin in EACH leg of the plus size trousers by reading the comments, and did not understand the uproar before that. Strange, that they have no fitting mannequins for those clothes, it must me a good number of sales possible.
Has anyone ever seen a plus sized mannequin yet? This has to be a padded number
I'm plus sized and I'm not offended... I have thin friends, i am fully aware of the fact that I'm the size of two of them 🤣 OK no seriously though, mannequins are a ridiculous size anyway.
I think this is really creative and I'd laugh my ass, I'm around M-L as well kek
They're too cheap to spring for diverse mannequins. Betcha they're all white too. This doesn't offend me as much as it warns me not to spend my money there.
It is a simple solution. If it works, it works.
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Potatoes don’t make you fat, haha. Unless they’re deep fried of course.
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To Stand Up For The Joker
To Get A Heartwarming Tattoo
To Fuck The Police
To Keep A Streak Going
To Befriend A Porcupine
To Pass Security
To Sound Tougher
To Criticize A Garbage Man
To Be A Professional Company
All that's gonna do is make more people drive drunk. If Uber is so concerned about people throwing up in their cars or being violent (which is understandable) they should charge a deposit and/or allow the drivers to have pepper spray or something to defend themselves if necessary (not guns!).
To Create 3 Mexican Countries
To Hide
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Made my day. More of this please 😊 me and my mom once explored pepper spray. We bought one and guess what-had to to try it.And we did in a single room sprayed smelled... like adult, educated woman and cried for hours... I wonder why 🤔
That's like the don't look reflex: when someone says "don't look" we all look to know what we aren't supposed to be looking at :D
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I once tried to stop a drop of molten sugar from falling on the floor, by using my my hand.
That's an instinctive reaction, when you see something falling to the floor.
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Made my day. More of this please 😊 me and my mom once explored pepper spray. We bought one and guess what-had to to try it.And we did in a single room sprayed smelled... like adult, educated woman and cried for hours... I wonder why 🤔
That's like the don't look reflex: when someone says "don't look" we all look to know what we aren't supposed to be looking at :D
Load More Replies... I once tried to stop a drop of molten sugar from falling on the floor, by using my my hand.
That's an instinctive reaction, when you see something falling to the floor.
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