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
If you got a tiny Voldemort in your womb, abortion might not be the worst idea.
Don't tell us, go back in time and tell his mother!
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I don't know why some stupid politicians don't understand that
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Facts from a study of abortions in 25 high income countries: Almost 70% of abortions are carried out before week 9 of the pregnancy, with a an increasing proportion. In most countries nearly all abortions were carried out before week 12. The increase in abortions earlier than 9 weeks is likely closely related to the increased availability of medical abortion. https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/nine-out-of-10-abortions-done-before-12-weeks-in-many-high-income-countries/
Every woman should have unhindered access to safe and legal abortion!
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anti-vax, pro-life, anti-mask lies so much it's distgusting. and they're proud of it!
Don't forget pro-gun. Really, they aren't so much "pro-life" as "pro-conception". They don't give a rodent's posterior about you after you're actually born.
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How can one believe this is a 16 weeks old fetus? Dont they teach science in schools?
Exactly. They look like this: 9ea59b432a...85cc95.jpg 
Some size context here would be helpful. Is this thing 6 feet long or is it an inch long? (At 16 weeks a fetus is the size of an apple, if you're wondering). Also yes, any woman should be able to decide what is best for her own body. We have no shortage of humans on this planet, we have wayyyy too many!
Not to mention the anti choice people don't give a flying f**k what happens to the baby once it's born
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Hahahah!!! That's ace. Jesus, I'd defo get rid of that if I thought it was creeping around inside me.
Yeah I’d definitely abort if I thought that shït was inside me. Might even abort myself if I had one of those!
I'm guessing that she hasn't actually seen a picture of a fetus at 16 weeks, and just choose the first pic that looked like one.
...that she *thought* looked like one. Assuming she thought.
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Oh so this is that part of his life story he didn’t wanna talk to me about. I don’t blame him.
Wait-what? I knew you spied for the Order, but you had personal conversations with him?!?
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Does she genuinely believe that is what that picture is? Does she really believe that's what a 16 week HUMAN foetus looks like in the womb! Has she never seen a scan picture taken at 20 weeks? Has she never looked at a pregnancy book? I mean, it's obvious she doesn't have kids! And if I were a naive young girl who was shown this picture and told it was a 16 week foetus - I'd be at the GP demanding a bloody hysterectomy before I ran the risk of falling pregnant and having to carry the new reincarnation of bloody Voldemort! Jeezo!
Yes. No one “likes” abortion (guessing). Female people need corporeal autonomy and economic freedom like non-female people have. Get over it. There is nothing about “life” that anti-abortion people care about. If there was, they’d be be fighting for Medicare for all and abolishing the death penalty for starters. Patriarchy, especially espoused by women who claim to be pious is asinine.
I like the rabid anti-abortionist who was brandishing a jarred fetus at his hate-rallies for a couple of months--till the guy who mailed it to him let it be known it was a mouse fetus...
Uh, no, that is NOT at 16 weeks. That's Gollum. At 16 weeks, much more like the "space baby" at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey. They have tiny tiny tiny feet and hands, and their ears are not remotely that formed. THIS PIC IS A HOAX. ... sign me, got my MD, those idiots didn't
Why post such nonsense? From the entire internet, after a fact check for you - "When Harry has been hit with the killing curse, he ends up in an imaginary King's Cross, with Dumbledore, and an infant-like creature that can be heard crying." Go read a book, or something. Unplug
Well, whatever this perfectly formed tiny ADULT is, it is certainly NOT a 16 week old fetus.
ah but the soul or spirit is not there.. still hovering above. abortion is a desperate act and often a result of rape and abuse.
Strange that they said that. Especially because babies at that stage actually look like this:https://i.pinimg.com...c6bdf85cc95.jpg It's not even close. I don't think I can post what they look like aborted, because it's very graphic and disturbing.
You can believe whatever you want, but please do not try to force other people to believe the same.
Just for everyone that hasn't realized, it's from one of the last movies of Harry Potter
That's not a 16 week fetus. That's a movie prop, the remnants of Voldemort's soul. Here, if you must, is a more convincing 16 week fetus, shown by a woman who miscarried, to show that it is appropriate to mourn for a (wanted) child who died in the womb early. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/218283913167575648/ Note that I'm still pro-choice. I think it's tragic when someone becomes pregnant, and cannot bring it to term, for whatever reason. But that doesn't make it NOT their choice when it's still possible to end the pregnancy before it could survive independently, OR when it would kill or maim the mother to continue. (I am looking at you, Ireland, Brazil, and the Vatican.)
Even if the baby was made during a rape? Because Voldemort's mother literally raped his father with drugs... Yeah, I know you know, everybody knows.
You my dear are either incredibly uninformed or a liar. As noted above, this is "he who shall not be named". Just a bit different I hope.
Not hardly a 16 wk. fetus! People are not that gullible - at least I hope not!
Ridiculous, it's not a real dried up fetus, but a very badly made statuette or a momie. How dare these rednecks church gun owners hypocrites make such false informations. Abortion is a very private matter and it's nobody's business. So great america is finally not a free country, since laws are changed according who directs the congress and the president.
Hello--I hope you just had a brain fart, or you aren't up on the difference between fantasy and reality. I think we found the village idiot, in more ways than one.
It looks more like a momie, not a fœtus... this is a dead man not a baby
lol,i hope that no fetus looks like that. that would not be healthy i dont think.
Do you have actual proof that this is a foetus? I'm doubtful about the skeleton, fingernails etc at only 4 months.
An even better idea: learn that condoms break, people are raped, things go wrong.
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Well, not really. If you have a scan at 12 weeks you can already see that its a human, just with a large head and obviously much smaller overall. However thats not the point. It doesnt matter how it looks, its still up to the woman if she wants it or not. It wouldnt survive without her so its her body and her choice.
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No, it's fine for the internet public, since it's only a screen shot from "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2" from shortly after Voldemort "kills" Harry. It's a dying fragment of Voldemort's soul (a "horcrux"). That's all.
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“I don’t believe in abortion but I’m a woman.” 🤡
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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)
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
To Compliment Her Tattoos
To Explain Who Barack Obama Is
To Blame Homosexuality
To Karma Whore On Reddit
Also the astronaut program announced its first group of astronauts in 1959, she would have been 12.
To Make An Infographic
To Bash A Girl With Acne
I hate when adults hate on teens and kids on the internet. Grow tf up.
To Take A Panoramic Photo Which Included Their Dog
To Be Pro Lgbt
To Amputate
2,5 min, not 25 sec Apparently he also took of a guy's testicles by accident when amputating his leg.
To Cut In Line
Most likely the lady who cut the line went berserk : "If I hadn't cut the line I would have been eighteenth, GIVE IT TO ME!!!"
To Be A Good Person
To Ambush British Vessels
To Cook Smiley Buns
To Escape Prison
To Identify A Threat
And what was the problem even if he was writing in a foreign language?
To Draw A Horse
To Champion "Straight Pride"
To Say That Boomer Is A Racial Slur
If when comparing the badness of two words, you don't actually say one of them, that is the worse word!
To Ask Twitter
To Make A Serious Ad Campaign
This man's face has become a famous meme called "Hide the Pain Harold". He is actually a european model for stock photos so it makes sense he would appear in ads.
To Raise Self-Esteem
There Was An Attempt To "Shame" Someone Who Was Suicidal
To Stop Suicide
To Understand A Joke
Whoosh, BANG!!! (Joke flying over his head and breaking the sound barrier.)
To Be Patriotic
Liberia is connected to America because that was a country established for freed slaves, so the flag is likely a derivation of the US flag. But yeah the homophobe is also an idiot, which shouldn't be surprising.
To Play Hard To Get
To Be Inclusive
Every once in a while, straight people should know what it feels like to be erased. (Note, I'm straight.)
To Spread Anarchy
To Be Offended For Another Group Of People
That’s something I never understood... Don’t include different ethnicities: “You‘re only using white people, you‘re racist!” Include different ethnicities: “You‘re contributing to stereotypes, you‘re racist!” I mean... as long as you don’t portray a culture as inferior or ridiculous, how is including it wrong? Would they prefer Mario to wear a suit and a tophat and play the piano in this scene?
To Be Non-Binary
To Dress Up Like A Matrix Character....
To Have A Smart Shower Thought
To Be Anti-Government
To Run From A Flying Predator
To Avoid Death
By Google To Identify A Cat.
To Be Deep
To Get Into The Library
To Understand A Girl
Yeah, that's a good litmus test for they won't be keeping up with you.
To Blame Hispanics...
Hate crimes have surged nearly 20 percent during the administration of President Donald Trump, according to a new FBI report on hate crime statistics. The report also shows that hate-motivated murders, largely committed by white supremacists, spiked to their highest number in 28 years. https://www.newsweek.com/hate-crimes-under-trump-surged-nearly-20-percent-says-fbi-report-1547870
To Criticize The Local News Station
To Help Someone Trapped In An Elevator
To Market Her Oils
I got lectured at the bus stop once for wearing perfume, apparently I should only be using essential oils coz I am going to get cancer from wearing perfume.
To Construct A Tough And Resilient Airplane
The insanity of the idea. Where are you going to fly to when there's a nuclear war going on?
To Be Poetic
To Show China In A Positive Way
Yep, the US response to covid was way better, the best response, so great
To Not Be Racist
To Write A Math Question
There Was An Attempt To Catfish
If he was 23 prior to 2001, he's anywhere north of 42 now, depending on what year this photo was taken. Or it's just not him in the photo.
To Figure Out Trump’s Natural Skin Color
Oldschool Cool
To Have A Selfie With Mona Lisa
To Cure Cancer
To Have Fun With A Halloween Decoration
To Take Away Car Privileges...
There Was A Attempt To Steal A Joke
To Blackmail Jaromir Jagr
So now the world knows that Jaromir Jagr isn't gay and she's a gold digger. Jeez, big news....
To Roast Males
To Scare Someone
To Make A Cute Picture Of A Family Wearing Masks
To Save The Teens
To Infect Someone With A Virus
To Understand A Joke
To Ask About Dirty Toilets...
To Be Edgy And Poetic
"Hurt" is a noun, adjective, and a verb. The first poster is correct on the tenses and used the word as a verb instead of adjective.
To Promote Equal Rights
To Recreate The Spider-Man Meme
To Install A Kitty Door
To Have A Black Friday Week "Sale"
I laughed when I saw Catch of the day advertising on the TV last night. The Black Friday deal prices were pretty much the same prices that they always are.
To Be Sexist
Haha, Notice how womens problems start with Men. Menopause, Menstruation, Mental breakdowns etc lol.
To Make A Selfish Photoshop Request
To Predict A War With Iran
In the meantime, on Nov 18, 2020, Trump wanted to launch a strike on Iran
To Recreate A Wholesome Family Photo
To Help The Blind Read The Sign
To Get An A
To Be Inclusive
Wait, is this for real? Since when did controllers have a gender.
To Correct The Student's Answer
To Protest Homophobia
There Was An Attempt To Protest Racism
To Get Gold
... To Choose A Sexual Orientation
To Have Their Dick Sucked Tomorrow
To Write 7 Rings In Japanese
To Make A Dark Mode Only Meme
To Be Sassy
To Count Words
To Rick Roll On Reddit.
To Make People Stop Making Rape Jokes
To Make His Death Look Like A Suicide
Because the vast number of "coincidences" surrounding his death aren't suspicious at all. Cell mate removed from his cell on the same day he "suicided". Surveillance camera "out of order" on day he "suicided". Guards "forgot" to check on him after an earlier "suicide attempt". He also got off very easy in 2008 with a non-prosecution agreement for state charges in Florida of soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution.
At Least He Tried
To Sneak A Hot-Dog In The Back Pocket
To Sound Poetic
There Was A Attempt To Steal A Joke
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
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That's an instinctive reaction, when you see something falling to the floor.
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