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)
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!).
yeah and they should charge them with a lot of money
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That is how Blockbuster lost to Netflix by thinking they were too big to fail. Uber will go out of business for thinking they're too good to pick up drunk patrons. The real winner here is Lyft, with all the new customers they will be getting.
I'm guessing you'll get a "drunk" flag, and it's up to the individual driver whether they want to pick you up or not, e.g. do they want to clean up?/lose next 30min of business. Not so terrible as a plan.
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thats why I never use Uber, old school taxi for me. I want a driver that has done the knowledge and know the area. uber is putting people out of business and treats its own staff like crap.
In some places, there are taxi services that will come to pick you up with one car and two drivers. That way you can get your car home too, without your drunk ass behind the steering wheel.
Uber is not long for this world. They’ve been scamming and making mistakes since the beginning. Automated taxis will end them. Sorry for the drivers, but that’s what you get for abandoning the taxi industry and helping Uber cheat their way in.
Not that I drink, let alone drink and drive but I switched to Lyft because of Uber's BS lately. Lyft people seem to be a much nicer group too.
Dear hubby got scary/stumbling drunk and had mommy(who bought all the booze)call an Uber-driver who refused to let him in. He threatened her and she left.
Soon, porn will be only for married people, and only homeowners will be able to rent an appartment.
I generally assume they'd just drive off. That happens surprisingly often even if I message the driver that I am in a wheelchair. (That is lightweight and collapses, it is suitcase sized, I've not met an Uber it didn't fit in.) They see the chair and drop me, I assumed they do this with drunk people too.
You don't have to be puking drunk to be unfit to drive... I was disappointed to see breathalysing devices available for sale at my local Costco. I figure if you think you might need to breathalyse before driving you probably shouldn't.
I think they are averse to cleaning up vomit, right? Also... the new CA law prop 20 (?) - passed. They don’t want to pay drivers for... “waiting”. Look out every other hourly low wage worker... like servers - you’ll only get paid for the minutes you are interacting with customers. Or retail workers - only paid while making sales... all that folding? Nah - you’ll that for free. Not kidd8ng. This *will* explode.
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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