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
That is super creepy, I would either report him or get some video surveillance.
Drop by his place and say to him "Seeing as you tried to open my door, I went and got a firearms licence and an AR-15. But I don't lock my doors anymore."
Just keep a hammer handy; They're legal, no instruction needed and would prove he was too close.
what an odd euphemism. i'd 'greet him' with a baseball bat to the 'bilbo baggins.'
In many countries in Europe you don't regularly lock your front doors - because most people have doors that can only be opened from the outside with a key. You should lock it anyway, even if it's just for insurance reasons.
I live in Germany and our family home door could not be opened from outside without a key. Same goes for the apartment building I live in now, you don't get in without a key, and for my apartment.
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You have to be a creep to do this and a freak to admit that you do it.
And this is EXACTLY why we keep our door locked at all times also lol! We live in a block of flats with a secured entry door and we STILL keep our door locked! I'm trying to drum this into my 82yr old gran as well, to just keep her door locked all the time and only open it for people she knows! I'm not succeeding so far though! She's so stubborn!
next time shopping: electrical fence, check, barbed wire, check, motion sensors, check, security camera, check, steel baseball bat, check...
Alarm system and some form of self defense item and some training, please. I don't know what is available and legal where she is.
REPORT HIM TO THE POLICE FOR ATTEMPTED BREAKING AND ENTERING AND POSSIBLE RAPE.
Uhhuh. Okay. Sooo, if you'll just give me your name so I can file a restraining order thank you.
my brother has a weird little house on a beach area canal. There is this little bump out at the top of the stairs that is as wide as a door and about 15' long. When you come in this little bump out, you immediately turn right and go in the patio doors to the house proper. Well, the doors never latched right. The druggie across the street hooked up with a meth head who would pop into his room at bizarre hours while he was sleeping, sit on the bed, and jabber away at him while he was trying to sleep. He finally put a lockable door on the bump out! She confronted him days later as to the door and why it was locked!!!
why would you NOT lock the door when you're inside, do people not do that normally?
Could you please put that quote on his mugshot and pin it to the entrance so every woman in your building knows about this creep?
Damn! That's f****d up! How about I greet him with a katana in his throat!
Omg this is the exact reason. Wtf makes him think he’s entitled?
Call the cops before you get raped, please call the cops & stay far away from him. Good luck.
Leave it unlocked one night. When his ass runs into my .357 magnum. He won't be entering any other unlocked doors ever again.
And I'd be off to the store to get myself a deadbolt and a door restrictor device... and not long after I'd be off looking for a new flat in a secure building.
stalker much, I would wait one night poor a bucket of water over his head
Aw hell nah... Restaining Order - file it - yesterday. Stay safe,. Oh heck. No.
I have one and I would not recommend it. The first reason is that a pistol is a bad choice for self defense, especially for inexperienced people. Revolvers are better. Easier to use, much safer, more reliable. The second reason is that handguns in general are a bad choice for self protection in an urban or suburban environment. You are very likely to shoot someone you didn't want to shoot, get yourself killed by a criminal because you are armed or your gun stolen. A third point about your comment is that "penetrating power" is something you would absolutely NOT want for self defense - not that it really matters for a .22lr
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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
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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
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That's an instinctive reaction, when you see something falling to the floor.
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