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.
I think you mean ark..and let’s not forget about Sodom and Gomorrah..
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Most Christians never read the bible by themselves. Reading it is pretty straight way to becoming an atheist
Is this the same God that let 6.5 million Jews die because he didn't give Hitler a heart attact ?
Good point. Life on Earth can be boiled down to, "That guy was evil! Why didn't God kill him!"
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Or when Hitler existed and killed millions of innocent Jews, his people, and he just sat back and did NOTHING.
Not sure why this was downvoted when demonstrably we know that there was no divine intervention during the Holocaust.
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Yahweh has a WAY HIGHER kill count than Lucifer. Lucifer tricked like one person and set up Job (or someone) because whiny baby Yahweh wanted to go into competition with him. Other than that, Lucifer is pretty decent through the entire story while Yahweh acts like a straight up psycho immoral bîtch.
I'm a Buddhist, we believe in reincarnation. If you won't adopt those unwanted babies yourself, don't deny me the right to give it another chance at reincarnation. We have freedom FROM religion in this country.
(1) How many of those unwanted babies are you going to adopt? (2) If your logic is the fetus is a living human and abortion is a killing said human, why do you think aborted fetuses will not be reincarnated?
Load More Replies... God is a very uneven writer. Sometimes he writes compelling chapters like the apocalypse, often tedious, occasionally contradictory like genesis, and then there's these WTF episodes like the cited Kings.
Those were written by people. God's words are contained in them, but it's also a record of other things as well.
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I just read 2 Kings 2:20 through 2:27. Who wrote this...drivel? I mean, really?!? Bears?? Forty two kids???!?
It was one of the profits (don't ask me which one, 'cause I don't care) and the kids were making fun of him. And yes, bears.
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He planned the life and death of His son to save humans from sin.
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Christians pick and choose bible verses to suit their needs. Doesn’t have to be consistent I guess.
If abortion is murder, then what about miscarriages? God would be the perp in that case.
Ooooooh. You mean the part of life that ends naturally.
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I agree... if he can make the universe... this is the best plan he has for redemption? Creativity went downhill fast.
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That was NOT God's fault. Cain killed Abel because he was jealous. Do your research.
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Or when they call miscarriage 'spontaneous abortion'. The biggest abortionist *is* God.
or when he sent the angel of death to kill all the first born in Egypt.... or sent the angels to destroy sodom and gomorrah, or knock down the walls of Jericho...
Nice of him to stop the sun so the army could go on killing women and children on overtime
And the several times he ripped open the bellies of pregnant women. To which a Christian might reply, "Well, they weren't Christian." Oh really? I thought your god created all humans?
The whole concept of God or gods is human...... in the beginning we created God.
or the death of "his" son.... God is just an imaginary friend for adults
Or large scale homocidal maniac flooding of the earth killing men, women, children, critters...
Yeah dude. People love their puppies and their kittens. How could any christian be ok with a god that flooded a world and presumably killed every puppy and kitten on earth? That's a level of evil and malevolence I can not even comprehend. And they claim that their god is all-good, and all-powerful. If he can do anything, why not turn the "bad" people good, or just make the bad people disappear? If he can do anything, why can't he come down to earth and teach the bad people to be good? I know some good teachers that have helped bad children and people. Are they more competent than god? Yes.
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Funny how selective people can be about what parts of the Bible they believe.
Then there's the story where god instructed Abraham to prove his devotion by sacrificing his son Isaac.
How about miscarriages? Natures' very own abortion? That should be god doing it, right? So your god really do have massmurder on fetuses on "his" conscious anyway - who are you to think "he" is against abortions??
You mean the part of life that ends naturally, right?
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oh, let's see, pestilence, disease, cruelty, etc etc, tRump, hitler....
Or that time when He sent an executioner to kill all the firstborns :P
The God of the old testament was especially prone to zapping people either individually or in groups. People who quote the bible should have at the very least read it.
I'd prefer to believe God doesn't have a plan or even exists. Horrible things have happened in my life. I would rather think that things happen and that no one would do that to any living individual.
There isn't a person alive today that knows God's Plan so please stop the BS
Or the plagues, or the Ark, or Sodom and Gomorrah, or HOW HE SACRIFICED HIS OWN FREAKING SON ect...
He sacrificed himself on Earth so that we may have eternal life. If you don't want to believe in Christianity, fine. But do us a favor and get it right
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FOR REAL! Catholics can be such hypocrites! They give god credit for everything good, but for everything BAD it’s OUR fault.
Sorry to destroy this prolifer's or something but..There songs and ways to abort a baby(in bible) And what about when he killed(he actually knew that will happen so he did nothing)hundreds of babies until the age of 5 for his son(Jesus) and for the one who will free his people(Moses)and they were called "the ones who witnessed" I'm not a Christian I'm a lovely Nyx follower but my father is a strict Christian so I know some things
Or..you know..when his son and when Moses was born?All these babies that were only at least 5? That was a planned murder since they were "the ones who witnessed Messiah/the one who will free his people"? I'm not Christian in fact I serve an Olympian God as a witch But my father is a strict Christian
Or that part where he murdered innocent animals, the entire family of a good man, gave him awful diseases just cause Satan was like: "Yeah but what if-" and God was like: "nu-uh! Hold my beer I'll show you."
Or the 100 year war where God was supposedly be on a French side?
Or when he had his own son murdered to atone for the sins of man...? “For (Christians) the death [read: murder] of Jesus was part of a DIVINE PLAN to save humanity. The death and resurrection of this one man is at the very heart of the Christian faith. For Christians it is through Jesus's [murder] that people's broken relationship with God is restored. This is known as the Atonement.
There is a verse in the bible that says "Judas went and hanged himself." There is another that says "Go ye thou and do likewise..." so, yeah, you can take any parts you want.
he killed half of his "chosen" people because they were complaining of being hungry and tired
Or even the Miracle at Malta where he took out the "enemy" with meteorites...
So the theology runs like this: Humans know good from evil, and our ability to choose either God's path (plan) or our own effects our lives and those around us. Often our loved ones suffer with us with the consequences of our bad decisions.
The Lord visits the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation. (Exodus 34:6-7 = Deuteronomy 5:8-10). Truth Monster, would you think it's right to be punished for something your great grandfather did? Did you even know your great grandfather personally? To punish someone for the crimes of their grandfather is disgusting and it's not just. That's an evil that Kim Jong Un commits in North Korea. When he punishes peoples' family members for their crimes, we know that is a human rights violation and it's abhorrent. You are a truly disgusting, despicable person to stand up for this inhumane treatment. It astounds me that you could be so f-u-c-king disgusting to defend this. God condones slavery in the bible too. Do you make excuses for slavery too? You sick s-h-i-t!
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Lots of people do apparently. I’ll stick with the Norse Gods thanks..at least I know what I’m getting with someone like Loki! 😝
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If god can do anything, why not just make the bad people disappear? Why flood a world and kill every puppy, every kitten, every baby, etc. through torturous drowning? That's f-u-c-king disgusting. That is a malevolence and evil that I can't even comprehend. If god can do anything, why not come down and teach the bad people to be good? I know some teachers that have helped bad children and people. Are they more competent than god? Yes. If your children aren't listening, you just drown them? No. You sick f-u-c-k, you would get arrested for that. We recognize that as evil.
Load More Replies... God did these things to rid the world of evil. He sent the ten plagues to punish the Pharaoh for not letting the Israelites go. He killed all first born of the Egyptians as punishment. And He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for raping his angels. You might want to read some more of the Bible before you start dissing God and naming all the 'bad' things He has done. Is it not at least better than Satan, or do you worship him instead? Get all the information.
If pharaoh did something wrong, punish pharaoh himself. Instead god chose to kill first born sons. Some must have been toddlers and infants. You are making excuses for a baby murderer. In the flood story: People love their puppies and their kittens. How could any christian be ok with a god that flooded a world and presumably killed every puppy and kitten on earth? That's a level of evil and malevolence I can not even comprehend. And they claim that their god is all-good, and all-powerful. If he can do anything, why not turn the "bad" people good, or just make the bad people disappear? If he can do anything, why can't he come down to earth and teach the bad people to be good? I know some good teachers that have helped bad children and people. Are they more competent than god? Yes.
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Abortion isn’t killing a child. A child by definition is someone from the age of birth to teenager.
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But, isn’t jesus part of the god of the Old Testament that tortured and killed people and committed genocides? You don’t get jesus without this torturous monster Old Testament god. You don’t get to just dismiss it. Jesus said that he loved the old laws and to not forget one jot or tittle of it.
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.... 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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