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
“Of course, if you really want to make something good, nothing beats a good old Louisiana Back-bay Bayou Bunny Bordelaise, a la Antoine.”
Load More Replies...Deer seem like the best meat option for those who oppose animal cruelty. They live in the wild. No hormones, cages, dirty conditions. The population is also skyrocketing due to lack of apex predators. I guess I'm bias since I know so many hunters. But I'd rather people hunt deer and feral pigs than wolves, bears, etc.
We are often the only apex predators left in their food chain. Over population leads to mass starvation. It might be counter intuitive but it's actually more humane to hunt them than to not.
Load More Replies...I joked a lot but on a serious note, deer meat has the highest protein and actually helped my son stay out of hospital due to illness. The men ONLY killed what was eaten and used even the hide and bones. Did not waste one part and praised the Lord for allowing us such a blessing.
You down voted me, would you not serve a deer if it helped to prevent damage your child's life?
Load More Replies...I'm not a fan of hunting but I will say that if you are hunting as your only means for survival or some ancient cultural practice I hold no offense. Its only when people hunt for sport and trophies, that I feel it is very wrong.
It's funny how people shooting a human habituated animal call hunting a sport. Most losers fall off their sofa onto their ATV and pretend they are doing something.
Some do some don't. The men I know share the meat with people who need food.
Load More Replies...Would never eat a deer. Prefer to enjoy them in their natural environment. Lived in the mountains of Eastern Washington for 18 years and put out salt licks every year.
This all goes to what animals we value over others. There's actually no moral difference between a deer and a snake, or a rabbit and a praying mantis. They should all be seen as equally precious. But we tend to value animals we consider "cute" over others and we have little respect for animals we breed to eat, even though cows, pigs and chickens are just as capable of feeling love, joy and trust as any other animals. There are only ethical reasons that separate one species from another, and these are (a) little or no waste (b) animal care, welfare and husbandry (from treating them humanely when making them ready for market, slaughtering them humanely, and making sure they're fit for human consumption). It's immoral to kill any animal and waste most of it. Life is to precious to treat the animals we eat with so little respect. Killing to contain disease or overpopulation are other reasons, although there's an argument that it's humans encroaching on their territory than they on ours.
Too, most of our farm animals have been bred for lack of intelligence--they're easier to handle that way.
Load More Replies...blood sports, killing defenseless animals because you can.. should be ashamed to be human.
You do realize that some people hunt to, oh, I don't know, eat?
Load More Replies...In soya marinade; 1/2 c. dark soy sauce, 1 c. red wine, 1T. minced garlic, 1 t. fresh oregano leaves. Mix marinade ingredients well, submerge meat, refrigerate 24 hours. Cook meat with or without marinade, in oven or in microwave. Serve with steamed rice. 1972 Recipe from my nana Mary Duarte from Portugal.
What cut of venison would you recommend for this recipe?
Load More Replies...I am a meat eater but just reminds me of Bambi or Rudolph these are NOPES😥
I wonder - why is free deer nopes, they have had a nice life , farmed animals are mostly grown in huge factorylike enviroments and suffer thorough their lives. Honest question. (I am vegetarian myself ) and are less healthy to eat too.
Load More Replies...I have never hunted and I am against it .Let animals live their lives in Freedom.Hunters are cruel....
I'm a vegetarian and even I said, "WTF?".... Get hungry, you hunt, you eat...
Whoever downvoted me, if I get hungry, yes, I'll break my vegetarianism to survive. I've been where it's one loaf of bread and a little can of peanuts to last a person two weeks. WEEKS. I hunted even when I had gone vegetarian, b/c my family needed food.
Load More Replies...Fun fact: they can (and will) kill you with their sharp hooves - or by kamikaze type road obstruction. Do not underestimate how dangerous these fur folks are. Not kidding.
When in doubt, ask Freddie. "Mama, just killed a man. Put a gun against his head. Pulled my trigger, now he's dead." Thanks, Freddie.
That was a crule thing to say knowing that it does happen. Human murder and providing food are billions of miles apart.
Load More Replies...My ex and his dad hunt for the meat. I always refused to eat it because I'm kind a weird about food. (Can't eat eggs if I picture the chicken while eating kind of weird.) Then my ex made tacos one night best tacos ever. Found out afterward that they were deer tacos. Now I love deer meat.
Just as an unrelated aside here, if ants knew how humans were messing up the planet and had the knowledge we have they could wipe out the entire human race within an hour.
I don't understand hunters these days. No need in most places. Hand in you despicable weapon
I have one as well! LOL! Also the "Eat A Pet Cookbook."
Load More Replies...I wonder - why is free deer nopes for some of you, they have had a nice life , farmed animals are mostly grown in huge factorylike enviroments and suffer thorough their lives. Honest question. (I am vegetarian myself ) and are less healthy to eat too.
And what about fluffly little lambs, baby calves, cute piggies eh, eh.
I love deer, I have a pet deer, doesn't stop me from eating an elk or deer though. (correction, I have a pet dog named deer)
Wow. To have a food source so natural and not have fillers, thank you my Father in heaven!
They are a huge problem in Michigan. Constantly wrecking cars and killing people. They need to have population control. Hunting season is too short
If you're cold, they are cold too... bring them in and warm them up... usually at about 350 or so...
I'm not a big meat eater, but I did eat some very tasty venison sausages a few years back...
I wonder why people don't have a bit of sense, it's part of food chain we are omnivores it's our instincts ,being a vegan not bad but seriously can't help eating meat it's part of us!! Lol
On our way to church a deer jumped into the side of my Dad's truck so hard it did damage. The men behind us saw it , knew Dad was in his eighties and not able to do something so they called it in , got permission , cleaned the deer and donated it to the hungry ( a place you call so the deer didn't die without being used for the good to them that love the Lord) We were grateful it didn't go to waste and grateful we weren't injured in the accident.
Load More Replies...Those of us with a sense of humor and a taste for what we’re meant to eat find it funny. Also, animal “rights” activists are the worst. Animals need welfare, not rights. Anyone who claims to be for “animal rights” needs to reevaluate everything they believe and also never ever ever support PETA.
Load More Replies...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!).
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
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.
Load More Replies...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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