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
Did you just see the top picture and thought "...but you could put a tarp or sheet over the top and have a den..", then scrolled down. ha ha ha.
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It is so f****d up that people will go to such great lengths to prevent homeless people from having somewhere to sleep.
To be fair, I get why business owners don't want them in front of their shops. Its really bad for business. Cities should provide acceptable places.
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If a business is willing to spend thousands of dollars to prevent homeless people from sleeping on the sidewalk, they can easily use that money to help build Homes for Humanity houses, better shelters, groceries, etc.
I don’t think the business put that up, I think the city did. That fence thing maybe cost like $5000 - $10000 max to install. You can’t build shelters with that money. That doesn’t make sense.
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I can think of numerous ways to prevent someone homeless from sleeping there, but this attempt is both useless and a waste of metal. Oh, BTW, I'm not going to say what better ways there are, because I'm on the side of homeless people.
More shelters and looking at and providing solutions to homelessness - that's what you meant, right? 😁 👍
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What an awful thing to do. It costs nothing to have someone sleep in an open doorway and yet they have spent possibly thousands to prevent it. No compassion..
So everyone inside dies. But there won't be any homeless people on our doorstep.
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I've never seen a homeless person dragging around a mattress and box springs before.
The mattress might have been a donation from someone as disgusted as I was when I saw the barriers.
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It's in France and this type of stucture (there are many other kind) are everywhere to make sure homeless people don't stay in front of stores or in public (visible) space. We can think that it's the stores' initiative but it also comes from the French government since our president promised he would get rid of the homeless problem but here we are and 300 000 person are still without a home. We are doing very bad in this matter....
Why not help them find a safe place to sleep and maybe none of that will be necessary?
city councils that do this really piss me off, rather than spending large amounts of money on inhuman anti homeless measures why dont you help these people get a warm place to sleep instead.
And I'm glad someone figured a way around some heartless person who wasted enough money he could have feed people.
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Few months before I saw an article how American r sick of birds pooping on their car so they set Pointy fences on branches to prevent birds seating on the tree. Can u believe it?!! It's like Taking out shark out of ocean bcuz lot of ppl r dying of shrak bite
YOU GO GURL! i can make rocks comfy so f the person who is putting these poles whereevver they want to
Not only was that cruel and dangerous, but you were outdone you idiots. Way to go homeless champ. If I had you over here in Egypt you have a warm bed to sleep in.
I can relate. I live in a small house with & siblings, a cat and dog. You have to learn to GET OVER things that are in your way ;)
loft bed. Off the ground, so it is away from damp and cold. Also, a stylish way to create vertical space. Lets run around giving homeless loft bed huts. Habitat for Humanity? Nah. Huts for Homeless.
What an Idiotic Idea. The Homeless people are Smarter than others. We would've just turned away (But after seeeing this, we won't).
Damn. You would think that cost of labor, equipment, time and money spent putting up these stupid posts, they could of housed 5 people for a month.
I watched the owner of the business where I helped set-up in the morning take a hot breakfast sandwich and cups of coffee in cups to meet homeless people who slept in the entry and let them know he needed to open the doors soon. His respect earned their respect. I don't ever recall the building or windows being defaced, although there was graffiti on neighboring buildings.
Off the damp cold concrete..yes. Like seeing him reading a book 'in' bed' too
That looks like a fire exit. Not sure those obstructive poles are compliant with fire codes...
Its definitely in France, im a ashamed of my country and also proud of this homeless guy who trolls this s**t
Stupid idea if that is what they are for; someone with more money than sense
In the wealthiest country on the planet (I think SA might best us) can we not have homeless folks? Please?
Which country is this? I shall punish it by not going there. That'll teach 'em.
Apparently it's in France, I wondered if it was Poland, because of the poles...
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The person who put these deserve a pole up their a**e. Or maybe just one night on the streets.
HA! The homeless man is smarter than the "educated" people that built the poles!
Yes the homeless man is far more resourceful than whoever wanted the poles put up.
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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!).
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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