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
Oh look, you found a loophole and used it as a tool to school the fool. I think that was really cool, it made drool and want to add my 2 cents to the pool. Now I should get off the hook, before I start to swoon and it gets too much!
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I just fell in the pool and couldn't find the hook my towel was on even though I looked. All I want is to eat food, go to the loo and wake up in a better mood for my tattoo. But some fool took my Ipad and now I can't google a tattoo design or watch the movie "look". :)
Doom of the raccoon who tried to spoon the moon at noon, "it's too soon, give me room!"
On afternoon I am going to my pool with my waterproof boots and my baloons to eat my bioorganic food and dance boogie-woogie!
This kind of thing is often posted by facebook pages etc looking to boost their engagement metrics. Posting something obviously wrong gets a lot of comments to correct it...
Sometimes when I want to make sure that something will be read, I'll add it by hand. It works.
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His brains stood in the wood and were misunderstood for zoo food. Oh, the mood.
too zoo coo ooh woo boo loo goo poo moo noo oot good look took room book food soon poor door foot tool wood pool cool cook roof root mood moon boom loop noon hook boot fool hood wool zoom doom boon moor loom pooh hoop soot moot oops loot coop woof hoof hoot nook ooze rook shoo goof poon rood poop loon toot c**n goon toon poof sook gook boob kook coot boor goop zoon oozy pood goos boos coos coof loos loof mool moos oohs oots poos zoos woos toom floor blood stood proof boost loose booth shoot shook flood brook moody bloom tooth spoon troop stool gloom goose woody scoop groom taboo goody yahoo crook broom booze brood aloof afoot swoop booty moose roost roomy stoop goofy spoof loony noose sooty loopy swoon spool bloop snoop gooey whoop booby droop pooch spook hoots scoot drool sloop snook igloo woozy kooky oomph hooky doozy toots wooly vroom wahoo spoor footy croon sooth hooch loons mooch kazoo hooey kroon karoo moola chook moony snood snoot woosh wazoo doomy stook shall i say more
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Dude there is; fool, took, too, tattoo, boo, book, boot, pool, snoot... and more. MANY MORE.
I know nothing about this, but I read in my cookbook that a racoon steak is excellent if eaten with a spoon. It makes for a delicious food too. However, I agree, there are no English words with double oo.
Raccoon can also be one of the ways to spell racoon and it it in the moonlight.
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blood, book, food, flood, hood, loo, mood, oops, poop, soot, stool, too, wood, zoo
eek blood was my first thought what does that say about me?
Load More Replies... Just try to be cool. Go to school. Don't be a fool or a tool. Never poo in a pool. Or drool. You'd be a fool. Pick up a book. Or a hook. Go on! Maybe if you took a look you could learn how to cook. Go to the zoo at noon. You might see a baboon. Or buy a balloon. Soon.
Looks like a traffic generating post, the whole point is to make as many people as possible comment, it doesn't matter what they comment.
These kinds of posts are made just to boost traffic to that page or to get a bunch of people replying so their spambot has an easier time finding new people to send stuff to. Don’t respond to it.
Stoopid has two o's. Of course that is not restricted to English I guess.
Somebody at the beginning wrote “toom” but of course it’s tomb. I couldn’t tell if they were joking or if they really thought that’s how it’s meant to be spelled. People cannot spell anymore.
Load More Replies... I had to look it up. Good attempt, but I was flooded with foolish replies. You didn't pull the wool over my eyes. Too much for me.
I don't know why people keep falling for this. The trick is: Make an obviously incorrect statement (eg the one given here; "Bet you can't name a city that has an N and an A", etc etc), then sit back and wait for all the comments. At the time of screenshot: 44K reactions and 551K comments. This brings in all kinds of traffic to that Facebook page. NO ONE THINKS THERE'S ONLY ONE ENGLISH WORD WITH OO. Next time you see something obvious like this on Facebook, scroll on by and resist the urge to jump in with your cleverness. This is what they want.
Poor English knowledge, might go back to school as soon as possible, you fool.
Boot the word fool, it's unkind and the joke was on all of us and did us the favor of making us think.
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Look, I say we let him off the hook. I'm really not in the mood to correct this person. We should all take some time to cool off, and come back when we're not all doom and gloom.
hmmm ..... book, cook, gook, hook, look, nook, rook, took, boo, poo, too, goo, food, hood, mood, etc etc etc
You need to read a book so you don’t look like poo in the loo you hooligan
Pool. Come on people. Tool. Drool. Poo. Too. Crook. Cook. Look. Hoof. Foot. Hook. Wood. Wool. Shoot. Stood. Took. Bloom. Childhood. I could go on and on.
Oh, shoot ! What a drooling fool, not thinking of that book belonging to a moose on the loose after a goose
zoom! right over their heads! I think they've met their doom, boom!!!!
I should put this post on loop. I feel bad this person is cooped in dumbness. I want to eat some food. I could go on...
Roomba, do your vrooming thing and clean up this poop. What's that? You'll explode with a BOOM? Then just clean up this room. Still your doom? Moo. Boo. Too. Goo. Loom. Hood. Gobbledegook. Choose. Booze. Loo. Loot. Hoot. Soot. Zoom. Mood. Noob. Cool. Coo. Woo. Root. Tool. Took. Oof. Pool. Soon. Wool. Foot. Hooey. Kook. Look. Cook. Cookie. Boot. Noose. Moon. Mook. Shook. Scootch. Brood. Yoo. That's just the simple words.
Poop, loo, food, poor, poot, toot, boot, cook, cookie, nook, hook, hooker, shook, took, look, rook, crook, crooked, goop, loop, noon, noob....
Here is your proof, I wish you knew how to Google words containing oo
Book, shook, look, food, poop, school, loop, hook, nook, crook, noodle. lol!!
root, boot... there is a lot... maybe getting a dictionary would be good for you :)
Try some food but don’t flood the market and don’t brood on it too
Eating your own Boogers is obviously not good brain FOOD. Go back to your CARTOONS.
Look, took, cook, hook, stood, should, spoon, blood cooperate, and hundreds more. Please learn English before you post and make a fool out of yourslf.
and the purpose of this statement? as soon as possible, no double "oo"? but... WTF? people are stupid!
No loo, so pooped in the pool and wrote a book about it. A poor attempt.
This was the best comeback for this one that I saw. No-English...e4e382.jpg 
Try looking at a book with your hood off, after you finish cooking
look, shook, nook, book, cook, blood, room, football, foot, wood, moon, school, food, boo, moo, good, cookie, book, too, zoo, hood, drooping, crooked, booger, google, roof, cool, soon, fool, boot, cooking, goodness, mood, door, goo, spoon, tooth, pool, loo, coo, flood, hoo, Brooke, loose, loop, Yahoo, Boone, hook, broom, noodle, noon, goose, floor, etc like wtf
Let's see, there's book, nook, kook, pookie, boogie, booger, cook, fool, hoot, boot, coot, loot, moot, gook, cookie, hook, look, rook, took, boob, poop, boo, too, goo, hooey, zoo, loo, moo, poo, woo, goober, food, good, hood, mood, rood, wood, foof, goof, hoof, hoofer, hooded, poof, roof, woof, cool, drool, pool, stool, tool, wool, boom, doom, loom, room, zoom, boon, c**n, cocoon, goon, loon, moon, noon, poon, toon, coo, coop, boop, goop, hoop, loop, poop, boor, Coors, door, hooray, moor, poor, boos, coos, loose, loos, goos, goose, hoosegow, moose, noose, woos, zoos, boot, coot, foot, hoot, loot, moot, poot, root, soot, soothe, rooted, pooted, looted, hooted, footed, booted, tooth, toothed, wood, woof, wooden, booze, doozie, boozer, looser. Will that do for starters?
Foot, cook, tool, coo, boot, coot, boom, room, moon, doom, fool, I could go on and on. Where the heck did this person get the idea that book is the only word in English with a double “o”?
took cook cooking look looking whoop whooping hoop loop looping booking sloop
Someone needs to go back to school... Wood, Book, Cool, Stool, Drool... and I could go on...
You musthave a superabundance of self-confidence to make such a ridiculously ignorant statement. Did Mr. Rogers tell you that you were special--and you believed him? Keep in mind: hesaid that to everyone. In the meantime., take Johnnie Sheffield'sadvice, if you can.
Look what this boot-wearer is trying to boost! Boohoo! Head for the door and don't doodle around! Don't try to fool me with food jokes, Google it! I don't want to get hooked on this...
Wood, food, wool, drool, fool, look, cook, book, took and the list goes on..
Look, crook, cook, food, hood, kook, nook, pool,rook,roof, rood, room, doom, fageddaboutit.
Wait... Double "oo"? I don't really think 'gooood' is in your Funk & Wagnall's.
hook, cool, book, look, aloof, fool, stool, pool, loop, loot, foot, tool, cook I think your wrong big time
Well try the only English word that has sets of triple double letters: Bookkeeper!
eh...one comes to mind Kangaroo..poop..or for goodness sake this is a come on...I fell for it.
look, took, blood, school, wood, hook, cook ,foot, wool, food, stool, room, soot, moon, cook, cookie, zoo, loop, soon, fool, boot, pool, poor, broom, goo, roof and wool. plus you can ad a s to most of those words
Being sort of aloof, I was going to ignore this, but perhaps that's really poor of me.
I think that statement is utter gobbledegook... plus the challenger is a bit of a tool.
Door, moose, Brookline. And I'm not a native English speaker, so I'm sure there are some more English words with "oo". Obnoxious illiterate.
You seem to have misunerstOOd some things your schOOlteacher taught you. Yes, go read a bOOk.
wow im going to read a "book" and go get some "food".then later ill "look" out my window .
Look poor fool: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/words-containing-oo
Look, I could sit here all day and prove you wrong, but I have a huge family dinner to go cook.
Hook, rook hood rood (look that one up) snood look, took. The list goes on.
Really? It took 2.036 seconds on Google to find a list of 10689 words containing oo. We're doomed...
I'd be a fool to not eat this food, oh look a school for moons, cool!
I'm gonna go chop some WOOD, then get some FOOD before donating BLOOD. Brood. Croon. Bloom. Room. I could go on.
Um...double "oo" would be "oooo." Pretty sure no legit word has four consecutive O's.
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!).
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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