This Online Group Collects The Best Personal Tweets, Here Are 50 That Deserve The Attention They Got (New Pics)
Thoughts constantly swirl around in our heads. From when we open our eyes in the morning until we close them at night (and sometimes, even after that), there's always something for us to contemplate about.
In fact, a 2020 study suggests people typically have more than 6,000 thoughts per day. That's a lot. And as much as we'd like to believe otherwise, not all of them are brilliant. So with social media allowing us to instantly share whatever crosses our mind, we broadcast quite a lot of funny, weird, and infuriating personal takes, too.
To illustrate just how random our statements can be, we at Bored Panda put together a new publication on the subreddit whose sole mission is to capture the chaotic side of human interaction. Continue scrolling to check out its latest finds and fire up our earlier piece on it when you're done.
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God Has Protected Me
Vaccines aren't a leftist thing. They're an "I want my child to grow up healthy and able to see and breathe" thing.
Load More Replies...Glad to see a Pro-Vaxxer for a change, the sanity is refreshing.
This reminds me of the story about the old man in the flood. A flood was imminent & police went around door to door warning people to evacuate. He said, no, I have faith that God will save me. After the water was coming in the house, a rescue boat stopped & offered to evacuate him. He said, no, I have faith that God will save me. When the water rose halfway up the house, he climbed up on the roof. When a helicopter came by & evacuate him, he said, no, I have faith that God will save me. He drowned. When he got to Heaven, he asked God, why did you let me drown when I had such faith in you? God said, I did, I sent the police, I sent a boat & then I sent a helicopter!
I once heard this story delivered as a church sermon. The vicer went on to say he had read it on line with the moral - god helps those who help themselves. But he thought a better moral was - God sends help through his angels, and if you are going through something then yes, pray, but get help from people because God works through them. And to remember, we are all called on to be someone elses angels everyday. I like this idea.
Load More Replies...When my mom was quite literally dying from colon cancer, some of her church "friends" insinuated that maybe she wasn't getting better because she was putting her faith in doctors and not god. She struggled with their words, until her very wise, very Christian sister said "maybe god sent you those doctors". She at least said on her meds after that, and I like to think it bought her more time with us.
I'm so sorry. Her sister was wise indeed. The other one like that I hate is the idea that someone didn't get better because they didn't pray enough.
Load More Replies...And God gave us people with science abilities and actually became scientists that figured all this out.
This Would Be The Greatest Irony
And properly condemn, and excomunicate members who get caught molesting other people. In the church, molesting people just lands you a promotion.
Load More Replies...The satanic temple doesn't worship the devil. They are a rights group that chose to identify as a religion to use the rights for religious freedom when there is injustice.
The Satanic Temple is starting to sound more and more like the most moral church out there.
Satanists are unfairly and ignorantly categorized. How often do you hear of scandals in their ranks? I've yet to see an expose of all the horrible, unethical and unholy acts committed by a member of the Satanic church against anyone, especially children. Leave these people alone - they do good things in their communities and never get the credit they deserve.
Good. They can team up with the Satanic Temple and show the world different religions can get along.
Load More Replies...I support the satanic temple Their tenets are simple and relay universal values that protect human rights. I'd, personally, like to see them go after some of the members of the Christian and Catholic community who have been found guilty of sexual assault against prisoners in residential school system.
What do you mean "go after". The satanic church isn't a law enforcement agency
Load More Replies...It's generally used to combat toxic Christianity so that's probably why
Load More Replies...To learn more about our inner filters, we contacted Phil Reed, D.Phil., who is a professor of psychology at Swansea University.
"There are many reasons why people overshare," Dr. Reed told Bored Panda. "A lack of awareness about the dangers is one, but also the lack of 'real' social feedback online is a big contributor. Since there is a degree of anonymity, certain a lack of immediate feedback, people tend to get it wrong in terms of sharing."
Truth
I also don't understand why 'make ends meet' is in quotes as if it's a lie. Even if she's doing it for fun it's no one's business and why does it matter? Stop pushing some fake and hypocritical morality on other people.
People demanded that her ambulance company fire her for her side gig.
Load More Replies...In the world of, "consider the source" note that it's also the Post. ...Murdoch-owned tabloid media, for those not sure....
Religion Doing What It Should
A lot of times after big natural disasters religious groups are the first to show up to help before the red cross
And yet blinky Joel Osteen wouldn't even let disaster victims into his church 🤬
This is what church should be. (Hunchback of Notre Dame vibes, with the church sanctuary piece)
95% of the time church/Christians are like this. The media only wants to report only the bad stuff.
Load More Replies...Indeed this is what Jesus would do. I am not the holiest man, but I'm pretty sure the Bible said 'love all of humankind' so kudos Dutch people.
Funfact: 54% of all Dutch are non-religious (although some consider themselves 'spiritual').
the law is police can't take people who themselves are participating in the service.
And now I am wondering whether they could also end up in the Guinness book of world records with this extended service
Put Em Outside By The Dumpsters
Send them to the Healing Crystals and Essential Oils Ward. (It's conveniently located right next to the morgue.) 😉
HEY HEY THATS NOT FAIR TO THE CRYSTAL WITCHES DONT LUMP US IN WITH THEM
Load More Replies...I'm vaxxed and boosted, and still ended up in the hospital yesterday. Severe shortness of breath, 3 weeks after I tested positive! I was seriously so close to death. The paramedics said my oxygen was dropping so low, I was in danger of having a heart attack. The doctors and nurses seemed pleased that I was vaxxed. 6 hours later, I walked out with a huge smile on my face. It was the breathing treatment, made all the difference. They couldn't even believe it, said they were sure I'd be admitted when I walked in. If I'd known that, I would've just gone to my doctor and avoided the hospital. My CT scan showed some crunchies and mucous in my lungs, so still not 100%, but from the way I felt 24 hours ago, to the way I feel now, it's just amazing. Can't imagine how bad I would be without being vaxxed. You never know how bad it's going to hit you, so please please get vaxxed and listen to your body when it's time to go to the hospital. It still scares me how close to death I truly was.
Eugh. So sorry that happened to you, but I'm glad you're ok
Load More Replies...Indeed. Or yet better, dedicate a hospital with staff and patients who are all anti-vaxx, anti-mask etc. Let them sort it out between them.
I wish BP had emojis like FB so I could love this comment instead of simply up voting!
Load More Replies...Working in an overcrowded Covid ward rn (not as bad as it used to be, but still bad) and I gotta say, I am strangely fond of that idea
Or ... those who refuse to participate in the drug trial (or so-called vaccine) trust their own immune system over media hype, bullying and pseudo-scienctists who play along. Can you say thalidomide?
There is a certain “I just can’t care” about their reasons for not getting vaccinated. When they’re my patient I will always try my best for them.
However, even though the reasons why people overshare may vary, the act itself seems pretty much universal. Also, researchers from The University of Edinburgh and Northwestern University in Illinois found that the risk of oversharing in conversation actually increases as people age.
When testing 100 people from 17 to 84 years old on their attention skills, the researchers discovered that the older subjects provided listeners with more irrelevant details than their younger peers. As this behavior can be dangerous — older people, for example, might accidentally reveal private info to strangers looking to take advantage — this finding is essential in helping "design targeted training that helps older adults improve these skills and avoid embarrassing and potential risky communicative errors,” said lead researcher Madeleine Long, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences.
Juli Briskman On The Go
This classic "I will get you fired" fortunately does not work outside the USA, as other countries have laws against it.
A vice-minister who wanted to fire a postal worker for objecting to him in discussion in Poland was fired and thrown out of his party
Load More Replies...So read up on this, Trump didn't insist she was fired, she worked for a company that relied on government contracts and they told her she had to resign over fear that Trump would pull their contracts (which I could totally see him doing). She sued the company and won, in addition to winning her bid for office! Good for her!
Trump went after Obama because he ridiculed him once at that funny press dinner, the one Trump never attended. Probably also why he hates the normal press. Trump throws food at walls because as a child his brother dumped mashed potatoes on his head and the whole family laughed. He's such a simple man.
Did he never grow up? Is that his problem? Is he an incel type with money?
Load More Replies...Her only regret was that she had to keep one hand on the bike or it would of been a double bird!
We suffered from his Narcissistic Personality Disorder. He revels in it.
Load More Replies...Good for her! She represented so many people from around the whole world when she gave that piece of turd the finger...
Why was he so threatened by a woman gesticulating at him that he had to try to ruin her life. Was he really that insecure? Never mind that he should never have been able to have her fired, surely that's illegal? Im glad she's made a stand and got the last laugh but why does he always end up looking stupid?
Because she is a woman. Puerile types like drumpf are usually also misogynistic.
Load More Replies...I love blaming That Guy for everything, but he didn't get her fired. She used the glorious press picture as her Facebook cover AND profile pics, that's what got her fired, lol!
Using you First Amendment rights in a lawful and peaceful fasshion is not grounds for firing in this country. That's been made clear in the courts over and over.
Load More Replies...Wrong again! https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/09/trump-middle-finger-julie-briskman-virginia&ved=2ahUKEwijzKvJnvf4AhW7QEEAHXI7D8cQFnoECFIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1Zpp8icZsBLF5J0VyLUbxE
Load More Replies...Yep
I feel the same about these appeal shows that they have on TV. Lots of celebrities virtue-signalling about how they are working the night for free as they try to guilt you into donating part of your rent to charity. Don't get me wrong, we give to local charities when we can afford to and they do some brilliant work. But I will not tolerate some rich TV star trying to make me feel guilty about keeping a roof over our head and food on the table. Furthermore, and this bit is horrible but it needs telling, a poor elderly lady killed herself in the UK a couple of years ago because she couldn't afford to give to every appeal directed her way. Every penny she had was sunk into charity appeals and when the money ran out she felt so bad that she had to end her life. Literally killed by kindness.
Jeremy Hardy made that exact point. "If I see a someone like Phil Collins on the telly, in an African village, saying 'Twenty thousand pounds will dig this village a well,' I think: you're a f*****g millionaire, why don't you just give them the money?"
Load More Replies...I feel the same way about charity drives at work. Unless they are meeting donations dollar for dollar, they shouldn't look to us to make donations. Also, airlines that say you can donate your miles to charity to give them free flights. Flights the airlines could just give away for free anyway.
Yes! Although I do not mind dropping my change in for the Ronald McDonald House.
Before donating to ANY organization find out how much of your money is going to directly support its cause. For example, the Cancer Fund of America only uses 2.5% of its donations to support families impacted by cancer or cancer research. Meanwhile, the CEO seems to be living nicely off his estimated $250k annual salary.
GOTTA BE UP THERE Gal Gadot and other idiots singing Imagine. LOL. YOU donate.
This, this, this!!! I always feel so guilty when I say “ sorry not today, it’s pancakes for dinner again for the 4th night in a row!”
This... most definitely... the petrol station by my house always asks me if I want to donate when I pay on card... I'm like no... no I don't.., you're charging me £2 a litre for fuel and you think I can afford to give you money? Oh but get an electric car you say? Yeah cuz I have 15k just lying around... my 3k vivaro will just have to suffice thanks
In high school, we did a test. High efficient fridge with cost savings on electricity versus regular fridge. You would have to run the fridge for 43 years before the energy savings offset the extra cost. Poor people cant afford to save the planet.
Load More Replies...And the business gets the tax deduction for the "donations" that weren't their money to begin with. Just say no, and donate to causes you yourself support. If that is the same one, fine, if not, no problem.
Totally
And tax the churches that engage in political activity. Political activity negates their non-taxable status.
Tax ALL churches. They are ALL businesses with employees. Religion shouldn't make you exempt from paying into societal infrastructure.
Load More Replies...No Labor Shortage!
I've met Dan! We were both buying coffee and chatting casually; he asked if I was staying at the cafe with my coffee, so we sat and just talked about generic stuff. I had no idea who he is at the time. Incredibly friendly and nice man!
It's not just about respect. The key word there was a living wage!! People are tired of barely living paycheck to paycheck or not even being able to do that. Why work if you can't meet your basic needs and have a little extra. Life isn't about working your a*s off!
I've been saying for a long time now, there is no labor shortage. People just aren't willing to put up with s**t jobs for s**t pay. Either make the job less s**t or make the pay less s**t. Either way you'll start getting applicants. In NY the minimum wage a fast food went up to $15/hr. Places immediately put up huge signs saying they were hiring at $15/hr. If you didn't know about the change, it looked great. If you knew about the change, it was just a big sign saying they were paying the least amount they legally could, and most likely would pay even less if they were allowed.
I have had s**t jobs for OK pay, and worked for s**t pay in great jobs. Can't do both at the same time. I mean not both negatives, the dream is to get both positives.
Load More Replies...Yeah crizz 1066, they'll be crying in 10 years when they have enough to live on, enough to save and enough free time to put bitter old dinosaurs like you back in the museum with the rest of your kind. ............... Go back to the poverty wage and predatory capitalists if you think you DESERVE it so much, you soggy pillow
And another thing. If making life easier for people is " cushy" then I'd rather have it easy, have it that way for everyone than needing charity just to survive.
Load More Replies...I've done customer service. It's why I won't do customer service. Even at that high of an offer, I'm done dealing with customers.
Our system is to judge and tip servers according to every move they make and everything they say, yet millionaires+++ are given gigantic bonuses every year on top of their salary based almost solely on how much they made the company.
Not even how much they made the company, but on how smartly they manipulate data. It doesn't matter if the income is 10% less because we have less employees. After all I cut 30% of our overhead, so clearly we Made 20% more then we did last quarter.
Load More Replies...There is also the 'anti-work' people who think the government owes them everything. And I do mean everything! Go to 'reddit' and look at the antiwork thread. Sickos
Who is Dan Price? Looking at the tweet, my assumption is that he is a CEO of a large company. Probably, I've never heard about him because he is not an attention-seeking, narcissistic, rocket-building, and market-manipulating a*****e who is always in the news.
I love this guy. He's the head of his company, treats his people like valued employees, and instigates great employment opportunities. He is the gold standard of employers and really likes to rub other corporations' faces in it. What's not to love?
Dr. Reed said people should be very wary of oversharing. "It can compromise personal security, and personal safety, as well as lead to bullying."
"It can also make people very vulnerable psychologically; if they are feeling low, overshare to get support, and are attached for it, then depression can set in."
The Retirement Age
While we're at it, I want term limits, dispense with the electoral college, an end to the insider trading exemption for members of Congress, and let's outlaw lobbyists.
Load More Replies...There should be term limits. You shouldn't be able to hold an office for more than two terms, because now you have a*****e geriatrics soaking up tax dollars while not doing anything
there is a term limit. "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once."
Load More Replies...For me- it’s not even about dementia/mental decline. It’s more that I don’t think people in their 60s and 70s should be writing legislation that will affect generations they will never meet and don’t understand. Why are Joe and Nancy and Mitch making decisions for us? I want to see our nation led by people who didn’t come of age when you could still slap your secretary on the a$$ and call her “Toots” while chain smoking indoors, you know? We are facing issues that they don’t fully understand. I think it’s great that Biden actually shows a willingness to learn and change his mind, but I want leaders that don’t have to play catch-up. What we really need in Congress is a culture of mentoring and passing the torch. That would be healthier than this “cling to power until you die” c**p.
"That would be healthier than this “cling to power until you die” c**p." RBG comes to mind. She may have had an extraordinary career but her unwillingness to retire at an appropriate age had unforseen ramifications in the future of the US, notably the issues surrounding Roe vs Wade today. Yes, I agree there's a problem when there's two generational gaps between your government officials and constituents or those who came of voting age in the last decade.
Load More Replies...Some old people pioneered civil rights and fought hard for the rights you're so appalled to see back-tracked. Imaging standing up for them back when it wasn't "cool." I don't think age is what you're really mad at.
I don’t want an age limit of 35, I just think it should be sensible. We absolutely need term limits though.
Load More Replies.......Obama is just 60, can we get back to him?...Not an American asking... just like... i felt safer in the world with Obama on top of America...
Some People Change
It takes a man to admit he was wrong. And a greater man to let bigotry go. Good for him
The bible citation is translated wrong anyway, in original it said "you shall not lie with a child" if I'm not mistaken.
Ahh, prejudice at work before the facts are facts... My dad really disliked gay men, never even talked about the lesbians because you could hardly ever see them in a tv show back then. Then I came home with a same sex partner and when he figured it out, he didn't care at all ;P Then of course came the questions, if I was bi sexual or identify as a lesbian... Well, turns out I just like humans, gender is not what attacts me, it's personallity ;)
Doesn't mean he's changed. He can easily still believe you are both sinning and not agree or like your lifestyle... But still love you. THAT is Christianity. He's told you it's wrong, he's done what is required and it's between you and God now. He just remains your loving father.
Yes!! True Christianity is keeping the commandments of God and one of the most important commandments is to love our neighbors. Just because we don't approve of personal choices doesn't ever mean we stop loving someone and supporting them.
Load More Replies...Once people gain personal experience with something they used to fear, they cease to fear it. The OP’s father came to know his child and their partner better, and realized they weren’t devils or sinners, they were just two people in love. Dad stopped being fearful and judgmental, and decided to just love those he’s come to know so much better.
He realises 'we're all god's children' yay! (I'm atheist, but always use that argument), lol.
Logic Please
Pro-life and pro-birth are not the same. Republicans are pro-birth and don't give a care about the aftermath.
Control of women. You bet your bottom dollar the politicians Mistress' will get abortions.
Load More Replies...Christian ideology does not belong in politics. There should be a law that bans laws being made based on religious beliefs as it constricts the religious freedoms of the people who don't share the same belief. We’d be better off if we can only make government decisions based on facts and logic.
tell this to the Islam political system...who is the terrorist now?
Load More Replies...U.S. women shouldn't have to pay taxes or do anything for that matter, since we're not really human beings here.
The more discriminatory bills are made, those of us who believe in rights become more disheartened and confused.
Load More Replies...And someone like me can't afford to adopt bc it's so f*****g expensive. I have a good job, as does my husband, we have a nice, big home and are more than happy to bring a child into our family, but the fees are insane. 30,000-40,000 is the quotes we've seen. I'd have to sell my house in order to afford it. I hate it here
Try going through foster care classes. That's how my grandchildren became my grandchildren. Love em dearly ❤️.
Load More Replies...Best TShirt seen lately: “We need to discuss the Elephant 🐘 in the Womb”
Elephants deserve so much better than being associated with republicunts.
Load More Replies...This Is How Ya Do It
I have chronic illnesses that would make me more susceptible to infection (I’ve already lost my large bowel to sepsis & my lower right leg to a post-sepsis infection) & even with a mask, I’m still going to come home with cold/flu-like symptoms. Call me a sheep all you like, but at least I’m not mutton (aka: sheep that’s prepared & served on a plate)! 😏🤷♀️
When I was a kid "muttonhead" was a pretty common insult 🤣🤣🤣.
Load More Replies...Most Americans don't wear masks anymore, and yet those that do are somehow still the sheep.
I'm just wearing the mask because I plan on crop dusting the elevator while I'm in here.
I would have coughed all the way to my floor without putting my hand over my mouth, I bet they would have gotten off before me
November '20, I had a lady, not wearing a mask correctly, coughing, buying medicine and casually saying she had to go home because "I've just been diagnosed with COVID," come through my line. I'm a cashier. _I was livid._ There were two guys behind her who'd been putting their stuff on and it was a lot of stuff. I told them to please not touch anything beyond the belt nor come and stand across from me just yet, as I went to work with sterilizing fluid, gloves, paper towels, the whole nine yards. I was wearing a mask. The guy snarked, "For what, that fake COVID stuff?" I said, and I didn't care how it sounded to him, "Well that lady flat out told me she has that "COVID stuff" and I am sterilizing everything for your protection. When you are gone my line is shut down and I am allowing nobody through. Never saw two faces go so pale.
I sterilized all but the belt area where their stuff was. I sterilized my hands between full bags (and bagged it all myself), and the guy who'd snarked to me put his hand in a plastic bag before he touched the electronic payment terminal (that I also had sterilized before allowing him to touch it. They made tracks out of there and I hope they learned a lesson. When they were done, I did just as I said...kept my line closed and cleaned every inch of my station, belt, shelving around the area (within reason), the whole nine yards. I then reported and expected to be sent home. I'd already informed the higher-ups, who discussed it at length and decided that since my interaction with the woman had been very brief and I'd taken immediate action afterwards, the risk of my exposure was minimal, so I could stay. I was incredulous, but I didn't get sick, so there's that.
Load More Replies...To keep ourselves in check, Dr. Reed suggests treating communication on the internet the same as in real life.
"Remember, online is just as much of a social interaction as in the real world," he said. "Do not share anything online that you would not in real life. People can get a little impulsive with their digital interactions, so just remember that. Perhaps count to 10 before sharing."
It’s Like The Trash Taking Itself Out
My sister quit her job at a hospital because of covid vaccine mandates. Yet 10 years ago she happily took the required (i.e., "mandated") vaccines and tests to go on a service mission trip to Africa.
That is what confuses me! Like with the military...they get all sorts of vaccines especially when they deploy that the general public does not even have to worry about but some of them refuse to get the covid vax? Why?!?
Load More Replies......nurses who don't believe in medicine have absolutely no f*****g business/right to be a nurse.same goes for cops who don't believe in public safety etc...
@HellyHacka. The Covid-19 vaccination was created using 10 years of research into other Sars/Covid viruses. It was not built from scratch. They also had unprecedented numbers of volunteers which let them gather data much faster then with most studies.
And job openings for those who actually believe these things. True, no downside.
But thing is, and if anybody reads this I will probably get downvoted, people I work with that got the vax, and then the booster, and then a second booster, have gotten Covid twice! I never got the vaccine, and got Covid once in January, I was sick for about 4 days, then fine, just tired. And I get so tired of people saying, well you just don't get it as bad with the vaccine, this is not true, I have seen people with the vaccine get very sick. It is everybody's own choice. Covid is not what it was back in 2020. And I am not anti-vaccine at all, I just don't understand that people that have been triple vaccinated are still getting Covid...
It's because of the different strains. It's how every year the flu vaccination is different, to protect against the newest strain.
Load More Replies...Counties that voted heavily for TFG have 5 times the mortality rate from covid as those that went heavily for Biden. 5 TIMES
Why Stop There?
It seems as if the right wing just wants ignorant breeders, to produce a pool of cannon fodder so needy they'll take any job.
Unfortunately, it always stops where Republicans have control. This is what they have done with minimum wage laws. Republican-controlled States prevent Democrat controlled cities from implementing higher minimum wage laws. It's not about states rights, it's only about Republican rights.
Let's take reproduction rights away from women at ALL levels. Hard to get birth control, can't have abortions, can't get tubes tied until u r at least over 40, but we can't talk about giving boys vasectomies when they get circumcised, because it's expensive and not always 100% reversible, however, it would 100% eliminate unplanned pregnancies. But as always, it falls on us women to make the sacrifices.
Sterilization and birth control cause close to 0 abortions. I think these Xtian gun nuts are not as pro-life as they're pretending to be.
What crazy nonsense is this person spewing? Leaving abortion up to the individuals that actually NEED it? Insanity, I tell you! (Said no sane person ever...)
Great idea! I'd be fine with a whole lot more power over my life being returned to me. So why stop at abortion? Let's do this for speed limits, guns, drugs, owning tanks, flying airplanes, etc. To quote Braveheart - FREEDOM!
It's hilarious that you equate owning a gun with having a baby. I wonder how many murders a year are committed using an infant as the primary weapon...
Load More Replies...Literally Dozens
Ah, America... a place where 12 states have no minimum age for marriage, you can be employed at 14, be sentenced to death at 15, get a driving license at 16, join the army at 17, but GOD FORBID YOU HAVE A SIP OF BEER BEFORE YOU TURN 21!
And don't forget, buy a semi-automatic death machine at 18
Load More Replies...Not an american person assuming everyone on the ol' interwebs is american? Surely not!
Wait, there are OTHER countries besides America? Hmm, that sounds too unbelievable. I think I need sources and citations please.
I appreciate the irony! As a US citizen, my early education of the world outside the US led me to believe that there was nothing out there but dirt roads, starvation and third world countries.
Load More Replies...Aw snap!! It's about time Americans realised the rest of the world exists.
@pandaroo You can't make us. 😝
Load More Replies...The US- where more and more teenagers will have motherhood forced on them but god forbid they want a drink.
That Went Well
Donald trump is the worst thing to happen to America since the British ruling us
i dont know Vietnam war 9/11 hurricane Katrina multiple school shootings people going bankrupt having to pay for medical expenses the list is practically endless
Load More Replies...Never could understand the little white oval around his eyes until someone told me that that was where the little cups went to protect them when he was sprayed.
They need to plug his nose and mouth so no accidental spray goes there.
Load More Replies...Nah he’s trying to bring back diy spray tans with oranges so spray tanists run out of jobs
The Parliamentary system is better than the two party dumpster fire that we're stuck with.
My silver lining is that he gave bigots and racists a license to be who they are. Now they've branded themselves quite nicely. Now I know who to avoid
You should tell your uncle to f**k himself and stop attending family events where he's been invited.
Yeah, but he just made it look ridiculous, like everything else he touched. There are male MUA whose look I would love to be able to copy, but now mention male makeup and everyone thinks Cheeto.
But if you are bothered by another person who starts to give you too much information, psychotherapist Amy Morin says your first line of defense should be to change the subject.
For instance, try saying, 'Sorry to hear that. Have you heard the weather for tomorrow?' Sometimes people will take the hint, but you may need a more direct approach if the other person continues to overshare.
Wow. Medical Debt Causes Divorce For Married Couple Of 52 Years
I reckon even Bob the Builder would struggle to fix that. Good luck though, it really is ridiculous.
Load More Replies...I read somewhere that the US medical system is not broken, it's working exactly as it is intended to. Which is to make insurance companies s**t loads of money
They are responsible to their shareholders not to their policyholders
Load More Replies...The medical system in the USA is just criminally insane. There is no other word for what you are doing to your citizens.
Didn’t Obama try to get rid of this ridiculous system and was ridiculed? Seriously I’ve been in hospital 3 times this past year and haven’t paid a single cent and was given meds to take home. I don’t have ‘insurance’ which is private health care. We have our public health system, it works. How the fk do the American people allow this stupidity to continue is beyond me.
They have been brainwashed into thinking anything else is “socialism” which they nothing about and are absolutely terrified of. Basically, they need to get out more.
Load More Replies...Most of my friends and family members are already dead of curable illnesses because of the U.S. healthcare system. Enraged doesn't even begin to cover what I feel.
If this makes you ashamed, the simple solution is to VOTE.
Load More Replies...I am deeply saddened that this was necessary. How can politicians think this is acceptable?
32 of 33 industrialized countries have figured out single-payer national healthcare. To have to divorce because of medical bills is obscene. And some people have to just resign themselves to DYING (or allowing their children to die) because their diabetes medicine costs too much if they cannot afford health insurance. I don't know why this isn't a bigger priority in the U.S. It is shameful.
Perfect Analogy
And lobbying should be punishable by life in prison. No more corporate candidates
I've never had a problem with pro athletes betting on their own team winning. When they bet against themselves, that's the problem.
Athletes are also not supposed to take bribes to affect the outcome of a game, so why are politicians allowed to take bribes from “lobbyists” to affect the outcome of legislation? We should start calling corporate-style “lobbying” what it really is, bribery. Plain bribery. The only exception that should be made is for traditional lobbying, which is merely stating your, or your (usually non-profit) group’s , case and hoping the Congress member you speak with agrees to advocate for you—-with NO exchange of money, goods, or services involved.
And why politicians should not be allowed to give themselves raises. Not just when but how much. I'm tired of the inmates running the asylum.
Republicans, with the help of corporate Democrats, have been unraveling the protections Roosevelt & others instilled to stop just this. Do we still have a monopoly law?
So you mean BOTH parties. Funny how people twist things to their views.
Load More Replies...Adam Smith, in Wealth of Nations, said not to trust any laws proposed by merchants (the corporation equivalent of the time) because such laws would only benefit the merchants.
Yes, it's called Capitalism, and they'll cling to the laws that give them the money and power, and do everything in their power to keep you licking the concrete. I'm always confused about Americans who will defend their way of life to the death, yet their way of life is pathetic. They have a health care system that is only out to make money for the big guys (Capitalism). They have huge corporations paying multi-million bonuses to their CEOs and the bottom tier is barely living on minimum wage (Capitalism). Their food supply is killing them, and if it doesn't kill them, it causes early ill health. Can an American please let me know why you fight for this way of life? I guess your idea of freedom is to be free to pay taxes, but die early from lack of needed medicines and to work 3 jobs to make ends meet. Let's just say I'm glad I don't live in the US!
Load More Replies...This type have been doing this since ... how far do you want to go back?
There's a little problem with banning investments flat out. Ol Georgey convinced everyone it was a good idea to tie retirement funds to the stock market. Anyone who has any retirement plan is playing the market involuntarily.
Simplicity Itself
It worked! Now the rest of us can shop without that hassle.
The same mindset of people burning books, records, etc. that they already paid for.
Heaven forbid anyone should think for themselves and make their own decisions. If it means not shopping at Ikea. Oh well.
You mean the decision to spread a deadly virus because you think you're going to be microchipped with the vaccine? Feel free to make the decision to permanently stay in your house so you don't kill anyone.
Load More Replies...FUNNY HOW FACUI WHO PUSHED THE VAX, HAS BEEN VAXED SEVERAL TIMES; KEEPS GETTING THE COVID.!? DO EXPLAIN HOW THAT WORKS? OLOLOLOL
Mate, you don't even know how Caps Lock works, nobody's going to try and explains medicine to you.
Load More Replies...You better hope your immune system is strong if you plan on digging through literally tons of garbage
Load More Replies...Bigotry ?
because republicans believe obviously that women's political opinions don't count but women are merely there to reproduce, as per the recent RvW judgment
And white terrorists are " confused lone wolves who were bullied and had a bad day" . They refuse to listen to any logic but their own.
This applies for teenage boys to, talking from experience...I was suddenly a "man" when I was r@ped by my dad, but I'm only a kid in every other aspect to the law-
Knock off the Republicans this or that. Blanket statements are stupid. I am a Republican and believe in Democracy above all else. More people believe we should have abortions, therefore we should have abortion. End of story.
The key in such situations is to not reciprocate. Just because your boss tells you she's going through a divorce, that doesn't mean you need to tell her about your marital problems as well.
While sharing your personal stories can be empowering, you should do that at the right time, in the right place, and with the right people.
I’d Like To See It
Maybe they can make an app that sends you one fact/concept per day? That way you get your daily dose of TIL without being overwhelmed.
Load More Replies...How about a list of disproven facts that are still being taught - anyone remember the taste-bud zone experiment? Despite EVERY SINGLE TIME the experiment is done, every kid proving that there are no zones...it is still (last I heard) taught as fact.
I would so love this, but I agree that printing it out would kill many trees.
You also print out your emails, scan them, and then attach the scans to a new email to forward them, don't you? (totally a joke!)
Load More Replies...Not *exactly* that but the Beloit college mindset list is a fun read.
*Head tilt* Awww, bless. Sometimes I'm glad I'm old.
Load More Replies...You Know She’s Right
I'm so glad someone else said it, lol! I hate myself for thinking it, but I did.
Load More Replies...As a democrat, I have to admit I like at least one thing on the Texas Republican's agenda: to secede from the union. Sounds like a win-win.
That statement almost makes me wish I was still on Facebook so I could post it.
Please Remember This
I think you are overestimating the compassion and intelligence of some groups of people.
Load More Replies...But her son did. Or Grandson. Or nephew. Or after selling piroshki to you in America, she comes home and watches russian TV propaganda. I am Ukrainian, my father and all his halph of the family are russians. My dad lives in Ukraine for 5 decades and he loves this country. But all his relatives in russia don`t believe him about the horrors and atrocities of russian soldiers in Ukraine, they prefer to trust their TV. And yes, by the way, it is not putin who invaded my country all alone, it is hundres of thousands of russian soldiers killing, raping, torturing and stealing here, who have the fullest support of their extended families back at home. So no, you can't tell me that russian people is not to be blamed
That Russian grandmother may have raised her son to have no qualms about doing just that. I'm sure there are some empathic and moral people in Russia, but I agree with you. Where do all those soldiers get their ethics and morals from, if not their families? They are the ones that raised them, and the Russian army has too many monsters like that to be a moral glitch in a few people.
Load More Replies...People driving around in trucks with Russian flags and big white Zs though, that's a different story.
„The 50 year old grandmother“ is the only thing I can see here. Okay, Gen-Z.
I'm surprised by the number of folks on this site who think 50 is still too young to be a grandparent. If you're 50 and had a kid at, say, 20 then your child would be 30 and could easily have a 10 year old by now, thus making you a grandparent.
Load More Replies...A lot of people feel they can attack people or businesses simply because at that moment a particular group (country, race, name, physical appearance) happens to fit as their perceived enemy. Think of Covid-19 and our Asian neighbors, the war in Ukraine and anything Russian or remember how the folks in Congress were mad at France for not being 1,000% supportive to the U.S. during the Iraq conflict, where they actually changed "French fries" to "Freedom fries" in the Capitol's lunch rooms. What would some of us think or do if a Black man were to hurt Donald Trump intentionally or unintentionally? I can imagine Black folks in general would find themselves paying a price for this one fellow's actions. Grouping the offender and those somehow related to him is what some folks do in their frustration and anger of an issue they can't control or fully understand.
Saw a rock band that is Russian-based and one of their members is Ukrainian (they are a mix of different things, not just Russian). It was such a beautiful moment for everyone to cheer for this member who acknowledges how lucky he is to be safely away but how he knows so many there and the rest of his bandmates condemned the Russian government and say that the people of Russia are NOT for the invasion. I bought one of their shirts for sure.
50-year-old grandmother? That doesn't evoke the image that I amige you wanted to create.
Sadly though it's the ordinary Russian people who are suffering. Definitely not the rich or the politicians
Heavy Machinery
We're talking about couch potatoes here, they mean the media center remote!
In the UK, near roadworks especially, there is usually a sign saying "heavy plant crossing." Quite logical really, but I always picture a huge chrysanthemum, walking across the road.
Dead Malls
There is a mall somewhere where the top floor is now small apartments. The bottom floor is retail.
There are several "developments" where I live that have shops/restaurants/small offices on the ground level, & 2-3 more levels that are apartments or condos. And there are more being built in our area. I couldn't live like that, but apparently it works for some people!
Load More Replies...Yeah, but.. how will profits be made. You do know shareholders are more important than homeless pleople, right?
The owner of mall wants the tax writeoff for it being enpty.
Load More Replies...I also think you could turn them in to retirement communities or even nursing homes!
I prefer refurbishing buildings that are still in stable and salvageable condition. Instead of cutting down woodland areas—-and destroying their ecosystems—-to break new ground further out of town, why not just reuse and repurpose existing buildings in town? Another thing we should do is seize apartments, condos, and houses that were bought by people who never intend to occupy them—-ostensibly as “investments”, but you know, actually for money laundering—-and turn them into affordable housing for average working people. Some could also be earmarked as housing for the homeless, while other properties could be job training centers for them, as well as assisted living for those with mental health issues that require monitoring—-not locking them away, but giving them eventual independence, while monitoring them to keep them showing up for therapy and taking their meds. Possibly with monthly visits to make sure that continues (what happens is many people with mental health issues start feeling great and enjoying their independence, then thinking they’re cured and don’t need their meds and therapy anymore, which starts them sliding backwards instead of moving forward).
Agreed. If governments can utilize "eminent domain" to steal land for development then they can do the same for abandoned buildings.
Load More Replies...I've sent this suggestion to Portland's mayor multiple times. He thinks a blanket in a doorway is going too far in coddling the homeless.
Im in Phoenix az. I live right by a very large dead mall. Unfortunately it is also an area overflowing with homeless people. This would be a great idea but its not feasible. Who will clean up after them? (You should see the areas where the pop up their tents they leave trash everywhere) Who will supply the food and cook? Who will police this dead mall so it isnt just a ripped apart inside, wires being stolen to sell. It couldnt work with out major oversight. Safly.
It wouldn't just be opening the dead mall to the homeless. It would require allocating funding to make it functional housing and to run it just as traditional homeless shelters require but would be permanent housing unlike homeless shelters. Not sure why you assume all or the majority of homeless or low income people wouldn't take care of their residence if they had one. Where is the incentive for keeping things tidy at home when your home is a tent in a vacant lot or under a bridge? It's not like they have trash collection etc. as with an actual residence.
Load More Replies...God no! We absolutely need the 5 bath and body works in town... you know, priorities.
This is would be an amazing solution instead we force the homeless to have no where to sleep.
Office buildings aren’t able to, they weren’t designed to be split into different living quarters, don’t have the correct plumbing setup, etc.
Load More Replies...A Mother Did What The Police Refused To Do
because men who think they need to carry guns are at heart cowards living in fear.
I genuinely couldnt send my child to a school in america, i dont even want to go visit my brother who has lived in indiana for the last 15 years, i just dont see it as a place worth risking going to. Im sure most people are decebt human beings but the ones that arent are far too dangerous and while a minority are still far too many
I know. My father was in the US several times for job purposes and I know of at least one time when, in his immediate vicinity, there was a man on the lose with a gun. My boyfriend was in the US twice(!), also for job purposes, and managed to nonchalantly come across a policeman on his evening walk who informed him that he shouldn't walk further, someone's been shooting and is on the lose. Meanwhile, all of us have spent the majority of our lives in Germany without this happening even *once*. Some shootings still happen, of course, but not to the point that parents buy bullet-proof school bags or that anyone would in all honesty say "well, your fault for leaving a door open"...
Load More Replies...I saw a more in-depth video yesterday of their lack of action & it's heartbreaking!!! 7 cops, armed w/ flak jackets & riot gear, stood in the hall listening to the screams of children while the gunman slaughtered those innocent babies & teachers. F*$king disgusting & they ALL need to be fired!
This is exactly what I would have done. The police would have to shoot me.
Amen! I would have gone in to get my kids or die trying. The police response is a moral and national disgrace.
Load More Replies...Yep. They did set out a bunch of tear gas canisters but then apparently someone figured out that they're not so useful when only one guy has a gas mask.
Load More Replies...Wow, what a woman! Not once was she mentioned in the news in my country during reporting about that school tragedy.
I'm in the USA and that's the first that I have heard of it.
Load More Replies...So did the mom go get her kids while there was a gunman inside while the men were cowards outside as usual???
One Of The Best Ideas I Have Heard In A Long Time
no, 13 likes is better. With 0 likes they might think there is a technical issue. with 13 likes they know there isn't one
Load More Replies...It's not the "celebrities" it's the relentless hamster-wheel requirement to fill column inches with drek consumed by a dim, all believing reading/listening public who can't do without their equally vacuous fix.
"It Just Wont Work" It Actually Does
yes. People go bankrupt because prices are ridiculously high. Like 2000 for an ambulance ride. 150.000 for a normal birth.
Load More Replies...Isn’t it time that Americans had an uprising and demanded things to change? Not the land of the free anymore…
Even in Brazil,a undeveloped country,we have free healthcare and free medication
And other countries don't charge medication like it's blood diamonds
Canada. People saying "oh but there are long waits!". I get blood tests annually. Found something that needs looking at. 2 weeks later I'm at a specialist, another two weeks and I'm in for a biopsy, If it was serious It would have been faster. I have to pay for parking.
I don't know why we aren't out in the streets protesting this health care system of ours.
Because we are too busy working in order to pay our massive medical bills.
Load More Replies...little country New Zealand has universal health care. no insurance needed .
Don't forget, a lot of developing countries also have it. We of the US are competing with them, not developed countries in terms of healthcare.
Would Not Recommend
Well, it's not yellow, so might as well be zero.
Load More Replies...Only problem with living in Texas is Texans. Former SA resident.
Load More Replies...only because most rating systems wont allow you to leave zero stars😬... Texas Flag single star review is like a participation trophy✌️💜
Middle-Aged White Male Here, And I Think That She Rocks!
I second that. And she should be old enough to run for president in the next election.
Load More Replies...I am a 50 year old Retired U.S. Marine. I live in Texas. I own guns. I love country music. I RESPECT and ADMIRE the hell out of AOC. I am not alone in these thoughts either in Texas or in my beloved U.S. Marine Corps. She has more friends than she may know.
Can you please multiply and replenish the earth?
Load More Replies...Women are 52% of the population, so it's really amazing that people view them as a minority/special interest group.
Because they think Women are only useful when they complement a man... Stupid, and should have died a horrible death decades ago, but the belief is still there, unfortunately.
Load More Replies...Even though women, non-whites, and 18-34 year olds constitute a huge majority, while wealthy WASP men are a tiny minority—-a teensy-weensy group of angry inches huffing and puffing and bitching and moaning and calling itself the majority. Math is hard for them, because their parents paid for their grades.
I met her mom once. She came in to buy a few copies of her time cover. I thanked her for giving birth to her as she is amazing
Thank her for me as well. We need more powerhouse. Long live the mitochondrian
Load More Replies...Because A Certain Portion Of Our Population Are Dumb A******
Because japanese think about other people because they have a more collective-minded culture as opposed to rampant Randian-objectivism style libertarianism/individualism?
Thats a very complex way of say Selfishness/Narcisism...
Load More Replies...i have a way they could exploit homophobia in America simply anyone who doesnt where a mask is gay and hates America
This could actually work to a degree. I think you're really on to something
Load More Replies..."Showing kindness towards others" sort of answered your own question.
Blatantly showing kindness to others is considered communism in the US.
Oh you mean those people who CALL themselves Christians but don't walk the walk?
Load More Replies...Because half the people in the USA (#shitholeUSA) won’t do anything they don’t directly profit from, including showing kindness to others. (#theList)
Easy - idiot thinks: I have an immune system, what do I need a mask to protect myself for? -- Intelligent/caring person thinks: CoViD has between a 24 and 72 hour incubation period, whereupon I am then contagious but non-symptomatic for 24 to 72 hours before I know I have it. So, to protect everyone I might meet FROM ME, I'll wear a mask (properly).
It’s a Republican point of pride to have no compassion for others. Yeah, I don’t understand it either.
Giant Dick’s Giant Profile D**k Pic Checks Out
I had to look back to check whether or not it was his face!
Load More Replies...Elon must go where no billionaire has gone before...the IRS.
Never mind bloody Mars you should be helping to protect this planet Elton you absolute d******d.
We r going to need a new planet to live on within the next 100 years, so it's better that someone is at least looking ahead
Load More Replies...It astounds me every time I hear about this man how someone with so much is this insecure and thirsty. His constant need for approval and validation is baffling.
That would feed everyone for maybe a few days. Teach a man to fish....
Load More Replies...We really need to let him go to Mars. I mean, didn't some scientist say it'd be a one-way trip?
Thank You Librarians
*Archivist here* Have you ever searched for person with no surname, date of birth or adress? Only information that was given to you was ´he lived with my granny in Shitholery upon Thames back in 1950´...
When I worked in video stores (yes, I’m that old) I loved coming up with the correct movie title for customers going on nothing more than vague plot descriptions. Felt like winning agame show every time.
Lots of librarians are extremely qualified, as most of them have an academic degree they hardly use. So they will happily help if you have a more challenging question. Asking a librarian often is like having a research assistant - they will gladly pull any information from any source for you if you ask nicely.
As a librarian, I can confirm this happens daily! These are my favorite requests!
Librarians are highly educated bad-asses that have to hold a masters degree amd usually a s**t-ton of certificates on top of that, depending the state/country you live in and the requirements. It ain't some crazy old lady lost in dusty stacks of books that hits you with a broom when you're too loud. It really is an under-valued profession.
I used to call the New York City library circulation desk for help with random stuff before the internet. I lived in Philadelphia at the time and realized the NYC librarians were THE MOST COMPETENT AND KNOWLEDGEABLE researchers in the universe. I discovered this because my boss at the time told me to call the NYC library to find out (something). I forget what he wanted to know--some obscure fact. I thought he was kidding me. He told me the number was in the rolodex. Sure enough it was! I got a lot of use out of that number; even after I switched jobs and moved to Dallas. That was over 30 years ago. At some point, the library started limiting the number of questions you could ask per phone call and if the research took a long time, they'd charge you a fee. I guess everyone figured out how smart those librarians were.
Given the sheer amount of data on the web most professions are converging on librarianship - your job is to extract the right information
I gladly accept that kind of challenge, even more for movies than for books.
Back in the days before Google, librarians were Google. I'm in my 60's, I can think of more than one time when my Dad really wanted the answer to a question and called the librarian to ask them to find it out for him. They always did. My Dad thought librarians rocked because they knew where to go to find even the most obscure piece of information.
We Know Exactly Who’s Fault It Is
If I was American and found out my kids had received an unexcused absence for walking out of school for a gun violence protest….I’d probably be so proud I’d be tearing up 🥹 I’d take them and their friends out for ice cream and pizza after
Load More Replies...The teachers and principal should be walking with them. They, and their parents, should be standing in the streets and around government buildings, holding signs, and blocking traffic. Every schoolchild, parent, and school employee in DC should be making a human wall around the Capitol, and they should be there every school day. Teachers should be holding classes blocking the street. Students should be sitting reading their textbooks on the capitol steps. You cannot do business as usual, when children are dying in their schools.
I suppose any kid who successfully dodges a bullet gets detention, too?
Well obviously, because schools seemed to be convinced that not letting yourself be the victim and actually doing something to get yourself out of the situation makes you the problem. (Referring to bullying and "no tolerance" policy)
Load More Replies...Since the adults are behaving like children, they shouldn't be surprised that the kids are stepping up
I wouldnt be sending them in the first place! Im a stay at home mum so if i had to i could homeschool but i live in scotland where kids were killed in a school once and the parents said f**k that and got stricter gun laws - not happened since 1996. While gun crime still exists its rare enough not to be something we even consider will happen
I would tell my kids to walk and I would take a day off of work and walk with them!
But She Really Loved Me
And that waitresses have fallen in love with them and not the tip they expect to get
Right?! The ones who swear the wings at Hooters are really good and the staff is friendly. Lmao
Load More Replies...Reality check dudes. Once you stop being useful to Trump, he will throw you under the bus.
I’ve been looking for a way to capture this very sentiment, until now…. so thank you, I hope you don’t mind how often I’ll be repeating this little truth nugget! Well said, friend.
Trump just needs to meet the right guy, then he can give up this lifestyle.
Especially since there have literally been thousands of lawsuits against Trump by the blue collar workers that have been stiffed by him.
Strippers *do* like you...as long as you have money in your pocket.
That'll Send A Message
I'll let your bod marinate in plague infested "soup" for a while OK? But not too long, otherwise you may loose cohesion and not brake the window, just smear it.
Before or after we take your organs. Oh wait we can't take organs from the dead, because they have more rights than the wombs they came from.
ok ill have u holding a sign with a middle finger that is set on fire and covered in glitter and make sure that every time he finds a piece of glitter he will remember the god of death throwing a glittery corpse through his window
The glitter is a nice touch. It gets everywhere and even comes in fun shapes!
Load More Replies...Hell, you can do that with my body even if mass shooting ISN'T my cause of death
Ooo me too. Can we make this a thing like when you choose to be an organ donor? Also, please take whatever organs & s**t that is still viable before doing this... but then again I'll probably be a mangled corpse because AR15s are specifically designed to do just that to the human body............... but it's necessary for "protection" right... cause one bullet to the leg or arm isn't going to stop & intruder....... you must have a weapon used by the police & military.
Wow! Solar Energy Actually Working As Designed! Insane How Much Better Green Energy Actually Is
Meanwhile in FL teachers r fleeing the state since they keep passing laws preventing them from actually teaching
Somehow I get the feeling this is the long term goal; no more skoolin.
Load More Replies...Oh Isaac. 1.6 kilowatt is nothing. My tiny flat uses that in a couple of hours… they saved 1.6 million kilowatt.
Which doesn't make sense since why would a school use that much energy?
Load More Replies...It's almost as if the oil and gas industry have been stealing from us and sickening us the whole time just for fun. Hmmmm...
Go Arkansas. And all those oil tycoons think green power is expensive. Clearly worth it
Doesn't make sense,there is no way they made that much profit in 3 years. Unless they got the panels and everything for free.
They probably sell excess energy back to the electric company. My family has solar panels on out house, and the electric company owes us ~$100/month. With enough solar panels, they definitely could make a ton of money.
Load More Replies...This Dad Has One Great Son
Teach each kid to be a mensch, and the world will be a much better place.
Load More Replies...That's broken me. I'm not even blaming it on onions. My daughters have been told they can be gay, straight, transgender, a Muslim, a Hindu, a stripper, a lawyer, a secretary or unemployed. It doesn't matter. If they're happy I'm happy. But if I hear of them being a bully, bigot, racist, or cockwomble then we will have a serious problem.
My son's school has a number of values which they present to the kids as stars. The first star is: be kind
In my experience, going to elementary school five years ago, that did near nothing for kids who are victimized.
Load More Replies...Schools where I live have a preference for bday parties to invite either the whole class or everyone of the same gender- the idea is to avoid bullying and support inclusion bc some kids (especially with disabilities) we’re being left out time and time again. There are things the school can do to help.
So the moral of the story is: teach your kid on the values of Mr Rogers and Robbie Williams
If you teach them the values of Robbie Williams they'll do a whole load of drugs, decide UFOs are real, and fall out with Gary Barlow.
Load More Replies...It kills me every time I hear a parent say, "I'm raising kids." No you're not. Kids already know how to be kids. You're raising adults. If your goal is to one day have immature, entitled, assholes who still throw tantrums when they're in their 30s because they didn't get their way or are complete d***s to people simply because they don't like them then, by all means, keep raising kids.
I have read this account on the internet at least weekly for the past 3 years.
Kids can be extremely cruel to other children, even when they have good parents. However, once the parents know about this cruelty, it needs to be dealt with swiftly and efficiently. Trouble is, too many parents are tired from working 2-3 jobs to make ends meet and haven't the energy or inclination to even find out about what their kids are up, let alone spend the time trying to correct bad behaviour. And that, my friends, is why there are so many out-of-control children in the school system today.
Russia Moment
Turkey and Greece are still on very bad terms and everyday we have new challenges from the turkish side so not much changed there .
Yup. Erdogan gets a hard-on every time Putin looks at him.
Load More Replies...German arming itself? In case this is supposed to mean Germany, we were armed before that. And the big joke is that our stupid politicians need ages to supply Ukraine with heavy weapons.
Honestly? I'd rather have it take a bit longer than just throwing ammo and weapons around and afterwards discovering that they should have paid more attention. Remember the US arming the Taliban and Saddam Hussein when it was to their benefit, only to realize that actually, those (and many others) have their own agenda? Because if somehow our guns and tanks end up in the hands of maybe Russia (get grabbed in a fight etc) or Belarus... not exactly what one would want. I'd rather have a slow government than one that has enough tanks to just randomly thrown them to those we deem worthy
Load More Replies...Possibly the only justification for the flat earth theory is the edge for them to fall off
Load More Replies...Germany still hasn't grown it's balls back we need to do more
Oh you are so wrong. Europe is not united, russian economy has not collapsed, Greece and Turkey do not get along.
Maybe they don't get along, but they have someone else to hate instead of each other. Europe is united in accepting refugees from Ukraine and sending weapons to Ukraine. Maybe not the entirety, but a majority of Europe is united against Russia
Load More Replies...Ignoring The Bible Is Classic Christianity
So if I start pointing at random people shouting Unclean! Unclean!, I can say I'm just following the bible teaches
Yes. And, if you get arested for harassment or disturbing the peace, you can get the charges dismissed on grounds of Religious freedom...
Load More Replies...good thought... maybe? i think it might be about any illness though, as it's left to interpretation. wish we could ask the writer haha
Load More Replies...Nice! It's like that picture of the guy with the tattoo of the scripture in Leviticus about "men lying with men", which happens to be a few versus away from the scripture against tattoos.
To be fair, this passage only refers to diseases of the skin (defiling disease)...like lesions, boils, etc. But this is funny for sure! I'm sure they still believed that respiratory sickness was demons or something.
I think just to differentiate then from the crowd so people know to stay away
Load More Replies...Well, I'll be damned. That's awesome! I wrote down the verse in case it ever comes up in a conversation with some of my idiot co-workers.
This Is The Way
Anyone else still do "30 days has September, April, June, and November..."
I still count my knuckles for any month besides February...
Load More Replies...My school used to encourage us to draw Pac-Man eating the bigger number and I will never forget it.
Take A Breath, Count To 10, Think. You'd Be Amazed What Possibilities Open If You Don't Go With Your First Reaction
Or he could have just got up and silently walked out during the monologue
He could also have stood up and said loudly "that's not cool man"....he didn't have to resort to violence.
Load More Replies...look into their relationship, she demanded he do something, to prove he's worthy of her.
100%. Will thought it was funny and was on camera laughing. And to tw 72, yeah, I was amazed at how much Tupac came up after all that and how many times old clips about her BAWLING and crying about having to marry Will. He really seem(ed) like a genuine person and deserves so much better. She would b a nobody by now if not for him
Load More Replies...Or he could have just not lost control, and not smacked Chris Rock. Chris Rock is a comedian. He tells jokes.
And if Chris Rock had been a white man, Will Smith would have been killed by the cops while "resisting arrest".
Load More Replies...We watched a man unravel in the matter of seconds. Painful to watch. He was wrong as hell and I'm sure he knows this. He's been a stand up dude since forever. I hope he can rid himself of whatever terrible energy came out of him in that moment. And Chris Rock is officially Professional of the Decade.
Or, one could have just realized that anyone at a comedy show (which this was - just look at the hosts) is fair game for the comedian and sat down and shut the f**k up.
Management
Nope: because it's a sign you don't need a "manager", wherever he/she come from. Give bigger salary and respect to all team members, and ask them if they really need a manager or "just" more help.
While I mostly agree, there are times when you need to have someone that has the final say, and the responsibility that comes with it. Unfortunately, somertimes having a manager is unavoidable.
Load More Replies...Or should just leave well enough alone. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
What? Gods no! They need a manager. Do you know how stressful it is to NOT have a manager? If you promote, fine, but replace the person who is promoted.
At my last job, the accountant’s father passed away in her home country, so she traveled there for about two weeks. We handled everything, absolutely everything in her absence, including month end close, and when she came back and did my annual review (I’d been there 2 months max), she gave me a terrible review, laughed when I said I was a life-long learner (went back to school for degree), and put me on probation. I noped out of there pretty soon after.
Sad That This Is Even Needed
A small bottle of prescription eye drops cost us over $300, with insurance, in the US. Meanwhile, we can get it in Japan without insurance for less than $25. Our Doctor there couldn't believe it, so when I showed her on my tablet, she wrote us a prescription for a year's supply.
I love hearing stories like this!! Absolute care for the patient, through and through!
Load More Replies...Big PHARMA tries to justify several-fold higher prices in the US by claiming costs of R&D. First, as outlined multiple times below, with data universally available, they do spend more on advertising. Second, why do all R&D costs need to be paid only in the US, if the meds are used worldwide?
This Aged Too Well
A heads up would've been nice dude, maybe a tad more info time traveller man
For those who may not know Drew Curtis runs Fark.com, a news aggregator where the submitters get to make up their own headlines. It's not News, It's Fark.
Could you tell us if the Earth stays habitable in the 21st century,oh Mr Time Traveller
Shyte. I was supposed to be back from my time trip yesterday afternoon, and here I am commenting on this post...
This b!tch knew what was coming and still let me think COVID would never reach America?! I could have been preparing! Fück you, man!
Trump was elected, so it didn't take a time traveler to forecast that 2016 would be as good as it gets for a while.
Hard Pass
Some companies would rather spend huge amounts of money for office space, heating, cooling, etc, than lose the petty illusion of control over their employees. I would think shareholders should notice when companies are doing this and ask why money is going into that horseshit and not into increasing profits.
But that’s not true profit. It’s just cutting the budget. Instead of cutting jobs and not giving raises, they should budget by cutting out the way more expensive overhead of unnecessary physical office space. True profit is creating a better product, and selling it for more than it costs to create and distribute it.
Load More Replies...I used to work for Nokia. Back when they existed, they were a global company, and we had one of these chains last a full 24 hours. As people around the globe woke up to reply all
Load More Replies...Good for them. Hope it works out for them either there or at a new (and better, I hope) job!
It's been proven that a lot of work can be done from home. It's better for so many things so why demand getting your people back in the office except for feeling all powerfull and being able to have full control again....
Yes exactly! My office has started going back one day a week. Everyone still sits alone in their own office and communicates with email and Zoom. We might as well not even be there. It's complete bull-s**t.
Load More Replies...I can think of so many finer words to put it, a sailor would be proud
Oh my, an obsessed manager wanting to control his/her staff operations is definitely alive and well.
He's Not Wrong
In the U.S., it's not considered polite to want to live.
Load More Replies...Possibly what some people said back when fire services were funded and run by insurance companies. If you didn't have your disc displayed, they let your house burn down.
I still have the sign from my family's farm that identified them as dues-paying members of their local fire department. Because fire departments used to be subscription-based, until we realized that letting one house burn endangered an entire community, and that fighting fires in all structures was in society's best interest. Gosh, if only there were a lesson for today in all of that...
In same states there are. Multiple places in the USA require you to pay a monthly subscription or the fire department won't show up.
Load More Replies...This is why I wonder about the resistance to collective funding of healthcare. No-one complains if they don’t get their fair share of fire fighting - be glad that you don’t need it and be grateful that it’s covered when you do.
And schools would be like " you're educating other people's children on my taxes. Sounds like some commie trash"
So are the police, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, interstate highways, unemployment, and free public education. Examples of capitalism include bankruptcies and divorces caused by medical debt, people living in tents or in their car because they lost their job, people spending the rest of their lives paying off college debt, and rental housing deteriorating because the owner isn't willing to invest in their own property.
It's sad how many people trying (and failing) to make a point forget that voluntary fire departments exist and are quite common in the US.
6'3
Nah, I'm pretty sure the feet are the same size, but the poster has more inches... ;)
Load More Replies...Went out a couple times with a guy that said he was 5'6 (I'm 5'5). Told me he had no problem with me wearing heels or anything. Turns out dude is 5'3, but USED to b 5'6 before he served in Iraq. The gear is so heavy it compresses the spine and makes them shorter (and yes, this is an actual thing, not just something he told me)
That compression wears off after a short while. Just like astronauts who come back taller. After a few weeks you go back to normal.
Load More Replies...I am 5' 10" and have dated so many "6'1" guys who were a little shorter than I am
without thinking once, I said a terrible thing on a date. The guy says, "You're pretty tall." "I'm 5'7". You?" "I'm 5'10"." I said "In those boots?" He cracked up laughing at my wiseassery though and we dated for 2 years. I mean did he think I couldn't actually see him? Why would he lie? lol
I'm a woman and 6'1, when a man asks me how tall I am I always say 5'9.
Every Villain Had An Origin Story
Meh, he's not worth the energy. If you hate him, he wins.
Load More Replies...Should he be punished somehow for manipulating the stock market? He did it again when he announced that Tesla will accept cryptocurrency. The price went up and two days later he said this is not happening. Some people made money out of this and I am pretty sure he knows who those people are.
Most of the super rich people are super rich because they do not donate for/fund a good cause but keep their money to stay super rich 🤑 I'll never be rich, even if I won the lottery I wouldn't be rich for long! Not only because I really enjoy sharing but especially because I'm sure that money is only fun when I spend it. And that's why I'm poor! But I still share the bit I have - that makes me happy! Win win!
Load More Replies...He's ALWAYS been creepy looking. Money can't buy everything, I guess, even good plastic surgery.
Time To Have That Talk With Grandpa
She even voiced her opinions on the matter quite clearly at times, for example when she had black tap dancer Arthur Duncan in her show in 1954, when segregation was still going strong. When the producers and media criticized her for it, she just said "live with it" and gave Duncan more airtime (they canceled her show soon after). She also advocated for gay marriage and LGBT rights although being straight herself, and also was an animal rights activist.
Agree 100%, the "thats just the older generation" excuse is complete BS. My lovely great aunt, who I was close to until she died at 97 about three years ago, was so psyched that we elected a black president (she never dreamed she'd see it in her lifetime), stayed best friends with her downstairs neighbors, a gay couple, for 30 years, and completely supported me when I was considering changing religions (I was raised Catholic). Old people are often surprisingly open-minded if you just talk to them. They've seen enough in their lives to know those small differences are irrelevant.
I recently bought a t-shirt from a local artist in my country that says be like Betty be a boss bi#ch. And it's honestly my favorite thing ever.
Oh that’s easy, she was a good person and didn’t believe in any of that b******t. The other way around is they believe it and were allowed to voice it vs not longer allowed to voice it. That’s the difference.
The woman was older than sliced bread and she still cared more for others than some politicians. Tell Robbie Williams I said hi, Betty
Robbie Williams isn't dead, he just hasn't released a single for a while. You're spot on about BW though.
Load More Replies...Good Point Satan
You mean like God says life begins at first breath and not conception?
Same applies for Canada. My MP (Member of Parliament) in Canada was voting against the bill to make conversion therapy illegal. When I emailed her telling her that she was not representing my views, she sent me a huge document written by an ultra-conservative christian organization. She literally used religion to defend her vote for keeping conversion therapy. Of course, I live in Calgary, and Setpahnie Kusie is my MP. I despise her.
Louder for those in the back with their bibles over their faces!!!!
"Congress shall make law respecting an establishment of religion OR prohibiting the free exercise thereof." A lot of so called constitutionalists don't realize the religion part of the first amendment has two parts.
We Could Lift Everyone Out Of Poverty By Slightly Taxing Billionaires
You have a spelling error and it’s killing me
Load More Replies...Makes sense, ty America for turning all the ideals you were built on, on it’s head.
Lmao $600 is just under one week’s pay for me. I know I’m lucky to be making that - but I always wondered “that’s really not a lot of money at all, do these people think we’re retiring on it or something?” (I think I got like $700 from Canada which is about one week’s wages for me)
The people who think that getting $600 from the government is some sort of windfall have likely never struggled a day in their lives. They just love s******g on poor people.
Load More Replies...Half A Million
they aren't pro-life. They're christian taliban. Religion is inconsistent, it does not use logic. If it used logic it would cease to exist. It relies on mental compartmentalisation.
As a religous person, I have only one thing to say: Religion has no place in a civilized society. Keep that s**t private, and away from government.
No Narcs
Same here, except I would get a couple dozen to stash in my freezer - I LOVE tamales!!!
Load More Replies...Never had tamales before. I'll take 3 too and we'll see how it goes from there.
Good question! As a U.S. American I ask myself that every damn day lol
Load More Replies...Dang, why isn’t there anyone like that selling at my Home Depot? I feel cheated!
Hm, if he had a professional food truck that would be one thing. But selling out of his trunk? No thanks
So don't eat them. No one is forcing you. God forbid the man try to make some extra money by selling food.
Load More Replies...The race of the guy being described as white is racist, and is there simply to justify the hate people enjoy feeling for those not like themselves.
You are full of bull-hockey Damon. That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. You sound like a giant weenie.
Load More Replies...Wtf
It's amazing that we're still able to have an NHS considering it took a viral pandemic and an old man walking up and down his garden for the masses to start appreciating it. And how many of them believed the Boris Brexit Bus?
Load More Replies...In italy it's....3€. Yep 3. I have Asthma And I always see Americans commenting on how much taxes I pay more than them, yeah it's true. But the taxes I pay for universal healthcare (STRICTLY FOR HEALTHCARE) per year are slightly less than 2.500€ In return I can have all the exams, all the tox screens, blood tests, ginecology visits, prescriptions, doctor check ups I want for basically peanuts. Once I had an asthma attack tha turned into a panic attack, I was hospitalized 7 days receiving oxigen and I paid NOTHING. They even gifted me with an extra inhaler and some pills so I didn't have to make a prescription and buy them to finish my therapy. My relatives in Columbia SC pay 10-20 times what I pay, and pray s**t won't hit the fan anyway because they had horrible experiences with my little cousins health problems. I'm sorry but everything they teach in the State against free healthcare is just propaganda. Those are the big pharma you should fear.
The taxes aren't even that higher. I had people from USA telling me they only pay 23% of their income in taxes. Well, me too. I earn a bit less than medium income, but still. I think often opinioners just take the taxation % for the highest tier of income and pretend everyone in that country pays that (I don't know in the US, but in most countries taxation is progressive, meaning the more you have the higher the % you pay in taxes)
Load More Replies...I never needed one, but a friend does. She told me that here (in France), if you need an inhaler because you're having an attack, you can just go to any pharmacy and they'll give you one for free no questions asked. Because they know it's an emergency and don't care about the bottom line, at least not to the point of killing you.
Not for an adult. Prescription cost applies, but that can cover 2 inhalers, so roughly £4.50 each.
Load More Replies...Yeah. Even when I was fully insured at a good job with relatively good pay, I ended up buying my inhalers in Mexico. Us govt is such a scam and half the people are willingly ignorant and stubborn af
None of my scripts cost anything except for my heart med which is 18 bucks. Closing that gap y’all
Costs 0 upfront in scotland along with every other prescription medication
Free College
Education = less crime, poverty, death, unwanted children, and idiots running the show. Ppl would vote for the best candidate, not party. Wouldn't let massive corps run the country or destroy lives (esp medical) for their own greed. Ppl wouldn't stand for slave wages, breaking their backs just to survive. It would also educate them on the scary word that mustn't be spoken...that they already benefit from..."free" k-12, school buses, libraries, fire depts, SSA, etc. They could choose to educate and lift the entire country up, but instead choose to fund a "free" force created by every county to harass, bully, terrorize and murder their citizens. We could bring this country out of the shite hole it has become. But those who could change this are the very ones who caused this, profit off this, and those who are too uneducated/beat down by life to realize they hold the power to change...everything.
Literally saying the opposite. An educated person is an asset to society, only educating the worthless spawn of those who can afford to pay devalues education.
The point is that, as long as college is expensive, just the fact that you managed to go is a sign that you come from the "right kind of people." The education is secondary.
Load More Replies...Not to mention that university education was free in the UK for decades ...don't see many people complaining an Oxbridge education is worthless.
Advanced education being free and a right for all citizens is a great wealth equalizer. You also gain an educated workforce and society. Like it or not, ignorant people tend to make stupid decisions. This should be ideal for all democracies. But alas, being a democracy also means, the ruling elite would have more to gain if a good portion of the population is ignorant.
Don't quite follow - you think that unless you have a bought and paid for degree it's worthless?
The idea is that if only the people with money (or willing to mortgage their existence) can have it, then it's special. This is the mindset of the people who DON'T want free college.
Load More Replies...Yes Hi Officer, I’d Like To Report A Murder
Tax The Rich
some context. In our country, $165m = ZAR 2,6 billion. That buys you 88 schools, or 1320 middle-class three-bedroom houses with two bathrooms and a garden. Or 2640 luxury vehicles. Or a skyscraper. Or a national department's operating expenses for the year.
ZAR = South African Rands! I had to Google what ZAR is so just leaving this here for other nations :)
Load More Replies...Nah they taste like over stuffed beef. Let's tax em instead
Load More Replies...Anyone see that pic of him alone on space mountain? He can't even get a mate to go on a f*****g roller coaster with him, who the hell is gonna stay in his guest houses?
Dude, it's easy to look up those facts anywhere. Doesn't mean they're not true just because you don't like the person who posted them. You sound like a bitter loser.
Load More Replies...Get Vaccinated Folks
Zwiebel, I think you mean people who chose to underfund the medical field in exchange for overpaying the military and the Superbowl
Why does the states seem like a distant land when it comes to health care?
Plus! It's an HMO bill, so you bet it was much more expensive and their insurance covered the rest. $5000 sounds like a deductible amount, imo.
Load More Replies...I'm sorry this happened, but that is the medical staff's fault for not being able to recognize an immediate need for proper medical care or an intentionally understaffed hospital trying to save money with inferior workers. The hospital is already padding the bill for 10x the appropriate amount so they are such a moral business in the first place, right?
There is such a thing as “too much.” Sometimes hospitals have too many emergencies to handle. If you have 20 emergencies but only 10 staff, for example, what are you going to do? The point wasn’t “look how bad the poorly underpaid and overworked medical staff are, this is all their fault,” the point was “get vaccinated and stop overwhelming the hospital staff for no reason when you could have easily prevented this visit because they have enough other emergencies to take care of.” 🤦♀️ Maybe it’s a hospital admin problem but don’t blame the medical staff for that, it’s out of their control and they’re trying very hard. This story just goes to show how poor the healthcare system is down there, not that medical staff are bad guys.
Load More Replies...Fake Number
I Literally Cannot Afford A One Bedroom Apartment
Even in countries that seem ok. French here, 37 yo, full time job as programmer, and I can NOT afford a 1 bedroom appartment. I'm still lucky to be able to afford a studio.
Load More Replies...But you literally aren't all given equal opportunity. Private schools exist, you know? The biggest predictor of being wealthy is being born into wealth, not working your little socks off.
Load More Replies...Works Like A Charm
Exactly - and they drink barrels of booze just because it tastes sooo goood :D
My first read was that it was exceptionally hard for men to poop???
I Did Not Know That. Yikes
And in many states people on welfare can't make more than something like $240 per month or they lose their healthcare/food/housing.
Load More Replies...I recently got a job and now I owe $600 per month in health insurance. It doesn't even cover any medication or medical procedures. That's just what I have to give the insurance companies every month. On top of the medical bills.
Don't forget to mention your deductible(s)! Out of pocket costs BEFORE your insurance kicks in to pay anything.
Load More Replies...WTF? This country is soooo broken. Whatever happened to “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses …”?
The French clearly gave the poem to the wrong country
Load More Replies...This happened to my M-I-L. She was hit by a car and received a $50,000 settlement. She had to spend all of that money in a month or she would lose her benefits. She bought a car, paid her rent for a year, gave me and her daughter money. She also needed receipts to prove where she spent the money. So the stuff I bought with that money I gave her receipts.
So if you have a bed, table and chairs, fridge washing machine, couch and tv you are no longer entitled to coverage?
Assets would be a car, house, campers, property, etc. Household items like furniture and appliances don't count.
Load More Replies...It's not just that, if my partner and I get married she and I lose our health care and she is disabled with chronic conditions. Marriage equality, my @ss. The U.S. is a 3rd world country hiding behind a facade of lies.
Glad I live in a country where I can make 900 a months extra before it reduces my 500 buck a week disability pension
Unfortunately this is very true, my dad was power of attorney for someone like this back in the 90’s and he had to watch her money very carefully. She didn’t have much but tended to give to others who were struggling more than her.
I"m sorry, I might have misunderstood this. Disabled (born or acquired) and sick means you have to get rid of your savings?
If you are to claim disability benefits, yes, you are correct.
Load More Replies...Pronoun
People like you make me so mad. We litterally made up every word in the English language so how is Xi/Xer any different. It might help someone who doesn’t feel comfortable w he she or they. It can help w gender Dysphoria and while I don’t use neo pronouns I understand why someone would want to use them.
Load More Replies...No One "Lets" It Happen
Doubt she could kick anyone if shes been drugged or attacked by surprise. Why do these kibds of men always make it the womans fault? Her responsibility to avoid assault? I fought back, i kicked, i pushed, i bite, i scratched - nothing i did was going to stop someone twice my size and a lot stronger than me. But i had a dad i could be honest with, who held my hand and didnt hide his heartbreak, who didnt once blame me. So i say with the utmost sincerity f**k you
I have three daughters... my hubby and I have told them how to avoid being a victim AND we have told them we are there for them 100% if anything happens. You have to support your kids on both sides!
Gotta disagree. People, especially kids, can be groomed. If it's someone they and/or their family trust, they may not recognize it as sexual assault.
Load More Replies...The OP is disgusting victim-blaming. And as a survivor, I can say the counselor's response is right on target.
I hope OP's daughter never gets sexually assaulted. I also hope that if she does, she gets therapy, because her father has raised her to blame herself, to think that she has somehow "let" herself be abused. Raise your daughters to be confident, raise them to be strong, and to defend themselves. Raise them to know that rape is not the fault of the victim, ever. That she didn't "let" him. If she was drugged or drunk, it was the rapists fault, not hers. If he was stronger than her, or had a weapon, it was the rapists fault, not hers. If she was paralysed by shock and fear, and couldn't effectively resist, it was the rapists fault, not hers. If he used threats to force her compliance, it was the rapists fault, not hers. Stop teaching victim-blaming and s**t-shaming disguised as empowerment.
100%. That original comment was disgusting.
Load More Replies...Yep. Took me years to have enough courage to bring it up. Most of us try to pretend it didn't happen to avoid the added pain.
I didn't have a choice (the police told my parents), but I thought waaaaay too much about how embarrassed I was to have male relatives know. I'm sorry we're both members of this club, Persephone. <3
Load More Replies...We tried. We fought. We were still SA'ed. Nothing is being done about it. Have you seen r@pists faces? They are all beaten up. We are not the bloody weaker sex! We just happen to be the targeted sex!
100% of the women I hung out with in high school have been sexually assaulted
Interesting Threat …
Citation Needed
He's 44
Macron is 44 too, and a horrible person... so.... age is not always the problem. Bernie is a million years old, and I'd have him for president any day.
Dunno, boris johnson is in his 50's and still a total chump - nicola sturgeon while still in her 50's is a lot more in touch with the people she represents - you eother care about people or your out for yourself at the expensive of people - think we all know the politicians that fall into the latter category
And he's a very intelligent well educated man. Compare that to ... whoever.
He's thunking about the people and not how to escape on a military helicopter with a bunch of cases of cash? Makes a world of difference I hear.
Us Army F**ked That One Up
pretty sure being gay has no impact on your capacity to be serve what do think will happen
In May 2019 the US Army tweeted “How has serving impacted you?” obviously expecting a bunch of “I am proud to serve my country. Go ‘Murica! Rah!” patriotic answers. Instead they were flooded with stories about suicides, PTSD, depression, drug abuse, sexual harassment and assault, and getting kicked out for being gay.
Did they mention the lack of veteran support funds and services? That's a big thing here.
Load More Replies...What a remarkably stupid question for an agency that thrives on death and suffering. How low is the bar for entry at the Army's PR department?
War is the greatest crime because it includes all the crimes. Which takes nothing away from the courage and sacrifice of participants who think they are doing the right thing. Those who start wars or direct them should fight each other and leave the rest of people alone.
what my dad got from the army was a bunch PTSD that made him kill himself when i was 9. he was only 36.
Clever
My mom taught me to forge her signature in the first grade lol in case she forgot to sign anything for school and I was in a bind
So what did you end up doing? If he had wanted to put his own signature then he wouldn't have shown it to his dad.
No no, the kid wanted the dad to sign something, and the dad wanted him to learn to forge the signature
Load More Replies...While it's sweet that his dad is implying that he trusts his son to sign on things, he's also telling his son that identity theft is no big deal
Would've identity theft, it would be identity loaning.
Load More Replies...I actually had to learn how to forge my boss's signature back when I was a secretary. He gave me a piece of paper with it and told me to practice until it looked the same. Yeah, he was a real ethical guy. ;)
My mother refused to sign things for school already when I was 13. So if I had been sick or something, she did not write me a note for school and sign it. She told me to write the note myself. But she did not ask me to sign it with her name (fraud). She thought that I was so old that the school should trust me, and told me to write the notes and sign them with my name.
They Got You
It’s all tied together, including the processed food we eat.
Load More Replies...They'd have to actually give raises instead of pleading poverty due to health insurance rates, too.
They're probably opposed to it because you'll never be able to get into see a doctor and your skin rot might spread to other employees and force the business to close down. With private health care you will see someone in a week or two at most.
That's right, there are no businesses in countries with socialised healthcare. Everyone just lies around in the mud all day, eating grass. Can you even read this nonsense you post?
Load More Replies...Leaving
make them put on shirts and do some house chores. Then I'll bake pancakes and we'll sit outside and they can tell me about their lives and I'll tell them about all the cats in the neighbourhood.
Apparently AC/DC and metallica are a big turn off? SO I'd just play my playlist on full volume (Disclaimer: Not saying people who listen to AC/DC and metallica are weird, just some prissy faeries on the internet told me its a big turn off, and these boys seem the type.)
Wonder Why That Is, Jim?
I urge everyone to look Brian Tyler Cohen up on YouTube. https://youtube.com/c/briantylercohen
I was literally ready to jump in here and tell everyone that. Brian is quick whittled and whip smart
Load More Replies...Jim Jordan broke the stupid scale ages ago. Nothing he says/tweets is based on facts or reality, for that matter.
Its now £2 a litre for petrol here - so about 7.50 a gallon maybe, so about 9dollars? Whereas some countries its a fraction of the price - its ridiculous
Why is he tweeting 4.79$ a gallon like he’s putting it on blast then voting against the bill to stop it.. wow. That’s just a new level of hypocrisy that needs a s**t ton of shame to go with it.
Does that mean complaints about prices in other countries are invalid? It's all a load of s**t.
Load More Replies...I Watched It Online, And Can Confirm I Heard It
It Never Ends
slow release ADHD medication makes my adulting a breeze :) I'm enjoying every moment of ignoring the to-do-list.
Well...I couldn't live like that, our family simplified our lives so that this isn't the case.
Please tell me more! (Not being sarcastic, am intrigued)
Load More Replies...I think human behavior has changed and adapted faster than our genetics could keep up. In some ways, on the whole, we're better off than ever before (putting aside momentarily the climate crisis), but we're not getting enough of the things that we've evolved to derive pleasure from, like community, physical activity, and an immediate sense of connection between the things we do and the fulfillment of our physical needs.
Unfortunately, genetics are held back because the Y chromosome never changes generation to generation
Load More Replies...It takes a while but you'll get there. The art of Zen. Let it be. If it ain't burning... Well you get the drift.
But I'll Still Tell Him...
Beware
Then they burn it down and force you to buy more. I'd say that's a solid business/pillaging plan.
Load More Replies...YES!! I have no problem whatsoever with being ruled by one of the Scandi countries.
oh s**t oh god oh god the f35s radar guided missiles can't lock onto wooden targets of that size
That's actually a legit tactic often employed by pirates. Radar can't effectively spot a boat which is smaller than the height of the waves.
Load More Replies...Factually incorrect. We have, sadly, lost the Duke of Edinburgh but we still have the Dukes of York and Sussex.
People Are Morons
Yet you are called a traitor by these people if you try to do something about it.
Hillsy, mate, sorry to correct a fellow Aussie, they didn't have to turn their lights out but they DID have to have screens on the windows that completely prevented any light leakage. Air Wardens would patrol looking for chinks. Almost everyone complied - but getting a 1,000 pound German bomb on your head is, I submit, a powerful incentive.
Yassss
Because churches are exempt from paying taxes but not political organizations.
Load More Replies...I grew up in a church tradition which was strictly apolitical and stuck to teaching straight out of the bible, so it was bizarre to me the first time I heard of this kind of partisanship from the pulpit.
At my old church ( don't go to church much anymore) my mother would grab toddler me and my itty sister and just bloody leave. never slammed the door or anything. my mother is one of the most 'cool and calm under pressure' people I have met
When Nixon was running, the pastor at my Mom's church announced that anyone who didn't vote for Nixon wasn't a Christian. My Mom was 4'7", a ball of fire and she was pissed. She waited for him after church and reamed him a new one. Next Sunday, he apologized.
There Is No Such A Thing As Teacher Shortage
I am but one of many teachers who have left for those reasons and more.
I have a certificate in web technologies (web design and development), work as a marketer/web dev/graphic designer/way too many other things - and I’m thinking of going back to serving/bartending because I made more money and was much more comfortable. I could even afford a vacation once a year :) plus I could go home at the end of the day and forget about the job until my next shift, being a career waitress would be less stress for more money.
Like Magic
I miss the times when they all were national team trainers in any popular sport.
They were constitutional scholars before infectious disease experts. They’re a flexible bunch of morons.
which conflict does this refer to though? because the date is aug 2021, not feb 2022
The Oscar's Ugliest Moment
in suprising news, conservative middle-aged white men in the 1970s in america were assholes.
and the 1980s. And the 1990s. And the 2000s. And the 2010s. And the 2020s ...
Load More Replies...i love how John Wayne, the epitome of 'American male', was given the name Marion at birth...
Pretty Much…
Honey mustard plus ketchup plus hot sauce plus chipotle mayo plus a squidge of BBQ is my favourite
Load More Replies...He Spoke For All Of Us
Real Money
He has backed out, but twitter says he was already under contract. Now they are suing him because he broke that contract. https://www.npr.org/2022/07/08/1110539504/twitter-elon-musk-deal-jeopardy
Load More Replies...wish I could downvote this 20 times. Musk is not a savior.
Load More Replies...Do Taxes Have To Be This Complicated?
because you live in one of the most f****d up countries in the world
How I do my taxes: the local equivalent of IRS sends me my tax report with everything already filled, with info on how much I owe them or they owe me. I just go through it and make sure everything checks out. If they don't hear from me, what they sent stands as my tax report.
Tax software companies like Turbo have strong lobbying to prevent this.
All lobbying should be illegal. How the F do we allow legalized bribery and pressure of our government representatives?!?!?! Just WHAT!!
Load More Replies...Because most people get money back. And they hope you f**k up so you don't get that money back.
They're not exactly incentivized to make sure you get every deduction... When money is involved always check the math yourself.
Hey Elon, This You?
TBF, he donated 480k$ to supply water purification equipment to public buildings and schools, and a further $423,000 to buy laptops for Flint middle schoolers. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-flint-michigan-water-b2011633.html
And that's the money he found under the couch cushions. Imagine what he could do if he took a hammer to his piggy bank.
Load More Replies...Burn It All Down….m4a Now
I can relate to this. Insuring my family of four would cost me 1/3 of my income. This is with my employer paying half of my premiums. If I need to use the insurance, I would have a $15,000 deductible before anything happens.
Mine is 8,700$ before they pay. Whats the point? It’s a joke on a joke wrapped in a hilarious joke.
Load More Replies...For those stuck in this situation. Before you cancel a needed surgery please speak with the financial department. I worked for a county hospital and people were put on payment plans and amounts were written off. I know it's not ideal but it's worth a shot.
Or go on a trip to another country that has universal healthcare and just get it done for free. 🤷🏼♀️
Load More Replies...If I could deal w gore I wouldn’t be opposed to ruining my own life so I can give free surgeries and help people for free. Edit: I found out abt this group called the Janes or smth like that they helped get people abortions before they were legal and had a “pay what you can to help the next person” kinda thing. Found that interesting and kinda like what I was saying.
You act like we don't want this, or haven't tried. Believe me, most of us want it. Unfortunately the government makes the decision. Not us.
Load More Replies...What’s The Biggest News Story From The Weekend?
No more panem for the kids, though. They should have stayed in the womb, they would have received more consideration.
Load More Replies...My school is no longer eligible for free meals, which Idk how? 25% of our kids in our school, the meals the school provides is all they eat! Only lunch! One meal a day from kindergarteners and seniors in highschool. sickening what the world has come to, where children can't eat.
Let me guess: conservatives voted against a renewal of the scheme?
Are Y'all Ok?
Only thing i do when my husband isnt here is starfish in bed, until a child decides to join me and i end up clinging to the edge of the bed.
For everyone who is so concerned about this woman it could well be when she says "I don't know what to do with myself" she could mean "I don't know if I should dance butt naked to the Time Warp at full blast or try to sing both parts of Phantom of the Opera at once because he's not here to stare at me". And for the record, the answer is: both. Do both.
Wow. So, when hubby is away...I do all the things I can't while he's here. Deep cleaning that requires days to dry without being touched/moved. Eating at places he doesn't like. Anything I want to get organized that I normally wont do while he's around because all the disorganization and activity to get organized gets on his nerves. It's not so much 'he never lets me do' as 'I choose not to because he's with me.'
For real! If you are not doing things because of the person you are with, you are with the wrong person!!!
Yeah this is weird... I don't cheat, but you know... may eat ice cream naked on the couch and fart... oh wait, we already do that.
I have a lot of friends in that camp, unfortunately. We have a long way to go as a society.
Power Move
This story started from a web channel called Mega TV and is unsubstantiated by any reliable source. There were cases of Antivaxxers who faked their vaccination card, several are being prosecuted under Greek law and risk a fine equivalent to 6000$. If this story was true, the doctors would have their medical practice license revoked for administering a treatment without consent and faking medical records.
And since this is still a crime, they will be held accountable for it. Even if it is kind of funny.
Wtaf is “bacteriostatic” water?? There are bacteriostatic antibiotics but those aren’t vaccines and don’t work against viruses.
So True..
Everyone from every age difference throws tantrums sometimes. Don’t lose sight of the point of this post: Trying to put up with a Boomer tantrum about something minor like where the paperclips should be while they’re making 3x as much as you and can’t even open a PDF or add photos to an email or remove a paper jam from the printer or any kind of modern world office skills without your help is just exhausting 🙃 like half my job is saving the Boomers from themselves I swear. I’d be fired if I didn’t know how to do my job, just saying.
Load More Replies...This Is The Most American S**t Ever
You could make it more american by adding that no pregnant women are allowed to be involved in designing those developments, and that all schools in those developments must only have one door for the active shooter.
....and before discussing any of this there will be a mandatory prayer meeting. Not Xtian? You're fired!
Load More Replies...The absolute sign of a civilization in decline is the systemic refusal to accept what is and instead legislates "how it should be" and "should" is determined by a controlling minority.
What is even America? It’s so f****d I am at a loss for words at this point. 🤯
Don’t worry, when the water rises they’ll all rush to the coast to shoot their guns at it.
Poor Joe
I have it in good authority that during that same time any unvaccianted Canadians couldn't enter the US either....https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/travel/us-international-travel-vaccine.amp.html
Sure, true, but not sure what your point is - we have been avoiding the US like it’s that weird angry uncle at Christmas 😅😅
Load More Replies...It Doesn't Have To Be This Way
If you arrange meeting to happen at 7am and make me wait more than half an hour without good reason then no I dont want to work for you.
7:45 and I'm gone, eating an egg mcmuffin and reading bored panda...
So by that principle they can turn up 11 hours late to work without any consequences
If I was told an interview was at 7 and was left waiting, after about 45 to an hour I would leave. The only reason I would even wait that long is sometimes interviews run long and I have had situations where I had to wait up to an hour. But 8-10 hours, hell no!
So, he employed the ones who didn't mind sitting around doing nothing all day. Congrats.
And what did the potential employer learn from this idiocy? Were the two remaining better qualified or just more desperate?
Damn...
Team GB got a bronze in Skateboarding too, and we couldn't be prouder of Sky Brown.
This is the kind of twit who thinks Simone Biles is a loser and a quitter. Ick.
Rip Betty
The passing of Betty White. People magazine published a 100th birthday issue after her death.
Load More Replies...Why Are It Guys Such D**ks?
My brother flew from Manchester to Norway, was collected and driven to the site who had a problem, switched the plug on at the wall - which he'd been assured had been checked - and left.
IT guys are the acctuall best. My dad was an IT guy for a while and I kid you not we would not know how to do anything technology related w out him. Also we can figure out little hacks w him and if you ever need a certain adapter or an extension cord he has a bin full of spare things like that. They have to out up w an lot of peoples bs and that is another reason why I greatly respect them.
I had to drive a 6 hour round trip to plug a phone into a wall. I have done this 5 times now. For the same person and the same phone.
can confirm. people shouldn't be allowed to use computers unless they achieve >120 on an IQ test.
Poison Ivy And Mr Freeze Were Right
Yes. Batman actually uses his wealth to help Gotham. The Bruce Wayne Foundation donates money to keep Arkham Asylum and possibly Blackgate Penitentiary operational, Gotham P.D. usually gets a hefty cash boost from the foundation as well, and there are countless other places and people who receive help too. Obvious examples being D**k Grayson and Jason Todd, two orphans who would have had nothing if Bruce hadn't taken them in. Freeze and Ivy have no problems killing to achieve their goals. Something Batman is vehemently against.
Oh No! Anything But That!
Why don’t you just do what that one guy did and rob a bank for 1$ with a note, and then your treatment will be free.
Amazing
I buy my Christmas tree from a man who began growing and selling pumpkins in high school to help pay for college. He's now selling Christmas trees after the pumpkins are done and I'd like to ask him if he was able to go to college but I'm afraid to ask.
Wow the sheer fact that they report on this in a uplifting way instead of an outrages way tells you their in on it.
This isn’t a “feel good” story. This is our dystopian nightmare of a country failing a 6-year-old.
A Woman Who Has Never Held A Job Accused Women Of Not Wanting To Work
All kardassians are useless oxygen thieves.
Load More Replies...Shout Out To The Luckiest Timeline 4 Wp
It isn't luck. It's causation. They caused it. They obstructed change. They have been courted by the right. They exchanged our future as long as they got what they wanted. I'm Gen X btw. I have lived through every Republican majority that deregulated financial rules. SNL scandal, Dot Com bust, Housing Bust, the Great Recession, Hyper Inflation. The rights formula always fails, yet is always repeated. The Boomers stopped healthcare reform while demanding higher benefits, they have been the worst, most entitled generation ever. There are so many problems now, it can't be fixed. It would take a unified effort and the formula to keep us fragmented to prevent that is simple. This group wants something normal (marriage, freedom from racism, sexism, immigration, etc.). That will hurt you by (BS reason). Vote for me to stop them. The politics of hate is why the US is a joke. It's why we are struggling. The problem is too big now. And the country is too spiteful to fix it.
Beav??? (I'm so sorry. You probably get that all the time)- I'm Gen X as well and agree.
Load More Replies...I'm GenX too but I'm also aware that every generation has been through hells that the others can't imagine. Life is different for every individual!! We haven't known being drafted into wars in droves, we have lived with conveniences never imagined before our generations. We have our difficulties and prior generations had theirs. Every "Boomer" isn't responsible for what their government did anymore than all of us choose what our idiot government has done to us, in the form of stripping away women's rights and more. It's time to accept that we are here now and no blaming fixes things. "Boomers" aren't some evil group! Any more that Xs, Millennials, or Zs... we all just have/had/will have different worlds to navigate and do the best we can with them!
You can be part of the solution or continue as part of the problem. Be the change you want to see in the world.
Please send examples of how an individual with no money can stop climate change.
Load More Replies...Confusing Times
Medical Services In The United States Are Expensive
And then they wonder why the birth rate in the US is in decline (amongst other reasons, of course).
Load More Replies...ISTG If I ever saw that on a bill for having a baby there would be more skin to skin contact between my fist and the person who came up with this' face.
what they gonna do if you dont pay repossess the baby actually its the US so they actually might
I believe it’s in the title... Skin to skin aka to hold the baby. It only makes sense to the hospital. Im surprised they are not charging for room oxygen rates.. 😬 I hope that doesn’t give the hospitals ideas.. I’d actually feel responsible if I see that on my bill.
Load More Replies...That hospital should be ashamed of itself. #shitholeUSA. #theList.
Truly ….
I make something like 60x more than my mom did at the same age, but I can just barely afford the same things she did. Your inflation is trivial compared to Africa. Thanks for continuously downgrading us and sabotaging our currency, WALL STREET.
Oh it's much worse than that. When my father retired as a teacher in 2014 he was earning around 42,000. My mum never worked after having me. Over 30 years that salary bought a 4 bed home, brought up two kids, paid for a new car every 3 years and a foreign holiday each year. Today my wife and I have a combined salary of over 125,000, placing us in the top 5 percent of household incomes in the UK. And we JUST about managed to scrape enough together to buy our first home last year (aged 34), haven't had a proper holiday in years, drive 5 year old cars, and couldn't even dream of bringing children into the world. It's not that the rules of the game have changed, the game just doesn't even exist anymore.
Some things have experienced reverse-inflation in that time though. In the early 1990s my parents replaced the B&W television they had been given as a wedding present in 1984 with a 26" color set which was probably around $500. Adjusted for inflation, the cost of that TV would be over $1000 today, but adjusted for the deflation in TV prices since then, it would be $9.34 (figures derived from data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics).
We See You Elon
Didn't he pay the kid to stop? I mean, if he did, that kid's got all the right hobbies.
He offered some paltry sum and the kid said that he could offer him millions but it would never be enough to replace the joy he felt at doing it.
Load More Replies...The Covid Fatalism Has Set In
As someone who just tested positive for it last week, I think I rejoined too early.
It sucks worse than anything. And I got it the most mild in my family. I was the only one well enough to acctually do stuff with out barfing or being too weak so I was stuck taking care of everyone while I was still sick.
Ancient Greece Wasn't Gay
When I was in 7th grade I had to explain to an eighth grader that Mexico is part of North America, and not South America. He was very shocked. This was in America. I don't think this guy would be physically capable of understanding that Ancient Greeks existed a long time before Christianity.
Load More Replies...The Hellenistic period ended with the Romans' defeat of the Greeks at the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C., thirty-one years before their Jesus guy was born. And Christianity didn't exist for another sixty years after that.
"In the beginning there was nothing. Then Zeus said 'Let there be light!', and Apollo replied 'What does it look like I'm doing?', and then there was light."
I say all the gays get together and start judging all the christians for being straight in a mocking way. Use examples from the bible to mock them. I just wanna see what happens if that s**t gets turned on them.
Trumps Are Not Well Known For Their Critical Thinking Skills
That kid needs to be adopted by intelligent parents. Also, Lara Trump is a lost cause.
What's funny is they were all born that weird and nuts. She married into it and absorbed it, like a weird amoeba.
Load More Replies...The fact that CA, NY and IL are red here shows how much of a lie this graph is lol
So Messed Up
so indentured labour? The british empire did this in Natal in south africa in the 1800s with indian slaves.
Another "pro-life" state where heavily armed people make each others' lives miserable while mowing down what's left of nature. I miss it oh so much!
They should’ve turned around and sued the first hospital or use any time off
This Is Absolutely Insane. We Need Police Accountability
I checked uo on the story and thankfully it has a happy ending, but yeah, f**k you, you hopefully fired m**********r: "After the crash, an emergency room doctor told Harper, who was 2 months pregnant at the time, that "not all pregnancies are viable" and that he could not detect a heartbeat, her lawyer, Andrew Norwood, told BuzzFeed News on Friday. The next day, however, a doctor detected a heartbeat, and Harper, who had spent years trying to get pregnant, is now the mother of a 4-month-old baby girl."
I watched the full video, it was horrifying! Especially the part where the officer waited a good long time before slowly meandering over to her vehicle to check on her!
This is the police state the "right" wing of the US government wants.
Intelligence doesn't mean you're a good person, nor does the inverse means you aren't.
Load More Replies...As a Non-American this is very unclear to me. What does it mean "to look for ab exit"?. How can a person flip a car? And why would he do that?
She was looking for a safe place to pull over as the shoulder was too narrow where she was driving. A pit maneuver is a method of using one vehicle to unbalance another to get the driver to stop, but can result in the second vehicle rolling depending on conditions. As to why the cop did that? He's a fascist who joined the empire to do violence upon the people with impunity.
Load More Replies...Make It Make Sense
When I sold my house and paid off the mortgage my credit score TANKED. Just something to be aware of.
I added 15 points to mine when I paid off $200 on Apple card. LMAO. What a con.
For yrs they said our student loans were the cause of our low credit score. Husband's got forgiven and now his credit is worse
Mine didn't drop that much, but it did go down. Went down when I paid off my grad school loan, too.
Credit score is based on using credit responsibly. If you don't use it, it goes down. I use a CC for everything and pay it in full each month. No interest charges, cash back and excellent credit score.
I use a credit card for nothing. Don't even have one. Bought my car cash. House the same. I don't have much income but my savings are decent and I have no debt. Don't know what my credit score is. Don't care.
Load More Replies...A Few More Years, And It Still Is True
I remember people discussing Lost every week. I was not watching it because I don't like watching series while they are on. I cannot stand the anticipation of what will happen next week. So, I was waiting for it to finish and I can binge watch it. And then it ended. And people were so disappointed. I have never watched Lost.
Load More Replies...The show in general was incredible shitty. Any plot point worth a damn had to be told with titties in your face so you actually remembered it
I've rewactehd GoT many many times including the last season. I don't care about how it ended (it was underwhelming, but not outrageous to me; I was okay with the general picture), I care about the ride and all the emotions I felt while I first watched it. I like reliving that.
Get a life???? Your scrolling in bored panda like the rest of us, maybe you get a life
Load More Replies...What A F**ktard
I especially loved the one about being one of the dozens of people who live outside the USA, priceless!
Wait… so people actually live outside of the country? Really? Oh my god!
Load More Replies...I usually don't read the text between the images, but this is just...a different vibe than i was expecting.
A friend pointed out that those Facebook posts that ask for pets' names could be used to guess passwords. When I realized how many of my passwords did use a pet's name, I changed them all. And I stopped replying to those FB posts.
Load More Replies...I especially loved the one about being one of the dozens of people who live outside the USA, priceless!
Wait… so people actually live outside of the country? Really? Oh my god!
Load More Replies...I usually don't read the text between the images, but this is just...a different vibe than i was expecting.
A friend pointed out that those Facebook posts that ask for pets' names could be used to guess passwords. When I realized how many of my passwords did use a pet's name, I changed them all. And I stopped replying to those FB posts.
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