When she's not dancing or defending Kevin Hart, Ellen DeGeneres is treating her guests to the surprise of their lives. The Ellen Show has become the go-to destination to watch people scream their heads off, either because of one of Ellen's now-infamous jump scares or treating a non-famous guest to an interaction with a real, live famous person.

She REALLY loves the phrase "the surprise of their lives," almost as much as she loves surprises.

Whether a guest, a celebrity, or a member of her staff, Ellen DeGeneres lives up to her last name.

Ellen's DeGenerosity has defined her show as the daytime TV's "feel good" destination ever since The Oprah Show stopped airing and surprising people with Oprah's Favorite Things.

It makes for great TV, and even greater parodies.

She's making dreams come true.

It got dark.

Real dark.

As is mandated in the Life Cycle of Memes, things got meta and magnificently weird.

When things get dark and weird, remember what Ellen's fish alter-ego said: just keep swimming.

That, or make absurdist Ellen memes that present the pain as humor.

Is there anything better than old people navigating modern technology?

From writing "menu" in the comments of chain restaurant Facebook pages to texting their grandchildren confusing thoughts or voice-texting failures, it's hard for older people to forge through the fast-paced world of the internet. When they were young, they had landlines that were attached to walls. Now we can take our phones everywhere, video-chat friends in other countries and order cabs from our pockets. Most millennials hate talking on the phone and I'm not convinced that Gen Z even knows how to address an envelope.

Luckily, grandparents and older people have younger generations to explain texting and email to them in exchange for all of us getting a good laugh at their confusion. To help brighten your day, we've compiled this list of the funniest texts from old people. Relish in your youth, soon we'll all be just as confused by self-driving flying cars and planes flown by robots.

1. She's got jokes.

2. Sometimes an eager approach is the right one.

3. Fashion sense is important.

4. Grandma, why are you yelling?

5. Hip as hell.

6. What is happening?

7. Never too old.

8. Dying to know the story here.

9. This grandma, recognizing defeat.

10. When she's honest.

11. This is an A+ response.

12. When they don't take an sh*t.

13. Emails are hard.

14. This is art.

15. This needs to be in a museum.

16. When you get owned in the fashion department.

17. Sad!

18. Sometimes you just need confirmation.

Almost everyone has a complicated relationship with their boss.

While there are many different kinds of bosses: the ghost boss, the micro-manager, the monster, the clueless wonder, or the Michael Scott-type--most of the time you're lucky if you and your boss have a happy and healthy working relationship. In any position of power, communication and mutual respect is key. Coincidentally, communication and mutual respect is also key to romantic relationships but I wouldn't advice anyone to date their boss. It didn't go well for Bridget Jones.

When a recent Reddit user asked the internet, "What is the weirdest reason you were called into your boss's office?" the internet was prepared. Get ready to appreciate your jobs!

1. This is alarming, "MandySmash."

Said good morning after grabbing a water bottle near his office door and got a delayed, mumbled response. A few minutes later I get a "Come see me, please" email.

I walk in and he asks if he had been snoring and asks for water. I grab him a bottle and he takes a pill then hands me his keys, which have a market card on them, and asks me to get him a coke.

He is diabetic and a kidney transplant recipient. He had passed out and needed sugar ASAP.

2. Oh my god, "asdlpg."

Back when I was an intern, a coworker told me to give a pile of papers to my boss and to tell him that he is an "asshole". He told me explicitly that I have to call him that way. I went to my boss's office, told him who send him the papers and then I told him "Well, he also said that I should say something to you, which is really unplea" - "Is it that I am an asshole?" me:"Well yes but"- Him:"It's ok, he's one too". It turned out that those two guys are basically bffs and that they constantly do something like this.

3. Classic problem, "foammymorningpuke."

Another employee who didn't speak the same language as anyone else who happened to be in the office that day had decided to take a nap on his desk. Boss wanted to ask my opinion on what he should do about it because he was flummoxed.

4. This is a nightmare, "Cat-Mama11."

My glasses didn't match my uniform. He told me to change them. I said no because I don't have vision insurance. I told my boss I am not paying $600 or more just because my blue glasses don't go with my Olive Garden uniform. He was still insisting I change them. I told him to pay for my glasses then. Needless to say my boss shut up real quick.

5. Hardcore bullying, "huhmz."

A coworker accused me of stealing his lunch, then he went to our boss and asked to be reassigned due to 'bullying in the workplace'.

No, I did not steal his fucking food. My boss knew this as well and laughed it off.

6. Coolest boss award, "leigh094."

She wanted me to watch the detective pikachu trailer with her

7. Yikes, "Aeon_Zadak."

She had managed to get a large piece of glass lodged into her hand from a picture frame she attempted to catch when she knocked it over. I was working in a college with a nursing department so I went and got some professors.

8. This is amazing, "hockeyepidemiologist."

I was an RA in college, and whenever we had to go on rounds of the apartments we had to submit a report of what had happened on our rounds. Most of the time nothing happened and there was nothing to write about. However, I got tired of writing a paragraph or two of "started rounds... saw no one... finished rounds" so I started making my reports have themes. I wrote them up like my rounds were important plot points in cowboy, star wars, or horror movies, and usually included background music to listen to while reading them. At the end of the semester, I ended by submitting a report written in rhyme to The Night Before Christmas and he called me in to tell me that he was going to fire me (foregoing probation or any other disciplinary action first) until the dean of students saw the poem and loved it.

9. Oh man, "AngryBillsFan."

I had food poisoning and my boss thought I was just sitting in the bathroom to waste time. The discussion ended prematurely when I covered his desk in vomit

10. Goals, "SwervingLemon."

Used to make levels for Quake while taking tech support calls. One day, while modeling a level and doing an FFR (Fdisk, format, reinstall) I notice a boss out of the corner of my eye. Fuck it. I'm busted. I don't even try to hide what I'm doing. Mute the customer and ask if he needs anything. "Put youself in time when you get off this call. I'd like to see you in the pit."

The pit was a corner of the call center where all the lead techs and bosses sat.

My stomach lurches.

"Ok." I turn my attention back to the caller and finish up in about another 20 mins. I loved this job. I'm really bummed. I switch my status and start walking back to the pit, except now there's THREE bosses right outside my cubicle.

"Can you do a level that's the floor plan of the call center, with the elevator and all?"

No shit.

I was promoted a month later.

11. A+, "wynterwytch."

He found the script for Monty Python online and called me into his office to act out the parts.

12. Everyone needs an inflatable shark, "cakebasedambiguity."

I was asked to help fix the inflatable shark he had hanging from the ceiling.

13. Wikipedia knows everything, "WhipTheLlama."

In the early 2000s my boss called me in so he could show me Wikipedia, which he had just discovered. He says "ask me anything and I'll find the answer!" I asked how many tacos are sold per day in San Antonio. He was angry because that's "obviously not a question that Wikipedia can answer".

14. Woah, "p4rtyg0th."

got called into my old bosses office to ask if i noticed how bad one of my coworkers smelled, too. turns out customers were complaining and he asked me if it was true. it was. later, the same coworker disappeared and cops showed up saying he might have been involved in kidnapping a girl....... hmmm

15. Yikes, "anunwithagun."

I took too many lengthy dumps throughout the day. True story.

16. Wow, "VonMeatstein."

During allergy season I had a cough and was clearing my throat a lot. There was complaints I was too loud and having allergies on purpose...

17. Netflix passwords are gold, "livingoff2008."

boss called me in, sat me down and gave me a 50 cent raise for giving him my netflix password

At one point or another, most of us have been caught in situations that look far worse than they actually were. Maybe a roommate's significant other walked in while you were lotioning yourself up nude in the living room because you thought they were out of town. Perhaps someone peeped your open computer tab revealing research on cannibalism, but it's really for a school project, and you don't have time to explain.

Whatever the circumstance, we've all been there on some level, and once the humiliation has subsided these misunderstandings make for great stories.

In a recent Reddit thread people shared their wildest stories of situations that weren't as they appeared, and many of these feel plucked straight from an Ernest movie.

1. Kai-028 had some explaining to do.

"Years ago I was dating this girl, and I had just acquired a black powder gun. Now for those of you who don't know, one of the parts on many of the black powder guns is called a nipple, and usually require a wrench to get off. Mine didn't have this wrench so I punched in "Ruger nipple wrench" into Google and went downstairs to grab a drink.

When I come back into her room, she's looking at my laptop, wide eyed and nervously says "Ummm, I don't know if I would be into that..." Cue my reaction of "What? No! Wait it's a gun tool thing I swear!"

2. chiaspod sh*t the bed in front of his boss.

"Mine's a little different. I was at a corporate function, and noticed that the president of the company was trying to clean his glasses with a paper napkin. Being the well-prepared person I am, I always keep a microfiber cloth in my pocket - I wear glasses, too, and I prefer to actually clean the glasses, not just smudge the oils around. I digress."

"So I reach into my pocket, grab a cloth, and hand it to him. And he responds with a confused "Huh."Now, at this time I also have a son who is going through potty training, so I tended to keep spare clothes; usually in my backpack, but also in the pockets of my overcoat."

"I look over, and the president of my company is kind of staring at the (unused, thank God) pair of Jake and the Neverland Pirates underwear, boys size small, I just handed him. And of course, my immediate response wasn't to laugh, wasn't to say "oh, those are my kid's backup pair" ... no, my response was to immediately say "those aren't mine!" Which was 1) obvious, and 2) not guilty sounding at all."

3. Recabilly got caught editing nipples.

"I work at a school portrait company. I retouch thousands of images and sometimes I need to retouch inappropriate things. Well this high school girl was wearing a see through shirt and I had to retouch out her nipples. I was in the office by myself as a 20 something year old man when a girl walks in and sees me zoomed in on this high school girls see through shirt... I CAN EXPLAIN! I told her I'm not a creep, I'm just retouching her shirt so you can't see her nipples... It was very awkward but since she worked as a photographer she completely understood once I explained."

4. CaptainAwesome06's daughter summed up their play time in the worst way possible.

"When my daughter was around 3 years old, she casually told my wife that "Daddy likes to come into my room naked and play with me." It took a minute to realize what she was talking about. A few weeks prior to that, she had woken up screaming. Bad dream, I'm guessing. I jump out of bed wearing nothing but boxer briefs to see what the problem was. To get her to stop crying, I tried to make her laugh. Luckily, my wife believed me."

5. tweri12 had a similar situation with a child.

"I babysit for extra income and took a four year old boy I was caring for to the park. I was pushing him on the swing and he pipes up, "That tickles my penis." I have NO idea why - he'd been swinging for a good 15 minutes before announcing that and I'm not sure if he just shifted his weight in the swing, or that was the only way he knew to describe feeling butterflies in his stomach from the swinging motion, but I was legit worried he might tell his parents something like, "tweri12 tickled my penis on the swing". I'm a woman - the fear would be magnified ten fold if I were a man."

6. pghpride got caught in one of the most incriminating (looking) positions.

"My friend Anna was in her 20's but she looked really young, easily as though she could be a minor. She had too much to drink at the bar so I started carrying her home on my shoulders as she was having a really hard time walking. As we got to her house I went to let her down and she fell off and smacked her head on the fence. She was wearing a skirt and as she fell it went up to her waist. I'm trying to get her to come-to so she can go in her house when an old lady walks out on her porch and starts screaming, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THAT LITTLE GIRL, WHERE ARE HER CLOTHES."

"I try to calmly explain that this is her house and I'm just a friend trying to get her home but she just keeps shouting, "WHERE ARE HER CLOTHES, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HER." She won't come to and I realize just how bad the situation looks, so I tell the old lady we can call an ambulance. As I tell my friend we are about to call an ambulance, she immediately comes to and fixes her skirt and stands up. The old lady says, "oh you were right, I guess she had clothes the whole time."

7. dlordjr almost got arrested over a chili dog.

"As a broke college kid, one of my go-to meals was a $0.69 chilli dog from 7-11, which was 4 blocks from my dorm. I had no car. One winter's night, I bundled up in my heavy coat, gloves. and beanie and went to get myself one."

"So I'm heading back, holding my foil-wrapped dinner, and decide to run (to get out of the cold faster.) Next thing I know, a cop car screeches to a halt in front of me, and I'm ordered to the ground. Spent the next couple minutes explaing to NJ PD why I'm running out of a convenience store, at night, in a "ski mask", waving a shiny metal object.

TL/DR: Suspected assault with a deadly weiner."

8. leminadefoxx's sister's boyfriend had some explaining to do.

"Sister came home to her boyfriend and our brother laying his head in his lap (her bf was holding his head in his lap and stroking his head and back) she was confused and as soon as she opened her mouth her bf turned around “oh hey, be quiet, he just fell asleep.” Apparently my brother got food poisoning and was throwing up constantly, her bf showed up to return some things she left at his house. So being* him, he helped our brother get some medicine from the store, change, and stroked his head on the couch till he fell asleep (it took a while since he was always getting up to throw up). We all laugh about it now :))"

"Edit: OKAY! To clear up some confusion, me and my sister are both 16, her boyfriend is 17, and my brother is 19 going on 20 here soon! Also! My brother is shorter than her bf (bro: 5’9, sbf: 6’1). This happened like 3 months ago.

Edit2: and my brother and sbf are both Bi, but sbf has only ever dated 1 guy years ago and my brother is like basically gay at this point lmfao, and for all those asking, they consider each other brothers"

9. giveuschannel83 accidentally left her underwear out for her parents to peruse.

"This happened in high school, shortly after I started dating my first “boyfriend”. At the time, I would often wear a camisole with a built-in bra layered under a V-neck tee. One day, I was wearing this outfit but wanted to go shopping after school for other shirts, so I brought a regular bra with me to try stuff on."

"After I got out of the store, I for some reason didn’t want to put the bra in my bag so I put it in the armrest compartment between the front seats of my dad’s car, and of course immediately forgot it was there."

"The next day, my parents were getting ready to go somewhere. They had left the house, but moments later my mom barged back in, demanding to know why I was “taking off my clothes in the car”. I frantically tried to explain the clothes shopping story, but to this day I’m not sure she bought it."

10. Fielder57 experienced a series of unfortunate events.

"Oh man. Back in my early 20s, Around mid-2000s when Jackass was all the craze i went to a house party. A girl there took a big liking to me and kept coming onto me pretty strong. I was in a relationship and kept turning her down. I went into the parents’ bedroom to take a call when she came into the room and tried to kiss me. I said no and she started to undress, I told my friend on the other end of the phone what was going on and he just said 'well, jump out the window'"

"20 year old, drunk me thought this was a great idea, Just like CKY/ Jackass! So I opened the window and jumped out onto the grass below, Rolled and walked away unhurt, The next thing I know there is a dull thud and semi-Naked crazy chick was laying on the ground, She had jumped out after me, hit the earth below, slipped and fallen backwards hitting her head on the ground."

"People inside the party heard the noise and came running out the door of the house to find me standing over a semi-conscious, half naked girl…."

11. Luckboy28 had a supremely weird moment in church.

"I was really tall in Jr High. One of my best friends at the time was pretty short, and we had a running joke where he would use a little kid voice whenever standing next to me, because I was so much taller."

"So one day we're playing tag around my church building (grew up in a conservative house) after most people had already left, and my buddy runs into the bathroom and locks himself in a stall. But I was taller than the wall of the stall, so I pressed up against it and looked down at him and said in my best creepy voice "You can't hide from me!" and he used his little-kid voice to say "Oh no! Somebody please help!"

"Of course, one of the old church ladies was standing in the doorway behind us, watching the whole thing with horror. Turns out she was there to clean, and caught us at exactly the wrong time."

12. grlonfire93 accidentally became a peeping Tom.

"During lunch at my school everyone would be in the lunchroom, it was a small school so pretty much everyone ate at the same time. A friend of mine and I would skip lunch and spend the time just running around the school doing whatever we wanted. One day we were playing like an extreme form of hide and seek all around the school and she ran into the bathroom. I went into the bathroom and stepped up on the toilet seat and peeked over the stall. I had planned on being like "ha! Got you!" But it wasn't my friend in the stall. The girl assumed I was trying to be a pervert and went and told a teacher. I got the "are you a lesbian" talk from a very conservative teacher at a very country school and the girl went around telling everyone I was a weirdo and that I tried to watch her pee."

13. FlipSchitz just wanted Mrs Spangler's approval.

"4th grade. All of the kids in my class had figured out that they could get up to sharpen their pencils whenever they wanted - a way to break-up the monotony I suppose. Several students abused this privilege and I didn't want to be counted among the abusers, as Mrs. Spangler had become vocal about this."

"During an assignment, my pencil was dull to the point that the wood was scratching on my paper. I decided to use my thumbnail to break the wood away from the tip and expose the graphite so that I didn't have to sharpen it. As I was doing this, my teacher walked by and exclaimed, "You're trying to break your pencil!" I didn't have time to establish a defense before she admonished me in front of the class.

I still think about it sometimes... I'm 37."

14. AVeryRandomMaid had an awkward talk with Dad.

"I was practicing anatomy for drawing of course. So... I had to look up naked models and stuff. No big deal. Just to get the human form down. Nothing too weird. I get done sketching for the day and went to bed. Over the weekend I was animating and my dad walked in my room to ask me something. Well... he goes “what the hell?” And picks up a drawing. I was like “what?” And he sees these drawings... I legit said the line “wait... I can explain” and he walked away laughing."

15. TxRaindrop moved in across from their ex, for totally non-stalking reasons.

"About 5 1/2 years ago, I dated a guy for like 2 months. While I was dating him, I was in the process of house-hunting. I'd mentioned that the neighborhood he was living in, particularly, was one I had been hoping to buy in. Our relationship fizzled, and we mutually split. Fast-forward a couple months, and a house was on the market across the street and a couple down from his. I hated the awkward fact it was so close to his, but I loved the house itself, and like I'd said, I really wanted to buy in that neighborhood and had been having crap luck."

"So I did what is normally recommended to anyone to do when looking at new homes... I visited in the evening to check out noise/activity levels. At no point did I contact the guy because we hadn't dated that long and I didn't even know if I'd ultimately end up living there. So I was parked at the house I liked when my ex suddenly walked out of his house taking his roommate's dog for a walk. I freaked... realized how bad it might look, like maybe I was stalking him or something, and I wasn't sure if he'd seen me or my car, so I froze as I wondered whether to just do nothing and hope he didn't see, or try to explain myself."

"I opted for the latter. I rolled down my window and awkwardly was like, "heyyyyy......." and explained to him that I was thinking of buying that house. He seemed cool about it, but who knows what was really going through his mind.

I did ultimately buy the house and still live there, and he still lives across the street. Fun times!"

16. ExxInferis met his girlfriend's dad in the worst scenario imaginable.

"I had recently started dating this girl. We had been together maybe 3 months, and I had yet to do the “meet the parents” thing. I had been putting it off as her Dad was this fearsome Scottish dude who was known for his temper."

"Anyhow, at my 19th birthday party (as so many do at this age) things got out of control. It was supposed to be a garden party, but it got changed to a garage party when the weather let me down. It was slinging it down. As my parents didn’t want a mess, everyone was supposed to take off shoes when coming in the house for the toilet. As you can imagine, after everyone breaks the piss seal, few lads can be bothered with all that just for piss. So we are all going through my back gate and using the grass around the corner."

"This also becomes the outdoor smoking spot, and the combined foot traffic in the rain does not take long to turn this into a quagmire of mud and piss."

"My girlfriend takes a massive swig of vodka. Mistake. This is not staying down. She dashes outside to vomit. She hurls up everywhere in this mud then promptly falls over in it. She is so hammered she then rolls over onto her front to stand back up. She now looks like the swamp thing, and she is going downhill fast. She is under strict instructions to be home by midnight, and it is now 11pm and she can barely stand. This is a small town with no Taxi company, and the 1 mile walk across town with someone in this state is not happening."

"As quite a lot of people are staying over, my first gambit was to ring her home and try to get her permission to stay over too. Of course it was her Dad who answered. That request went down like a shit sandwich and was given a very firm “NO!” from the Dad who then just hung up as the conversation was over. Shit."

"So I have to ring back and sheepishly explain that she is too far gone to move under her own power. He will need to come and get her.

“FINE!” [Hangs up again]"

"It was then I knew I really fucked up. She was still in Swamp Thing mode and her dad would be here in no time. We had to clean her up. We had already gotten her out of her jumper. With her still throwing up in the toilet, I explained I was going to lend her some of my jeans. In my drunken brain this was an awesome plan. We just had to wait for her to stop being sick. This didn’t happen. Panic is rising."

"This was more than a one person job. I then got her best friend to help her out of her jeans. I did not hear the Dad arrive as the front door was open from other people leaving. He just walked straight in. I guess someone directed him upstairs as he walks into the bathroom, just in time to see myself and Lucy peeling the jeans down over his daughter’s arse as she was still being sick in the toilet. Time stopped.

Had I asked anyone else to help I would probably be dead. It was a year before I went around for dinner."

17. higbee77 had a moment with a lady cop.

"A female friend of mine who is a Police Officer was on a welfare check and was bit by the property owners dog. She was about a mile from my house when bit and because I am an EMT she decided to call me to see if I could inspect where she was bitten and advise if she needed to go to the hospital. She show up at my house and limps into the kitchen telling me the dog bit her just below her left butt cheek on the rear of her upper thigh."

"I was worried that the bite had broke the skin and she would need to get it bandaged and possibly get a rabies shot. I told her that I would have to take a look at the bite to help her so, she takes off her duty belt and pulls her pants down to around her knees to expose the bite area. It didn't look too bad but there were two spots where the dogs teeth had broke the skin. I told her I would bandage it up so she could make the 20 minute drive to the clinic. I was just about to bandage her leg when my wife walks through the door."

"There I am with one of our female friends, standing in our kitchen, in her police officer uniform, pants down (she was wearing a thong), I was sitting so basically her ass was in my face, and my hands on her upper thigh/butt. We both had the deer in the headlight stare as we realized how bad this must have looked to my wife. We then both shouted out in unison "It was a dog bite!"."

18. enmeduranki accidentally dug himself a verbal hole.

"In the beginning months of a relationship, I was staying over at my girlfriend’s apartment. We were in bed, and the only light in the room came from a bright lamp on the end table, on her side of the bed. Now, in addition to being a bit sensitive to bright light, I have a lazy eye that makes it hard to focus on things that are really close. Things like my girlfriend, at that particular moment."

"So naturally, I asked, “Could you turn off the light? You’re really hard to look at.” I don’t know which of us had the bigger look of horror on our faces.

EDIT: My first silver! And I came soooooo close to not posting, thinking it wasn’t quality enough a comment."

19. siel04 is NOT a thief.

"I was volunteering at a pool for my instructor's certification. The girl I was with was really thirsty and asked if I would mind getting her a Powerade from the vending machine since she couldn't leave her class. She told me where her wallet was so I could get her change. Another staff member walked in while I was taking the money from her wallet. I was the most straightlaced, nervous kid on Earth, lol. I explained. She either believed me or checked with the lifeguard later, but either way, the first girl got her Powerade and the pool hired me later, so the second girl knows I'm not a thief. 😂"

20. PapiRecordsYou can no longer make eye contact with his best friend's girlfriend.

"I got super high and drunk one night with my best friend and his gf. They stayed at my house. My friend is a loud snorer so his gf ended up sleeping on my couch. My best friend in my guest room upstairs."

"At 4 am I woke up still pretty drunk and high. For some reason I felt the need to check social media but couldn’t find my phone. Drunk and high Me decided to go downstairs to find my phone."

"Without realizing his gf was on the couch, I reach down by a pillow to check for my phone. She wakes up, and I’m left there having to explain at 4am why I’m grabbing her face.

I don’t think she believes my story to this day and I look like a rapist. My phone was in my pocket the whole time."

21. YOURMOMMASABITCH let the sexy cat pictures out of the bag.

"A couple years ago, I started a new job. As a result, I bought a house. My wife and I own a cat and we were tired of the cat box making one of the restrooms smell bad. We ended up putting a cat door in the door that leads to the garage and putting his box out there. This way the cat can piss & shit as he pleases without making the house smell bad. We noticed that when he did his business, he would stare intently right Into the wall. As a joke, my wife and I decided to get some cat pin up pictures on the part of the wall he stares at. So that night, I find a few pics of “sexy” girl cats online. I found Pepe le pew’s GF, Felix the cats gf and a couple others. All of them in compromising poses or with a seductive look on their face (nothing pornographic)."

"The next day at work, I tried sending them to the color printer. I was especially careful as the color printer was in the main office where there was nothing but girls working. I went in to make sure there was no one near it before going back to my office and sending it through with a few other documents I needed. Sure enough, I walk back into the office to grab my “papers” and one of the older ladies in the office is standing there looking at it with an awkward but shocked look on her face."

"My jaw dropped as I tried explaining it to her. It came out something along the lines of “its for my cat, I swear!” Well, she wasn’t really believing me, and just walked away. I never really had the same friendly relationship with her after that. I guess she just thought I was some weirdo, which I don’t blame her. Oh well, the cat loves his pictures and admires them every time he drops a deuce."

22. nova2726 only breaks and enters with consent.

"One of my friends was in a cycling accident commuting home from class one night and wound up in the ER. She needed someone to make sure her dog, Fox, is taken care of and tells me she left her bedroom window unlocked so I should be able to get in the house. Now Fox is semi familiar with me but I still don't like the idea of crawling in a window and facing a pretty big dog unannounced."

"So I've got the window in the alley cracked and I'm trying to call Fox and let her know that I'm there and coming in. I'm saying stuff like "Hey Foxy girl, Foxy Lady etc etc" meanwhile the upstairs neighbor hears all of this while she is sitting on the toilet and thinks someone is doing some perv peeping tom stuff looking into windows. Luckily it was all cleared up pretty quickly as we were all college kids that saw each other in and out fairly often, but it almost took a bad turn."

Everyone has that one friend who is an unreliable narrator, a story-topper or an exaggeration artist.

Most of the time, the lies are harmless and always entertaining and nobody bothers to correct them. However, sometimes someone says something that makes everyone say, "there's no way that's true." While most of the time our instincts are right, every now and then that friend comes out of the woodwork with a story about that time they saw a celebrity on a plane and hung out all night in their hotel room.

When a recent Reddit user asked, "What's a story your friend told which you initially thought was bullshit, but turned out to be true?" the internet was ready to share their most unbelievable tales. Don't underestimate that friend who seems to always have a wild life--you never know what might be real.

1. Damn, "my_future_wife."

My friend in HS told me he was banging the new driver's ed teacher.

I didn't believe him until she was arrested.

2. Oh boy, "Heinvinjar."

In 9th grade, during the middle of our teenage angst, a friend in our clique was bragging about banging this pretty hot chick.

No one believed him until we all found out she had gotten pregnant

3. Oh my god, "MonsterKillerDeathMa."

My friend is a pirate. Like, legit jumped from one boat onto another to start a fight and has piracy on his record.

4. The dream, "poisomike87."

That his dad had 40 guitars...

This is when I was in highschool and everyone was scrounging up money to start a band.

Called bullshit, went over to his house after school and HOLY FUCK.

And thats how I ended up playing Bass in a shitty highschool band.

The drummer knew every Korn song but not much else.

The guitarist knew Hotel California but not much else.

and I knew the bass line from the Cake version of I will survive.

Yeah, this did not last pass summer.

5. Fun facts, "Back2Bach."

He claimed that "Bluetooth" technology was named after a 10th century king - King Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson.

The king united Denmark and Norway - just like the wireless technology united computers and cell phones.

6. Woah, "babelincoln27."

My friend arrived to my fifth-grade class and told me she had 13 siblings, one dead, and moved most recently from Jamaica. All true.

7. Good for them, "HarperForPresident."

Went out on Halloween a couple years ago to a bar. My one friend came back from the washroom and nonchalantly mentions that there's an "Australian Orgy" going on in the washroom. I didn't believe him so I went in to look. There was about 8 guys all with a thick Australian accent boning on the bathroom floor. This was in Toronto and not in a gay bar.

8. Pretty sure this is illegal, "Spookyredd."

When we first became friends, she told me her family has tigers and a bear as pets.

9. Gross, "Shivii22."

That his friend rolled a blunt full of hair and smoked it for $20. There was video for proof that I eventually saw and it was disgusting.

10. Hardcore drinking buddies, "ArchonRahal."

Two of my friends shared a story abiut the times that both got drunk, and joined the Communist Party of Wales, and Communist Party of Croatia respectively.

I thought they were both trolling me until they showed me the proof. I both want to, and never want to go out drinking with them again.

11. This is adventurous, "SentientGoose."

I went through a break up one time, and kinda went crazy. I took all my money out of the bank, bought enough supplies to last me a good while, and disappeared into the mountains of Georgia. When sophomore year of college came around I changed from a psych major to a biology major because I had lived out there for 2 months. No one believed me until my dad was visiting my dorm and thanked me for all the deer meat I had given him when I came back.

12. Everyone needs a boat, "uhmduh."

One of my friends always liked to “exaggerate” he once told me he just made like $10K from a penny stock. I brushed it off as bullshit until the next day he shows up with a used boat, we lived close to a few lakes so that was a fun summer.

13. Hot goss, "kris10185."

At a party in 2008 or 2009, a random guy who apparently had a cousin who worked in Hollywood told me he knew a lot of celebrity secrets. I didn't really believe him and asked, "like what?" And he told me Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' marriage was a sham, and they had a contract to stay married for 5 years. I thought it was total bullshit and he just wanted attention at the party, but then they divorced after 5.5 years and reached an agreement only a few days after filing, I wondered if there was something to what he said.

14. Damn, "GoodLordChokeAnABomb."

A friend told me that James Cameron had been working on a film called Avatar for over a decade, and when the technology finally caught up with his vision, it would overtake Titanic at the box office.

15. What a cool mom, "peacelovemaryjane."

My mom swore up and down that she did coke/partied with aerosmith regularly. For years and years she told me the stories about being a groupie and I just didn’t buy it (don’t know why because she lived in the valley and was a major partier)

One day we see Joe Perry at the ritz in LA. He fucking remembered her as soon as she said her name.

I’m still not over it...

16. Ha, "radelite."

The entire Joe Rogan Alex Jones podcast

While the FOMO and body image issues brought about by Instagram are often what drives us to therapy in the first place, there is at least one positive page on that godforsaken app.

Kate Alan, an artist with depression and anxiety, illustrates words of encouragement and lessons from therapy that make Instagram worth it.

There are words of wisdom for depressive episodes...

...and also pieces that will help coach you through anxiety.

Sometimes you just need to hear from a rat giving you permission to practice self-care.

A cat works too.

Her masterpiece is a ten-panel comic featuring a wise bunny coaching through a mindfulness exercise.

“Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy have both been helpful in managing my mental health,” Kate told Bored Panda.

Kate has her drawings available in book form, and it's available here. She also has a Redbubble shop,

Anyone with a filthy mind will appreciate these raunchy sex memes. This hilarious list is absolutely NSFW. You've been warned.

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Laughing at memes totally burns calories, so this list definitely counts as your morning workout. Check out this hilarious list of memes now, your abs will thank you.

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By now, the popularity of reality shows feels fairly ubiquitous, even the most staunch television purists have likely enjoyed an episode of Queer Eye or Tidying up with Marie Kondo, or My Strange Addiction, but it wasn't always that way.

While the Real World swept up pop culture obsessed audiences in the early 1990s, it wasn't until the early 2000s that reality TV really found its mainstream momentum with fans religiously spreading the gospel of the valley girl cult hits The Hills and Laguna Beach.

Well, in order to revive the usnn fandom, this summer The Hills: New Beginnings will be airing, without the original narrator Lauren Conrad, but with the original cast members Heidi Montag, Audrina Patridge, Stephanie Pratt and Whitney Port. There will also be some new cast additions, including Mischa Barton.

In anticipation of the reunion season, Vogue sat down with cast members to chat about what they've been up to and what to expect in the new season.

During Heidi's interview, she was questioned about the lack of diversity on the show, and her answer was about as on brand as you could imagine.

The Hills was never intended to provide a social or political commentary, and very overtly centers around thin, wealthy, conventionally attractive white people in California. So, it's not at all surprising that the show doesn't have any diversity.

But even so, Heidi's answer managed to prove the point of the question.

In perhaps the most early 2000s blonde woman answer yet, Heidi said:

"We don't all look the same. I mean, Audrina has darker hair, I feel like Mischa has darker hair. We're California girls and we're a group of friends, and that just happens to be the group that came together."

She then concluded the question by adding: "I have other very diverse friends that are not featured on the show."

Needless to say, this answer has fully killed the internet, it's too on the nose.

People are especially dying at her loose interpretation of "diversity," and the fact that she pulled out the whitest sentence ever: "I have other diverse friends." But also, most people aren't mad, since The Hills was the last place anyone was counting on nuanced and diverse representation.

If this interview has proved anything, it's that Heidi is still fully herself, and this new season of The Hills is going to deliver.

Canadians are a very polite and trusting people (except for the ones I went to middle school with in Toronto. Those are mean girls). A Vancouver newspaper back in 1979 thought it was totally cool to publish a picture of a cute toddler, and then basically invite all creepers over to their house by posting their address. Weird, eh?

Ryan Reynolds, who later grew up to be People's Sexiest Man Alive, had the distinct honor (well, honour, as they say up in Canada and in The Favourite) of being Toddler of the Week, an even more prestigious accolade.

Reynolds, in his sardonic style, called out the paper for being creepers.

"This is from my hometown newspaper, back in the day. I think it’s smart they discontinued the 'wanna know where this child lives?' section. #HolySh*t," he wrote. Holy sh*t, indeed.

While we're on the subject, here are some other cute throwbacks of Young Ryan, none of which include his address. Don't be a weirdo.

Spending all damn week at work sucks the big one. You deserve a laugh today. Take a break and laugh your head off these totally hilarious workplace memes.

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Sometimes you have to make it all the way to adulthood before you connect how supremely weird your childhood was. Most families have a few bizarre traditions up their sleeves, but not all are equal, and looking back with 20/20 hindsight is a surefire way to reevaluate what you internalized as normal.

In a recent Reddit thread, people shared the things their parents did that they now realize is bizarre or unhealthy, and it'll make you feel less lonely about your weird childhood.

1. heyitsaubrey has very strong legs.

"I don't have very many memories of my childhood, or really anything in the last 25 years. But I do remember when we would go in time out, we had to bend our knees and fold our arms behind our backs while staring at the wall. We had to stand motionless and silent for 30 minutes. If we moved or swayed, we got another 30 minutes. This would go on for hours sometimes. My brothers and I would pull muscles and pass out sometimes."

"Also while we were in the shower our parents would search our rooms. They did this every day and if they found anything they didn't like they'd make us jump out of the shower, still dripping wet and naked, and come clean up or explain whatever they found."

"And we were always "grounded" but they would never tell us why. So, since we were already grounded, they would just take away our birthdays or do timeout for punishment. I have only celebrated my birthday twice in my life, and both times my mom shut it down within 10 minutes.

Edit;TLDR; leg day, all day. I can do squats for hours."

2. Beatboxboomer's parents were hoarders.

"They kept everything. EVERYTHING.

The moment I walked into my friend's house and realized you're NOT suppose to have stuff lining the walls was ridiculous."

3. blueeyesredlipstick's mom had a pathological investment in her kids' love lives.

"My mom was always very invested in our romantic lives, partly because that was an area where we didn't stack up well as compared to our cousins. The most insane manifestation of this was when I agreed to go out on a date with a guy, only to find out before the date that he was a sexual predator who'd been fired/arrested after he preyed on four separate freshmen at the school where he taught."

"Mom flipped out trying to convince me not to cancel the date. "He might have grown out of it! You don't know if you don't give him a chance!"

"Thankfully, my dad was on my side and I cancelled the date. But Mom sulked the entire rest of the night and demanded I log her in to my Facebook account so she could scroll through my friends list so that she could see which of my male friends were straight and single so that she could push me towards them instead."

4. PriestsOfHiroshima's mom lived in their closet during a divorce.

"When my mother "left" my dad, she pitched a tent in my walk-in closet. I was 7 or 8 and she lived in my fucking closet for months before she got her own place. I still remember her reading her Joyce Meyer books by lamplight."

5. AnonyMissMe's family howled with the wolves.

"We lived on a farm in the middle of nowhere (at least 35mins to the nearest grocery store). I am not sure how it started, because I was a kid, but any time our puppy dog howled, we would all howl. To the point that it was a deafening sound and would kind of make your ears rattle."

"His name was Duke. I would occasionally howl first because then he would follow and then so would my mother, father, and two older brothers. I thought it was awesome and it felt invigorating to do. I now realize this is odd."

6. IndianaRedneck was picked up by a babysitter in the shadiest way.

"I was seven and my brother was five (during the early 80s). We were told to wait in the school parking lot for the babysitter to pick us up. Thing is, we never met her before and had no idea what she looked like. So we waited until a woman pulled up with a picture of us in her hand. She showed us the picture and asked if it was us. We said it was and she told us she's our babysitter. We got in the car without thinking twice. Seemed like a good idea at the time."

7. jadecourt's dad had questionable problem solving skills.

"On the day my dad decided to buy our family's first PC, he loaded me and my younger sisters into the back of our little two door Honda and drove the 20 minutes to the store."

"After purchasing the computer, my dad realize there wasn't enough room in our tiny car for three children, car seats, and the giant ass 1997 computer. So he LEFT US at the store, apparently thinking that if he bought us all candy bars, that'd be enough to keep a 5, 3, and 2 year old occupied and out of trouble. He took the new computer home and then turned around to come back and get us, having left us alone for easily 40 minutes"

8. ilbatboy's parents let their baby play with knives.

"My parents visited underground Atlanta back in the early 90’s. Not the safest place. Anyways, my brother was a baby and crawled under a bench they were sitting on. He pulled out an umbrella bag with a very sinister knife inside. My parents don’t report the knife or anything, but instead KEEP it and it becomes a staple knife in our kitchen. So yea, pretty sure my parents used a murder weapon to cut the crust off our pb&js."

9. LyannasLament had god parents out of the move Matilda.

"My god brothers parents used to lock us in his room for hours to days at a time. His little brothers learned to pee in the thrash can instead of in the floor when we couldn’t get them out. We eventually learned how to unlock and relock the hatch from inside the room so that the four of us could get out for pee breaks, and for snacks when we were feeling really ballsy."

"I didn’t realize how abnormal this was until I was watching a news story in the work break room with a bunch of coworkers about a “neglected” child being removed from an unfit home. My initial response was “that’s nothing!” As I launched into what I just wrote above. I looked around waiting for everyone else’s stories, but instead they all just stared at me...😬"

"Edit: quite a few people have been very kind and offered sound advice to me. Therapy is definitely worth its weight in gold.

Edit 2: People keep asking; God brother is the son of one of your God parent, or so I was taught when I was growing up."

10. Kawaii_Kajira's parents had a secret business.

"My brother and I would be locked in our room for hours at a time and told to be absolutely silent. Went on for a few years."

"One morning I woke up super early, earlier than normal, and was hungry. So I went to ask my mom for oatmeal. I open the bedroom door, and my mom is rubbing the back of a shirtless, sleeping man who is NOT my dad. Mom panics, jumps out of bed and gently pushes me out of the room. I kinda stand in the kitchen confused, when my dad comes in from another part of the house and asks wtf I'm doing, and sends me back to my room."

"They finally divorced a couple years ago, and my mom confided that my dad made her prostitute herself to pay the bills for a while when we were kids. A lot of memories made sense after that."

11. Blazeosaurus's mom should be in jail.

"Let homeless punk rockers live with us. Several. And some of them slept in our beds with us, with her permission. Two of two of my sisters were teen moms."

12. gentlybeepingheart's mom monitored her diary.

"My mom is very controlling. She would make me turn my diary over to make sure I wasn’t writing anything she didn’t approve of. So I saved up enough money by skipping school lunch and bought a secret diary at the book fair."

"I came home to her sitting on my bed and yelled at me for writing “mom is a JERK” or something like that. She would have grounded me, but I wasn’t allowed out of the house without her escorting me until age 16. She then wondered why I had no friends."

"I was allowed only 30 minutes on the computer in the computer room and I would have to record which websites I went on and what usernames and passwords I used. She would use the password book to go on the websites and look at who I was talking to."

"I also just kind of accepted that it was normal for parents to charge rent when you turned 18 and only allow you to eat one meal a day (dinner) and have to pay for the others yourself."

"edit: the rent thing doesn’t bother me as much. It started out at $500 a month and went up every year so now I’m at $700 a month. That’s pretty normal rent around where I live, and I don’t have to pay for heat/electricity/internet. I’m trying to move out but I also have to pay for college out of pocket and it adds up. :("

13. PM_ME_YOUR_FOOD_'s parents had a creative way of dealing with a budget.

"Kinda relevant, but I'm still gonna post this.

When I was in 6th grade (I think) my mom decided we needed to understand what it was like for people in third world countries. We ate oatmeal for breakfast, beans and rice for lunch, could have one fruit for a snack, and beans and rice plus some romane lettuce for dinner. All of this for a month, and we were only allowed 3 cheat meals."

"In high school looking back I just thought she was batshit nuts. But once I started having bills and such of my own it occurred to me, my parents were just that broke. They just didn't want us to think of it that way. Damn do I love those two people.

Edit: you fuckers saying my name is relevant, I wish I would have noticed first dammit"

14.Aware_City's mom had drastic punishments for curfew.

"Mom got mad at my sister for missing curfue and shaved her head as punishment"

15. AvatarofBro's childhood was marked by hospital waiting rooms.

"I have a brother with disabilities. He's relatively low-functioning and requires regular attention, both inside the home and out. I love him to death, but it made for a pretty untraditional childhood."

"I didn't realize until my late teenage years that other families were...happy. And relaxed. Which isn't to say that they didn't have their problems. Just that they weren't constantly preoccupied by one family member who requires more care and attention than others. At all times."

"To be clear, my brother is a wonderful person. I cherish every moment that I get to spend with him now. But, at the same time, I spent a disproportionate amount of my childhood in waiting rooms while he went to various therapies. And I spent very little time with my parents growing up, because all of their attention was focused on my brother. I was an afterthought, because I was lucky enough to be an afterthought and still function."

16. ozzytheozzy's dad couldn't resist the allure of scammers.

"My dad fell victim to many money scams in the early 2000s. He would always say he’s sitting on a gold mine and I thought we were gonna be rich. Yeah I don’t think he’s learned his lesson, I still catch him replying to bullshit emails."

17. TodayWeMake's stepdad took them on a vey strange car ride.

"My dad once took three of us kids out for a ride in the pine barrens. He drove us twenty minutes into the woods on a sandy trail in a minivan. He had just gotten into a fight with my step mother and needed a drive to burn off all the alcohol in his system. He didn’t say much during the ride. We got stuck (obviously because we were in a 2wd caravan) but luckily some 4wd truck dude came through and winched us out. When that guy showed up dad wasn’t quiet anymore and we left the woods when we were unstuck and went home. I’m not sure what his intentions were that day but the look on my stepmothers face when we returned made me rethink wether it was a fun ride in the woods or a fuck this life moment worthy of the nightly news narrowly averted."

18. First_Fist's brother has an undying obsession with milk.

"My brother while raising his boys would buy like 10 gallons of milk at a time when it was on sale and then put it in the deep freezer. It never tasted like milk after it thawed. He claimed to not have noticed a difference. Oh theres a difference all right."

19. Runs_N_Goses escaped their mom's murder suicide plan.

"My mom once blew out the pilot lights on our gas stove, cranked up the gas, and told 7 y/o me and my 14 y/o sister to go to sleep. I went to bed, not knowing any better. Luckily, my sister dragged me out of the house and we sat in the car. Mom finally changed her mind/ sobered up a bit, aired out the house, relit the pilots, and took us back inside.

That was fun."

20. hotdiddilydang had babies fix their own food.

"Fend for yourself night" when I was like... 5 and on. Wed have to find our own food that night. I later found out my parents were too lazy to cook for my sister and I who were just 5 and 8."

"I used to come up with really weird food combinations. Most notably nutella or peanut butter + candy sprinkles wrapped up in a tortilla. As I got older I began toasting it and rolling it in cinnamon sugar."

"Edit: wow! People are either going "same dude" or "jesus christ how could a parent do something like this to a 5 y.o." I feel a little better knowing theres so many of us."

"Edit: to clarify, this happening once a week or something isnt an issue. With me it gradually went from like twice a week to every other day. Eventually growing up my parents just stopped cooking and if they did it was suddenly a huge deal. Like theyd cook once a week at best. Really chaotic stuff. I became the best improv chef ever, so I'm thankful. But at the same time jesus christ my sister became a pre diabetic at 12 over the lack of nutrition. We didn't know any better unfortunately."

21. DaintymittsWife snacked on fire sticks.

"It wasn't until way later in life that my sister and I said 'Wait a second. WTF?" When we were young, my father smoked a lot and when we were with him during the day and said we were hungry, he'd give us each a pack of matches. We'd eat them and then be good. No, we weren't poor, just had lazy/crazy parents...."

22. raiinboweyes' father left the grocery shopping up to the kids.

"My (alcoholic bipolar) father would drop me and my 2 siblings off at the grocery store with his credit card and told us to go grocery shopping. We were young kids when this started. He'd either go hit up a bar or wait in the parking lot before coming back to get us. Sometimes it would be a long wait. Looking back I still don't know how we were able to run his credit card and no one ever batted an eye. We had to cook too, so it wasn't exactly healthy stuff."

"A lot of times the food would all be gone a week or so before he'd take us back to the store. We had to get really creative. We'd joke that there was nothing left but "the goo in the back of the refrigerator". Honestly surprised we didn't develop diabetes (although I am hypoglycemic) or obesity or anything serious. We quickly learned not to buy a bunch of candy or sweets, something that kind of impresses me looking back. I learned to keep an emergency stash of food hidden in my room. One of many insane things, but first that came to mind."

23. KaLunaMatata had to act as their narcissistic father's therapist.

"Throughout my childhood I would end up being my dad’s therapist. He’d often tell me he sometimes wished he would go to sleep and never wake up. A bit heavy for a 12 year old to hear from their parent I guess."

"After I became a teen and could drive, he’d call me in the middle of the night while I was at my mom’s house and ask me to rush over because he was sick and needed help. I spent a lot of nights feeding him jello and sitting awake in his room so he could sleep because his medication would make him hallucinate and think demons were going to kill him in his sleep."

"It wasn’t until I was older I realized I missed a lot of my childhood because I had to parent him instead of the other way around."

"Eventually he found a wife who takes care of him and cut me out of his life. Apparently he tells her stories about how I never spent time with him and never cared because she sends me rants about how awful I am."

24. killwithharm's mom had a hankering for stealing.

"My mom stole a shopping cart with my brother. I was like 7y/o and nearly ratted them out because “MOM WE DONT NEED THAT I DONT UNDERSTAND”.

Edit: Failed to mention that it wasnt just us pushing it home or something. They loaded it into the back of the SUV, right in the parking lot."

25. floridianreader's in-laws love the sweet taste of car exhaust.

"My inlaws, well mostly my now-deceased MIL and a brother in law swear by trunk food. What is trunk food? It is food that you make, and sometimes cook (sometimes not), and when you go on a roadtrip, you wrap it up in foil and throw it in the trunk with the spare tire and everything else gross back there. This is only done for long distance trips; when you arrive at your destination, you eat the food. MIL and Brother in law swore that it makes the food taste better. If the food was uncooked, the idea was that being in a hot trunk for several hours would cook it to the desired temperature (in theory)."

"The cakes were probably the "safest." She would make small individual spice cake loaves and wrap them up and then you'd have spice cake with the gentle aroma of car exhaust."

"She once made an entire birthday cake for me in the same way, except that it was left in the pan and had icing. And minimal wrapping. I ate a slice to be polite, but I was being very polite. I didn't eat the rest."

"Brother in law is the worst though. He is Orthodox Jewish and keeps kosher, which is problematic when traveling long distances, so he's used to having to pack food with him. He / They used to live in South Carolina and he was driving to Miami to catch a flight to Israel a few times before he actually emigrated there. We live in Central Florida and offered to prepare him some kosher food but he wasn't having it and brought his own meatloaf out of the trunk of a very hot car on a hot summer day. He wanted to share it with us, but I have this thing about food poisoning so I didn't eat it."

"You can only be so polite.

MIL has since passed away and Brother in law now lives in Israel so no more trunk food. My husband, the twin of brother in law has working brain cells and believes strongly in food safety. Thank goodness."

26. dead4seven's grandparents literally burned weed.

"My Grandparents in Italy would burn TONS of marijuana plants because it was unknown to them and like an unwanted weed on their farms. I mean, they would never had done anything with it anyways even if they did know but still... they burned lotsa weed."

27. excitedaccountant's mom liked to play dead.

"When I was very young (maybe 5 or 6?) my mother would cuddle with my younger brother and I - she thought it was funny when she pretended to die while holding us. I was terrified and I will always remember that. She would wake up from "death" and laugh to get a reaction out of us. That is my earliest fucked up memory of her."

28. ReverendSunshine faced an exceptionally low bar for babysitting.

"I used to babysit my parent’s friend’s kids occasionally. After I babysit two kids that were 4 and 6, my mom said her friend was happy and I did a good job. I was thirteen. Then she mentioned that that was good because her friend was distrustful of babysitters since her other two kids had drowned while under a babysitter supervision. Thought that was slightly odd. No helicoptering in the 80’s!"

Kate Beckinsale is a little confused about how memes work.

Just because someone uses your photo for a meme doesn't always mean the meme is about you, Kate. In case you're behind on internet pop culture, this photo of newly public couple Pete Davidson and Kate Beckinsale's PDA session has become a very hilarious meme template. SNL's resident youth, Pete Davidson and Kate Beckinsale sparked rumors when they were being fun and flirty together at the Golden Globes, and now it's officially confirmed. Honestly, they're cute together and they deserve happiness. When "Queer Eye's" Antoni Porowski was photographed next to their new love, though, his face said it all.

And the memes basically wrote themselves:

The template became so popular, in fact, that Porowski felt the need to address that everything is totally fine with him and Davidson.

Some of the jokes felt too specific for Kate, though. Like this one:

If we're going to give whoever made this meme the benefit of the doubt, it should be assumed they meant this as a larger point about dating or a self-deprecating joke. However, because Davidson has known childhood trauma it feels a little too specific and could be problematic for Kate. To defend herself and her choice to date Pete, she commented:

So, there you have it. Either Kate Beckinsale doesn't understand that memes are basically just stock photos for jokes or we should all be more careful about how personal we take internet trends.

We all have our boundaries.

There are so many choices in life that if you don't stand on a firm ground, it's easy to get lot in a sea of options, styles, relationships, and career paths. While it's important to open-minded and adventurous, sometimes we all just have to say no to things that aren't serving us or things we just downright hate.

That's why when a recent Reddit user asked, "What do you *NEVER* fuck with?" the internet was ready to share their personal pet peeves and fears. Prepare yourself for a cathartic hate-fest, it's time to air out your grievances.

1. So real, "cactusbanger."

My dad's thermostat obviously.

2. Oh my god, "RiteOfSpring5."

Kangaroos, the most nerve racking thing I have ever done was walking home during a blackout with kangaroos jumping around me in the pitch black night.

3. This is upsetting, "PeachPuffin."

Seals. I thought they were super cute until I became a Marine Mammal Medic.

Found out they have bacteria in their saliva, blood, and blubber that causes infections and necrosis. The fuckers can also twist their heads almost the whole way round and have insane teeth.

When we completed the course, we were given a specific form to give to hospitals if we got bitten, because it's rare enough that hospitals don't usually know amputation is almost always necessary. I was taught by a guy who lost fingers to this, ironic as it's literally called Seal Finger.

We were taught that the only way to rescue a seal in trouble is to leap on it from behind, straddle the body and choke the fuck out of it so it doesn't literally bite your crotch and infect it.

The only ones we can help? Juveniles. This is because there was an incident when three firefighters tried to jump an adult seal in trouble, and it went jaws all over the front guys arms and thighs.

I became a marine mammal medic to help the seals I saw in the area, but now when I see them I just want to stay the fuck away lmao.

When i get the emergency texts I just cross my fingers it's a porpoise and i don't have to put the fingers at risk. :/

4. True, "PM_ME_WHATEVER_U_WANT."

Bears, men I have wronged, or the dominant turkey during mating season.

5. Wise, "seaofcheese."

Using gas to get a fire going. The number of people I have taken care of with disfiguring burns because they used gas is way too high! Ffs dont put gas on fire people! Just don't!

6. Good advice, "LordofTheKierans."

Blue ringed octopuses. They’ll kill you dead

7. Trains are scary, "queenofstickers."

Trains. Don’t play on the tracks. Don’t try to race the gate coming down. Don’t ever assume that you’ll be able to run away safely. Your tiny lizard brain cannot comprehend how quickly that massive, massive metal beast is moving, and it WILL win, and you WILL die.

8. Gotta have ocean safety, "bakowskis."

Sea. People underestimate the power of huge mass of water.

9. I mean, sometimes you have to, "always_sunshine."

The IRS. Never fuck with them.

10. But what about, "The Lion King?" "CatLadyGrip."

Warthogs. Never fuck with a warthog. They can kill you.

11. Oh man, "Farleyme."

Someone with cauliflower ears!

12. Truth, "Qisqisqis."

People forget, or have no idea at all that national parks are staffed by federal police officers. They have a LOT of authority

13. But what about, "Back to the Future," "cbrman87."

Electricity

14. Wise, "schwentheman."

Heroin

15. Good instinct, "bloomingOrchids1."

Bees. I never fuck with bees.

16. Yeah definitely not, "mintjulip."

Chili in a crockpot in a moving vehicle.

Have you seen that episode of The Office where Kevin drops the chili? Now imagine that happening all over the passenger seat (and surrounding area) of your vehicle.

Never again.

Ten years later and hermetically sealed canned chili doesn’t even get to ride in my car.

Nope.

Chili is a stationary food. No exceptions.

17. Wow, "IceColdHatDad."

That one guy you know who is usually very kind and well mannered to everyone he talks to.

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” -Patrick Rothfuss

Any woman who loves to laugh will crack up at these hilarious memes.

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I regret to inform you that you've been living a lie all this time. All those summer days where you lovingly spread out the picnic blanket and chomped down on hot dogs and pineapple were tainted by this painful truth: you've been eating pineapple wrong all along.

Most of us eat pineapples by chopping it up, which is a time consuming process that can quickly create a juicy warzone in your kitchen. Pineapples are delicious, but shaped weird! So, properly cutting the skin off AND chopping even chunks is much harder than with a smooth fruit.

All of the blood, sweat, and tears are worth it for the sweet pineapple flavor.

Given the trauma this fruit has bestowed on many of us, the world shook to the root when a TikTok video posted by DillonRoberts22 showed a much easier way to eat pineapples.

The video quickly made its way to Twitter where it went viral for changing hearts and minds, and most notably changing the way people eat pineapples.

The world was truly not ready for this level of snacking revelation, but here we all are nonetheless.

While the pineapple eating hack was revelatory to many, the loud, wet chewing sounds in the video really took some people out. And reasonably so, it sounds like the person in the video has never closed their mouth in their life.

The reason the pineapple chunks break off so easy is because they actually grow as a bundle of berries, so when you take out a hunk it's like eating an individual grape.

Hopefully, this viral video education will save a lot of people grief during their pineapple snacking in the future. Lord knows we all need it.

Pranking is a love language, and these couples are committed to making each other scream. With laughter. And shock—because of the pranks.

Here are some highlights to inspire you for April Fool's Day.

1. Babe.

2. It's filthy.

3. Yum.

4. A prank to die (hard) for.

5. Expelliramus!

7. Mazel tov!

8. Bow-chicka-wow-wow.

8. Who said that romance is dead?

I asked my wife to put abusive notes in my lunchbox instead of the usual soppy love notes. This is day 3 from r/funny

9. Meet the dairy demon.

10. Snappy!

11. Which one is which?

12. The peanut butter to his jelly.

13. He wanted a girl.

14. A beautiful prank from beyond the grave.

15. Groovy, baby.

16. Getting cagey.

17. GOOOOOOOAL!

18. Jacob is too dumb to know it's real...

19. *bats eyelashes*

20. Blow out the candles and wish not to be colorblind.

21. When in doubt, blame the kids.

22. Ouch.

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24. Wife jokes are the new dad jokes.

Even if you hate mornings, you're going to love this meme list. Get ready to laugh your ass off at this totally hilarious batch of memes.

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You've changed a lot since high school...or have you?

A Hashtag Roundup challenge asked Twitter how High School You relates to Adult You and you're just as tired and unstable as you were before, but now, you drink coffee! High School You really missed out on caffeine addiction.

Here are the funniest ways people have/haven't evolved since that hellscape we call high school.

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If you've ever said, "I do," these memes will hit you on a deep and personal level. This ridiculously funny list perfectly nails the ups and downs (and way, way downs) of married life.

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