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The 9 worst—and funniest—reply-all email disasters. Remember to double-check, folks.

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Email: for something that was the Internet's first killer app (the first ARPANET message was sent in 1971, 29 years before the inventor of Snapchat was born), it's still surprisingly easy to f*ck up in 2016. Especially when the reply-all button is so idiotically close to the reply button. Don't be like these people:

1. 8-0's colleague was bailed out by friends in the IT department.

A few years ago on an ordinary day at work, one of my colleagues suddenly drained of all color, went outside for a few deep breaths and then ran to the sysadmins' office. He had emailed a video of a woman showing her cervix to a friend, but had not realized that auto-complete had filled in a management email list name instead of the friend's name.

He was able to convince the head sysadmin to delete the email from the exchange server by bribing her with dinner, but not before a couple of PCs had collected their mail. The head sysadmin sent a tiger team of junior sysadmins to infiltrate the relevant offices and delete the offending email. Luckily they succeeded and saved his ass.

2. lfod had something he needed to show off.

my buddy went to amsterdam just after graduation. he sent a mass email to a bunch of his fraternity brothers (including me) saying "beautiful, great food, yada yada" and all that. i hit reply all and said "kill a hooker for me", thought it would be funny.

about an hour later, i was starting to wonder why an email to the fraternity would have such carefully scrutinized grammar and punctuation, and would be so heavy on the fluff and light on the fun stuff. with dread in my gut, i checked the rest of the recipient list - his mom and dad, his 8 year old sister, his grandmother.

i immediately sent another email apologizing for my stupidity and "Redd Foxx" style humor and saying that he should, in fact, avoid killing the hooker.

the first reply to my two emails was from his grandmother: "no point in being stupid if you're not gonna show it off"

3.  SpiralBound's professor terrified the entire classroom and mortified one bad student.

This is an email I received from my professor three years ago. A day before I had turned in my final paper, worth 20 percent of my grade for the course.

"Dear Timothy,

I've discovered a couple of serious problems with your research paper, one of them quite serious.

  1. You only use four sources, when you were required to use seven.

  2. You have PLAGIARIZED several passages from your sources, in particular those by Brown and Simmons. That is, you have presented large sections of THEIR writing AS YOUR OWN, without attributing it to them. Indeed, without these sections (specifically on pages 1-2, the top of 3 and the middle of 6), your essay would be far short of the length requirement as well.

The latter is the larger problem. As stated in the course policies section of the syllabus, "failing to include sources, quote borrowed material or attribute that material to the writer or text you take it from will result in a zero for the assignment in question." I am therefore required to give you a very bad grade for this major assignment.

At this point, if you want to offer a defense of your essay, you may be able to avoid the grade of ZERO for this assignment, because much of your essay seems to be indeed your own work. However, unless you present an explanation that entirely accounts for your stealing material from your sources, your grade for this assignment will remain very low, thus hurting your overall course grade substantially.

What happend? I'll give you the chance to state your case before logging the final grades for the course, provided you do so SOON.

Signed, (Professor so-and-so)"

One problem, though. My name's not Timothy. The professor had sent the email out to all thirty-five or so students and not just the alleged plagiarist, giving us all heart attacks. The prof sent out an apology email later. I don't know whatever happened to that kid.

4. Karmacorn wants everyone to know something.

Not really a "sent to the wrong person" story - more like "sent the wrong email to everyone"....several years ago I worked as an assistant in the marketing department of a large company. We were getting ready to go to a convention, and were waiting on an order of shirts with our company logo on them that we were all going to wear to the convention. Everyone had been asking me about them all day long, so when the box of shirts finally came in, I sent an email to everyone stating in great big capital letters: I'VE GOT THE SHIRTS!!!

Except I forgot the "R".

5. Gobluerafa01's friend has horrible judgment AND horrible taste in jokes.

Hopefully I'm not too late to this...

This isn't exactly a "reply all", but it's close. This is what my friend emailed me in regard to a scholarship recommendation letter I had to write. It was for a full ride.

6. Could_be_lying didn't know the truth.

Female co-worker emailed the whole company about her change of name so I accidentally reply-all'd with "Congratulations!"... which wouldn't have been so bad if she had just got married. It turned out she had a divorce and was going back to her maiden name. My boss didn't see the humour :(

7. AnteChronos's new coworker received a hell of a welcome.

At a previous employer, we had a contractor whose company was horrible, and thus he was trying to get full-time employment at his current client (my employer). There was apparently a bit of back and forth via email between the contractor and managers to get the details ironed out.

Then we got a "welcome aboard" email that went out to the entire team welcoming this consultant to our ranks. The email was essentially: "Reply All: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fwd: Fwd: Re: Re: Fwd: Job Offer Including Salary". To make things even better, this young guy was starting well above the salaries of people who were decades his senior and who had worked there for many years.

8. It's not just individuals who f*ck up with accidental reply-alls. Sometimes colleges do, too.

In 2009, UC San Diego accidentally emailed everyone who applied to their school an acceptance email—including the people they had actually rejected. Admissions director Mae Brown chalked it up to an "administrative error."

"We accessed the wrong database," Brown said. "We recognize the incredible pain receiving this false encouragement caused. It was not our intent." Yikes.

9. And even huge corporations aren't exempt from making mistakes.

Such as the case of this year's epic reply-all chain at Time Inc., which started out as an innocuous question accidentally sent to the entire company and collapsed into jokes like:

I’m selling Girl Scout Cookies!

Found the solution: to remove yourself from this email chain, click here.

You’ll pry the reply-all button from my cold, dead hands.

Keep us in the loop! I’m on the edge of my seat! 

It goes to show: no one is safe. Check twice before you send! 


This guy made a documentary about Adult Swim in the style of Adult Swim. It's friggin' sweet.

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If you like animation, or humor, or TV, or insomnia, you're probably familiar with Adult Swim—but how much do you really know about it? Kaptain Kristian, a YouTuber who makes "visual essays," has created a wonderful documentary (more of a "visual love-letter," really) about the network-within-a-network's history and significance. It's only his second such documentary (the previous being about the gorgeous 1940s Superman cartoons), but this editor/documentarian has already racked up almost half a million views on his sophomore effort. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkup4zo97E0

Only a decade before Adult Swim really hit its stride in the early 2000s, animated shows for grown-ups were still rare. The Simpsons, Beavis & Butthead, the MTV version of Ren & StimpyDaria. That was pretty much it. Unless you were cool enough to watch Space Ghost: Coast To Coast, that is, and that's where the magic started. By the 2000s, if an animated show was actually hip and funny, it ended up on Adult Swim—whether it started there or because they were saved from network cancelation. It also introduced the kind of anime that didn't make you feel like you were watching Saturday morning cartoons (no offense, DBZ fans). The music was on the bleeding edge, and in a more elusive way than other musically trendy shows, like The O.C. In the stuffy, cautious years immediately after 9/11, Adult Swim was a rare place where you could find the sort of raucous freedom that terrorists might actually have hated.

Anyway, here's Wonderwall Kaptain Kristian's very different but very beautiful visual essay on the 1940s Superman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDMQ3tXNKgM

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This is why grilled cheese sandwiches are served with tomato soup so often.

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April 12 is National Grilled Cheese Day, as if you needed an excuse to put slices of delicious cheese between delicious bread and grill it in delicious butter. But do you know why it always get paired with tomato soup, other than it being a tasty combination?

Melty cheese where it's best: oozing onto a fabric napkin.

First, a little history about the sandwich itself. Combinations of cheese, bread, and butter have been around for a long time—sometimes even with tomatoes in the mix. Welsh rarebit, the proto-Velveeta cheese sauce served over bread in bachelor apartments in the late 1800s, often featured tomatoes in the recipe, or even tomato soup. But grilled cheese really started to take off after the J.L. Kraft & Bros. Company invented its ultra-pasteurized, spoil-resistant cheese products in the 1910s. According to How Stuff Works, Navy cooks in WWII made thousands of "American cheese filling sandwiches" for sailors. After that, the sandwiches became mainstays other institutional cooking situations, including school cafeterias. 

According to Akila McConnell, About.com's Food/Travel writer, "School cafeterias purchased cans of tomato soup to go with toasted cheese sandwiches to satisfy the [government's] Vitamin C and protein requirements for school lunches, leading to the classic childhood combination." (Side note: When funding for school lunches was cut In 1981, Reagan continued the tradition of using tomatoes for health by asking the USDA to officially list ketchup as a vegetable.)

It's difficult to find an original source that seconds McConnell's specific claim, but the 1946 publication "School Lunch Recipes Using Canned Foods" confirms that sandwiches were paired with soup in school lunches to fulfill health and protein needs, and articles quoted on FoodTimeline.org confirm that grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup were both a popular part of school lunches in the 50s.

This school cafeteria is also a soybean field. 

So, it seems very possible that the reason grilled cheese and tomato soup is a classic combination is that children didn't get scurvy. And that's why it's still served today, because as you know, the pairing of a grilled cheese sandwich with not having scurvy is delicious.

This tweet from Kid Rock is so perfect, he has probably moved to a higher plane of existence.

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Kid Rock: What is he? A musician? A rebel? A baby goat standing on some sort of stone? He might be that last one, because after the tweet he sent on Tuesday, he's probably progressed to a higher plane of consciousness, like nirvana, or a SoulCycle studio. The tweet sums up the essence of all that is the 45-year-old musician/facial hair devotee:

https://twitter.com/KidRock/status/719983895043829760

Why is this the essence of Kid Rock? Well, not only does he get to trot out his personal brand of anti-authority badass around an actual U-S-of-A state court, but, as Joe Veix points out on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/joeveix/status/720010234928861184

And all this from the self-proclaimed selfie-hater who, in an interview about his impending grandchild a little over a year ago, said"I don’t FaceTweet or whatever people do." Kid Rock: this is a FaceTweet. Guess becoming a grandfather really does change you.

There's no time to explain why someone inserted garlic bread into these 'Force Awakens' scenes.

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Did you want an explanation for why someone named GuyGoald inserted garlic bread into all these scenes from Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens? What, do you think everything in life has a reason? Sometimes stuff just happens and you have to deal with it, and accept it as part of the great mystery of the universe. Jeez. Just be happy it's here, you weirdo. (If you're on mobile, click the images to move to the next one in the slideshow.)

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Stephen Fry, formerly beloved English actor, thinks child abuse victims need to ‘grow up.'

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On April 4, bloated old guy (fine, also famous comedian, actor, and author) Stephen Fry spoke to Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report for a few minutes about free speech, political correctness, "safe spaces," the word rape. He also explored his belief in the wrongness of taking down statues of people who are later found to be awful (“I think it started to happen in Britain with the attempted removal of statues of people who are considered unlikable—who were once beloved—and have become in a very 1984 way, ‘unpersons.’”).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJQHakkViPo

Other things Fry thinks contribute to the "infantilism" of modern society include, but are definitely not limited to, sugary drinks, baseball caps, soft food, and superhero movies (he didn't mention kittens, balloons, or parades but he probably hates them, too). Fry says the real problem is that, "Life is complicated, and nobody wants to believe it's complicated" (as though anyone had a choice).

But what Fry finds most upsetting are "trigger warnings" for things like rape and child abuse in books and movies. He talks about origin of the word "rape" and goes on to say:

They're terrible things, and they have to be thought about, clearly, but if you say you can't watch . . . Titus Andronicus, or you can't read it in a Shakespeare class, or you can't read Macbeth, because it's got children being killed in it, it might trigger something when you were young that upset you once, because Uncle touched you in a nasty place, well, I'm sorry, yeah, it's a great shame, and we're all very sorry that Uncle touched you in that nasty place. You get some of my sympathy, but your self-pity gets none of my sympathy because self-pity is the ugliest emotion in humanity. Get rid of it, because no one’s going to like you if you feel sorry for yourself. The irony is we’ll feel sorry for you, if you stop feeling sorry for yourself. Grow up.

Wow. Clearly reading Shakespeare is very important to Stephen Fry, English rationer of sympathy. It's okay, Stephen, having sympathy for someone doesn't somehow deplete one's sympathy supply. You can actually just make more sympathy.

Fry's rant has already resulted in at least one open letter from a childhood sex abuse victim, and words of concern (possibly totally fake) from his enemy Piers Morgan. Morgan's probably secretly thrilled to have been at least temporarily replaced as the most despised person in England. He tweeted:

https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/719793240392736768

This is not the first time Fry has pissed off, or been pissed off, by people. Fry quit Twitter in February, calling it “a stalking ground for the sanctimoniously self-righteous," and then wrote a whole post about why he quit Twitter, calling it "Too Many People Have Peed In The Pool."

He probably hates pools, too.


This guy's accidental DM turned into an eye-opening conversation with a bunch of teenagers and Edward Snowden.

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Twitter DMs are typically reserved for spam and making plans to Netflix and chill, but writer Dave Lozo had a more enlightening experience in his direct message inbox. In his piece for Uproxx, Lozo details the accidental DM started by a mysterious "PIERRE," whose 30 members comprised  Lozo, a group of teens, LSU football coach Les Miles, The New Yorker, Robert James Hamilton, and some "CIA agent and scammer" named Edward Snowden.

https://twitter.com/davelozo/status/719277562908815360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Lozo assumed that'd be the end of it. He was wrong.

By the time Lozo took a look at the message, the conversation was already flowing. Though in a more hostile tone than the insightful roundtable of intellectuals it'd eventually become.

His Twitter name, Davril Lavignezo (a portmanteau of his name and Avril Lavigne's), led to a discussion of conspiracy theories about the singer. Apparently, she died a long time ago and the current Avril Lavigne is just a body double.

https://twitter.com/davelozo/status/719279095973076993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Then Lozo learned that teens apparently do not like being subtweeted, as they made clear in a string of passive aggressive tweets.

https://twitter.com/taylor__cready/status/719280191952912384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfwhttps://twitter.com/HCislo/status/719280255567945728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfwhttps://twitter.com/taliasmith_18/status/719280675266945025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfwhttps://twitter.com/PresleyWoodbury/status/719281476223791108?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

After getting the okay from everyone to screenshot the conversation, Lozo slowly won their trust back by prying more into their interests and their perspectives on life.

Turns out these teens have no love Taylor Swift or Demi Lovato.

https://twitter.com/davelozo/status/719282625974820865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

But they do like Friends.

https://twitter.com/davelozo/status/719285509273595909?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Though the Golden State Warriors are not "on fleek" for teens.

https://twitter.com/davelozo/status/719337242356015104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The teens gave a confident answer for the "is a hot dog a sandwich?" debate.

https://twitter.com/davelozo/status/719340107703193600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Today's teens think OJ did it.

https://twitter.com/davelozo/status/719342259167174656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The youth are not on board to "Make America Great Again."

https://twitter.com/davelozo/status/719348044207104000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

These adolescents also have the hottest takes on this golden age of television.

https://twitter.com/davelozo/status/719344446119260161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfwhttps://twitter.com/davelozo/status/719621946086973440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfwhttps://twitter.com/davelozo/status/719594115697131521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Above all else, teens definitely love memes.

https://twitter.com/davelozo/status/719361519620919300?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfwhttps://twitter.com/davelozo/status/719596028375265280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The conversation continued, and the teens expressed their frustrations with old people.

https://twitter.com/davelozo/status/719562675341172736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Kobe turned out to be divisive.

https://twitter.com/davelozo/status/719575747728433152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

And Edward Snowden? He's foreign concept to the majority of these teens.

https://twitter.com/davelozo/status/719303504301551617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

But they just needed to get to know him a little better, which is why Snowden jumped right in and stared gauging their interests too.

https://twitter.com/davelozo/status/719537974812229632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Being that there's an FBI warrant for his arrest, Snowden left the conversation for the good of everyone's privacy.

https://twitter.com/davelozo/status/719540718587551745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Snowden wrote:

Hahaha. You guys are the best, but yeah. The FBI does have a warrant on me, so you might not want to include me in your DMs unless you want them to have copies of them. Stay free out there.

Though the teens may never find out what Snowden thinks of Friends, they'll be able to tell their grandkids that they once harassed Edward Snowden online, even if most of them never end up learning why Edward Snowden's famous in the first place.

Read Lozo's full exchange over at Uproxx.

Amy Schumer and Jimmy Fallon looked through each other's phones. They found pig butts.

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Amy Schumer—comedian, feminist, generous tipper—stopped by The Tonight Show to promote the new season of Inside Amy Schumer. Despite being a prolific Instagrammer, Schumer has some fascinating secret photos on her phone, which include a vacation with Jerry Seinfeld and a giant pig, and either beignet dust or cocaine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ty8BH3ArKY

Schumer also quickly discussed Glamourgate, and why plus-size labels are as dumb as trying to sit comfortably in a skirt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ3Z6XrG_Ak

Stay tuned for the inevitably viral, hilarious sketches from the new season of her show.  

If you like Aziz Ansari, Eric Warheim, Kayne West's 'Famous' or Italian food, here's the weird music video of your dreams.

21 unbelievably weird work stories from people who definitely deserve a raise.

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While the word "work" is often associated with nothing out of the ordinary, some people are accidentally running into some strange sights while on the job. These hilarious and terrifying stories from the worlds of retail, office jobs, and horse farms (guys, weird stuff happens on horse farms quite often) will give you hope that one day you'll come home from work with a great story to tell. Or, more likely, make you grateful that nothing like these 21 tales fromvariousRedditthreads has ever happened to you.

Monday morning gloom or watching your boss get it on with a co-worker. Which would you rather?

1. maddomesticscientist's husband encountered someone who was very dedicated to their personal style.

I'm relating this on behalf of my husband who doesn't Reddit. He does HVAC.

Get a call one day to this house we've been doing service at for years according to Boss. I've never heard of the guy. Boss seemed kind of funny when he gave me the call. Customer isn't home and I'm supposed to go around checking vents, changing filters, doing maintenance. I walk in and there's dicks everywhere. Eight by five foot pictures of dicks on the walls. Hand blown glass dick sculptures, dick lamps, dick throw pillows...hell, even the china cabinet was full of dick dishes. I saw a casserole that the handles and lid top were tiny dicks. So many dicks. When I went in the kitchen there's a five gallon jug of lube sitting where the hand soap would be at the sink. Dude even had a dick shaped paper towel holder. Where did he even FIND half this stuff?? Every kind of knick knacks you could imagine he had a dick knack version of. I've never seen anything like it in my twenty years of doing this job. Whatever floats your boat I guess but personally I'd get tired of being stared down by dicks every time I turned around.

2. Probably not the present lipeu was hoping for.

On my birthday last year I did a rectal examination on a gentleman to see if he was constipated. He was. However he soon was not, as he shit a large amount into my hand. The HCA with me laughed and said "happy birthday!!" He apologised profusely, but I just thanked him for my present.

3. grillinmyjewels's co-worker enjoyed riding horses in more ways than one.

Horse barn i used to work at, went into a back field to get horses, caught a guy fucking a horse. That was his last day working there.

How else could one react? By running away, perhaps.

4. So exactly how often do people do this?Kishin_ didn't say.

People pooping in the fitting rooms. Happens more than you'd think.

5. cbessette's worst work moment kept getting worse and worse.

Doing IT stuff, found naked pictures of a girl on a coworker's computer. Girl was a girl I had dated. Computer was her step father's.

6. bidsmack worked at a Walmart, so this makes a bit more sense.

One of my favorite stories was one night about 3am a bunch of kids came in wearing bandannas and riding adult-sized big wheels about as fast as they could. They made it clear across the store to the soda and stole about 5 2-liters and a bunch of chips and snacks. The entire staff just watched this happen too. Seemed par for the course.

7. Gad1997's tale will leave you wondering "But why??"

Work at a Sports Store and I was closing at the time, I went to clean the bathrooms but a lady asked if she could go real quick , few minutes later she comes out, I go in and there's shit smeared EVERYWHERE. Whoever you are. Fuck you.

8. Maybe there was a mirror involved in TheDinomanShow's elevator ride?

Got into a lift from the top floor to head down. Lift stopped at 4th floor, door opened, saw people outside standing still, making no attempt to come in despite me being alone inside and there was room for them. The automatic lift door then closed and before it was completely shut, I heard someone outside said "Why is the lift so full of people?". FML

Don't question the ghosts.

9. Masterjazz's co-worker has a very particular hygiene regimen.

I have a guy at work who casually washes his feet in the bathroom sink.

10. troseph was forced to think about the meaning of "bathroom."

Some of the guys from our Denmark office are in town. I went to pee while I was working graveyard shift. It's 2am and I'm definitely the only person in the building in my mind. Wrong. In strolls Dúdbrö, who completely undresses, and neatly folds his clothes. Then walks into a handicapped stall. Walks back out, then walks into the next stall, and the next, until he was out of stalls. I'm done peeing, but I'm still watching for the wtf factor. Guy walks up and in broken english asked where the shower is. It all made sense at that point, but definitely strange. The next day he asked in a meeting why it's called "bathroom" when you don't bathe in it. I had never put much thought into it until that point.

11. CptGurney sounds like a good boss.

Had to fire a guy for jerking off in his cubicle once... While on the phone with customers.

Nope a hundred times over.

12. babyunagi did not explain exactly how his boss managed this neat trick.

Was a temp job, thankfully. I was in the breakroom when the boss came in, picked up a long knife from the dish rack, trimmed his fingernails with it, put it back in the drawer and left.

13. roobopp delivered to a guy who went through way too much effort for a slice of pizza.

When I was delivering pizza, I went to a house and there were delivery instructions to go downstairs because the guy was in a wheelchair and didn't want to go through the effort of making his way upstairs to pay for the pizza.

So when I get to this guys house the front door is wide open, the TV is on with very loud volume. I'm saying "Hello, I'm here" and not getting an answer. I go inside and look for the stairs. I was so confused because as I was walking through the house, it looked like someone was just upstairs.

I'm still saying "Hello, Pizza's here" as I'm walking down stairs, still no answer. Finally, I walk into a room and sure enough there is a guy in a wheelchair, from what I could see pretending to be sleeping with really fake snoring sounds. So I go over, and "wake him up," and he acts all startled. I'm like "Hey, sorry for waking you, but is it cash or credit?" This guy in the wheelchair tells me "I forgot to grab it but my cash is upstairs. Can you grab it for me?" I go up and grab the cash, which was conveniently the perfect amount for the pizza. Bring it back down stairs and this guy is sitting in his wheelchair, I ask if this is the right money and he says yeah. Then he says, "Oh I forgot the tip," and stands up out of the wheelchair hands me $10 from his back pocket. Like what the fuck?!

After I got back to the store, everyone was asking me how it went, wanting to listen to my story as if they were expecting something crazy. Turns out this guy was a regular and just fucks with the delivery drivers every time they go there. It was an inside joke that you can't be apart of until you experience it and no one tells the drivers that haven't gone there yet.

As weird as this story was, the worst time this guy fucked with me was when he payed my $30 in dimes, nickels and quarters. There were even some nuts and bolts in the mixture.

TL;DR - Pizza delivering to a guy in a wheelchair, and he fucks with me to continue a tradition at my pizzeria.

14. cephalopea ran into a lot of cats while on the job. So many cats.

Not exactly NSFW, but weird as shit. When I was a kid, I worked at a horse barn in exchange for riding privileges and lessons. The stable I worked at had been a huge fancy show stable back in the day, but it was pretty run down and empty when I was there. There were all these outbuildings nobody used for horses anymore, mostly secondary stables with 10-20 stalls each. To earn some extra money, the stable owner rented out one of those auxiliary buildings to someone who wanted to use it for storage.

Shortly after this guy showed up on the scene, I started seeing cats around. At first, I'd only see one a week, hiding behind a trash can or peeking through a window. They were different cats every time, and usually somewhere near that building that was being rented out. Within a month, it got to the point where I'd see four or five different cats a day, and then five new cats the next day, and so on.

Being an 11 year old, I quickly grew curious about what this guy could be keeping in this building that could attract so many cats. I was imagining big piles of fish, maybe a catnip growing facility, I don't know. But when I opened the door, I found out there was nothing attracting cats at all. The cats I was seeing were just the escapees. The building, which couldn't have been less than 1000 square feet, was absolutely swarming with cats. Hundreds of cats of all different ages and sizes, from kittens to grayed elderly cats, eating off literal heaps of cat kibble scattered around the building. The whole place reeked of ammonia. The cats poured out the doors when I opened them, streaming out into the abandoned outbuildings and the fields and the horse pastures.

The cats were everywhere. My boss quickly started questioning the sudden feline influx and came over to investigate, finding me dumbstruck in the doorway of this insane cat warehouse. We tried to talk to the stable owner about it, but he didn't want to know anything- the cat guy paid his rent in advance and the owner needed the money. My boss moved her business somewhere else pretty quickly after that. I have no idea what happened to all those cats, or even where they came from in the first place, but it's still easily the weirdest thing I've ever seen.

But like, how many cats? And why?

15. Hopefully superfly355's company doesn't do family picnics.

I walked in on my boss blowing one of the lead engineers in a construction trailer. Both of them are still married to their respective wives and I got a nice bump in salary and an extra week of paid vacation.

16. dpowers1221 partook in a similarly NSFW scene.

Just the other night i broke into my work and had sex on my boss' desk. Yesterday he got fired, so at least i got it in while he was still my boss.

17. Was what ask_me_if_Im_lying saw weirder than what they were expecting?

When I was at college, I did random jobs for people on craigslist for cash. Most of it involved building Ikea furniture, which people are happy to pay for.

One day I go into this couples house who've just moved in and I get to building their book shelf, TV cabinet etc in the living room. I'm busy doing my thing but I can't help but notice quite a few different people walking past me every few minutes. All walking towards the bedroom, none coming back.

So I'm obviously thinking to myself that this is just another casual afternoon orgy. I go to investigate out of pure curiosity thinking that I'll just say that I was ready to build the bed.

I open the door expecting to see a bunch of naked people, sucking and fucking and licking and dicking. But what I saw was much more disturbing. They were all fully clothed, completely silent, cuddling on the mattress. It was a craiglist cuddle group. I felt so dirty and confused.

18. If you get a job at Walmart, you may never get to leave as was practically the case for bakageta's co-worker.

Former Walmart employee, hope that counts. Not nearly as weird as some of these, but I watched a disgruntled employee spear 5-6 large TVs with the forklift-like picker used to pull pallets off the top shelves in the back. He said he was sick of the job and had done everything he could think of to get fired, but wasn't having any luck. It was near Christmas, and they apparently needed people so badly he didn't get fired over this either. After coming back from a talk with the manager, he finished his shift (now banned from using anything bigger than a pallet jack), and when his shift was over he said "Fuck it, I'm not coming back, if that didn't get me fired I don't know what will."

19. DriskyBusiness's co-worker relaxed her client a bit too much.

I work at a ritzy gym as a locker room attendant and our gym offers extra amenities like massages and shit. One afternoon my coworker, who's a massage therapist, asks me to help her with something. Apparently a member of the club had taken a shit on the massage table. Luckily we cover the table with fresh linens for each appointment so all it took was a load of laundry to fix. Never found the culprit.

For once, everyone can agree that Kylie is correct.

20. Like poop in dressing rooms, PhishyCuse's morning likely happens more than you'd think.

Getting blown in a cubicle in a room of 300 cubicles just prior to opening for the day

21. IT worker tassietigermaniac did not find a CD in this CD drive.

A Potato cake in the CD drive that had been there for 4 years

FOUR YEARS. That's the shocking part here. Was someone leaving the potato cake in the drive for a snack in case of desperation and then managed to successfully feed themselves for years? Had a child accidentally placed the cake in there around the time CD drives started to become obsolete so no one noticed? Something about this time frame doesn't add up.

Wow, once you notice Chris Pratt's asymmetrical abs, you'll still think he's hot.

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It's one of the greatest gifts of celebrity culture that celebrities have abs. Or to put it more succinctly, abs have celebrities attached to them. 

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Zac Efron has abs.
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David Beckham has abs. 
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Brad Pitt ha(d) abs.

Another celebrity with a well-defined torso is one Chris Pratt. 

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Guardian of your galaxy.

While the lovingly objectified bod of the god Pratt is seemingly perfect, the folks at BuzzFeed pointed out an endearing quirk about his six-pack.

Chris Pratt's abs are on a slanted axis.

In this image still from Guardians of the Galaxy, I've numbered Chris's abs. You can CLEARLY see ab No. 1 is higher than it's neighboring ab, ab No. 2. The same pattern follows with the rest of his abs. AKA THEY'RE LOPSIDED.

 

Wow!

But more interesting than the details of Pratt's abs is the fact that he has them in the first place.

https://twitter.com/JaclynBradley/status/713588358660816897

This observation was just an excuse to ogle at abs.  Here's another GIF.

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Cute puppy adopts Anderson Cooper.

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Anderson Cooper, that Vanderbilt descendent who makes the news watchable, has a new puppy. The puppy's name is Lilly and she is here to provide companionship to Cooper after the passing of his dog Molly a few months back. Lilly is very lucky for she can snuggle up with Anderson Cooper whenever she pleases.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEG5sFlkkNG/?taken-by=andersoncooper

One day soon Lilly will grow up to be this much cuter:

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More or less. Those are different dogs, after all.

It was only a few years (OK, decades) ago that this silver fox was himself a little pup.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BAQK8_hkkPn/https://www.instagram.com/p/0bj1YKkkE5/

It's impossible to figure out whether Mr. Cooper looked his best then or now.

Rob Kardashian lost 50 pounds, or one Kardashian butt cheek, and it's all thanks to Blac Chyna.

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Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna have recently announced their engagement, and it would seem that the bride-to-be has wasted no time whipping her man into shape. The couple that sweats together, stays together?  

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEErIDbpWT1/?taken-by=robkardashian

Rob Instagrammed the above picture of the couple and said he's lost fifty pounds so far, and has about fifty more pounds to lose in order to reach his goal weight. Way to go, Rob, fifty pounds is like one whole Kardashian butt cheek!

He also said he is "happy he found his motivation," and it's pretty clear he is talking about his fiance/trainer.

They may be all smiles in the picture above, but when it comes to working out, Chyna is definitely serious. Rob posted a sweaty, defeated video of himself after his first workout with his fiance, and it will make you relate to him like you never thought you could relate to a Kardashian

https://www.instagram.com/p/BD4XecOJWcc/?taken-by=robkardashian

Blac Chyna also chronicles Rob's workouts over her Snapchat, and she is definitely not playing around when it comes to fitness.

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She is kind of like a drill sergeant. A drill sergeant with a makeup line and a really spectacular butt. 

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Although Rob and Blac Chyna seem to think that bigger is usually better (butts, engagement rings, etc.), that principle doesn't seem to apply to waistlines.

Congrats to Rob on the weight loss and to Chyna on the fallback career of fitness trainer.


This dude’s great-great-grandfather looks eerily similar to Matthew McConaughey.

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A 30-year-old guy named Sanders, who goes by EmberRainbow on Reddit, blessed the Internet with a charming photo of his great-great-grandfather on Tuesday. In the caption, Sanders wrote that his great-great-granddad looks a lot like actor Matthew McConaughey.

Sanders told Someecards that he and his sister reveled in the similar facial features between the actor and their relative before posting the photo. The similarities are indeed uncanny.

This is his grandfather, Dr. Andrew Sanders.

Sanders was named after him.

Now, here's actor Matthew McConaughey.

Well alright, alright, alright.

Finally, a side-by-side photo. So, you know it's real.

The photoshopped handlebar mustache was certainly needed.

When asked if he's a fan of the Interstellar star, Sanders said: "Sure. I like the guy. I'm not one to get starstruck so it's kind of just whatever."

Unfortunately, Sanders said this is the only image he can find of his second great-granddaddy. Still, that one photo is enough to make folks on Reddit wonder whether or not time-travel was involved and if the two are actually the same person.

Don't leave me, Murph!

"Time is a flat circle," several users wrote, quoting McConaughey's character from True Detective. And if true, it would mean that everything that has, is, or will happen is occurring in the same darn time and that there's a possibility that the two are the same person. Yes, this is getting way out of hand, but the world desperately needs to know!

A little known actress named Cate Blanchett sang on Australian TV in the '80s. It was bizarre.

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Back in her pre-Oscar days in the late '80s, according to The Fashion Spot, Cate Blanchett was on this Australian variety show called Hey Hey It's Saturday. If you think that name is odd, wait until you watch this clip of a young Blanchett performing as part of a group called Kate & Simon. It's Hey Hey Weird AF.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHREdO9-l5w

Sure that was the definition of wacky, but Cate's performance was also brilliant—'tis Cate Blanchett, after all. Cate's frenetic dance moves were particularly unforgettable. And it's nice to see such a queenly lady be so down-to-earth. 

Such delicate beading could only be the work of wood nymphs.

Cate may be a fairy queen, but she's a cool and relatable one.​​

People of every race and creed are offended by BuzzFeed's new video about black people.

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BuzzFeed's latest video is going viral not for uniting stoners and sloths, but for uniting black people with harmful stereotypes. The piece, "27 Questions Black People Have For Black People," is a 2 minute, 47 second romp through racial tropes, presented without context, criticism, or commentary.

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedVideo/status/720038958625726464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The video features black people asking questions including, "Why do we get vehemently upset when white people use the n-word?" and "Why is being educated considered a 'white thing'? Why can't I love school and also be black?"

Comedian and activist Franchesca Ramsey aptly began answering the questions:

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 And people on Twitter expressed why it was so f*cked up.

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Black Twitter satirized the video with the hashtags #RealBlackPeopleQuestions and #BuzzFeedVideoQuestions.

https://twitter.com/janetmock/status/720102352322224132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfwhttps://twitter.com/MelechThomas/status/720095344420352001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfwhttps://twitter.com/kashmirVIII/status/720096528451420160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Former BuzzFeed writer Ira Madison III wrote about his discontent having worked for a place that produces such content.

https://twitter.com/ira/status/720054135836450817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfwhttps://twitter.com/ira/status/720056081829928960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfwhttps://twitter.com/ira/status/720056652028719104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Needless to say, this one was not "win," "LOL," or "wow."

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