A spoonful of Sugar Ray helps the breakup go down.

Cameo is this bonkers app through which anybody could pay a celebrity to send them a personalized greeting. Want to watch Jerry from Parks and Rechave another "fart attack"? That will be $125. For just $150, Gilbert Gottfried will scream at your friend. If you want to rent Tomi Lahren to help you "own the libs," she's available for just $60, because Fox News probably doesn't pay women the big bucks unless it's to keep them silent about sexual assault. Last year, Brett Favre, Andy Dick, and Soulja Boy all fulfilled a request through the app to endorse anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, so there isn't nothing people won't do.

The latest viral gag featuring D-list celebrities comes courtesy of prankster @SeanAppalled, who got Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath and the Trump White House's (for 11 days) Anthony Scaramucci to play out an elaborate breakup drama. Marriage Story is SHAKING.

In the clip shared by @slasherdaysaint on Twitter, McGrath explains to "Brayden" that their significant other "Cheyenne" is "having difficulty staying in this long-distance relationship" and "wants to be friends now, bro."

Thousands of people thought it was real, and felt inspired to let their significant others down in an equally hilarious way.

McGrath himself tweeted out the video and said that he's available for Christmas cards, too!

After going viral on @slasherdaysaint's page, the original prankster, @SeanAppalled, claimed responsibility to Rolling Stone. The magazine also found a similar video from Anthony Scaramucci, which Scaramucci so heartbreakingly filmed in front of his children's artwork. The fact that he is doing this video at all is more tragic than what he's saying—and yes, he opens up about being publicly humiliated by Trump.

In this case, "Brayden" is lucky that he doesn't exist.

When we imagine planes crashing, boats sinking, tsunamis and massive fires, images of mass and near immediate death almost always surface. While riding in a plane is statistically far safer than a car, surviving a plane crash is far less common than surviving a car crash. So, when we hear stories of aircrafts careening out of the sky, there is often a body count.

However, not all sunken boats or crashed planes lead to mass death, there are survivors who carry intense memories of flaming buildings, long swims toward survival, and planes that toppled into fields.

In a popular Reddit thread, survivors of boat accidents, plane crashes, and natural disasters shared their stories.

1. DicerNicer survived a building splitting in half.

[srry in advance for bad english]

Since I live in Chile, I'm used to earthquakes, perhaps in some countries an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 in the Richter scale is something big, but here is kinda normal, but the one I will never forget is the 8.8 earthquake in the Richter scale that happened in Santiago of chile.

Let me explain a bit, I am a native of the northern Region of the country (where most of the earthquakes happen) so the constructions are especially resistant against earthquakes, Santiago is not like that since they rarely got movement. So back to the story, I was going to a concert in Santiago and was staying in a friend apartment for the week I was there. It was a 27 of february of 2010, 3:33 am, we were chilling with my friend and some of his when suddenly all the light went down, we thought that maybe the building got a malfunction, then, looking through the large windows we saw all the city went dark.

I don’t know if u guys have been on an apartment building during a huge earthquake, but summarizing is like being on top of a wet noodle that moves one side to another constantly. The first thing that got to my head is to stay away from the large windows and go under the table (I happened to be very cold mind in this situations btw) while my friend and his where screaming like hell, I tried to keep them calm by telling them the usual, everything is goin to be ok, earthquakes are usually short so we just needed to wait in safe, Jesus I was wrong, the earthquake was 3 minutes long, the largest 3 fucking minutes of my life.

When it finished I was relieved, I checked if everyone was ok and they were, just scared as fck, I ask my friend (named Ben btw) that we need to get the hell outta there, Ben gave me the reason and pack up a bp with some supplies, when he was getting his bp, his friends just run of the place to get to their families, told them to stop that we need to stay cool and together but the need to see their families was greater and I totally understand that, Ben finished packing and we started running to the emergency stairs, we were making our way while using the cellphones to illuminate de hallway, when suddenly Ben stop me from nowhere, I ask him what wrong and he just reply “look” pointing the flash of the phone to the floor, I was just like the movies, the building was split in half.

I yell “ ohh sh*t” when he falls on his knees while looking at the bottom of the building, his friends, in the rush to see their families, didn’t see that the building was split in half and fell down, we expected the worst, Ben started crying and I was in shook, just 30 minutes back I was hanging out with them, laughing and now I just see their bodies there.

And infinity of screams and cries created the atmosphere of that night, we make our way down through the holes in the building, while doing it, we tried to help as many persons as we can, some trapped by giant stones, some just dead. The one image that will stick to me forever, was the one of a mother hugging his daughter in order to protect her, we find both of them dead.

We got to the place where Ben's friends fell, and thank to idk who, they were still alive,with many broken bones but alive, we took them one by one to the road and wait for help from police, military, medics or fireman, but lucky us, we were all alive.

I watch and experienced 2 sides of humans that day, the ones that try everything to help other in anyway possible, and on the other side, the ones that take advantage of the situation, just to steal stuff from destroyed homes.

So that my story, is actually waay longer but didn’t wanted to make it tedious to read, thanks for reading a piece of my story !

Edit: wow, didn’t expect this to blow up haha, thanks everyone for your kind words! We are actually fine now, for anyone curious, here is a pic of the building the next day

Random fact: 3 years later another 8,3 earthquake hit my city, lucky me huh

2. Codvodka was saved from the waves.

When I was 9, we were traveling from our cabin back to town with a open boat. This was right before Easter. About a 45 min trip. The seas were rough and the boat had a built in flaw that caused it to break in two pieces due to the pounding on the waves. I sat faced towards the back, so I didn't see it break, just suddenly had water up to my waist.

When I turned around the nose was floating a couple of meters away from the boat. My moms husband at the time just said "jump" and so we did, into the black 2 degree water of the north sea, as far away from the boat as possible. This was by far the scariest moment. Her husband managed to launch 2 emergency rockets before the boat vanished below him. He was a very poor swimmer, and even though we tried to hold on to him, he got away from us due to large waves constantly covering us.

After that it was about 10 min of trying to swim to shore which was about 400m away, before realizing we were never going to make it. After that we basically dodged waves and made bad taste jokes. We saw people on the shore, cars stopped on the highway. The last thing I remember before blacking out is a boat approaching. Then I woke up in the hospital basically trashing around from the cramps of my body trying to warm up. Apparantly I had a temp of 27 degrees when they brought me in. My mom was awake the whole time. She lost control of her limbs right after I blacked out, and gripped a rope from my lifewest with her teeth so I wouldn't float away.

Even though though this is a scary story there are some awesome elements to it. An old fisherman in a house by the shore saw the whole thing. He was desperately trying to get a hold of rescue services, but no one was where they were supposed to be. His wife having lost both her previous husband and also a son at sea had some kind of a health issue while watching us swim around. So he had to take care of her, and try to get us help. The most badass part of the story is how we got rescued. One of my moms husbands friends got a call about what was happening. Got in his boat with his 8 month pregnant wife, and went full speed to our location. The boat he had was not designed for high seas. It was a summer type cabin cruiser.

So he had to steer it towards the waves at all times. His wife then proceeded to pull 3 fully clothed people up to safety. Including an unconscious me. If anyone has ever tried to pull someone out of the water, you know how difficult it is. We all survived, I was totally fine, aside from my balls swelling up to 3 times the normal size for a couple of days. Mom tore a bunch of stuff in her back. Husband swallowed about 4 liters of saltwater and was sick for week. TLDR: Boat broke i two, cold water, amazing rescue.

3. Shurikane has never piloted since.

F*ck, I'm late to the party.

I was pilot-in-command of a small Cessna, taking my dad out for his first sightseeing ride on an October evening. He'd taken the backseat in one of my training sessions before, but this time was the first time the two of us were alone together and at liberty to go as we pleased.

After a while, I noticed that the engine had lost 300 RPM. I pushed the throttle to max... no change. Turned on the carb heat (if I remember correctly)... nope, still nothing. I began heading back to the airport, but as the power slowly diminished, I knew we wouldn't make it back by a long shot. Conclusion: I had to get that bird down somewhere.

It was night time. Beneath me were patches of fields or forest, and I couldn't tell which was which in the evening darkness. I opted for the only well-lit place in the circumstances: the freeway.

I made my emergency call, got a response, told my dad what I was about to do, and proceeded to fly the airplane. By the time I was on my so-called final approach, the engine was puttering along at a measly 1000 RPM despite a full-open throttle. All I had to do was to follow a slight bend in the freeway to the left, just past a viaduct, and I'd have three open lanes of road on which to land and probably surprise a few drivers along the way.

Huge black bars suddenly showed up in my field of vision, followed by bright white flashes of light. The aircraft had just struck high-voltage power lines.

By the time I was done screaming, the aircraft had rolled down in a side ditch and slammed itself against a fence.

Ambulances arrived within a minute, pulled my dad and I out, and raced us to the hospital. I awoke in a dimly-lit hospital room - dimly lit because of the city-wide power failure I'd just caused, which I realized once all the other lights turned on late at night and the nurses cheered at getting power back.

Somehow, I didn't break anything, though I had a sore and stiff body for a few weeks, and my back became prone to locking for the next several years. My father had a few broken bones, but was judged stable and set to recover. However, he suddenly and unexpectedly succumbed to his wounds a week later.

I haven't piloted an aircraft since, and have no desire to. I can be a passenger in an airliner or a commercial small aircraft without a problem, but my days of flying are over.

4. pedazzle is endlessly grateful to the volunteer firefighters.

I was stuck in a bushfire here in Australia. My SO, myself and our infant son were in the car evacuating on the only road out of our small town, we got very little warning as the fire moved so fast. Fire was coming on the right side of the road. Smoke everywhere, could hardly see. SO was driving and luckily saw the truck in front of us and stopped in time before hitting it. A semi-trailer truck (18 wheeler) had jack-knifed in the road and was blocking the way. We couldn't see if anyone was in the truck and I was going to go out and check but the fire was now at the roadside on our right and years of fire safety education had taught me you stay in the car.

We had a UHF radio in the car so tried to contact the truck on that with no response. The fire started to blow across the road and ignite the bush on our left. There were embers raining down on our car, we just stared at them bouncing off the car bonnet. I saw a flashing red glow in the smoke beyond the truck and it took a minute or so to work out what I was seeing, it was a fire service truck.

I had to fight every bit of instinct I had in me which was screaming at me to grab my baby, hide him inside my clothes and run towards the red lights. I doubt I'd have made it, fire was literally blowing around in front of us but d*mn if that wasn't the strongest instinct I've ever felt. I just sat there in the car repeating over and over to myself, "stay in the car, stay in the car."

SO managed to contact the firies on the UHF to alert them to our presence. They sprayed water over us while a secondary truck drove through the burning scrub around the big truck to reach us and then the rest all was a blur, being transferred to their truck and driving out of there watching the bushfire raging behind us. Saw the news in hospital where they reported two deceased people found in that semi-trailer truck. Volunteer firefighters saved our lives.

5. cactussword is lucky to be alive.

I was in a plane crash in 2013. 3 friends and I had taken a Cessna to interior BC for the long weekend (one friend had their private pilots license).

The day we were heading home it was quite hot, and the plane was, according to investigators, over-loaded and over-fueled for the heat/altitude. Once we reached 2000(?) feet above takeoff we began losing airspeed. The pilot panicked and did some steep turns in an attempt to gain some speed, but it scrubbed nearly all our altitude pretty much instantly. Now at a few hundred feet and descending rapidly the pilot took aim at a farmers field. They managed to level out at around tree-height but we were quickly running out of field. Maybe a hundred or so meters before the end of the field they dropped the plane to the ground, the nose dug in and we flipped end for end.

I ended up walking away essentially unscathed, minor bruising from the seat belt and some small scratches. The pilot had a pretty good cut, and bashed their knee up on the dashboard. The front passenger (my gf) took pretty much the brunt of it all. Her seat ripped off the floor, smashing her against the roof. It shredded the ligaments in one side of her neck, compressed her spine, and concussed her badly.

The ligaments were bad, and are still causing issues now 5 years later. But the post concussion issues were far worse. Watching someone you love lose the ability to; read, remember what they had for breakfast or whether or not they HAD breakfast, maintain any semblance of emotional stability, or even do something like play a board game to pass the time (learning and remembering rules was too stressful) was the worst thing I have ever experienced. It took a solid 2 years before things started returning to what I could call normal.

I'm sure Ill come back and edit/add to this post, but I've got to get back to work.

TL;DR here's a pic of the plane.

https://imgur.com/1K2fhWB

6. punking_funk survived the 2004 Tsunami.

So when I was a very young child, I lived in South East Asia. One day early in the morning I was just playing, my parents must have been doing their morning prayers and the next thing I knew the entirety of the ocean was spilling over itself. We lived on the coast at this time and it was like the whole ocean had just lifted out. My dad grabbed me and ran towards a block of apartments at the end of the street. I don't know what happened to my mum but she must have been unable to run fast enough because I'm pretty sure she got overwhelmed by the tide and survived by holding on to a tree. I'm not entirely sure how she survived actually, because looking back on the extent of the 2004 tsunami she should have been swept away completely by the force of the water.

So now I'm on the top of this roof and my dad goes back in, swimming to our house to retrieve our passports and documents, while the water keeps creeping up. I think it was a 4 or 5 story building and the water must have reached the second or 3rd floor. He must have been a really strong swimmer because he got pretty much all of our documents in between the waves (and probably saved my mum as well???)

After this we were able to stay with friends some distance away after this, but everything in the town got destroyed. In fact I realized the reason why my parents don't bring up my childhood friends or try to keep in contact with their families is because they're dead. This is pretty much the only really vivid memory I have from that age, and my parents still kind of had a fear of the sea for a long time after that (they still can't handle videos of flooding)

Edit: my dad appreciates becoming a legend on Reddit

(Btw my mum is doing absolutely fine now, she's learning how to swim!)

7. FatCunth survived a sinking boat.

I was on a boat that sank on the Mekong river in South East Asia. It was a 2 day trip with an overnight stop as it is too dangerous to be on the river after dark, we stayed in a bar and got extremely drunk as there was a serious tropical storm that knocked the power out in this tiny village on the banks of the river.

The following morning we set off on the final leg of the journey really early the next day, everyone was feeling pretty terrible after drinking way too much so were trying to catch a few hours nap on the boat. Around an hour or 2 into the journey the boat rolled quite heavily to one side and some cups and glasses slid off the tables and fell onto the floor startling most people awake, we picked the stuff up off the floor and went back to sleep.

I'm not really sure how much later but the same thing happened again but even more violently. The boat rolled so heavily i slid from one side to the other and smashed into a table on the now lower side of the boat, at this point I noticed that water had started to come over the side and was getting deeper.

Everyone was looking around at each other looking pretty terrified not knowing what to do, the water level was now at probably waist height, I told my gf to get out of the boat and swim for the banks of the river, I had to help her climb out the high side of the boat and onto the roof as the lower side was now pretty much fully submerged. At this point I realized I was stuck between the table I had smashed into and a bench that had fallen on top of my leg, with the water now getting towards shoulder height and the boat sinking pretty rapidly, I took a final breath and went down with the boat, it's hard to say how long but it probably sank in around a minute, 2 if you were being generous.

Luckily as the boat fully sank the benches and tables started to float and move away from each other and I got free without too much trouble. I opened my eyes and all I could see was brown dirty water with some sunlight in the distance, I swam towards it, being careful not to knock my head on anything and knock myself out, trying to swim horizontal until I was sure I was clear from the boat before I could try for the surface. I managed to pop up not too far away from the river bank, I looked around and saw a few of the other passengers being swirled around in the rough current, trying to grab anything that was floating to save themselves, calling out for help.

I'm a pretty terrible swimmer so realized trying to help anyone else would probably just end in them dragging me down with them so struggled and eventually made it to the bank, I made it but didn't have the energy to pull myself out of the water, I half got onto some rocks and waited to catch my breath, some other passengers that made it out of the water ran over to tell me my gf was safe further down stream, the guy driving the boat had jumped in and pulled her out because she was struggling.

To give some background detail this boat was being run by a young family that lived onboard, as it customary in large parts of SE Asia it is considered rude to wear your shoes inside someones house as a consequence we had to remove our shoes when boarding the boat. We were now trying to traverse the rocky banks of the river with no shoes, trying to find other passengers.

Getting back to the main story; the captain of the boat at this stage was screaming at the river, not knowing if his wife and 2 children made it off the boat before it sank (we came across them later on, his wife had somehow managed to make it off with her baby slung over her back and her young son). After a while we had managed to flag down another passing boat, initially they didn't stop but I think they must have started to see random bits of floating debris from the boat and realized what had happened and came back for us, further down the river we found more passengers that had been rescued by some local fishermen.

We tried to account for everyone and quickly worked out that everyone was present apart from one girl, no one had seen her during the scramble to get off the boat. We boarded the boat that we managed to flag down and left for the next nearest large town where we would be able to get in contact with our countries embassies (there was zero phone signal around here and all our phones were either in the river of completely soaked) which was over 6 hours away, the local fishermen promised us they would search for the missing passenger.

Having made it to the next town after a pretty fucking long day by this point we were greeted by the local police who were in plain clothes as it was Songkran and everyone was celebrating by having a huge 3 day water fight. They took some details and told us to come to the station in a few days. We ended up having to sit around for days sorting out loads of stuff as our passports were lost and all the local places that could do anything were closed.

Once we got enough documents to allow us to move on and fly to the capital we had to go to our consulate to sort out new travel documents and assist in the matter about the missing passenger with her friends that had made it off the boat (she was from the same country). After a few days the consulate informed us a body had been found and unfortunately it was the missing passenger which was pretty devastating experience to take along with the additional stress everyone was currently going though.

I feel like I'm rambling on now but after a few weeks we luckily managed to get new passports without flying home which we were informed is the standard procedure for my countries passport office, going home to get a full passport wasn't really an option as we were around 5 weeks into a 7 month trip. Was a pretty fun 6 months after that although did end up in some other pretty dangerous situations, we were also on 2 buses that crashed and a friend of mine that came and met us for a month was involved in a pretty nasty motorbike accident.

Apologies for the piss poor comprehension, I've never taken the time to write this experience down before and I'm not the best writer as it is.

TLDR; Got on a boat, it sank, it wasn't much fun.

8. iforgottoeatlunch will never see cheez-its the same.

My plane landed in a field and flipped.

Flying in a single-engine Cessna 210, my family was on the final leg of a 2 week camping trip. My dad, piloting, had started the decent down when at 3,000 feet, our engine started rattling uncontrollably. 10 year old me remembers seeing the oil temperature gauge in the red, but not understanding the significance. As the rattling got worse, my dad shut the engine off and radioed Mayday to the tower. That's when I started to pray. We were only 5 ish miles from our final destination, but we had to make an emergency landing in a field.

I remember staring out the window at the ground thinking about my cat, and my mom leaning back from the co-pilot seat to tell my brother and I to pull our legs up for the crash position. My dad exchanged a few other words with the controller and then shut the rest of the plane down.

We hit the ground a little fast at 80 knots (normal is 65-70 kts). Our front gear struck an irrigation pipe running across the field which caused it to shear off. Without a front gear, our nose hit the field and we went belly-side up.

When I came to, everything was eerily dark, and I was hanging upside down. My dad basically ripped the doors off the back of the plane to get my brother and I out. My family was shaken up, but okay.

The farmer appeared minutes later, absolutely astonished. Then, five news helicopters starting circling. Traffic was backed up for miles around the field as people strained to get a look. Then the paramedics arrived. My mom likes to joke they were a bit disappointed to find 'victims of a plane crash' to be standing around chatting. The worst injury of the lot was my cut lip which I cut with my own teeth in the jolt of the crash. And my parents got some bruising from seat belts a few days later.

The farmer's wife gave my brother and I cheese-its and honey sticks and I can't eat them to this day. And the first thing I did when I got back home was hug my cat, as a ten year old does.

As far as my individual story goes, I got my pilot's license three years ago at the age of 18. I'm now in school to become an aerospace engineer where I hope to one day design planes that save people like this one saved my life. It failed in the most elegant of ways, and my dad's quick thinking and training was able to see us to the ground alive.

And for those wondering what happened to the plane, an unidentified object clogged the oil filter in the engine leading to a piston overheating, snapping, and punching a hole in the side of the engine.

9. critty15 knows just how important life jackets are.

I’m late, but I hope some people can hear me out.

I was in a plane crash when I was 9. It was a small plane, with only my dad and I being the only ones in the plane. The plane had 4 doors and a propeller. That kind of plane.

We were about 1000 feet over the San Francisco Bay, and the engine quit. The plane proceeded to fall, as would be the case. We approached the water, my 9 year old brain coming to grips with the concept of death and such.

We hit the water, and the plane skipped a few times, and water began to flood through the floor. My dad and I got out and sat on the wing of our sinking plane for about 30 minutes and the plane was too sunk to stay sitting on, so we had no choice other than to swim towards shore.

The shoreline was miles away at least, however we had no other options. As we were swimming, (mind you the water was freezing in October), another recreational pilot in a helicopter flew overhead and attempted to drop us life jackets. One was horribly off the mark, but we were able to grab one.

After swimming for half a mile in t-shirts and shorts we came across a mud flat and dragged ourselves onto it.

We were waiting there for a while, and a department of fish and game boat trolled by, looking for illegal hunters. This led to our rescue!

When I got home, I took the best shower of my life.

Now, I’m 19 and still have a residual fear of flying, but I am okay with flying on my own and all that.

What really left an impact on me is the experience of a worst case scenario, and how my mind will usually jump to that in most situations. This anxiety has led to me being incredibly jumpy, and on edge constantly.

PTSD can manifest itself in all walks of life, with even the littlest things resulting in my getting spooked. As a 9 year old without any follow up therapy, coming to terms of this on my own has really shaped my character.

The cause of the crash? Condensation in the fuel bladders of the plane put water in the engine, killing it mid flight. They didn’t successfully recover the plane, but they managed to pull it up out of the water to see if they could determine a cause. The plane was far too damaged to be anything other than scrap at that point.

On a positive note, this accident gave me a new perspective on life, and showed me that life can be taken away just as easily as it is given. Life each day like it could be your last!!

10. LordLogan27's smarts saved their life.

When I was 19 my buddy and I went fishing is a pretty big lake up in Gainesville Florida, I was sitting at the very front with the cooler to try to balance out the weight and while we were crossing the middle of the lake in our gheenoe we had a paddle strapped to the side and it caught the water while we were going about 20mph, it threw us probably 7-10 ft and immediately started sinking.

About five minutes before that happened we decided to put both of our phones in a water proof box which ultimately saved us bc there was no one else out that day given it was a little chilly outside. So after we were in the water the boat started sinking fast but my friend and I stayed calm and started brainstorming on what we should do. First thing I did was swim down to the boat and by feel had to find the phones, once that happened we called the police but their response time was awful, we were treading in water that was cold enough to give us hypothermia, with the box that had our phones in it over our heads for about 50 minuets until the dispatch lady said they were commandeering someone else’s boat because theirs wasn’t starting.

Once we got out the officers told us that they were expecting to find us dead either from getting stuck on the mushy bottom and drowning or by some of the big gators but luckily we didn’t encounter any of them. After the ambulance took our temperature and we came back fine they proceeded to makes sure we were okay then let us get on with our day. Life and death situations are no joke and they can happen at anytime. Make sure you are prepared mentally and physically, your life or your friends may depend on you and how you’ve trained.

11. nevernottraveling barely swam to safety.

I was in a smallish fishing boat charter that sank a little less than 12 miles from a Caribbean island in the Atlantic. From the first sign of trouble to looking straight down at the boat slowly sinking beneath the surface was only about 10 minutes time. Trust me when I say that's an image I'll never forget -- a white sport fisher being swallowed by the dark blue beneath me. When boats sink, they SINK.

Somewhere in the chaos the captain called his friends in the marina before the boat sank, so we waited there just drifting for a while, collecting any floating debris we could hang on to. Fortunately we had life vests otherwise I have no doubt we'd all be dead. 2 hours pass, nobody comes by to pick us up, clouds and rain are more frequent so we lose sight of the island occasionally, and I finally convince everyone to agree to start swimming towards the island -- I know the best thing to do is stay together and not move, but the island didn't seem too too far away, and it was obvious to me that nobody was going to find us at this point. Just as we start slowly moving a helicopter comes and hovers somewhere between us and the island, presumably over the coordinates the captain gave his friends.

I swim my a*s off towards that thing and in so doing lose sight of the captain and first mate, so now it's just me and my sister...and then the helicopter leaves. That sucked. But, given the weather there was almost zero chance of them spotting us unless we were right under them.

We decide our best chance at survival is to keep swimming towards the island. The whole time it's rainy, cloudy, rough seas (there was a small craft advisory -- wish we had been told that before leaving the marina!), and much of the time (literally hours) we can't see the island AT ALL and use the wind as our directional guide... That sensation of not being able to see anything but grey skies and waves with nothing to grasp on to was the toughest part. We did see another helicopter before nightfall when the weather started clearing a bit, but it was way too far away from us. Nightfall is also when we can tell that we actually made progress and were getting closer to the island, but the darkness changes all that as all we could look at were a handful of lights on the island and a bright spot that was probably a resort ~7 or so miles to the north.

Fast forward to maybe 2 or 3am, some 15-16 hours after the boat sank, and we actually get to the island. Of course it's mostly cliffs, the water is colder (being churned from the deep by the currents hitting the island), so we swim South until we can see water that isn't white. We get out of the water maybe an hour later and can barely walk. There are some lights in the distance but no way we were gonna get to them in our condition, so we just tried to stay warm under some trees out of the rain. No sleep, just shivering and trying to stay warm.

Finally the sun comes up and we are able to stop shivering. We can walk somewhat better now, so we start drinking from a nearby stream -- assuming we'll get to help before we die from some parasite -- and start hiking over the hills. I tossed my lifevest into a tree just in case someone spots it. The hike takes us a few hours over two ridges and through some pretty thick brush. Fortunately there were a few more streams. We finally get to a makeshift farm of sorts and decide to eat some bananas from a small banana grove. That's when we spot a guy walking to work on the farm. He feeds us some crackers and water and walks up the road to call the police for us...

Based on where we got to land they changed their search and found the captain and first mate in the water shortly thereafter. We all end up in the hospital around the same time, and we finally got to escape the hospital after ~36 hours and several bags of IV fluids. There's a lot more that happened in that whole 72hour period, but you get the idea.

Funny thing - we went back about 8 months later and tried to get a boat to take us to where we got to land, but they all said it was too dangerous, ha!

It was all over the news for like 2.6 minutes, like everything these days. Even though we all survived, I still have PTSD from that event, which sucks. It's pretty well triggered when I'm on the water and it's stormy or in airplanes and it's turbulent (and I fly all the time sigh), but PTSD be damned, I'm planning on buying a sailboat by the end of the year and sailing around the Caribbean and Central America...and if I can get enough blue water experience, across the Pacific? We'll see...

12. tamzidC barely survived their hiking tour.

Back in 2008, I was in a hiking/sight seeing tour with a well known rugged travel outfitter. The tour started in New Delhi, India and ended in Kathmandu, Nepal. Halfway thru the tour, we meander our way to Varanasi when there were rumors of strikes in Nepal - mainly Lumbini and the Chitwan national park area. So instead of taking a bus to the border to get to the park in Nepal, we took a plane. Crisis averted right ?

Landed in Kathmandu, and of course the baggage handlers decided to strike, had to wait about 5 hours to get our bags 🙄

We stayed about a day at Kathmandu and about the strike ended. We ended up proceeding with our trip to the Chitwan national park and staying at a home stay for a few days.

After a few days of getting our fill of elephant riding, hippo watching and tiger tracking there were rumors going around in the village about a huge strike next day with travel on the roads potentially barred with the threat of death. We all decided to head out extremely early so we would not be stuck in Chitwan for potentially days. So around 3am, me and 11 other members of the group and our guide and driver head out into the dark and onto Kathmandu.

It was quiet for about the 15-20 minutes of driving in the dark, lots of meandering turns around small villages and lakes. However that was stopped short, we saw a small minibus torched, fires burning wildly and soon we were stopped by these masked villagers holding sticks. One of them came to the drivers side and pulled the driver out, proceeded to repeatedly smack him on his face over and over.

Another masked man tried to open our passenger door, luckily it could only be opened by one side, and luckily it was held tightly closed by a burly Australian member of our group. While this was going on, another masked man broke our back window, this resulted in a few of us crying in fear. Me, my cousin and a few other guys were thinking of breaking out of the car and tackling these masked men with skirts (longyis).

We figured the combined arms of a few Americans, aussies and a German can take them down right? No sooner than we thought of that plan, motorcycles started roaring in close by, carrying moltov cocktails... shit!! Our guide and the driver started pleading with them, saying we are tourists, there are women in here and that we will go back in peace, just let us go.. They eventually let us go, told us to turn around and don’t come out until the strike is over.

To this day, every time I hear glass break - I cringe and remember these events clearly

13. businessisusual survived the Boscastle floods.

In 2004, I was caught up in the Boscastle floods in Cornwall. I was 14 at the time, and was on holiday with my mum, dad and younger brother.

We’d arrived in the picturesque village of Boscastle to do the typical tourist things and parked in the car park which was right next to the river. I remember standing looking at the river when we got out of the car - others were too. It was really going some, but nobody thought anything of it. After a few minutes, we headed further down the river towards the ‘witches museum’, which was quite the attraction for the sleepy village. I can’t remember much of the museum, but I’m sure it was excellent.

We were near the end when the owner ran round saying we had to leave immediately as the river had burst its banks. We left, but at 14 years old, I was rather annoyed we hadn’t got to the end. Obviously that was where the REALLY good bits were!

Unfortunately, by this point, the route back to the car park was blocked by a torrent of water. Fortunately, there was a high pass that we could walk along to snake up and around the village and get back to the car. It was however a long walk (run) back and by the time we reached the car park, it was knee deep in water.

My dad took his shoes off and rolled up his jeans and went to fetch the car. At this point, cars were still getting out. I can remember the shop on the corner seemed to be getting looted - or maybe they were just giving away stock that they knew was going to waste anyway. We stood for a while, waiting for my dad to pull the car around, but the water kept getting higher.

It wasn’t just the depth of the water though that stands out. Water is powerful! A couple of young ladies had the same idea of rescuing their car and got stuck. They found refuge on a glass recycling bin. The moment scary kicked in was when the water started to move the bin. This was an industrial sized bin, assumingely filled with glass. The water just picked it up and started to move it. At that point, people started to panic and realised this wasn’t just a bit of water you could wade through.

A couple of locals in wetsuits went in and managed to get the ladies on the bin to safety. At the same time, my dad returned - without the car.

As a family, we made our way up to higher ground to a nearby pub and had a cup of tea. Being English, this of course makes everything better. And it did, until I noticed through the window, our red ford mondeo bobbing along the water in the distance. I went to ask my Dad, who was sat next to me facing the window, “is (that our car)?”, but he cut me off, saying “yes, it is the time to leave and move to higher ground”. He’d seen our car too, but didn’t want to panic my Mum.

We went to leave the pub, and the water had risen considerably higher. In the pub, we hadn’t noticed it, but upon us leaving and commenting on it, everyone else left too.

We all walked up the road and were taken in by a local couple who seemed to have an endless supply of bottled water. I’m not sure why they did, or why I remember that, but I’m very grateful for their disaster planning!

We stayed for a few hours before being collected by a minibus that took us to a local sports hall where the Red Cross had setup a disaster shelter. We spent the night there, though none of us (except my younger brother) slept.

In the morning, the Deputy Prime Minister at the time, John Prescott arrived. He made his way round the sports hall talking to each family and person one by one. He reached us, and me and my younger brother stood up. Mr Prescott reached out and shook my Dad’s hand and simply asked, “So what’s your problem?”

I’m amazed that nobody died that day. The rescue effort was incredible and the help and support of the local community certainly played an integral part.

For reference: my parents insurance paid out fully on the car - no questions asked, and provided a hire car the very next day for the rest of our holiday.

Edit: Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/3570940.stm

14. LatrodectusGeometric's parents were saved.

My husband's parents lived on a boat off the coast of Asia for a while about 20-something years ago. Well when my mother-in-law was about 8 months pregnant with my brother-in-law, the boat sank in the middle of the ocean. It happened slowly, over the course of a day or so, so the couple sent out a bunch of distress calls, packed the important things, and camped out in the lifeboat while the ship sank.

They saved a few nice things for their eventual rescuers: a nice canned ham and a good bottle of wine. Well, they were eventually picked up by the Exxon Valdez, which was fortunate. Unfortunately, at the time the crew was entirely Muslim, and as such the canned ham and nice wine weren't ideal gifts.

15. BloodySpies's childhood house blew up.

Probably a bit too late to the party but when I was 10 my house kinda blew up.

When I was 10 years old, less than 10 days before Christmas time there was a gas leak at my house. We had no idea it was leaking, but it had been building up behind hour wall near the gas fireplace for a while. In the morning I was getting ready to go to school. My mom was almost ready to go to work, and I was tying my shoes to head out the door.

My mom comes out of the bathroom and is putting on her earrings, grabbing her self phone, etc and is heading toward the door. She tells me to unplug the Christmas tree lights (we love decorating). When I did the spark from unplugging them ignited the box around the socket, and then the pocket of gas behind the wall. It all blew up. The fire place was pushed out of the wall in one whole piece. The wall was destroyed. The mantle over the fireplace flew clear across the room.

The Nutcrackers we left on the fireplace flew across the room and 2 got embedded in the wall. The Christmas tree (luckily a fake plastic one) was knocked over. The side facing the wall was curled, melted, and burned. Almost every ornament made of breakable stuff was shattered. Rather from the boom, or the fall, hard to tell. The shock wave traveled through the house, down the hallway into my moms room and blew out the sliding glass door, and blew it into the pool in pieces the size of pennies or smaller. All throughout the house were stress cracks in the sheet rock.

Cracks in windows. Various things. We were lucky. I got minor burns on my face. I was just off to the side of said blown up wall. My mom was sitting on a chair near the door, far away from it all. Had she sat on the couch to put on her shoes (as she does sometimes) she may have been severely injured or worse. There was no real fire. It was more of a blast of really hot air, really fast. The fireman chief called it a "flash fire" There was no fire because there was nothing close enough to the hottest part that could ignite. (good thing we got a fake reusable tree that year to save money) If we had not, it DEFINITELY would of blown up.

Most people need/would benefit from therapy—but unfortunately, not everyone can afford it. In fact, the sad reality is that most people can't. So in the spirit of giving, someone asked people on Twitter to share the "best thing" they learned in therapy on Twitter so everyone can benefit. Even broke people. Write these on napkins and give them out to your family this holiday season—finally, a gift literally everyone needs!

Here are 25 nuggets of therapy wisdom that you can get for free without even a co-pay, simply by scrolling down. ¡Viva la therapy revolución!

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Renting an apartment is a special kind of nightmare.

While I want to believe there are good, decent, human landlords out there--I have yet to meet a single one. Landlords know they can take advantage of tenants because living situations take up a massive majority of everyone's income. Fixing broken appliances or even potentially dangerous apartment problems costs a lot of money, and most landlords would rather just let is slide until you report them than do the extra work of creating a comfortable home.

I've had landlords enter apartments unannounced, massive leaks, illegal rent hikes, and appliances so broken they're essentially just toy props. City living is already hard enough, and renting makes it a whole lot harder. So, when #VentYourRent started trending on Twitter, enraged renters everywhere were ready to share their horror stories from apartment living.

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The First Lady of Trumpism and birtherism Melania Trump spoke at a youth summit for opioid awareness in Baltimore as part of her "Be Best" initiative, and her reception was as warm as that grammar is correct.

Melania was loudly booed as she took the stage, and they kept on talking as the First Lady delivered her remarks.

CNN Reporter Kate Bennett was on the scene, and described the booing as loud and substantial. As Bennett notes, Donald Trump has a history of insulting Baltimore, most recently calling the predominantly black city a "rodent infested mess." The feeling is mutual.

HuffPost's Jennifer Bendery shared more insights from the press pool report, calling it Melania's most-booed event yet.

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way.

Friends are the people you're supposed to be able to count on, no matter what—which is why being let down, lied to or abandoned by a friend is a particularly painful form of betrayal. Just ask Julius Caesar, may he R.I.P.

People who've been stabbed in the back by a "friend" are sharing their stories on Reddit. Here are 28 stories of people who've been betrayed by the ones they trusted most.

With friends like these, who needs enemies?!?!?!?!

1.) From Sweetzombjesus:

Made plans to go see a movie with my friends for my 16th birthday and planned it weeks in advance. Everybody bailed the day before/of but I decided to still go see the movie.

Ran into my whole group of friends leaving the movie theater while buying popcorn.

2.) From genericname619:

Best friend stopped talking to me after my dad died. Took the whole friend group with him. Apparently I was “too emotional”

I was 13. Having my entire friend group walk away from me when I was in such a shitty place stuck with me forever.

3.) From Sighborgninja:

Asked two of my friends if they wanted to live together in college. Then one of them asked another person in our friend group if he wanted to join in as well. Then they asked another...and another. And then once there were too many people for one apartment, they dropped me out of it. No longer "friends" with any of them. Was kinda a wake up call though because I definitely gave way too much of myself to those people not knowing that I was the most expendable one. It really taught me not to put others on a pedestal and respect myself more and has since led to me developing far more healthy relationships that bring me a lot of happiness.

4.) From uglymoz:

She slept with my boyfriend because she thought she was in love with ME? Wackest shit I ever did hear

5.) From ArishaSmile:

I had one friend. I was bullied by everyone at elementary school. Because my friend would be bullied too when they hung out with me at school, we only played outside of school.

One day a popular kid asked to play with me during recess. I was ecstatic! Until after a while they said "You're not as bad as 'friend' said you are". And that's how I learned WHY I was bullied.

6.) From tallavery:

My mother told me she was sick of being with dad. She told me a bunch of things he'd done which made her afraid of him. She asked me to tell a few of her close friends about how she was being treated, because she wanted them to understand why she was leaving.

Then she decided to stay with him. So she told her friends that she had no idea what was wrong with me, but they should pray for me because it looked like I was going through something.

My own mother stabbed me in the back.

7.) From niC00L:

Been very good friends for over 2 years. Their roommate moved out and they asked me if I want to move into their spare room. I was very happy to live with my good friends and I did everything I could to be the best roommate possible. After 3 weeks they found another source of income and kicked me out. First, they offered to help me find another accomodation but the next day they changed their mind and just told me to leave by the end of the month (it was 7 days until the end of the month). They didn't spoke to me ever since. When we met somewhere in town they acted like they never seen me before. I have no fucking idea what I did wrong.

8.) From DJaay11:

He accused me of sexually assaulting his younger sister who was basically my little sister too, at the time. It’s completely false and it’s the most mind boggling thing that’s ever happened to me.

9.) From J-Bad:

My friends told me to “grieve better” after my boyfriend died

10.) From maaadchillbro:

I had one friend who honestly wasn't my favorite person because she was really manipulative, but I never said anything bad about her. I found out that she had been shit talking me to all of our mutual friends and telling them all that I did horrible things that I never did. Ended up essentially being pushed out of that entire friend group and it ruined a lot of my high school experience.

11.) From elizzzzzabethqq:

A ‘quiet’ girl I made ‘friends’ with would only sit with me in class just so she can go snitch about me to my ex friends. She would literally sit next to me for one or two classes(randomly) then go sit with them(later). I called her out on it after she came to sit next to me and told her “why do you even bother sitting with me, when we both know you’re just trying to get shit to talk about me with Them. When I come back from the bathroom you better go sit somewhere else.” I was usually very quiet and that was the first time I stood up for myself.

12.) From usagi1288:

I had a best friend that I knew for 16 yrs. She got pregnant and her parents tried to kick her out. Her parents wanted her to get an abortion but she refused. One of our HS friends told me someone should push her down a flight of stairs so she can miscarry. I told her that's a very bad idea and defended my best friend. The next day, the principal came by my class to ask me if I could attend a meeting about something important. If I didn't attend, I was going to be expelled. When I arrived to the meeting, our shared friend claimed I was going to shove my best friend down flights of stairs so she can miscarry. My best friend believed her. We stopped talking after that.

13.) From LonesomeHebrew:

My wife said she needed some time for herself so she went to stay at her mom’s for a while. One day I went to pick up my kids and walked in on her and my best friend having sex.

Turns out it had been going on for a while and she knew him before she knew me (which I had no clue about).

14.) From NakedKittyAlucard:

We (my husband and I) had a friend that we helped get back on his feet. Paid off some tickets he had. Got his license reinstated. Hooked him up with a solid connection for a reasonable, well running car to replace his beater...AND gave him a place to live and a job (automotive repair)....he decided it was a better choice to tell all our customers we were overcharging them (spoiler: we weren’t) and he’d do the jobs cheaper if they’d bring it to him at his house (this was a short time after he moved out of our house, after never repaying anything he owed us. Not that we’d asked). Broke my heart....

15.) From manlikerealities:

Years ago when I did a health sciences undergraduate degree, most of the cohort was determined to get into medical school. Our medical school program mainly accepted students from only our competitive undergraduate course, due to subject prerequisites. We all knew each other and were friendly, hanging out together and forming study groups.

Many of my friends were great - we shared tips, resources, practiced exams and interviews together. But there were a handful who really wanted to get into medical school, and since the program ranks applicants mainly based on undergraduate results, the better your friends perform, the lower your ranking is for selection.

So near application time, some of us would head off to the university library to borrow out textbooks to find chapters or page numbers that the lecturer mentioned would be on the exam.

And they would be ripped out. You'd go and find another library copy of the textbook, and that page would be ripped out too. All of them, totally removed in a hurry.

I didn't believe that someone from our cohort did it, until interview practice began. Students began obtaining copies of the questions from previous years and lying when others asked if they had it. I saw someone give a terrible, awful interview answer and the other student would give them glowing feedback and inform them they should say that, word-for-word, during the interview. It was a shitshow and a lot of relationships fell apart, or were never the same again.

16.) From Nephilimelohim:

Had a good bud of mine, who's the godfather of my son, living with me and my wife. I travel a lot for work, and was out of the country for about 6 months in the Middle East. Came back and found out she was pregnant, with twins, and that they weren't mine.

17.) From bjrni:

I booked a table for 6 people to watch a sports event at a bar. I tell them so. All 5 friends say OK we will be there. No one shows up or even has the decency call or text that they were not coming.

18.) From sugargrasses:

Friend only listened to me to tell all of my secrets and spread rumors about me. fun times.

19.) From Dio_Dragon:

Friend told me they weren’t doing anything for their birthday.

On the day of their birthday, photos appeared on Facebook of them out with the rest of our friends.

They’re not my friends anymore.

20.) From friklfrakl:

A woman I thought was my friend (we worked together for years, our kids were friends, I helped her and her husband out when he was having mental health problems, she was in my sister's wedding party) appeared in court as a witness for my ex-wife in her bid to gain full custody.

THANKFULLY she failed and I now have custody of my kids.

I haven't spoken to my "friend" since.

21.) From flypaperhat:

A guy who seemed like a good mate when it was just us, and then as soon as there was someone else, or a group, he took the piss out of me and tried to make me the butt of all jokes. Even worse if there were girls around. After a while, I called him out on it, and he was just like "dude, it's just a joke", but I was done with him after that. I saw him randomly earlier this year, after years of no contact, and it was amicable, and we caught up a bit on how we're getting on with our lives, and while he has grown up and become a bit more grounded, there's been no intention of rebuilding a bridge. I think if I ever met someone who has that side to their personality, I'd drop them like a hot potato.

22.) From CarmenSanDiego00:

Grew up going to the same church and met my friend and her family when I was 14. We grew up together, hung out and our families would be together all the time. Fast forward many years and I am dating a guy that I fell in love with for almost 3 years at the time. He went to ND to the oil fields for work. I went to visit him and could tell something was off a bit, took the train from my town to Williston 22 hours to get there. Visited him for 5 days and on the last day he gets up and goes to shower, I grab his phone ( we had an open policy with each other that either could be on each others phones) I found the e-mails between my "friend" and him.

My family still hangs out with her family and her. I refuse to be around or speak to her.

23.) From rayrayyy213:

My best friend since fourth grade, called her my soul sister. I genuinely was so grateful to have what I thought our friendship was. She fell on hard times, got weirdly religious, and stopped working while going to a private uni. I was always there for her, shoulder to cry on, visited her all the time because she didn’t have any friends and I knew she was lonely, helped her with groceries and rent, helped her family out. One day she came over and after buying her groceries, she told me a higher power has been telling her to cut me off for two years and she had to listen. Now she wants to be friends again. Issa hard nope from me dawg.

24.) From MiryahDawn:

In 2014 I woke up Jan. 1st in horrible pain. I ended up needing an emergency surgery to remove my gallbladder. I was a single mom to 2 kids under 5 and had just moved back to my home town after living out of state. We'd had to leave a really shitting living situation and had only been back about a month and I had not found a job at that point. I had had a really close family friend who had been living with me before I had moved back and he ended up homeless so I bought him an $80 bus ticket and got him back to our hometown and let him stay with me a few days. He quickly found another place to stay but we had invited him to my youngest sons 2nd birthday, which is the 6th of Jan.

I was like 4 days out from surgery at this point and could barely make it down my stairs at this point so he offered to go and pick up the pizza and cake for my son for me. We didnt have a huge party or anything. I was on food stamps and had cash assistance since my sons dad was not involved at all and did not pay child support. Even so I offered for him to get himself a small pizza to take back to the girl he was staying with since her and her kids couldn't make it over.

So party goes great, everyone has a good time, especially both my kids. A few days later my grandma was going to go grocery shopping for me so I go to get my card and realize it's not there. I never got it back from the guy, and I forgot he even had it since I was all doped up on pain meds from surgery. I tried calling him like 5 times and he didnt answer, so I get onto my account online to check my balance and he took everything. I had like $600 in cash( paid my rent and bought my kids the things they needed), and then I had like $750 in food stamps. All of it was gone. He let the girl he was staying with convince him to steal my money from me. I'd only used the money to buy the bus ticket, and the pizza and cake for my son since I'd been in the hospital for the first 4 days of the year and only home for 2 after that.

It is still to this day the most intentionally fucked up thing anyone has ever done to me, mostly because it was such a huge fuck you to my kids. Like who steals from a single mom recovering from a life saving surgery, on her kids birthday? Especially after I helped him! Like holy shit.

25.) From Rulermax:

I had some "friends" who were always talking crap about me (found out from another good friend) and one day a came to school in my brand new jeans that costed around €150 and they put glue on my chair while I was in the bathroom. I sat on it. I asked which one of them did it, none of them said a word. We went to the principal's office and these pos had the BALLS to say that I put it there to get them in trouble. Their parents where called and I earned around €200 and a new pair of jeans.

26.) From topcheesehead:

Told a friend a secret in high school

'I suffer from major depression and social anxiety, dont tell anyone, Im seeing a therapist'. That took a lot for me to say. I was making progress.

Friend procceded to tell the entire class. People thought I was crazy. Thats highschool. I stopped being friends with the few friends I had. I was more alone. I graduated highschool with zero friends.

Thanks.

Dont worry though, in college I blossomed into a bearded man with no fears. Life has been swell ever since

27.) From itsheatheragain:

Im late but whatever.

My "best friend" and I worked together for 3 years at a restaurant. I was the night manager and was really cool with all of the employees, but especially her. We hung out outside of work all the time, she went with me to the beach and carnivals with my kids, who adored her.

She started dating this guy at work who was slowly becoming a drug addict. I could see it (my crackhead aunt made it easy to spot) but no one else could. After he fucked up for the 10th time in a week and started nodding out at the sink, he was fired by my boss on a Saturday.

The following Monday night, at closing time, he came in the backdoor wearing a ski mask. I was walking towards the front door to lock it when I was grabbed from behind and felt something cold against my neck. It took me a second to realize it was a knife. He said "get me the money" but I couldn't move. I was literally paralyzed with fear. My brain was screaming at me to move towards the register but my feet just wouldn't move. He screamed "give me the money" again but I was frozen.

He then drug me to the register, made me open it, grabbed a fistful of 20's and ran out the back.

My best friend at the time this whole thing went down? Conveniently, in the bathroom. I was still in shock trying to explain to the police on the phone what had just happened. When I hung up the phone, she asked what had happened and I told her I had just been robbed at fucking knifepoint. Her exact response was "I hope no one thinks I had anything to do with this"

Ummmm what? So long story short, they find the guy (I told them I recognized his voice) and he rats her out on the set up (the "set up" was her texting him an all clear when only she and I were in the building) He didnt have to though, she quit the next day. And stopped replying to my texts.

When I found out I was heartbroken. This is someone who was around my kids regularly. I was diagnosed with extreme anxiety and PTSD after being robbed and still have flashbacks randomly. If someone comes up behind me and startles me I panic.

The amount of money my life was worth to them? $440

The punishment they received? He got 2 years in jail, 50 years suspended. 1 year of probation.

She got 1 year probation.

I had to quit the job I had over a decade because I couldn't stand being in there anymore.

• Tl;dr: A year and a half ago, My best friend at the time set me up to be robbed at knifepoint.

28.) ​​​​​​​From leelo84:

This all starts out poorly by me following my boyfriend to the same college he went to (he was a year older; still don't regret it after all as I loved my school and everything else a out those 4 years). We were a bit off again, on again first semester I was there (again, red flags!). My new across the hall-mate in my dorm became my "best friend." She and boyfriend didn't really like each other but it wasn't a huge deal; just a personality clash and she didn't like how he treated me with the on/off crap.

Our school had a winter term in January. Boyfriend lived off campus so he was there and best friend was taking a class; I was home. Best friend was lonely and didn't know many other people on campus for winter term so I told her to hang out with the boys in my boyfriend's [frat]house, whom she had friendly-ish with. So they all start hanging out.

And by that, of course I mean they start hooking up.

I get back to school and I immediately can tell things are weird with best friend (unbeknownst to me at the time, boyfriend has had basically our entire relationship to practice covering his tracks and is a smooth and practiced liar by this point). Within a couple weeks, it all comes out that they'd been hooking up and best friend actually tells me "you know how much I've wanted a boyfriend; if you were a good friend, you'd let me have him." (Why I still wanted to date him at this point is beyond many many MANY people's comprehension, including mine, but it did involve a dog that I was beyond attached to).

I do fault them both equally, and did at the time too - I don't remember being mad at either of them as much as I was just devastated. He was apologetic from the start; she was mean and manipulative (again, not trying to say it was "the other woman's fault" - just explaining how it all went down). It totally sucked and I felt so betrayed by both of them. Unsurprisingly, I have had a lot of trust and loyalty issues since.

Teachers have a great deal of control over the future adults of the world. Unfortunately, sometimes they can give out the wrong information, whether it's by accident or not.

From Pluto's status to the availability of calculators in the wild, here are 12 things people learned in school that turned out to be false.

1. There's no such thing as a "permanent record."

That there would a "permanent record" of anything that we did wrong (in primary school, at least; I know universities will absolutely fuck you up if you're stupid enough to plagiarize). - Medical-Seaweed

2. This has apparently been disproven since the '70s.

The "tongue map" (link), where certain tastes were believed to only be detectable on certain parts of the tongue. Absolutely untrue. Plus the realization of a 5th taste (umami). - PSquared1234

3. The thing about solids is that they're not liquids.

I was taught that glass is actually a very dense liquid, and this is proven by old glass panes being thicker at one end. It's just flowing extremely slowly, you see.

But it's really just that glass was made differently back then. Glass is solid. - seventeenblackbirds

4. At least this person learned something useful thanks to this age-old academic scare tactic.

By 1980, the US will have fully abandoned the imperial system for the metric system. This was the fall of '77. We had to learn how to do all the metric conversions. - Franklin19697000

5. Demonizing tradesmen is an interesting educational choice.

my father was an electrician who worked for the county school board. He told me about how one day while on the job sometime during the mid-late 90’s, he was working on a panel in some middle school when a teacher pulled aside and asked him a for a favour. He accepted, and she brought him into her classroom. She then proceeded to tell the class that they better buckle down and study and get into a good university, because if they didn’t, they’d wind up having to get a trade and be a “loser” like my father, all the while pointing at him. Awfulness of this teacher aside, it was really stupid of her to say that traded are worthless. I know guys who are carpenters, electricians, pipe fitters, etc. that make more money than most teachers do. - Wambolt90

6. Yeah, this backfired...

You will never have a calculator by your side at all times while not at home. - Throw_A_Stone

7. This toilet-flushing fact is making my brain swirl.

That the Coriolis effect is demonstrated by toilets flushing the other way in Australia.

In reality, toilets flushing whatever way they flush is based on how the water is directed in the bowl. The Coriolis effect is only seen in large systems such as hurricanes. - ajmomoho

8. Pluto had a bad few years.

That there are nine planets orbiting our Sun.

I STILL LOVE YOU, PLUTO! - SpreadingRumors

9. This is a big fat Yikes.

Went to school in south Alabama, was taught an extremely skewed version of the Civil War. - Zip_Zoopity_Boop

10. What moisture?!?!

My HS wellness teacher told us - and I quote - if you squeeze all the moisture from a cigarette into your hand, and lick it, you will die instantly. - herpty_derpty

11. Well now PEMDAS is ruined.

PEMDAS. My 7th grade math teacher taught us the order of operations explicitly that multiplication was always before division, not that they had equal weight. I finally learned the correct way about three years ago in one of those "a zillion people can't get this math problem right" when someone was kind enough to explain why I was wrong instead of just calling me stupid. Three years ago I was 31, so I spent like 20 years with an entirely wrong method of one of the most basic fundamentals. I sometimes wonder how much this contributed to my disdain for math and my struggles to do well in math classes. - cheetah7985

12. This one is the biggest fallacy of all.

You need good grades to get a good job to have a safe and secured life. - OrangeyDragon

This Reddit thread has all the makings of Jim Carrey movie. What if every little white lie you told ended up becoming true?

Whether it's karma that makes people who pretend to be sick turn out to be sick, or a mysterious and magical ability to summon cows, these bizarre instances of dumb lies coming into fruition are like Bruce Almightey meers Liar Liar.

1. arbitraryfemale can have a cow on demand.

I was probably about seven and on vacation with my family and they weren't paying any attention to me and constantly interrupting me. They were talking about someone they knew who had cows so in annoyance I point in an arbitrary direction and yell "hey a cow!" and they all go silent then I hear my dad say "oh my god your right" just as the skinniest cow emerges from behind some foliage.

2. "This is YellHound, and you're watching Disney Channel."

In 5th grade, I didn’t feel like running the mile in P.E. so I told the teacher I felt sick. She knew I was full of it but she let me go to the nurse anyway. I figured I’d just lie down for the period and get sent back to class. Nurse took my temperature and it read 102, so school policy stated I had to be sent home. Got the rest of the day off to lie in bed and watch Disney Channel.

3. Rockin' AcrolloPeed pulled the rare self-nicknaming off.

I told some people at my college that my nickname was “Rockin’ (FirstName).” They put it in the registry and a bunch of staff started calling me that when I checked in to events or whatever, and so soon everyone called me that.

I gave myself a nickname and it stuck.

4. Be the floutist you wish to see in the world, Ricky_RZ.

I told my 9th grade music teacher that I played the flute.

I was sitting in my first day of advanced music class, then I thought "F*ck this shit, I'm not gonna carry this big ass trombone around", so I said flute.

Then I had to buy one (parents weren't happy about the uninformed swap to a brand new instrument) but I stuck through it and not only did I pass the course with a good grade, I ended up playing flute in a marching band for a few years.

TL;DR: Lied about playing flute because the trombone is too big, it ended up working out

5. Good grief, Jernau_Morat.

When I was 12 I had geography teacher I really really hated, even had the surname of Grief and lived up to it in it's entirety.

Wednesdays I had Geography as my first lesson of the day and I woke up one morning and decided that I really didn't want to go to school that day. I massively played up a really small stomach ache I had and surprisingly my Dad who usually never bought my bullshit took me seriously and we went to the doctors surgery.

After being examined by the Dr he told me that I had am inflamed appendix and that it actually looked quite serious. I was as surprised as f*cking anybody and 6 hours later I was in hospital having it removed.

TL:DR - I thought I faked a stomach ache to get out of school, actually had appendicitis and got it removed because it was gonna blow.

6. confused_slytherclaw was born a biker.

so I couldn't ride a bike until i was in high school. i was embarrassed so i just told everyone that i could ride bikes like normal people.

I got away with it until when i was 16 i had this class trip to a tropical island where we had to take bike to go places faster. when i was handed my bike my mind went "fuck me, fuck this shit". i took a leap of faith, i sat on the bike, i paddled, wobbled a little and... it went forward. for the first time ever, after lying all my life, i rode a bike.

7. A real mathemetician should calculate the probability of AigleRouge117 being correct.

when i was a kid and during math class i wasn't paying any attention since it was really basic math teaching and teacher ask me the answer, i just guessed a random little number, i guessed right and teacher congrats me, i felt guilty and instant tells i wasn't listening and just guesses, teacher look confused

8. May the Force be with HardlightCereal.

"Han Solo dies at the end!"

Right before seeing Episode 7 for the first time. My friends got mad at me after.

9. Long live the Three-eyed Raven, Makelevi.

When he began reading A Song Of Ice And Fire my friend, knowing that the series was full of wild twists, used to just give out wild, fake spoilers to people. One of them that he repeated often was that Bran was a tree.

10. I hope klamajama got Doritos after surgery.

Told my mother I had a sore throat to get out of going to school. Total lie. She caught me eating a bag of Doritos and was LIVID. Said she was gonna put me through the Dr visit she had already scheduled anyway.

Throat culture came back positive for strep. Turns out I had some chronic thing and needed my tonsils removed.

11. im_a_creepy_cat's story is indeed creepy.

I used to work somewhere that shared a space that occasionally flooded during heavy rains with a mildly shady industrial area. During the day time it was usually pretty safe and it was common for employees to have their lunch break there.

A co-worker and I were walking along the fence line and I joked “wouldn’t it be funny if we found a dead body back here?” We laughed at the ridiculousness of my statement and shortly went back to work. According to local news the next morning, a body was dumped back there that overnight. I’ve never made a joke like that since.

Relationships are complicated and the concept of "being in love" looks and sounds different for each couple. The sparks of romance and lust that first attract people often fade into a deeper, less glamorous relationship as the years pass. But in some cases, the feelings of love wear off as resolutely as the infatuation. Ideally, this is cause for a break-up, but there are times when people stay in loveless marriages much longer than ideal.

Sometimes it's out of a fear for the other person's mental health, the logistics of divorce, or concern about children. Other times the reasoning is even more abstract or intertwined.

In a recent Reddit thread, people who stayed in loveless relationships share their reasons.

1. thomasmaaloe felt obligated.

It just sort of became a habit, and when I realised I didn't have the feelings anymore we had two young children and I didn't want to break up the family, and later when when we tried couples therapy, this didn't change anything, but our son was diagnosed with leukemia(2 years ago), so I felt we had to stay together until he was well. My ex didn't agree and we were divorced this summer. My son is almost through the treatment and is doing fine.

I have not been this happy and relaxed in years, and so far the kids(6 and 9yo) have coped well with me moving and when they're stayig at my new place.

2. Soggy_Nothing was the one still in love.

I was the one super in love. I don't think he was. Once every 4 or 5 months, we'd have some sort of discussion. The last time, it was that he didn't know if what we had was love. I should have seen that as a warning. But I convinced him to stay with me after an hour discussion.

I think he felt guilty. I stayed with him through suicide attempts, drug induced psychosis, and moved countries for him. I imagine he felt an incredible amount of guilt, and stayed with me because of that. I think he cared for my well being maybe. But he wasn't in love. And it's painfully obvious now that I'm out of the relationship.

3. lookingforassistant hopes their brother-in-law leaves their sister.

My sister is a massive piece of sh*t. Constantly calls her husband "limpie" in front of people, in reference to his supposed limp dick. Tells him that she wishes he'd get in a car and drive off a cliff. I'm not saying she does this just when they are arguing, I mean she does this literally every single day, not even angry at him. He's been dealing with this bullsh*t for 20+ years out of the 30 years they've been together.

The reason he does not leave here is that she would be homeless if he did. She has a bunch of felonies for theft, identity theft, prescription forgeries, etc. She used to be a nurse, had a decent career. Now she wouldn't be able to get a job anywhere. He knows that if he were to leave her, there's a decent chance she'd die on the streets. Other than him, everyone has abandoned her at this point.

Just a side note, he is an incredibly honest person. Never steals, does not do drugs, goes to work every single day and works hard.

EDIT: Here are some text messages between them that their son (my nephew) sent me. I guess his mom sent them to him to show that "their father did not deny abusing her." The husband doesn't look great here, but I can't honestly blame him at this point. I spent a couple of years living in their house a while back, and I can say that I never saw the dude get angry, be abusive, or anything else. Maybe he's had enough at this point and is fighting back? Not sure. However, in the time I spent living there I had my sister steal everything out of my wallet, sign up for credit cards in my name, watched her abuse him and the kids (emotionally) nearly every day, etc. Overall, it's just a very sad situation.

4. Imhavingalovelyday stayed out of concern.

I’m thankfully not in this relationship anymore, but out of fear that he’d do something to hurt himself. He threatened to do it when I first brought up that I wasn’t happy in the relationship, and he became incredibly manipulative.

5. pauciradiatus's boss can't afford it.

My boss has been vocal about wanting to leave, but he has kids and no prenup, so he "can't afford it".

6. ancisfranderson couldn't imagine a different life.

I am currently is an amazing relationship, textbook “true love” type of stuff.

However, years back I was in a relationship with a woman who abused me physically, sexually and otherwise. And I did not love her, not for the last year or so when the abuse got bad. So why did I stay if it was so bad?

Well, unfortunately—and this is true for abusive relationship as well as for mundane loveless relationships—people get wound up together and then it becomes very difficult to imagine your life without them, even if it’s not a good life. I guess people are better at surviving the current hardship than breaking away into the unknown. There’s a lot more to my story, and everyone story has its own details.

But I think that’s the basic answer. You build a life with someone, it gets hard to throw that life away.

7. BintPlease is married to their best friend, literally.

Neither of us experience attraction but we still care deeply for each other. He's my best friend!

Also the marriage was mutually beneficial.

8. grindermonk views love as a verb.

Being “in love” seems like a state over which you have no control. I long ago made the decision just to love the woman who became my wife. Fortunately she made the same decision about me. Romantic infatuation has faded, but our love for each other endures. It takes work to maintain, to avoid taking each other for granted, Love is not an emotion, it is a practice.

9. AboutNinthAccount stayed with someone for the dog.

I loved her dog.

10. eilletane stayed out of low self-esteem.

In my first relationship I thought I had scored the jackpot. I was young and he was young and jacked and smart. He over glorified himself and I just couldn’t see that. I looked up to him as a god, mainly because he kept saying I was bad at my studies and cooking and basically everything that I love to do. I thought I would never get someone better so thus I stayed. I thought I loved him, I thought that was what love was, but I was just proud that I had gotten someone “so amazing.” I was stupid.

11. The_Egomaniac suspects their ex never loved them.

When I was in a relationship with my ex, I liked her, cared for her, been there for her when she needed and gave space if she needed (I don't know if this is love). But she did none in return. She just said "yes" and that's it. She was only physically attracted to me, I guess. I don't think she ever loved me. She broke up with me for nothing. One day she wanted me out of her life. So I left.

12. Gwendywook had to learn what love really looks like.

I realized recently that every relationship I've been in, until the current one, had absolutely no love in it. I told myself I loved them, but I was really with every one of them for convenience or because they asked me out and I was scared to say no.

The last two ended so horribly, I was scared to leave the house for a long time, and routinely asked guys at my job to walk me to my car because I heard one of them was looking for me. Met my current SO online, moved 800 miles away to be with him, it'll be two years in January and we just had a baby girl together. It just took a literal f*ck ton of pain to get to the happy spot.

13. Cuddle_Cloud had a few relationships that should have ended sooner.

I was afraid he'd kill himself because he was so depressed so I waited till he was a bit better mentally.

The second was more of a roller-coaster. I waited 5 months before breaking up because so many things came up. I didn't want him to think I was obsessed with the number 3 so I couldn't break up after 3 months. Then it was summer break so I couldn't see him and i wanted to do it in person. Then his birthday. Then Christmas! I finally broke up in Jan..... And then get back in April because I genuinely fell for him again. We lasted 3 years before I realised I was the only one putting any effort into staying in the relationship and finally broke it off for good.

14. Turquesazul recognizes that loving someone looks different every day.

As others have said, it is impossible to love someone the same way every day. So it is normal that on some days everything is fine and on other days you are not sure how you feel, you don't know what love is anymore, you feel confused and suffocated, but what really matters is knowing that you are unable to be disloyal or purposely hurt the person you have chosen to be your partner, and you know you can count with them when you are well and when you're not.

And when you think about the relationship you know you don't want to be with anyone else. I think that ideia we have that love should be all romantic and roses is very wrong. Life is not like that, a relation is hard work. In the end of the day what matters is be there for each other

15. 3Dbabble is glad they finally left.

I'm no longer with them. But was with her for 8 years. I never loved her but stayed because of a combination of self loathing and she relied on me for everything so I was afraid of what would happen if I left.

Also financially I couldn't live on my own. But I bit the bullet anyway because I can figure out the rest and staying with her was only stunting her ability to learn how to be an adult.

16. intothelight_ is free now.

I was in a pretty bad relationship when I was younger. I stayed because I thought nobody else would love me. He was incredibly abusive and would remind all the time that if I left nobody would ever care about me or love me like he does. I was just so terrified to leave, what if he was right? It’s been almost ten years since that relationship and I’m happy to report that he was wrong, although it’s taken a lot of work to realize that and I still have fleeting moments of doubt.

17. skibumatbu stayed with their wife because they were so good at being married.

This one hit a little too close to home.

We have 3 kids. We made a great team. She went with one kid one place and I took the others somewhere else. Whether it was afterschool activities, playdates, or shopping on the weekend, our ability to divide and conquor was amazing. However, we never went on a date. We never watched TV together and just barely slept in the same bed. We did seperate things in our private time. We were never intimate. We weren't even friends. Just two people in the same house sharing responsibilities.

For 5 years I sacrificed my relationship because it made my life easier. It was miserable yet comfortable. I love my kids and that made me happy to see them happy. It made me happy that we were able to afford some luxuries for the kids that I can't on my own. I was scared to end the relationship. I was afraid to live alone and afraid that I would never find someone else.

My wife moved out last week. I now have to face those fears. I can be a single dad half the time. I'm still scared. But, I'm optimistic that my kids and I will pull through....

If she leaves me with any money that is... :)

If watching cheesy Hallmark Christmas movies is your holiday guilty pleasure, you're not alone. Yes, these movies all have the same plot, the same actors, and corny holiday messages, but something about them is super addictive. Is it the decorations, the general nostalgia, or seeing so many sensitive hunks in holiday sweaters? Whatever the reason, these movies are like crack, very festive crack. If you're a Hallmark Christmas movie addict like I am, these memes will definitely crack you up.

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As we near the end of the decade, people are reflecting back on the difficult-to-name 2010's with a mix of nostalgia and horror. But let's be honest, mostly horror. Whether it's fidget spinners or the rise of fascism or cancel culture, this decade has been chock-full of "trends" that we all wish had been cancelled before they even began.

People on Reddit are sharing the "most regrettable" trends from the past decade. Here are 28 that people hope will disappear faster than KONY2012 the second the clock hits midnight this New Year's Eve.

Let us know in the comments if we missed any!

1.) From ggibby0:

“_______ challenge”

99% were just horrible for your health. Things like the cinnamon challenge. The worst I saw it get was someone tried to start the ‘Fire Extinguisher Challenge’. The guy put the nozzle in his mouth and hit the lever. No matter what extinguisher you’re using, this is incredibly stupid. What’s worse though, is he picked a Dry Chemical extinguisher. The second he hit that lever, he blasted a lifetimes worth of micro particulate into his lungs. His lungs are absolutely, unequivocally, well and truly fucked.

tl;dr Challenges lead to stupid people doing stupid shit.

2.) From Attarker:

I have a feeling a lot of people who got huge ass fat transfer procedures to look like a Kardashian are going to regret them in the coming decade.

3.) From al-port:

Y'all remember Google+?

4.) From hugesavings:

Facebook turning from a fun place to connect with friends to an anti-democracy data ghetto

5.) From sumner980:

Gender reveal parties. Not the 'normal' quiet events woth family but the driving need to get more and more extreme with every passing year. I've seen parks ruined, beaches littered and all for something as basic as the gender of your unborn child? Spreading blue glitter everywhere doesn't somehow make the child more special than just saying "it's going to be a boy". They're already special; they're your child!

6.) From salldie:

Kony 2012

7.) From Cscott35:

That one time we had a clown problem....

8.) From Yeetmeisterz:

Just all the family YouTube channels in general

9.) From linnnnnnnny:

That weird moustache trend that was popular around 2013, you know when teenagers would have moustaches on the phone cases, as jewellery and what not.

10.) From doubleflusher:

Click bait

11.) From lilodontneednostitch:

Social media influencers. Making tons of money and reaching fame by becoming a "brand ambassador" for bogus skin products never really made sense to me. Modeling is a profession of its own, but not everyone can or should do it. Instagram has made us believe that many of these influencers have perfect lives, and the inadequacy people feel when scrolling through their feed is extremely unhealthy for society. Becoming an influencer should never have been what social media was for. Connecting with friends has now turned into admiring strangers from afar, leading many of us to feel lonelier than ever.

12.) From Rootner:

Being a dick to people on camera for likes from strangers.

13.) From No-more-kool-aid:

Rebooting everything for the sake of nostalgia instead of coming up with new ideas.

14.) From unnaturalorder:

This isn't a prank, it's a "social experiment" wherein we're going to see if people get mad when we walk up to them and punch them as hard as we can!

15.) From silk_shirt:

Wealth worship. The Kardashians are an obvious example with Kylie Jenner’s billionaire status. Also, high surveillance. Amazon’s Echo and the like being bought and placed in homes, willingly.

16.) From M14535955:

Highly overdrawn lips and eyebrows- like, I can see where your real lip ended a half inch back!

17.) From notpanguu:

The "Being alive and doing taxes" challenge.

18.) From Sigmar_Heldenhammer:

The erosion of our privacy and freedoms.

19.) From shavenyakfl:

The rise of irresponsible journalism. The drop in civility. The drop in responsible use of social media.

20.) From baby_bomb_squad:

Crappy video games that is only there so you can pay to play

21.) From My_Name_Is_Not_Kathy:

Anti-intellectualism - refusing to believe experts in their field over some crazy person on the internet. I think it got worse this decade and I hope we leave it here.

22.) From TaraJo:

The death of legitimate journalism. Replacing in with sound bytes, partisan hacks, fake news and networks in such a rush to report ANYTHING that they don’t bother to fact check.

23.) From ABloodyNippleRing:

The way people just shit all over things they don’t understand. It happens with everyone, not any particular groups. I’m tired of seeing people so blantantly disrespectful towards things other people enjoy. If I like X and you like Y, why do have to argue X vs. Y? Can’t we just have a meaningful conversation about X and Y both being shaped by V?

24.) From smuffleupagus:

Whatever the shit people are doing to their eyebrows. Like the 2000s were bad for eyebrows, but I'm not sure the appropriate corrective measure was to go from having the least brow possible to having the most brow possible and drawing them on so precisely you look like an anime character.

25.) From DeathSpiral321:

Anti-vaxxers

26.) From Andromeda321:

Astronomer here! No one asked me about the Flat Earth theory until just a few years ago. The fact that it's picked up again is just so astounding if you think about it.

Frankly though it's just part of a greater trend of anti-intellectualism, and the idea that you can now "choose your own facts." I started posting about astronomy on Reddit because the misinformation I read annoyed the fork out of me, and most people are really appreciative to hear the truth. However, the cynic in me notes that astronomy facts very rarely affect our lives the way some other settled science can. And I know plenty of people out there are a huge fan of space and willfully ignore facts when it comes to, say, climate change, because the truth there is unpalatable and affects them more immediately.

Carl Sagan said in the 90s in The Demon Haunted World that- “I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..." I think it's pretty clear this trend began in earnest in this decade, but I hope we will be able to right the ship a bit in the next one.

Edit: lots of people telling me that they don’t think there are Flat Earthers IRL, or that it’s not that big a deal. I disagree. People who get into one conspiracy theory as weird as Flat Earth aren't usually prone to stopping there.

Second, I actually have colleagues who had a Flat Earther who kept coming in and threatening the astronomers in the department for their role in the conspiracy theory, and making the young women students feel very uncomfortable. He kept coming back onto campus despite a ban for some time, and I'm told it was really disturbing.

I’m sure many people are joking about Flat Earth. Unfortunately some not in on the joke couldn’t tell the difference and started listening.

27.) From oooriole09:

Social Media making everyone feel like they need to be heard. It’s one of the main reasons why stuff like anti-vaxxers, MLMs, Nazis, cancel culture, flat-earthers, etc. exists. Misinformation is just spread like a disease within echo chambers like that.

28.) From axw3555:

“Millennials are killing the X industry”

Often while completely missing that most of the “millennials” they’re complaining about are years too young to be millennials, and that millennials aren’t a single hive mind where everyone thinks the same.

"Thanksgiving is a time to count your blessings, one by one, as each relative goes home."

-Melanie White

What are you most grateful for this Thanksgiving? The answer is clearly MEMES! Memes bless us with laughter each and every time we look at the internet. They also help us to avoid interacting with our coworkers and family members. What could be better than that? If you can't wait for turkey time, don't worry, these hilarious Thanksgiving memes will fill you up with laughs.

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Ah, kids' movies. Pretty much every person born from the invention of the VCR onward has been raised by them.

Parents think they can trust flicks from Pixar, Disney and even Marvel. But sometimes, whether it's to keep chaperones entertained or just so the movies' creators don't get bored, adult jokes slip through the cracks.

A Reddit user recently asked people to name the jokes they can't believe made it into kids' movies. Here are the 16 best.

1. Gotta introduce the kids to misogyny as early as possible.

On Cat in the Hat when he steps on the garden hoe and says, "Dirty Hoe!...I'm sorry baby, I looove you" - gollystruck

2. "Cars" had its own version of Hooters.

In Cars, there's a sign on the side of the road for the “Top Down Truckstop” featuring “All Convertible Waitresses”. - AmeglianMinorCow

3. Well, kids should definitely avoid touchy strangers...

The pedo bird joke in Angry Birds

After the pigs steal their eggs red bird is giving a speech and says something like "who just steals other people's kids?!"

Shot to pedo bird who was earlier seen holding a sign that said "free hugs" while parent birds quickly rushed their children past him.

"Well, you look like you would..." - DensityBonors

4. Who knew the live-action Scooby Doo movies were on the forefront of normalizing cannabis?

In the second live action Scooby Doo movie, when the gang gets to the opening of the new museum, they're walking down the red carpet looking for their fans - Daphne's are the good looking girls, Fred's are the good looking guys, Velma's are the nerds, and... Shaggy literally sniffs the air and follows the smell of weed to find his fans... the very obvious group of stoners. I saw it a couple weeks ago and was amazed. Man those movies are awesome. - ipodincluded

5. I feel like a real boner for missing this joke.

In Shrek when Lord Farquaad is looking at Fiona in the Magic Mirror and looks under the sheet to look at his junk rising and laughing. - Averagechimp

6. Dirty grandpa Pickles!

On a episode of rugrats the grandfather pulls out a suspicious looking dvd case that says in bright pink and yellow "XXX" [Chuckie] asked "what is that?" The grandfather responds by saying "that is for after your bedtime"

Basically he just pulled out a porno - shitonyourshelf

7. Justice for old moms.

Drop Dead Fred, when he slides under the mom and says "cobwebs" - fullonsasquatch

8. Now we're imagining Potato Head sex. Thanks a lot.

Toy story 3

Mr potato head: NOBODY TAKES MY WIFE'S MOUTH BUT ME - Nool_the_fool

9. Jizz jokes? Real mature.

[In "Guardians of the Galaxy",] “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock painting.” - mylegismissing

10. All the whos down in Whoville are getting freaky.

In the live action Grinch, there is a scene where the little Grinch is peeking through windows and the adults at the party inside are all putting their keys in a bowl. I recently watched it for the first time as an adult and was shocked. - barefootbookworm

11. Wow, honestly never caught that.

[In] Shrek; [Lord Farquaad is a pun meaning] Lord F*ckwad. - motherdick

12. Donatello, get a dictionary!

Original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Donny: "oh, I get it, you're claustrophobic." Casey Jones: "You want a punch in the mouth? I've never even looked at a guy that way." - thatonepersoniam

13. Subtle one, "Frozen."

I think in Frozen, there was a conversation between two characters where they were saying “No, shoe size doesn’t matter” And it’s funny because of that myth that goes “the bigger a man’s foot is, the bigger his dick is” so yeah that was kind of funny - TheNineInchNail23

14. Even Anna gets in on the fun.

There's another good one in the recent film, Kristoff is wearing some fancy clothes, and Anna says to him: "I like you better in leather" - Time_to_raise_my_APM

15. Ah, basketball sex puns.

In Space Jam, Patrick Ewing is in the psychiatrist’s office and is asked:

“Are there any areas, other than basketball, where you find yourself unable to perform?”

Ewing looks at him like what the fuck dude and just goes “No!” - benjaminbrixton

16. And finally, one that's not subtle at all...

They really let a 10 year old call his sister "Penis breath" in E.T. - ThisWeeksSponsor

We all know we're not supposed to trust conspiracy theories, but sometimes they're just fun.

Twitter user Christine Rousselle asked the people of the internet to tell her their personal favorite conspiracy theories that they have no reason to believe, but still do. And boy did they deliver.

1. Never trust a bird.

2. Many believe PETA is an inside job, created to make vegetarians look like wackadoos.

3. Is "Frozen" just the most successful SEO burial ever?

4. You could fill several books with Tupac and Biggie conspiracy theories.

5. This one just seems demonstrably true.

6. Where is the lie?

7. Compelling, but what would the point be?

8. The "Paul is dead" of the 2000s.

9. This is a fun one to debate over brunch.

10. If this isn't true, then what have scientists been doing for the past hundreds of years?

11. We can only hope.

12. The pictures were nice.

13. Please let this be real!

14. Best viral marketing scam ever.

15. This one hurts my brain.

"Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not."

-Ursula Le Guin

Morning is here and whether you like it or not, you have to get up and do something. Before you get too productive, take a quick peep at these hilariously random memes. They are sure to help you start your day off with a chuckle.

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We all know that snitches get stitches. But what if you're snitching on a family member who is legitimately breaking the law, and has horrible plans for your life?!

The concept of "no bond greater than blood" only really applies when family is loving and actively has each other's back. Otherwise, they're just the people you got randomly stuck with, and may need to cut off for the good of your mental health and safety.

For LGBTQ people with homophobic families, the cultural emphasis on staying connected with your blood family can inadvertently encourage them to stay in toxic and dangerous relationships. There comes a point when finding a loving chosen family is far healthier than trying to mend a bond that was never there.

In a recent post on the Am I The A*shole subreddit, the OP asked if they were wrong for telling the cops about their dad's illegal collection of firearms after being threatened with conversion therapy.

AITA for turning in my parents for owning illegal firearms?

For context, OP shared that they recently lost their job and their parents convinced them to move back in while they look into schooling and next steps.

However, when they moved back in, their parents revealed plans to send them to conversion therapy for being gay. When OP corrected them about their orientation (they are asexual, not gay) and refused to go to conversion therapy, they were kicked out days later.

Context: I recently lost my job and parents practically begged me back to live with them while I plan the next steps in life. I wanted to go back to school and pursue a masters degree, but when I got back it was clear they had other plans. I’m ace but they were convinced I’m gay and were going to force me into conversion therapy through the church, when I refused they kicked me out less than 4 days later, including the weekend.

OP's parents had the police wake them up in the morning to evict them, and since then they've been living in motels until they find something permanent.

OP's parents have been holding all of their belongings hostage and threatened to damage their computer, so OP arranged to have a police escort when they arrive with a Uhaul.

My parents had the police wake me up and evict me. Living in motels until I find an apartment. They are withholding all of my possessions and specifically said they would damage my PC. I’m arranging a police escort when I show up with a u-haul as I wouldn’t feel safe going there alone or with just a friend, and the majority of my family doesn’t speak to me.

On top of having a police escort, OP also warned the cops about their dad's stash of illegal firearms in case he grabs a gun.

AITA for telling the police in advance about my Dad’s stash of illegal firearms, including handguns? We are in Canada.

Edited to remove duplicate word.

Dovahpuff thinks it was wise of OP to alert the cops about his dad's guns.

NTA. You are ensuring that the police are aware that they may be in danger from the firearms. As for your parents, if you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.

hoggirlsummer hopes the guns get taken away and OP's parents get their due punishment for being bigots.

NTA HOLY SHIT

If they're making threats over you being ace and trying to force you into conversion therapy, they are not stable and should not have guns. You could be saving someone's life. If you need a police escort to reclaim your things from them, they are not rational people and probably incapable of being responsible gun-owners.

Also, f*ck them for being homophobic assholes

zukka924 thinks OP's parents deserve to be in jail.

NTA What they did is illegal and immoral and they should be thrown in jail for how they treated you

However, others think the story has holes and doubt the legitimacy of it.

Rhynegains doesn't understand how the police could legally escort OP out so quickly.

Uh... this has got to be a sh*t post. The police can't evict you like that this quickly. This doesn't make any sense.

Yes_Everytime pointed out that legally OP's parents could call the cops and claim OP is a trespasser.

OP was at their parents house so highly unlikely he had a lease agreement between them meaning they can tell the cops he is trespassing and can be removed. If he had a lease agreement then OP would have 30 days to vacate.

Hanginon wants to believe.

NTA

Also, It sounds like you've got a good and workable, albeit still slightly dangerous, plan of recovery from this nonsense.

Good luck.

Chicup doesn't believe a word of this tale.

YTA for making up this story IMO.

If this story is genuine, there is a lot more context to be filled in - and it seems absurd to believe OP would legitimately have questions about whether it's wrong to bring the cops to a potentially dangerous situation. However, stockholme syndrome is a real thing, and there are stories of this ilk that happen more often than many of us would like to believe.

"Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on."

-Richard LaGravenese

Family, you love them and yet they drive you completely insane. No holiday would be complete without family drama. Whether you're stuck dealing with your dysfunctional family or avoiding them altogether this holiday season, you will definitely relate to these hilarious memes.

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Despite what parents, governments, and compensation packages say, teaching is an important profession.

Teachers from all over the world gather to commiserate on the Subreddit aptly named r/Teachers, and among the interesting threads is a discussion on what unpopular opinions they've developed over years in the classroom.

If you've ever had a teacher, it's a fascinating insight into what it talked about in the teachers' lounge.

1. bboymixer can't convince you that learning is good.

I can't make students want an education. If they don't want to show up or try then I'll focus my attention on the ones that do.

2. booms16 knows that kids aren't the tech wizards we assume they are.

This generation is not the most "tech-saavy." Most cannot solve simple problems themselves. I have heard, "save? Where's that?" Or better yet, citing a search results page as the source.

They know how to point and click. That's it.

3. infinitivephrase wants to erase the stigma around medication.

Kids (at least in the population that I teach) are not over-medicated. Instead, they are vastly UNDER-medicated. There is so much stigma and fear-mongering about medication that so many children who might be helped greatly by meds go without. I sit in so many parent conferences where the parent declares that their child is diagnosed with something, but that they don't want their kid turned into a zombie by medication.

I wasn't diagnosed with ADHD until I was 30. I lost a National Merit Scholarship. Having untreated ADHD had a tremendous negative impact on my life. I understand medication isn't the only tool, but it's a damned important one.

4. HouseCopeland with a hot take: being a teacher is awesome.

Here's my unpopular opinion: Our perks are awesome. I get every major holiday off, a week for Thanksgiving, two weeks at Christmas, a week for spring break, and two months off during the summer. I teach in a content area that I'm passionate about, I never take work home with me unless I want to, and I make 60k a year with stipends from sports and clubs.

5. Chevey0 can only do so much when a student's parents suck.

Sh*t parents make sh*t kids who will eventually make more sh*t kids. By the time they get to secondary school it’s mostly too late to really help them :(

6. Baldwin41185 drops multiple truth bombs.

Kids these days aren't being prepared to be proactive but instead reactive.

Parents are not strict enough.

The kids are not being pushed nearly hard enough academically.

We worry so much about the kids being safe and mentally alright that we forget some of the best things they can encounter are short and acute stressors.

Kids should wear uniforms.

Flexible seating is dubious.

Giving kids laptops in middle school is pointless. It really only benefits the teachers for giving them assessments.

Too many kids are given IEPs and parents don't get them off them even though the kid doesn't need the extra help. The parents want the IEPs for them in college.

Kids should not be given get out of jail free cards for major assessments.

7. Kristywhatever calls for report cards to be honest.

Grade inflation is a huge problem. It sucks for the kids that are really exceptional and do excellent work to get A's just like kids who turn in average/good quality work, because it devalues their grade and is demotivating to see someone performing significantly worse earning the same grade.

8. OhioMegi might need to take this up with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

I don’t think profound special needs children belong in a typical school. If a child is blind, eats through a tube a needs a nurse 24/7, I don’t think a school is the best and safest place for them.

I also think too many responsibilities are being put on schools. We’re not a business, the parents aren’t our customers and teachers are not just babysitting.

9. elykittytee has respect for Gen Z.

this generation isn't full of procrastinators.

they're paying attention to too many things at once and have no sense of where to start or prioritizing, versus having a plan and just putting it off.

10. Damnit_Bird is a Henry at heart.

There are some names that I've noticed have a trend of certain behaviors. Every Henry I've met so far is very excitable and easily distracted, which is funny since that's my dog's name and he behaves the same way.

11. Lead the way, fadedfigures.

If your kids aren't doing what you expect them to do, then teach them how to do it. You can't complain at someone who hasn't learned the skills you expect from them.

I feel like a lot of folks are like, "They don't write notes. They don't use their time effectively. They don't submit their homework the right way." Alright, so show them how! My kids had trouble accessing the online platform, so I showed them how to do it. The number of kids asking questions about it decreased dramatically after that.

12. Why would we take responsibility for our own actions when we can just complain, Djallen2?

My unpopular opinion? Most of the parents who complain about “participation trophies” are the same kind of parents who bulldoze their way through their child’s life so they never face any challenges.

13. operatorloathesome has the hottest take of all: kids these days are actually good!

The kids today are better, kinder, and more tolerant today than the media portrays. Phones and Wikipedia aren't the root of all evil. Middle School and Middle Schoolers are fun and interesting!

It might seem relatively harmless to make generalizations about men, but gender stereotypes can do a lot of damage—and not just to women. Although TV and movies and toxic masculinity tend to paint a specific portrait of what "a man" is (sex-crazed, unemotional, incapable of cleaning up after themselves, etc.), these are stereotypes not reality. And of course, not all men are the same—because men, after all, are people. Except for my ex-boyfriends.

Men are sharing the myths about the male gender that they find to be 100% false and infuriating. Here are 31 examples that we can all try to stop doing/saying/thinking and writing into sitcom plots.

1.) From FlaFlaFooey:

I hate when I hear from someone when I have my kids and my wife is working that I'm "babysitting". It drives me insane. I don't babysit. I'm raising my kids, I'm not a volunteer or a hired hand. Ugh.

2.) From luckyhunterdude:

I'll never understand the very common belief that men can't or refuse to care for children.

3.) From juanstamos21:

That we only tell women our feelings to coerce them into bed. Like, "Wow, how new and amazing this relationship is.. im so glad I found you" That is uncomfortable vulnerability not some sort of plot.

4.) From kangarooninjadonuts:

Me having big feet only means that I wear big shoes. And seriously, what makes girls think they can just come up to you and ask about it?

5.) From LonelyPauper:

If you expose us to radiation we gain superpowers. In reality this has only happened a few times and most men would just die.

6.) From TheBassMeister:

If a woman physically assault a man, he somehow must have done something to deserve it. This gets even worse in those case where male victims of domestic abuse are getting arrested in case the police gets called, even though they are the victims and not the attacker.

7.) From eugengutol:

Looks like it's more culture specific: Being with the father figure by mother/grandma. Like if you messed up or misbehave "If your Dad finds out you'll be in trouble". Worst case is when Dad is told the story in a way that he gets angry and fulfills those threats.

It's wasn't only in my case, most of the guys I've been talking with had the same case.

Like, WTF ?

8.) From Nicholas-Rage:

"Men think about sex every X amount of seconds"

I'm a grown man with a life, i have more to think about than just sex.

9.) From FrankyStankbone:

I probably don’t want to fuck you. It’s usually a big decision with like some anxiety figuring out if I actually want to sleep with you even if I’m already interested. Although promoting ourselves as captain horndog makes us look cool to other guys so a lot of dudes do that, or they’re desperate.

10.) From Oudeis16:

Men just wait around for a woman to inform them that they are now dating.

I'm not trying to claim that women come up to me in bars especially often, but on the rare times they do, there is a definite sense of, I am under no obligation to actually attract you as a mate. I exist and am female, and therefore by default you want to date me. Once, when I tried to politely decline, the woman chastised me in the bar for five minutes demanding to know what my excuse was, what reason I could give her. She simply assumed that the default was that I, as a man, want to date any woman, and that I have to justify not being attracted to a specific one.

11.) From MrMushrum:

Men can't show emotion in public unless it's anger or greed

12.) From Bujair1:

Men can't be abused by woman

13.) From Juan_spicy_boi:

That dads are dopey morons barely capable of caring for themselves, let alone their kids

14.) From LumbermanDan:

Fuck, where to start? I was a stay at home Dad for 2 years. The sheer volume of Karens at parks and playgrounds used to drive me up a wall. They were always dumbfounded when I didn't need their help.

Yes, I can change a diaper. Probably faster than you can.

Yes, I have snacks. Celery, carrots and a little ranch

Yes, I have drinks. Water bottles and juiceboxes

Yes, I have lunch. Chicken cutlet sandwiches. No, we didn't buy them at the deli, I can actually cook.

No, I don't need wine. It's 10AM, Karen. Get a fuckin grip.

15.) From fsutech:

I really hate how fruity drinks are associated with women, like damn can I just enjoy my strawberry daiquiri.

16.) From GriffsWorkComputer:

No, im not going to a strip club. no, that doesn't mean I'm gay

17.) From LeanMeanWeenMachine:

That we're all not interested in or incapable of being involved in the planning of our weddings.

I cannot tell you how many comments like "Remember, it's her day, not yours!" I received during the 2-year lead-up to our wedding. I'm not going to lie to you and say I'd been looking forward to getting married since I was 12 or something but I took an active interest together with my wife in the planning of our wedding. "It's not my day, it's hers?" Fuck that. It was our day. We planned it together. Her vision definitely brought it all together and she did a fucking astounding job, but she didn't just make decisions on her own, we talked together about and worked together on every single thing involved in the event; and we were both ecstatic with how it turned out. It turned out beautifully. I try not to toot my own horn very often but I never thought the best party I'd ever go to would end up being my own!

18.) From kidl33t:

'There are plenty of fish in the sea, just get over it.'

Fuck you... I liked that fish. Even if it was kinda mean and cruel.

19.) From Vynstaros:

Just because I have a dick and you have a vagina doesnt mean I'm trying to get in your pants. I want friends just like anyone else. But when I try to talk to people like my guy friends they assume I'm trying to date them. No. I just like asking my friends how they were because I hate people who only talk to you when they want something. So I talk to everyone as a show of you are my friend, not the services you offer.

20.) From Mostlyaverageish:

That we are not afraid of walking alone through a dark car park at night. After a great deal of asking every one from police, to self defense instructors, to a green beret and a bunch of combat vets, to the most cracked out gun nuts. Not met a single person who had no fear.

21.) From Archeronus:

The whole shit with " you are a man" when it comes to pain, lifting, sadness etc.

22.) From libertyprime17:

Erections mean we want sex. Even as adults, they can still be random.

23.) From dfreinc:

Not sure if it counts as a 'myth' but most TV portrayals; the guy's a dumbass and depends on his wife for literally everything. It's annoying and played out. I don't know anyone close to my age that lives like that.

24.) From OceanWidePuddleDeep:

That we would have sex with anything that has a heartbeat. 100% untrue, ive had sex with inanimate objects too.

25.) From Niki4Fun:

Daughter to a single dad here...

There was this myth I discovered when I was young. It's something almost all my female friends were told, but thankfully not me. The myth is the belief that there are such things as "girl business" where only your mom or other older females in the family should help you with.

As the only girl in the house growing up my dad helped me understand and deal with a great many "girl business" problems. Meanwhile all my friends had their moms to handle it for them. When my friends found out my dad was sort of in charge of handling those with me they were shocked. They asked me why I didn't have an aunt or grandma to help instead. Well, my aunts all live at least ten hours away and grandma is even further.

I began to realize over the years that there might actually be negative side effects to this "girls only" way of thinking. Sure, having another female assist you with those issues might be less awkward and embarrassing, but there's already an inherent awkwardness and embarrassment associated with it. Learning to overcome the embarrassment is part of growing up and accepting your body.

Furthermore, I have since grown up and began studying psychology, and done some research into this further for my studies. I'd have to do a more in depth and wide reaching survey and analysis to come to findings I'd be comfortable with being peer reviewed, but I have a theory that the "girls only" mentality causes relationship issues later in life. Young girls grow up thinking that there are some aspects of womanhood men not only don't understand but can't understand. It makes them not only less trusting of male partners, but also keeps them from seeing men as equals when it comes to parenting.

Sure, if you're a mom of a young girl there's no reason for you to not continue helping her with all the complex feminine issues she's going through. Just be careful not to make her think her dad doesn't empathize or understand too. Don't make him this distant third party who will never get it, or someone who should not be involved because he has a penis. That's the same toxic female attitude that causes soccer moms to call the cops on a dad when he takes his daughter to the park to play. Men can parent too, and they're surprisingly good at raising young girls on their own.

26.) From abarua01:

Showing emotion is a weakness. It isn't. We have just as many emotions as women, and our emotions are just as valid

27.) From sunlightFTW:

Men are worse communicators than women.

Really depends on the man, and the woman!

28.) From SamLansNL:

Man who works at daycare are phedophiles Every year there are people who complain I work there

29.) From Jimmiejackson:

That if we like children but don’t have children of our own we’re automatically given at the very least a little grilling, if not straight out asked if we’re a pedophile.

I like dogs too, for pretty similar reasons. Nobody ever asks me if I’m a dog fucker.

30.) From Darkmaster666666:

We're all unable to control our nature to have sex. Believe me if I couldn't control myself you'd have noticed by now.

31.) From istealpixels:

That men find it normal to cheat and brag about it.

Is there really a "war on Thanksgiving?" Trump seems to think so.

At a rally in Sunrise, Florida Trump claimed that "people want to change the name 'thanksgiving'" and that "was true also with Christmas, but now everyone is using 'Christmas again.'" Wave the flag of surrender, Christmas haters--you lost the imaginary war created by our president!

Am I missing the massive change in people using the word '"Christmas?" If you happen to celebrate Christmas and someone says "Happy Holidays" to you, that isn't an attack on Christmas, it is just an easier way to group all the winter holidays together. "Happy holidays" could also mean "Merry Christmas AND a happy new year!" "Happy Holidays" can refer to Thanksgiving, Christmas, AND New Year's Eve. If you're crying because someone doesn't wish you a Merry Christmas while you're checking out at the grocery store, you have far bigger problems and should seek therapy. Nobody is trying to take Christmas away. I'll say it louder for the people in the back: we have more important problems in this country than the wording of holiday salutations.

Of course, #WarOnThanksgiving started trending on Twitter and many people are ready to go into the front lines of battle for this very important, historic war. Here are some of the funniest tweets while you prepare your weapons and harness your turkeys:

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