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Teen shares screenshots of mom claiming she 'faked' her autism diagnosis.

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Young people of today are learning that neurological disorders like Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are common and nothing to be ashamed of. But sadly, ignorance and misinformation about autism are prevalent, especially among older generations.

A college student who was diagnosed with ASD at her university's health center shared her diagnosis with her mom, who had the worst possible reaction. First, the mom accuses her of "faking" the results.

Next, the mom reacted pridefully, claiming she "would have known" if her daughter was on the spectrum. She then insisted her daughter just has some "social issues" due to being "sheltered," and she used the r-word.

The girl responded "lmao," which is Gen Z/millennial slang for "help I'm dying inside," and called out her mom for using a "neurological slur."

The mom then accused her daughter of "making up words," insisted again that she's "not autistic" and told her that she just "needs rest." LMAO.

The girl's dejected response, "ok," highlights how exhausting it is to have to defend your own diagnosis—especially to your own mom.

The girl, who goes by nessie013, shared screenshots of the exchange on the Reddit thread "Insane Parents" where many commenters are relating, empathizing, and offering the support that she didn't get from her mom. Unfortunately, she was also bombarded with negative messages.

In the comments, she answered some questions about her diagnosis:

!explanation

After speculating for a while about me having ASD, i took the steps to get screened at my school. I told my mother and she seemed apprehensive. I found out the results today, and i was right. I told my best friends before i told my mom. I think you can guess why.

edit: just to answer some frequently asked questions,

  1. i was screened through my school’s health and wellness/ counseling center. I am in college.

  2. i have now learned that neurotypical is not a normal word people say. so i apologize for that.

  3. i was under the impression that this was a support subreddit, but i am being bashed for posting here so I’m going to assume I’m wrong.

  4. I’m not self diagnosing to be unique. I’m seeking answers as to why I am the way I am, despite therapy and no formal trauma in my childhood.

She also provided some backstory:

here’s some backstory:

I was extremely smart for my age growing up. i skipped first grade and stayed in accelerated classes, was reading by age 2 and speaking coherent sentences. i started speaking at 6 months old and was generally a fast developer. however, while i excelled at school i was not very good at making friends and my mother said i wasn’t very good at home. it’s hard for me to break routine and she saw that as disobedience. not to mention i was “overly sensitive” and cried a lot when it seemed like nothing was wrong. I’ve found out now that’s due to sensory issues.

my mom used to scream at me when i was younger and ask “are you retarded? you might fucking be. I’m going to take you to get tested if you don’t behave.” so i learned quickly which behaviors were okay to show and which weren’t. long story short, growing up was hard.

i didn’t hop on tumblr and go “oh this sounds like me. guess I’m autistic now.” i sought professional help.

Luckily, not all moms behave this way when learning of a child's autism diagnosis. This mom, throwaway626shshsh, commented on how she's advocated for her son:

I’m sooo sorry this happened to you :(

I’m going though the asd pathway with my son and his dad doesn’t agree dragged every interview said the opposite (even with photos and videos) and it used to keep me awake at night worried if he would be okey. But two years later where still on the list to be tested and he’s grown into one of the kindest people iv ever met, and I’m trying to teach him to use his traits to his advance. He want to a pilot and we talk about cars and engines too.

Honestly there are times when he struggles but the strengths he has are so amazing too, just find your passion/strength and honesty run with it :)

You can always message me if you ever need a ‘mum’s’ opinion ( not that I’ll replace anyone)

And people who share her diagnosis, like axw3555, are offering support:

As someone whose dealt with autism-skepticism (thankfully not from family), ignore her. It’s hard enough to learn to accept that you’re not stupid or a freak without people like her. I had support and it took well into my mid 20’s.

Probably hard to do with someone like her, but I’d advise that anytime she starts getting hostile about it, just disengage. Don’t rise to her, if it comes to it, pretend she’s not in the room.

Many commenters, like bookluvr83, have experience with parents who denied or shamed their kids' diagnosis:

My dad is like this. When I was diagnosed with OCD, he said "Well, I have it, too, I just think about what God wants me to do and I do it."

That's not how that works.

My younger sister has paranoid schizophrenia. My father thinks that it's her fault she is the way she is because "she just needs to stop listening to the voices in her head" like she has a choice.

That's not how ANY of this works.

IamSplam adds:

Parental denial can badly override parental duty. Hope she comes to understand how terrible her behaviour is.

There are few worse feelings than being shamed and undermined by the people who are supposed to support and protect you. Luckily the internet is there to substitute-parent us. Thanks Reddit/mom!


15 people share the embarrassing moments they still think about years later.

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Farts may only last a second, but the shame can last a lifetime.

People are sharing the most embarrassing things that have ever happened to them, and while the question is extremely broad, it's enlightening to see the specific things that stay with people for decades: humiliating experiences involving poop, farts, and snot.

If you have ever been called out for a fart, you are not alone.

1. It happens once in a blue moon, noturmoms_spaghetti.

I ran cross country in high school. I would lead stretches, meaning that both the boys and girls teams were circled around me. A buddy came up and de-pantsed me and grabbed too many layers. At least the girls team got the rear end and the guys got the front. I don't think I've ever been truly embarrassed since.


2. xpepsi1x broke it down.

Easily the time I was breakdancing in drama class in grade 11 and kicked a girl in the face.


3. Don't think twice, it's alright, cat_bastard.

I was in high school and we had a prize giving ceremony during school assembly.

My name gets unexpectedly called out, so I make my way to the front of the hall to collect my prize. I'm almost at the front when I have a sudden crisis of confidence and think that I must have misheard them and there is no way they called my name, so I turn around, walk back to my chair and sit back down. My friends are looking at me and ask me what the hell I'm doing, and tell me to get back up there to collect my prize. So I get back up, walk all the way up to the front and then have ANOTHER crisis of confidence and think that my friends must have been messing with me. So I turn around and walk back to my chair and sit back down. The hall is silent and the teachers are on stage looking at me like I just landed from another planet.


4. HipsterGalt wasn't a spelling champion.

When I was like 5 I shouted at my sister "YOU'RE AN IDIOT I-D-O-T", 21 years later I've yet to live it down.


5. GoodFellaGotEm's teacher is the new Miss Trunchbull.

In 8th grade I had a teacher Mr.Jean. He was 6’3, had to be over 400 pounds and had a lazy eye. Mr. Jean was known for having bottles and bottles of Febreeze in his room. Whenever he would smell a student stinking he would stand up out of his chair, go from aisle to aisle sniffing kids and spraying a cloud of mist over the kid that thought he smelled foul.

I had forgot to wear deodorant one day and I was lucky enough to be rained in the freshness.


6. Happy belated birthday, dadbeast!

I sh*t myself on my 13th birthday coming home from Red Lobster. Haven’t set foot in one since; not gonna risk it again.


7. Flatulence like Artpetchi626's can stay with you forever.

Farted very loudly on valentine's day in 4th grade.


8. You're welcome, chinchuberry.

Said thank you to an ATM.


9. Shockabrah530 experienced the only fate worse than farting.

I once had diarrhea in the middle of class in 3rd grade. I was smart enough to wait until everyone left to recess and ask to go to the school nurse before anyone found out but that memory still haunts me to this day.


10. Happy belated birthday, Whacking_Material!

My freshman year of college (on my 19th birthday) there was a fire in my dorm. I was in the shower when the alarm went off. Had to jump out and right then, a male RA runs in yelling that we need to evacuate immediately. I grabbed the closest towel I could find and barely covered myself up in time for him to look over. I then had to stand outside in nothing but a towel for over two hours while the fire was put out and the building was cleared. The fire was caused by some idiot microwaving tin foil. I couldn't call anyone to come get me because it was the first week of school and I hadn't made any friends who had a car yet. It was...mildly frustrating.


11. A sh*tty situation, 1regit.

My 2 year-old brother shat in the ocean while he was with my mom. A while later 10 year-old me managed to stumble upon the shit while diving and thought it was a sea cucumber. I proudly presented it to my mom, to her horror, before she asked where I had found it.

She still won't let me live down the time I discovered a "sea cucumber."


12. Maybe shawnypitman deserved it for calling women "chicks"?

Running straight into a sliding glass door in front of a party full of chicks.


13. I'm lovin it, mjrome23.

After going to McDonalds earlier in the day, I pulled a ketchup packet out of my pocket and opened it in her hair instead the condom in the other pocket. Those rigid edges got me at 17.


14. Nobody told NobodyInRealLife in real life.

Had to poop in a public bathroom. When I was done one of the pieces of toilet paper that I put on the seat stuck to me and hung out like a tail for the rest of the day. Didn't notice until I got home.


15. Bless you, ejb2112.

Senior year of high school I started developing allergies, especially to perfume. Was in class, watching a movie, and started having a reaction.

Sneezed so hard I blew a huge wad of snot right into my hand. As I’m pulling my hand away and wondering what to do, the girl in front of me turns around and says “bless y—oh my god!” as she notices the bridge of snot between my nose and my hand.

35 years later it’s still embarrassing.

People are sharing the 'final straw' that made them end a serious relationship.

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Breaking up can be hard. But it's a lot easier to end a toxic relationship when your partner's behavior is unimaginably awful. So next time the person you're dating shows their true, terrible colors, consider it a parting gift. A reminder of why you're about to pack up your stuff and delete their number, forever—or at least until the next time you get drunk and lonely.

People on Reddit are sharing the "final straw" that ended a serious relationship. These 22 people share the moments that made them say "we're over":

1.) From pls_send_sexy_pics:

She told me that I was a "cheap fuck" because I wanted to cook for her instead of taking her to Texas Roadhouse. I was so excited about a new recipe I wanted to try out.

2.) From Noturmothershandle:

I was dying of the flu and asked him to get me some soup. He came back with 1 can of $0.69 soup, venmo requested me for $1 because “money is tight right now”, then bought an $80 bottle of scotch 3 days later on Election Day, and the fucker didn’t vote because he got too drunk.

3.) From AhSouthernHellBelle:

Puked into his hands at the dinner table, and ate it.

4.) From Whatsthematterwithu:

While we were arguing over a stupid thing, she took two knives from the kitchen and started to hone them by grinding them at each other.

5.) From bloodybay:

Boyfriend when i first met him was sweet and full of potential. Towards the end of our relationship, he became toxic, rude, and lazy. He dropped out of college to focus on being a sound cloud rapper. (God how I cringe at my choices.) Him dropping out put me on the fence, and I eventually discovered he was cheating. The final straw you ask? I confronted him about said cheating, and he started FREESTYLE RAPPING to me about how sorry he was mid argument. And it was TERRIBLE. On the bright side, I lost all feelings I had for him dead on the spot and walked away laughing.

6.) From zizabeth:

He got another chick pregnant. Killed it for me.

ETA: the relationship not the baby. Once I posted I thought it sounded bad but then thought hmm that's pretty fucked of you to think. Glad it's not just me.

7.) From Ammisam:

Married 9 years, two kids. He cheated on me at least twice. He confessed the first time, which occurred a week after we got married. I forgave him out of fear of being alone and pregnant. Second time, he didn't confess. He just came up with some wacko excuse. We had two kids by then. Then he was on WestPac. I know full well he cheated on me, gut feeling. But I had no proof. After all that, we continued. I finally woke up and realized that I didn't need him anymore. The straw that broke the camel's back was him threatening to kill my dog. I chose the dog over him.

8.) From FdlMWEI:

She tried to manipulate me by threatening to break up, so the next day when i went to pick her up i dropped off all her shit and ended it right then and there.

9.) From Naynaytacos:

I was having a health episode and since it wasn’t an emergency, I texted him (I figured he was asleep.) my best friend was up with me all night, taking care of me. When I called him in the morning and asked why he did not call or text me in the morning he said “your health isn’t my problem”. And I knew it was over and never could fix that.

10.) From auregeici:

When I was 23, she was a gorgeous 47 year old spanish woman, we had zero problems, we connected so well, every part of our relationship was perfect. Almost 2 years of bliss and heaven together.

Until she said i was too old for her.

And dropped me for a 19 year old.

11.) From FearTheSuit:

Threatened to sleep with my co-workers husband

12.) From numptydumptyPhD:

His brother was rude to me at the table, and I said “I’m not sure I agree with that, let’s leave it there” to which his brother stormed off. I was then banished from the house until I apologised to the father, and all the brothers for “disrespecting” a man in the house. My boyfriend told me I had to do this. Didn’t want to, so he ambushed me on Valentine’s Day (4 months later) for a ‘special night in’ and locked me in a room with his brother until I apologised. I apologised and got the fuck out of that room and relationship

13.) From questionablemotives3:

He stopped trying, I couldn't even remember the last time we went on a real date. All he wanted to do was sit and do nothing. He stopped caring and so did I.

14.) From JMFHE12345:

She couldn't be there for me while my mom was dying of cancer.

15.) From badjuju824:

I dated him for 5 years and he lived with me at the time of the breakup. I forgave him for cheating just a month prior, which I know I shouldn’t have, and I was having a really hard time with trust and everything still (duh). I told him I was going to stay with my mom for a couple days because I was struggling. And he said “which slutty friend put that idea in your head? I know you would never be strong enough to come up with that on your own.” Who says that?!

Yeah...get the fuck out of my house. Now.

16.) From Throwawaydrew54321:

We talked a lot, every day, and he was very outgoing and wanted to know what I was doing that day. He always started with a “good morning” and an inquiry about the day.

Except, I realized early on that if I spent any time with anyone else, the next day I got the silent treatment. I was reaching out, seeking, and barely getting anything all day. It took me about 3-4 months to realize what he was doing. I honestly don’t know that he realized it.

One day, I babysat my neighbor’s kids for an hour and found myself not wanting to tell him because I knew he’d be upset. The next day another friend asked me to watch her kids for an hour, and I did tell him, and did get the silent treatment for watching an infant and a one year old for an hour while my friend got her older child’s haircut.

Later that week, my sister I left and nieces came in and we watched The Crimes of Grindewald at the theater, and my sil asked how things were going and I told her the above, predicting that the next day he would ignore me. He did.

The same thing happened the day after thanksgiving.

The tough thing was that he seemed like such a wonderful guy otherwise, but now that I’m away I realize that he had such a tight grip on me in other ways.

Finally, on a silent treatment day, I didn’t reach out either. His first comment was “why are you so cold today?” But truly, the cold shoulder was his. I encouraged him to read through our texts, and I hadn’t been cold at all, I just hadn’t said much and neither had he. He blew up and demanded to talk right then. I declined because I was watching a movie with my kiddo. He got even madder. He said we had to talk the next day.

That was it for me. I love a cooperative relationship, not a hostage scenario.

The next day, my friend’s baby was hospitalized for RSV and I let him know that not only was I unable to talk because I was helping my friend, but I actually didn’t want to.

17.) From BirdBerella:

When he choked me in a non sexy way.

18.) From Cannanda:

My ex had severe anxiety due to his parents divorce and wouldn’t allow me to hang around guys even in a group. I dealt with it for 3 years because I loved him so much. I ended it after my best friend graduated and I wasn’t allowed to go say goodbye before he left for college. I did it anyways and came back to my boyfriend having the worst panic attack I’ve ever seen.

It’s been 5 years now and we’re still great friends. He just needed help and refused to get it.

19.) From handheldsam:

she told me that whenever we had sex, she imagined she was fucking a dog. also made me watch dog porn

edit: it’s scary how easy it is to find on relatively standard porn sites

edit 2: i’m referring to canine-human sexual relations

20.) ​​​​​​​From LycanWolfGamer:

Blanking me when my dad died then cheated on me within the same week.. been single ever since

21.) From MPPPPP2019:

Her parents demanded that I bought a house before we could be married. Funny thing is I already owned an apartment but the value (400k) was not quite as much as the value of the house she owned (600k) so I had to get a house of at least even value to even it out. Unfortunately, my ex-gf decided she would side with her parents on this one after I pointed out the absurdity of it.

22.) ​​​​​​​From avtomat_kosmonavta:

Distance. She moved to Scotland and I'm still here in the eat coast of the US. I was the one who broke it off, and the decision still haunts me.

I don't know how to get her off my mind.

23.) ​​​​​​​From PuCK2k:

For years, she verbally abused me. Belittled me in front of friends and family, accused me of cheating on her almost daily with anyone and everyone, and often went into fits of rage when I wouldnt agree with her on absolutely everything. Fast forward 6 years. I'm deployed. I had asked her to send me my kindle so I could have something to read when my convoys were stopped and we were waiting around for hours. I only ever used it out on convoys so I never had it connected to wifi. After about 5 or 6 months, I'd read all the books that were on there and I decided to take it to the wifi tent and get a few more. Once I connected to the wifi, a bunch of Facebook messages pinged. She had been using it at home and it was logged into her Facebook. I opened them thinking it was mine cuz I could see 2 of the message threads were from 2 very good friends of mine. I looked at the messages and turns out she had been sleeping with both of them. I couldnt beleive after all the abuse I took, that was how it ended up. I called her, told her I knew and saw the messages, and demanded a divorce.

24.) From kaismama:

He was a narcissistic sociopath who took pleasure in putting me down and playing games. I was so hooked on wanting his affection. He made me feel like absolutely garbage, told me no one would want me, etc

I was forced to hang out with a guy I knew from high school for a few hours one night. He made me feel wanted and needed. We flirted and even cuddled a ton. I wasn’t technically in a relationship with the narcissist any more because he had broken it off weeks prior but I was still trying to win him back. That one night gave me the courage to walk away.

The following day narcissist asked me for to drive him to the store, he had no car and hardly any money. On the way there I told him I was done with him. He went to get out of the car and said “if you’re really done you won’t be out here when I come back out. “ I sat in my car for about 2 mins contemplating, didn’t take long, I drove off and never looked back.

Oh and that guy from high school who saved me by showing me I was wanted, we dated, got engaged after 3 weeks, married 4 months later. We will celebrate our 14th anniversary on the 30th of this month.

25.) From Noturmothershandle:

He fucked my roommate on top of my winter coat

23 Memes That Will Only Be Funny If You Remember The Early 2000s.

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It's hard to believe the year 2000 was 20 years ago. As we enter this new decade let us not forget the early days of low rise jeans, over-plucked eyebrows, and flip phones. These memes will take you on a hilarious trip down memory lane.

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Mom shares post about getting 'non-stop' visits while giving birth and women relate.

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Having a brand new baby is exciting! After months of growing this little bugger in your stomach, they have finally made their way into the outside world, and you can hear and behold both their cuteness and their screams.

It's fairly common for friends and family members to want to immediately gather around and coo over the new child, and in theory that is sweet and supportive. However, for the mother who just endured the greatest pain of her life, sleeplessness, and a variety of bodily fluids, being surrounded by visitors isn't always the ideal during the day after birth.

The blogger Katie Bowman's recent post about the struggles of hosting visitors after birth quickly went viral for just how relatable it was.

A picture really is worth 1000 words. This is me, roughly 24 hours after giving birth to my eldest. I have no idea who...

Posted by Living My Family Life on Tuesday, December 3, 2019

She wrote:

A picture really is worth 1000 words.

This is me, roughly 24 hours after giving birth to my eldest. I have no idea who took the picture, but you can probably already tell how I feel just by looking at it.

The popular post on Bowman's Living My Family Life page laid out just how hard it is to function right after birth, and that even the most well-meaning guests can feel crowded and overwhelming.

1 or 2 days. Is that too much to ask for?
1 or 2 days for a new mum to come to terms with the fact she had a tiny human emerge from her body. 1 or 2 days for her to finally have a shower and wash the sweat and blood from her body. 1 or 2 days for her to push through the pain of her sore nipples as she learns to breastfeed. 1 or 2 days for her to try to have some sleep because she is absolutely exhausted.

While Bowman fully understands (and appreciates) why people want to meet newborns ASAP, she suggested excited loved ones wait at least a few days before pushing for a visit.

Before being introduced to your new life as a mother, you have just gone through one of the most painful, exhausting, and mind blowing experiences in your life. Labour. Has everyone forgotten how tolling that can be on both your emotional and physical well being? The last thing you then want, is for everyone to be bombarding your room to play pass the parcel, before you have even had a chance to recover.

Even the most social of mothers is likely to be dealing with a huge amount of pain and physical discomfort, so even if she's feeling excited to show off her fresh baby, her body might have other plans.

Learning to breastfeed is no private affair. You don’t just slip your nipple out and your baby connects to it like a magnet. You get your whole boob out, and slide your baby up and down waiting for them to latch on. The nurse comes in and helps you massage some colostrum out. Then you try the other side, so now you’ve got both boobs out.

Your vagina or stomach is in a world of pain. More often than not, there’s been a cut somewhere. You struggle to get comfortable in that hard hospital bed, because no position feels ok. You can barely sit, stand, lie down, or walk. Honestly, my vagina still hurt for 2 or 3 weeks after that. The hospital doesn’t like you to leave until they know you have emptied your bowels without your vagina falling out too. When do you fit in trying to pass that painful lump when your room is full of visitors?

To add to that, visitors often want to take photos with the baby, which can upset the baby's sleep schedule and place the mother smack dab in the middle of a photo-shoot while feeling like a sleep-deprived sloth.

Everyone is so excited to have a photo with the new baby, the new mum doesn’t get a photo with her own damn baby! I had to ask for a photo with mine, other than that one photo, the only others I have are of her fresh out of my uterus, with us laying there naked and covered in blood. Thank you to the saintly midwife who was kind enough to grab my phone and capture the most precious photos that exist to me. From there on, it’s mostly selfies.

Even with the physical pain, shock of birth, and photo aspect aside, there are people who make unwarranted comments about how a new mother looks.

Everyone wants the bragging rights to say they saw the new baby within 24 hours. They simply must satisfy their need to hold this new baby. If you don’t allow them to come visit you in the hospital, you’re a selfish, delicate, drama queen. Then people come in with their comments of “now you only look 4 months pregnant instead of 9” or “you look tired” I’m sorry, but in what world is it ok for you to comment on a new mother’s appearance? WE ARE SO BLOODY FRAGILE RIGHT NOW! If my vagina wasn’t so sore, I might have pulled some Kung Fu Panda on your ass.

Bowman finished the post by clarifying that she knows there are people who want a slew of visitors right away, and this post isn't about them: it's about mothers who politely ask for a day or two and are pressured nonetheless.

Sure, some people can’t wait to have visitors. That’s not what this is about. This is about people who have tried to ask visitors to wait a day or 2, but been made to feel like they told them they can’t be in the baby’s life. I feel so loved that everyone couldn’t wait to meet our new baby, and so happy that everyone wanted to be part of our baby’s life. What I didn’t realize was how hard trying to ask people to stay away for a day would be. “It’ll just be a quick visit.” You’re too tired to argue, so you sit and wait for them to get their baby fix.

In closing, Bowman wrote, the most crucial way to support a new mother is by listening to her and respecting her boundaries, even if it means holding off a few extra days.

The next time someone you know has a baby, remember how tired this new mother looks. I know you are excited, but remember it is not your right to visit a new baby, it is a privilege. If that offends you, go home and put it in your burn book.

The post quickly went viral, and ushered in a flood of comments from mothers with similar frustrations and stories.

Some of them have family members who blew the need for boundaries out of proportion.

While others needed extra rest after particularly physically stressful birthing processes.

Others felt strange about the pressure to allow people into the room during the very act of labor.

Basedo n the amount of responses and shares Bowman's post received, it's clear this is a big issue that's not often talked about in a public forum. Hopefully, this discussion will encourage more women to set their own boundaries, while teaching others why backing off can be the most loving move right after a friend has given birth.

These Memes Won 2019.

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2019 was quite a year. There were many ups and downs, but one thing we can all agree on is that the memes were lit. Tons of memes made us laugh this year, but a select few went crazy viral. What was your favorite meme sensation in 2019?

Keanu Reeves memes won our hearts in 2019. Proving Keanu is a national treasure.

Thanks to the Netflix movie Birdbox, Birdbox memes were everywhere at one point in 2019. No one *SAW* that coming. (haha get it?)

Baby Yoda memes are all over social media right now. Helping us end 2019 on an adorable note.

Area 51 memes gave us all hope we were going to "find them aliens" in 2019. (Spoiler alert: we didn't)

I didn't see Joker, but I did see Joker memes dominating my timeline in 2019.

In 2019 everyone wanted to see what they looked like as an old person. Naturally, the Face App memes followed.

Paul Rudd is aging like a fine wine and Paul Rudd memes are just as intoxicating.

Much like Paul Rudd, the lady yelling at cat memes do not get old. These silly memes were everywhere in 2019.

Actress from Peleton ad that became internet joke takes blame, says it was her eyebrows.

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It was the eyebrow furrow seen 'round the world.

Monica Ruiz, the actress who plays the wife in the now-notorious Peloton commercial, went on The Today Show to discuss the ad and assure everybody that she is not being held hostage by an evil husband demanding she lose weight, as some viewers of the ad assumed.

A still of Ruiz's face become a meme and she will forever—or at least for the next fifteen minutes—be known as "Peloton Wife."

Blink if you need help.

The ad generated so much negatize buzz for the company that it caused its stock to drop, which is an impressive feat for a pair of eyebrows.

Ruiz has a sense of humor about the whole ordeal. When Hoda Kotb asked if she understood why the spot caused such an aproar, she said, laughing, "Honestly, I think it was just my face."

"It was my fault. My eyebrows looked worried, I guess. People were like, 'She looked scared."

The actress reminded the audience that she is, in fact, an actress, saying "I hope people can think of me as not just the Peloton lady and let me work other jobs."

Why noy both? Peloton Wife deserves a spinoff. They can call it Marriage Story 2.

People are sharing the things that went wrong when they lost their virginity.

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Getting naked and rolling around with another person can be awkward no matter how many times you do it. But almost nothing in life beats the awkwardness of first time sex. Though virginity loss is often hyped up by movies as a "romantic" and "special" moment, in reality, it's usually quite the opposite.

Someone recently asked Reddit: "What would you change about your first time having sex?" And people are opening up about the uncomfortable, embarrassing, and surprising things that happened during their first time. Here are 22 tales from people who wish they could get a do-over:

1.) From GAlcarazIV:

The fact that my girlfriend said "let's pretend that didn't happen" afterwards.

2.) From kronius_97:

Being able to keep it up. I went limp with nerves. Performance anxiety is a fickle bitch.

3.) From BirdmanDodd:

I wouldn’t change the who but I’d maybe change the location. This girl had called me to come and get her from the next town over because her parents were fighting and i wanted to be “the hero”. I went over immediately and did I mention this was my first time meeting her despite us talking for a while on ICQ (I’m old)

So I picked her up and brought her back to my parents place. I’d never even kissed a girl at all or had a girlfriend that went beyond handholding and maybe some over the clothes stuff so I was super inexperienced. Anyway, we’re in my room and she kisses me and then things proceeded very quickly from there. I’m nervous AF but it was a good experience except for one thing...

We finish and I hear my Grandmother calling me for dinner and her distinctive footsteps coming up the stairs. We had SECONDS to get dressed and get our composure and fortunately we did.

It was good though and we stayed together for 2 1/2 years after that.

I just wish it wasn’t at my parents house so close to dinner time lol

4.) From CGPsaint:

Different place, or different time. Either way I could have avoided having some poor mom walking in and finding me balls deep in her daughter.

When I was in high school, I would spend afternoons making out with my girlfriend at her mother's house. Her mother worked long hours and generally didn't get home until evening at the earliest. One afternoon we found ourselves rounding 3rd base and it was game on. Clothes starting coming off and we left a trail of clothing from the living room to her bedroom. We fumbled our way through it and finally got it going, just in time for her mother to barge into her bedroom. There was her mother, standing no more than 3 feet away as I was mid thrust... To her credit, she didn't lose her shit, and just said, "I'd like to see both of you in the living room." After she left, we had a brief discussion about proper etiquette. Were we suppose to finish, or were we suppose to report to the living room immediately? Also, were we suppose to walk out there naked, and get dressed as we collected our clothing from the impromptu yard sale? We got dressed and had an hour long conversation with her mother in regards to safe sex, love, etc. Then her mother gave me a hug and asked me to leave.

Fun Fact: She called my dad and told him about it. My dad in turn ambushed me months later while I was visiting him over Summer vacation. He hit me with the good old, "anything you want to tell me." Hey parents that do that... fuck you.

Fun Fact Part 2: Apparently my father also told my mother. She ambushed me years later while we were driving on the interstate. I told her in no uncertain terms that if she continued the conversation that I would bail out of the vehicle. Nothing further was said. At least not that day. My family still brings it up regularly. It's a real laugh.

Bonus Fun Fact: Even after being apart for 20+ years, her mother still thought we would eventually end up together. Twas not to be.

TLDR: Girlfriend's mother came home early, followed the trail of clothing from the living room to the bedroom, and walked in while I was banging her daughter.

5.) From Actiaslunahello:

He and I were both 15, and he had internet that his parents didn’t monitor. So after we have pretty awkward sex, he gets out of me, rips off the condom, and jizzes on my face. It seemed like one swift move, maybe 2 seconds then BOOM goo on my face. I sat there flabbergasted only for a moment before I wiped it off, and rubbed that hand down his face. We were both left stunned staring at each other like.. What the fuck did you just do!? Then we went and washed our faces.. unromantically.

I would have changed the whole face jizz thing then, but looking back, it’s pretty funny to me now.

6.) From kemosabi4:

I said "thank you" afterwards

7.) From jimmyc20:

My dick being soft

8.) From vnxr:

I was quite nervous and said "you can give me a blow job" meaning the other way around and he said "it's called cunnilingus". I was so embarrassed that decided not to explain, and didn't stop him. I cringed in enormous amounts for long months remembering that moment.

9.) From ErsatzCaptain:

Probably wouldn’t have done while watching The Boy In The Striped Pajamas....just an idea though...

10.) From Roivas14:

Not having it in such a public place. No one was there, mind you, but goddamn someone could have been and that would have either scarred me or become a permanent kink...

11.) From goodusernamestaken_:

It probably would have been better if it weren’t in a room full of sleeping people who had passed out after sophomore semi formal. And, you know, on a bed where we could have had a better idea on how to properly angle ourselves.

12.) From tripeando:

I made her feel embarrassed because I said I could feel her heartbeat on my dick.

I didn't realize she was orgasming so she got super embarrassed.

13.) From legaleseandfood:

The location. Kohl’s dressing room is not an acceptable place to have sex 16 year old me.

14.) From Chiiirpy:

Not having sex with a girl whose boyfriend was in jail.

15.) From OGCarlArms:

I would love to go back in time and NOT hum the final fantasy victory theme immediately after.

16.) From SnakesMissingAssMeat:

Not fucked 5 weeks after breaking my femur. I had just started walking unassisted again and after that I couldn't walk for days

17.) From ObligatoryNameee:

Let the guy use warming lube. Felt like a volcano erupted in my anus. We took a shower and used cooling lube after lol

18.) From Cheetodude625:

Learning how to not overreact to everything that is going on. God, looking back I was a freakin idiot making weird faces and noises because "OMG I'm getting laid"....I just want to go back, calm down, and step up on my oral game.

19.) From -eDgAR-:

Not full on sex, but the first time I got a handjob she made me wear a condom. It made sense the way she explained it to me because then cum wouldn't go flying everywhere, but it made things kinda awkward with the next girl I was messing around with. I just assumed that's what people did with handjobs, so I pulled out a condom when she was playing with me. She backed off and was like, "Whoa, I'm not ready to have sex with you yet." I awkwardly explained that I wasn't trying to suggest that, it's just how I thought handjobs went. She told me it a was pretty weird and the whole thing just killed the mood, so I wish the other girl hadn't put that thought in my head.

20.) From 000B-Man000:

Pulled out because we were young and i got it all over her face bc she turned around too fast and I got it in her eye, subsequently I had to take her to the eye doctor and it was very embarrassing for her and it was a lot

21.) From paintthatface:

Not the first time I had sex but when I took my (current) boyfriends virginity we were having sex and when we were switching positions we lost the condom. We were looking on the bed and couldn’t find it and I was really confused and then he goes “hold on” and reaches into my vagina and pulls the condom out.

22.) From remes1234:

Nothing. It was weird and awkward and quick. With a nice girl i dont know anymore. Just as it should be.


People think Kris Jenner is interviewing an 11-year-old Beyoncé in old video.

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There has been a tear in the space-time continuum and people think Kris Jenner interviewed an 11-year-old Beyoncé over 30 years ago, in a video that's circulating on Instagram and Twitter.

The video was posted by Beyoncé's dad, Mathew Knowles, to promote a new book he's writing about the good old days when he managed his daughter and led her from the teenybopping Girls Tyme group to Destiny's Child and beyond.

In the video, an 11-year-old Beyoncé and a Kris doppelganger have a cute little daytime TV conversation about how if Beyoncé and the rest of Girls Tyme work hard enough, they can overcome stage fright.

Here's the alleged Kris in, let's be honest, a very plausible '80s Kris jacket.

And here's baby Beyoncé looking like, "I hope this lady doesn't think I'm gonna be friends with any of her daughters one day."

People are losing their sh*t.

Some are speculating that Kris has been secretly momaging Beyoncé the whole time.

Others point out Beyoncé's own prediction skills, because she did, in fact, make it big.

They can't help but laugh at "Kris" putting a mic in Bey's face when she's very clearly already holding one.

But not everyone is convinced that this is, in fact, Kristen Mary Houghton Jenner.

For one thing, the woman in the video has a subtle but clear southern twang — and Kris is a lifelong southern California resident.

And while it's not clear where the interview took place, if it was indeed in Beyoncé's native Houston, Texas, it's pretty unlikely that Kris would've been working as a daytime TV presenter at the time.

We won't know the truth until Kris rises from her bed of money in Calabasas to set us all straight. So in the meantime, feel free to compare and contrast the Kris doppelganger with the iconic vintage Kris below.

13 people share what surprised them most when they awoke from a coma.

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It's like something out of a soap opera. When people wake up from comas, they sometimes lose memories, abilities or sense — or they struggle to distinguish what's real and what's fake.

A recent Reddit thread asked people who've survived comas to share what surprised them most upon waking from a coma. The answers prove that the human brain is incredibly complex and resilient.

1. This person was surprised they'd lost hearing.

I was in a coma for four days from bacterial meningitis. When I woke up I was completely deaf! I had to communicate with my parents and doctors with a notepad and pen. Some hearing gradually returned in my left ear, but the right ear is still 100% deaf to this day. - austin_cody

2. Learning you can no longer wipe yourself has to be rough.

I was in a coma for close to six weeks. When I woke I had to learn everything again. I had most of my speech abilities, but my motor control was horrid. I had to figure out how to wipe my ass as well as walk up and down stairs again. That took about three weeks.

I had lost a shit ton of weight too. I was 6'3" and weighed about 145. - Ralph-Hinkley

3. Memory loss can render your spouse's appearance surprising.

A good friend of our family went into a coma for half a year.

Finally when he woke up, he was stunned why his wife looked so old.

He actually lost the last 15 years of his memory (he knew he had 2 children but they were babies and he didn't even know about his 3rd child). And the memory never came back.

He skipped from no mobile phones to smart phones, to laptops. Everything was new to him. Being stuck in early 90s but actually being in the 2000s,there was a lot of change to handle.

But learning you missed all your children growing up, was the hardest for him - BeNLucky

4. Sometimes, your own weight loss is what shocks you.

My nephew (14) was in a medically induced coma for over three months. During that time, he had lost about 30% of his body weight as his muscles atrophied. His first remark upon seeing himself for the first time was "did you forget to feed me?" Which was incredibly hard to hear since his family had sat crying at his bedside every moment he was unconscious. - meccadeadly

5. Imagine waking from a coma to find you have a superhuman memory.

About 20 years ago, my cousin had a severe head injury from a fall. He was about 20 at the time. A was in a coma for almost four weeks. When he woke up, he fairly quickly discovered that his memory was eidetic. He could repeat entire conversations back word for word, and even tell you the date and time you said something. Also, he could memorize images with just a few seconds glance. His memory is still eidetic today. It's annoying as fuck. Whenever he reminds me of something I said in the past, usually something I can't even remember, I suggest that we hit him in the head again. - cheezemeister_x

6. Some people have to re-learn that they're parents after a coma.

My cousin was in a coma cause of a motorcycling accident. When he woke up, it’s like he was transported back in his younger days. Acts and talks like a kid. He’s better now after about 7 years though there’s still something off with the way he speaks. He stutters and talks fast like how children do when they’re excited. He has gotten talkative too.

So what has surprised him when he woke up is the fact that he has a daughter of his own. - sweetsummerchild97

7. Figuring out the difference between real memories and fiction can be tough.

My wife was in a medically-induced coma for four days. She had a reaction to contrast dye and her heart stopped for 20 minutes. For nearly three months, she was confabulating about her long-dead parents. She would speak about them like they were in the next room. Or she would say her daughter or brother called... but they hadn't. Over and over she thought her mom was alive, then her dad. Drove me crazy having to (gently) correct her many times per day. She would come up with amazing tales about what people (relatives, friends, neighbors) were doing, what they said, truly creative fiction. Three months later, she began to come back. The confabulations stopped. Now things are reversed. She can remember recent events but her long-term memories are gone. I don't know what that's like but it must be awful. She cries sometimes for her lost memories but overall she is doing very well. - urgent45

8. Learning that you're not actually in Washington, DC, could be a relief.

My wife was in a coma. 2 weeks medically induced. When she woke she she had very wrong memories. They were all based on conversations people had while in the room with her. For example she thought they flew her to Washington DC for treatment. While she was in a coma, my father in law mentioned how he just flew back into town from DC on a work trip. Somehow, she overheard this while out and her brain interpreted it to mean SHE flew to DC. Even after we explained to her the reality of where she was, it took DAYS for her to come to terms with reality. - kp1877

9. Putting the pieces together can be really difficult.

Medically induced for approximately a week due to sepsis.

When I was in, I thought I was a bird with my wings outstretched that was slowly freezing to the ground.

When I woke up, I thought I was in Taos but it looked like Raton (I was in Albuquerque, in a hospital that I had worked in for years). I thought I was 10 years younger. I thought I had gotten into a wreck and my fiancè at the time was an abusive ex-boyfriend. I thought my fiancè had found me naked on the side of I-25 and had taken to a veterinary hospital.

It took another month and a half for me to understand what happened. I was in and out of surgery and died a couple times in that time. Once, they were changing out my wound vac and I looked down and saw inside of me, then things started making a little more sense. I still can't eat cheeseburgers. [...] When I looked down and saw myself open, it resembled a cheeseburger that someone had cut in half and left in a fridge uncovered for two weeks. - Shelliton

10. Some people learn they can't walk anymore.

My mom was in a induced coma for 3 months. When she woke up she thought the hospital was trying to kill her. She tried to get out of bed and she fell on the floor bc she could not walk. She was mostly freaked about how her feet had lost their form. They were humped over from not being used. Every muscle she had to learn again. She couldn’t talk well or write at all. She has different hand writing after re learning. She said she hated how perfect her hands looked. Her nails and cuticles were perfect and clean from not being used. I remember trying to brush her hair after she woke up. Almost all of it fell out. She almost died pretty much every day she was in her coma. She had sepsis from a diverticulitis surgery gone wrong. A lot of her hair has grown back and she can walk but has brain damage that makes her seem very drunk. She is always dizzy. But it’s been 5 years now and her recovery has been miraculous. - CherrySlusheez

11. Re-learning to breathe must be a trip.

I was in a coma for nine days. When I woke up I was still on a ventilator. When they took me off the ventilator, my body didn't remember to breathe on its own. I literally had to relearn how to breathe. Took me a few days. I had no natural sense for how long or deeply to inhale, how long to hold it, how long to exhale. I had to put all my mental focus towards breathing. It was really weird.

Edit: For all the people wondering how I slept, I didn't, for the first couple days. If I dozed off, my blood O2 monitor would start beeping and wake me up, then a nurse would yell at me from across the ICU to remember to breathe. I couldn't talk because I'd had the tubes down my nose and throat but I remember one time I woke up, really exhausted, to that damn beeping. So I started focusing on breathing again, but I was really angry about it. My nurse came running over yelling at me to breathe. I glared at her, and screamed in my non-existent voice, "I. AM." She must have read my lips and felt the rage because she just put her hands up and said, "All right. All right. Good job," then walked away. Anyway. Shared that because I've never had the opportunity to before. My ability to breathe normally was back within a month or so, and my health is good nowadays so I wouldn't say it had any permanent effects. - DROPTHENUKES

12. The human brain is wild.

Back in the '90s, my great grandfather had a stroke. He was in a coma for 3 weeks, and when he woke up, he could not speak english. All he could speak was the Choctaw language. He had learned it when he was a kid, because his family lived right near a choctaw reserve, and he played with a lot of those kids. He spoke it fluently at that time, but forgot it over his life to where he couldn't remember any of it by this time. This went on for around ten days, and then he woke up from a night's sleep and could suddenly speak only english again, not remembering a word of choctaw. He was also able to repeat verbatim every conversation that had been held in the room that he was in. - GoldH20

13. Having a child while in a coma has to take the cake.

I was in a coma for 4 days. When I woke up everyone was talking about the baby boy I had. I had lost my long term memory and didn't even remember being pregnant. My son was at the children's hospital in the nicu. I delivered him via c-section at 29 wks. All this was due to me having Crohn's disease, (i found out after i woke up) my colon had ruptured during my pregnancy. My husband said I was talking like a child when I first woke up. When I woke i felt super tired, but then the next few days, kinda restless. I remembered one conversation my mom had with a nurse while I was under. After a couple of days I got my long term memory back and remembered everything up until my 2nd surgery then nothing until I woke up. My son was my 3rd surgery. - PennyCundiff

26 Memes To Help You Start Your Morning Off With A Laugh.

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"Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors."

-Norman Cousins

Laughing is good exercise, so consider this list of memes your morning workout. It sure beats going to the gym.

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People are sharing unflattering selfies with their moms to see if they'll still get compliments.

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Moms are the best hype men, it's a scientific fact. If musicians hired their moms instead of opening acts or producers to hype them up, every single show would have energy through the roof.

But alas, most moms don't professionally work as hype men, and instead funnel their love into emoji laden text messages and semi-manic words of affirmation to their kids. And the ones that don't fit this descriptor often pour a similar energy into trolling their kids or calling out BS.

In a recent Twitter thread, Abigail Sanders encouraged others to send no-context awkward selfies to their moms in order to prove a theory.

The theory, Sanders shared, was that most moms would respond with words of affirmation despite how bad the picture looked.

People were quick to jump on the thread and share the results of the prompt, many of which resulted in moms sending photos of themselves back.

Not all of the moms responded with their own selfies or words of encouragement, some of them took the opportunity to roast their offspring.

Without a doubt, one of the best responses came from a divorced mom who felt her son looked too much like his father.

His selfie lead to some flirtation from people thirsty both for him and his divorced dad, a true MTV style love story.

One mom, however, seemed to predict exactly what type of meme was going around.

If the responses in this thread prove anything, it's that moms are hype, but not all of them are immediately going to gas you up with positivity if they sense a trap.

18 people share the most awkward gifts they've received in front of other people.

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People are sharing the most awkward gifts they've been gifted in front of people, and they're not all vibrators. (Sure, being gifted a sex toy in front of your parents might be awkward in the moment, but in private, on privates, they might just come around.)

Just in time for Christmas, here are some creative gift ideas.

1. n0OBmAaster69 grandma learned some exciting new vocabulary.

My Norwegian grandma once bought me a standard t-shirt shirt for my 13th birthday that read 'Vaginatarian' in big bold letters on the front. And yes she doesn't speak English.


2. Guns_57 had a rom-com-level gesture turn into a roast.

At a birthday party in front of my family, my gf at the time gave me an illustrated journal of every time we saw each other from the first date 'til current (about 6 mos.) Included movie ticket stubs from our first date, the receipt from Chipotle from our second date (so she must've been planning this stuff for a while). Then it got graphically awkward (pages dedicated to us having sex had smiley face stickers, days where we had fights had frowny face ones, one memorable entry was a page written in large text "WE TRIED TO HAVE SEX BUT YOU COULDN'T") and all the while, she's sitting next to me beaming like I've just been given a winning lottery ticket, meanwhile the discomfort from my family was painful.


3. zorkempire's family had the most passive-aggressive way of calling them a clown.

One year my parents bought me stilts and a juggling kit for Christmas, and then a unicycle for my birthday a few months later. I had never expressed an interest in the circus or anything of the sort.


4. courtesyflush29's mother-in-law did a bit too much research.

My mother in law got me an Alexis Texas fleshlight. She needed to use my computer the one day she was at our house and noticed it in my search history. I’ve used it plenty of times but I still feel weird thinking of where it came from.


5. thermonuclearmuskrat should appreciate the earth-conscious recycling.

Half an egg box, with a plastic thing that stops your pizza box collapsing glued inside.

It was from a 4 year old and I had to act excited.


6. Tomtomgags is kinky.

My grandmother gave me a leather whip on Christmas. Why Grammy? Why?


7. Finders keepers, InRustWeTrust.

Got a penis pump last year from my aunt and uncle but it apparently was supposed to go to someone else. I was just like, “Whatever, mine now.”


8. Now I have foam FOMO, mienbht.

My aunt knew I liked rocks when I was a kid. She was holding this pretty looking rock in her hands and telling me, "okay jdggirl... it's very heavy so I want you to be ready for it." So I hold my hands out to take it and I'm really excited...

The damn thing was foam! Everyone else in the room thought it was funny...

I went in the bathroom and cried for a while. I must have been maybe 5 or 6?


9. garlic_naaaannn's grandpa is a pioneer of sex-positivity.

A box of condoms, some cologne, and a beard trimmer kit from my grandpa when I was 16. He told me to wait til I got home to open it and to open it in private. There was a note inside that basically said he could tell I was “a man now” and to “go get em tiger!”.


10. Danielius10's great uncle is the opposite of sex-positive.

Not me, but my sister once received a dildo, amongst other sex toys from our great uncle because he believed she should be abstinent and was being unchristian for premarital sex. Literally the most awkward time for everyone.


11. It's not a gag gift if you use it right, bebbypeach.

My mom bought my sister and I both vibrators for Christmas when I was like 14. They were gag gifts, and they didn't make me uncomfortable (our family is very open about everything), but understandably, everyone else finds it weird.


12. Remember where you came from, okraarko.

For my sweet 16, my mom had my birth video converted to DVD and gifted it to me in front of friends and family. I still haven’t seen it.


13. Christmas is only a few months before 420, diddlefresh.

Me and my sisters all got weed socks for Christmas in Colorado one year. mom thought they were palm trees.


14. Who's the douche now, MySecretKept?

Once at a birthday party I watched a friend of mine unwrap a douche from her grandma. She awkwardly smiled and said, “thanks Grandma,” and then hid it under wrapping paper for the rest of the party.


15. MrMotorcycle94 probably wanted to put it to use right then and there.

My sister knew I smoked weed and my family didn't so it was awkward unwrapping a bong in front of my parents. I knew what it was before I even started to unwrap it by the shape.


16. RPGnosh has a strange new father-son bonding ritual.

A knife with hand painted naked women on it from my very religious grandmother when i was 12. My dad got the same but his were clothed. My grandmother said there was no mistake as to who got which one.


17. rdhamm got a car wreck of a gift.

One fall I wrecked a family car while at University. That Christmas my gift was the mangled front bumper wrapped up all fancy from my Dad.

He thought it was hilarious. Mom, not so much. Still a story told today though.


18. Good nightie, andyjams.

My first Christmas dating my now-husband, we had been dating about five months. His step mom bought me a silk nightie, and gave it to me to open in front of his whole family.

Guy posing as marine texts random woman and she used image search to catfish him back.

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Catfishing is when a person creates a fake profile for themselves online, usually to lure someone into engaging in a sexual or romantic relationship with them.

One person's attempt to catfish a random phone number backfired when the person on the receiving end did a little detective work and then catfished them right back.

First, the person texted out of the blue claiming to be a marine named "Justin" and saying "we met awhile back." The person on the receiving end of the text didn't fall for it, saying "I don't remember" and asking for a photo. "Justin" sent one.

The person responded "sorry I don't recognize you." But the catfish persevered, asking "how's your day going?"

The person on the receiving end of the texts was not yet convinced. She introduced herself as Rachel, and grilled "Justin" questions about his station in the marines.

She asked him where he was stationed and his "MOS" (Military Occupational Specialty).

Then she sent a photo of herself, saying "that's me btw."

This is when "Justin" realized he was being catfished by the person he was trying to catfish. He tried to call her out for catfishing; she called him out right back, for the same thing.

"Justin" explained that he showed his "friend" the photo that Rachel sent and they (presumably using reverse-image search) figured out who the person is. That's when Rachel dropped her bombshell: the woman in the photo is the girlfriend of the guy in the photo that "Justin" sent.

"You should know she's the girlfriend of the real guy in the photo you sent me," she wrote. She then followed up with a photo from Instagram of the two of them together.

"C'mon we're so cute," she wrote, playfully. This is where the conversation ends. If "Justin" is smart, he stepped away from his phone, sadly looked out the window of his parents' basement apartment where he lives, and rumenated on his spectacular failure.

Screenshots of the exchange were shared on the Reddit page "Quit your Bullshit," where people are bowing down to "Rachel" (unclear if that's her real name or the name of the woman in the photo) for masterfully playing a catfish at his own game.

I think bnnngmail speaks for us all when they write:

Am I the only one that mentally said daaaaaaaamn when she said it was that marines actual GF she sent a pic of. So good haha

No, bnnngmail, you're not the only one. Daaaaaaaaamn just about sums it up.

Mom shares post about daughter learning Jiu Jitsu to defend herself against playground bully.

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When Margaux Dawn’s young daughter Luna was assaulted at school by a boy who tried to "lick inside her mouth" and Margaux felt like her daughter's confidence had been shattered, she knew one thing that might help: self-defense classes.

Margaux shared a long Facebook post on the original assault, her daughter's newfound fears on the playground, and how a Jiu-Jitsu class helped Luna fend off another school bully.

The saga began when a little boy would constantly follow Luna around, even into the bathroom.

On the very first day of school my daughter came home and told me about a little boy in class who had followed her around constantly, making her uncomfortable, despite being asked to stop. He had tried to follow her into the bathroom as well. I advised her to firmly tell him again (without saying “please”— because this was a command, not a request) and to ask her teacher for help in getting him to stop. We practiced loudly saying “DO NOT TOUCH ME.” and “STOP FOLLOWING ME” in the bathroom mirror together.

After Luna's mom taught her to tell him to "stop," the boy persisted and assaulted Luna.

I received a call from the principal of her school — tensely letting me know that an “incident” had occurred.
That day, the same little boy had cornered Luna, pinned her to the ground with his knees planted on her chest, and forced her mouth open so he could lick inside her mouth while she screamed and cried for him to stop.
A school employee eventually pulled him off of her.

After that, Luna was — unsurprisingly — rattled and scarred from the event.

After only four days of school my confident, bubbly little beansprout was suddenly nervous and unsure of herself.
My daughter timidly told me that she was “worried because she can’t stop bad things from happening to her”.

Margaux and Luna talked it over when Margaux got the great idea to enroll her daughter in a self-defense class.

For the past few months, Luna has been suiting up twice a week in her black Gi at Unicorn Jiu Jitsu -- the only woman-led black belt jiu jitsu school in the state. We kept coming back because after the very first class, Luna beamed radiantly at me and firmly said:
“No one is going to touch me like that ever again.”

One day Luna was minding her own business on the playground when a different boy "yanked" her off the playground and Luna's self-defense instincts kicked in.

An older and larger student didn’t want to wait his turn to climb a play structure. So he yanked Luna down off of it and started to throw her around by the collar. Luna used his own weight to put him on his rear-end in the barkdust but he still did not let go of her. So she put a knee into his chest until he was flat on his back, and then pressed her shin against his neck until he began sputtering and released her. At that point she backed quickly away.

Margaux shared the transcript from the Principal describing Luna's heroic act of defense, and as for mama Margaux? She's insanely proud.

The baker at the grocery store declined to write “Baby’s First Choke-Out” on a celebratory cake I bought, but that’s alright.

The response has been overwhelmingly positive and even inspired a few parents to enroll their own kids in mixed martial arts classes.

As one commenter wrote: "Our kids will be in self defense classes as soon as they're allowed to be. They will never feel defenseless a day in their life." Amen.


20 employees who got fired or written up for going off on customers share their stories.

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If you've worked in customer service, then you're already deeply (and painfully) familiar with the adage "the customer is always right."

While there are plenty of kind and reasonable customers who have questions and concerns that are valid, there is also a growing subset of customers who shouldn't be allowed to speak to other human beings in public. These customers are grown adults who throw tantrums, call people names, and make the wildest threats over something as petty as a $4 coupon or a slice of pizza.

It's abundantly obvious that people who behave this way have deeper unresolved issues they are furling onto strangers, and eventually, even the most veteran customer service workers reach a breaking point.

While cool managers understand the importance of letting employees stand up for themselves against abuse and straight up bonkers requests, a lot of companies have stringent polices that punish workers for talking back at all.

In a recent Reddit thread, people who got fired or in trouble for talking back to a customer shared their stories, and honestly all of them deserve medals for their service.

1. La_Lanterne_Rouge saw someone get fired for a beautiful burn.

Back around 1969, I saw a service advisor at a VW dealership get fired for telling an irate customer "If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have bought a Volkswagen."

2. Nishiwara is lucky they weren't fired, and has no regrets.

I was lucky I didn't lose my job for this one. I worked at a furniture store as a sales associate. One day a husband and wife come in wanting to furnish their sons apartment that's going to college. They find all of the furniture pieces they want and I go to check stock on multiple items. Everything is in except the table top on the dining room set they wanted. I go back and tell the couple.

The husband throws an absolute hissy fit saying that he can't believe that we don't keep our products stocked (keep in mind that we are a huge furniture store). I calmly explain to him that we can't possibly keep all of our product in stock at all times and since the dining room table he wanted was a very popular set (due to the fact it was $199.99) it tended to go out of stock rather quickly. So, we would have to wait for that vendor to send us the table top which was about two weeks. I even tried to show them another table top that was in stock that was very similar to the one they picked out and he would not have it.

He started telling me that I was incompetent and how dare I insult him (insult him how? I have no idea). He starts increasing his volume and now he is full out screaming at me about 10 inches away from my face. My manager walks from around the corner and looks at me questioningly (like the "do you got this face") I nodded at him that I had it, but he continued to stand within earshot.

I then looked back to the customer and said in a nonchalant tone- "I'm not going to help you, in fact no one here is going to help you. Now please get out of my store". The customer looks at me bewildered and in full set rage and demands to speak with my manager. Since my manager is standing right around the corner- he had heard everything. He goes over to the customer and says, " well you heard the lady".

I miss working there.

3. GREAT_WALL_OF_DICK is proud of their friend.

Oh man I been dying to tell this story for awhile now...although it doesn't pertain to someone getting fired, it does have some justice.

A friend and I go to a store, let's make it up and call it All-Mart. We're in line at the registers when this middle-aged lady in front of us is trying to use some expired coupons. The cashier is telling her the coupons can't be used. Mind you these coupons would save her $4...a fact that I realized after this entire ordeal.

Lady wasn't having it and just starts insulting and yelling the cashier as if its their fault the coupons expired. And not smuggish insults like "no wonder you work here" but some deep cutting stuff like "you should kill yourself if you can't override and accept them"...like wtf. This b*tch was out for blood for $4 f*cking dollars.

That's when my friend, who's a former Marine, steps in and reams back into her. The exchange went something like...

Him: "Whoa whoa...how dare you disrespect this young cashier like that. The hell is wrong with you to say things like that to her? You're a messed up person"

Bitch: "Mind your business and don't raise your voice at me"

Him: "Oh so now you know that raising your voice is disrespectful. Where was that consideration when you did it to her?"

Her: "Stop talking to me or I'll get my husband here to handle you."

Him: "What husband? You don't even have a wedding ring on. That's probably the problem there...you're so bitter and lonely you take it out on other people. You're messed up"

They exchange more comments and it ended with her storming out of the store without her items and on the verge of tears. I guess we attracted too much attention because we were asked to leave by the manager but not before the cashier quietly thanked us.

4. frenchy559 worked at a KFC where it was normal to talk back to unruly customers.

Reading through these comments, I realize that not very many Redditors have not worked in a fast food restaurant in any ghetto areas. Arguments were an every day thing where I worked. As the manager at KFC (I know, I'm a big shot) I encouraged my employees to stick up for themselves. More than once a day, I'd have people coming in attempting to rip us off, or get more food than what they payed for, then insulting and even attacking me at times.

The only reason I quit is because I had cooks and cashiers who were making more than me. But yeah, that job was pretty much a free-for-all when it came to sh*tty customers.

5. IamWood13 almost got fired for calling out a woman's bad parenting style.

I used to cut hair. I was cutting a lady's hair when the child of lady waiting started running around the shop. I told the child several times to go sit with her mother and asked her mother to please keep her child seated next to her. Well, in the middle of cutting around my client's ear, the child ran into my work area, ran into me and almost caused me to cut my client. I looked at the child and firmly said "you need to go sit down with your mother now."

Well her mom didn't like that and came running back to me and yelled "Don't tell my child what to do, I'm her parent." I responded with "Then act like it." She glared at me, grabbed her child and stormed out. Everyone in the shop was relieved the child had left. A few days later the owner came and tried to fire me for it, but luckily there were enough other stylists and clients that came to my defense about the danger of the situation and I only got a write up.

6. Warmasher stood up for themselves and got canned.

Many a year ago I worked at a home improvement store called Menards. I was a cart pusher, which was nice as I was outside all the time. Anyway we gather about 25-30 shopping carts together and push them up to the entrance where they are stored inside. Now to get them there we do have to cross the main drive of the parking lot in front of the store. We always stop and let customers drive by. So as I push the carts up I stop because I see a guy in an pretty nice SUV. He is actually stopped in front of the entrance maybe he dropped someone off I do not know. So I'm waiting to see if he drives off and he then looks at me and waves me across, looks like he wanted to finish a call he had gotten or something.

So I wave back and start pushing the carts across. I am on the other side when some clips me across the shoulder blades and it stung somewhat and pushed me forward. And at the same time I heard glass shatter, I turn around and the guy in the SUV clipped me with his sideview mirror. It had swung closed and shatterered the window in the door, and I'm just standing there wide eyed.

Two seconds later the guy gets out of his car swearing up a storm at me and how I'm a low life piece of sh*t and how I'm going to pay for a new window and that I'm not going to get anywhere in life because I broke his window. Now I'm the type of person that if I was the reason I'll take the blame and fix the problem. But this guy hit me, I blew up on him for about 5 minutes before a manager finally had the guts to come over and pull me away. I didn't have to pay for a new window as it was on video, but I lost my job because we are not supposed to yell and cuss at the customer.

Edit: holy shit, new year and Reddit gold! Thanks guys!

7. zeebow77 turned down a very creepy advance.

I used to work in the restaurant industry as a chef. We had a closed kitchen at this particular spot, so customers couldnt see what was being done in the kitchen. It was nice because we could listen to music and joke around without having to worry.

Anyways, one day I was alone on the line and a server came to me and said a customer wanted to give me his compliments. No problem, I put on my nicer jacket and went out to say hi.

The customer thanks me, then tells me to come in closely because he had a secret. I was like okay sure? So I lean in a little, he motions me closer, I move in a little more. This guy then goes "I'll meet you in the bathroom in 5 minutes" and grabs my balls.

I f*cking lost it and shoved the dude.

Got fired immediately.

8. WallOtterCarpetSeal got fired because of a nightmare customer.

I used to work at pizza place in a small town when I was a teenager. One night I took a phone order from some idiot woman. It went like this:

Me: Thank you for calling "pizza place", may I take your order?

IW: Yes, I'd like a large pizza. Half pepperoni, half sausage, and half black olives.

Me: Ok, did you want the toppings combined or separated?

IW: No, I want half pepperoni, half sausage, and half black olives.

Me: Ok so you want 1/3 pepperoni, 1/3 sausage, and 1/3 black olives?

IW: No! I want HALF PEPPERONI, HALF SAUSAGE, and HALF BLACK OLIVES!

Me: I understand the toppings that you want, but I'm not understanding how you want us to put the toppings on your pizza. Do you want them separated by thirds? Combined together? Or do you mean put half the amount that we usually put on?

IW: What's so hard to understand?! I WANT...HALF...PEPPERONI...HALF...SAUSAGE...AND HALF...BLACK OLIVES!!!!!

Me: Lady, there's only 2 halves to a pizza!

IW: I WANT TO SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER!!!

I got fired on the spot. It was easier for the manager to just hire another person than it was to lose a customer in a small town.

Oh, and the lady wanted the toppings divided into thirds. She told the manager the same thing and he just went with her math. The b*tch also got it for free.

9. IntrusiveInveigling got fired because of a snitch from the Daily Mail.

Was a stockroom assistant at a well known fashion chain in the UK & US. Didn't go off on a customer but I bloody well wish I did now.

Happened to be behind tills changing hangers boxes when a customer explodes at the trainee cashier demanding to know where her order was. She's screaming her head off at how it's "unacceptable I paid extra" and how she "made a specific detour" to collect her package.

She had ordered a jacket in another branch and had paid for next day delivery to the store I worked in. Customers aren't supposed to come collect their orders until they get an email saying their order is ready to collect.

The poor cashier started last week and is basically cowering for dear life. I take over and ask to see her email which she explains she "doesn't need" because she "paid extra" so her package "must be here".

After 10 minutes of me trying to explain why her package isn't ready to collect and her trying to challenge Krakatoa, she storms off shouting that she'll be "having words" with the guy who owns our company. I hand back to the cashier and carry on with my day*

The next day I'm prepping our delivery and I get called for a meeting with the store manager. I'm told I'm being let go for gross misconduct specifically "being unhelpful and challenging" to customers.

Turns out the customer was a "journalist" for the DailyMail and she called our head of company who she did indeed know personally and got me fired specifically.

TL;DR: Tried to reason with a DailyMail journalist. Got fired for her stupidity. Yay for logic.

*EDIT: Her jacket did indeed come an hour after she left the store. She came back with her email. Sweet victory...

10. Lets_Do_ButtStuff's coworker had their back.

Worked at gamestop as a ga (game advisor) some guy came in and had a figurative ass load of games (over 100) to trade, all with games and cases mismatched. It took about 45 minutes to process his ticket when I told him the total it was low (because gamestop and also they were all old, scratched games). This man then proceeded to try negotiate with me to which I kept telling him I can't change the price which only made him angrier and louder. Eventually he yelled "listen you stupid n*gger, I need at least $300 for all of this shit and you're going to give it to me".

First of all, I don't even have the ability to change the price, at all. Second of all my coworker proceeded to put all of his games in a bag, walk outside and tossed them into the parking lot and told the guy to take his "racist, cousin f*cking a*s somewhere else and to fuck off". Store manager came out of the back room and fired him dead on the spot. The guy stormed out and the second he left my manager said "Jesus what was his fucking problem, alright get back to work".

My coworker didn't get fired it was just theatrics for the racist c*nt, I felt like an idiot for just standing there but it was taking everything I had to not hop the counter and hit the guy.

11. beerandloathingpdx loved their manager's no nonsense approach.

No one was fired over this, but as a person in the service industry I thought I'd share this with my fellow industry folk as I still think it's one of my favorite things I've ever seen happen behind a bar.

I was once working at a beer bar in Sarasota, Florida. We were having a Dogfishhead total tap takeover and the place was at capacity. I mean we're three deep around the entire bar, four guys behind this tiny bar, including the owner, all trying to pour as many beers as we can to cut through the line. At some point, a guy who I'd made eye contact with a number of times, who should have known he was coming up next, yells: "What does a person have to do to get a beer around here?!"

I watched our owner, a New Yorker through and through, turn around and literally yell, "EVERYONE SHUT THE F*CK UP!" The place goes dead quiet... and he stares at this guy. "What can I get for YOU sir?" The guy was caught so off guard he just stared up at our tap list and mumbled... "uhhhhhh." Our owner knowing he didn't even have an order ready looked him dead in the eye and said, "F*CK YOU! Next?!" and started serving the person next to him.

I wanted to hug him so much for that.

12. listen- killed the customer with kindness.

I didn't lose my job, but I think most people would have blown up at this guy. Or cried. Fortunately I am extremely calm and collected, and tough, from being bullied so much in middle school probably. I worked at a large retail store and was stocking a shelf when an old (like 80+) man came up to me. I assumed he was going to ask me where something was like every other customer.

Instead, he started going off on me. Just insult after insult, telling me I'm disgusting, and all these things like that, because I have tattoos. Instead of blowing up at him, I thanked him for the compliments, sugar dripping from my voice. In my head I was saying "you'll be dead soon" but out loud, I said something along the lines of "I really love the color of your pants! Is that seafoam green polyester? I think the 1970's must have been so cool!" Where did he even get those pants? A museum?

Well, apparently someone witnessed all this, because about 10 minutes after the guy gave up, my manager came up to me looking furious. I remember feeling a horrible sense of dread. He blew up. But not about how I handled it. He said I should have called him immediately and he would have kicked the guy out of the store, and that I didn't deserve to be treated like that. What a great manager!

13. LETS_SEE_UR_COOCH almost got in a physical fight.

I worked as a server at an upscale country club and had these two gentlemen come in for lunch. One ordered and the other said, "I'll have exactly the same thing." So I confirmed that's what he wanted and he replied, "That's what I said right?".

I bring out their lunch and the second guy complains and starts getting rude with me because his lunch has onions on it, so I say, "Sir, you said you wanted the exact same thing but I can have the chef make you another one". So he says, "listen to me you little f*cking a*shole, I know what I said and I never said I wanted onions". So I reply, "If you ever speak to me like that again you and I are going to step outside and work this out."

He pisses and moans to see the manager, who unbeknownst to me is sitting at the table right behind these guys having a meeting with another member. She turns around and tells the guy, "after the way you talked to my employee, I should let him. How about you both apologize and move on".

P.S. I didn't get fired but thought I should share a story where a manager actually stands up for an employee. In hindsight she probably should have fired me because threatening violence on someone probably wasn't the best idea. Oh well, when you're 19 you think you're invincible.

14. TwentySixLetters got in a fight with a woman at a charity shop.

A woman came into a charity shop and complained about every single item loudly to the ten or so customers in there. Along the lines of "this is all shit. Who pays for this?" Like we're some boutique with clothes from the back of a van. She clearly didn't understand how rarely new clothes (still tagged etc) are donated. Then she got in my face about it. I was so angry with her for chasing away the people that came in that I lost my cool. There was nobody left except her since she'd ranted them into leaving. I told her to get out and I 'didn't give a shit' about the clothes or her opinions. She screams her way out of the shop broadcasting it to everyone on the street.

She came back once the manager was off their break and complained again, so I lost my job fairly soon after. I can't blame them, I'd have done the same.

15. melyssafaye did not have fun at Legoland.

I didn't get fired, but I was written up and yelled at management. It was the reason I quit a week later.

I am in my early forties. For fun, I took a part-time job at a Legoland Discovery Center. I love Lego and love kids. It was a blast most of the time.

However, at Legoland, employees build their name tags out of Lego bricks and attach minifigs. Kids who visit can trade minifigs with employees. The rule is that we have to trade because it's fun for the kids.

Great! The only problem is that the center I worked at didn't supply any good minifigs. We just built our own from the "build a fig" buckets. I worked in the photo and entertainment departments, and noticed that lots of our guests would bring in their extra minifigs looking to trade, but were disappointed by the selection. So I began to buy tons of the mystery minifigs and had a large collection of my own at home. Each weekend, I put a bunch in my pockets and put them on my nametag throughout the day so that I could trade. I liked having Ninjago or Simpsons or whatever. I wanted kids to leave happy about their trade and feeling like they got something special. Most weeks I spent $75 or more on minifigs for trading.

On May the 4th, I pulled out all my personal Star Wars minifigs because I knew we would be getting a lot of Star Wars fans that day. I had Vader and many Stormtroopers etc. This woman came in with a three year old girl and insisted that I give her my stormtrooper. She didn't have anything to trade, but I smiled and gave it to her. Then the mom went and took a minifigs piece from the build tables and made her daughter trade with me for my Vader. I traded but was irritated because I only trade one of my personal ones per kid. There were lots of employees to trade with. The mom just wanted her kid to have my nice ones.

The lady goes on to another area and in comes a group of likely Star Wars fans. One of the girls had a Ninjago minifig in her hand that she had brought from home. She was looking for someone to trade with and was headed over to my section. I put Admiral Akbar (a fairly rare one you can only get from the X Wing fighter build set) on my tag along with Leia, excited thinking that I'm going to make their day. In swoops the lady who demand that I trade all of my figures to her kid who has three minifig pieces.

I politely refuse and suggest that she ask the employee a couple feet away since we had previously traded twice already. She got very angry and began screaming at me because she had gone around the center and no one else had anything good. My manager came over and made me give her all of my minifigs, even the ones I still had in my pockets. I was written up for refusing to trade and not caring about the guest experience.

I was so pissed because I cared very much about the guest experience. Not the pushy parent experience, but the experience of the kid who just loves Lego and that's why I spent so much of my own money to make sure they left with something cool in their pockets.

Edit: wow! I'm amazed so many people care about this and Lego. I still love Lego. Didn't mean to disparage the company. Plus, Legoland Discovery Centers are owned by a different company.

EDIT: gold??? I'm humbled. I don't know how to process that. Thank you kind Redditor!

16. Orcapa has a slew of stories.

Some fun times: Working in an auto parts store in Rubidoux, CA...a shitty neighborhood. I had a great manager who didn't let us get abused. A guy comes in empty-handed, walks around for a while, picks up a battery, walks around for a while, brings it up and asks for a refund. I told him to get the fuck out. He did, no questions.

Another time at the same store, a guy buys all this stuff and then, after I run his credit card through the paper imprinting machine (early 90's) and give him his copy, he reaches out and grabs my copies, saying he doesn't want a paper copy of his credit card info left there. That's just how it was done then. So I reached across the counter and grabbed the merchandise. He wrestled me for it but I got it and my coworkers came to my assistance and told him to get the f*ck out. Of course he said he would call the manager, so I said fine. The manager told him he could have the merchandise only if he brought back the credit card slips, which he did.

I never got in trouble at that store, but I did get robbed at gunpoint and even though I had too much cash in the register I was okay.

One other story: I was working at a Sears store in men's clothing while in college. I had already put in my notice as I was going away for the summer. So the night before Father's Day we are swamped. I have piles of clothes to rehang, and it is just minutes before closing. This woman comes to the register and I just ring her up; I don't try to upsell her on anything. Sure enough, she asks me if I am not going to recommend a belt or tie with the pants and shirt. It's 9:55 pm, we're open til 10, and I am beat.

But as soon as she said that, I realized she was the regional clothing manager who I had heard of but never met. After she lectured me and was paying, she handed over her Sears Card and her employee discount card, which did not have a picture on it. So, to just be on my toes and not get into further trouble (and to be kind of a dick), I asked for her driver's license. She was pissed and I heard about it first thing the next morning, which was coincidentally my last day anyway.

17. TLCplLogan yelled back and suffered the consequences.

I cleaned cars for a rental car company. One day, a customer comes in, already in a very bad mood (for whatever reason). He saw me standing at the counter, and apparently this offended him to the point that he began to yell at me.

Long story short, I yelled back at him. Nothing came of it for over two months, until I was fired without warning. The district manager who fired me said that even though everyone in the company who reviewed all the evidence pertaining to the incident and decided I was well within my rights as an employee to yell at the dude, they had to fire me because he was some big shot at a company that had a very lucrative contract with my employer and he threatened to drop the contract unless they fired me.

18. bacchus8408 is glad they spoke their piece.

Fired, quit, it's a gray area.

I worked in the rewards call center for a casino in my youth. People would call in and book rooms or show tickets with their reward points. Naturally everyone calling for a free room wants it on a weekend or major holiday and that just wasn't available. A lady called to get a free night in the top end suite on Valentine's day with two day notice lost her sh*t when I told her no.

Saying she spends so much money and we don't even care enough to reward her loyalty and even attacking me personally. I just couldn't do it anymore. I calmly explained to her that "I see you spend about $20 an hour in the casino, yeah we really don't care about you. You could never come back and no one would notice. You need to start betting more then your entire family will ever be worth before we actually start caring if you come back or not."

I obliged her request to speak with my supervisor and started packing my things.

19. Rhooster313 watched their friend wail on a rude customer.

This didn't happen to me...but I witnessed it. A friend of mine used to work in a pizza place...I'd hang out in the lobby playing their Pacman machine...(yeah...it was a long time ago). Anyway, my friend is taking orders when a guy storms in, screaming about wrong toppings. He removes the pie from the box and frisbees it into my friends face. My 2 time Detroit golden-gloves champion friend. What followed was the worst beating I've ever seen one man take. My friend lost his job AND got jail time out of it.

20. SnarksNGrumpkins may have changed a teenager's relationship with her parents.

Many years ago, I worked clothing retail. I had a favorite customer he and his wife would come in and he'd put down a small fortune each month on his wife and teen daughter. He reminded me of my dad who I lost to a massive heart attack when I was 18. I was in my early 20s and my mom had just died of cancer. This gentleman had stopped coming in for about 2mos. I look up and see him come in with wife and daughter and the girl looks pissed. They come to my counter and the girl calls her mother a b*tch and her father a "waste of space" since he lost his job when the mill he worked for closed. She kept berating them and something (the child in me) snapped out.

I told her off. I said that she should appreciate her dad who gave her everything until he couldn't. That she was 16 and I wasn't too much older than her when my dad was dead. That the sweet woman, she called a b*tch who went out of her way for her could be gone fast too. That she needed to not be a damn brat because she could look up one day and have neither parent. That I would shave YEARS off my life, even if I died the next day to have my parents hug me once more. I told her to grow the hell up and be kind to her parents.

They left and my boss chewed me out. She said if they complained I was toast. I lived each day wondering if I'd get fired. 2 weeks later her dad came in because he saw me through the window. He thanked me. She started studying, helping around the house and was looking for a part-time job. She grew up and started treating them with respect. She didn't call them names anymore and apologized for being a brat. I didn't lose my job but it was damn close.

People are responding to video of guy quitting job at Starbucks by playing song he wrote.

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When Anesti Danelis quit his job at Starbucks earlier this week, he didn't just give his two-week notice in writing, he did it in song. Anesti signaled the end of his time at the Canadian Starbucks where he worked for several years with a little song called, "Fuck this, I quit."

Anesti prefaced his performance by letting his coworkers and customers know that he loved them, but that his song was directed at his manager.

"Dear manager, I've been working here for so long," Anesti sung to the crowd gathered at the Starbucks on his last day. "I've got something that I want to tell you, so I thought I would say it in a song...Fuck this, I quit!"

"Fuck this place, I quit!" he continued to sing. "I don't want to work for someone who treats their employees like shit."

“You can take that time that you tried to get the company to fire me for doing something that you told me to do,” he crooned. “Or that time that I said that I wanted to work towards a promotion but you laughed in my face and you said that I am never getting a promotion…and shove it up your large bumhole! (Sorry, venti bumhole.)”

Sadly the manager was not on duty when he sang the song for her, so he texted her the video after the fact. Lol!

Anesti's kiss-off song seemed to resonate with anyone who ever wanted to triumphantly torch their old place of business through song.

Anesti told The New York Post that people have reached out to him for help writing their own "I quit" songs.

"It’s been great chatting with people and seeing people commenting that ‘this is how they’re going to do it.’ Some people have even asked me to help them quit too," he said.

As one commenter wrote on YouTube: "This guy did what everyone wishes they could do when quitting a crappy job. What a legend."

What. A. Legend.

20 people share the most famous urban legends from their hometowns.

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You never truly know a town (or city) until you've familiarized yourself with the Urban Legends. Sometimes, a legend takes the shape of a living person with a wild reputation that precedes them, other times it's a gruesome murder story that lead to a haunting, or a physical monument with strange effects on those who visit it.

While some Urban Legends are based on verifiable history and others are ornate works of fiction, all of them reveal a lot about the local culture. The fears and desires of a town can be surmised from the types of monsters or good luck omens that haunt the area.

In a popular Reddit thread, people share the urban legends from their cities and towns, and many of these are both fascinating and arcane.

1. whirlpearl grew up with the legend of Skunk Ape.

Skunk Ape. Imagine a kind of Bigfoot dude that looks more like a gorilla and lives in the Everglades of Florida and smells like sh*t. Yep.

2. arsenalfc1987's favorite is Loup-Garou.

In Louisiana, we have about a hundred of these urban legends. When you combine the Creole voodoo culture with the folk-tale-loving Cajun population with the still-standing plantation homes and reminders of slavery's legacy here with the former War of 1812 / Civil War battlefields with the fact that our capital was largely built on Native American burial grounds, you're going to get a nice medley of the supernatural. The haunted plantation homes, the Civil War ghosts, the pirate ghosts, the haunted tunnels under LSU (a secret CIA base?), and Scooby Doo on Zombie Island all come to mind.

My favorite is the Loup-Garou (also called Rougarou). It's a werewolf that would prowl the swamps of south Louisiana and outside New Orleans and prey on bad kids. It would also hunt down and kill Catholics who weren't following the rules of Lent. And if you were attacked by the loup-garou, you would become one (but only at night) if you told others about it.

3. quzimaa's town annoyed a giant.

We have this huge rock very close to our church, but there isnt really any mountains close by so it is said a giant threw it there when it got annoyed by the church bells. Porvoo, Finland

Edit: spelling

4. aMMoClip89 grew up haunted by the Jersey devil.

Jersey Devil. Mrs. Leeds had 12 children. Cursed the 13th when born. It was born, changed into a devil, flew up the chimney and has haunted Jersey since.

5. CLEAVAGE_VOYAGER has to be polite to the mythical creature in order to protect their genitals.

Here in my country, there is a legend that if you pee in nature (i.e. bush, side of tree, mound of soil) you have to say "Tabi-tabi po" which means "Step aside please" or "Excuse me please" or else the mythical creatures residing there will curse your genital area and make you sick to death.

6. wwhart worked at the haunted mansion.

The library in my hometown is attached to a 200+ year old mansion that was said to be haunted. Specifically, the attic, which is huge and shadowy and tends to collect dead pigeons. The local paper even did a story about the supposed haunting, with photo 'proof'.

The library did lock-in nights in the summer and they'd tell scary stories in the attic, which wasn't so bad because you were with a group...later on I ended up working at the library and would have to go up in the attic, alone, at night to make sure no one stayed behind after we closed. The attic had a gated stairway with a lock, and a few times when I was up there, alone in the house, I'd hear it bang shut.

7. Thugzz_Bunny remembers growing up looking for green eyes.

Green eyes. I live near the Chickamauga Battlefield and there is an old story of a ghost soldier. You can ride through the battlefield at night and sometimes you'll see a pair of green eyes and that's the dead soldier. It's actually just deer.

Edit: it's a fun story that parents tell their kids so when they drive through at night, they look for green eyes and then freak out when they see them. I LOVED driving through at night trying to spot ol green eyes.

8. plax1780 will never forget Raymond Ray Robinson.

Raymond "Ray" Robinson (October 29, 1910 – June 11, 1985) was a severely disfigured man whose years of nighttime walks made him into a figure of urban legend in western Pennsylvania. Robinson was so badly injured in a childhood electrical accident that he could not go out in public without fear of creating a panic, so he went for long walks at night.

Local tourists, who would drive along his road in hopes of meeting him, called him The Green Man or Charlie No-Face. They passed on tales about him to their children and grandchildren, and people raised on these tales are sometimes surprised to discover that he was a real person who was liked by his family and neighbors.

9. KGRanch still doesn't know who runs The Cult.

In my town we have The Cult.

It's a really big house with super tall fences topped with barbed wire. There's hedges planted around it so you can't see into the property, gates with cameras and guards at the front. Armed guards walk around (or at least used to, I haven't been out there in ages) the fences and none of the neighbors mow all the way to the fence line. Supposedly vans come and go out of the place all hours of the night certain times of the year.

The place has been an urban legend here since my mom was a kid, and for the life of me I've never been able to figure out who owns the place.

10. NastyArok lives near a Chamber of Secrets.

Location: Basel - Switzerland

We have this "urban legend" which came up somewhere around the 11th century. Some poems still survived and it still is our city's crest animal.

It says that under a certain fountain we have some kind of "Chamber of Secrets" where, once upon a time, a basilisk has made his nest. He had a chicken's head and feet, and a lizard-ish body with Dragon-like wings. It was said that he was born when a chicken abandoned an egg, which got adopted and hatched by a snake. He used to roam the streets at night and hunt for his chicken mother who abandoned him, but wouldn't make hold for a human either.

Today we still got basilisk-statues on every fountain in the city.

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11. AzzanderN met the Liverpool legend.

Purple Aki.

This one is really strange since EVERYONE in Liverpool has heard of or has stories of meeting purple Aki. It's even weirder that he's not really a myth, he actually exists. But everyone "knows someone" who was assaulted by him at one point or other. He's basically a huge gay black dude that's obsessed with bodybuilders and the likes who once made some young men literally squat him and that's where his infamy came from. It led to him being banned from a whole town and also not allowed to visit any gyms.

Edit: My purple aki story is I saw him at a petrol station in Toxteth, round the corner of where I live. My brother nodded up at someone and said "Lad, that's purple Aki". I looked up quickly, saw some huge black dude and just told him to shut up and stop taking the piss. Then, in line he turns round and I see his face, exclaim "F*ckinel, it is, as well", look at my brother and me and him are just pissing ourselves laughing, fella nearly jumped out of the shop, almost felt bad for him.

12. kirokatashi grew up with the ghost of Hairy Man, which sounds like a Rogaine ad.

Supposedly in the 1800s, a young boy was separated from his family's caravan as they tried to escape the flooding creek. The boy stayed in the woods along the creek and became a hermit who would scare off any travelers who entered his domain. Eventually he got himself trampled by horses, and now the ghost of the Hairy Man haunts the area that Hairy Man Road now runs through.

13. usernamefromscratch doesn't believe there are virgins graduating the nearby colleges.

Kiev, Ukraine.

There's a ww2 monument with an old tank near main building of one of the universities. They say when a virgin graduates the tank makes a shot. Up to this day I've never heard of it shooting once.

14. Jzot11 lives in a town of legends.

My hometown, Turin, in Italy, is MADE of legends.

There is the story of the Royal Alchemist that discovered the Philosopher Stone. The map to the Holy Grail. A portal to Hell. Several ghosts. Illuminati and Stone Masons sign all over the city embedded in the architecture. The shroud of Christ. Nostradamus lived there and wrote about it "Nostradamus stayed here, where there is Paradise, Hell, Purgatory. I call myself Victory. Who honors me will have glory, who disdains me will know complete ruin.".

It is also the point of the black magic AND the white magic triangles of cities. Allegedly, one of the most famous statues of the city is dedicated to Lucifer itself. Regarding the triangles I have little to no info, maybe r/Occult can help more.

Please let me know if you have preferences on what to get more in details to.

First Edit, The portal to hell and Lucifer statue, as it is the most requested.

The staue is the "Caduti del Frejus" in Piazza Statuto. As a central square in Turin, Piazza Statuto is where they used to execute Prisoners and criminals for a while. The square has several accesses, two of them are a sort of line that cut the square in two. Corso Francia, called this way because it trace an ideal line to the Frejus tunnel, which give access to France, and Via Garibaldi, which is a straight line to the Castle Square, where the Royal Palace is.

Now, the statue was placed here because it should be celebrating the fallen in the creation of the tunnel to France, but the odd thing is that the angel on top of the statue is looking away from France. Per se not a big thing, however the angel is the only black figure on the statue, all the humans are white marble. Also, the humans look like they are trying to climb the mountain, and the hand of the angel is in a posture of repression. Little fun fact, on the top of the head the angel has a pentagram, and it's staring straight into the eyes of another statue, at the end of Via Garibaldi. The portal to hell is supposed to be in Piazza Statuto and it is supposed to be the point of the black magic triangle.

Second Edit: La Gran Madre di Dio

One of the biggest churches in the city, it face one of the largest street and squares in Europe. The peculiarities of this place are that it is a completely round church and that on the summer solstice, at 12.00, the sun is exactly perpendicular to the point of the dome. Rumors have it that black masses are celebrated in the basements of the church.

Third Edit: The Holy Grail

In front of the above-mentioned church, there are two statues, Faith and Religion. Faith is a woman with a chalice, and the legend say that wherever her gaze end, there is buried the Holy Grail.

Fourth Edit: Famous ghost

Palazzo Trucchi di Levaldigi is a wonderful palace in the city center, also known as Palazzo del Diavolo, the devil's palace. Legend says that an apprentice wizard dared in trying to summon Satan itself, which offended by this arrogance turned him into the ornate door of the building. Another legend of the same palace regard the time of the French occupation. A french nobleman was tasked with moving some important documents and stepped into the building, at the time a French Garrison, to eat; just to disappear without a trace. A skeleton was found in the walls of the building years later, during renovation works.

Another fact related to the palace. During a masquerade ball in the 1700 a ballerina was stabbed to death. Neither the culprit or the weapon were ever found. Since then people report noises and item moving around the building. The building is now a bank, and it has the highest turnover of night guards in the city.

15. MrCMcK has watched the dog statue's nose slowly eroding from tourism.

Greyfriars Bobby, Edinburgh. The story goes that a dog refused to abandon its master when he died and was buried in Greyfriars. He lay by his graveside, and always returned after being chased out by groundsmen. Eventually the city council voted to buy the dog its own license, so it would have the freedom to stay by its master's have until he died. A bronze statue of the dog was put up outside the cemetery, and if you rub its nose, you'll have good luck.

In reality, the dog lay outside the graveyard, not by the grave, probably because it was fed by the priest. The statue was never meant to be rubbed on the nose. Tourists keep doing it, so it has to be touched up, to prevent damage. The council have now decided to stop refixing it, so now we wait for the slow erosion of that dog statue's face.

16. TheMopMan lives in a town where mascots rise to power.

Hartlepool, England.

During the napoleonic wars, allegedly a ship sank off the coast of my town. All of the crew supposedly died, with the exception of a monkey, who was dressed in a uniform. Having never seen a French man before, the kind people of Hartlepool held a tribunal on the beach and sentenced the poor monkey to death by hanging, for being a French spy.

Since then, people from my town, including myself, are nicknamed 'Monkey hangers'.

What makes it more amusing is that our local football team mascot was a monkey, and the guy in said outfit ran for mayor of the town.

He won.

More reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_hanger

17. Connelly90 doesn't cross the Overtoun Bridge.

Overtoun Bridge.

There's a old house to the north of my hometown in Scotland called Overtoun House, and the legend goes that walking your dog along the bridge that leads up to the house will cause it to spontaneously leap to its death from the bridge.

This is an observable thing that actually has happened at least 50 times.

People will refuse to cross the bridge, as there are also people who report feeling suddenly and unexpectedly depressed after crossing. There was even a man who threw his baby son off the bridge in a fit of insanity after claiming his son was the Antichrist.

There's an old Scottish myth of a "Thin Place" where the afterlife and the physical world are very close together; Overtoun Bridge is said to be one of these places.

18. madben15 lives near a demonic forest.

St. Leonard's Forest, near Horsham, West Sussex in the UK has lots of stories surrounding it. My favourite is about the 'Mick Miles Race' the story goes a local man called Mick Miles was challenged by the Devil to race for his soul in St. Leonard's Forest. The pair raced so fast they burnt a track through the forest where, to this day no trees grow. You can visit the spot, it's a popular walking route and a neat story for the area. Some people also claim to have seen a headless horseman at night on this forest stretch!

19. Mephistophos

I am from Lower Bavaria, Germany and there is this city Zulling, which also has a church. Next to the church there are two spots in the grass, where nothing grows. People claim that back in the days, some guy robbed the church and killed the pastor. He fled thought the window and the moment he touched the ground outside the church, he got struck by a lightening and died. Since this day nothing grows were he touched the ground. This spot is called Teufelstritt (literally devil's step)

Edit: Yes, there is a window.

20. UnsafeMuffins either has a rabid badger or baby ghosts.

State: Pope Lick monster, Fisherville Kentucky.

County: Crybaby Bridge, where a mom in the 70s threw 2 kids off a bridge for crying and now if you go alone at night you can still hear them crying.

House: We think there's a fucking rabid badger in the basement but no one wants to check.

16 funny jokes from women this week that have nothing to do with Trump.

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It's that weird purgatory time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and you're frickin' exhausted. You haven't felt this burned out since last week. Here are some great jokes from women, all of whom deserve to be followed (on Twitter, not in real life).

1. Learn how to speak my language.

2. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

3. The new national anthem.

4. If you're reading this, you're literate.

5. Acting = screaming. That's the rule.

6. Sit down in your thinking chair and think about this.

7. No reply.

8. Never tell me the odds.

9. Signed, sealed, delivered.

10. Gynocological puns are the best puns.

11. If it's not work than why is it exhausting?

12. "No photos, please."

13. The meme mashup of the moment.

14. Treat yoself.

15. As we go on, we remember.

16. No one told you life was gonna be this way.

Dad asks if he's the bad guy for refusing to let his son take ‘his' dog to college.

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When you give a family member an animal as a "gift," the lines get extremely blurry when it comes time to decide who really "owns" the family pet. One dad is discovering that first hand in an "Am I The Asshole" thread on Reddit.

The backstory is that the anonymous dad gave his son a dog named Toby for his birthday 11-years-ago when the kid was nine. Obviously, a nine-year-old can't take care of a dog on his own, so the dog became the family dog, and then dear-old-dad ended up carrying the brunt of the doggy care. "I personally have fed, trained and walked this dog almost every single day for 6 years. We've all grown incredibly attached to him," dad wrote.

The son is now 19-years-old, in college, and about to move into his own apartment and essentially demanded that the family hand over the family dog, because — after-all — they gave him the dog when he was nine.

"He now wants to take Toby with him, arguing that Toby has always been his, as he was his birthday present and slept in his room until a year ago," the dad wrote.

The dad pushed back, put his foot down, and told his son he couldn't take the now-aging family dog away from the only home he's ever known.

My wife, daughter and I feel that Toby is part of our family. We've all treated him as our own, and have looked after him as our own. Other than spending 6 years being the main person who looks after Toby, in the year since my son left for college, Toby has spent almost every single second we've been home by either my wife's side or mine. I feel like sending Toby away would be like sending away a family member. Toby is also getting old, he has been rushed to the vet multiple times in the last year and my son lives across state lines. Toby already suffers from separation anxiety and this would be a big change for him that I don't want him to be going through.

Reasonable, right? Here's where it goes off the rails. The son threatened to cut his family out of his life because they won't let him have the dog.

My son cried and was absolutely furious with me, he has threatened to cut us all off and has also threatened to steal Toby away secretly and said we were depriving him of time with his childhood dog in his last years.

So naturally, the dad turned to Reddit for help and asked, "Am I the asshole?" Reddit chimed in with a resounding NO!

ToonForever called out the son.

The son is being extremely selfish. Crying and threats? WTF? Is he still 9 or 19?

tphatmcgee echoed the dad's argument.

He doesn't deserve to be taken from his home when he is old and has company at all times, to where he will be left for long periods of time. That makes it exceptionally cruel as well.

Mystery_Substance applauded the dad's love for the dog.

You have such a beautiful love for your dog. It's heartwarming to read.

Mostly everyone just piled on to the son for being immature, like weezythebtch's comment.

Your son is acting entitled. Your dog is old, and sickly. He needs consistency, comfort, and someone to be there because he cant pick up a damn phone if he's sick. What if son cant get a sitter right away and the dog end up alone at home for a bit? How would your son feel if he went to school and came back to his dog suffering for god knows how long, all because he wanted the pride of having HIS dog.

Clearly there's only one asshole here and it's not the OP.

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