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Greta Thunberg responds to Meat Loaf claiming she's been 'brainwashed' about climate change.

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Greta Thunberg is a 17-year-old Swedish activist trying to save us all from climate change as the world actively burns. Meanwhile, grown adults, many of whom will be deceased by the time the world ends for the rest of us, keep trying to stop her. One of those adults is Meat Loaf. "Meat Who?" you may ask, if you're under the age of 35. He's a singer, best known for the song " I'd Do Anything for Love."

But younger generations may remember him as the old guy named after a dish our grandma makes who tried to shut down Greta Thunberg—and failed.

In an interview with the Daily Mail, Loaf said that he does not believe in climate change, and that Thunberg has been "brainwashed" in to believing in it.

He said:

I feel for that Greta. She has been brainwashed into thinking that there is climate change and there isn't. She hasn't done anything wrong but she's been forced into thinking that what she is saying is true.

He also described himself as a "sex god." Okay, boomer.

On Twitter, the singer was declared canceled by disappointed former fans.

Many people pointed out that Meat Loaf is not an expert on science, or climate. And should stay in his own lane, making jingles.

But, as usual, the best response came from Greta herself. The teen has plenty of experience clapping back at haters thrice her age. And though she's known to be pretty online, she took a serious approach this time, stating the facts.

Along with a graph showing that, in short, the planet is doomed, she writes:

It’s not about Meatloaf. It’s not about me. It’s not about what some people call me. It’s not about left or right. It’s all about scientific facts. And that we’re not aware of the situation. Unless we start to focus everything on this, our targets will soon be out of reach.

People are praising Greta's level-headed response.

And this guy gets to the heart of why Thunberg has been the target of so much online bullying.

Many are responding to climate change deniers by noting that Australia is literally on fire.

The climate change apocalypse isn't in the future—it is in the present. If only an entire continent didn't have to burn to get people to pay attention and take action.


16 people share their favorite adult jokes hidden in children's movies.

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Movies for children are fun and adorable, but sometimes adults need a little glimmer of entertainment too.

There's nothing better than watching a movie you used to love as a child again as an adult and noticing all the jokes that went right over your head when you were a kid. Sometimes it's a funny lyric in a song or a double entendre, but all the jokes that manage to sneak into that PG rating in Disney movies are golden.

So, when a recent Reddit user asked, "We all know that Disney loves putting 'adult' jokes in their animated movies. Which one is your favorite?" astute viewers everywhere were ready to share the moments they blocked their kids' ears and laughed to themselves. Thanks for keep the parents and nannies happy, Disney! There's only so much animated magic we can handle...

1. Damn, "Cherryblossonlover17."

Aladdin and the King of Thieves: "I thought the earth wasn't supposed to move until the honeymoon."

2. HA, "ZDog64."

When Buzz Lighteryear’s wings open after seeing Jessie pull off a cool stunt at the end of Toy Story 2.

3. CLASSIC, "JustBorde."

In Ratatouille when the chef dude says I have a little tiny- as to referring to his rat but the girl quickly glances towards his crotch.

The master chef also says “One can get TOO familiar with vegetables you know”

4. Amazing, "StarryBlossom."

When Hercules is walking with Meg after their date and he says “And then that play, that Oedipus thing? Man, I thought I had problems!”

5. Who doesn't love a good flashing? "GeneralGreivou."

My favorite was in Cars right after the first race when Mia and Tia “flashed” Lightning.

6. Yup, "death_by_osha."

Zootopia, after blackmailing Nick (recorded him admitting to tax evasion for numerous years) "i may be just a dumb bunny but we are good at multiplying"

7. This one is great, "Mogulzns."

One example I like to use is from Frozen. When Anna is in the sleigh with Christoph he is asking about Prince Hans. One of his questions is “shoe size?” Her response is “shoe size doesn’t matter”.

8. Yeah this one is insane, "turnkey85."

The villain in Hunchback of Notre Dame's whole motivation is that the gypsy girl turned him on and he couldn't have her. Dude had a whole song about being horny and it driving him insane.

9. Yes, "Itsafinelife."

Shrek seeing Farquad's castle for the first time. "Do you think he's compensating for something?"

10. Perfect, "mylegismissing."

I’m always gonna love, “She has no idea. Shine a blacklight in here, this place’ll look like a Jackson Pollock painting,” from Guardians of the Galaxy.

11. It's important to drink responsibly! "Dorkitron."

I recently noticed in the live action Grinch movie there's a scene with a party where everyone is putting their keys in a bowl...

12. Oh boy, "xUnika."

"Baby it's better

Down where it's wetter

Take it from me"

Great flex, Sebastian.

13. Bo Peep is thirsty! "Tb_Mar58."

When Bo peep in Toy Story says “Maybe I’ll have someone else watch the sheep tonight” (or something like that. And woody gets all excited and says “hehehehehe oh yeah:)))” it’s a classic

14. "Frozen" demands balls, "16chapel."

"Why have a ballroom with no balls?"

15. Yes! "SaltySteveD87."

Technically Pixar but pretty much all of Syndrome in The Incredibles.

“You married Elastagirl...?” sees the kids“...and got BIZZAY!”

16. Keepin' it spicy, "Ninjaski1z299."

In the live action Aladdin (not sure if it’s in the original), during Arabian Nights, the line: “Arabian Nights, like Arabian days, more often than not, are hotter than hot, in a lot of good ways”

11 of the most awkward moments at the 2020 Golden Globes.

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Sunday night marked the 77th annual Golden Globes Awards, and while the night was full of moneyed merriment, there were also plenty of awkward moments to spread around.

Whether it was host comedian Ricky Gervais skewering an actor who wasn't ready, or interview Ryan Seacrest having an existential meltdown on the red carpet, the night of accolades provided plenty of opportunities for social gaffes, emotional disconnection, and bombed jokes.

While these cringe-inducing moments were likely uncomfortable for those living through them, they provided ample entertainment for the millions of us sitting at home, dreaming of all we could do with the net worth of just one of those red carpet dresses (goodbye student loans).

So, without further adieu, here are 11 of the most awkward, cringe-inducing, or bizarre moments of the 77th Golden Globes.

1. When Ricky Gervais roasted Leonardo DiCaprio for his dating patterns.

Luckily for him, DiCaprio's girlfriend probably missed the show since it's past her bedtime.

2. When Ryan Seacrest lied about following Sofia Vergara on Instagram.

To be fair, most of us have lied (whether intentionally or not) about following someone on Instagram, it's just usually not televised.

Luckily for everyone, Seacrest gracefully dismounted from the red carpet interview by having an existential meltdown about how Hollywood is a fake.

"It's all fake, we're in Hollywood, it's all a facade! More of a facade! Nothing! More! More of the facade after this!"

He's not wrong though.

3. When Tom Hanks' son Chet spoke patois on the red carpet.

For what it's worth, this kind of face-palm inducing appropriation is fully on brand for Chet, who previously tried to launch a career as a rapper.

4. Rita Wilson's live tweets about her glam squad arriving late.

While it's completely understandable for Wilson to feel anxious about her team not arriving on the day of an international awards show, particularly one where people harshly scrutinize celebrity looks, the swaths of working class Twitter were having a tough time empathizing with her first world problem.

5. When Annette Benning was announced as a nominee and was nowhere to be found.

All my solidarity goes out to the camera people working the Golden Globes, their whole evening is a Where's Waldo of actors.

6. When Elton John was ready to hug actor Taron Egerton, who portrayed him in "Rocketman," but ended up getting dodged.

It obviously wasn't person though, because the two have become fast friends and had many other wholesome exchanges throughout the awards show.

7. When Beyonce remained seated during the standing ovation for Joaquin Phoenix.

However, it should be noted that her dress was a work of art, and it was likely she stayed seated so as not to get in the way of his path.

8. When Ansel Elgort sang the announcement for the Best Original Song.

Embarrassing or not, he went for what he wanted 100 percent, which is more than a lot of us can say.

9. When Roman Griffin Davis gushed about kicking Hitler in the balls during "Jo Jo Rabbit," and interviewer Giuliana Rancic had no idea how to respond.

Davis was crushing it in this moment, and he's right, kicking fascists in the balls should be a normal birthday event - particularly during the current moment of hate-filled politicians. This moment only feels awkward because Rancic hasn't been radicalized yet.

10. Tim Allen talking over Lauren Graham to make awkward jokes about how he's aged badly.

To make matters worse, Allen continued the awkward moment by joking about how he needed to Google nominees for "Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Drama." It didn't hit very well anbd a lot of people online felt sorry for Graham.

11. When Quentin Tarantino had a hard time finding anyone to thank besides himself.

He did, after much self-pontificating, eventually remember to thank his pregnant wife for existing, and undoubtedly loving him through years of incessant rambling.

There were undoubtedly countless more cringe-inducing Golden Globes moments behind the veil of the VIP after parties, and concealed in the whispers at every table of celebrities. But these were just a handful of the most obvious from the night.

5 people having a worse Monday than you.

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5. Jennifer Lopez, because she lost the Golden Globe and her giftwrap-inspired dress got mocked.

J.Lo vs. L.Dern will tear us apart.

People discovering that J.Lo is, in fact, a good actress was one of the most fun celebrity narratives of 2019.

The triple threat's acting and dancing in Hustlers wowed critics and moviegoers, making it easy to understand why somebody would get wrapped up in her character's criminal scheme.

Speaking of getting wrapped up, J.Lo's dress at last night's ceremony sure looked like gift wrap, and people snarked about her seeming inability to let the Christmas spirit go.

J.Lo went on to lose the award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture to Laura Dern, who didn't even twerk in Marriage Story!

The opinion on Twitter is that, like the men the hustlers drugged, J.Lo was robbed.

The race for the Oscar is on, and it just got interesting.


4. Frankie Muniz, because he's confronting the cruel realities of time.

Malcolm in the Middle Age.

Win or lose, at least J.Lo was at the party.

While hundreds of non-former child star millionaires live-tweeted the Golden Globes red carpet, former child star millionaire Frankie Muniz chimed in with a take on the night's festivities that has a very sad, elegiac energy.

Malcolm of Malcolm in the Middle spent the evening remembering the days when he himself was nominated for awards rather than staring at the hair follicles that once were.

Muniz followed the tweet up with an even sadder tweet today.

Did he tell the IRS "you're not the boss of me now and you're not so big"?

Life is unfair.


3. Harvey Weinstein, because his trial finally begins today.

The Mucinex Monster could face life in prison.

The name "Harvey Weinstein," once synonymous with with campaigning for Best Picture like it was the race for president, has become synonymous with sexual harassment, and rightfully so. The sentient wart has been accused of misconduct by over 80 women, and beginning today, two will be heard in court.

While Weinstein's alleged abuse has spanned continents and decades, the two accusations being heard by the Supreme Court of New York in Manhattan are allegedly forcing oral sex on a film production assistant and alleged rape, reported by a woman who remains anonymous, and her story is not publicly known.

At the same time jury selection was beginning in New York, Weinstein was indicted on new sex crimes charges in Los Angeles, proving that everyone is going bicoastal these days.


2. The police who responded to a parrot.

I know why the caged bird sings.

A concerned neighbor in Lake Worth Beach, Florida called 911 when they heard someone cry "Let me out!"

When the police rolled up to investigate, they learned that the cries were from a 40-year-old parrot named Rambo.

Rambo's owner posted the video of the confrontation on YouTube, writing, "I was changing the brakes on my wife’s car and had my 40-year-old parrot, Rambo, on his outside perch where he sings and talks. Sometime later four police officers showed up saying a neighbor called because she heard a woman screaming for help. I promptly introduced the officers to Rambo and we all had a good laugh. Afterward, I also introduced Rambo to the neighbor who called in the screaming. She too had a good laugh."

"Sometimes Rambo yells 'help, help, let me out.' Something I taught him when I was a kid and Rambo lived in a cage,"

If you have a parrot, maybe stick to teaching it "Polly want a cracker."


1. The CNBC graphics person, who is not only dumb, but racist.

This person may very well be named Andrew Yang, but they're not the Andrew Yang who is running for president.

This is who Kellyanne Conway would call an "Alternative Yang."

Bridesmaid responds to bride who wanted to remove her from bridal party for having cancer.

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I blame the wedding industrial complex and every romantic comedy ever for creating a culture of obsession and perfectionism around weddings, particularly in women. But that doesn't justify some of the behavior exhibited by bridezillas who go to unbelievably extreme lengths to achieve the "perfect" wedding, often at the expense of human decency.

EXHIBIT A: Screenshots of a conversation going viral on Imgur show a bride complaining about her bridesmaid for having cancer because the woman's hair loss will "distract" from the bride in photos and "won't fit in with the look" she's going for. Yikes.

The bride actually texted her other bridesmaids to consult them on whether she should boot the bridesmaid from the wedding party BECAUSE SHE HAS CANCER.

Luckily, a few of this bride's friends put a stop to the madness. One bridesmaid responded "wtf, are you serious right now???" And someone in the group shared the conversation with the bridesmaid being discussed.

The bridesmaid who has cancer sent the bride a hilariously salty text to let her know that she'd be pulling out of the wedding party. Turns out, she has quite a way with words.

The bride, who may have hair but lacks brains, self-awareness or a soul, tried to defend herself by arguing that she'd been "dreaming about" her wedding day since she was a child and has a "vision" of what the day would look like (cancer-free). She also said that she'd be "totally fine" with her friend wearing a wig, and would even go wig-shopping with her. And finally, she begged her to attend the wedding as a guest.

The (now ex-) bridesmaid was having absolutely none of her friend's nonsense, and continued to call her out for being a selfish, delusional nightmare.

Clearly her chemotherapy has had zero impact on this woman's absolutely glorious way with words.

Unclear how such a brilliant person could end up with a soggy poptart of a bride as her "friend" to begin with but, hey, we've all found ourselves sucked into the orb of a toxic person at some point in our lives.

The toxic bride, who is starting to seem like the worst thing this woman has ever had to deal with (and she literally has cancer), continued to victimize herself while begging her "friend" to attend her wedding. This gave her ex-friend one last opportunity to hilariously shut her down.

If only we all could confront the terrible people in our lives with this level of courage, wit, and eloquence.

Screenshots of the conversation were originally shared on Facebook by the ex-bridesmaid. They were then screenshotted and shared on Imgur by someone, who responded to people claiming the convo was fake by saying:

I can say with absolute certainty that the bridesmaid DOES have cancer but since they're not my texts, I have no way of proving whether the conversation occurred or not. From what I saw, the post seemed legit but that's just me. I felt like she was being genuine by you never know with this kinda thing online. So I readily admit that the convo being fake certainly is a possibility.

Fake or not, people are impressed by the bridesmaid's brilliantly witty comeback.

notdointhisatworknow writes:

I'm going to start calling people a "soggy pop tart". That's amazing

TheBeaconsAreLitGondorCallsForAid adds:

Also, I like the word "Douchebaggette" Never heard that. Stealing it.

And ericbres1337 writes:

“I have been dreaming about it since I was a little girl ..” such a cop out bullshit excuse for poor behavior used far too often by brides.

It's a damn shame that brides (and grooms) often seem to think they can use their wedding day to justify inhumane and terrible behavior. But cheers to this woman on removing this toxic waste dump of a human from her life, forever. Wishing her a healthy recovery and a long, douchebagette-free life.

23 Memes For Anyone Attempting Sober January.

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A lot of people are taking their New Year's resolutions seriously and participating in Dry January, a full-month of sobriety. Whether you're nailing this sober January thing or struggling to make it through the first few weeks of the decade, these memes will be hilariously relatable. Cheers to that!

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17 people who fell into pyramid schemes share their stories.

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We've all received the dreaded message: an old acquaintance from high school has slipped into our Facebook inbox to "catch up." At first it seems sweet, they want to know how we're doing, they think we look great, what a wholesome exchange! But alas, the exchange quickly goes south when they try to sell us leggings, or rope us into an age old pyramid scheme they sadly believe will make them rich.

Beyond ruining the quality of our social media inboxes, MLMs (multi-level marketing schemes) prey on people's hopes and financial vulnerabilities, and go on to ruin many lives. As with any cult, they pull people in with promises of a better life, before inundating members with necessary fees and a business model that only profits the founders.

Luckily, the internet makes it easier to spread the word about scams, and educate people on how to protect themselves from MLMs and similar financial predators. From the outside, it can be easy to judge those who fall down the rabbithole of MLMs, but they wouldn't continue to exist if the manipulation tactics and groupthink weren't thorough.

In a recent Reddit thread, people who fell into pyramid schemes shared their stories and what made them quit.

1. justalurkerkthxbai's mom quit Amway when she realized it poisoned her friendships.

My mother did Amway years ago. She told me she quit when she realized she approached every new acquaintance with an aim to make a sale instead of making a friend.

2. StarBunnyBun got a wake up call a few months in.

Joined a jewelry-based MLM thinking it would be cute to sell jewelry as a side hustle in July after I relocated across the country. I got roped in to the “be your own boss” and “make money while you sleep” mentality, and for a while, it boosted my confidence because I truly thought I was doing a great job running my own business. On paper, I brought in good money (about $100 per live show, which was one hour a week), but I had to ship out the jewelry to them, which ate about 20% of the profit, then the money earned went back into ordering more jewelry.

By September, once the glitz and excitement of it all wore off and I realized nothing was coming back to me, my boyfriend told me the only way to earn money in the business was to add new “business partners.” I told him I wasn’t interested in doing that, but that was part of the scheme. I was so hurt by the people who had roped me in to the business. So I quit that same day. Luckily, I made it out with only like $30 lost, but I still have a ton of jewelry and packing materials taking up space in my house.

3. RayFinkle1984 lost their mom to a pyramid scheme.

My mom was caught up in the Market America scheme. They manipulated an already vulnerable, mentally unstable woman to sink $20k into her”business”. She took her own life less than a year later. If the company has washed up celebrities as spokespeople and asks you to spend more money than you typically make in your “business”, you may want to reconsider your investment.

Post sleep edit: Thank you all for your support and kind words. Support your local crisis centers and shine a light on mental health.

4. Trawhe soon sniffed out the lies.

My recruiter told me she made $400 at the party I was at. I later learned she made 25% of that.

I was told if I could get 2 people under me, I would make $400-$500 per month.

Then I was told I needed 4 people instead of 2.

Then I was $2,000 in debt with nothing to show for it.

Deleted them all and changed my phone number.

Edit:

I am an owner of 2 businesses, so I thought adding a small side hustle would be an easy transition, but it turned out that as a legitimate business owner, I couldn't bring myself to use the toxic business practices that were expected of me (cold messaging, hounding people for orders, constantly reminding people about deals, etc.).

When I left, I helped the two girls who were under me get out as well, and apologized for roping them into something I thought was a good deal.

5. Chasicle broke up with Morinda after seeing the light.

I was a call agent for Tahitian noni for the USA and Germany (now called Morinda). It was horrible fielding calls near when people’s $120 monthly auto payment was due for 4 one liter bottles of juice. I couldn’t cancel their subscription on late notice without a fax with their signature at least a week in advance, unless they claimed “financial hardship.”

Eventually I learned that I would just need to feed them what to say and then gladly cancel for them on the phone. Total scam. Only people who made money were the early people to sign up and the founders, who are multi millionaires.

6.Taste_my_ass tried out of curiosity and then bounced.

Some dude tried to recruit me into buying/selling energy drinks. It was a known scam throughout school at this point so I decided to go along with it to see where it would go. The guy’s dad was a friend of mine, and my dad has a pretty well known computer shop in town.

Anyway, I go to pick up MLM man from his house to go to a meeting. This guy loads three cases of energy drinks (I think they were called “VEEMA” or something) into my car. I was already sketched out and this was a liability I didn’t want to encumber myself with so I told him I had a family emergency. He got out of the car, told me to keep the -85 energy drinks. The 3 cases were in my car for a few weeks, never touched them. about a month after hearing anything, one morning there were maybe 8-10 cases of the energy drinks stacked right outside the back door of my dad’s shop.

2/10, would not try to join a cult again.

7. CandidPrize tried to scam Avon for a discount but it wasn't worth it.

Our office had an Avon lady that would take our orders on a bi-weekly basis. She was the sweetest person, not pushy at all. Unfortunately she passed due to an illness and we did not know anyone else who sold Avon.

I got the bright idea of signing up as I read on their website that many people would join up solely for the discount. It sounded easy as I was planning on only taking orders for the office. Paid my $25 online and waited for the brochure to come in.

Our apartment was always the last stop for the UPS guy. He stopped by one evening near 8pm hauling a heavy box with AVON all over. He gave me this look of utter hatred. I felt so bad when he asked me if I had signed up to sell. That should’ve been a red flag.

Every time you placed an order you had to buy the catalogs which were heavy and a nuisance since I only needed two at the most for the office. Whatever small credit I gained ended up reinvested on having to buy the catalogs.

Not too long after I signed up the calls started. I began receiving calls from various people during work hours to attend meetings, to meet the regional so and so, to place orders, how to boost my sales. It became so frustrating at the time as my father became ill and had to be hospitalized so I kept having to answer every call in case it was hospice nurses or other medical staff. One woman kept calling and calling so I snapped one day. Told that I didn’t plan on attending any meetings and that if she didn’t understand that the first few times I told her, then she was a moron.

With everything else going on, I would forget to place the orders and I finally told the gals I would no longer sell as I had no time for it. They understood and we lost our Avon fix. It was not worth the hassle and we should have just found someone to take our orders.

On the bright side, our UPS guy was happy he no longer had to make his routine deliveries or heavy boxes that would end up chucked in the dumpster.

8. LordBirdperson didn't realize they were part of an MLM until ten years later.

My story may end up being typical but I'll tell it anyway.

~on mobile so formatting, etc, etc~

Anyway, I had just started college right out of high school. Was going to an art school (i know, bad idea) and was looking for a job to do between classes. Classmate of mine mentioned CutCo, so I naively went in for an interview.

Few points to know. I had no previous job experience at all, the "office" was in the next town over, and I didn't have a driver's license at the time, let alone a car. My freaking Mom drove me to the interview. Got the job anyway.

So I get the CutCo bag of stuff to show off and was sent on my way to harass my relatives. I thought that I was only doing example shows to them, practicing for the real deal. My Dad and StepMom even bought some knives (no idea what happened to them though, last I saw they used a different set). Once I run out to people to bother, i start running into problems.

Problem 1 was I didn't sell anything other than that one set. Problem 2 was I hadn't gotten any other people to talk to. The "pyramid" part of my pyramid scheme wasn't working real well. Problem 3 was the straw that broke the camel's back apparently. I couldn't get to the weekly meetings because my mom refused to drive me across town every week (she had a long commute).

In the end I got a call from my "manager" telling me he was basically letting me go and I needed to turn in my swag bag. I told him I couldn't get to him so he had to come to me. Later that day he rolled up, o gave him the bag and that was it. Don't think I ever got my cut from the knives I did sell either.

The real kicker was I didn't even realize it was a MLM until almost a decade later, browsing this very sub.

9. caitcro18 would never recommend Younique makeup.

Used to sell younique. It was easy to get out. I wasn’t making any money, I couldn’t be fake to sell my product and I learned about quality makeup and younique ain’t it lol.

You can buy colourpop for literally 1/4 of the price and 10x the pigment and blendability.

10. throwawayedm19's friend got in and out.

A good friend joined World Financial Group also known as WFO. I told her off the bat to avoid it - major MLM scheme that preyed on family and friends. She of course, ignored my advice and went all gung ho. I told her that if she wanted to keep the friendship - please don't ever ask me to join. And luckily, she didn't.

She attended a whole bunch of seminars and even went on a trip to the US - a very expensive trip for her and her guy. Paid out of pocket. I think she even had to pay for training and some of the seminars too.

Then one day she just stopped talking about it. I assume she grew tired of it and gave up on it. MLM scams encourage asking friends and family members to participate. I fear not to bring it up again as I'm just glad she stopped going to those meetings.

11. imsaneinthemembrane called it a cult and got skeeved.

Just remembered another one. I had this "friend" who told me her work was hiring and that she could try to get me an interview. I was about 16 at the time, she was a year older and drove me to the "interview", it was in an office on the top floor of a strip mall. There were about 20 other people there who were being shown a presentation of the business, very pyramid schemy vibes. They had canvas photos of their top employees on the walls of all these marvelous trips they went on.

During the hour presentation I never learned what the business was, they basically just told us how amazing and easy it was to get ahead in this business. The guy who runs the operation and all the employees were also there, I made a comment to my friend about how this felt like a cult and she said, and I kid you not, " guywholeadthepyramidscheme doesn't like when people call it that". I noped the fuck on out of there fuming after this friend and her co-workers tried to push me into whatever the f*ck sales job they were trying to con me into.

12. doxiemom111 worked at Mary Kay and doesn't miss it.

I worked at the head office of a large MLM, and one of the OG’s. Mary Kay.

You have to live, breathe, and shit pink. Honestly, I once got sent home from the office because I had made a cardinal mistake... I had worn a pantsuit to the office. As a woman, we were expected to wear a skirt or dress daily. I was new and didn’t really think they’d get upset over a pantsuit, all things considered. I was wrong.

I know this is a different perspective, but hear me out. I didn’t really know what Mary Kay was initially, all I remember is seeing the old school pink eye shadow cubes in my mom’s makeup drawer. I started to discover that things were all a bit strange and ... predatory. We would run campaigns inside of universities and colleges because the older generations all “knew” what was up.

The company was marketing toward these younger girls specifically because they didn’t know the shtick, and hinging on the fact that we would somehow be able to convince them of making easy money. I heard a lot of horror stories the longer I worked there. Specifically from people who were angrily demanding answers from directors at the annual “Seminar” held in Toronto for Canadian Mary Kay consultants. People losing thousands of dollars. It all felt so criminal to have been a part of.

13. kellensoriano doesn't want to hear another word about BeachBody.

F*cking BeachBody. Had a friend who’s been doing “great” on it. Recruiting left and right making lots of money and it is so easy to do because “everyone wants to be healthy and lose weight.” It’s fine if you just use it for the workout videos for yourself but having to be the person to reach out to random people and be like, hey you're fat, come pay loads of money for this shit and oh yeah you can have a huge discount if you become a coach too and recruit other people and scam them also. It’s all bullsh*t.

14. iamevilcupcake got scammed by a "friend" during an intense period of grief.

I've been wanting to tell this story for ages, and never got round to it.

When my husband died (abusive prick so don't feel bad for me) he left me with a f*ck tonne of debt (ok you can feel bad for me now lol). Not long after he died I had gone to a Tupperware party for a friend, and made some positive comment about one of the products, and that put me on the presenter's radar. This presenter happened to be one of those top tier ladies that ignored their family to make it big. She was/is the regional person. Whatever the title is.

I was BROKE. Paying off so much stuff while waiting for the life insurance to come through, you'd be surprised at the amount of companies that don't give a sh*t that you've lost a spouse, they just want their money. So Tupperware was spun as a way to earn extra money. She even gave me the starter kit without having to pay up front.

Problem was, I worked full time, and it was near impossible to book parties. I did my first presentation at my house and booked no parties. I reached out to all my friends and family and booked no parties.

The pressure from this woman was IMMENSE. She'd call me while I was at my day job. She try to convince me to quit my day job to focus on Tupperware. She knew I was broke, but she was adamant that if I quit my job I'd make it big, and before I know it I'd have a Tupperware car just like her.

She never listened to me. Even when I said to her "How do you expect me to pay my bills if I quit my job and start up Tupperware?" She had a response for everything. Nothing was based in logic and every time she called me, which was weekly, I was filled with dread.

I started to ghost her. It took months for me to work up the courage to tell her I didn't want to do it anymore. It took weeks for her to accept me "don't want to do it anymore". She dragged it on, and on, and on. Finally she sent me a curt "Leave your kit at the front door" message which I did.

She tried a couple of years down the track to recruit me again. I ignored her calls.

All I wanted to extra income to help me. I also wanted to add to my friend group. All I got was stress, anxiety, and frustration.

15. wackyDELYyeah noped it out of there.

I never joined an MLM but years ago I went with a friend to a meeting for WorldVentures. His friend had told him he was having a get together with a few friends to talk about a business idea he had.

We walk into this packed apartment and immediately are ushered to the couch where another friend and a neighbor are also sitting, surrounded by a bunch of strangers.

They start playing a video about WV, and a couple of people come up to talk about all the money they're making with it. At various points, the strangers in the place all clap and cheer and I'm looking around at them thinking "What the f*ck is going on here?"

It felt surreal and bizarre, rehearsed and fake. We weren't told we were going to be shown and entire presentation, so that was off-putting. I felt tricked being invited.

The presentation ended and all the WV strangers left immediately. The neighbor politely declined joining and left. The other friend asked what made this NOT a pyramid scheme, and the host proceeded to draw out A PYRAMID explaining how the business model worked, the whole time insisting it wasn't a pyramid scheme. The friend also politely declined.

Me, having seen the red flags in 1) being lied to about what we were doing, 2) the fake clapping and ludicrous claims during the presentation, 3) the way you needed to pay up front to join, and 4) the fucking pyramid drawing, also declined.

The idiot friend I went with happily wrote a check to join like the god damn moron he is. He really thought he'd be able to get tons of friends and family to join. In the end no one wanted to, because everyone could see from a mile away it was a scam.

We've since stopped talking so I don't know if he's still in it or not, but I did end up getting to tag along on a trip to Dubai with him because he needed to go on trips to help his sales pitch. Was a fun trip but the WV group activities were just as annoying and cult-like as the meetings.

16. marshmallowofdoom was a Mary Kay girl and has all the stories.

I was a Mary Kay girl for a short period of time...

They kept claiming that if you sold so much, you get a "free car with no strings attached." Long story short, I googled it and there WERE INDEED attatched strings.

They WORSHIP Mary Kay Ash (aka the founder of Mary Kay). It's kind of like how the FLDS worships Warren Jeffs. It was very unsettling, and very cult-like.

For the makeovers, you'd do a before and after photo of the subject. They wouldn't let you smile in the before photo, but would make you in the after photo. Therefore, you'd automatically look 100x better in the after photo, regardless of how shitty the makeup was.

My regional director bought a bunch of stuff under my name without telling me (she didn't use my credit cards or anything, but when I initially got the email receipt for it I freaked out because I thought my numbers were stolen). She never told me that it was her, but I found out by searching the address on the order. I later found out that it had to do with some bonus the upline would get if their downlines bought enough inventory in a certain period of time. This wasn't a huge deal but it definitely weirded me out.

A lot of the girls who were at my level were from my school. A few of them really didn't like me growing up. The moment I walked in that door, they all pretended to love me.

And yeahh, that's all I can think of.

17. taint-of-glory got briefly roped into the seductive trap of Amway.

TL:DR at bottom. Sorry for the novel.

Mine was the OG MLM: Amway (more specifically Quixtar and even more specifically the Britt WorldWide division). I was young (early 20s) and dealing with the life your never told about in school. The one where you don’t get a degree and your dream job out of college but instead wash out of college due to apathy and crippling combo of social anxiety and bipolar disorder. Knowing a $9/hr job was not the life I wanted, my similarly aged coworker who was always positive and upbeat and a genuinely decent guy selling me on “owning my own business and retiring at 30” was an easy buy in from me.

75 bucks later I was my own business owner. my direct mentor was an actual medical doctor who also was in on this. Shit If a licensed psychiatrist is a believer so was I. The only problem was unbeknownst to me at the time, everybody else had heard of Amway and knew their bullsh*t except me apparently.

I teetered around with it for a while with no success but thought it might work. The people above me though pushed aggressively this whole “dream building” idea. “Buy these tapes and listen to and from work instead of listening to music. You know how your going to dinner tomorrow night? Tell your friends and servers about the business! Oh and buy duplicate tapes to share. To be clear, the tapes aren’t required, but the only successful people in Britt WorldWide have all been fully in on these tapes. You went to the bar on Saturday night? Why didn’t you try to network and build your business? You could’ve been dream building instead of having fun”.

While I hated the idea of buying this random dudes motivational speeches on tape and dream building seemed super dumb to me, I didn’t fully leave. When my sponsor suggested a business trip to Nashville for a conference I figured I’m only half in but it’s a cool weekend trip and I can bring my GF along. So we took the trip.

And that’s where it turned. Friday night was intro and speeches. The keynote speakers were treated as heroes and almost worshipped. Like 5 minute standing ovations and people literally swarming them. The next day more of the same. All had the same group think. No one was presenting different ways to succeed. Nope, it was only one way, by emulating these guys word for word and spending 100s if not thousands of dollars buying their shitty motivational tapes. You even had to buy access to their website for the best tips.

It was at that point I was done with it. My GF and I bailed late Saturday to tour the city. Sunday morning went to poke my head in the morning speaker session and it was a full on evangelical church service. That was it for me. I’m it anti religion as I am a person of faith, im a Christian, just not evangelical. I also have attended weddings and funerals and ceremonies for friends who are catholic, atheist, evangelical, Hindu, and others so I’m not offended by the idea of another ceremony.

But when you feel things are a cult, and it all is leading you to think that this is a cult (buying in, being forced to purchase more, worshipping random dudes), and you end up at a conference session that is a worship service but not actually advertised that way, well f*ck what else could it be than a cult?

So I stopped going once I got home. Stopped answering calls, made excuses with my coworker about other obligations, etc and just didn’t return. Then got a notice about 2 years ago that I got to claim a small part of a class action lawsuit against them. Got like 20 bucks back. So yeah, f*ck them.

TL:DR: joined Amway cuz i was living a sh*tty life and get rich quick dreams, had to buy a bunch of shit, felt like a cult, got unknowingly pulled into a religious service then just ghosted them.

24 Workplace Memes For Anyone Who's Ready To Quit Their Job.

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"Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit."

- George Carlin

If you're counting down the minutes until you can retire, you're not alone. Most of us would rather do anything than be at work right now. At least we have memes to help us laugh the pain away. Anyone who wants to quit their job and live on the beach will relate to these hilarious workplace memes.

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21 sailors share the creepiest things they've experienced at sea.

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There's a reason so many movies are about creepy and haunting things happening at sea. The ocean is deep, dark, cold (RIP Jack Dawson), and full of weird creatures, some of which are bigger than houses and others that literally feast on blood [Jaws theme]. No wonder sailors (allegedly) drink so much!

Sailors and others who regularly travel by boat are sharing the weird, creepy and unexplainable things they've seen at sea. Here are 21 true tales that give Jaws a run for its money:

1.) From CatHerder75:

I spent 7 years sailing a boat around the Caribbean. I sailed alone 90% of the time. Not too many weird things to be honest.

Whales got too close for comfort a few times.

I had auditory hallucinations several times due to sleep deprivation (downside to sailing solo), that was always a bit scary.

Weirdest was sailing between BVI and St Martin, moonless night, pitch black, total flat calm (flat seas are rare in that area). the ocean lit up with what I could only assume were some sort of glowing jellyfish. These globes in the water would flash bright green for a second, then vanish, hundreds of them. And they were not small, several feet in diameter. This lasted for about 30 minutes. It was beautiful and surreal. Never saw anything before or since like it in over 20,000 miles of open ocean sailing.

2.) From WillitsThrockmorton:

On Deployment, observed a fireball in the Indian Ocean. 100% convinced it was a larger meteor, but it remained solid until it disappeared and it abruptly angled like it it something, albeit at a very shallow angle.

When I say fireball, I mean, fireball, not a shooting star like you can see on a typical dark night not in the city.

EDIT: To be clear to everyone, I don't think it was an alien visitation or something similar; I really do think it was just a larger meteor.

3.) From lovelyb1ch66:

Growing up, my family had a cottage on a small island in the Baltic Sea, off the coast of Sweden. This happened in the late 70s, during the Cold War when Russian subs were often observed in Swedish territorial waters. Our island did have a military installation on it and was off limits to foreigners. My dad and I were fishing from grandpa's old wooden rowboat, just drifting along a couple of hundred yards off shore when all of a sudden the head of a diver slowly rose to the surface a couple of yards off the side of the boat. He slowly turned around, spotted us and disappeared beneath the water again. We saw divers on several occasions but never that close and once we also saw the conning tower of a submarine.

4.) From Atlasnew:

I have family who sailed around the world. One day in the North Atlantic, their sailboat was going over some GIGANTIC swells. They didn't have breaks at the top, so it was safe, but the boat was rising and falling way beyond the neutral.

At the bottom of a trough my uncle looked up to see the sun behind a wave and the silhouette of a whale inside, above him.

5.) From Posenaator:

I've been hunting with my dad in Finland for over 10 years now and I know the area like the back of my hands. (My dad's been hunting there for over 30 yrs). One night we were heading to an island and suddenly something started blasting water in the middle of the sea. Like there was an rock just beneath the surface and the waves were bouncing from it. We knew for a fact that there wasn't a rock there. It looked weird so we went to have a closer look but it was so dark we couldn't tell what the thing splashing was. It looked like it was doings of some animal. My only theory to date is that it was a seal that had been caught in a fishing net and it had then broke the net and made its way to the open sea and was trying to get to the surface but could't make it:(

6.) From kg1206:

This wasn’t on the ocean but an inland lake, which actually makes the story even weirder.

Lake Kagawong is the second biggest lake on Manitoulin Island. So big in fact that it actually has its own islands within it. While the lake itself is huge it’s not actually connected to the Great Lakes other than by a river that goes over a waterfall. This means that only small recreational boats capable of being launched off a trailer can enter the lake at the 3 or 4 small launch areas.

The being said one day when my dad and I were out in our 23 foot bow rider, which was one of the bigger boats on the lake, when we spotted a large black ship slowly moving towards one of the islands on the far side of the lake. It wasn’t a sailing ship or anything you’d expect a ghost ship to look like in fact it looked like a super yacht you’d see in places like Monaco.

It disappeared behind the island which was large enough to hide it entirely. We drove the boat over towards it but by the time we got over there the mystery vessel was gone. We drove the whole perimeter of the lake and saw no trace of this massive boat.

While again the lake is plenty big enough to accommodate a vessel of this size, hell you could comfortably drive the Titanic around in there, there is no way a boat of that size could have gotten into that lake. There is no navigable waterway connecting the lake to the big water and the only launch ramps are very small and even then that ship was too big to be hauled on a truck, even if it was the shorelines are pretty rocky and steep in most places and there’s nowhere to set up the cranes and other necessary equipment required to actually get a vessel of this size into the water.

Nobody ever saw the ship again after that. No one else on the lake had ever seen it either so we never got an explanation.

7.) From Houn_3:

I do travel to the UK and Scotland a lot and I take a ferry to mainland Europe and I decided I head out to the deck to get some fresh air and see if I could get a good signal to contact my family. I get out there and it’s dark and everything is normal and i all of a sudden the boat slammed something hard and flung me to the deck and I remember my vision getting fuzzy and there being a loud bang agin. I thought we hit a ferry I ran up to the command deck because my freind was the captain and he said they don’t know what happened. He said there was no leaks or fires. They had a medic come a check on me because my head was bleeding from the fall. We made it the mainland and I got off looked at the boat and noticed there was a big dent in the hull. My freind said we probably hit apps of whales but I’ve never known whales to cause that big of a dent.

8.) From Katsu_Farmer87:

We would sometimes see lights out in the distance at night. I had a few people tell me that some of these lights were so bright that it felt like it was like the sun had come up. I haven't seen a light like that but I have seen what looked like a plane flying at night. It would change directions and fly the other way. This happened 5 times in the span of about two minutes. This is something I cannot explain logically. How can something change directions that fast, at that speed, in that kind of movement. Oddest thing I have ever seen.

9.) From Tess_ORourke:

I worked on private yachts for three years. When out at sea you have to do watches, which means you are in the bridge for a couple hours at a time monitoring all of the systems. Boats run on autopilot and generally only need adjustments to the course every couple of hours or so, so being on watch generally means you’re stuck looking at the same expanse of grey water for a couple hours, waiting for something to happen and trying to ignore the fact that you’re seasick. If you’re a fan of watching paint dry, being on watch is the job for you.

It’s also important to note that everyone working on a boat carries a radio, and that radio has to be on at all times.

Now on this boat I had the 2-6 watch. That meant from 2-6 AM and 2-6 PM, I had to be in the bridge. In between watches I would just sleep, on account of being sleep-deprived and nauseous 100% of my waking hours. We had just entered into the Bahamas island chain around 11:30 AM, so the water had calmed down a bit. I was dead to the world, getting in my final hours of nap time before my watch started up when my radio crackled to life with the calls of “MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY, EVERYONE TO THE BRIDGE WE HAVE A BOAT ON FIRE.”

Now, mayday is only said over a radio when there could be imminent loss of life or limb. It’s the “oh shit” button of the maritime world, the radio equivalent of “SOS the titanic is fucking sinking and we only have half the lifeboats we need.” It’s a bigger adrenaline rush than cocaine, and within seconds i was out of bed and in the bridge.

Sure as shit is brown there was a 20 foot sailboat about 500 feet in front of us engulfed in a ball of flames. It went up in about 10 seconds, and burned like Australia. So we launched our rescue tender, grabbed the first aid kit, and set out to get as many bodies off that boat as possible.

In a miraculous stroke of luck, there was only one person on board and the only piece of him that sustained injury were his eyebrows. We pulled him out of the water, got him checked over, and brought him with us to our next port. He lost everything except his life, and as we pulled away his boat sank in 800 feet of water.

Make no mistake: boats are dangerous. Fiberglass goes up in flames fast, and when you’re in the open ocean your chances of survival are slim. He was luck we were there, because it’s not often you get two boats in the same place like that. Keep your EPIRBS close, and always have a life raft on board.

Other than that, I saw the New Year’s Eve fireworks off of Richard Branson’s island in the BVI’s. He puts on a great display every year. The stars are brilliant too, if the whole world shut off the lights for one night you wouldn’t believe what you could see.

10.) From SergeiBoryenko:

My dad caught this huge arthopod during our time out at sea when we went to go and catch crabs close to a Florida coast. It broke free from the net and swam away. No clue what it was.

That, or I interrupted a horseshoe crab orgy.

11.) From PCW88:

This happened when I was in the Navy back in the early 90s. We were sailing from Guam to Australia and were days away from land in every direction. I was standing aft lookout on the fantail and hadn't heard anything over the sound powered phone about any sighted contacts. I'm looking over the starboard side when I see us pass a red light no more than 100 feet away. I try to call it in to the bridge, but my phone isn't working. In the 10 seconds it took me to swap my phone to another connection and look back up, the light was gone. This was a single solitary red light. No green light and no white lights so it didn't appear to me to be a boat or a sailing vessel. To this day, I can't explain what it was or why the phone stopped working. A sound powered phone doesn't use power, it uses sound to work.

12.) From DeusVULT1097:

I know the exact explanation, what I don’t know it’s how it’s happened to me twice. I was driving a yacht as we were traveling to the greek island of Mylos all was calm and nice until at one point we hear a loud bang which I felt through the steering wheel and then the whole boat started shaking and engines weren’t giving any acceleration. I drop anchor and turn of the engine and look behind us and there was a huge pool of blood so my theory about hitting a rock was out of the question. As I was putting up scuba gear to go check underneath the yacht for any holes (there weren’t any) I saw pieces of a BIG sea turtle floating where the blood was so we hit a fucking sea turtle. It’s impossible to see them from the fly bridge cause they are underwater but it hid both propellers and fucked up the yacht. It’s happened to me twice which seems like impossible odds for being in the middle of the ocean

13.) From frapawhack:

was a watchman on a dinner cruise vessel. Watched as dolphins encircled a school of bait fish, drawing the circle tighter and tighter until they ploughed straight through the ball and nailed the fish. Did not understand how sophisticated and murderous dolphins were, or how well they planned their attack.

14.) From Teegster:

When I was in the Navy I was stationed on a cruiser and that ship was certainly haunted. More than once I shared a smoke late at night with someone vaguely familiar, but no one knew who I was talking about and the description didn't match anyone. We never really talked other than mention the quality of the seas at the time ("It's a nice night" or "Looks like a storm is coming") and just watch the horizon or the night sky, a couple times commenting on the constellations that were out.

Never anything malevolent, but a little unnerving when I could never find that dude and people thought I was too sleep deprived.

15.) ​​From [deleted]:

Fog. 360 degrees of thick fog. You can hardly see a couple feet in front of your face. Very creepy. And water spouts, those are pretty cool though

16.) From HAL-42b:

When diving, a huge seiner net drifting towards you. It wasn't anchored or attached to anything. Just a huge whirling cloud of death, full of barnacles and dolphin skeletons and decomposing fish.

17.) From scudponies:

This huge turtle as big as a Volkswagen beetle. It went right under our boat. Shit was crazy.

18.) From Jonhuddleston:

It was a foggy night off the shore of Long Island and I was on a 75 foot schooner. The fog was so thick that you couldn't see more than 10 feet in front of you. The captain tells me there is no point to continue my watch at the bow of the ship and him and I start talking at the stern. About that time there is thunk on the side of the ship. We both turn to see a figure dressed in black flowing robes walking towards us on the outside of the ship. The robes were scratching down the outside of the ship. It keeps coming closer and is high enough in the air that the top was about even with our heads. It turns out that it was just a black flag to mark a lobster pot, but for those first few seconds it was terrifying. Lol

19.) ​​​​​​​From YaBoyZoidberg:

Not me, but my father back in his commercial fishing days noticed that there was a t shirt in the middle of his net after one tow. After a little investigation he found that it was not a shirt, but a human torso wearing a shirt. He said he was terrified that he would open the net and a head would roll out onto his feet, but it didn't happen. His captain radioed ahead and they brought the torso back to the docks, where they were met by the police and a coroner. They were eventually able to identify the body (based on the clothing) as a victim of a plane crash that had occurred fairly recently. My dad said he offered a free lobster to the coroner, who graciously accepted it until he found out that it had been found in the net with the body. After that he got angry and told him to throw it back.

20.) ​​​​​​​From j-shonk:

Not a Sailor, but I was on a fishing charter boat on lake Erie, it was around 5am in the morning, and the water was scary calm and glass like, and it was so foggy you could not see more than 30 feet if that, we all started hearing this plopping sound, like somebody was slapping the water with open hands, it kept getting louder and closer, At this point we had all slowly moved to the other side of the boat not knowing WTF it was, even the boat captain was standing there in total silence as we all just stood there and listened to this plopping sound getting closer and closer, and to the shock of us all, a deer swam by the boat, yes a deer, it looked to be a very large buck with at least 10 points on his rack, we were more than 10 miles off shore so it made no sense at all ! can you say FREAKY

21.) ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​From Mange-Tout:

I was sailing a small Sunfish around an island near Florida in shallow water. As I cruised along suddenly a large section of water directly in front of my bow exploded with a large splash. Immediately afterward my boat rammed into something under the surface and came to a complete stop. My first thought was, "I've hit a reef", but suddenly the entire boat was lifted up and spun around 90 degrees, almost dumping me into the water. Then there was another big splash and I saw something zoom away, leaving a wake behind it.

I was left freaked out and shaking. Then I thought to myself, "I must have hit a big dolphin. Maybe it was a manatee? Lots of dolphins around here..." So, I finished my sail and went home. When I got to the beach I pulled up the centerboard and found a real surprise! A two-inch chunk had been bitten out of the wood. You could clearly see the marks of three large teeth.

I'm very happy that I didn't fall out of the boat that day.

Women share stories of the negative effects of birth control in response to meme.

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Women are sharing horror stories of how hormonal birth control methods can go wrong, thanks to one funny meme.

It all started with a "wholesome" meme that was meant to make everyone laugh.

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Taken from a tweet, it reads, "if ur girlfriend takes birth control go tell her thank u or buy her flowers or just f***** hug her for an extra second bc those things are literally depression pills & y'all don't realize what they go thru just so y'all can n**."

Finally, someone gives us some credit! This jokey tweet might be a breath of fresh air for any woman who's had to patiently explain to her boyfriend why she can't "just go on birth control" so that he doesn't have to think about contraception.

As the tweet implies, sometimes the negative side effects hormonal birth control can outweigh any benefits. And when this meme was posted on Reddit, it inspired dozens of women to share their stores.

Also, just to put our responsible hats on for a moment: even if you're on hormonal birth control, withdrawal and barrier methods are still a good idea. Birth control isn't 100% effective. Also, birth control is not "literally depression pills." It's just that some people experience depression as a side effect. Many don't.

For some people, hormonal birth control is a godsend. If it works for you, count your blessings. And if not: condoms are your friends, people!

1. Some women say The Pill messed with their mental state for years.

Birth control seriously f***** with me and now (two years after stopping it) I feel like I’m more emotionally stable than I had been over the last 4 years really. It really does amp up depression and anxiety, even for people who hadn’t had problems before. I’m about to go talk to my doctor about getting sterilized. I don’t want kids. Lucky for me, my insurance covers the whole procedure since they classify it as a preventative procedure. - thethinksshethinks

2. And it's not like we need more anxiety.

I never took birth control long enough since i did long distance with my boyfriend. But since living together I truly realised how f***** up these little pills are. I became depressed, emotionally unstable, anxious like I had never been before. Kept looking for a cause until my friend advised me to stop taking birth control. It's like a mental fog lifting from your brain! - aokiseki

3. Doctors might tell you to switch pills and see if that helps, but for many, it doesn't.

Birth control can mess up people really really bad. I thought I had suddenly developed some severe mental problem, I was crying daily, anxiety attacks several times a week, extremely suicidal, so exhausted I had to sleep every few hours, got overweight in a few months and many more terrible side effects... I changed birth control and nothing helped, then I just quit birth control and became my normal self again. My boyfriend says I'm so nice to be around again and he's getting snipped. - parrots777

4. Birth control can massively minimize periods, but some say it's not worth it.

I moved in with my now husband 5 years ago and have been on 3 different forms of birth control since, I was seriously f*****. Sure my skin was clear and my periods were nonexistent but the feeling of dread, anxiety and wanting to claw everyone's eyes out made it absolutely not worth it. I got off the pill a month ago and it's amazing how different I feel in 4 weeks. - ohbrandiii

5. One woman attributed her migraines to birth control.

My mother has had terrible migraines for as long as I can remember. She tried everything from drugs, Botox, weed, acupuncture, even reiki healing. Finally her doctor just prescribed her some mega-strength sleeping pills so at the first sign of a migraine she could knock herself unconscious and wake up on the other side. About a year ago she went off the pill and they completely disappeared. She’d been on the pill for so long she didn’t realize it was the source of her life-long debilitating migraines. - surprise-mailbox

6. Few realize that hormonal birth control can kill your libido.

Taking it controlled my period cramps and pain and made my skin better, made depression and anxiety worse and completely killed my sex drive. Without it the cramps and pain are really heavy, I sometimes literally lay around and cry because of the pain, my skin is shittier, but depression is better when I‘m not around my period and my sex drive is back. For me it’s a physical vs mental pain thing and I can’t figure out which one is better - halbmondkatze

7. And in a horror we didn't even know existed, this woman's IUD fell out.

to all the people who recommended an iud - I had one and went to check how it was sitting a month after getting it AND IT WAS FUCKING GONE, my doc couldn’t find it for life and I was traumatized because I didn’t knew when it fell out / if I‘m pregnant for a while. So I paid over 200€ for basically nothing. My doctor was kinda unimpressed by the fact that it fell out and wanted to put a new in again for a bit less € but I can’t trust this man anymore because he never wants to clarify anything. I‘m currently searching for a new doctor that cares more about his patients and who can explain things that happen with my body - halbmondkatze

8. This woman was gifted with an eternal period when she tried the Pill.

Different birth control works for different people. Depo f***** me up with a never ending period. Pretty sure I bled for 1-2 years straight and my emotions were wack. Mirena has been the opposite. Occasional spotting at best and my emotions are not wack. Plus it's only a day-ish of pain for 5 years. - psychicfork013

9. Oh, just some tiny side effects.

I have bipolar disorder, so I’m terrified of any mood altering medicine. I have Paraguard. I just have to worry about perforation of my uterus, misplacement, and copper poisoning. - pupsnpogonas

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

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Start your day off with some laughs and watch the stress just melt away. There's nothing better than some silly memes to give you a reason to chuckle this morning.

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Woman asks if it's okay to skip wedding of sister who's marrying her ex-boyfriend.

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Skipping your sister's wedding is a pretty drastic thing to do — but what if it's because your sister's dating your ex?

And what if she started dating him while you two were together?

A woman in this situation recently asked Reddit for advice. She's caught between wanting to set boundaries against the ex who hurt her, and wanting to make her family happy. Here's what she said.

Her family had her back at first, respecting her decision to keep her distance from the ex.

My sister is marrying my ex-bf who she started dating while I was still in a relationship with him. Yes, I know my ex was a scumbag too, but honestly, it hurts more my own sister did this to me over his cheating lying ass.

At first, everyone was on my side and didn't urge for reconciliation and respected my desire to be nowhere near those two.

Now that they're getting married, though, the family's changing its tune.

But now they're getting married (and my sister is expecting her first kid/my parent's first grandkid) my mum is saying I should let the past stay in the past, and move on. That future niece deserves to have a loving extended family and a loving aunt.

She doesn't want to let it go.

I don't want to just play happy families and let it go. And I've staunchly refused to go to their wedding. The wedding is a celebration of the couple and I have 0 interest in celebrating their love.

So reddit, am I the a**hole for hard passing their wedding?

Most people understand where she's coming from.

As DunktatoOC points out, the family is pretty clearly choosing the sister's happiness over hers:

As you tell it your ex-boyfriend cheated on you with your sister. This does not seem complex at all. Your family should support you and care for you. Your sister did neither. Even if your ex-boyfriend didn't want to be in a relationship with you anymore, he could have broken up with you. Your sister could have refused to let him cheat on you with her. She was self-serving and showed complete disregard for your emotions. You have every right to be upset.

Rose717 says making up with the couple could lead to long-term unhappiness for the woman:

You can let bygones be bygones, but that doesn’t mean you have to sit there and pretend to be any kind of happy for two people who wronged you so personally. Let it go for your own personal mental health and in your own time, but sounds like your sister chose to not have a relationship with you when she decided to pursue this man. If you weren’t related to the bride, would there be this push for reconciliation? Probably not. Don’t know why people rug sweep terrible things because “faaamily”

Some are saying she should forgive them if only for her own personal happiness.

IridianRaingem says holding a grudge isn't great — not to mention, the sister might need her in the future if this cheater cheats again.

I wouldn’t go either. You should forgive them for yourself though. It’s not approving of what they did, but letting the anger go for your own peace of mind. You can forgive without condoning. You can forgive without being friends. You don’t have to play happy family, but you should focus on your own happiness.

Remember this: He cheated on you with your sister. What makes her think he’s such a loyal catch? A cheater is a cheater. It’s almost a guarantee he will cheat on her if he hasn’t already. That relationship likely won’t last.

And casinoLF agreed that there might be a time in the future when the two sisters come back together, but it's okay for her to skip the wedding right now:

There's going to come a time when you have to deal with them both, and their offspring, probably. But you don't have to let that time be right effing now, and you don't have to be a super involved aunt to this child.

EHondaRousey put it most succinctly:

Tell her you'll just catch the divorce hahaha

Kylie Jenner's fans criticize her 'tone deaf' posts during the Australian fires.

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Kylie Jenner isn't exactly known for her philanthropic influence.

As most of you know, Jenner is the youngest "self made" billionaire, a title that is pretty hilarious as her fame came from the fact that her half sisters' dad kept OJ Simpson out of jail (very charitable!) and then one of those sisters made a sex tape and now they have a reality show that she, and her (fake) lips, nose, hips and butt got to grow up on. Cool! (Not to say her success isn't impressive--of course she could've just laid back and lived on Instagram sponsored posts and her family's fortune, but it was dramatically easier for her to become a billionaire than it would be for any other young woman starting a makeup business.)

Now, in light of the recent wildfires that are devastating Australia and burning much of their wildlife alive, Kylie made a particularly tone deaf choice on Instagram. It's one thing to ignore the tragedy and continue posting photos of your glamorous life, it's another thing to post this:

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night out..💛

A post shared by Kylie ✨ (@kyliejenner) on

The original caption, with Kylie posed in front of a fire, was:

"Find your fire?" NO KYLIE NO. The fires have been found and they're really bad!

To make matters worse, she had her company comment with MORE FIRE EMOJIS.

She later edited the caption and deleted the comments accusing her of being insensitive.

However, it got worse...

Kylie wanted to help (yay!) and posted a story that she was heartbroken to learn so many animals have died in Australia.

Ok, great step! It's still different from a donation that encourages others to donate, but it's better than a thirst trap celebrating fire...

Unfortunately, that story was immediately followed by this:

Apparently Kylie is unaware that mink fur comes from animals who are slaughtered for the production of her slippers? Why Kylie, Why?

Needless to say, people noticed:

She was also...posting photos on Snapchat of a toy animal in front of a fire?

Kylie...a donation would be a perfect apology! Better luck next time, Kylie's social media marketing team!

15 people share the obvious things they learned embarrassingly late in life.

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If you didn't know the sinister meaning behind "This Little Piggy's" trip to the market, you are not alone.

People are sharing the facts that they only recently learned that in retrospect, seem extremely, very obvious. It's possible to go through life without knowing the strategy behind the aesthetics of raincoats, but you'll be better with this knowledge.

These are the things that made people say, "I was today years old when I learned this."

1. Phase3isProfit learned something new about finance.

I was playing Monopoly, and someone owned a load of properties all clustered together. I said “you’ve got a bit of a monopoly on that part of the board. Hey that’s funny, because we’re playing Monopoly, and you got a... oh I see now.”


2. Mamma mia, here janny124 goes again.

I always found it funny how Abba songs fit the movie Mamma Mia so well ... it took me years to figure out the movie was made around the songs.


3. Valiantlycaustic went wee wee wee all the way home.

That the piggy in “This Little Piggy” didn’t go to the market to go shopping... I’m still horrified


4. AvoidAtAIICosts explains a lot.

That raincoats typically have bright colours so you're easier to spot during heavy rain, not because raincoat designers have bad taste


5. A screensaver...saves...screens? Thank you, 4e696b.

That a screensaver has a purpose and it literally saves your screen from an image being burned into it. I'm 37.


6. weakenedstrain is the hero Gotham needs right now.

42 here. In the song “Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid and egg...” I never knew why Robin would lay and egg. It seemed so random and weird to me. Just this winter, walking down a hallway at work, it finally clicked into place: Robins are birds. Birds lay eggs.

Yep. Sharp tack over here.


7. earthtojeremiah learned this important fact about the most important meal of the day.

Breakfast is named so because you're breaking the fast from when you were sleeping.


8. Only when it works, catsrmurderers.

Tinder app is named so because it helps spark a connection with a Match.


9. A meaty one from shentoza.

As a non native English speaker. I just recently found out why ground beef is called ground beef. I was always like "yeah maybe it's the foundation of beef, so it's the ground", like the basis. But only recently I realized it's the past tense of "to grind" something. Now that makes sense!


10. L'chaim, bipolaroid.

The phrase 'bottoms up' (used like 'cheers' when you're making a toast and having a drink) is used because you're putting the bottom of your glass up in the air... Never put that together in my head until this weekend...


11. MrCoolizade picked a pack of pickled cucumbers.

Pickles are just pickled cucumbers.


12. Language is beautiful, yoghurtmeisje.

That a desktop sits on your desk and a laptop sits on your lap.


13. WorldBiker has earned their partridge in a pear tree.

That the 12 days of Christmas are from 25 December (birth of Jesus, Gregorian calendar) to the 6 January (when Jesus was baptised by John, who's nameday is 7 Jan). Not that I'm religious but it never occurred to me that there would be a reason for saying the 12 days of Christmas.


14. nevernotmad definitely learned this the hard way.

You don’t make bangs go away by cutting them off. You have to grow the hair long again so it seems like “regular” hair.


15. Did he find this out during Rush Hour? (Sorry, katherinez)

When my son was young and Abba's "Take a Chance on Me" came on, I sang, "Jackie Chan Jackie Chan...". My son sang it too. As an adult, he called me horrified. "MOM. YOU LIED TO ME ALL MY LIFE. I was driving and the Jackie Chan song came on. I turned it up and rolled down the windows and started to chant the song and realized THEY WERE NOT SINGING JACKIE CHAN. MY WHOLE CHILDHOOD WAS A LIE!" I haven't laughed so hard in years. He still hasn't forgiven me.

Man learns woman is only dating him for 'free stuff,' so he leaves her at a restaurant with an expensive bill.

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There are few feelings that top the satisfaction of exacting revenge on someone who used and underestimated you. Sadly, being used and underestimated seems to be one of the many torturous rites of passage in the dating world. Those who make it out with a belief in love and humanity only do so through sheer will, the ability to see things from a larger perspective, and occasional doses of healthy revenge.

The Reddit user redberryberry served up some petty but beautiful revenge on a woman he was seeing who was using him for his money, and nothing else.

In his recent post, OP shared how he asked out a woman he met at a lifeguard certification course.

I’ve really liked this girl for a while that I met at a lifeguard certification course, and I talked to her while I was there and we (I thought) ended up hitting it off. We exchanged numbers and social media and all that and we messaged for a few weeks before I asked her out to a movie, which she accepted :)

The two of them went on a few dates that OP thought were going well, until a mutual friend sent him screenshots revealing the woman's true feelings.

We’d been going on casual dates, nothing too serious and we weren’t hanging out at my place or her place even though I’d hinted at the idea, for a few weeks before one of her friends (someone that was also at the lifeguarding course that I met and kept in contact with because he was cool) sends me this screenshot

OP shared that the mutual friend revealed the woman has done this to other dudes as well.

He said he felt bad for me because I was nice and that she does this often to other dudes!

Rather than immediately cutting things off, OP decided to get creative with their final farewell, so he took her to a nice hibachi grill and encouraged her to order everything off the menu.

After seeing this, I asked her to go on a nice date with me to a hibachi grill restaurant. $20-$40 dollar plates and premium desserts are served here. I got the most expensive thing they had and so did she. We both got fancy ice cream and multiple refills on drinks. I complimented her a lot and smiled consistently, before getting up to go to the bathroom and leaving. (I was also her ride)

After they ordered multiple drinks, ice cream, and $20-40 plates, OP excused himself to the bathroom and left the restaurant.

To add to the revenge factor, he was also her ride to the date.

About 45 minutes after I get furious texts from her saying that she had to have her mom come down and pay for it because she didn’t have the money on her and that we were done. I know it’s not a lot and it sucks because I thought she was actually into me but it felt pretty nice leaving her that way

About 45 minutes later OP received a barrage of angry text messages from her asking where he was, and sharing that her mom ended up picking her up and paying since she brought no money.

EDIT: More details in my comments as well as the image that I censored. Didn’t know this would get lots of attention.

After his Reddit post received a lot of support and questions, OP followed up with a long comment clarifying the nature of the relationship, and why he did what he did.

Also, I’ll give some more insight. If she had told me that she was in a bad financial situation or that she was just unable to pay obviously I would understand. But she would often wear pricey clothing and had 2 Chanel bags (just from what I saw while we went to dinners).

OP wrote that he would have felt different if she was in financial straits or honest about her situation, but she often dressed in designer clothing and was mostly responsive when he offered to take her on expensive outings.

She was often not engaged during the actual dates but over text she would be very sweet and attentive before asking if we could go out. She never showed any interest beyond that like coming over or doing something that doesn’t cost money. I asked her if we could take a walk through a park or something similar and she said she couldn’t because she was busy, but anytime it was somewhere that costed money or involved me buying her something she would be eager.

With 20/20 hindsight, OP admits he should have seen the red flags, but it's hard to take in red flags through rose-tinted glasses.

Honestly I should’ve just picked up on these signs but I liked this girl a lot. She was absolutely gorgeous and honestly I couldn’t even think that she would be manipulative at all. I did even ask to split the bill one time because paying used all the cash I had in my wallet, but she said she forgot hers and apologized. Then after the mutual friend sent the screenshot everything came together.

Yes obviously what I did was not morally good and I should’ve just been direct with her or broken it off, but I acted in a moment of spite and hurt. This post wasn’t about doing the right thing or learning anything, I was just getting back at a b*tch who was playing me

Saying all this in one post because I don’t wanna take the time individually answering every question or comment.

billbixbyakahulk applauded OP and shared a similar story.

I did something like this. I was casually dating a woman and paying for everything. I was fine with it as our first couple dates were pretty inexpensive - maybe $50 total for drinks/dinner, but on our 3rd date she suggested double-dating with a friend and her boyfriend. Okay, no problem.

She picked a stupid expensive restaurant - a high end Brazilian steak house, and immediately I got the spidey sense that she told her girlfriend "don't worry, he pays for everything". Went to the ATM and took out $100 and met up with everyone at the restaurant.

I say, "I'm not too hungry, so I'm not going to get the full service, just something basic. I got a caesar salad and two drinks. Each drink was $15 and the salad was $18.

Meanwhile, they went full bore: drinks, meal and dessert.

Bill comes and I motion to the waiter to give it to me. Total bill is around $450. I say aloud, "Okay, two drinks and a salad so mine is $48. Let me help with the tip. I throw down $80, then push the bill across to them.

The look was f*cking priceless.

ellaelle echoed many others by condemning the woman's behavior and applauding OP for standing up for himself.

As a woman and just a person in general, she's awful for leading you on and she completely deserved this. Unfortunately she'll probably try to spin it to make you look bad.

UnequalSloth was impressed by the loyalty of OP's friend who sent the screenshot.

No one is talking about the bro that sent the screenshot. What a good guy!

While OP's move might not have been the most mature "high road" tactic to ending the situationship, it certainly gave the woman a taste of her own medicine she won't soon forget.


13 trans people share how transitioning has changed the way others treat them.

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Gender rules everything around us. From the way people treat us, to the clothes we wear, to the prices we pay for personal hygiene products, there's no denying that the gender binary—though it may be a construct—remains a deeply influential force in most of our lives. And no one is more aware of this than transgender people who transition from the gender assigned to them at birth.

Someone recently asked this question on Reddit: "Trans people who currently pass as their desired gender, how have people treated you differently depending on your perceived gender?" These 16 trans people weigh in on the ways their interactions with others have changed since they transitioned.

The answers reveal a lot about the way society perceives someone differently if they're "male" vs. "female."

1.) From deepwoods_cryptid:

Every once in awhile I’ll have women glance back at me if I walk behind them for a bit. I’ve even had women cross the street to avoid me walking behind them. I’m not even a big dude (5’3).

Otherwise, honestly, I haven’t noticed much difference other than people calling me “chief” or “buddy” more. Then again, I was pretty boyish even pre-transition.

2.) From claudiusbritannicus:

Everyone seems more friendly, but I'm not sure if I am more confident/inviting or if it's because of my perceived gender. I actually think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I'm no longer perceived as gender non-conforming.

When I was perceived as a "tomboy", it was like there was some mistrust coming from girls/women but I wasn't accepted completely by boys/men, either. So I was put in a limbo where I was nothing.

Now that I'm perceived as a normal masculine guy, both men and women are more friendly to me. Men often immediately act like I'm their friend, and women/girls don't openly judge me much anymore, and might actually give me compliments or be kind to me.

3.) From kiepy:

People are more willing to help me - like when I need directions. People take me a lot less seriously, and my words don't have as much weight behind them. Other women talk to me a lot more now, and old men love talking to me in the grocery store.

4.) From GrixisGirl:

I'm more approachable now. Random people ask me for directions, which never happened before. Not once.

People at school wave hi to me, even people I hardly know. Although this may be because I have more connections now.

Male lab partners don't take my advice as seriously.

People are more willing to open up to me, and are more okay with physical contact.

Can't make comparisons about romance since I never dated anyone before my current partner.

5.) From MiddleDate9:

I get smiled at more in public. I've had men literally cross the road when walking towards me, especially at night (which I have seriously appreciated). I also get talked to more condescendingly than when I lived as a man. People don't really take me seriously anymore, I get interrupted frequently, etc. I get catcalled. I get genuinely complimented more (from men and women). Women feel more... natural around me. Like they feel safe around me now.

6.) From Church-of-Nephalus:

I only unfortunately pass on days that I can wear double sports bras and triple layer myself with coats on, but when I do pass, it feels good. People call me Max, my best friend is teaching me about some 'bro code stuff', and it's very nice. He treats me like a brother.

I love it when people call me bro or dude, because it makes me feel happier.

7.) From blendedLemons:

As a man, my words carry more meaning and authority, even if I don't know what I'm talking about. I try to keep that in mind when I am speaking. There is definitely an awkwardness when it comes to talking about mental health or anything personal with other guys. I've been able to help normalize emotions with my male co-workers and they even come to me to talk sometimes. As a man, you are expected to summarize your thoughts into more concise statements. Every raise I've gotten has been as a man. There is less pressure to look good day to day.

8.) From thefairlyeviltwin:

People are mostly friendly, get hit on alot more often. Men treat me like I don't have a single clue about anything mechanical (I'm a professional mechanic). Gets rather annoying, but I've long given up on explaining that I understand what I'm talking about.

9.) From Les_than_3:

I’m always assumed to be someone’s assistant or admin worker instead of the person in charge. I’ve learn to use this to my advantage and see if the guys I work with are gonna answer the questions or clients correctly. Makes me feel like emperor palpatine “dance puppets! Dance!”

10.) From warehousemen:

Women will cross the street if I'm not paying attention and walk too closely (I try to stay a good 15ft behind because I know that they don't know that I'm not a creep and don't want them uncomfortable) or guys will think it's ok to "bro it up" with me and talk about women like they're meat.

My biggest pet peeve is when I get upset about something some guy will tell me to "man up" or stop "acting like a girl" (this is from people that don't know about me) or I'm called dramatic.

Guys can have emotions too!

11.) From WeKnowNoKing:

Depending on the length of my hair, I either pass (as male) or don’t - there’s a fine line between butch lesbian and trans guy. Either way, people seem just calmer in general. I was a tomboy anyway so I hung around with guys but they always seemed a tad on edge with having ‘a girl’ there, even if it was the weird undesirable one. Now it’s much easier to just be treated like other blokes, never realised how much I craved it until it started happening. On the flip side, I’m also physically disabled so when people find out I’m trans too I just become a tumblr blog to them and they just stop caring.

12.) ​​​​​​​From CAWvid333:

Female to male. People talk to me about dicks more. That's the main thing. The thing I HATE though, is when people act extra grateful if I help clean up somewhere or tell me how good of me it is to look after my younger siblings for my father. The fact I never got that before is so sexist.

13.) From karry9001:

  • (Male) service workers flirt with me a lot

  • I get more complements, but 90% of the time they're about my appearance. I probably get fewer complements about non-fashion stuff than I did before

  • People close to me tease me more about not exercising enough/eating unhealthy food

  • I've been catcalled a total of three times, and they were all in the span of 48 hours in Baltimore. What the fuck, Baltimore?

14.) From karry9001:

  • (Male) service workers flirt with me a lot

  • I get more complements, but 90% of the time they're about my appearance. I probably get fewer complements about non-fashion stuff than I did before

  • People close to me tease me more about not exercising enough/eating unhealthy food

  • I've been catcalled a total of three times, and they were all in the span of 48 hours in Baltimore. What the fuck, Baltimore?

15.) From yeet_thedragonborn:

As a female I was referred to as fat, as a male I'm just that chubby dude

16.) From LyricalAxolotl:

Trans Guy, FTM. I have noticed that coworkers and my bosses expect me to talk more than i used to. Like people used to be happy to just talk around me but will now actively ask my opinion on things. I realized i have to be careful of how i act around women when outside alone, i don't realize that they don't know i'm a gay trans guy and i can be kinda scary at night, so i have to actively think about that. people also just walk past you differently on the street, people, men and women will often make room for you even if you don't want them to, at least more than they used to.

Father of 'gifted' son asks if he was wrong to tell his sister her daughter 'isn't special' in front of her.

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Everyone wants to feel special...

While we're mostly beyond the "everyone on the soccer team gets a trophy because we're all unique snowflakes" phase of raising children, we are technically all unique snowflakes! Our differences deserve to be celebrated and it's true that there are no two humans who are exactly alike. That being said, we aren't all "gifted" per se. Sorry, but your kid's finger painting probably isn't going to be a put in a museum. We aren't all human calculators who can see landscapes in geometric proofs and most of us won't sell out arenas at 15.

All parents want what is best for their children and supporting a child's dreams is a great start. Maybe your kid isn't a prodigy or a genius but they can be a genius to you! It can get pretty awkward, though, when parents feel the need to use their children's skills to compete with other parents as some sort of catty competition in who raised the "most impressive" kid. Chances are, if your kid is a prodigy you had very little to do with it.

So, when a recent Reddit user asked a question in the "Am I the As*hole?" section of Reddit about his "gifted" son and his "ordinary" niece, the internet was ready to weigh in...

AITA For telling my sister that her daughter was not special, but instead was ordinary?

Some context is definitely needed here. I'm 33(M), and my sister is 36. She has one child (14F). I have one son (13). It is also important to add that I am a single father - my wife passed when my son was 7.

My son is quite gifted (I do not say this lightly). He tops all of his classes and often wins mathematics competitions in our state. I do not tell my sister this on account of me not wanting to seem like I'm bragging or anything - my son's achievements are his and his alone - I just provide him with the love and affection he is entitled to.

So yesterday, my family had a gathering dinner. At previous gatherings, my sister likes to demonstrate how 'special' and praiseworthy her daughter was for quite ridiculous achievements - such as winning 'best dressed' at her school dance.

This gathering, she really made me mad. Not only did she tell everyone the usual so-called achievements of her daughter, but she also targeted my son in front of him. She said, with the entire family present, that I wish my son was as gifted as her daughter. Her daughter proceeded to join in and call my son, who is quite shy, a loser.

I then told her that her daughter was not special at all and that her achievements were absolutely nothing and meant nothing to anyone except for her. She left the table crying.

I was then called an asshole by those remaining on the table. AITA?

This one is tough. While it was 100% wrong for his sister to shame his son in front of him and directly compare her daughter to her brother's son, he probably didn't also have to make her cry and say her daughter wasn't special. Families are complicated!

"that--kitkat" wrote:

Jesus Christ how old are you? 5? Tell your sister to stop bullying your kid, but don't degrade another kid in the process. You both obviously value different things and that's fine, but neither of you should be taking away from the others kid.

"Winkerman1919" wrote:

The daughter is 14 and she bullied her younger cousin. Bullying is never okay and she got a taste of her medicine. OP should not have stooped to their level, but I feel no sympathy for the daughter. If she were 8 or 9, it’s a different story. At 14, kids have a certain degree of reason and she needs to learn that bullying is unacceptable

"RedditDK2" wrote:

- obviously your sister was TA for belittling your son. However you then turned around and did the same to her daughter, which is just as bad. Instead of knocking down the daughter (your niece) why didn't you just praise your son by telling them about his very real accomplishments?

"XXmillenniumXX" wrote:

You could have stood up for your son without bashing the daughter.

"mllff" wrote:

I get that your niece was a brat but it's clear that she is only 14 and learned that behavior. You all suck for insulting teenagers in front of them.

So there you have it! Looks like everyone was at fault in this situation. Don't insult someone with the exact method you're insulted by--especially when it involves children.

20 people share the wildest things that happened on a 'non-typical' work day.

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The weirdest and most chaotic days at work often make for the best stories down the road. Even the most predictable of jobs can turn into a riveting essay if you deal with a deeply unhinged customer, and a brief disaster can turn the workplace into entertaining mayhem.

While the ideal work day is smooth and easy, the second best thing is a work day full of amusing chaos you can regale your friends with over happy hour drinks.

In a popular thread, the Reddit user nonoriginalname shared a bizarre workplace anecdote, and urged others to chime in with their own "non-typical work day" stories.

Suffice it to say, the internet delivered the goods.

1. OP kicked the thread off festively.

Here is the story. The lady was cruising around in a mart cart filling it will all kinds of glorious snack cakes and the like when she went to reach for some frozen Chinese food. She over reached and fell right on the floor lodging herself between the cart and the freezer door. She couldn't stand up on her own and the three employees helping her couldn't lift her so they went and got a pallet, rolled her up on it and then used the forklift to stand her up and slide her back into the cart. It was really something I was not expecting to do at work today but seeing as how is 'MURICA' it doesn't surprise me.

2. donqiote13 had their day saved by a Pepsi truck driver.

The police gave us a list complete with mugshots of problem drinkers who are not to be served alcohol. My store was about 3 weeks late receiving the list because of an oversight. Being a relatively small town, several of the problem drinkers (mostly vagrants) began to frequent the store during this time as it was the only place still serving them.

We finally get the list and comply to stop serving them alcohol, they are not pleased. So in some twisted sense of logic about 15 of them got high on paint (I assume they were because their faces were covered in gold paint) and storm in the store in an effort to steal/force our hand in serving them.

A coworker of mine attempts to strong arm them out, with little success, so they start grabbing cases and kicking over displays. The Pepsi truck driver is outside at the time and is witnessing all of this, as they are leaving the store. He cracks open a 12 pack and starts tossing Dr. Pepper at the people robbing us. He nailed about four of them and the rest dropped the beer and scattered. He said he used to pitch in HS, and without his intervening we would have lost hundreds of dollars in beer.

TLDR Bums rushed the store; Pepsi driver saves the inventory by knocking several unconscious with cans of Dr. Pepper.

3. Wikiwikiwichita witnessed drunk men literally drive into their building.

A couple of drunk dudes drove their truck into my building, and by into I mean crashed into brick wall and front bumper was actually inside the coffee room. They both decided to run away on foot, but left their wallets and vehicle registration in the truck. The crash was at 1:30 PM, they were arrested by 3 PM.

4. lopo4 got to ride jet skis on the job.

I work at a dock:

After working a 10 hour shift on a busy day my boss informed me that We got a new gas line and had to run the air out of it. This involved pumping 10 gallons out first to get to the air. Instead of filling up gas cans like a normal person, my boss tosses me a ski jacket and tells me to run 10 gallons of gas out of the jet skis.... AWWWWWW YEEEEEAAAAH.

Tldr: I got to ride jet skis for 2 hours on the clock.

5. InferiousX sometimes got paid to chill at a casino.

One of my bosses in Vegas was a gambling addict.

Sometimes he'd have like a breakdown and decide to take me to the casino while he played video poker. So I'd go find a table game to play, or just go get drunk while he did this. He'd always pay me my hourly rate too.

Those were my favorite days.

6. c_is_4_cookie was just glad they could help a single mom.

I tutored physics in grad school to make some extra money. My rate was $10/hour or $15/hour for a 2 person session ($7.50 per person). I got a pretty wide variety of students, some just needed a 1 or 2 sessions to understand a concept, some just wanted help before a test, and a few wanted to meet weekly for the entire semester.

One of my pupils (for lack of a better word) had a weekly Tuesday appointment. One week she called Tuesday morning to ask if she could move our meeting to Wednesday. No problem. She calls Wednesday and asks if she can move to Thursday. Sure, I have another appointment on Thursday so we can make it a double. Thursday comes and she shows up about 45 minutes late.

The other girl I was tutoring finishes up and leaves for class. I turn my attention to the late girl and she has fallen asleep sitting on the couch in my office. I have other work to do anyway so I grab the blanket I keep in my desk drawer for when I had to work late and would sleep in the office and cover her up.

I just sat at my desk and worked on my analysis code. She slept like that for 4 hours without moving. Around 8pm she wakes up with a start and asks what time it is. She starts crying when she realized she had missed her other class. Not just crying, unreasonable amounts of sobbing. Tissues and a few hugs later and she calms down enough to give me the whole story.

She has a son. Her sitter got sick on Tuesday so she couldn't come to our session and she couldn't make it to work after that. She was able to pick up a last minute shift on Wednesday before her regular shift. When she got home Wednesday night she checked on her son and he had a fever. Queue a late night at the hospital. Her mother had driven in to take care of her son since she couldn't bring him to daycare sick.

She had only slept about 2 hours the night before after working a double shift and she was just exhausted from going to school, raising a son, and working 30 hours per week. She had a decent scholarship, but it didn't cover everything and she was just trying to finish up her senior year so she could graduate. She wanted to become a teacher. If she didn't get decent grades this semester she would lose her scholarships and have to drop out next semester, spring semester of her senior year.

By this point the bus to her apartment only runs every hour, so I offer to drive her home. She offers to pay $10 even though we didn't actually do any studying which I flatly refuse. When we arrive at her apartment I offer her the following. We can still meet once per week in my office, but it has to be after 6:00 when the building empties out. She should bring her son so she doesn't need to get a sitter. She doesn't pay me another penny.

She is pretty stunned, but she accepts. She asked why and I told her I had my reasons. We met 11 more times and she brought her son each time. He was shy and liked to color, so I gave him all the paper and markers he could want while he was there. She did pretty well in physics, a solid B if I remember correctly. She kept her scholarship and graduated next semester and I am guessing became a teacher.

TL;DR: went from tutor to babysitter in 4 hours, sort of.

7. dickshapedfood got decked by an elderly patient.

Last night I had a somewhat confused (but mostly crotchety) elderly patient who kept trying to get out of bed. She has all kinds of drains and oxygen through a hi flow nasal canula that is very important for her continued existence. I had her restraints a little loose so she could blow her nose and use the remote.

My back was turned for about 30 secs and I turn around to see that she has removed EVERYTHING and is standing at the edge of the bed about to head for the door. I rush over and get in front of her to avoid any further damage. Then this completely bald, greenish tinged (chemo, poor oxygenation), 4'10", 90 lb lady looks up at me and punches me straight in the stomach.

TL;DR Got punched in the stomach by Yoda.

8. coldsandovercoats dealt with a Target customer who peed as a protest.

We had a serial pisser at Target. Some woman believed that Target hated her and "her people", as she said, and decided that the best way to handle this was to piss in the fitting room of a suburban Wisconsin Target store every Monday evening.

I was the lucky fitting room attendant the third time she did this, and had our LP guy lurking in the department all evening to try to catch someone. She pissed on a bunch of clothing (that I, of course, had to bag up and dispose of... I wore surgical gloves and a surgical mask and plastic bags on my shoes in case of piss) as well as the floor and the walls and the bench.

When she emerged from the room with a smug look on her face, the AP guy apprehended her and called the cops. She was screaming about how Target hated "her people".

9. ScatteredMuse dealt with hangry people who didn't seem to understand power outages.

Well, when I used to work at McDonald's, one day our Ansul system randomly decided to activate over the fryers causing a huge mess. We had to close up the restaurant, trash all the food, and clean everything up. When we reopened a couple hours later, we couldn't make any fries until the system got looked at, so that was interesting.

We posted signs everywhere and had plenty of asses come in all, "Hurr hurr, I want some fries." and "Well, I guess we'll be going to Burger King then!" Yeah, we really don't care, go away.

Power outages were fun too. We closed up and got to see angry people come through the drive-thru and people pounding on the doors despite all the signs we posted. I don't know what's so hard to understand about, "We have no power."

10. izzeyy saw a man fall through a window and walk away unscathed.

I used to work at the local Days Inn. One time, I was walking the yard cleaning up trash and I see this guy fall out of a second story window. I just kinda looked over, and he was falling. At first, I just stared in aww.. then before I could ask if he was okay, he goes.. "Whoops!" and gets up, and shuffles his way back inside. I went to the manager, and we pulled the video up, had a good laugh and then went to talk to the guy.

Turns out, he was just sitting there talking to his wife, and he leaned against the screen and fell through. Everybody was okay, and we all had a good laugh after.

11. Byahhhhh high-fived their friend over an abortion in front of their college tour group.

I was giving a tour to 40 people at my university and my old roommate spots me as I'm talking about a building, interrupts with his hand in the air wanting a high five as he shouts "Kelly got the abortion bro, it was free for me too!" I gave him the high five, he ran for joy. The group looked blank faced at me and I said "he would've been a terrible father."

12. hoku worked with a dishwasher who had Karate Kid skills.

I work as a chef. My dishwasher at this horrible restaurant was this tiny burmese teenager who practices round house kicks all day. One day a large bat flew into the restaurant. People were screaming and freaking out. I handed him a broom and told him to kill it. He walks out into the dining room, watches the bat for a few moments, then out of no where, lunges swiftly swats the bat with the broom, and kills it. No emotion.

Another time a rat got into the kitchen, and we were all trying to kill it. It had so many places to hide. We couldn't find the damn thing. So I went to the same dishwasher, googled 'rat' on my phone, showed him a picture, and told him to kill it. Walked away for a few moments, when I came back into the kitchen he was holding the thing by it's tail- its neck had been snapped. It was as large as a zucchini. He would also catch flies between his thumb and index fingers. For fun. Catch and release style. He was convinced Chinese people ate babies as a gourmet meal. I told him that was a ridiculous stereotype. He also believed that Chinese people at dogs. He was a racist, awesome little dishwashing ninja.

13. Kvothe24's coworker got shot by an angry credit union member.

I do first party collections for a credit union. If someone is avoiding, we will sometimes have an agent go knock on their door and ask them to call us/confirm they live there. Apparently, a members spouse did not know about the past due bill. The door knock agent found the member, asked him to call us, and left. Apparently this caused the wife to get suspicious. She found out her husband wasn't paying his credit card bills and had very large credit card debt, and filed for divorce.

So I come in to work a short time after this, and the member has come into the office and shot our door knock agent in the head.

14. Genghis_John had a fleet of parking enforcement people waiting.

I was working at a gas station in Madison, WI some years ago. April 1st came on a Monday, and around 7ish in the morning, all the little go-carts that the parking enforcement people use for the university came to fill up for the day with their motor pool issued credit cards. Well, all the cards expired the last day of March, and that being a Sunday, I guess no one noticed.

Of course, I wouldn't let anyone leave without paying for the gas they had already pumped, no matter who they worked for. Their supervisor had to come down with fresh credit cards about a half dozen times, and eventually just gave me his personal number to call him back with after a while, since he was tired of getting irate radio calls from the parking cops who were super pissed that I wasn't letting them leave.

I like to think that I kept a straight face the whole time, but keeping the entire parking enforcement fleet waiting on April Fool's Day was a whole lot of fun.

15. itsrattlesnake's work day can look radically different, depending.

Typical: Oil goes down the pipe to storage tanks or a pipeline. Gas goes to a big flare.

Non-Typical: Oil and gas go to flare, creating a billowing rain of fire.

16. internetsanta still doesn't know why those guys bought all those doors.

I used to work as a cashier at a home improvement store, (the one with the big orange box). We once had a group of four guys come in that had obviously been smoking their fair share of weed. They pulled the truck up right next to the door in an area that is supposed to be just temporary parking while loading vehicles and parked there. Three guys came into the store while one stayed in the truck. They guy that stayed in the truck spent the entire time (about a half hour) just staring straight ahead.

The three guys disappeared into the store but after awhile they came back to checkout and all they had with them was 10 doors. As they were checking out one guy asked me if we had any, and I quote "big f*cking bags of peanuts, cause I could eat a whole bag myself right now." They payed for the doors loaded them up and left. I heard from coworkers that they came back the next day and returned all but one of the doors.

17. FapToQuines got in a brawl at Burger King.

(throw away account, just in case.)

Many years ago, I was working the evening shift at a Burger King, sole guy manning the front register. Guy comes in and does a stickup (paper bag around gun, gimmie all your money, now take me to the safe in back...) Big Ed, a co-worker of mine was cleaning the friers out behind me, and heard the verbal go over. (Now, he wasn't called Big Ed because he was fat, or ironically because he was short, no. Big Ed had shoulders you could use to land airplanes on.)

As I go to lead the guy back (hey, training is 'don't fight them, your life isn't worth it.' so I do.) As I pass the corner to turn towards the office, Ed's big hand grabs my shoulder and practically rag-doll throws me behind him. As I hit the floor I see him do the "muscle wizard" I CAST FIST.... wearing the thick rubber "playing with boiling oil" frier gauntlet. Hit him so hard he was unconscious before he slumped to the floor.

18. FryGuy1013 had a deeply uncomfortable moment with a family trying to use the lake.

I don't think I've told this story on reddit before, but here it is. I was around 15 and worked my first job over a weekend taking ticket sales for a college rowing event at the a lake about 30 minutes from my house. Things went pretty easy the first day, with taking people's money and giving them a receipt to park in the parking lot. A few people were upset that they couldn't use the lake and turned around, and a few people were upset that the prices were higher than they were the last time, but I managed.

On the second day though, a beige station wagon pulled up in the line and I told him how much it was for his car to get into the lake. Inside the car was a black man and his family with two kids around 10 years old in the back seat. He said he didn't care about the event and just wanted to go fishing in the lake. I told him that I was sorry, but the lake was closed and he wouldn't be able to fish there today.

He asked if there was any other place he could go fishing. Not being old enough to drive yet, and not living in the area, I didn't really know the area that well, so I couldn't answer his question. I told him to wait and I went to ask the guy in charge. The guy in charge told me the closest place he could go to fish. I asked him if that was right, and he said it was. I walked back to the car, and somewhat sheepishly said "I'm sorry sir, but you're going to have to drive down that road about a mile, and the name of the place is Negro Bar." He kind of looked at me funny, and then drove off.

TLDR: I told a black family they couldn't use the lake, and had to go to Negro Bar instead.

19. mirrislegend helped a clearly coked up man find a gun case.

When I worked at Sharper Image, I had a business man in a suit come in. He was clearly hopped up on coke or speed or some upper. He asked me for a gun safe. Given his state, I had a mega ಠ_ಠ moment, but caught myself before saying anything. I proceeded to help him find the mini safe we had, that would fit a gun. He said it needs to be really secure, so his toddler doesn't get into it...

20. hyperkill's work had a bird visitor.

I was working in a printing company and we used to open up an overhead door to keep the pressroom cool. Well, a bird flew into the pressroom and up into the rafters - it can be a very bad situation to have a bird run through the press. This Mexican guy named Pedro grabs this big broom and touches the bird with it, the bird comes flying straight down and he catches it with his bare hands. Despite the bird pecking away at him, he decides it would make a great pet.

He gets a box, puts the bird into it, then seals the box up by tucking the flaps together. When it's time to go home he puts the bird in the back seat of his car. Pedro and I lived in the same city and took the same route home. I remember driving behind him and then seeing him swerve all over the place all of a sudden. I see his window roll down and then this bird shoots right out of the window as he's driving. The box had opened up because he did not properly seal it and the bird escaped, flying all over inside of his car.

The 22 best elevator videos from celebrities at the Golden Globes afterparty.

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The Golden Globe Awards is Hollywood's biggest party, uniting stars of both film and television to gather and be made incredibly uncomfortable by Ricky Gervais. Stars got hella drunk, and that's just the part that we saw on TV.

After the show is the afterparty, and InStyle Magazine set up a next-level photobooth outside an elevator, inviting stars to bring their own props, or in the case of Snoop Dogg, bring their own blunts.

1. Jessica Alba wants you to believe that she eats pizza.

2. Bryan Greenberg, Sophia Bush, and Daneel Ackels had a One Tree Hill reunion that was almost as good as an OC reunion.


3. Kaitlyn Dever didn't break eye contact.


4. Janet Mock's dress is perfect for the new roaring '20s.


5. Mrs. Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) attempted to light saber duel with her real life husband, Jason Ralph.


6. Salma Hayek has mastered the art of the sensual strut.


7. Naomi Watts got caught in the act—with Naomi Watts.


8. Speaking of The Act: it's Joey King and Patricia Arquette!


9. Rita Wilson, Chet Hanks, Awkwafina, and Lulu Wang make a fascinating foursome.


10. This is the first time that Hailey Bieber has ever seen a cake.


11. Kerry Washington, fighting the good fight.


12. Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart at their most Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart.


13. Here's Laura Dern with her daughter, who isn't named Amabella.


14. Natasha Lyonne and Fred Armisen are the weirdest couple alive.


15. Tiffany Haddish knows how to make an entrance.


16. The Euphoria girls are in a fight.


17. Laverne Cox's train is a clown car.


18. Alyssa Milano took a break from tweeting to chug a beer.


19. Rowan Blanchard 'ships Bughead.


20. American Horror Story: Elevator


21. Sarah Hyland and Wells Adams got Twisted.


22. Princess Leia's daughter Billie Lourd has mastered the royal wave.

Climate science professor responds to man telling her she's wrong about climate change.

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There are still people denying climate change exists, even as the world literally goes up in flames. A recent exchange on Twitter dot com highlights the insanity of people who are continuing to argue with scientific facts proving that climate change both exists and played a huge role in the fires that are currently ravaging Australia.

Professor Katharine Hayhoe is a Climate scientist and the director of the Texas Tech University Climate Science Center who recently tweeted her response to people claiming that the Australian fires were caused by "arson."

Climate scientist Kate Marvel shared the tweet along with her own response to the "it's arson!" argument.

Then a third female climate scientist weighed in, Dr. Jacquelyn Gill, Associate Professor at University of Maine's Climate Change Institute.

Dr. Gill responded to the thread to explain, in clear yet scientific terms, the problem with trying to blame the fires on arson.

Clearly these women know what they're talking about. That didn't stop a man from trying to explain to them all why they're wrong.

Mike Smith, whose Twitter bio describes him as a "Husband, father, grandfather, scientist, entrepreneur and author," jumped in to the conversation to tell the three climate scientists that their views on climate change are "nonsense."

Dr. Gill clearly didn't appreciate the ignorant masplaining and politely shut him down.

Mike then managed to insert his foot even deeper into his mouth by telling Dr. Gill to "spend more time in classrooms."

She then absolutely gutted him with just five words.

The people love a clap-back against an ignorant mansplainer. Dr. Gill's tweet went viral, prompting many to share their admiration via reaction gifs.

In response to the virality of her tweet, Dr. Gill urged people to do what they can to help by sharing a donation link:

The Earth is burning, but at least we have people like Dr. Gill in our corner, trying to save it.

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