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Woman whose high school teacher groomed her asks if she should tell his fiancée.

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A woman who went through something terrible in high school has taken to the internet to ask for advice. Her request has received so much support, it made the front page of Reddit with 2,500 responses and counting.

The woman says she "dated" (a.k.a. was taken advantage of by) her high school teacher. At 26, she's now realizing what he did was wrong — and she's wondering if she should tell the man's fiancée that he's a predator.

The woman says the situation is still a "gray area" for her:

This whole situation is a pretty gray area for me and only now as an adult am I starting to see my high school experience for what it really was, through the eyes of someone who is grown.

Her teacher started "paying extra attention" to her when she was only 14:

When I started out as a freshman in my very very small high school, at 14, one of my teachers started paying extra attention to me. He was 34 at the time, and a lot of girls would giggle around about how hot he was and everyone loved him.

He slowly groomed her until they started spending time alone together and finally kissed:

Pretty early on I had started eating lunch with him in his classroom, just us, because I needed some extra help. We became close and I developed a huge crush on him. One day I mentioned I didn’t have a ride home from cheerleading practice and he offered to come back and pick me up. When he picked me up, he offered to take me to get food and that led to him kissing me for the first time.

He fully took advantage of her and she was too young to consent:

It escalated from there (completely with my “consent” - not that you can consent to an adult at 14, but I did want it) and he took my virginity at 15. We had a full blown relationship, he would wait in his truck after school and I would sneak and leave with him, he would take me to the city and we would go out to fancy dinners.

He even had her come over to his house daily:

I was over at his house almost every day after school and every weekend, he came to every single game to watch me cheer for 3 years straight, when he’d piss me off and we’d get into a fight I’d flirt with boys in class while he was teaching and get him angry, etc. and we completely got away with the whole thing.

Her dad became suspicious after a while, and that's why she ended things:

When I was a junior, my dad saw a look he gave me at a parent-teacher meeting and came to me that night and asked me if he was “being creepy” towards me, and “you’d tell me, right? If he said anything inappropriate towards you?” And at that point, I felt like I must be doing something extremely wrong and I didn’t want to disappoint my dad. So I “broke up” with him and told him I wasn’t seeing or talking to him anymore, and I didn’t even though he begged me for the rest of high school, until I left for college.

Now she's back in her hometown and she ran into him with his new fiancée:

I recently moved back to my home town and ran into him and his fiancée (his age). He introduced me as one of his “best students” and I felt weird the whole time. I’m strongly considering whether or not I should tell his fiancée he pursued a 14 year old student. I know for a fact he didn’t do that to anyone else while we were involved, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t tried to do it since.

He seems to still enjoy a good reputation at school:

I asked my cousin who is in high school if she thought he was creepy, and she was completely shocked I’d even think that, and was like “Mr. ___? No! He’s the best teacher we have”.

I’m confused morally not just about what I did as a teenager, but whether or not someone who is marrying him needs to know about it.

The people of the internet unequivocally agree she did nothing wrong and is the victim here — and many offered her advice for how to proceed.

User istara says the teacher could have been grooming other students, too:

A teacher at my school married a former pupil he had been having an affair with (she was at least older than you and above the age of consent).

She ended up divorcing him a few years later when he had affairs with TWO MORE pupils at a different school he started working at.

They continue:

He ended up in jail - the two students were over the age of consent in the UK, but under 18, which made it a crime since he was in a "position of responsibility".

I think there's every chance this guy will screw other students in future. So yes, tell her.

And ann_isnotmyrelname said maybe if she tells people close to her first, the path forward will be clearer:

I don't know what's right but I understand the confusion. For support, maybe it would be easier to start by telling your parents and having them go with you to the police.. When I was 14-16 I "dated" a man 10 years older. As I've gotten older it just gets more disgusting every year.

InvisibleShadow2U said she should go straight to the authorities:

I’d tell the police, and not go to the fiancée. The last thing you want is to have the authorities suspect your accusation is false and out of jealousy toward his future (for now!) wife. You should avoid any interactions or contact with her.

But nothanksnottelling pointed out why, if she doesn't feel comfortable doing so, that's okay:

For everyone talking about telling the police - I feel all of you should also be forewarning OP of the circus and shit show that is going to follow.

I say this as someone who has been [assaulted].

Reporting this will turn her life upside down and make things very hard for a few years. It's irresponsible to tell her 'oh just report it!' You are all acting as if reporting it is super straightforward and no big deal. Like duh just report it!

They continue:

This will be a very difficult time. OP if you choose to report it, please first surround yourself with trusted friends and allies. Tell them first. Build your support system. Have an idea of how this process will go and be prepared for it. Be prepared for many people to disappoint you, quite bitterly. Be prepared to be strong.

Go with your instincts. If you feel this man is a predator then i hope you report it, but i also hope you take care of yourself.

And as sleepysadd said, as long as she just tells someone, that's a good step:

When I was 12 I had a teacher in middle school who was ‘hot’ and I would hang out with him at lunch and after school. He flirted with me constantly, never made me do assignments, and gave me rides home from school... until the day he was arrested and removed from his job because a former student of his had the courage to say something about what he had done to her. It wasn’t until years later that I realized what he was doing to me. Tell someone.

And just in case anyone wasn't fully on the woman's side, Xyzbah outlined exactly why what the teacher did is wrong:

The reason older men are attracted to that particular age group is the control factor. They can anticipate ur thoughts and emotions the way A high schooler can seem to know everything to a kindergartner. There’s an edge there. An unfair advantage. Imagine a babysitter playing with a 5 year old, acting like they are equals, sharing emotions and secrets. But the power is one-sided.

They continue:

The 30+ man knows things sexually that the 14-17 year old doesnt. He’s good sexually in ways that the younger boys arent. Patient in ways they arent. And has life experience two times over. He saw all his high school girlfriends grow up. He knows their futures, who they were, who they became... it looks like maturity and wisdom but it’s insidious. Because he’s robbing u of a clumsy, comical, slow-paced sexual discovery at that age. It’s what Woody Allen did to Soon-Yi... except with incest.

And finally, PBR_79 points out that she needs to do what's best for herself most of all:

please be selfish, the only person you need to look after in all of this is yourself. Did this impact you and your life? If so go to the police, call a helpline, get help from a counsellor, write out all your memories with dates and details and times - focus on anything that can be verified. Maybe talk to your family - your dad sounds super supportive.

They continue:

Telling the fiancé will most likely just make an enemy for you who could cause problems in the future - maybe resulting in destroyed evidence, retaliatory behaviour, spreading rumours, who knows. Look after yourself first. You do not owe this poor lady anything and there’s no guarantee she’ll believe you.

So there is no textbook way to deal with this situation, but confiding in loved ones first is probably a good idea.


25 Independence Day Memes To Help You Celebrate The 4th of July.

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“It’s Fourth of July weekend, or, as I call it, Exploding Christmas.”

-Stephen Colbert

Happy Independence Day, everybody! Before you eat way too many hot dogs and start blowing stuff up, celebrate your freedom by laughing at these hilarious 4th of July memes.

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23 Memes To Help You Start Your Day Off With A Giggle.

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“There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do.”

—Amy Poehler

Being silly is ok. Laughing in serious situations is ok. Abandoning all of your responsibilities to stay at home and look at memes is ok. This list is funny, wacky, and entertaining as hell. Kick back and get your giggle on with these hilarious memes.

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21 people share the moment they thought, 'This person is on another level of stupid.'

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While it's not nice to call people stupid, sometimes there's just no other word.

A recent Reddit thread asked, "What was your 'This person is on another level of stupid' moment?" While some of the answers are shocking, we're sure the people in question are all smart in their own way...

1. It would be cool if this were true.

Back when the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster happened we were discussing how the reactor had failed in a science class. 5 minutes into the conversation a girl piped up and said "I don't see what the big deal is. Why can't we just regrow it?"

She dead ass thought a nuclear power plant was... A plant - BroomStickLegend

2. This lady had to know what she was doing.

This was my first experience in retail where I learned what many customers would be like.

Seasons were changing, so we put a lot of shirts we had to get rid of in the front and made them 50% off. I was working the register when a woman came up to buy her things. I rang her up and could see a look on her face like something was wrong. That’s when the following happened.

Lady: “Why is this so much.”

Me: “Pardon me?”

Lady: “This should only be $10 not $20.”

I thought that maybe her item was on sale, so I asked if she could point out the sign because I wasn’t aware of it. It was a small store and we didn't have to walk anywhere.

Lady: “This sign here.”

Me: “This sign says that all shirts are 50% off.”

Lady: “Yes, so why is this full price.”

Me: “This is a hat.” - AstaticDynamic

3. Stupid AND dangerous!

The time I watched someone who had missed their exit on the highway stop on the shoulder, back up, turn around, and go up the entrance ramp. I could not f****** believe it. - snickerdoodle__

4. Well, it's not like there are big animal beds sitting out in the open.

I work for Parks Canada in Yoho National Park. I have been asked the question (seriously), “Where do you keep the animals at night?” twice in my career. To this day I still find great joy imagining what they thought was going on each night as we “collected” every large animal in the Parks. - nakednfamous_

5. Confusing.

I had to explain to a woman that apples did not contain any gluten, meat, or dairy ingredients. How can one think apples contain dairy? She thought gluten was found in every major grain, and that apples were a grain because they have seeds. - Dangers_Squid

6. Wow.

I work retail. Had a customer a few weeks back pull her mask down to cough into the open air and then pull it back up. Really makes you wonder why there are people like this in the world. - maelstromaic

7. This is a good one to whip out when you want to get out of yard work.

“I can’t use this I’m left handed”

It was a shovel and I was the idiot that thought a left handed shovel existed. - frankenstein_73

8. Interesting approach to allergies.

My friend is allergic to walnuts. One day, he made this sandwich in our college dorm. It had walnuts garnished on top of the bread. i then remember him telling me “oh look there’s walnuts on here” and proceeds to eat the entire sandwich. (At the time I didn’t know he was allergic). I leave to shower and when I come back there are two paramedics in our dorm taking him out on a stretcher.

The following day I asked what happened to which he replies something along the line “I accidentally ate some walnuts which I’m allergic to, and by the time I went to get a Benadryl, my throat had started to close and I couldn’t swallow it so I had to call 911”. I was just utterly shocked how he even let this entire situation happen. I really couldn’t believe it. College days, am I right? - breathelikeatree

9. This does sound like it could be true.

Someone in my history class argued that Mussolini was a type of pasta - aeon318

10. Okay but also what is a meat desk?

I worked at a meat desk for a summer job, and a woman came in and asked if we had any meat without spices or sauces. She then proceeded to tell us that "the doctor" had said that her dogs got sick because she kept feeding them pizza and they couldn't handle the spices. She then said "oh but they love pizza so much, I feel bad for them. I'm probably still gonna feed them pizza" - mythirdpersonality

11. Hey, they're not wrong.

Not me but a friend worked in a call center for a CC company in the disputes department. The number one item people called to say they never purchased....’Interest Charge’. - friedmators

12. That is a cute one.

Me (when I was a kid). I had a real old transistor radio, asked my parents for a newer radio, so I could receive and listen to newer music. - Mear

13. She sounds like a real visionary.

I had to explain to a girl why you couldnt grow your hair down in front of your face and just cut out eye holes. Even explaining it her she couldnt grasp it and brushed me off as being "too smart." - Beef_Jumps

14. Wow!

Ex flatmate cancelled the gas and electricity contract because it was too expensive. Wondered why we had no more electricity nor gas. She thought we paid 90€ a month to get a hotline 24/7 in case of problem. - saoirse_eli

15. How many breasts did she think they had?

I worked at a restaurant and we had a dish that was just a whole grilled chicken, chopped into pieces. A woman who ordered for delivery called us, absolutely scathing, complaining that her order of one whole chicken only contained TWO chicken breasts. Had to explain to grown ass woman that chicken only have two breasts. - eeveion

16. Getting hit in the head isn't contagious, last time I checked.

I got a concussion a while back. A friend of mine told me not to come close because it might be contagious. They weren't kidding. - dwight12345

17. So many questions about this.

I worked at a pet store in college. This customer asked me which food would make his pit bull “swole.” I suggested a high protein food with a good amount of exercise but advised that a lot of it was determined by the dog’s genetics. He asked me if we sold genetics. - kolbyrdenham

18. It is pretty high-level stuff.

Once in middle school, I simply could not get the concept of the phrase "The day after tomorrow" through to a kid.

He couldn't wrap his mind around it. - HesherPiney

19. How recent???

I teach high school English. I was working with a small 9th grade group and found out all four of them thought Alaska was an island. They were not kidding.

I grabbed a globe to show them. One asks, "but how recent is that map?"

I laughed really hard but discovered, again, that it was not a joke. - bmerrick266

20. Yikes.

Rescued a coworker on the side of the road with a flat tire, waiting for the tow truck, I pointed out the nail at the top of their tire. They scoffed and looked at me like I was the stupidest person in the world and exclaimed

that’s not true bc it’s flat at the bottom

I just walked away and never brought it up again - Alicracker

21. First of all, what kind of monster hates potatoes?

The time a friend told me how much he hates potatoes....while eating French fries and I literally blew his mind by telling him French fries are potatoes.. - Royblott

Farmer asks if it's wrong to only hire male farm workers.

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Gender equality in the workplace is important — and one farmer is wondering if she's in the wrong by mostly hiring men to work on her farm.

A woman who owns a farm asked for advice after she was accused of sexism when she hired a man over a woman to work for her. "[Am I the a-hole] for only hiring men?" her post begins.

The woman uses the farm as an informal animal rescue:

About ten years back, I(32f) inherited my grandpa’s farm. About 8 years ago my mom got sick, so I moved into my inherited house to be closer to her. I got a great job locally, and I’ve lived here ever since. In my free time, I rescue animals and take them in. On my land I have, two cows, one horse, one donkey, a flock of chickens, pigs, cats, and dogs.

She hires assistants to help feed teh animals:

I have a VERY demanding job, so sometimes I don’t always have the time to feed them. Obviously I can’t let them starve, so I hire assistants to help with them. It’s a physically demanding job, and not everyone can do it.

She usually hires college kids:

I live near a college town, so a lot of kids come to interview. Most of them think it’s easy cash, just feeding animals and such, but they have to carry that food across to the paddocks everyday. I have a couple requirements for the job. Like no allergies, you’ve got to be strong, fast, and good with animals.

A girl and a boy applied, but the girl was "petite" and the boy was "huge":

So the other day, I got these two kids come in. A girl and boy. The girl was very nice, but she was short and petite. Not the type I was looking for to haul hay across my farm. The boy however, was huge. I asked both of them to try and pick up one of my pigs. Boy could do it, girl could not.

She hired the boy, and the girl was angry:

I hired the boy but not the girl. Next thing I know she’s screaming at me about how I’m sexist and that the only reason I didn’t hire her was because she’s a girl. Truth is, I don’t hire many girls. I don’t usually get any that come in. I do have one of my staff though.

She specified that she would've hired the girl if the girl had been able to lift a pig:

I told her that she just didn’t fit the requirements and she started crying and left. I know she wasn’t a good fit, but she just seemed so upset.

[Am I the a-hole]?

(If he couldn’t lift it, and she could, i would hire her instead. And yes they will need to be able to pick up the pigs. Or at least drag their stubborn asses into their pen)

The people of Reddit agree that she didn't really do anything wrong.

User 2_3_61 said it's totally fine:

As long as you're hiring because of skill and not gender, you're looking out for the well-being of the workers and the farm.

BaBePaBe said the farmer's language is misleading:

[You're not the a-hole] because you aren't "only hiring men", you're hiring people who are qualified for the job. You mentioned that you have a girl on your staff and so she is obviously qualified for the job she does. The most recent girl wasn't qualified...it had nothing to do with her being a girl.

The farmer also responded to a comment to add:

I’ve gotten plenty of guys come in and get all pissy because they couldn’t lift the pig and I didn’t hire them.

FuuHouhouji said the farmer should give concrete physical requirements for the job to avoid accusations of sexism in the future, not to mention save people some time:

you really should put on you add that the job requires to be able to carry a certain weight and walking at least x distance daily. There are a lot of women that are good at farm work so sex shouldnt be a requirement, but if you need some physical atributtes you should be forward about it.

Anyway, hope the woman is able to find another job!

27 of the funniest responses to 'if 2020 was an alcoholic drink, what would it be?'

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Let's just say 2020 is not..."going great."

Remember last winter when everyone vowed on their New Year's Eve party Instagram captions that 2020 was going to be "their year" because it's such a lovely, even, symmetrical number? Well yikes, looks like those "hindsight is 2020" glitter glasses and plastic champagne glasses were a little too real. It's probably safe to say 2020 isn't anyone's "year." It's not even the planet Earth's "year." (Except maybe it'll be Kanye West's if he becomes president)? Surprisingly, Kanye West running for president is definitely not the wildest thing to happen so far this year by any measure.

If 2020 was a food it would definitely be cheese that you have to cut the mold off of and then just go right back to eating. If 2020 was an outfit it would be a sleeveless turtleneck sweater that causes you neck to sweat and your arms to be cold. So, when Twitter user @starmagicsoul asked the internet what 2020 would be if it was an alcoholic drink, people were definitely ready to roast this blazing, wet dumpster fire of a year. Cheers!

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15 funny pregnancy announcements from couples having 'quarantine babies.'

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For everybody, quarantine has been all about Netflix, and for some lucky couples, it's been about Netflix and chill. A few months from now, a generation of "Corona Babies" will be born, and their clever parents are announcing their upcoming arrival with "protection" puns and social distancing jokes.

If your quarantine baking also includes a bun in the oven, here's some inspiration for how to share the great news.

Congratulations to these happy couples who officially have something to look forward to!

1. The adorable face of a big brother who doesn't know what he's in for.

2. It's not a faux pas if Mom and Dad are in the same household.

3. Well played, couple.

4. Fail or win?

5. Hulk smashed.

6. Roll with it.

7. Pregnancy Belly for Her, Quarantine Food Belly for Him.

8. Oops!

9. Glad she found someone, I mean something, to do.

10. Come for the joke, stay for the bow.

11. The proof is in the pajamas.

12. Quite the name game.

13. Quarantino is coming.

14. Stay positive.

15. The movie event of the year.

20 funny tweets that sum up what it's like to have siblings.

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Siblings are the absolute best and the absolute worst. Growing up with siblings is a crash course in the contradictions and nuance of relationships, as they are simultaneously your enemies and closest friends. A sibling has the special power to make you scream in anger in a matter of seconds, while also owning your loyalty if anything real was to go down.

Whether you're close to your sibling(s), or you keep them at a safe distance, hopefully these tweets about the contradictions of sibling relationships will make you laugh.

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21 funny tweets from women surviving this weird summer.

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Sun's out, masks out.

Summer 2020 is a summer unlike any other, or at least it should be if you take public health seriously and are listening to doctors. Women are making lemons out of lemonade one hilarious tweet at a time.

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People were tweeting things they'll miss about lockdown until others reminded them it's not over.

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In most parts of the United States we're approaching 3 months of quarantine with a gradual reopening of businesses as long as they follow a strict set of safety guidelines.

Still, just because some places are open for business doesn't necessarily mean you "should" go to them. Bars in many parts of the United States have reopened for outdoor seating, with many people crowding the sidewalks and streets without masks while bar staff takes their orders in gloves and masks. The image is definitely a strange contrast--if masks are to protect others, do servers and bartenders not deserve protection to? But, then how do you drink a beer with a mask on and don't businesses that have been closed for months need financial support? Perhaps, though, drinking with our friends is a privilege we should wait until after we have a vaccine to enjoy? The debate about how to handle the phases of reopening is definitely very heated on Twitter, Zoom meetings, and socially distanced outdoor gatherings.

So, when #ThingsIWillMissAboutLockdown started trending, plenty of people joined in to fondly look back on the fun parts of their three months of following the rules and staying home, baking banana bread, doing puzzles, or spending time with their dogs AKA "co-workers"--until others had to remind them that Coronavirus is very much still a problem...

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Of course, some people were quick to remind people that just because businesses are gradually reopening doesn't necessarily mean the lockdown is "over," especially because without a vaccine, the virus is still very much a threat.

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20 people who have worked on reality shows share behind-the-scenes secrets.

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We all know reality TV isn't actually real, but how fake is it exactly? The answer varies widely, depending on the show and the cast for that go around.

And while cast members have the 411 for their stints on screen, people working behind-the-scenes have a long-term view of how these shows work, and all of the drama - both organic and scripted.

In a popular Reddit thread, people who have worked on reality shows shared what it's like behind-the-scenes.

1. From trexrocks:

In the very first episode of Top Chef they ever filmed, Tom Colicchio flipped out because the dishes the contestants had cooked were getting cold while the film crew took "food porn" shots of them.

From then on, all the contestants have to prepare two dishes. One for the judges to sample, and one for the cameras to pan over and show the audience.

2. From slowjoman:

Producers speaking to contestants off screen telling them the type of performance they expect.

3. From directinLA:

One of the first production jobs I took was on a reality show TV Pilot called, "Life Begins at 40". It was a show that followed the lives of a couple who put their dreams on hold for their kids, and the show helped them pick up where they left off after the kids left the nest. Really sweet idea, as the husband wanted to run a car garage and the wife wanted to own a bed and breakfast. There were a few things that come to mind of how contrived shows are:

During segments where the couple were talking, the "director" of the show was behind the camera guiding them through the conversation. They arrived at the house they were staying at, and the husband noticed the wife over packed. The director, off camera, would tell the husband, "Wouldn't you say your wife packs too much?" to which the husband replied, "Yeah, Honey, you packed way too much!" The director then said, "Wouldn't you say that she packed up your entire closet?" "Yeah, yeah, sweetie, did you pack the entire closet or something?"

During another segment, the husband sends the wife on a mission to go buy an auto part for the garage he is working with. The producer was going to send me to basically pre-plant the part she needed, that way she wouldn't have to pay for it. Turns out the segment was scrapped because she asked so many questions to the husband she knew exactly what she was supposed to get (as opposed to the "drama" that would unfold when she was supposed to call the husband about the part at the store).

The couple didn't know, but they were going to another state for the second part of the show. I created their plane tickets (they would get real ones when they got to the airport). So, over dinner, when their bill arrived, they opened it to find the plane tickets. I had a little fun with them the night before when they asked me if I would be with them for the entire production. I responded, "I'll be with you the entire time you're in Florida", which was true since they were only there for one more day. After the reveal, they realized what I did when I was driving them home and we had a nice laugh.

Those are the only stories that come to mind (that was nearly ten years ago!) It was a lot of fun, and everyone was really awesome. Definitely had more of an "Extreme Makeover" vibe rather than the catty, angry and drama-filled reality shows.

4. From 50dkpMinus:

A close friend of mine worked in casting for several shows. Most notably: Pawn Stars. She told me one night while we were drinking that around 90% of the time the people bringing items into the shop were NOT the true owners. They would scour the internet for people selling interesting things and then hit them up to see if they wanted to bring it on the show. If the true owners were total duds and not suitable for camera work, they would pay them a few bucks to take the item and have a trained actor bring it to the pawn shop for the purposes of the show.

She also said that Adam Richmond, the guy from Man Vs. Food, got so sick and out of shape from all the crap he ate all the time that he could no longer be insured. They had to change the format of the show so that he would coach people in eating competitions, as opposed to doing it himself.

5. From Ghalian:

I worked as a fake contestant on a game show, it was my job to screw up various contestants as much as I could.

Before each episode shoot, they would tell me challenges and ask me to practice being terrible at it. Finally being good at being terrible paid off.

6. From ThisIsABadUsername1:

MTV did a reality special on my hometown in the early 1990s, profiling it as "the worst place in the world to spend spring break." They came for two weeks with a comedian host and made fun of us constantly. For one episode they wanted to showcase the town's music scene, so they got a dozen 3rd graders to play Hot Cross Buns on recorders. I was one of those 3rd graders. The comedian came in the day of and was super serious.

He told us this was our big break and would be broadcast to a million people. Naturally, we responded by taking it VERY seriously and felt that we were representing our town. When the cameras started rolling, it was obvious that it was total bullshit. The comedian kept jumping up and down behind the cameras shouting "POOPY LIGHTBULB" to make us laugh. Then he gave us fake Ray Bans and t-shirts.

7. From WiscoSound:

I'm a Production Sound Mixer based in LA and I frequently find myself on reality gigs. The pay is pretty good but the days are very long. Minimum work day will be 12 hours (the most I have done is 20 hours in a single day) with the only real break being a half hour to an hour lunch. This is pretty typical for most LA based productions.

So what do our days consist of? Well, yesterday I started a new reality ENG style doc for a major network which pretty much fits the typical "reality shoot" mold. Usually a day or two day before picture is up, the crew will receive a call sheet. The call sheet has a list of the cast, crew and shot list along with other details about that particular production day. The shot list details which talent will be in each scene along with details of when and where the scene will take place...AND what we are there to shoot in each scene.

Every scene is shot under the guidance of the director and producers and not unlike scripted episodics or features, the scenes are shot multiple times. This means that when you actually watch something happen in reality television, not only was that scene and the actions/conversations within planned days before, you're likely watching the forth or fifth time that "real" event actually happened. Very rarely can any of these untrained actors nail a scene on the first take. If there's time to shoot another take, you can bet your a*s the director is going to call for it.

Have you ever been watching a reality show and after a cut from one angle to another you think, "well, gosh... Shouldn't a camera guy be standing right there? The previous angle just one second before that cut was from the exact direction I'm now looking directly in!" Well, that's because that's from another take after the crew has repositioned to run the scene again for coverage.

Next would be the audio element...my world. Ever been watching the new hit reality show "Hardcore Midget Pawn" and out of nowhere an angry customer bust in the store screaming and yelling with sound as crisp as can be and in perfect frame from multiple angles? Well, that was 100% planned. Before that, a tech like myself would have placed a lav mic and transmitter pack on the angry customer's person, tested levels and RF reception while still having a little time to make any adjustments as the camera department established the action of the scene, the lighting, camera lens selection and all that jazz. So buy the time that angry customer bursts in the door, we have already prepared everything, have slated the take and called "ACTION!" And now await their surprise visit which we will shoot numerous times.

Funny story...just a few months ago I was on a BIG reality show where we shot a fight between two ladies about an argument they had not had yet. The argument they were fighting about had not yet been shot and was scheduled for a completely different day later that week. So there we are shooting two grown adults going at it over sh*t they haven't even said yet.

Ahhhh, show business!

8. From Slytherin4Lyfe:

Believe me or not, I have no actual proof but a friend of mine's uncle is a barber in Jersey who during the first season of Jersey shore did Mike's haircuts and I think also Vinny. He said they had a script that basically said stuff like 'get drunk--flirt with girl (insert name) is dancing with---start fight---gossip about soso' etc etc.

I wouldn't be surprised if more shows had loose scripts like that. Not exact lines and such but plot lines they want you to do to/with unsuspecting people.

9. From Poogmaster1999:

A friend told me that one of those reality tow truck shows tried to hire him to play a crazy customer. The staged shot was that the crew was going to try and take "his" rusty pickup truck from his lawn, but he was supposed to come at them in just a wife beater with two sawed off shotguns. I believe that a big black woman on the crew was supposed to run at him and knock him out with a wrench, but I can't remember the exact details. Even though I think he turned them down, it goes to show how much of "reality" shows are staged for those who didn't know it before.

10. From DrunkenPieRat:

I just recently talked with a guy on a cooking show. He said a lot of what you saw is what went on.

They did do some editing here and there. They did make it look like they just got there food in the morning, but if anyone needed more time to cook they could get it the night before.

He said several of the people he competed against were just like how you see them on TV, but there were plenty of "characters" who were edited for TV but were actually doing really amazing things that never get mentioned.

No real dirt on anything but it was really interesting to listen to all the details behind the scenes.

11. From iamelnin0:

My old boss had a reality show. While I wouldn't necessarily call it scripted, many scenes were staged to some extent and they would often film multiple takes. There were also a lot more "friends" and celebrities (office was in LA) stopping by on the days they were filming.

12. From Martlar:

So I used to have these two American co-workers. One of them was signed with an extras agency and would occasionally get small roles in films and TV.

One day I hear the extra telling the other guy about a London club which for the opening night had an open bar after a £20 entry fee. They decide to go and the other guy says "hey why don't you come Martlar?" So I agree to go to this club.

The extra finds me later to say it's actually part of a show here called The Real Hustle that shows how cons are pulled off. His agency has asked him to invite people who wouldn't recognize the presenters and spoil the con. So I go along with it knowing I'd get my £20 back at the end of the night.

Afterwards the producers took us to a bar and bought us all a drink. Talking to the other people there, about two thirds of the people "conned" were in on it.

My TV moment!

13. From formernowlater:

Former reality TV producer here, chiming in but probably buried at the bottom. There are tons of different types of reality shows. There are celebreality shows that pick a person and follow them around or follow the wackiness of a store/workplace/group of teenagers (Kardashians, Real Housewives of Anywhere, Anonymous Pawn Shop etc.) These shows generally fall in the lightly scripted to very scripted category. Most early seasons of a show are lightly scripted, with the scripting getting tighter as more seasons are produced to accommodate production schedules and create story lines.

Some shows try to be more "real" by taking events that will be happening over the next 6 months of a persons life and then setting them up so they all take place over the next 3 weeks of filming the season. It's stuff that would really happen, they just make it all happen at an accelerated pace. Keep in mind when you watch a 3 month season of the Kardashians, all that stuff happens ever the course of 3-5 weeks. It's too expensive to hire crews and equipment to be on standby to just film whenever something happens in the person's life.

Competition reality shows (like Survivor, Amazing Race, Big Brother, etc) are not scripted at all. They used to ask contestants to re-live the argument they just had for a better camera angle, but most shows got away from that. Now they have "Story Producers" (watch the credits, that's an actual title) whose job is to follow everything that is going on. They then create the story in two ways. First they conduct interviews to let the contestant talk about an incident in their own words, and focus more on the story they want to tell. Secondly, they create the story in post production. How? They actually have transcripts of every word that was said on tape. They then string together the live and interview sentences to make new ones. Occasionally they have to take two different sentences and cut them together.

This is called a Frankenbite. If you have a good ear you can listen to when the tone/pitch of a persons voice changes mid sentence. On some shows where the sound editing isn't that good, it becomes really obvious. Those are the main differences in scripting. Some other stuff...on cooking shows that involve "everyday" cooks and not necessarily famous or professional chefs, there are usually puke buckets close to the judges to spit food out. Also cooking shows that give a challenge and they say "Go!" actually take a 5-10 minute break to give the chefs time to plan their meal and reset cameras.

Then they put everyone back in a line and have they start again. On competition shows people online talk about how the producers wanted a certain contestant to win. There are very strict rules in the U.S. regarding competition shows that are played for money. All shows have to run their challenges through a legal department, and a lot of them have a legal rep on set when filming. Fixing a competition or game show is ground for jail time, and from what I've seen, fairness is taken very seriously by the producers that create the challenges. That's all I can think of for now. I produced reality shows for 6 years (and worked on a few scripted shows starting out), so ask some questions if you want.

14. From saharathug:

A few years ago my parents owned a restaurant where an episode of an MTV "reality series" was filmed. It was totally staged and MTV gave them details about what would go down in advance.

15. From Not_Really_A_Name:

I wasn't actually on a reality show but I almost was. We had to sign paperwork agreeing to "re-film" scenes that didn't look good the first time or things the camera didn't catch. We also had to agree that our words could be edited however they wanted (so they could basically take things out of context/manipulate the way we came across). Dropped out at the last minute though, so I guess I'll never know what it would have been like to be on TV.

16. From sassafras1497:

Alcohol consumption. Talent gets plastered, producers get results.

All special events, trips, etc. are planned and paid for by the production. During those moments, there's incredible pressure on everyone to deliver good material.

The crew is overworked and underpaid. I clocked on average 100hrs a week. On one show, I worked over 30 days straight without a day off (I was on a weekly contract, not hourly, so they could get away with it).

A genuine, unaltered moment in the final cut of an episode is as rare as a unicorn. (It doesn't exist).

17. From ragingduck:

I've worked in TV and film for a decade. Here are some I can mention:

Remember that show MTV Cribs? Most of the rappers houses were rented specifically for the shoot. Actors and sports stars were their real houses for the most part.

Gordon Ramsey is actually a pretty nice guy. The Hells Kitchen restaurant is a set in a soundstage. The customers are usually friends and invited guests of the show and its crew.

Most reality shows are scripted to an extent, and the cast is usually coached to say certain things during a those interview style shots to help tell or shape a story. They are cut together and manipulated as needed to tell different stories. Most of the time they are talking about something totally different than what is happening on screen.

Most reality stars don't "decide to part ways" with the show. The money is too easy. 75% of the time there were asked to leave or not return. It's easier on everyone if we never say "fired" unless you are Donald Trump.

MTV was illegally using music for years and years for all of its shows. MTV was a major source of exposure in the 80's and 90's for music, so they took advantage of their position and illegally used copywrited music in all of their TV shows, especially reality shows without permission or compensation to the publishing and sync rights holders. They were eventually sued by all the major record companies in the late 90's/early 2000s when they ceased to be the music player they once were and had to cease use of copywrited songs. Cheaper reality shows had to resort to library songs while the bigger shows had to pony up licensing fees for major artists.

Award shows like the MTV movie awards, Kids Choice awards, etc were merely created as cheap ways to get big names and big ratings. Artists are not compensated for showing up at these events and look bad for not showing up to accept the made-up award. Easy money.

I've never worked on Dr Phil, but he is a giant douche to everyone especially his crew. Needlessly and entirely for his own ego.

18. From cuminspicedlife:

I worked on a stunt/challenge game show earlier this year. Game play was very, very real. There are hundreds of people working their asses off to make sure everything goes off without a hitch the first time. It's actually unbelievably impressive especially considering the high stakes and threat of danger with the types of stunts we pulled off.

That being said, pretty much every time you get a close up of the host talking to contestants or excitedly commenting on a stunt that's going down, he's talking to a group of unenthused PAs or staring at an empty obstacle course.

Not as juicy as some of these, but it always made me laugh.

19. From TACObracommander:

My friend was on that old show "Taildaters" on MTV way back when (a guy would go on a blind date with a girl, and his best friend would be spying on them from a monitor and I believe was able to occasionally page them. Yes, with a pager).

In his episode, the date was going really well = boring. My friend told me that the producers pulled him aside and smoked him out and gave him some liquor - which led him to act weird and eventually get a glass of water thrown at him by his date. Now, I took this as BS and thought it was a way for my friend to spread an anecdote of how MTV smoked him out, but after watching his episode I noticed that in one scene he was his normal charming self and the next he was kind of slurring his words, had droopy eyes and started eating off his date's plate with his hands.

20. From my_Favorite_post:

My cousin was on the B-team of the Apprentice ages ago. Before challenges go on the air, there's a B-team who runs them to check they are achievable goals. I've never seen the show, but I'd imagine it would be something like "Open a business with $30" and the B-team would try to run the challenge to ensure it is possible. If not, they'd go back to the drawing board.

24 Memes About Kanye West Running For President.

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“I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle”

-Kanye West

This sounds like a man who's ready to run the country, right? As if 2020 couldn't get any more bananas, Kanye West has indeed announced he is running for President of the United States. Of course, the rapper's announcement has inspired countless memes. This list has the funniest of the #Kanye2020 memes all in one place. Don't forget to vote!

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20 people share the funniest things that have gone wrong for them this summer.

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Everyone is going through it right now, the world is in the midst of a global pandemic, there are protests everywhere, and we are on the cusp of a huge presidential election.

Luckily, not all of the weirdness of the current moment is big and heavy, there are plenty of laughable moments tucked into the summer of 2020, and people have been tweeting out some of the more light-hearted fails from the past few weeks.

So, for your hopeful enjoyment, I have compiled a few of the funniest fails from the past few weeks.

1. This sign trying its best:

2. Everything about hand sanitizer these days:

3. This social media throwback:

4. The details in this mask selfie:

5. This niece trying her best:

6. This person just trying to relax:

7. This white man trying his best:

8. This Instacart text exchange:

9. This job search fail:

10. This OnlyFans encounter:

11. This quickly imploding Tinder conversation:

12. This attempt at flirting:

13. This deal to die for:

14. This honesty:

15. This failed dig for a compliment:

16. This mom's sense of time:

17. Whatever this email is:

18. This Grindr shut down:

19. This duck living its life:

20. This thirst trap fail:

27 Memes To Help You LOL This Morning.

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

Let's get stupid! These wacky memes will tickle your funny bone and leave you laughing all morning. You may want to grab your sunglasses because these memes are sure to brighten your whole day.

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17 people share the things they did as kids and now realize were very weird

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Being a kid can be pretty confusing...

We definitely all had a few habits as children that we now look back and cringe wondering how we ever thought it was normal to eat smashed acorns or use dirty grass to try and fix a bloody, skinned knee. If you think you were a weird kid, take comfort in the fact that everyone else probably was just as weird. Trying to understand the world as a tiny person in an adult world is complicated, and walking around the neighborhood with a stuffed toy dog on a real dog's leash was a totally normal thing to do, right?

So, when a recent Reddit user asked, "What things did you do as a kid that you now realize is extremely weird?" people were ready to share their embarrassing and strange childhood moments. Anyone else think it was cool to have a broken arm so they tried to fake wearing a cast to third grade and convinced their friends to rollerblade over their arm at recess to try and break it until they got in trouble? No? Ok, good to know!

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Ate rose petals. My grandfather told me they are edible. I still eat one when I go visit his grave. - Unsyr

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Found out that the air had germs in it and tried not to breathe too much. - Tinymaniac

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Purple was my favorite color but I didn't like the word so I called it murdalop. - MolinaroK

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There were spiders and mice in my room which totally freaked me out so every night before I went to sleep I'd whisper a report of what the weather was outside to encourage them to go outside rather than stay inside and bite me in my sleep - Jimothy-Goldenface

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I used to have “science experiments” in the bathroom sink. Meaning, I’d go the bathroom and lock the door. Once in I’d make sure the sink drain was shut and then proceed to add every cleaner/ chemical/ shampoo etc under the sink to the sink in hopes of a reaction. Never got one, but it also never stopped me from trying. In hindsight I probably could have killed myself if I had mixed the wrong stuff. I obviously didn’t. - WilliamHarry

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I used to eat tissues as a kid. My mum found out one day and yelled at me to stop, (as any sane parent would do) so I started eating them in secret. Sneaking away with a tissue box to another room to eat a tissue or two.

Until one day when I was about 5 years old I had to go to the hospital. I had no idea what was going on all I knew was that I had trouble breathing through my nose. Before my operation I was in the hospital and I overheard one of the nurses say that they just needed to remove the excess tissue in my nose. Naturally I thought that the tissues I had eaten had started getting clogged up in my nose and I never ate a tissue again. I made the realization at 14 that it was muscle tissue in my nose and not the actual tissues I was eating. - AutisticArmadillo

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I (a girl) used to sit back to front on the toilet to pee. My reasoning was that that way it sounded like my dad peeing and then the monsters wouldn't try to grab me. Childhood anxiety is wild! - GoldenSnidget2

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In grade 1 we would sit in a group on the floor in front of the teacher while she read us stories. I would sit at the back of the group against the wall and pull my pants halfway down my bum. I liked feeling the cool ground/wall against my bare butt. - FullEvan791

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I would only sit on the toilet with the shower cap on my head. - Dondons1uk

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Wearing velcro strap shoes so tight they'd probably cut off the circulation in my feet because I was worried my shoes would fall off. I used to eat butter straight out the tub too, my 5 year old niece has started doing it... maybe it's a family trait - symply_nymph

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Saying some gibberish all the time and thinking that it is probably meaningful in some languages. I felt smart as hell - Qizot

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I ate cupcake wrappers after finishing the cupcakes. Like I would just suck on it (the paper ones) and chew until there was zero flavor, then spit it out. - DiligentPride2

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I have a memory of when I was maybe 3 or 4. I tried to nurse a kitten lmao - kimmytwoshoes

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Piss on my closet floor - K-inka

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When I was in 3rd grade I would dress as little bo peep while I took my poodle for walks and ask my neighbors if they have seen my other sheep - maddyya

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When I was around 8 years old, I liked the way clean towels tasted. Something I really enjoyed was putting a towel over a straw, and drinking kool-aid through it.

My mother wasn't a fan of having white towels covered with red spots, so she put a stop to it pretty quick. - IrrationallyCalm

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I loved the way the air that comes out the back of vacuum's smelt. I used to follow the vacuum cleaner around while my mum was cleaning with my face against the vent. I would turn it on when other people were not around and smell it. - fongletto


12 people share stories of how they made money by discovering a loophole.

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A penny saved is a penny earned, and a penny earned by exploiting a loophole is the sweetest penny of all.

People shared the times they discovered ambiguous rules and faulty machines, using them to their advantage. Parking garages and vending machines have never been so intriguing.

1. It doesn't get any dirtier than counterfeiting.

About a decade ago a nightclub had a contest night where people could earn 'dirty dollars' which was fake money printed by the club. the person with the most 'dirty dollars' at the end would walk with $500 cash. The fake money was given out by Bartenders, Servers, Security, Managers and their friends. The staff couldn't win, so it was basically a way to get people to act wild and slutty. Girls flashed crowds, made out with each other, licked whipped cream off of each other, etc. Guys would eat cans of dog food, drink disgusting shots, whatever. It was a way to get people to act slutty, or be degraded, but they advertised to 'Do whatever it takes to be the one with the most Dirty Dollars at midnight to win $500 CASH!"

I showed up early (about 8 PM) and bought a drink, got a little bit of the money as they were spreading it out to encourage people to get wild. I left around 8:30 and went to a photocopy place, and spent $15 pumping out black and white copies of this (The dirty dollars were already black and white) and spend about half an hour cutting them to size. At the end of it, I had a stack of hundreds of these things. I went back to the club for about an hour before the end of the contest, quietly collected more of the money from staff for tipping well and being friendly. When midnight hit, I handed in easily the biggest stack of cash for the night to a very confused manager who was sure one of the many slutty girls was going to win.

He paid me out and asked how I did it, and I told him exactly what I did. I spent a good chunk of the money partying in the club, and left with more than I started the night with.

(They never ran that contest again) -Twice_Knightley

2. They deserve the tip for this job well done.

I worked at a restaurant in a hotel where you could collect “employee bucks” of sorts for going above and beyond at your job. You could use them to pay for things like a room stay or food in the hotel restaurant. They were worth a dollar each, but you obviously couldn’t cash them in for real money.

I saved up about $450 worth, used $100 worth to pay for a hotel room on a day I was working, bought a soda from myself at the restaurant and tipped myself the extra ~$350 and signed it all to my room bill. Upon checkout it just shows that I spent $350 at the restaurant, not a breakdown of the bill. So then I used my employee bucks to pay off the hotel bill and got an extra $350 on my paycheck (minus taxes of course). Look_to_the_Stars

3. Vending machines are the new slot machines.

The soda machine at a dorm I lived in had a weird glitch. If you put in five cents more than the asking price and pushed the product select button, the machine would empty all of its change out at once. We did this a few times and got $20-40 each time! -mistamistatea

4. Thanks, tattle tale.

We had a situation at my old job (a huge, international company) where we’d work shifts, either 8/10/12 hours. Anything after 8 hours was overtime.

Sometimes we were scheduled for the next shift quite soon after the last one had ended, for example 05:00-12:00 and then 19:00-00:00.

Someone discovered that if there were less than 8 hours between shifts in a 24-hour period, anything after 8 hours total was paid the overtime rate.

We did it for ages and then in the context of some team chat, some twat asked one of the managers whether the above scheduling would still be feasible.

Turned out the management hadn’t even noticed and stopped it immediately. And back to minimum wage we went. --Myrtle_the_Turtle-

5. "Boom" indeed.

I lived near a casino that would let you get chips using your credit card. I liked some if the show's and restaurants there but never gambled. So every time I went I'd charge $5K to my credit card for chips. Then I'd cash out at a different teller swing by the bank on the way home deposit the money and pay off my credit card. I did this maybe once a week.

Boom $5K of free points / cash back. -Stroinsk

6. Flyers for everybody!

When I was at university, the pay-for campus printers all worked on a system where you'd print your documents, release them at the printer, they'd print, then after they've finished printing, it would then contact the server to get the cost deducted from your balance. That final step always took a while and I discovered in my first year that if I canceled the print job as the final page was rolling out of the printer, it wouldn't deduct the cost from my balance. With this method I got free printing for nearly two years before they upgraded the system! -PM_me_ur_navel_girl

7. Respect the hustle.

Opened an Amex credit card and the introductory offer was 10% cash back in restaurants for the first year. I worked for a shitty chain restaurant as a server, so I would just stack a few of my large cash tables and put them on my card, then pay it off every week. Made an extra $20-$30 a shift. -kay37892

8. Netflix and chillin'.

When I was in college they had this deal where if you signed up for a free trial of Netflix you could get a $10 gift code for Papa John's.

They didn't even ask for a credit card back then, just an email, so I would just use make new email addresses and would get a code every time.

Not only did I get free Netflix for a while, but I also got a lot of free pizza. --eDgAR-

9. Not losing money is the same thing as making money.

On Airbnb, some hosts allow you to change the date of the booking without any additional charges, (but would charge you if you cancelled the booking within certain hours) so if i had to cancel my booking without losing money i would change the date of my reservation to a month ahead of what it is currently and then in a couple of days cancel my reservation and get a full refund. -Prussiandreams

10. Training is a way of life.

I worked at a books/music/video store when I was in high school. We were supposed to remove the "in training" portion of our name tags after the first two weeks. I just left mine on so that customers wouldn't ask me questions. A full year of hardly anyone talking to me at work was the best full year of my life. -firsthippo70

11. Priceless.

There was ski ball machine that wasn't against the wall at the local bowling alley. my pal and i kept tossing the ball to each other to keep breaking the high score to get massive amount of tickets for candy, fluffy handcuffs and a lava lamp. -TheSmokingLoon

12. We stan a pants-wearing pioneer.

My school had uniforms, it was kinda strict with those... but nowhere in the rules it stated that girls should wear the female uniform and boys the male uniform. Sooooooo, I bought the male one and wore it. A lot of teachers wanted to give me detention, but when I went over the school rule book and shit, they had to stay steaming mad because I was not breaking any rules. They assumed it was implied, but the only think stated was that the uniform was to be worn properly, be clean and fit well, but that's it.

By the time I graduated, a lot of students were doing about the same shit I was.

That rule changed shortly after my generation went off to university. sorry kiddos, maybe you will find new loopholes to give the inspector an aneurysm. -burugundi010

28 Memes That Will Only Be Funny In 2020.

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“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”


― Nicholas Sparks

2020 is truly one for the history books. We've experienced a whole lot this year and it's not over yet. Who knows what's in store for the rest of the decade? I don't even want to speculate! At least there are still plenty of things to make us laugh. These hilarious memes perfectly nail how we all feel about 2020.

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23 people share the best and worst advice they ever got from a therapist.

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When you're dealing with mental health issues, therapy can be a godsend — but it's also important to remember that therapists are people, too, and people are capable of some pretty WTF behavior.

A recent Reddit thread asked people to share the things their therapists told them or did, that totally caught them off guard. Some of the answers are funny, some are shockingly good and some... well, not so much.

1. Sometimes, your parent is the problem.

I had a therapist tell me when I was a teenager that she didn't know what else to do to help me because it seemed like I already understood everything pretty well. This was after my overbearing and crazy helicopter mom dragged me in for being depressed. Then she switched to therapy-ing my mom and my mom quickly was in tears because she has the emotional strength of a child and wanted it to be about me when it was actually all about her.

I knew exactly why I was depressed. I was stuck by myself in the middle of nowhere with her crazy ass. No personal space, no ability to get away, not being able to say no, her getting jealous of my friends when I spent time with them. It would make anyone depressed. She didn't even let me sit with the therapist by myself. - Achylife

2. This therapist spotted a concussion.

My therapist once abruptly ended our session after telling me I needed to go to the ER.

I had been in a car accident the day before and had an undiagnosed concussion that was pretty bad.

I was so out of it I didn’t even realize I was out of it. He later told me I was talking about inappropriate topics (I was so embarrassed I didn’t ask what I specifically talked about–i didn’t want to know at that point) and wasn’t making much sense. I’m just glad he recognized I was off that day and helped me get to the hospital. - originalturnupqueen

3. Sounds entertaining, at least.

I paid and sat through an entire session of therapy during which my therapist ranted as to how great of a career he could have had as a stand up comedian and how much he regrets his current profession.

I kinda agreed with him near the end. - minorkunji

4. Spotting your therapist at a bar is always fun.

Told mine I had seen him grabbing a drink at the same place I used to go get drunk before covid. He stared at me like I had discovered something NASA was hiding. We had a laugh and he confessed it.

Context: I had huge drinking problems and he told me he didn't like to drink at all - WewerehereBH

5. This sounds like its own form of bullying.

When I was in first or second grade, the school counselor fell asleep when I was describing a bullying situation that I was in. I was so young that I didn’t know how to respond, so I just sat there in his office until he woke up. - DeeJayLance

6. Surprising advice from a therapist.

I had one tell me I needed to learn to, “bite the bullet.” Which turned out to be good advice, even if it was blunt.

I wasn’t there because I was suicidal or anything. I was there because my mom and I had a pretty volatile relationship.

She had some emotional issues where she’d just lash out at me over things that didn’t make sense. And if I needed to learn to stick it out until she got better. Which she eventually did, and we have a much better relationship. Really paid off. - Kenpo23

7. How was this person a doctor?!

When I was in high school I was hospitalized for being suicidal.

My doctor there told me some really brilliant advice that totally cleared things up for me, basically just fixing me on the spot:

"You just have to be a normal boy"

Lol. - Valentines450140

8. Eye-opening.

I was in my second ever session, which coincidentally was right after my nans funeral. I was talking about some stuff that had happened with my sister (who I had already said was probably my biggest issue) and he asked 'why is this person in your life? Why do you want to continue a relationship that hurts you so much? Do you actually want this relationship?'

I was floored. It had never occurred to me that my sister didnt get a place in my life by default because family. I cant tell you how much this improved my life. - kaelas93

9. Yikes.

During my first and only session with a particularly memorable child psychologist, he referred to me as a "miserable b****". It was true, but he didn't have to call me out like that. - causims

10. This doesn't sound like something a therapist should say.

After five or six sessions I was about to schedule my next appointment when my therapist said she wouldn't continue seeing me because "she should spend her time on patients who have 'real' problems." I didn't see another therapist again for, like, 15 years. - therascalking0000

11. This went in a different direction than it seemed like it would go.

it's beautiful! Had a therapist tell me to make a f*** budget. Here me out lol! He said you only have so many f***s to give before you blow, so just like with money you need to budget it out, start with things you have to give a f*** about, kids, work, health and then cross the things you dislike giving a f*** about, like people's opinion of what you wear, off the list and dont give a f*** about that s***!

This was an older gentleman who was cool but for the most part very well spoken and didnt cuss. Hearing him say I needed to stop spreading my f***s so far made me die of laughter and immediately feel better. To this day I still have a f*** budget that I do every month religiously and it has taken so much stress off my shoulders - MikaleaPaige

12. This person's most shocking moment was just finding out their diagnosis.

In response to me telling my therapist that I was prescribed Wellbutrin for my depression/anxiety, my therapist stated that it was a medication that a lot of adults with ADD see a positive effect with. It threw me off for a second and I was like, "that's cool...why do you say that?"

Therapist: "...because you have ADD?"

Me: "What? I do?"

Therapist: "Yes. You present very typical ADD for adults."

Me: "..."

Therapist: "I thought you knew already..."

Me: "Nope! But that explains so much!"

I also got a second opinion just in case and it turns out I absolutely am ADD. Thanks Doc! Lol! - jessjoypow

13. Wildly inappropriate!

First time I saw a counselor, he was looking over my paperwork and said he could tell from my handwriting the I was good in bed. I kid you not. I was so caught off guard all I could say was "uh, I think I am." So young and not assertive at all. Found out he got in trouble for an inappropriate relationship with a client. But it really screwed me up for a bit him saying that because I have problems setting boundaries with men. - stuckNTX_pleaz

14. You never know who's a closet Yu-Gi-Oh fan.

Was talking to my school counselor about some mental health issues and told him that I like playing card games to take my mind off of it. The man literally opens his cabinet and pulls out a briefcase full of Yugioh cards(I’m a massive nerd) and says “Sooooooo..... wanna play” don’t get me wrong but this guy had a lumberjack beard, was fit and looked more like a athlete than a counselor so I was shocked. Got over my problems and played every Wednesday against him! - Saint-Thirteen

15. Heartbreaking.

I’ll never forget my first day of therapy. My therapist asked me if I had ever been abused as a child. I replied, “No, I had a good childhood growing up. I mean, my mother slapped me a few times and would tell me to kill myself, and my dad would pull my hair out... but no, nothing abusive or anything.” There was at least 30 seconds of dead air between us as I watched her blink while trying to figure out how to respond to what I said.

Eventually she put down her file, crossed her legs and said, “My dear, that IS abuse.” My world came crashing down all around me at that moment. For so many years I had buried my feelings about what they’d done so deeply that I’d managed to convince myself that what they’d done wasn’t wrong. Less than a year later I was dignosed with PTSD and panic disorder from the trauma, and I cut off all communication with my parents. - daisiesandink

16. What a pessimist.

When my psychologist told me as a 16 year old that I will never recover and that I should prepare for a struggling life. - Queen-of-meme

17. This... isn't how it works, therapist.

I had been suicidal every day for over a year. When I was 14/15 I started seeing my first therapist. After a few sessions she told me I was “too happy” to be in therapy and kicked me out. And it messed me up a lot lol. - gh-ul

18. Weird time for a brain teaser.

At the beginning of the session we introduced ourselves and then I proceeded to talk about my increasingly difficult battle with depression. I got a little emotional but after almost 3 quarters of an hour he asked me if I remembered his name. For the life of me I couldn't and it just totally baffled me as I almost pride myself in being polite and remembering things like that. - Skillsmax

19. Becoming a therapist is not meant to be a way to make friends...

My most recent therapist experience lasted for 2 sessions only. Both times, every time if discuss an issue i was having, my therapist would say, "OMG me too!"

Like, I'm here for you help me. If you're just gonna say that I can have this conversation in my own.

The last session the therapist said, "if we met outside of this scenario we'd be really good friends."

That was it for me. - jlcd11147

20. Good lesson.

She said, “You don’t HAVE to forgive someone, especially when they were so cruel and are not sorry.” Shocked the hell out of me as any therapist before that tried to get me to forgive, but I can’t. I live with it and I don’t think forgiving them would bring me any kind of peace. - irishmuminacoldland

21. Well, more water's never a bad idea, per se...

I had a religious therapist once tell me I just needed more water to solve my depression. She concluded this by having me hold out my arms and she tested the strength of each one by pushing down on it and I had to resist against it. like really, looking back I should have told her it was BS but I was so caught off guard i was just like, well ok I’ll have some more water - catfacepandaparts

22. That escalated quickly.

I was making some lighthearted comments after the appointment with my psychologist about how people in my little town don’t believe in the Coronavirus, and he said, “Well I think China spread it on purpose so I may be a little crazy too.” Uhh... - havinababymaybe

23. Well this one's a doozy.

A psychologist I visited briefly (to treat anxiety and depression) began telling me really personal details about other clients and their sessions. And not vague stuff, more like "he was hearing voices and the voices said they wanted him to kill me [psychologist] and that was extra scary because he is the owner of [local NFL team]!! Isn't that scary??" Or "she was addicted to cocaine and cheating on her husband, who is the owner of [local mall chain]."

I grew increasingly uncomfortable with these personal anecdotes, and they began to take up larger and larger chunks of our sessions. By the end there, I would have to interrupt her to redirect her back to MY issues. I was paying her to help me address them, after all.

The last straw was when she left the office for over 15 minutes to go eat lunch, then charged me for a full session.

I confronted her, saying I didn't want to hear these private and confidential stories anymore, and that I would prefer to stay focused on my issues during our sessions, as I was hoping she could teach me how to work through them (crazy, right?)

She immediately raised her voice at me and tried to tell me I was imagining the whole thing and having some sort of delusion (an issue I've never been diagnosed with or struggled with). Then she backpedaled and tried to say that all those stories had been from HER imagination, meant to benefit me. I pointed out the contradiction and expressed that I didn't want to spend large chunks of our sessions talking about people in her personal life, imaginary or otherwise.

That's when she cracked up and told me that I wasn't "worthy" of someone with her talents, and could never hope to achieve mental health.

I walked out and haven't been back to therapy since. Got into a supportive community, and they helped me heal, WITHOUT gaslighting me or breaking confidentiality :/ - PandorasBottle

17 people share how the 'popular kid' at their school quickly became unpopular.

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For some people, being well-liked just isn't meant to be.

A recent Reddit thread asked people, "What made the popular kid at school the unpopular kid?" The answers prove that coolness doesn't always last forever.

1. This poor boy!

In elementary school, so popularity was already sort of a nebulous concept, but one boy got pantsed at recess and was found to be wearing diapers.

Pretty sure he was incontinent, which has got to be a rough f***ing road for a little kid, especially since he didn't seem to have any other noticeable disabilities. - RollThatD20

2. Sounds like he had some issues.

He was caught selling cigarettes and weed. He reportedly assaulted the favourite teacher of everyone at my school. Everyone loved that teacher because she was so nice and from then on hated the “popular kid” - Vijitarian

3. Wouldn't want to have dinner at this family's house after this stunt.

There was one kid in my class who was the son of our maths teacher. He was crazy popular because he was able to help everyone out with their homework for that class; turns out he was actually snooping through his dad's notes to get the answers. The teacher naturally got super suspicious after a while, so he deliberately made a fake answer sheet. Of course, the kid grabbed it and noted it all down.

It was full of wrong answers so blatant that anyone who even slightly paid attention in class would know they were way off base. The kid handed out the answers anyway, and in an instant made about half the class bomb, and his popularity dropped like a rock as they all accused him of deliberately making them fail. They moved him to another class and they never had an incident of cheating again. - BYB64

4. This is usually not a popular move.

Started straight up lying to teachers to get people in trouble. Don't know how he thought that was gonna work out. - pupper_nahte36

5. It's good to know this kind of thing makes you less popular these days.

When he was caught taking up skirt photos of girls in school and sending them to his friends. His popularity went from Hero to zero is a split second. - fatbird666

6. Sometimes, popularity's as simple as who has a Sega Dreamcast.

He didn't get a Sega Dreamcast but I did so I became the popular kid. - TesticleMayhem

7. Solidarity against bullies!

He punched the autistic kid then proceeded to get jumped by every single guy that saw him in school for the next week until his parents had him switch schools - shopshot877

8. This is so... specific.

He wore a t shirt that said "If you go to Brown University, You're a Chump!"

Unfortunately, many people in the school had plans to go to Brown University, and they shunned him. - 67-ww

9. Interesting response to teen pregnancy.

I went to an all-girls school and there was an all-boys school about 5 minutes walk away. When I was in my final year the School Vice-Captain of the boys' school, was dating one of our grade leaders. Both being 17 and not very smart she eventually got pregnant.

She dropped out, and pretty much everyone who knew him at our school hated him. Prior to that, he was very well-liked.
I thought it was a bit ridiculous honestly. Pretty sure it takes two to tango - Elle-Muppet

10. It's good to see people defending the honor of the color yellow.

When she made fun of me in front of everyone, for wearing a yellow shirt to school. It was just a plain yellow shirt and she somehow found a way to mock the colour. It was so unnecessary, and made her look like someone who was just rude for no reason. Everyone quickly realized that she thought people were automatically on her side cause she was somewhat rich, and she just became a joke after that. - DangerousWithFoods

11. Strange.

Having a set of keys given to him by the school (wtf, I know) because he was one of the really popular kids, then using those keys to break into the school and steal $30kAUD of woodworking/metalworking tools - shaneo88

12. The social kiss of death.

Trading a Charizard card for a Ratata. - DeathEater777

13. Uhh... okay!

She was popular, then she found Jesus. Almost instantly unpopular. Then she became immensely popular again when she was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. - harpo-polo

14. No one likes a bragger.

His parents gave him money and bought him all this new expensive stuff and he rubbed it in everyone’s faces and everyone kind of got sick of him - askwhobenis

15. Watch who you call a Mac truck.

He teased my best friend for being built like a Mac truck. She picked him up and put him up side down in the garbage can. He lost any coolness he had. - designgoddess

16. They saw through his charade.

He was a very talented football player and ppl would look up to him as a “king”, but he abused his girlfriend and was exposed for being very racist and homophobic - Cluggless

17. Astrology and assault? What a combo.

Got really into astrology. (Gemeni, virgo, cancer.) Kept on hitting (Assaulting) people with a metal bottle, and was in general just an a**hole that only like, 7 people tolerated. I follow her on instagram and all her storys are memes about astrology. It's the instagram equivalent of facebook minion memes. - McCurryMan

16 people share the most ironic things that have happened to them.

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Remember when Alanis Morissette confused the whole world with her song, "Ironic" that didn't feature one genuinely ironic scenario?

Rain on your wedding day isn't ironic, Alanis! Rain at a charity event to raise money for a drought would be ironic, but I guess that doesn't sound nearly as fun in a pop lyric. Still, grammar and language nerds often need to relax their grip on when and how people use the word, "ironic." Irony is usually characterized by something so unexpected it is funny, such as the classic example of a champion chess player losing to a first-time player. Over time, the word has been used to describe anything coincidental, which gives Alanis a little more credit. Regardless, irony is all around us and we've all had at least one moment where we feel like we're living in a simulation designed by puppet engineers with a twisted sense of humor. Plus, "Ironic" is a great song.

So when a Reddit user shared, "I attended a funeral today for a man who was a refrigeration specialist. There was no reception because the church's refrigerator broke and the food was spoiled. What's the most ironic thing that's ever happened to you?" people were ready to offer their own moments of ironic weirdness. Life is a confusing, mysterious journey in chaos! Good luck out there...

1.

I wasn't in, so my boss signed my ethics form for me. - cbjork

2.

I lived in Italy for 5 months in a very old apartment building. On Liberation Day, I tried to leave my apartment to find that the lock was jammed. It was the only door to the outside and I lived four floors up, so I was locked in. I called the emergency locksmith, but they were closed because it was a holiday. So I was locked in all day on Liberation Day haha - IlDolceFarNiente

3.

My glasses hit me in the eye and caused me temporary blindness. - [deleted]

4.

Im a boy scout and for each badge theres a booklet you need to read to get info about that badge. I got a papercut on the First Aid badge booklet. - crazycreator13

5.

My dad was a fireman and at his funeral there was a fire across the street that the fire department had to come put out. - Mredjr

6.

My uncle was teaching safety around power tools in a secondary school, forgot one of his saws was turned on, and proceeded to cut off two fingers in front of the class he'd just lectured. - LiathroidiMor

7.

One time I got a paper cut trying to open a band aid to put on another paper cut. - xyz66

8.

When they were toddlers my little half brother and sister used to have a large styrofoam floor mat with cutouts of letters and numbers.

A plumber came one day to fix a toilet. He found out what had clogged it: a styrofoam number 2.

True story. - [deleted]

9.

I'm Canadian. In one high school class, we filled out a survey about the "Americanization" of Canadian culture. You were asked your favourite movie, tv show, etc.

Favourite was spelled "favorite". - Stratisphear

10.

My brother was an altar server at a funeral for an old woman who owned a flower shop. For some reason, the flower delivery from another store never showed up. There were no flowers at the funeral for a woman who lived for flowers. - Epicwarren

11.

I once choked on a lifesaver.. - just_keeping_it_real

12.

This happened to my friend not me but he was roller skating and didn't know how to stop so he slammed into a sign that said SKATE AT YOUR OWN RISK. WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INJURIES - Cabnit47

13.

My friend got a 100% attendance award at school but missed it because he was on holiday. - Duckman0121

14.

I was sitting down watching TV and thinking, "I need to brush my teeth soon", when an ad come on for Listerine. So I thought, "I can't go brush my teeth now, people will think I did it because of that ad, I'll just wait a little while and then I'll do it". I didn't end up brushing my teeth that night. - TinBryn

15.

I sold my watch to buy my girl a comb, and she sold her hair to buy me a gold watch chain. - RDJesse

16.

I cheated on my ethics and moral development slide show for health class. - [deleted]

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