From monthly cramps to public messes, periods are the gift (from the devil) that keeps on giving (you Hell). Every person who menstruates has, at some point in our lives, experienced a period disaster. For some people, every period is a disaster. At least we're not alone in the madness.

Someone asked Reddit to share their stories of "period disasters." These 19 people who have experienced the trials and tribulations of menstruation share their horror stories:

1.) From whiskypanther:

In tenth grade we had to do this thing called "the two mile" (meaning, run two miles around the track or fail gym). The day we were all supposed to do it I was changing my tampon every twenty minutes because I only had the tiny stupid ones left, and I had already thrown away my underwear because they were soaked. I was cramping hard and bleeding far more than usual and didn't want to run but my teacher was kind of a dick about it and refused to let me sit it out and make it up later. So I started on the track in my stupid wide leg gym shorts and soon I started to feel my tampon shift out of alignment. With each foot plant it became obvious it was going to escape from my body right there on the wide open track where I was totally vulnerable with nowhere to hide. About halfway through the run it escaped entirely and fell out of my gym shorts where it landed like a sad little dead mouse, right on the track. It was horrifying. That was 20 years ago and it's still horrifying.

2.) From Danger_Granger:

I work at a wildlife park, where we have to wear khaki pants. I got my period about two weeks early because my cycle was adjusting to being home from college. It started out extremely heavy, with no warning, as i was walking around showing a baby wallaby to customers. I took off, but by the time i made it to the bathroom, my pants were soaked. I cleaned up as best as i could, and ran to the car for supplies. I always kept spare shorts and tampons in the glove box, but alas, my car was in the shop to get the timing belt repaired, and my father's car was obviously unhelpful here. None of my coworkers in the immediate area had any feminine products, and i didnt want to run around soaking myself further while i looked for someone who could help. The owner of the park is an 87 year old woman who lives on the property. I was near her house, so I ran in and asked for help. I didn't even know her. She gave me an adult diaper, and, of course, did not have a change of clothes for me. I completed the following 5 hours of my shift sporting my bulging, blood-soaked khaki shorts in miserable humiliation. Top that.

3.) From clitler:

I was at summer camp around the age of 14, and had started my period while I was there. I didn't have any pads, so the cabin leader (a girl around 17) gave me a couple of hers until I could get down to the convenience store and buy some of my own. I didn't have any money and didn't want to ask for more, so I figured I would just make the few I had last. That night, after using the communal showers, I had all my clothes bundled in my arms and was in a towel, walking to the changing rooms. I guess that my semi-used pad had fallen out of the bundle and onto the floor, and I hadn't noticed. I started hearing girls yelling and screaming. I turned around to see what was going on and saw my pad on the ground. I turned white as a sheet, and beyond mortified, I walked through the girls exclaiming, wondering what terrible girl would leave such an absolute horror there, and picked it up and threw it away. Just then, my awesome cabin leader yelled for quiet and calmed everyone down, saying it was hers. When people inquired as to why I had picked it up, she said I was being the bigger person and dealing with it instead of bitching and being grossed out over something we all deal with.

She was the best part of that week.

4.) From reneemonet:

I think every period has some sort of disaster moment. Like sitting down for hours at a time at work and then standing up suddenly-- that's all it takes to create a geyser between your legs.

5.) From dreamqueen9103:

Oh god, I hate standing up on my period. Or sitting down. Or moving in general. Worst is the first moment in the morning when you get out of bed. Whenever I'm on my period I get as close as i can to the side of my bed, get upright in one quick motion, and scuttle as fast as i can to the bathroom.

6.) From californiasquirrel:

I had a supremely heavy flow in class one time to the point of my crush commenting on the metallic tangy smell emanating from my nether regions.

7.) From twatmuffin:

I was in seventh grade and an active member of our swim team. We had a match that night so to get excited for it we all wore PJ pants to school. I was sporting my brand new rad zebra PJ pants. Around sixth period I start to feel funny, maybe my stomach is off, it's probably just gas. We had a double math period that day so I just stayed in the same seat for two hours. When I finally get up I see the chair is covered in blood. Suddenly! Flashbacks to sex ed! This isn't a disease, it's a period! As the shock sinks in I approach my math teacher. My voice wobbles out the situation as I slowly begin to cry. She says she knows exactly what to do, the same thing happened to her once after all. She'll take me down to the nurse but first we have to talk to the teacher of my next class. She walked me up to my next class, poked her head in and asked if the teacher would mind talking to her for a moment. My pregnant history teacher comes to the hallway to see the math teacher and the quivering humilated mess that I was. The math teacher explains the situation as I burst into tears again. Now heres where I learned something, if you cry around a pregnant woman they will cry too. So here stands this odd trio in a crowded hallway. Myself, crying hysterically. My history teacher, wailing along with me. And my math teacher, attempting to convince us both that it will all be alright, it's a natural body function, and pants can always be replaced.

8.) From Dont_blink_angel:

In tenth grade, we sat at these long lab tables for bio instead of desks, and of course I was seated next to one of those "really cute boys".

So One Day, my period starts. and not like trickle drip drop, but the whole front of my pants was suddenly soaked. And I am trying to think of an inconspicuous way of skirting around the table and out of the classroom, when this "really cute boy" looks over and so very, very loudly says "OH MY GOD where did all that blood come from!?" Thus directing my entire bio class's attention to me and my bloodsoaked jeans. So I got out of bio and sent to the nurse (it really was a lot of blood) and had to borrow a friend's sweatpants to make it through the rest of the day.

Possibly my most embarrassing High School moment ever.

9.) From Katalysts:

We've all had toilet paper days, the days we swear we'll never forget to pack a feminine product in our purse again.

10.) From mrekai:

This wasn't a disaster, but...

Grade 9 science, I had a teacher I couldn't stand. He was lazy, and disinterested, and, just resentful of having to teach. It was an all-girls school, and everyone in my class hated him. He was especially rude about allowing anyone to leave class to go the the washroom. So one day my friend gets up to pee, and so stops the video (heaven forbid he "teach") and snaps at her to sit down. A little shocked, she sits back down in a chair at the back of the class, five minutes later she tries to slip out again. The teacher then stands up and starts screaming at her. saying "even a two year old can control her bladder! are you a two year old? Are you about to pee yourself like a baby?" in front of the whole class. My friend then calmly says "actually, I just started my period, and I wanted to stanch the blood that was dripping out of my vagina. But if you want me to stay, fine, you can wipe down my seat after I leave."

It was a good day.

11.) From Greenbean42:

I was at a wrap party given by a producer for a short film I worked on. I had to go to the bathroom and noticed the panty liner I was wearing WAS. NOW. GONE. I looked all over the house for it, but never found it.

I was wearing short shorts so it must have slipped out. Lost somewhere in that producer's house is my dirty panty liner and my pride.

12.) From [deleted]:

Ugh. No. But I will say that before I started birth control I use to get cramps so bad that I would lay in bed in a fetal position crying. The only time I would get up would be to throw up. I remember one time I was in school, just started, and my cramps were ridiculous. I was too embarrassed to say "I have...bad cramps" so I just lied and said I was getting the flu. My parents wouldn't answer their phones so I had to walk home, throwing up the whole way. And I forgot my keys that day so I had to break into my own house....with ridiculous cramps. For any guys brave enough to read this, the only thing that I think would give you an idea of what these cramps feel like, would to be if you've ever experienced constipation, except way worse. But not only that, before birth control I used to get my period every two weeks. They would last 10-15 fucking days, and during this time I was extremely depressed, up to the point of suicidal. I had maybe one good week a month where I functioned normal. The reason why I didn't know any of this was abnormal was because this shit was embarrassing and I wouldn't tell anyone what I was experiencing. Once I started taking birth control, I understood that everything I was experiencing was fucked to the tenth degree. Now I don't even notice it. THANK YOU JESUS CHRIST.

13.) From superdillin:

My mom refused to teach me how to use a tampon because she was paranoid about Toxic Shock Syndrome. But I really wanted to go swimming on my birthday one year so I tried to figure it out with a cheap cardboard applicable one from a 25cent machine. Long story short, I left part of the applicator in there, and suffered through the pain thinking I was just not used to it until finally...it got so bad that I had to tell someone.

Now three girls are in a public pool bathroom trying to yank bloody cardboard out of me.

I didn't try tampons again for 4 years.

14.) From NY1227:

God, I know this will get buried but this was awful. This is how/when I got my FIRST PERIOD.

I was in 8th grade- specifically math class. My teach was also the student council male adviser (and I was class secretary), and the 4 of us on student council had him also for homeroom (just the 4 of us, alone- so he knew me very well).

All of a sudden, I feel like I'm sticking to my chair in math. I scooch up, realize I was sitting in literally a pool of brown sticky stuff (did NOT realize it was a period). It was all over my sweatshirt that was tied around my waist, all over my jeans, etc. I honestly thought it was already on the chair. I get up to exit when the bell rang, people are FREAKING OUT and pointing, wonder what the hell is all over me, I'm confused, people telling me there's blood everywhere on me, my chair, etc.

My male teacher is obviously embarrassed but doesn't say anything. Being a "good student" I don't want to be late for my next class so I go [to art]. I ask to leave to go to the bathroom to sort this mess out. I am in the stall for about 15 minutes, honestly confused as fuck (I was expecting BRIGHT RED = period, and as we all know, it can be darker than that...) so I'm thinking what the hell is happening to me?

I'm in a two person stall bathroom, all of a sudden the NURSE, the art teacher, the male math teacher, and my mom BUST INTO THE BATHROOM, make a huge deal out of this. Mom had to bring me new underwear, the nurse had to teach me had to use a pad in the mean time. All 4 assured me to not be embarrassed, which I wasn't until they started saying that. As a 13ish year old, it was MORTIFYING. To this day, I wonder what the convo was between the math teacher and nurse.

Looking back, I wish they sent me home. It was almost the end of the day, anyway. The next day, all THREE pulled me aside to ask me how my period/ womanhood was going and 'how I felt.'

TL;DR: got first period and didn't know it was a period. 3 teachers and mom in tow bust into bathroom to "help."

15.) From TheSixofSwords:

I got my first period when I was 14 and started using the pads that my mom had preemptively given to me back when I was like 12 along with a G rated version of "the talk". I had mentioned to my mom that I'd gotten the period, but she's kinda air-headed and when I was desperately trying to decline a weekend trip to the beach with a friend (I was crampy, scared, and had no idea how to put a tampon in) she just kept saying things like "Honey, I don't understand! Are you having a fight? Why don't you want to go to the beach? Go with them!" Mind you this is in front of everyone...my brother, my father, my friend, and her parents.

I agreed to go, but when we got to the beach and everyone started getting ready to go swimming, I locked myself in the bathroom and cried. I opened up a tampon and was pretty sure how to get it in, but it kinda hurt when I tried and I was already halfway down the desperate self pity spiral. Eventually I confessed in tears to my friend and she calmed me down and taught me what to do. It was every bit as humiliating as it was scary. Even with the tampon in, I was afraid to swim the whole first day.

My mom says that she forgot about the period after I told her and just wanted me to have a good weekend with my friend. Thanks, mom.

16.) From Rachael09:

When i was in the 8th grade i finally got a nice pair of white pants because they were "in" at that point in time. While i was in my math class I sat in the front row and was the furthest from the door, I had no jacket with with me because it was a nice spring day. I remember feeling like i wet my pants and instantly knew what was going on. I sat there the whole time and it was an extremely heavy period too. I could see the red from where i was sitting and i cringed because class was coming to an end and i would have to get up and walk down the hall like that. Everyone left and i was still sitting there when my teacher (A male) came up to me and asked me if anything was wrong, and i embarrassingly told him what happened. He smiled a little and then grabbed his jacket and held it up for me to wrap around my stomach and walked me to the nurses office. My mom brought me a change of clothes and I threw away the white pants. Math was always awkward after that.

17.) ​​​​​​From ningnangnong:

Was at school and was on a really heavy flow day, had a tampon in and then i had a random sneezing fit, i managed to literally sneeze/squeeze the tampon out of me and into my underwear by accident, 10 gallons of blood followed, oh lordy the horror. D:

18.) From [deleted]:

There was a lake party that my boyfriend and a bunch of our friends had planned. Lucky me, I was heavily on my period when that weekend rolled around--but I didn't want to miss the fun, so I went anyway. When we were all hanging out at the lake, my tampon string was hanging out of my bikini bottom. My boyfriend thought it was a loose thread on my swimsuit, so he grabbed it. My boyfriend publicly pulled out my tampon.

19.) From AverageGiraffe:

Hehe... I started my period at work once and I had no pad. I worked in a restaurant at the time and to keep my hair out of my face I work handkerchiefs to keep my hair out of my face and whatnot, coincidentally on this day the kercheif was white. Naturally I use it as a pad while I drive to the convenience store to get some actual pads....with wings. I get out of my car, walk through the store, grab the pads, buy them and go to the bathroom.

As I turn on the light and turnaround in the bathroom, the bloody hankercheif is hanging out of the back of my pants! There were peoples behind me in line! I still had to put my pad on and walk out of the store. Top.That.

Naming a baby is definitely not an easy task...

Do you choose a classic name, a trendy name, or a unique one that nobody else will have? Do you pick a family name because you feel obligated to or do you choose a name that only means something to you and your partner? Then, of course, what if you really love a name but you knew someone in third grade who was really mean who also had that name and you're worried if you name your baby that then you'll always think of your Elementary School bully? Some couples stress about naming their children so much that they choose not to even tell anyone else the names they're considering until the baby is born in order to avoid swimming through a sea of useless and often rude opinions.

So, when a recent Reddit user asked, "Parents of Reddit, have you ever regretted what you named your child? If so, why?" people were ready to share their tales of naming disasters.

1.

We were going to name our daughter Milena, but then I told my OB/GYN father what our decision was for the name. I kid you not, but he said "That is a terrible name. You will regret it. It is very close to the medical term melena, and that means bloody tarry stools. You don't want me to link her name with poop for her whole life, do you?"

So needless to say, Milena was out. - roundmusic22

2.

My parents couldn’t agree on a name, so they agreed that my dad would get to name me if I was a boy, and my mom would name me if I was a girl. My dad, in all his greatness, settled on Wolfman Jack. Yeah, thank god I was born a girl. Thanks, mom. - Allxon

3.

Well I don’t think they regret it or care but my name is Latina and I’m black. I always get asked about it and have to explain that it was completely arbitrary and I speak no spanish - rainrain_throwaway11

4.

My name is Jessica, which is the name my dad wanted. Mom wanted to name me Clarissa. I was born early and they hadn’t settled on a name, a nurse suggested combining them... the seriously considered naming me Clarissica. They had even decided my nickname would be Rissy. I am so glad Mom decided Jessica was fine, I never would have forgiven them. - Jessilee113

5.

I knew an analeze once, and when she was 8, they realized that the unique spelling of her name was a popular personal lubricant - Froggetpwagain

6.

I was going to be named "osama" Thank god I was born in 2002 - GeraldHamster

7.

My dad regrets my name. He wishes he had named me after his father. When my parents had me both his younger brothers were engaged, so he figured they'll probably have sons and name him after their dad. Well one had two sons and the other had one. None of them need after my grandfather. My dad regrets picking the name he preferred and has said, "If I could go back in time, I would name you Thomas." - FallenAngel113

8.

My father regrets the name he gave me, because it's nearly identical to his name. Only difference is the middle name / initial- which rarely shows up on paperwork. So almost any time that either of us goes to do any paperwork or sign up for something, we run into issues involving our nearly identical names.

For example: We both face roughly a 20 minute delay when trying to vote because they mix up which of us is which. I receive his best buy receipts. He gets packages and mail meant for me and I for him. His credit card routinely pops up on my credit report, my student loan routinely pops up on his. - mxmnull

9.

I named one of my kids a name that I knew from childhood, but is french. Because I am so used to the name it didn't occur to me that everyone is going to mispronounce it for the rest of their life. - Magsi_n

10.

I named my daughter Karen. Thanks, Internet. - WreckNRepeat

11.

My birth mom named me Sabrina, after her favorite tv show, Sabrina the teenage witch. You can bet that when a certain someone from my middle school that for some reason absolutely hates me found out, he started calling me "Sabrina the teenage b*tch." I don't go by Sabrina at all, by the way. - CalleahWinters

12.

I know a girl who had a baby around 18 months ago with her husband (he's Mexican), and they named their child-- Corona. - beef999

13.

I was going to be named Eva until one of my parent's friends said: "Isn't that Hitler's wife?". Ya so that didn't happen. (I'm German by the way) - irinarea990

15.

My mom really really wanted to name Jaegermeister (take a wild guess at why.) My dad apparently got super mad.

I wish my name was Jaegermeister - useless_reaper

16.

I was named Clarice. Not after the detective in Silence of the Lambs or the reindeer in Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. My dad just thought it was pretty. Anyway, I've had a lot of people read my name, look up at me, grin, and say, "Hello, Clarice." - silentfoggynight

17.

My kid, Mike Hunt, just graduated as a gynecologist. So I guess I nailed it. - Surtock

A popular meme on Twitter is all about exposing who the real villains of pop culture are. While Miranda Priestly may be the eponymous "devil" in The Devil Wears Prada, the real villain is Andy's bro-ey boyfriend who is condescending about fashion and doesn't support her career. These memes expose the truth.

1. The Devil Wears Prada

2. Black Panther

3. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

4. Euphoria

5. Harry Potter

6. Breaking Bad

7. Glee

8. Game of Thrones

9. Sex and the City

10. High School Musical

11. Twilight

12. Titanic

13. Mean Girls

14. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

15. Jaws

16. Seinfeld

17. I Think You Should Leave

18. The Office

There are some situations that are so deeply, unbearably awkward that all you can do is breathe through it, and look back and laugh years later.

Some awkward moments show up as bizarre happenstances that affect everyone in the room, while others are created by rude, oblivious, or petty people. The most awkward of moments are etched in our brains forever, with all of the tension and embarrassment fresh for the reliving.

In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the most awkward moments they've experienced, and the anecdotes range from deeply amusing to straight-up tense.

1. From OP:

I dated a girl for 3 years in college and lived with her for two of those years. Her father had never liked me and never really talked to me. I was a year older and after graduating stayed behind a year to live with her while we figured out our future.

The week of her college graduation her extended family was in town to celebrate. They had two fancy dinner reservations two nights in a row. Work prevented me from going the first night, which I was invited to, and the second night I hadn't been invited. My gf called her aunt who had made the reservations and was told it was an oversight and of course I could come. The night of the dinner my GF's mom and dad show up to pick her up and I walk out with her and we get in the car. Her parents were obviously whispering very quickly with each other as I walk to the car, then say uh...so you're coming?? we only had reservations for a set number. My GF explains how the aunt added one to the reservation and we get in the car and start driving.

My GF had brought along some picture albums to show from a trip, and they were too big for the back seat where we were, so we stopped a ways down the road and I got out and put them in the trunk. As I'm out of the car I see that the father is talking very fast to my GF and her mom. I get back in and the father starts driving super slow. Finally he stops at a stop sign and puts the car in park and turns around and looks at me. He says "(My name), this is a family dinner. You aren't family. You weren't supposed to be invited." I sit there in silence for what seems like forever but was probably 15 seconds. I say "uhh.. should I get out of the car?" he says "Yes." I get out and he speeds off and I walk home.

2. From peachesandmolybdenum:

My grandparents (both in their late eighties) invited me to come down to Florida for spring break one year, and they said I could bring a friend. I was thrilled, and so was my friend M. She and I booked our tickets and were really excited for our trip.

About a week beforehand, Gram called me to talk logistics. What kind of food should they have for us? What kinds of things would we like to do? Would we be wanting to share a bed?

She kind of slipped that last one in there, and I (shocked) told her that M and I are not gay. I'm pretty sure she didn't believe me, because every morning at breakfast while we were there she told us about how there were several gays at her church and they were wonderful and the whole congregation was very open.

It was the cutest thing, but so awkward - especially when my WW2 vet grandpa (strong and silent) chimed in his acceptance.

TL;DR: my grandparents are extremely supportive of my nonexistent gay relationship.

3. From OprahLuvr:

I once went to my girlfriend's for Christmas in high school because my parents went on vacation. During dinner, her sister decides to announce, she's pregnant. She's a 20 year old, single college student. Who's the dad? My 27 year old cousin. They met at one of our family functions.

4. From Melvin8:

My most awkward moment:

I had been friends with this guy for 9 years. We were both sophomores in college, and he was home for Christmas break, staying with his parents. We discovered that we had feelings for each other, but decided we didn't want to date long distance. But, while he was home, we wanted to spend time together.

We were with a group of friends, but decided to go back to his house, just the two of us. He had asked his parents earlier in the day if he could have friends over. Well, his parents already disliked me. My brother had dated my friend's sister, and broke her heart. Whoops. So I show up at their house, with them expecting a group of people, and it's already awkward.

Then, my friend and I spent a couple of hours in his basement making out. By this time, it was pretty late (around 1:30 am.) He went upstairs to get his keys to drive me home, and when he came back downstairs his eyes were really wide, and he said, "I'm so so sorry!"

Apparently his mother was still awake, and refused to let him drive me home that late. So she decides it would be better if she drove me home. It was a 20 minute drive, and the car was completely silent.

5. From dorei22:

I used to babysit a 3 year old when I was in high-school. It was her birthday and her Dad invited me, I bought her a stuffed snake since she was into snakes, and some helium balloons, and showed up a few minutes early in case the parents needed some free babysitting while they set up.

I get there, and nobody is there except the Mom and the 3 year old, so I play with her and supervise while the Mom ignores I exist, which is cool she scares me anyways.

About an hour goes by, thinks are getting a bit awkward, nobody is showing up, I'm in their house being in the way, but leaving now would be rude, so I wait around.

Finally kids and family show up, the kids are upstairs, all these adults are sitting around the living room. And nobody acknowledges I am there. I smile and try to say hi but people just look away.

So I stand in a corner by the stairs waiting to be thanked so I can leave. And about another hour goes by, me just standing right there in the corner of the room, about 5 feet away from everyone, awkward as f*ck.

The Dad shows up and he stands right next to me, staring into space, sipping a beer. I try to chat with him but he just nods and stares off into space, ignored by the rest of the people as well.

Finally I'm thinking "f*ck this", so I announce I have to go, everyone just stares for a second, then turns away. So I just walk out of their house. No thank you, no bye, no hello, no offer of food or drink, no offer to sit down.

6. From BIG_JUICY_TITTIEZ:

When I was little, like 9-10 yrs old, I went over to my friend's house to chill and work on our science project. At about 5:00 just before the sun started to go down, my friend's dad called him and he told me "One second, I'll be right back!"

Jump forward 20 mins and my friend is still gone. I go look for him and his whole family is in the kitchen eating dinner. His dad asks me, "Oh hey, BIG_JUICY, do you know your way home?" I had no idea how to respond so I just grabbed my backpack and walked the two miles back home. It doesn't seem too bad to me now that I walk a few miles everyday but to chubby 10 year old me it was f*cking torturous.

I was so confused at the time as to what to do but looking back, the whole situation was extremely awkward for everyone involved and frankly, quite rude. They never offered me a ride home, some dinner or anything, they just sorta ignored me and then told me to get the f*ck out.

7. From MurphyFtw:

I was talking to a friend of mine about my upcoming formal (I think it's a prom in America). She said that she couldn't wait to go and that she had just bought the most beautiful dress, I was a bit confused because I didn't know she was going and asked her who was bringing her, she said John was (mutual friend, not his real name). Now this is where it gets awkward because I knew John had actually asked another girl we knew, I seen him ask. So I say to her "are you sure? I thought he was bringing x?"

She looks at me with a confused expression and gets out her phone to text John, we stand in awkward silence for what seems like an eternity until finally John replies, BUT TO MY PHONE asking me to tell her she isn't going. I show her the text and she just says "oh..." then looks at me and says "I have to get back to my mum", and practically runs away holding back tears. As it turns out, John asked our friend, then decided he didn't want to bring her anymore and just asked X instead without ever telling her! I have never felt so awkward than when I was having that conversation, and have never been so furious at someone as I was at John.

8. From kylekincer:

Our school marching takes a trip to Orlando, Florida every 4 years, and I went as a sophomore. The entire trip, a girl in my section that I had been friends with for a long time began flirting with me, holding my hand and whatnot. After the week was over, basically everyone knew there was a "thing" between us.

Now, we are sitting by each other on the way home on the bus, nearly back to our hometown, napping under a blanket when she slowly undoes my belt and reaches inside my pants. It is 3 in the afternoon, broad daylight. We both continue to pretend to be sleeping, then I hear the girl in the seat directly in front of us say "Look, is she-" followed by dead silence in the back of the bus. She slowly withdraws her hand from my shorts, leaving me to refasten my own belt whilst pretending to be unconscious.

TL;DR I received an unsatisfactory handski in full view of 15-16 people in the back of a bus.

9. From Avesa:

Way back in high school, my then-boyfriend was over visiting at my house. I decided to be nice and heat up some leftovers for him from the fridge. Right as I set down the plate, my dad walks in and says "that is our food." and takes the plate away from him and sits down to eat it at the opposite end of the table. I just stood there in painfully awkward silence until my dad finished and left.

10. From dojijosu:

I was the only guy in a class of 25 students for "Psychology of Women." That day's topic was domestic abuse, and the prof wanted to set the tone by asking everyone to close their eyes and engage in a visualization exercise. She wants us to think, in great detail, about how the typical domestic abuse incident plays out. She starts asking questions and various students provide answers. "Who is the victim?" "A woman." "Who is the aggressor?" "A man." Why is he abusing her?" "He came home from work, and dinner was cold..." and so on.

It is established through this exercise that the imaginary couple are poor, the man drinks, and they live in a trailer home. Then she asks "What did he do to her?" And someone says "He pushed her down the stairs." The girl next to me whispers (in a way that no one hears) "There aren't stairs in a trailer home." which causes me to do a loud sputter laugh (in a way which everyone hears.) I spend the next hour and a half in a room full of 26 women who think I think beating women is hilarious. C+ for the class.

tl;dr: Classmate's snarky comment in a Psych of Women class caused the all-female class to think I was amused by violence against women.

11. From babyminnow:

My SO is a "quarter black", or however you want to say it; his grandfather was black, and came from Mauritius.

First time my parents ever met my SO, during our first ever meal together, my mother comes out with;

"Gosh, your cheekbones really do look like the cheekbones of a black man. Very tribal."

I wanted to excuse myself from the table and just die in the corner.

*Edit: More awkward fun betwixt my family and my SO's family. His parents had three kids and then got married a lot later, when my SO was in his teens, he was best man at their wedding. My parents got married before having me. So when I tell my parents this, my mother responds with, "Wow, are they like a hippy family?" My SO tells his mother this response from my mother, and she reportedly counters with "Well, she's the wife that got divorced and re-married, so if there's any liberal here.....it's her".

12. From Riggem404:

Five years ago I had to have back surgery from a head on collision due to a drunk driver (another story, another time).

My mother has never liked my girlfriend (of 4 years) very much. My college educated, well mannered, non-substance abusing girlfriend. (I think it all stems from the fact that she used to come visit me in college at PSU. I'm assuming she didn't like her sleeping in the same bed with me.)

So the day of the surgery my father takes me to the hospital for the procedure. As we are waiting my mother and my sister show up, and very shortly after my girlfriend shows up. My mother, very audibly says, "What's that WHORRRRE doing here?" My girlfriend, being the bigger person, doesn't say anything in retaliation but I do see her eyes start to tear up.

One of the nurses came in shortly after and said that the doc will be in soon, and that I should only let one person stay in the room. Everyone else should leave. My Dad, sister, and girlfriend all reach for their coats so they could leave the room. My mother expected me to say she could stay and I said, "I'd like (my girlfriend) to stay." My mother was very pissed.

Very awkward, and lets just finish with the fact that my mother was not pleased when I recently made the announcement that my girlfriend had become my fiance.

*Oh, and now that the story is finished.... go back to the top. Remember that drunk driver who hit me? I bet you pictured a man. Nope, a woman...WITH HER 10 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER IN THE CAR. I'm not a parent, but that makes me sick.

13. From theJUIC3_isL00se:

I was at a bar with the girl I'm dating and her roommate when I received a text from a good female friend of mine from high school: she was in town and wanted to meet up. I invited her to join the three of us for drinks.

When she shows up, she gives me a big hug and starts talking to me intently. My date's roommate quickly misinterprets the nature of our friendship, looks at my high school friend and says, "I think it's pretty obvious you aren't wanted here, so you should probably leave."

Now my date and I looked at her in disbelief as if we couldn't believe that just came out of her mouth. My friend, however was more quick to respond.

She downed her drink, stood up from the table and said, "well you're fat and ugly, so I win," and walked away.

14. From Kelzer66:

I was told to move my vehicle from GF's driveway because "it's dirty." I lived on a gravel road and the mom didn't want neighbors to see it apparently. She also freaked out when I wore khaki shorts to their country club for dinner. I was never informed of a dress code. She wanted me to pretend to be a foreign exchange student. It didn't help that I met their daughter through mowing their lawn the previous summers. Apparently she felt that the "help" was not worthy of her daughter.

15. From LokiMythology:

I was out at a bar with a few friends having dinner and drinks, while watching the hockey game. Mid way through dinner I have to excuse myself to go use the restroom. I walk into the bathroom and there are two urinals and two stalls. One of the stalls was occupied while the other was missing a door. The business I had to conduct needed a stall. So I decided to wait a minute or two for the other one to free up. After about 5 minutes things start to get urgent. I decide to use the stall without the door. I figured if anyone walked in they would understand and it wouldn't be that bad.

After sitting down for maybe a minute, a man walks into the bathroom. He sort of takes a peak into the stall, and then asks: "Hey there is no door, it looks broken." I assure him that he is correct and the door is in fact non existent. He then asks me what I was doing in the stall. I gave him a quick explanation of my predicament. He nods and goes about using a urinal. I was relieved thinking that conversation was over. WRONG. He finishes and sits on the counter facing me and starts having a chat about the hockey game. Its amazing how unnerving it is to make eye contact with someone while taking a sh*t.

I tried to keep my answers short and made it clear I was in no mood to chat. However he kept insisting on making small talk with me. After a solid 5-10 minutes of this going on, he finally leaves. I quickly start to clean up and hope to god that no one else comes in. The guy was gone for 15 seconds before he popped his head back into the bathroom and asks: "hey you sitting at the bar?". With my hand cleaning my a*s, I said NO.

TL;DR Got forced into small talk by someone who was observing me taking a sh*t.

16. From metal-head:

I'm currently dating a Pakistani girl. I was over at her house watching a movie and I brought sort of jokingly that she owed me $20 (she did, normally I wouldn't care but I needed gas money). This escalated and we had a little argument and were just silent for a while, which is normal for us when we have an argument, we just shut up and let it pass. So 5 minutes later or so her parents and aunt come down stairs to watch the movie with us, this is where it starts to get awkward.

They notice we aren't speaking to each other and her father starts speaking to her in Urdu, she sort of just brushes him off in English, "not now dad" He says something again, then her mom says something, then her aunt says something. My girlfriend again basically just says "not now" in English. (mind you its not uncommon for them to speak Urdu around me, its their first language after all).

So they keep talking in Urdu, gesturing at me, my girlfriend is becoming more and more visibly upset, I have NO idea what is happening at this point. Eventually she just goes to her room. I'm left sitting there while her mom and aunt watch the movie and chat in Urdu (the aunt's English isn't very good) and her father glances between me and the movie. I excuse myself to go to the bathroom and then go talk to my girlfriend. Her family was asking what happened but she just wanted a little privacy. I seriously had no idea what was happening.

TLDR; my GF's pakistani family was arguing about me in Urdu while I was sitting next to them, I had no idea what was happening

EDIT: A few people have been saying its rude to speak a foreign language in front of those who don't speak it. While I agree this has NEVER been an issue before, and hasn't since then. These people have treated me like a son since I started dating their daughter. They're kind people.

17. From racist_pizza_man:

I spent the weekend at my girlfriend's place when I was 19, she lived two hours away. I went to take a shower one night and I apparently forgot to lock the door. As I opened the curtains, her mother opened the bathroom door. I stood there for a second in shock, grabbed the towel I always hang over the curtain rod then covered my nether region. She stood in the doorway staring at me for a good ten seconds, looking me up and down.

She finally blinks her eyes and quickly exits. I dry off and go into my girlfriend's room and tell her what happened and she gets mad at me. The next morning my girlfriend gets up before me and her mom comes into the room. I'm awake but just laying there in bed. She asks my girlfriend if I told her what happened the night before and she says yes. Her mom says, "He's got a niiice body, don't lose that one." Her mom exits the room and my girlfriend is now pissed at me again. She was an unreasonably jealous person.

TL;DR: my ex's mom (girlfriend at the time) walks in on me naked after a shower and compliments my manliness to my ex. Ex gets mad at me.

18. From cowboyJones:

A friend wanted me to find a date for a formal our fraternity was having. I asked a few girls and they had other things to do. So I called a girl that I usually danced with at a few dances. She picks up the phone, I reply who I am and ask if she wanted to go to the winter formal that was coming up. I overhear her say to her roommate "It's that stupid boy who always asks me to dance". She agreed.

Fast forward a few months later, and I got introduced to her roommate, I knew who she was. As soon as I can, I tell her "I was the stupid boy who kept asking your roommate to dance". Her eyes got really big and she said "You heard that?" I had a good laugh about it.

19. From GovernmentOrphan:

Two nights ago I was sitting in the emerge with my mother in the bed. She had fallen and hit her head during one of her routine diazepam(Valium), Tylenol, and wine binges. Her eyes were entirely black and she was completely unresponsive.

So I called 911. After dealing with the ambulance driving into the wrong driveway and waking up they entire neighbourhood. We got her into the ambulance quickly. When we arrived at the hospital the nurses doing intake where continuously whispering to each-other and giving me nasty looks, like the state my mother was in my somehow my fault. After sitting with her for 3 hours and her ripping the iv out of her arm 3 times. The only words she said for the 3 hours before she passed out, were a slurred, repeated "I hate you".

Her bed in the emergency ward happened to be right next to the nurses station, and I could hear them talking about her/me they entire time I was there. By the time I went home all I could read in there eyes was a kind of pity.

I figure this will get buried but all of it will probably stick with me forever.

20. From system_has_failed:

After having my second child I went to the craft store to buy art supplies. As I lifted my youngest child into the cart at the front of the store in clear view of the street and the cash register with waiting customers, my three sizes too big pants fell to the floor revealing my granny panties. My 2 year old son let out a howl and pointed at me. I quickly collected him and ran to hide at the back of the store. After awhile I made a mad dash, paid for my stuff and got the hell out of there.

The politics of who pays for a wedding can be complicated enough. One family is making things even more dramatic by distributing wedding funds to their two daughters based on how much they've already given the girls over the course of their young adulthood.

The mom of this family wrote to Reddit asking whether she and her husband are a-holes for doing this.

The daughters both recently got engaged:

My husband (59M) and I (61F) have 2 daughters - Ava (33F) & Jen (28F). They both recently got engaged to be married. We love both of their partners and are so happy for them.

Ava has been self-sufficient from a young age:

Ava moved out at 18 and never asked us for money. She went to college for a semester, but decided it wasn't for her. Though Ava has had severe struggles with her mental health since she was a child, she has been very responsible in taking care of herself. She goes to therapy regularly and takes her meds. She's always had a steady job and great work ethic. Now she works at a prestigious company, making $200k.

Jen has needed a little extra TLC:

Jen was a happy child, but her mental health tanked when she went off to college. My husband & I paid for everything... tuition, car, phone, apartment, food, etc. Every semester we'd get a tearful phone call where she'd admit she bombed her classes (bc she wasn't going) and couldn't get out of bed in the morning. After 2 years of this, she moved back in with us. It was HELL. Each day was spent begging Jen to take her meds, go to therapy, and follow treatment plans.

She took longer to leave the nest:

She went back to school locally but continued to fail. She kept getting tickets for speeding & texting while driving, and wrecked 2 vehicles beyond repair. We were hemorrhaging money, which drove a wedge in our marriage. Finally, we cut off any funds that weren't necessary to keep Jen fed and clothed. At this point, she had lived with us for 4 years. I was able to get her a job by calling in a favor. By now Jen had been dating her boyfriend for a year, so they decided to move in together.

Even after Jen left home, she bounced back for a bit — and now she still lives at home:

A year later, my husband and I decided to move closer to Ava. Jen and her partner wanted to come too. It was difficult for them to line up new jobs, not being local. So we agreed they could move in with us for 3 months in the new city, so they could find jobs. Jen's boyfriend quickly got a job, but Jen hardly took any initiative. She was insanely picky, with unrealistic expectations. Then covid hit. So her chances of landing a job now are all but gone. They still live with us.

Both daughters announced their engagements last week:

Last week Ava and her partner came over for dinner - where Ava & Jen both announced their engagements. We had a great little celebration as a family. Yesterday my husband & I discussed how much $ we could gift the girls for the weddings. We decided on $10k each. But then, we realized how much more we had spent on Jen in her adult life compared to Ava.

The parents tallied up their contributions to both daughters' lives thus far:

We had spent around $100k on Jen ...and zero on Ava. So we decided on $12.5k for Ava and $7.5k for Jen. We were upfront with Jen about this, and our reasoning behind it. She LOST HER MIND. She said we were punishing her for being depressed, accused us of favoritism, and said Ava doesn't need help because she's "rich". In our minds, this is about trying to equalize things between our kids. So... are we the AHs?

The people of Reddit agree that the parents can spend their money however they please — but some also say they're creating a messy situation by doling it out unequally.

Dsquzhpbunt says:

you don't owe either of them any money, and it's generous that you're giving (or ever gave, beyond necessity) them any at all.

But they add:

On the other hand, this is a bizarre was to try to "equalize things"— $2500 ≠ 100K. I don't think you should think about it in terms of equalization, unless you're prepared to give Ava the extra $97,500 too.

Both daughters are getting married; you have 20K budgeted. So give them each 10K. Anything else is borrowing trouble

MyRedd1taccount says:

Fair doesn’t always mean equal.

You need to support your kids in the way they need it, and when they need it. You went above and beyond to help one daughter with her day to day struggles. There is nothing wrong with helping the other a little more with her wedding.

And they add that everything doesn't always have to be equal:

I understand why your daughter might be upset, but you’re not doing anything wrong here.

What if (god forbid) one of them got into an accident and need $100k in medical treatments. Would you expect to find some way to spend $100k on the other child? Buy them a Mercedes maybe?

There’s no reason you need to split the wedding fund evenly.

Ashes_falldown says this could be avoided if they set firmer boundaries with Jen:

However, you have to stop enabling Jen. When she said she wanted to move when you did, why did you offer her and her boyfriend a play to live? You should have said, “Great! Let us know when you’ve settled in to your new place and we can get together for dinner.”

I hope you have given her and her fiancé a move out by date. If they are mature enough to get married then they are mature enough to support themselves.

Syvas757 put it bluntly:

You're a saint to still be giving her anything at all.

So parents of the world, when it comes to paying for your adult children's milestones... it's your money, do it the way you want!

“ You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

- Mae West.

You only live once, so don't miss out on a single chance to laugh. These memes are sure to make you giggle this morning.

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History is a fun subject. But considering just how much stuff has happened over the years, the history classroom can be a wild place.

When history teachers tell kids about things that happened 10, 50, or 100+ years ago, the students' responses might be pretty WTF. A recent Reddit thread asked people who teach history to share the most interesting or concerning response they got from students.

1. The pronunciation of "colonel" is maddening, to be fair.

I taught history and my students were blown away over the pronunciation of colonel. They thought colonial times were classified that way because of “Colonial” Washington. I should also mention they were fourth graders. - dahopppa

2. The poor spinster.

In a college music history class, one student wrote on her exam:

"Bach had 20 children, 2 wives, and practiced on a spinster in the attic."

Surely, she must've meant to have said "spinet." - Back2Bach

3. Resourceful kids.

I teach 4th grade, and it's a history lesson focused on sources, like what makes a good source and what makes a bad source(its a lot more nuanced but still), I give my students the task of finding out how old the school is. My idea, when I planned the lesson, was that they would go out along the school and find a couple a bricks with the year on it or a plaque. Some of the students did that, and got mixed results, another found a website with the exact age and picture of when it was founded, took them awhile to do.

The last group just went up to the principal and got every answer straight from him.

It was awesome, I loved that they had the balls to do that. I made sure to give credit where it was due. The principal thought it was a laugh as well. - Fokken_Prawns

4. This teacher was shocked to hear a fourth-grader deny the Holocaust.

4th grade. We are reading Number the Stars. Day after i give my primer about the Holocaust, many kids first introduction to not only the Holocaust but the Nazis at all, a kid tells me "My mom says the Holocaust didnt happen, and is a myth." This was a student from a country where Nazis are strangely idealized to this day.

[I told her to read the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel.] We talked about it a bit, and I said that I was sorry she had to see that but it was extremely important she understood that it was real and that it was one of one of the worst things that has ever happened.

I could have gotten into trouble for that one but I didnt really care. - verystonnobridge

5. Uhh WHAT?

I used to teach like history “exam trainings” for high school students, and in the part about the Holocaust, one of them said something like: “Yeah, but Jews just are really weird right?” That was a pretty concerning response if you ask me. - Ninnino007

6. Very messed up.

I'm not a history teacher but my teacher told us a story once. He had assigned a paper on Martin Luther King Jr. One of his students found the website that the KKK made to try to make MLK look bad. It had stuff like he had many affairs and a drug problem. The dude wrote his entire paper using that one source.

The site has been since been taken down. - Kerberos--

7. Is the pulp Catholic?

Teaching about the Church in Europe during the medieval period. Kid asks "Isn't the Pope that stuff in the orange juice?" Smdh - lady_days_of_summer

8. Interesting theory.

Hitler killed himself because he had really bad social anxiety/depression and the idea of having to stand in a court and talk to people made him so anxious he killed himself.

A student said this during a presentation and I had zero idea how to respond, honestly I still don’t. - Dobbys_Other_Sock

9. We've all wondered about this, let's be honest...

Teaching about the start of the Civil War. Asked the question, "Why didn't Lincoln just let the South go?"

At first, the consensus was, "He should have." - SucculentStanley

10. Good lesson!

Just before starting the unit on the American Revolution, I told my class of juniors the administration was upset with how many tardies there were already in the school year. Since money is a powerful motivator, the board approved some financial penalties.

If you are late, you must pay $2.00 for a tardy slip.

If you want to know your current grade average in any class, that will cost $2.00.

If you want to print anything, you have to purchase school paper at $0.75 per sheet. (Color prints are $1.50 each page.)

Any other paperwork they want (such as report cards, permission slips, etc.) has to have a stamp from the main office that costs $2. Any papers without the stamp will be considered a forgery and whoever holds it will receive a detention (that costs $10).

Then I went into a lesson about the Declaration of Independence. While doing this, I read the room. Some seemed not to care, but many were pissed. One guy who showed up late almost every day was seriously upset. (And yes, a few knew what I was doing and sat there quietly smiling.)

That's when I apologized for my ruse, explained there were no such charges, and described how this mirrored taxation during the lead-up to the Revolution.

The response was amazing! We talked about what everyone felt over the fake charges, and that dovetailed nicely into colonial sentiment towards Great Britain and why the colonists were upset. All students got it, and that's both rare and interesting. - wjmacguffin

11. But Leonardo DiCaprio wasn't born back then???

I was surprised to learn "people these days" didn't know the movie Titanic was based on an actual event. - coldEngineBadBrakes

12. Must have been a big wrestling fan.

I personally found it adorable when a young man at my very Southern undergrad college angrily and dramatically stamped out of class one day when our history professor pointed out that the naked male figures on some Greek vases were not wrestling. - Terpsichorean_Wombat

13. It's the thought that counts... ?

9th grade World History class. I did a whole unit on the European wars of religion. The common theme was that religious intolerance led to wars, massacres, persecutions, etc. And all this ended during the Enlightenment when people figured out that freedom of religion worked just fine. On the unit test, one moron wrote that the US would be better off if everyone was forced to be the same religion, because then there wouldn't be any religious violence. No, dummy, that's not the takeaway here! - Lavender-Jenkins

14. Awkward.

One of my third graders asked me where Jesus was born when we were talking about immigration. I said that was a question for home. Another kid yelled “in a barn, dummy”. I had to change the subject fairly quickly after I told the kid not to call people a dummy. - OhioMegi

15. She has a point.

Told my class that Henry Ford essentially invented the weekend. A girl asked "did he at least win a Grammy?" I have a notebook full of good quotes. - elemonator5

16. The question stands.

The teacher began talking about how one way early Christians were persecuted was being stoned to death.

One of my classmates, not the brightest in the class, asked, "How can you die from smoking weed?"

The teacher and the class burst out laughing. The teacher calmed everyone down to correct my classmate. - Dinky_Di

17. Someone's been watching too much "Drunk History."

Me: Okay does anyone know who killed Abraham Lincoln?

Student: I think it was John Stamos Booth. - loonechoboy

A recent blog post on Goop has received backlash after Gwyneth Paltrow revealed she gifted her 14-year-old son a 450-piece puzzle featuring illustrations of boobs.

In the post, Paltrow wrote about how her family is managing quarantine, her current go-to recipes, and a list of recent purchases to keep the family entertained. Among the purchases was Trivial Pursuit, and the puzzle she got her son Moses just for fun.

While Paltrow is no stranger to critique, this reveal ushered in a fresh batch of internet commenters who had strong opinions about whether it's inappropriate to give your teen son a puzzle full of boobs.

Several people wrote that it would be a funny gag for a fellow adult, but the optics of it feel deeply cringe, particularly when you consider what it would look like if genders were reversed.

Ultimately, the internet's responses to the puzzle can be summed up in a few GIFs:

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court made a major decision to uphold a Trump administration regulation that could result in as many as 126,000 women losing birth control coverage from their employers.

Under the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration required employers to provide coverage for contraception through a signature initiative called the “contraception mandate,” that the Trump administration has since tried to limit. If employers have moral or religious objections to the use of contraception or birth control, the Trump administration regulation argues that they have a right to limit their employees' access to it. Does God care about how people are being responsible with their family planning and sexual health during a global health crisis on a rapidly melting planet? Some people definitely think so!

According to the New York Times, religious groups have praised the decision as John Bursch, a lawyer with Alliance Defending Freedom, said, "The government has no business forcing pro-life and religious organizations to provide drugs and devices that can destroy life." Of course, pro-choice groups and organizations that fight for accessible birth control options are not supporting the Trump administration's choice.

The debate has been raging on Twitter over whether or not birth control, which has many health benefits for people other than simply preventing pregnancy, should be covered by employers who offer healthcare. So, here are the best recent tweets we could find about the right to IUDs, the pill, the patch, the shot, Nuva rings, and other birth control methods. Enjoy and stay safe (in bed), everyone!

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The best thing about secondhand embarrassment is that it's secondhand.

People shared the most humiliating moments they ever had the misfortune (or privilege) of witnessing, and you'll be grateful you don't have the balls to ever propose in public.

Most of them stores are funny, like the kind of stories you'd read in the back pages of a 2000s-era teen magazine. The ones about periods, however, are straight up traumatizing.

Warning for genitals, bodily fluids, and rejected proposals.

1. Everybody poops.

My Junior year in college, i was taking a Demographics class. About 100 students in a lecture hall. The teach used a wireless clip-on mic. One day, she gives us an assignment and leaves the room. She left her mic on by accident. The next 5 minutes, 100 students listened to the sounds of our 60 year old, female teacher taking the most massive, loud dump in the history of mankind. It was piping through the speakers at full volume. Every single student was in one of those full 'i'm crying i'm laughing so hard' uncontrollable fits. The sounds that came out of that woman were ungodly. -fah_cue

2. You'd fake your own death and get a new life too if it happened to you.

I watched a friend propose to his long-time girlfriend, who then rejected him.

It was at a huge science fiction convention, and my friend, whom we'll call "Brad," had been dating long-time girlfriend and costume maker, "Janet." Brad was nearly 15 years older than her; he was in his late 30s, and she was in her early 20s. She was... a little quiet and reserved. It always seemed like she was bored and not very interactive around him. He always did the kissing, the hand holding, and so on and she always just stood there, smiling politely. Brad wanted me to make the formal announcement in a large gathering of about 100-200 people. So I did, and Brad got on stage with Janet, and he proposed. I can still remember the look on her face: alarmed, sad, and then pity.

"No, Brad. Just... no," she said quietly. Then she ran away in an awkward gait. I don't think she was crying, but Brad looked HORRIBLE. Later, I found out, she didn't contact him for a week, and when she did, she showed up with his things and a formal apology that she led him on and so on. She dumped him. Said she was really sorry. Brad was... crushed. And so embarrassed I haven't seen him since, and that was almost 15 years ago. -punkwalrus

3. Don't propose or prom-pose in public.

I was in my high school journalism class. We were working late trying to finish the paper. Prom was coming up.

When everything was quiet, our editor suddenly breaks in to a full on song and dance number. He's dancing on tables, singing (poorly) and throwing flowers everywhere. He makes his way over to this shy girl in the class, gets down on one knee, and asks her to the dance.

She says no.

At that very moment, someone was finishing their soda, and it made that empty straw sound. Brutal. -ArtieLives5

4. Get you a friend who will spill Coke on your urine.

My friend peed herself in the middle of a busy pizza parlor when we were in middle school, we were sitting at a table when it happened. The only thing I could think to do was dump my glass of Coke all over her to cover it up before anyone noticed. It worked, thank god. -bigsammm

5. Congratulations! And also, sorry.

I was on dance team and we were all in black, but one girl, she wore white. She started her period in that costume for the first time on stage. -HAYHAY22

6. I worked at a porn shop for 6 years. So i have PLENTY of those stories.

Like the older married couple coming in and buying gay porn and a big black dildo, for instance. The look on the wife's face will haunt me. -MrRushing

7. Truly traumatizing.

[My sister] was still embarrassed about her period and would hide her pads in her backpack. USED pads. We slept outside in sleeping bags but had a "teepee" to put our bags and stuff in. One day after activities, the kids in her "teepee" noticed a giant trail of ants going to her stuff. When she wasn't there, they emptied her bag finding dozens of used bloody pads. They took them and pinned them to the surrounding trees, throwing them at people and screaming at her for being gross. I think it scarred her for life. -EpicPickle

8. Which base is barf?

At a party with a friend ... he was flirting with a girl ... he leaned in to kiss her and hurled all over her face. -blaine_the_mulleted

9. It's experimental filmmaking.

A friend of mine had a video camera back in the day, a pretty big one with a big strap to hang it from your neck.

He'd been recording the hydroplane races and took a quick break to go to the bathroom. He forgot to stop recording.

That night we're sitting around watching his newly shot footage, which turns to a shot of feet walking and him pulling his penis out to go pee. We sat there for about 20 awkward seconds while a stream of piss is ejected into the urinal.

After he zips up on the video, his sister quips, "I guess that's what they call two shakes and a pull, eh?" -macsmith230

10. Hopefully she ate cheese on the way to the hospital.

A bunch of us were invited to a Dean's house for formal meeting and a friend asked to use the bathroom which was on the other side of the kitchen. When she was returning, she quietly peeked in the 'fridge and spotted a beautiful block of cheese. She hastily grabbed a knife from a nearby butcher-block and, while trying to sneak a tasty chunk, lopped a large piece of her finger off instead. -tomparker

11. Golly, not the willy!

It was a hot summer (they happen occasionally in England) and everyone was outside in any park or green space available.
We were walking over a bridge, where a massive bunch of kids were playing in the river in their pants (underwear). One chunky kids does a big running jump cannon ball into the river, making a big splash. When he surfaced and climbed out of the river everyone is looking at him and laughing. He thought it was because of his diving shenanigans, but it was really because his boxershorts had come open. As he stood with his hands on his hips, beaming with pride, his tiny penis was being neatly framed by his wet, gaping underwear. -kittybot

12. Never forget.

Girl in my homeroom class in middle school let out the BIGGEST sneeze/fart during a school-wide moment of silence the day 9/11 happened. That was pretty terrible. -Table_biscuit

13. The reason is that she sh*t her pants.

I was on a rollercoaster and the girl next to me shit her pants. I just felt really bad for her for some reason. -orex1

Before COVID, there was another pandemic plaguing humanity. The stupidity-virus. Not only is it a killer, but it's extremely embarrassing.

Someone asked Reddit: "what's the most outright stupid thing somebody has said to you?" These 29 people share their stories of mind-bending stupidity that might make you ashamed of our species:

1.) From Bornnothing1:

Happy Holocaust. She thought it was Jewish Christmas.

2.) From SlawStudent:

"How aren't there more twins? Do pregnant women just stop banging?"

3.) From EverElusiveKudo:

Someone who will remain unidentified said that I didn't really give birth to my firstborn because c sections don't count, they're the easy way out.

It was an emergency c section because the umbilical cord was getting compressed with every push, after a 56 hour labour with inducing and back labour. 12 years later, the scar still aches if I exercise and my menstrual cramps focus along the scar line. Right. The easy way.

4.) From thisisfdup:

"All bad stuff happen on Friday the 13th. 9/11 happened on Friday the 13th.."

5.) From Hugh_Jury_Rection:

My mom's boyfriend is a treasure trove of stupid.

1. He told my little brother that it was okay to swim far out into the ocean if you see dolphins because dolphins eat sharks.

2. He told me my half sister and I were full siblings because we share the same mom. He thinks half siblings are only children that have same father different mother.

6.) From thehottiewithabody:

I got told once that I seemed like I was born in the United States and that my English was almost perfect. And she was very sure that I was one of the “good ones”

Plot twist: I’m Salvadoran, and I was born in the United States and my majors are criminal justice and accounting. English is my first language

7.) From CaptainMcAnus:

New York is the largest state in the US.

He repeated this on three separate occasions and had to be corrected each time.

Edit: He meant size as in square footage. I had to remind him of the existence of Alaska and Texas.

8.) From ImSoSpiffy:

Last night my dad (who got all of this information from facebook) told me:

When the “vaccine” comes ot, dont get it. Trump and gates developed ‘the current pandemic’ to get people to buy the vaccine. But inside the vaccine is a skew number that will transmit your information, like your name, location, and what car you drive, ect, to the authorities. Thats why Gates invented 5G, cause the skew number will run off that

Me: W-Wha..... Ya know, its not even worth arguing, night dad

I really wish i was joking

9.) From Firree:

"I actually drive better when I'm drunk!"

The logic of trying to justify being a shitty driver by arguing you would be better at something that's even more reckless, irrefutably dangerous, and illegal.

10.) From iBelieveInSpace:

My friend who I worked with and is ~40 thinks dinosaurs are fake. He also went on a legitimate "Squach-hunt" a few years back.

I'm trying to be clear here:

Dinosaur fossils are part of the museum/geologist agenda. Big Foot and Sasquatch are a present-day threat.

11.) From Ike_Snopes:

Vaccines are the mark of the beast and Bill Gates is trying to inject microchips in people. Or my neighbor who says sea level rise isn't real because ice occupies more volume than water, as if all the ice is currently in the water

12.) From BrutalNutritionist:

“Did you know the moon isn’t the back of the sun”

From a 30ish year old woman who was also an assistant manager of where I worked at the time.

13.) From fireflyfly3:

An ex boyfriend was livid that I was spending a lot of time with my best friend from high school, who is a gay man. ExBF explained that all penises are really straight, but it’s the brain that tells someone they’re gay. Also, that gay men who are nice to women can’t possibly really be gay, since they have no use for women.

14.) From FormerAccident2292:

Do you speak Mexican ?

15.) From TheBrainEnthusiast:

Have you ever scanned someones head and there was no brain in it?

(I do MRI studies in neuroscience)

16.) From Flashy-Peanut:

The Earth is flat because gravity doesn’t exist.

17.) From Racing_in_the_street:

“ Billionaires don’t exist “

They then proceeded to tell me how I am mistaken and that it’s impossible for someone to have a billion dollars. That they can only have millions of millions.

18.) From mk744s:

“Wait, you cheated on the test!” (I got like a 90) “Huh? No I didn’t. What makes you think that?” “Your teacher told me you were autistic! Autistic people can’t be smart.”

An actual substitute teacher with years of experience told me this. We never saw her again.

19.) From RS_07:

Oh you live in Russia. Do you live in Ukraine or Moscow?

20.) From Allyeknowonearth:

I dressed my 6 yr old and 2 yr old in matching dresses. Someone asked if they were twins.

21.) From kerensavanitas16:

In my grade 10 history class, the girl who sat next to me turned to me and asked "What was Hitler's last name?"

I thought she was just kidding so I laughed. She kept staring at me waiting for an answer.

"Oh, you're seriously asking."

22.) From Klavian:

You live in Finland? How do you get Internet in you igloos? How often do you see polar bears and are they dangerous?

My answer was that we drill a hole for the cable through the ice. The penguins are at least as vicious and a danger to us as polar bears.

23.) From historyiscoolman:

is Africa a country?

24.) ​​​​​​​From notchangedlater:

"Was your injury fatal?" Yes yes it was...

25.) From _MamaBear_:

A man once told me child birth doesn't hurt...I was pregnant at the time. 🤦

26.) ​​​​​​​From Back2Bach:

"We should bring back the guillotine because it's more efficient than the legal system and jails."

27.) From enterthedragynn:

Lady wanted to return her cat litter because "I have been feeding it to him for 2 days, and he still want eat it".

28.) From PipBucket:

"If the Earth is round, why doesn't all the water go to the bottom"

29.) ​​​​​​​From RoroFandom:

When my fifth grade teacher asked if we’ve been to a different country, and someone responded “Yeah, I’ve been to Florida.”

The glowing moments right after sex can inspire the most bonding and memorable pillow talk, but they can also be moments of deep awkwardness, word vomit, and major foot-in-mouth.

Even the most grateful and happy of sexual partners has their mental blips, and those blips can transform post-coital moment from romantic to weird as hell. Luckily, some of these exchanges are so ridiculously bad they're funny again.

In a popular Reddit thread, women shared the dumbest things men have said right after sex, and these confirm just how much blood leaves our heads during the act.

1. From mizzlol:

I have a tattoo of the world on my back. This guy was f*cking me doggy style and pulled out to come on my back. He then exclaimed, “woah, there’s a tsunami in Australia!” I fell on my face laughing so hard.

2. From mentalinfiltration:

OOOH boy...I was hooking up with this guy in his on-campus apartment, which he shared with his brother. Brother wasn’t home, so we were doing the do with the bedroom door open (not smart anyway). Brother comes home in the middle of it, sees straight through the hallway into the room. He fumbles around and then leaves.

I’m embarrassed and kinda want to get outta there but he wants to finish so I think what the hell, his brother left anyway so why not. I wonder if he’s close to c*mming so I ask, “are you close?” And he responds with, “Yeah, we’re brothers”

3. From tejavuu:

He said “Alexa, play you’re welcome” and the speakers from each side of his bed began to serenade us with Dwayne The Rock Johnson’s voice as Maui from Moana. Luckily we both got a pretty good laugh out of it.

4. From travis01564:

This one is kind of the reverse since I'm a guy. But I was eating my ex out under the covers and in the dark with just my tv on.

(just how she liked it or I must be ugly, idk lol)

Anyways so I went to go kiss he and fool around some more. She took one look at my face and said, "babe I think I'm on my period"

My dumba*s asked why.

It tasted a little odd but I wasn't very experienced yet.

5. From painted_again:

He told me, with all the sincerity in the world as some weird complement: "You would make a great single mother."

6. From Its-my-dick-in-a-box:

I've said a lot of stupid sh*t. The worst was probably "Do you like egg sandwiches?"

Its a full brain re-boot, sometimes programs load up to desktop before we have a chance to close them.

7. From sharknadothree:

“Mind if I hit this?” And then he pulled out a vape pen he’d hidden under the bed. My bed. Specifically for this reason.

Edit: He was not being ironic. He also dumped me four times (I was young and dumb) for a girl that lived in Norway, and used to bring a box of wine and an avocado to parties. Just for himself. He’d eat it while he tried to find people to fight. Eli, if you’re reading this, thanks for the reddit fame.

8. From Thunder_Moose25:

I had sex with a guy I dated for a few months and afterwards he said “your vagina is smaller than other vaginas I’ve had sex with.”

I just responded with “thanks?” I wasn’t sure if it was a compliment, criticism, or a mere observation.

9. From hermeigh:

"Hey, don't tell anyone about last night. I get enough sh*t for being vegan." A phrase that has stuck with me for 10+ years. Not so much "dumb" as just cruel.

10. From katz332:

"I think I miss my ex..."

11. From Nataface:

I was snuggling with my boyfriend in the afterglow and I looked up at him and asked, “What are you thinking about?” Thinking he would say something sweet. This b*tch deada*s looks down at me and says “Mudflaps”.

EDIT: I’m glad you guys enjoyed this...my boyfriend had just bought a truck, so he was thinking about accessories a lot. I wasn’t even mad, I laughed and then he laughed and we just laughed for like ten minutes at the dumbness of it.

12. From kachowco99:

He played, “I Just Had Sex” by the Lonely Island while on the phone with his best friend. With me still in the bed ...when we JUST lost our virginities to each other.

13. From larrieuxa:

"Okay are we done?"

I guess he was too afraid to ask whether or not I came and that was his way of doing it.

14. From moosegirl32:

His window was open during the deed & when we got done he closed it and said “I really hope someone heard that.”

15. From buttrammer6969:

Me: gives blowjob

Guy: did you c*m babe?

16. From karmax7chameleon:

I gave a dude a blow job and apparently he’d never come from one before (who knows If that was true).

Anyway, after he goes, “oh my god. That was amazing. I thought there was something wrong with me. You need to have daughters”

Yes, my mother taught me about sex, birth control, and how to suck dick.

17. From Tasty_Ice:

Wow I love my boyfriend but he says the dumbest stuff, especially right after sex. Highlights include:

“You feel so dense right now. I’ve never felt more like there’s a man lying on me”

“I have so many thoughts running through my head right now. I wish I’d learned more yo-yo tricks”

And when I told him to stop playing with my nipple: “just imagine my finger is a tiny zamboni”

18. From MissPlaceDApostrophe:

Cuddling in the afterglow, him gazing adoringly at my nude body...whispers..."I've just never seen boobs as small as yours."

EDIT: My goodness!! Thanks for all the kind words from small boob owners and aficionados!

19. From seeshawshow:

He didn’t say it, but afterwards he grabbed his phone and went on a tracking app and tracked that he had sex that day.

20. From dogwitablog:

My boyfriend’s brain goes into this weird hyper focus mode as soon as he comes so I’ll be laying on him catching my breath hoping to continue the fun, and he’ll blurt out something like “I ordered some things to put in my yard to attract crows, I hope they like them. I’ve done a lot of research on attracting and befriending crows. But I wonder if they’d prefer something more like a game, or some kind of water feature?”

21. From 4ensicmess:

My ex-boyfriend said to me during our first and only sexual encounter “sh*t my stepdad’s home!” Before he ran to his en-suite bathroom to hide. He left me lying there naked and really pissed.

22. From queenofallyourdreams:

Whoopsie daisy! after he finished too quickly.

23. From frog_lips0:

He kind of dipped in, nutted, went to roll over to sleep -- I told him I wasn't done yet. And his response "oh, okay. Do you want a back rub?" I kind of wanted to c*m my dude but okay...

I will add, I found out later his ex had depression and her medication made it so she couldn't orgasm, so to make it even he would give her a back rub after. He was being nice, it was just weird in the moment as someone who was capable and interested in finishing.

24. From SpaecPoofin:

Not so much after but during, but the very first time I had sex with my ex (we were both virgins at the time), he straight up said "are you feeling it now, Mr. Krabs?"

I stayed with him about a year after that so I guess I was feeling it.

25. From ixnay_ixpay:

My partner will sometimes slap my a*s afterwards and say “good game!” It always gives me a laugh.

Edited to add: I told my boyfriend that this blew up overnight and all he had to say was “you’re welcome” with a sh*t eating grin.

26. From wouldabeenwolfgang:

Dumb, and sh*tty: “I guess you can only f*ck so many people before you realize you still hate yourself.”

27. From soggypapad:

Dude tried to give me a compliment by saying you have "plumpy p*ssylips" Dude did not realize that was borderline weird to say I started laughing.

28. From MiaOtt:

"You don't feel like warm apple pie" To which I said, "How do you know what apple pie feels like?" No answer to that one.

"I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone."

-Audrey Hepburn

Hey, you, the one avoiding all human contact. I've got some memes guaranteed to make you laugh today. This list is hilariously relatable content for anyone who identifies as an introvert. Recharge your batteries with some glorious alone time and some seriously funny memes.

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"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

-Mark Twain

Remember when we were kids and wanted to be adults so badly? What the heck were we thinking? Now there are bills to pay and groceries to buy, never-ending hangovers, and utterly random aches and pains. Let's not even get into the sudden appearance of wrinkles and gray hairs. Ugh, adulting definitely sucks, but at least we still have plenty of things to laugh about. These memes perfectly illustrate the hilariously harsh reality of getting older.

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It's important to stay on top of personal hygiene regardless of whether or not you're in a romantic relationship, but at what point is it ok to enforce rules on your partner's showering schedule?

Some people definitely have strict rules on how clean they prefer to keep their own home. We all know one person who showers three times a day, wipes down the counters with bleach even if they haven't used the kitchen that day and carries hand sanitizer with them everywhere regardless of whether or not we're in the middle of a pandemic. Then, there are people who have much more lenient techniques on hygiene (looking at you, everyone who only brushes their teeth once a day and wears shoes on their bed), but being generally clean is usually a priority for most adults.

However, things can get messy (no pun intended) when you move in with a partner and share a bed every night, especially if you each have a different standard for cleanliness. If one person prefers to wash the sheets once a week while the other doesn't remember the last time they washed them, tension can arise and turn into something much bigger than a simple laundry schedule. So, when a Reddit user asked the internet's moral compass (Am I the As*hole?) what to do about an awkward situation with his girlfriend's showering routine, people were ready to determine whether or not he was in the wrong.

AITA (Am I the AS*hole?) for forcing my girlfriend to take a shower before bed each night?

I know this isn't the practice for all people or couples, but I think it is good hygiene. This is even more true during summer when people sweat more and have more body oil.

In the past when she would spend the night, I never said anything, but now that we are living together and sharing a bed each night, I told her that she can't come home and crawl into bed without taking a shower. She has to take a shower unless she is sick or there's a good reason why.

She has taken this the wrong way and is viewing this as me telling her she is dirty, but it's not unique to her. I do this myself because I also would be gross if I didn't shower before bed. I don't think she is gross at all, and I think she actually would feel better and more relaxed if she took a pre-bed shower. I do.

She thinks I am being too rigid about, but to me this is all common sense and shouldn't be a controversial request. AITA? (Am I the As*hole?)

Of course, people were quick to offer their opinion...

you have no right to “force” her to shower at a specific time. For some people it’s normal to shower every other day(with exception of like sweating and shit). Who are you to tell her that she needs a “good excuse” to not follow your rules? You aren’t her parent you’re her partner. Stop trying to treat her like a child it’s a bit controlling. - F*ck-that-sh*t-bro

I would say most people don’t shower before bed every night. Especially if they are showering every day in the morning. Just because you like to do that, doesn’t mean you should force your girlfriend to follow that. It’s not your choice. - MysticMusician5

If I were to shower every day, I'd be a mass of dry cracked skin and rashes. Some people can't shower every day, and as long as she is caring for herself on a regular basis, and being hygienic, you have no right to suggest she change her grooming routine. - fatfatcats

Except for extreme circumstances where intervention is necessary, it's rude and controlling to try to dictate another's basic hygiene routine. Timing of a shower is also a much bigger deal for a woman than a man depending on her hair and makeup routine, etc. - JeepersCreepers74

Why are you concerned about when she is showering and when she isn't? As long as she is practicing basic hygiene and keeping a general standard of cleanliness, (such as by showering daily at other times) who are you to say when she can and can't shower? - constipational

Everyone here all triggered but I'm with you OP. NTA. I will not let anyone get in my bed unless they have showered first. I don't get in my own bed unless I've showered. I don't care what anyone says or how y'all were raised but if you shower in the morning and go to sleep in all the days filth you're nasty. Especially during a pandemic, everyone should be showering as soon as they get back from going out.

As a compromise maybe you could just get a second bed and one can be designated for being dirty/ getting nasty/ hanging out in the day, but you can still have your own clean bed to sleep in at night. - ccaass789

I dunno if it's because I'm from a tropical country, but I'm appalled at the mere idea of someone who doesn't take a shower everyday. For that alone, I agree, - EtherealFay

So, there you have it!

While a few people were on his side, most people agreed that controlling someone else's hygiene habits is pretty weird and controlling in any relationship. Unless someone is generally unhealthy or not clean, dictating when your partner showers is borderline abusive behavior. Sure, it's summer and people have different preferences on how clean they expect their bed to be but this is a topic that could've been handled with more respect to his girlfriend. Good luck everyone and stay clean!

Parenting is not for the weak! It's also not for the humorless. If you didn't have a sense of humor before becoming a parent, you've probably developed one, along with a thick skin, an immunity to loud noises, an ability to multi-task, and a tendency to binge-eat your kids' leftovers.

Here are 33 of the funniest and most honest tweets of the past week from parents using humor to cope with the ups and downs and ups and downs and ups and downs (etc. ad finitum) of parenting:

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There was an attempt.

People are sharing the laziest attempts at being helpful they've ever seen, and there are some good tips in here for slackers who don't mind if their family resents them and posts about them on Reddit.

Some tales feature well-intentioned people who simply can't lift or jog quickly, and some are from in-laws whose "contributions" to potlucks are a masterclass in passive-aggression.

1. Thanks, Grandma.

I started choking on my water and my grandma handed me a tissue. -Consideration-Think

2. A stand up guy.

When your trying to get into your uncomfortable middle seat in an airplane and aisle guy sifts his legs barely towards the aisle and leans back a bit. Like what do you think I am, 6? Who can fit there, just move move your butt into the aisle so I can breathe as I get into my seat please. -DogsBCoolBro

3. Take the extra step.

Retweeting someone who posts suicide hotline numbers for people suffering from depression. Dude, if you think someone you know is depressed to the point of killing themselves, then reach out. Don't click a button and hope that they take the initiative, like they'd never thought to talk to anyone for months until just now. -LotusPrince

4. Points for adorableness, if not effectiveness.

Coming home from a baseball game, an older gentleman was crossing the road in front of our car. He looked up in surprise, noticing he was blocking our path. He broke into a jog to get out of the way, but I'm assuming because of his age, he actually moved slower jogging than he was when walking. Right idea, but amusingly unhelpful. ---nEgativezEro-

5. Me-ow.

I didn't want to walk up a roll of toilet paper to my sister so I hucked it from the bottom of stairs and hit the cat by accident. -SquilliamFancySon95

6. The opposite of helpful.

When people push their shopping carts to the cart return, but just kind of half-a**edly push them in a big cluster instead of stacking them properly, so eventually there's a haphazard flock of unsecured carts taking up half the lane and the adjacent spaces. -El-Ahrairah9519

7. It's the thought that counts.

Sometimes I’ll pretend to reach for the “open door” button on the elevator when I have no intention of letting the person in. -PM_ME_UR_TESTIMONIES

8. DIY cheesecake.

My sister-in-law saying she's bringing a cheese cake to the party, then showing up two hours late with all the ingredients to make it, and asking if I can make it because she needs a smoke. -YaDrunkBitch

9. The brain doesn't work that way.

Barking at somebody with ADHD to "Focus!" and getting angry when they're not immediately cured of their disorder. -ImHyperfocused

10. Genius.

My sibling rolls through to offer to set the table strategically after they hear enough plate clanging that the job is likely already done. -CluelessCleopatra

11. Thanks, man.

When I told my boyfriend we needed to give the house a deep clean; he said, "ok" and proceeded to clean out his night stand drawer. Leaving me to sweep, mop, dust and do the bathroom. -Omaknowsbest

12. Thoughts and prayers.

Might not be something some people would like to hear, but "I'm praying for you" is a big one for me. I get the reasoning behind it as I grew up in a Christian home, but it was frequently said and rarely, if ever, supported by any real action.

It's the cheapest way to get out of doing anything, simply because once you say it, you've been a good person and no one can tell you otherwise. I mean, who in the church is gonna say screw you, that's not helping? -RNS-SedneckSniper1

13. Well, as long as you look like you're helping...

The third person helping you lift something heavy. -PM_ME_UR_PERSPECTIVE

14. It's a Russian doll of trash bags.

Changing the trash bag, but leaving the old trash bag there, then continue to put more trash in the old trash bag instead of the new one to "fully use it." -ItchyNarwhal

15. Everybody loves potato popsicles.

A family member volunteered to bring a vegetable dish to the family potluck. They showed up 10 minutes late, with a bag of frozen fries. Still frozen. -TammyGail

16. Smells like teen spirit

I told my son he should help clean his room because he helped his brother make the mess. Both have done this at some point. He picked up a dirty shirt, put it on, and face planted on the floor and layed there for 10 minutes. The room is half clean at this point so I pull the other out and tell Mr. Carpet-face he can finish on his own. -KhajitCaravan

17. Yup.

The Black Lives Matter protests asked for police reform and the reaction of businesses and the government was things like "Juneteenth becoming an official holiday" and "No more Aunt Jemima." -OhHiGCHQ

When you're scared/worried/confused, where's the first place you go? Google dot com, duh! Which is why the website's "autofill" function can reveal a lot about what people around you are also scared/worried/confused about. Turns out, Americans currently have a lot of common concerns.

U.S.-based writer Amanda Guinzberg recently Googled "Do I" and her autofill results shed light on what Americans are worrying/thinking/googling about right now. She shared a screenshot on Twitter, and it clearly struck a chord with a lot of people.

"This is a poem about America," she wrote, in a tweet which has since been shared nearly 90,000 times.

Amanda's "poem" has inspired lots of people to see what Google autofill has in store for them, and many are sharing their own results.

Everyone's autofill results are different, suggesting that the things people are googling vary depending on location and other factors.

It seems the results differ from one state to the next.

Here's a few searches from Texas:

And Missouri:

And Florida:

The results may also vary depending on a person's interests.

For instance, if you're a dog lover....

Or just a very curious person.

Or struggling, and in Florida.

And changing the wording can yield different results. For example, this guy Googled "should I?"

Meanwhile, up in Canada, as you can imagine, you get very different results.

BRB googling "how to become Canadian."

If physical chemistry between you and a romantic partner produces some seriously Hollywood-level sparks, sometimes it's hard to see when blaring red flags creep up...

We've all probably stayed in a casual or even sometimes serious relationship for a little bit longer than we should have because of an intense physical attraction. While chemistry is important to any relationship, an emotional connection is also critical. In the puppy-love, honeymoon phase, it's often difficult to notice any flaws in a partner, even if they pop up right in front of your face and scream, "hey, I'm a huge red flag!" Shout out to anyone who has ever dated someone who mysteriously had a long list of exes who were all just "so crazy." Pro tip: if you think everyone you've ever been with was "crazy," you're the crazy one.

So, when a recent Reddit user asked, "What's the biggest red flag you've ignored because the sex was good?" people who were victims of an intense physical bond that overshadowed everything else were ready to share the signs they ignored along the way...

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She was married and divorced 3 times by 27. - Screamin_STEMI

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Probably the plethora of empty wine bottles around the apartment, and the knowledge that she'd just gotten out of a long term relationship. Somehow it never dawned on me that I was the rebound guy. - the5thbeagle

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She basically told me she might cheat on me if she had the opportunity with her ex.

It was my first relationship and I was as stupid as can be. - Genocide_Fan

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His "ex" kept showing up at his place. Come to find out months later, they were still together and just fighting. And I was the unwitting other woman. :\ - femmemalin

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Had an affair with a married woman, she left her husband for me, married me, then cheated on me.

If that isn't karma idk what is. - Gen4V_Zero

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He legitimately believed his butthole was self-lubricating... - WolfNThorn

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His tattoo of an anthropomorphic pickle smoking a joint. - hammetar

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That he wouldn't have sex with me, the foreplay was amazing and there was so much chemistry, but he wouldn't put out. Turns out he was engaged. - AnathemaDevice4020

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Just knowing that she was pro-life and refused to use condoms - tiktokthotbot

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When she had her boyfriend set up cameras for us - The_Geriatric_Horde

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She had a list of 'relationship goals' that we had to tick off each week and discuss why we hadn't reached the ones we hadn't achieved.

We didn't last the second week.- Warsaw44

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The giant Confederate flag on the wall - nathz7754

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She told my parents we were engaged after our second date. - MjolnirPants

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The fact he had a poster of himself blown up to fit his wall In his room - ObjectiveTwo5

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Didn't know who nirvana or red hot chili peppers were... - Toasted_Bagels_R_Gud

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Kept calling me ‘daddy’ - EMAW2008

Appreciating someone's culture and fetishizing them are two very different things, and yet, many people don't know the difference.

There's a big space between asking someone about their life experiences, what their family traditions and beliefs are, and making broad assumptions based off of race, even if the assumptions are meant to be compliments.

For example, asking a Korean American man about his family and what food he likes/if he's ever been to Korea is completely respectful, but treating him like he's not American and making assumptions about what music or television he consumes is fetishy and objectifying. Sadly, if people think their intentions are good, they are often less able to recognize the lines between curiosity and fetish.

In a recent post on the Am I The A*shole subreddit, a bride-to-be asked if she's wrong for uninviting her step-sister from the wedding if the doesn't stop fetishizing OP's fiance.

Aita for threatening to not invite my stepsister to my wedding if she keeps fetishizing my fiancé’s race?

OP kicked off the post by sharing that she's engaged to her partner of four years, and for context she added that she's white and he's Korean American.

Throwaway and on mobile. SS = Stepsister

I’m 26f and my fiancé, 28m, proposed to me a few weeks ago, we’ve been dating four years. We don’t plan on getting married for a year at least. For some reference, I am white and my fiancé is Korean and a first gen American.

OP's step-sister has always been obsessed with different Asian cultures, particularly Japanese culture, and at times the obsession feels downright creepy.

Onto the issue: SS (22f also white) is weird. I’ve known her for over a decade, our parents have been married for seven years, and she hasn’t gotten less weird over time. She’s always been OBSESSED with Asian culture (mostly Japan) and immerses herself in it in the most embarrassing ways. (Saying random Japanese words, going by “Asian” names, buying lots of anime stuff, wearing J-Fashion, being a KPop fanatic, etc) I don’t hate her and I get being a nerd, but she’s hard to have an adult conversation with.

When OP first started dating her fiance, her step-sister would constantly bring up how lucky OP was to be with an Asian man, and would grill him about Korean dramas and pop groups he's not even into.

When my fiancé and I started dating she told me I was lucky since Asian men are some of the most attractive, and I was lucky he was so tall since usually “they’re really short”. She’s also mentioned our babies would be cute because mixed babies are adorable, and she asked how I got an Asian guy. Before we were even engaged she asked if she could wear a hanbok to our wedding if we got married. When she first met my fiancé she asked him about Kdramas and KPop (none of which he’s into) and asked him about life in Korea, a place he’s been to once.

OP's fiance has taken it in stride, and claimed it's not that big of a deal, but OP decided to confront her step-sister about her fetishizing behavior.

All this made me uncomfortable but my fiancé laughed it off and said it wasn’t a huge deal to him. I don’t see her a ton though, so it wasn’t a big priority, although I did sit her down once and tell her my fiancé is more than just his race and she needs to stop focusing on that alone. She backed off but also got mopey. Her comments stopped for a while but gradually started again.

For awhile, the confrontation worked and OP's step-sister toned it down, but in the past week OP's step-sister went on a long trail of pointed questions about whether the wedding will have a lot of Korean guests, if the food will be Korean, if they will honeymoon in Korea, and so on.

This past weekend I was at my dad’s for the 4th. SS and stepmom were there, along with my fiancé and a few others. The subject of our wedding came up and SS starter asking all kinds of questions; if our honeymoon will be in Seoul, if we’ll have Korean bbq/sushi at the reception, if we’ll say our vows in Korean, how lucky I am to get a Korean last name, etc. it was exactly what I told her not to do. She later said to me how excited she was to go to an authentic Asian wedding and meet people from “that culture.”

OP, feeling frustrated, shut it down and told her step-sister she would uninvite her from the wedding if she didn't tone down the obsession.

I shot this down immediately and told her she needed to back off because she was really creepy and fetishizing a race. She got defensive and said she was just excited and I told her if she kept it up, she wouldn’t be welcome at the wedding at all. SS went crying to her mom about me threatening to uninvite her and now there’s a ton of drama with my family and SS about how much of a bridezilla I am.

OP's fiance doesn't want her to feel pressured to uninvite her step-sister on his behalf, but OP feels it's a good boundary.

Fiancé said it’s my choice on if we should invite her or not, but not to ruin any family ties just for his sake. I’m just tired of her being weird and creepy. AITA?

ksurewhatever is in an interracial relationship with a white person and thinks OP is handling it the correct way.

NTA I'm in a interracial relationship, husband is the white one. I'm first gen British born Chinese so I completely understand it. I'm so pleased you have his back like this. Its exhausting having to deal with this type of benign racism (good that you're helping to carry the burden!). It's not malicious so you can't just tell them off. But being defined by just your race and having every conversation you have with certain ppl being about your 'homeland' is just a grind. For your SS it's just a novelty convo she has once in a while with your fiance. For him he'll know several ppl like that in his life.

Have an amazing wedding!

ohbrainworms thinks OP's step-sister is being 100 percent creepy, and given the things she's said about OP's future children, it's best to set a boundary now.

I'm Korean in an interracial relationship with a white man and NTA!

Your stepsister IS being really creepy. I disagree with the commenters here saying that you're "a white person being offended on behalf of a POC". When your stepsister started fetishizing your potential future children, she brought you into it too.

Now, I don't know your fiancé so I don't want to project anything onto him. But I know that as a fellow diaspora Korean, if I were in his situation, I wouldn't want to cause any trouble with your family. So I might laugh some of the jokes off simply because it's easier for me to be uncomfortable than point out the racism and have your family think I'm overreacting. If you're worried that you're overstepping his bounds by telling your stepsister off, you can always just ask him if he'd prefer that you not say anything in the future. But I'd be worried about how she'd treat my future children as accessories if this keeps up.

If your stepsister was younger (like in her teens or something), I would have gone with N A H because teenagers often don't know any better. But she's 22! She's a whole ass adult! Not only is she fetishizing Koreans but she's also mixing a bunch of East Asian cultures together (the sushi comment, "authentic Asian wedding" despite the fact that Asia is a whole continent.) Your stepsister absolutely should know better.

Also... please make sure that your stepsister doesn't wear hanbok to the wedding. Or at least check with your fiancé to see what his family's plans are. Unless it's specifically stated otherwise, only the mother of the bride and mother of the groom wear hanbok at Korean weddings. The bride gets to wear a special wedding hanbok if they choose to a traditional ceremony. Traditionally, both the families of the bride and groom usually give wedding gifts to each other, and in interracial marriages this might include the offer of having your mom also wear hanbok with your MIL. This could possibly be a social faux pas that ends up offending your MIL. Don't let your stepsister let you start off on the wrong foot with your fiancé's family. And good luck with your wedding!

MollySueJalopy nicely laid out how OP could explain the inappropriateness of her step-sister's behavior to the family.

I think one of the main points here is that your family, especially your sister, doesn't see just how creepy and offensive she is being. Partly so because her excitement is coming from a place of love, adoration and appreciation for Asian 'culture'. 'How is it wrong when I show nothing but love for it' type of thing. And maybe your family thinks it's a little overboard but she's not hurting anybody by her excitement.

I would try and flip the script a tad. Take out the Asian aspect of it because of the above 'coming from a place of love' and instead replace it with something equal. What if you were marrying a black guy? Start giving the same examples of everything she has said and replace it equal to black 'culture'.

Would it be weird if she asked:

Can I wear a dashiki to the wedding?

What is life like in Africa? Will your honeymoon be in Nigeria?

Will you say your vows in Swahili?

Will you have collard greens and fried chicken at the reception?

Call me by my African name: LaFawnduh.

I can't wait to meet real Africans from that culture.

You're so lucky cause his dick size is average because usually they're huge.

Maybe by rephrasing all the same stuff with a culture she does not adore might click for her how overbearing and creepy she is sounding because now that the 'love' of the culture is not part of it she'll be less defensive and see how ridiculous she is sounding. Or maybe it might get your other family members more on board.

edit to add: If they seem receptive this new line of questioning/thinking perhaps you can take it a step further. Can you just imagine your White daughter/sister talking to your brand new Black in-laws, wearing her dashiki, hair in cornrows, going on about which shows they like best on BET and how much she just loves their collard greens and everything black culture based.

I think the main thing is to try and remind your sister that while she may love all things Asian, that does not automatically mean she won't appear insensitive about the topic/culture even if that is not her intent. If she truly loved Asian culture, she would take the time to learn how to respect it in ways that are not insensitive and/or offensive. Hopefully you can do this in a gentle way so it does not appear you are attacking her, her hobbies and interests, and what she loves. But her trying to make your fiance (and your wedding) fit her own personal narrative and love of Asian culture is not right. Good luck.

Thanks for the silver, stranger! Tonight, as I pull the chopsticks out of my hairbun to eat kimchi, I will give thanks in your honor. Gamsahamnida.

Revwog1974 pointed out the fact that Asia, as a continent, includes 48 different countries.

So, OP's step-sister's obsession with "Asian Culture" is innately racist.

”Asian” is not a food, ethnicity, or culture. It's a continent. It includes such diversity that it reaches from Turkey to Japan. It contains 48 different countries and nearly 60% of the world’s population. Attitudes like your SS’s fetishize a vision of ”Asian” culture that is spectacularly ignorant and frequently racist. You are NTA to expect her to see your fiance as a person, rather than the representing of an entire continent. If she keeps acting like this, imagine how she’ll treat your future in-laws and the rest of his family at your wedding!

Luckily, OP clearly has the support of a lot of different people, the trick moving forward is to figure out the best course of action with the rest of the family.