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19 people share their most embarrassing experiences at the doctor's office.

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Going to the doctor is a privilege, and sometimes a health necessity. But it can also be really, really awkward, uncomfortable, and embarrassing. Often a combination of the three. If you've ever wandered around a public building carrying a cup full of your own urine, you know what I'm talking about.

In a popular Reddit thread, people are sharing their most embarrassing stories from the doctor's office. Here are 19 that are more painful than the co-pay:

1.) From BigCatTherapist:

So yesterday I went to the doctor for some intestinal bleeding. My doctor is fairly new to the office and I've only meet her once before this. I'm only 21 so I've never had a reason for a doctor to go knuckle deep in my rectum before, but the doctor insisted it needed to be done for some tests. So I bend over the table, she lubes up and digs for treasure. I hadn't pooped in a day or so because it hurts when I do so I was a bit stopped up. Upon starting to pull out I immediately realize what's about to happen and try everything in my power to stop it. Too late! Doctor pulls her finger out and plop, out lands a turd, right on the floor. I was able to hold back the rest but the damage was done.

Tl;dr Pooped on the floor of my doctor's office.

2.) From [deleted]:

Mine's not so much embarassing as it is awesome. I had the mumps during my first year of college, and along with that I got Orchitis (swelling of the testicles caused by the mumps) in my left nut, which swelled up to the size of a potato. It was really painful and heavy so I had to carry it everywhere for a while. So I went to the doctors, he checked my mumps and then I told him there was another problem. I dropped trou, lay on the doctor bed thing and he came over to examine. He laughed when he seen it, cause it was freakin huge, and said "What seems to be the problem", jokingly. It was at that moment that I pointed to my regular size bollock and said "this one shrank".....

Cue five minute laughter fit from the Doc.

3.) From TeeOhEssEss:

I had to go to a specialist urologist due to pain in my ding dong. My wife, who is awesome, accompanied me for support. The doc was at a teaching hospital so he asked if a couple of med students could observe the exam. I say OK (my dignity was already at a new low anyway, so why not?) I drop trow and the doc starts yankin' and pullin' on mini me. He takes some notes and then directs the two med students to cop a feel right where he did. I happen to look over at my wife who is trying to stifle a smile while watching 3 dudes essentially whack me off.

TL;DR My insurance paid for the most awkward handjob in the history of time. While my wife watched.

4.) From PalmerKid:

When I turned 30, I suddenly became a hypochondriac. I thought that EVERYTHING was cancer, or worse.

So I'm seeing my doctor (who was a racquetball buddy) for an annual physical, and I mentioned that I was having some pains in the left side of my chest. I asked him,"I know this is rare, but could it be breast cancer?" (I'm male btw). He felt around seriously then -- with an absolutely straight face -- asked me, "Does the pain hurt worse when you have your period?"

That was pretty much the end of my year of hypochondria.

5.) From WingsOfSteel:

This actually occurred shortly after I was born, and we refer to it as "The Green Pea incident". My brother (2 years old) was moving to solid foods, and absolutely loved peas. Mushed, boiled, fried, or in things, he loved them. One day, my mom noticed that my brother wasn't going to the washroom. No big deal, she thought. It's only been a day. Two days later, nothings coming out. He kept eating and eating, like the happy little fat toddler he was, eating all amounts of peas. My parents scheduled a day off work and took him to the doctor together. The doctor, of course, says that he must be constipated. It happens to the best of us. At this point, it's been four days since the little shit has taken one. The doctor gives him a large dose of prescription-strength exlax, and suggests that they should probably keep an eye on him for the next while. As he's talking to my parents about what they should do, my brother starts to shit.

Bright, neon green shit.

He had eaten so many peas that the fiber had actually clogged him up, and now it was returning in force. The semi-liquidated shit started flying out, faster and faster like you see in those comedy movies. Eventually, it settled down to a light stream, but not before his shit-mist had covered the entire wall next to the examination table. Neon green shit mist. All over the doctor's tools, his blood pressure stuff and his posters. It ruined the cushion on the table, and stank to high hell. My parents never went back to that doctor again.

TL; DR: Neon green shit mist.

6.) From lundah:

A friend of mine mistakenly called her gynecologist instead of her dentist to make an appointment, and started the call by admitting she was overdue for a cleaning...

7.) From Radico87:

Recent story:

When I was brought up from being under anesthesia after getting my wisdom teeth out, and before my transportation back home arrived, I recovered enough to unplug my IV and various sensor doodads and wandered into the waiting area asking for a blowjob. The nurse promptly gathered me back into my room and I recall complaining that someone might have said yes and I deserve the right to know.

8.) From Relephant_Username:

My Dad was getting his prostate checked out by this pretty good looking female urologist. She had to insert a catheter since my dad was having trouble peeing. Anyway, she removes the catheter once they're done and my dad starts pissing all over the doctor's leg. She took it like a champ and told him, "If I don't get pee'd on at least once a day, my husband will suspect I'm ditching work to have an affair" (or something like that).

9.) From LuckieMotor:

When I was newly pregnant with my daughter, I was at my OB's office for a pelvic exam. After I stirrup up, my doc is knuckle-deep in my vag and says, "Oh, you'll be fine if you have a big baby; there's PLENTY of room in here." I'm sure she meant that I have a wide pelvic arch and would have no trouble with a vaginal delivery, but what I heard was, "Wow! I see dozens of these every day, but you have a HUGE, gaping vagina."

10.) From Andrewdles:

One day I was visiting a new doctor and he asked me to remove my pants. I obliged knowing that he'd probably check me for a hernia and make sure I didn't have a third ball or something.

I had forgotten that the night before I had shaved off exactly one half of my pubic hair. As my brain started to panic and he begins fiddling around, the doctor looks up at me and says, "It's easy to start, but it's hard to finish, isn't it?"

11.) From pluckythewhale:

While cauterizing the hole during my vasectomy, my skin smoked more than it should have, set off the fire alarm, and I ended up with numerous people of numerous career choices in the room with my exposed nutsack.

12.) From amayernican:

On new years eve 2001 I woke up with an unbearable pain in the my left side of my abdomen. I couldn't move for over an hour. I was at home from my sophomore year of college but none of my family was home. After about three hours of crying and doubled over in pain in bed I crawled across the house and called my mom at work. She took me to the ER where they did various pressure tests and listening and decided it wasn't my appendix so they did some x-rays. The only other person in the ER was an old lady that had a cut on her head and she was trying to comfort me while my face was red and I was holding back tears. The doctor came in and looked at the lady and looked at me and whispered, "I don't know how to tell you this...but your colon is full of shit (actual term)." I screamed, "that's it! Get it out of me!" and he told me he could give me an enema, a suppository or a salty drink. I took the drink and shat for eight hours straight. I was good enough to go to a party that night but still had the shits and didn't get drunk. Felt so much better.

TL:DR Thought my appendix was rupturing ER doctor told me I was full of shit.

13.) From mustardontoast:

Was getting a physical a few years ago so I could play HS football. Usually the doctor feels around your abdomen and that's that. This time the doctor made me strip and made me cough. I hadn't fapped in a few days with the combination of a strangers hand on my beans gave me a semi which I tried to cover which led me to accidently fart on him as I turned around. Doc looked at me and said, "you can play" and left.

14.) From va_bene:

I recently had a sore throat, and when trying to get a good look at it in the mirror, I noticed these large, pink spots, all over the very back of my tongue. I spent a week fretting over it, wondering what they were and why they weren't going away, until my mom got worried enough about them that she went with me to my doctor. Upon examining my throat and tongue, he pronounced that what I was seeing were...my taste buds. I have never seen my doctor, who is an incredibly stoic man, smile so wide before. My family is never going to let me live it down.

15.) From FearlessEyes:

Went to the doctor when I was about 8 months pregnant. At that point in my pregnancy I was VERY gassy and if I tried to hold it in it would get painful after a while. While I was sitting in the doctors office I felt like I had to fart. I held it in for a while thinking that if I did fart the doctor would be in at any moment. 15 minutes passed and nothing. So I decided to let it go. The tiniest little fart ever, but, it stunk like something crawled up my ass and died. Thirty seconds later the doctor walked in and asked me what that smell was.

16.) From atlgeek007:

I'm going to tell a friend's story, since I don't have any embarrassing stories of my own. cough

About ten years ago, I had a very... promiscuous..friend. He would sleep with anything "warm, wet and willing" and half the time didn't use any protection.

One day he started having a burning sensation when he peed, more than your average UTI. He'd had sex with a new random a few days ago, so he went to the doctor's office to have some tests run. Two days later the doc's office calls him, and says that he needs to come in immediately.

He rushes to the doc's office, gets sent to an exam room, and the doc comes in with a clipboard and a very concerned look on his face.

"Well... about that burning sensation..." My friend is nervous and says "Yeah?"

Doc : "You work in a restaurant?"

Friend : "Yep"

Doc : "You drink a lot of soda?"

Friend : "yep"

Doc : "Something citrusy? Like sprite or sunkist?"

Friend : "Yep"

Doc : "That burning sensation when you pee is excess carbonic acid in your system being eliminated. Cut out the soda and stick to water and you'll be fine in a couple of days"

Friend : "Why'd you have to call me down here to tell me that, doc?"

Doc : "So you'd stop having unprotected sex."

17.) From Macnair:

During a genital hernia check when i was 12, I ejaculated on my doctor's shoulder when my junk was being touched.

18.) ​​​​​​​From mirrordog:

So I'm at the OBGYN. I'm 19 and this is the first time I've ever gone to a doctor by myself. They put me in the first room next to the bathroom and we do the check up stuff and my doctor asks for a urine sample. She says "Go next door to the bathroom and then write your name on the sample and put it in the little window." I'm extremely nervous because I usually cannot pee on command. Somehow I managed to pee a little into the stupid cup. I write my name on it and then I realize I have no f*cking idea what to do with this cup. I look around the small bathroom and all I see is a silver cabinet and a sink. I walk out the bathroom with this pee cup and bump into this young pregnant woman. I look into her eyes and say "I peed in this cup." She looks confused. "Do you know what I'm supposed to do with this pee cup?" She stares at me a bit more then her boyfriend walks up and says "Uh.. Theres a place for you to put it in the bathroom." I turn bright red and say "OH!" and run back to the bathroom and open the silver cabinet and place it next to all the other f*cking pee cups.

I walk out the bathroom, avoid eye contact with the pregnant couple and walk back to my room. I open the door and theres this pantsless black woman. I say "Oh um... sorry I'm looking for my stuff...I thought this was my room... um..." to which she replies "What the f*ck?!" So I shut the door and the nurse is standing at the end of the hall way looking at me. "This is your room. Sorry about that, we moved you and I didn't catch you in time." The pregnant couple and the nurse laughed at me while I did my walk of shame out of there :(

19.) From octobereighth:

I was 12 or so, and my doctor knew I didn't like needles (still don't, but oh well!) so he put a shot that I had to get in his pocket with his pens, so I didn't notice. In the middle of a sentence he pulls it out and comes at me, and I punched him directly in the face and broke his glasses.

It wasn't intentional, per say. Dude was coming at me with a sharp object. It was instinct. He ended up grabbing me by the shoulders, pinning me down, and doing the injection.

For years afterwards I couldn't face him.

TL;DR punched my doctor in the face.

Owch.


Woman uncovers wealthy fiancé's affair because he proposed with cheap engagement ring.

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Relationships are supposed to be about love, not money — but sometimes money issues can be a red flag that everything's not what it seems.

One woman sought advice from the internet after her otherwise wealthy boyfriend dropped only $150 on an engagement ring. The resulting story is a roller coaster.

The woman took to Reddit's "Am I the a**hole?" forum to ask whether it's okay for her to be upset over her boyfriend's choice of ring. And after the people of the internet responded, she posted an update revealing how it all shook out...

The woman specifies that her fiancé is well off, and he's no stranger to flashy accessories:

My fiance is quite well off, and while I don't make as much as him I certainly would not be struggling on my own. He rotates between a few very expensive watches that he wears to work and while we have a good grasp on financial literacy we aren't shy about spending for the important parts of life. We openly share finances so I know he isn't secretly in debt or any such nonsense.

And yet, he bought her a $150 engagement ring:

The ring is nice and understated, but more of a nice stacker than an engagement ring to show off. The stone (which im doubtful of being a diamond) is quite small. It is not heirloom. When friends or family get engaged there is always the excitement in sharing the news and inevitably someone will ask to see the ring and then everyone coos over it and its a good time. When I showed mine the mood got awkward and they feigned excitement just long enough until it was okay to change the topic (this is not a knock on them, they are just terrible liars).

She feels conflicted about disliking the ring:

I would like to make clear that I am not expecting a "3 months salary" ring or an over the top wedding. However this is a piece I will be wearing daily for decades, and is largely considered a "symbol of his love" (I know not all feel this way, but we do. or at least i thought we did).

She sees the ring as a "long term investment piece":

But I really don't think I'm out of line for thinking of it as a long term investment piece given the amount of wear it will see and the sentimentality behind it. Surely it is worth more than a gaming console?!

[Am I the a-hole] here?

The couple had talked about her taste before he bought it:

We had briefly talked about overall style, and he has access to my jewelry box to know the stuff I typically wear. As the price of the ring wasn't very important to me the budget for it was never really discussed, which I see as a mistake now but I didn't realize that this could be a problem.

And it's not just that the ring is cheap, it's that it looks cheap:

Price is not important so much as I don't care if he spent $1,000 or $100,000 on it, but this ring looks cheap - it is not quality craftsmanship. The dampened excitement of showing off my ring was only a part of my post, the rest being that his drastic low ball on a piece I will be wearing every day for the rest of my life doesn't seem like the symbol of love one traditionally associates with engagement and wedding pieces.

And she stresses that he's spent more on gaming consoles than the ring:

It's about having a very wealthy fiance that invests more into the latest gaming console than he does a life long symbol of our love. To you a ring might be just a ring, but unless otherwise discussed, it would be silly to assume it to be a throw-a-way item. In my culture as well the engagement ring is paired with the wedding band, not replaced.

And how does she know it was $150? Simple:

We share our finances, and I saw the charge on the bank statement. If he paid in cash as well then he overpaid. Given that he has bought me more expensive jewelry in the past and sees what I wear on a regular basis, for him to low ball an important item this much seems pretty far out of left field and not something I would thought I would have needed to clarify with him even if we had a longer conversation about it. Obviously in hindsight I should have.

Again, she stresses that his comfortable financial situation makes this really sting:

I think I am more hurt with what it says to give your fiance such a low priced ring when money clearly isn't the issue than the fact that the ring itself was low budget.

If we were worse off and $150 took effort to save for I would be over the moon at what he got me and shoving it in everyone's face, however this is not remotely the case.

And she adds that he's bought her expensive things in the past:

He has gifted diamond studs and other fine jewelry before and will spurge a bit more if its something for the both of us (for example a surprise getaway weekend for a holiday). He doesn't throw his money around needlessly, but he isn't stingy.

She assumes he didn't put much work into it either:

To be blunt, its a cheap ring. In look and cost. Yes, he could have spent hours picking out the indie jeweler to get the ring that is nothing like what I have or have ever mentioned liking in a much lower price bracket than we would ordinarily spend on just regular accessories. However, I don't feel like I'm making a large leap in assuming he didn't. To me this is about more than just the fact that he didn't get the exact style I had in mind.

And she specifies that she still loves him:

I also take exception to the people here acting like being unhappy with the ring means I'm unhappy with the engagement, nowhere have I ever said this to be the case. Life isn't an all or nothing game. I can be unhappy with the ring while still being madly in love with my fiance and thrilled to spend our lives together.

She updated people, saying they would talk about it:

We will be talking about this for sure, but I know this can be a touchy subject and wanted an objective eye on it first. I will update this post after that conversation.

Before we get to the update, let's go over some of the advice people gave her...

User judge1492 agrees it's weird that the ring doesn't match her fiancé's lifestyle:

The ring is a gift from him but you’re the one who wears it. There’s nothing wrong with wanting it to reflect your style. If he wasn’t materialistic, if he saved his money for a house fund, investments or whatever, fine. If he was wearing a Timex Ironman watch, I get it. But if he’s ok with spending on things he finds worthwhile, if he understands the value of a pricier piece of accessory (his watches) then it’s fair to wonder why none of that translated to an engagement ring.

And princessofperky says she and her fiancé need to talk through the meaning of this ring ASAP:

I think you need to communicate asap and find out the reasoning behind this ring. It's not always about the actual money but about the message it sends. To you hes saying that he might not think you're worth spending more money on. Or it could be completely different in his mind. But you wont know until you talk to him. Engagement rings are a significant statement in our society as much as people want to think otherwise.

JeepersCreepers74 says there's a big difference between what many misogynists call "gold-digging" and wanting a ring that reflects your lifestyle and values:

Some are calling you shallow, but you've made it clear that you're not asking for anything super expensive, just something a step above costume jewelry. Especially given your comments that he also has a few nice watches he wears, etc., I don't think you're shallow or an AH for wanting something nicer. At the same time, I don't think he's TA for getting you what he got.

They add:

What's clear is that you guys had zero communication about the cost or style of the ring before it was bought, even though you are open enough about your finances to share them. This speaks more to problems inherent in your relationship than the ring itself. You need to talk to him about your concerns and, if it's that important to you, contribute to the cost of a nicer ring.

Some, like vivachilewn, did think this woman was the a-hole in the situation:

Maybe it's just me, but it's super weird when couples get upset over not getting an expensive ring. If your love is strong enough, then worrying about a ring's monetary value shouldn't be symbolic in your relationship. By the way this post reads, it seems like you were upset because the people in your life seem to care about money and it sounds like they made you feel weird about not having a super expensive ring.

My question is.. do you have a good relationship? Do you love each other? If so, then material items shouldn't really matter this much.

After reading through the responses, the woman decided to confront her boyfriend — and the sh*t really hit the fan.

Update: He came home and we were settling down and around dinner I started the conversation with "Honey, I'd like to talk about the ring" and before I could finish he just blew up. Started yelling "f****** finally" and how I'd ruined everything by waiting so long.

Basically, the ring was bait for her to start a fight so he could dump her:

To be brief, he bought a s***** ring from a jeweler who got bad reviews so that when I got upset over it he could dump me under the guise that I was a golddigger. He has apparently been having an affair (turns out covid had shortened his work hours, not extended) with a "younger model" that he's "earned" but knew that breaking things off when everyone loved me so much would "hurt his optics" so he had to make it my fault.

She goes on:

He knew that "leaving this pariah-ship" would gain him sympathy and there was a lot of rhetoric that clearly wasn't his own words but something he was parroting from what I highly suspect is from a much too influential work "friend" that I've had disagreements with in the past. Changes I had attributed to work stress are glaringly obvious to me now as symptoms of something more malicious under the surface and I feel really ashamed I didn't see things more clearly earlier or wasn't somehow able to head things off before they got this far.

She is breaking up with him:

I won't be sticking around to dig any deeper, but I know my now ex-fiance would not have done and said the things he did without being pushed from bad influences behind the scenes. This doesn't mean I forgive him, I think he is incredibly weak and feeble minded for letting this happen to us, but I also doubt I will be contacting many of our mutual "friends" as the dust settles.

Now she's staying at her mom's house:

I left in the middle of his tirade around the 15 min mark and am staying with at my mother's. I haven't cried yet and I think I'm still waiting for it all to suddenly make sense, but I know logically it might not ever. Thank you to everyone who responded to my post and offered your thoughts, I don't think anyone could have predicted what was going to happen from the information I gave, and now I'm off to r/likeus and r/eyebleach until the waterworks decide to flow and I can have a good cry over it all. On the plus side, if there is one, is that I don't have to wear the f****** hideous ring anymore.

The people of Reddit now see that she was right to see the ring as a red flag.

JeepersCreepers74 said:

Kudos to OP and her spidey sense regarding the inappropriateness of the ring she was given. If she had followed the advice of those who told her she was shallow and should live with the cheap ring, she would have made the worst mistake of her life. Take care OP!

And fiftyfiddy said:

Well that went from zero to WTF in an instant. Good that you spoke up at least? Though that was his plan that you would...

Move on. This entrapment to gaslight you is psychopathic.

And environmental_damsel added:

I truly don't understand how he could do that to you and I wish the worst karma in life on him. Buy yourself a bottle and some good mood food and go live your best life. You deserve it girl

So there you have it. If a gift from your significant other sets off alarm bells, there might be a reason!

Communication is key.

Dad asks if he's wrong for refusing to go out with daughter unless she dresses more conservatively.

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Parenting is a delicate dance between letting your kid be themselves and teaching them rules for life. One dad has run up against this issue when it comes to his daughter's wardrobe, and he posted on Reddit for help.

The dad says his 14-year-old daughter has been dressing in revealing clothes and he's not a fan. He posted on Reddit asking if he's the a-hole for not wanting to be seen with her.

The dad says his daughter's style has been bugging him for a while:

I don't like the way she dresses. She's 14. Her clothes are too revealing. I've told her this. She says she doesn't care. Fine. Maybe it's a teenager thing. I don't push it.

He and his daughter normally hang out on Saturday nights:

Saturday comes. Saturday is Father Daughter night - we walk around, talk about everything that happened that week, maybe get some snacks.

But not this week!

I told her she can't walk with me if she's dressed like that. She didn't want to change, so I walked alone. When I came back, my wife told me that she's in her room crying and that I should go talk to her.

He refuses to even talk to her about it:

There's nothing to talk about. I don't say anything about her clothing choice from Sunday to Friday, but if she can't wear decent clothes for an hour or two to walk with her father, then she's made her choice.

My wife said I was being childish. I stand on what I said.

The people of Reddit responded with a resounding "you're the a-hole."

User FiguringItOut-- says it's creepy that the dad is sexualizing his own kid:

She's your DAUGHTER. Why are you sexualizing her? Why is that HER fault? How very victim-blame-y. So not only are you sexualizing her, you're literally punishing her for the fact that you can't control sexualizing her. You're a grown-ass man and she's a teenager.

They add that he isn't being an unconditionally loving father:

[You said, 'I don't push it.'] Then what the hell is this post? You're in denial about yourself. JFC. It's not "unconditional love" if it's conditional on what she wears. YTA, majorly. I can't even imagine the hoops she's had to jump through to try and get your "love." Please seek therapy, for both of you!

Jaded_Cryptographer points out that things could be much, much worse:

She is a teenager who wants to spend time with her father. Do you have any idea how lucky you are?! Swallow your pride and get over it.

And unsaferaisin explained it perfectly for people who don't understand:

Look, as a former teenage girl, I'll level with you: a lot of the time, these kids don't have any sexy angle they're working, not like you and I think of as adults. They're growing up and they want to be trendy, and self-expression with clothing is a big part of it. It's more about fitting in or finding their niche than it is about being explicitly sexual. Most of the girls sporting ultra-low-rise jeans and micro-minis and skintight spaghetti-strap tank tops in my high school were just normal kids struggling with puberty and learning to date and calculus and all that stuff- we weren't out to score or be Grown-Up Sexy. We put, as adults, a lot of our own baggage onto these kids and it interferes with how we listen to and communicate with them.

A handful of people, like somewhereinptown, came down on the dad's side:

A lot of girls today dress in super revealing clothes and it’s pretty inappropriate. Good for you for voicing your opinion. Compromise with her at the most. Yes many girls today wear too little clothing. And for everyone saying you are sexualizing her that’s bulls***, she’s done it to herself. What’s wrong with a little outrage on a dad’s part from time to time?

Oof. User fortheloveofkatosh responded to this comment saying it's also about how the dad approached the situation:

It’s one thing to voice your opinion, it’s another to make your daughter cry and then say there’s nothing to talk about. The only thing she’s done to herself is ty to feel comfortable/confident in her own body, her dad decided that his opinion was worth more than his relationship with his daughter and her self confidence.

So the vast majority of people agreed that the days of dads policing their teen daughters' clothing choices are over.

If this dad is so concerned about his daughter being sexual, maybe he could have a conversation with her about sexual health and consent — neither of which have anything to do with clothing? Just a thought!

24 non-Americans share the most shocking things they saw while visiting the United States.

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If you're an American, it's easy to forget that there are some pretty serious (and often hysterical) stereotypes associated with American people and United States culture...

While Hollywood rom-coms often frame major American cities as sparkling, beautiful landscapes of skyscrapers, clean streets, quaint romantic restaurants and lush parks, the reality is usually heaps of trash on every sidewalk and corner, massive throngs of stressed, angry people in a hurry, ridiculously expensive bars, and unnecessarily complicated public transportation. Of course, America does have a great deal of beauty and a lot of wonderful places and experiences to offer, but shiny pink guns on display at Walmart can be quite the culture shock for tourists. Huge portions of fried, salty, spice-free food, sugary drinks as the main form of hydration, and loud groups of people drinking lite beer from red Solo cups are only a few of expectations Americans have set up for visitors.

So, when a recent Reddit user asked "Non-Americans of Reddit who visited the United States, what was the weirdest (or shocking) thing you saw?" tourists were ready to share the strangest things they saw while visiting America.

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Honestly I was shocked at the size of portions at fast food outlets. - jtel21

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The tipping system + tax not included in the prices.

Not criticizing the US system, that's their thing. Its just hard to math sometimes. - Onceabanana

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Just the scale of things. Everything seems to be super sized.

Also the huge distances between places. Tucson to Las Vegas might not look so far away when looking at a map but they are over 600 km apart. That's almost equal to crossing my entire home country! - nobody0110101

4.

Your news. It’s over sensationalized, I couldn’t believe it when I visited. Every news program seems much less like news and more like reality tv. It seems like it’s very hard for you to get unbiased information and that there’s an information overload. Also all the news are only about the US! There’s a whole world out there. - AwayComparison

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I'm Canadian and took a road trip to Philadelphia a few years ago.

Two things that stood out: 1) giant Christian anti-abortion billboards beside the highway. I wish I could remember exactly what they said but I remember the wording was... aggressive. Like "how the f*ck is that a billboard on the highway" aggressive.

and 2) The overwhelming number of American flags. Flags everywhere, on store fronts, on lawns, all over public property, on people's cars... so many flags. It was all very "YOU'RE IN AMERICA AND DON'T YOU GODD*MN FORGET IT." - JuniusBobbledoonary

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I found American commercials extremely condescending. - mijodanu

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When paying cash, people scribbling on the notes with a pen to find out if it was fake or not.

US must have an awful lot of fake cash, or the marketing of the cash pen company must be really good. - createdtothrowaway86

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I was 16yo in Vegas and was walking around at night when I encountered a person with a Mickey Mouse mascot head on, laying on the ground passed out with beer bottles in each hand... Oh boy.. - armpithairnintendo64

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I was in New York, Pittsburgh and Detroit back in 2018.

  • The amount of overweight people

  • Everytime you buy groceries, you get a plastic bag. Its good so you don't need to carry a bag with you but the amount of plastic waste bugs me!

  • The sketchy alleys and the waste laying there in downtown Detroit and Pittsburgh

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I found the poverty pretty difficult to get my head around. - Alba2ros

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Medication being advertised on TV. CRAZY! - Aloise500

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The fact that McDonald’s meals were so big and they taste disgusting. - Not-Lis

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Flags, f*cking everywhere, like on every lamp post, like WTF is this a country or some kind of cult. - _riotingpacifist

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Huge toilets. - sonofgraham

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Public toilets. Like, why is it necessary to have massive gap in your door so people can watch you pee, and why is the water level so high? Are Americans all voyeurs who get off on people's toilet habit? - Sfb208

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Pink firearms - I’m not used to seeing any kind of gun but someone apparently decided to make guns and market them specifically to girls. - mijodanu

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For a country with so much obesity, I expected the food to be good... It was not, it was poor. Like huge portions of barely seasoned fake product. Also, the price of actual, real food in the grocery stores was so high! Like to eat normally is significantly more expensive than fast food. - Migzillion

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The cubic ton of ice in the drinks - MariusGB

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A stranger looking at me when I was using the toilet. Why such big gaps between the stall doors? Might as well include a viewing platform and binoculars too - thegreatestplantman

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My aunt says that the most shocking thing she saw was americans shocked at her brushing teeth after lunch - GrumpySupport

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People drinking sweet tea... Why would anyone willingly drink it - and enjoy it too! - rest_in_pizz

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Guns being sold at Walmart. They were in a large glass display case. Being from Canada and the UK it was a little shocking to just stumble upon them like that.

Also the fact that condoms and pregnancy tests were locked behind plexi glass and the pharmacist had to open the display for you. Maybe this is just a thing in certain states? Either way I was an adult and felt like I was being judged by the pharmacist. I couldn't help but think this couldn't be helping with the whole teenage pregnancy problem!

The size of portions at restaurants and how many times a healthy food would be made unhealthy. I learned that you can deep fry basically anything!

Again, this might only be because we lived in a 'bible belt' state, but going out when a religious holiday was coming up made me really uncomfortable. I'm a wheelchair user and random people would pat me on the head and 'bless me' etc as I was just going about my day. It was super creepy! - lakmom

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Breakfast in hotels. Everything was packed in plastic and it all tasted like cardboard - Mr_Otterswamp

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I love Coca Cola and went to buy a bottle at a store but what I got was the most disgusting oversweetened drink ever, it's insane how sweet it tastes - ThrasherHS

15 of the funniest reactions to Trump bragging about memorizing the words 'person, woman, man, camera, TV.'

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Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

While that may sound like a random sequence of words, or Steve Carrell in Anchormanconfessing his love to random objects he sees in the room, according to President Trump, it is proof of his exceptional cognitive abilities.

Trump's reelection plan, in addition to sending federal troops to round up protestors in big cities and claiming that he's not actually responsible for the government's response to the twin COVID and economic crises, is to prove just how good his brain is.

The Very Stable Genius is arguing that Biden does not have the brain power to serve as president, but he does, because he "aced" the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, which tests for mild dementia.

Trump described the test, and you'll be amazed to learn that the President of the United States could memorize five words in a row. Although odds are that those weren't even the words asked if him on the test.

According to Trump, his ability to say five words left the doctors in awe.

The phrase "person woman man camera TV" promptly started trending as people were amazed by this stunning moment in the history of presidential rhetoric.

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Woman posts thread predicting what will happen if schools reopen and teachers agree with her.

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In the past few weeks, the Trump administration has placed massive pressure on governors to open schools up in the fall for in-person learning.

While everything from elementary schools to college campuses closed down for distance learning in the spring, the White House is pushing for schools to reopen as part of a wider plan to "revive" the economy and return to life as normal, this is all despite a recent surge in COVID-19 cases.

In reaction to this push to return to full classroom learning, some teachers have been writing their wills as a morbid precaution. In a more humane world, this in itself would be enough to give our government pause about the next steps, but alas - that is not the state we're currently in.

In response to the rapidly approaching fall school dates, the cultural analyst Melissa Hillman wrote a thread predicting exactly what will happen if schools open across the country.

First off, Hillman predicts every teacher with the ability to retire will make that call at the very last minute, causing a shortage of teachers.

Any issues with understaffing and underfunding will be manipulated into blame toward teacher unions and the teachers themselves, Hillman wrote.

Due to the strict schedule of a school day, Hillman wrote that it's unlikely that classrooms will be properly sterilized between students - particularly without enough PPE and cleaning supplies.

Again, Hillman wrote that any teacher with the ability to quit will quit, they're already underpaid and underappreciated - so the imminent risk of death is beyond a tipping point.

Hillman also predicted that at least one teacher will go into the ICU from every school that opens, and that will cause a widespread call for quarantine - with no previous planning for distance learning.

This immediate lockdown will saddle working parents with no child care, and give teachers in the impossible task of creating digital learning in less than 24 hours.

Ultimately, Hillman wrote, this will result in the deaths of parents, teachers, and children, There will be children who will lose one or both parents, and grow up with life-long complications from the virus (on top of the psychological trauma).

There will be protests, walk-outs, and eventually - the pandemonium will result in more under-prepared distance learning. And all of this can still be avoided.

The reason schools are even being pushed to reopen is to revive the economy, and Hillman wrote that the reversal back to online education is not a question of if - but when, and it all depends on when the deaths start.

The victim-blaming, Hillman wrote, will be rampant and will teachers and families for mass death, instead of the very government that forced them into this position.

While yes, we all miss the experience of being in a room together, Hillman wrote that teaching in a socially distant classroom will be much harder and more emotionally taxing than teaching via Zoom.

A lot of people jumped onto Hillman's thread to echo her thoughts and share how they are dealing with the possibility of schools reopening.

A lot of teachers confirmed Hillman's prediction that they'll quit their jobs if it comes to that.

People also pointed out that if we wanted to open schools in safer ways, there are precautions and methods, the U.S. just hasn't set itself up for those.

It's sad that this thread even exists, but there is still time for teachers and parents to band together and stand up against demands that their children and livelihood be put at risk.

36 people share the things they know are scams but use anyways.

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Nobody wants to be scammed, because our money is precious and so is our time. And yet, human beings knowingly participate in scams every single day of our lives. It's called capitalism. Are we complicit in being robbed of our time and money? Sure! But as it turns out, sometimes it just feels good to consume products. Even when, deep down, we know the effects are bullsh*t.

Recently a woman on Twitter, Shereen Lani Younes, asked people to share things they know are scams, but use anyway.

Hers is "incognito mode." Also:

Turns out, people have thoughts a lot of thoughts about incognito mode.

But even if incognito mode turns out to not be a scam, her tweet sparked a huge thread about things that are.

These 36 people share the scams that they knowingly participate in. Turns out, most of us are scamming ourselves on the reg, maybe dozens of times already today:

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18 people share things they quit as kids that they wish they had continued doing.

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Childhood is full of trying new activities, sports, instruments, and creative endeavors. Unfortunately, most of them don't exactly last..

If we all stuck with the musical instruments we learned and sports we played as kids, we'd all be professional plastic recorder-playing soccer stars well into adulthood. Figuring out what your passions are and what you're good at can take a lot of time, and there are usually a few flutes, saxophones, drum kits, ice skates, and sports uniforms that get sacrificed to a life of collecting dust in the closet along the way. With rigorous academic schedules, after-school activities, and summer jobs or babysitting--life definitely gets in the way of our trumpet-playing lacrosse dreams.

So, when a recent Reddit user asked, "What is something you quit as a kid and now wish you continued?" people were ready to share. Shout out to my third grade piano teacher-you were right!

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Reading books. I would get so absorbed into them and I was doing well in school due to it. I regret stopping it- Zedfourkay

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Drawing - Zisei

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Saxophone, it was a cool instrument. - EverGreatestxX

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Track and field. I found out later in life that I love running. - Verano_Zombie

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Piano. I'm competent at other instruments, but I wish I had kept up with it. So versatile. - krapde

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I used to write stories constantly. I got discouraged when a family member I looked up to told me they were silly and no one would ever buy them. When I was a kid all I wanted to be was an author. Now I'm 40 and have had writer's block for decades. - TK_Sleepytime

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Collecting coins. Nowadays I'm back to it though, but I wish I had accumulated them through the years. - LegateVesanus

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Taking care of my teeth.

I neglected my dental health a lot during my childhood/teenage years and as an adult I very much regret it. - eDgAR-

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I was always writing stories and silly songs but now I feel like I lost my creativity - MarchKick

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I used to ride horses really well. I was very natural on horseback and it was really the only sport I was ever any good at. But it’s very much a rich person’s hobby so I just couldn’t afford it as I got older.

I’m thinking about going back to it though, there’s a place near me that teaches horseback archery and that just seems like the coolest hobby in the world! - DreyaNova

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My P.E. teacher introduced us to dance in the sixth grade. I was very invested in it and at the end of the deadline, we were supposed to have a full dance, and the class would take turns to perform in front of everyone.

My partner and I did so well that my teacher, on the spot, had us do another. She was pretty proud. I was too, and my older sister was even trying to arrange for me to meet with a teacher that taught dance at her middle school but my mom homeschooled me before I got that far.

I now don't have an athletic bone in me and watching people dance makes me happy and yet depressed. - Aesomnia

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Playing bassoon. I played for 2 years in middle school. The scholarships I missed out on! It's a beautiful instrument and with quarantine, looked back into picking it up again. But even a used one would cost thousands of dollars. Not to mention, lessons hard to come by where I live. Maybe one day. - greenbutnotlean

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Reading. I think it was mostly for escapism at the time, but there are so many books i have now that i wish i could just inhale like i did when i was nine or ten. - cal-cium12

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Web design- had a tripod website and learned basic HTML. - dino-sour

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Martial Arts. I got bullied a lot in school but when I started taking martial arts I felt so confident and invincible. Stopped it in high school, wasn’t as fit because of it, didn’t have much confidence in high school.

Looking back I wish I stuck with it. I got into weightlifting later though, but martial arts was fun. - RedRightBlinder

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41 of the funniest and realest tweets from parents this past week.

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Parents are the original essential workers. And in 2020, they're working as hard as ever. And by "working," I mean keeping their children alive and entertained during a global pandemic, while still finding time to make funny jokes about the whole experience on Twitter. I bow down.

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20 people share stories of one small decision that changed the course of their life.

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For better or worse, so much of our fate can change in a matter of minutes.

Small factors like what time you leave your house, your decision to cancel a date, or your spot in line at a restaurant can make the difference between life and death, and conversely, a career come-up or stagnation. It can be truly bizarre to look at a circumstance and realize how easily it could have been you, if anything, it accentuates the chaos of the world we live in.

In a popular Reddit thread, people answered the question: "what's your 'that could have been me' story?"

These truly run the gamut from seemingly cosmic to mundane.

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For example, On September 11th Seth MacFarlane (the guy who writes Family Guy) was scheduled to return to Los Angeles on American Airlines Flight 11 but his travel agent told him his flight would leave at 8:15am. It was actually scheduled to depart at 7:45am. So he arrived at the airport a few minutes after boarding was stopped on his flight and he was told he would have to wait for the next flight. An hour later, Flight 11 was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

2. From Stone-D:

In 2004, a 1 ton car bomb exploded in front of the Australian embassy in Jakarta at 10:30 A.M. I was working at a language school on the other side of the road, and every morning I did a U-turn at the embassy at that exact time.

The previous night, I had been very tired and was too lazy to fill up on gas, which meant I was 10 minutes late. When the bomb detonated, I was about half a kilometer away - my car rocked, debris rained down on my windscreen, and I thought it was an earthquake.

Laziness save my life.

3. From pandamayhem:

Back in 2012 I was leaving a gas station on my way to school and let a truck go ahead of me. He was in front of me at a stoplight and when it was our turn to cross the intersection, an SUV ran the red light going about 45. The truck was totaled and the guy was knocked out and bleeding from his head.

I drive a small car and it scared me to think that if he had it that bad, I could have been a million times worse. He's actually still fighting the f*cker that ran the light because he swears he didn't run the light, but I testified for the driver of the truck and it looks like they are just now settling the lawsuit.

4. From filly062178:

I was invited to a concert in a small venue to see Great White. I had just started a job and was in training so declined. The show was at the Station Night club in RI. A fire broke out and many of the people died. There's a video online with some images from the fire (NFSL).

5. From SlightlyStable:

Years ago I stood not ten feet from a friend and actually watched him get hit by lightning. Yeah, that could have been me.

6. From CrunkaScrooge:

Went to Taco Bell with Mom and friend. They both got a drink and I said I would just share with them, even after being offered that Mom would buy me one no problem. Next guy in line got a drink. He won a 40,000 Land Rover off the cup contest.

7. From atlien88:

In 1996, me and my family were standing a few feet from where the bomb went off in centennial park. Luckily, my brother was not feeling well so we had to leave early. We were driving through the streets of Atlanta and saw police and rescue vehicles flying down the street, we turn on the radio and hear about the bombing then get home and see if was right where we were. Crazy.

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Not me personally but my grandfather.

He was in the navy in World War 2 and sent a letter to his wife (my grandma) saying his ship was leaving Pearl Harbor. The letter was dated December 6, 1941, a day before the naval base was attacked by the Japanese.

Edit: This post turned into a mind f*ck. My dad was born after the war in 1946. I have the letter at my house but I'm out at sea (runs in the family) and won't get home for 2 weeks.

9. From Mspersianprincess7:

When I was 7-years-old, a man attempted to kidnap me outside of my school. It was me & one other little boy standing there after everyone left. He told me my mother wasn't going to be able to get me & sent him instead. He leaned over from the driver's seat and opened the passenger door trying to grab me. He also called out several girls names trying to guess mine. The boy motioned for me to go with him. I took a step back to think first.

I did remember my teacher saying a few weeks before a man like this tried to kidnap a little boy who he told he had forgotten his lunch. The boy jumped out of the car as it drove away. My mom pulled up behind him as I was trying to figure out what to do at that young age. He drove crazy fast out of there. As an adult, I realized I most likely would have have had a very violent and sad outcome. When I watch missing kids' reports I think "that could have been me."

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In 2011 the beginning of my junior year in high school I had surgery to fix a hole I tore in my shoulder muscle. I had it the Monday before the national championship air races (on a Saturday) in Reno Nevada and I live decently close. We go every year and had tickets to the box seats.

Parents decided I couldn't go because my meds were too powerful (double dose of Percocet plus a pill to make me not throw it all up) and I was in a brace and if I got bumped I could have really fucked myself up. So I stayed home. That night on the news we discovered that one of the racers had lost control and crashed into the box seats killing I don't know how many people. If I would have gone there's no way a doped up teenager with one working arm would have survived.

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One morning in the summer that I was 7, I went across the street to play with my friends in their yard. We did kid stuff in the back area by the fence for a while, and then it got hot in the early afternoon so we went back to my yard to play in the sprinkler at my house.

Now the fence we were playing by was low and open, and even at 7 we could easily see into their back-neighbors yard on the other side of the fence. There was a little patio and picnic table just on the other side.

Early that same afternoon, the dad of the family snapped and murdered his wife and two kids. For some reason, he immediately dragged the bodies outside and hid/put them under the picnic table.

I'm not saying he would have shot us too, but I remember thinking back then that us deciding to go to my yard was very much fate being in my side.

TL;dr: At age 7, I didn't have to go nose to nose with a murderer who was dragging bodies.

12. From edhialdyn:

The band "The Presidents of the United States of America" once opened for my dad's band in the 90s. A record label rep was at that show and signed the Presidents the next day. Needless to say, my dad has not let it go.

13. From rykerbomb:

As a kid, a friend and his parents took me to an Orioles home game against the Oakland A's. Our section was light so we played around in the seats, running around and such and decided to just sit wherever we wanted to.

Around the second inning a man with his wife and kids show up late and they ask us to move out of their seats. We comply and just scoot down a few seats and continue to watch the game.

A couple of innings later, Jose Canseco drills a foul ball right into the man's chest. He was pretty messed up and required medical attention.

I was sitting in that man's seat before the family arrived. If they hadn't come to the game that day, that would have been me.

14. From HotTubToilet:

My uncle, who is an electrician, was working on the top floors of the World Trade Center, my uncle is someone who will never call in sick, on 9/11 my grandma convinced him he should stay home because he had a bad cold.

Good job, grandma.

15. From slurmfactory:

My friend's mom canceled a double date in California in the 70s because she was sick, the other couple went on the picnic as they planned and both got murdered by the Zodiac killer. Chances are he wouldn't have attacked all four of them since that's a bigger group, but sucks for the other couple.

16. From KingYohlo:

Five of my ex-girlfriends are currently pregnant or have already had children by the very next guy they dated after me. Dodging bullets like Neo over here.

17. From Mr_Monster:

Baghdad, Iraq. The stall of the bathroom trailer that I normally used during my two mile walk from my hooch to my work area got hit by a 105mm rocket. I left late and the rocket beat me to the sh*tter. Talk about blowing up the bathroom.

18. From ohgoogliebear:

I ran the Boston Marathon last year. It was my 14th marathon, and my normal marathon time would have had me crossing the finish line right when the bombs went off. I happened to be three months pregnant. My doctor told me I could run, but I had to slow down a bit for the sake of the baby. I slowed down, and I was stopped by security 1/2 mile before the finish when the bombs went off. I'm pretty grateful to that baby.

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A few years ago I used to work as a sort of field guy for a real estate broker (This was during the housing crisis and as the company dealt mostly in REO, his business was boomin'). Part of my job was to go to the empty houses and make sure they were being maintained and in good enough condition for sale. As you might suspect, empty, foreclosed homes in bad neighborhoods don't stay empty for long. So I always had to frequent the worse neighborhoods and deal with whoever thought it OK to claim a new home. It wasn't all bad, but I'd seen some sh*t.

So with this in mind...

I was tasked with training another field guy and so I thought it best to take him to the worse areas on his first day so he knows exactly what he'll be dealing with. The first house we went to ended up being a winner: a two-story, two-unit, raggedy-ass crack house on the corner of 25th and Vermont (or nearby, I forget exactly) in LA. The front unit was empty but the doors were busted open and the place was torn up. We try the door to the rear unit but it's locked. At this point, new guy had been pretty chill about the whole thing, having grown up in east Los, like me.

I knock.

A woman on the other side asks us who we are. We state our business and she unlocks the door. We walk in and before I take two steps I immediately turn toward the big-a*s pit bull that's gunning towards my right. Another woman, on a mattress on the floor, sleepily grabs the dog by the collar and asks what I'm doing there. The other woman says we're with the bank. She and the dog go back to sleep. The situation now calm, I finally get to look at the woman who opens the door.

She had answered butt-naked and was in the process of putting on some clothes.

I fully explain the situation to her (bank foreclosure, she needs to find another place before the bank comes to do an inspection of their own, etc.) And while this is going on, the new guy gets my attention and motions toward the group of about six hard-looking mofos who are making their way to us. The oldest guy (late 40s) steps up and asks the new guy what we're doing. I back new guy off and talk with the old dude about what's going on.

The woman is his niece and she needed a place to stay. I'm supposed to kick people out but I felt bad for the guy and woman, so I tell him the bank won't show up for a week and that I'd stall my rounds until then so that they'd have some time to find her another place. He's thankful and we start wasting some time and talking about whatever (the best way to deal with rough situations is to treat people with respect and turn them friendly toward you, I've found).

So a couple of weeks pass and by this time, new guy was flying solo. I get a call that I need to go back to that house and check the place out again. I was five minutes away but at this point, I had already been thinking about quitting and said f*ck it. I call up new guy and tell him that he needs to check out the house. He was five minutes away but says he'll leave in about ten. When he gets there though, there are a ton of cops and an ambulance. Turns out a rival gang took out a couple of the guys we had been talking to. :/ The guys who got shot were hanging out in front of the house and the shooter(s) rounded the corner and just blasted them.

I quit two weeks later.

TL;DR Two-fer: I miss getting shot because I was being a scumbag. Other guy also misses getting shot because he lagged it.

20. From dark_knight92:

I was at a stop light in the left lane about to turn onto the highway. Nickelback came on the radio so I looked down to change the station to something less like nails on a chalkboard. I missed the light change to green. The guy next to me didn't. He drove forward and was immediately t-boned by a truck running a red light on the access road going 70. TL;DR: Nickelback saved my life.

26 Memes For Anyone Who Hates 2020.

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"Marriage is not just spiritual communion; it is also remembering to take out the trash."

-Joyce Brothers

Marriage is a lot of things, but one thing it never ceases to be is hilarious. If you have a good sense of humor, you can always find a reason to laugh, even after a big fight. These memes hilariously nail married life.

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18 of the funniest and realest tweets from Monica Lewinsky.

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Monica Lewinsky survived the trauma of her early 20s to become an accomplished activist, writer, and hilarious tweeter. Her self-deprecating jokes are always on point and charming as hell.

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Woman asks if she's wrong to call out pregnant sister for mocking her proposal online.

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Family relationships are definitely priceless and irreplacable, but that doesn't always mean they're smooth sailing...

Whenever someone needs to make a big, exciting announcement to the family whether that's a proposal, a new baby, or a job promotion--things can quickly go off the rails into petty comments from jealous people, resentment, questioning baby names, or overly controlling wedding planner-personalities. While ideally siblings should be supportive of one another and always be prepared to celebrate life's biggest moments, weddings especially can often bring out dormant monsters in people.

So, when a recent Reddit user consulted, "Am I the As*hole?" about a family dilemma involving her proposal announcement, people were quick to deem whether or not she was in the wrong.

Aita (Am I the As*hole?) for calling out my sister after she shamed me and my proposal online?

I’m 28 my sister is 26. She got married three years ago and has one kid already. I live out of state and she’s in our hometown and lives close to our parents.

Last week my sister had her second pregnancy announcement at a birthday dinner for our dad (I couldn’t attend). Everyone was of course excited and sent congrats. This past Friday my long-term bf and I went hiking on our favorite trail and had a picnic. We walked back to his car and he asked me to get something from the trunk. When I opened it there was a sign that said “turn around” and pictures of us from when we started dating. When I turned he was kneeling with a ring. This proposal is cheesy and romantic and I melted. (This was also the anniversary of our first date apparently, which I didn’t even remember).

I posted pictures of the ring and the proposal story and called my parents and friends! (The ring was a refurb of his grandmother’s with the same stones and shape but a more modern design).

I found out yesterday (and by that I mean I was sent screenshots by an old friend in my hometown) that my sis had been shaming my proposal and me online. She was saying I’d purposefully had my engagement right after her pregnancy announcement, and that I was also clearly jealous my little sister had gotten married first. She also made fun of my “rustic” proposal saying money can’t buy class (my fiancé and I both have good jobs so she thinks we’re rich snobs) and made fun of my “gaudy” ring.

I ended up confronting my sister and said she was being petty and I didn’t like her mocking me online. She got uppity and defensive (of course) and tried denying it. I told her I felt bad for her children since their mother was such an immature bully. Shes been accusing me of saying she’s a bad mom, and my mom thinks I shouldn’t have “stooped to her level”. Aita (Am I the As*hole?)

Of course, people were ready to weigh in:

Stooping to her level would be talking sh*t about her behind her back. You confronted her like a grown adult. - Sarioth

Your sister clearly loves the attention and is pissed that your engagement has now become a shadow to her 2nd child's pregnancy announcement. That is really uncalled for and honestly gross. - Nozxx

She is an immature bully 🤷‍♀️

Best wishes on wedding planning. I think the proposal is story is sweet. - snarkingintheusa

She is being an immature bully. She already had her wedding and is now having her second child so why the hell is she even upset? You announced your engagement like a week after her pregnancy announcement. Does she expect that the entire 9 months is going to be about her and only her?

Not only that but she was making fun of the way you got engaged and the ring too. I know someone who isn't going to be a MoH. - BriaKhalifa

Your sister sounds like she is 6, not 26. - verifiedstupid

Don't invite her to the wedding! Congrats on your engagement. - odirilemoses

Yikes on bikes. Your sister sounds awful. - FluidSuccotash8679

Sounds like she's jealous of you and your fiance. You did nothing wrong. - aileeliz

So there you have it!

The general opinion is that this newly-engaged woman is definitely not in the wrong and her sister needs to get a reality check. "Stealing the spotlight" with a proposal would be one thing if it were done at a wedding, but snagging family attention away from your second pregnancy announcement is not really something to be catty about. Plus, she definitely didn't "stoop to her level" for having an honest and direct discussion. Good luck, everyone!

20 people share the silliest secrets they still keep to this day.

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Most of the time, when we think of secrets we imagine a deep, dark, earth-shattering truth. Secrets are usually shrouded under layers of foggy mystery, and have the ability to make or break someone's entire life.

However, sometimes secrets don't carry all of that terrifying weight. In some cases, secrets are ridiculously silly, but we've kept them so long that revealing the truth feels like a lost cause.

In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the silliest secrets they've been keeping, and it proves no secret is too small to keep under wraps.

1. From Patches67:

My mom caused sort of a big incident in downtown Montreal through an act of vandalism. This would have been way back in the 1970s. I was a baby in a carriage. My mom had gone grocery shopping and was taking a break by a brand new sort of (at the time) hi-tech water fountain.

The water fountain was sort of this creation that was brand new back in those days. It had tons of water jets all over the place stirring up the water in a bowl-shaped fountain. If you have ever seen the water fountain at Toronto’s Eaton Centre, it was kinda like that.

So my mom thought this new fountain was a bit of a weird creation and all she could think of was “Wouldn’t it be weird if someone threw some soap into that?” So she opens a brand new box of Tide and she’s looking around to see if anyone is looking her way, then she upends the entire box of family-sized Tide into the water fountain.

Now remember, this was the early 70s, the washing detergent they made back in those days was considerably different than what they make now. The detergent of today doesn’t make so many soap suds, but back in those days, people had the impression that more suds = cleaner which means soap was deliberately engineered to be as sudsy as possible. So it wasn’t just the fountain that filled up with soap suds, the entire square the fountain occupied wound up being filled with a mountain of soap suds.

And my mom didn’t run. She just stood there and watched the whole thing. Apparently I was having a good time as I was in the baby carriage laughing and playing with soap bubbles. And then the fire department showed up. The police showed up. A CBC news crew showed up. The whole thing wound up in newspapers and the evening news.

Mom never said a thing until years later. “That was me. I tossed a whole box of Tide in there.”

2. From cfenton23:

In 7th grade I hid my friend's trumpet during band class as a dumb joke, the instructor was mad and made us all sit in silence the entire period until someone confessed. I tried to come clean and he accused me of just taking the fall for everyone and didn't believe I really did it. After class everyone said I was a hero for trying to take the fall and they all accused some fat girl of doing it.

3. From LuTheLunatic:

When I was six years old I brought a tadpole from a nearby pond and let it go while swimming in a YMCA pool. I always thought it would grow up and attack the mean swimming instructors.

4. From thetushqueen:

I threw a pair of shoes on the telephone wire in front of my house, they've stayed up there for 7 years (Nike makes a hell of a shoe lace.) and I've denied knowing how they got up there for just as long. I have no intention of coming out now.

5. From rheabs:

I have an orange juice problem. If we buy a carton, I will finish it within 24 hours. My boyfriend knows about my orange juice addiction but he thinks the carton lasts a couple of days because on my way home from work I’ll buy a small bottle and pour it into our carton when he’s not paying attention so he doesn’t think I drank it all so quickly.

6. From Hauskaz:

One time while my grandmother was babysitting me as a kid, she fell asleep on the sofa while leaving bacon cooking on the stove. I ate the bacon and left the oil in the pan at a low heat, and when she woke up told her that she had left the bacon on the stove for so long it had completely fried away. For some reason she actually believed this and more than fifteen years later the "bacon soup" incident is occasionally brought up. Everyone is now convinced bacon can actually completely vaporize in a pan and carefully watch over it.

TL;DR: Convinced my entire family that bacon can melt.

I've also managed to convince my dad that he once got blackout drunk and described for a solid hour an underground network of tunnels which airplanes could fly through, carrying soft serve ice cream. Underground ice cream airplanes. I not only convinced him to believe it happened, but managed to convince my brother and sister that they heard him describe it in innate detail. I don't know if they actually believe it happened deep down, or if they're just rolling with my bullsh*t. It's been another twelve years though and no one's claimed otherwise.

TL;DR: Inception

7. From _vargas_:

When I have a day off, sometimes the night before, I stay up and make two pizzas from scratch. I spend over an hour on them. They are very "rich" pizzas. Bacon, jalapeno, pineapple, bbq for one. Sausage and pepper for the other. I drink a ton of beer while doing this. I rarely ever eat more than a slice because I usually pass out. I'll wake up at around 5am, put the pizzas in the fridge, and go to sleep in my actual bed. Then, upon waking, I spend my day off eating both pizzas removing myself from the couch only to walk my dog, take a sh*t, or get more pizza. I do this at least twice a month.

People will ask me how my day off was and I lie. I'll say I cleaned my whole apartment or went grocery shopping. Something productive. But all I did was act like a slob. It's one of my favorite hobbies.

Edit: Anyone interested in the recipes for my lazy day pizza ritual please visit my submission to r/pizza. Thank you for all your wonderful, surprisingly non-creepy responses!

8. From aMooga:

That I'm not gay. A lot of people have been giving me attention and talking to me because they thought I was gay, and I just rolled with it for some reason.

9. From henry_the_hedgehog:

When I first started dating my boyfriend I said I couldn't go to his birthday party because I had plans to see Big Momma's House 2 when really I was just scared of his friends. Still never seen it.

10. From trehaag:

I steal a single sock out of the dryer every time my roommate does laundry. I plan on giving them all back to him...sometime.

11. From Plecboy:

My friend smokes, my friend's mother smokes. Neither of them know that the other smokes and I'm sworn to secrecy by both.

12. From igotapoopysecret:

In 3rd grade, I was in class and I had the bad case of the sh*ts. Every Monday I would get diarrhea and this time it was really bad. So naturally, I go to the bathroom and start doing my duty but suddenly I could feel how wet this shit was and it just kept sliding right through. So it finally gets done doing th*s shit water lagoon when I look over to the right and there is no toilet paper. I couldn't get up and go to the other stall to get more since my a*s was sh*tpocalypse, so I use my underwear and attempt to wipe it. In the process, I end up getting sh*t all over my hand so I start wiping it on the stall walls and got shit everywhere. I later realized what the hell I did and felt like an idiot.

So I just get up and gun it for the nurses office. She calls my parents and I end up going home for the day and I felt better then. Next day, I go to school and go to the bathroom and I see that the stalls door was taken off and there was caution tape around it. Easily could have been the most embarrassing thing if anyone knew it was me. So I head back to my class and ask my friends if they saw this stall with poop everywhere. They said yeah and already started blaming this one kid who (pooped on my trampoline, but that's another story) and I went along with what they said. To this day, he has been blamed for this sh*tpocalypse that I created.

13. From born2bwld:

I used to work shipment and delivery at one of those seasonal party stores. We got a large shipment of silly string and I simply wrote down that the package wasn't delivered. So I stole 3 crates of silly string.

14. From ArizonaZach:

One time in my freshman year of high school, I had just finished masturbating, and had put the used tissue next to my computer to get some water. Some things came up and I had forgotten to throw the napkin away. About an hour later, my older brother went onto the computer with his girlfriend who was eating some food at the time.

I walked in to see what they were doing, but as I looked, I saw the girl pick up my used tissue and WIPE HER MOUTH WITH IT! It was probably the grossest, yet funniest secret that I have yet to tell anybody about. Except anyone reading this.

15. From turothechurro:

I had to teach my best friend to tie his shoes in the 8th grade.

16. From hemingway52:

When I was 7 I went to the local drug store to pick up flowers with my mother. There was always a jar of Reese's cup miniatures, just sitting there waiting to be plundered like the sultry bitch she was. When the cashier turned around and my mom was perusing, I quickly grabbed one out and held it. According to my Ocean's 11 type plan I was going to put it in my pocket for later. You know, to give her the attention she deserves. Instead, I panicked and shoved it in my mouth. No, I did not take off the wrapper.

I couldn't let them see I had something in my mouth so I quickly chewed all the tin-foil torturous pain and swallowed my pride. No one was the wiser but I died a little bit inside that day. Haven't decided if it was due to the immoral actions or the tin foil.

17. From StewieBanana:

One time in fifth grade I farted. Immediately, I looked at the girl next to me like she was a f*cking weirdo and I scooted my chair away from her an inch or so. During recess, my friends and I joked about how that girl let one rip in the middle of class. It's been 15 years and I've never told anyone the truth.

18. From MissMeadows:

When my husband is out of town, I pull out $20.00 and eat fast food for as many meals as possible. I also buy the cheapest white wine I can find, and drink it before he gets back.

The days following his return, I always regret my binge, but do it again the next time.

19. From draconiclyyours:

That I can sew. Seriously, I'm a 6' 300lb biker who drinks scotch and I've made a half dozen quilts. Whenever someone asks about them, they're told that my mother made them for us.

The only person that knows is my wife, and she's sworn to secrecy– mostly because I caught her playing FarmVille 2, which she is ridiculously embarrassed about.

20. From catiefsm:

When I was eight, I flipped off a driver from the back of the school bus. He looked REALLY MAD and did it back, and drove RIGHT BEHIND the bus for a while.

I was POSITIVE he was either going to kill me, or my mom would ground me.


18 people share the funny and embarrassing dating mistakes they made as teens.

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Romance is awkward, and nobody navigates the murky waters of dating without the occasional pitfalls. But at least by adulthood most people have enough experience under our belts (LOL) to pretend we know what we're doing. Dating in our teen years, when most of us could barely hold a conversation with someone we were attracted to, let alone KISS them, was a messy, hormonal nightmare. Luckily, with the passage of time, even the most embarrassing moments tend to transform into comedic gold.

Someone asked Reddit: "what awful(ly hilarious) dating mistakes did you make in your early-mid teens?" These 18 people share the mortifying dating mistakes from their teen years that are funny in retrospect:

1.) From midget9:

On a first date with a girl, we decide to just drive around after dinner. We had a great time exploring and found this creepy road back in the woods that was closed and I decided I wanted to be a rebel and go around the barriers, but she got a little freaked out and objected. That's when I realized from her perspective some guy had picked her up and took her back in the woods in the middle of nowhere on the first date. Unintended creepy as hell but a had a second date!

2.) From I0I0I0I:

First date ever, at about 15, moved in too fast for a kiss, she flinched, I French kissed her eyeball.

3.) From Capt-Sunshine11:

On my first date I went to the movies with this girl and I thought it was going great. We laughed and joked about the movie and stuff. After the movie had ended is when everything went wrong.

See I had never been in this situation before so I really didn't know what to do after the movie was over. I could have asked if she enjoyed the movie or tell her we should do something like this again but no. I decided the best course of action was to walk out the movie theatre and say nothing at all.

The worst part was that she even said bye to me as I was walking out the door. This was a second chance! I could fix everything if I just turned around and said anything. Dumb old me turned and said "yea see ya" and kept on walking right out the door.

4.) From that_was_awkward1111:

I had my first boyfriend in middle school. We didn't last long, but when I decided it was time to break up I was at a loss as to how one goes about ending a relationship. I turned to romcoms for cues and came to the conclusion that I ought to set up a date and break up with him at the end of it. We planned on a movie. I arrived early and took my seat. He came in a little later, handed me some Junior Mints, and sat beside me. The previews started and I got really antsy, so I turned to him and told him I was breaking up with him.

The end result was us sitting together awkwardly and very upright for the whole movie- with me munching on the gift candy, of course.

5.) From noodle-face:

I had been dating a girl for a few months in high school, she was 15 and I was 17. On my 18th birthday I picked her up and we went to a baseball field, parked, and just talked for awhile. Nothing crazy was going to happen, we were just talking. Right behind me I see the flashing blue lights and am told to put my hands out the window. Then instructed to walk in reverse towards the officers voice. He asked what we were doing, I told him, he didn't believe me. As soon as he found out I was 18 and she was 15 he decided I was a pedophile. He made me call up her parents (we borrowed their cell phone thankfully, 15 years ago!) and her dad explained the situation to the cop. He still didn't believe me so he made me drive her home while he followed. When I dropped her off he even waited behind my car to make sure I wasn't raping her or something. Her dad invited me in but I felt so sketched out that I just went home, cop followed me the whole way.

6.) From _seventytwo:

ignored my friends after I got a boyfriend.

7.) From roonerspize:

I was an innocent, inexperienced, awkward young man. I finally dated a girl my senior year of high school who was considerably more experienced. She was well-endowed. I was always careful not to make too bold of a move. Towards the end of our short relationship, we were sitting on the floor in my room kissing and she gently pushed me back on the floor, straddling me on her knees and had her tits right in my face, still clothed, mind you. It was impossible not to glance down at them which she noticed and said, "you can touch them if you want." Super-smooth me reached up under her shirt, grabbed one in each hand and let out a childish "woooooo" as I tuned in Tokyo. I don't exactly remember what happened next except I do recall eye-rolling. She broke up with me shortly thereafter.

My wife fully knows this story and she'll often make the "wooooooo" sound at me and grab my pecs and laugh when I'm making my moves on her.

8.) From [deleted]:

Primary mistake: assuming that no girl could possibly be interested in me, and fleeing in terror from any that showed signs they might be.

9.) From Whiskeybent341:

I told my mother about my first kiss after she picked me up. It was just a peck. She flipped the fuck out and called the girls parents and chewed them out for "raising a slut". Needless to say she never talked to me again. EDIT: My date never talked to me again. My mother unfortunately did.

10.) From dubbelpunt:

When I met my first boyfriend I really didn't have any experience at all. Old fashioned first kiss, first bf situation. Once we got in between the sheets one day, I assumed we needed to kiss passionately. Really passionately. I was a bit sick at the time (running nose). Lights out and I began to kiss him like a maniac. Only to notice after a couple of minutes that I was tasting snot. I smeared snot all over his face. The poor soul didn't say anything about it. We went to sleep. Never mentioned it. Thank god.

11.) From MLG_Snipar_420:

Accidentally gave my then girlfriend a hickey. Her family found out and made fun of her. When I went over to their place they made fun of me, as her father just glared at me. Needless to say it was awkward as fuck.

12.) From PaulBlart_MallCopAMA:

It was getting close to prom and I didn't have a date, so I asked this girl out that I wouldn't have asked otherwise. 3 days to prom and the girl I really wanted to ask out broke up with her boyfriend. I thought, "golden opportunity right here". Obviously wasn't. I asked her to prom, she said yes, and then I made up a story to my first date about how I forgot I would be out of town during prom weekend. She was upset but believed it. Ended up having a really crappy time at prom, basically the worst date of my life. But it doesn't end there. Obviously we took pictures at prom, and stupid me decided to put them on Facebook, where girl #1 could see them. She saw them. Long story short, neither of those girls ever want to talk to me again. Looking back I laugh about how stupid I was, but that was probably the douchiest moment of my life.

tl;dr

Don't double book your prom dates

13.) From JesseoftheNorth:

If a girl asks you if she's the prettiest girl you've dated, there is only one correct answer.

14.) From Ghalian:

I'm 17, she's 15, we met online. Thankfully I wasn't murdered. We meet up to see a movie and being a fat guy with a mushroom cut my mind is blown she is interested in me.

Half way through the movie I work up the courage and put my arm around her. She leaned in. Yeah, cool guy now, I'm thinking.

Few seconds later she leans in for a kiss and I'm like "it's time", so I lean in for what I intended to be a kiss but instead blew a raspberry on her lips and turned away nervously hoping this wouldn't be stuck as the worst first kiss ever.

It was.

15.) From UrMomLikesMine:

Was dating a girl I was probably 14 or 15 at the time and she was the same age. Her bedroom is down in the basement and the rest of the house is upstairs. At this point we've been dating long enough where we were regularly having sex. One particular time after we nude up, her family comes downstairs to tell us to come up for dinner. Now when I say her family, it was legit her grandma, 2 aunts, mom, dad, sister and her dog jack. We are both buck naked under the blankets, she's trying to say that we fell asleep, and we will be up in a second. I'm laying there with my eyes closed and an awkward boner praying that no one grabs the blanket. They did go upstairs, and we made a vow to LOCK THE F*CKIN DOOR next time

16.) From Deathtanz:

Oh man, it's time to share my biggest regret EVER.

I was going out with this amazing girl. She is well endowed, slim figure, nerdy, the whole package! I always had feelings for her back in junior high, but I started to go out with her during university. One day we were watching a movie in her house (Battle Royale, nice!) and she had bought a bag of gummy worms. The movie was at the middle part, and she decided to put a gummy worm on her mouth, for me to bite it, and potentially kiss her in the process. I went for the worm, I was sooo fucking nervous that I didn't go for the kiss! IDIOT! After that worm I should have done the same, but my nerves betrayed me. I never had the balls to tell her that I really liked her, it's something that has been plaguing my mind for the last 6 years, on how I blew it with an incredible girl, and my long time crush.

17.) From GingerCule:

Well not as bad as some of these but still kind of a fuck up.

In middle school I was friends with this girl and eventually asked her out and she said yes. Now I had asked her probably about two days before Valentine's Day. The day before Valentine's Day she told me that she had got me a gift for Valentine's Day and that she was sure I would absolutely love it. Then she asked if I got her something and I said of course.

The thing was I had absolutely not gotten her a present. So I kind of freak out that I need to get her something. This was made worse by the fact that she was now my girlfriend so obviously some dumb piece of shit box of candy herts would not cut it. So I begged my mom to take me to the store and I eventually got her this cool looking glass rose and teddy bear. The total was like $80 and I spent basically every penny I had to pay for it. But I was glad that I got my girlfriend something cute and was sure she would like it.

So the next day at school I give her the gift and she was stunned. She asked me if I had bought this last night and I said no of course not I got it a couple days ago since I knew I was going to ask her out. I thought fuck yeah I am awesome. I totally played this right.

Well she looks at me embarrassed and hands me my gift. It was a bag of M&Ms. So I had to play it cool and act like this was a really cool gift meanwhile her friends were right there watching the whole thing unfold and totally started laughing at what happened. It was real awkward after that and we broke up not too long after. Still one of the most awkward moments of my middle school career.

TL;DR A young GingerCule tries to navigate the waters of Middle School. Cringe and awkwardness ensues.

18.) From PhytoRemidiation:

I was 16. I took a girl on a date. She seemed nervous as I think it may have been her first date ever. We went to dinner for pizza. She ordered 2 slices. After she finished the 1st slice, we talked for a good 20 minutes. I thought she was done and asked her, "Hey so are you done with that?" She looked at me funny and said "Uh yea, sure". I happily said "Ok, can I eat that so it doesn't go to waste?" And she said "uhhh yea sure". I went ahead and finished it. 10 years later we randomly ended up living in the same city hundreds of miles from our hometown and reconnected. We went out a few times (as friends, as she had a bf), and one night she proceeded to lay into me how I "stole her 2nd pizza slice" and I was rude and didn't give her a chance to finish it. I thought I was fair in asking her but I learned a great lesson: never ask for your dates food, no matter what. And even though I thought I was fair I still cringed at the thought of her harboring ill feelings for 10 years about a pizza slice.

18 people share 'on brand' stories from their childhood that explain who they are today.

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You learn a lot in school (or at least, are supposed to) but the things you remember are the funny stories about who got detention and why.

People are sharing anecdotes from their school days that are consistent with who they are as an adult. Twitter user @lizduckchong kicked off the thread that will take you right back to middle school

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Singer Maren Morris responds to mom-shamers who accused her of putting baby in danger.

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Country singer Maren Morris has no time for mom-shamers.

She announced on Bravo talk show "Watch What Happens Live" that she is no longer posting photos of her son's face, in part because of mom-shamers who accused her of not looking out for his safety under a recent Instagram photo.

In the photo, Morris and her son, Hayes, are sitting in a giant car-shaped float.

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Motor-floatin’. ⛳️✨

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The comments are no longer visible because Morris turned the feature off on the post, but fans accused her of not looking out for her son because he wasn't in a life vest — despite the fact that they're clearly in incredibly shallow water. Some tweets about the pic are still visible.

In light of the controversy, on last night's episode of of WWHL, host Andy Cohen read a question from a fan, asking Morris:

How did you deal with all the ridiculous mommy-shamers who overreacted about the adorable picture of you and your son hanging out on a floatie? Will it prevent you from sharing him on social media again?

Morris responded:

I don't think I'm gonna show his face in photos on sm anymore. You know, I would just have to say to anyone who is a mother who is shaming another mother, it obviously, I think, maybe just comes from a deep insecurity in your own motherhood that you have to criticize someone else that's especially, like, brand new at this.

She touched on her own insecurities, continuing:

aAnd we all feel like we suck in the beginning anyway. So I'll just say, like, I'm gonna be a little more private about him. It's been so fun sharing photos of him but I feel like, you know, I can take someone saying my music sucks or I'm ruining country music. But for some reason the mother card I just can't emotionally handle right now. So I'm just gonna protect myself and him from it.

She added that her baby was completely safe in the pic, saying, "But I will say, like, he was completely safe. We were tied to a dock. I was in a foot of water on a float to get, like, a photo."

Cohen then cut her off, saying, "People are a**holes on social media."

She posted another photo with her son about a week ago:

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My son. ✨

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A​​​​​nd most fans applauded her:

Her husband also stuck up for her on Twitter after the float pic was posted:

Still, she's holding firm on her plan to keep her baby's life more private — and continuing to tell her haters to eff off. After a recent selfie garnered some negative comments because of her cleavage (yes, really), she tweeted:

Bride asks if it's wrong to delete photos of friend getting engaged at her wedding.

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You'd think everyone's gotten the memo by now that it's rude to get engaged at someone else's wedding. But this proves that's not the case.

A bride took to the internet to ask for advice about whether it would be a total a**hole move to get revenge on a gal pal who got engaged at her wedding reception. Does she deserve to get back at the friend, or should she be a team player and send her the cute pics?

The bride didn't know about the reception proposal at the time, but found out a few days later:

A few days after my wedding, my friend announced to me that she was engaged. I was ecstatic and wanted to know everything. Turns out she got engaged at my wedding. My brain gets out of its vegetative state and I remember her table being way too excited at some point but I blamed the alcohol.

She was understandably peeved at the couple:

I wasn't thrilled about it, realizing then that she had basically not only gotten engaged at my wedding, but instead of hiding it and announcing it later, she announced it to our friends during the party. It was a though pill to swallow but I figured, whatever, it's not like I even realized what was happening.

Her friend seemed to understand why:

We did have a discussion about it and she didn't seem to understand why I was upset until I put it into perspective for her, asking her how she would feel if I made a big annoucement at her wedding, taking the attention away from her big moment. In my friends' mind, it's no longer the day I got married, it's now also the day she got engaged. On my dime. We eventually turned the page and I thought it was over.

But now she's discovered that her wedding photographer has pictures of the engagement:

Well I've sort of been friends with my photographer since the wedding because of comon interests. At some point, she point blank told me that now that we are closer, she feels comfortable asking me what to do with my friend's pictures because it makes her really uncomfortable.

And that her friend specifically requested them:

During the evening, the wedding party took a break to go change, and during that time my photographer was taking pictures of foliage and the venue. My friend apparently asked her to take pictures of her and her boyfriend. She didn't really see a problem since we weren't back yet and they were guests. That's until she realized they were engagement pictures. Some poses just don't leave place to interpretation.

Now she's wondering what to do with the pics:

So, when she asked me what to do, that, you know, accidents happen, I told her to just put them in a seperate folder. Ever since, I've been thinking what am I gonna do with that folder. My friend has been asking about my wedding pictures periodically but havent asked about her pictures specifically. It was easy when I didn't have them but now I do.

Should she delete them?

I've had them since April and I know she will eventually come out of hiding now that covid restrictions are loosened. I want to delete the folder since they are my property anyway. But I don't want to be a major [a**hole] either. Before you say it, I do realize I haven't forgiven her at all like I initially thought.

Most people agree that this bride is well within her rights to destroy the evidence of the engagement, petty as it may be.

User rednoats had a great suggestion:

Charge her for the photos. It was tacky to get engaged at the wedding, but extra shifty to ask for the photos on your dime.

PotentialityKnocks admitted the deletion would be petty:

Oof. It would be petty and an [a-hole] move, but I feel like it’s kinda deserved since it’s horrible that she got engaged at your wedding without asking you. More of a petty revenge than anything.

But RazMoon thinks it might be a good idea to let her ask the photographer for the pics:

Check in with your photographer friend to see if she still has copies of all the photos. If she does, delete them off your computer - get a cheap thrill with no damage done.

If you have all copies, return the engagement photos to the photographer. Let her make income for the work she did for them.

KansasAvocado agrees:

Absolutely. It's not fair to the photographer to get cheated out of a separate session, either. Times are tough--especially for people who depend on events for their paychecks. Tell her she'll need to buy them from the photog if she wants them and wash your hands of it completely.

Mystlainn thinks she needs to have a tough conversation with her friend, which is probably true but also no fun:

These rulings are some of the hardest. Honestly, it should be something you talk to your friend about. Explain that you and the photographer were both really uncomfortable about the fact their engagement pictures were taken at YOUR wedding. Go on to say that you're not going to pay for their photos and that they should need to pay for them.

They add:

The only photos you are going to receive (and ask your photographer to go along with this) are of YOUR wedding. If this friend wants photos of their engagement, they can pay for them themselves.

You would be TA if you deleted them. Honestly, some could argue that making them pay for them is also an AH move, but it would definitely be justified.

GrimCetic had the pettiest plan yet:

The only true revenge, is, of course, to be pregnant by the time her wedding rolls around and use HER wedding photographer to do a maternity shoot!

Whatever this bride decides to do, we can all agree that couples getting engaged at someone else's wedding has got to stop.

Come on!

26 Memes To Help You LOL This Morning.

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Normal is boring. Go ahead and be silly, wacky, and funny. Life is much more fun that way, I promise you. Start your day off with some utterly ridiculous memes and don't be normal today.

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