The only reason society even sort of works is because we have a thin veneer of civility constantly guarding our true intentions from one another. But if neighbors detest each other enough, that's when the paper and markers come out. Drama can be a musical of many notes, like this fed up manager leaving notes or this note escalation after a coworker stole lunches.
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For some reason, when people get a particularly stupid name in their head, it's a really hard time for the people around them to convince them that no, maybe "Tylenol van Halen" is a bad name for a baby, you stupid idiot. Some of these people weren't even convinced effectively, and still ended up naming their kid "Hot Wheels" or whatever. This kind of crap happens all the time, like this boyfriend who wanted to name his baby after a character from Twilight.
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Are we supposed to love the people around us all the time? Because their wire-consolidation and peanut-butter-eating habits make it really hard to maintain good faith in a relationship. It's not like someone's toilet paper strategy is tearing this family apart, but lord almighty couldn't you just put the goddamn roll on correctly like an adult? These are the many frustrating habits of people's spouses, and if you're with someone who does all of this, good luck.
If they're going to be this memorable, maybe we all need to get strip mall massages. Life hasn't been kind to any of our backs, and laying prone under an active drill press isn't enough to get all the knots out. Maybe we all need someone to ground and pound us like we're being initiated into a gang. People leave intriguing reviews for brutal but effective things, like these reviews for this powerful diet soup.
If this guy hadn't tried to soft-rob his ex, he might just have some dish soap left, but nah, he got big about it and ended up with a totally empty apartment. It's gotta feel good to take literally everything that belongs to you, kind of like a Pharaoh. For some lighter relationship struggles, here are the many frustrating habits of people's spouses. Ultimatums are often a bad idea, like this jerkbag who gave a server an ultimatum and ended up having to pay for 25 beers.
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Is there a word for "observation that seems poignant in the moment and then sort of gets instantly muddled into the background noise of your head, only to pop up at the most inappropriate moment?" If not, that's kind of what tweets are. That's not a bad thing, they're fun. Balls of wit make up some of the great funny tweets and tumblr gems to quote later.
A nice juicy funny tweet or tumblr gem is something you can quote later to your friends. The internet is a nexus of extremely specific and stupid ideas that get stuck into people's mind-brains and get bounced around like marbles in a paint-shaker, so it's only natural that there are optimal funny tweets to remember later and chuckle quietly.
Different job titles have different goals, but at their heart, every worker has the same goal: do as little work as possible without getting fired. Our universal desire to not try all that hard leads us down some strange paths, like these "not my job" moments of professional ineptitude. Who needs straight road lines anyway? People get up to some real quality moments of unprofessionalism.
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Sure, movies don't have the time to account for literally every plot-independent detail in a character's life. Plus, a 10-hour movie where the main character spends half their time in traffic and on the toilet wouldn't be fun to watch. Probably. But there are too many flagrant and obviously unrealistic movie moments that never get corrected. For some more movie dumbness, here's tumblr uncovering the nine types of movie posters.
Sure, arguing over semantics is all about dodging empirical facts and avoiding reality, but also it's kinda fun to be technically accurate. You're not gonna score high on any tests or win any real arguments being technically accurate, but at least at the end of the day you can tell yourself that your position, while stupid, was unassailable in its own little way.
Maybe these would makes sense with a few pages of physics or psychology textbook before and after, but as is, these scientific diagrams just look like jokes. The sheer lack of context is the engine that drives forward the strangeness, but it almost seems like textbook writers wanted to make this stuff as weird as possible.
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Cursed Images are a good reminder of how lost and repulsed we can be by random images with zero context. You could call it something like a sensory response to cognitive estrangement. You could also call it "being disgusted by seeing a bowl of pennies filled with milk." Little of column A, a lot of column B.
Sometimes certain people and things get the ire of everyone around them, or just the universe in general. It could be a Burger King sign that tells everyone a certain employee sucks. It could be a burst pipe that only covers one person's car. It might not even have an inkling of merit, sometimes people and things just get humorously singled out unfairly.
The subway is a bit like everyone's car, and you've seen some people's cars. But hey, people have got to get to where they're going whether they're in costume or an actual duck. What are you lookin' at? If the answer to that question is "more weird things on public transportation, then here's more strange and cursed moments on the subway.
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Knowing history doesn't necessarily make you smarter than anyone else, but it sure feels like it. Sure it's cool to know about sweating sickness and emu wars, but it what can one do with that knowledge other than mention it to uninterested bystanders? Well, you can indulge in sweet history memes for for the ages.
Life has all this boring convention and expectation to it. That's why mad lads who play by their own rules can be such a refreshing change. The mad lads of the world are out doing shenanigans, subverting the world's expectations, and going the extra mile for their own ridiculous ends. It's all about those mad lads who play the game their way.
