There have been a few high profile cases of researchers teaching gorillas and chimps sign language. Here Tumblr shares some of the dark and incredible moments with different apes and ASL. For some more everyday moments of animal intelligence, here are the most creepily intelligent things peoples pets have done. For some interesting tumblr animal stuff, here's an informative thread on how cats became domesticated.
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People get married for a lot of reasons. You hope it's because they love each other. Sadly, and more dramatically, people get married over lies and convenience. Sometimes it's even made clear during the wedding that it's not gonna work out. For more wedding drama, here are some wedding meltdown stories as well as the time a bridezilla kept 30K in gifts after cancelling her wedding.
Here are a collection of humorous tweets about the ongoing pandemic. While people are still urged to stay inside and limit social contact, it's starting to take a toll on people's attitudes. There are more cases, and predictably, a whole lot of coronavirus tweets and memes. Here's a woman's experience who tested positive for the disease.
Whether it was last week or thirty years ago, people remember being accused of things they didn't do. It's one of the most maddening feelings to be wrongfully misjudged, especially when there's no way to prove your own innocence. Here are people who got blamed for some BS. Luckily, a few of them were able to prove their innocence. Some weren't so lucky.
Whether it's being so upset that they lose their capacity for rationality, actually wanting to believe a joke headline, or just poor reading comprehension, there is an embarrassing number of sorely mistaken people not getting satire out there. Sometimes someone will read an obvious joke and think that they're doing everyone a favor by calling it fake news. It's half funny and half disappointing. We've got people believing in time travel, wrestler cruelty, and everything else.
Stupidity is one of the only attributes we can trust people to have consistently. Because of this, we have to get extra explicit when it comes to labels and laws. Stuff like, "please don't put salt in eyes" and junk like that. In a similar vein, here are some jobs that only exist because people are dumb. And for some extra scary warnings, here are spooky signs that are doing their job too well.
This level of trashy behavior can be found in all walks of life; be it a boss, customer, landlord or straight up stranger. And seeing someone take advantage of a charitable situation leaves a bad taste in the mouth of anyone who could actually use this kind of help. You can see more of this kind of wild stuff in entitled people making wild demands. A real spicy one is this mom who lashed out at her baby sitter for leaving her bad job.
Sometimes it was a normal thing that a teacher mistook for something else. Other times it was a living thing. Sometimes weapons, and other times just weird. It's strange to be an adult and realize how schools are just pure chaos with adults trying their best (sometimes) to keep things sort of in order. Here are people sharing the drama that became their school's "incident".
They say that safety regulations are written in blood and it gets way worse than a few OSHA-defying safety fails. Big companies don't exactly have your best interests at heart, and there's a whole boatload of evidence from the early 1900s to confirm that. For some less dark history, here's tumblr making history fun.
The more you learn about history, the more it kind of makes sense that nothing makes sense. People have been weird and stupid forever, and learning about our many foibles just kind of hammers out the fact that we don't really know what's going on. But hey, knowledge is power, so here are wild sex facts and completely useless facts.
Scary signs serve the valuable purpose of warning people of possible danger. They're not supposed to be nice or fun. That said, some spooky signs are way scarier and outright threatening than they need to be. Again, we're glad that people are telling us that snakes might come up the toilet, but sometimes a spooky sign is just too dang scary.
Personally, we'd wish we could move money around as recklessly as banks themselves do and get bailed out with no repercussions, but anyway here are some stupid and weird things people wanted to invest in. People have stupid business ideas that are worthy of sitcoms, and generally make bad decisions. For some more people who were interesting with money here's an entitled mom who lashed out when her baby sitter quit and times that spoiled rich kids had their world burst by real life.
Twitter user @AdamWeinstein went ahead and detailed his unbelievably frustrating experience trying to navigate using his health insurance. He ends up having to jump through all kinds of frustrating hoops. Definitely gives off the impression that the insurance is doing anything but helping his cause.
We've all had really rough jobs, and while ruminating on your annoying job can suck, some well placed work memes can be cathartic. Whether it's some customer service role where we have to deal with Karens having freak-outs, incompetent bosses or straight up boring jobs where you have nothing to do. The grind can lead to a sort of existential dread and a cycle that never seems to end. But don't worry, there are other jobs out there, and more often then not, the total BS you have to deal with will lead you to bigger and better things. Anyway, here's some work memes for the grind.
