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Everyone knows you don't just copy and paste from Wikipedia! You've gotta change some of those sentences around and throw in some synonyms to throw em off your trail. Students have always been pretty stupid. Are they getting dumber? Who knows. Maybe these days we just have much better ways of documenting the stupid. For more, here are teachers sharing the dumbest essays turned in by students.

In the heat of the moment, you might think it's a good idea to ride a shopping cart down a hill or see if you can catch a hammer thrown by your friend. Usually we realize after the fact, especially if these brilliant ideas go wrong, that maybe it wasn't so smart to do in the first place. In a similar vein, here are people sharing some of the dumbest injuries they've ever had.

Here are some tattoos that are just off, really not well done, or were a not great idea from the start. Hopefully these people had a really good reason for their unorthodox ink. Done with cursed anything? Think some images could cursed but blessed at the same time? Here are some blursed images spawned from purgatory itself. For some straight up tattoo fails, here are some really not great tattoos people went through with.

Life isn't without its tense failures and laughable blunders. It's a miracle that most of us can get through the day without something colossally stupid going on. Anyway, here are mistakes, failures and unforeseen foibles that derailed people's days. For more stuff like this, here's some more moments of misfortune and failure.

Women on twitter are poking holes in the consent condom. The logic for this product isn't exactly airtight. There were a range of criticisms, from the more theoretical to the pragmatic, to the more ridiculous. We don't think this product will become commonplace.

People are embarrassing, they make dumb mistakes, and they actively do crappy things with prodigiously low levels of self awareness. Luckily for everyone else, they document all of it. For some more jaw dropping cringey-ness, check this out.

What happens when people don't review their work? Misplaced toilets, stairs to nowhere and advertisements that look like living nightmares. Some of this stuff was planned, but still turned out to be crap anyway! And boy are we glad it happens.

The truth is, this stuff is child's play. Here's some darker and dirtier design fails to really get your motor running.

It's hard enough getting through a normal day! The universe took it upon it's crappy self to lump even more problems onto these unlucky people. At least we get to see how bad these folks ad it and "oooh" and "aaah" at their misfortune. If you're a sicko like us who'd like to see more people having a bad time then check these out.

Radio host Sam Sanders asked his fellow twitter users what kind of strange delicacies they created for themselves as children. The results were, really, pretty gross. Lots of peanut butter, ketchup, kraft singles and coca powder went into these people's upbringings. And not necessarily in separate dishes either.

What child doesn't want to slide out of an elephant's butt? Back in my day, we worked 16 hours a day for the opportunity to walk uphill into an elephant's butt, both ways!