There are gonna be times when someone oversteps their own boundaries, can't read the room, woke up on the wrong side of the bed or is just generally unaware of their own assholery. Here are some ways people use to tell someone to check themselves before they wreck themselves. In a similar vain, here are more or less polite ways to tell people to F off.
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Learning the words for things in other languages can be particularly eye opening. From overly literal German translations like "hand shoes" to more poetic euphemisms you'd never think you'd hear, every culture has come up with it's own particular brand of funny words for things. For more, here are non-native English speakers sharing common phrases they wish we had.
Alright, this is downright, straight up, all around impressive. And the final result was good enough that you could tell the trees were pretty happy. Tumblr users are a creative bunch, doing stuff like writing an alien invasion story where the aliens are fought off by wildlife or expounding on wacky historical facts. Seriously, following along with MS Paint is brilliant and highly commendable.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. And when life gives you a card that says "happy birthday," throw a "Jesus" on there to make it about Christmas. Whether it was grandmas with extra cards, or people who just couldn't find a "hope your deviated scrotum heals" card, here's people making do. Sometimes people's wordsmithing doesn't work out as well as this in the case of really not good signs and designs.
The users of AskReddit were met with a challenge to name things that would go in a startled house, which takes the concept of a haunted house but tones it down to just startling people rather then truly freaking them out. It's reminiscent of the punishments people thought up for the residents of Heck, which would be like Hell but not as bad.
You're a busy person. Cut the fat out all your scary stories. All you need is two sentences to send a rush of chills down your spine. r/twosentencehorror combines succinctness and scariness in a fun, set-up punchline style. Anyway, here are 40 sentences of highly condensed spookiness.
The internet's been caught up in a frenzy over the "Storm Area 51" Facebook event that has hundreds of thousands (if not a million by this time) of people jokingly signed up to storm the heavily guarded military base. We've been able to enjoy a steady influx of Area 51 memes, so no complaints there. And then things seemed to come to a head when the Air Force itself issued a formal warning to anyone giving serious consideration toward actually trying to storm Area 51.
To keep the mood light, we've got a recent Twitter thread of Twitter users sharing what kinds of crazy stuff they think could be kept in Area 51.
Writing your nickname on a train car is one thing but turning an electrical box into a self portrait is some cool and unexpected artwork. Here are interesting uses of urban environments that were transformed through clever and interesting painting. For more of these, check out these pieces of cool graffiti that reinvented urban environments.
At any given time, there's a lot of weird, creative, funny, dangerous and interesting stuff going on. And thanks to the internet we're able to document it and cram it into our noggins on the daily. For something weirder, here are a bunch of strange images that will make you say "that's enough internet for today."
When people aren't supporting Amazon and its bid for world domination, they're leaving wacky-ass reviews for stuff like cheese wheels and drums of lube. We're happy to see some weird and creative liberties taken with the site. Also we didn't know you could buy a coffin on there. Apparently there's tons. Kinda creeped us out.
Sometimes we get too caught up in all the tattoo fails to notice all the truly cool ones. These took some mark or scar and turned it into a piece of art. Under the magic hands of some skilled tattoo artist, a mark that made someone self conscious instantly became a wonderful conversation piece.
