Life is full of attempts. Sometimes you're trying to fix a sidewalk. Sometimes you're just trying to get a point across, guilt-trip someone or seem cool online. Sometimes people are outright trying to be bullies. Life has its ways of making sure that all of these attempts see glorious failure. For more failed attempts, here are some failed attempts that deserve public ridicule.
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At its core, an argument is a very common and simple act where two people who disagree on something deliberate over the truth and best course of action. When both parties are interested in a joint solution, consensus can be reached. The problem is that a solution also requires that the people who are arguing can actually agree on the point of the argument, how to actually argue, and the rules of objective reality. Here are some times when people realized they were talking to someone who couldn't be bothered to want to agree, didn't have the energy, or was just flat out dumb as rocks. In a similar vein, here are some of the dumbest arguments people have found themselves in.
Man, people tweet about marriage a lot. Many people in this world are married, which means tons of people have a lot of the same thoughts and feelings about the blissful institution. Married people, and really anyone in a long term relationship, are likely to relate to the silly and dumb problems these people are putting up with on a daily basis.
The world is full of choosing beggars who routinely push the limits of decency to save a few extra bucks. Sometimes it's your cousin's ex-girlfriend who still uses your Netflix account and demands that you pay for it. Sometime's it's a random dude on facebook marketplace who wants your iPhone for free. Cheapskates come from all walks of life, and they're constantly making life more annoying for everyone around them.
Parenting is difficult. Parents often don't know what they're doing, so they have to figure it out on the fly. We've all had that moment when your parents find out that you've learned a new swear word, and have to deal with the fallout. Some parents will make you put soap in your mouth. Others will send you to your room. Sometimes they just start swearing too, and that's pretty cool. Often parents try to get creative with their punishments. Some are incredibly effective. Some aren't. Other ones are super creepy and cause lasting psychological damage. Anyway, here are weird punishments.
It's not uncommon in cases of choosing beggars to send an entitled buyer to pick something up, but in reality send them on en endless wild goose chase. This kind of trolling is typically reserved for the more abusive, entitled, and unobservant people who try to waste other people's time with tactless low-balling.
It's a pretty well known fact that, well, kids are stupid creatures. Kids aren't necessarily good at anything, so when they get a chance to brag, they take it. Even if it's the smallest thing you wouldn't think of as a real achievement, they'll let you know about it. Here are some strange flexes people saw in their own kids as well as themselves as children.
There are a lot of ways to fail a driving test. You could roll through a stop sign or forget how to use your blinker. If you're really bad, you could even hit the instructor. We're not sure why you'd want to fail a driving test. Maybe you're afraid of the scary things you could see while driving at night.
Some people grow out of it, some don't. Children are stupid idiots. Sure, they're just learning everything about the world for the first time, but hot damn are they dumb as rocks for a while there. We were dumb too. We're still dumb, but we can do long division and drive, so that's pretty good.
Now this is our kind of politics. Here's the full BBC News story, but the title pretty much says it all. A regional assembly in Kenya's Homa Bay had to take a 10 minute break due to a particularly awful trouser-cloud someone laid in the chamber. Apparently there was a conversation over blame and an ensuing scramble to find some kind of air freshener, but the debate-stopping fart dissipated enough after a while for business to continue. We've read about farts shutting down job sites, but a fart that halt local government is a new high.
Who in their right mind would think it's appropriate to ask someone fly to a different country to do multiple shows for free, and try to pass it off under some "love of the game" BS? Like, you can be passionate about music, but that would be just plain stupid. We've seen a ton of choosing beggars, but what never fails to bewilder is when they straight up get mad when people don't want to be taken advantage of.
There are a lot of embarrassing spellers out there. We get it, words are hard. No, really. Big words are annoying. Plus, if you've only heard figures of speech without reading them, you're bound to mess up every once in a while. That said, these are ridiculous and stupid and might make you angry.
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.
A recent AskReddit thread has people sharing the most idiotic arguments they've found themselves caught up in with someone. It takes two to tango, and sometimes we just find ourselves firmly in antagonistic moods. Hopefully none of these infuriating arguments ring any bells.
That's a completely huge mistake that would probably put most people in a buttload of stress, but I guess if you can afford to lose a grand and not be bothered to get it back, then good for the pizza girl? If her job is anything like this pizza delivery woman's, then she deserves it.
