While the rest of us toil and fret over the humdrum of daily life, there are mad lads out there who don't give a dang. They'll do or say anything it takes to achieve their bold desires or just mess with people. They act on pure instinct, sometimes to the point of deceit. But at the end of the day, there are no bones about it. These mad lads played the game their way.
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Designing things is hard. And it's not just a matter of spelling something correctly so that it doesn't accidentally say something filthy. Sometimes design fails exhibit really poor craftsmanship, horrible toilet placement or just a complete lack of sense. Whether it wields some kind of irony or is just sort of gross, design failures remind us daily that things can be worse.
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With every great joke uttered, there's always someone out there with the potential to miss that joke by miles. Not only that, but they'll have the sheer audacity to treat the joke teller like they're the moron. It's obliviousness like that that feels like a kick in the teeth to humanity in general. Is there helping bozos who didn't get the joke? Maybe, but only if they want to be helped.
A while ago restaurants decided that they serve "an experience" rather than just food, and that high concept really got into some people's heads. Now customers get to eat chips served on fishing hooks and croissants served on top of old VHS tapes. There's no end to all the food served on anything but dishes. For more interplay between the world of food and the world of not food, here are things that look scrumptious but aren't food.
The internet is a big place with all kinds of people who have amazing and dumb ideas, and boy if it isn't rife with stupid, random and brilliant Tumblr gems. People have hard opinions on architecture, werewolves and plastic chairs, and they leave these observations laying around like rats at the dump. It's a good time. There's always Tumblr gems to rifle through like a goblin.
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Just because someone's a "parent" doesn't mean that they're not hopelessly clueless in some facet of life. In fact, many of us have fielded all kinds of ridiculous questions from our folks about how to navigate the ins and outs of all this disorienting technology we have available at our disposal. Maybe these people's stories about the dumbest things they had to convince their parents to not do will send you on a trip down memory lane.
The sign for the Indian Hills Community Center has a long history of having a pun game that's too strong. There's something weirdly quaint about a sign with good puns. For some more quality puns, here's a smattering of puns to fill the pun void.
Reality has a habit of looking way too delicious for it's own good. There's just too many dice, coins and bits of rock out there that look like cookies, candy and gummies. There's too many car fluids that look like refreshing beverages. There's even snakes that look like bananas and that's not fair. There's just too many delicious looking things that aren't food.
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Being actually right is a hard and thankless job. There are not enough hours in the day to burden ourselves with factual correctness, so sometimes we have to settle for technical and literally accurate options to get us through that day. Technically accurate moments let us enjoy the fruits of being not wrong, but with the time saving nature of not having to be totally right.
Is there a better waste of time than delving into the weird, wild and stupid things the denizens of tumblr bring to the table? Maybe, but that said is it truly wasting time if you enjoyed doing it? Who knows, these tumblr gems are packed with peculiarity and stupidness. In order to banish the boredom, may tumblr gems lend their endless curiosity to you
Having a nuanced understanding of history is a great way to fully understand what's on the news, but sadly it has almost nothing to do with being fun at parties or making a ton of money. May these history memes for the besmartened offer clarity and enlightenment, and that's it. Sorry, knowing about the Great Emu War just isn't going to get anyone a great job or true love. But at least it's something.
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Okay, sometimes dogs need to be shaved for medical reasons. That doesn't make them look less silly, but at least those ones have an explanation. The ones where you can tell people deliberately tried to make their dog look dumb? What's that all about? For some more funny looking dogs, here are some sleepy dogs in goofy positions.
We don't live in a mathematically perfect world of right angles and whole numbers, and that's a problem. We're human, so off-center imperfections are the name of our game, and getting used to that reality never gets much easier. Just one "not my job" moment is enough to make something not work in a way that frustrates us completely, but there's not much we can do about it.
People will fanfic anything and there is no way to escape it. Even if you're just an insurance mascot. This would be a lot worse if it were some tacky native advertising scheme to make insurance companies seem quirky, but in this case it really looks like people make insurance fan fiction for the love of the game. For some more unbridled creativity people threw together, here's an awesome tumblr thread about being a human on a Vulcan ship or this tumblr thread imagining college students living with the Addams family.
The hilarious and totally random errant thoughts of like-minded strangers find themselves taking refuge in the halls of Tumblr. In a way, it's like Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, except with people who have extremely strong opinions about Avatar: The Last Airbender. So post up in this pile of tumblr gems, dig in deep, and hear their stupid, stupid tales of cryptid encounters and unsatisfactory burritos.
We can only watch 90 Day Fiancé and reruns of Doug for so long before we start to long for some dense historical texts, and these history memes to become with time seem to fit that need alright. Who needs social skills when we can chortle heartily over references to various Mongol invasions and treaty signings? History memes are the light in the darkness.
