They say that what you don't know can't hurt you, but after you read enough, you kind of come to the conclusion that that's totally untrue. There are a lot of unknowns out there that can absolutely hurt you, and there's a lot of things out there that will just make you feel bad to know. For other facts, here are wild sex facts to quote during an awkward silence and some happy facts to counteract all the messed up ones.
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Someone's always trying to make a buck. So why not try to sell bizarre stuff online? If it's old and broken, that just means it's vintage. Is it a horrible failed art project? Well that just means it's unique, baby. Five hundred dollars sounds good, right? There's no limit to the weird and dumb stuff people will try to sell online.
Sometimes no amount of context will save you from the random WTF junk people will throw together and put online. There's enough strange stuff out there to fill not only your day with weird, but your week, year and life. You just kind of have to accept that the world is a strange place.
The internet acts as a wonderful receptacle for all sorts of strange, uncomfortable and WTF images like cursed food from the underworld's kitchen. After enough digging through all the weird moments people have created and found, you may find yourself saying "that's enough internet for today."
Being stuck in this mortal coil gives us a lot of opportunities to see trashy behavior that belongs on mount garbage. Maybe it's someone who sells their bathwater as a miracle cure, maybe it's a landlord who openly tries to scam their tenants, or maybe it's just a person stealing literally anything that isn't nailed down. Either way, life brings moments of trashiness that belong on a garbage barge.
Most people have a general idea of how to be basically decent and respectful of other people, however there's a tragically high subset of entitled folks who display trashy behavior that make it harder for everyone else to go about their daily lives. Whether it's because someone is fundamentally unaware of other people's needs, they go full Karen, or they think they're above it all, it's no fun dealing with someone who wasn't raised right.
Most of us aren't computer people, but we kind of know that you're not supposed to drill holes in your mouse or hammer anything into your USB port. You don't need to be in IT to know that these moments of Tech Support Gore can be pretty difficult to look at. For more proof that people suck with technology, here are ridiculous requests that IT workers received.
This entitled Karen got more than she bargained for after she tried to bully a fellow customer into bagging her groceries. When someone goes full Karen there's no way of knowing how it will go. People who know Karens have to deal with a lot of unpleasantness, and it can even end with that Karen making a whole neighborhood miserable. Retail workers and service industry workers know all too well how they operate, like this Karen who demanded the spiciest wings and didn't get a refund.
You meet a lot of interesting people in life, and you get to learn more about them if they're your coworkers. Sometimes you learn that people can be mindbogglingly lazy, mean, inconsiderate, or just impossible to be around. Sometimes for better or worse, people do not give a heck and in the workplace that can lead to some wonderfully unprofessional "not my job" moments. For some more work stuff, here are stories of people who worked smarter, not harder.
Sometimes the days you don't remember are the best ones. Not because anything particularly good happened, but because a strange and specific mishap did not happen. You can never be too sure of what mess large or small will be just over the horizon, but if one thing is for sure, it's that misfortune puts things in perspective.
When a relationship sours between the two wrong people, almost nothing can stop the tide of vengeful petty BS that they're capable of putting each other through. Even when it's not over a divorce, people can get amazingly petty for the sake of revenge. It's not surprise that lawyers get some interesting stories out of disputes between people.
Sometimes a character is created to be hated by design, and you have to hand it to the creator for making such a realistically hateable person. Other times the character's actions over time build up until you realize that putting them in a realistic context implies that they're something like an irresponsible traitor to their family. For more thoughts on media, here are simple plot holes that ruined movies for people.
There's something so universal about the feeling of disgust people get when they see a bowl of ketchup covered banana slices or a milky bowl of thumbtacks. Here's some cursed food and a few other basically uncomfortable things to keep it spicy. Cursed images just make you feel weird, man.
Sure, cats can be friendly and affectionate, but sometimes it becomes clear that you're dealing with an animal that has no concept of empathy and can't comprehend why a jug of tomato sauce should stay on a counter. To compliment their pampered hypocrisy, here's Tumblr agreeing that cats talk like disparaged victorian children, and this history of how cats became domesticated.
Some of these are just jokes, and some of these we really wish were jokes. You'd need the world's largest dumpster to fit all of the weird stuff people try to sell online. Honestly some of this stuff looks like it would make your house smell like wherever it came from. If it's a failed art project, a "rare" item or just something someone needs to get rid of, you can bet someone will try to sell it online.
People can get in some major disputes with their landlords, like this landlord who admitted to breaking the law, or this guy who went full Karen after being threatened with eviction. The business of having a safe place to live can get pretty brutal, and it leads people to do some crazy things like this person who defeated their terrible neighbor by buying their house.
