While most people have a shred of humility, the world is still crawling with entitled morons who think the world is made for them. There are horrible customers, awful job offers, and entitled individuals of all strips who try to take advantage of people. Asking for help when you need it is fine, but some entitled individuals go above and beyond reason.
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Incompetent power-tripping managers can get themselves into some really stupid situations, like this boss who demanded a special contractor be on call 24/7 and ended up with a $10K invoice. In lucky situations, incompetent managers get called on their BS and have to actually deal with the ramifications of their actions, rather than pushing the burden onto their employees.
Life is a series of attempts that sometimes crash and burn. Maybe you're trying to make a point on the internet, make a cool piece of art, or just trying to seem cool. Some of these attempts will fail to work out. Without failure, we can't learn, but sometimes people's mistakes are so dumb that it's unclear if they'll learn anything from them.
Either these people didn't want to get the joke and decided these insane headlines were "fake news" or they thought they were completely true and responded in kind. Makes you feel sad about people's inability to differentiate obvious satire from actual news, but it is pretty funny. Mistaken people don't understand satire kind of a lot.
It's not necessarily their fault, but kids are weird and dumb. They get themselves into impossible situations and make ridiculous mistakes. If you witnessed an adult doing any of this stuff, you'd probably try to avoid eye making eye contact with them here on out. Again, they're learning and it's not completely their fault, but holy crap kids are dumb little idiots.
Seeing a stupid boss make an idiotic mistake, underestimate the value of a person they hired, and then not only have to walk it back, but also have to pay for it, is music to our ears. For another awesome story like this, here's an incompetent boss who demanded a contractor be on call 24/7 and ended up having to pay a $10,000 invoice.
With the proper context, satire news websites are incredibly enjoyable sources of entertainment. But if you aren't inclined to get the joke, or just have no idea that what you're reading is supposed to be a joke, you can look pretty damn stupid. There are too many instances of times people didn't understand satire.
Multi-level marketing "companies" are shady businesses that use a pyramid scheme model to rope in desperate people and encourage them to "be their own boss" by hawking stuff like health and beauty supplements to their friends and family over Facebook. The odds that anyone will ever be successful at these is incredibly small, and the companies often pass on the costs to their own "employees," which results in stuff like this guy who reconnected with a high school friend after his dad died so he could sell health supplements.
It seems like people almost never injure themselves doing something really cool. It's almost always some dumb injury like throwing out their back from sneezing too hard or slipping on a pile of their own dog's un-picked-up poop. The dumb nature of it adds dome good insult to that injury, and at least makes for a decent story. Serious, people injure themselves in stupid ways a lot.
Kids are stupid people. We're not saying children's stupidity is their fault. Their brains just don't work too good. We've seen it in ourselves when we we kids, and we see it in them every day. They give us a lot of evidence and moments of failure that articulate exactly how poorly a young mind works. They learn though. Well, most of them anyway.
The human body is an amazing thing. It can heal itself, think really good, and it's one of the most persistent biological machines out there. Seriously, we run down our prey not with speed but with sheer willpower. That said, there are some definite design flaws in the human body that have caused a lot of us some major problems. The fact that one trip can send you to the hospital, or that choking is a thing. Anyway, here are some flaws people pointed out, as well as some possible improvements.
If there was ever a reason to pay attention in school, this would be it. You'd be surprised how many grown-ups don't know basic stuff like what pasta is made of or that submarines exist. There is no shortage pf people saying dumb things. Seriously, people hear some really goddamn dumb things. These people found themselves explaining really basic stuff to folks who either didn't do their homework or never paid attention in the first place.
For some reason, people can't stop lying on the internet. Whether it's a scam, spreading BS information that they wish was true, or straight up making crap up for revenge, there's some imaginary incentive a lot of people have to be dishonest to strangers. Sometimes these liars get caught while trying to sell their lies to the world, and the results make us froth with justice juice.
It could be poor reading comprehension, gullibility, or just a failure to check sources, but many people have a problem with understanding satire. Even when it's not subtle, some folks really just miss the point of satire, or don't want to get it. Sometimes it's funny to see someone react with outrage over a fake story about NASA shooting a chimp into the sun. Other times it's just kind of pitiful, like when someone uses a joke as a source in an actual article.
If you didn't have faith in yourself at work, fear not, because someone out there is screwing up more than you. And it's not just one person screwing up. There are oodles of folks not doing their one job, and the results are consistent and abundant. The world is just bursting with dumb and weird design fails. This is just some of them.
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.
