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If there's one benefit to learning history (other than developing a keener understanding of the world and your context in it) it's getting sweet history memes. Knowing what happened to various astronauts or the attitudes of different colonial powers may not win you any popularity contests, but it sure is fun to look at history memes and become one with time.

Navigating a bureaucracy can be stressful and brimming with pointlessness, especially when dealing with someone who's in a position to make dubious claims about databases and such. Seeing a stupid opportunity, this person used the rules to get themselves in the door. Here are some more great, stupid loopholes that worked.

School is typically your first opportunity in life to be done dirty by an uncaring monolith with corrupt administration, so it's no wonder it can be a place of rebellion. People remember when teachers are unfair, and come up with some clever ways to flout the rules.

School wasn't fun for any of us, but in the long run it can pay to know how to spell really basic stuff and not look like a moron in public. On a daily basis, people come in contact with a lot of spelling fails that make us curse our education system. At least spelling fails make someone feel smart.

Kids may be weird and dumb, but we can't really fault them for it. These ones are just doing their best to try and provide an accurate and reliable recipes. Will we try them out ourselves? Oh man, definitely not. We'll just have to take it with a grain of salt, and that's it.

Cheating on tests or in life is dishonorable, underhanded, and inherently compelling. People are fixated on bending the rules in clever ways, and there are some loopholes people exploited for years. For an amazing loophole there's this person whose dry ice loophole made a mockery of a robotics competition.

Man, nothing quite sinks the spirits like when you realize you have a nasty neighbor next door. We're all just trying to coexist reasonably peacefully, but some neighbors make that seem like an unattainable reality. Take this neighbor for instance. Grandpa tried to have a simple chat with the dude, and the dude proceeded to be nasty, and shove Grandpa's considerate kindness right back in his face. Well, Grandpa pulled off quite the successful long con from there. 

Um, low key when you have a classmate kind enough to offer to share their notes with you, you don't proceed to ask them to type them up at 1am. Clearly, this girl was in need of a swift little reality check. Get a load of some more entitled folks with their increasing demands over here.

This choosing beggar couldn't keep their story straight from the start. Apparently, them not being able to mooch off a classmate's notes will result in them straight up starving. It seems as if these entitled choosing beggars and their wealth of irrational demands will never stop popping out of the woodwork. It's up to the rest of the world to serve them the reality checks for free, when the opportunities present themselves. 

Check out another wild choosing beggar case, with this YouTuber who demanded free commissions, got rejected, and then unleashed a storm of threats.

Many of us have heard some wild and awkward junk said by teachers, but the substitutes are an interesting bunch. They seem to inhabit this weird gray area of accountability, and are somehow absolutely free to not give a rip. For some more teacher stuff, here are kids' hilarious misconceptions about teachers.

Some of us grew up hearing from our high school teachers that college professors were going to be insufferably difficult. Some of us ended up with that being the case. Then others, others encountered professors with surreal levels of chill or just genuine detached boredom. Whether these email exchanges are real or not, they certainly paint quite the pretty, relaxed picture of what the higher education life can be like. I wonder if it's even more ridiculous nowadays with everyone being forced to complete their studies from home. 

Sometimes school staff doesn't exactly have a consistent policy, like the time staff made a student patiently wait to report a fire. After some absolute BS rule nitpicking by the staff, this person decided to read up on the rules and dress with extreme panache. Sometimes students get the best of their teachers, like this student who made a mockery of a robotics competition with a dry ice loophole.

People often think that it's the kids who are the most frustrating part of a teacher's job. The fact is, true headaches can come from a disengaged or spiteful parent. Throw on some anger, caginess and a false sense of superiority and you've got yourself a real winner of a parent-teacher conference. For some more teacher headaches, here are some times teachers noticed parents obviously did their kids work.

Apparently a fair number of kids have a hard time believing that teachers are real people. Many of us have had those experiences where we came across our teachers out in the wild, far removed from the classroom, and were genuinely puzzled at how the teachers were outside the classroom. Check out some more gold from Tumblr with this thread about how dwarves' beards are too smart for their own good.