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It should go without saying that if someone cold calls you and says they can increase your money tenfold, that crap is fake and they deserved to get messed with. For some more absurd displays of the human condition, here are influencers getting called out for their free lobster scam, as well as the story of an Aunt Karen's scam falling apart.

We all remember not knowing things, but sometimes we don't realize the absurd extents of our not knowing things. It's no mystery why kids are stupid and weird people; they just don't know how the world works. They do stuff until people tell them not to, and even then only some of them end up become functioning adults. Here are some more signs that kids are weird and stupid.

Taking heavy inspiration and direct cues from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Tumblr gets into some extremely overblown and hilariously petty debates over the legitimacy of various posts. For another example of this, here's Tumblr's lawyer-style debate over the legitimacy of a bread knife. Having arguments this way is somehow incredibly compelling and amazingly stupid at the same time. 

However decent people are most of the time, we still live in a world where someone will try to charge 2 grand for the privilege of getting to tear down their bathroom and get rid of their tiles. The absurd audacity of entitled people as an intriguing thing to witness. It's frustrating and amazing to see the kind of laughable boldness entitled people get up to.

Dad jokes are a source of stupid glee and pinch-faced frustration for anyone who dares face a dad. Many of us have our reservations about dumb puns to feel stupid about, but at the end of the day if they're worthy of a dad's grace, then that's a quality pun. Dad jokes have a tendency to go full dad joke.

Sure, presentation is important in fancy restaurants, but who wants to pick their dinner out of a comb? You can't blame people for trying something new, but you can totally blame a restaurant for serving a hamburger on a brick and charging an extra five bucks. There are loads of things restaurants try to use instead of dishes.

Putting together buildings isn't as easy as it might seem. There are pipes running every which way, irregular sized doors, and real sketchy electrical situations. Most of us want to go home early anyway. That attitude results in some pretty wild "not my job" moments of incompetent construction.

It's not every day you see a structurally sound orb of Cheetos or an extremely long avocado. Food finds itself in some interesting shapes and locations, whether by accident or design. While silly and potentially weird, at least these uses of food are more noble than these cursed foods from Satan's Crock Pot.

As smart as you might think you are, you an always accidentally bite into a super heated pizza roll and lose your own self respect in between the dabbing of hot grease and yelping. At least injuring oneself in a stupid way is a basically universal experience. For some real dullards, here are some facepalm moments from the world's beacons of stupid.

Craftsmanship and taste are two different things, and sometimes one gets the better of the other. Sure, you can make high quality shoes out of teeth, but you should also be asking yourself if anyone wants to look at them. It's very possible to make a thing that's impressive but also of highly questionable taste.

Jobs can be tedious and time consuming, and they can require a lot of annoying decision-making. When we decide to say "whatever, good enough" we leave ourselves open to creating some impressively unprofessional "not my job" moments. This world has a whole lot of stairs and doorways to nowhere.

Sometimes, nothing hits the spot like a bundle of puns to fill that wordplay hole. Other times, puns are so unwelcome that they make people feel physically uncomfortable. Wordplay is a bit of a crap shoot, and you can't know what you're getting into with dumb and clever puns to feel stupid about.

In this busy world of ours, it's easy for things to slip through the cracks. Maybe a pole gets installed wrong here, or some road signage gets misspelled there. Many of us would look at these and say "we better fix that" but another great many of us say "good enough." The resulting impressively unprofessional "Not My Job" moments are indeed good enough, but in a different kind of way.

We're geared to look for tasty things to eat and there's nothing we can do about it. Well, the one thing we can do is not eat something that's obviously a rock or bowl of poison. The thing is, there's so much tempting stuff out there that looks like food but isn't. It's hard to keep track of it all.

Work isn't all that much fun, so most of us try to develop a series of shortcuts to get ourselves through the day that much faster. Sometimes these can get a bit out of hand, look ridiculous, ruin other people's good work or become a nuisance, but hey, that's the way of the laziness blade. This world is chock full of "not my job" moments of advanced laziness.