Kids give you happiness, hope, and an excuse to be a total d*******g, apparently. The subreddit r/ThinkOfTheChildren invites people to share stories of parents making outrageous demands and using their offspring as a way to guilt others into compliance, and turns out, there are plenty of them. Indecent lingerie stores, hot forest sanctuaries, and greedy … Read more
“Um, actually…” Whatever follows these words is usually uncalled for. Some people just can’t resist pointing out the mistakes of others, regardless of who it is and how trivial the error is. While they might be meaning well, correcting the wrong person can put them in some uncomfortable situations.Case in point are these stories, in which … Read more
Not every kid’s family life is like in The Brady Bunch. Some children grow up with pretty messed up people for parents. Research shows that 63.9% of U.S. adults report having at least one adverse childhood experience (ACE) – a potentially traumatic event. But social media has made it easier for adolescents and adult children … Read more
Before the internet, many folks could go to sleep happily sure that their neighbors and other random people around the world were, by and large, quite rational and normal. The internet has revealed that, in reality, some folks are just very strange. We’ve gathered some of the most bizarre, random and just weird examples of … Read more
How many times have you ordered something online and the item that arrived was of disappointing quality? Or how many times has a new item you bought broken after just one use? From shoes, clothes, cutlery, and even appliances – it seems that manufacturers don’t build things that last anymore. To highlight this phenomenon, we’ve … Read more
“The customer is always right” is a sentence that is objectively untrue, except in the mind of the most annoying folks out there. Unfortunately, if you happen to have a customer facing job or even just a business, you will be hearing from them, often in the worst way possible. We’ve gathered some of the … Read more
We’ve all had that very worst day combo. From little things, like keys falling into the road gutter hole to a car engine that goes on vacation and doesn’t start, to pouring salt instead of sugar in your coffee, call them first world problems, but they’re real. And blood-boiling. In fact, we previously rolled up … Read more
Some funny coincidences make you giggle. Others make you think there’s no way that was a coincidence in the first place. When you see an ad with a somewhat ambiguous slogan or product placement that is so poorly arranged, it becomes a joke on its own, a thought is likely to cross your mind—the people … Read more
“All happy families are alike,” Leo Tolstoy wrote. “Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Picture-perfect families have parents who love their children unconditionally. Children who visit said parents regularly and do so because they want to. But not all families are perfect. A Cornell University survey revealed in 2020 that 6% of … Read more
Weird is good. At least that’s what we like to tell ourselves when we occasionally end up in the bizarre-o world that is the r/hmmm subreddit. Dedicated to raising our eyebrows and making us feel like we’ve stumbled upon the internet’s Twilight Zone, this is a place where random photos with no context get to … Read more