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How many times have you found yourself needing to do something important but scrolling mindlessly through memes instead? Be honest now. We aren’t judging.

Many of us love a good, relatable meme. Whether it makes us laugh, makes our friends and family laugh, or just makes us feel better about our own lives, there’s no shortage of memes to help us pass the time.

This online community has been sharing some of the funniest memes about work and life in general. Bored Panda has compiled a list of the best, which is guaranteed to give you a good chuckle. And another great excuse to put off that thing you’ve been meaning to do for ages.



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Many of us have been there. A pile of work to do, deadlines looming. And all we can do is procrastinate. I sometimes do things I’d never normally do. Just so I don’t have to do the very thing I am supposed to do. 

One time, when faced with a particularly boring but important task, I took out my phone and started scrolling through Pinterest instead. You might think that’s quite normal. But my procrastination didn’t end there. I happened upon some clever cleaning hacks and the next thing I knew, I was on my knees with an old toothbrush, cleaning grout between the kitchen tiles. At least I was productive. But at some point I still had to tackle the task I’d been avoiding all along.


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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is a cat's sacred duty to protect the soft can-opener from bed-mice. If they eat you, who will open our cans?

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When the hilarious author and blogger, Mark Manson wrote a column about how to avoid procrastination, he was honest enough to include this gem:

“It’s ironic, but for two days now, I’ve been procrastinating writing a post on procrastination. I’ve done it all. I’ve distracted myself with other, less important work. I’ve taken ‘breaks’ that extended about three hours longer than they should have. I’ve done that thing where I sit on Facebook and then I close the window, open a new one, and instinctively type in Facebook again.”



You can probably bet the last memory space on your phone he’s not the only one turning to Facebook instead of facing his work book. Over a million people have joined the Facebook group "Funny Memes: Work and Life" since it started.

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Their sole purpose is to share, or look at, funny memes about work and life in general. It seems like the perfect way to pass time and procrastinate while still appearing to be productive.

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The Oxford Dictionary defines procrastination as “the act of delaying something that you should do, usually because you do not want to do it”. Research shows up to a quarter of people are chronic procrastinators. And that the average adult spends three and a half hours a day procrastinating. Hey, at least my kitchen tile grout is clean…

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I only got drunk once in my whole 36-year-life so far - all the way back when I was 18 or so, at a classmate's party. Had zero prior experience with alcohol, tried a bit of this, a bit of that, didn't eat much beforehand... and then I participated in a game where, if you were caught lying (or something, I never got the rules straight), you had to drink a shot of tequila. My crush was playing too, which didn't help, and somehow, no matter what I did, I always ended up having to drink a shot. In the end, my Mom came to pick me up. To my credit, I never puked - but to this day, I have never touched tequila again (it almost triggers me when I even see a bottle) and actively avoid ever getting sh*t-faced again.

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Dr Richard Ferrari has done extensive studies on procrastination. Here’s what he told the American Psychological Association: “One of my favorite sayings is, ‘Everyone procrastinates, but not everyone is a procrastinator.’ We all put tasks off, but my research has found that 20 percent of U.S. men and women are chronic procrastinators. They delay at home, work, school and in relationships. These 20 percent make procrastination their way of life, so of course they procrastinate when filing their income taxes. We are a nation of 'doers' but we are also, like people from other industrialized nations, a people of ‘waiters’.”

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is England's roads now. After the Tories paid billions to their mates in contracts.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's because I know you're going to ask for another lemonade and a side of ranch and my feet hurt!

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If you devour memes to distract yourself from your daily to do list, don’t beat yourself up. You might actually be doing your company a favor… If you share the fun with your co-workers. A study conducted in 2014 found that humor can actually boost persistence. And what company doesn’t want employees who weather the storm?

Researchers got 124 students at an Australian university to complete tasks before and after they'd been exposed to something funny. They found that humor is not only entertaining but also replenishing. The researchers noted that "organizations that require their employees to persist may consider creating a playful culture that encourages the use of humor to increase employees’ persistence."

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe you just didn't notice them because they were being so quiet.

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Since you came here to beat boredom, let me share this fun fact with you... The word meme has been around long before the world wide web and social media even existed. It was first used in 1976 by evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins. He described memes as "units of culture". Think tunes, ideas, catch‐phrases, fast fashion.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You would be disgusted to know how many 13 year old girls have be SA'ed sometime in their short life.

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Dawkins wrote the following: “When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell.” 

While he wasn’t talking about memes as we know them today, we think he was pretty spot on. How about you?

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Some of the greatest memes populate, like viruses, and have been living in our minds and phone galleries for years. Check out this list of the best memes of all time, and prepare to laugh again.

What’s the most creative concept you've devised to avoid your work or life commitments? Let us know in the comments.


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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I work in a restaurant. I pretend I haven't taken a gummie on my 4th double in a row.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So true. My abusive af ex was a vet and worked at a hospital (prob still does) He was written up three times for using "excessive force" with patients... so essentially beating patients up. He didn't get fired. I'm so glad I got away from him alive and I really hope he eventually got fired and lost his license.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And trying to keep said leg/body straight cause bending will only make it worse

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you hear your name with a question mark before you reached the coffee machine...

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've said it before, I'll say it again: it might not buy happiness, but it sure can eliminate a lot of the causes of my misery.

ElfVibratorGlitter
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. Money does buy: food, clothing, shelter, healthcare, insurance, kitty cat towers...etc.

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Pittsburgh rare
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I heard a psychologist saying that 80% of her patients had issues related to financial strains, so yes. It DOES buy happiness

Khavrinen
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"If your money isn't buying you happiness, I'll gladly take it off your hands for you. Just to be helpful, you know."

Vinny DaPooh
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The truth to this statement is that if you're unhappy about life itself, money will not cure that. It will make you very comfortably unhappy but you can still be sad. Having said that most people's life issues are related to a lack of money and can be instantly fixed with a duffel bag of 100s

Mike F
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

🎶But it'll buy me a boat, it'll buy me a truck to pull it...🎶

Michael Largey
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can't buy happiness with money, but it's one of the better subscription plans.

TheReader19
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3 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sorry to disagree, but money does buy happiness. Everybody I know including myself would be happy if we had lots more money

John Harrison
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You'd be "happy" (ie. distracted) for awhile. Then you'd get used to having that amount of money, and whatever is making you unhappy now would start to make you unhappy again.

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UKGrandad
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It might not buy happiness but at least you can be miserable in comfort.

Doofnuts
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yup, whoever says that is poor. 'cause, yes it does. Been dirt floor poor, and doing O.K.. O.K. is much better.

clairebear
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Rich people say this to poor people to keep them in their lane.

rmandevi831
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Money can't buy real happiness; on the other hand, you can buy your way out of a ton of misery.

Natty Tempest
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

starvation, destitution and the mandatory need to bust your gut all day just to reach next pay-cheque is not happiness. So let's agree that money helps!

Evelyn Wrightsman
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Have any of you watched that video of Batman giving a kid 5$ because she was crying and she instantly stopped and the captions were "And they saw money can't buy happiness"

James Peek
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can get sunshine in a bag...so money can and does buy happiness.

Bob H
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She could make me happy for about 10 minutes. How much?

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To respond to the text “I’m by your house” one simply must say, “ Cool, but I’m not home”

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Mike m
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Naps and someone to prepare your food for you. That's the life.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The night shift isn't the problem. Sleeping during the day while dogs and cars and lawnmowers are awake is the problem.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the 80's parents didn't have to allow it because i left home at 8 in the morning and didn't see them until dinner time.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Sooo...If anyone asks, we're SUPPOSED to do it this way... But, since it's your first day and I like you, I'll show ya all the corners you can cut and not get fired..."

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WTF is wrong with whoever took this picture rather than take the light string out of the kitten’s mouth????

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The only thing I can think of is a regular paycheck, it's not big enough, it's a regular size paycheck, not an XX-Large paycheck. It's like it shrunk in the wash.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jesus hiding from the oppressive state again. How is his hair anti gravity?

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