For the modern person, always in need of constant stimulation and validation, the good old private diary is no longer enough. Every questionable, chaotic, and unhinged personal thought can be quickly pushed onto the unsuspecting public, regardless of how they feel about it.
So here is a collection of posts from X (formerly tweets from Twitter) that showcase all the funniest personal thoughts people perhaps should have kept to themselves. Get comfortable before you scroll through and be sure to upvote your favorites. And if you are feeling inspired, share your own thoughts and experiences in the comments section below.
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God Has Protected Me
Amen brother! It's like a meme I've seen a few times. God will give us all we need, but don't expect it to come to you like a special object in a video game, hovering above the table with a ring of light around it. When-the-H...50aac1.jpg
Its like that old joke; there is a man drowning in the ocean and he prays to G-d asking Him to save him from drowning just then a boat shows up and the driver asks if he needs help and the man says "No, G-d is gonna save me." So the boat drives away and the man drowns and when he gets to heaven he asks G-d "Why didn't you save me?" and G-d replies "Didn't you see the boat?"
Load More Replies...In the early days vaccines actually worked as there wasn't the big push by BigPharma to make money. Can't be trusted these days.
This is the dumbest thing I've read today. Yes, your mythological "god" created these diseases then was kind enough to create people to create a vaccine.
God is real idiot. Voice ur godless opinions somewhere else
Load More Replies...A flood was rising, but there was an old man who didn't want to leave his house. A police car came by & offered to give him a ride to shelter. He said, "No, God will save me." Then a boat came by to offer him a ride. He said "No, God will save me." Then as he was on top of the roof, a helicopter came by to offer him a ride, and he said "No, God will save me." He finally drowned & went to heaven. He asked God, "I believed in you! Why did you let me die?" God said, "Well, I sent a car, a boat & a helicopter! What more do you want?"
Put Em Outside By The Dumpsters
Decorate them with crystals and use essential oils instead of medicine.
It sounds good on paper, but have you ever tried to get trumptards to volunteer their time to help the sick?
Why Stop There?
Women are somehow simultaneously too dumb/immature/hysterical/whatever to decide whether or not to have an abortion, but not to have a child against their will
Load More Replies...I am not from the USA, I’m from the UK, but I still can’t believe that a dozen or so old men got together and decided that not only can adult women no longer decide whether or not to continue with a pregnancy but a 12 year old victim of abuse must birth a child she never had a choice in creating. Using the excuse that the constitution doesn’t cover abortion rights is absolutely disgusting. The constitution gives people the right to shoot someone but not to decide what to do with their own reproductive system?
Unfortunately, it has been up to "individual people" who together have decided that they have the right to dictate how others live their lives.
Personal health choices and tools to hurt a lot of people are very, very different.
Load More Replies...Fake Number
To be honest, the first one is a good advice. And knowing someone is giving you a wrong number instead of guessing should lead you to : a)abandon further interaction with said person b)investigate what you did to make her feel that way and try to be a better / more interesting / less creepy person.
A man isn't always doing something wrong. Not every interaction leads to a date but previous experience teaches women than some men handle rejection VERY badly. Unfortunately there's no way to tell which are the bad guys and who is normal - so to be safe all must be treated like this. This is a lesson always learned the hard way..
Load More Replies...This is why I loved the rejection hotline that used to exist back in the day. You give them that number & it was a voicemail box that told them they got rejected. Lol.
I think it would be rather sad to give up a possible relationship on a mere suspicion that she gave you a fake number.
Wouldn't the truth have been better? Genuine question, I’ve never had anyone raging for politely declining
Men don't take 'no' for an answer; if they did, we would use it more often.
Load More Replies...Some People Change
My Southern Baptist MIL has gone from pretending that I don't exist, (even to my face,) to occasionally asking about me and referring to me as, "that guy you live with." It's honestly a step in the right direction and it only took 20 years.
My mom was initially on the fence about LGBTQ+ rights. She changed her mind when I told her that I supported them, because if I had a child, I wouldn't care what gender their partner was as long as they were happy. Good thing too, since my sister later realized she was gay.
Love this so much. So much nastiness going on right now they l almost teared up a bit from hearing something that is just good.
Well, that hellfire he's threatening isn't very effective if you're drenched.
One of my closest friends recently told her parents, who are very conservative in their beliefs, that I was gay. I've known the entire family since I was a child but never felt the need to tell them. It made me so happy when they let me know they still love me want me to be happy 😊
The Retirement Age
Being a member of that age group I feel safe saying...stop voting for old people.
was that "running" or "ruining" ? And, I'd have to agree that they're enabled by middle-aged people, too.
Look at who runs, and look at who actually votes! Term limits would be great, but again - look at who regularly vote.
Dead Malls
I’ve ALWAYS thought this! Make this happen 100%, it can work with other abandoned buildings too
I like the idea of repurposing old buildings. Problem is they tend to prefer to turn old factories into luxury apartments instead of affordable apartments normal people can live in.
Load More Replies...Here's another concept. Every human on earth should be guaranteed standard shelter by their government. We can accept paying for schooling for 12 years of a child's life, we can accept spending billions on the military, but the idea that everyone has their own little hotel style room with ensuite is just unimaginable? So many problems would be solved with this basic shelter guarantee.
For citizens, I agree, but we can't allow millions to just walk in and we give them food, water, shelter, medical care, education. Make sure they have entertainment. And we are spending billions on the illegals, people are hurting and are changing attitudes, the progressives, as usual, have gone too far.
Load More Replies...I think Iva was being sarcastic here, no need to downvote
Load More Replies...YUUUUUP! We don't have a "space/room problem". It's just a "we have decided that we don't want to spend tax money on THAT" problem.
How about pay people a livable wage so the aren't homeless. Also, provide health care for all so they can have their mental health cared for.
It's not always about living wage or financial hardship for people who are homeless. My dad was homeless and spent many years that way until he died. His wife died of cancer, he turned to the drink, lost his two young kids ( my half brother and sister) and then his bought home in a very upscale area. It all went downhill. Mental health and addiction takes more from people I think. I have taught my teens that a good job and hard work does not always pay, especially in our county of Cornwall in the UK. The cost of living is through the roof. Teach young people to stay with parents for as long as possible or to go in on a property with friends so you can save for the future. Money management can be easier for us all if we are taught about it in schools. Mental health and addiction need addressing so much more when it comes to homelessness
Load More Replies...Tons of parking too! Use solar canopies and power the whole facility!
Confiscate from Putler's friends, they dont even hide, live vip life in London, Switzerland and the US.
Load More Replies...Heavy Machinery
My mind goes to automatic weapons-grade steel & titanium duo pulveriser
Load More Replies...Never even occurred to me it meant cars. I thought it was an oddly niche warning.
I just realized that I've never thought about cars! My mind goes to machines in a factory. "Sorry, but I can't use the punch press today Hank... my allergies are acting up and I just had to take some medicine."
My antidepressants say that I get drowsy all day and every time I use my washing machine I break it so can that be heavy machinery lol
I had a friend who asked me if I could pick him up after his colonoscopy, since he was told he couldn't drive his car. No problem. Except he wanted me to drive him to work, where HE RAN A FORKLIFT!
"It Just Wont Work" It Actually Does
To be fair, the UK is holding on by it's fingertips at the moment and it's really only the doctors and fantastic nurses in the hospitals holding it together at the moment.
That's because our increasingly far-right government would rather spend our taxes on persecuting migrants, persecuting the LGBTQ+ community, giving tax cuts to the businesses of their millionaire donors and throwing billions down the toilet with white-elephant projects such as the HS2 rail project, than they would spend it on the NHS.
Load More Replies...I would still prefer a living in a country that is holding universal health care by the fingertips than to go bankrupt and mortgage my house even with insurance, if anyone in my family or I got cancer. I'd much rather live in a country with flawed universal health care then to lose my job and health insurance and have to pay 10 times more than people in other Western countries pay for insulin and other necessities. I wouldn't even think twice about whether to choose universal healthcare, whether flawed or not, to be able to have the knowledge that even if something were to happen and I could no longer work, that my family and I would still have access to something as basic as healthcare. But that's just me...
People talk a lot of s**t about Brazil's SUS (It's an overloaded system) but it does help so many people, cancer treatment is free, medication is free, surgery is free, recently breast reconstruction surgery for women who had breast cancer became free, and this is in a country of over 200 million where everybody will use it at one point in life and many people are poor. We need more doctors and more infrastructure to serve everyone who needs it, but it is essentially a perfect healthcare system that saves many lives every year without bankrupting them. And to think there's people here saying It's useless makes me sad.
Same in Denmark. Not because universal healthcare doesn't work, it did for some 50 years, but because our politicians idolize the US, wanting to privatize the c**p out of things, reduce tax for the wealthiest and not spend the money required to keep our society running efficiently FOR EVERYONE.
and most of the undeveloped too! I think it's Papua new Guinea (think headhunters) The USA and a couple of tiny countries in Africa!
Our NHS is on its knees but we are very lucky for what we have. In Scotland we don't even pay for prescriptions...definitely lucky
The real kick is that universal healthcare has never been abandoned for the private insurance model used in the US or any other private healthcare system. And the hypocrisy is that US politicians have government provided healthcare. For senators and 2 term congressmen, they get it for life. They know it's better than what we have. We know it's a better system. The only people that don't know it is a bunch of conservatives of which about 2/3 are on Medicare which is, get this, government provided healthcare.
Being a good fair world wide community is something we know how to do. We choose to not do that because people suck always
This Dad Has One Great Son
Shout out to Paul who was never invited to any of our birthdays as he was an @rsehole but somehow his mother always managed to need someone to look after him for an hour while the parties were on. Nothing enamors people to you like your mother forcibly gatecrashing you into a party.
True, but as a parent of two mostly good kids, I still have to say easier said than done.
I was especially glad to hear, that his parents hadn't made him invite everyone, whether he wanted or not, as some parents do.
Wow. Medical Debt Causes Divorce For Married Couple Of 52 Years
People were up in arms in the 60s because many older Americans were "living in sin" because if they married, the wife would lose her SS payments from her dead spouse. Most women in the 50s didn't work, so no pensions or SS for them in their own name.
Load More Replies...My husband & I almost had to get divorced just so that I could qualify for Medicaid since I have chronic health issues that cost a fortune just to manage & our private insurance is so fucken expensive & doesn't cover anything... & we shopped around but endometriosis isn't taken seriously unless I want to be put on birth control... that's all that is covered by insurance. 95% of my medications I take for multiple issues aren't covered. I have to pay out of pocket... even having a hysterectomy isn't covered nor can I find a doctor to do it because I'm under 30 & "might change my mind about having kids" ... I can't carry a child as is... I'm temporarily in Indiana... so that's why I'm having such a hard time because ppl here believe women are only good for being incubators. 2 doctors told me I needed my husband to come in & give permission for the surgery. He doesn't want kids. But i would rather live w/ my pain for now than have either of them operate on me.
I've litterally been there, and send nothing but sympathy your way! It's like 'What do you mean 'what if I change my mind about having kids?' I do believe that would be MY issue to deal with. Besides, considering a hysterectomy isn't exactly easy surgery, what makes them think we HAVEN'T thought it over, or discussed it with our partners, at length? And, what, adoption isn't an option anymore? You shouldn't have to explain s**t, it's your decision. And furthermore, when it comes to the husband giving permission for the surgery, why would it be his ultimate decision? If he decides he wants bio kids, he can either carry them himself, or he's not the person I thought he was and we probably have greater problems in our marriage.
Load More Replies...My parents did the same thing actually. It was really sad but I am so glad my Mom isnt swimming in debt because of my Dad's cancer.
This happened to an old friend's parents. Mom got cancer & the only way she could get medical care. Had to even get separate addresses. It's disgusting how our medical & social systems work here.
This is a sad indictment of the US healthcare system, and the US in general
I know so many couples who have done this after life time together it's a shame that couples are made to do this.
I worked with a guy who stayed married to his ex-wife (hadn't lived together in 20+ years and had their own lives) simply because she had chronic illnesses and needed health insurance. He kept her on his insurance until she passed away.
Basics Of Billionaires …
Shhhhh,,,,,, Let the billionaires blast themselves into space. While they're gone, it's a great chance to unionize.
Interestingly, Mark Cuban was the only Shark on an episode of Shark Tank who immediately pulled out when the product being sold was "snake oil". It was a copper bracelet that was purported to improve health in some way.....he immediately labeled it snake oil and pulled out. So this tweet doesn't really surprise me that he might be a good dude.
I’ve heard so many stories about him being nice and wanting to be treated like a regular person.
Load More Replies...Yes that's better, but the space stuff does create good jobs and puts the money back into the economy. Billionaires spending their money is always good. What's bad is the ones who just sit on billions in a bank.
Are we sure the Tesla in space contributed to job security?
Load More Replies...Management
You should be giving everyone on the team a raise equivalent to the managers salary divided amongst them
Managers are superfluous. Most are promoted to a level they are incompetent for. The Peter Principle is written for managers?
Load More Replies...Back in '00's the team I was part of apparently got lost in a reorg. We ran ourselves for 16 months without a manager, although I was running a bit of a black box logistics and approvals operation. Finally had to go to someone about a high 5-figure purchase I couldn't avoid. 2 months later a manager who knew nothing about our work. Oh well.
Just because they can run it doesn't mean they want to, but of course they can ask. I'm currently running a program that I don't want to, because they are struggling to find someone to take the job. I am so close to complaining and leaving but I don't want to let people down as the program would close if I wasn't there. I have been asked if I want the job permanently 3 times!
Yeah well a shouldn't don't mean it will happen. A lot of places don't make a lot of sense anymore.
If the team runs itself, maybe you don't need to promote either. Just a thought.
Years ago I had my manager go on long term sick leave and another manager who had recently left the organisation stepped in for the duration. Never asked them a question and we could all see them playing games on their pc.
There Is No Such A Thing As Teacher Shortage
Our lizard 🦎 overloads don't want the plebs to be educated. They want them to believe in wacky conspiracy theories and mythology like a woman getting knocked up by a pigeon. Why spend money on education when everything you need to know is in the bible or internet.
Lawyers, CEO's, stock brokers, etc, need a huge pay cut and teachers, fire fighters and librarians a huge raise.
my mom's a school psych and comes home with fr!cking war stories about the kids she works with, "oh this kid is running everywhere and is disrupting classes, try to talk him down." "oh there's this kid who threats and harms other students so bad that one transferred to another school and the one who harms them is leaving too, let's see if we can get him back." BTW, they cannot physically touch or restrain them unless they are hurting themselves or others, but if they hurt the psychs, they can only let them hurt them. WTF is wrong with the school system.
I agree with her basic premise but she obviously wasn't an English teacher. It's "...bartending for 15 FEWER hours per week."
Euro for euro, Taking into account inflation, cost of living I earned more money in the 80s as a doorman/ bouncer then I do now in a technical job with million o the line.
Load More Replies...It's exactly the same as nursing, I had a lot more disposable income delivering pasties than being a,nurse (and the rest is true as well)
No Narcs
"Disturbing costumers"? So they were disturbing people whose job it is to maintain and dress actors in the wardrobe of a movie, TV show or play?
Everyone knows the best tamales come from the trunk of a car or the side of a road. And I’m not being sarcastic. It’s the food of the gods.
Or from a little Mexican lady's handbag.
Load More Replies...I'm going to give him a piece of my mind! And a tip! And hope he comes back on my next work day!
Mate. In Australia we have BBQ set up outside our ones (Bunnings) and it’s the main attraction. You go for the sausage sizzle.
As a member of the melanin lacking community, How did that customer not know the very best place to get Tamales are in a parking lot being sold out of a guys trunk? I thought everyone knew that.
In Australia, not for profit organisations like schools, charities and sports clubs sell our national food (the bbq sausage in bread 😋) outside Bunnings (like Home Depot) every weekend. They just book onto the roster at every store. It’s a national institution. Sounds like Home Depot needs a tamale version.
Sausage inna bun. CMOT Dibbler must be around here somewhere
Load More Replies...I Wholeheartedly Approve
Yes! Especially if he leads the way and takes his bestest, mostest friends with him. We'll give him.... uh... a special trophy or NFT of a trophy or something to memorialize his special leadership.
Would the result be like a cross between "Lord of the Flies" and "The Donner Party?"
The sooner the better, and let them take their checkbooks with them. They only open said checkbooks for each other, so the $ won't be missed anyway.
The number of frustrated people cheering an adult that thinks using a villain name is cool, is frightning
Well, we know that he'll populate Mars with his brood and even give them 50s sci-fi names like Gleepglop and Zoncore. Can you imagine, an entire planet of Elon's descendants? 😬
Why Are It Guys Such D**ks?
So much this. Usually, when someone says the IT guy is "being a d**k" what that really means is they're asking basic questions to cover all the bases because they've been thru that kind of sh1t before, but the person being asked decided to take it as an insult to their intelligence.
I know they have to ask the questions to ensure the bases are covered and to ensure they don't have to go through a lengthy process when all it took was, "Is the cord plugged into the wall?" I had to make a call and they were going through this process and I had to try and stop and make it short, but they insisted. Finally, I told them, "None of this will work, my puppy ate the cord." It was for a warranty. All I wanted was a replacement cord. This was before automated answers to filter out problems that can be solved without technical intervention.
Load More Replies...Been there, done that. They didn't like the invoice when we sent it to them. Well you wanted me to do a 4 hour round trip and you were told it was 40p per mile before you agreed. I was onsite for 10 mins tops
Got a call about a PC that wouldn't power on at the front desk. Asked if it was plugged in. Received a polite but frosty reply that it was and that they wanted me now. Service was $105 an hour, 1 hour minimum, plus commute time about 45 minutes. PC power switch was on. PC was plugged into power strip. Power strip? Not plugged in. Best part? They said "You're not really going to charge us for this." Managed a straight face and said, "You agreed over the phone." Then cracked up. We laughed it off, I didn't charge them and they took me out for dinner. Lawyers do have senses of humor.
Load More Replies...My Internet was going out, literally every five minutes. I didn't have a phone, and I couldn't call on the computer, because: the Internet kept going out every five minutes. Luckily, I lived a block away from my parents. I would go over there to call, get 1st tier help desk, go back home. Turn it off and on. Go back to call again, get 1st tier, and be told to turn it off and on. Rinse and repeat with checking cords and resetting the modem. I would, in fact, tell 1st tier about all the other calls within the last hour. Eventually I had such a high call volume that my account was flagged, so I was able to talk to someone higher. This went on for several weeks. My last call, the person told me that another customer in my immediate area was having the same problem, and they didn't know why. They were sending someone to clean the outside lines. A few hours later, the cable man knocked at my door. It seems a squirrel family had moved into the router.
I used to be in IT and Computers are the irritating struggle is real. Good thing I owned my business and got paid very well for pushing that power button.
I started at a company and walking in early for my second day of training, found my trainer on a call. Our system was down and the IT department had her in tears on the phone. I had her put them on hold and looked over the system - the main point of sale computer had failed. I picked up the phone and the guy started being condescending immediately. I talked over him and told him everything I just did and what the issue was. He then started on his checklist: Nope, because this. Nope, because that. Eventually he says oh, then they would send a tech out. I hung up on him and told the trainer to never let anyone talk to them like that. The tech came out and ended up replacing the unit. I have a lot of experience with computers, so I never had to put up with the attitudes. But they had a reputation for being incredibly rude... When your job is to help people who don't know computers being s****y to them is never okay.
This about sums it up. You would think a hairless ape could tell if a machine is powered on or not, I mean, cats can tell that a hot appliance shouldn't be touched yet some humans can't tell until they have touched it three times. Even then, some would still not be sure lol
There even worse when they think they know everything and have no computer training. I worked with someone who thought they knew it all and had never taken a computer class. I have 2 degrees in IT. While I don't work in the field, I still know when to call our IT guys.
Load More Replies...My husband used to do this with copiers. He would drive an hour to a customers and plug it in for them.
Can't believe people still don't understand the concept, "Be nice to your IT person"!
Burn It All Down….m4a Now
I had an emergency surgery this year. I pay almost $500 a month for my insurance. It still cost me nearly $10,000. With insurance!! Without insurance, the surgery was almost 125k. Absolutely outrageous.
Hospitals in the US have grant and charitable programs for needy patients. They don't have to disclose this anywhere and you often have to specifically ask. I don't know why doctors do not educate themselves on their hospital's practices to help their patients out.
If they give this to everyone, big bosses won't be able to afford big yatchs.....there is that... probably have a gate keeper who will decline everything unless it makes the hospital look good
Load More Replies...See my comment in the above post about the parents having to get divorced. I'm in the same fucken boat right now. & my husband & I make okay money... not great. But more than some. & we still can't afford s**t. We always say "how the f**k do ppl survive on salaries of $20k or even $60k when even ppl making more than that are struggling.
My wife and I just found that our financial responsibility for the IVF that our fertility specialist is recommending (the only way we have a chance to carry a child to term) is just north of $8,500. That's just for the actual procedure, not including the additional consultation or facility fees or any follow ups or post-procedure care that may be required. The kicker? Our insurance "covers" it. A whopping.... $200 out of their pocket.
This works with car insurance also. I drove a car for 2 years with a smashed in passenger side because I couldn't afford the $1,000 deductible to get it fixed.
Last novemberI broke my pelvis in 2 pl.aces, and my arm / wrist bad enough I needed surgery.. I almost said no, but it would have healed with little movement and lots of pain. I have insurance, but had to jump thru hoops, so to speak, to get my induce company to agree to let me use their charity discount. Even with that I ended up having to pay much more than I could afford. Had to put most on credit and will be paying for it for a long time.
My husband just had shoulder surgery and we didn't pay a dime. Canada's health care system isn't perfect, but it is still pretty great.
People Are Morons
Imagine being one of the a******s who didn't take the Polio vaccine because they were anti-vax and that's why Polio is running rampant today... oh wait, that's not what happened, people lined up in droves, some camping overnight in the hopes of getting the vaccine. And today Polio is nearly unheard of...
anyone who refuses to take Polio vaccine has clearly never met anyone who had Polio..... must be nice growing virtually with no polio because people took vaccine and then declare all this rubbish about vaccines...
Load More Replies...Oh, ever since I was younger, I've always watched Spicks and Specks (well, until my parents sent me to bed when it got too rude). It's the best.
Load More Replies...I always thought this was an excellent comparison. Not everything the government does is evil simply because it’s the government. I recently listened to my government and got free contraception 😊 William Strange equating listening to the government to being put in concentration camps by the government is a very unfair, inaccurate and awkward comparison.
It is like the government offering you an old age pension, and you refuse because it comes from the government.
Load More Replies...In WW II London, that prick would be imprisoned. They didn't fool around with people like that.
I did not grow up with english but should the word pricks not rather be idiots?
Parenting Boys
Right? This is much more like somebody just Sharing Their Unfiltered Thoughts.
Load More Replies...Things that are manly: crying, asking for help, needing a hug, needing mental support, talking about your problems, wanting to be held, acknowledging your emotions.
Girls get condemned for having a hormonal cycle that supposedly makes them 'hard to raise', like we ever asked to go through all the s**t that womanhood held in store for us
Women are generally regarded as being more emotional and unstable. Where as men and their mental health get ignored completely. It's unfair to both men and women
Load More Replies...How is this a comment on parenting? You can be the best parent in the world, do everything right and you kid still ends up with issues.
It can be, but not when we're making fun of people for being mentally ill.
Load More Replies...Boys present just as much drama and issues as the girls do, only in different forms sometimes. No Boys are not easier than girls and girls are not easier than boys. They are all different, they all have their highs and lows, they all have their quirks and eccentricities.
I have one son and three daughters and this is not even close to true.
Real Money
How come people think Musk is a genius and then he fails over and over again to deliver on promise and all his successes are because of other people and his name is just on the front, but people still think he is a genius?
Remember when he said he'd solve World Hunger if they gave him a detailed and viable plan? It went very quiet after he was given a detailed and viable plan, and the he bought twitter instead of feeding the hungry.
I don’t understand why people even follow his life. I don’t. I know vaguely that he runs Tesla and twitter and is a billionaire. That’s about it. I don’t want to know more. I could not care less. Why do others read up on what’s the constant scoop with him. It’s a complete waste of time and takes up room in your brain. Abort the curiosity, ditch keeping up on Elon
He bought Twitter using other people's money and they were stupid enough to let him do whatever he wanted when he bought it instead of setting up a proper board to over see everything.
he should be brought up on the same kind of fraud charges trump is facing
I’d Like To See It
just read Bored Panda. They post an "updated" thread on this topic once a week.
I am 65 year old. In Canada when i was in grade school we had drills on what to do if we were going to be hit by nuclear bombs (in the 60s)
I stumbled on answering 3 when asked for the states of matter. They added one!!! WTH
Or better yet, make it the year you started high school, because graduation might be delayed or skipped.
This Tweet Is So Accurate
No mystery there. Makes you wonder how many are aware of the box they fit in so perfectly.
Load More Replies...I had to request body cam footage once at my job, is amazing the quality. Also, body cams.add 30 lbs.
American football has the most, the most cumbersome, and the most stupid rules in sports. (i.e. how damn often are feet used ???) Look at “soccer” ! The simple game. One referee, two linesmen!
Guess you do not need a lot of linemen and refs for a game that, after almost an hour of play the score is 0 - 0.
Load More Replies...they also need to have untamperable (Brand New Word) cams, and a cam on top of their cars like a Oogle cam.
Load More Replies...Do Taxes Have To Be This Complicated?
I don’t get the US system. Is it not taken out weekly for salaried employees? Are there not tax brackets?
The system is intentionally vague... gotta make sure the wealthy get their loopholes and the average citizen can't see them all.
Load More Replies...Because corporations like Intuit (who created TurboTax) bribed-- I mean, *lobbied* against the government doing taxes for the people and instead make you guess.
A lot of Americans don't know that a lot of other countries don't have to "do" taxes like we do - the government just sends them a statement of what they owe and they can add deductibles. But we have to waste tons of time doing all the math and adding things up to tell the government what they already know because TurboTax. 😒
Load More Replies...Just do a percentage of income tax without any deductions or other c**p and watch the rich squirm as they are forced to pay their fair share while poorer people get less of a tax burden. The savings to the IRS would also be massive. "Oh, so you made XYZ this year? ABC% of XYZ is what you owe. That's it."
Turbotax pays or stupid elected officials to keep our taxes this way. We need to stop voting for anyone that accepts money.
Then there would be no one at all, I fear.
Load More Replies...They know how much you owe from the information you gave them on the tax return. Your accountant just did not apply the information correctly. I saw this so often when I was auditing returns. (And if the government knew enough about you to figure out the tax owed without you giving them any information, then it would know much more about you than you would ever want.)
And be careful of over jealous IRS agents trying to make an example of you. Just read an article in the Wall Street Journal about IRS agents illegally backdating documents and misleading the court when a company fought back against 15 million in extra fees for a legal deduction. IRS lost and had to pay their fees and attorney fees.
Load More Replies...Excuse me? If they would send you exact amount you owe - how would they fine you for miscalculation?
Same in Spain. I inherited some cash and for the first time went to the tax office for guidance. Nope, they can't help me because they don't know how to do it at the tax office.
Actually this has been an option that has been put forth and voted down several times in the US.
Makes Sense
I hope you're not suggesting that led is a reason for a decrease in crime? There's a significant correlation between lead in the environment and increasing crime starting around the 1940s and 50s. While that doesn't prove causation, one of the problems caused by lead affects parts of the brain that make it likely that lead is in fact a cause of crime.
Load More Replies...That's debatable. There's an episode of the podcast If Books Could Kill about Freakonomics that I recommend listening to. There were other factors, like removal of lead paint and leaded gasoline. And before you come for me, I am pro-choice.
I don’t think there’s one single answer. Nothing is ever really black and white. It was most likely a combination of all those factors, and the rise of women’s reproductive rights played a huge part.
Load More Replies...Anyone got a link for this so I can read about it, rather than scatter-gun googling?
Search for the podcast "Freakonomics" episode 384
Load More Replies...It doesn't need to be. Correlation can be quite meaningful all on its own. Sometimes more so.
Load More Replies...So, is it gonna go up again in @ 12 years so the repulsicans can blame the Democrats?
It Never Ends
Stop it. You're ruining my self-delusions. They were carefully constructed.
I think about this everyday, dishes, counters, vacuum, toilets, you get the drift, it's never ending. There is always something to do. Well, unless you're privileged enough to have a housekeeper.
It makes me wonder how people managed before electricity, and how they manage now in places where it's unreliable or non-existent. I whine about having to take my clothes out of the machine and hang them up. At least I didn't have to spend hours boiling water and stirring the laundry with a stick
Load More Replies...I’m about to go take a second nap today. No lies detected in this post.
I feel that on a spiritual level as a teenager. I’ll tell my mom I’m going to chill one night, and I’ll end up finishing an assignment due a couple days from now because I have other c**p going on in the week.
The trick is to not think of things to do as work."life is work, and then you die, ar ar ar"
Let’s Tell The Whole Truth
Apparently our major supermarkets staff are having a strike this coming weekend and Friday. Record inflation after record profits and no pay raises for the workers expected along with their customers to survive paying even more for groceries after a record profits year. Good for the workers, strike away, I'm joining them by only buying at local markets and small family owned grocers for the duration and maybe if the big supermarkets do the right thing, maybe, I'll come back for the sake of my fellow working class battlers.
Healthcare workers here are striking and I wholeheartedly agree with them.
Load More Replies...Yea apparently this sh..t is everywhere.. Our f'ed up central bank raises interest rates into the stratosphere making rents and mortgages unaffordable, out company just got 10% quarter bump in profits and expect 15% YOY in February, yet no salary increases will be done for this or next year (cause f..s are "joining the mission" of fighting inflation).
Why name that? The common people get nothing of the high corporate profits, but do suffer from the high inflation.
You do realize that inflation will cause profits to increase without an increase in the rate of profitability . Math is hard
Lol 🤣
I want to know what you said to get 71 upvotes
Load More Replies...Time for a counter suit. Invasion of privacy, emotional distress, damage of property if they broke anything during the raid
They did. The cops also tried to steal cash and stopped cuz they realized they were being filmed. The song and video are amazing! 😁
Load More Replies...I thought this was all a joke.... until I watched the video & realized that this was fucken real & it validated all of the negative opinions I have about the police.... un believable dude.
So good. I thought it was a parody or a joke at first. Truly wild.
Load More Replies...The song is called “lemon pound cake” in case anyone is wondering. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9xxK5yyecRo&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo
I just watched the video. Hilarious, good for him. Cops really have some nerve. I gave it a 10. Good beat, you can dance to it.
That is an amazing song. Glad he could take the situation and turn it into something awesome for himself!
And the only difference is that the Police didn't make it into a Music Video.
She Is 19. Leo Is 48
Leonardo Decaprio is infamous for dating young girls. His current girlfriend (or past one) is too young to hold his beer because she is under the drinking limit of 21
Load More Replies...But I'll Still Tell Him
God bless Tyler. He's doing his best and probably texting his girlfriend the whole time, too.
Tyler also has partial sleeve tattoos that he hasn't finished yet, smokes Parliament Light cigarettes, is a high-functioning alcoholic, and is absolutely phenomenal in bed.
Load More Replies...In New Orleans, I constantly had guests raving about the food and begging me to ask the chef what he'd seasoned it with. The answer was almost always, "Butter, salt, and pepper."
When the food is worth the compliment, doesn't matter if the cook is not really a chef
I would call the one who cooked the food Chef whatever that persons title was.
So Tyler shouldn't be thanked or complimented when he did a great job? It could be the encouragement he needs to turn his life around.
Beware
Nah. Harry was and is the Duke of Sussex. Andrew was and is the Duke of York. At the time the comment was tweeted, Charles was Duke of Edinburgh. When he became king it was 'merged with the Crown'. He later bestowed the title on his little brother, Edward.
I'd like to say I feel safer already, but it's not exactly the A squad is it?
Load More Replies...Don't worry. We don't have time for marauding anymore. Too busy being the happiest people on Earth.
Don't worry. There's always the Duke of Earl. Nothing can stop the Duke of Earl.
They should throw an annual fair where tourists dress like Vikings and walk around with a coupon book, giving them a free ice cream or corn dog.
Couldn't do any worse than the shower of 5h1t we've got in charge currently.
Literally No One
I remember people saying they felt like the Jewish people during WWII and if this isn't the peak of being privilidged then I don't know what is (i.e. when you have it so good that oblidgated to uphold medical advice makes you feel oppressed like a people being eradicated during a world war).
And they act as if the medically proven vaccines are a type of biological warfare against everyday citizens when there are countries in the world where their citizens die from flu but have no access to basic flu vaccines or ANY vaccines.
Load More Replies...It’s amazing what smart adults will believe. My educated, normal uncle in the UK was convinced by a You Tube video that police were enforcing mandatory vaccinations in Australia. He saw a re-captioned video of an old protest that had gone awry. He told my mum all about it and how he’d never come to Australia because of what we were doing here. I live in Australia and my husband is a cop. I can confirm this was utter BS. We visited my uncle in the UK and he was suddenly very silent on our supposed mandatory vax policy. Happy to accuse behind closed doors but wouldn’t actually address it to those that were supposedly doing the enforcing. You’d have thought he’d have had questions.
Be patient. Depending on which state you live in you'll be needing to show your papers in a month if you want to vote. And those people who are complaining about the totalitarian stateare fine with it.
I had to show my vaccination card when I traveled in Central and South America in the early 1970's ! never since...
Works Like A Charm
Depends on the s**t I'm dealing with. If it was the news that my kidneys had failed and my life would never be the same, I was down for a bit. No tears. But then I bounced back by remembering how my mom handled cancer and how an old coworker lived a good life while on dialysis. But if I'm dealing with the mere thought of the old woman driving Tod out into the woods to drop him off as protection from the mean old hunter next door, I will lose it.
How about this new solution: cry, because it has psychologically been proven to relieve negative emotions and help process them for ALL humans!
Or cry home alone 'cause we've been taught not to show any emotion, no matter how unhealthy that behaviour is
Check on your dudes, my dudes. Hope y’all know you are loved ❤️
Load More Replies...I very rarely do them large enough that my eyes water, I won't deny it does happen though.
I have five brothers that I raised,two sons of my own and one daughter and I taught them all that everyone has emotions and that expressing them was healthy. However when it comes to anger it should be in moderation with the person and then you walk away and calm down because nothing gets solved while you are at the peak of anger. And everyone would benefit from a good cry when experiencing those emotions.
I read that anger is actually a secondary emotion meaning that bottled up negative emotions (sadness, being annoyed, frustration, anxiety etc) come out as anger unless you manage to deal with them. So I think that if people were taught to handle their emotions better there would be a lot less anger to have.
Load More Replies...One Of The Evils Of Capitalism Involves Punishing People For Helping Others Or Showing Charity
Can anyone confirm that this is actually a real ‘crime’? Sounds totally ridiculous but stranger things have happened.
That is not capitalism that is government over reach, in true capitalism you can sell whatever you want for however much you want, even if that means giving free water to an elderly neighbor
The water company is not the government. It's a capitalistic organization that uses the police to oppress people. That's how capitalism works and always has. You say it doesn't have to work that way. Precisely. It doesn't.
Load More Replies...You're forgetting the service fee and taxes not collected on a separate household. I conserve water so much that the service fee on my water bill is sometimes more than the usage itself.
Load More Replies...Possibly. The water company's computer could easily be set to monitor increased usage in homes neighboring a shut-off.
Load More Replies...I really don't understand why basically charity is illegal. Who makes such laws, it's crazy
Things Have Changed
Oh, yes, the middle class life... A German politician in the not so distant past described himself as "middle class" while owning a private plane and making 1.5 millon a year. So it comes down to a matter of definition.
The real problem is the billionaires throwing off the curve. If middle is one standard deviation plus or minus, low is more than one minus, and upper is more than one above, having people worth hundreds of billions stretches things away out. So now the bottom of the middle and the top of the middle are further apart than the Burger deficit.
Load More Replies...Remember folks: there's no such thing as a "middle" or "poor" class! There's only us, the working class and the owner/capitalist class.
Hmmmm. Unions have been dissolved. Reagan started that with pilots. Collectively bargain so you're paid a living wage. Duh
Got news for you. That wasn't a "middle-class" lifestyle in 1990 either. I know because I was there.
This is such BS, 90's middle class people did not have two cars take overseas holidays and put 3 kids through uni. Keep trying
I don't know... my husband and I were raising a family in the 90s and we had that life.
Load More Replies...This would be 600k in Australia which is a massive income. If you lived in the cbd in Sydney or Melbourne that would be accurate, but is fringe dwellers don’t need that kind of income to meet this middle class threshold. HOWEVER the killer is the house. The struggle to get onto the property ladder is horrendous and throws everything else out. I am the luckiest person alive to have bought my house a decade ago when it was feasible. I probably couldn’t afford to buy my own house now! I feel desperately sad for younger people. It’s totally unfair.
Sounds feasible, Victoria Beckham is working class and was driven to school in a Rolls Royce so why not?
I have a 4 bedroom house, my spouse and I each have paid off cars, and can afford a yearly vacation (haven't been doing it because of the pandemic.) Our combined income is $75,000 a year but we don't have kids and live in the south. So make your choices wisely.
The hypothetical family mentioned in the tweet has 2 or 3 children. If you don't have children, then you can't compare your life to the life of a family that has children. But as usual, people without kids seem to know what's best for those of us that do have children (by choice!)
Load More Replies...Overpopulation doesn't always have the effects you expected. (NOTE: This is NOT a comment about class or race or starvation or rich people or greed. This is a comment about the fact that humans are stupid, we're painting ourselves into a corner and our precious "developed-world" standard of living is going to be one of the first things to fall.)
I think the overpopulation argument is a little weak. We still have plenty of resources to go around and could easily care for the global population that we have already, as well as act as better stewards to our environment. We just can't seem to get it together.
Load More Replies...Oooooffff
This is the same guy who thinks he knows enough about programming to micromanage the people who are trying to develop self-driving technology for him.
If you're going to sack developers on the basis of 'number of lines written', why not give them all a sample task, and keep the ones who accomplish it with the FEWEST of lines written, rather than the ones who write long, complicated code many times that length? You know: 'elegance'.
just get off the platform it just going to be a right wing propaganda
https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/elon-musk-twitter-code-fixation.html
Load More Replies...Ancient Greece Wasn't Gay
This is what happens when you're so uneducated, you don't realise how uneducated you are ☹️
Ancient Greece - especially mythology - is one of the gayest things I know. That's why I love it so much!
Bruh Ancient Greece fell in 146 BC, or in other words, almost a century and a half before Jesus Christ was born
I’m sure this same person believes the Bible was written in English.
they where EXTREMELY gay in ancient greece, there where myths about the OLYMPIANS being gay, achilles was gay, hercules was gay, zeus was gay, and apollo was the definition of gay
Spartan brides had to dress like men to help their husbands transition to sex with women
Load More Replies...LOL when people think "religious doctrine" only means Christianity. Even before it existed.
I mean they were religious lol... just their religion was gay... and so was everyone else...
Load More Replies...To be fair, those ancient Greeks knew a lot of stuff long before a lot of other people.
What's sad is all of this stuff is true yet we toe the line everyday...
Right the world is horrible and everything sucks
Load More Replies...I've been living in hospital for almost a year now, about to move into a short term bed in the rehab wing of a long term care home, and we had to assess if a "financial" divorce was necessary. Thank goodness it wouldn't make a difference, and that I live in Canada because we have no medical debts, just associated peripheral debts.
BP is glitching a lot for me right now - sometimes it won’t scroll, typing is slow and glitchy, etc. Anyone know why?
What's sad is all of this stuff is true yet we toe the line everyday...
Right the world is horrible and everything sucks
Load More Replies...I've been living in hospital for almost a year now, about to move into a short term bed in the rehab wing of a long term care home, and we had to assess if a "financial" divorce was necessary. Thank goodness it wouldn't make a difference, and that I live in Canada because we have no medical debts, just associated peripheral debts.
BP is glitching a lot for me right now - sometimes it won’t scroll, typing is slow and glitchy, etc. Anyone know why?
