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Wine tasting. You guys can taste chocolate, cigar smoke, nuts, fruits, etc., all I can taste is fermented grapes. I'm sure I can come up with a bunch of random words, and they'll buy the whole farm.

StudBoi69 , Valeria Boltneva Report

Final score:

71points

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Traveling Lady Railfan 2 weeks ago

I've been to a ton of wine and food pairings in my local area which is a big wine producing place in the world. Definitely there seems to be a lot of phony baloney hype when it comes to describing the nose or the sensation on the palate or whatever, but it is true that a wine that is properly paired with the right food you take a smell, you take a little sip, and you go okay this is what the wine tastes like. And then you take a bite of whatever food it is, mmm that's pretty good... And then you go back to the wine again and all of a sudden you can taste the description that they were giving you and you go oh wow, that's neat. It tastes better now it tastes different, and occasionally, oh yuck, this tastes a lot worse. "Taste the season/sip and sizzle" used to be amazing to go to. Amazing. What a wonderful way for locals to go out and visit the various wineries and have a really good time. Giant thumbs down for changing completely how these events run now. Totally different 👎

20points

30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things The love some people have for watching sports.

To edit/elaborate, I went to a Big 10 school. I honestly had no idea how much of a religion sports were to people when I first started; I was truly there for, well, my education. After 4 years of trying to pretend my way into understanding, I couldn't will myself to get into it.

KittenTitterBums , Zetong Li Report

Final score:

69points

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Child of the Stars 2 weeks ago

I don't get it either. I'm not going to judge you if you're into it, but don't ask me to take part because frankly, idc if the home team wins.

32points

The United States Government.

hatheaven , Natalia FaLon Report

Final score:

60points

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Marianne 2 weeks ago

As an outsider, your election system doesn't make sense to me at all. Why isn't the "popular vote" the normal vote? How does it make sense to give all the votes of a state to whoever got more votes?

53points

Sleep.

I’ve been doing it for over 30 years but I still for the life of me can’t figure out how it works.

One second I’m totally conscious on my bed with my eyes closed, and the next moment I’m awake.

Like wtf is going on.

lasteclipse , Andrea Piacquadio Report

Final score:

57points

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Jan Hyde 2 weeks ago

That's so they can install updates...

53points

12welf , https://www.pexels.com/photo/starry-sky-998641/ Report

Space, time, and gravity, and their relationship with each other.

Also, gravitational lenses (I think?), where gravity of a massive or dense planet bends light around it so that the planet becomes a magnifying glass to see objects even further into space that would otherwise be blocked from line of sight by the massive planet.

Final score:

50points

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ƒιѕн 2 weeks ago

I still can't wrap my head around that singularity that went bang.

12points

The Electoral College.

It's not even a real college!

Tracyannk28 , cottonbro studio Report

Final score:

47points

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Annik Perrot 2 weeks ago

You're not alone, the rest of the world doesn't understand either.

34points

The capillary effect

So here's a narrow tube - ok

Here's water - ok

Water goes up against gravity - WHAT THE F**K IS THIS BLACK MAGIC FUCKERY

Edit: woah this blew up.

anon , MesserWoland Report

Final score:

44points

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John L 2 weeks ago

Water is a very weird substance. They say it is the only material that floats in itself as a solid. That property allows life on earth.

24points

My job, fake it till you make it. I didn't know over half of my job when I got hired. I researched most of it the weekend before and ask a lot of questions.

Vlaed , Anna Tarazevich Report

Final score:

44points

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Jan Hyde 2 weeks ago

I'd rather hire you than someone who 'thinks' they know it all.

29points

#10

Baking. I'm in my last semester of culinary school and I'm taking a baking class. I swear, it's like f*****g voodoo and witchcraft in there. I'm pretty sure we sacrificed a virgin the other day to make the foccacia proof properly. I'll stick to regular cooking.

twitchy_taco , Nathan Dumlao Report

Final score:

38points

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Marianne 2 weeks ago

I've heard people say that cooking is art and baking is chemistry. Often, a person is not both an artist and a scientist, so they prefer one over the other.

28points

#11

How computers work, on the most fundamental level.

Pays_in_snakes , Eduardo Rosas Report

Final score:

37points

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sbj 2 weeks ago

I pretend not to understand them so nobody bothers me at work with their It problems

21points

eat_my_cannoli , cottonbro studio Report

#12

When people try to talk to me quietly and I don't want to make them repeat is for the 5th time.

Final score:

35points

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Donald 2 weeks ago

After the second or third time someone mumbles to me I just respond with, "WHAT DID YOU SAY," in a loud but non-threatening tone. It usually gets the point across. I've been playing drums for over 20 years and my hearing is pretty bad as a result. People need to project their voice and annunciate syllables so I can understand them. If someone continues to mumble with their mush mouth I just ignore them. Usually, I will give strangers some grace and explain my hearing isn't great, but there are people I see almost daily who can't seem to grasp the concept.

14points

#13

Cryptocurrency I know enough to get about 25% of the way there but then I just don't get it... Something about computers doing complicated math for ... something... or someone ... then that being a block... using that block to make money... that might not actually be money but it is money to someone so I guess that's what makes it money

**EDIT**

I got so much info from this comment maybe I should have said something about my research paper.

InItsTeeth , Behnam Norouzi Report

Final score:

34points

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Ionescu Popa 2 weeks ago

because the rest might be conning. there is some mathematics ok, but nothing to do with the prosperity of the small "investor".

7points

#14

30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things People are commending my wife and me on raising our kid (10 months now). Truth is we are totally winging it and she's just been really pleasant so far ... too pleasant.

notsofastandy , Daria Obymaha Report

Final score:

34points

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Child of the Stars 2 weeks ago

The biggest parenting secret (and, if we're being honest, adulting in general) is that we're all just winging it. You can ask for and try advice from those more experienced, but honestly, it's only a 50/50 shot that it'll work 🤷‍♀️

27points

#15

30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things I just don't understand how people are happy to work 9-5 for decades for a mere 2 weeks off.

SweetLucid , Vojtech Okenka Report

Final score:

34points

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Isabella 2 weeks ago

Come to Europe, we have more than 4 weeks!

19points

#16

My job. I'm a software developer but my true job title should be "Creative Googler".

ZestyWalrus , Nathana Rebouças Report

Final score:

34points

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Robert T 2 weeks ago

People don't realise just how broad software engineering is. There are so many langauges, packages and libraries to deal with that you can't possibly remember them all. I have a "working set" of stuff I am using and usually a quick google will help remind me of other stuff I have done in the past and vaguely remember.

5points

#17

Magnets. I mean, day to day I walk around in my lab coat with a clip board, pretending I know all sorts of things. Yet, for all my scientific know-how one question continues to plague me: *Magnets; how do they work?*.

anon , Jametlene Reskp Report

Final score:

33points

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troufaki13 2 weeks ago

Magic ✨

16points

#18

How air conditioning works.

Every time I try and research it, I get a lot of smug answers about "you know it doesnt actually MAKE cold, it just PULLS heat from the air..."

OK great. How does it do that?

mr_feenys_car , Kévin JINER Report

Final score:

33points

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Robert T 2 weeks ago

Expansion and compression of a gas. When it expands it draws heat in, when it compresses it exudes heat.

27points

#19

30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things I got near perfect scores in my physics classes for engineering and literally nothing about our universe makes sense to me. I just treat it like a religion and have faith in it. I'm just an engineer and not a scientist so it should work out, I think.

4827335772991 , CVSV Report

Final score:

30points

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keyboardtek 2 weeks ago

People who are science majors in college are actually doing all the major experiments the famous first scientists did. It proves the science to the student and becomes the building blocks of understanding science. It has nothing to do with faith or belief. You actually do the experiments and prove stuff to yourself.

13points

#20

30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things Confidence. I don't know how the f**k you become confident but I pretend like I am and it seems to work.

anon , Emmy E Report

Final score:

30points

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BrunoVI 2 weeks ago

The belief that it seems to work means you're no longer pretending?

8points

#21

3D printers. Like, I can't even wrap my head around the concept, but then I'm just over here like, if it works why can't we just 3D print everything??

pizzanotpineapples , FOX Report

Final score:

26points

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Ace 2 weeks ago

Watch one work. See how slowly it builds up layer after layer after layer. Then compare that to, say, a stamping press that can turn out thousands of identical pieces in just a few minutes.

14points

#22

30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things Anyone who says they understand quantum mechanics are liars.

anon , Bozhin Karaivanov Report

Final score:

25points

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Jan Hyde 2 weeks ago

I understand it, don't understand it, both and neither. Or none of those. I'm confused... again!

23points

GorillaS0up , Christina @ wocintechchat.com Report

#23

30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things When people talk for to long I pretend like I understand what they're saying but in reality I wasn't paying attention.

Final score:

25points

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keyboardtek 2 weeks ago

I always wondered how people fail to know they are talking too long or dominating a conversation. Do they fail to see people's attention fading away?

8points

#24

30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things Having children. I have two stepkids and so far I just don't think the time, money and stress is worth "it". Then I think what is "It". I've asked several people why they had kids and mostly they say to continue their line. ??? I still don't get it.

chartito , Emma Bauso Report

Final score:

25points

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Marianne 2 weeks ago

I wanted to have a child, because I have always felt loved by my family of origin and I wanted to give that love forward to my own child. As a family, I feel part of a unit of love and that's fantastic! Also I'm a caring person and I loved the idea of caring for a child that is my own and help that child to develop into a person and be happy. It's a delight to see them grow and learn everyday and it makes me proud beyond measure. Also I wanted to experience pregnancy, because it's a super power. To be able to grow a person in my body, give birth to them and nourish them with my mother milk was a very empowering experience that I'm very glad I was able to make.

23points

TotallyADalek , Christopher Gower Report

#25

30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things Computers and software. Plot twist - I am a software developer.

Final score:

23points

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John L 2 weeks ago

The 7 layers of the OSI Model show how computers and software work together.

5points

#26

30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things The stock market.

hello_friend_ , CardMapr.nl Report

Final score:

23points

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Luke Branwen 2 weeks ago

Astrology for capitalists

33points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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Thrill-Seeking Diver Jumps Down Extreme Waterslide, Ignoring The Strict Ban For Women

#27

30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things My job. I’m very new there; my co-workers tell me to not hesitate to ask questions. When I do, they’re b****y. When I figure it out on my own and end up doing something wrong they jump down my throat “Why did you do this that way!?”, “Why would you do that!?”. I’m damned if I do and I’m damned if I don’t. Whatever.

eearthling , Unseen Studio Report

Final score:

21points

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Kristal 2 weeks ago

Sounds like a very toxic work environment

26points

#28

SEO. My company is at the top of nearly every search involving one of the keywords that should direct you to it. I spend like $10 a day on AdWords and everyone thinks I'm a god-tier advertising hacker. I have no idea how or why things have worked so well in my favor.

trophylies , Valeri Mak Report

Final score:

19points

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The Scout 2 weeks ago

I can totally understand that. SEO and SEA manager here. I do not really understand what I am doing most of the time, but develop a sense of what works and what does not... Just some worshipping and kneeling before the allmighty algorhythms that no human being will ever be able to understand.

5points

#29

30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things The Monty Hall problem. I'm convinced I'm a lost cause so there's not really any point trying to explain further. I've heard the "think of it as a hundred doors" or "a million doors" thing dozens of times.

I've sometimes felt like I'm on the very brink of an epiphany in understanding but when it comes down to it I can't avoid the idea that if Monty was an alien and the car was a speedboat and the goat was a centaur and there were 3017 doors to begin with and Monty only opened a door ever 4.6 hours and it's in Mozambique and I don't know, whatever the f**k happened *before your choice*... when you have the two doors in front of you and one is the prize and one is the bogey, 'sticking' is just choosing door A and 'changing' is just choosing door B. There's a 50/50 chance.

I 'know' (perhaps 'believe' is the word) it isn't 50/50 because greater mathematical minds (obviously) than mine have proven that it's more beneficial to 'swap' doors. In the real gameshow scenario I would swap in the knowledge that clever people say that I should... But I just don't get why it's not 50/50. Regardless of what happened before, there are two doors to choose from, one is a prize, one isn't. 50/50.

I just pretend I understand because 1. I trust that it's true. 2. I hear the same "imagine it's 100 doors" every time someone tries to explain and it never gets through.

I take some small solace in the fact that the very *reason* it's famous is because it's so incredibly counter-intuitive.

Saxon2060 Report

Final score:

17points

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Donkey boi 2 weeks ago

My Gramps always said 'Everything is 50/50, because it either is/will or isn't/won't.' That app that says 60% chance of rain? Nah, it either will rain or it won't. 3 doors, one with a prize, pick a door, it either is the prize or isn't. He even used it when he was diagnosed with cancer. I like the simplistic approach, but I also like better odds.

7points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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“Ma’am I Live Here”: Woman Refuses To Back Out Of Driveway, Learns A Lesson The Hard Way

#30

30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things That unerring sense of rightness in their actions.

There are so many people who just **do** things without taking time to properly scare themselves out of it by thinking of all the anxiety-inducing repercussions. Look for another job? I'll need to change my morning routine, my commute, no more lunch hour at home, all these new people to deal with, getting as depressed in the new job as at the old job. I just thought myself into inaction.

Yet, I've seen people who just take that leap and I don't know how to do it without feeling like I'll fail or interpreting the landing as a failure and not a stepping stone.

You never learned proper fear and shame and self-loathing!

I hear what you're saying, the only way to get over it is to continue failing. To embrace it, revel in it, become the failure before exiting, triumphant, at the end! I guess I just don't *get* it or understand how I *haven't* been doing that but most of the advice says I have to keep trying until I get it so I will continue persevering.

Nose_to_the_Wind , Andrea Piacquadio Report

Final score:

14points

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Marianne 2 weeks ago

This person might need therapy.

8points

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French Diver’s “Jewels” In Tight Swimming Trunks Become Talk Of The Town At Olympics

#31

Directions. I listen to you giving directions because it makes you feel good. It's 2018, I'm always going to follow my space phone to your house.

Dicktremain , Priscilla Du Preez Report

Final score:

11points

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Pernille 2 weeks ago

Neither Google nor Waze can find my house, please follow your phone, then you'll end up in a field 4 km away and I don't have to set the geese on you:)

7points

#32

Physics, I understand the concepts, just not the math.

Final score:

10points

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Matthew Williams 2 weeks ago

I am studying physics as a retirement project. I am annoyed to discover that nine tenths of the difficulty with maths is because physicists think it is cool/desirable to condense their equations and invent compact notations to minimise the number of lines on a page they take. If you expand them out and plug some example numbers in, you're most of the way to them making sense. Programmers suffer the same affliction with computer code - for some incomprehensible reason, compact is "better"

1point

#33

Football.

DrDreidel82 Report

Final score:

10points

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Pernille 2 weeks ago

I would like to add the off side rule to this. But I pretend to understand so I don't have to listen to some guy, condescendingly explain it.

4points

#34

Politics. Anything politics. It's all just a jumble to me.

anon , Marius Oprea Report

Final score:

10points

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Jan Hyde 2 weeks ago

Sounds to me that you understand it perfectly.

8points

#35

When I'm buying a car and the dealer starts spouting a bunch of car lingo at me. I nod my head like I'm impressed. We both know he's just making things up, but we both also know that I can't call him out on it. So I continue to nod, and he continues to b******t me with a straight face.

IrianJaya Report

Final score:

9points

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DennyS (denzoren) 2 weeks ago

This one has got a 1.5L inline straight 6, V8, four cylinder, diesel with fuel injection and super a revolutionary cooling system using...and get this...a radiator. Also comes with reverse gears, forward gears, a 6 forward for those that like counting, a trunk and a boot so you can always have a shoe, a glove box for loose papers and a cubby holder for gloves. Five seats and some of the best rear view mirrors in the business. As an added bonus we'll throw in four wheels and some alloy, light weight, mag, nitro filled, silicone lined wheels. Oh and how could I forget, this model also comes with a stereo with ammmm and fmmmm.

3points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#36

Everything about relationships. I don't understand when a guy likes likes me...

Final score:

9points

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David Paterson 2 weeks ago

If he's breathing, he likes you.

3points

#37

Everything, my dude.

JargonR3D Report

Final score:

9points

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DennyS (denzoren) 2 weeks ago

And you know what....same.

1point

#38

I'm not sure how people form interpersonal relationships. I have to try SO HARD to care about people beyond my wife and son, to the point that it's physically exhausting 'faking' pleasantries. I understand "yeah, make friends. Have friends. Blah blah" ... But I just dont understand the DESIRE to do so.

proto_synnic Report

Final score:

9points

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Jan Hyde 2 weeks ago

You and I could be friends. We'd never actually talk, but friends none the less

9points

#39

I'm currently living in Brazil, I have to talk Portuguese all day and have important work conversations day long, they think I understand, the fact is that I don’t.

Final score:

8points

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Eduardo Kraszczuk 2 weeks ago

Cara, mas português é uma lingua tão fácil! Eu falo desde criancinha. (But dude, Portuguese is such an easy language! I speak it since I was a little boy.)

0points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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#40

How microwaves work. It's wizardry to me.

Final score:

8points

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Donkey boi 2 weeks ago

The most basic way my friend explained it: Little waves radiate from a thing that makes electrons move a certain way, and bounce around the inside, and the make the water particles vibrate so they rub against each other. Like when you rub your hands together, the friction makes them warmer and warmer until they get hot, that heat spreads through the food.

6points

#41

My fiancee's mental health issues. Nothing major, but she has some panic disorder I don't remember the exact name of. I don't get it, but I try to be understanding.

Ted_Denslow Report

Final score:

8points

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FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 2 weeks ago

Well that's good that you're trying to be understanding and supportive but maybe try doing some research and learn about her actual disorder. I can almost guarantee that your fiancee will greatly appreciate it.

2points

#42

Taxes, stocks, investing. I’m very financially uneducated and have tried several general finance books but if anyone knows of any that could best educate me please let me know. Google Amazon and YouTube haven’t given the best suggestions. I’m sure I could just learn it on YouTube actually.

DrDreidel82 , Anna Nekrashevich Report

Final score:

7points

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Grenelda Thurber 2 weeks ago (edited)

"The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need, " by Andrew Tobias. Cuts through all the c**p, explains how things work.

0points

#43

Politics.

Final score:

7points

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#44

My father is a "Scrum Master" for "Agile."

He has explained to me on I think two separate occasions what that means, but I have never been able to commit it to memory. If it ever comes up in conversation with company, I just smile and nod.

Edit: Thank you, kind Redditors, for the explanations!

OhHeyFreeSoup Report

Final score:

7points

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Robert T 2 weeks ago

It means he has to do stand-up comedy and a morning gang-bang or something like that. ;-)

2points

"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

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#45

Life.

Schildpaddo Report

Final score:

6points

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Ionescu Popa 2 weeks ago (edited)

in brief, we are here to feed our (energy) vampire masters, whose ambitions and hunger always grow.

6points

Devin Schmitt 2 weeks ago

1point

David Paterson 2 weeks ago

"I've looked at clouds from both sides now ... It's life's illusions I recall. I really don't know life at all." Good song.

1point

Gabby M 2 weeks ago

I live by an outdoor concert venue I still remember hearing her singing this back in the 70's

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#46

Tattoos. I’ll compliment people on them. I do think they are cool. My roommate was big on them in college. But at the same time, I feel like it’s really just a trend and people are doing it to “be hot” or some s**t. It’s weird. I don’t get it. Do people regret it or atleast acknowledge they did it just to be cool? “I wanted to express myself bro”. Ok. For instance I love the Joe Rogan podcast but his tattoos are kind of like “ok man we get it- you’re a badass” I get the vibe in real life a lot. Just being honest.

Don_Cheech Report

Final score:

6points

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keyboardtek 2 weeks ago

And a recent medical study found people with tattoos have a much higher incidence of a particular form of cancer. Duh! Like injecting a colored chemical under the skin is a safe thing to do.

2points