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It can take thousands, or even millions, of people to popularize something: a game, a hairstyle, a style of music. But unfortunately, it can all be changed in an instant, as it only takes one bad apple to turn something from fun and exciting to inappropriate (or even illegal). 

One curious Reddit user recently asked others to share some of the things that one person managed to ruin for everyone else, so you’ll find their most relatable responses below. Enjoy reminiscing about "the good old days" before these things were tainted, and be sure to upvote everything you wish was still the same today!

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” The female body image, by the Kardashians. Yes, I consider them all one person, since they all seem to have been built by the same plastic surgeon. Millions of girls and women worldwide seem to think that surgery, teams of hairdressers, nail and make-up artists, personal stylists, shapewear, Instagram filters and photoshop make them real women. That whoie family should be cancelled, instead they're billionnaires. Sign of the times ..

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” Tipping. Businesses are pushing their customers to tip because they don’t want to pay their employees fair wages.

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” Twitter, by Elon Musk. Pretty basic, I know but geez. This man's just an arrogant child with waay to much money.

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” Vaccines by Andrew Wakefield. Thanks to that a*s hat we have way too many antivax idiots.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And he was one of the people that invalidated his own statements. But by that time, the damage was done...

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” I hate to be dark but, as a gymnastics coach: people like Larry Nassar and my own coach

As a gymnastics coach myself, I have to be extremely careful how I touch a kid in a sport where I have to….pick them up and move their body around and stuff. And obviously, I’d never purposefully put my hand in an inappropriate spot, but if I accidentally do while saving a kid from falling or something I have to profusely apologize and feel anxious. 99% of the time, the kid doesn’t even notice I grabbed them or something. Or, they don’t care because they’re happy I saved them from snapping their neck.

Some gyms ban coaches from giving a kid a hug and whatnot. We have strict rules in the gymnastics world where two or more adults have to be with a kid if they are alone in the gym. Which hey, I support. When I train male coaches, I tell them to be extra careful since they are more likely to get accused. Groomers gonna groom, but if a guy accidentally brushes a girl’s boob when he spots her, it shouldn’t be world ending. With the abusers that people know of primarily being men, male coaches are watched like hawks. I can get away with a gaggle of little four year olds tackling me and laying on me for a group hug. A male coach has to be veeeery careful.

But, it’s sad it has to be like that. I wish I could text a kid myself, set up a private lesson, meet them at the gym alone, we work on stuff, their parent picks them up. That’s not reality. People should just…not be weird to kids. Adults should be respectful and not abuse their privilege and a child’s innocence.

Now, people have a terrible perception of the sport I love because of the abuse myself and others faced. And, I don’t blame them.

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The internet was ruined by whoever it was that invented pop-ups. And video ads, for that matter.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The guy that invented pop-up ads, has made a formal apology. He didn't mean to ruin the internet.

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” A s**t ton of symbols have had their meaning completely changed because some mentally ill dude got rejected by an art school.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have got a St. Brigid's Cross in my house, which is an Irish house blessing symbol, but looks vaguely like a swastika. I live in Germany and feel that I have to explain to every guest what that symbol actually means...

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” Telemarketing. Owning a phone used to be a good thing, now almost every phone call is some shady insurance scam or panhandler looking for money.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My Dad no longer answers the phone unless it's someone he knows.

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” The name "Karen".

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I read that in 2021 zero people named their kids Karen, in Canada.

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” A small town permanently cancelled Halloween because one kid was bullied and the mother lobbied and won. Turned out the kid was not bullied but was stealing other kid's candy and they fought back.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And again, not on that single woman. It's on people who don't want to tackle problems and willfully make the worst decisions to disencourage people from making legitimate complaints so they don't have to actually do their damn jobs

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Sex ...by my kid.... wtf little dude. You can watch paw patrol for 2 hours straight but then I snatch yo momma in for a min and we can't even get through the warm up!?

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” Guys on 9/11 ruined flying honestly. All the security means when u fly u have to get there super early and stand in lines all day.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm from the Netherlands and even I knew, as a teen, when I saw that happening on tv, that the world would not be the same after that.

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The arsonists who set the Quebec forests ablaze, placing the North western hemisphere under smoke for a third of our summer..... Natural disaster caused a lot of the fires still going today but intentional sabotage didn't help.

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American flag… every time I see one I automatically think the person flying it is racist. I think we all know who.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I fly my American flag proudly over my rainbow flag pronouncing things such as "black lives matter" and "no human is illegal." You shouldn't have to be a terrible person in order to love your country.

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The Cosby Show.

Because of Cosby.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Does it make me a bad person that I can still enjoy it even knowing? I'll never stop loving that 70s show either. I know what they did is wrong but I still enjoy the shows. Hell I'm watching glee as we speak. If we give up every show that has an evil actor what's left to watch.

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” The a*****e who poisoned Tylenol in the 1980s and made it acceptable to make everything, not even just medications, very tamper-proof, but also pretty damn user-proof if you have any dexterity limitations at all.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Making food and drugs tamper proof had always been a good idea, independently of specific events.

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” Gender reveals during fire season.

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” Giving out free product when we are just going to throw it away anyway.

We used to do this at the end of the night, last few hours of the day if we had a lot of donuts or bread BUT because of certain people who use this as an opportunity to sue a business with the excuse of "They gave me spoiled food and i got sick" now it's not allowed and we have to put coffee grounds on everything we throw away.

Also the drug addicts who think it's funny to just throw it all over the parking lot too.

Also bathroom privileges. Since it's apparent that people don't know how to use one properly, we don't have to let the public use them and yes that includes your kids as well since you don't clean up after them.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My school just introduced passes that the teachers have that unlock the bathrooms during class. U literally have to get a pass from a teacher who forgets it half the time just to go to the bathroom bc some people decided to graffiti the walls and damage stuff etc…

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Not sure if its been said but Kanye ruined Kanye for everybody.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I find Kanye fascinating in a morbid kinda way. Like what a weird, sad little guy. I will admit I genuinely love a lot of his music, especially his older stuff as a longtime fan, but some of his music really hits differently these days. He honestly seems like a tortured soul - not in a romantic, poetic way, but in an unfortunate, problematic, weird sad racist kind of way. He went from one of my musical idols in the 2000s to someone whose name is now a joke in my circle of friends (“ok kanye” is our new “ok boomer”). It’s like watching the most interesting slow motion train wreck I’ve ever seen. I genuinely hope he gets the help he clearly needs, but also, he’s kind of just a d**k all on his own. (He also apparently refuses any medication for his mental health issues)

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” Red baseball caps.
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"MAGA hats" became popular with his supporters and very unpopular with those who hated him.
Issue is, baseball caps are pretty popular and common to wear in a lot of places. Especially among sports fans. Teams like the Kansas City Chiefs, Washingtons Nats, and the Phillies all have red caps that-- at first glance-- looked like MAGA hats. So people felt self-conscious, not wanting to be mistaken for supporters.

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One guy has a heart attack and the entire world is pressured, by him and other lobbyists, into changing their fast food menus from natural ingredients (beef tallow for fries for example) to artificial s**t to satisfy new requirements for "healthier fat free foods" when... it was never confirmed the guy had it because of fast food. It turns out most fat free foods are full of sugar and are HORRIBLE for you, and whole, fat inclusive foods are much healthier

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” The shoe bomber.
 
Editor's note: After “shoe bomber” Richard Reid's attempt to take down a flight from Paris to Miami in late 2001, footwear started coming off at security checkpoints. 

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” Back in the middle ages when I was a child in Detroit, the electric company gave out free light bulbs. You kept the burnt out ones in a bag, and when it was full, Dad would take it to Detroit Edison and exchange them for free ones. Then some guy who owned a store (I remembered it as a pharmacy) sued because he couldn't sell light bulbs and that was the end of free light bulbs.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The free lightbulbs get a mention here (along with more than you ever thought you wanted to know about lightbulbs in general) https://youtu.be/zb7Bs98KmnY

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” Your last meal before execution in the U.S. used to be whatever you wanted, until one guy ordered an 18 course feast and didn't touch it. After he was executed a law was passed saying all death row prisoners' last meal would be the same as all the other prisoners.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

F*ck, the guy was about to snuff it, and they made a big deal about the fact that he didn't touch his food? What A-holes...

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When i was overnight stocking at walmart one of the rules was you can't have headphones. A lot of us did it anyway. We kept it low profile. Music loud enough only you can hear, only one earbud in so you can hear a customer or manager speak to you, we would run the wire under our clothes so you could pretty much only see the bit coming from your neck to your ear, color that matched/blended into our skintone. Management would just turn a blind eye to it. We hire some new guy. He starts rolling around with both earbuds in, music blaring, highlighter pink wires outside the shirt. We tried to mention to him he might wanna keep that low profile. He didnt listen. Less than a week later daytime management came through our shift and told us earbuds/earphones will not be tolerated. to top it off. that guy got fired like a week later. Heightened enforcement of the rule stayed in place.

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” The toothbrush mustache. Made famous by people like Charlie Chaplin and Oliver Hardy, ruined forever.

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” Germany, i am British and lived there for 3 years and it’s an astonishing country but gets the worst reputation bc of an artistic thanos.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm equally confused by the Artistic Thanos reference. However having lived in Germany for a number of years, I can confirm it's a wonderful country!

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A kid in my high school got their nose broken and had a severe concussion because the guys would take dodgeball so seriously. They banned it my freshman year because multiple kids got hurt and this one guy would not chill tf out.

We also stopped being allowed to play soccer because this guy hit a girl in the face so hard he broke her glasses, gave her a nose bleed and knocked her out.

Basketball was almost banned because of the same guy. He got mad and chucked the ball.. right into my face. He was on the floor laughing and could barely even say sorry through his laughter. Even the kids that bullied me were like “dude wtf it’s not funny”. Dude had a huge ego from playing soccer for the high school team and obvious anger issues.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Awesome. Instead of banning this one kid from ball sports, the whole school doesn't get to play ball sports? That's weird.

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The idea of a secure white collar jobs is ruined by Jack Welch, who first pioneered the practice of laying off masses of people just to buy company stock prices.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

YES this MF forever destroyed job security, loyalty, longevity, and worst of all SINGLEHANDEDLY fueled the wage and resources gap & created 1%ers

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My primary school removed the monkey bars after some kid called Ben fell from them and broke his arm. Thanks a lot, Ben.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What nonsense! Soon they'll force all the parents to permanently wrap their children in bubble wrap until they turn 18.

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” The kid who jumped off of 7th floor of a building here in Turkey because he thought he was a Pokemon. They stopped airing the show because people thought it was "bad influence" on kids. And Pokemon was huge back when i was a kid so pretty much every kid back then was devastated.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He probably didn't just do that because he thought he was a pokemon. I think there were other things at play in that kid's head.

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There was a coffee shop that everyone loved that did the thing where if you buy 8 drinks, you get the next one for free. For 2 years I went there religiously at least once a week. Then one day, they told us that the stamp cards were no longer good because someone had stolen the stamp and had been abusing it by stamping their own cards. I just didn't like the accusatory tone when they explained to us what happened, I felt like I lost something that I made an effort to earn (although only maybe 5/8th of one drink), and they were punishing the loyal customers. It was just terribly handled. I never went back after that. The once bustling coffee shop that everyone loved closed down 6 months later.

Basically, they probably killed their business over one person who maybe got a few free drinks at most.

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” Remember the chick that licked all the ice cream in the store? Now we got a bunch of plastic s**t to cut through.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The plastic covering was there for some brands before she did her thing.

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The name Adolf.

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Until 1945, many people in Germany were called Adolf. Partly because it was a very common name, and partly because parents named their children Adolf as a reference. After 1945, suddenly no one was named Adolf anymore. Each used their middle name or, less commonly, the abbreviation "Adi" as a proper name

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” Someone installed an AC incorrectly in their window at my in-laws building. It ended up falling out and killing a 2 year old girl and now everyone is banned from using window AC's (in certain buildings, not all)  (This was in Scarborough - Toronto)

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” The guy who stole my Amazon package. I used to have treats outside my door for delivery people but decided to remove all the snacks and the basket they were laid on.

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A long, long time ago, when I was a kid, if there were a delivery from the USPS or even something like UPS, and you weren't home, they left you a note, and you could call or check a paper, etc., and arrange to either go pick it up and have it delivered another time. Around 1995 or so, I noticed my local USPS would just leave stuff at the door, and I complained, because I'd never seen that before. I said "Anybody walking by could just steal it?" I thought it was crazy then, and I think it's crazy now. In Japan? They leave a note. And this is in a country where I've seen people walk past MONEY on the street and not pick it up because it isn't theirs.

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” The sushi terrorist who licked things on the conveyor belt of the Japanese chain Sushiro for clout, making them stop doing the conveyer belt thing. (Tbf, he wasn’t the only one, but the one that comes to mind.)

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Sushi-maru in my area still does the conveyor belt, but one of my favorite places now is Hama-zushi. Not the BEST sushi, but it's cheap. They changed their conveyor system so that now, when I order sushi on the little table i-pad, the conveyor brings it right to my table. I do kind of miss the old days of just watching what floated past, but I'll admit, the conveyor is pretty fast, and it's better in a lot of ways.

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Whoever made it so we can't bring our dogs to the office anymore. F**K that guy.

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I don't think someone specifically caused dogs to be banned in the office, it's just common sense. Also some people are uncomfortable around dogs and / or allergic so it wouldn't be fair to the coworkers.

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” Pokémon cards at my school. Some Kid lost a battle and (as playground rules dictate) he had to hand over his losing card to the victor. However, this was a particularly rare card that had suffered a surprise loss when his opponent whipped out an even rarer and more powerful Pokémon to battle it. The kid never expected the defeat and had no intention of handing the card over; a fight broke out and teachers got involved. Being this was one of a multitude of Pokémon related fights breaking out at the time, the teachers (at the end of their tether) gave the boy a choice; hand over the card or Pokémon gets banned in the school…. And that’s why my school had no more Pokémon from that moment on.

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In the US, playing "for ante" (i.e. betting one card on the match outcome, in all its form) is considered illegal gambling. WOtC initially included ante plays as a rule in the game, quickly switching to making it optional because it was hated by most players. Then, they banned it altogether when the lawyers they could finally afford managed to hammer some sense into Richard Garfield: the rule was making the game fall into federal gambling rules so much that places running tournaments should have had to apply for a gambling license. Garfield in 1995 scrapped the rule, made all the cards using the "ante" effects illegal in all sanctioned play and changed some rules so they would be basically useless in friendly games.

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Kevin Spacey ruined Kevin Spacey movies for me.

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The name Lolita.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Such a good book tho. Scared the s**t outta me coz it was so well written

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” I used to love playing the video game God of War. My ex husband is a spitting image of Norse Kratos. Now I can’t play it without thinking about him. F**k you, Edgar. 

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The mf who put taxes on everything In the egyptian era they just took 20% of your crops as taxes and everything was without taxes Today you can't name a thing that isn't taxed.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And they want a piece of EVERY transaction. Like, I earn money, I pay income taxes on that money. I die. I want to leave that money to my children. I can't. The government needs its cut.

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My city first introduced LIME scooters. A 16 y/o drove the motorized scooter at 11 at night and was killed by a truck turning right.

The next day the city removed the scooters off the streets.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tried to find where it occurred (likely Elizabeth, N.J.) only to find out there is a ton of instances of similar accidents all around the world, most of them with the scooter at fault. It's just as if riding a small, fast vehicle without lights or high visibility devices, with no helmet or any other kind of physical protection, with barely any training, outside of specific lanes and zig-zaggin on busy streets, is dangerous. Go figure.

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” Coronavirus —> no more snow days.

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” Whatever slack-jaw f**kwit had their username set as "Han-Solo-Dies".

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He dies! Spoiler alert....Star Trek ruined forever! .....What?

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Montana's lack of a speed limit.

Back in the early 90s, there was no speed limit of some Montana highways. There was a law that you had to drive at a speed that is safe for the conditions. Well, a race car driver for pulled over for driving at speeds unsafe for the conditions. The ticket would have been under $100 but the driver spent thousands contesting the ticket, arguing that his speed was not unsafe because he was used to driving faster in races. After trials and appeals, the state added a speed limit.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Speed limits are good. Enforcing them is also good. Cars aren’t toys.

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Toronto Dominion bank used to have a free change counter. But some guy got upset that it miscounted his change and started a class action lawsuit. As part of the settlement the bank removed the machines and paid their customers restitution. I got a check for 8 cents.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have had the bank tell me I had to put my change in the paper rolls myself—-even if I came in with a huge jar of it (like those really tall container for pretzels or cheese puffs at Christmas—-which they would then break open to put the change in the counter. FFS.

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” I used to work at the YMCA teaching children from 3-11 swimming lessons.The amount of times the pool closed because someone s**t in it or puked and had to be rechlorinated….. guys just don’t use public pools.

It’s more sanitary to to get p**s drunk in a kiddie pool sitting in warm p**s water in your lawn then setting foot in a public pool.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is it true that in America some public baths add an invisible chemical that turns the water blue when peed in?

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I remember it like it was yesterday. It was 8th grade, the final period of the day. The bell was about to ring in less than 5 minutes, until I hear this kid behind me go “what happened to the weekend packet? Seeing the teachers face go “ohh you’re right!”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember this one kid would get up about 30 seconds before the bell rang to walk to the door ( by the time 30 sec hits, he’s at the door to leave, the teacher told him he can’t do that, he has to stay seated like everyone before the bell rang, he didn’t listen, so every time when he would do this we had to stay an xtra 30 seconds, instead of making him stay, the whole class has to

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Submarine tourism by Stockton Rush.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, no! Please send more billionaires down to the titanic. I will provide free submersibles made of duct tape and cardboard. Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have free invitations!

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40 Things That Were “Ruined For Everybody By One Person” Jared ruined the Subway diet.

I mean, the Subway diet was always a sham that was basically intermittent fasting mixed with anorexic tendencies, but he sure shattered the illusion.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jared did you all a favor. Subway has to be the nastiest sandwich shop around. Local sub shops are so much better.

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Irving Gould Ruined the whole computer gaming era. Back in the day Mac’s were for artists, PC for boring engineers, and Amiga was waaay ahead for gaming. Irving then mismanaged the whole commodore company that made the Amiga, and the whole home gaming was moved towards they way worse PCs. I’ve always imagined what gaming would have become if he didn’t ruin it for everyone.

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Beatles reunion ruined by Mark D. Chapman.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

to be fair, the beatles were ruined long before that by yoko and john being arseholes, especially john to his son. just cos he could sing, it doesn't forgive how s****y a person he was

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Bill Murray refused to do another Ghostbusters movie and was the single holdout among Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis, Dan Akroyd who together owned creative control of the project.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought it was the making of another Ghostbusters movie (namely GB2) that killed Ghostbusters, not the lack of one.

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I can't get ammonium nitrate anymore thanks to Mr. Timothy McVeigh.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i can, easily. probably helps that my family are farmers though. its when you buy diesel and amonium nitrate that it gets complicated

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The second Temple of Artemis. Way to go Herostratus...
 
Man burns down a temple for the sole reason that he would go down in history as the man who did this.



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Ephesian citizens order his name erased from every record. However somehow the name was preserved in a text written by a non-Ephesian, resulting in the guy's name being preserved longer than the names of the judges who passed down his sentence.

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That one guy who operated heavy machinery after taking prescription drugs has ruined it for the rest of us.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whoever said why do we think of forklifts and cranes instead of cars and vans is very right!

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Kombucha was ruined by Lindsey Lohan. At least it had to be altered and or labeled differently. She had an ankle monitor on and that’s how the powers that be discovered that kombucha has alcohol in it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

im pretty sure it would say on it has alcohol in it. otherwise someone would have sued them for getting dui

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Neil Armstrong. What's the point of going to the Moon if you can't be first?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No comments Be FIRST who writes "FIRST!" What's the point of commenting if you can't be first? I know you were being facetious, but geologically speaking, the Sea of Tranquility is, well, tranquil. There wasn't nearly as much to be learned there as the later landing sites. Plus, the later missions had more time on the moon. And can we say rover? Armstrong didn't get a hot rod.

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