An internet user wanted to know what films people thought ended up being more frightening than most horror movies out there. People’s answers ranged from being freaked out as a child to films that cover psychologically disturbing topics. So take notes for your next movie night and be sure to upvote your favorites as you scroll through and comment your thoughts below. 

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The first unintentionally scary film may have been created near the beginning of cinema itself. Some readers might already be familiar with the stories of “L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat”, or “The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat,” causing 18th-century moviegoers to run out of the cinema in a panic. The film showed a train, arriving at a station, with the camera positioned in such a way that makes it look like it will hit it. 

Despite being a great story, this is likely a myth. Firstly, this was a silent film, so it’s hard to believe that moviegoers would think a magically quiet train was fully real as it drove toward them. Similarly, why would an audience of real people suddenly forget that the world was not in black and white? Regardless, it does make for a compelling story about a film that managed to be unintentionally terrifying and only 50 seconds long at the same time. 

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Modern horror directors use a variety of “tricks” to make our brains believe we are in just as much distress as the characters on screen. The cheapest example is the use of high-frequency sounds played during the film. We don’t actually hear these, but prolonged exposure ends up putting us on edge and can even cause sleepless nights in the long run. So if you want to create a subtly hostile environment for your dinner guests, play something at 20–30 Hz.

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Noise has other uses, including loud, contrasting, and clashing sounds that make our brains strive for consonance. Like an interrupted melody, we feel discomfort until the noise or melody is resolved. Directors will then just keep us on edge until the end of a sequence or scene. While this might seem like literally cheap thrills, it’s quite common in the industry nowadays. 

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Some unsettling techniques are not just used in horror. Psychological discomfort is as present in the crime or drama genres as in any slasher film. Lighting and shadows play tricks on our brains, putting us on edge. Normally, we as the viewer have a better understanding of what is visible than the characters in the scene. But some directors obscure things for the audience as well, making us tense as we try to understand what is happening on screen while the characters do the same. 

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Despite most people not actually enjoying the adrenaline rush caused by horror films or scary scenes in general, people do have a fascination with unusual circumstances and darker themes. It’s important to note that fascination isn’t the same as enjoying something, as it’s more just our brain thinking that a situation contains valuable information that we need to acquire, even at the cost of sleepless nights, cold sweats, and a rapid heartbeat. 

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The Facebook group 'Minimalist Photography' is a perfect example of such a place. It embraces both classical minimalism and post-minimalism, or the so-called artistic (or conceptual) minimalism, and invites people to share their works.

"We look for uncluttered artistic images of quality and originality," the team running the group writes in its 'About' section.

Founded all the way back in March 2005, the community now unites 285K members. "We have evolved [our] rules over several years and they seem to work to keep the timeline focused on the artwork and the room a civil, respectful, and enlightening place."

Continue scrolling to check out our hand-picked collection of some of the group's most popular images.

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Image credits: Jose Marques Lopes

#2 I N S O M N I A

Image credits: Jayakumar MN

Minimalist photography grew out of the extreme abstract painting and sculpture of 20th-century artists. With simple geometric patterns, strong lines, or painted color fields, minimalists created work that didn't refer to anything in the real world but instead stood only for itself. Minimalist photographers adopted this focus on simplicity and limited compositional elements and then applied these principles to what they saw in the real world

To make your own minimalist images, you have to be confident that the scenes that appeal to you will also appeal to others. "It's about focusing the viewer’s eye on a singular object or subject and eliminating white noise," photographer Aleks Baharlo said. "I've learned over the years to trust my instinct and just go for it, but it's a fearful thing to make the one subject in the entire frame occupy less than five percent of the frame while everything else is white."

#3 Gray With Yellow

Image credits: Maciej Jurkiewicz

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#5 Landscapers Palette

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Because minimalist photography tends to be stark, the subject of every photo takes on even greater importance than in other styles of photography. Without other figures or compositional elements in the foreground or background, the subject has to grab the audience’s attention.

"The subject matter better be interesting, or a minimalistic photo becomes a simplistic photo,” Baharlo said. By isolating an interesting subject, you invite the audience to use their imagination and invent their own story. 

#6 First Post

Image credits: Fabien Durola

#7 Hunza Pakistan

Image credits: Malik Faizan Liaquat

#8 Rain Incoming

Image credits: Andreas Svensson

#9 Weathering The Storm

Image credits: Stefan Ribler

Without background noise, the elements in the frame and the angles at which you capture them become even more important.

To draw the viewer’s focus to your subject, compose your photo carefully in your viewfinder. Ask yourself if everything in the frame is essential.

Take an element away from the image and see how you like it. Does it feel more balanced? Does it feel like your attention is going where you want it to go? You can do this over and over again, moving the camera or changing your position until only the bare essentials remain.

#10 Queuing

Image credits: Szabó Gabriella

#11 After Light

Image credits: Ji Lu

#12 Figures In The Mist

Image credits: Mark Janes

#13 New Mexico, USA

Image credits: Larry Malam

Baharlo has no problem breaking the rule of thirds. "My photography is often a lot of contrasting lines: a horizontal horizon, vertical subject matter," he said.

"Either everything in the frame is vertical, everything in the frame is horizontal, or it’s a contrast of the two." Experiment with each photo to see what works best with each subject.

#14 Cyan & Red

Image credits: Ika Abuladze

#15 Different Ways

Image credits: Péter Gulyás

#16 Summer Perspective

Image credits: João Pedro Montez

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With a shallow depth of field, you can keep the viewer’s attention on the subject by blurring the background. "I use a shallower depth of field, so the subject matter is in focus and everything in the background is completely blurry," Baharlo said. You can achieve this by widening the aperture, which lets more light into the camera’s sensor, or you can increase the distance between the camera and the subject, and then zoom in on the subject. This will result in a blurrier background. If there are lights behind your subject, a shorter depth of field can create a bokeh effect, turning points of light into fuzzy circles. 

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Image credits: Keren Shimon

#19 Next Station

Image credits: AKittinan Googlegogi

#20 Blue On Blue. The Mediterranean

Image credits: Kath Holton

#21 The Edge

Image credits: Mario Draco

Widening the aperture isn’t the only way to increase the light that reaches the camera’s sensor. You can also slow down the shutter speed to create a higher exposure or a more light-filled photo. A higher exposure can turn a cloudy sky into a field of white. "Most of my photographs have a lot of negative space in white, which accentuates the gray or darkly colored subject matter," Baharlo said. He recommended bracketing, taking a picture at the proper exposure, then taking one at a much higher exposure and another at a much lower exposure. These variations give you more options when you edit the photo.

#22 Rondini

Image credits: Carlo Panzera

#23 Empty

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#24 My First Post

Image credits: Joanne Rebecca Kuras

#25 Misty Blue

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You can find minimalist shots virtually everywhere, but quieter settings tend to work best when you're shooting landscape photos. “It’s very difficult in an urban environment to take a lot of minimalistic photography, but desert, beach, or mountains tend to be more friendly to minimalistic photography,” Baharlo said.

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#27 Ligt Line

Image credits: Ayşegül Tolgay

#28 Perfect Storm

Image credits: Luana Valentich

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Still, you can find minimalist subject matter even if you live in a crowded city. Look for blue skies, blank walls, stretches of concrete, or grassy fields in parks. Keep your eyes open to everyday life.

In minimalist photography, color—or the lack of it—can add focus, stir up drama, or even evoke serenity. Bring your vision to life by experimenting with a range of different palettes. And if you get a shot that you like, share it with 'Minimalist Photography!'

#30 Sunrise Through A Leaf

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Our animal admirers here at Bored Panda have collected the funniest and most adorable animal memes shared by an Imgur account called “Obsessed With Animals”. As the owner of the page introduced herself, she is a girl from Denmark “who loves animals”. As do we!

So, without further ado, take a look at this chucklesome collection of our crazy friends. Don’t forget to upvote your favorite images and let us know your thoughts in the comments!

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We believe that all the animal lovers out there would agree that there’s nothing better than sharing life with our furry, feathered, or scaly companions. Especially when they bring so much laughter and cuteness into our world. From a guilty-looking dog to a moose caught on camera stealing popcorn, they surely enrich our routines.

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While these memes are surely entertaining, it is crucial to recognize that the purpose of animals extends beyond mere amusement. They do not exist for our entertainment but to coexist harmoniously with us.

According to National Geographic, it’s possible that species extinction is occurring at a rate a thousand times faster because of humans. “Extinction happens when environmental factors or evolutionary problems cause a species to die out. The disappearance of species from Earth is ongoing, and rates have varied over time.” The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species estimated that more than 42,100 species are threatened with extinction. That is 28% of all assessed species. This alarming reality forces us to reflect upon our actions and their consequences for animals and nature.

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According to Endangered Species Coalition, there are ways to help protect endangered species and their habitats. One of the most obvious steps is to stop litter, recycle and buy sustainable products. It is also important to be vocal about threatened and endangered species and ask for the implementation of protection measures. Let’s not forget that without them, there would be no us. You can read more about ways to help protect endangered species here.

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On a lighter note, there are still many conservation success stories to be celebrated. Over the last century, thanks to various committed organizations and communities, we have saved many animals and plants from extinction. Among others, the population of peregrine falcons, sea otters, blue whales, and Siberian tigers has slowly increased! You can learn more about that here.

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We hope these memes have brightened up your day a little bit. We are curious to know which image has made you chuckle the most. Let us know in the comments! For similar content, check out our other posts by clicking here and here.

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As u/abysmalrotoscoping shared with the ‘Entitled Parents‘ community, she hired a local husband-and-wife tag team to look after her house temporarily. To her surprise, the couple decided to bring their children along for the job. Initially, she didn’t think it was a major issue. However, what truly astounded her was the havoc the kids unleashed and their parents’ relaxed approach towards the resulting chaos. We get a sense there won’t be a second meeting after this.

When ordering services online, it’s important to go through everything thoroughly if you don’t want any surprises

Image credits: Tima Miroshnichenko (not the actual photo)

A woman shared how her house was turned upside down after potential cleaners paid her home a visit and brought all their kids along

Image credits: LightFieldStudios (not the actual photo)

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Unruly children or not, people are very supportive of small businesses in America

Image credits: Andrea Piacquadio (not the actual photo)

It goes without saying that small businesses are the beating heart of our economy. According to the University Of Minnesota, they generate about half of America’s GDP and even saw a boom after the pandemic. And while there’s no shortage of them shutting their operation each year – a natural part of the economy, Gene Marks, the author of ‘The Small Business Desk Reference,’ argues – it mostly comes down to luck and how people conduct their businesses.

Seeing how the pair presented themselves to the story’s author, then, it’s not really a surprise that 87% of consumers read online reviews for local businesses, according to Bright Local. Sure, supporting local businesses enhances community well-being and keeps the dollar where it should belong (in the community) – something that was particularly prevalent during the pandemic years, when one-third of small businesses in the US had no other choice but to close down. But if you bring your unruly kids to a business transaction, what else can you expect?

Perhaps these parents are afraid that they’re not spending enough time with their little ones and so they try to juggle both at the same time? Well, the good news is that a recent study has found that it doesn’t matter how much time parents spend with their kids and has “virtually no relationship to how children turn out.”

Of course, there’s a fine line between conducting your business and choosing to let your kids be part of it

Image credits: Tima Miroshnichenko (not the actual photo)

The same report, then, also sheds some light on the negative effects of spending time with stressed parents on children. Guilty, anxiety-ridden parents grappling with the delicate balance of work and childcare have been found to be associated with undesirable outcomes, including diminished math scores and behavioral issues. However, intriguingly, the study’s authors suggest that the quantity of time spent with parents holds little significance, except during the tumultuous teenage years, when an engaged mother or father can potentially reduce the temptation for unlawful behavior.

Then, is a child’s behavior always a reflection of its folks? We can understand why a parent who “doesn’t bat an eyelash” upon witnessing their children’s carnage can create a worrying impression of them in front of other adults, more so when they are your potential customers. As Peggy Drexler, the author of ‘Our Fathers, Ourselves: Daughters, Fathers, and the Changing American Family,’ argues in her article: “When they’re acting out in the supermarket or throwing a fit on the playground or being cruel to other kids, we worry what everyone around us is thinking, fearing the worst: What sort of mother is she? Can’t she control him? Even if, of course, we didn’t teach him to behave in such a way.”

But here’s the thing: many parents can’t help but feel like their parenting methods are constantly under scrutiny. Surprisingly, a whopping 9 out of 10 non-parents in America openly admit to passing judgment on others based on how their children behave. While it may be somewhat understandable, considering those without kids might struggle to grasp the challenges of keeping little ones in line, it actually speaks more to parents’ ability to stay organized rather than their parenting choices. After all, it says more about parents’ organization skills, rather than their parenting decisions, if they choose to conduct a business meeting with their kids roaming free and uncontrolled in a stranger’s home.

The homeowner filled in people with more info about the chaotic visit

People were no less disturbed about the situation and offered the author some useful suggestions

The post "This Was Bizarre And Horrible'': House Owner Shares How 15 Minutes With Their Housekeepers' Kids Made Her Cancel On Them first appeared on Bored Panda.

An internet user wanted to know what films people thought ended up being more frightening than most horror movies out there. People’s answers ranged from being freaked out as a child to films that cover psychologically disturbing topics. So take notes for your next movie night and be sure to upvote your favorites as you scroll through and comment your thoughts below. 

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Image credits: SpiritualSock9

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Image credits: Lachimanus

The first unintentionally scary film may have been created near the beginning of cinema itself. Some readers might already be familiar with the stories of “L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat”, or “The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat,” causing 18th-century moviegoers to run out of the cinema in a panic. The film showed a train, arriving at a station, with the camera positioned in such a way that makes it look like it will hit it. 

Despite being a great story, this is likely a myth. Firstly, this was a silent film, so it’s hard to believe that moviegoers would think a magically quiet train was fully real as it drove toward them. Similarly, why would an audience of real people suddenly forget that the world was not in black and white? Regardless, it does make for a compelling story about a film that managed to be unintentionally terrifying and only 50 seconds long at the same time. 

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Image credits: Daniele_Bellini

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Image credits: PM_Me_UrRightNipple

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Image credits: Goose_Politician

Modern horror directors use a variety of “tricks” to make our brains believe we are in just as much distress as the characters on screen. The cheapest example is the use of high-frequency sounds played during the film. We don’t actually hear these, but prolonged exposure ends up putting us on edge and can even cause sleepless nights in the long run. So if you want to create a subtly hostile environment for your dinner guests, play something at 20–30 Hz.

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Noise has other uses, including loud, contrasting, and clashing sounds that make our brains strive for consonance. Like an interrupted melody, we feel discomfort until the noise or melody is resolved. Directors will then just keep us on edge until the end of a sequence or scene. While this might seem like literally cheap thrills, it’s quite common in the industry nowadays. 

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Image credits: Cream_Gingerly

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Image credits: Conells

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Image credits: Ol_Man_Rambles

Some unsettling techniques are not just used in horror. Psychological discomfort is as present in the crime or drama genres as in any slasher film. Lighting and shadows play tricks on our brains, putting us on edge. Normally, we as the viewer have a better understanding of what is visible than the characters in the scene. But some directors obscure things for the audience as well, making us tense as we try to understand what is happening on screen while the characters do the same. 

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Despite most people not actually enjoying the adrenaline rush caused by horror films or scary scenes in general, people do have a fascination with unusual circumstances and darker themes. It’s important to note that fascination isn’t the same as enjoying something, as it’s more just our brain thinking that a situation contains valuable information that we need to acquire, even at the cost of sleepless nights, cold sweats, and a rapid heartbeat. 

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The Facebook group 'Minimalist Photography' is a perfect example of such a place. It embraces both classical minimalism and post-minimalism, or the so-called artistic (or conceptual) minimalism, and invites people to share their works.

"We look for uncluttered artistic images of quality and originality," the team running the group writes in its 'About' section.

Founded all the way back in March 2005, the community now unites 285K members. "We have evolved [our] rules over several years and they seem to work to keep the timeline focused on the artwork and the room a civil, respectful, and enlightening place."

Continue scrolling to check out our hand-picked collection of some of the group's most popular images.

#1

Image credits: Jose Marques Lopes

#2 I N S O M N I A

Image credits: Jayakumar MN

#3 Gray With Yellow

Image credits: Maciej Jurkiewicz

#4 First Post

Image credits: Fabien Durola

#5 Rain Incoming

Image credits: Andreas Svensson

#6 Landscapers Palette

Image credits: Christopher Pearce

#7 Queuing

Image credits: Szabó Gabriella

#8 Weathering The Storm

Image credits: Stefan Ribler

#9

Image credits: Aleksander Jasiński

#10 Figures In The Mist

Image credits: Mark Janes

#11 After Light

Image credits: Ji Lu

#12 Different Ways

Image credits: Péter Gulyás

#13 Summer Perspective

Image credits: João Pedro Montez

#14 Blue On Blue. The Mediterranean

Image credits: Kath Holton

#15 Hunza Pakistan

Image credits: Malik Faizan Liaquat

#16 New Mexico, USA

Image credits: Larry Malam

#17 Cyan & Red

Image credits: Ika Abuladze

#18 Next Station

Image credits: AKittinan Googlegogi

#19

Image credits: UneMaman DeConfort

#20 Empty

Image credits: Christopher Baldwin

#21 My First Post

Image credits: Joanne Rebecca Kuras

#22 The Edge

Image credits: Mario Draco

#23 Ligt Line

Image credits: Ayşegül Tolgay

#24 *

Image credits: Keren Shimon

#25 Daylilly Droplets

Image credits: Elisabeth Brecher

#26 Rondini

Image credits: Carlo Panzera

#27 Misty Blue

Image credits: Pete Chapman

#28

Image credits: Eduardo Carvajal González

#29 Feather

Image credits: Marta Silwanowicz

#30 Simple And Beautiful

Image credits: Xinyi Chen

#31 Perfect Storm

Image credits: Luana Valentich

#32 Santa Cruz. Oran, Algeria

Image credits: D-Braham Khir-Eddine

#33 Cc Welcome

Image credits: Steve Swanvdm

#34 Shadows…

Image credits: Jose Fuentes-Colon

#35 Old Dock

Image credits: Gianluca Parsi Fotografia

#36 Sunrise Through A Leaf

Image credits: Beatrix Csinger

#37 Magic Touch

Image credits: EA Engana

#38 1st Post Here

Image credits: Ferenczi József

#39 Only One Cosmic Thing

Image credits: Robert Petersen

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Image credits: Jose Marques Lopes

#41 Under The Eiffel Tower, Paris France

Image credits: Eric Wallart

#42 But At Least Tried

Image credits: Darius Logminas

#43 Sunset

Image credits: Kasia Bochniak

#44 Alentejo - Portugal

Image credits: Jorge Humberto Catalao Rolhas

#45 Architecture In Amsterdam

Image credits: Hennie Mosselveld

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Image credits: Βαγγέλης Γιωτάκης

#47 Minimalist Portrait

Image credits: Chloe Cormack

#48 Heron Reflects

Image credits: Eljay Gary

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Image credits: Michael Hassler

#50 Together

Image credits: Oanh Kim Phạm

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#52 Morning Coffee

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#53 Hope This Qualifies

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#54 Taken From The Plane

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#56 Stairway To Heaven!

Image credits: Louise Tessier

#57 Floating

Image credits: Jp Time

#58 Squaring The Circle(S)

Image credits: Guylène Mortier Deasy

#59 Colors, Lines And Shapes

Image credits: Francisco Alface

#60 Tree In A Field

Image credits: James L. Neihouse

#61 Just A Tree!

Image credits: Adrian Edmundson

#62 Grand Egyptian Museum’s Minimal Architecture

Image credits: Jaida Mostafa

#63 Touch And Go

Image credits: Michele Ligustri

#64 Standing Tall

Image credits: Alison Carr

#65 Blue And White

Image credits: Francesco Farruggia

#66 Sahara

Image credits: Hiram M. Angueira

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#68 Snowstorm

Image credits: Petr Horník

#69 Oaxaca, México

Image credits: Pedro Alarcón

#70 Qualcuno Emerge Sempre

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#71 Solitude

Image credits: James L. Neihouse

#72 Stop And Reflect

Image credits: Barret Kaltz

#73 Untitled

Image credits: Giorgos Kohilas

#74 Intense Sunlight

Image credits: Holly Pawlowski

#75 Declined Again?

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#76 Self Portrait

Image credits: Lau A.

#77 Eclipse

Image credits: Agnieszka Wysocka

#78 Water Grass

Image credits: Rene D. Dion

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#83 Black & White

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#84 Boat Alone On Sunrise

Image credits: Sandro Pavan

#85 Lotus

Image credits: Kevin Dohmen

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#87 Shibuya Crossing Tokyo

Image credits: Salvatore Rella

#88 The Gates Of Delirium

Image credits: Tomasz Topczewski

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#90 Rainbow Alley

Image credits: Marianne Celis

#91 Grass In The Water

Image credits: Samir Rešić

#92 Storm Is Comming

Image credits: Michał Górnisiewicz

#93 It's Complicated

Image credits: Janusz Maniak fotografia

#94 Rain Incoming

Image credits: Andreas Svensson

#95 Serenity

Image credits: Jancsi Farkas

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#97 "Inside Out" - Versailles

Image credits: Erika Moreno

#98 L'arbre Est Plus Gros Que Vous Le Pensez

Image credits: Maksyme LeBassiste

#99 Eclipse

Image credits: Agnieszka Wysocka

#100 Knocking On Heavens Door

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A bride-to-be caused quite a stir when she told her fiancé that she didn’t want his elderly, 98-year-old grandmother to attend their wedding. She believed that the reception would be too much of a party for her to enjoy. Both commenters and the groom both thought the request was entitled, selfish, and downright mean.

While there is no set standard for a wedding, having family there is pretty standard

Image credits: Álvaro CvG (not the actual photo)

So one bride-to-be caused some drama when she revealed to her fiancé that she didn’t want his grandmother to attend

Image credits: Danie Franco (not the actual photo)

Image source: Legitimate_Scar_8747

Wedding planning is a pressure test for each couple

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While all the rituals, symbolism and other features might make it seem like weddings are an outdated relic of the past, this story goes to prove that it does function as a great test of a couple’s ability to manage expectations, organization and compromise. As un-romantic as it sounds, compromise is key to any functioning relationship. This is just as true for conflict management, even if the conflict isn’t a hostile shouting match. The “happy” couple needs to decide what hills they are willing to die on and if this is one of them, better for the relationship to end not, not four, wasted years later. Studies have shown that the higher the expectations for the wedding itself, whether the ceremony or the partying, as OP indicated, the more likely the marriage will fail.

It’s not that a big wedding will magically make the couple fall out, rather, often a big wedding is used to mask some potential doubts about the union. This isn’t to say that a fairytale wedding is bad, but as costs continue to rise, it does become something of a sticking point unless you are fabulously rich. For example, in the US, the home of doing things big, the average wedding might end up costing just shy of forty thousand dollars. Across the entire nation, over $72 billion dollars are spent just on ceremonies alone each year, a number that has likely grown due to cost of living increases. Any successful marriage needs to be able to balance finances, no matter who is the breadwinner. So planning and organizing a wedding is a vital test to see if the relationship will have legs or is destined to burn out pretty quickly.

Honest communication and compromise are necessary for any healthy relationship

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Some readers might see OP as entitled, but to assess her side, there are some psychological factors that could be clouding her judgment. While we do not know the precise details, the bride is often enough putting in the majority of wedding planning labor, creating undue stress. As a result, she might feel that she should get a bit more of a say in how the entire event will actually go. When we are under stress, we tend to underestimate the pressure our partners are under, which is a recipe for relationship disaster if people don’t communicate honestly and empathetically. While OP’s request was missguided and possibly entitled, it is possible that she just was not in the right headspace to consider the position carefully. To err is human after all.

While we do not (yet) have a follow-up to this tale, it’s pretty clear that the bride needs to understand where her fiancé is coming from. Sometimes, your in-laws are truly terrible people, but in this case she simply wants to party. Instead of something drastic, like banning a literal family member, she instead should have considered some other options, like finding someone who would be willing to keep her company while the younger people party. Or to have an after-party for those who want to drink and dance, as some people see the reception as a time for some long-winded toasts and free food. It’s unknown how the discussion actually went down in the end, but hopefully the couple resolved this question and found a way to include grandma.

Commenters almost universally thought she was absolutely out of line and most definitely being a jerk

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But instead of trying to support the woman, her manager decided to contribute to her unbearable pain.

Upon her return to the office, she learned that the low-life went around collecting donations from everyone and then pocketed the money and left the company.

“Who steals from a deceased child?” the mom asked in her post on r/antiwork, where she explained what happened.

After this woman lost her daughter, her coworkers put together a grievance fund

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But her manager took all the money and quit

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It’s hard to know for certain the exact reason behind the manager’s behavior, but according to lawyer Vince Scopelliti, who holds degrees in law and psychology and has more than 27 years of experience working within and managing investigations, some of the most common motivations for commiting fraud are:

• Financial pressure. A person might commit fraud due to their own money problems. This can be a result of unfortunate circumstances, such as in the case of a relationship breakdown, or more strongly self-inflicted, from living a lavish lifestyle beyond their means or getting into serious gambling debt.
• Peer pressure. A person might be pressured to collaborate in a fraud at work, and go along with it to be accepted in the ‘in group’ or to avoid harassment.
• Personality traits. Certain personality types may be more inclined towards committing fraud – such as opportunists, narcissists, or people who like to lord it over or manipulate other people, and who enjoy the challenge of beating the system and fooling others.
• Disgruntlement. In some cases, resentment can be involved – such as where an employee feels overlooked for a promotion or pay increase they feel they deserved, or where they feel victimised or treated unfairly (whether real or imagined).

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Scopelliti said rationalization can also play a part, with a perpetrator justifying their actions to alleviate guilt, telling themselves things like “I deserve it.”

As her story went viral, the mom provided more information on the situation

We can’t blame the Redditor’s coworkers for not seeing this coming, either. There’s a popular stereotype, saying that older people with reduced cognitive abilities are the most likely to be scammed. But according to research published by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), many other people are vulnerable, too.

In fact, according to their data, self-confidence is one factor that causes people to fall for scams. People of any age who believe they are too smart or well-informed to be tricked are very likely to become victims.

Many schemes depend on a psychological technique that’s now called social engineering. People make bad decisions when an emotion becomes so strong that the higher-level thinking parts of the brain essentially shut down. Strong feelings, such as fear or anger can cause people to make choices they wouldn’t make at other times.

Only in this particular case, the con artist didn’t need to invent a scenario, they just played on people’s existing emotions.

And people shared advice on how she should proceed

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As u/abysmalrotoscoping shared with the ‘Entitled Parents‘ community, she hired a local husband-and-wife tag team to look after her house temporarily. To her surprise, the couple decided to bring their children along for the job. Initially, she didn’t think it was a major issue. However, what truly astounded her was the havoc the kids unleashed and their parents’ relaxed approach towards the resulting chaos. We get a sense there won’t be a second meeting after this.

When ordering services online, it’s important to go through everything thoroughly if you don’t want any surprises

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A woman shared how her house was turned upside down after potential cleaners paid her home a visit and brought all their kids along

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Unruly children or not, people are very supportive of small businesses in America

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It goes without saying that small businesses are the beating heart of our economy. According to the University Of Minnesota, they generate about half of America’s GDP and even saw a boom after the pandemic. And while there’s no shortage of them shutting their operation each year – a natural part of the economy, Gene Marks, the author of ‘The Small Business Desk Reference,’ argues – it mostly comes down to luck and how people conduct their businesses.

Seeing how the pair presented themselves to the story’s author, then, it’s not really a surprise that 87% of consumers read online reviews for local businesses, according to Bright Local. Sure, supporting local businesses enhances community well-being and keeps the dollar where it should belong (in the community) – something that was particularly prevalent during the pandemic years, when one-third of small businesses in the US had no other choice but to close down. But if you bring your unruly kids to a business transaction, what else can you expect?

Perhaps these parents are afraid that they’re not spending enough time with their little ones and so they try to juggle both at the same time? Well, the good news is that a recent study has found that it doesn’t matter how much time parents spend with their kids and has “virtually no relationship to how children turn out.”

Of course, there’s a fine line between conducting your business and choosing to let your kids be part of it

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The same report, then, also sheds some light on the negative effects of spending time with stressed parents on children. Guilty, anxiety-ridden parents grappling with the delicate balance of work and childcare have been found to be associated with undesirable outcomes, including diminished math scores and behavioral issues. However, intriguingly, the study’s authors suggest that the quantity of time spent with parents holds little significance, except during the tumultuous teenage years, when an engaged mother or father can potentially reduce the temptation for unlawful behavior.

Then, is a child’s behavior always a reflection of its folks? We can understand why a parent who “doesn’t bat an eyelash” upon witnessing their children’s carnage can create a worrying impression of them in front of other adults, more so when they are your potential customers. As Peggy Drexler, the author of ‘Our Fathers, Ourselves: Daughters, Fathers, and the Changing American Family,’ argues in her article: “When they’re acting out in the supermarket or throwing a fit on the playground or being cruel to other kids, we worry what everyone around us is thinking, fearing the worst: What sort of mother is she? Can’t she control him? Even if, of course, we didn’t teach him to behave in such a way.”

But here’s the thing: many parents can’t help but feel like their parenting methods are constantly under scrutiny. Surprisingly, a whopping 9 out of 10 non-parents in America openly admit to passing judgment on others based on how their children behave. While it may be somewhat understandable, considering those without kids might struggle to grasp the challenges of keeping little ones in line, it actually speaks more to parents’ ability to stay organized rather than their parenting choices. After all, it says more about parents’ organization skills, rather than their parenting decisions, if they choose to conduct a business meeting with their kids roaming free and uncontrolled in a stranger’s home.

The homeowner filled in people with more info about the chaotic visit

People were no less disturbed about the situation and offered the author some useful suggestions

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We have gathered some of the best Twitter posts that sum up all that shopping at Costco entails. Whether it’s losing track of time or buying things in quantities you never expected to, you might find them quite amusing yet painfully accurate. Scroll down to find the Tweets on the list below and see if you can relate to any of them.

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The history of Costco, or Costco Wholesale Corporation in full, can be traced back to 1976. That’s when, under the name of Price Club, the first store was opened in a converted airplane hangar located on Morena Boulevard in San Diego. Originally, it only served small businesses; however, the company soon realized it made sense to serve a certain number of non-business members as well.

By 1983, the first Costco warehouse was up and running in Seattle and in ten years time, Costco and Price Club merged to become Price/Costco that was in charge of 206 stores generating $16 billion in annual sales.

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A large number of situations in these Tweets are likely familiar to anyone who has ever stepped foot into a Costco. The huge maze of aisles filled with piles of all sorts of products provides a spectacular shopping experience for someone who enjoys buying in bulk.

However, in order to be allowed to go crazy at such a store, one has to become a Costco member for a certain yearly fee. According to Zippia’s 2023 data, over 68 million households globally own such a membership, adding up to roughly 123 million people in total.

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Investopedia revealed that membership dues comprise the majority of Costco’s profits. The clients are interested in taking full advantage of their memberships, costing them $60 or $120 dollars per year (Gold Star and Executive memberships respectively), which leads to high retention rates and nearly no money spent on advertising.

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Investopedia pointed out that traditional advertising that encourages customers to return to the store doesn’t make sense for Costco, as memberships bought once a year bring most of the profit rather than people coming back to shop repeatedly. Moreover, having invested in the membership, customers are inclined to come back themselves.

Saving on advertising is likely one of the reasons Costco can pay its employees a rather competitive hourly wage, which, according to Investopedia, leads to a highly motivated workforce. The latter in turn provides a good shopping experience for the customer, who is then more likely to renew their membership.

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Author and behavior change strategist, Jennifer Clinehens, uncovered Costco’s surprising psychological strategies that allow the company to reach rather impressive numbers in the industry, despite their seemingly counterintuitive business model (it makes its customers pay for the opportunity to shop, the store itself doesn’t present much decor wise, and quite a lot of products are sold in absurdly large quantities—a point that has been made in quite a few of these amusing Tweets).

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Jennifer Clinehens believes there are five strategies at play when it comes to Costco’s success: scarcity, ‘Sunk Cost Fallacy”, reciprocity, ‘Peak-end Rule’, and salience. The author refers to the first one as the psychological principle that powers the store. According to her, Costco memberships create a feeling of scarcity and a fear of missing out, which leads to people wanting to be included in the group that receives special treatment, or special offers in this case.

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Second on Clinehens’s list, the principle of ‘Sunk Cost Fallacy’ describes the phenomenon of people tending to stick with something they’ve already invested time and money in—an annual membership, for instance. The third strategy relates to the abundance of free sample booths—another feature lots of Twitter users seem to enjoy—scattered all over the store. Known as reciprocity, it is a persuasion technique based on the social norm of responding to positive actions with positive actions.

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Another one of Costco’s approaches, according to the behavior change strategist, is known as the ‘Peak-end Rule’. It suggests that people judge an entire experience on two main points—the emotional peak and its end, rather than the average of the overall experience. This strategy works well for Costco due to its excellent customer service and a returns policy that is favorable to the client. Wanting to return a faulty device, for instance, can be a common endpoint to some consumers, which is why it’s important to handle it in the right way.

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The last point mentioned by Jennifer Clinehens is salience, which describes how prominent or emotionally striking something is. It applies to the “treasure hunt” Costco’s customers have to embark on after something they buy regularly is relocated in the store. That way, they have to walk around trying to find the product, which might make them notice something else that stands out and maybe even buy it.

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A 2022 survey revealed that as much as 75% consumers buy certain products in bulk. The most common categories of goods typically bought in large quantities include paper products (55%), household cleaning products (35%), shelf stables (26%), and personal care items (22%).

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Our animal admirers here at Bored Panda have collected the funniest and most adorable animal memes shared by an Imgur account called “Obsessed With Animals”. As the owner of the page introduced herself, she is a girl from Denmark “who loves animals”. As do we!

So, without further ado, take a look at this chucklesome collection of our crazy friends. Don’t forget to upvote your favorite images and let us know your thoughts in the comments!

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We believe that all the animal lovers out there would agree that there’s nothing better than sharing life with our furry, feathered, or scaly companions. Especially when they bring so much laughter and cuteness into our world. From a guilty-looking dog to a moose caught on camera stealing popcorn, they surely enrich our routines.

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While these memes are surely entertaining, it is crucial to recognize that the purpose of animals extends beyond mere amusement. They do not exist for our entertainment but to coexist harmoniously with us.

According to National Geographic, it’s possible that species extinction is occurring at a rate a thousand times faster because of humans. “Extinction happens when environmental factors or evolutionary problems cause a species to die out. The disappearance of species from Earth is ongoing, and rates have varied over time.” The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species estimated that more than 42,100 species are threatened with extinction. That is 28% of all assessed species. This alarming reality forces us to reflect upon our actions and their consequences for animals and nature.

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According to Endangered Species Coalition, there are ways to help protect endangered species and their habitats. One of the most obvious steps is to stop litter, recycle and buy sustainable products. It is also important to be vocal about threatened and endangered species and ask for the implementation of protection measures. Let’s not forget that without them, there would be no us. You can read more about ways to help protect endangered species here.

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On a lighter note, there are still many conservation success stories to be celebrated. Over the last century, thanks to various committed organizations and communities, we have saved many animals and plants from extinction. Among others, the population of peregrine falcons, sea otters, blue whales, and Siberian tigers has slowly increased! You can learn more about that here.

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We hope these memes have brightened up your day a little bit. We are curious to know which image has made you chuckle the most. Let us know in the comments! For similar content, check out our other posts by clicking here and here.

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An ex-Subway worker shared his anger at being terminated for speaking poorly about his manager to a coworker in a TikTok that went viral. This was the result of a buildup of grievances after his cat got seriously ill and he requested time off to take care of it. As usual with power-tripping managers, nothing was as easy as it should have been.
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Managers often spend too much time thinking about working hours and forget that employees have lives as well

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“Guess who got fired from Subway”

Listen to this s**t. It’s crazy, y’all won’t believe it. My cat Garfield, you guys know he’s sick, he got diagnosed with AIDS about a month ago, so it’s very very unfortunate, but he’s still trying to pull through, still trying to make the best life that he can.

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It all started a month and a half ago. I called off one of my shifts. I called off a couple days in advance. It’s cool, right? I got my shift covered. No problem, at all. Two weeks later go by, I go into work, Emily calls me around 10 o’clock saying “Garfield is very sick. He looks like he’s not doing good whatsoever. He can’t even get up. He can’t walk.” I’m at work, I’m like, “Oh s**t,” so I’m trying to find coverage.

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I asked my manager if I can leave early. I didn’t find coverage, but she allowed me to leave early. But get this – before I walked out and left early, she looked at me and said “Just like Austin said though, this is the second time you’ve called off in two weeks over a cat.” Keep that in mind. Okay. I blew it off my shoulder, Garfield’s more important than arguing over a dumb b****.

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So fast forward all the way to two days ago. I go into work again. Same thing. Emily calls me around 9, 10 o’clock in the morning, saying “Babe, Garfield is tremoring, he’s actually shaking. He’s doing way worse than before.” He won’t move, every time she touches him he’s screaming in agony, he’s in so much pain. I start crying, I start getting freaked out at work and I call the vet instantly and say “Hey, I’m trying to leave work early, I’m gonna get him in ASAP.” They said “Yeah, bring him in. But by the sound of it, don’t get your hopes up. He might not make it.” That’s what the vet said. You do not understand the amount of stress that put on me as soon as I heard that.

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So I’m kind of freaking out a little bit and I’m trying to call off of work. I message the huge Subway group chat around our district that has everybody in the group chat, people that’s not even at my location. Like, people are in it from out-of-town locations. So I’m like, “Something very urgent has came up. Can somebody please come in from now until four and cover the rest of my shift? I would greatly appreciate it.” Tell me why my manager messages me personally and says “I should have been your first notification.” I said, “No,” but this is what her little “rule” is. When you call off, you gotta find coverage and then let your management know after. After! This is what I messaged word for word.

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She replied back with “Ok” – had nothing else to say. I’m pi**ed. When she sent me that message, we’re going back and forth. I’m ranting to her little f**king puppy dog. I didn’t know that she was telling her everything in the book. Get it – I’m ranting with her, so me and this girl that I’m working with at the moment are cool. Like, she even asked me, “You aren’t mad at me, right Pres?” and I’m like “No, you haven’t done anything wrong to me.”

So I’m ranting with her about what my manager just texted me, I’m pi**ed, so in the middle of ranting I said a few slurs but it was nothing like intent— I was just mad. And I kind of slammed the proofer door shut because I was putting bread into the proofer. I got little upset because everything is making me emotional right now. So I slammed the proofer door shut.

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30 minutes later, my manager comes storming in the door. First thing she says to me: “Clock out. Leave, now.” She’s pi**ed. I’m making a sandwich, she looks over at my employee and says, “You finish that sandwich right now, he’s clocking out.” Little did I know, the employee that I was working with had just called her and said that I’m scaring her, to get here because she’s terrified. Guess me slamming the door and cussing was scaring her. I was just ranting to her. I say “f**k that.” I didn’t even say deuces or nothing. I walked right out the door. You want me to go, I’m gonna go. A cat is more important.

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Fast forward, I take Garfield to the vet, then I go into work yesterday, which was the next day after I just had the whole ordeal. As soon as I pulled into the parking lot I see nothing but trouble. All the big boss’s vehicles are there, my manager’s vehicle, the employees – I knew it was bad. Unfortunately. I walk in to go straight to the back and clock in, and then I hear “Preston.”

I’m like, “Oh f**k.” So I turned around and they’re both sitting right there in the booth. He points at the seat in front of him, right next to Austin, and says “Take a seat,” and then he asks, “How are you doing?” And I was like “I’m doing, I’m doing, bro.” And get this – it’s just the two district managers at that booth.

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My manager, my store manager, is hiding in the back avoiding everything. He proceeds to ask, “What happened yesterday?” I said “I have nothing to say, bro. Everybody around here is a hypocrite.” Word for word. That’s all I had to say. They asked why I was yelling slurs and slamming stuff yesterday, I said “What do you mean? I wasn’t just yelling slurs, I was ranting, and I didn’t just slam things around. I just slammed the proofer door shut once.”

So then he tells me “That’s why your manager came in yesterday, because your employee was scared of you yelling and slamming [stuff].” That’s how I figured out why my manager came in. She didn’t come in to cover me, she came in because my other employee felt “threatened.” Yeah, makes sense to feel threatened by me. This was my reaction to it: “Are you serious? She felt threatened? Okay, okay.” Anyways, I was letting them know how stressful it’s been and how nobody understands and Austin was like “We understand.” I look at him – I was like “You did not just say that. You’re the last person that should say that, bro.”

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And remember Austin’s sitting next to me. I’m talking same booth, shoulder to shoulder. I asked him “Just like Katie said, ‘just like Austin said, it’s just a cat.’ What the f**k does that mean, bro?”

He looked back at me and said, word for word, “Preston, I totally understand that you’re upset right now.” That right there? That proved to me and it pi**ed me off. After that, I just cut to the chase, looked at both of them and said “So what’s the word, bro? Am I fired? What am I doing here?” He said, “Yeah, we’re gonna have to terminate you.”

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I was like “Yeah, screw that.” I went to get up and walk out, no question about it. They were like, “Whoa, wait, we need your key.” Oh my god. I was struggling to get it off my keychain. So I walk to the very back behind the counter, where we make sandwiches. I grabbed a knife, and I bet they were like, “What the f**k is he doing?” I got it pried off and walk up to the table, sat it down, slid it towards them, walked out, no question about it.

They were like “Wait, wait, wait, Preston! Come here, man! Come here, man! Come here, man!” They had the audacity to tell me “Wendy’s next door, their management is hiring.” I said “No. F**k that. I don’t even want that.” They were like “You don’t want it?” They were like, “Alright man. Well, we wish you the best of luck. Have a good day. Take care.” I was like, “Yep, have a good one.” And I just walked out, that was it.

You can watch the full video here

@prestonwalker__ I Got Fired From Subway OVER THIS?! What an ABSOLUTE JOKE of a job! #prestontalks #subwaypreston ♬ original sound – Preston Walker

Fast-food management is notorious for its mistreatment of employees

As many of the comments showed, fast food is rife with managers who act like they are running a warship at sea, not a smallish restaurant for cheap eats. Most fast-food restaurants are franchises, which come with their own set of difficulties for management, and unfortunately, it’s the employees who take the brunt of the “damage.” First and foremost, these leaders are appointed by owners who mostly just see the restaurant through the lens of cash flow. The only metric is “Are we making enough money?” Managers are chosen almost exclusively by this criteria, so it’s not too surprising that they would disregard employee feelings so easily.

Unfortunately, the fast-food industry has a stigma of being a place for entry-level workers, high-schoolers getting some pocket cash, or people without skills. This has not been true for a long time, but this image is still likely what many owners have in mind. So employee retention is pretty low on the list of priorities. The (predictable) result has been the “great resignation,” where thousands of workers have quit their jobs due to satisfactory conditions, treatment, or a slew of other issues. Management, typically, has not caught up to this problem, and stores all over are suddenly hit with labor shortages. This puts pressure on the remaining workers, who are then more likely to quit instead of doing more labor for the same wage.

In the long run, OP might get the last laugh

This is little comfort for OP who lost his job in a trying time, but in the long run, he will probably be vindicated. Employee morale at his old store is not likely to be high, after all his ex-coworkers see that time off for a sick, beloved pet is nonexistent and that one can be fired just for venting. It would not be surprising if this particular Subway continues to bleed workers, putting more and more pressure on the existing employee, until it finally falls apart and the power-tripping manager is left to explain why his or her store now makes no money to an owner who won’t care about their excuses.

Commenters shared similar stories of unreasonable managers and empathized with OP

The post “Wendy’s Next Door, Their Management Is Hiring”: Guy Shares Why It's Best To Keep Your Opinions About Management To Yourself first appeared on Bored Panda.

A bride-to-be caused quite a stir when she told her fiancé that she didn’t want his elderly, 98-year-old grandmother to attend their wedding. She believed that the reception would be too much of a party for her to enjoy. Both commenters and the groom both thought the request was entitled, selfish, and downright mean.

While there is no set standard for a wedding, having family there is pretty standard

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So one bride-to-be caused some drama when she revealed to her fiancé that she didn’t want his grandmother to attend

Image credits: Danie Franco (not the actual photo)

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Wedding planning is a pressure test for each couple

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While all the rituals, symbolism and other features might make it seem like weddings are an outdated relic of the past, this story goes to prove that it does function as a great test of a couple’s ability to manage expectations, organization and compromise. As un-romantic as it sounds, compromise is key to any functioning relationship. This is just as true for conflict management, even if the conflict isn’t a hostile shouting match. The “happy” couple needs to decide what hills they are willing to die on and if this is one of them, better for the relationship to end not, not four, wasted years later. Studies have shown that the higher the expectations for the wedding itself, whether the ceremony or the partying, as OP indicated, the more likely the marriage will fail.

It’s not that a big wedding will magically make the couple fall out, rather, often a big wedding is used to mask some potential doubts about the union. This isn’t to say that a fairytale wedding is bad, but as costs continue to rise, it does become something of a sticking point unless you are fabulously rich. For example, in the US, the home of doing things big, the average wedding might end up costing just shy of forty thousand dollars. Across the entire nation, over $72 billion dollars are spent just on ceremonies alone each year, a number that has likely grown due to cost of living increases. Any successful marriage needs to be able to balance finances, no matter who is the breadwinner. So planning and organizing a wedding is a vital test to see if the relationship will have legs or is destined to burn out pretty quickly.

Honest communication and compromise are necessary for any healthy relationship

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Some readers might see OP as entitled, but to assess her side, there are some psychological factors that could be clouding her judgment. While we do not know the precise details, the bride is often enough putting in the majority of wedding planning labor, creating undue stress. As a result, she might feel that she should get a bit more of a say in how the entire event will actually go. When we are under stress, we tend to underestimate the pressure our partners are under, which is a recipe for relationship disaster if people don’t communicate honestly and empathetically. While OP’s request was missguided and possibly entitled, it is possible that she just was not in the right headspace to consider the position carefully. To err is human after all.

While we do not (yet) have a follow-up to this tale, it’s pretty clear that the bride needs to understand where her fiancé is coming from. Sometimes, your in-laws are truly terrible people, but in this case she simply wants to party. Instead of something drastic, like banning a literal family member, she instead should have considered some other options, like finding someone who would be willing to keep her company while the younger people party. Or to have an after-party for those who want to drink and dance, as some people see the reception as a time for some long-winded toasts and free food. It’s unknown how the discussion actually went down in the end, but hopefully the couple resolved this question and found a way to include grandma.

Commenters almost universally thought she was absolutely out of line and most definitely being a jerk

The post “I Am The Bride After All”: Woman Causes Family Drama By Trying To Ban Her Fiancé’s Grandmother From The Wedding first appeared on Bored Panda.

Harris is the creative mind behind the comics Beetlemoses, which gained online popularity during the summer of 2022. His comics incorporate elements of memes and pop culture moments to which Harris adds a flare of dark turns, leading to unexpected endings.

So without further ado, we invite you to scroll down for Beetlemoses comics, as well as an interview with Harris himself.

More info: Instagram | twitter.com | beetlemoses.bigcartel.com

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Bored Panda reached out to Harris, who was kind enough to answer our questions, to learn more about him and his comics. We asked him to share a bit about his background: “I've been drawing my whole life, but I only decided about a year ago to take a risk and commit to my art full-time. I didn't attend art school, and I don't have any formal training beyond high school art classes. I just have an enormous appreciation for art. I've been extremely blessed to have found an audience that appreciates my drawings and humor over the last year," shared the artist.

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While Harris has gained recent recognition in the comics world, like any other artist, he tends to experience uninspiring days. We are curious about how he copes with creative blocks and what his creative process looks like. Harris shared: “When an idea pops into my head, no matter how strange/dull/incomplete it might be, I write it down immediately in my notes. Sometimes I'll have an idea that I can picture so vividly I have to draw it right away. More often, however, I'll have a 'dry spell' for new ideas, so I'll go digging through some of the ideas I wrote down but disregarded for one reason or another. Ironically, these ideas tend to receive the most praise. You never know what's going to click with people, so I'm in the habit of drawing any idea as long as I think they're funny.”

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The ideas are always the most challenging part of the creative process; however, once they are written down, Harris shared how long it takes for him to transform them into fully realized creations.

“It really depends. Webcomics are a breezy format, and I try to condense the joke to three panels at the most. Coming up with the idea is the hard part, because you can't force it, and you never know when inspiration will strike. Once I have an idea, it only takes me a couple of hours to draw and color a comic. I have some long-form comics I've been working on as well, which obviously take a bit more time. I'm hoping to have some of those finished in the coming months.”

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We were also wondering how his artistic style evolved over time and what influences have shaped his unique approach to creating comics. Harris shared: “Since I've been drawing full time, this past year I've probably spent more hours making art than the rest of my life combined. My biggest realization this year has been to stop trying to draw like someone else. I know and follow so many incredible artists, and sometimes I have those nagging thoughts: "Why can't I draw like this person? How do they do that?" It took me a long time to realize that your artistic journey doesn't begin until you let go of these ideas and commit to being the absolute best version of YOU. It might sound a bit dramatic in regards to my silly comics, but that epiphany was really important to me this year.”

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And lastly, Harris added: “I would just like to give a huge thanks to everyone who has supported me this year, including you guys at Bored Panda! I'm only at the beginning of my journey as an artist, and I have so much more coming up! If you'd like to see or hear more from me, you can check me out on my Twitter and Instagram accounts. I also teach free art classes once a week on twitch.tv/beetlemoses, and I co-host a podcast about art/memes/the internet called Cold Cuts, which can be found on YouTube and Spotify. Thank you again!”

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The student is headed for a new adventure as she’s looking forward to attending Harvard Law School on a full scholarship—a goal she set back in elementary school. Since her mother was incarcerated, Sky grew up with her dad as a single parent; however, throughout the years since her childhood, she was supported by her mentor, Mona Hamby.

After graduating at the top of her class, Sky is bound for Harvard Law School in the fall

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The bright young woman set the goal of going to Harvard back in elementary school

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Sky was supported by her long-term mentor, Mona Hamby

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People were generous with kind and encouraging words for the graduate

The post Texas Girl Overcomes Poverty And Achieves Her Goals: Despite Being Born In Jail, She Will Study At Prestigious Harvard University first appeared on Bored Panda.

Harris is the creative mind behind the comics Beetlemoses, which gained online popularity during the summer of 2022. His comics incorporate elements of memes and pop culture moments to which Harris adds a flare of dark turns, leading to unexpected endings.

So without further ado, we invite you to scroll down for Beetlemoses comics, as well as an interview with Harris himself.

More info: Instagram | twitter.com | beetlemoses.bigcartel.com

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Bored Panda reached out to Harris, who was kind enough to answer our questions, to learn more about him and his comics. We asked him to share a bit about his background: “I've been drawing my whole life, but I only decided about a year ago to take a risk and commit to my art full-time. I didn't attend art school, and I don't have any formal training beyond high school art classes. I just have an enormous appreciation for art. I've been extremely blessed to have found an audience that appreciates my drawings and humor over the last year," shared the artist.

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While Harris has gained recent recognition in the comics world, like any other artist, he tends to experience uninspiring days. We are curious about how he copes with creative blocks and what his creative process looks like. Harris shared: “When an idea pops into my head, no matter how strange/dull/incomplete it might be, I write it down immediately in my notes. Sometimes I'll have an idea that I can picture so vividly I have to draw it right away. More often, however, I'll have a 'dry spell' for new ideas, so I'll go digging through some of the ideas I wrote down but disregarded for one reason or another. Ironically, these ideas tend to receive the most praise. You never know what's going to click with people, so I'm in the habit of drawing any idea as long as I think they're funny.”

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The ideas are always the most challenging part of the creative process; however, once they are written down, Harris shared how long it takes for him to transform them into fully realized creations.

“It really depends. Webcomics are a breezy format, and I try to condense the joke to three panels at the most. Coming up with the idea is the hard part, because you can't force it, and you never know when inspiration will strike. Once I have an idea, it only takes me a couple of hours to draw and color a comic. I have some long-form comics I've been working on as well, which obviously take a bit more time. I'm hoping to have some of those finished in the coming months.”

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We were also wondering how his artistic style evolved over time and what influences have shaped his unique approach to creating comics. Harris shared: “Since I've been drawing full time, this past year I've probably spent more hours making art than the rest of my life combined. My biggest realization this year has been to stop trying to draw like someone else. I know and follow so many incredible artists, and sometimes I have those nagging thoughts: "Why can't I draw like this person? How do they do that?" It took me a long time to realize that your artistic journey doesn't begin until you let go of these ideas and commit to being the absolute best version of YOU. It might sound a bit dramatic in regards to my silly comics, but that epiphany was really important to me this year.”

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And lastly, Harris added: “I would just like to give a huge thanks to everyone who has supported me this year, including you guys at Bored Panda! I'm only at the beginning of my journey as an artist, and I have so much more coming up! If you'd like to see or hear more from me, you can check me out on my Twitter and Instagram accounts. I also teach free art classes once a week on twitch.tv/beetlemoses, and I co-host a podcast about art/memes/the internet called Cold Cuts, which can be found on YouTube and Spotify. Thank you again!”

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The Facebook group 'Minimalist Photography' is a perfect example of such a place. It embraces both classical minimalism and post-minimalism, or the so-called artistic (or conceptual) minimalism, and invites people to share their works.

"We look for uncluttered artistic images of quality and originality," the team running the group writes in its 'About' section.

Founded all the way back in March 2005, the community now unites 285K members. "We have evolved [our] rules over several years and they seem to work to keep the timeline focused on the artwork and the room a civil, respectful, and enlightening place."

Continue scrolling to check out our hand-picked collection of some of the group's most popular images.

#1 I N S O M N I A

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#2 New Mexico, USA

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#4 Landscapers Palette

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#5 First Post

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#6 Next Station

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#7 1st Post Here

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#8 Rain Incoming

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#9 Cyan & Red

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#10 Blue On Blue. The Mediterranean

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#11 Summer Perspective

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#12 Weathering The Storm

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#13 Hunza Pakistan

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#14 Different Ways

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#16 Empty

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#17 Figures In The Mist

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#18 Gray With Yellow

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#19 Rondini

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#20 But At Least Tried

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#21 Under The Eiffel Tower, Paris France

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#23 Queuing

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#24 Feather

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#25 Together

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#26 Squaring The Circle(S)

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#32 Santa Cruz. Oran, Algeria

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#33 Architecture In Amsterdam

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#50 Storm Is Comming

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#52 Just A Tree!

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#53 After Light

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#54 Standing Tall

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#61 Sunrise Through A Leaf

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#85 Grand Egyptian Museum’s Minimal Architecture

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#87 Shibuya Crossing Tokyo

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#89 Knocking On Heavens Door

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#90 Colors, Lines And Shapes

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#91 Only One Cosmic Thing

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#92 Untitled

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#98 L'arbre Est Plus Gros Que Vous Le Pensez

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We have gathered some of the best Twitter posts that sum up all that shopping at Costco entails. Whether it’s losing track of time or buying things in quantities you never expected to, you might find them quite amusing yet painfully accurate. Scroll down to find the Tweets on the list below and see if you can relate to any of them.

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An ex-Subway worker shared his anger at being terminated for speaking poorly about his manager to a coworker in a TikTok that went viral. This was the result of a buildup of grievances after his cat got seriously ill and he requested time off to take care of it. As usual with power-tripping managers, nothing was as easy as it should have been.
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Managers often spend too much time thinking about working hours and forget that employees have lives as well

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“Guess who got fired from Subway”

Listen to this s**t. It’s crazy, y’all won’t believe it. My cat Garfield, you guys know he’s sick, he got diagnosed with AIDS about a month ago, so it’s very very unfortunate, but he’s still trying to pull through, still trying to make the best life that he can.

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It all started a month and a half ago. I called off one of my shifts. I called off a couple days in advance. It’s cool, right? I got my shift covered. No problem, at all. Two weeks later go by, I go into work, Emily calls me around 10 o’clock saying “Garfield is very sick. He looks like he’s not doing good whatsoever. He can’t even get up. He can’t walk.” I’m at work, I’m like, “Oh s**t,” so I’m trying to find coverage.

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I asked my manager if I can leave early. I didn’t find coverage, but she allowed me to leave early. But get this – before I walked out and left early, she looked at me and said “Just like Austin said though, this is the second time you’ve called off in two weeks over a cat.” Keep that in mind. Okay. I blew it off my shoulder, Garfield’s more important than arguing over a dumb b****.

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So fast forward all the way to two days ago. I go into work again. Same thing. Emily calls me around 9, 10 o’clock in the morning, saying “Babe, Garfield is tremoring, he’s actually shaking. He’s doing way worse than before.” He won’t move, every time she touches him he’s screaming in agony, he’s in so much pain. I start crying, I start getting freaked out at work and I call the vet instantly and say “Hey, I’m trying to leave work early, I’m gonna get him in ASAP.” They said “Yeah, bring him in. But by the sound of it, don’t get your hopes up. He might not make it.” That’s what the vet said. You do not understand the amount of stress that put on me as soon as I heard that.

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So I’m kind of freaking out a little bit and I’m trying to call off of work. I message the huge Subway group chat around our district that has everybody in the group chat, people that’s not even at my location. Like, people are in it from out-of-town locations. So I’m like, “Something very urgent has came up. Can somebody please come in from now until four and cover the rest of my shift? I would greatly appreciate it.” Tell me why my manager messages me personally and says “I should have been your first notification.” I said, “No,” but this is what her little “rule” is. When you call off, you gotta find coverage and then let your management know after. After! This is what I messaged word for word.

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She replied back with “Ok” – had nothing else to say. I’m pi**ed. When she sent me that message, we’re going back and forth. I’m ranting to her little f**king puppy dog. I didn’t know that she was telling her everything in the book. Get it – I’m ranting with her, so me and this girl that I’m working with at the moment are cool. Like, she even asked me, “You aren’t mad at me, right Pres?” and I’m like “No, you haven’t done anything wrong to me.”

So I’m ranting with her about what my manager just texted me, I’m pi**ed, so in the middle of ranting I said a few slurs but it was nothing like intent— I was just mad. And I kind of slammed the proofer door shut because I was putting bread into the proofer. I got little upset because everything is making me emotional right now. So I slammed the proofer door shut.

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30 minutes later, my manager comes storming in the door. First thing she says to me: “Clock out. Leave, now.” She’s pi**ed. I’m making a sandwich, she looks over at my employee and says, “You finish that sandwich right now, he’s clocking out.” Little did I know, the employee that I was working with had just called her and said that I’m scaring her, to get here because she’s terrified. Guess me slamming the door and cussing was scaring her. I was just ranting to her. I say “f**k that.” I didn’t even say deuces or nothing. I walked right out the door. You want me to go, I’m gonna go. A cat is more important.

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Fast forward, I take Garfield to the vet, then I go into work yesterday, which was the next day after I just had the whole ordeal. As soon as I pulled into the parking lot I see nothing but trouble. All the big boss’s vehicles are there, my manager’s vehicle, the employees – I knew it was bad. Unfortunately. I walk in to go straight to the back and clock in, and then I hear “Preston.”

I’m like, “Oh f**k.” So I turned around and they’re both sitting right there in the booth. He points at the seat in front of him, right next to Austin, and says “Take a seat,” and then he asks, “How are you doing?” And I was like “I’m doing, I’m doing, bro.” And get this – it’s just the two district managers at that booth.

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My manager, my store manager, is hiding in the back avoiding everything. He proceeds to ask, “What happened yesterday?” I said “I have nothing to say, bro. Everybody around here is a hypocrite.” Word for word. That’s all I had to say. They asked why I was yelling slurs and slamming stuff yesterday, I said “What do you mean? I wasn’t just yelling slurs, I was ranting, and I didn’t just slam things around. I just slammed the proofer door shut once.”

So then he tells me “That’s why your manager came in yesterday, because your employee was scared of you yelling and slamming [stuff].” That’s how I figured out why my manager came in. She didn’t come in to cover me, she came in because my other employee felt “threatened.” Yeah, makes sense to feel threatened by me. This was my reaction to it: “Are you serious? She felt threatened? Okay, okay.” Anyways, I was letting them know how stressful it’s been and how nobody understands and Austin was like “We understand.” I look at him – I was like “You did not just say that. You’re the last person that should say that, bro.”

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And remember Austin’s sitting next to me. I’m talking same booth, shoulder to shoulder. I asked him “Just like Katie said, ‘just like Austin said, it’s just a cat.’ What the f**k does that mean, bro?”

He looked back at me and said, word for word, “Preston, I totally understand that you’re upset right now.” That right there? That proved to me and it pi**ed me off. After that, I just cut to the chase, looked at both of them and said “So what’s the word, bro? Am I fired? What am I doing here?” He said, “Yeah, we’re gonna have to terminate you.”

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I was like “Yeah, screw that.” I went to get up and walk out, no question about it. They were like, “Whoa, wait, we need your key.” Oh my god. I was struggling to get it off my keychain. So I walk to the very back behind the counter, where we make sandwiches. I grabbed a knife, and I bet they were like, “What the f**k is he doing?” I got it pried off and walk up to the table, sat it down, slid it towards them, walked out, no question about it.

They were like “Wait, wait, wait, Preston! Come here, man! Come here, man! Come here, man!” They had the audacity to tell me “Wendy’s next door, their management is hiring.” I said “No. F**k that. I don’t even want that.” They were like “You don’t want it?” They were like, “Alright man. Well, we wish you the best of luck. Have a good day. Take care.” I was like, “Yep, have a good one.” And I just walked out, that was it.

You can watch the full video here

@prestonwalker__ I Got Fired From Subway OVER THIS?! What an ABSOLUTE JOKE of a job! #prestontalks #subwaypreston ♬ original sound – Preston Walker

Fast-food management is notorious for its mistreatment of employees

As many of the comments showed, fast food is rife with managers who act like they are running a warship at sea, not a smallish restaurant for cheap eats. Most fast-food restaurants are franchises, which come with their own set of difficulties for management, and unfortunately, it’s the employees who take the brunt of the “damage.” First and foremost, these leaders are appointed by owners who mostly just see the restaurant through the lens of cash flow. The only metric is “Are we making enough money?” Managers are chosen almost exclusively by this criteria, so it’s not too surprising that they would disregard employee feelings so easily.

Unfortunately, the fast-food industry has a stigma of being a place for entry-level workers, high-schoolers getting some pocket cash, or people without skills. This has not been true for a long time, but this image is still likely what many owners have in mind. So employee retention is pretty low on the list of priorities. The (predictable) result has been the “great resignation,” where thousands of workers have quit their jobs due to satisfactory conditions, treatment, or a slew of other issues. Management, typically, has not caught up to this problem, and stores all over are suddenly hit with labor shortages. This puts pressure on the remaining workers, who are then more likely to quit instead of doing more labor for the same wage.

In the long run, OP might get the last laugh

This is little comfort for OP who lost his job in a trying time, but in the long run, he will probably be vindicated. Employee morale at his old store is not likely to be high, after all his ex-coworkers see that time off for a sick, beloved pet is nonexistent and that one can be fired just for venting. It would not be surprising if this particular Subway continues to bleed workers, putting more and more pressure on the existing employee, until it finally falls apart and the power-tripping manager is left to explain why his or her store now makes no money to an owner who won’t care about their excuses.

Commenters shared similar stories of unreasonable managers and empathized with OP

The post “Guess Who Got Fired From Subway”: Guy Goes Viral After Losing His Job For Venting About Manager To A Coworker first appeared on Bored Panda.

Our animal admirers here at Bored Panda have collected the funniest and most adorable animal memes shared by an Imgur account called “Obsessed With Animals”. As the owner of the page introduced herself, she is a girl from Denmark “who loves animals”. As do we!

So, without further ado, take a look at this chucklesome collection of our crazy friends. Don’t forget to upvote your favorite images and let us know your thoughts in the comments!

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An internet user, out of morbid curiosity no doubt, wanted to hear other’s worst experiences with total strangers. And people delivered, with stories ranging from bizarre to downright terrifying. So be warned, some potential unpleasantness ahead. If you do stay, be sure to upvote your favorite (however you choose to interpret that) and share your own stories in the comments. 

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Unfortunately, there are people out there who are somehow entirely blind to social norms and will flagrantly break them without a thought. In a few cases, this could be simple ignorance or lack of ability to read social cues. Everyone knows someone who is probably well-meaning but ends up being downright annoying to be around. 

But many of the cases listed here go much further than, say, a loud belch at a dinner table or an awkward question about one’s love life. These encounters veer into downright antisocial behavior, which at “best” are a nuisance and at worst, could be seen as a crime. Traditionally, this is seen as part of a personality disorder, but more contemporary psychologists believe it could, instead, be a result of certain issues in upbringing. 

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The generally accepted cause of antisocial behavior is upbringing or a lack thereof. This is a sort of double-edged sword, as it lets us pinpoint how to prevent it, but unfortunately, it offers little hope for people who are already adults. The upside is the policymakers, social workers and just people who live in a community can all do their part to help, but it also means they generally have to suffer at the hands of existing, antisocial adults. 

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The rapid social changes brought on by technology have made it hard to track exactly what stimulus ends up causing kids to start behaving poorly. In the age of regular TV consumption, some studies found that for every additional hour of TV a teen watched, the risk of them exhibiting some antisocial behavior rose by roughly 30%. However, as most parents now know, young people aren’t really watching hours and hours of TV, but it’s unclear if, say, video games or streaming has the same effect as TV used to. 

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It’s not fair, however, to pin all the blame on media. Media only raise a child if the parents are absent in some form, which might be a more significant trigger than, say, Cartoon Network or Minecraft. Even more significantly, parental abuse is pretty closely tied with the victim “passing on” the abuse to another, creating a spiraling cycle of violence and bad behavior. Even smaller things, like poor nutrition and poverty, can cause an environment where normal social behavior is not learned, leading to the sorts of adults we see in these stories. 

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There are also some genetic factors that ultimately might lead to people behaving in ways that others find annoying or downright horrible. The bottom line is that antisocial behavior, ultimately, needs to be cut off at the source. This means that all of us have to look for ways to help dysfunctional families, to make sure children can live in a safe environment and that psychological help like Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is available to those in need. 

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They follow through with their [cough] artistic vision [cough] and the result is a hot mess of utterly illegible chaos. The worst of the bunch end up being featured on the r/dontdeadopeninside subreddit, an online community that is dedicated to nonsense signs if read normally. We’ve collected some of their best posts to share with you. Scroll down, but be careful—if you’re a fan of order, you might end up facepalming way too much.

#1 We Stand With No Standing Ukraine

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#2 Asia Rden Ensb Vgio Ocko

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#3 Left No Turn Right Only Turn

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The r/dontdeadopeninside subreddit has been up and running for nearly a decade, all the way since mid-2014. Since then, the community has grown to encompass over 681k members from all over the world.

The name of the group is rooted in the hit TV series, ‘The Walking Dead,’ which had a promotional poster that had the words ‘Don’t Open’ on one half of the chained doors and ‘Dead Inside’ on the other. When read from left to right, due to the weird spacing, the message becomes ‘Don’t Dead Open Inside’ instead of the intended ‘Don’t Open Dead Inside.’

#4 You If Going Lost You’re Me Together Get Can’t Know Don’t

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#5 Love Is Watching & Watching Someone Someone Die Is Hard

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According to Know Your Meme, ‘Don’t Dead Open Inside’ is one of the most well-recognized examples of messages that aren’t read as they should be because there’s no instantly-recognizable, clear way to tell what order the words ought to be in. It takes a moment to really get the message, by which time the impact the sign could have had is lost.

The meme spread on Twitter in 2010 as more and more people started realizing this. Throughout the next few years, internet users started coming up with memes and jokes based on this. Eventually, this led to the creation of r/dontdeadopeninside in 2014, which continues to be very popular to this day.

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There are a few main rules that the members of the DDOI community ought to follow. “Signs must be read correctly top to bottom, and incorrectly left to right, like any text usually. Though it does not matter how easily you can read them, it is highly encouraged to only post images with little separation or spacing between the columns of words,” the moderator team running the group explains.

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Meanwhile, redditors are encouraged to be original with their content: reposting the most popular pics of all time or signs from the last 4 months isn’t tolerated. Your posts might end up getting removed. Moreover, signs that have been staged or faked also have no place on this sub. Finally, internet users are asked to be civil to each other and to put the wrong way to read the message in the titles of their posts.

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As we’ve covered on Bored Panda previously, clarity and brevity are absolutely vital when creating signs. Essentially, you only have a moment to get your message across. So if you cause even the slightest amount of confusion, you’ve basically negated the whole point of your sign, and it's best to start over.

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#17 The Love Is Sweeter Of Than Any Jesus Candy!

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What really helps avoid these errors is being patient and diligent. First of all, you need to put in the time and care to create the best possible version of the sign possible, along with a few alternatives. Then, take a break, come back to your design, and look at it with fresh eyes. You’re bound to see things very differently than when you’re face-deep into drafting the sign.

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Secondly, you should definitely take the time to show your design to a few different people, whether they’re your relatives, close friends, coworkers, or—heck—even some passersby on the street. You’re essentially conducting a bit of research with tiny focus groups. They might catch a silly mistake you left in or might end up interpreting the entire sign very differently than you intended. It’s better to deal with a dash of embarrassment now than tons of it later.

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If you’re working on a very important project, you might want to consider hiring some professionals to help you, instead of doing everything yourself. Find a designer with a decent reputation to flesh out some of your ideas. Meanwhile, consider getting in touch with a proofreader or editor as well. We all make silly mistakes from time to time, and it helps to have a real pro in your corner.

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The fact is that if you just wing it, you might end up losing your audience or potential customers. The more fluent your font is, the clearer your message. And vice versa! How trustworthy and likable you and your business are depends a lot on how you brand everything. Ideally, everything should be as legible as possible. With a focus on readable fonts, good kerning, and an overall design that focuses people’s attention where you want it to.

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Here at Bored Panda, we’re very big fans of poorly designed signs—we can’t get enough of these trainwrecks! As such, we’ve featured the genius of r/dontdeadopeninside time and again. If you’d like to see some more chaotic signs that are definitely going to be misinterpreted, check out our earlier lists here and here, as well as here and here.

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#63 Red Blood Hot Sugar Chili Sex Peppers Magic

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#64 Vac Cer Cination Tificate

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#65 You’re Do Not Next Enter

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#66 Don’t This Paint Side!

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#67 Lat Ame Tro

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#68 Make No Art War

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#69 Tis It True? His It Hhelpful?

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#70 Mr.mon Lemade

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#71 Bang Naruto Head Style Here (At Work)

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#72 Wht Pink Ey

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#73 Elv Perf Is Ect

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#74 Same Same Game Dead Diff Erent Levels Devils

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#75 Blackwhite Beachbeach

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#76 Why Would Me You Marry For Wanna Anyhow?

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#77 Don’t Do Park Park Here Here

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#78 9/11 Was Arrest Treason The Bankers

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#79 At Day At Night I’m You’re Your My Angel Slave

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#80 Because I’m Me

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#81 Honk You If Fart

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#82 Cheat Yonur GF Not Yonur Workouts

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#83 Great Great Food! People

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#84 Gas Store Open Is Open

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#85 Pro Pro Pro Life God Gun

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#86 Xeln Eclet

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#87 Postal Are Workers Thieves

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#88 Work Love Prank Boss Sass Drink Sing Eat

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#89 God Save #not The Working My Class King

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#90 My Religion Is My Religion, Very Simple Is Kindness

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They follow through with their [cough] artistic vision [cough] and the result is a hot mess of utterly illegible chaos. The worst of the bunch end up being featured on the r/dontdeadopeninside subreddit, an online community that is dedicated to nonsense signs if read normally. We’ve collected some of their best posts to share with you. Scroll down, but be careful—if you’re a fan of order, you might end up facepalming way too much.

#1 Asia Rden Ensb Vgio Ocko

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#2 We Stand With No Standing Ukraine

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#3 Left No Turn Right Only Turn

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The r/dontdeadopeninside subreddit has been up and running for nearly a decade, all the way since mid-2014. Since then, the community has grown to encompass over 681k members from all over the world.

The name of the group is rooted in the hit TV series, ‘The Walking Dead,’ which had a promotional poster that had the words ‘Don’t Open’ on one half of the chained doors and ‘Dead Inside’ on the other. When read from left to right, due to the weird spacing, the message becomes ‘Don’t Dead Open Inside’ instead of the intended ‘Don’t Open Dead Inside.’

#4 You If Going Lost You’re Me Together Get Can’t Know Don’t

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#5 Love Is Watching & Watching Someone Someone Die Is Hard

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#6 Ly Paer Soils Ca

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According to Know Your Meme, ‘Don’t Dead Open Inside’ is one of the most well-recognized examples of messages that aren’t read as they should be because there’s no instantly-recognizable, clear way to tell what order the words ought to be in. It takes a moment to really get the message, by which time the impact the sign could have had is lost.

The meme spread on Twitter in 2010 as more and more people started realizing this. Throughout the next few years, internet users started coming up with memes and jokes based on this. Eventually, this led to the creation of r/dontdeadopeninside in 2014, which continues to be very popular to this day.

#7 Honk Ha Against Te

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#8 Jesus Save Can Even You

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#9 Redshe Neckshed

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There are a few main rules that the members of the DDOI community ought to follow. “Signs must be read correctly top to bottom, and incorrectly left to right, like any text usually. Though it does not matter how easily you can read them, it is highly encouraged to only post images with little separation or spacing between the columns of words,” the moderator team running the group explains.

#10 Noki Parng

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#11 The Tim Hoe Use

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#12 Satan Jesus Is Is Defeated Lord! [oc]

Image credits: not_quite_creative

Meanwhile, redditors are encouraged to be original with their content: reposting the most popular pics of all time or signs from the last 4 months isn’t tolerated. Your posts might end up getting removed. Moreover, signs that have been staged or faked also have no place on this sub. Finally, internet users are asked to be civil to each other and to put the wrong way to read the message in the titles of their posts.

#13 Feed Animals School Kids Parties Groups

Image credits: Mineral_myco_medic

#14 Sophisticated Ho

Image credits: Xendran

#15 Hot Sharp Water Needles!!

Image credits: dkreidler

As we’ve covered on Bored Panda previously, clarity and brevity are absolutely vital when creating signs. Essentially, you only have a moment to get your message across. So if you cause even the slightest amount of confusion, you’ve basically negated the whole point of your sign, and it's best to start over.

#16 Eggmnnaeet

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#17 Go Citd Wals!

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#18 You Give Chances Kid Voice Are

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What really helps avoid these errors is being patient and diligent. First of all, you need to put in the time and care to create the best possible version of the sign possible, along with a few alternatives. Then, take a break, come back to your design, and look at it with fresh eyes. You’re bound to see things very differently than when you’re face-deep into drafting the sign.

#19 We Hold That All Man, These Truths, And Women To Be, Are Created Self-Evident... Equal

Image credits: 5W1TCHY

#20 Wildphot Lifeography

Image credits: sta015

#21 Burger Better Cause Maker You Built It

Image credits: Whatabeezy

Secondly, you should definitely take the time to show your design to a few different people, whether they’re your relatives, close friends, coworkers, or—heck—even some passersby on the street. You’re essentially conducting a bit of research with tiny focus groups. They might catch a silly mistake you left in or might end up interpreting the entire sign very differently than you intended. It’s better to deal with a dash of embarrassment now than tons of it later.

#22 The Love Is Sweeter Of Than Any Jesus Candy!

Image credits: baggymaggie

#23 Pine Man Apple Go Nada Nada

Image credits: Reckless-Ambition

#24 Do Not Thanks; Turn Off Randy

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If you’re working on a very important project, you might want to consider hiring some professionals to help you, instead of doing everything yourself. Find a designer with a decent reputation to flesh out some of your ideas. Meanwhile, consider getting in touch with a proofreader or editor as well. We all make silly mistakes from time to time, and it helps to have a real pro in your corner.

#25 Ever Ythin Gisa B Rt E Kind

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#26 Dream Work Stay Big Hard Kind X.x

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#27 Always Forgotten Remembered Never

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The fact is that if you just wing it, you might end up losing your audience or potential customers. The more fluent your font is, the clearer your message. And vice versa! How trustworthy and likable you and your business are depends a lot on how you brand everything. Ideally, everything should be as legible as possible. With a focus on readable fonts, good kerning, and an overall design that focuses people’s attention where you want it to.

#28 Drinks Ice Sorry We Machine

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#29 Tog Tog Eth Eth Er! Er!

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#30 I Don't Know Why Everyone Has Been Complaining. My Cage Large Eggs Have Been Very Affordable

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Here at Bored Panda, we’re very big fans of poorly designed signs—we can’t get enough of these trainwrecks! As such, we’ve featured the genius of r/dontdeadopeninside time and again. If you’d like to see some more chaotic signs that are definitely going to be misinterpreted, check out our earlier lists here and here, as well as here and here.

#31 Artcolumbůs Makes Makes Columbusart

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#32 Time Spent Second With Family Is Worthevery

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#33 Trees Trees Warn Have Fellow Musical Trees Taste

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#34 Holo Meve

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#35 Love, Askv, Grsenofr? Ihty

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#36 Never Always Open Look

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#37 It’s Hard To Be When Humble You’re From Texas

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#38 I Love The Sound When You Make Up Shut

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#39 I'm ?on Stuck You!

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#40 Pibu Zzarger

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#41 Scan Me To View Our Nu

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#42 Hot Makes Me Want A Dog

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#43 You're Like The Now One I

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#44 Waste Energy Today Tomorrow

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#45 Eng English Lish Gram Grammar Mar

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#46 Donut Be Happy Worry

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#47 At Least Irma It Ain't Ian 17 Snowin 22

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#48 He She Asked Said 10-4

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#49 My Religion Is My Religion. Very Simple Is Kindness

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#50 Not Sure If This Has Been Posted Here Already But Yeahh.. Lohovo Vepete

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#51 Traditional Free Glass Horse Meat Of Wine

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#52 At Day At Night I’m You’re Your My Angel Slave

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#53 Roll Dice The

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#54 Palm For Trees Sale

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#55 We Are No One Dare With You To Harm You

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#56 Together Is Together, Powerful You Win

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#57 Don’t Do Park Park Here Here

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#58 Blackwhite Beachbeach

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#59 Moviforw Ngard

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#60 Vac Cer Cination Tificate

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#61 Same Same Game Dead Diff Erent Levels Devils

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#62 Red Blood Hot Sugar Chili Sex Peppers Magic

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#63 Critic The Ink Ersal

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#64 Bang Naruto Head Style Here (At Work)

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#65 You’re Do Not Next Enter

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#66 Cheat Yonur GF Not Yonur Workouts

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#67 Don’t This Paint Side!

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#68 Families Are And It’s Being Forced Not Just To Flee

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#69 Lat Ame Tro

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#70 Is The Jesus Reason For The Season?

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#71 Wht Pink Ey

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#72 Elv Perf Is Ect

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#73 Mr.mon Lemade

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#74 9/11 Was Arrest Treason The Bankers

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#75 Make No Art War

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#76 Working Like To Support The Crazy Lazy

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#77 Why Would Me You Marry For Wanna Anyhow?

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#78 Gas Store Open Is Open

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#79 Cry • Give Up

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#80 Tis It True? His It Hhelpful?

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#81 “Fun” Dasn Riig!

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#82 Pro Pro Pro Life God Gun

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#83 Honk You If Fart

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#84 Great Great Food! People

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#85 Because I’m Me

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#86 Xeln Eclet

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#87 Work Love Prank Boss Sass Drink Sing Eat

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#88 Postal Are Workers Thieves

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#89 God Save #not The Working My Class King

Image credits: counterc

#90 My Religion Is My Religion, Very Simple Is Kindness

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But after one woman seated between two plus-sized passengers politely asked if she could relocate, she ended up being accused of fatphobia. Below, you’ll find the flyer’s full story, which she recently shared on the “Am I the [Jerk]?” subreddit, as well as a conversation between her and Bored Panda.

After being seated between two plus-sized passengers on a flight, this woman decided to politely find a more comfortable seat

Image credits: Darina Belonogova (not the actual image)

Upon arrival, however, one of her former seat neighbors made it clear that she was offended by her relocation

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Later, the passenger clarified some details about the situation

“I would imagine that the confrontation was a result of her feeling anxious about other people having seen me move”

To learn more about this specific situation, we reached out to the Reddit user who shared this story, Throwawayonaplane, who was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda. As far as how she relocated on the plane, the woman explained that she tried to do it as discreetly as possible, but there wasn’t much privacy in the cabin. “It’s entirely possible that a couple people saw and could assume why I moved, but nobody was told anything about the situation except for the flight attendant,” the OP shared. “I would imagine that the confrontation was a result of her feeling anxious about other people having seen me move, and as some commenters might have pointed out, it might have just been her way of venting out a frustrating day of travel.”

We also asked the OP what her thoughts were on the reactions her post received. Throwawayonaplane shared that she was relieved to hear that most commenters didn’t think she had done anything wrong, but a lot of the replies were upsetting. “I had posted this situation for some insight on if or how I could have handled the situation better or what other people would have done, but far too many people in the comments took my story as an excuse to generalize and bully all larger people. I’m unable to delete the post because of AITA’s rule on active discussions, but I truly feel terrible about the nature of so many of the comments,” she explained, adding that she is grateful for the nicer, helpful replies.

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“While it’s not fair to take that stress out on the people around you, in situations like those, it’s best to just be patient and understanding”

We were also curious how the OP might handle a situation like this again in the future. “The biggest thing I might change is to say something like, ‘Sorry, I just have to grab my bag, there’s an available seat next to my friend’ or a similar white lie to avoid any additional stress,” she told Bored Panda, adding that her biggest tip for handling situations like these is to be compassionate. “Flying is so stressful for so many people and for so many reasons, and you never know what someone might have gone through before or during their flight,” she noted. “While it’s not fair to take that stress out on the people around you, in situations like those, it’s best to just be patient and understanding.”

The OP also urges readers not to take what happened to her as an example of all plus-sized people. “It’s not fair to generalize or use this one story about this one person to ‘prove’ that all larger people are lazy, entitled, or whatever else some people have been saying,” she noted. “This same situation could have happened with a tall person in behind me or the parent of a fussy child across from me, or the plus-sized person next to me could have been super nice. What a person’s body looks like has absolutely zero to do with their character.”

Airplane seats have only gotten smaller over the past few decades, making them increasingly more uncomfortable

Flying on an airplane is uncomfortable for everyone. Whether you’re tall, short, skinny, plus-sized, young or old, nobody enjoys those narrow seats with minimal leg room and barely any room to recline. That’s why most passengers go out of their way to snag a row to themselves, or at least one open seat next to them, any chance they get. Plus, we all know that the dreaded middle seat is widely considered the worst seat on a plane. As many of the commenters mentioned, this woman was not being prejudiced towards her fellow passengers in trying to seek comfort. If anyone in this situation was fatphobic, it was the airline. Have you ever heard your parents talk about how pleasant and luxurious flying used to be? Well, it was! In fact, seats today have on average 2-5 inches less leg room and are 2 inches narrower than airplane seats from the 1980s, despite the fact that we’ve gotten bigger.

And according to Paul Hudson, president of passenger advocacy group FlyersRights, these tiny seats can even be a safety issue for the smallest of passengers. “[Airlines] only narrowly define safety as if it has something to do with evacuation speed,” Hudson told CNN. “But they ignore health risks, especially blood clots, which are known to increase dramatically when you’re in a confined space for more than two or three hours. They ignore completely the forced intrusion that you have now on your neighbor.”

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These tiny seats can make traveling as a plus-sized person particularly difficult

Of course, plus-sized passengers do tend to have a much more difficult time traveling than smaller individuals. Some of the discomforts they might encounter while flying are tight squeezes into tiny seats, seat belts that either don’t fit or need an extender to fit and arm rests jabbing into their sides. “I don’t want to have to ask for a seat belt extender or worry that they’ll make me buy an extra seat,” size-inclusive TikTok star Mary Fran Donnelly told the New York Post. “The traveling industry should outfit planes to suit everybody’s needs without bigger people having to be embarrassed or uncomfortable.”

Thankfully, however, there are ways plus-sized people can travel just as much as their hearts’ desire. They just need to know the tricks of the trade, until the airline industry becomes more inclusive. When it comes to which companies plus-sized passengers trust the most, Southwest Airlines seems to be the fan favorite. The airline encourages larger passengers to purchase an extra seat prior to boarding, which they can be reimbursed for after their journey has been completed. Or, if there are still seats available for purchase, they can simply request an extra seat at no additional cost once they’re at the airport. 

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But there are ways plus-sized flyers can ensure that they, and their fellow passengers, are as comfortable as possible

“We are very proud of our policy, as we feel it provides comfort and hospitality for all of our customers,” a Southwest spokesperson told the New York Post. “It was a creative solution to what can be a sensitive topic, and we’ve found that our customers appreciate it.” And if you’re a plus-sized traveler who is looking for even more tips on how to have the best flying experience possible, Halee and Jeff at Plus Size Travel Guide recommend researching the airplane ahead of time to know exactly what you’re getting yourself into, asking for seat belt extenders upon boarding, picking the right shoes and socks to keep you as comfortable as possible, doing your research on whether a first class seat is worth it or if two economy seats would be better, and having all of your inflight items ready and accessible to limit how often you have to bend over or move around in-flight.

We all just want to find comfort in any way we can when on a plane, and that can be difficult to accomplish, regardless of your body size. It’s never appropriate to shame others, and fatphobia is a real issue. But in this particular case, the consensus of readers was that the woman was simply trying to help herself, not judge anyone else. We would love to hear your thoughts on this situation in the comments, pandas, but please remember to be respectful of all parties involved in the story. Then, if you’re interested in reading another Bored Panda article featuring airplane seat drama, look no further than right here!

Readers assured the woman that she had done nothing wrong, and some plus-sized folks noted that having more space benefits everyone

The post “Am I A Jerk For Embarrassing A Plus-Sized Passenger On A Flight?” first appeared on Bored Panda.

Redditor u/edamommy_, a mother of two, recently went viral on the r/workingmoms online community. She shared how she’s on maternity leave after giving birth to her second child, however, she and her husband decided that their first kid should continue to stay in daycare during this time. Many internet users were very supportive of this decision and pointed out that maternity leave isn’t the same as a vacation. Read on for the full story and to see what people had to say about it.

Many parents are critical of how everyone else raises their kids

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One mom shared how she decided to keep her firstborn in daycare while she’s on maternity leave with her second child

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It’s essential to stay practical, instead of giving in to social pressure

The OP shared on Reddit how some people are very critical of her decision to keep her toddler in daycare while she’s on maternity leave. “Most of the people who question this decision are either people who don’t have kids, or were/are stay-at-home parents (my mom chief among them),” she shared.

However, she points out that it makes a lot of sense from a practical point of view to keep her first child at the nursery. This has given the mom more time to focus on her second baby. What’s more, she revealed that she’s finished up plenty of house projects and family to-do’s. Something that she might not have had the time and energy for if she was taking care of both children at home.

And that’s what lies at the core of the story: no matter how much people might love their children, this doesn’t mean that it’s feasible to spend 24/7 around them. Chores, work, hobbies, travel, exercise, meeting up with others—all of these things still happen and responsibilities pile up. Life goes on, and every family needs to find a balance between what’s great for all the kids, and how to keep the couple thriving, too. Because—and let’s not forget it—parents aren’t just parents.

It’s completely understandable if a new parent is feeling overwhelmed by, well, absolutely everything. Not only do they have to battle insomnia as they’re changing diapers, but they might also need to balance their other important commitments, like work. It’s not a weakness to ask for help or to look for ways to catch a breather. Daycare and school can free up a large chunk of the day. As can asking your family and friends to come over and babysit for a little while. Meanwhile, the parents can have a romantic date night, catch up on some sleep, or take some time off to work on their passion projects… or simply be alone with their thoughts. Everyone needs rest. Wanting it doesn’t make you a ‘bad’ parent.

The situation with (un)paid parental leave is very chaotic in the US

In an ideal world, both parents should be able to take long-lasting parental leave once their child is born. This time can be spent bonding with the baby and supporting one another at the start of that wonderful journey called parenthood.

In many developed countries, there are laws protecting a person’s right to paternal or maternal leave. Unfortunately, the situation in the United States is… messy. To say the least. It speaks volumes about how great of a company redditor u/edamommy_ works at that she’s been given a whopping 24 weeks of leave! Not everyone is as lucky.

The US does not have mandated paid maternity or paternity leave. It is up to each individual employer to decide whether to offer parental leave. Meanwhile, Federal employees are granted a mere 12 weeks of paid parental leave. To put it somewhat bluntly, this is beyond peculiar in a developed Western nation.

The idea of taking time off to be with the baby is very popular in the US. According to Investopedia, 7 out of 10 Americans support the idea of paid parental leave. Meanwhile, 55% of employers offer paid maternity leave while 45% of businesses also offer paid paternity leave. The key word here is ‘paid.’

On the flip side, to qualify for unpaid parental leave in the US, you have to have worked for the company for at least a year, and the business has to employ at least 50 employees within 75 miles of the HQ. You can have a maximum of 12 weeks of unpaid leave.

Many readers showed their support for the mom of two with their comments

Some parents who pulled their toddlers out of school and babysitting shared their stories

The post "She Would Lose Her Spot In School": Mom Shares How She's Still Keeping Her Toddler In Childcare Even Though She's On Maternity Leave first appeared on Bored Panda.

They follow through with their [cough] artistic vision [cough] and the result is a hot mess of utterly illegible chaos. The worst of the bunch end up being featured on the r/dontdeadopeninside subreddit, an online community that is dedicated to nonsense signs if read normally. We’ve collected some of their best posts to share with you. Scroll down, but be careful—if you’re a fan of order, you might end up facepalming way too much.

#1 We Stand With No Standing Ukraine

Image credits: jaber-allen

#2 Asia Rden Ensb Vgio Ocko

Image credits: acrawf1

#3 Left No Turn Right Only Turn

Image credits: thatrotteneggsmell

The r/dontdeadopeninside subreddit has been up and running for nearly a decade, all the way since mid-2014. Since then, the community has grown to encompass over 681k members from all over the world.

The name of the group is rooted in the hit TV series, ‘The Walking Dead,’ which had a promotional poster that had the words ‘Don’t Open’ on one half of the chained doors and ‘Dead Inside’ on the other. When read from left to right, due to the weird spacing, the message becomes ‘Don’t Dead Open Inside’ instead of the intended ‘Don’t Open Dead Inside.’

#4 Love Is Watching & Watching Someone Someone Die Is Hard

Image credits: haevy_mental

#5 Honk Ha Against Te

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#6 You If Going Lost You’re Me Together Get Can’t Know Don’t

Image credits: 1mnotcrying

According to Know Your Meme, ‘Don’t Dead Open Inside’ is one of the most well-recognized examples of messages that aren’t read as they should be because there’s no instantly-recognizable, clear way to tell what order the words ought to be in. It takes a moment to really get the message, by which time the impact the sign could have had is lost.

The meme spread on Twitter in 2010 as more and more people started realizing this. Throughout the next few years, internet users started coming up with memes and jokes based on this. Eventually, this led to the creation of r/dontdeadopeninside in 2014, which continues to be very popular to this day.

#7 Redshe Neckshed

Image credits: WishboneUnlikely1963

#8 Ly Paer Soils Ca

Image credits: igethejoke

#9 Do Not Thanks; Turn Off Randy

Image credits: jabe25

There are a few main rules that the members of the DDOI community ought to follow. “Signs must be read correctly top to bottom, and incorrectly left to right, like any text usually. Though it does not matter how easily you can read them, it is highly encouraged to only post images with little separation or spacing between the columns of words,” the moderator team running the group explains.

#10 Burger Better Cause Maker You Built It

Image credits: Whatabeezy

#11 Noki Parng

Image credits: LegoYoda777

#12 Go Citd Wals!

Image credits: ijustsailedaway

Meanwhile, redditors are encouraged to be original with their content: reposting the most popular pics of all time or signs from the last 4 months isn’t tolerated. Your posts might end up getting removed. Moreover, signs that have been staged or faked also have no place on this sub. Finally, internet users are asked to be civil to each other and to put the wrong way to read the message in the titles of their posts.

#13 Hot Sharp Water Needles!!

Image credits: dkreidler

#14 Jesus Save Can Even You

Image credits: Slaidn

#15 The Tim Hoe Use

Image credits: JohnnyAlabama

As we’ve covered on Bored Panda previously, clarity and brevity are absolutely vital when creating signs. Essentially, you only have a moment to get your message across. So if you cause even the slightest amount of confusion, you’ve basically negated the whole point of your sign, and it's best to start over.

#16 Satan Jesus Is Is Defeated Lord! [oc]

Image credits: not_quite_creative

#17 Sophisticated Ho

Image credits: Xendran

#18 We Hold That All Man, These Truths, And Women To Be, Are Created Self-Evident... Equal

Image credits: 5W1TCHY

What really helps avoid these errors is being patient and diligent. First of all, you need to put in the time and care to create the best possible version of the sign possible, along with a few alternatives. Then, take a break, come back to your design, and look at it with fresh eyes. You’re bound to see things very differently than when you’re face-deep into drafting the sign.

#19 Feed Animals School Kids Parties Groups

Image credits: Mineral_myco_medic

#20 Pine Man Apple Go Nada Nada

Image credits: Reckless-Ambition

#21 I Don't Know Why Everyone Has Been Complaining. My Cage Large Eggs Have Been Very Affordable

Image credits: derydoca

Secondly, you should definitely take the time to show your design to a few different people, whether they’re your relatives, close friends, coworkers, or—heck—even some passersby on the street. You’re essentially conducting a bit of research with tiny focus groups. They might catch a silly mistake you left in or might end up interpreting the entire sign very differently than you intended. It’s better to deal with a dash of embarrassment now than tons of it later.

#22 At Least Irma It Ain't Ian 17 Snowin 22

Image credits: Richie311

#23 It’s Hard To Be When Humble You’re From Texas

Image credits: _Skum

#24 Holo Meve

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If you’re working on a very important project, you might want to consider hiring some professionals to help you, instead of doing everything yourself. Find a designer with a decent reputation to flesh out some of your ideas. Meanwhile, consider getting in touch with a proofreader or editor as well. We all make silly mistakes from time to time, and it helps to have a real pro in your corner.

#25 Always Forgotten Remembered Never

Image credits: godhatesanna

#26 Wildphot Lifeography

Image credits: sta015

#27 The Love Is Sweeter Of Than Any Jesus Candy!

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The fact is that if you just wing it, you might end up losing your audience or potential customers. The more fluent your font is, the clearer your message. And vice versa! How trustworthy and likable you and your business are depends a lot on how you brand everything. Ideally, everything should be as legible as possible. With a focus on readable fonts, good kerning, and an overall design that focuses people’s attention where you want it to.

#28 Never Always Open Look

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Here at Bored Panda, we’re very big fans of poorly designed signs—we can’t get enough of these trainwrecks! As such, we’ve featured the genius of r/dontdeadopeninside time and again. If you’d like to see some more chaotic signs that are definitely going to be misinterpreted, check out our earlier lists here and here, as well as here and here.

#31 Drinks Ice Sorry We Machine

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#35 Pibu Zzarger

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#36 Tog Tog Eth Eth Er! Er!

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#37 He She Asked Said 10-4

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#38 I Love The Sound When You Make Up Shut

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#39 Dream Work Stay Big Hard Kind X.x

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#40 Love, Askv, Grsenofr? Ihty

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#41 Blackwhite Beachbeach

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#42 Why Would Me You Marry For Wanna Anyhow?

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#43 Same Same Game Dead Diff Erent Levels Devils

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#44 You're Like The Now One I

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#45 My Religion Is My Religion. Very Simple Is Kindness

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#46 Hot Makes Me Want A Dog

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#47 Time Spent Second With Family Is Worthevery

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#48 Don’t Do Park Park Here Here

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#49 At Day At Night I’m You’re Your My Angel Slave

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#50 Trees Trees Warn Have Fellow Musical Trees Taste

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#52 Vac Cer Cination Tificate

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#53 Donut Be Happy Worry

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#54 Mr.mon Lemade

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#55 Is The Jesus Reason For The Season?

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#56 Make No Art War

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#57 Lat Ame Tro

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#59 Don’t This Paint Side!

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#60 “Fun” Dasn Riig!

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#61 Work Love Prank Boss Sass Drink Sing Eat

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#62 Critic The Ink Ersal

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#63 Tis It True? His It Hhelpful?

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#64 We Are No One Dare With You To Harm You

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#65 Together Is Together, Powerful You Win

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#66 Scan Me To View Our Nu

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#67 Postal Are Workers Thieves

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#68 Eng English Lish Gram Grammar Mar

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#69 Elv Perf Is Ect

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#70 Traditional Free Glass Horse Meat Of Wine

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#71 Great Great Food! People

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#72 Palm For Trees Sale

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#73 Waste Energy Today Tomorrow

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#74 Working Like To Support The Crazy Lazy

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#75 Honk You If Fart

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#76 Red Blood Hot Sugar Chili Sex Peppers Magic

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#77 Not Sure If This Has Been Posted Here Already But Yeahh.. Lohovo Vepete

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#78 Pro Pro Pro Life God Gun

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#79 Gas Store Open Is Open

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#80 Cry • Give Up

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#81 Moviforw Ngard

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#82 Bang Naruto Head Style Here (At Work)

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#83 You’re Do Not Next Enter

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#84 Cheat Yonur GF Not Yonur Workouts

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#85 Families Are And It’s Being Forced Not Just To Flee

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#86 Xeln Eclet

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#87 9/11 Was Arrest Treason The Bankers

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#88 Because I’m Me

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#89 God Save #not The Working My Class King

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#90 My Religion Is My Religion, Very Simple Is Kindness

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An internet user, out of morbid curiosity no doubt, wanted to hear other’s worst experiences with total strangers. And people delivered, with stories ranging from bizarre to downright terrifying. So be warned, some potential unpleasantness ahead. If you do stay, be sure to upvote your favorite (however you choose to interpret that) and share your own stories in the comments. 

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Unfortunately, there are people out there who are somehow entirely blind to social norms and will flagrantly break them without a thought. In a few cases, this could be simple ignorance or lack of ability to read social cues. Everyone knows someone who is probably well-meaning but ends up being downright annoying to be around. 

But many of the cases listed here go much further than, say, a loud belch at a dinner table or an awkward question about one’s love life. These encounters veer into downright antisocial behavior, which at “best” are a nuisance and at worst, could be seen as a crime. Traditionally, this is seen as part of a personality disorder, but more contemporary psychologists believe it could, instead, be a result of certain issues in upbringing. 

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The generally accepted cause of antisocial behavior is upbringing or a lack thereof. This is a sort of double-edged sword, as it lets us pinpoint how to prevent it, but unfortunately, it offers little hope for people who are already adults. The upside is the policymakers, social workers and just people who live in a community can all do their part to help, but it also means they generally have to suffer at the hands of existing, antisocial adults. 

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The rapid social changes brought on by technology have made it hard to track exactly what stimulus ends up causing kids to start behaving poorly. In the age of regular TV consumption, some studies found that for every additional hour of TV a teen watched, the risk of them exhibiting some antisocial behavior rose by roughly 30%. However, as most parents now know, young people aren’t really watching hours and hours of TV, but it’s unclear if, say, video games or streaming has the same effect as TV used to. 

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It’s not fair, however, to pin all the blame on media. Media only raise a child if the parents are absent in some form, which might be a more significant trigger than, say, Cartoon Network or Minecraft. Even more significantly, parental abuse is pretty closely tied with the victim “passing on” the abuse to another, creating a spiraling cycle of violence and bad behavior. Even smaller things, like poor nutrition and poverty, can cause an environment where normal social behavior is not learned, leading to the sorts of adults we see in these stories. 

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There are also some genetic factors that ultimately might lead to people behaving in ways that others find annoying or downright horrible. The bottom line is that antisocial behavior, ultimately, needs to be cut off at the source. This means that all of us have to look for ways to help dysfunctional families, to make sure children can live in a safe environment and that psychological help like Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is available to those in need. 

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But after one woman seated between two plus-sized passengers politely asked if she could relocate, she ended up being accused of fatphobia. Below, you’ll find the flyer’s full story, which she recently shared on the “Am I the [Jerk]?” subreddit, as well as a conversation between her and Bored Panda.

After being seated between two plus-sized passengers on a flight, this woman decided to politely find a more comfortable seat

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Upon arrival, however, one of her former seat neighbors made it clear that she was offended by her relocation

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Later, the passenger clarified some details about the situation

“I would imagine that the confrontation was a result of her feeling anxious about other people having seen me move”

To learn more about this specific situation, we reached out to the Reddit user who shared this story, Throwawayonaplane, who was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda. As far as how she relocated on the plane, the woman explained that she tried to do it as discreetly as possible, but there wasn’t much privacy in the cabin. “It’s entirely possible that a couple people saw and could assume why I moved, but nobody was told anything about the situation except for the flight attendant,” the OP shared. “I would imagine that the confrontation was a result of her feeling anxious about other people having seen me move, and as some commenters might have pointed out, it might have just been her way of venting out a frustrating day of travel.”

We also asked the OP what her thoughts were on the reactions her post received. Throwawayonaplane shared that she was relieved to hear that most commenters didn’t think she had done anything wrong, but a lot of the replies were upsetting. “I had posted this situation for some insight on if or how I could have handled the situation better or what other people would have done, but far too many people in the comments took my story as an excuse to generalize and bully all larger people. I’m unable to delete the post because of AITA’s rule on active discussions, but I truly feel terrible about the nature of so many of the comments,” she explained, adding that she is grateful for the nicer, helpful replies.

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“While it’s not fair to take that stress out on the people around you, in situations like those, it’s best to just be patient and understanding”

We were also curious how the OP might handle a situation like this again in the future. “The biggest thing I might change is to say something like, ‘Sorry, I just have to grab my bag, there’s an available seat next to my friend’ or a similar white lie to avoid any additional stress,” she told Bored Panda, adding that her biggest tip for handling situations like these is to be compassionate. “Flying is so stressful for so many people and for so many reasons, and you never know what someone might have gone through before or during their flight,” she noted. “While it’s not fair to take that stress out on the people around you, in situations like those, it’s best to just be patient and understanding.”

The OP also urges readers not to take what happened to her as an example of all plus-sized people. “It’s not fair to generalize or use this one story about this one person to ‘prove’ that all larger people are lazy, entitled, or whatever else some people have been saying,” she noted. “This same situation could have happened with a tall person in behind me or the parent of a fussy child across from me, or the plus-sized person next to me could have been super nice. What a person’s body looks like has absolutely zero to do with their character.”

Airplane seats have only gotten smaller over the past few decades, making them increasingly more uncomfortable

Flying on an airplane is uncomfortable for everyone. Whether you’re tall, short, skinny, plus-sized, young or old, nobody enjoys those narrow seats with minimal leg room and barely any room to recline. That’s why most passengers go out of their way to snag a row to themselves, or at least one open seat next to them, any chance they get. Plus, we all know that the dreaded middle seat is widely considered the worst seat on a plane. As many of the commenters mentioned, this woman was not being prejudiced towards her fellow passengers in trying to seek comfort. If anyone in this situation was fatphobic, it was the airline. Have you ever heard your parents talk about how pleasant and luxurious flying used to be? Well, it was! In fact, seats today have on average 2-5 inches less leg room and are 2 inches narrower than airplane seats from the 1980s, despite the fact that we’ve gotten bigger.

And according to Paul Hudson, president of passenger advocacy group FlyersRights, these tiny seats can even be a safety issue for the smallest of passengers. “[Airlines] only narrowly define safety as if it has something to do with evacuation speed,” Hudson told CNN. “But they ignore health risks, especially blood clots, which are known to increase dramatically when you’re in a confined space for more than two or three hours. They ignore completely the forced intrusion that you have now on your neighbor.”

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These tiny seats can make traveling as a plus-sized person particularly difficult

Of course, plus-sized passengers do tend to have a much more difficult time traveling than smaller individuals. Some of the discomforts they might encounter while flying are tight squeezes into tiny seats, seat belts that either don’t fit or need an extender to fit and arm rests jabbing into their sides. “I don’t want to have to ask for a seat belt extender or worry that they’ll make me buy an extra seat,” size-inclusive TikTok star Mary Fran Donnelly told the New York Post. “The traveling industry should outfit planes to suit everybody’s needs without bigger people having to be embarrassed or uncomfortable.”

Thankfully, however, there are ways plus-sized people can travel just as much as their hearts’ desire. They just need to know the tricks of the trade, until the airline industry becomes more inclusive. When it comes to which companies plus-sized passengers trust the most, Southwest Airlines seems to be the fan favorite. The airline encourages larger passengers to purchase an extra seat prior to boarding, which they can be reimbursed for after their journey has been completed. Or, if there are still seats available for purchase, they can simply request an extra seat at no additional cost once they’re at the airport. 

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But there are ways plus-sized flyers can ensure that they, and their fellow passengers, are as comfortable as possible

“We are very proud of our policy, as we feel it provides comfort and hospitality for all of our customers,” a Southwest spokesperson told the New York Post. “It was a creative solution to what can be a sensitive topic, and we’ve found that our customers appreciate it.” And if you’re a plus-sized traveler who is looking for even more tips on how to have the best flying experience possible, Halee and Jeff at Plus Size Travel Guide recommend researching the airplane ahead of time to know exactly what you’re getting yourself into, asking for seat belt extenders upon boarding, picking the right shoes and socks to keep you as comfortable as possible, doing your research on whether a first class seat is worth it or if two economy seats would be better, and having all of your inflight items ready and accessible to limit how often you have to bend over or move around in-flight.

We all just want to find comfort in any way we can when on a plane, and that can be difficult to accomplish, regardless of your body size. It’s never appropriate to shame others, and fatphobia is a real issue. But in this particular case, the consensus of readers was that the woman was simply trying to help herself, not judge anyone else. We would love to hear your thoughts on this situation in the comments, pandas, but please remember to be respectful of all parties involved in the story. Then, if you’re interested in reading another Bored Panda article featuring airplane seat drama, look no further than right here!

Readers assured the woman that she had done nothing wrong, and some plus-sized folks noted that having more space benefits everyone

The post Woman Changes Seats On A Plane To Be More Comfortable, Plus-Sized Passenger Takes It Personally first appeared on Bored Panda.

Redditor u/edamommy_, a mother of two, recently went viral on the r/workingmoms online community. She shared how she’s on maternity leave after giving birth to her second child, however, she and her husband decided that their first kid should continue to stay in daycare during this time. Many internet users were very supportive of this decision and pointed out that maternity leave isn’t the same as a vacation. Read on for the full story and to see what people had to say about it.

Many parents are critical of how everyone else raises their kids

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One mom shared how she decided to keep her firstborn in daycare while she’s on maternity leave with her second child

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It’s essential to stay practical, instead of giving in to social pressure

The OP shared on Reddit how some people are very critical of her decision to keep her toddler in daycare while she’s on maternity leave. “Most of the people who question this decision are either people who don’t have kids, or were/are stay-at-home parents (my mom chief among them),” she shared.

However, she points out that it makes a lot of sense from a practical point of view to keep her first child at the nursery. This has given the mom more time to focus on her second baby. What’s more, she revealed that she’s finished up plenty of house projects and family to-do’s. Something that she might not have had the time and energy for if she was taking care of both children at home.

And that’s what lies at the core of the story: no matter how much people might love their children, this doesn’t mean that it’s feasible to spend 24/7 around them. Chores, work, hobbies, travel, exercise, meeting up with others—all of these things still happen and responsibilities pile up. Life goes on, and every family needs to find a balance between what’s great for all the kids, and how to keep the couple thriving, too. Because—and let’s not forget it—parents aren’t just parents.

It’s completely understandable if a new parent is feeling overwhelmed by, well, absolutely everything. Not only do they have to battle insomnia as they’re changing diapers, but they might also need to balance their other important commitments, like work. It’s not a weakness to ask for help or to look for ways to catch a breather. Daycare and school can free up a large chunk of the day. As can asking your family and friends to come over and babysit for a little while. Meanwhile, the parents can have a romantic date night, catch up on some sleep, or take some time off to work on their passion projects… or simply be alone with their thoughts. Everyone needs rest. Wanting it doesn’t make you a ‘bad’ parent.

The situation with (un)paid parental leave is very chaotic in the US

In an ideal world, both parents should be able to take long-lasting parental leave once their child is born. This time can be spent bonding with the baby and supporting one another at the start of that wonderful journey called parenthood.

In many developed countries, there are laws protecting a person’s right to paternal or maternal leave. Unfortunately, the situation in the United States is… messy. To say the least. It speaks volumes about how great of a company redditor u/edamommy_ works at that she’s been given a whopping 24 weeks of leave! Not everyone is as lucky.

The US does not have mandated paid maternity or paternity leave. It is up to each individual employer to decide whether to offer parental leave. Meanwhile, Federal employees are granted a mere 12 weeks of paid parental leave. To put it somewhat bluntly, this is beyond peculiar in a developed Western nation.

The idea of taking time off to be with the baby is very popular in the US. According to Investopedia, 7 out of 10 Americans support the idea of paid parental leave. Meanwhile, 55% of employers offer paid maternity leave while 45% of businesses also offer paid paternity leave. The key word here is ‘paid.’

On the flip side, to qualify for unpaid parental leave in the US, you have to have worked for the company for at least a year, and the business has to employ at least 50 employees within 75 miles of the HQ. You can have a maximum of 12 weeks of unpaid leave.

Many readers showed their support for the mom of two with their comments

Some parents who pulled their toddlers out of school and babysitting shared their stories

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They follow through with their [cough] artistic vision [cough] and the result is a hot mess of utterly illegible chaos. The worst of the bunch end up being featured on the r/dontdeadopeninside subreddit, an online community that is dedicated to nonsense signs if read normally. We’ve collected some of their best posts to share with you. Scroll down, but be careful—if you’re a fan of order, you might end up facepalming way too much.

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#2 We Stand With No Standing Ukraine

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The r/dontdeadopeninside subreddit has been up and running for nearly a decade, all the way since mid-2014. Since then, the community has grown to encompass over 681k members from all over the world.

The name of the group is rooted in the hit TV series, ‘The Walking Dead,’ which had a promotional poster that had the words ‘Don’t Open’ on one half of the chained doors and ‘Dead Inside’ on the other. When read from left to right, due to the weird spacing, the message becomes ‘Don’t Dead Open Inside’ instead of the intended ‘Don’t Open Dead Inside.’

#4 Love Is Watching & Watching Someone Someone Die Is Hard

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#6 You If Going Lost You’re Me Together Get Can’t Know Don’t

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According to Know Your Meme, ‘Don’t Dead Open Inside’ is one of the most well-recognized examples of messages that aren’t read as they should be because there’s no instantly-recognizable, clear way to tell what order the words ought to be in. It takes a moment to really get the message, by which time the impact the sign could have had is lost.

The meme spread on Twitter in 2010 as more and more people started realizing this. Throughout the next few years, internet users started coming up with memes and jokes based on this. Eventually, this led to the creation of r/dontdeadopeninside in 2014, which continues to be very popular to this day.

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#8 Do Not Thanks; Turn Off Randy

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#9 Jesus Save Can Even You

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There are a few main rules that the members of the DDOI community ought to follow. “Signs must be read correctly top to bottom, and incorrectly left to right, like any text usually. Though it does not matter how easily you can read them, it is highly encouraged to only post images with little separation or spacing between the columns of words,” the moderator team running the group explains.

#10 Burger Better Cause Maker You Built It

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#11 Redshe Neckshed

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Meanwhile, redditors are encouraged to be original with their content: reposting the most popular pics of all time or signs from the last 4 months isn’t tolerated. Your posts might end up getting removed. Moreover, signs that have been staged or faked also have no place on this sub. Finally, internet users are asked to be civil to each other and to put the wrong way to read the message in the titles of their posts.

#13 We Hold That All Man, These Truths, And Women To Be, Are Created Self-Evident... Equal

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#14 Hot Sharp Water Needles!!

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As we’ve covered on Bored Panda previously, clarity and brevity are absolutely vital when creating signs. Essentially, you only have a moment to get your message across. So if you cause even the slightest amount of confusion, you’ve basically negated the whole point of your sign, and it's best to start over.

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#17 Go Citd Wals!

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#18 Noki Parng

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What really helps avoid these errors is being patient and diligent. First of all, you need to put in the time and care to create the best possible version of the sign possible, along with a few alternatives. Then, take a break, come back to your design, and look at it with fresh eyes. You’re bound to see things very differently than when you’re face-deep into drafting the sign.

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#20 Pine Man Apple Go Nada Nada

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#21 Satan Jesus Is Is Defeated Lord! [oc]

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Secondly, you should definitely take the time to show your design to a few different people, whether they’re your relatives, close friends, coworkers, or—heck—even some passersby on the street. You’re essentially conducting a bit of research with tiny focus groups. They might catch a silly mistake you left in or might end up interpreting the entire sign very differently than you intended. It’s better to deal with a dash of embarrassment now than tons of it later.

#22 Eggmnnaeet

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#23 Always Forgotten Remembered Never

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#24 The Love Is Sweeter Of Than Any Jesus Candy!

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If you’re working on a very important project, you might want to consider hiring some professionals to help you, instead of doing everything yourself. Find a designer with a decent reputation to flesh out some of your ideas. Meanwhile, consider getting in touch with a proofreader or editor as well. We all make silly mistakes from time to time, and it helps to have a real pro in your corner.

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#26 Pibu Zzarger

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The fact is that if you just wing it, you might end up losing your audience or potential customers. The more fluent your font is, the clearer your message. And vice versa! How trustworthy and likable you and your business are depends a lot on how you brand everything. Ideally, everything should be as legible as possible. With a focus on readable fonts, good kerning, and an overall design that focuses people’s attention where you want it to.

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Here at Bored Panda, we’re very big fans of poorly designed signs—we can’t get enough of these trainwrecks! As such, we’ve featured the genius of r/dontdeadopeninside time and again. If you’d like to see some more chaotic signs that are definitely going to be misinterpreted, check out our earlier lists here and here, as well as here and here.

#31 Drinks Ice Sorry We Machine

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#32 He She Asked Said 10-4

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#33 You Give Chances Kid Voice Are

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#34 It’s Hard To Be When Humble You’re From Texas

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#35 Never Always Open Look

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#36 I Don't Know Why Everyone Has Been Complaining. My Cage Large Eggs Have Been Very Affordable

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#37 Tog Tog Eth Eth Er! Er!

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#38 Work Love Prank Boss Sass Drink Sing Eat

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#39 “Fun” Dasn Riig!

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#40 I'm ?on Stuck You!

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#41 My Religion Is My Religion. Very Simple Is Kindness

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#42 Trees Trees Warn Have Fellow Musical Trees Taste

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#43 At Day At Night I’m You’re Your My Angel Slave

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#44 Mr.mon Lemade

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#45 Time Spent Second With Family Is Worthevery

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#46 Why Would Me You Marry For Wanna Anyhow?

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#47 You're Like The Now One I

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#48 Don’t Do Park Park Here Here

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#49 I Love The Sound When You Make Up Shut

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#50 Same Same Game Dead Diff Erent Levels Devils

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#51 Love, Askv, Grsenofr? Ihty

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#52 Tis It True? His It Hhelpful?

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#53 Postal Are Workers Thieves

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#56 Blackwhite Beachbeach

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#58 Don’t This Paint Side!

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#59 Cheat Yonur GF Not Yonur Workouts

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#60 You’re Do Not Next Enter

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#61 Traditional Free Glass Horse Meat Of Wine

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#62 Elv Perf Is Ect

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#63 Moviforw Ngard

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#64 Together Is Together, Powerful You Win

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#65 Not Sure If This Has Been Posted Here Already But Yeahh.. Lohovo Vepete

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An internet user, out of morbid curiosity no doubt, wanted to hear other’s worst experiences with total strangers. And people delivered, with stories ranging from bizarre to downright terrifying. So be warned, some potential unpleasantness ahead. If you do stay, be sure to upvote your favorite (however you choose to interpret that) and share your own stories in the comments. 

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Unfortunately, there are people out there who are somehow entirely blind to social norms and will flagrantly break them without a thought. In a few cases, this could be simple ignorance or lack of ability to read social cues. Everyone knows someone who is probably well-meaning but ends up being downright annoying to be around. 

But many of the cases listed here go much further than, say, a loud belch at a dinner table or an awkward question about one’s love life. These encounters veer into downright antisocial behavior, which at “best” are a nuisance and at worst, could be seen as a crime. Traditionally, this is seen as part of a personality disorder, but more contemporary psychologists believe it could, instead, be a result of certain issues in upbringing. 

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The generally accepted cause of antisocial behavior is upbringing or a lack thereof. This is a sort of double-edged sword, as it lets us pinpoint how to prevent it, but unfortunately, it offers little hope for people who are already adults. The upside is the policymakers, social workers and just people who live in a community can all do their part to help, but it also means they generally have to suffer at the hands of existing, antisocial adults. 

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The rapid social changes brought on by technology have made it hard to track exactly what stimulus ends up causing kids to start behaving poorly. In the age of regular TV consumption, some studies found that for every additional hour of TV a teen watched, the risk of them exhibiting some antisocial behavior rose by roughly 30%. However, as most parents now know, young people aren’t really watching hours and hours of TV, but it’s unclear if, say, video games or streaming has the same effect as TV used to. 

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It’s not fair, however, to pin all the blame on media. Media only raise a child if the parents are absent in some form, which might be a more significant trigger than, say, Cartoon Network or Minecraft. Even more significantly, parental abuse is pretty closely tied with the victim “passing on” the abuse to another, creating a spiraling cycle of violence and bad behavior. Even smaller things, like poor nutrition and poverty, can cause an environment where normal social behavior is not learned, leading to the sorts of adults we see in these stories. 

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There are also some genetic factors that ultimately might lead to people behaving in ways that others find annoying or downright horrible. The bottom line is that antisocial behavior, ultimately, needs to be cut off at the source. This means that all of us have to look for ways to help dysfunctional families, to make sure children can live in a safe environment and that psychological help like Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is available to those in need. 

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But after one woman seated between two plus-sized passengers politely asked if she could relocate, she ended up being accused of fatphobia. Below, you’ll find the flyer’s full story, which she recently shared on the “Am I the [Jerk]?” subreddit, as well as a conversation between her and Bored Panda.

After being seated between two plus-sized passengers on a flight, this woman decided to politely find a more comfortable seat

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Upon arrival, however, one of her former seat neighbors made it clear that she was offended by her relocation

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Later, the passenger clarified some details about the situation

“I would imagine that the confrontation was a result of her feeling anxious about other people having seen me move”

To learn more about this specific situation, we reached out to the Reddit user who shared this story, Throwawayonaplane, who was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda. As far as how she relocated on the plane, the woman explained that she tried to do it as discreetly as possible, but there wasn’t much privacy in the cabin. “It’s entirely possible that a couple people saw and could assume why I moved, but nobody was told anything about the situation except for the flight attendant,” the OP shared. “I would imagine that the confrontation was a result of her feeling anxious about other people having seen me move, and as some commenters might have pointed out, it might have just been her way of venting out a frustrating day of travel.”

We also asked the OP what her thoughts were on the reactions her post received. Throwawayonaplane shared that she was relieved to hear that most commenters didn’t think she had done anything wrong, but a lot of the replies were upsetting. “I had posted this situation for some insight on if or how I could have handled the situation better or what other people would have done, but far too many people in the comments took my story as an excuse to generalize and bully all larger people. I’m unable to delete the post because of AITA’s rule on active discussions, but I truly feel terrible about the nature of so many of the comments,” she explained, adding that she is grateful for the nicer, helpful replies.

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“While it’s not fair to take that stress out on the people around you, in situations like those, it’s best to just be patient and understanding”

We were also curious how the OP might handle a situation like this again in the future. “The biggest thing I might change is to say something like, ‘Sorry, I just have to grab my bag, there’s an available seat next to my friend’ or a similar white lie to avoid any additional stress,” she told Bored Panda, adding that her biggest tip for handling situations like these is to be compassionate. “Flying is so stressful for so many people and for so many reasons, and you never know what someone might have gone through before or during their flight,” she noted. “While it’s not fair to take that stress out on the people around you, in situations like those, it’s best to just be patient and understanding.”

The OP also urges readers not to take what happened to her as an example of all plus-sized people. “It’s not fair to generalize or use this one story about this one person to ‘prove’ that all larger people are lazy, entitled, or whatever else some people have been saying,” she noted. “This same situation could have happened with a tall person in behind me or the parent of a fussy child across from me, or the plus-sized person next to me could have been super nice. What a person’s body looks like has absolutely zero to do with their character.”

Airplane seats have only gotten smaller over the past few decades, making them increasingly more uncomfortable

Flying on an airplane is uncomfortable for everyone. Whether you’re tall, short, skinny, plus-sized, young or old, nobody enjoys those narrow seats with minimal leg room and barely any room to recline. That’s why most passengers go out of their way to snag a row to themselves, or at least one open seat next to them, any chance they get. Plus, we all know that the dreaded middle seat is widely considered the worst seat on a plane. As many of the commenters mentioned, this woman was not being prejudiced towards her fellow passengers in trying to seek comfort. If anyone in this situation was fatphobic, it was the airline. Have you ever heard your parents talk about how pleasant and luxurious flying used to be? Well, it was! In fact, seats today have on average 2-5 inches less leg room and are 2 inches narrower than airplane seats from the 1980s, despite the fact that we’ve gotten bigger.

And according to Paul Hudson, president of passenger advocacy group FlyersRights, these tiny seats can even be a safety issue for the smallest of passengers. “[Airlines] only narrowly define safety as if it has something to do with evacuation speed,” Hudson told CNN. “But they ignore health risks, especially blood clots, which are known to increase dramatically when you’re in a confined space for more than two or three hours. They ignore completely the forced intrusion that you have now on your neighbor.”

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These tiny seats can make traveling as a plus-sized person particularly difficult

Of course, plus-sized passengers do tend to have a much more difficult time traveling than smaller individuals. Some of the discomforts they might encounter while flying are tight squeezes into tiny seats, seat belts that either don’t fit or need an extender to fit and arm rests jabbing into their sides. “I don’t want to have to ask for a seat belt extender or worry that they’ll make me buy an extra seat,” size-inclusive TikTok star Mary Fran Donnelly told the New York Post. “The traveling industry should outfit planes to suit everybody’s needs without bigger people having to be embarrassed or uncomfortable.”

Thankfully, however, there are ways plus-sized people can travel just as much as their hearts’ desire. They just need to know the tricks of the trade, until the airline industry becomes more inclusive. When it comes to which companies plus-sized passengers trust the most, Southwest Airlines seems to be the fan favorite. The airline encourages larger passengers to purchase an extra seat prior to boarding, which they can be reimbursed for after their journey has been completed. Or, if there are still seats available for purchase, they can simply request an extra seat at no additional cost once they’re at the airport. 

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But there are ways plus-sized flyers can ensure that they, and their fellow passengers, are as comfortable as possible

“We are very proud of our policy, as we feel it provides comfort and hospitality for all of our customers,” a Southwest spokesperson told the New York Post. “It was a creative solution to what can be a sensitive topic, and we’ve found that our customers appreciate it.” And if you’re a plus-sized traveler who is looking for even more tips on how to have the best flying experience possible, Halee and Jeff at Plus Size Travel Guide recommend researching the airplane ahead of time to know exactly what you’re getting yourself into, asking for seat belt extenders upon boarding, picking the right shoes and socks to keep you as comfortable as possible, doing your research on whether a first class seat is worth it or if two economy seats would be better, and having all of your inflight items ready and accessible to limit how often you have to bend over or move around in-flight.

We all just want to find comfort in any way we can when on a plane, and that can be difficult to accomplish, regardless of your body size. It’s never appropriate to shame others, and fatphobia is a real issue. But in this particular case, the consensus of readers was that the woman was simply trying to help herself, not judge anyone else. We would love to hear your thoughts on this situation in the comments, pandas, but please remember to be respectful of all parties involved in the story. Then, if you’re interested in reading another Bored Panda article featuring airplane seat drama, look no further than right here!

Readers assured the woman that she had done nothing wrong, and some plus-sized folks noted that having more space benefits everyone

The post Woman Is Accused Of “Treating Fatness Like A Contagious Disease” After Choosing To Move Seats During A Flight first appeared on Bored Panda.

Someone recently asked Reddit users to share words and phrases that alert them that they won't like a person, and readers did not hold back. Below, you’ll find a variety of statements that people can't stand, so enjoy learning what not to say upon meeting someone, and be sure to upvote the phrases that you consider to be red flags as well!

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