Willy Wonka experience uses AI renderings to sell tickets, delivers bleak nightmare: ‘They charged $45 for this’

Snake oil salesmen have been around as long as we’ve had snakes and oil. Conmen have been preying on our vulnerabilities for decades, if not centuries, and they find new ways to get us every year. Sure, maybe we’ve evolved past thinking a dubious «miracle elixir» that smells suspiciously like urine is going to make …
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‘[It] was absolute gold’: Scooter Karen rams unprovoked into woman at the grocery store, so woman relocates Karen’s groceries to an unreachable higher shelf

This pasta-aggression is *chef’s kiss*!

‘She got her lips stuck together’: 8-year-old exacts perfect lipgloss-based revenge on bully

If you’ve ever been a kid (which is everyone) you know that kids can be brutal. They have no filter and a desire to hurt. Sure, people can be mean all the way into adulthood, but nobody’s meaner than a 5th grader with something to prove. The scars left by elementary and middle school bullies …
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‘I drank 101 Panera lemonades even though I have an anxiety disorder’: Dopey people reflect on the silliest things they did in 2023

It’s become a cliché by now (and not always a true one at that) to complain that the internet only shows us the highlight reel of other people’s lives. Never is this clearer than we are ushering in the new year, as social media abounds with happy photo dumps and self-congratulatory personal achievement threads.  These …
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Redditors Share the Most «Sir, this is a Wendy’s» Moments They’ve Ever Experienced With Customers

It’s no secret by now that customer service is the ultimate trip. The amount of people who act entitled or just straight up deluded when they’re paying for goods and services is a bizarre and all-too-common phenomenon.  While it’s rarely pleasant to deal with, these occasions often make for funny stories after the fact. In …
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‘She demanded I hire her’: Manager’s old company calls to begging him to hire his useless ex-coworker to get her off their hands

Imagine having a coworker so terrible that when you get a new management role and poach the members of your old team, your old HR manager actually gets mad at you for not poaching the awful one. That’s a scenario that boggles the mind so completely it’s hard to imagine this scenario actually playing out …
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Living Legend Gets Paid $40K Annually To Attend University, Earns Five Degrees After Being a Student For 20 Years

If you could have any life without restrictions, what would that life look like? Some of you might want to be rich and famous or to travel the world without having to spend a dime. For me, I would love to be one of those people who spend all of their time reading and learning. …
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‘The grin slid off his face’: Employee outsmarts customer trying to exploit returns loophole

Navigating some companies’ return policies can be an unnecessarily difficult experience that may drive you to look for ways you can circumvent their requirements and get a fair go at returning your unwanted item. At times it can feel like these policies are unnecessarily specific and cryptic: «Customer must return an item only when the …
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People Share The Worst Things To Say in an Elevator

Elevators are one of the most uncomfortable social environments the public has to offer. You’re trapped in a tube with a bunch of strangers. You’re packed incredibly closely with people of all different hygienic statuses. Worst of all, you’re supposed to stay silent to avoid making people uncomfortable. Everybody’s already uncomfortable in an elevator, and …
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People Discuss The Dumbest Lies They’ve Ever Heard

Who among us hasn’t gone through a bit of a lying phase? I was never a pathological liar, but in my youth, I tended to stretch the truth a bit to make my life seem more interesting. I would tell my mom stories that never happened, like claiming I had a wacky substitute teacher that …
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