People Who Deserve An “A” For Effort, But An “F” For Execution

You can try your best and sometimes still miss the mark. While your intentions might be in the right place and you put the effort in, sometimes the execution doesn't quite accomplish what you wanted to.

These are people who, despite their best efforts, failed miserably to accomplish their goals. We can laugh, we can cry, but most importantly, we can learn from that colossal mistakes.

Does That Make It A Medium Boulder?

Police sheriff tweets: Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking eastbound lane of highway... Person responds: A large boulder the size of a what?
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Photo Credit: Twitter / @jbfan911

I've never read a more confusing police statement in my life.

I will need another source to confirm the exact size of the large boulder the size of a small boulder.

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That's One Way To Kill The Excitement

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My dad wanted to surprise my little sister with Disney World by making her do a word puzzle. She got stuck here (photo shows letters spelling out WE R GOING TO DIE)
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How do you get your young daughter excited for a trip to Disney World?

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Probably not by having her assemble serial killer letter cutouts that make her think you will all die.

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They Were Trying So Hard Give A Positive Rating

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T-mobile asks for user rating via text: first number (9) doesn't deliver so they lower next answer (8)
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Just when you try to be positive, see the glass half-full, and give good feedback to someone, they just have to let you down.

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Why even bother at this point?

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I Mean, It Was A Noble Attempt

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person explains that parents took the modem with them to work to prevent son from playing specific video game, but it was a single player offline game so it didn't matter
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On the bright side, I feel like everyone won in this situation.

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The parents felt like they were doing their job and the kid got to spend their days doing what they really wanted.

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"Sorry, But You Should've Told Us You Were Alive Sooner!"

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Headline: Romanian court tells man he is not alive - Constantin Reliu, 63, fails to overturn 2003 death certificate because he appealed too late
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Don't you hate when you try to prove that you are, in fact, alive, but you took too long to file your appeal and now you have to stay officially dead?

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Big darnit moment.

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The Eternal Mozzarella Stick Struggle

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Young girl trying to eat a mozza stick, but the cheese keeps stretching
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We've all been there before, whether it be pizza cheese that refuses to break as you bite from a slice or a mozzarella stick with infinite stretch.

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No matter how hard this girl tries, it just won't separate from the stick.

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Uber, Did You Even Really Try?

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Headline: Uber's search for a female CEO has been narrowed down to three men
Photo Credit: Reddit / SayLittleDoMuch
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The board of directors is currently flabbergasted—they had no idea that in order to hire a female CEO, you actually had to consider female candidates for the role.

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Back to the drawing board!

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Jesus Said, "Not Today, Satan!"

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Person tries to DIY a pentagram tattoo but accidentally makes a star of David instead
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Just when this person thought they had permanently inked a satanic symbol onto their skin, the universe came to thwart their plans and put a Christian/Judaism symbol on their arm for life.

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Oh boy.

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Delusions Of Grandeur Will Come Back To Bite You

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I worked at forever 21 as a casheir and I guess the customer I rang up was an instagram baddie because a few people recognized her but I didn't and when I checked her out she was like
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Pro tip: no matter how much fame you believe you've acquired, always wait for other people to recognize you before admitting to it.

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It will save you in the long run, I promise.

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Please Watch A Tutorial First

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person says hard boiled eggs are gross and that the crunchy-soft combo is disgusting; someone else explains that's you're supposed to remove the shell
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This person really thought that they had come up with a unique, controversial opinion on hard boiled eggs.

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On another note, I'm imagining them chewing the shell and I am truly disgusted.

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He Really Thought He Was Spreading Awareness

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Person one: if you use facial recognition for anything... the government has your face. Person two: wait until you find out about driver's licenses
Photo Credit: Reddit / Liteboyy
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From traffic and security cameras, social media posts, passports, drivers' licenses, and any other sort of identification database, you can trust that the government knows exactly what we all look like.

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Just embrace it.

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A Dad Whose Plan Had One Tiny Flaw

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Dad locks keys in safe to prevent son from driving, but the car is push to start so the son just brings the safe with him
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This Dad really thought he had cracked the code on good parental punishments, and if this was ten years ago, he would've been right.

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However, modern problems require modern solutions, like a safe in the wall.

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Does Uber Even Understand Its Business Model?

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Headline: Uber will soon know if you're drunk and could refuse to pick you up. Tweet response: ....that...defeats...the whole point of uber??
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I must admit that I have never taken an Uber while sober. I assume Ubers were specifically designed so that you and your significant other wouldn't get into a big fight about who is going to be the designated driver.

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Lyft would never do something so foolish.

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Some People Should Use Calculators For All The Math They Do

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Person one: A quarter a day for a year will get you $9,125. Person two: A dollar a day is $365. You got some limited edition quarters or something?
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I feel a little sad for the original poster who thought that they had come up with a brilliant and simple way to save money, only to realize that they're less proficient in math than a fifth-grader.

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Funny enough, this is the same logic people use when they tell you if you stopped buying coffee you could buy a house.

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This Barista...

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person told the barista their name was marc with a
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Some people are busy, some are inattentive, and some are just plain living in their own universe.

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Where apparently, Carks roam free.

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Garage Ownership? In This Economy?

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Person makes
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If you're going to make an "inspirational post", you have to at least vet some of the details.

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For example, my excuse is that I only have six brain cells that function on a daily basis.

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They Really Thought They Were Onto Something...

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Person thinks they've realized that hurt lasts through past, present, and future: someone else points out that it's an adjective
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Before you post your ultra-poetic discovery onto the internet where it will live forever, consider consulting a dictionary.

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You never know when your stupidity will be roasted by multiple people!

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Run For Mayor And You'll Start To See Who Your Fake Friends Are

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Punjab mayor candidate cries after getting only 5 votes, says there are 9 members in his own family (photo of him crying)
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We all have our fair-weather friends who know how to stick around when things are going well, but will our loved ones vote for us when we run for local office?

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Only one way to tell.

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Congratulations, You Played Yourself

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Headline: Hipster gets mad his photo was used in an article about how all hipsters look alike then finds out it wasn't him
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Ever try so hard to dispute a point that someone else has made that you accidentally reinforce it?

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This guy certainly has and I'm sure he will never wear that same outfit again.

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What Did She Think Happened With Age?

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Person one: people really be grown and still using umbrellas? Person two: You supposed to become waterproof after you turn 18 or something?
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I'm less concerned with the fact that she was so utterly wrong for making this statement and much more interested in how she thought that adults combatted rainwater and avoided getting soaked?

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Clearly this person hasn't encountered too many raindrops.

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Yes, That's What She Meant

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Girl sends photo of girl in bath in tropical location to boyfriend saying she wants to do this one day and he says she can take a bath whenever
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You're right, your wife definitely has just been craving a good, long bath. Ignore the tropical scenery in the background.

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What's a location anyway when you have a bathtub at home?

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Intentions Were So Pure, Yet So Foolish In Reality

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Person posts joke: I wanted to post a joke about Sodium, but I was like Na people won't understand. Someone comments that
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Most of the time I like to relish in the humiliation of someone having a joke fly right over their ignorant little head, but this time I actually kind of feel bad for the guy.

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Oh boy.

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This Sale Is Such A Steal!

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sale price is more expensive than regular price
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I'm so grateful that I spent my day looking through pages of sale items so I could see this absolute steal of a sale!

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Those extra $5 I spend will definitely be so worth it.

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Make It Rainbow For Extra Measure

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When I was 16 when I first experimented with eyeliner. My step-grandfather caught me and then made me use a chainsaw for the rest of the afternoon in an attempt to man the queer outa me. I'm still queer but now I could build the gayest log cabin you ever did see
Photo Credit: Twitter / @MokiAwa
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When life gives you homophobia and chainsaws from a condescending older relative, make a beautifully crafted log cabin with tastefully-chosen interior decor and hand-crafted wooden chairs.

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That's how the phrase goes, right?

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It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time, Okay?

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Mithridates VI was so paranoid of being poisoned that he took small doses throughout his life to build up an immunity. When he was finally captured by the romans, he tried to kill himself with poison but failed because he was immune
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Imagine how paranoid you'd have to be in order to ingest small doses of literal poison on a daily basis only for the practice to come back around and hurt you in the end?

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Whoops.

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Keep Monuments Out Of Your Catfishing

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Person trying to pretend he's 23 has the twin towers in the background of his Tinder profile picture
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If you're trying to catfish on dating apps, a couple quick tips are: make sure the photo isn't posted online a long time ago and don't include monuments that were destroyed over a decade ago.

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Context clues, Rashed.

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This Is Such A Wholesome Misunderstanding

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yahoo question: my friend said he got high from sniffing coke, but I only have pepsi. What's the proper way to get high?
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Ah, to be a teenager faced with the harsh force of peer pressure to do illegal things again.

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Luckily, this pure soul is too busy being preoccupied with soda to get into the hard stuff.

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So Close To Escaping Death, And Yet...

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death row inmates in georgia escaped the night before his execution only to be killed in a bar fight that very same night
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This man definitely planned his escape way in advance, organized supplies and a route out for months ahead of the date, and was so relieved to live to see another day only to brawl in the bar.

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That's the universe.

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Advertisement Placement Is Important

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Sign honoring rosa parks is placed on the back of a bus
Photo Credit: Reddit / TerryFalcone
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Rosa Parks did not a sit at the front of the bus in protest, undergo discrimination, and become a national icon in the movement for civil rights just for her name to be plastered on the back of a bus.

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Just another reason public transport sucks.

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That's A Big Public Relations Yikes

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Budweiser just spent $5 million on a commercial to brag about donating $100K worth of water
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Now I'm no public relations professional working for a multi-million dollar corporation, but I think that it's probably a better idea to donate more money to charity than you spend on the advertisement.

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Oh the irony.

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The Placement Is So Unfortunate

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JFK memorial made from four billboards accidentally looks like crosshair aimed at the back of his head
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Even though a design might look really good when you put it together on a computer screen, I cannot stress the importance of thinking about how it would look printed on four separate billboards placed closely together.

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You'd think someone would've noticed.

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Let's Hope The Cat Can Jump

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person tries to install kitt door, but puts it on the top of the door
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Whenever my dad used to tackle construction and home improvement projects, he always used the phrase "measure twice, cut once."

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However, that never accounted for if you cut the wrong side of the door.

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Props To Her For Trying, Though

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Pretty sure I just received the best fake ID of my bartending career; a girl handed me my missing license from 2 years ago
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It's a pretty bold move to try to use a fake ID on a person who looks exactly like the actual person on the ID.

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At least the bartender got to find out what happened to her lost driver's license.

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Tasty Looking Shadow

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women standing and her shadow looks like a chicken
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Just when you think you've taken a great photo, something always has to ruin it.

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In this case it was this girl's shadow.

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You Should've Left Them To Burn In The Oven

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bread rolls with faces looking like they're puking with caption: They were supposed to be smiley faces. now they looks liked tortured souls begging for death
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This is why you should always take the cool Pinterest baking ideas with a pinch of salt.

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Sure, the smiling buns look cute in theory, but they're more likely to turn out monstrous.

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Have We Already Forgotten FM?

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person one: In breaking news moments like this, there should be a type of podcast you can listen to in real time, easily accessible fore free. Person two: Radio. You're thinking of radio
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Oh, humans... We are such fickle creatures with an unparalleled capacity to forget the past, even if it wasn't that long ago.

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I can't believe this person forgot radio existed.

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No One Wants Your Oils!

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girl trying to sell products asks poll on instagram if people want to see what oils she carries on her and why and 100% of people say no
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I can respect people who try to make a living selling products as social media influencers, but I can also respect their followers for telling them they have zero interest in their essential oils business.

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You never know till you ask though.

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Eye In The Sky

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face swap of women on plane one woman's face gets swapped with a vent
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Some face swaps just aren't meant to happen. This fail was clearly one of those.

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The AI running the filter clearly needs stricter guidelines as to what constitutes a face.

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He's Got My Vote!

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television accidentall puts subtitles for a children's show over a political debate
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Television providers have a lot of channels to manage and a lot of customers to serve, so naturally, they're going to make some mistakes from time to time.

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This mistake is one of the most fabulous ones I've ever seen.

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Check Your Images Before Publishing The Ad

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add thanking medical heros includes image of meme
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I'm not surprised that this ad tried to use stock images of healthcare workers—I mean, it's not like they really have time to organize multiple photoshoots...

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But they should maybe have checked before putting a meme into the mix.

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Walmart, You Tried...

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person: I like going to walmart for fun. Walmart: It's the small things,. murk! what's your favorite thing to do in our stores? Murk: steal
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Walmart's Twitter account manager was probably so excited to have a wholesome customer interaction on the site, only for Murk to undermine them by saying he loves to steal from the company.

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Oops.

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Perfect For Black Tie

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sister made her sister a bowtie out of her own hair tweet
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Most people have a big moment when they realize they need to move out. It usually follows your mom doing your laundry, dad getting angry you were out late, or the thermostat being too low.

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This person had the absolute pleasure of having that moment come when her sister made her an organic bowtie out of hair.

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This Is Pretty Tragic...

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headline: Mari Lopez the Vegan YouTuber Who Said Veganism Cures Cancer Has Died Of Cancer
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On the one hand, it's absolutely tragic that this young woman passed away from a deadly illness.

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On the other hand, I wouldn't expect any other result from someone who thought eating tofu would heal them.

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Really, Guys?

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store uses two regular mannequins to display plus size pair of pants
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I can't believe this company decided to try and display plus-size clothing, and this was the most effective solution they could come up with.

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They would have been better off not displaying them at all.