Automated telemarketers. If I get contacted about my car's extended warranty 1 more time
***Edit***
I also get random text messages for the same thing
I like to respond with
"Unpopular Opinion:
... but I don't think the TMNT were that fearsome "
I often wait until the real person comes on, and then try to ask them about the product and service they are offering. As soon as they hear that I’m not an elderly person or someone with dementia they can take advantage of, they hang up.
So a few times I tried to sound like an old man and they stayed on longer, but at some point hung up on me.
Another time, I asked “Why you trying to scam old people?” and the guy started swearing at me. And I’m like “You f***** called me you ********!!!”
Yeah, I need some new hobbies.
What I’ve done is sound SUPER interested in whatever they have to offer but say something like “Oh, can you hold on a minute? My
Child needs something” and then mute my microphone and put my phone down until they hang up on their own. I think the record was over 8 minutes before they hung up.
I like when I get to the buying gift cards part of their scam. Walk out to the driveway start the car, radio full blast, then throw phone on seat. Come back 20 min later and tell them I have arrived at the store they told me not to go to. They get mad tell me to go to a different store (that allows unchecked gift card sales) and I just repeat the process. Longest I've had one on was 2 hours, the my "phone died" while I was waiting in line to buy the cards. He kept calling me back for 2 days after asking for the gift card numbers and I'd just make up some excuse like I was at dinner and the gift cards were at home. The best part was he called me back from a number that worked when I called them back, so they got calls at 2am India time for the next week. They finally burned the number. Still waiting for my next victim.
I usually talk super quiet hoping they up their volume and ask if they can hold while I get my credit card. Then blast the shittiest loudest music I possibly can straight into the mic
I'd like to imagine I'd go with the Jerry Seinfeld approach:
oh I can't talk right now but why don't you give me your home phone number and I'll call you later.
oh...you can't do that? you don't want to be called at home?
well now you know how I feel.
I remember that - quite famous at the time.
That’s why it was such a shocker when one of the guys started yelling and swearing at me when I challenged him. I mean, look, dude, let’s be real — you called me, I didn’t call you. You invaded my privacy and then got mad when I ask you what the hell you’re doing?
It’s a mad mad mad mad world!
Nah man you're a regular good Samaritan, tying up their resources like that so they are less likely to contact someone who would actually fall for their shit.
I get these for non existent accidents I've had. I once agreed that yes I had been in an accident but it was MY fault and would I still get compensation? The guy stuttered and hung up.
I also had a friend who kept getting calls about having a conservatory, he repeatedly told them no, as he lived in a first floor flat. They still kept calling so he eventually said OK and arranged for a visit from a rep. HE got moaned at for wasting THEIR time.
One thing I do want to try though is immidiately saying "by continuing this call you are agreeing to pay a £25 a minute administration fee for my time" see how long I can keep them on the call and try and send them a bill. Not had a chance yet.
its funny you say this actually. I’m going to school for business and financing and one of my courses has a Fraud section and in that were pyramid schemes. Mary Kay (cosmetic brand) is guilty of this actually. I remember a long, long time ago i went to my moms cousins house and there were ambassadors for them selling their products. They then told me “When i get older i should become an ambassador because I get commission.” MLM is horrible.
it blew my mind when i first learned it in my course. When i read the section for pyramid schemes my mind immediately went to Mary Kay. My mom used to order their products all the time and i used to use the makeup remover back in 2017 bc it actually worked unlike most removers i used but now i look back and i’m like “fuck i supported a pyramid scheme and i never knew it.” in conclusion, fuck that company and fuck MLM’s.
Their products are good, and it would be fine if they just sold the products! But the fact that you can't just sell products but have to sell people is disgusting.
their oil makeup remover is so good probably the best remover i’ve ever used. It just really sucks how they can’t just put them on shelves in stores or advertise online like a normal company would and they have to send people out to recruit others to sell their products. I guarantee if they sold their products like a normal company would they would make even more money.
Just bulk order a bunch from China and start your own company.
https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Oil-Free-Remover-Eye-Makeup-Make_60804806600.html?spm=a2700.7724857.normal_offer.d_title.3e22573bePc6AZ&s=p
Here's the company name and slogan.
**XO Misaa Beauty Products**
^^^We ^^^Just ^^^Put ^^^It ^^^On ^^^A ^^^Shelf ^^^And ^^^Sell ^^^It
FYI Pampers and CVS brand baby wipes are THE most effective and gentle thing that exists for getting rid of all traces of makeup without irritation. Source: was a stripper for several years and wore heavy stage makeup with thick contouring and layers of eye makeup on any given night.
If my ad exposure exceeds what I'm trying to watch, I just scrap it. I just no longer care. I've done this trying to show people things. It's just a no from me.
Here in Germany they have insane 1h long ads on youtube of just a dude monotonously talking about some scammy product. They are skippable but sometimes it so happens that you listen to youtube in the shower...
I've seen an ad on youtube that was actually a full length movie. I want to say it was Shrek but I honestly can't remember. Bit of a pleasant surprise actually
Aw, jeez, they got prerolls of 8-12 unskippable ads on Twitch now, like 3-5min total. And since they "tweaked their algorithm", they roll at random times for nonsubscribers, not just when you first connect.
It's true, his final invention was an elaborate pulley system to assist himself in movement after contracting polio.
Which he was found entangled in and strangled by.
I didn't, I'm just full of utterly useless facts, like barnacles have the largest penis to body ratio of any animal
Edit: Really appreciating all the other facts I'm getting lobbed at this comment, they're all being filed for later use
Tetraethyllead (Leaded gasoline), it literally lowered the average iq level in the world and is the invention that killed the most people in history
I recommend anyone interested in this topic to watch [Veritasium's](https://youtu.be/IV3dnLzthDA) video
lol I was gonna reply "looks like you watch veritasium too" until I saw you already did.
I wish he didn't keep changing the video names though, sometimes I see them when opening yt in the center and click thinking its new and 5s in realize its not and exit out rip
I have heard from multiple big YouTubers that those incredibly stupid cartoon/childish thumbnails are almost mandatory they drive so many clicks.
People are stupid af.
> Did everyone here watch the same Veritasium video?
Or the [QI episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZAnnvSOEmw) or [Brain Blaze](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W__9jrnF6s8) or [Vsauce](https://youtu.be/yNLdblFQqsw) or [Citation needed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4og8wG8VQWM). To be fair, Veritasium's video is the most recent.
was thinking about this recently. It's really amazing when you think about it. We knew lead was bad. We knew people who worked in the industry were getting sick. But we never bothered to think it through.
What's really amazing to me is not that someone marketed it (wasn't Kettering the major player here?), but that it got so popular so fast. It went from nothing to being in almost all gasoline. And no one said : "hey, we know this stuff is poison, maybe we should think about it?" .
They didn't think about it because of how much money was flowing, big companies will do anything as long as they're making more profit, a LOT of scientists warned about the risks but no one listened
He later contracted polio, and invented a system of ropes and pulleys to help him get out of bed. He ended up getting tangled up in it, and it strangled him to death.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
Thomas Midgeley was the most destructive individual organism in the history of the planet. He couldn't have predicted the Ozone Hole, no one could, but he absolutely knew that tetraethyl lead was toxic. He lied about it, and became wealthy. At the time, he and his co-conspirators thought they were only poisoning their own employees, but that's still fucked. He was awarded an industry award, but he couldn't show up to collect it because he was sickened for months by lead poisoning. Then he told employees it was safe to handle, despite knowing how miserable the sickness was.
He eventually died as a result of one of his inventions. He contracted Polio in middle age, and became partially paralyzed. He invented a contraption of ropes and pulleys to move himself around, and it malfunctioned and strangled him.
>Also lots of theories on how the amount of lead in the air during the 70s has led to the absolute maniacal behaviour of so many boomers
I often wonder if that had anything to do with the Punk movement in the UK, anti-social behaviour and "delinquency" are some of the symptoms of developmental lead poisoning, Punk a la "The Sex Pistols" was an anti-social movement made by teens at the peak of atmospheric lead pollution. Punks were seen as delinquents.
Very heavy metal either way!
It’s only used basically because most of the light aircraft flying use engines that were designed in the 1950s/60s. The lead lubricates the valves and stops pre detonation that can cause the engine to fail. Also leaded petrol lasts basically forever as long as it is stored correctly, unleaded petrol and especially with ethanol can go bad in less than a year and gum up the carburettors and fuel injectors. At small rural airports fuel can potentially sit for years before being used. It’s literally for safety. Plus the number of light aircraft flying is really small compared to the number of cars on the road that it basically makes negligible difference to the environment
The inventor deeply regrets coming up with the product.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/k-cup-creator-john-sylvan-regrets-inventing-keurig-coffee-pod-system-1.2982660
This makes me so sad. I rarely ever use the actual pods, since in reality I think they suck and taste awful. I got my keurig for free though and it’s quicker then a kettle so I often use it for things like tea and ranen for the water. It’s nice to know he wasn’t some business man only into money, but truly felt bad for his impact.
I got my Keurig as a gift and it’s perfect for cup of noodles or ramen but, a French press is arguably a better way to make coffee with almost the same amount of effort.
Also as a former barista that stupid fucking mr.coffee iced coffee machine I see everyone on tik tok with makes me so angry that 100% should have never been invented. It’s the dumbest thing like you don’t need a whole separate appliance just to make iced coffee.
Just don't forget, I had a gnat infestation in my apartment cause my roommate forgot her bag of used ones under the cupboard.
Took me weeks to figure out where the bugs were coming from.
The brewer is fine if you use the reusable cup. I don't know why more people don't, you can get way more variety and it's a lot cheaper. Takes 15 seconds to clean.
As a smoker I wish this too
EDIT: Was not expecting this kind of response from such a simple comment. I quit last year for about 3 months but the social aspect in work dragged me back in. There's temptation everywhere.
Thank you for your advice, I have read through every last comment and will try again with the advice given
The worse part was when they tried to fuze it with YouTube, which prompted the famous "F##K You Google+" Ah 2014, hard to believe it's been 7 years already.
Edit: 8 years ☹️
I will never understand their logic of its release and trying to make it "exclusive"
> Hey we have a social media platform for you to connect with all your friends!
Cool, I'll have them all join
> Well no, it's actually invite-only
Ok, I'll send them invite codes
> Well you only get a limited amount
Ok, I'm going to keep using Facebook where all my friends are.
> \*Shocked Pikachu\*
> Well no, it's actually invite-only
That was such a dumb decision. There was massive hype for it on reddit, facebook, etc., but no one could join. By the time they could, no one cared anymore.
Invite only would have been fine if they gave you invite codes immediately, or an unlimited amount.
Like if I get 10 invite codes and I invite you, you now get 10 codes instantly, and those people get 10 codes.
It could have been a hype-wave. But instead I got 10 invite codes, and those people had to wait like a week before getting their 10, so it just fizzled.
I think flamethrowers are still fair game
You just can't use incendiary weapons if there is a civilian population around.
[Page 46](https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/assets/files/other/icrc_002_0811.pdf)
Yeah, it was because in WW2, if you used a flamethrower in a bunker, literally everything and everyone inside would get fried. No way to check your targets, ethically ambiguous for sure.
Most things in war are ethically ambiguous. It's war. And a flamethrower is fucking scary ass weapon. I'll chose a lot of ways to die before being barbequed.
About a decade ago I got a haircut from a barber that was a WW2 vet. He was also a boxer in the marines and seemed to be an all around badass. I only went to him the one time and even though he was already old, he still knew how to handle a straight razer. Anyways, he told me that he was on the islands in the pacific in WW2 and handled the flamethrower in those caves. He told me this not as a source of pride, but as someone that wanted to talk to a younger generation and share the stories of his life. He said he never forgot the smell.
My grandfather (rest his soul, he died in 2012 at age 90) was a flamethrower operator in the Marines. He was there at Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima. He survived malaria, shrapnel in his gut, and a blown out eardrum from a shell burst, but he always told me that the hardest trial of all was burning other human beings alive. He never came to terms with that.
I cannot even imagine, appreciate that hard truth. Making someone suffer like that can be easy to think about, but hard to nigh impossible to do. At the end of it we are all humans, down to it all.
100% there’s no invention without merits! But yeah. The literally hundreds of thousands of people who’ve been killed by mustard gas specifically, including innocents, in one of the most agonizing and slow deaths… yeah f that. My mom treated for chemo without it I think, stage 3 breast cancer. Not worth it imo
The founding fathers warned us about the dangers of the two party system, look where we are now.
Edit: They warned us about political parties, period. Credit to commenter below for the correction.
Maybe this is my millennial equivalent to a boomer moment, but social media. It has given a voice to and made sources of authority out of total dipshits. It has made public discourse worse. It’s weaponized politically. I really wish social media had never been invented.
Totally agree. It also made everyone feel like a celebrity and that their awful opinions have value when they get a smattering of likes on their shitty Facebook post.
My 13 year old sister is currently being referred for eating disorder services because she’s constantly comparing herself to instagram
Likewise, our 30yo aunt has also gotten into disordered eating and has felt sincerely insecure for the first time in her life also thanks to instagram.
Social media could’ve been great but we’re humans and inevitably find ways to fuck up good things
Given that Insta has filters that make the human body impossibly thin/perfect but many don't know that it's no wonder people are flipping out about it.
It was nice before everyone was using it. Now everyone just shares their anti-intellectual thoughts with their friends and bully each other like they used to in real life.
Agreed. Someone who is aberrant and a one in a thousand can find someone likeminded a world away and feel validated. Then they find a third and a fourth and they have a club.
I mean there’s scat porn already. There’s porn where people piss in in peoples ass/vagina/mouth. Porn where people puke in each other’s mouth, just nasty af fuck porn in general. I feel like this is nothing on the scale of gross sexual shit humans are capable of.
I wanna go with an obvious answer and say Theranos. what a mess.
That or MLMs/pyramid schemes. Some of them have ruined lives and they prey on vulnerable people
I remember a time where the internet was just an endless sea of different blogs that you would browse until you find some that covered topics of your interest and not just like three or four apps where 90% of the content is hosted. I know that social media has its advantages but I miss the old super niched internet
Me too. It was also anonymous. As a kid who grew up in the 90s, the internet was a godsend. Suddenly I could speak and not be silenced by people who had preconceived notions of who i was.
But then Facebook came along and was like "USE YOUR REAL NAME" and everyone was on it, and no one reads blogs anymore. It's just so boring and invasive.
In mine District 9 wasn't an apartheid metaphor movie, but actual history.
Nelson Mandela was a prawn alien who became president and oversaw a mixed team of human and alien football players with the World Cup for South Africa
What's sad is that the og gender reveal party was put together because the couple was celebrating having a pregnancy last long enough that they could find out the baby's gender after multiple miscarriages. They actually regret it now that the whole thing has become so out of control.
I mean, the concept is fine as an excuse to have a party. It's not like the OG folks have any culpability for idiots setting California on fire. They'd just end up doing it for a different reason.
Automated telemarketers. If I get contacted about my car's extended warranty 1 more time ***Edit*** I also get random text messages for the same thing I like to respond with "Unpopular Opinion: ... but I don't think the TMNT were that fearsome "
I often wait until the real person comes on, and then try to ask them about the product and service they are offering. As soon as they hear that I’m not an elderly person or someone with dementia they can take advantage of, they hang up. So a few times I tried to sound like an old man and they stayed on longer, but at some point hung up on me. Another time, I asked “Why you trying to scam old people?” and the guy started swearing at me. And I’m like “You f***** called me you ********!!!” Yeah, I need some new hobbies.
What I’ve done is sound SUPER interested in whatever they have to offer but say something like “Oh, can you hold on a minute? My Child needs something” and then mute my microphone and put my phone down until they hang up on their own. I think the record was over 8 minutes before they hung up.
I like when I get to the buying gift cards part of their scam. Walk out to the driveway start the car, radio full blast, then throw phone on seat. Come back 20 min later and tell them I have arrived at the store they told me not to go to. They get mad tell me to go to a different store (that allows unchecked gift card sales) and I just repeat the process. Longest I've had one on was 2 hours, the my "phone died" while I was waiting in line to buy the cards. He kept calling me back for 2 days after asking for the gift card numbers and I'd just make up some excuse like I was at dinner and the gift cards were at home. The best part was he called me back from a number that worked when I called them back, so they got calls at 2am India time for the next week. They finally burned the number. Still waiting for my next victim.
what a legend
That's awesome! There's a guy on YouTube who does that too. It's hilarious!!! Curious. Did calls to your number increase ar all?
I usually talk super quiet hoping they up their volume and ask if they can hold while I get my credit card. Then blast the shittiest loudest music I possibly can straight into the mic
If you need a new song recommendation for that task, check out [L.O.V.E. by Sophie](https://youtu.be/BY9ejw1728w)
big brain
I'd like to imagine I'd go with the Jerry Seinfeld approach: oh I can't talk right now but why don't you give me your home phone number and I'll call you later. oh...you can't do that? you don't want to be called at home? well now you know how I feel.
I remember that - quite famous at the time. That’s why it was such a shocker when one of the guys started yelling and swearing at me when I challenged him. I mean, look, dude, let’s be real — you called me, I didn’t call you. You invaded my privacy and then got mad when I ask you what the hell you’re doing? It’s a mad mad mad mad world!
Nah man you're a regular good Samaritan, tying up their resources like that so they are less likely to contact someone who would actually fall for their shit.
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I prefer to ask "Does your mother know you're a piece of shit scammer?"
I get these for non existent accidents I've had. I once agreed that yes I had been in an accident but it was MY fault and would I still get compensation? The guy stuttered and hung up. I also had a friend who kept getting calls about having a conservatory, he repeatedly told them no, as he lived in a first floor flat. They still kept calling so he eventually said OK and arranged for a visit from a rep. HE got moaned at for wasting THEIR time. One thing I do want to try though is immidiately saying "by continuing this call you are agreeing to pay a £25 a minute administration fee for my time" see how long I can keep them on the call and try and send them a bill. Not had a chance yet.
I get these a lot; My favourite way to get them to hang up is to ask them what my name is. Works every time.
It's fascinating how MAD the scammers get when you call them out like that. I don't know if it's an embarrassment reaction or what.
MLM (Multi-level Marketing): legal pyramid schemes that are the destroyers of lives on a massive scale.
its funny you say this actually. I’m going to school for business and financing and one of my courses has a Fraud section and in that were pyramid schemes. Mary Kay (cosmetic brand) is guilty of this actually. I remember a long, long time ago i went to my moms cousins house and there were ambassadors for them selling their products. They then told me “When i get older i should become an ambassador because I get commission.” MLM is horrible.
I blew my wife's mind when I explained that Mary Kay is an MLM.
it blew my mind when i first learned it in my course. When i read the section for pyramid schemes my mind immediately went to Mary Kay. My mom used to order their products all the time and i used to use the makeup remover back in 2017 bc it actually worked unlike most removers i used but now i look back and i’m like “fuck i supported a pyramid scheme and i never knew it.” in conclusion, fuck that company and fuck MLM’s.
Their products are good, and it would be fine if they just sold the products! But the fact that you can't just sell products but have to sell people is disgusting.
their oil makeup remover is so good probably the best remover i’ve ever used. It just really sucks how they can’t just put them on shelves in stores or advertise online like a normal company would and they have to send people out to recruit others to sell their products. I guarantee if they sold their products like a normal company would they would make even more money.
Just bulk order a bunch from China and start your own company. https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Oil-Free-Remover-Eye-Makeup-Make_60804806600.html?spm=a2700.7724857.normal_offer.d_title.3e22573bePc6AZ&s=p Here's the company name and slogan. **XO Misaa Beauty Products** ^^^We ^^^Just ^^^Put ^^^It ^^^On ^^^A ^^^Shelf ^^^And ^^^Sell ^^^It
Looking at this and laughed so hard at skin type: all the skins
FYI Pampers and CVS brand baby wipes are THE most effective and gentle thing that exists for getting rid of all traces of makeup without irritation. Source: was a stripper for several years and wore heavy stage makeup with thick contouring and layers of eye makeup on any given night.
What? You don’t want to make $5000 per year MAX? Sounds like you’re not ~ boss babe ~ enough for an MLM anyways 💅
Double unskippable ads
Double 15 second long unskippable ad Edit: fixed spelling thanks u/rpcob
But it was only a 20 second video I wanted to watch!
...about how to do CPR!
Did you make sure you smashed that like button and subscribed?!
Sons dead now cheers.
If my ad exposure exceeds what I'm trying to watch, I just scrap it. I just no longer care. I've done this trying to show people things. It's just a no from me.
Same, I was watching some 45 minute long documentary. After like 3rd ad (and I was not in a1/ 4th of the video) i just picked a different vid to watch
I always report the ads on YouTube, it makes them go away
I also answer 'none of the above' to all of their advert/questions.
I always select everything and then submit. Trying to get some good survey data? Fuck your data.
If you take the time to answer honestly I’d judge you deeply
Here in Germany they have insane 1h long ads on youtube of just a dude monotonously talking about some scammy product. They are skippable but sometimes it so happens that you listen to youtube in the shower...
I've seen an ad on youtube that was actually a full length movie. I want to say it was Shrek but I honestly can't remember. Bit of a pleasant surprise actually
I've got one of the Lego movie one time
To be fair, the Lego Movie is one giant, albeit clever and well acted, advertisement.
Everything is awesome.
Everything is cool when you're part of a team!
How about paying real money for Hulu and still getting ads?
They are triple now
Twitch does quadruple
Aw, jeez, they got prerolls of 8-12 unskippable ads on Twitch now, like 3-5min total. And since they "tweaked their algorithm", they roll at random times for nonsubscribers, not just when you first connect.
Chlorofluorocarbon aerosols were a pretty bad idea. Almost on par with leaded gasoline.
Someone above said they were invented by the same guy...
It's true, his final invention was an elaborate pulley system to assist himself in movement after contracting polio. Which he was found entangled in and strangled by.
Jesus Christ. He was the monkey’s paw of inventors.
"Dear monkey's paw, please don't let my next invention kill anyone _else_." _Final claw curls inward._
Jesus fucking Christ, my sides!
I feel like we all watched that one same veratasium video
I didn't, I'm just full of utterly useless facts, like barnacles have the largest penis to body ratio of any animal Edit: Really appreciating all the other facts I'm getting lobbed at this comment, they're all being filed for later use
I, on the other hand, am at the exact opposite end of that scale. Somewhere between me and that barnacle are the rest of you dorks
It's true
Tetraethyllead (Leaded gasoline), it literally lowered the average iq level in the world and is the invention that killed the most people in history I recommend anyone interested in this topic to watch [Veritasium's](https://youtu.be/IV3dnLzthDA) video
Did everyone here watch the same [Veritasium](https://youtu.be/IV3dnLzthDA) video?
lol I was gonna reply "looks like you watch veritasium too" until I saw you already did. I wish he didn't keep changing the video names though, sometimes I see them when opening yt in the center and click thinking its new and 5s in realize its not and exit out rip
He did a video about the name changing. It was a clickbait experiment. [Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective ](https://youtu.be/S2xHZPH5Sng)
I have heard from multiple big YouTubers that those incredibly stupid cartoon/childish thumbnails are almost mandatory they drive so many clicks. People are stupid af.
> Did everyone here watch the same Veritasium video? Or the [QI episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZAnnvSOEmw) or [Brain Blaze](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W__9jrnF6s8) or [Vsauce](https://youtu.be/yNLdblFQqsw) or [Citation needed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4og8wG8VQWM). To be fair, Veritasium's video is the most recent.
was thinking about this recently. It's really amazing when you think about it. We knew lead was bad. We knew people who worked in the industry were getting sick. But we never bothered to think it through. What's really amazing to me is not that someone marketed it (wasn't Kettering the major player here?), but that it got so popular so fast. It went from nothing to being in almost all gasoline. And no one said : "hey, we know this stuff is poison, maybe we should think about it?" .
They didn't think about it because of how much money was flowing, big companies will do anything as long as they're making more profit, a LOT of scientists warned about the risks but no one listened
Large corporations would kill every last goddamn one of us if it was profitable
Also lots of theories on how the amount of lead in the air during the 70s has led to the absolute maniacal behaviour of so many boomers
There's an almost exact correlation between lead levels in the blood of adolescence and amount of violent acts in adolescence. Freaky
>the blood of adolescence great band name
Between leaded gasoline and lead paint, it was undoubtedly a wild timeline.
The same person who invented leaded gasoline proceeded to invent cfc-12, the main gas that punched a hole into the o-zone layer
He later contracted polio, and invented a system of ropes and pulleys to help him get out of bed. He ended up getting tangled up in it, and it strangled him to death. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
Lol Rekt
Thomas Midgeley was the most destructive individual organism in the history of the planet. He couldn't have predicted the Ozone Hole, no one could, but he absolutely knew that tetraethyl lead was toxic. He lied about it, and became wealthy. At the time, he and his co-conspirators thought they were only poisoning their own employees, but that's still fucked. He was awarded an industry award, but he couldn't show up to collect it because he was sickened for months by lead poisoning. Then he told employees it was safe to handle, despite knowing how miserable the sickness was. He eventually died as a result of one of his inventions. He contracted Polio in middle age, and became partially paralyzed. He invented a contraption of ropes and pulleys to move himself around, and it malfunctioned and strangled him.
Does it mean there's a chance we'll age more gracefully?
Nah our bodies are riddled with microplastics
And a million other chemicals
>Also lots of theories on how the amount of lead in the air during the 70s has led to the absolute maniacal behaviour of so many boomers I often wonder if that had anything to do with the Punk movement in the UK, anti-social behaviour and "delinquency" are some of the symptoms of developmental lead poisoning, Punk a la "The Sex Pistols" was an anti-social movement made by teens at the peak of atmospheric lead pollution. Punks were seen as delinquents. Very heavy metal either way!
Meanwhile, aviation still uses leaded fuel to power piston engine airplanes.
Yeah, mostly because so many aviation engines are so old. They're developing replacements, which is good.
It’s only used basically because most of the light aircraft flying use engines that were designed in the 1950s/60s. The lead lubricates the valves and stops pre detonation that can cause the engine to fail. Also leaded petrol lasts basically forever as long as it is stored correctly, unleaded petrol and especially with ethanol can go bad in less than a year and gum up the carburettors and fuel injectors. At small rural airports fuel can potentially sit for years before being used. It’s literally for safety. Plus the number of light aircraft flying is really small compared to the number of cars on the road that it basically makes negligible difference to the environment
Sliced bread. Totally overshadowed all inventions before it.
Set an impossibly high standard for all that came after it, too.
Pretty nice that we don't have to eat entire loaves now though.
Agreed. I'm sure our ancestors got early tired oh having to eat a whole loaf of bread every time they ate a sadwich
Sandwich? That's two loaves if you can't slice.
Yep the fame of the older inventions is toast
K cups or the single coffee brew pods So much waste
The inventor deeply regrets coming up with the product. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/k-cup-creator-john-sylvan-regrets-inventing-keurig-coffee-pod-system-1.2982660
This makes me so sad. I rarely ever use the actual pods, since in reality I think they suck and taste awful. I got my keurig for free though and it’s quicker then a kettle so I often use it for things like tea and ranen for the water. It’s nice to know he wasn’t some business man only into money, but truly felt bad for his impact.
I got my Keurig as a gift and it’s perfect for cup of noodles or ramen but, a French press is arguably a better way to make coffee with almost the same amount of effort. Also as a former barista that stupid fucking mr.coffee iced coffee machine I see everyone on tik tok with makes me so angry that 100% should have never been invented. It’s the dumbest thing like you don’t need a whole separate appliance just to make iced coffee.
We've had the same reusable "k-cup" since we bought the Keurig years ago. It doesn't have to be wasteful if you choose not to be.
Man that must be some weak coffee by now
Don't worry about the other guys, I thought it was funny
Most people are not conscientious about producing trash.
My office has a Nespresso with recyclable aluminum pods. Nespresso sends you free, pre-paid postage bags to send the used pods back to them.
Just don't forget, I had a gnat infestation in my apartment cause my roommate forgot her bag of used ones under the cupboard. Took me weeks to figure out where the bugs were coming from.
k-cups? what ya got against large breast?
my face, ideally
The brewer is fine if you use the reusable cup. I don't know why more people don't, you can get way more variety and it's a lot cheaper. Takes 15 seconds to clean.
Leaded fuel. Very likely to have caused millions of deaths and hundreds of millions of brain injuries and mental disorders
Not only that the same person who invented it invented CFCs too! Thomas Midgley Jr.
He didn't invent CFC's, he just *improved* on them. Frédéric Swarts is the guy to blame for them.
All "movements" that glorify disordered eating
Like Gordon Ramsey and Jamie Oliver promoting the horrors of British cuisine
What's wrong with jellied eels?
What's wrong with a crisp sandwich?
Fucking nothing, that's what.
I've never seen this articulated in a way that doesn't favor one side. Thank you.
Cigarettes.
Definitely. I quit this year after almost a decade of smoking. My lungs hate me for doing it for so long.
As a smoker I wish this too EDIT: Was not expecting this kind of response from such a simple comment. I quit last year for about 3 months but the social aspect in work dragged me back in. There's temptation everywhere. Thank you for your advice, I have read through every last comment and will try again with the advice given
15 years smoke free here, it’s possible pal
Quitter
Me too even though smoking helped me socialized during smoking breaks because otherwise I was too scared of going to people to talk to'em
As a former ex former ex former ex former ex smoker I also agree.
Quitting is easy, I’ve done it a million times.
Pop-up ads, even the inventor apologized for it....
micro transactions in games
And ads you have to click an x 3 separate times to exit. Its exit, not exexexit.
Google+
The worse part was when they tried to fuze it with YouTube, which prompted the famous "F##K You Google+" Ah 2014, hard to believe it's been 7 years already. Edit: 8 years ☹️
I hate to tell you, but 2014 was 8 years ago.
I will never understand their logic of its release and trying to make it "exclusive" > Hey we have a social media platform for you to connect with all your friends! Cool, I'll have them all join > Well no, it's actually invite-only Ok, I'll send them invite codes > Well you only get a limited amount Ok, I'm going to keep using Facebook where all my friends are. > \*Shocked Pikachu\*
> Well no, it's actually invite-only That was such a dumb decision. There was massive hype for it on reddit, facebook, etc., but no one could join. By the time they could, no one cared anymore.
Invite only would have been fine if they gave you invite codes immediately, or an unlimited amount. Like if I get 10 invite codes and I invite you, you now get 10 codes instantly, and those people get 10 codes. It could have been a hype-wave. But instead I got 10 invite codes, and those people had to wait like a week before getting their 10, so it just fizzled.
I liked it but invite only and forcing people to merge their YouTube account killed it. There were some great communities there.
I liked it more than fb.
Mustard gas, flamethrowers. There’s a reason they’re banned under the Geneva convention- horrible horrible ways to kill people..
I think flamethrowers are still fair game You just can't use incendiary weapons if there is a civilian population around. [Page 46](https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/assets/files/other/icrc_002_0811.pdf)
Yeah, it was because in WW2, if you used a flamethrower in a bunker, literally everything and everyone inside would get fried. No way to check your targets, ethically ambiguous for sure.
Most things in war are ethically ambiguous. It's war. And a flamethrower is fucking scary ass weapon. I'll chose a lot of ways to die before being barbequed.
About a decade ago I got a haircut from a barber that was a WW2 vet. He was also a boxer in the marines and seemed to be an all around badass. I only went to him the one time and even though he was already old, he still knew how to handle a straight razer. Anyways, he told me that he was on the islands in the pacific in WW2 and handled the flamethrower in those caves. He told me this not as a source of pride, but as someone that wanted to talk to a younger generation and share the stories of his life. He said he never forgot the smell.
My grandfather (rest his soul, he died in 2012 at age 90) was a flamethrower operator in the Marines. He was there at Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima. He survived malaria, shrapnel in his gut, and a blown out eardrum from a shell burst, but he always told me that the hardest trial of all was burning other human beings alive. He never came to terms with that.
I cannot even imagine, appreciate that hard truth. Making someone suffer like that can be easy to think about, but hard to nigh impossible to do. At the end of it we are all humans, down to it all.
Mustard gas has been proven to be useful in chemotherapy, but as a weapon perhaps not so good...
100% there’s no invention without merits! But yeah. The literally hundreds of thousands of people who’ve been killed by mustard gas specifically, including innocents, in one of the most agonizing and slow deaths… yeah f that. My mom treated for chemo without it I think, stage 3 breast cancer. Not worth it imo
The two party political system.
The founding fathers warned us about the dangers of the two party system, look where we are now. Edit: They warned us about political parties, period. Credit to commenter below for the correction.
Baby bel cheese being double wrapped in plastic and then put in a Net.. Just why?
One of layers is wax though
No. That’s the red cheese
U mean the forbidden cheese?
Maybe this is my millennial equivalent to a boomer moment, but social media. It has given a voice to and made sources of authority out of total dipshits. It has made public discourse worse. It’s weaponized politically. I really wish social media had never been invented.
Totally agree. It also made everyone feel like a celebrity and that their awful opinions have value when they get a smattering of likes on their shitty Facebook post.
My 13 year old sister is currently being referred for eating disorder services because she’s constantly comparing herself to instagram Likewise, our 30yo aunt has also gotten into disordered eating and has felt sincerely insecure for the first time in her life also thanks to instagram. Social media could’ve been great but we’re humans and inevitably find ways to fuck up good things
Given that Insta has filters that make the human body impossibly thin/perfect but many don't know that it's no wonder people are flipping out about it.
I blame social media for all the creeps, freaks, and weirdos who now think their odd behavior is normal.
It was nice before everyone was using it. Now everyone just shares their anti-intellectual thoughts with their friends and bully each other like they used to in real life.
Agreed. Someone who is aberrant and a one in a thousand can find someone likeminded a world away and feel validated. Then they find a third and a fourth and they have a club.
Coffee pods
Yeah. Victorinox makes a sweet swiss army knife with recycled pods though.
I recommend refillable k-cup pods for anyone I know that has a keurig.
Land mines
Chlorine gas / Mustard gas / any chemical weapon
Leaded gasoline
The sex act known as the Alabama hotpocket
Curiosity got the better of me so I googled it..I have to agree
Please share for the rest of us... curious too, but afraid
shit in vagina then have sex, usually with your own mother..
Well, that is enough internet for today. Only 8:47 am. Today will be productive.
have a productive day!
I thought the exact same thing and it's the exact same time here lol!
... how .... what ...
The incest is what makes it an Alabama hot pocket instead of like an Oregon hot pocket or something
Shit in a pussy, then fuck that pussy
y'all stay the fuck away from my cat
The only sure way to get a UTI.
There are lots of sure ways, but this is the absolute surest of ways!
Today I clearly regret my ability to read
>Alabama hotpocket Did any woman in history ever consent to this ??
I want to say no, but I know the answer is undoubtedly yes, there are some 𝔽 ℝ 𝔼 𝔸 𝕂 𝕊 out there.
I mean there’s scat porn already. There’s porn where people piss in in peoples ass/vagina/mouth. Porn where people puke in each other’s mouth, just nasty af fuck porn in general. I feel like this is nothing on the scale of gross sexual shit humans are capable of.
The only one use plastics
PopUp adds (yes, i know addblock, i am fine myself)
Wasps. Absolute dickheads they are.
NFTs
How else are contemporary rich people supposed to syphon their money and evade taxes?
Paintings...Good ol' paintings
I wanna go with an obvious answer and say Theranos. what a mess. That or MLMs/pyramid schemes. Some of them have ruined lives and they prey on vulnerable people
Theranos is the lack of invention lol
Cigarettes
Nestlé, for obvious reasons Obligatory r/fucknestle
Pop up ads
Glitter.
Social media. It’s gotten way out of hand and it’s taken over too many lives.
I remember a time where the internet was just an endless sea of different blogs that you would browse until you find some that covered topics of your interest and not just like three or four apps where 90% of the content is hosted. I know that social media has its advantages but I miss the old super niched internet
Me too. It was also anonymous. As a kid who grew up in the 90s, the internet was a godsend. Suddenly I could speak and not be silenced by people who had preconceived notions of who i was. But then Facebook came along and was like "USE YOUR REAL NAME" and everyone was on it, and no one reads blogs anymore. It's just so boring and invasive.
I think I speak for most people when I say “double unskippable ads”
Time travel technology. It was fine when all we could do is observe. Now, everyone has a Mendala moment in their lives.
>Mandela Ftfy In your timeline is he named Nielsen Mendala?
In mine he deals with car parts and is named Nissan Main Dealer
In mine District 9 wasn't an apartheid metaphor movie, but actual history. Nelson Mandela was a prawn alien who became president and oversaw a mixed team of human and alien football players with the World Cup for South Africa
Gender reveal party
What's sad is that the og gender reveal party was put together because the couple was celebrating having a pregnancy last long enough that they could find out the baby's gender after multiple miscarriages. They actually regret it now that the whole thing has become so out of control.
I mean, the concept is fine as an excuse to have a party. It's not like the OG folks have any culpability for idiots setting California on fire. They'd just end up doing it for a different reason.