It’s been 20 years since Avril warned us of the dangers of going and making things so complicated .
Unfortunately, it feels like we haven’t heeded her warning. We’re two decades into the millennium and we still love making things needlessly complicated for some reason.
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“My mother made a framed sheet to help me do laundry more.”
This person should just do laundry the normal way: don’t sort anything, overload the washing machine, toss in one of those laundry pods, and hope for the best.
“Someone walked through this field and the grass died under his footsteps.”
This can’t be normal behavior for grass. Did the person who walked along here have weed killer in the soles of their shoes or something?
“15 bucks.”
I know it says the minimum salary is $15.29, and they don’t explicitly require a master’s degree. Still, it’s depressing to think of going to school for that long only to make minimum wage.
“My coworker’s phone cord made a treble clef.”
As landline phones become more and more scarce, here’s something I won’t really miss: phone cords getting so hopelessly tangled that they’ll never be normal again.
“When something says it’s plastic free, it just means it was removed before it got put on the shelf.”
I think some companies just say their products are plastic free or made from recycled materials and hope you won’t catch them in their lie.
“Removing wrapper revealed intentionally shortened brush, effectively making half of the nail polish inaccessible.”
If this truly was an intentional decision by the manufacturer, they should get their act together. Nail-Aid, explain yourself.
“Today my brother turned 22 on 02.02.2022.”
I wonder when this guy or his parents realized he’d turn 22 on a date with lots of 2’s. Was it the moment he was born, or did it not occur to anyone until his 22nd birthday?
“I put another type of shower gel on top of the old one without stirring, and after a few pumps they start ‘raining’ down. Looks like melted wax.”
I can’t tell if I find this effect really cool or really disturbing. I could really go either way on it.
“My rats only like the inside of the broccoli stem.”
Urban rats will eat anything they can, but pampered pet rats have the luxury of only eating the best part of the broccoli stem.
“Someone put googly eyes on this Starbucks sign.”
It might look a little weird at first, but give it a moment. I think this actually works pretty well for the Starbucks brand.
“Got given a measuring tape without measurements.”
If you’re a glass-half-full person, you could see this error as an opportunity to create your own measurements and put them on the blank tape.
“Received a gift voucher for Christmas that is valid for 1000 years.”
It’s comforting to know that this gift card will be valid for centuries. It’ll be valid through the climate wars, through the alien wars, and through the human extinction wars.
“Literally bought this laptop an hour ago and installed an existing Norton account. It claims my brand new laptop has registry issues, and for a paid upgrade I can fix those “
It’s been awhile since I’ve bought a computer that’s assaulted me with all this antivirus stuff, and let me just say that it’s been great.
“Went to a concert last night. This was my view for 3.5 hours.”
Maybe people will eventually realize that shaky portrait-oriented videos of concerts are something that no one ever wants to watch. That day isn’t here yet, though.
“Delia’s catalogs from the 90’s use the sarcasm style alternating capitalization. Everything reads so snarky.”
It’s fascinating to see what’s now well-established as a sarcastic way of typing in a totally different context.
“I thought I was stupid because I couldn’t figure out which one started with R.”
OP provided a second pic to show us what begins with R. It’s, uh, the sailboat. The book calls it a rowboat, but it’s definitely a sailboat.
“Ridiculous Amazon shipping.”
I get a package like this from Amazon at least once a month. Every time, I say I’ll stop using Amazon. Every time, I’m lying to myself.
“A flower vending machine in Copenhagen, Denmark.”
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It seems like Europe gets all the weird vending machines. I want one of these in North America. Right now, all you can get from our vending machines is soda, chips, and candy.
“Walmart locked up the Kool-Aid packets.”
Kool-Aid packets are literally among the cheapest things you can find in a grocery store. I wonder what the logic is in locking them up.
“The supermarket I’m in puts an anti-theft device on every energy drink.”
Here’s something that’s worth a little more, but doesn’t seem nearly expensive enough for these security measures.
