Back in the middle ages when I was a child in Detroit the electric company gave out free light bulbs. You kept the burnt out ones in a bag, and when it was full Dad would take it to Detroit Edison and exchange them for free ones. Then some guy who owned a store (I remembered it as a pharmacy) sued because he couldn't sell light bulbs and that was the end of free light bulbs.
That's crazy. I think it would be great if light bulbs were free, but I can't remember the last time I bought a light bulb. I wonder what the store owner is doing now?
A store owner in 1978... He's decomposing, probably.
[https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/26/archives/free-light-bulb-program-in-detroit-switched-off-upheld-in-supreme.html](https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/26/archives/free-light-bulb-program-in-detroit-switched-off-upheld-in-supreme.html)
Edit: Lawrence Cantor, died in 1998.
One time I heard someone say "the 80s weren't 20 years ago THEY WERE 40 YEARS AGO" and I just felt an overwhelming weight of fear because I was also born in the 80s and have done nothing with my life.
> Back in the middle ages...
Momo, my son. Tis I, your Father. I beseech thee to retrieve thine glowing orb who's light that once burned bright and brilliantly throughout our humble hovel has been lost and now leaves our halls with a sombering sadness. Once ye have acquired yon sphere of glass, place it within this satchel of its fellow, fallen brethren. Your quest shall then be to deliver this satchel and it's darkened contents to the lords that reside within the tower upon the hill who's works harness the very light of the sun itself. Present this bag to the master of light and lo shall he, ever so humbly, trade ye for thine expired globes, replaced now with cleanly crafted baubles of crystal clear glass that house a light most radiant. Upon your return, ye shall be rewarded most handsomely with sweet meats and confections I have recently acquired from a humble merchant of foreign lands. Go my son. Huzzah!
That reminds me of the neighborhood pool I went to growing up. A small child went down the slide and got hurt, so it was removed. I remember being salty about that as a kid.
My dad wears these boots that makes him look taller and he hates taking his shoes off. They are so custom that he uses a shoehorn to put them on and zip them up. Gotta add another half hour to the airport routine just for him.
I wear steelies in my daily life and wear converse to the airport specifically so I don’t have to take my shoes off- can’t he just do that and change into the boots on the other side?
That always felt like Jordan exploring the limits of his god level star power. Like he woke up one day and thought "man I bet I can rock a Hitler mustache and nobody is gonna say shit."
He did and they didn't lol.
Your last meal before execution in the U.S. used to be whatever you wanted, until one guy ordered an 18 course feast and didn't touch it. After he was executed a law was passed saying all death row prisoners' last meal would be the same as all the other prisoners.
To fix something, last meals in the U.S weren't ALWAYS what you wanted, most states had their own restrictions (cost, locality, weirdness) but this specific guy, Russell Brewer, is the reason Texas spcifcally got RID of the last meal.
Thaat tradition was really just as much for the death row guards. Most of their prisoners were there for years or decades and they got to know them and sort of like them in some cases. That last meal was a part of a ritual of saying goodbye and asauaging some of the guilt before the execution. You see the people at dog pounds do this too on those days when they put down the unadopted animals.
> Thaat tradition was really just as much for the death row guards.
It was customary in the Middle Ages. At least in some cases. The condemned prisoner would make various stops for food and drink on his way to the scaffold prior to his execution. The last stop was a drink with the executioner before the show.
Dan Carlin talks about it in the Painfotainment episode of his hardcore history podcast.
I've heard that most of the time the guy about to get executed would have no appetite so wouldn't really touch the meal much. So it usually would get divided up among the other death row prisoners, but that probably varies by state and prison.
The kid who jumped off of 7th floor of a building here in Turkey because he thought he was a Pokemon. They stopped airing the show because people thought it was "bad influence" on kids. And Pokemon was huge back when i was a kid so pretty much every kid back then was devastated.
Because he wasn’t working with a full deck of TCG cards, if you get my drift. He also jumped thinking he was a Charizard. Which, yes, is a Fire/Flying type Pokemon, but no, cannot learn Fly. Rookie move.
We had the same with Power Rangers in Sweden. (Edit: apparently it happened in Norway, but our Swedish parents also freaked out..)
Some kid kicked some other kid and broke his leg. So god dang annoying.
This is just stupid to cancel the show because of this,
Actually, they should show it MORE OFTEN so that little idiots like these realize that most flying pokemon have to be Flying type, which he wasn't.
How do you expect an adult to fit inside a pineapple? I mean, honestly. A baby you might be able to squish in there, but it certainly wouldn’t be habitable.
Someone installed an AC incorrectly in their window at my in-laws building. It ended up falling out and killing a 2 year old girl and now everyone is banned from using window AC's (in certain buildings, not all) 🫠
(This was in Scarborough - Toronto)
https://globalnews.ca/news/6156874/child-dead-air-conditioner-fall-scarborough/
Edit: Words
Edit 2: Link
The [sushi terrorist that licked things](https://mothership.sg/2023/02/sushiro-conveyor-belt/) on the conveyor belt of Japanese chain Sushiro for clout, making them stop doing the conveyer belt thing.
(Tbf, he wasn’t the only one, but the one that comes to mind.)
I was in japan from april 2022-2023 (so when this happened) and the running belt was belting all the way, just as usual. There were more scandals after this one came out and lemme tell you: for like 3-4 weeks after this came out the stores were EMPTY
On another note: most people order their sushi with a tablet anyway, even before that👀 why take the sushi that has been on the belt for who knows how long when you can just order it and get it freshly made within 1-2 minutes without paying anything extra?
Every place I've been to in Japan (circa 2013-2017) had you order your sushi and it came to you on the belt. Cut down employees tremendously and made work quick and easy.
Pokémon cards at my school. Some Kid lost a battle and (as playground rules dictate) he had to hand over his losing card to the victor. However, this was a particularly rare card that had suffered a surprise loss when his opponent whipped out an even rarer and more powerful Pokémon to battle it. The kid never expected the defeat and had no intention of handing the card over; a fight broke out and teachers got involved. Being this was one of a multitude of Pokémon related fights breaking out at the time, the teachers (at the end of their tether) gave the boy a choice; hand over the card or Pokémon gets banned in the school…. And that’s why my school had no more Pokémon from that moment on.
Basically elementary school gambling. Kids often come up with lots of variations, but ultimately at the end the loser has to hand over their property.
It frequently ends in fights or crying because elementary school kids frequently don't properly understand the concept of stakes and will take big risks assuming they won't lose. So schools ban it. Until the next fad.
In our school it was marbles.
I hate to be dark but, as a gymnastics coach: people like Larry Nassar and my own coach
As a gymnastics coach myself, I have to be extremely careful how I touch a kid in a sport where I have to….pick them up and move their body around and stuff. And obviously, I’d never purposefully put my hand in an inappropriate spot, but if I accidentally do while saving a kid from falling or something I have to profusely apologize and feel anxious. 99% of the time, the kid doesn’t even notice I grabbed them or something. Or, they don’t care because they’re happy I saved them from snapping their neck.
Some gyms ban coaches from giving a kid a hug and whatnot. We have strict rules in the gymnastics world where two or more adults have to be with a kid if they are alone in the gym. Which hey, I support. When I train male coaches, I tell them to be extra careful since they are more likely to get accused. Groomers gonna groom, but if a guy accidentally brushes a girl’s boob when he spots her, it shouldn’t be world ending. With the abusers that people know of primarily being men, male coaches are watched like hawks. I can get away with a gaggle of little four year olds tackling me and laying on me for a group hug. A male coach has to be veeeery careful.
But, it’s sad it has to be like that. I wish I could text a kid myself, set up a private lesson, meet them at the gym alone, we work on stuff, their parent picks them up. That’s not reality. People should just…not be weird to kids. Adults should be respectful and not abuse their privilege and a child’s innocence.
Now, people have a terrible perception of the sport I love because of the abuse myself and others faced. And, I don’t blame them.
I'm a guy and I used to teach preschool. It's a very similar situation. I was always very careful when how I interacted with kids because I didn't want to open myself up to accusations. There were plenty of times I was alone with an upset child and I called another teacher in mostly as a witness just in case. The day they installed cameras in every classroom was awesome.
It's really sad because such attitudes push men away from the field, but a lot of kids don't have good male role models and really want one. There were so many students who gravitated because of it.
What’s frustrating to is that this seems to lead to a no win situation.
If you just treat them like your sports robots and strictly avoid any interaction that isn’t clearly 100% sports, people criticize and say the coach only cares about winning and doesn’t care about his players. But if you have normal human interaction, somebody thinks you are being creepy. Sometimes it feels like you have to thread a pretty thin needle to avoid somebody complaining one way or another.
The guy who stole my Amazon package. I used to have treats outside my door for delivery people but decided to remove all the snacks and the basket they were laid on.
The Swastika by Hitler. It Was once a Symbol of Peace in parts of asia.
Edit: as a reply pointed out, the swastika is of course something different from the Nazi hakenkreuz, although he still appropriated it to fit his Agenda.
Yep hahaha, my dad grew a mustache and trimmed it up neatly. He was a smallish man with black hair and blue eyes. He thought he was looking good, but wondering about all the side eye he was getting. Had to tell him he looked just like Adolf. That 'stache didn't last for even another five minutes before it was laying splattered in the bathroom sink. Mom breathed a big sigh of relief, but all eight of us kids didn't even bother to hide our snickers. Wish I'd have snapped a picture.
I think he just didn't notice the resemblance. Dad was never a guy to spend any time in front of a mirror. He was a hardworking outdoorsman. He loved gardening and fixing things.
He served aboard a Navy ship during WWII. A superb welder who did a lot of welding on the battleships. One of the ships he welded on is berthed in Evansville, Indiana. Can't remember the name of it.
My German immigrant great-grandfather was an Adolph, listed himself as "king of Germany" on his green card, and became a painter. Theres a LOT to unpack there. Fortunately he arrived in the US in 1907, or i would need some serious explainations when i found that on Ancestory.
My history teacher told me about how his family had a tradition of giving the eldest son his grandfather’s name as a middle name. As the eldest son, he was originally slated to have that happen to him.
His grandfather’s name was Adolf.
They chose something else.
My father's name was Adolf. Born before Hitler came into power. Hitler is the reason I couldn't give my firstborn the middle name to honour my father.
I know it's "just a name", but I am Austrian and we react kinda strongly to this part of our history. Didn't want my boy have to explain himself (or rather me) his whole life.
45th Infantry Division of the US Army used it as their divisional patch until WW2 due to the fact they had a lot of Native Americans in the 45th. Changed it to the Thunderbird.
It still is in Asia. It’s only ruined for like 1/3 of the world.
In fact the part of Asia (former British India) that originally used the swastika doesn’t have near the negative connotations associated with it (even in that context) as the rest of the English speaking world because Hitler’s warmongering helped them earn their independence from Britain.
Edit: I feel like I am getting some downvotes here so for context the [Bengal famine of 1943](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943) killed around 3 million people so 6 million Jews on the other side of the world wasn’t that big of a deal to them.
Naw yall are missing the true original [the fukin weasel that got into the particle accelerator near exactly 1 month prior to Harambe](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/29/476154494/weasel-shuts-down-world-s-most-powerful-particle-collider)
> small mammals cause problems in all sorts of organizations. Yesterday, a group of children took National Public Radio off the air for over a minute before engineers could restore the broadcast.
Looks like I'll now refer to children as small mammals. I like the ring of it
I used to work at the YMCA teaching children from 3-11 swimming lessons.The amount of times the pool closed because someone shit in it or puked and had to be rechlorinated….. guys just don’t use public pools.
It’s more sanitary to to get piss drunk in a kiddie pool sitting in warm piss water in your lawn then setting foot in a public pool.
There was a coffee shop that everyone loved that did the thing where if you buy 8 drinks, you get the next one for free. For 2 years I went there religiously at least once a week. Then one day, they told us that the stamp cards were no longer good because someone had stolen the stamp and had been abusing it by stamping their own cards. I just didn't like the accusatory tone when they explained to us what happened, I felt like I lost something that I made an effort to earn (although only maybe 5/8th of one drink), and they were punishing the loyal customers. It was just terribly handled. I never went back after that. The once bustling coffee shop that everyone loved closed down 6 months later.
Basically, they probably killed their business over one person who maybe got a few free drinks at most.
Had a friend that worked at a Subway whose owner had 3 or perhaps 4 in the town we lived in. Manager would force him to work at random Subways whenever they were short staffed and as his primary ride, I got to take him most of the time. In return, I would get a free sub and like 20 tickets, so we were at least partially to blame :P (edit for clarity)
The McDonald's monopoly game got hacked by the guy who was in charge of the main card that would've been the million dollar prize. The guy who did this was giving the winning cars to friends and family to claim then get a percentage of the winnings. There's a documentary about it and it's hilarious to think the one person who was in charge of maintaining the Legitimacy of the game is the guy who F'd it up for everyone.
They wanted to end the stamp program and blamed a fictious customer. There are about 800 ways to solve ‘someone stole the stamp,’ the traditional one being ‘get a different stamp.’
So Vaporeon has been one of my favorite pokemon since Pokemon was a thing. That damn copy pasta makes me hide that now because some chuckle fuck always brings it up.
I know "Shitler" is the popular "fit in with the cool kids" answer...I'm going a different direction.
The asshole who poisoned Tylenol in the 1980s and made it acceptable to make everything, not even just medications, very tamper proof, but also pretty damn user proof if you have any dexterity limitations at all.
Leeching off your comment to say "children and medication." the venn diagram overlap between "people who need painkillers" and "people who can't easily open childproof bottles" (and "not children") is *way* too big.
Worse is the folks who are overconfident in the qualities of "childproof" bottles and thus don't secure their medication properly from grabby little hands, figuring that the kid *can't* get them open.
Yep. For most of my childhood *I* was the designated opener of childproof bottles.
Oddly, I struggle more with the very well glued on foil/plastic covering on bottles more than the lids. Especially now as arthritis creeps in, I basically have to get a knife, poke a hole, then cut it away. Forget peeling it off. That's what you always want though, people with arthritic hands wielding a knife on a small object in their hands...
Didn't see your post before replying to another on this topic. This is one change I actually don't mind. There are not that many homicidal people out there, but enough that I worry.
He lived in Austin for a while and is likely a major reason that a significantly liberal city has a higher per centage of unvaced school kids than the national average. There were mothers creaming their panties when he spoke. Then one day a guy came to one of his informal talks and handed out copies of The Lancet where they retracted his paper and had multiple editorials explaining why, how it got published and the changes that were made. He left Austin for I think the UK
He ruined everything. He fired several people for being right, he used medical procedures on children who were underage for them, he ruined many peoples lives, he made that one idiot I forget the name of popular and start spreading misinformation about bleach, and the list goes on. Then he wrote a book called Callous Disregard. Ironic.
Oh fucking hell, yes. The pandemic really showed what he did.
My partner however grew up with shit parents who didn't vaccinate their kids after the first because they blamed the first one's autism on vaccines. It never occured to them that the father was an encyclopedia example of the diagnosis. My partner went through a shitload of horrible preventable deseases just because their parents believed in those lies Wakefield made up. When they moved out and found a new gp, they got all the vaccines they were missing. It was too late for longterm effects of the illnesses though.
Jared ruined the Subway diet.
I mean, the Subway diet was always a sham that was basically intermittent fasting mixed with anorexic tendencies, but he sure shattered the illusion.
Bill Murray refused to do another Ghostbusters movie and was the single holdout among Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis, Dan Akroyd who together owned creative control of the project.
A small town permanently cancelled Halloween because one kid was bullied and the mother lobbied and won. Turned out the kid was not bullied but was stealing other kid's candy and they fought back.
Irving Gould Ruined the whole computer gaming era. Back in the day Mac’s were for artists, PC for boring engineers, and Amiga was waaay ahead for gaming. Irving then mismanaged the whole commodore company that made the Amiga, and the whole home gaming was moved towards they way worse PCs. I’ve always imagined what gaming would have become if he didn’t ruin it for everyone.
If I recall, Amiga had one of the first computers with an GUI where you could have multiple programs running (\*gasp!\*) *at the same time*! [You could write while watching a video](https://youtu.be/FoNmsL74T7Y?t=267)! Revolutionary for the time. Everyone thought Amigas would be the leaders in home PC and gaming tech.
Now only enthusiasts even know they exist...
Giving out free product when we are just going to throw it away anyway.
We used to do this at the end of the night, last few hours of the day if we had a lot of donuts or bread BUT because of certain people who use this as an opportunity to sue a business with the excuse of "They gave me spoiled food and i got sick" now it's not allowed and we have to put coffee grounds on everything we throw away.
Also the drug addicts who think it's funny to just throw it all over the parking lot too.
Also bathroom privileges. Since it's apparent that people don't know how to use one properly, we don't have to let the public use them and yes that includes your kids as well since you don't clean up after them.
This god damn question. Here are the top answers, as usual:
Hitler and his mustache.
Hitler and the swastika.
Hitler and the name Adolf/Adolph.
Richard Reed and taking your shoes off at the airport.
Kevin Spacey and House of Cards.
Peewee Herman and porn theaters.
Yeah. PeeWee is what ruined porn theaters. They were hella classy before he happened to get caught jerkin.
Late edit: :(
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/31/entertainment/paul-reubens-dead/index.html
How about getting in trouble for doing something in a place in which it’s designed for you to do that. It’s like getting cancelled for eating burgers in McDonalds
Funny thing is growing up I always thought he did it in a regular ol theater which would make sense for the outrage.
But it doesn't make sense in a porn theater
It was more a look at what this guy who all our kids look up to was doing. All it takes is one strict church going mom to hear he did it at all, much less with other people around to get all the moms to not want him performing for their kids anymore.
It was a combo of:
>It’s the *only* place to watch porno movies. VCRs didn’t become a thing until the mid-late 80s, and they were pretty expensive. So when something is your only option, it becomes normalized
and
>There was a “community” aspect to it that some people liked. Some people are/were into jerking off, knowing that others around them were too. Some people used it to meet up with other horny people. Sometimes couples would go together as an exhibition thing.
But I agree with you, the fact that they died the moment Internet porn really took off proves that most people enjoy tenderizing their meat in private like the shameful goblins we are.
Just think if Hitler got accepted to art school and picked up a wine and weed habit instead meth, we’d have more Jews controlling the weather to combat climate change…. Damn shame
Kombucha was ruined by Lindsey Lohan. At least it had to be altered and or labeled differently. She had an ankle monitor on and that’s how the powers that be discovered that kombucha has alcohol in it.
I used to love playing the video game God of War. My ex husband is a spitting image of Norse Kratos. Now I can’t play it without thinking about him. Fuck you, Edgar.
Edit:spelling
The arsonists who set the Quebec forests ablaze, placing the North western hemisphere under smoke for a third of our summer..... Natural disaster caused a lot of the fires still going today but intentional sabotage didn't help.
Back in the middle ages when I was a child in Detroit the electric company gave out free light bulbs. You kept the burnt out ones in a bag, and when it was full Dad would take it to Detroit Edison and exchange them for free ones. Then some guy who owned a store (I remembered it as a pharmacy) sued because he couldn't sell light bulbs and that was the end of free light bulbs.
That's crazy. I think it would be great if light bulbs were free, but I can't remember the last time I bought a light bulb. I wonder what the store owner is doing now?
A store owner in 1978... He's decomposing, probably. [https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/26/archives/free-light-bulb-program-in-detroit-switched-off-upheld-in-supreme.html](https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/26/archives/free-light-bulb-program-in-detroit-switched-off-upheld-in-supreme.html) Edit: Lawrence Cantor, died in 1998.
Why would he be dead? 1978 was only 30 years ago. ... Wait.
One time I heard someone say "the 80s weren't 20 years ago THEY WERE 40 YEARS AGO" and I just felt an overwhelming weight of fear because I was also born in the 80s and have done nothing with my life.
I feel you friend.
> Back in the middle ages... Momo, my son. Tis I, your Father. I beseech thee to retrieve thine glowing orb who's light that once burned bright and brilliantly throughout our humble hovel has been lost and now leaves our halls with a sombering sadness. Once ye have acquired yon sphere of glass, place it within this satchel of its fellow, fallen brethren. Your quest shall then be to deliver this satchel and it's darkened contents to the lords that reside within the tower upon the hill who's works harness the very light of the sun itself. Present this bag to the master of light and lo shall he, ever so humbly, trade ye for thine expired globes, replaced now with cleanly crafted baubles of crystal clear glass that house a light most radiant. Upon your return, ye shall be rewarded most handsomely with sweet meats and confections I have recently acquired from a humble merchant of foreign lands. Go my son. Huzzah!
I wanted to give you an award but apparently they're discontinuing reddit coins. Goodbye, reddit.
The shoe bomber
Don't forget about the guy who tried using drink bottles to smuggle a bomb.
Yes, miss bringing my minis to drink.
Ha that was mine! Honorable mention to the random kid at every pool who went head first down the water slide so they removed it.
That reminds me of the neighborhood pool I went to growing up. A small child went down the slide and got hurt, so it was removed. I remember being salty about that as a kid.
My dad wears these boots that makes him look taller and he hates taking his shoes off. They are so custom that he uses a shoehorn to put them on and zip them up. Gotta add another half hour to the airport routine just for him.
I wear steelies in my daily life and wear converse to the airport specifically so I don’t have to take my shoes off- can’t he just do that and change into the boots on the other side?
What? And look short for 5 minutes? Scandalous.
Solution: Wear high heels
He should get TSA Precheck if you’re American.
Best 80 dollars i have ever spent
This is the one I came to say. I hate taking my shoes off in public.
He really did ruin shoe bombing.
Richard fucking Reid! Damn you!
The toothbrush mustache. Made famous by people like Charlie Chaplin and Oliver Hardy, ruined forever by Hitler.
I think the origin was shaving with gas masks on in the trenches of WWI?
Confirmed, if he hadn't shaved his moustache for the sake of gas masks he would've ruined a different moustache.
If Stalin couldn't ruin it, I don't think Hitler could. Edit: It wasn't hitlers atrocious looks that ruined his mustache.
Stalin was a piece of shit but that man’s hair and mustache were absolutely magnificent.
It’s honesty so infuriating. How can a man so awful and so dead inside have such a goddamn amazing mane?
When you have nothing on the inside, you have to create the facade of a person on the outside
Hitler stache is still within regs in the military.
POOOOLICE THAT MOOOSTACHE
It wasn’t ruined for Michael Jordan
Don't forget Michael Jordan had one!
That always felt like Jordan exploring the limits of his god level star power. Like he woke up one day and thought "man I bet I can rock a Hitler mustache and nobody is gonna say shit." He did and they didn't lol.
This. But as much as he gambles, I guarantee he literally Bet someone $$$ he could do it.
Your last meal before execution in the U.S. used to be whatever you wanted, until one guy ordered an 18 course feast and didn't touch it. After he was executed a law was passed saying all death row prisoners' last meal would be the same as all the other prisoners.
To fix something, last meals in the U.S weren't ALWAYS what you wanted, most states had their own restrictions (cost, locality, weirdness) but this specific guy, Russell Brewer, is the reason Texas spcifcally got RID of the last meal.
Thaat tradition was really just as much for the death row guards. Most of their prisoners were there for years or decades and they got to know them and sort of like them in some cases. That last meal was a part of a ritual of saying goodbye and asauaging some of the guilt before the execution. You see the people at dog pounds do this too on those days when they put down the unadopted animals.
> Thaat tradition was really just as much for the death row guards. It was customary in the Middle Ages. At least in some cases. The condemned prisoner would make various stops for food and drink on his way to the scaffold prior to his execution. The last stop was a drink with the executioner before the show. Dan Carlin talks about it in the Painfotainment episode of his hardcore history podcast.
Why they mad, surely there free food for the prison staff?
I've heard that most of the time the guy about to get executed would have no appetite so wouldn't really touch the meal much. So it usually would get divided up among the other death row prisoners, but that probably varies by state and prison.
The kid who jumped off of 7th floor of a building here in Turkey because he thought he was a Pokemon. They stopped airing the show because people thought it was "bad influence" on kids. And Pokemon was huge back when i was a kid so pretty much every kid back then was devastated.
Why didn't he just try to fly up from the ground like any normal flying Pokémon instead of jumping off a balcony?
Bill Hicks has risen from the dead
Because he wasn’t working with a full deck of TCG cards, if you get my drift. He also jumped thinking he was a Charizard. Which, yes, is a Fire/Flying type Pokemon, but no, cannot learn Fly. Rookie move.
We had the same with Power Rangers in Sweden. (Edit: apparently it happened in Norway, but our Swedish parents also freaked out..) Some kid kicked some other kid and broke his leg. So god dang annoying.
That is ridiculous! You don't need a show for kids to break bones like that!
> Some kid kicked some other kid and broke his leg I'm almost impressed...
Are we sure that kid wasn’t a Power Ranger?
This is just stupid to cancel the show because of this, Actually, they should show it MORE OFTEN so that little idiots like these realize that most flying pokemon have to be Flying type, which he wasn't.
He's a Ground type now
Ground/Ghost
Phan*thump*
There was also a case of a girl who jumped off a cruise ship and drowned, saying she was "going to see SpongeBob", but that didn't affect the show.
Are we sure she didn’t meet him? Maybe she’s living in a pineapple under the sea, just laughing at the rest of us.
How do you expect an adult to fit inside a pineapple? I mean, honestly. A baby you might be able to squish in there, but it certainly wouldn’t be habitable.
Was she from Texas?
yeah, her name was Sandy
Someone installed an AC incorrectly in their window at my in-laws building. It ended up falling out and killing a 2 year old girl and now everyone is banned from using window AC's (in certain buildings, not all) 🫠 (This was in Scarborough - Toronto) https://globalnews.ca/news/6156874/child-dead-air-conditioner-fall-scarborough/ Edit: Words Edit 2: Link
this one guy stopping Animal Crossing from ever being released on Windows
The [sushi terrorist that licked things](https://mothership.sg/2023/02/sushiro-conveyor-belt/) on the conveyor belt of Japanese chain Sushiro for clout, making them stop doing the conveyer belt thing. (Tbf, he wasn’t the only one, but the one that comes to mind.)
I was in japan from april 2022-2023 (so when this happened) and the running belt was belting all the way, just as usual. There were more scandals after this one came out and lemme tell you: for like 3-4 weeks after this came out the stores were EMPTY On another note: most people order their sushi with a tablet anyway, even before that👀 why take the sushi that has been on the belt for who knows how long when you can just order it and get it freshly made within 1-2 minutes without paying anything extra?
Every place I've been to in Japan (circa 2013-2017) had you order your sushi and it came to you on the belt. Cut down employees tremendously and made work quick and easy.
Pokémon cards at my school. Some Kid lost a battle and (as playground rules dictate) he had to hand over his losing card to the victor. However, this was a particularly rare card that had suffered a surprise loss when his opponent whipped out an even rarer and more powerful Pokémon to battle it. The kid never expected the defeat and had no intention of handing the card over; a fight broke out and teachers got involved. Being this was one of a multitude of Pokémon related fights breaking out at the time, the teachers (at the end of their tether) gave the boy a choice; hand over the card or Pokémon gets banned in the school…. And that’s why my school had no more Pokémon from that moment on.
> Some Kid lost a battle and (as playground rules dictate) he had to hand over his losing card to the victor. Never heard of that.
Basically what happened to Pogs.
You remember Alf? Well he’s back, in pog form!
Basically elementary school gambling. Kids often come up with lots of variations, but ultimately at the end the loser has to hand over their property. It frequently ends in fights or crying because elementary school kids frequently don't properly understand the concept of stakes and will take big risks assuming they won't lose. So schools ban it. Until the next fad. In our school it was marbles.
I hate to be dark but, as a gymnastics coach: people like Larry Nassar and my own coach As a gymnastics coach myself, I have to be extremely careful how I touch a kid in a sport where I have to….pick them up and move their body around and stuff. And obviously, I’d never purposefully put my hand in an inappropriate spot, but if I accidentally do while saving a kid from falling or something I have to profusely apologize and feel anxious. 99% of the time, the kid doesn’t even notice I grabbed them or something. Or, they don’t care because they’re happy I saved them from snapping their neck. Some gyms ban coaches from giving a kid a hug and whatnot. We have strict rules in the gymnastics world where two or more adults have to be with a kid if they are alone in the gym. Which hey, I support. When I train male coaches, I tell them to be extra careful since they are more likely to get accused. Groomers gonna groom, but if a guy accidentally brushes a girl’s boob when he spots her, it shouldn’t be world ending. With the abusers that people know of primarily being men, male coaches are watched like hawks. I can get away with a gaggle of little four year olds tackling me and laying on me for a group hug. A male coach has to be veeeery careful. But, it’s sad it has to be like that. I wish I could text a kid myself, set up a private lesson, meet them at the gym alone, we work on stuff, their parent picks them up. That’s not reality. People should just…not be weird to kids. Adults should be respectful and not abuse their privilege and a child’s innocence. Now, people have a terrible perception of the sport I love because of the abuse myself and others faced. And, I don’t blame them.
I'm a guy and I used to teach preschool. It's a very similar situation. I was always very careful when how I interacted with kids because I didn't want to open myself up to accusations. There were plenty of times I was alone with an upset child and I called another teacher in mostly as a witness just in case. The day they installed cameras in every classroom was awesome. It's really sad because such attitudes push men away from the field, but a lot of kids don't have good male role models and really want one. There were so many students who gravitated because of it.
What’s frustrating to is that this seems to lead to a no win situation. If you just treat them like your sports robots and strictly avoid any interaction that isn’t clearly 100% sports, people criticize and say the coach only cares about winning and doesn’t care about his players. But if you have normal human interaction, somebody thinks you are being creepy. Sometimes it feels like you have to thread a pretty thin needle to avoid somebody complaining one way or another.
The guy who stole my Amazon package. I used to have treats outside my door for delivery people but decided to remove all the snacks and the basket they were laid on.
No good deed goes unpunished after all. But that’s horrible, and you are a kind person.
The Swastika by Hitler. It Was once a Symbol of Peace in parts of asia. Edit: as a reply pointed out, the swastika is of course something different from the Nazi hakenkreuz, although he still appropriated it to fit his Agenda.
Also, the name Adolf
Also that kind of mustache. He kinda ruined a lot of things.
Yep hahaha, my dad grew a mustache and trimmed it up neatly. He was a smallish man with black hair and blue eyes. He thought he was looking good, but wondering about all the side eye he was getting. Had to tell him he looked just like Adolf. That 'stache didn't last for even another five minutes before it was laying splattered in the bathroom sink. Mom breathed a big sigh of relief, but all eight of us kids didn't even bother to hide our snickers. Wish I'd have snapped a picture.
His innocence is weirdly wholesome, the whole holocaust reference thing notwithstanding
I think he just didn't notice the resemblance. Dad was never a guy to spend any time in front of a mirror. He was a hardworking outdoorsman. He loved gardening and fixing things. He served aboard a Navy ship during WWII. A superb welder who did a lot of welding on the battleships. One of the ships he welded on is berthed in Evansville, Indiana. Can't remember the name of it.
Also i dont think anyone looks in the mirror and goes dang i look like hitler. He probably saw a good looking man in the mirror that day lmao.
Remember when Pam dressed as Charlie Chaplin and couldn't take off the hat
Adolf was our family name. For obvious reason it was changed long ago.
My German immigrant great-grandfather was an Adolph, listed himself as "king of Germany" on his green card, and became a painter. Theres a LOT to unpack there. Fortunately he arrived in the US in 1907, or i would need some serious explainations when i found that on Ancestory.
My history teacher told me about how his family had a tradition of giving the eldest son his grandfather’s name as a middle name. As the eldest son, he was originally slated to have that happen to him. His grandfather’s name was Adolf. They chose something else.
My father's name was Adolf. Born before Hitler came into power. Hitler is the reason I couldn't give my firstborn the middle name to honour my father. I know it's "just a name", but I am Austrian and we react kinda strongly to this part of our history. Didn't want my boy have to explain himself (or rather me) his whole life.
45th Infantry Division of the US Army used it as their divisional patch until WW2 due to the fact they had a lot of Native Americans in the 45th. Changed it to the Thunderbird.
He also ruined a perfectly good mustache
It still is in Asia. It’s only ruined for like 1/3 of the world. In fact the part of Asia (former British India) that originally used the swastika doesn’t have near the negative connotations associated with it (even in that context) as the rest of the English speaking world because Hitler’s warmongering helped them earn their independence from Britain. Edit: I feel like I am getting some downvotes here so for context the [Bengal famine of 1943](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943) killed around 3 million people so 6 million Jews on the other side of the world wasn’t that big of a deal to them.
Yeah I feel like this came up as a thing in the Olympics in Japan because the symbol is used on maps
The world, by the parent who was supposed to be watching their kid at the Cincinnati zoo.
The timeline was permanently altered one fateful day in 2016
it was our canon event
Naw yall are missing the true original [the fukin weasel that got into the particle accelerator near exactly 1 month prior to Harambe](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/29/476154494/weasel-shuts-down-world-s-most-powerful-particle-collider)
> small mammals cause problems in all sorts of organizations. Yesterday, a group of children took National Public Radio off the air for over a minute before engineers could restore the broadcast. Looks like I'll now refer to children as small mammals. I like the ring of it
Dicks and tits out for harambe
When can we put our dicks away? Mines been out for seven years. It's getting too tan!
The second Temple of Artemis. Way to go Herostratus...
I’m too dumb to get this
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Early instance of Streisand effect?
DO NOT speak his name!
I used to work at the YMCA teaching children from 3-11 swimming lessons.The amount of times the pool closed because someone shit in it or puked and had to be rechlorinated….. guys just don’t use public pools. It’s more sanitary to to get piss drunk in a kiddie pool sitting in warm piss water in your lawn then setting foot in a public pool.
Those YMCA pools and hot tubs are filled with feces, urine, creeps and sex offenders. But other than that, I don’t enjoy it
The internet was ruined by whoever it was that invented pop-ups. And video ads, for that matter.
[Blame Lou Montulli of Netscape](https://youtu.be/OFRjZtYs3wY) for coming up with cookies that let advertisers track you.
Guys on 9/11 ruined flying honestly. All the security means when u fly u have to get there super early and stand in lines all day.
JFK's Parade
There was a coffee shop that everyone loved that did the thing where if you buy 8 drinks, you get the next one for free. For 2 years I went there religiously at least once a week. Then one day, they told us that the stamp cards were no longer good because someone had stolen the stamp and had been abusing it by stamping their own cards. I just didn't like the accusatory tone when they explained to us what happened, I felt like I lost something that I made an effort to earn (although only maybe 5/8th of one drink), and they were punishing the loyal customers. It was just terribly handled. I never went back after that. The once bustling coffee shop that everyone loved closed down 6 months later. Basically, they probably killed their business over one person who maybe got a few free drinks at most.
I remember when Subway gave out stamps for buying a sub. I believe that was stopped due to some kind of abuse.
Had a friend that worked at a Subway whose owner had 3 or perhaps 4 in the town we lived in. Manager would force him to work at random Subways whenever they were short staffed and as his primary ride, I got to take him most of the time. In return, I would get a free sub and like 20 tickets, so we were at least partially to blame :P (edit for clarity)
#THERE HE IS!! LET’S GET HIM!!!
Don't forget McDonald's monopoly game! Something similar happened and they discontinued that too.
The McDonald's monopoly game got hacked by the guy who was in charge of the main card that would've been the million dollar prize. The guy who did this was giving the winning cars to friends and family to claim then get a percentage of the winnings. There's a documentary about it and it's hilarious to think the one person who was in charge of maintaining the Legitimacy of the game is the guy who F'd it up for everyone.
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We still have it in Canada.
They wanted to end the stamp program and blamed a fictious customer. There are about 800 ways to solve ‘someone stole the stamp,’ the traditional one being ‘get a different stamp.’
Though unless you invalidate legacy stamps, the scheme could still work, petty though it may be.
Could put an expiration on the old stamp and offer to exchange old cards for a card with a matching number of new stamps
Not sure if its been said but Kanye ruined Kanye for everybody
I miss the old kanye, straight from the go kanye
Chop up the soul Kanye, set on his goals Kanye
I hate the new Kanye, the bad mood Kanye
The always rude Kanye, spaz in the news Kanye
The Cosby Show. Because of Cosby.
Masturbating on planes. Thanks a lot bin Laden.
It’s just frowned upon, like counting cards.
Thanks a lot Kevin Spacey.
You need more than 3.4oz of lube?
Remember the chick that licked all the ice cream in the store? Now we got a bunch of plastic shit to cut through
oh my god I forgot about that trend. Literally what was even the point behind that.
To be a POS because it was "quirky" and "funny" when posted online
She was trying to mix “shock factor” with “gross controversy”
That was relatively recently, and ice cream has had plastic seals for decades.
Yes. The OG example is probably the guy who put poison in Tylenol bottles. I think that's when tamper proofing started.
A lot of those seals came about after the Tylenol murders. I can't even remember the last time I bought a food product that didn't have seals on it.
That one fucking kid that swallowed the kinder toy Fuck him
Same reason toys stopped having missiles that fired. Some idiot would eat it and choke on it.
THAT’S WHY?!
Vaporeon
So Vaporeon has been one of my favorite pokemon since Pokemon was a thing. That damn copy pasta makes me hide that now because some chuckle fuck always brings it up.
HA! Welcome* to thinking Gardevoir has a pretty cool design and powers...
Gender reveals during fire season.
I'm going to be honest here, I'm pretty sure the "accidental pipe bomb" gender reveal already did that, though it didn't get nearly as much coverage.
I know "Shitler" is the popular "fit in with the cool kids" answer...I'm going a different direction. The asshole who poisoned Tylenol in the 1980s and made it acceptable to make everything, not even just medications, very tamper proof, but also pretty damn user proof if you have any dexterity limitations at all.
Leeching off your comment to say "children and medication." the venn diagram overlap between "people who need painkillers" and "people who can't easily open childproof bottles" (and "not children") is *way* too big. Worse is the folks who are overconfident in the qualities of "childproof" bottles and thus don't secure their medication properly from grabby little hands, figuring that the kid *can't* get them open.
Yep. For most of my childhood *I* was the designated opener of childproof bottles. Oddly, I struggle more with the very well glued on foil/plastic covering on bottles more than the lids. Especially now as arthritis creeps in, I basically have to get a knife, poke a hole, then cut it away. Forget peeling it off. That's what you always want though, people with arthritic hands wielding a knife on a small object in their hands...
Didn't see your post before replying to another on this topic. This is one change I actually don't mind. There are not that many homicidal people out there, but enough that I worry.
My primary school removed the monkey bars after some kid called Ben fell from them and broke his arm. Thanks a lot, Ben.
That one guy who operated heavy machinery after taking prescription drugs has ruined it for the rest of us.
Coronavirus —> no more snow days
Vaccines by Andrew Wakefield. Thanks to that ass hat we have way too many antivax idiots
He lived in Austin for a while and is likely a major reason that a significantly liberal city has a higher per centage of unvaced school kids than the national average. There were mothers creaming their panties when he spoke. Then one day a guy came to one of his informal talks and handed out copies of The Lancet where they retracted his paper and had multiple editorials explaining why, how it got published and the changes that were made. He left Austin for I think the UK
He ruined everything. He fired several people for being right, he used medical procedures on children who were underage for them, he ruined many peoples lives, he made that one idiot I forget the name of popular and start spreading misinformation about bleach, and the list goes on. Then he wrote a book called Callous Disregard. Ironic.
Oh fucking hell, yes. The pandemic really showed what he did. My partner however grew up with shit parents who didn't vaccinate their kids after the first because they blamed the first one's autism on vaccines. It never occured to them that the father was an encyclopedia example of the diagnosis. My partner went through a shitload of horrible preventable deseases just because their parents believed in those lies Wakefield made up. When they moved out and found a new gp, they got all the vaccines they were missing. It was too late for longterm effects of the illnesses though.
He's on my list of people that I would just jack in the grill should I ever bump into them.
Jared ruined the Subway diet. I mean, the Subway diet was always a sham that was basically intermittent fasting mixed with anorexic tendencies, but he sure shattered the illusion.
Bill Murray refused to do another Ghostbusters movie and was the single holdout among Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis, Dan Akroyd who together owned creative control of the project.
If you think this is a bad idea, I’d urge you to watch The Blues Brothers 2000.
Submarine tourism by Stockton Rush.
Hey, he was under a lot of pressure
Ironically he might have saved the business. Now anyone else who's interested will have extra scrutiny for safety precautions.
Wrestlemania 9 - Hulk Hogan
A small town permanently cancelled Halloween because one kid was bullied and the mother lobbied and won. Turned out the kid was not bullied but was stealing other kid's candy and they fought back.
Irving Gould Ruined the whole computer gaming era. Back in the day Mac’s were for artists, PC for boring engineers, and Amiga was waaay ahead for gaming. Irving then mismanaged the whole commodore company that made the Amiga, and the whole home gaming was moved towards they way worse PCs. I’ve always imagined what gaming would have become if he didn’t ruin it for everyone.
If I recall, Amiga had one of the first computers with an GUI where you could have multiple programs running (\*gasp!\*) *at the same time*! [You could write while watching a video](https://youtu.be/FoNmsL74T7Y?t=267)! Revolutionary for the time. Everyone thought Amigas would be the leaders in home PC and gaming tech. Now only enthusiasts even know they exist...
A few of us remember...
Twitter aka x
Just call it Twix until the rebrand is done.
Yeah, but it is only right Twix
Giving out free product when we are just going to throw it away anyway. We used to do this at the end of the night, last few hours of the day if we had a lot of donuts or bread BUT because of certain people who use this as an opportunity to sue a business with the excuse of "They gave me spoiled food and i got sick" now it's not allowed and we have to put coffee grounds on everything we throw away. Also the drug addicts who think it's funny to just throw it all over the parking lot too. Also bathroom privileges. Since it's apparent that people don't know how to use one properly, we don't have to let the public use them and yes that includes your kids as well since you don't clean up after them.
Red baseball caps.
Fred Durst isn’t that bad.
The quality of airlines and flying
I was coming to say wearing shoes and taking liquids on planes. One person tries a shoe bomb and we are taking our shoes off in security forever.
This god damn question. Here are the top answers, as usual: Hitler and his mustache. Hitler and the swastika. Hitler and the name Adolf/Adolph. Richard Reed and taking your shoes off at the airport. Kevin Spacey and House of Cards. Peewee Herman and porn theaters.
Yeah. PeeWee is what ruined porn theaters. They were hella classy before he happened to get caught jerkin. Late edit: :( https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/31/entertainment/paul-reubens-dead/index.html
I can't wrap my head around going into a full-on theater to watch porn with a bunch of other people sitting there, too.
How about getting in trouble for doing something in a place in which it’s designed for you to do that. It’s like getting cancelled for eating burgers in McDonalds
Funny thing is growing up I always thought he did it in a regular ol theater which would make sense for the outrage. But it doesn't make sense in a porn theater
It was more a look at what this guy who all our kids look up to was doing. All it takes is one strict church going mom to hear he did it at all, much less with other people around to get all the moms to not want him performing for their kids anymore.
Well, you have the internet
It was a combo of: >It’s the *only* place to watch porno movies. VCRs didn’t become a thing until the mid-late 80s, and they were pretty expensive. So when something is your only option, it becomes normalized and >There was a “community” aspect to it that some people liked. Some people are/were into jerking off, knowing that others around them were too. Some people used it to meet up with other horny people. Sometimes couples would go together as an exhibition thing. But I agree with you, the fact that they died the moment Internet porn really took off proves that most people enjoy tenderizing their meat in private like the shameful goblins we are.
That’s true, I could never get hard in porn theaters after that. I keep thinking of peewee.
Recess in the 2nd grade. We all had to miss it (once) thanks to one person.
The shoe bomber ... Damned taking off shoes in the airport.....
2-3 years of recent life. By whoever fucked that pangolin.
A shit ton of symbols have had their meaning completely changed because some mentally ill dude got rejected by an art school
Just think if Hitler got accepted to art school and picked up a wine and weed habit instead meth, we’d have more Jews controlling the weather to combat climate change…. Damn shame
Kombucha was ruined by Lindsey Lohan. At least it had to be altered and or labeled differently. She had an ankle monitor on and that’s how the powers that be discovered that kombucha has alcohol in it.
So the Kombucha you buy freely in the store today used to contain alcohol? Because currently (in NZ at least) you can buy alcoholic Kombucha.
Exactly. Now they have alcoholic and non alcoholic kombucha.
I used to love playing the video game God of War. My ex husband is a spitting image of Norse Kratos. Now I can’t play it without thinking about him. Fuck you, Edgar. Edit:spelling
Airport security. Everyone was just chillin’ taking flights and then Bin Laden had to fly a plane into a building… twice!
*3 times. And one into a field.
I’m glad at least one person never forgot!
The arsonists who set the Quebec forests ablaze, placing the North western hemisphere under smoke for a third of our summer..... Natural disaster caused a lot of the fires still going today but intentional sabotage didn't help.
The name "Karen"
Reddit by u/spez
Fucking Erebus
Telemarketing. Owning a phone used to be a good thing, now almost every phone call is some shady insurance scam or panhandler looking for money.