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Apr 23, 2016 8:21 PM
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sickmemes
"Sometimes when i close my eyes i cant see" ...SOMETIMES?!
Spiritaslol
The moment when google stops helping you
RearAdmiralFloyd
ATimeTravellingRobotFromTheFuture
Someone sterilise stupid people before they breed, please. They're only boding more harm to the world by breeding.
RoovyRoo
babies are like microwaveable burritos, you need to increase the prep time if you're having more than one
Survivalkit
this is why you should listen in class
snazzygabe12
I like the last one
customcartoons
Almost up voted for that confetti tire comment, but caught myself, because that would be up voting them ALL. D8
TiberiusBloodhammer
I like this tire idea.
mnss1997
These people vote... D:
MaliceEntity
The confetti tire needs to be a thing.
oi33jeiu
I always assume these are trolls (but still enjoy them) but damn #5 ... you don't post pics like that just to be a troll
DogWithATopHat
I had to walk away for a minute. I fear for our future as a species.
sangatster
This one deserves a post all its own
MasterofNoneSon
Some people shouldn't have kids.
Atypicalmoose
I think I caught the dumb reading this.
luchie24
The chick that wrote about getting AIDS in Africa was on a plane when she wrote it. By the time the plane had landed she'd lost her job 1/2
luchie24
2/2 and pretty much fucked up her entire life
DarthFutuza
You got a sweet source for that? (Not doubting you, just want to know more).
KalmiaKamui
http://uproxx.com/webculture/what-happened-to-justine-sacco-the-woman-whose-life-was-ruined-by-an-aids-joke-she-made-on-twitter/
luchie24
I will look for you
MattRainier
Some people exist solely to lighten the mood of everyone else.
wow2389
Maybe Ms. Tootie just has a really clever investment strategy?
iOnlyLoginToUpvote
Or she already has $994,072 ?
DogDiabeties
Maybe she has a sugar daddy
ZiltoidIndeed
Guess who these people are voting...
Ifavouriteallthecatstuff
Not Trump
clutchthepearls
You accidentally a word.
smilethingsareworsethantheyseem
And this right here
is the explanation for why 10th of july is hash oil day.
zaranth
I have a friend named Julio and one day a package came for him and the mailman said it was for "jul10"
RealSlimeHours
#8 that tweet actually got her and another person fired. She put it up as she left on a plane ride and was unemployed before landing
Markuspsyches
I heard about her getting fired but who else and how/why?
HowMuchWoodCouldAWoodDuckDuckIfAWoodDuckCouldDuckWood
Jon Ronson talks about it in his book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed..."
CrazyHatLady
Good book.
doublekross
Another person??
RealSlimeHours
Yeah they were fired because they made a harmless private joke into a public hatred for her. Or something like that
khaleesimotherofkittycats
I don't think it was harmless. It was in poor taste and shows a lack of good decision making skills, something I wouldn't want in an
khaleesimotherofkittycats
employee, especially one working in PR. I think her being fired was a sufficient enough punishment though, the witch hunt was unnecessary.
uRB4N
What's the context of this "harmless" statement? If it's on social media, isn't that an oxymoron of private?
RealSlimeHours
That's what I thought when I heard it
Crumper1000
I did the math and the first one checks out.
RedArchon
They say to drink 2 litres of water a day. Well yesterday I drank 4 litres, and nothing today but I feel really thirsty
ohapieceofcandy
There are reposts in this repost
LaceySummertide
Repost-ception. we must go deeper!
sangatster
hahaha now this is funny
mineisanevillaugh
Yo, dawg...
zinkyre
Penny for your thoughts...
AlwaysCorrect
I heard you like reposts...
HelloMyNamesInigoMontoya
The inventor of the confetti tire is an innovator but the rest of them belong in front of a firing squad
LaBix
Since the advent of TPMS, rather than a light on your dash they could have confetti canons that fire confetti all over the place.
soturi88
Especially those who asked their question twice!
INDIG0M0NKEY
Hello my name is Indigo Monkey. Prepare to get upvoted
HelloMyNamesInigoMontoya
Cool name bro, perhaps we're cousins or something
spuds31
I'll give the twins one some credit. They're trying to expand their knowledge; and the question ain't *that* bad.
HelloMyNamesInigoMontoya
Yeah, I've seen that before and thought that I could see where that's coming from to someone naive enough
lolive246
Make sure the firing squad does it on the Friday 13th of 4/20 and that they take 9 or 18 months to ready up to fire.
clutchthepearls
"My car won't stop shaking when I drive." "Yeah, we found confetti in your tires." "And...?"
vivalamatequilla
Put confetti inside them so the firing squad has an ok day.
DirkBoogagoo
I mean. It would be pretty weird for 4 20 to be on Friday the 13th
HelloMyNamesInigoMontoya
This sounds like a thought experiment that would contemplate the superposition of time, with time being represented as a physical plain
BenderBendingRrodriguez
Well time is a fourth dimensional force so it could happen if you found a way out of the 3rd demension
HelloMyNamesInigoMontoya
Could you only imagine is we could extend our perception even if it just included time as the fourth, how much or understanding would change
wutangbarrett
what if Halloween fell on Friday the 13th tho
undercovergiraffe
But a firing squad that has confetti in their guns so it's the best day ever.
HelloMyNamesInigoMontoya
I have a party that I'd like you to plan because you're are obviously have a visionary mind you brilliant son of a bitch
MajicWalrus
Kind of Okay day.
SSgtObvious
Or the firing squad could wear a clown nose/ cat ears... you know, so everyone is still kind of having fun!
HelloMyNamesInigoMontoya
I didn't think it would be possible to name it worse for someone about to get shot but I think that would actually make it much worse
BillyMaysHereWithOxiClean
It worked for Caboose.
BananielRadcliffe
$5928
AlwaysCorrect
I still have no clue how you could get 1 million from 38. Nothing about that math made even the most remote sense.
merediththecat
You would need to save ~$38 an hour for it to work out
AmpsterMan
I don't even make half of that in an hour... ;_;
WildBluntHickok
That makes $237,120 after 3 years (assuming 40 hours a week)
goflyblind
#1: 506 years, in case you were wondering.
hearthstoneaccount3
Or two weeks if we convert to the Dong
Marmz2016
Two weeks for Indonesian rupiah, and she is moving toward a new target of being multimillionaire.
gecko08
I'm still trying to figure out what measurement of time she used to get that answer
MeisPip
However $914 a day
TheAmazingScientologist00
Realistically speaking, it'd be $304 a day (8hrs) $1,520 a week (5 days), and $6,080 a month. Not bad.
eugenejudo
Saving $38 an hour for 3 years is a little under a million, i'd guess that's what they originally calculated
AlwaysCorrect
And even then, you'd have to be paid 24 hours per day
clutchthepearls
Ah, I tried to figure out how they arrived there, but nothing came close.
BBmathlvr
Some of these are actually good questions. Ignorance shouldn't be met with ridicule or else people will just stop asking questions.
DarthFutuza
Yeah...at least they're still questioning things. Still...I hope they were all just born yesterday...
clutchthepearls
Maybe I'm just assuming these people all have completed the 8th grade, but none of these seem like good questions.
BBmathlvr
The questions about gravity and evolution aren't stupid questions. At least they are asking, it's a good opportunity for learning.
clutchthepearls
1/2 The gravity one should be obvious to anyone that payed a little attention to general science class up through middle school. The other
clutchthepearls
2/2 I expect less people to know, but it's not a question. He's being an asshole, while not understanding the topic and acting like he does.
BBmathlvr
And is trying to fix her confusion. I agree on the evolution guy. I was just like him 15 years ago, hes not even trying to understand
BBmathlvr
I think if you asked high schoolers to explain gravity you'd find that many have major misunderstandings. She has two models in conflict...
clutchthepearls
Might point isn't that they won't know everything about it, it's that they shouldn't think everything below the equator falls off into space
CrunchyPants
Justine Sacco lost her high-profile career over that tweet.
Ponnosuke
Even worse, her reputation
ildon2
Also it was a joke. She doesn't actually believe being white protects her from AIDS.
beachfox
#HasJustineLandedYet
CrunchyPants
She was making some other odd tweets too, about a German man and his b.o and about British ppl and their teeth
LegitTeddyBears
The sad thing is she said it as a joke to her 40 some followers and now she can't get a job because of one thing she said when she was ~20
pprmach3t3
I think the fact that she tweeted this means she needed to reevaluate her career in PR
CrunchyPants
Yes. I think she was about 30 at the time. Not sure what she's doing now.
mritty
Wasn't her job to be a social media person? This isn't some random kid doing something stupid, this was her doing the opposite of her job.
wobbu
PR Managers are not "social media people" contrary to what twitter would have you believe. It was her personal account, also.
mritty
But her personal account identified her employer, and it was a public tweet
stillborntoiletbaby
Who the fuck is that
WhimsicalCalamari
exactly what the witch hunters who decided to inflict "justice" upon her tweet wanted to know
stillborntoiletbaby
I actually don't know who she is. What's high profile about her
WhimsicalCalamari
She was PR manager at some big social media firm. She wasn't a high-profile person at all (she only had 170 followers at the time)
JudgeMentalCat
She worked at some big company as a communications director. Someone contacted the company about why their employees were saying things so
JudgeMentalCat
contrasted to their claimed "values". The company decided that the lady's values weren't in line with the companies, and fired her.
PumpkinKing708
I don't even know who she is. Lol I should Google but I'm on mobile and lazy.
CarltheMexicanWhoopingLlama
She was the "Senior Director of Communications at InterActive Corp." (An Internet/media company.) Yeah, you can't make this stuff up.
CrunchyPants
Yes. She worked in communications for IAC, which is huge and known by its brands (okcupid, video). She had 170 followers but her tweet
CrunchyPants
Exploded and a hashtag of #HasJustineLandedYet blossomed while she was en route to South Africa. And her life exploded while she was flying
CluelessAmerican
Guess that's better then the plane
CrunchyPants
True!
uRB4N
+1
wobbu
"I also began to marvel at the disconnect between the severity of the crime and the gleeful savagery of the punishment."
AtomicHoganThrust
Apparently she's in the same Borough as me! Feel so honoured
zeiss74
Yeah, people can't take a sarcastic joke.
vexxed14
It's only funny if you're a goof
khaleesimotherofkittycats
In most cases you ALWAYS are representing your job. You can't say something racist and then be surprised when you get fired.
DudePlayinADudeDisguisedAsAnotherDude
Or perhaps a COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR should't tweet about people dying of AIDS, harming her representative brand, & expect to keep her job?
ArcipluvianCosmicGallows
Wait what? Why shouldn't a communications director be allowed to talk about AIDS?
DudePlayinADudeDisguisedAsAnotherDude
A communications director most certainly shouldn't be stupid enough to joke about AIDS and her being White on her Twitter account.
ArcipluvianCosmicGallows
Again, why is it not ok for a communications director to make jokes about white/western privilege?
doublekross
I'm pretty sure it was the super-insensitive WAY that she was talking about it.
ArcipluvianCosmicGallows
People always seem to have a view about how other people should be. Why? Why shouldn't someone be allowed to say insensitive jokes?
imanatheistdebateme
And as a communication directer--the equivalent of an ambassador--she has a civil and moral duty to conduct herself respectably. 2/2
ArcipluvianCosmicGallows
No she's expected to and she has a professional duty to but there is definitely no added civil or moral duty.
imanatheistdebateme
Because to joke about a death sentence ravaging Africa, and including racial sensitivities, is offensive to most and in bad taste. 1/2
ArcipluvianCosmicGallows
sent an illogical probably racist tweet. I bet you half of the people tearing her apart have also laughed at insensitive jokes before. 2/2
ArcipluvianCosmicGallows
Yep. But think for a second about the response. Tens of thousands of people got together to laugh at her life falling apart because she 1/?
WhimsicalCalamari
A stupid racist joke is no justification for destroying someone's life. I hate people sometimes.
SexyFred
A. It didn't destroy her life, B. She voluntarily posted that... as the media/social face of a company specializing in that. Her own fault
WhimsicalCalamari
Indeed. The people that doxxed her? They had no choice in the matter. They /had/ to. Gawker /had/ to incite a witch hunt. That's her fault.
TOASTEngineer
The devil made me do it!
SexyFred
Caveat: losing a job isn't your life being destroyed, its a hurdle that is easily overcome.
OverlyCynicalImgurian
lolololol
IAmDrBanner
She didn't just lose her job. She was doxxed, got death threats and a dude on gawker did his best to spread her name everywhere.
discowitch
Have you read So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson? She's a case study in it. It's a goodie but it might make you mad.
JudgeMentalCat
She made the choice to post that, on a public account bearing her name & company. Company decided it wasn't in line with their values- thus
WhimsicalCalamari
If it was just that she had been fired, I wouldn't be making that comment. I'm talking about the doxxing and witch hunt that led to that.
JudgeMentalCat
What witch hunt? She was very open about who she worked for. By associating herself that way, she linked that account's image with the
JudgeMentalCat
company's image. No "witch hunt" required.
WhimsicalCalamari
look up her name, you'll find quite a few stories about the witch hunt that a gawker writer started because he wanted to make some 'justice'
JudgeMentalCat
she got fired. If she wanted to say it, she could say it somewhere on the net anonymously, like Imgur. Otherwise, she knows exactly what
JudgeMentalCat
the consequences are to that. Especially as a COMMUNICATIONS director
IAmDrBanner
He isn't talking about just her losing her job. She got doxxed, she got death threats, people prank called her house constantly and left
IAmDrBanner
stuff at the door. A gawker did all sorts of stupid shit to blow this thing as out of proportion as he could. It was a shit storm.
wobbu
It wasn't even racist, it was ironic.
WhimsicalCalamari
Even if it was deliberately racist, the response was disproportionate.
insensitivecow
How is it ironic?
allaeblafuebtehabiaunchorrito
Its like rain on your wedding day...
wobbu
She was attempting to point out how people shield themselves from the problems of other countries
insensitivecow
Is there more to the story behind this? I don't see how it's ironic.