Redditorhippolyte_pixiiwanted to hear about what many of us are wasting life on by championing the obsolete.
"What do people defend so fervently that you can tell they know it actually sucks?"
Ipods. I miss Ipods and still want them back. But I hear we're past them.
It's Over
Relationship GIF by GIPHY Studios OriginalsGiphy"Bad relationships."
KitKat2014
"Trauma bonding is real and so sad."
Weekly-Quality6243
It's All Fake
uncleskeleton
"Sunk cost fallacy. By the time you realise you're further in the hole than you'd intended, you convince yourself that your success is just around the corner."
"Also a read a blog a few years ago about someones adventures through an MLM, from the start to finally getting out and the impression I get is that there is very much a 'fake it till you make it' situation. Yes maybe there are some people who do well in MLM's, but the vast majority that appear to do well are faking it on social media with the goal of recruiting as many suckers as possible to be part of their downstream. Stay well away."
joshi38
It's Round
"Flat Earth nonsense. We watched a documentary about the flat Earthers, and it was obvious that many of the higher profile 'celebrities' in that community no longer believe their bull (if they ever did), but they've invested too much of their lives in it to be able to admit they were wrong, and for some of them, it's become their income source."
EarhornJones
The Grind
"Working super long hours - despite all your talk of ‘grindset,' I know you know it sucks."
"Burn-babies-burn. My dad gets 20 Vacation days a year and brags about not taking them. I'm like bro, that's not a flex but he just doesn't see it that way."
TheFluffersFluffer
"I was like that until about 2 years ago, I'm 28 now. From 19-26 I laughed at people taking vacation days and thought 'How lazy are you that you need to take time off other than your scheduled 2 days?' Well, thankfully I'm not like that anymore as I finally realized loyalty doesn't buy you anything and the business could care less about you."
JD2694
Schemes
Drink Gym GIF by Bucked UpGiphy"Some lady tried to sale my wife and I this supplement or whatever called 'thrive.' It was just some dumb pyramid scheme. Those who buy into it really drive home how great it is, way too extensively."
gould_35g
I tried Thrive. And I don't want to talk about it.
death will GIF"Don't get me started on those things. If you find a Jeep addict driving a mall-crawler, if you just keep asking them about their mods, they eventually start to crack and barely admit that they made the vehicle a pain in the butt to drive, for off-roading capability that they will never use."
crapgarbage
Soda Brainwash
"The Coca-Cola marketing in Mexico is extremely overbearing. It has been for a very long time. it has gotten to the point where they have convinced Mexicans that Coca-Cola is part of their cultural traditions. To shy away from Coca-Cola is to shy away from your friends, family, and community."
"Basically, they have convinced a large portion of the Mexican people that if they don't like Coca-Cola, then they are odd and/or unethical people. That being said, my Mexican wife refuses to acknowledge that she likes Pepsi better. I've given her Pepsi in a cup without telling her and she has praised how good the 'Coke' was."
"After I reveal that it is Pepsi, she throws it away and claims she didn't really like it. If her family is around, she won't offer Pepsi to them if it's all we have. It's not just Pepsi either. RC and store-brand is the same. If it's not Coca-Cola, then it's an insult to her heritage. The brainwashing is remarkable to say the least."
qwerty4007
'pay our dues'
"Being a 'company man.' At FedEx I met a lot of old men decades deep into their, erm, 'careers' as mail sorters. They seem to think that just because FedEx will throw them a couple cents more per hour every year they stay, that makes hard work and loyalty to the company somehow invaluable."
"Then they freak out at us young guys all the time for not taking the job seriously because we have bills due NOW, not 20 years from now when we 'pay our dues' and eventually get a comfortable wage."
KithMyAirs
Thankless...
"Nursing. Don't get me wrong, those people do a thankless job and deserve a lot of recognition. But my best friend is a nurse and she's told me that 90% of her job is wiping @sses , and a lot of her coworkers are ex-high school mean girls who love to martyr themselves."
jesters_privelage
Apple Life
New York Holiday GIF by Virgin AtlanticGiphy"Living in New York City. Sure, there are all sorts of fantastic things to do… theatre, concerts, comedy, clubs, nightlife, authentic ethnic cuisine… it’s just a shame you can’t afford any of it."
EastCoastExile
Males
"Being alpha males or sigma males. If you ask me it's just means of justifying shi**y behavior and being pretentious."
MundaneConclusion246
"The Sigma male thing is hilarious. A bunch of neckbeards have decided that the coolest man to be is the one without charisma, influence or friends. Like it's some kind of political position to be a complete social outcast, and not something that's forced on them because they're unlikeable."
FatStoic
Beholden
"US healthcare and private insurance. It sucks in so many ways: you are beholden to an employer for your well-being, you get gouged prices, you can’t get care unless approved, it just goes on and on yet people insist that private insurance is somehow worth defending."
liarbility
Rugrats
"Their kids."
New_Horse3033
"Every parent loves their kids. But only parents who truly admit they love their kids can admit to other adults that they can’t stand their kids sometimes. But if you tell your kids you can’t stand them, you definitely don’t love your kids."
sketchysketchist
"I had to scroll down way too far to find this. KIDS."
multiplesneezer
Generations
Working Mothers Day GIF by Libby VanderPloegGiphy"Being a mother. My God I wish women would openly discuss the things they hate about motherhood to better prepare the next generation for parenthood."
LippyWeightLoss
"Not to mention, it’s the woman that usually ends up doing most of the work anyway. If you’re lucky enough to have one with a man that does his equal share it’s STILL a lot on the woman."
KekeSmall
That BTS
"I hope I don't get flagged or banned for this one... but... some of the members of BTS's singing ability is genuinely not good. I'm an army myself and I've been to a live concert but I know they sing along to back tracks and I think some of them lip sync often and those clips are the evidence that fans give when they want to prove their 'talent.'"
"I think most of their popularity is chalked up to a couple of them being talented singers, dancers, rappers and the rest is just how charismatic they are and the kind of content they put out. That said, I think a few of them have improved their singing abilities a ton over the last few years with practice so I really love how seriously they take their career since they really don't need to do that."
pendant_fawn
TV Love
"Their favorite show that nobody else watches."
TheUnblinkingEye1001
"There are so many shows out there, and their popularity is so reliant on communication and adverts that many awesome things are bound to remain unnoticed."
"The few times I tried something that a friend fervently recommended, it ended up being great. Simply, there are too many great things out there to experience them all, so I focus on things tailored to my specific tastes."
BarelyBearableHuman
I'm Fine
"Spanking. I don’t know why people like to die on that hill. Tell them that spanking is bad. And every study that has ever come out says it’s bad. People will die on that hill. The most common being 'I was spanked and I’m fine!'"
cleaning-meaning
Get Up
New York Showtime GIF by Desus & MeroGiphy"The whole 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' mentality. People that want others to suffer only because they once had to suffer is a particular kind of a**hole."
The_Gristle
Somethings are just meant to go by the wayside. Everything can't stay in fashion forever.
Prior to August, Evan's mom discovered a dog tied to a fence and quickly rescued him and took him to Animal Care Centers (ACC) in the hopes that he would find a home.
Evan's mom checked in with the ACC and discovered not only had the dog successfully been adopted into a loving home, but the Center also had volunteer opportunities her son could be involved in.
One of the programs was Books for Boroughbreds, in which children and teens could sit with the Center's shelter dogs and read to them. This has been proven to help soothe and calm stressed dogs, and even help socialize them for the more important visits made by potential families.
Evan shared:
"I always wanted to work with dogs and I was excited when she told me that I could read to them!"
While talking about his experiences, Evan said:
"The most rewarding experience is when I try to specifically help an at-risk dog and I can almost immediately see the impact and how they react to me reading to them. They start to get calm and quiet and some even fall asleep."
"They will be at the front of the kennel and end up curled up on their beds snoring. That makes me happy because I can tell they are scared and stressed."
"I sometimes bring toys for the dogs I read to as a reward for being listeners, but I end up giving toys to almost all of them!"
Evan's mom started an Instagram page for Evan's adventures at the Animal Care Centers, which can be found at "eb_and_the_pets." On the page, they've shared videos of Evan reading to the dogs, and their calming demeanor as he reads to them, as well as pictures of individual dogs he has met and fundraising items.
Evan shared that he loves doing volunteer work and reading to the dogs and plans to do it long-term. He hopes to be able to interact with dogs more directly in the future and even walk them.
He also has even bigger plans when he's older.
Evan said:
"I want my own rescue one day and hopefully by then New York will be a no-kill state."
Even though he is only ten-years-old, Evan also shared his thoughts on the stigma surrounding shelter dogs that have a prior history, and why everyone should consider saving one of these lives.
Evan explained:
"I think most people think that shelter dogs are not 'good' because they went through things and had bad things happen in their past. They are ALL good."
"All dogs are good — they're just scared and they need love and they just need to know someone is on their side. I am happy to be their friend and I can tell it means a lot to them just by the way they react to me."
"All of the dogs are good they just need love and to be trained."
People were really impressed with Evan's work at the Center and have enjoyed following his adventures on Instagram.
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Evan's mom did a truly wonderful thing when she rescued the dog who was tied to the fence, because he ended up finding a loving home.
But in the process of helping one animal, she was able to help so many more, after she discovered the volunteer program that would change her son's life, and his future.
New Yorker Ashley Mayer learned that the hard way when one of her AirPods fell onto the treacherous Manhattan subway tracks.
What followed was a saga for the ages.
Ashley thought all hope was lost, but the AirPod was in the same spot the next day.
Jumping onto the tracks wasn't an option.
So Mayer got resourceful.
The mission was on, with only a few hiccups.
Though the feat occurred off-camera, Mayer put a wad of duct tape at the end of the broom to retrieve the treasured AirPod.
It worked!
And though some were divided on whether she should put the subway AirPod back in her ear, she couldn't let her efforts be in vain.
Soon, Twitter showered her with congratulations.
Happy listening, Ashley. You deserve it.
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