"What was ruined for everyone by one single person?"
A Penguin?!
"My primary school used to do relatively frequent trips to a local zoo, until one boy decided to vault the fence and punch a penguin."
"I wish I was joking."- eighttesticles
No One Likes A Snitch...
"I'm a contractor and I work in different kinds of plants and mills."
"In one mill I worked at, we had a gravy job, two hours of easy work, and get paid for twelve hours."
"Well, one guy decided he was going to charge them for sixteen, and now we get two hours for the job."- Juggalo13XIII
A Chaperone Has One Job...
"The elementary school I went to let 6th graders go on an overnight trip to a lodge where we could go skiing and snow tubing."
"My dad volunteered as a parent and was 'supervising' by letting me and 5 other girls pile on top of one tube down a steep hill and we all went flying."
"Two of the girls busted their arms when we all landed in a pile."
"It looked like a cartoon."
"Anyway, after that no more sleep overs at the lodge and tale has it 30 years later everyone at the school still blames my dad lol."- Carol_Pilbasian
Sledding Cake Boss GIF by TLCGiphyOn The Other Hand, Better Safe Than Sorry?
"Not having to take your shoes off before boarding a plane."
"F*ck you, Richard Reid."- DonRicardo1958
"The guy who attempted to smuggle a bomb in his shoe in 2001."
"Now we all have to suffer taking our shoes off at airport security every damn time we fly."- Plus-Statistician80
Those Boots Were Made For Walking...
"I worked as a park maintenance groundskeeper for Parks & Recreation"
"No it is not like the show."
"At a previous job, we got full uniforms."
"Shirts, pants, hats, hoodies, winter coveralls, winter coats, gloves."
"But we don't get shoes or boots."
"Turns out a couple of years before I was hired on, they used to give boots."
"But one guy would take his boots and sell them, then request a replacement, then sell those."
"He did this about 20 times before anybody caught on because of municipal bureaucracy being slow to notice."
"When they caught on, they stopped giving out boots to their employees."- Corgiboom2
boots dancing GIF by Sara AndreassonGiphyMaybe CPR Training Instead?
"The person who apparently choked on a lollipop at my bank and now we don't get lollipops anymore."- neoprenewedgie
Even When Cheating The System, Cheaters Always Get Caught...
"Other firefighters constantly ruin any sort of appreciation restaurants give out."
"We had a BBQ restaurant that would give a flat 10$ off your meal."
"If you didn't spend $10 it was basically free."
"One guy ruined it on an $8 order by demanded the $2 be given to him as well."
"Had people going in uniform on days they didn't work."
"Had one guy have a family reunion at a local restaurant then made a big issue they wouldn't give his entire party the discount."
"I don't understand how out of touch people can be."- wehrmann_tx
No Time For Bullying
"Back around the mid 2000s I was around 10 years old and I used to go to this place after school called 'the Boys and Girls club'."
"They had an area with multiple basketball hoops on a court which we used to play all kinds of games in; one of those games being dodgeball."
"These were not those big rubber balls but instead the styrofoam filled balls with kind of a thin layer of plastic so otherwise… harmless."
"One of the kids thought it would be a good idea to shove a rock into one of the balls and throw it at someone he didn’t like."
"Well he ended up throwing it right into that kids face and broke two of his front teeth."
"We never played dodgeball again."- Mi_trees
You Still Need To Work When You Work From Home
"Previous job I had used to be hybrid twice a week."
"One person, on their hybrid day, decided to slack off work and go out."
"They got a call from their manager because they were late for a virtual meeting and the manager heard a lot of background noise like they were at the mall or something."
"Said person eventually admitted they were not home working, got fired, and now everyone had to be in the office 5 days a week."- Shiekh_Bodi
Happy London GIF by Kick GameGiphyWhy? Just Why?
"The guy who killed the most isolated tree on Earth."
"Same with that woman who burned down the oldest tree."
"Imagine the history the trees lived through."- kavalejava
Seriously People, Do Your Jobs!!!
"Had a job where as a dialysis nurse where we added a position to pick up add ons and emergency cases that came in later in the day."
"In this role we worked noon to midnight which helped us cut down from needing a nurse on call every night to maybe once or twice a week."
"Whoever took this role didn’t have to take call and had weekends off."
"We loved rotating through this role and enjoyed taking a break from having to be on call and enjoyed having weekends off."
"Then there came the nurse who went out at 7 am instead of noon, and finished at 5 pm."
"When there was an add-on or an emergency case she wouldn’t answer her phone, which meant everyone had to go back to picking up extra patients and being on call again."
"She did this every time it was her turn to go through the rotation so they eliminated the position and we went back to having to be on call all the time."- Otto_Correction
You Don't Hear It Much...
"The name Adolf has gotta be up there."- Akatsuki_Accountant
Taste Is Subjective
"At one of my previous workplaces, management played music as a way of promoting good mood."
"They played all sorts of genres so everyone got a chance to listen to something they liked."
"One person complained that sometimes they had to listen to music they didn't like, so they stopped playing music altogether."- Dynasuarez-Wrecks
Dj Mix Clashing GIF by Digital DJ TipsGiphyBy definition, a selfish person is someone who only thinks of themselves, and doesn't give other people a second thought.
And sometimes, acts of pure selfishness have negative long-term consequences on many other people.
Seriously though, who punches a penguin?
"What single trope can cause you to fully lose interest in a movie/show?"
That is quite an unusual set of skills
"I can’t stand seeing specialists being cast as masters of multiple highly specialized skill sets or areas of study."
"I understand that it’s a popular action movie trope, but you also see this in the medical and academic fields."- BeatMeElmo
Income/Housing Disparity
"The main character bakes muffins part-time 3 days a week but lives in a 2500 sq ft loft penthouse in the chic part of town."- SeaTie
Henchmen Have Families Too...
"If I kill him I'm no better than him"
"Motherf*cker you just smoked 19 of his henchmen and put 5 more in a wheelchair for life, end his a**."
"And of course the bad guy gets let go, but decides at the last second to try to kill the good guy, justifying a bullet between the eyes, usually by either the good guy's sidek ick, or the bad guy's henchmen that he just got done betraying."- Pyrochazm
matt damon punch GIF by Jason BourneGiphyGet It Over With!!!
"The main character is about to get killed."
"The antagonist is sitting there pointing a gun at them about to shoot them, but they first have to give a 30-second speech."
"This gives the love interest/forgotten sidekick/child with developing fighting skills to come kill the enemy instead."
"Follow it up with a quote from them saying 'you think I’d miss this party?'."- Jimbo19091
Mortal Wound? No Problem!
"Being mildly impacted by lethal injuries."
"Likewise, when in subfreezing temperatures, not succumbing to hypothermia when soaking wet.'
"Not always enough to shut it off, but it always stands out and strains the illusion."- spill_oreilly
No Conflict? Let's Make Some...
"Smart people making dumb decisions for drama."
"I have stopped watching several shows because of this."- TheWalkingBlondeJoke
hey arnold nicksplat GIFGiphy"We Can't Do It Without Them!"
"The cop who is about to retire, the soldier with one last mission before they're out, and the person who was about to get married WHEN THEY GOT KILLED."- virgilreality
"The ex-cop/FBI agent that comes out of retirement because the entire government can't catch a criminal."- The_Spyre
Just Kiss Already!!!
"'Will they won't they'."
"I liked watching 'New Girl', but when they completely restarted the main characters' relationship I was like, 'Oh, so it's going to be like that'."
"Dear producers, please let your characters grow."- MrMToomey
"But she has glasses! And a ponytail..."
"The 'clumsy, nerdy, awkward girl' who are normally played by the hottest actresses out there..."- Icy_Note_8154
It Only Took Two And A Half Hours To Figure Out!!
'“Wait!'
"I can explain this very obvious and easy to explain scenario'.”
“'Nope'."
"You’re dead to me."
"Now stare speechless as I’m meander my way out of your life slowly'.”-Aerhart941
"Something that can be fixed right away with just a conversation."- Beginning-Match592
"If an entire conundrum can be solved by just someone waiting 1 minute for the other person to explain but chooses not to."
"Irritates me to no end and I'd much rather stop watching the movie."- charthrowawayliet
Tyler Perry Problem Solved GIF by NickelodeonGiphyBig Words Can't Get You Everything...
"When a character is repeatedly hyped as being insanely intelligent, but then they just have a decent vocabulary and aren't particularly insightful or clever."- Gloomy-Flamingo-1733
The best part of sitting back and watching a movie or a TV show is to surrender to a world completely different from our own.
And enjoying them in the comfort of our own homes gives us the freedom to scream at our TV sets when something happens to annoy us.
"What ruins a TV series for you?"
The Things Some People Get Away With
"Characters that do not make realistic decisions, and when there are no real consequences for characters who make bad decisions."- Sonarks
They're Not Quite Dead...
"When people keep dying and then coming back to life."- SuvenPan
They Could Do So Much Better
"Character A exhibits absolutely reprehensible behavior towards Character B, and then they both end up apologizing to each other even though Character A was the only one who did anything wrong?"- dreadnaut1897
Homer Simpson Reaction GIFGiphyYou'd Think They'd Have Learned By Now...
"Characters that don’t grow or learn anything from their experiences."- Embarrassed_Tax_6547
Not As Cute As People Think
"The 'super smart kid that talks like an adult' thing that so many horrible sitcoms do."- NastyLittleBagginses
There Can Definitely Be Too Much Of A Good Thing
"Two things."
"If they 'jump the shark' and the plot lines just get so f*cking ridiculous that, even for fiction you cannot suspend disbelief."
"When they just milk the f*ck out of it and run it into the ground with prequels, sequels, and off shoots."
"It's not the idea of making more series to build a 'universe', it's that most of the shows tend to suffer because the creative staff is being pulled in so many directions."
"Looking at you, 'Sons of Anarchy'/'Kurt Sutter' and 'Yellowstone'/'Taylor Sheridan'."- RunsWithPremise
sons of anarchy GIFGiphyThey Had So Many More Stories To Tell
"Premature cancellation."- poizn_ivy
"Netflix canceling it out of nowhere usually."- Howdydobe
We Can Only Suspend Our Disbelief So Much...
"When the story gets too outrageous."
"Like I watched a show about LAPD cops and they ended up going to Mexico to take down a drug lord."
"I’m like whaaaa? Why would the LAPD do that?"
"Lol."- Diesel-KC
What The Hell Snl GIF by Saturday Night LiveGiphy90% Of Writers Are Out Of Work At Any Given Time... And Yet...
"Bad writing, serialitis (where characters don't get to have arcs but become types of themselves because the cancellation/renewal cycle prevents writing a story with a beginning middle and end)."- Rememberwork
Give People Some Credit
"In Sci Fi shows where they are going to do something big and one guy has to explain it to the rest of the crew/group as if they're wall lickingly stupid."- The_Last_Ron1n
The Course Of True Love Never Did Run Smooth...
"Forced romances and drama from those romances."- JackOfScales
GIF by GoPlayGiphyLooking At You Jim And Pam...
“'Will they/won’t they?'”
"Garbage."
"Cut the bullsh*t and ask them out."- SaltySteveD87
We Know What You're Really Thinking
"When a guy reveals a pretty cool trait or secret and the girl says 'our whole relationship is based on a lie'."
"How about for once the girl says 'omg that's hot'."- Waste_Willingness461
Grow Up Already!
"Drama based solely on miscommunication, or characters that are overly jealous but it's painted as endearing."
"The writers think it's more entertaining to have their main cast act like a bunch of 1st graders when all the characters are in their 20s and 30s, but it's just annoying."- brightnessys
how i met your mother cheers GIF by WGN AmericaGiphyGenerally speaking, we like to indulge in TV shows that feature a reality far different from our own.
But there is a fine, fine line between Fantasy and stupidity.
...Seriously, can ANYONE explain the most recent season of Riverdale? We're begging.
