"If you could remove a law, which one would get the boot?"
They're Always Watching
"Digital security act (2018)."
"It's a law by the government of Bangladesh, which can let anyone file a case against you, if you speak against the government online."
"There are multiple cases where someone criticized the government, and they have been put in prison because of this law."
"It basically hurts the freedom of speech of Bangladeshi citizens."
"Even though there have been voices raised to demolish this law, the autocratic government doesn't care at all."- ArianThehunter
The US Government, In A Nutshell...
"The ones that allowed politicians to accept funds from corporations."- No_Commercial5671
Lobbying For The People GIF by Creative CourageGiphyDrugs Is Too Broad A Term
"Psilocybin, LSD, and marijuana being considered Schedule 1 drugs (at least in the US)."
"Wild to me that drugs like Xanax, Oxy, some other strong prescription drugs, cocaine, and f*cking meth are all considered 'less dangerous' than drugs that have a much lower death toll and have been shown to be more beneficial in various different treatments and trials."- localstreetcat
Some Of The Most Annoying Laws Aren't Even Enforced...
"Murphys law."- Zert420
No One, NO ONE, Should Be Above The Law
"Any law about immunity for politicians."- iOliverSup
Richard Nixon Corruption GIF by GIPHY NewsGiphyAren't Politicians Supposed To Be Working For Us?
"The one that allows politicians to raise their own salary as long as at least 51% of them vote in favor."
"A few years ago they increased minimum wage by 3.5% then proceeded to increase their own salary by 40% and add 2 new benefits."- vksdann
So, Pretty Much All Laws Benefitting Politicians
"The one that protects individual politicians against the effects of what they did in office."- Silent-Revolution105
Which Citizens, And How Exactly Are They "United"?
"Citizens United."- Lilysils
Amy Klobuchar GIFGiphyMore Like Profiling Act
"Patriot Act."
"And whatever laws that allow for government surveillance besides Patriot Act."
"My dank memes on Reddit and search history is none of the business of the FBI who think using the word 'based' is grounds for a terrorist investigation."- Realtor_3605
"All the anti-terrorist laws that took our privacy's without anyone giving sh*t."- Brilliant_Salad_1345
Not Exactly "Small Government" If You Think About It?
"Where the government can take your stuff."- rtxpurelife2
Robin Hood Disney GIFGiphyBring On The Public Domain
"Every copyright extension from the original (around 20 years)."- reyseven
Um... Do You Really Need Either?
"I would say the meaningless illegality of stuff like nunchucks, balisongs, etc.:
:Why can I buy a military knife made for killing people but I can't buy a knife which uses springs to open?"- racistinfrastrukture·
Clearly Not From A "Stand Your Ground" State...
"The one where you're not allowed to defend yourself if someone breaks into your home with the intent of stealing from you (in my country)."- lycos94
It doesn't take very long at all for certain laws to become outdated.
Making it all the more infuriating that these laws remain in effect.
Particularly when they likely shouldn't even have been made laws in the first place.
Redditor param_T_extends_THOT was curious to find out which companies people fell into this less than prolific category, leading them to ask:
"Which company could go out of business tomorrow and it would be to the betterment of this world?"
Nothing Express About It
"Express Scripts."- BadDadJokes
Wildly Different, Yet Equally Unnecessary
"Privatized prisons."
"Glitter manufacturers."- Sped-Connection
Where To Even Begin?
"The church of Scientology?"- dipshipsaidso
church building GIF by South Park GiphyBeware The Pyramids
"Any MLM bullsh*t."- Work-Alone
Taylor Swift Would Probably Agree
"Ticketmaster."- Tynesand
You Really Want To Trust Them With Your Money?
"HSBC, one of the largest banks in the world, is a criminal enterprise:"
"In 2012, the bank paid $1.9 billion to settle charges brought by U.S. authorities that it had failed to prevent money laundering by Mexican drug cartels."
"In 2013, HSBC was fined $1.92 billion by US and UK regulators for its role in the manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), a benchmark interest rate."
"In 2014, the bank was charged by the U.S. Department of Justice for violating sanctions against Iran, Sudan, and other countries."
"In 2018, the bank was charged by the US Department of Justice for violating the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering regulations."
"Also, Nestle."- alecsputnik
Amen!
"Joel Osteen's ministries."- ststeveg
Joel Osteen Highwire Live GIF by Volcano Live! with Nik WallendaGiphyMaybe All Big Pharma?
'Seems like the general consensus is Nestle, but I’ll be weird and say DuPont."
"They’re the reason every living human on the planet has Forever Chemicals running through their bloodstream."-poppidypoppop
"Blinded By The Light"...
"Everyone one that makes blindingly bright low beam bulbs."- RetinaMelter9000s
One Bad Experience Can Ruin It Forever
"Mark's plumbing."- GreenieMachinie93
Rockos Modern Life 90S GIFGiphy"Oh The Wells Fargo Wagon Is A Comin' Down The Street..."
"Wells Fargo."- Itchy_Focus_4500
Honestly, Can't Agree With This One
"F*cking TurboTax."- camilofl20
Absolutely Frightening
"Wagner Group.'
"Dirty mercenary army with soldiers for hire."
"They have caused chaos where ever they have gone."
"Syria, Central African Republic, Madagascar, Libya, Venezuela, mali, Mozambique and a few other places, they have no desire to see a peaceful world as that would financially cripple them as a organization."
"Look at what they are doing to the Ukrainian people."
"Despicable organization and they have zero moral compass."- Weary_Violinist_3610
Maybe all Credit Reporting?
"Experian, Equifax, and/or Transunion."
"Leeches on America."- compusmack
Smiley Face Thumbs Up GIF by Tier One CreditGiphyCan't Help But Say It, Did She Really Think "goop" Was An Appealing Name?
"Comcast & goop."- celeresaharano·
Be it poor customer service, questionable business practices, or just plain fraud, it's hard not to agree that any or all of these companies would not be missed should they close their doors.
After all, when a health and wellness brand openly tells you that some or all of its products may not actually improve your health or wellness, that just about says it all.
...even if Shakespeare in Love remains a romantic gem...
"Men of Reddit, what is something you wish other men would stop doing?"
Taking Others Down To Bring Themselves Up
"Insulting their friends to look cool in front of a girl."- SuvenPan
Always Needing To Be The "Tough Guy"
"I wish y’all would stop trying to be Mr. tough arrogant guy when an attractive women is in your presence."- Relevant-Quality2196·
It's Just Basic Hygeine!
"Not washing hands after using public bathrooms."- truetruster
Wash Hands Reaction GIF by Leroy PattersonGiphyWomen Are Not Property!
"Stop hitting on other dudes' girlfriend."
"Some guys take it as a challenge and it’s pretty f*cked up."- Blowmansalad·
"Being overly horny and hitting on women non stop who clearly are uncomfortable."
"It’s hard to watch."- cgollin34
"Treating women like an object that exists solely for their pleasure."
"Leading women to constantly live in defense mode, which leads to decent men having a hard time meeting and establishing a real connection with women who have become jaded by experiences with f*ckboi archetypes."- surivanoroc20
Learn Some Manners!
"That thing where a girl turns you down so you suddenly call her an ugly b*tch."
"It’s really not hard to NOT be a rude piece of sh*t, and it makes you sound pathetic."
"Have some respect and imagine your grandmother could hear you."- leastlyharmful
Season 3 Episode 13 GIF by Parks and RecreationGiphyWhat Are You Trying To Prove, Exactly?
"Acting overly manly and not smiling, like chill man I’m not trying to pee on your territory."- incognitoburrito2022
Not Cool...
"Stop approaching women in grocery store parking lots! "
"At night!"
"My girlfriend mentions that guys, often way older guys, will try to talk to her and ask her out while she’s carrying groceries."
"She’s had to stop wearing headphones because guys will follow her trying to get her attention."
"The worst was a guy who knocked on her window when she was sitting in her car."
"Nobody taught me, a normal dude, how not to be creepy."
"Where the hell did you guys learn to do this?"- UptownShenanigans
Not Fooling Anyone
"Joining MLMs and being really vague about what they do."
"I don’t want an exclusive chance to gain you as a mentor, I sat next to you in pre-algebra and know that the concept of math escapes you."
"Also stop renting luxury vehicles for a weekend and pretending you 'made it'."
"Maybe I’m just a hater but if your whole plan is to not just fake it till you make it but to 'flex' till you make it then I’m not interested in whatever opportunity you’re trying to sell me."- Exact_Thought_185
Its Sexual Assault. STOP IT!
"The unwarranted peen pics need to stop."- Ratakoa
Just Be Yourself!
"Stop pretending they are all that when they aren't."- Time_Relationship125
Fight The Good Fight!
"Stop giving up!"
"It's ok to be masculine."
"It's ok to be down on your luck."
"It's not ok to stop trying."- Dazzling-Umpire-5073
Not exactly something to brag about...
"Obsessing over how much sex you gotta have to be really a man."- NexysGaming·
Not A One Way Street...
"Thinking making food is the main way a woman can give to a man."
"Like please get with the times."
"I immediately lose interest."- bellllsssss
'Mach Macho Man..."
"Sexist....racist...womanizing....a**holes in general."
'I'm a man and I can't stand most men with their macho man bullsh*t.
"The end."- If*ckinghatethesunn
A Matter Of Personal Taste
"Having curly short black hair."- LinuxIsTrashAf
No Means NO!
"Pressuring me to drink after I’ve already said no."- batjunkrat
Some People Always Want What They Can't Have...
"Flirting with my gf"- theboldboy
What Does 'Masculinity' Mean, Exactly?
"Making so many unrelated things about 'masculinity'."
"It's not 'unmanly' to enjoy a fruity cocktail just because it tastes good, enjoy your 1% bread soda, Kevin
also making their cars as loud as possible, such small pp energy."- lycos94
When other "bros" are so openly put off by "bro" culture, maybe that means it's time has passed?
But seriously, did anyone find "bro" culture attractive?
After all, were we laughing with the boys of the American Pie films, or laughing at them...
Reddit user OutlandishnessNew471 asked:
"What is one thing that doesn't exist you wish actually existed?"
As much as I wish (and oh man I REALLY wish) that I could twerk it out on some tres leches and just pop a pill and it would be like it never happened, we're just not there yet.
We're also not "there yet" with this stuff:
Free Day
"Another free day after Sunday."
- Ferna_89
"Took a 20% pay cut to take Mondays off forever. Best decision of my life 1000/10 would never look back."
- ryandunndev
"For about 6 months, I worked Tuesday-Friday, 10 hour shifts, it was glorious! Every weekend was like a holiday weekend!"
- MazerRakam
"I don't like to credit covid with anything, but if one good thing came from it, it was normalizing working from home."
"My job went to a hybrid model so now all my Mondays are work from home."
"That extra day tacked onto the weekend where I'm working, but don't have to do allll the sh*t associated with commuting is a really nice little transition into the week."
- linds360
GiphyThe Watch
"I used to watch this show as a kid where one of the character’s uncle had a teleportation watch and I couldn’t wait to grow up and get one."
"Imagine my disappointment when I found out this wasn’t a thing!"
"Unless you watched TV shows on French-Canadian TV, I don’t think you’d ever have come across Robin et Stella, but it was amazing."
"Uncle Darius had a rapidotron for his work but the kids would go on adventures with it! They also had a secret passage between their two houses."
"I was so envious!!"
- multiplesneezer
Just Sleep
"Sleeping pills that actually make you sleep normally and restfully."
- MONKEH1142
"Yes! Melatonin makes me dream every awkward moment or fight in my life! Mash up style."
"Yup. I’m asleep. Nope. No rest. Aaannndd I’m sad."
- winedogmom88
"Something like Propofol in pill form?"
"I was given a Propofol infusion for my colonoscopy and I swear that was the best, most restful sleep I have ever had. And the come down is typically pretty clean, too."
"I can see why Michael Jackson liked it so much."
- TokesNotHigh
"For a natural solution that doesn't involve taking something, tire yourself out - as in exhaust yourself by doing a lot of high effort physical activity and do not eat right away."
- commentsandchill
Love What You Do?
"A job I genuinely love."
"Not like, not tolerate, but love going in to every day and actually look forward to."
- cain62
"Its the money for me…"
"I love teaching. But I can't make my current salary if I were a teacher. Now.. pay me 200k a year to teach the little buggers how to read and they’ll be reading in binary in a month."
- LowLightComment
"I think the issue with that would be, if you love it and are passionate about it, you want it to be a hobby, not what you do for a living and spend the majority of your time at."
"I'm a general handyman by trade. I fix and build things all day."
"My wife thinks this means we should be renovating our house every weekend and putting my skills to use making some sort of kickass modern home."
"When I finish my shift, I don't want to see tools again until the start of my next shift."
- JPMoney81
"There’s a reason why super wealthy people usually don’t work and just have a bunch of fun hobbies. The second you turn your hobby into a job, you start to hate it immediately."
- Burrito_Loyalist
Off To Sick Bay
"A medical body scanner in the style of Star Trek."
- Jake_Thador
"I would love to be able to get scanned any time I have an illness or weird pain, it says 'you are not dying' and then my anxiety gets relieved immediately."
"And then it gets snarky and tells me to eat more fruits and veggies and maybe purposefully exercise more than once a month. I’ll trade my hypochondria for negative reinforcement."
- RunningFromSatan
"I constantly dream about this."
"I imagine an archway that you walk through or maybe a small room with 360 degrees of sensors and after a real quick scan, it can tell you everything from harmful microbes to the percentage of cancer cells to damaged bones and tissue or the presence of viruses and diseases."
"I feel like our medical knowledge still needs to improve greatly."
"Do you know how many 'syndromes' and things we have that we actually have zero understanding of what causes them and how to effectively treat them?"
"They're usually things like, 'We don't know what's wrong with you but we've seen it before so we gave it this name and here's some meds that kinda sorta almost help but have terrible side effects and aren't a really effective treatment.' "
- Wonderful-Custard-47
GiphyDry Heaving
"Male birth control pill."
- regaito
"I took flomax for a kidney stone a couple months ago."
"It has a little side effect I discovered that the doctor didn't warn me about. It can cause you to not ejaculate when you orgasm."
"I looked it up and it has been researched as a male birth control pill."
- ProbablyaDrugDealer
"Like a dry heaving dick"
- drhyde6969
"So naming it 'flomax' was them mocking you?"
- RagingAnemone
"They trialed male birth control pills. The men in the trials complained about the side effects too much, so they pulled it."
"The funniest part is that all the symptoms were ones that women regularly deal with while on birth control."
- creepy-cats
Wasting Time
"A food pill that gave you good nutrients and made you feel full."
"I love eating, don't get me wrong, but when you have a job that makes it hard to have nutrient dense food then a pill would cover you till you get to cook dinner. Just because it exists doesn’t mean you need to use it three times a day."
- thicboibran
"I watched the Jetsons growing up and their food pills is all I have ever wanted. I hate cooking and cleaning and wasting time eating."
- kurotan
"I wish this was a thing on those days when nothing sounds good and I don't want to cook."
- Eat_Carbs_OD
Undo
"An undo button on elevators."
"I feel like I should have picked something more profound to answer this question, but an undo button is just so simple that I don't know why it doesn’t already exist."
"It’s really embarrassing if you mess up in a full elevator lol"
- --Hank-Hill--
"YES!! I hate when I accidentally press the wrong number and can't un-press it."
- wyrd_werks
"Just recently I actually hit the wrong button in an elevator and pressed it again in frustration. It actually unselected the floor!"
- cjfunke
"I’ve never seen it in the States but almost every elevator I’ve seen in Singapore has that option."
- Spice_135
GiphyThis One Is A Must
"A sarcasm font."
- edjennersmilkmaid
"I remember reading that someone tried to do that years ago but it never caught on. I believe it was called sarctalics."
- Hydra_Master
"I think there is a sarcasm font, or at least I’ve always written it as:"
"OoOoOh gReAt ThAt’S jUsT fAnTaStIc"
- LordofMushrooms
"This one works but its more a mocking tone than sarcastic and is hard to type out."
- karmagod13000
"Well...you could always just type /s..."
- OutlandishnessNew471
Karl Pilkington Is A Genius?
"There was a short bit by Karl Pilkington about having a machine that lets you swap bodies with your doctor so they could feel what was wrong with you for a more accurate analysis."
"Probably one of the only sane things he’s ever said though."
- 3rdAccountPlsDontBan
So now that you know what Reddit is daydreaming about when they wishfully imagine inventions, it's your turn!
What do you wish existed?
Is it some grand device to better humanity? Is it something wildly impossible like consistent sizing in fashion?
We'd love to hear it.
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"What’s something you wish you never found out?"
People don't always need to know the real impression of others.
What The Friend's Mom Really Thought
"I grew up on the poor side, I had a friends house i was invited to a lot from like the 2nd grade to the 8th, her mom was always so kind to me. One day after school I came through their back door, as I’d done for years back then, to drop off a school book."
"I overheard my friend telling her mom that I was stopping by, and her mom asked her why she still hung out with me because I was obviously so trashy. I’d know this lady most of my life, I saw her several times a week for years, I was devastated, I knocked on the door, and quickly dropped the book of in her smiling face, and I never went over again. She broke my heart and I felt like everyone secretly thought I was trash."
– MorbidlyCurioussss
What Google Revealed
"My current manager used to be just another member of the office team until he was promoted. For a while I'd been saying he was probably going to be the best manager I would ever have, he was super chill, he would go out of his way to do the work he knew we hated doing, he would listen to my coworker's podcast and talk to him about it every week, he was just one of us despite him being our boss."
"A couple weeks ago I googled his name for sh*ts and giggles and found out he used to work as a teacher until he got fired for posession of child porn."
– VeryIncompetent
Limits To Speed
"Hello sir/mam, Here is your speeding ticket. You have to know that it's f'king illegal to go from 0 to 100 this quickly. Have a good day."
– Kalideagarwaen
Parents divulged NSFW information their children can never unhear.
Exploring Uncharted Territory
"my mom told me that she and my dad tried butt sex one time before i was born and i have absolutely no idea why she told me that."
– psychpopnprogncore
Point Of Inception
"My mom told me in front of my friend in high school that I was conceived on the side of the road (highway 12 to be exact) and they were in the way home from a Halloween party, she was dressed up as Princess Leia."
– Busy-Bench3300
The Mother's Load
"Finding my mom's porn stash at the age of 23."
– TheMetalMisfit
Family history can reveals dark truths.
Unwanted Trait
"Found out cancer runs in my family and everyone who had it, died. I am having health issues that I haven't been able to get checked out and it makes me nervous."
– okayiguess123
An "Isolating Experience"
"That my parents could very well get Alzheimer's and it scares me that they may not recognize me even 15 years from now. And that I probably will end up having it later down the line. It sounds like a scary, isolating experience that slowly rips you apart."
"It's bad for those watching on the outside but I can only imagine what it actually feels like. Sometimes I wish I could live in ignorance but I feel like I would end up hurting more when/if it happens to my parents or loved ones."
– hiemerxd
Shattered Romantic Notions
"My Grandmother told me she never loved my Grandfather. How he was just there and she needed his help with her six kids (none of my aunts and uncles were his, yet he took care of them like they were). She decided to tell me on my wedding day."
– Huggies509
A Lost Sibling
"I WAS a twin."
– 12yearsOfWriting
Dad's Addiction
"That my father cheated my mother on every possible occasion and his second wife, also looks like he has somewhat of a hooker addiction."
– Much_Committee_9355
Science is fascinating and also horrific.
Friendly Parasites
"All the freaky parasites we encounter in every day life that our bodies’ immune systems (so far) have protected us against."
The Deadly Virus
"Basically anything about rabies."
"That sh*t gives me nightmares."
– HypocriticalIdiot
"Dehydration, fear of water, vivid and horrifying hallucinations, extreme anxiety, loss of memory, and more as your brain is slowly eaten from the inside. Definitely not a fun time. Also, once you start showing symptoms you're 100% going to die a horrible, slow death with or without medical treatment."
– 14thCluelessbird
Workplace Hazzard
"Silicosis."
'I used to work in the oilfield, and airborne silica is most certainly a thing in our industry."
"They didn't bother to inform us about this situation, or ever provide dust masks for users that worked on frac locations until 5 years into my 9 years of working for them and got the absolute sh*t fined out of them from a random OSHA audit."
"Silicosis normally takes a decade or two to actually manifest, and is incurable (without a lung transplant) as particulates such as this cannot be removed from the lungs. Over time, your lung capacity just diminishes, and there's nothing you can do to stop it."
"You might have paid me well for the 9 years I worked for you, oilfield, but you probably are killing me slowly as well."
– JJ82DMC
Fake Powder
"There is no pumpkin in pumpkin spice."
– Vahlez
The Odds Are Not In Their Favor
"I always had half a plan to retire at 60 in an amazing place I always wanted to live and have a comfortable life. Then I found out that the numbers added up and I could actually do it. Now all I can think about is the next 4 and a half years I have to get through. Work is meaningless, I'm uninterested in taking on fresh challenges, and I spend most of my day wishing time away. I know it seems like a first-world problem, but I'm f'king ruined."
– CJDownUnder
Some of these Redditors learned the hard way that some things are never meant to be heard.
Sometimes, ignorance is bliss.
Like the time I found out that Caesar salad dressing had anchovies. Before learning this, I loved drenching my lettuce in the creamy stuff.
Now, I will no longer go near the stuff that I used to enjoy before when I was more naive.
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