Thread of dumbshit you see on the imgur frontpage

http://imgur.com/gallery/j28Pl

http://i.imgur.com/j28Pl.jpg

the fuck is that shit

exactly

is there a reason to ever be on the front page of imgur

Right they were in the same game as photobucket. Maybe not?

I see the front page as I upload an image. I'll learn to do it with my eyes closed one of these days.

I say we stop teaching GED courses in maximum security prisons right now.

you'd think all these people with serious concerns about the correct use of language wd be too busy writing books about it to spend all day reading Facebook and Twitter

"wd be too busy"

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT

the virulence of that LEARN TO READ, BITCH ASS WHORE crap has some crossover with the selfconsciously enlightened fedora culture which defines itself against 'swag' etc, people whose rhetorical style owes everything to dawkin's twitter and bill hicks

*dawkins' *

i was thinking of it as like schoolchildren for whom the teacher's approval had become such a substitute for parental love that they are still there in adulthood desperately proving that they are good students who deserve a gold star

^

Or it's like the people that think having over the top nerdy intensity for things like BK chicken fries and internet grammar and tv tropes makes them unique and interesting because they're so "outrageous" and "passionate" about it.

that too, sure. i have at least one FB friend who is always posting examples of "bad" spelling or grammar they come across, it's pretty fucken embarrassing tbh

cos i wonder what they're trying to say really?

what's the point in having knowledge if you can't use it to access feelings of superiority / gain the admiration of like-minded neckbeards / hide your lack of training and general knowledge in the field via loudness and swears because the things you do actually have training and knowledge in can't be used to put down your 11 year old cousins and/or are too embarrassing to show off about / practice disgusting typography

I know the difference between there, their, and they're. They'refore, I am a genius.

Their only three, actually. Idiot.

http://i.imgur.com/WxZsuUg.png

http://imgur.com/gallery/WxZsuUg

So many comments. So few brains.

/b/ finds the wat lady.

I'm not a big fan of mainstream Progressive House music, but I'll make an exception for Zedd. He stays true to himself as an artist, and has some of the best bass lines in the industry. I listen to Zedd when I need energy for a project or cleaning the house.

http://imgur.com/camp/schedule

http://i.imgur.com/QVvZp0b.jpg

the loneliest ballpit

http://imgur.com/gallery/9jVeB8u

http://imgur.com/gallery/9jVeB8u

My uncle is in the Army National Guard and has 5 daughters. He just posted this on Facebook.

http://i.imgur.com/X4HVXhl.jpg

Cute Date Ideas To Never Actually Get Around To Doing

http://i.imgur.com/xVZrKSy.jpg

#13 could work if your date is at a swingers club

it's originally from 4chan, but...

http://i.imgur.com/Pfz1ZtV.png

What actually is going on in that image? What is the red question mark getting at? Not defending the 4chan response, but that guy does look like he's just standing there in a normal way.

yeah, I don't see anything out of the ordinary. I agree with the 4chan dude that it's gross to use strangers as props in your selfies, but I can't get behind his assumption that narcissism must be her sole motive for taking the photo (maybe she's bored? maybe she thinks the pose/setting will amuse her friends? maybe she's just trying to document her life?) and that all women are similarly single-minded in their purposes. he isn't so much "getting into the female mindset" as basing his understanding of female behavior upon a single unflattering stereotype and refusing to consider any other possible explanations. and of course 4chan and imgur fall over each other to praise his cool, rational critique of human nature...

http://i.imgur.com/cYxvwBr.png

Hey, that's darn useful if it's all accurate.

90% of those upvotes are ironic — it's a way of saying 'I acknowledge the effort you put into this png and the potential usefulness of the information therein, so I'm just gonna favorite it and forget about it and make no effort whatsoever to educate myself about this topic'. the other 10% are physics majors (and/or I Fucking Love Science types) who look at it and think 'this is awesome, science is awesome' and print it out and tape it to their dormroom doors but never actually consult it.

(it's really not healthy to understand the imgur community so well)

http://i.imgur.com/uHJcmBn.jpg

hmm, nah

http://imgur.com/gallery/jH1pK

16 movies you may have missed walking past the dollar bin at walmart

http://i.imgur.com/xIIVQ6W.jpg

lol @ the original pic:

http://i.imgur.com/Q00nVCD.jpg

wouldn't be surprised if bill does get diagnosed with something tbh.

diagnosed with a boner for gwenny

lol at Clinton's long dark night with Gwyneth Paltrow:

Attendees complained the underground venue “stank”, with perspiration “dripping off the walls” and the rooms too crowded to even see the former president.

One, who called it the “worst party ever” described how “angry people” were waiting in the queue outside while high-profile guests were admitted, and another condemned the event as “unpleasant”.

but that was 4 years ago so I don't know how that photo serves as proof that he's dying or whatever. and 4chan dude isn't exactly sticking his neck out by predicting that a 70-year-old man might have some major health issues.

Attendees complained the underground venue “stank”, with perspiration “dripping off the walls” and the rooms too crowded to even see the former president.

It's like they'd never been to an orgy with a former president before.

I predict he'll be dead in less than 20 years.

meet and greet or great techno club

hooooo boy: http://imgur.com/gallery/SHzu7

saw that, chose not to post it either here or to the complains about reddit thread

blech

Yeah.

BRB, gonna post a klan rally on the "Is This Racist?" thread.

these ppl are not good at insults

http://imgur.com/gallery/Vz23bPq

I wanted to share some statistics with you from the CDC. In 2013, there were 33,685 deaths in the United States caused by firearms. 63% of theses were suicide (21,175), 33% were homicide (11,208), and the remaining 4% were legally justified (police, home invasion, etc) or an accident (child discharge, mishandling).

Of the 11,208 homicides, up to 80% (varies by city) are gang and/or drug related per combined reports from the FBI, NIJ, and CDC. That's roughly 8,966; leaving about 2,242 deaths in the year of 2013 that were not related to gangs or drugs.

This means that if you are not planning on killing yourself any time soon and don't associate with any gangs or drugs, your odds of being killed by a firearm this year are .0009494% (or 1 in 105,331). If you do plan on starting a gang, selling drugs, or fiddling around with the idea of blowing your brains out, don't worry your risk only goes up to .0105629% (or 1 in 9,467).

Also, just as a fun comparison, your odds of being killed in a motor vehicle accident are 1 in 9,434 (about the same as a firearm when offing yourself is on the table, more likely if not on the table). There is also a 1 in 6,569 chance you will die this year by poisoning, whether intentionally or by accident. A 1 in 10,996 you'll die from alcohol, you like to drink don't ya? A 1 in 6,862 you'll die from drug overdose, you like to pop a Xanax don't ya? Hell, there's a 1 in 10,556 chance you'll die from a fucking fall. A fall. All of these are far more likely (by up to a magnitude of 10) to occur to you this year than someone else's gun killing you.

Next time someone tells you we have a gun problem in this country, please share the statistics with him or her along with the linked sources.

tl;dr 33,685 gun deaths per year, but how many of the victims were nice law-abiding imgurians? probably not that many! /stats

Reminds me of

The population of the USA is 300 million.

160 million are retired.

That leaves 140 million to do the work.

There are 85 million in school.

Which leaves 55 million to do the work.

Of this there are 35 million employed by the federal government.

Leaving 15 million to do the work.

2.8 million are in the armed forces preoccupied with killing Osama Bin-Laden.

Which leaves 12.2 million to do the work.

Take from that total the 10.8 million people who work for state and city governments.

And that leaves 1.4 million to do the work.

At any given time there are 188, 000 people in hospitals.

Leaving 1,212,000 to do the work.

Now, there are 1,211,998 people in prisons.

That leaves just two people to do the work.

You and me.

And there you are,

sitting on your bum,

at your computer, reading jokes.

bet I could get that to the frontpage if I peppered it with the right Maisie Williams reaction gifs

my workplace has mandatory safety meetings every quarter that spell out all the required safety measures to make sure you don't die from a fall or other workplace injury

There is no way in hell a person's chances of dying in a car crash in a given year are 1/9453.

30,800 motor vehicle fatalities in 2012, population of 314.1 million

so 1/10198 for that year

yeah, cars really are that deadly

I mean, that's across the whole country, some areas worse than others obv

That's true cars do kill people, might as well stop trying to make them safer cuz what's the use

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/10/the-geography-of-car-deaths-in-america/410494/

fyi, it's an almost inverse relation between population density and fatalities, due to the fatalities happening at higher speeds you seldom reach within urban centers

Multiply by three for the number of people shot every year.

my workplace has mandatory safety meetings every quarter that spell out all the required safety measures to make sure you don't die from a fall or other workplace injury

― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, June 17, 2016 11:25 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jeez! And here I am getting upset about an hour of mandatory sexual harassment prevention every two years...

lol at the idea that we should take suicides and gang-related killings out of the gun numbers but not the drug overdose one

xp it's kind of dumb for office drones but we have people working in industrial settings, warehouses, etc

I don't have the greatest record on this thread, but:

http://i.imgur.com/KYnoDpk.png

http://imgur.com/gallery/UBeif

as long as you attire yourself in a boring-ass fashion or a uniform

"I have a problem with a culture that glorifies violence"

*posts military man as positive example*

jesus christ

http://i.imgur.com/yBR6PXb.jpg

"oh, it's just a harmless imageboard where we share cat gifs and lifehacks, none of the gross political baggage you'll find on reddi—"

http://imgur.com/gallery/N9ygl

found this gallery inscrutable

http://imgur.com/gallery/f9buG

I see a lot of negative things about police everywhere. But I just wanted to remind people that there are some good cops out there.
by DaBakedPotato11h

http://i.imgur.com/szFvH4Y.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/HJRWLQ6.jpg

sort of reminded me of

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--JoM0WNwk--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/18s08zoeddx5yjpg.jpg

this one is personal but it made me squirm a little

http://imgur.com/gallery/mzYyH

am i the only one who thinks that imgur comments are just the fucking worst people of all time? i'm speaking from a pathetic position of being burned repeatedly the last several times i've posted anything there. within nanoseconds of posting and image there i have triple-digit downvotes and there's one crowd of commenters that hates the title and a second that hates the description and a third is looking into my past posts and telling me they suck and a fourth says the whole idea was dumb and another says it's plagiarized and that i'm reposting stuff and claiming it as my own and a sixth is outside my window with an axe miming 'i'm slitting your throat'. it's fucking bananas! i wouldn't say some of the things they say to the worst person i ever met, not even trump, much less to someone who made an animation that i didn't like.

maybe i am just totally misunderstanding the imgur/reddit community? i give it a shot every several months to see if the community norms have changed but they seem to just be vomit leaking through the internet, year after year

i don't know much about the corporate history of imgur/reddit but are sort of the messageboard/community equivalents of a cool local business that keeps expanding and then becomes a regional power and then a national one with no meaningful connections to the initial local people who made it a success? i tend to think businesses operating on a nationwide scale are kind of doomed to be terrible; everything's just working against them. maybe messageboards are the same way

I have no idea how the reddit interaction goes, but imgur having its own comments/interaction model is just so weird

I had some images I was hosting there, that were public because I had no reason to make them otherwise, but using on twitter or ilx. And people randomly found them and left weird comments!

Like, dudes, this is my photo dump, I'm not posting these for community approval

I guess if they had started out more flickr-like and community-minded it'd make more sense to me, but it's like people who are really into commenting on a news channel's links on facebook

https://i.imgur.com/4NTuvTQ.jpg

the number one image on imgur right now

https://i.imgur.com/3EzWJdm.jpg?2

I work in tech support and a lot of my colleagues browse imgur all day and there are so many stories on there that they retell with the same reverence as if they were newspaper articles

scares me a bit

yeah, especially because a frontpage staple on imgur is a meme about some woman that was found to have falsely accused a man of rape

they really seem to like stories about that for some reason

i know i'm at least partly hypocritical because i continue to visit imgur and use it for hosting the dumb images that i post here, so i'm giving them support in some way? are there ads on imgur? i don't even know. at any rate i want to make it clear that i'm on imgur for the sweetest golden retriever videos you've ever seen, not for the stuff that their bullshit community seems to love the most

imgur weirds me out because I just use it as the new photobucket, but i guess there's a culture of people who are really active on there and feel the need to comment on my pictures and tell me why they are bad.

let's hear it for credulous idiots who don't understand how facial features are rendered by camera lenses of different focal lengths

omg take a look at the real-time effects of meat protein on this vegan guy who's just eaten a big juicy steak

https://media.giphy.com/media/l2JJu55Y2LSvkbBqo/giphy.gif

xp yeah had a colleague who was like woah check it this guy was falsely accused of rape and when I suggested imgur was not a reliable source he was like, c'mon, makes ya think right?

imgur weirds me out because I just use it as the new photobucket, but i guess there's a culture of people who are really active on there and feel the need to comment on my pictures and tell me why they are bad.

― how's life, Friday, August 31, 2018 4:14 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's like going to tinyurl.com and finding a mass of people discussing different URLs all day.

"Ooooh! My TinyURL.com/Schanuzer made it to the top!"