#fun story

[maryo274]

When you manage to snatch the one weapon capable of taking you out. 😅

It's not MCU but it's something that happened to my best friend that I've been wanting to post. 🤣

Sorry for the absence, guys, by the way. Life's been rough 😅.

Maryo274 ©

If you like my art support with a reblog, it is appreciated. And you’re always welcome to comment too.

#fun story #my stories #shit happens #arachnophobia #funny #comic art #my art

[superdillin]

I think that sometimes that the normalizing of discord servers as a necessity for your online branding has made us forget that what it is is a fan space that the creator has control over. That's not been normal since AOL was our primary internet provider.

It benefits the creator more than the audience, and so if we choose to have one - which full disclosure, I have one and so does the Atomless - then it's our responsibility to make that a safe place for the fans to exist. That means that when a server gets big, it will need a trained moderator team.

If you don't have a discord server, fan communities will still form, you can't stop that, we do what we want. But if you want the privilege that comes with having your fandom in your eyeline, immediately accessable to you, that comes with extra work. I don't like that it's the default to create an "official" discord for everything because I think it should be more of a deliberate choice that is budgeted for and planned.

Anyway this is not really meant to be a vague post, because although it's inspired by what transpired through dropout, I think they ultimately stumbled their way to the right call, and this is just something I've noticed as a trend in general, with them far from the most serious example.

#Fun story #scholastic once banned political discussion in the Animorphs official community boards way back when. #Industry rant

[keeper-of-all-the-random-things]

Tis the season

to stab your guys with a Candy Cane Stake

Imagine …

Whumper taunting whumpee while slowly sucking it to a point and licking the blood off after stabbing

Whumpee can’t stand the smell of peppermint after being rescued because they were threatened and hurt with it so much

or

Holiday Vampire killed by a peppermint stake to the heart

#candy cane stake #crack whump #stabbing #fun story #in middle school mini candy canes were banned because we made them pointy to stab each other

[celaenaeiln]

hi howve you been!

much better, thank you anon! I hope you're doing great as well!! <33

Just for that, do you want to hear a fun story?

In 1955, there was a Great Onion Debacle.

Yes. Onions.

A little backstory - in finance, there are financial contracts called "futures". What futures are is a contract that lets a person buy an item in the future for the price it costs today.

So in 1955, onion futures (contracts) -of all things! Onions are amazing though so I guess I understand - were the most traded commodity on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange which is like a trading company sort of like Wall Street. Two men, Vincent Kosuga and Sam Siegel, realized this and were like "man, we can make a fortune out of this!". So what they did was they bought literally metric tons of onions and onion futures. They bought so much they controlled 98% of all the onions in Chicago. They were now an onion monopoly.

Because they controlled all the onions, they now decide to short sell the onion futures. Short selling is when you sell an item now and then decide to rebuy it in the future when the price drops.

So basically imagine your selling a house. You'll make tons of money but once the economy improves, the the price of the house will drop and you decide to rebuy it and thus make a profit. Because you sold it for more than what you bought it again for.

And that's what the two men did. Because they had control of all the onions and onion-related trading, they controlled the onion market (lol this is literally so funny. "onion market") using supply and demand. In the market, the more you have of something, the less if costs because there isn't a need for that much of the item. Like if you have a super rare pokemon card or baseball card, you're going to sell it for more because there's a less quantity. Whereas if you had a normal card, you would sell it for less because it's in abundance and everyone can get it.

So that's what they did. After collecting all the onions in chicago, they basically dumped all the onions at once back into the market, and because there was so much, the price of the onions shot down. Not only that, once the onions spoiled, they would throw out the old and bring in new ones. From an outside perspective, it looked like there were sooo many onions and onion shares so the price of the shares dropped drastically too, making it really cheap. And when I mean he dumped them, HE LITERALLY DUMPED THEM! He took what onions he had left in storage and trucked them to the Chicago Board of Trade, literally flooded the market and streets with onions. Onions, worthless at that point, were dumped into the Chicago River! 30,000,000 pounds of onions! 14,000,000 kgs!

Kosuga and Siegel made millions. $1 in 1955 is equal to $11.51 dollars in 2024. Kosuga, mainly, made $8.5 million which is equal to $97,835,000!!! THATS ALMOST A BILLION DOLLARS COMING FROM SELLING ONIONS. That's freaking insane 😭😭😭 biggest almost scam of the century and listen to this -

While the guys were raking in the big bucks, the sheer amount of onions being shipped to Chicago caused nation-wide shortages of onions everywhere else!!!

ADS;FKJNDAK FOR REAL ONIONS IN CHICAGO WERE GOING FOR LIKE $0.10 FOR A BAG WHEN THEY USED TO BE $2.75! THATS A 96% DROP IN THE COST OF ONIONS!

The Commodity Exchange Authority caught wind of Siegel and Kosuga’s little game and they immediately initiated an investigation, while congressional held actual hearings on the issue. In the end, congress created an Onion Futures Act which banned the futures trading on onions 😭. The law is still in effect today, making onions the only banned trading commodity in the United States.

And here's the kicker - after creating possibly on the the biggest scams of the century, Kosuga got away with all this scot free. Despite the massive amounts of damage his calculated betting did to literally everyone else but him, he technically didn't break any rules because there were no rules on this for him to break. He even became a businessman and philanthropist and later on he opened up a restaurant called "The Jolly Onion Inn", and became a chef. The restaurant quickly grew until it was one of the most popular restaurants.

I don't know what the moral of this story is but if you're smart you can get away with any thing 😂😅

But the fact that onions caused the biggest scam of the century 😂😂😂 wild.

#fun story #cl anon asks #cl asks #thanks for the ask!

[anotherpapercut]

bro what the fuck are they doing with my package

#fun story #i ordered 3 things from hot topic. they shipped but never arrived so a couple weeks later i messaged them abt it #and went back and forth with them for a while bc their customer service agents cant read apparently #before being told i had to call bc one of the things i ordered went out of stock and i was replacing it w smth more expensive #so i call and im on the phone for like a fucking hour missing the 15 minute window i have to eat between jobs #and being on the phone at work for a while lmao #i finally get it done and the guy fucking forgets my apartment number in the shipping address. it's in the billing address tho?? #so i email them AGAIN and im like yo your man forgot my apartment number. they cancel that order and place another #the effect this has is that the $14 payment for the more expensive item is cancelled as well. bc again they don't read #so im like sick i will effectively get these $60 pants for $15 (im very good at sales and also manipulating customer service) #but apparently when they replaced the order they put ny apartment number not in the address‚ but as part of my name????? #so i think its fucking up usps. but it came in 2 packages and 1 has arrived so i still have hope. but thats not the end #yesterday guess who fuckin calls me. its hot topic. my original order arrived to the fuckin store in my local mall #and theyre like i think we fucked up bc we just found this package but it says you picked up your order already. do u want it #and i was like yes? not really sure what package to be expecting and its my ORIGINAL FUCKING ORDER #so once this package arrives i will have gotten 2 of the same shirt‚ 2 kiki sign things‚ a sweater‚ and a pair of pants for $40 #and i figure i can return one of the shirts and one of the signs that i have duplicates of for store credit of their full price #so anyway yeah. thats been the past 3 weeks for me.

[kajaono]

Gender fun story

My mum told me yesterday that for my birth (female) she knitted me a black jumper.

My parents also made the „welcome, the baby is here“-photos black and white.

And people were shocked and horrified!

*My parents living their best goth life*

Society: But… but where is the pink glitter?! How are people supposed to know this baby is female?!“

#gender reveal #gender #knitting #personal #fun story

[absinthefog]

Steve Haines holy trinity inspired by this image by @sharpchinsimp

#fun story #nearly sent these to my college prof #multiple times #I d on’t know why his number is the first suggestion in the share option #gta #gta v #tommy vercetti #gta 4 #gta iv #gta vice city #gta vc #steve haines #gta tbogt #tony prince #luis lopez #trevor philips #lance vance #ken rosenberg

[ijsthee]

The Great Ace Attorney (2015) | The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (1984-1994)

#silly littol red headed pawn shop guy #dgs #tgaa #sherlock holmes #right is from the red headed league if that wasnt clear #fun story #80s tv sucks to gif it turns out #dai gyatuken saiban #the great ace attorney

[thepurplewombat]

#Tgcf #tgcf hualian #Xie Lian is adorable #I love him so much #The mods gave me my own channel on the Snape discord to yell about books #I think it was mostly to get me to stop cluttering up General but I love it #It's like livetweeting books #And my friends come and check it out occasionally and they're like #Idk what's going on here but there is tea being spilled and I'm here for it #Anyway currently it's wombat's danmei hours in there #I'm livechatting undead as I read it #Fun story #hua cheng #Xie Lian #Books #Tgcf spoilers #I guess #I'm not sure 'they make out' is a spoiler in a danmei but better safe than sorry

[antontheinternet]

I once showed grandpa some of my spamton drawings, and he said that this must be caricatures of Poland's former (then actual) prime minister Mr.Morawiecki.

[Spamton shop sprite /picture of Morawiecki from wikipedia]

And he was asking why i drew him happy, and why I shouldn't bc he's bad politician and person (his opinion, he takes as fact).

Then I got super weird, since I also drew him in a dress and holding hands with devil (I assume it's what grandpa thiks of Jevil). Maybe that's actually not bad, he was so confused, he didn't ask why I am drawing man in dress in the first place.

[From my only art blog @kisiel-z-kosmosu ]^

Context: Morawiecki is often accused of lying by opposition, so there are caricatures potraying him as Pinokio or with long nose in general.

I have no idea how to explain to grandfather who Spamton is + it's funny so I keep it that way.

#spamton #grandparents #grandpa #akward #fun story #poland #out of context quotes #art troubles #spam for president

[lotuslullabiesandstories]

It is official!!!!! The comic is out! Thank you all for your love and support, I really can't even put it to words how much I appreciate and love you. Please come take a read a support us! And stay tuned for more in the future!

#fun story #comics #webtoon

[starlitangels]

So

Funny story

I played Caelum in a DnD one-shot awhile back. Posted a bit about it back then

But Caelum as I played him definitely didn’t curse. Not even “darn.”

Instead my favorite exclamation of disappointment or fear to use for him was always “Ah beans”

Aaaaand

That has worked its way into my actual everyday vocabulary

Including yesterday when I was playing Breath of the Wild, fighting Windblight Ganon, and kept missing my shots

#fun story #Caelum #my precious bean baby son #Redacted ASMR #Redacted Caelum #Redacted Audio

[wealmostaneckbeard]

Today, on my 32nd birthday I went for a walk. Saw a juvenile rattlesnake laying out in the middle of a busy path. So I ran over to a nearby powerstation where there was an open workspace, grabbed a mop, and gently shoved the snake into the bushes. Some college students who were watching applauded me. I think this is my most memorable birthday ever.

#snake #snakes #good deed for the day #birthday #rattlesnake #california #fun story

[zenmom]

I wanna play a funny fantasy DND like game… I don’t know how it goes but this nice storytelling is told in “re blogs” I guesssss…. And this game can have up to seven players. Draw your characters and step right up! This fun story game takes place on a magical continental island (that’s a freaking huge island) full of mystical creatures. You people woke up in a developing hamlet (a hamlet is a small village) and the story for how end up here is that you became video game characters after you stepped on a strange little alter in your world.

🚧Attention! This tumblr-story-game is in progress as I haven’t got all the details yet.🚧

For now, insert video game character of your choice (yes, it Includes Mickey with a paintbrush and Oswald either with his remote or by himself)

#zenmom #fun story #fantasy #character select #line up #story game in progress

[stargoyle]

Just remembered today that when my mom was pregnant with me I would punch the ultrasound machine whenever they tried to get pictures of me so they could not tell what sex I was going to be before I was born. (I'd like to think I knew what I was doing) but they basically made everything from my clothes to my room gender neutral so no matter what I was assigned it would work. But you see this is very hard when most things -especially baby things- are very gendered. Most of the things we got were hand me downs so my mom picked out both boys and girls things. However when it came to color it was very hard to pick a baby color that was gender neutral. In the end they went with yellow which apparently I HATED for some reason. So all the pictures of me as a newborn baby are in this mustard yellow room with my beet red face swaddled in my mom's arms absolutely losing it screaming and crying. Anyways I'm nonbinary now. So yeah

#text post #fun story

[the-woild-is-y-erster]

a poem! a poem! a poem for my love! @sluttylittlenewsboy i hope you like this when you see it my dear<3

being raised a little girl is hard.

because you're allowed to play in the mud

and get dirty

until magically one day

someone decides it's time for you

to be a 'lady'

but that never felt quite right, did it?

put on an itchy

uncomfortable

dress

and sit still for hours upon hours

in church

at home

in school

'why can't i just go play with my boy friends?' we asked.

there was never an answer, was there.

i think you and i would have been best friends

as children.

i never quite thought of myself as

girl

but there was no other option

so that's what i call her

that little girl

who sat with the people eating alone at lunch

because they looked sad

who was the loud ugly kid in school

would we have been friends?

if only from the fact that no one else would talk to me

and you seem like the kind of person

to sit under a tree at recess

where i would have been up in it

grinning down with missing teeth

and skinned knees

#zee's scribbles! #fun story #i had one (1) ☝️ friend up until literally sixth grade #because they were the only one in the school who was weird too #i'm still friends with them <3 moon my beloved (their name but not their name for privacy lmao) #i used to hang out with the boys before me and them were friends #i remember the first crush i ever had #his name was judah and he was the only guy nice to me #i'm pretty sure he thought i was a boy too so like even better #anyway. #on girlhood #and on not quite being a girl anymore in more ways than one :)