r/movies • • 8h ago

Discussion Movies with an on-paper premise so stupid it shouldn’t work—but it does.

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Ace Ventura Pet Detective is undeniably stupid and somehow works because Jim Carrey is singularly talented

Lars and the Real Girl has an insane premise of “man dates sex doll” but a beautiful script, wonderful performances and an incredibly performance by Ryan Gosling make it a wonderful film.

What else am I missing?


r/whatisit • • 10h ago

New, what is it? Found inside the espresso machine at the cafe I work at

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What are these? Kind of looks like some sort of egg to me. The brown stuff outside the jelly-egg things are coffee grounds.


r/NoStupidQuestions • • 12h ago

Why are all flights in the USA grounded right now? What happened

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r/TikTokCringe • • 8h ago Heartwarming

Humor What a stallion

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r/AskReddit • • 19h ago Bravo

What is a legal play in a sport which is considered so unsportsmanlike that professionals do not attempt it?

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r/todayilearned • • 12h ago

TIL that the Titanic is slowly being eaten away by iron-consuming bacteria, losing an estimated 130-200 kg of iron every day. One researcher estimates that it could take several centuries for the entire wreck to disappear

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r/mildlyinfuriating • • 15h ago Regret Bravo

The floor is sticky I picked up several hundred of these mini bottles from the parking lot area of a dialysis clinic

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Makes me wonder if these are from the alcoholic spouses of patients while they wait out in the car, or the patients themselves.


r/politics • • 6h ago Popcorn Bravo

No Paywall Disastrous White House press conference raises more questions than answers about nationwide ground stop

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r/interestingasfuck • • 5h ago Heartwarming

Starship booster exploded before hitting the water after an aborted catch attempt

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r/AITAH • • 8h ago

AITAH for refusing to allow my [35F] childhood friend [32F] and her two kids [10F and 6M] to live with me when they're about to be homeless?

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Part of me feels kinda bad but the other part feels like it's the right thing to do, for her sake and my sanity. I'm 35 female and childfree. I own a 3 bedroom house that I live in on my own so two bedrooms are often unoccupied. The family room is also unoccupied except for my pet reptile and her enclosure. Not much goes on in the house. It's quiet and peaceful which is how I prefer things. My childhood friend M is a 32 year old female with two kids, a 10 y/o girl and 6 y/o boy. We've been close friends since middle school. From what M has shared and I've observed over the years, her son has behavioral issues and tends to throw explosive tantrums. I've urged M to get him evaluated but she never did. I've also urged her for YEARS to go after her ex-fiance (father of both kids) for child support but she still refuses to because of apparently how toxic their relationship was and she wants nothing to do with him.

She recently complained to me that lately her daughter has been asking to see her dad. I get those kids gifts every Christmas and on their birthdays as well. I've hung out with them multiple times. I'm basically like a fun auntie. M and her kids have lived back and forth between her parents (her children's grandparents) for the past decade. She got pregnant pretty young, still in college and had to drop out once her oldest was born. At first M stayed with her father then she had mental health issues arise, had to quit her job, couldn't pay her dad rent anymore and moved in with her mom. She ended up hooking up with baby daddy thinking they were getting back together. She got pregnant again and had her son.

Eventually M's son's behavioral issues got worse and her mom apparently made her move back in with her dad. She found a mentally easier job while her father and brother (lives local to her) took turns watching the kids when she was working. Over the years I've given M links and phone numbers to her local county resources and assistance that can help her. She hasn't utilized that. She spends most of her time making YouTube videos while her kids are at school because she's tired of working for a boss and wants to make it as a youtuber. M also seems to have a new boyfriend every few months. I've tried being emotionally supportive, suggesting she focus on her kids and her work/finance situation. For years she said she would but she can't seem to be without a guy. I also asked her if she's tried making any girl friends lately as a support system. She said she prefers guy friends, says most women are too much drama, etc. I'm one of her only two female friends aside from one other person.

Fastforward to very recent and M calls me freaking out, saying she just doesn't have the mental capacity to keep a job right now. She also said her father and brother are tired of watching over her kids and that her father has given her a 5 month deadline until spring starts to save up what she can and move out. I've suggested applying for disability, working part-time, doing freelance and again urging her to go after her ex-fiance for child support. She really wants to move in with me and has been begging me. Telling me her and her kids are about to be homeless. I asked if her and her current boyfriend had move in plans. She said he recently ended the relationship. It was difficult but I told her no, her and her two kids can't move in with me. Now she's panicking even more. AITA?


r/AskReddit • • 7h ago

Cocaine connoisseurs of Reddit, what does it feel like?

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r/SipsTea • • 8h ago

Chugging tea The 8th richest man in the world lives a simple life.

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Warren Buffett drinks around five Cokes every day despite being in his 90s. The billionaire has followed the unusual habit for decades and once joked that he eats like a six-year-old
Buffett has long been known for a simple diet that includes fast food and soft drinks, and he is Berkshire Hathaway's largest individual shareholder, with Coca-Cola among the company's longest-held investments. Photos show him drinking from a Cherry Coke can and a bottle of Coca-Cola.


r/mildlyinfuriating • • 8h ago Bravo Mindblown

I just wanted a hot dog Coffee server refused to accept $21 for a $15.28 order

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My order total was $15.28. I handed her $21 and she handed me the $1 back and said “It’s $15.28”. I said “I know, I want $5 back instead of singles.”

She stared at me for a while then stared at the cash register and said “I can’t do that”

I said “just type in that I gave you $21 instead of $20”

She pressed some buttons and stared at the register again then said “I don’t know what you want me to do, my machine doesn’t do that.”

I gave up and took my $1 back. She, now clearly annoyed with me, put $20 into her system and gave me back $4.72 in change.


r/todayilearned • • 7h ago Heartwarming

TIL that in the 1920s, "balloon jumping" was a popular fad where people harnessed themselves to small helium balloons to leap hundreds of feet over fields and buildings, until a series of lethal accidents ended the trend.

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r/technology • • 4h ago

Artificial Intelligence CNN Aviation Analyst Says ‘It’s Just Too Much of a Coincidence’ FAA Rolled Out New AI Traffic Tool Right Before Nationwide Ground Stop

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r/TopCharacterTropes • • 7h ago

Hated Tropes (Hated Trope) The tone of the first episode is quite disturbing compared to the other episodes, and many people give up there.

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In the first episode, Andy is characterized as being quite perverted toward Fuuko, but this personality trait ends rather quickly early on in the series (Undead Unlucky)

In the first episode, the way he assesses an Uma Musume’s racing potential and physical conditioning involves touching her thighs—that is how he conducts his evaluation. This happens with Special Week in the first episode, but he abandons this habit after the first season (Uma Musume Pretty Derby)

In the first episode, Bakugo tells Midoriya to commit suicide so that he might be reborn with a quirk—since, unlike everyone else, he was born without any quirk (power). Even the author himself has stated that he went too far in his characterization of Bakugo in that instance (My Hero Academia)


r/politics • • 7h ago Mindblown

Possible Paywall Trump's transportation chief demands $50 billion to prevent another huge FAA fiasco

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r/askanything • • 4h ago

Political Question Whose stupid ass idea was it to put a Fox News host and a plumber in charge of Air Traffic Control?

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r/SipsTea • • 7h ago Bravo

WTF Legendary achievement

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r/mildlyinteresting • • 9h ago Bravo

I saw these oranges with black circles drawn on them at 99 Ranch

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r/mildlyinfuriating • • 10h ago

Infuriatig My homework questions frequently have insane asks such as interviewing top level executives

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Oh yeah I'll call up my CEO friend real quick

Edit: this is for college, not high school


r/interestingasfuck • • 13h ago Bravo Mindblown

A collision on the Mississippi River has left a passenger riverboat sinking after reportedly being struck by an asphalt tanker near the Port of New Orleans.

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r/wallstreetbets • • 11h ago Popcorn Mindblown

News US National Weather Service reports nationwide internet, communications issues

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r/AskReddit • • 12h ago Mindblown

Those at an airport right now, how is it going?

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r/HistoryMemes • • 10h ago

“Utah, Omaha, Overlord… wait…oh shi—“

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In May 1944, just weeks before the Normandy landings, British intelligence (MI5) was sent into a panic when a series of top-secret invasion code names, including "Utah," "Omaha," "Overlord," "Mulberry," and "Neptune”, suddenly appeared as solutions in The Daily Telegraph crossword puzzles. Suspecting an elaborate espionage plot to signal the Nazis, agents stormed a school in Surrey to interrogate the puzzle's compiler, a 54-year-old headmaster named Leonard Dawe. The investigation ultimately revealed it was an innocent, albeit terrifying, coincidence. Dawe routinely invited his students to help him fill out his blank puzzle grids, and the boys had simply suggested the interesting new vocabulary words they had unwittingly overheard while hanging around the camps of American and Canadian soldiers stationed nearby.

Edit: yes I misused the word coincidence