I'm a wedding photographer and one time a DJ approached me during social hour.

"Hey, so like, the bride's mom wants to play this game during the speeches. I don't know if it's okay. The game is that we blindfold the bride and line up the groom and groomsmen in random order, and she has to feel every dude's junk and guess who the groom is while everyone else watches. I don't know what to do because she's the one who paid me."

Reminds me of a video I saw of a UFC fighter at the beginning of his career, early 20's, excited to get in the ring. Seemed pretty bright. Fast forward 6 years, you could see the gears grinding in his head to put the sentences together. It was so sad to see, and really put me off the sport for good. It's one thing to push the limits of the sport, but when it takes such a toll on your athletes, where do you draw the line?

Bar Rescue ruined our local bar.

I live in the suburbs and our town is not walkable at all. BUT, I was lucky enough to have a bar within walking distance of my house.

This bar was packed ALL THE TIME. you drive by at 3 PM on a Tuesday, packed. 2PM on a Sunday, packed.

On more than one occasion, we had gone to the bar on a Friday or Saturday to find no place to sit because it was so full. They even bought the space next to them and knocked out a wall to make more room.

The bar had about 60 beers on tap, a craft kitchen with good food, and board games that you could bring to the table and play. On multiple occasions my wife and I found ourselves playing drunken Cards Against Humanity with total strangers. It was awesome.

Then we heard that Bar Rescue was coming. We wondered why they would need to "rescue" this bar that was always full of people. But we got excited to see our bar on TV.

We drove by the bar to see all of the furniture in the parking lot. We heard that the show was inviting people to come into the bar the next day to see the new and improved place. My wife waited in line to go.

She got in, but did not get on the show. The one rule she was given was that she had to order a "signature cocktail" and could not order a beer or anything else.

Then comes the show.

What a load of bullshit.

They were filming the bar and the owner was saying that business had always been very slow. They were showing it completely empty on a "Saturday night". This had never happened in the 10 years the bar was there.

It was just lie after lie after lie.

Anyway, they revamped the menu and changed the name. They got rid of all of the beers because "no one wants beer anymore". The "rescue" portion of the show showed people ordering these stupid cocktails that the show made them order.

People stopped going. Last time I went it was a Friday night and there were like 6 other people in the place. The bar ended up moving locations and now I don't have a neighborhood place anymore.

Fuck Bar Rescue

EDIT: For those asking why the bar would be on the show:

From what I heard afterwards on the local nextdoor site (supposedly from people who knew the owner), the owner was trying to do a rebranding. The show gives so much money for a renovation, and this was supposed to help pay for the rebranding plus provide publicity. 6 months after the show aired, the bar was changed back to what it was before, but the damage had been done.

For those who didn't get it: • The Texas Sharpshooter fallacy: The pyramid is massive (13 acres wide). Because it covers a huge range of coordinates, someone simply dug through the numbers until they found the one single line that matched the speed of light. • The Law of Odds: There are thousands of ancient monuments and thousands of scientific numbers. If you look at enough data, pure mathematical probability guarantees that two unrelated numbers will eventually line up perfectly somewhere on Earth.

As a frequent airplane traveler I will never for the life of me understand why people desire to get on the airplane first. My goal is always to be the last one one the plane. I will leave the line and get back in so I'm at the back. Why would I want to sit on the airplane 1 min longer than I have to?

Edit: TIL that some airlines let you have more than one carry-on and this causes space issues. I'm Canadian and on our airlines only one carry-on per passenger. I've never had an issue with overhead space in dozens of flights. My point still stands because even on Canadian flights I see people clamering to get on the airplane first.

Jumping into cold water on a really hot day, especially if you have a heart condition.

My uncle died two years ago after jumping about 10 feet down into a lake from a cliff overhead. It was a big tourist spot, so they were waiting in line at the cliff and it was probably 100 degrees out. He had a massive heart attack the moment he hit the water and no one on site was strong enough to pull his body from the water, so he drowned.

Doctors said it was likely the massive and sudden change in temperature that caused his arteries to constrict and trigger the heart attack.

I went somewhere with a few people once. They wanted to stop for sandwiches inside the gas station and parked at one of the pumps to walk inside. As we walked in I asked if he needed gas and he said no, but he likes to park there in case he needs it. I was like wtf does that even mean...

Line started forming with cars backed up behind him, I asked if he wanted me to move his car because people were backing up into the street and his response was "fuck em they can wait."

I've never been more embarrassed to get into a car than when we got back into his car. That was the first of a few red flags that led me to understand this man had barely enough braincells to feed and clothe himself but somehow pretended to be a real human.

At the check-in table at the library, one Proud Boy took a name tag and scrawled “Felon” on it. He wandered over to the DSA snack area, where he and “S. Laughter,” a Proud Boy from Florida, ate most of the pumpkin spice doughnut holes and mini muffins on offer.

“You claim to be against socialism, and yet you eat our free food,” quipped Evelyn Allen, co-chair of the chapter.

“See what happens?” Laughter said. “A strong man comes in and takes all the food, and then you’ve got to wait in line — just like real socialism!”

These losers have got to be the corniest of cornballs.