Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812. He marched in with over 600,000 troops, expecting a swift victory, but ended up retreating in disgrace with only a fraction of his army surviving. The brutal Russian winter and fierce resistance turned his grand ambitions into one of history’s greatest military disasters.
John DeLorean’s failed attempt to save his car company. In the 1980s, the creator of the iconic DeLorean DMC-12 (the Back to the Future car) tried to secure funding through a shady drug deal. He was caught in an FBI sting, and while he was acquitted, his company collapsed, leaving behind a legacy of flashy promises and financial ruin.
I was walking on the boardwalk in Seaside, NJ with three girls when these three buff Italian guys passed us. They were being friendly and said, “Hey, looks like you’re having a great night.” Trying to be cool and cocky, I replied, “Looks like you’re having a shitty night.” They got so upset that they started chasing me—until I ran into a bunch of cops on bikes.
Dude was shoving around his grandpa (I presume, grandpa looked seriously old and the skin was that sort of no-longer-yellow-banana look that suggested they didn’t have many years left) on the uptown street.
I read later that dude got arrested while raging, kicked out a rear window of the police car, and never heard anything about them since, but pretty sure dude died in prison.
Do not sniff glue, people. It was a thing. Hopefully it will never ever ever be a thing again.
In high school, a bunch of us were hanging out in the parking lot, wondering if we should bother entering an all-ages party. A car with 2 guys and 2 girls pulled up and honked the horn. One of the guys, who was with someone who happened to know someone from our group was standing in the way and the guy honked again.
Realizing his mistake, he moved and said he was sorry. The driver said “Get the fuck out the way next time,” clearly trying to impress his dates. The guy chuckled and said, “I’m not afraid of you.”
The driver screeched to a halt, put the car in park, leapt out of the car ,got into some karate stance, and started throwing kicks. One of which was caught, and he was thrown to the ground where he proceeded to get a much-deserved ass whoopin’.
We were camping at a lake and we were sitting on the beach watching some girls playing in the water. We didn’t even approach them. A while goes by and two guys walk up to as and say that “those girls say you are harassing them.”
Well I did Judo and was wearing a tournament tshirt and my friend was huge for his age. Almost 6′ at 14. So we stood up and decided to act tough.
That’s when one of them flashed a gun and said, “I will shoot you.” totally calm. We sat back down, explained that we hadn’t even talked to those girls and kept our heads on a swivel the rest of the trip.
The flying car. They had some successful flights but made a costly mistake of using a Pinto for a test that the creators flew in. Ended in a fiery, fatal crash.
Seen firsthand? There’s a couple fights that come to mind. One was outside of an underground club, this drunk guy was getting into it with a rando in the parking lot… who was considerably bigger and more sober than drunkey. Drunk a-hole is fuming mad, spouting all manner of profanity at this dudes entire family tree, and of course challenges the guy to a fight. At which point Rando pulls out lightweight training gloves from his bag and says “Trust me, you’re gonna want to do this on grass.”
His friends tried to drag him away (“That guy is going to kill you.” / “Who just carries gloves around?!”) but oh no – Drunkey was ready to fight with the fury of a thousand suns.
Shortest fight you’ve ever seen, Rando knocked him out cleanly in one punch and caught his head on the way down. Downright compassionate lmao, never seen anything quite like it
15 yr climbing arborist and I’ll still include myself in this made up statistic.
Like 90% of people new to the job that eventually wanna try climbing and think it will be easy. They’ll get maybe 20 ft up before realizing it ain’t what they thought.
My stepdad said the n word to a car packed full of black dudes at our apartment complex one night when they kept honking the horn at him to hurry up at the gate. Watched that man get jumped. Shit was crazy.
Imagine the biggest snob you can imagine, a prissy, always yapping, two faced snob and imagine she is your co-worker. Every morning, when everyone else is quiet, you can hear her big mouth walk in the door
People were sick of her as it was, and especially when she was sucking up to the boss and thought the was going to get a promotion.
One day the boss was holding a meeting and told us all to have a seat. This bish takes a seat next to the boss facing everyone else. Lmao.
She was even nodding with the boss as if she was leading the meeting too, but she wasn’t. Lol
She was talking to everyone for days about how much more money she was going to be making. And how nice her hours were going to be.
Well she didn’t get it lol. I saw her storm out of the building and slam.her purse against her car and speed away 🤣🤣
I mean she told literally everyone she was getting that position and someone else got it lol
Me: once I was (jokingly) talking trash to my ex husband, and I thought he was gonna chase me so I started running and slipped and fell face first into mud 😵💫
I found out my ex was cheating on me, but wasn’t in a position to just walk out. After fighting for days she says we should “Take a break. See other people for a bit and see how we feel about each other.”
First, the guy she was already fucking dumped her a few days later because his wife found out. Then one of her uncles was throwing a big BBQ party and we were expected to be there because she never told her family about “taking a break.” I spent the night with a coworker that I’d asked out and didn’t come home until well after the party.
She demanded to know where I was, and when I told her, she flipped out, called me every name in the book, and locked me out of my bedroom. I just went back to the coworker’s place, she was happy to see me.
A buddy of mine (lets call him Smash) in high school was for some reason targeted by an older and bigger guy. Lets call him douchebag, or DB for short. DB would harass my friend in the hallway between periods. Smash wasn’t huge, but very muscular and took fitness very seriously.
One day DB made a comment to my friend in passing. Smash decided he had enough and confronted DB. I tried to stop him, but Smash’s rage had reached a tipping point. I was at a distance, but I saw my friend point and yelling at DB when Smash punched DB so hard in the face I heard a popping noise. DB picked up my friend and tried to pile drive him into some lockers while Smash was punching him in the head. Fight didnt last long as some school admin broke it up. Needless to say, DB was humbled and didnt pick on my friend again.
Smash punched DB so hard in the face it broke his orbital bone, which I assume was the popping sound I heard. Its amazing he didn’t lose his eye.
DB later became a cop in a no name town, which honestly isn’t surprising lol.
High school. A girl and I were about to fight. Face to face screaming. She turned threw her books at the wall and then kinda windmilled her purse and flung to at the wall. It broke open and I burst into laughter. It just caught me by surprise and felt…ridiculous.
Got my ass kicked pretty soundly. Learned never ever laugh in a fight. Lol
At a bar in college on Halloween weekend, probably 2006 or 07, I saw a guy dressed up as a Spartan from the movie 300 talk shit to a bouncer. Bouncer picked him up and used his face to open the door and throw him into the alley.
From when I was a little kid (I don’t remember it, but it entered family lore):
My dad was a big guy, 6’4”, overweight, but still really strong. Worked out regularly and worked as a hospital security guard (not a sit-on-your-ass kind, but a guy who was practically private police, just didn’t have a gun).
We lived in Chicago, and he was on the El with my brother and me, my brother in a stroller. Two guys were looking for somebody to mug, and so they decided to try my dad bc…they thought he’d do what they say with two little kids? Really stupid guys.
Anyways, the first guy comes up behind him and put his hand on my brother’s stroller. My dad grabbed his hand, and as he later told my mom, “I heard bones break.” The El doors opened at their stop, and my dad picked him up by the shirt collar and threw him out the door and halfway across the platform into a post.
The other guy wet himself, my dad just did a “come here” with his finger, and the guy ran. Apparently, everybody on the train then applauded him. We got home, and I loudly exclaimed to my mom that “dad was a superhero!” He wasn’t even planning on telling her!
Moral of the story: if there’s a huge guy, don’t try to mug him. If there’s a huge guy with kids, REALLY don’t try to mug him.
I trained at an mma gym in my 20s. Some of the guys would go out and get in fights all the time at bars. Usually, they’d come out on top as it was a legit gym and barely anyone trained at the time. 3 of them got in a fight with a group of 8 or so. One of the mma guys ended up in a snow bank getting punched by 3 or 4 people. The non mma guys back off a bit, and one of their girls starts hitting the guy in the snowbank. Mma guy gets up and throws a big right hand at the first person he sees.
Girl got knocked out cold right as the cops rolled up.
My older brother was drunk and picked a fight with what turned out to be one of British Columbia’s top ten kickboxers. Even drunk, the guy knew not to go for the easy knockout. He fucked my brother up with body blows before he got bored and laid him out.
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Trusting and understanding that God created you for wonderful things and that you are perfectly loved
Two come to mind:
Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812. He marched in with over 600,000 troops, expecting a swift victory, but ended up retreating in disgrace with only a fraction of his army surviving. The brutal Russian winter and fierce resistance turned his grand ambitions into one of history’s greatest military disasters.
John DeLorean’s failed attempt to save his car company. In the 1980s, the creator of the iconic DeLorean DMC-12 (the Back to the Future car) tried to secure funding through a shady drug deal. He was caught in an FBI sting, and while he was acquitted, his company collapsed, leaving behind a legacy of flashy promises and financial ruin.
pretty much anything carl did or said.
The promises my wife makes between her 2nd and 3rd glasses of wine on any given night out.
I was walking on the boardwalk in Seaside, NJ with three girls when these three buff Italian guys passed us. They were being friendly and said, “Hey, looks like you’re having a great night.” Trying to be cool and cocky, I replied, “Looks like you’re having a shitty night.” They got so upset that they started chasing me—until I ran into a bunch of cops on bikes.
“If I wanna sniff glue I’m gonna sniff glue!”
20 years ago, maybe more.
Dude was shoving around his grandpa (I presume, grandpa looked seriously old and the skin was that sort of no-longer-yellow-banana look that suggested they didn’t have many years left) on the uptown street.
I read later that dude got arrested while raging, kicked out a rear window of the police car, and never heard anything about them since, but pretty sure dude died in prison.
Do not sniff glue, people. It was a thing. Hopefully it will never ever ever be a thing again.
In high school, a bunch of us were hanging out in the parking lot, wondering if we should bother entering an all-ages party. A car with 2 guys and 2 girls pulled up and honked the horn. One of the guys, who was with someone who happened to know someone from our group was standing in the way and the guy honked again.
Realizing his mistake, he moved and said he was sorry. The driver said “Get the fuck out the way next time,” clearly trying to impress his dates. The guy chuckled and said, “I’m not afraid of you.”
The driver screeched to a halt, put the car in park, leapt out of the car ,got into some karate stance, and started throwing kicks. One of which was caught, and he was thrown to the ground where he proceeded to get a much-deserved ass whoopin’.
I wrote that check. or me and my friend did.
We were camping at a lake and we were sitting on the beach watching some girls playing in the water. We didn’t even approach them. A while goes by and two guys walk up to as and say that “those girls say you are harassing them.”
Well I did Judo and was wearing a tournament tshirt and my friend was huge for his age. Almost 6′ at 14. So we stood up and decided to act tough.
That’s when one of them flashed a gun and said, “I will shoot you.” totally calm. We sat back down, explained that we hadn’t even talked to those girls and kept our heads on a swivel the rest of the trip.
The flying car. They had some successful flights but made a costly mistake of using a Pinto for a test that the creators flew in. Ended in a fiery, fatal crash.
Trump and the China Tariffs
2024 USA POTUS election
What is the last thing that came out of Trump’s mouth?
Seen firsthand? There’s a couple fights that come to mind. One was outside of an underground club, this drunk guy was getting into it with a rando in the parking lot… who was considerably bigger and more sober than drunkey. Drunk a-hole is fuming mad, spouting all manner of profanity at this dudes entire family tree, and of course challenges the guy to a fight. At which point Rando pulls out lightweight training gloves from his bag and says “Trust me, you’re gonna want to do this on grass.”
His friends tried to drag him away (“That guy is going to kill you.” / “Who just carries gloves around?!”) but oh no – Drunkey was ready to fight with the fury of a thousand suns.
Shortest fight you’ve ever seen, Rando knocked him out cleanly in one punch and caught his head on the way down. Downright compassionate lmao, never seen anything quite like it
15 yr climbing arborist and I’ll still include myself in this made up statistic.
Like 90% of people new to the job that eventually wanna try climbing and think it will be easy. They’ll get maybe 20 ft up before realizing it ain’t what they thought.
My stepdad said the n word to a car packed full of black dudes at our apartment complex one night when they kept honking the horn at him to hurry up at the gate. Watched that man get jumped. Shit was crazy.
The Trump presidency
Imagine the biggest snob you can imagine, a prissy, always yapping, two faced snob and imagine she is your co-worker. Every morning, when everyone else is quiet, you can hear her big mouth walk in the door
People were sick of her as it was, and especially when she was sucking up to the boss and thought the was going to get a promotion.
One day the boss was holding a meeting and told us all to have a seat. This bish takes a seat next to the boss facing everyone else. Lmao.
She was even nodding with the boss as if she was leading the meeting too, but she wasn’t. Lol
She was talking to everyone for days about how much more money she was going to be making. And how nice her hours were going to be.
Well she didn’t get it lol. I saw her storm out of the building and slam.her purse against her car and speed away 🤣🤣
I mean she told literally everyone she was getting that position and someone else got it lol
Me: once I was (jokingly) talking trash to my ex husband, and I thought he was gonna chase me so I started running and slipped and fell face first into mud 😵💫
talked to this guy with a 13 incher… needless to say…
I found out my ex was cheating on me, but wasn’t in a position to just walk out. After fighting for days she says we should “Take a break. See other people for a bit and see how we feel about each other.”
First, the guy she was already fucking dumped her a few days later because his wife found out. Then one of her uncles was throwing a big BBQ party and we were expected to be there because she never told her family about “taking a break.” I spent the night with a coworker that I’d asked out and didn’t come home until well after the party.
She demanded to know where I was, and when I told her, she flipped out, called me every name in the book, and locked me out of my bedroom. I just went back to the coworker’s place, she was happy to see me.
A buddy of mine (lets call him Smash) in high school was for some reason targeted by an older and bigger guy. Lets call him douchebag, or DB for short. DB would harass my friend in the hallway between periods. Smash wasn’t huge, but very muscular and took fitness very seriously.
One day DB made a comment to my friend in passing. Smash decided he had enough and confronted DB. I tried to stop him, but Smash’s rage had reached a tipping point. I was at a distance, but I saw my friend point and yelling at DB when Smash punched DB so hard in the face I heard a popping noise. DB picked up my friend and tried to pile drive him into some lockers while Smash was punching him in the head. Fight didnt last long as some school admin broke it up. Needless to say, DB was humbled and didnt pick on my friend again.
Smash punched DB so hard in the face it broke his orbital bone, which I assume was the popping sound I heard. Its amazing he didn’t lose his eye.
DB later became a cop in a no name town, which honestly isn’t surprising lol.
I saw many in prison. The list would be too long.
High school. A girl and I were about to fight. Face to face screaming. She turned threw her books at the wall and then kinda windmilled her purse and flung to at the wall. It broke open and I burst into laughter. It just caught me by surprise and felt…ridiculous.
Got my ass kicked pretty soundly. Learned never ever laugh in a fight. Lol
At a bar in college on Halloween weekend, probably 2006 or 07, I saw a guy dressed up as a Spartan from the movie 300 talk shit to a bouncer. Bouncer picked him up and used his face to open the door and throw him into the alley.
Maverick sleeping with the admirals
daughter with a history of high speed passes.
This comes to mind.
Not finished seeing it yet, we’re only in the first 100 days of it….
From when I was a little kid (I don’t remember it, but it entered family lore):
My dad was a big guy, 6’4”, overweight, but still really strong. Worked out regularly and worked as a hospital security guard (not a sit-on-your-ass kind, but a guy who was practically private police, just didn’t have a gun).
We lived in Chicago, and he was on the El with my brother and me, my brother in a stroller. Two guys were looking for somebody to mug, and so they decided to try my dad bc…they thought he’d do what they say with two little kids? Really stupid guys.
Anyways, the first guy comes up behind him and put his hand on my brother’s stroller. My dad grabbed his hand, and as he later told my mom, “I heard bones break.” The El doors opened at their stop, and my dad picked him up by the shirt collar and threw him out the door and halfway across the platform into a post.
The other guy wet himself, my dad just did a “come here” with his finger, and the guy ran. Apparently, everybody on the train then applauded him. We got home, and I loudly exclaimed to my mom that “dad was a superhero!” He wasn’t even planning on telling her!
Moral of the story: if there’s a huge guy, don’t try to mug him. If there’s a huge guy with kids, REALLY don’t try to mug him.
I trained at an mma gym in my 20s. Some of the guys would go out and get in fights all the time at bars. Usually, they’d come out on top as it was a legit gym and barely anyone trained at the time. 3 of them got in a fight with a group of 8 or so. One of the mma guys ended up in a snow bank getting punched by 3 or 4 people. The non mma guys back off a bit, and one of their girls starts hitting the guy in the snowbank. Mma guy gets up and throws a big right hand at the first person he sees.
Girl got knocked out cold right as the cops rolled up.
My older brother was drunk and picked a fight with what turned out to be one of British Columbia’s top ten kickboxers. Even drunk, the guy knew not to go for the easy knockout. He fucked my brother up with body blows before he got bored and laid him out.
It is one of my favorite memories.
The democrats helping trump win the republican primaries thinking he’d be an easier victory for Hillary in 2016
The new owners of the cabinet shop I was just let go from.
Came in preaching a 20 million dollar dream, their nightmare continues. Mine is over.
I watched a guy sign a check with a pen in his teeth and when he went to cash it with the check between his asscheeks he got arrested.