What is the funniest instance of reality slapping the spoiled rich person in the face that you have seen?
What is the funniest instance of reality slapping the spoiled rich person in the face that you have seen?
We took a trip to Chicago and decided to go to Navy Pier. Traffic was basically gridlocked and the car behind us was not happy that my friend didn't break the law and block an intersection. After the light turned green, the idiot took his massive, shiny, brand new, white pickup truck onto the SIDEWALK to cut in front of us.
When we got to the parking garage, there was a HUGE sign saying the clearance was 6ft 3in and tall vehicles needed to go to a different garage. The idiot didn't read it and, even with the windows shut, we heard the screeching and scraping of his roof on the top of the structure.
The best part was watching him back out, hearing more scraping, seeing his surprised pikachu face, and the disappointment on the face of the woman in the passenger seat.
The Titan submersible incident comes to mind. ESPECIALLY after viewing the released coastguard hearings.
I missed the coast guard hearing details. What came out?
Oh it was super interesting! Stories from experts strongly advising against design decisions but being ignored, colleagues and industry officials raising concerns, the utter failure of OSHA in protecting the wistleblowers, multiple red flags being ignored, the batshit insane list of failures during previous dives being ignored, the lack of safety culture, administrative office crew doubling as safety inspectors/dive operators/engineers while having no qualifications whatsoever for that job, the absolute lack of free speech to voice concerns/toxic positivity that was expected from everyone/repercussions against people that did try to speak up, the pressure put on potential mission specialists to continue their trip if they tried to back out, the extremely dubious "mission specialist" term used to describe passengers just to get out of insurance and liability, the long, long list of questionable design choices made by someone who had no proper experience, the cost cutting mentality, the "meh its good enough" mentality,...
The list goes on and on and on. Those hearings are worth watching with popcorn. I was hooked and watched them all, but of you have to pick some, choose those from david lochridge, tony nissen, renata rojas, karl stanley, bart kemper and bonnie carl.
The most entertaining part is the board asking seemingly 'stupid' or gullible questions and having the pro-oceangate witnesses digging their own grave trying to spin the answer in a positive light; while everybody already knows the real answer.
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgOje37c-b1NswzbM8kMEGRrdup_xwlW9
https://www.news.uscg.mil/News-by-Region/Headquarters/Titan-Submersible/
An absolute shit ton. I haven't had the chance to look at all of it, so someone else will have to give a TL;DR/DW
At a concert and saw the police approach and start questioning a young drunk guy (out doors, before show started). They basically said he had to leave on account of being too intoxicated and he started getting mouthy. I've never seen the police react so quickly the moment he finished saying, "My dad is a top class expensive lawyers and he'll have your asrses for this" - he was in the ground and handcuffed within seconds. In the next few seconds he was back on his feet and being escorted to the paddy wagon.
Honestly I think it's terrible that we think it's perfectly normal and okay for cops to physically force someone to the ground with no mention of resistance.
"Keep your hands where I can see them and I'm going to cuff you while I search your pockets."
"Please get in the back of the car" while lightly holding the inside of someone's elbow should be all that is needed after checking their person for any weapons.
There was definitely resistance from the young guy. It just didn't make my story. The police in the country where I'm from have a much higher standard of engagement with people. Their actions we well justified.
Some hospital royalty's grandparent needed ECT for their treatment resistant depression. Said royalty fought tooth and nail to let gamgam get her very first set of induced controlled seizures under surgical level anaesthesia done outpatient. The ECT doc said fuck no (you can do them outpatient, but you always do the first set inpatient case shit goes pear shaped). They then tried to get gamgam to spend her time in the fancy hospital rooms (yes that's a thing) instead of on the psych unit with us crazies. The ECT doc said no. This was also right after admin got mad at us for throwing out a piss soaked mattress. Don't want granny sleeping on somebody else's piss? Nobody should be sleeping on somebody else's piss. DEAL WITH IT you bourgeoisie bastards.
Gods, I remember interviewing to be a floor tech at Doctor's Medical Center in Modesto when they first got their bourgeoise floor. It still upsets me to think about it 12 years later. Healthcare is healthcare, there shouldn't be a damn luxury floor, and especially not while other people are getting bankrupted with bills where the numbers are basically snatched out of thin air anyway.
They were being generous! The poors may have the mattress now that it's soaked in piss.
Probably this one.
Harry gripped his wand, and thought of his mother.
It's in the running for GOAT. Time will tell
I have this pet theory about how people who learn that their privilege lets them bend or ignore human laws subconsciously believe that they can bend or ignore any law. So I always enjoy it when rich assholes buy super-cars and wrap them around trees, a surprisingly common occurrence, because the laws of physics aren't impressed by your financial portfolio.
Elon did that with a McLaren, and Peter Thiel as a passenger.
Good. That poor McLaren shouldn’t have to be driven by Elon Musk.
Most rich do bend the laws in their favor all the time, very successfully in fact.
The learned experience that the cautionary advice other people gave them was inaccurate in their case is very real.
"A team of hitmen" LMAO!
About seven years ago when Trump was president the first time, my wife and I went to see Roger Waters in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
We bought 7th row seats but had looked at 1st row and they were something like $800 each so we passed. Well, day of the show and you can only imagine the massive vitriol spewing from Waters and the huge screen behind him for Trump. He had an inflatable pig drone with TRUMP on it flying around the arena and all kinds of elaborate props.
A group of four dressed in cowboy regalia, presumably MAGA, walked out from the front row, enthusiastically flipping Roger Waters off as they did it. The seats alone were $3200ish.
Roger Waters and Pink Floyd. What the hell did they expect?
Found this Australian video with clips from that tour. Being beneath the giant laser pyramid was awe inspiring. Waters says, "Haven't you been listening all these years?"
No, people don't listen to the lyrics.
No, people don’t listen to the lyrics.
"Man, when did RATM become so political?"
Blues Traveler had a hit song that is a 3 minute essay about people not listening to the lyrics. It was called Hook.
Hum.... not really, it's more about how a song works lyrically and a bit musically, it's like a magician showing you how he does the trick, but you're still amazed at the trick, as it somehow keeps working on you. It is fascinating that the lyrics also point to the fact that the listener brings most of the meaning and emotion to the song, not the song writers. Which is true, I had no idea Pearl Jam's Red Mosquito was about sitting sick in a hotel room with a literal Mosquito. I thought it was a very complex song about the concepts of God and The Devil.
That's fucking funny...
Roger Waters and Pink Floyd.
Not even... It was him alone, which is always far more political and vitriolic. Everybody knows this. These were likely boomers who liked Dark Side of the Moon when they were kids, and 50+ years later decided to waste a shit ton of money on tickets, knowing nothing about the man.
Saw the same show in Canada sitting in row 6. Waters was freakin' incredible!
Must’ve had a bad day. I saw him not too long ago and he did some minor commentary on political issues, but there was no ranting. Waters is all over the place politically sometimes. Great show though.
That submarine imploding near the Titanic will never be not funny. Especially since the guy who designed it believed in the "move fast and break things" nonsense.
Every person on board paid a pretty penny to be on that sub, so no pity from me either (except perhaps for the teenager who was reportedly terrified to go on, but did it to please his rich prick father).
Moving fast and breaking things can be a great R&D philosophy...when health and safety aren't a concern or have been addressed.
I’ve seen some interesting YT videos about the engineering behind the sub. Turns out, that sub was a ticking time bomb, and many people had warned about it. The controller thing was perfectly fine, but the walls were not.
The photo of the shitty Logitech controller will never not make me laugh... Anyone who has ever handled a controller before knows those things are absolute garbage lol
And he did break things
He was 19, he was an adult and able to refuse if he wanted.
This is not that funny but I was amused watching it happen. One time I was at the DMV in a college town and a kid was at the counter trying to get his license renewed. From what I could gather he had it revoked because he was underage and had a DUI. Lady at the counter bounced the kid and a few minutes later, the kid came back in with his father and they were apparently from a rich family. Or at least rich by Ohio standards. When the lady at the counter explained that he could not have his license renewed because he had a court order against him, the father started in on the "Do you know who I am? I will buy this whole town!" routine, but the DMV lady was not having any of it. Both the kid and the father insisted that the judge did not have any right to take his license away from him and that it would be over turned on appeal so the DMV lady had to give him his license, because dad would make sure she got fired if he didn't. But the DMV lady would not relent and issue a license. The father and kid were getting pretty animated, so finally the lady picked up the phone and said something to the effect of "Your kid lied on this form and is probably violating his probation, we can call the court right now and see what your judge thinks about that." Which at that point caused them to sheepishly leave. When I got to the counter she told me that was not the first time in her career someone tried to do that to her.
We are all equally worthless at the DMV.
One time, I had to get my ambulance license renewed (it's a thing in CA). The lady asked for my state EMT license and I handed her my paramedic license (it says "paramedic" on instead of EMT-P. Paramedic is a level of EMT in the US). She looks at the card, looks at her computer, and hands my license back, saying "no, I need your EMT card. This says paramedic on it."
Not going to lie, I was pretty stunned that she split that hair. I asked her to please confirm with her supervisor, which she did, and we all went on our merry way.
Nah, the really rich get their own private after hours DMV visit.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kim-kardashian-shut-down-dmv-121732151.html
I don't totally understand why I feel cheered up by your comment.
She's weaponizing the soulcrushing banality of the DMV for good! Her deadpan face and stolid "I'm here all day anyway" refusal to give an inch, and then the little chink of sunshine through her castle wall as she helped you, a normal person who treated her with respect.
Honestly, as someone who has held similar customer-facing positions when he was younger: it's interactions like these that keep you going. It's even better when it's a government agency, because they're not trying to turn a profit so they're not going to bend over backwards to make a rich person happy.
The best is when people like this demand to speak to a superior, and then the superior comes over and says the exact same shit the employee just did.
DMV isn’t a judge and has no power over a court order lol. It’s also ridiculous that employees have to deal with this kind of abuse in the first place. It sounds like she was bad ass though.
Imagine thinking someone who works at the DMV gives a single shit who you are lol
Gamestop stock boom
But the rich won that one and then enforced regulations to ensure that it couldn't happen again?
Perhaps, but it exposed some companies, namely Robinhood, as chumps for doing just that. And those that won big by sitting on Gamestop so the other chump couldn't buy it out chose philanthropy, which is a minor victory in the long run
I worked security for a pro baseball stadium. Some guy and his teenage sons had front row season tickets behind home base. The boys were underage and openly drinking alcohol. We went to tell them the kids had to cut it out.
This guy (who was drunk too) throws a fit that we dared tell him what he could do. He starts shouting "do you know how much I pay for these tickets!? My sons can do whatever they want" blah blah blah.
I wave down the security head and he radios for the police to come deal with it. The man and his sons were marched out to boos from the crowd. They were ejected from the game and fined. They potentially lost their season ticket rights too, but I don't know for sure. I never saw them again though.
Most states allow minors to consume alcohol in some manner if parents are consenting and present. I mostly hearing about that applying at home or in bars and restaurants, but I'm not sure how it works for baseball stadiums.
The stadium required anyone drinking to show valid ID and get a wristband. The city keeps a very tight watch on the stadium following the laws under threat of getting their liquor licence pulled. In this state a liquor licence can be pulled if the facility knowingly allows minors to drink alcohol, even if the guardian of the minor permits it.
Texas allows underage people to drink if they are with their parent, guardian or spouse (if the spouse is 21). However, the establishment can still refuse to serve them. And in fact most places will refuse because the risks are just too high.
Nice...
However, poor parents would have likely gone to prison and had their children taken away from them.
But poor parents wouldn't have been in those seats and a large reason we cared so much was the people in those seats were shown on TV each time a player was up to bat.
Good on you, fuck em
I do events, one of the events was a medical conference. We had an exec for a pharmaceutical company presenting and he wanted the entire stage layout changed 45 minutes before the presentation. Like completely different projectors, screens, mics, that sort of thing. Not a quick fix by any means. We told him it wasn’t possible, his response,
“Anything is possible if money and physics allow it, and I have money.”
Their pharmaceutical company wasn’t invited back to the next years event. We were.
He forgot the most important variable in that equation, and it's time. I continually have to remind clients of that. You can throw more people and money at a problem but you can't get 9 people with uteruses to give birth to a baby in 1 month.
He included time by saying physics. However he said money and physics, not or physics. He has money, sure, but time, under the banner of physics, makes the task impossible.
"Physics does not allow it"
"So make it rain and then we'll talk about physics."
"Biology doesn't allow it."
- "...what biology???"
"I am biology."
So, how much you guys charged him for the layout change?
We looked at our client, the event organizer, who was the one paying us, not the presenter. They were not happy with that statement.
“They get what they get, don’t even bother moving the furniture.”
Yes ma’am.
I'm a union organizer, so I got to see some truly golden moments. My favorite was during a campaign, we took over a Q&A session with a member of the C-suite present. In a previous meeting he tried to convince me of some bs, so I asked him directly "why did you lie to me?" during this take over. The look on his face was priceless, and it took him over a minute to respond pathetically with "I don't appreciate being called a liar"
Can you tell us any more about the lie and the rest of the response? Sounds juicy
Yea for sure! We were organizing around performance metrics, quotas, discipline, etc for quite a while. My work is in QA, where quotas are actually really bad for software development. We had been trying to get management to research and implement modern QA practices that would reduce/eliminate quotas, without much success. We also wanted progressive discipline with real guidance, because if you don't meet metrics then the performance improvement plan (pip) was really just a do-or-die meet the metrics for 10 days or get fired.
In the previous meeting, it wasn't a take over but coworkers and I relentlessly asked about pips, metrics, etc. We were very clearly getting under their skin, to the point where he asked me how I felt pips should work. He was probably thinking I never planned that far ahead and would discredit myself, but I had done significant research on modern QA management techniques and gave an overview of my minimum for a 3 step pip. Right before he ended the meeting, he essentially "confirmed" that we do it exactly like that, no sword of Damocles or anything.
Of course having done the legwork to actually talk to employees that had gone through the process, we knew that it was total horseshit. Just to be sure, we talked to a few more people to confirm that pips were still being used to cut people for cause instead of improving their metrics before planning the takeover. To open the meeting, I asked this to the COO:
I'd like to preface my question by saying thank you for hosting these sessions again, and preemptively note that a lot of us are here to discuss PIPs. In the last Q&A session I attended, I was told by you that PIPs follow a progressive discipline model. However, we're aware that most if not all employees that fail a PIP are terminated immediately, and multiple employees have been fired shortly after passing a PIP for failing to meet productivity expectations. Why did you lie to me?
His face went beet red and you could see the anger build in his eyes. After about a minute, he responds with "I don't appreciate being called a liar. You're hostility isn't welcome and I reject the question". After that, you could cut the tension with a knife. I reiterated my question that pips don't work the way he said they do, but he continued to refuse it until I moved on to the many other "hostile" questions I had.
For the aftermath, he lied to us again in that meeting when someone uninvolved with the take over asked about remote work, and said there's no plans to change anything for the foreseeable future, before RTO was announced a week later. There was another meeting about RTO with him that I attended, and he made a vague threat about "respectability" and ending the meeting if he felt disrespected after looking at the attendees. I wanted to ask a legit question over mic, and he ignored me until it was becoming obvious to others in the meeting. He stopped doing all q&a stuff after this for some reason.
Well, I'm sure YOU didn't appreciate him being a fucking liar either so i guess it's even XD
Super rich guy tried to pick up my then girlfriend at an industry event after party kind of thing. She was not impressed by any of his shit. The look of disappointment on his face after showing off his $250k watch still makes me smile all these years later.
I'm not even gonna lie, chief, if somebody shows me any kind of luxury fashion like that and boasts that it costs more money than I'll ever see in my lifetime, I'm just gonna ask if it was worth the human suffering incurred in the making of these luxury goods.
There are apparently a surprisingly different levels of strata of "rich people". The groups in the middle range are apparently the most desperate to appear to be in the higher ranges of rich people.
So if someone comes up to you and brags about their $250k watch, you already know that they're not in the "rich rich" group, and they desperately want you to think they are. So hit them where it hurts with a reply like: "Ahh, I understand now. You're not really rich. People that actually are rich don't tell others how much they paid for a watch. Maybe someday you'll get to that level like really rich people. Until then, could you please leave me alone?"
Or you could just start planning to rob the fucker.
Is anyone into watches at the age when rich men try to pick them up? I could be easily impressed by a watch now (a personalised G-Shock $50-300, any diapason $500-2k, an enthusiastic watch geek explaining their Jaeger-Lecoultre...), but not part of the target demographic.
That video of the rich prick at a coffee shop who throws something at the worker and then gets put in a headlock and held on the ground and struggles weakly
Are you talking about Joel Michael Singer? The Joel Michael Singer who headbutts people and then gets his ass locked and then begs his daddy to use his money and influence to remove the evidence from the internet? That Joel Michael Singer? Because that guy is Joel Michael Singer, and that’s the only Joel Michael Singer I have ever heard of.
Some prick in a Porsche demanded that he get to pick his own spot in the valet lot where I work. The valet guy just grinning and shaking his head while the rich dude had a meltdown was some good schadenfreude. Then i got the spot he wanted because the valet guy was my homie.
Reminds me of the police chef meltdown in Fear & Loathing and the clerks response
Had to look up Schadenfreude and I think its my new favorite phrase:
I only heard about it after it happened. Guy in the last year of high school said his parents wanted him to go to college but he probably wouldn’t because that was “stupid” or something similar. Girl in the group blew up on him because she desperately wanted an education and couldn’t afford tuition basically anywhere. She called him spoiled and selfish, I believe.
That's great. Hopefully that was a formative memory for that kid... I've had one or two moments when I was a young teen, where I had to have a friend break a hard truth to me about my behavior/attitude, and I still remember it because he was absolutely right and just being aware of it made a huge difference from that point forward. I still think about what he said sometimes.
I only wish someone had said something sooner...
I had the same experience. One day in high school, my dumb teenage ass was running my mouth off against affirmative action like the edgy dumbass I was, and a classmate just absolutely handed my ass to me. Teacher didn't even interrupt, just let it happen.
I'm glad I was able to thank him for that like 12 years later on Facebook. Really planted a seed that needed planting.
I think I might be misunderstanding. If he felt he wasn't smart enough to get anything out of college, isn't it better that he not go? Like it seems more spoiled to go to college without the expectation you'd get the degree. You're taking a spot from someone who thinks they'll graduate, wasting your parents' money, and delaying becoming a self sufficient adult for no pay off.
We’re all thinking it
When Link charged up his hearts and took down Ganon?
Donno how rich but Saw some model and photographer doing a photo shoot on a scenic overlook. They had a lot of equipment and she was doing wardrobe changes. Someone’s unattended large dog comes up right next to her and takes a big shit. Must’ve gone on for over a minute. While I cried laughing and they could hear me.
And what did the model or photographer do to warrant this being an example of they deserved it
I hope the photographer snapped a few photos. Seems like a once in a lifetime situation.
I'm a wedding photographer, a few months back I had a pooping dog behind a bride and groom and you better believe I took pictures! We all had a pretty good laugh about it especially because it was a private wedding venue and even the venue owners had no idea where the random dog came from but he just popped and disappeared lol
Shoe at G.W.'S head
Dubya dodged them shoes like he dodged the draft.
"God called me a duck that day."
Trading Places
One dollar.
Thank you, Louis.
SELL 200 APRIL AT ONE FORTY TWO!
Trick question, doesn't happen.
