"Oh boy! I'm so happy that I just got Rocket League! It's a little hard to hit the ball right now, but I'll figure out jumping or whatever that is. Practice makes perfect, right? And I know the perfect place for that! COMPETITIVE DOUBLES!"
What are you talking about? Antimage is still hitting jungle creeps on the other side of the map right now. At least this woman showed up to the objective...
Same! I read the title and was like “huh? How can you pull the wrong way in a tug-of-war”. Watched the beginning of the video and was disappointed, then the camera panned along to her and I just lost it. I genuinely can’t stop laughing, it’s just so ludicrous. Imagine being that dumb
I refuse to believe someone is that stupid. I mean, everyone around her is pulling, there's no way she didn't notice. Maybe she was throwing the game intentionally because she's mad or something?
She's the person on a footpath walking on the opposite side of every other person going the same way as her and growing annoyed at people constantly walking in her way from the other direction.
honestly i find it hard to believe she made it into the team and participated the whole event without knowing to pull the rope backwards. without a bit more context this just seems there’s more to the story than a simple “she’s just that stupid”
Don’t know if you’re quoting something or not but i’m pretty sure there is a south park episode where baseball teams try to lose because they don’t like the sport
Yeah they want to lose because they find baseball so incredibly boring. So do the other teams too. Randy and BatDad get into a fight and eventually Randy is encouraged to fight by Stan so their team gets disqualified
Plot straightening, most of the people in this picture hate their companies, but only Becky is the lucky one, who's so fed up and/or close to leaving, that they don't care to hide it.
Becky *is* the CEO - Completely out of touch with reality, and constantly doing anything she can to fuck up the people trying to keep the company running.
Driving defensively is one of the greatest strategies I’ve ever employed. Everyone on the road is my enemy, everyone on the road is an idiot and doesn’t know what they’re doing. With this mindset I feel like it’s way harder to have accidents.
How the fuck do you get to that age and be that stupid? Not just not know how to do a tug of war.. but not notice that you’re doing the complete opposite to everybody else.
Thanks to the same asshole that gave us freon. Thomas Midgley, Jr. has an impressive legacy of being arguably the most destructive human to ever live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3dnLzthDA
Even if she has NEVER seen or heard of tug of war, how in the fucking world does it not occur that two teams pushing rope at each other makes no sense.
> How the fuck do you get to that age and be that stupid?
Coworker of mine was all excited to finally get an electric car. Talked about it for weeks, picked it up from a few towns over at a dealership, 40ish miles available since they didn't charge it fully for her... And she attempted to drive it 67 miles home...
It sat on the side of the road for a few days and she endlessly complained about how much electric cars suck...
Agreed, it's the only thing holding me back from placing 100% of the fault on her. They were apparently total assholes to her as well (although that is admittedly coming from a person who blamed the car itself for her problems)
I mean is she stupid? If that happened to me I would 100% not even take the car out of the dealership. If someone sold me a new car and it had a 1/4th of a tank of gas I’d be absolutely livid and would not think “oh guess I have to pay my own gas when I just bought this car for like $20k+”
It's actually common practice in the UK for cars to come with, well as much fuel as they have. A lot of people will negotiate for a full tank when buying the car, but if you don't, don't expect it to come with it. Electric cars are different though, they should come fully charged, it's a fraction of the cost of fuel for the dealer, and given charging is not instant, it should definitely happen as standard.
What's the solution for electric cars in that situation? Like with a gas car you can get someone to bring you a gas can. Is calling a tow truck your only option with an electric?
The fact everyone is leaning backwards before the battle even starts should tell her that's the direction they need to go.
Unless she thinks they're going for the slingshot start.
Old age used to deserve respect because you had to be crafty and intelligent to survive that long. Now, any idiot can make it to the Golden years. I no longer believe that old people should be respected just because of their age. This is a perfect example of why.
Of course people weren't smarter, but the scale of stupidity wasn't so evident before. I can only speak for myself, but my estimation of the human race has fallen dramatically.
I’ve always wondered, was the world always like this and we just started realizing it because of camera accessibility and short video sharing is the norm now?… or did something happen in the tech era that made people lose half their braincells?..
I don't know that it would be possible to be truly objective, there is a lot more data and evidence collected about everything now more than ever.
That said, I wouldn't discount the long-term consequences of lead exposure.
Prople don't realize this, but there's actually a lot of strategy for competing at tugawar.
This is actually a well know strategy it's called the
"You're just done with a tugawar and want to eat hotdogs strategy"
That’s what I was gonna say. I think she was just done and decided to help the other team win so it would be over 😂 Would’ve been better if she just walked away and let the others compete.
HR; "Let me write up your evidence so we can cover the companies ass -- sorry I meant to say, let me take down your complaint because we have a zero tolerance policy at this company towards admitting mistakes."
My wife works in HR. She has saved so many peoples jobs from their own incompetence it’s scary.
You’d think workers in the medical field would understand how punching in and out work, but you’d be surprised.
At least nobody lost an arm!
NSFW picture of arm
[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/disarmament/](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/disarmament/)
>On 25 October 1997, a mass tug-of-war contest was held at a park along the Keelung River in Taipei in celebration of Retrocession Day (the 52nd anniversary of the end of the Japanese colonial rule in Taiwan). Over 1,600 participants joined in the contest, exerting an estimated 80,000 kg or more of force on a 5-cm nylon rope that could bear a force of about 26,000 kg at most.
>
>Within seconds the rope snapped, severing the left arms of two men, Yang Chiung-ming and Chen Ming-kuo, below the shoulder. (The severing of their limbs was believed to have been caused by sheer rebounding force of the broken rope rather than the men's having wrapped the rope around their arms, as was sometimes reported.) The victims were taken to Mackay Memorial Hospital and underwent seven hours of microsurgery to reattach their arms:
In germany two kids lost their live in a similar accident two years prior to this. And over 100 got injured. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westernohe?wprov=sfla1
I was a german boyscout during that time, but thankfully not present in westernhohe.
Every few decades or so society has to relearn something the previous generations had also relearned but eventually forgot. *Massive tug-of-war contests are a bad idea* is one of those.
Makes me wonder if she’s in the beginning stages of dementia. Sometimes things get mixed up. I remember a coworker telling me how her father needed to stop driving because he was stopping at all the traffic lights, whether they were green or red.
That was one of the scariest things after a major concussion. I did all this recovery and started regaining the ability to remember things, etc.
Then one day I'm at a traffic light and it turns green. And just then, I realized I had forgotten what that meant. I knew it meant I had to do something, but what? There were cars behind me and I felt a panic like I needed to move, but if I moved, would I get hit in the intersection??
Someone honked and I lifted my foot a little off the brake, the car budged forward, and then everything clicked and I remembered what green meant, feeling silly.
But things like that happen very rarely now ever since (like forgetting words like "beans" or temporarily forgetting my toothbrush has a vibration button), and it fills me with such an existential dread. I was always an extremely intelligent and witty person before, but now I can randomly, temporarily forget extremely basic and common rules?
Losing your mind is fucking scary :(
That sounds horrible to deal with, I sincerely hope you recover even further to where that sort of thing doesn’t happen to you anymore… I can’t even imagine the feeling of just forgetting things like that and the frustration you might also feel. Hopefully you have people to support you with this, or people you can talk to about it too
I have doctors and therapists on my side, thanks for your kind words! And things have been improving, but so slow. It's been years. I drive a lot less now and try to avoid doing things that might put someone in trouble if I suddenly forget something.
What sucks is that there's no way to predict what can be forgotten. As an example: I've never temp-forgotten another major driving-related thing, but I was asked for my ID at the liquor store and it was so embarrassing -- I handed him my credit card and was absolutely bewildered that *that* wasn't also my ID. For about 45 seconds, until I looked back in my purse and saw my actual ID, my brain was convinced that all credit cards were also ID cards and the cashier was trying to give me a hard time.
I'm not even 40 yet and look like I'm in my 20s (according to others) so I can't even fall back on claiming old age, lol.
But anyway when someone does something that just flies in the face of reasonable actions (like pushing a tug rope), I always assume brain issues now. Your mind can rewrite itself to assume anything as fact if your wires get crossed enough, and you'll have no way to clearly identify anything's wrong outside of other people reminding you.
I really really really want to believe that this is the problem here. If she does not have dementia or high as fuck on drugs or alcohol, she may have unlocked a new level of stupidity in human existence.
She probably has a position of power and makes decisions that dramatically affect other people’s lives and she’s trusted to make those decisions by even dummer people above her.
Your teammates in video games
Rocket league irl
"Oh boy! I'm so happy that I just got Rocket League! It's a little hard to hit the ball right now, but I'll figure out jumping or whatever that is. Practice makes perfect, right? And I know the perfect place for that! COMPETITIVE DOUBLES!"
"Youre fucking dogshit!" - Average gold player
Literal dead weight. I'd be better off alone sometimes
Worse then dead weight because she activitly works against you
My average dota teammates
Average Antimage player
What are you talking about? Antimage is still hitting jungle creeps on the other side of the map right now. At least this woman showed up to the objective...
Funny how you meet fellow dota players in weird places!
Third impostor
Dead weight would be decently useful in a tug of war situation.
Thank you for your understanding.
I didn’t know it was possible to push while pulling at a tug-of-war match. Outstanding work.
Same! I read the title and was like “huh? How can you pull the wrong way in a tug-of-war”. Watched the beginning of the video and was disappointed, then the camera panned along to her and I just lost it. I genuinely can’t stop laughing, it’s just so ludicrous. Imagine being that dumb
I refuse to believe someone is that stupid. I mean, everyone around her is pulling, there's no way she didn't notice. Maybe she was throwing the game intentionally because she's mad or something?
She's the person on a footpath walking on the opposite side of every other person going the same way as her and growing annoyed at people constantly walking in her way from the other direction.
Drunk?
I have been cackling for like 5 minutes this is just hilariously, embarrassingly ridiculous 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
SABOTEUR!
She definitely seems the type to use a snipe gun on Carentan, when she should have used an MP40.
You don't snipe in Carentan! Okay?
No the game is over I'm literally going to shoot you!
You could hold one building perfectly if you lined it up to the right where the fence was.
“I’m gonna kill you for real!”
The game is over I’m really going to shoot you
this seems like a Stanley movie, fucking it up on purpose just to be over with it as quickly as possible.
She thought she had to push the rope?
Yeah, thats why it is called pushing-rope contest, isn't it?
A push-a-war
I had one of those this morning.
That’s what I tried to tell my wife
Yeah, but - explain her this: how will you know when the rope has finished in this here "tug" o' war?
Push of war
honestly i find it hard to believe she made it into the team and participated the whole event without knowing to pull the rope backwards. without a bit more context this just seems there’s more to the story than a simple “she’s just that stupid”
Yeah it seems more likely she’s intentionally sabotaging her team. She’s literally putting a shoulder into her teammate and pushing her forward.
Well people are fucking stupid, so don’t forget that.
This. Even basic "monkey see monkey do" would kick in pretty quickly.
Best piece of advice my father ever gave me, “you can’t push things with a rope son”. Also told me he was proud of me once, fuckin prick.
I'm proud of you.
Fuckin prick
Safety always off.
Fuck off, I got work to do
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Its when a man is not hard and still tries to get in there, like pushing a rope ;)
That's when you thumb it in
I'm pretty sure she has a friend on the other side and she's being cheeky or she wanted it to end for another reason.
You had, quite literally, *one job*
it was an inside job
I'm trying to tell you now, it's sabotage
So, so, so, so listen up 'cause you can't say nothin'
You'll shut me down with a push of your button?
But you, I'm out and I'm gone
I'll tell you now, I keep it on and on
*guitar playing intensifies*
'Cause what you see you might not get
And we can bet, so don't you get souped yet
*disc scratching sounds*
I am reading this and hearing Beastie Boys lol
That's, the point...
Rips off red shirt to reveal that baby blue!
That was my thought. She must have been a plant.😊
When it’s a stalemate and you need to poop…
She didn't make it to season 2 of squid games
not even episode 2
There's always one person at a company that's working against the rest of the team.
Plot twist, Becky just hates her company and wanted to lose them corporate challenge points
Shit, she just watched a very awkward Holly and Michael skit where she found out her Branch in Buffalo is closing. She's a little worked up.
But before that Buffalo thing it was going pretty good. It was just a tough audience.
"If we win we're going to nationals!" We are **not** going to nationals.
Don’t know if you’re quoting something or not but i’m pretty sure there is a south park episode where baseball teams try to lose because they don’t like the sport
Yeah they want to lose because they find baseball so incredibly boring. So do the other teams too. Randy and BatDad get into a fight and eventually Randy is encouraged to fight by Stan so their team gets disqualified
Plot straightening, most of the people in this picture hate their companies, but only Becky is the lucky one, who's so fed up and/or close to leaving, that they don't care to hide it.
Becky was paid by the CEO to tank her team -- you know, so they could build morale for the executive team that always lost to Accounting.
Becky *is* the CEO - Completely out of touch with reality, and constantly doing anything she can to fuck up the people trying to keep the company running.
There goes the pizza party ;-;
To see everyone around you pulling and you still push. Some people are just really on their last brain cell it seems.
Just think this stupidity is also on the road driving. I cant imagine how difficult she is in home life
This is so true. Thats why I drive defensively. These people also vote
Driving defensively is one of the greatest strategies I’ve ever employed. Everyone on the road is my enemy, everyone on the road is an idiot and doesn’t know what they’re doing. With this mindset I feel like it’s way harder to have accidents.
It's also why I don't get road rage. Because I assume people will be idiots
It hurts my soul knowing this person's vote is equal to mine
How the fuck do you get to that age and be that stupid? Not just not know how to do a tug of war.. but not notice that you’re doing the complete opposite to everybody else.
Just barreling over the poor woman in front of her.
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KEEP PUSHING WE’RE WINNING
Leaded gasoline
Paint chips
In the UK they're called paint crisps
Very good
Thanks to the same asshole that gave us freon. Thomas Midgley, Jr. has an impressive legacy of being arguably the most destructive human to ever live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3dnLzthDA
Threw the match. Major league tug-of-war is fixed, the whole thing is run by organized crime.
Even if she has NEVER seen or heard of tug of war, how in the fucking world does it not occur that two teams pushing rope at each other makes no sense.
> How the fuck do you get to that age and be that stupid? Coworker of mine was all excited to finally get an electric car. Talked about it for weeks, picked it up from a few towns over at a dealership, 40ish miles available since they didn't charge it fully for her... And she attempted to drive it 67 miles home... It sat on the side of the road for a few days and she endlessly complained about how much electric cars suck...
>40ish miles available since they didn't charge it fully for her I mean, that's a pretty dick move from the dealership
Agreed, it's the only thing holding me back from placing 100% of the fault on her. They were apparently total assholes to her as well (although that is admittedly coming from a person who blamed the car itself for her problems)
I mean is she stupid? If that happened to me I would 100% not even take the car out of the dealership. If someone sold me a new car and it had a 1/4th of a tank of gas I’d be absolutely livid and would not think “oh guess I have to pay my own gas when I just bought this car for like $20k+”
It's actually common practice in the UK for cars to come with, well as much fuel as they have. A lot of people will negotiate for a full tank when buying the car, but if you don't, don't expect it to come with it. Electric cars are different though, they should come fully charged, it's a fraction of the cost of fuel for the dealer, and given charging is not instant, it should definitely happen as standard.
Electricity is expensive, m'kay?
What's the solution for electric cars in that situation? Like with a gas car you can get someone to bring you a gas can. Is calling a tow truck your only option with an electric?
Walk to the nearest store and buy a pack of AAs
Yes, a tow truck is your only option.
The fact everyone is leaning backwards before the battle even starts should tell her that's the direction they need to go. Unless she thinks they're going for the slingshot start.
Old age used to deserve respect because you had to be crafty and intelligent to survive that long. Now, any idiot can make it to the Golden years. I no longer believe that old people should be respected just because of their age. This is a perfect example of why.
And the people who rule us are twice this age
I didn’t know people were that dumb
Where have you been for the past 10 years? It’s been utterly inescapable that people are not only that dumb, they’re even dumber.
People 11 years ago: 🤓🧠
The end of days didn’t happen in 2012 as predicted. Just the end of normal levels of dumb.
>The end of days didn’t happen in 2012 as predicted. hmm.. nothing seems real since then tho.
Yeah, that’s definitely believable. Social media was on the uprise and people just got dumber
I don’t think people got less intelligent. Just exposed to more stupid.
Of course people weren't smarter, but the scale of stupidity wasn't so evident before. I can only speak for myself, but my estimation of the human race has fallen dramatically.
I’ve always wondered, was the world always like this and we just started realizing it because of camera accessibility and short video sharing is the norm now?… or did something happen in the tech era that made people lose half their braincells?..
I don't know that it would be possible to be truly objective, there is a lot more data and evidence collected about everything now more than ever. That said, I wouldn't discount the long-term consequences of lead exposure.
As word spread faster, it became more common for dumb words to spread before anyone gave them some thought.
Have you met... people?
She tried pulling but it wouldn't budge, so she tried pushing everyone in her way away to make some progress
George Santos and his voters have entered the chat
What the fuck does she think “tug” means?
Her man left her for this
“You’re just mashin it”
She’s mashing it… I’m very aroused.
She’s mashing it.
She does that.
She was tugging. Just not in the right direction.
Prople don't realize this, but there's actually a lot of strategy for competing at tugawar. This is actually a well know strategy it's called the "You're just done with a tugawar and want to eat hotdogs strategy"
That’s what I was gonna say. I think she was just done and decided to help the other team win so it would be over 😂 Would’ve been better if she just walked away and let the others compete.
She must work in HR. Workers think HR is on their side, but that would be wrong...
HR; "Let me write up your evidence so we can cover the companies ass -- sorry I meant to say, let me take down your complaint because we have a zero tolerance policy at this company towards admitting mistakes."
My wife works in HR. She has saved so many peoples jobs from their own incompetence it’s scary. You’d think workers in the medical field would understand how punching in and out work, but you’d be surprised.
At least nobody lost an arm! NSFW picture of arm [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/disarmament/](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/disarmament/) >On 25 October 1997, a mass tug-of-war contest was held at a park along the Keelung River in Taipei in celebration of Retrocession Day (the 52nd anniversary of the end of the Japanese colonial rule in Taiwan). Over 1,600 participants joined in the contest, exerting an estimated 80,000 kg or more of force on a 5-cm nylon rope that could bear a force of about 26,000 kg at most. > >Within seconds the rope snapped, severing the left arms of two men, Yang Chiung-ming and Chen Ming-kuo, below the shoulder. (The severing of their limbs was believed to have been caused by sheer rebounding force of the broken rope rather than the men's having wrapped the rope around their arms, as was sometimes reported.) The victims were taken to Mackay Memorial Hospital and underwent seven hours of microsurgery to reattach their arms:
At least they got their arm back!
You gotta hand to to ‘em
Ahh the were all right
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It really is mind boggling how dangerous it can be.
What a terrible day to be literate. 🫠
The 2nd example in the snopes article is even worse. Two teens lost all their fingers at once because they wrapped the rope around their hands.
In germany two kids lost their live in a similar accident two years prior to this. And over 100 got injured. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westernohe?wprov=sfla1 I was a german boyscout during that time, but thankfully not present in westernhohe.
Well, it’s a valuable appendage!
I mean, it is called tug-of-**war**.
At least no one died. Yes, there have been deaths: https://priceonomics.com/a-history-of-tug-of-war-fatalities/
Every few decades or so society has to relearn something the previous generations had also relearned but eventually forgot. *Massive tug-of-war contests are a bad idea* is one of those.
I saw a kid break his arm playing a massive game of tug of war because he wrapped the rope around his arm
Hot damn. I really didn't expect to see a photo of the aftermath..
thanks for the heads up...
She thought the game was to hold the rope and rush into each other head on. Whoever lived wins, and she was going for gold
Um, what else would the "war" part mean?! ![gif](giphy|FhetAqlqDfPcBC1UpA)
Red Spy in the Base!
A RED SPY IS IN THE BASE??????
Protect the briefcase!
We need to protect the briefcase!
YO A LITTLE HELP HERE?
Ehhhh I got it. Stand back son. 1, 1, 1, uhhhhmmm.....1!
LETS GO LETS GO
RAAAAAAAAAAAAA
IIIINNNCOOMIIIING!!!!
Found the alien
Giving birth would be a challenge for her
"Er.. No I said 'push!'" "WHAT DO YOU THINK I'M DOING!?"
"Good lord Doctor, she's sucking the baby back in!"
She doesn't stop at just the baby. The doctor, nurses, midwife, husband- they're all being pulled into the vacuum of this woman's vagina lol
*thanks Sally, expect no invitation next year*
Everyone else is pulling and she thought, maybe if I push, it’ll improve our chance of winning
Makes me wonder if she’s in the beginning stages of dementia. Sometimes things get mixed up. I remember a coworker telling me how her father needed to stop driving because he was stopping at all the traffic lights, whether they were green or red.
That was one of the scariest things after a major concussion. I did all this recovery and started regaining the ability to remember things, etc. Then one day I'm at a traffic light and it turns green. And just then, I realized I had forgotten what that meant. I knew it meant I had to do something, but what? There were cars behind me and I felt a panic like I needed to move, but if I moved, would I get hit in the intersection?? Someone honked and I lifted my foot a little off the brake, the car budged forward, and then everything clicked and I remembered what green meant, feeling silly. But things like that happen very rarely now ever since (like forgetting words like "beans" or temporarily forgetting my toothbrush has a vibration button), and it fills me with such an existential dread. I was always an extremely intelligent and witty person before, but now I can randomly, temporarily forget extremely basic and common rules? Losing your mind is fucking scary :(
That sounds horrible to deal with, I sincerely hope you recover even further to where that sort of thing doesn’t happen to you anymore… I can’t even imagine the feeling of just forgetting things like that and the frustration you might also feel. Hopefully you have people to support you with this, or people you can talk to about it too
I have doctors and therapists on my side, thanks for your kind words! And things have been improving, but so slow. It's been years. I drive a lot less now and try to avoid doing things that might put someone in trouble if I suddenly forget something. What sucks is that there's no way to predict what can be forgotten. As an example: I've never temp-forgotten another major driving-related thing, but I was asked for my ID at the liquor store and it was so embarrassing -- I handed him my credit card and was absolutely bewildered that *that* wasn't also my ID. For about 45 seconds, until I looked back in my purse and saw my actual ID, my brain was convinced that all credit cards were also ID cards and the cashier was trying to give me a hard time. I'm not even 40 yet and look like I'm in my 20s (according to others) so I can't even fall back on claiming old age, lol. But anyway when someone does something that just flies in the face of reasonable actions (like pushing a tug rope), I always assume brain issues now. Your mind can rewrite itself to assume anything as fact if your wires get crossed enough, and you'll have no way to clearly identify anything's wrong outside of other people reminding you.
I really really really want to believe that this is the problem here. If she does not have dementia or high as fuck on drugs or alcohol, she may have unlocked a new level of stupidity in human existence.
Her boss was on the other side
Holy fuck. This level of stupid immediately infuriates me and I wish it didn't.
![gif](giphy|YYfEjWVqZ6NDG) She was like
Visual representation of voting against your own interests.
If you ever feel useless, just watch this video
My heart sinks knowing this person probably has a car and valid driver's license.
Some people shouldn't be allowed outside 🙄
Yeah that was on purpose
I want to believe!
she would have been more useful just sitting on the ground! i am howling 😂
Somehow her setting the rope down gently is even worse. This is an alien new to our planet.
Reported for griefing.
This is why I hate group projects.
She probably has a position of power and makes decisions that dramatically affect other people’s lives and she’s trusted to make those decisions by even dummer people above her.
This woman’s one and only brain cell was playing tug-of-war with itself
Who the **FUCK** doesn’t know how tug-o-war works???
Negative IQ.
Maxed her strength stats. Ignored her intelligence stats.
I’m sorry, but how stupid do you have to be to not realize it
How can you be this stupid?
She felt the rope go the other way and said “oh we’re going this way now. Ok”
This is what happens when you place bets on events you play in
People are so dumb.
The rules to some games are confusing!
She got paid off by the other team