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People Explain Which Businesses They Will Never Support Again
Feb 03, 2025
Not every moment is going to be perfect, and no matter how positive we are, we know that things are occasionally going to go wrong.
But sometimes businesses and restaurants do something that is so drastically wrong, it's better to walk away from them forever than to give them a second chance.
Redditor Sir_Sir_ExcuseMe_Sir asked:
"What is your 'never-again' brand, store, restaurant, or company?"
LA Fitness and Planet Fitness
"LA fitness. Their cancellation policy made me so mad. Only can do it in person and you have to do it with a manager who’s there Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM."
"No issue signing me up outside those hours though. F**k LA fitness."
- Fishyswaze
"This was Planet Fitness for me. I had to cancel in person at the original location I had signed up at. The problem was, I had moved 1000 miles away at this point, so I just canceled my debit card, and got a new one with a new number."
- MrBrink10
Etsy
"Etsy. The seller issued us a full refund on some faulty chairs ($1,200!), and Etsy held it and still refused to send it to us. It’s been over a year. Typing this is making me mad again."
- paigez99
ADT Security
"ADT by far. I called them after two years because there was an issue with the alarm. They informed me that, although I was paying every month, their tech never activated our house in their system. Refused a refund."
"This was about 10 years ago in my first house. I’m not going to take any action, but I also won't work with them again."
- Germs15
Wells Fargo
"Wells Fargo. When my dad died, they made settling his accounts so hard. They kept moving the goalposts every time I came in with the last requirements they had. My dad died practically destitute. It took over a month to get ahold of the $2000 he had in his checking account."
- wombat1977
1-800 Flowers and Edible Arrangements
"1-800 Flowers."
"Actually, I never thought I would hold a grudge this long. 15 years I think. I just figured they'd be out of business by now. Shocking they aren't."
- correctingStupid
"Edible arrangements is the same way. 'Free next-day shipping' is their usual gimmicky promotion. It doesn’t mean free shipping. It means if you order 24 hours before, you don’t have to pay extra for it to go out the next day. It’s still like $15 for shipping on already overpriced fruit."
"The last time I ordered from them, I spent $70 on 10 chocolate-covered strawberries. Never again."
- CommishBressler
Bank Of America
"In 2000, I was in college and had a part-time job doing as a substitute after-school caretaking for the YMCA. My checks were small and I didn’t have much money. The YMCA had Bank of America, and I banked at SunTrust, but I figured that I could cash my paycheck at the nearby Bank of America and just have cash."
"It was pretty standard practice at the time to be able to go to a bank where a check was issued and get cash for that check."
"Except that wasn’t the case at Bank of America. Unbeknownst to me, they had a five-dollar check-cashing fee if you didn’t have an account. I was surprised when I was shorted $5 (again, this might have been a $32 paycheck). They didn’t tell me about the fee first and wouldn’t reverse the transaction (I would have happily deposited it for the full amount at my own bank, even if it meant waiting a few days for it to clear)."
"I will never go to a Bank of America. I will walk blocks to not use their ATMs. I would never set foot in their branch because they f**ked me out of five dollars 25 years ago when five dollars was a lot of money to me."
- WhydIJoinRedditAgain
Sony
"Sony. I promised the reps I talked to through my issue with them that I would share this engagement every chance I got. So here it goes. Sorry for the long post."
"I owned one of the early 55-inch LCD projection flat screen tvs from Sony. I had it for 13 months and it worked perfectly. But in that 13th month, one month after the warranty expired, a yellow grid pattern appeared on the screen."
"I called Sony Support about the issue and told them I knew it was out of warranty, but asked what I might be able to do to get it fixed. The very helpful rep went to bat for me and came back with good news."
"Apparently this was a 'known issue' for which a recall has been issued. And even though my unit wasn't under warranty they would cover it, because of the recall. They told me who to call (a fairly local authorized repair shop) and that I would need to pay the repair, send them the invoice from this shop, and they would reimburse me."
"The technician came and replaced a part (can't remember the part, but that doesn't really matter). The total bill came to nearly $1500, which I paid and sent to the address their rep shared with me in order to get reimbursed."
"About a month later, I received a letter from Sony declining to pay for the repair due to the fact that my unit was out of warranty."
"Not concerned, I called support once again and shared with them the conversation I had with their rep, and that if I had to pay for the repair I simply would have gotten a new TV for $1500, rather than repairing it, but I took this action solely based on the direction of the Sony rep."
"This new rep indicated that the rep I had spoken to originally 'would never have said that to me.' When I challenged him and insisted it was true, he volunteered to listen to the recording with me, which, of course, I welcomed, gladly. After hearing what I said was, absolutely, true, he still refused to honor the reimbursement promised because 'the rep was wrong to offer it to me.'"
"I appealed to an arbitration board, who offered me half of the repair. I accepted but told them I'd share this with everyone I ever had the chance to share it with and would NEVER purchase another Sony product in my life. And, 25 years later, I still haven't caved in and bought Sony. I invite you to do the same."
- dclawton
Red Roof Inn
"Red Roof Inn. (Which, yes, it’s a budget hotel, so my expectations were low)."
"Checked in. It wasn’t the room type we booked, called the front desk, they assured us all was fine. Went out the next day. Came back to find our key didn’t work. Turns out they put us in the wrong room, and took everything out of our room while we were gone (did not call us to tell us), and put it in their housekeeping office."
"By the time we got back to the hotel, they tried to tell us the housekeeping office was locked for the night, and we couldn’t get our stuff till the morning. I never ever yell at customer service people, h**l at the time I worked the front desk at a hotel, so I am generally nice."
"I raised h**l. Demanded management, and then demanded higher management. Finally got our stuff back late that night… they had thrown it in bags randomly and some were rather destroyed (most memorably a toothbrush in with shoes?). The manager tried to blame the whole thing on us."
- GraveDancer40
Best Buy
"This reminds me of my situation when I ordered a microwave from Best Buy. FedEx delivered it. It was in a box and I couldn’t see inside the box, so I accepted delivery. The entire glass door was shattered. Best Buy refused to let me return it, and told me to take it up with LG."
"After six months of back-and-forth calls, emails, etc, LG told me it was my fault for accepting delivery and refused to refund me. Fed Ex refused to take responsibility, too. I was out over $200, but I was adjusting to new motherhood and didn’t have the energy to pursue it further."
"Like an id**t, I gave Best Buy another chance a few years later. I needed to return a gift. The f’ers gave me the wrong type of shipping for the return and UPS returned it back to me since it had batteries. Best Buy b.s.ed me saying they would send the correct return shipping, they never did."
"I had to fly to an area where there was a store in order to return the item, which I luckily had a trip to a place that had one, but it was still messed up."
"I hope Best Buy goes out of business. They are the worst."
- Brself
Ashley Furniture
"My daughter and her husband purchased a 'leather' Ashley living room suit before I could warn them. They didn’t realize that bonded leather is just ground-up rubberized leather scraps. The stuff was peeling off within a year."
"The warranty they purchased along with it wouldn’t cover this type of failure. Total ripoff. NEVER buy Ashley furniture or anything with bonded leather."
- Alternative-Ad-1850
Panera Bread
"Panera nowadays."
- ChrissySubBottom
"What I refer to as overpriced hospital food."
- weeshebeast
"I swear they are TRYING to speed run their way to bankruptcy."
- xstrike0
Jiffy Lube
"Jiffy Lube. I smelled burning oil shortly after driving away. I had to pull over on the side of the highway. They left the oil cap off. Luckily it was still in the engine compartment. I have changed my own oil since."
- bipolarnonbinary94
"A motherf**ker tried to charge this poor young girl in front of me $70 for an air filter. He’s doing all kinds of bulls**t demonstrations showing the dirty filter saying how bad it will be for her lungs, blah blah blah."
"An old dude sitting next to me on the bench pipes up, 'You can get one of those for 10 dollars at AutoZone and replace it yourself in two minutes. It’s so easy.'"
"Jiffy Lube guy was p**sed. Absolute scumbag trying to prey on someone who was young and naive. I haven’t been back since. That was 2008."
- Professional_Bundler
Vrbo
"Vrbo."
"Their policies don't protect their customers from something like this happening: Some friends and I booked a house in San Diego (for Comic Con) and drove in from out-of-state, pulled into the driveway, and discovered other people had already checked in."
"(A door had been left unlocked, so we entered and scoped it out but then decided to go back outside and get some answers.) 20 minutes after our check-in time, as we were sitting in the driveway of the home we booked, Vrbo sent us a cancellation notice."
"The service had double-booked the property."
"So here we were stranded in San Diego, having paid a massive amount of money to attend the convention, with no available rooms anywhere (except for some exorbitantly priced options), and Vrbo wouldn't help us."
"Many hours later, we were finally able to find something, but it was pretty run-down, and still cost much more than the place we'd booked through Vrbo."
- ThePurityPixel
Geico
"Geico. After a s**tty insurance guy added me without my consent to my boyfriend's insurance after he filed a claim."
"We lived in the same building but not together, and his car was broken into and I witnessed it and called 911. My boyfriend gave the insurance guy my info thinking he needed it for the claim and then a few weeks later noticed his premium had gone way up."
"The insurance guy was like, 'Well, she has access to your car and I can't change anything now.'"
"We had to demand a higher-up and rip into them before they removed me and only after I threatened to get the state involved. Still makes my blood f**king boil."
- thewoolf44
Not "Happy" With Hooters
"Hooters. Not for any reason you might think. The staff was fine, the food was adequate. However, for the entire 40 minutes I was in there, though, they played one song on repeat."
"That song was 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams. I now also hate the song."
- heelstoo
Though it can be hard to walk away from supporting a business or product, sometimes there's no question but to turn our back on it, and it's clear why these Redditors felt this way in these moments.
From constantly moving goalposts to safety issues, these were all issues that none of us would want to deal with twice.
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People Share Their Best Life Hacks
Feb 03, 2025
Life hack is defined as "a strategy or technique adopted in order to manage one's time and daily activities in a more efficient way."
The term has been attributed to Danny O'Brien, a technology journalist, at the 2004 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California.
Reddit user Apart-Location-804 asked:
"What’s a life hack so good you almost don’t want to share it?"
First Place You Look
"If you look for something and it's not in the first place you look, THAT IS THE PLACE WHERE IT GOES."
"So when you do find it, put it in the first place you looked for it."
~ Icy_Marsupial5003
What Does A Solution Look Like
"Whenever arguing with someone and it's going round and round trying to come up with a compromise, ask 'what does a solution look like to you?' Half the time, they've got no clue."
"The other half is something you're willing to compromise. It has cut down every single argument in my relationship."
~ bellabbr
Compliments Diffuse Ill Intent
"I work as a receptionist, and my supervisor always asks me why our guests like me, even if they are rude to all the other staff."
"My trick is, when someone is checking in that looks like a typical difficult person, I always give them a compliment like 'where did you get your nails done? They are so pretty!' It usually works."
~ Pure_Point2682
Buy What You Like In Bulk
"Find a pair of socks you really like, buy like 40 pairs. Throw out your other socks."
"Now you can just grab any two socks and have a pair. Get a hole in one? Throw it out. You still have tons of others that are the same."
~ PretzelsThirst
The Perfect Gift
"Gift-buying tip: Ever struggle with what to get people for Christmas, birthdays, or other occasions?"
"I keep a running list in the Notes app on my phone throughout the year. Anytime my friends or family mention something they want, we share an inside joke, or I get inspired, I jot it down under their name."
"When it’s time to buy them a gift, I just check the list."
~ someone_somewear
Designated Spot
"We have a designated spot for things like glasses, sunglasses, keys, and phones. If anyone in the house comes across any of these items, they get put back in 'their spot.'"
"For instance, if I see my SO's sunglasses laying about, I'll take them to the window ledge as that's where all our glasses/sunglasses go. We both know where to look for stuff that way."
"Pro Tip: Being organized is a refined form of laziness."
~ 4986270
An Invitation, Not A Summons
"You don’t have to respond to every text or call."
~ chefboyarde30
"It was life changing for me when I realized a ringing phone is an invitation to a conversation, not an obligation."
"I'm old enough to have lived in a time with no call display or answering machine, and running to the fixed ringing phone was the norm."
"These days if I'm too busy to answer, I can always see who just called, and /or they can leave a message. If it's really urgent, I'm also pretty sure they will call right back."
~ laughguy220
Be Kind When You Can
"Be as nice as you can as often as you can—it's a long-term investment that pays."
~ sidjameslaugh
"I got my first real job because I remembered a receptionist's name from when I was greeted. I was a 'good' candidate, but probably not the best.
"I stayed for a minute or two after the interview when she walked me out, and apparently remembering her name really helped. She told me a few years after I had been there that I was the only candidate that bothered to remember her name and she told the hiring manager that."
"Never underestimate what 90 seconds of your time can really mean to somebody. That receptionist probably gets yelled at by 10 people a day that has nothing to do with her and all it takes is one person being nice to make an impression."
~ PINHEADLARRY5
Less Stress Cooking
"For cooking, the idea of 'Mise en place'—it‘s a French phrase that means 'Put in place' before you start any cooking you set up and put all your ingredients to side: spices, sauces, all your veggies are cut and ready to put in the bowl or pan before you cook."
"Makes cooking 100% less stressful when you have everything ready and on hand."
~ castleban
Be Where You Are
"Learn to genuinely listen—people will tell you everything you need to know."
~ PivotPathway
"Or the other half: be present."
"I struggled in a relationship because even though I was there, I wasn't present. I was always thinking about work, what we were doing for dinner, what I needed to handle that evening."
"When I stopped, put distractions down, and paid attention [no scrolling!], the quality of our relationship increased a LOT."
~ persondude27
Politeness Pays
"My husband and I were going to see Roger Waters a few years ago. We had nosebleed seats, so we were riding the escalators up to the top of the venue."
"At the top of the first escalator, there was a crowd of people surrounding an employee who appeared to be handing things out."
"We joined the crowd to check it out, when we got closer we saw he was handing out free ticket upgrades. When it was our turn, I said 'could I have two please?'."
"He moved half the stack of tickets out of the way and started flipping through the ones at the bottom of the stack. He said 'you’re the first person who said please to me, so I’m gonna give you the best seats I can find'."
"4th row in the 100 level. It was incredible. Always be polite people!"
~ KrombopulousMary
Organizational Laziness
"Organizational systems work best when they work with your laziness."
"If you’re 'lazy' and tend to just dump your keys on the counter when you get home, don’t solve it by deciding they should go somewhere else and forcing yourself to change your habits, that’s too much effort."
"Instead, get a little bowl or tray for your keys and put it on the counter where you usually dump them anyway. That’s now where your keys go."
"Make the lazy thing you do the standard."
~ AegisToast
Picking A Restaurant
"This works great when you can't decide where to go to eat, especially with a significant other.
"Instead of saying 'Where do you want to go to eat?' which always leads to 'I don't care', say 'Guess where I'm taking you tonight'."
"The top guesses will be the top places they'd like to go."
~ EyeLikePie
Set The Tone
"I used be in maintenance for a huge school district. Whenever I was sent to a school where the office staff had a reputation for being cranky complainy crabby pants, I had a whole song and dance I'd run through when I got there."
"I'd walk into the office with a big smile, acting like the nicest person in the world, just a big dumb puppy who has no idea this is a 'crabby admin' school. Then, when the timing is right, I'd let slip the casual comment of 'I really like coming to this school, everyone is so nice!'."
"It's like a magic spell. The grumpuses always tried to live up to my unrealistic view of them, and were always at least reasonable, if not downright pleasant. It always felt like cheating, but really all I was doing was setting an example they wanted to follow."
"Of course, it helped that I was the guy they sent when nobody else could fix the problem, because I could always fix the problem."
~ Lampwick
Ending An Argument
"When arguing about something, ask what their interests are rather than their position—'why' they want/don’t want something. Usually it’s easier to come to an agreement if you approach a conflict from this angle."
"Also, conceding a minor point during the argument 'you’re right about x' and 'I don’t disagree with y' tends to lessen the guard of your opposition and thus making it easier to get what you want out of them."
"Active listening is key as well."
~ FlameandCrimson
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2013 Video Of RuPaul Predicting Our Current Political Shift Resurfaces—And Fans Are Nodding Hard
Jan 31, 2025
Drag superstar RuPaul has struck a nerve with people after a viral video reminded them of comments he made to the late comedian Joan Rivers in 2013 about the nature of political shifts.
At the time, much of the Western world seemed to be entering a new, enduring liberal era. Barack Obama’s presidency was seen as a turning point that would shape a more inclusive future.
But RuPaul wasn’t convinced and questioned whether the mainstream embrace of inclusion and diversity would truly last:
“Throughout our culture, there are little windows and pockets of time when people are open. After 9/11, there was a hostility and fear that was just in the air."
"After that died down, and Obama got into office—it’s not because of Obama—but Obama is a result of this openness that happened. I think the success of our show is a part of that openness.”
It's worth noting that RuPaul's discussion with Rivers came as Drag Race was growing into a cultural force within the LGBTQ+ community, rising at the same time and contributing to a dramatic shift in LGBTQ+ acceptance throughout the 2010s.
RuPaul recognized that Drag Race wasn’t just reflecting this cultural moment—it was actively shaping it:
“Obviously, in the late ‘70s there was an openness with dancing, and people were moving below the waist. Obviously, in the ‘60s. There have been little pockets. Actually, when I first hit the big time in ’93, there was a small window."
"Those windows open, they close. They open, they close. I think we’re experiencing that right now, and I think that’s why our show is successful. But it will close again. It’s not always that way."
When Rivers—who was an ally to the LGBTQ+ community during her lifetime—asked RuPaul if he thinks the "window" in question will close again, he acknowledged that the pendulum would swing rightward eventually, referencing the conservatism of the Reagan era:
“Absolutely. That’s the history of mankind. During the ‘80s, I couldn’t believe, even gay people became very conservative.”
You can hear his remarks in the video below.
Many concurred.
RuPaul's comments resurfaced at the same time that New York Magazine published a now-viral piece titled "The Cruel Kids' Table" that assesses this rightward shift.
The MAGA faithful's celebration of President Donald Trump's election victory, according to one conservative influencer who spoke to writer Brock Coylar, is "Republican Coachella, and Donald Trump is our Beyoncé.”
At one point, Coylar observes:
"It’s easy to see the festivities as an obnoxious victory lap of the MAGA coalition, and of course they are. Conservatism — as a cultural force, not just a political condition — is back in a real way for the first time since the 1980s."
Somewhere out there, RuPaul is nodding his head.
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Massive Sturgeon Stuns Onlookers After Attacking Mermaid Performer Mid-Show In Wild Video
Jan 31, 2025
It's not just sharks you have to watch out for.
A mermaid performer learned this the hard way when her performance in a freshwater aquarium went horribly awry.
In a video posted from China, the mermaid was seen performing as usual when a very large fish came to join the performance. Instead of just swimming by or pausing in curiosity, the fish, a sturgeon easily the size of a human, instead tried to eat her head.
Sturgeons are fresh water fish and do not have teeth, so it wasn't really taking a bite out of her, but rather sucked her head into its mouth before spitting her back out again.
The mermaid, clearly startled and upset, recovered and swam up to the surface to get away.
The mermaid performer, who is a 22 year old from Russia, suffered damage to her face and eye, but was told to go back into the water to finish her performance, according to the Daily Mail.
Sturgeon essentially vacuum along the bottom of a body of water, sucking up nutrients.
In this case, it went for the mermaid's head.
@c5n Trabajaba de “sirenita” en un acuario y un enorme pez la atacó en medio del show | #show #acuario #ataque #china
People were horrified, but then also found funny parts of the clip upon later viewings.
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A whole discussion broke out about sturgeon teeth, or lack thereof.
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Fish fans chimed in with a nuanced take on the teeth debate.
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Sturgeon may lack teeth, but can be still dangerous creatures to swim with!
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Madame Tussauds' Incredibly Realistic New Wax Figure Of Lady Gaga Leaves Fans Impressed
Jan 31, 2025
When you think of wax figures of celebrities, the phrases "slightly off" and "uncanny valley" come to mind, but not so with the newest reveal from the famed wax artists of Madame Tussauds London.
The workshop made a Lady Gaga wax figure just in time for the 2025 Grammy awards, commemorating her decades-long spotlight at the top of many arts.
The general manager of Madame Tussauds London had nothing but praise for the star.
“Lady Gaga has owned the spotlight for decades across music, fashion, and most recently, film, so we wanted to create a show-stopping look to reflect her iconic status and flair for reinvention."
The reveal of the figure fired up her fans, or Little Monsters, about the incredibly likeness. Many folks didn't think it could possibly be real, but it is.
The figure will go on display February 3rd, just a day after the 2025 Grammys, where Gaga is in the running for both Song of the Year and Best Pop/Duo Performance for her song with Bruno Mars "Die With a Smile."
Fans were immediately hyped for the figure.
Many were so surprised it was actually a wax figure, and not Lady Gaga herself.
Madame Tussauds London has been around for awhile, but people think this figure takes the cake.
Someone had a new proposal for a type of museum combining the best of wax figures and modern technology.
Finally, folks had some things to say about the Lady Gaga "era" they chose to display along with the figure.
The 2025 Grammys will take place on February 2nd.
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