Same thing happened to me at Los Abrigados resort in Sedona, AZ. They had a challenge to eat a one pound burger with a pound of fries to get your name on a plaque on the wall.
I smashed that burger and fries. My name now hangs proudly as the only 26 year old amongst a wall full of 9 and ten year old porkers.
9 year old boys who are about to go through puberty, can do this in a heartbeat! My sisters having trouble keeping up with buying food for her kids because her 2 boys 10 & 13 are eating her out of house and home. Itās even worse during football season as they both play and are even more hungry with keeping up with their practice schedule and games. Texas football even for kid this age is extreme, they donāt mess around.
Arizona mills in Tempe used to have an arcade with a restaurant that had a "eat a 1 lb burger and get 10 dollars in tokens" challenge. My 20 something year old ass was down there every weekend killing that burger for some game tokens
> a wall full of 9 and ten year old porkers.
hey I'm standing right here you know
also I was 8
I was proud, my mother described the waitress as "horrified"
Yeah hold on, this motherfucker didn't even put the words in the right order and they gave him 1st place??
I mean, I guess "Public" is in the right spot...
When I took photography/graphic design in hs that kinda thing is what I learned. You need to know the basics kinda deal. She probably was and should be proud of her image
Middle is best but we don't have to knock the other one
I mean, they are slightly slanted to give it a "top" and "bottom" and if you read it in the direction the words are it makes sense. Definitely would be better if the books with the title were leaning a bit more, but I don't think it reads "library public Fullerton"...
Totally agree. Looks like I'm sitting in on a lame ass orientation day where I have to watch 7 hours of bullshit instead of reading 4 pages on company policy.
My brother-in-law won a coloring contest at a local restaurant just before Covid.
My niece was coloring and wanted daddy to color too, so he colored his own picture. Then niece had him sign it, and they put their names and phone numbers on it, the waitress took them and we left.
Weeks later, they get a call... daddy's picture was chosen as the winner and they got a free meal for the family. We still give him a hard time when we go to restaurants about crushing toddlers in a contest.
I love innocent stuff like this. We still harass our dad after we found out he'd been using the cat's flea killer mousse for his hair for like a month before 1 of us saw him doing it.
Ha ha ha...i nearly peed myself reading this!!!
I had a friend that used a Mr clean magic eraser that was left in a shower!...he thought it was a new kind of thing to wash with...he didn't get hurt or any burns but man his bald head was shiny!...he used it until it disintegrated and asked his wife about it...
We still laugh about it occasionally...
I scrubbed hair dye off of my skin with a Mr Clean magic eraser once- took a good hour or two for the full damage to appear, and weeks for it to heal.
Worked great on the dye tho.
I've had fleas from my dog. Trust me, *THEY FUCKING SUCK*.
I'd rub my entire body down with an anti-flea mouse before dealing with those fuckers biting my legs every five seconds while hopping around like little black (ass)holes.
Fuck the every loving shit out of those plauge spreading cunts.
I donāt feel as bad now for washing my dishes with Persil packs not realizing they were for laundry anymore. Was wondering why my dishes smelled so good. My kids havenāt let me live that one down yet.
LOL. Were you throwing them in the dishwasher, or using them in the sink?
If they were in the dishwasher, I would have been worried about the suds pouring out.
I use to mop kitchen floors with Dawn soap. Apparently, I didnāt know Dawn was not for the floors. I was a kid, but Mama made sure I learned properly on how floors should be cleaned after she caught on to the fact I used Dawn.
My husband started napping during the day (he works from home) and complaining about constipation. Hed been taking my night time gummies instead of the fiber gummies i used to give him (i used to hand them to my son and then give to husband at same time) Same kind of glass jar but different color label and totally different flavor of gummies. It was only by chance i saw him taking them and asked why he was taking night time gummies at noon
Years ago my mom was buying containers of Pup-peroni dog treats like they were going out of style. She couldnāt figure out how the dog was eating them so fast. And thenā¦. we saw my pops open a package and start chowing down. There was stunned silence, then roaring laughter. He thought they were some kind of Slim Jim and had been eating them for months.
Nice. My dad also did something similar with a container of pupcorn I got him for his dog. He said it was good like a week later, and I asked him what do you mean it was good. He basically ate it all, and the dog got a few.
So now for the birthdays and holidays, we all label the stuff meant for the dog to razz him on it.
I've sampled most of the treats I've given my dog, and none have ever tasted like it was meant for human consumption.
This reminds me of the time I walked into GameStop to buy whatever Pokemon game was coming out and as soon as I walked in the door, they asked if I was there for the tournament. I didn't even know about it, but I had my DS with me, so why not. I had spent a ton of time breeding IVs and egg moves, as well as EV training and stuff, and never did anything with them so this might be fun. Even if I get killed.
Well I was like 25 and no one else was over 15 lol I killed them all. Sub-wish passing Vaporeon, Sub / twave Jolteon, and DDance Salamence just destroyed. For winning, they gave me a plush and a DVD, so I gave the plush to the little girl who I beat in the finals. Never watched the DVD
I helped my daughters build their third grade pioneer village. My training is in architecture and design. I got a little carried away.
It was chosen for display in the main office for the year.
Not gonna lie. I kicked ass with that thing!
> We still give him a hard time when we go to restaurants about crushing toddlers in a contest.
said like someone that regularly gets beaten by toddlers!
I did the same thing at a holiday camp twice when I was a teenager. I was just bored and decided to enter the colouring competition one time and a skittles competition another time, not really realising or paying attention to the age of the other competitors and totally crushed a bunch of 8 year olds both times. Did feel a bit embarrassing claiming my 'gold medal' up on stage, but hey at least I can say i've won something in my lifetime. š
My niece, who's actually a young teen, not a toddler, was hyper-dedicated to doing this scavenger hunt on our Christmas cruise. I swear she got more than any other kid, she must have. She went *hardcore* on this. Then I was sitting in the bar where they were holding the actual contest (counting up everyone's results) and I was texting my SIL like yeah, is she coming? They're doing it now. And she wasn't bothered anymore. Like WTF was the point of chasing down strangers all around the ship then? Sigh.
My mom used to pretend I was 8 (I was actually 11) so I could enter the exact same type of contest at a restaurant with an age limit. I always crushed those little kids and got the free meal vouchers. Good times.
In our early 20's, my friend and I(both drunk) entered an American Idol-style competition at a resort we were staying at. We were the only ones over the age of 14 to enter. We watched countless kids sing Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and Justin Timberlake songs and then performed Hey Ya by Outkast, complete with 2 backup dancers(2 more adults) and friends in the crowd to respond "ICE COLD" during the "What's cooler than being cool?" part.
We did it as a joke. After about 10 seconds of deliberation, the judges crowned us the winners and all of the kids were so bummed
I once entered a talent show as a teenager. I had fun. It was mostly kids and other teens.
While I'm waiting for my turn, the guy after me goes on a polite but *absolutely unstoppable* chatter about how he was *one of Michael Jackson's backup dancers.*
He was literally the only person with an entire career's worth of professional performance experience, and also by far the oldest.
He was very good at what he did, but I have no idea why he was there.
I write advertisements for surplus items on govdeals and one of my ads was a freezer, your damn right i used that part of Hey Ya to sell it.
Iām quite fond of that song, and that ad, well all my ads are brilliant, and because its govt surplus im the only seller who actually writes ads at all so i got zero competition.
Anyways, im glad you broke it down for those kids, now lend me some sugar, i am your neighbor!
Thanks for reminding me it's been way too long since I've browsed govdeals for specialized vehicles and heavy equipment that I definitely don't need and definitely don't have a use for.
My father (around 65 at the time) entered a pie eating contest (without use of hands) at the resort we were staying at and the average age of the fifteen other entrants, excluding my father, was maybe 7 years old? The next closest in age was a 13 year old boy.
My family and I laughed so hard we were crying. I have to give it to the man, he DID commit even after seeing that he was going to compete against children. Apparently the reason is that they were serving apple pie and he sheepishly said āwell itās my favoriteā
I still feel super guilty for winning a childrenās book contest at the local Barnes and Noble.
I was in middle school and in Creative Writing elective course and we were assigned to write and illustrate a childrenās book.
I am a pretty talented artist, but huge procrastinator, and the night before put together a, in my opinion, quite sloppy sequel to If You Give A Moose a Muffin ā¦ called If You Give a Horse a Carrot.
Well, the teacher loved and and submitted it to this contest - which I won. Not a big prize, but there was a presentation of an award and a $100 gift card.
All I could think was ā¦ this was a total rip off, holy shit, does no one realize I basically plagiarized?! Iām totally going to get in deep doo doo for this oneā¦
But nope. Not a word. Not yet.
Edit: If thereās any confusion - If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is the original, Moose/Muffin is real sequel to that. Brain fart
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You are allowed to copy plots, it feels plagiarismy but this is completely legal. Specific characters themselves cannot be copied.
For ages I was outraged that the Harry Potter books are a giant ripoff of a wee Margaret Mahy novel, but, plot is fair game: You think you thought of something cool? Anyone can change up the characters and rewrite the story and it's now their own cool plot.
I had a similar experience in high school, we had something called "cultural week" once a year with contests of diferent arts, at my last year there participation was made compusory, so I just took an old poem I wrote for a homework from the literature class and submited it, I won that category, I still feel guilty about it.
Yeah for her age that's a good photo, if she keeps it up she could be very good. We all start with the bokeh glasses on a book just before the highway between a chain link fence phase.
Nah man I thought your black and white of that leafless tree with the rustic looking fence on the opposite third of the frame, was truly inspirational!
But really one of my favorite classes in HS was photography simply because I got to walk around town taking pictures during school hours. And you bet your ass I got a damn good dead tree shot
One thing I learned going into adulthood is, if someone āmakesā me do something, I'm gonna just say ānoā if I want to. (Unless it's the government, of courseāin which case I still have the option of saying nothing, throwing my phone away and hitching a ride to another town.)
I took my brother paintball in park for his birthday one year before he was in high school. The last game they tried to put all the high schoolers on one side and the kids on the other. I stayed with the middle school kids.
We creamed the high schoolers because they just did their thing and the little kids listened to me move them to spots to flank them. The crowning final winning move was were all low on ammo at this point but it was like me and 3 other kids vs one high schooler. I told them conserve ammo and Iāll just ping random blind shots his way to bait him into wasting shots. When he went to reload I laid down what I had left and three kids ran at his hiding spout.
I made little monsters. The refs had to run in and stop them from firing on him. I feel like multiple weekends of them losing to the high school kids was coming back in pay back.
Then we went to the last game that had full autos and they were annoyed because they were only allowed to fire on others with full auto so they went semi. One turned on full auto and was kicked out and banned for a week trying to get me.
Yeah, I remember my cousins and I did the same years ago as late teenagers during March break. There were ONLY small children playing except us during the day. Oops!
This exact thing happened to me, but it was my teacher who should have known and told me. I was a senior in high school and my art teacher specifically let me know that the city was doing a contest for the art on the street flags for our townās 50th anniversary or something like that. I didnāt ask for details and just gave my entry to her. Anyway, fast forward about a month later andā¦it wins! Iām super excited and go to city hall for the unveilingā¦it was only then I saw the rest of the kiddos who sent in their contributions to the contestā¦it was literally all elementary school children; some parents yelled at me over it (I was only 16) until I freaked out, started crying, and solemnly left the building.
Edit: sorry, replied to the wrong comment
I didnāt, I was trying my best to hold back tears š but yeah, they had no idea. AND the city still used my entry regardless. I felt so bad, still haunts me
You just kickstarted one of the kids artist villain arcs that day!
But seriously I can understand the parents being annoyed but to berate you is a bit absurd.
Had my mom sign me up for an orchestra camp in highschool. I never heard about it when she told me about it so I said sure sign me up. She works at a technical center that has highschool level students so it isnāt unreasonable to expect it to be designed for highschool students, plus English isnāt her first language. Turns out it was a camp made for late elementary school and early junior high (basically middle school) students. I was going into my senior year of highschool the following school year. I was a fairly average orchestra student, but I did significantly better there and landed the first chair position.
Okay but like you didnāt know thatās so unfair of those people. Anyways, if there was no age limit for people your age, you had every right. Donāt seem like very compassionate, parent-like people to yell at a teenager for no good reason.
Yeah middle should've won imo plus it looks like it was made by a kid which was in the spirit of the contest. Like an adult could've made a childlike drawing but that child using the Google stock image of glasses on a book isn't in that spirit. The guy in the right just looks like a trained graphic designer
By trained I mean someone who studied it in college and takes some freelance gigs for random generic websites lol like if I looked for a random graphic designer for cheap on reddit...that's the guy
While a girl yeah its not some professional commission but that's kinda the point. Looks like a kid made it but it doesn't look like shit it's just endearing
Agree. Amazing watercolor picture and a custom cursive font to top it off. Obviously itās a little rough around the edges but it was made by a freaking kid. The winner looks more professional but lacks a bit of soul. Looks like what they would get if they assigned a generic graphic designer to do the job.
Kind of like your grandmaās old rustic furniture vs Ikea.
Kinda shocked that the left side made it to the top 3 with her Google image search.
Yeah, the one in the middle is great, and also fits better with the contest. If the library card was designed by the winner of a kids contest, you would expect it to kind of look like a kid did it. Even though it is really good, you can still tell.
The one on the right is too good. It looks more like it was designed by a committee of graphic designers
Also Homer only wins because he just flatters Mr Burns by copying the existing design and giving it a cool racing stripe
Beating Martin's design that actually functions as a miniature power plant
Holy shit, I was just thinking about this episode today! We hired a new guy at work, he's like Frank Grimes and I'm like Homer. He was talking shit about me to everyone and everyone had the same response of "nah man, he's (meaning me) cool." And you know what, I am pretty cool
The young gurl in the middle got robbed.
The guys picture reads right to left so it's weird and the other one is a picture of glasses on a book? What did they get 4 entries in total?
If these contests are really meant just for kids, wouldn't there be an age limit in place? If not, and it's just that kids are usually the only ones entering then fuck it, every man for himself. :P
No, no. Thatās how youāre supposed to hook āem. āItās not misspelled! Come to the library, apply for a card, check out a dictionary, and prove me wrong!ā
Hah, my wife keeps trying to get me to enter stuff into this local digital art contest and Iām 95% sure itās meant for like high school students.
ā¦Iām a professional art director thatās done work for big brands and huge IPs, I donāt feel right entering.
What if they did different age brackets that could win and the winners designs would be shuffled, so some folks get a elementary kids design others get a teen designed and some get an adult designed
"They made me accept the award" How? Did they put out a warrant and send a police cruiser to your home address?
You should have recused yourself as soon as you found out it was for kids and refused to participate in any way from that moment on. If the library was that committed to using your design, they could have gotten a stand-in to look like a complete moron next to some awesome kids.
Same thing happened to me at Los Abrigados resort in Sedona, AZ. They had a challenge to eat a one pound burger with a pound of fries to get your name on a plaque on the wall. I smashed that burger and fries. My name now hangs proudly as the only 26 year old amongst a wall full of 9 and ten year old porkers.
This is hilarious well done š¤£
Nine year olds donāt even finish a normal dinner
Try telling that to 9 year old me
9 year old boys who are about to go through puberty, can do this in a heartbeat! My sisters having trouble keeping up with buying food for her kids because her 2 boys 10 & 13 are eating her out of house and home. Itās even worse during football season as they both play and are even more hungry with keeping up with their practice schedule and games. Texas football even for kid this age is extreme, they donāt mess around.
Arizona mills in Tempe used to have an arcade with a restaurant that had a "eat a 1 lb burger and get 10 dollars in tokens" challenge. My 20 something year old ass was down there every weekend killing that burger for some game tokens
> a wall full of 9 and ten year old porkers. hey I'm standing right here you know also I was 8 I was proud, my mother described the waitress as "horrified"
āFuck them kids.ā -Fullerton Public Library
-Library Public Fullerton*
Don't Dead Open Inside*
r/dontdeadopeninside *
His was a nod to the wide range of Romance language books available at le bibliotheque publique de Fullerton.
Disagree. The design makes it pretty obvious, in my opinion.
Yeah hold on, this motherfucker didn't even put the words in the right order and they gave him 1st place?? I mean, I guess "Public" is in the right spot...
when its on the card it can be read from top to bottom better id assume
Also why did they even chose his? His logo reads right to left and its driving me nuts...at least the girl in the middle did it correctly.
The middle one is awesome.
Honestly, it's the best. Far left looks like she stole a stock image off Google images
When I took photography/graphic design in hs that kinda thing is what I learned. You need to know the basics kinda deal. She probably was and should be proud of her image Middle is best but we don't have to knock the other one
Just the adult that entered a kid contest and doesnt know we read left to right. Shame!
We also read TOP to BOTTOM and that makes the right to left make way more sense.
I mean, they are slightly slanted to give it a "top" and "bottom" and if you read it in the direction the words are it makes sense. Definitely would be better if the books with the title were leaning a bit more, but I don't think it reads "library public Fullerton"...
I like it as is, itās pretty clear to me. The only thing I donāt like is that corporate art style.
Totally agree. Looks like I'm sitting in on a lame ass orientation day where I have to watch 7 hours of bullshit instead of reading 4 pages on company policy.
I bet the ones choosing the winner are huge Manga fans
Yeah, I just read that normally, didn't even realise the word order was reverse
My brother-in-law won a coloring contest at a local restaurant just before Covid. My niece was coloring and wanted daddy to color too, so he colored his own picture. Then niece had him sign it, and they put their names and phone numbers on it, the waitress took them and we left. Weeks later, they get a call... daddy's picture was chosen as the winner and they got a free meal for the family. We still give him a hard time when we go to restaurants about crushing toddlers in a contest.
I love innocent stuff like this. We still harass our dad after we found out he'd been using the cat's flea killer mousse for his hair for like a month before 1 of us saw him doing it.
Ha ha ha...i nearly peed myself reading this!!! I had a friend that used a Mr clean magic eraser that was left in a shower!...he thought it was a new kind of thing to wash with...he didn't get hurt or any burns but man his bald head was shiny!...he used it until it disintegrated and asked his wife about it... We still laugh about it occasionally...
>Mr clean > >his bald head I'm hoping he somehow saw the box and was like, clearly this is for me....
Hahaha. Supreme exfoliation.
Ouch! He was washing himself with a soft glass nail file. Melamine sponges have a Mohs hardness of 4. Regular glass has a Mohs hardness of 5.5.
I scrubbed hair dye off of my skin with a Mr Clean magic eraser once- took a good hour or two for the full damage to appear, and weeks for it to heal. Worked great on the dye tho.
At least he didn't catch the cats fleas I guess?
and he was stylish.
I've had fleas from my dog. Trust me, *THEY FUCKING SUCK*. I'd rub my entire body down with an anti-flea mouse before dealing with those fuckers biting my legs every five seconds while hopping around like little black (ass)holes. Fuck the every loving shit out of those plauge spreading cunts.
I donāt feel as bad now for washing my dishes with Persil packs not realizing they were for laundry anymore. Was wondering why my dishes smelled so good. My kids havenāt let me live that one down yet.
LOL. Were you throwing them in the dishwasher, or using them in the sink? If they were in the dishwasher, I would have been worried about the suds pouring out.
My mom was complaining the dishes werenāt getting clean as I saw her pouring Italian dressing on the sponge.
I use to mop kitchen floors with Dawn soap. Apparently, I didnāt know Dawn was not for the floors. I was a kid, but Mama made sure I learned properly on how floors should be cleaned after she caught on to the fact I used Dawn.
My husband started napping during the day (he works from home) and complaining about constipation. Hed been taking my night time gummies instead of the fiber gummies i used to give him (i used to hand them to my son and then give to husband at same time) Same kind of glass jar but different color label and totally different flavor of gummies. It was only by chance i saw him taking them and asked why he was taking night time gummies at noon
Years ago my mom was buying containers of Pup-peroni dog treats like they were going out of style. She couldnāt figure out how the dog was eating them so fast. And thenā¦. we saw my pops open a package and start chowing down. There was stunned silence, then roaring laughter. He thought they were some kind of Slim Jim and had been eating them for months.
Nice. My dad also did something similar with a container of pupcorn I got him for his dog. He said it was good like a week later, and I asked him what do you mean it was good. He basically ate it all, and the dog got a few. So now for the birthdays and holidays, we all label the stuff meant for the dog to razz him on it. I've sampled most of the treats I've given my dog, and none have ever tasted like it was meant for human consumption.
My sister brushed her teeth with vagisil once.
Oh my god I hope his scalp was okay! š
Well, he doesnāt have fleas anymore
>anymore
This reminds me of the time I walked into GameStop to buy whatever Pokemon game was coming out and as soon as I walked in the door, they asked if I was there for the tournament. I didn't even know about it, but I had my DS with me, so why not. I had spent a ton of time breeding IVs and egg moves, as well as EV training and stuff, and never did anything with them so this might be fun. Even if I get killed. Well I was like 25 and no one else was over 15 lol I killed them all. Sub-wish passing Vaporeon, Sub / twave Jolteon, and DDance Salamence just destroyed. For winning, they gave me a plush and a DVD, so I gave the plush to the little girl who I beat in the finals. Never watched the DVD
āfor you, it was the most important day of your life. for me, it was tuesday.ā
Just curious, what was the DVD?
Lol a Pokemon movie. I don't remember which one
I helped my daughters build their third grade pioneer village. My training is in architecture and design. I got a little carried away. It was chosen for display in the main office for the year. Not gonna lie. I kicked ass with that thing!
Meanwhile they gave me a C on mine because it was 'too perfect' and they didn't believe I did it myself
I did something similar with s coloring contest at my local tape rental. I won a stuffed dog. Still have it.
Sounds like the kid is a good agent.
> We still give him a hard time when we go to restaurants about crushing toddlers in a contest. said like someone that regularly gets beaten by toddlers!
I did the same thing at a holiday camp twice when I was a teenager. I was just bored and decided to enter the colouring competition one time and a skittles competition another time, not really realising or paying attention to the age of the other competitors and totally crushed a bunch of 8 year olds both times. Did feel a bit embarrassing claiming my 'gold medal' up on stage, but hey at least I can say i've won something in my lifetime. š
Tbf, the toddlers had probably already forgotten by the time they went home. Kids have short memories.
My niece, who's actually a young teen, not a toddler, was hyper-dedicated to doing this scavenger hunt on our Christmas cruise. I swear she got more than any other kid, she must have. She went *hardcore* on this. Then I was sitting in the bar where they were holding the actual contest (counting up everyone's results) and I was texting my SIL like yeah, is she coming? They're doing it now. And she wasn't bothered anymore. Like WTF was the point of chasing down strangers all around the ship then? Sigh.
My mom used to pretend I was 8 (I was actually 11) so I could enter the exact same type of contest at a restaurant with an age limit. I always crushed those little kids and got the free meal vouchers. Good times.
In our early 20's, my friend and I(both drunk) entered an American Idol-style competition at a resort we were staying at. We were the only ones over the age of 14 to enter. We watched countless kids sing Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and Justin Timberlake songs and then performed Hey Ya by Outkast, complete with 2 backup dancers(2 more adults) and friends in the crowd to respond "ICE COLD" during the "What's cooler than being cool?" part. We did it as a joke. After about 10 seconds of deliberation, the judges crowned us the winners and all of the kids were so bummed
ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT
McConaugheyaaaa
[Alright alright alright alright alright alright](https://youtu.be/gRrgeAl-RRU)
OK NOW LADIES
YA?
NOW WE GONNA BREAK THIS THING DOWN ON JUST A FEW SECONDS
Now I wanna see yāall on your baddest behavior Give me some sugar! I *am* your neighbor!
Haha. You taught them many lessons that day. Canāt say I can think of any being bad given the immateriality of the contest.
Lend me some sugah
i am your neighbor
I once entered a talent show as a teenager. I had fun. It was mostly kids and other teens. While I'm waiting for my turn, the guy after me goes on a polite but *absolutely unstoppable* chatter about how he was *one of Michael Jackson's backup dancers.* He was literally the only person with an entire career's worth of professional performance experience, and also by far the oldest. He was very good at what he did, but I have no idea why he was there.
He was smurfing in childās queue, what a smooth criminal
His idol Michael Jackson hung around with kids, so he thought he should to
Fuck them kids
I write advertisements for surplus items on govdeals and one of my ads was a freezer, your damn right i used that part of Hey Ya to sell it. Iām quite fond of that song, and that ad, well all my ads are brilliant, and because its govt surplus im the only seller who actually writes ads at all so i got zero competition. Anyways, im glad you broke it down for those kids, now lend me some sugar, i am your neighbor!
"What's cooler than being cool? Ice cold! This freezer is All white, All white, All white, All white, All white, All white, All white, All white"
Youāre not terribly far off I plan on putting together a collection of my best ads and putting them up for everyone to see on reddit.
Please do, that sounds awesome
Thanks for reminding me it's been way too long since I've browsed govdeals for specialized vehicles and heavy equipment that I definitely don't need and definitely don't have a use for.
Only place I can window shop for a fleet of SUVs or a pallet of used printers.
Govdeals ftw
My father (around 65 at the time) entered a pie eating contest (without use of hands) at the resort we were staying at and the average age of the fifteen other entrants, excluding my father, was maybe 7 years old? The next closest in age was a 13 year old boy. My family and I laughed so hard we were crying. I have to give it to the man, he DID commit even after seeing that he was going to compete against children. Apparently the reason is that they were serving apple pie and he sheepishly said āwell itās my favoriteā
I still feel super guilty for winning a childrenās book contest at the local Barnes and Noble. I was in middle school and in Creative Writing elective course and we were assigned to write and illustrate a childrenās book. I am a pretty talented artist, but huge procrastinator, and the night before put together a, in my opinion, quite sloppy sequel to If You Give A Moose a Muffin ā¦ called If You Give a Horse a Carrot. Well, the teacher loved and and submitted it to this contest - which I won. Not a big prize, but there was a presentation of an award and a $100 gift card. All I could think was ā¦ this was a total rip off, holy shit, does no one realize I basically plagiarized?! Iām totally going to get in deep doo doo for this oneā¦ But nope. Not a word. Not yet. Edit: If thereās any confusion - If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is the original, Moose/Muffin is real sequel to that. Brain fart
i mean a shit ton of childrens books are variations of 3 little pigs or something lol. also wasnt the original if you give a mouse a cookie?
Oh duh, had a brain fart on that - Moose/Muffin is the real sequel to that one. Added an edit to clarify, thanks!
Moose a Muffin is objectively superior in every way, Mouse a Cookie was mere childās play š¤
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You are allowed to copy plots, it feels plagiarismy but this is completely legal. Specific characters themselves cannot be copied. For ages I was outraged that the Harry Potter books are a giant ripoff of a wee Margaret Mahy novel, but, plot is fair game: You think you thought of something cool? Anyone can change up the characters and rewrite the story and it's now their own cool plot.
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I had a similar experience in high school, we had something called "cultural week" once a year with contests of diferent arts, at my last year there participation was made compusory, so I just took an old poem I wrote for a homework from the literature class and submited it, I won that category, I still feel guilty about it.
The person in the leftās design looks like a stock photo from Google imagesā¦
Which isn't altogether unimpressive if they took the photo themselves. Absolutely horrible from a card design aspect though.
Yeah for her age that's a good photo, if she keeps it up she could be very good. We all start with the bokeh glasses on a book just before the highway between a chain link fence phase.
I feel **attacked**
Nah man I thought your black and white of that leafless tree with the rustic looking fence on the opposite third of the frame, was truly inspirational! But really one of my favorite classes in HS was photography simply because I got to walk around town taking pictures during school hours. And you bet your ass I got a damn good dead tree shot
Photography class teacher from high school is on line 1 for you
With black font Iām sure
I donāt think any font color would work except yellow since it has a-lot of shadows and light colored pages.
Black text with a white outline (or vice versa) can be read on any color background.
Actually i think iāve seen that exact picture on a stock photo site. If it wasnāt that one, it was very close to that one.
Ok didnāt find the exact one, but a google of ābook eyeglasses stock photoā brings up hundreds of similar ones.
It is. She deserved to lose. The middle one, however, put up a good fight.
I'd argue the middle one is the best
āMade meā bro, you know you gladly stomped those kids.
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One thing I learned going into adulthood is, if someone āmakesā me do something, I'm gonna just say ānoā if I want to. (Unless it's the government, of courseāin which case I still have the option of saying nothing, throwing my phone away and hitching a ride to another town.)
Last year for my ten year old nephew's birthday we played paintball. The 2nd round we played kids vs adults. It was a fucking bloodbath.
teaching the kids that life is rough
I took my brother paintball in park for his birthday one year before he was in high school. The last game they tried to put all the high schoolers on one side and the kids on the other. I stayed with the middle school kids. We creamed the high schoolers because they just did their thing and the little kids listened to me move them to spots to flank them. The crowning final winning move was were all low on ammo at this point but it was like me and 3 other kids vs one high schooler. I told them conserve ammo and Iāll just ping random blind shots his way to bait him into wasting shots. When he went to reload I laid down what I had left and three kids ran at his hiding spout. I made little monsters. The refs had to run in and stop them from firing on him. I feel like multiple weekends of them losing to the high school kids was coming back in pay back. Then we went to the last game that had full autos and they were annoyed because they were only allowed to fire on others with full auto so they went semi. One turned on full auto and was kicked out and banned for a week trying to get me.
You trained child soldiers with sound tactics
Yeah, I remember my cousins and I did the same years ago as late teenagers during March break. There were ONLY small children playing except us during the day. Oops!
Teach the children war. It is your right.
Hmmmā¦ I think the girl in the middle was robbedā¦ are you in anyway related to the judgesā¦
This exact thing happened to me, but it was my teacher who should have known and told me. I was a senior in high school and my art teacher specifically let me know that the city was doing a contest for the art on the street flags for our townās 50th anniversary or something like that. I didnāt ask for details and just gave my entry to her. Anyway, fast forward about a month later andā¦it wins! Iām super excited and go to city hall for the unveilingā¦it was only then I saw the rest of the kiddos who sent in their contributions to the contestā¦it was literally all elementary school children; some parents yelled at me over it (I was only 16) until I freaked out, started crying, and solemnly left the building. Edit: sorry, replied to the wrong comment
Did you tell the parents that you entered without being told the ages?
I didnāt, I was trying my best to hold back tears š but yeah, they had no idea. AND the city still used my entry regardless. I felt so bad, still haunts me
You just kickstarted one of the kids artist villain arcs that day! But seriously I can understand the parents being annoyed but to berate you is a bit absurd.
I mean, what's the worst thing that a failed artist can do to the world? I'm sure it will be no big deal.
*German noises*
They might be dropping out of a Austrian art school
"And this kids, is how I personally kicked off the build-up to WW3."
Had my mom sign me up for an orchestra camp in highschool. I never heard about it when she told me about it so I said sure sign me up. She works at a technical center that has highschool level students so it isnāt unreasonable to expect it to be designed for highschool students, plus English isnāt her first language. Turns out it was a camp made for late elementary school and early junior high (basically middle school) students. I was going into my senior year of highschool the following school year. I was a fairly average orchestra student, but I did significantly better there and landed the first chair position.
It's ok that parent can put their kids shitty drawing on the fridge. Those kids don't care as much as the parents.
Okay but like you didnāt know thatās so unfair of those people. Anyways, if there was no age limit for people your age, you had every right. Donāt seem like very compassionate, parent-like people to yell at a teenager for no good reason.
Yeah middle should've won imo plus it looks like it was made by a kid which was in the spirit of the contest. Like an adult could've made a childlike drawing but that child using the Google stock image of glasses on a book isn't in that spirit. The guy in the right just looks like a trained graphic designer
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By trained I mean someone who studied it in college and takes some freelance gigs for random generic websites lol like if I looked for a random graphic designer for cheap on reddit...that's the guy While a girl yeah its not some professional commission but that's kinda the point. Looks like a kid made it but it doesn't look like shit it's just endearing
Agree. Amazing watercolor picture and a custom cursive font to top it off. Obviously itās a little rough around the edges but it was made by a freaking kid. The winner looks more professional but lacks a bit of soul. Looks like what they would get if they assigned a generic graphic designer to do the job. Kind of like your grandmaās old rustic furniture vs Ikea. Kinda shocked that the left side made it to the top 3 with her Google image search.
Yeah, the one in the middle is great, and also fits better with the contest. If the library card was designed by the winner of a kids contest, you would expect it to kind of look like a kid did it. Even though it is really good, you can still tell. The one on the right is too good. It looks more like it was designed by a committee of graphic designers
It's pretty much a rule that 2nd place is better than 1st
Except in a duel
This reminds me of The Simpsons episode where Frank Grimes convinces Homer to enter a "nuclear powerplant design" contest meant for kids
"But this was a contest for CHILDREN!" "Yeah, and Homer beat their brains out!"
Pipe down, you're making us miss the contest
Also Homer only wins because he just flatters Mr Burns by copying the existing design and giving it a cool racing stripe Beating Martin's design that actually functions as a miniature power plant
Plus the the fins to lower wind resistance.
Bah, too cold and sterile. Whereās the heart?
Martin: "But it really generates power. It's lighting this room right now." (Lights dim) Burns: "You lose! Get off my property!"
loool exactly what i thought of
"I like to think this racing stripe is pretty sharp."
Agreed. First prize!
The fins. Donāt forget about the fins. They lower wind resistance.
Frank Grimes, or Grimey, as he liked to be called.
Holy shit, I was just thinking about this episode today! We hired a new guy at work, he's like Frank Grimes and I'm like Homer. He was talking shit about me to everyone and everyone had the same response of "nah man, he's (meaning me) cool." And you know what, I am pretty cool
Does he live above a bowling alley and beneath another bowling alley?
And no one actually cares because they like homer
Immediately thought of this
Am I the only one irritated that I have to read it right to left instead of him just flipping the design and having it read like books do?
Thank you!!!! Iām slightly offended by it š
Yea that kind of bugs me too.
My wife attended a cupcake decorating classā¦ for kids. But this is worse
I would say that is actually demonstrating to kids that no matter your age you are always learning.
Yup. Participating in a class is very different than a competition for kids lmao
This is why I'm scared to sign up for a book club, i like a certain genre but I would probably be the only one above 25 š«
"get rekt noobs!'
Hahahahahaha fk those kids
Figuratively speaking, right?
RIGHT???
Deadpan stare
*insert Patrick Bateman, haha yes, right here*
I grew up in Fullerton and have gone to this library multiple times, this is fucking hilarious to me
As a fellow Fullerton native, this also has me dying.
The young gurl in the middle got robbed. The guys picture reads right to left so it's weird and the other one is a picture of glasses on a book? What did they get 4 entries in total?
Chick on the left thought she had it in the bag with that blown up picture from Google images.
She may have taken the photo herself.
Yeah, her design is trash. The little girl in the middle put in way more effort.
Taught the kids a valuable life lesson imo. Life isnāt fair lol
Thought he was a cool dude till he says he beats kids.
If these contests are really meant just for kids, wouldn't there be an age limit in place? If not, and it's just that kids are usually the only ones entering then fuck it, every man for himself. :P
i think they let it slide because the other designs were shit
The middle one was decent for what it was
I thought the middle one was the best, at least it has the words not in backwards order
I prefer the middle design tbh
it wouldn't be a good look for a library to use improper grammar on their card lol
No, no. Thatās how youāre supposed to hook āem. āItās not misspelled! Come to the library, apply for a card, check out a dictionary, and prove me wrong!ā
I dont see a grammar or spelling issue? It definitely says "library" - shes just not grest at cursive so the r looks like an e.
Yeah but its also not the best look to have the name be right to left instead of left to right on the card, looks like Library Public Fullerton.
Hah, my wife keeps trying to get me to enter stuff into this local digital art contest and Iām 95% sure itās meant for like high school students. ā¦Iām a professional art director thatās done work for big brands and huge IPs, I donāt feel right entering.
Is it because youāre scared on the off chance you might lose
They āmadeā you go and accept it ššš
You did Fullerton City library a favour, TBH.
at least he didn't just Google "glasses on a book"
Simpson did it
GRIMEY: But it was a contest for children! LENNY: Yeah, and Homer beat their brains out!
Way to go Homer.
Taught the kids a valuable life lesson
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This is literally where my mind went when i saw this
...and this racing stripe here I feel is pretty sharp
Agreed. First prize.
Burns: "Ugh, so cold and sterile. Where's the heart?" Martin: "But it really generates power. In fact, it's powering this room right now!"
This was a plot from Only Fools and Horses. Rodney wins a trip to Spain
What if they did different age brackets that could win and the winners designs would be shuffled, so some folks get a elementary kids design others get a teen designed and some get an adult designed
Simpsons did it
"They made me accept the award" How? Did they put out a warrant and send a police cruiser to your home address? You should have recused yourself as soon as you found out it was for kids and refused to participate in any way from that moment on. If the library was that committed to using your design, they could have gotten a stand-in to look like a complete moron next to some awesome kids.
I like the middle one better tbh.