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Brad Dickson

Editor, Writer, and Content Producer with a mixed upbringing in the grand ol' Pacific Northwest and New Zealand—of all places. Managing Editor of Cheezburger and long-time contributor to Fail Blog. After studying internet culture and memes while distracted from university lectures, I joined Cheezburger, first running Geek Universe and then Memebase before finally setting on Fail Blog. Other than a keen interest in internet culture I have an interest in and approximate knowledge of many things but have a particular love for nature and the outdoors… which is great for getting outside touching grass after spending most of the week online. I have a near-obsessive appreciation of progressive rock and the melodic and progressive genres of House and Techno, and I produce music when I'm not writing about the internet. My favorite author is, and remains, JRR Tolkien—unoriginally and unapologetically.
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Employee tries to quit after working 80 hours for 3 months straight, boss hits them with "no": 'My salary has actually declined since over the past 5 years'

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Scapegoated IT admin gets blamed when client's employee retires and accidentally deletes their entire database: 'Welp, I'm retired now! Guess I'll delete everything'

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17-year-old wonders if she's wrong for not letting her 14-year-old “horse girl” sister ride in her car since she refuses to ever take off her dirty cowboy boots: ‘I woke up at 6 am to catch the bus for my first 2 years of high school'

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Parents and 20-year-old brother insist that 18-year-old university student give $2700 of her own savings for her school to her brother to pay for his rent debt: ‘He owes $2,700 in rent and my mom expects me to cover it’

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Neighbor takes resident's parking spot and tells her to park somewhere else instead, he gets towed: 'He came banging on my door yelling about how I am heartless for not just parking somewhere else'

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HOA demands homeowner fix brown patch in his lawn, he obliges by planting heaps of mint which multiplies throughout the neighborhood: 'Spring comes and mint is EVERYWHERE - around mailboxes, along walking paths, even in their fancy entrance landscaping'

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Management tries to set up gas station worker by accusing him of stealing $0.03 slushie, he exposes all of their secrets and gets them fired instead: 'I got 20 people fired because they tried to fire me'

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Mother objects to ex-husband's new wife homeschooling her 9-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter, along with the new wife's own 11, 10, 8, and 6-year-old children: ‘Nicole said it is unfair for her children to see mine go to school while hers do not’

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Brother and sister-in-law name their baby an identical "matching" name to couple's already-born baby, forcing them to change their baby's name: 'We'd pretend to keep the original name until there was zero risk of SIL changing my nephew's name'

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Homeowner asks elderly neighbors to stop parking in his driveway, they refuse and tell him he's being "too rigid": '[They] suddenly started to use my driveway, first for a couple of hours and by now they are just straight up occupying it'