In a Zoom Job Interview, the Recruiter Asked Me to ‘Show Her Around the Room

Odds are, the vast majority of us would be a bit confused by this sort of request from a recruiter. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 1 year ago

Bosses’ Delusional Notes

Since there’s only so much an employee can take, workers are exposing the delusional notes and messages bosses had the audacity to display at work. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 1 year ago

Teacher was coerced to give lazy student an “A” so she gave every student an “A”

It’s really tough being a teacher, even without someone breathing down your neck. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 1 year ago

Indonesia Offering Special Visa to Remote Workers, 5 Years Tax-Free

Grab sunscreen and a margarita as we’re off to explore the many beaches and perpetual holiday mood in Bali, whilst also powering our laptops with multiple battery banks as we start the workday. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 1 year ago

Guy Upscales a 100-Year-Old Film to 4k and 60FPS, Looks Like Smartphone Footage

Film has come a long way and though we would recognize early works as video, we wouldn't call them movies nowadays as they are no longer than 15 seconds and lack any sort of plot, among other things. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 1 year ago

Unintentionally Inappropriate Domain Names

In theory, choosing a domain name is a simple task. It has to be short, clever, memorable, easily spelled and communicate your business message. Let's say you've done an awesome job and now you are ready to register it. Wait! Look again. Are you sure there are no dirty words hidi … | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 2 years ago

Their Ex-Coworker Was a Genius Hacker Who Took Laziness to the Next Level

Ever met someone too smart for their own good? But not in a narcissistic ironic way? Didn't think so. This engineer, however, is so clever, he even thought of a couple of ways to enjoy laziness in his office, a privilege people usually earn through hard work. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 2 years ago

I Made Art Using Code That Finds Outliers in Photos

Photographers often average a series of nearly-identical images together to remove outliers and noise from photos. I made art using a program that does the opposite. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 2 years ago

Guy Got an Interview with the Company He Had Just Been Fired From

The recruiter accidentally scheduled a meeting for this guy with a company that he already worked for (and got fired from). The best part is that he also live-tweeted the entire thing. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 2 years ago

Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

It’s that wonderful time of the year again, dear Pandas! It’s a brand new season and the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards have announced their finalists! | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 2 years ago

What If Popular Websites Were Made in the ’90s?

Most of us think about the '90s with nostalgia and happy memories: lots of colors, awkward but fun technology that would make way too much noise. Dial-up internet.. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 2 years ago

Y.O. Skips Online Classes for 3 Weeks Using a Zoom 'Hack'

Never underestimate the power of a kid. They might end up finding a Zoom exploit and milking it to get out of school all the while driving you other people mad as you try figuring out why Zoom doesn't work. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 3 years ago

Couple Plant 2M Trees in 20 Years to Restore Destroyed Forest (2020)

Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado and his wife Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado decided to show what a small group of passionate, dedicated people can do by turning deforestation on its head, and begin the process of reforestation. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 3 years ago

Artist with Alzheimer's Drew Self Portraits for 5 Years (2014)

In 1995, U.K.-based artist William Utermohlen was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. This is a difficult diagnosis and disease for anyone, but before his death in 2007, Utermohlen created a heart-wrenching final series of self-portraits over a roughly 5-year period documenting t … | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 3 years ago

Guy builds bird feeder that accepts bottle caps for food. Magpies love it.

Hans Forsberg works with robotics on industrial applications for artificial intelligence and had an idea on how he could put his knowledge and the family of wild birds living in his backyard to good use. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 3 years ago

Japanese Experiment That Took Half a Century Ended in Tree ‘Crop Circles’

Crop circles are a staple of the conspiracy theory crowd, with the artistic creations in cereal fields often attributed to UFO landings, or intricate forms of Alien communication. So imagine the excitement some must've felt when photos of incredible geometric designs emerged in a … | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 3 years ago

Times Male Authors Showed They Barely Know Anything About Women

Women just want to be written as human. That's it. Write them as human, with complex feelings, not as body parts that happen to be put together into a feminine form. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 3 years ago

Dolphins Have Lost Their Minds with Excitement at the Sight of a Sloth

With their temporary closing, the sleepy sloth named Chico was treated to an eye-opening adventure through the Gulf of Mexico exhibits. Turns out, the dolphins were so happy to meet him, they completely lost it at the sight of a sloth. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 3 years ago

Helsinki Airport dogs sniff out coronavirus and it’s faster than lab testing

Are adorable, fluffy doggies going to be the ones to help save humanity from the global pandemic? There's a big possibility that they are. I mean, they've been doing it for quite a while already, but in more of an emotional sense. But apparently, dogs are now professionally train … | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 3 years ago

People Are Testing Out Twitter's Photo Preview Functionality and It Seems Racist

People have begun noticing how Twitter crops images in a way that gives preference to people with white skin as opposed to those with black skin, leading some to call the AI behind this racist. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 3 years ago

Artist Reveals What Fonts Were Used to Design Famous Logos

The Italian graphic designer, or logo guru, as one might say, Emanuele Abrate, shows what fonts some of the most popular brands chose to represent them by replacing names in logos with logo fonts. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 3 years ago

Food Charts People Shared Online That May Change the Way You View Some Foods

Take notes, everyone—we are about to build a better snack menu no one will ever feel guilty for. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 3 years ago

I Drew These 24 Women of Different Body Types as Powerful Warriors

I wanted to depict strong women warriors who do not necessarily look like the typical warrior. With different sizes, ages, and body types, each one feels like she has a rich backstory and history. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 3 years ago

Hilarious Software Fails

Turns out, there's a whole subreddit dedicated to celebrating software acting outside its parameters and its unpredictable malfunctions. It sounds geeky, but believe me, you don't need to be a hacker to appreciate it. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 3 years ago

Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Things He Learned

Facebook got itself into a sensitive data scandal when it did shady business with Cambridge Analytica, Instagram confirmed a security issue exposing user accounts and phone numbers, but these apps are basically online security havens compared to TikTok, according to one senior so … | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 3 years ago

NASA Rejection Letter

I'm dumb, have no useful skills, am hard to get along with over long periods of time (ruined more than one road trip and multiple book clubs), and I do get motion sick in even short car rides, he told Bored Panda. I would be the worst candidate for NASA. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 3 years ago

Couple Creates Stunning Garden Pub and Everything Inside of It Is Handmade

Lockdown has forced many pub lovers out there to source other forms of entertainment. Some have decided to do bar crawls at home, while others have used Zoom calls to have a drink with their buddies. There are also those who have decided to forgo drinking at all and picked up new … | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 3 years ago

How Poland Uses Clams to Control Its Water Supply

While it seems that various technologies are completely taking over many different parts of human life, it appears that even some man-made things are better left to nature. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 3 years ago

Pics of People from 2 Perspectives Show How Media Can Manipulate Reality

Photographers Ólafur Steinar Gestsson and Philip Davali photographed the same people on the same day using a wide angle and a telephoto lens. The pics show a difference in the distance between these people and make us doubt the things we take for granted. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 3 years ago

It’s Brutal: Man Who Tested Positive for Covid-19 Shares the Innocent First Symp

Michael Bane, the 42-year-old Vice President of Client Engagement at Deighan Law, LLC, was healthy. He could do 13 pullups and run a sub-seven mile. One time, Mike even ran 6 miles of a marathon with a partially torn tendon in his foot. Mike's also the type of guy who walks aroun … | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 4 years ago

The World’s Most Beautiful Library Is in Prague, Czech Republic

The Klementinum library, a beautiful example of Baroque architecture, was first opened in 1722 as part of the Jesuit university, and houses over 20,000 books. It was voted as one of the most beautiful and majestic libraries in the world by our readers! | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 4 years ago

How to create fake traffic jam with 99 smartphones

The object of the experiment was to show how much we rely on technology despite its limitations. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 4 years ago

Preserving street art with mobile-cloud photogrammetry

My name is Valerio, and I am a San Francisco based 3D capture artist. Not familiar with what photogrammetry is? In a nutshell, it involves recording real-life spaces and elements in 3D. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 4 years ago

Why Millennials Want to Die? Some Answers

Someone on r/OutOftheLoop asked whether dark millennial humor is just a frivolous trend, or a symptom of a serious underlying issue. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 4 years ago

Some of the 50 Best Illustrations from 2019

We are often bombarded with fear-mongering and shocking headlines that make us feel that the world is falling apart. However, while it’s important to report on problems and issues, I believe there is so much good in this world that it needs to be found and promoted just as widely … | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 4 years ago

Photographer Joins Illegal Mammoth Tusk Hunt in Siberia (2017)

In Russia's isolated and remote region of Siberia, an underground economic boom is taking shape. Radio Free Europe photographer Amos Chapple, back in 2016, went inside the dark world of the Russian men illegally mining for tusks and remains of the long-extinct woolly mammoth, in … | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 4 years ago

Open-World Game Lets You Solve Mysteries as a Gang of Cats

Cat lovers from all over the world rejoice, developer Eric Blumrich is about to deliver you a treat. He is working on Peace Island, a video game which revolves around a group of felines going on adventures and solving mysteries together. If you ever wanted to see the world from a … | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 4 years ago

People Are Flooding the Bob Ross Art Exhibition in Virginia

A police officer. An astronaut. Kids consider all kinds of cool careers. However, this might be a job that adults would line up for. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 4 years ago

Artist Makes “Porcelain” Weapons to Explore What It Means to Be a Woman

Helena Hauss is a 29-year-old French artist who was “bored and raised” in Paris, where she currently resides. While mostly known for her extremely detailed ball-point pen drawings, Hauss has recently branched out into the world of sculptures.In an interview with Bored Panda, Hele … | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 4 years ago

What the Inventories of Various Emergency Services Look Like over the World

Knolling is a type of flat-lay photography, where different objects are arranged at 90-degree angles from each other, then photographed from above. The look is symmetrical and pleasing to the eye and allows people to see a variety of objects in a single picture; perfect for demon … | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 4 years ago

Town in Iceland Paints 3D Zebra Crosswalk to Slow Down Speeding Cars

In the small fishing town of Ísafjörður, Iceland, an exciting development in road safety has just popped up - almost literally. A new pedestrian crossing has been painted that appears to be 3D by way of a cleverly-detailed optical illusion. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 4 years ago

The Oldest Color Photos Showing What the World Looked Like 100 Years Ago

When you think of old photographs, you naturally think in terms of black and white, but as you can see from these stunning photographs from the turn of the 20th century, color photography has been around for a lot longer than you think. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 4 years ago

Kids from Around the World Photographed with What They Eat in One Week

I focused on kids because eating habits start young and if you don't get it right when you're 9 or 10, it's going to be a lot harder when you're older! | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 4 years ago

Convincing frame-by-frame comparisons of The Lion King to older Japanese film

Following The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast, (1991) and Aladdin (1992), The Lion King was presented as Disney's first big animated feature that wasn't a retelling of a fairytale or previous story. | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 4 years ago

Some of the coolest offices in the world

Not all work spaces were created equal – some can reduce workers' morale while others can keep them happy and inspire them to be more energetic and creative. For companies like Google, which require smart, creative and in-demand workers, such offices offer a competitive edge when … | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 4 years ago

How would you respond if someone asked you to describe the 1950s? Maybe you'd mention the Cold War between The United States and the Soviet Union? Elvis becoming more and more popular? The first satellites going into orbit? You could do that. Or you could explain how magazines ad … | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 4 years ago

Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana

During the '80s and '90s, African artists were tasked with making Hollywood movie posters seem as exciting as possible, regardless of plot. Not only that, a fair share of the time they were creating promotional material for films they hadn't even see. Their works had to sell tick … | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 4 years ago

Architects Suggest Notre Dame Cathedral Reconstruction Designs

On April 15, 2019, one of the most horrific fires of the year broke out when the roof of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris went up in flames. The inferno lasted for around 15 hours as the world watched in terror. The fire completely destroyed the structure's iconic spire that col … | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 4 years ago