r/therewasanattempt • • 12h ago

To eat an ice cream

5.1k Upvotes

r/therewasanattempt • • 4h ago

To talk to your federal representatives

540 Upvotes

r/therewasanattempt • • 17h ago

To lie about being a coporate lawyer and other easily verifiable facts

6.1k Upvotes

r/therewasanattempt • • 16h ago

To play a simple phone game without being ad-harvested.

5.3k Upvotes

I don't know how an app can run all these processes on a device without causing unnecessary wear on it, not to mention battery drain.

Edit: Perhaps I should have said "data harvested." The ads aren't the problem, it's the extra miles that apps like this put on your device.


r/therewasanattempt • • 16h ago

To clarify if Chick-fil-A would finally stand for equal rights...

4.1k Upvotes

That's a "no" from CEO, Andrew Cathy.

👤: We'll gladly accept rainbow dollars without the rights!
______________________________________

Craig sits down with Chick-fil-A CEO Andrew Cathy for his first-ever broadcast interview. "I think that everybody that would be willing to walk in the door, they'll see that they're welcome to come eat with us," he says about the company's position on equal rights.


r/therewasanattempt • • 8h ago

To have a "sick" burn

869 Upvotes

r/therewasanattempt • • 2h ago

To make a better launcher

Thumbnail
gallery
257 Upvotes

r/therewasanattempt • • 3h ago

To be a lawyer

Post image
228 Upvotes

After her shaky and widely panned first briefing, a reporter asked Trump which state Zacharia had passed the bar exam in. The president, who had described Zacharia as an attorney when announcing her appointment, turned to her and asked: “Which state?” She replied: “when I moved to China”.

No public record shows she has ever been licensed to practice law in the US states where she resided, and her answer to reporters’ questions on Tuesday only deepened scrutiny.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/14/trump-press-secretary-lawyer-zacharia


r/therewasanattempt • • 11h ago

To hide systemic child rape by parents for years. This is a societal systemic problem. Sadly she was found dead after this video

682 Upvotes

r/therewasanattempt • • 19h ago

To not slip up about your true affiliations.

2.9k Upvotes

r/therewasanattempt • • 8h ago

To dunk a basketball

402 Upvotes

r/therewasanattempt • • 10h ago

to demand civility from those watching children’s mothers burn alive

501 Upvotes

Maryam Ahmed Ghanem was only about three years old when an Israeli airstrike hit her home in western Gaza City before dawn on October 14, 2026, engulfing the apartment in flames and killing her mother. Journalist Ali al-Jaafarawi carried her out through the fire and smoke. Her father had already been killed earlier in the war. Now she has neither parent.

This is the human cost of the IDF’s butchery: a little girl pulled from her burning home, left to grow up without her mother or father. Saving her life cannot undo what was taken from her. When will those responsible face accountability?


r/therewasanattempt • • 3h ago

To steal a TV

128 Upvotes

r/therewasanattempt • • 23h ago

To walk in a straight line.

3.8k Upvotes

r/therewasanattempt • • 12h ago

to turn onto the road

366 Upvotes

r/therewasanattempt • • 8h ago

to mislead the police at the bus stop.

139 Upvotes

r/therewasanattempt • • 15m ago

to win a theological debate with the worst take imaginable

• Upvotes

r/therewasanattempt • • 15h ago

to not being seen as evil bullies

444 Upvotes

r/therewasanattempt • • 17h ago

to silence a protester!

334 Upvotes

r/therewasanattempt • • 23h ago

to fit in and have a Guinness on the Cheeky Pint podcast.

970 Upvotes

r/therewasanattempt • • 13h ago

To inspire a generation

140 Upvotes

r/therewasanattempt • • 1d ago

To open the door

1.7k Upvotes

r/therewasanattempt • • 1d ago

to go unnoticed

6.4k Upvotes

r/therewasanattempt • • 1d ago

By Republican Rep Andy Harris to blame gas prices on Democrats

5.7k Upvotes

r/therewasanattempt • • 1d ago

To claim foreigners need to learn the language and blend in.

Post image
2.1k Upvotes