Thing of Awesome: Awkward Family Photos

Here’s another gem of a let’s-laugh-at-other-people’s-awkward-and-effed-up-lives website, again thanks to a tip from Under The Button: Awkward Family Photos.

The blog, which features reader submitted family photos that, for one reason or another, make you cringe and/or snort simultaneously, is endlessly entertaining. Were I to see these same photos on the walls of my friends’ childhood homes, it would be bad manners to smirk. But, with a browse of Awkward Family Photos, I can smirk away to my bitter little heart’s content. Here’s a sample of the family portraits gone wrong featured on the site:

I’m thinking that these kids grew up watching Dexter and American Psycho rather than Dexter’s Laboratory and American Pie.

I would pay good money to see this kid’s baby pictures.