Friday, January 24, 2020

Double-Take Inducing Photos of Intriguing Perspective


Optical illusions made by perspective | calico cat walking on sand and a spot on her coat that looks like a hole through her body. plastic cup on wet ground that looks like it spilled a dry spot out

Weird perspective can make your brain do some weird things, like giving people animal faces, making inanimate objects accidentally dirty, and making giant birds. Your brain is just doing its best to deal with what your eyes throw at it, so don't blame it too hard when your eyes are confounded by strange perspective.

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Adam Savage Tests Out Boston Dynamics' Spot Robot


Just a little bit terrifying picturing some sort of dystopian reality where these impressive "Spot" robots turn on us. No thank you to that. 

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Guy Absolutely Nails Perfect Bowls Shot


When his partner Greg Harlow mentioned the prospects of this shot at the World Indoor Bowls Championships, the crowd laughed at the unlikelihood of turning it around. What followed was Nick Brett rolling in a perfectly aimed shot that is so satisfying that you want to watch it twice.

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Lyft Driver Refuses To Let Passenger Out


Patience of a saint. 

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Guy Cuts Books In Half, Twitter Debates Moral Implications


Guy decides to cut his books in half to make them more portable, and Twitter users debate whether that's okay | tweet by alex_christofi Yesterday my colleague called book murderer because cut long books half make them more portable. Does anyone else do this? Is just me

Twitter user @alex_christofi ignited quite the passionate debate about whether it's okay or not to cut books in half. The guy's either a visionary of sorts, or a total mad lad. 

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Engineer Gets Ditched In Revenge Of The Week


Apprentice engineer makes his crew angry, and ends up getting left behind 250 miles from home.

It's time for the revenge story of the week, and man, is this one a treat. This entitled sound engineer got what was coming his way. It sounds like he was just the kind of presumptuous brat that needed a wakeup call. Fortunately, the crew he worked with and generally drove insane was more than ready to give it to him. And boy oh boy, did that wakeup call come in a brutal fashion. We're talking the guy getting ditched hundreds of miles from home, and eventually having to get picked up by his dad!

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Self-Titled Geniuses Who Sprayed the Internet with Cringeworthy Bragging


People who think they're way smarter than they are.

Whether it's born out of insecurity, compensation or the misguided belief that they are truly the best and brightest, cringeworthy braggarts have covered the internet with their supposed genius. It's amazing to witness someone who thinks so highly of themselves with no proof other than that they just believe they're geniuses.

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Tumblr User's Livable Wage Comment Gets Disproved


A Tumblr user's comments about what makes up a livable wage gets disproven.

Nothing melts our icy hearts like a fact checker getting fact checked themselves. When it comes to online squabbles, people have a tendency to approach the situations like bulls in a china shop, and often throw out all kinds of BS, cause they feel that overwhelming desire to be the most right person in the room. And sometimes that BS is misleading information they haven't even bothered to verify before trying to pass it off as the ultimate truth. 

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Entitled People Who Ought To Take Their Business Elsewhere


Entitled people and their absurd demands.

Entitled people make some incredibly bold demands and complaints, like this entitled mom who lashed out at her baby sitter. The good thing about these entitled people is that regular people rarely bend to their stupid demands. Everyone knows that entitled people need to move on with their nonsense.

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Concerts That Didn't Live Up to the Hype


Stories of people on askreddit who went to bad concerts.

Anyone who's been to a few concerts has experienced that sinking feeling when they realize, "oh, god, these guys are not good live" and then you just have to bear through their set feeling different and realizing you spent too much money on a stupid thing. Sometimes it's not even the performance. Sometimes the artist just has no respect for their fans, or spends 30 minutes talking about conspiracy theories.

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Guy Goes To Sleep, Girlfriend Has Meltdown


Guy goes to sleep and his girlfriend proceeds to have a complete meltdown.

Yikes everywhere. This guy was just trying to catch some zzz's when the next thing he knew he woke up to a complete meltdown from his girlfriend. She calls him a hurtful liar and proceeds to inform him that he's blocked on everything. Um. The dude was just trying to sleep. Sounds like he really dodged a bullet on this one, and the sooner that relationship is a thing of a past, the better!

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One In A Million Life Moments For Lucky People


A collection of AskReddit replies to very lucky life moments experienced by people.

Someone on AskReddit asked for people to share those miraculous moments they experienced that defied the odds. We live in the middle of chaos, and it's easy to will ourselves into believing that a life of routine is shielded from moments of complete unpredictability that simply defy rhyme and reason. These people lived down their miraculous moments, and some of them sound like they got just the kinds of second chances they needed. Got to be careful out there!

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John F. Kennedy Chews Out Military Officer Over $5K Crib Purchase


John F. Kennedy had a few passionate thoughts concerning the lavish purchase of a $5K crib for his baby, and the military official, General Godfrey McHugh, was not ready for the full extent of the wrath incurred. 

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Twitter Users Share Questions They Hate Being Asked


A collection of Twitter replies to the questions that people are tired of being asked.

Twitter users are sharing those questions that they're just plain old tired of being asked. Some people really need to exercise a little bit more self awareness when it comes to things like asking questions before someone's had that first cup of coffee, or even worse, asking a question that could've easily been Google'd. 

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Ways People Would Design "Mehven"


A collection of AskReddit replies to how people would handle designing "Mehven." A place meant for kind of good, but not great people.

Someone on AskReddit asked for people to share the various ways they would design "Mehven" to ensure that it was tailored well for the people that just did an "alright" job throughout their lifetime. Not good, not bad, just meh. 

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Bold Hairstyles that Are Probably Not Gonna Catch On


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It's like people are at constant war with their own hair. We've seen people's bold and questionable haircuts get roasted, and we've seen cringeworthy hair monstrosities from the 80s. Hairstyles are a good way to express yourself. It's just that sometimes extreme hairstyles inspire some questions about the type of self that person's expressing.

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