Scientists Are Finally Starting to Understand the Real Dangers of Vaping
It’s hard to drive or walk by a high school without noticing kids puffing out plumes of smoke. It’s hard, even in places that have banned cigarettes, to make it through a meal or a movie without a fruity-smelling cloud emanating from somewhere in the room. https://www.instagram.com/p/B1gxTldAKjs/ And it’s very hard to convince anyone who...
Guys Wants To Buy Purebred Dog And His Friend Tries To Prove It’s Animal Cruelty With Skull
When NoNienNietNon‘s friend expressed a desire to own a purebred pug, he went all out in trying to convince him otherwise – by showing him the cruel differences between a pug skull and the skulls of other, less bred dogs. fuck intentionally breeding physical deformities into animals for the sake of vanity There are plenty...
The Story of the 392-Year-Old Bonsai Tree That Survived Hiroshima
At the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum in Washington, D.C., is a piece of Japan’s history that dates back to the 17th century. It’s a bonsai tree, gifted by master Masaru Yamaki to America on its bicentennial. The 392-year-old white pine is the oldest tree in the collection – it was planted in 1625, cultivated...
Students Are Overdosing on Dangerous Amounts of Tuna
That’s not how you expected that headline to end, is it? Me, either, but this is where we are in America today – college kids eating so much of the cheapest food they can find that they’re winding up needing medical intervention they can’t afford. Tuna, in case you fall into this category of unaware,...
Why You Should Really Stop Cleaning Your Ears with Cotton Swabs
You’ve probably heard by now that using cotton swabs like Q-tips to clean your ears can cause infection or injury to your ear can*l or eardrum, but this latest case out of Australia might be the thing that actually gets you to stop. https://www.instagram.com/p/B1WWFU3BCKi/ A 37-year-old woman who claimed that she cleaned her ears using...
How to Stop Alexa from Recording Your Private Conversations
Whether it’s Apple, Amazon, or Google, our eventual robot overlords have now been officially invited inside a good number of American homes. I mean, if these things are like vampires, we’ve definitely made the wrong move. If you are one of the households with a listening robot (or more than one – guilty), you might...
Man Karaokes So Hard He Collapses His Lung
You have to appreciate a person who really puts themself out there on karaoke night. I mean, what’s the point of grabbing the mic and getting up there if you’re not going to give it your all, right? Right. Buuuttttt, that said, you probably want to avoid collapsing your lung in the process, eh? Apparently,...
People Are Upset by Ryan Reynold’s Reaction to Spiderman Leaving the MCU
You’ve probably heard by now that a financial rift between Disney and Sony has caused Tom Holland’s Spiderman to exit the MCU – and as most people agree that this iteration of Spiderman is the best one, the internet is understandably upset. https://twitter.com/JamieCinematics/status/1163917090694324224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Felliewoodward%2Fryan-reynolds-responded-spiderman-leaving-marvel-mcu https://twitter.com/wylanvanbaby/status/1163911876360716288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Felliewoodward%2Fryan-reynolds-responded-spiderman-leaving-marvel-mcu And they’re also none too happy with Ryan Reynolds’ (Deadpool) reaction...
15 People Who Actually Read the Terms and Conditions Share The Sneaky Things They Found
Who reads all those terms and conditions before clicking ‘okay’ or ‘proceed’ or whatever? It turns out that some people are just that bored (and/or anal), and they’re here to tell you what you’re missing – and what you need to know. 15. The Canadian math requirement. I had a Victoria’s Secret coupon that said...
British Parents Are Trying to “Cure” Their Kids’ Autism by Forcing Them to Drink Bleach
Filed under: Yes, The World Is Getting Dumber By The Minute Autism is a disorder that affects up to 1 in 100 children, and there currently is no cure. A fact that is not, sadly, stopping U.K. parents from forcing their autistic children to drink (or take an enema of) a dangerous chemical cocktail that...
A Few Tweets About Spiderman Leaving the Marvel Cinematic Universe
If you’re a fan of Spiderman, the Spiderverse, or the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), then you were probably as shell-shocked as the rest of us were to learn that Disney’s rift with Sony meant that Tom Holland’s Spiderman (arguably the best iteration) would be getting the boot. In order to make everyone laugh (to keep...
Right Now It’s Snowing Microplastics In The Arctic
Microplastics are defined as any plastic fragment less than 5 millimeters in length, and at this point they have been found in every corner of the globe. They come from any number of sources – from rubber tires to paint and cosmetics to toothpaste tubes and synthetic clothing – and the ubiquitous nature of them...
Teen Activist Greta Thunberg Faces Jokes About Drowning as She Boats Across the Atlantic to Battle Climate Change
Greta Thunberg is 16 years old and has made it her life’s work (so far) to raise awareness for, and to do her best to combat, climate change around the world. Apparently, this makes grown ass people with keyboards think it’s okay to joke about a teenaged girl drowning in a boating accident, because that’s...
15 People Respond to the Frustrating Question: How Do You Handle a Person Who Cuts in Line?
It’s one of those regular occurrences – the kind that are annoying as sh*t, but also not big enough to get your dander really up. But when people cut in line, it always seems as if there should be something pithy to say that would put them in their place. If you’ve always come up...
Velcro Is So Desperate to Stop People from Using the Term “Velcro” That They Dropped a Music Video
Velcro was invented in 1941, but after losing its patent in the 1970s, the market was flooded with other “hook and loop” fasteners that, while not Velcro brand, were quickly labeled as such by the public. https://www.instagram.com/p/BzlTFP1h04e/ Basically, anything that sticks together without adhesive is Velcro, right? Maybe, but once a term becomes “genericized” in...