Author: Karl Smallwood

When I was first asked to write an article on odd ways the fairer sex has an advantage over men, I hesitated because the subject of gender differences is often rather explosive online, and I’m not exactly the most serious person out there anyway. I changed my mind though when I began to research the topic.…

Being injured leaves most people doing one of two things: crying, or crying a lot while cursing God for making tears attract bees (they totally do that.) However, people hundreds of years ago didn’t just shrug off injury — they did a triple tuck into awesome and punched life in the face with the bloody…

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Adverts are a fact of life and, as people grow more and more accustomed to them, advertisers are going to have to think of increasingly underhanded and creative ways to make sure you notice them. That’s why in the very near future adverts could be … 10. Gleaned from the Information in Your E-mail Inbox…

The little guy is a colloquial term we use to refer to someone who doesn’t have million of dollars worth of backing and an army of lawyers, the people on this list may seem rather different, but they all have one thing in common. Someone with more money and power than them stole their idea…

Oliver Cromwell hated so many things that brought people joy, scientists still aren’t sure if he was an internet troll who stumbled

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Piracy is one of those subjects that completely divides people. On the one hand, it’s blatant thievery. On the other hand, free episodes of Breaking Bad, yo. The internet is chock full of horror stories about digital piracy ruining people’s lives when the RIAA knocks on their door, so we wanted to share some stories…

Jack LaLanne was more than a fitness guru — he was THE fitness guru, sent from the planet Pushup to school all us mere mortals on how to properly sculpt a set of abs. His daily routine was so absurdly impressive that the only sane conclusion one can possibly reach is that he was a superhero. Need proof? Click here, and ye shall find.

If your country was #1 in something, you’r probably prefer it be something noble, like education or stupidly awesome rock music. But many countries take home the gold in far less conventional categories. If your country made it onto this list, drink till you feel proud.

When it comes to the internet it’s sometimes quite hard to trust or believe what you’re reading and we’d guess that everyone reading this has a particular site that they’d trust over all others. We’re not here to talk about those, we’re here to introduce you to 10 places online that are actually pretty damn…

Absolute power corrupts absolutely, says just about everybody who can’t think of their own damn line. But cliched as it may be, it’s usually true, especially in these ten cases. When nobody has the ability to overrule a psychopath with power, everybody loses. Except the psychopaths, who tend to do OK in such cases.

If you didn’t commit the crime you were convicted of, a pardon would truly be a gift from Heaven. Unless, of course, you’re already in Heaven when it happens. Post-mortem pardons are almost always a cases, made even worse once you realize even a freakin’ turkey can get pardoned in a timely manner.

Any idiot can rob a bank or shoot somebody; it takes a truly creative criminal mind to pull off some of these petty, yet ingenious, illegal acts. What they’re doing may be against the law, but you still have to respect anybody willing to risk a criminal record with such interesting ideas.

TopTenz is a PG site, and naughty words are strictly forbidden. But words that only SOUND naughty are not only perfectly acceptable, they get a whole article written about them. And it’s this one! What a fecking coincidence!

One of the easiest ways to make your product recognizable and successful is to slap a celebrity’s face on it, because famous people are never wrong about anything. Sometimes, celebrities become unwilling endorsers, with their likeness slathered all over stuff they want nothing to do with. It’s like identity theft, only without all the maxed-out credit cards.

Catching a train on time should be fairly easy considering that virtually everyone now carries a device in their pocket that is both synced to the internet and has a clock built into it. However, in reality, it’s not that simple, go to any train station in the world and you’ll likely see a person…

The Chain Chomp is one of the most enduring foes in the Mario series, for newer players they pose one of the first real challenges they’ll ever face in game. However, due to the fact they’re chained up, avoiding one is usually just a matter of jumping like a boss. Few people realise though that…

Tanks, though formidable, are slow and more often than not, stuck to the ground, which is where you expect something that weighs 80 tonnes to stay. Of all the things a tank poses a threat to, a plane is probably at the bottom of the list, along with the sky and the benevolent face of…

Modern art gets a lot of flak for being pretentious and adored by people who should never stop being punched in the neck and a lot of it is deserved, as we’re about to explain. Like, well, everyone, journalist, Åke Axelsson was tired of seeing people fawn over daubs of paint haphazardly thrown at a…

Remember when that guy in a newspaper drew a picture of Muhammad and everyone totally lost their mind? It was a dark time and for a while, no one, anywhere had the balls to draw a picture of the prophet. Well, except for Matt Stone and Trey Parker. The twisted minds behind South Park. You…

Save Walter White dot com, was a website that played a small, but key plot point in the show Breaking Bad. If you haven’t been online in, oh, about 3 years, Breaking Bad is probably one of the best TV shows ever. That’s not subjective, Breaking Bad is objectively the perfect TV show. So it’s…

Oil spills are tragic events, not only is the damage to the environment and nature catostrophic, but it’s also on-going, meaning people have to deal with the issues that arise from the spill for months, even years after the original disaster. By far one of the most harrowing and iconic images of such events is…

It’s an oft repeated fact that there is no word in the English language that rhymes with either, “Orange”, “Purple” or “Elephant”, is that true? Probably not because people make up new words all the time. Well Eminem, yes, that Eminem, thinks that’s a load of crap too, but for a different reason, that reason…

If you happened to watch the Charlie and the Chocolate factory remake, you no doubt noticed the scene where the dozens of highly trained nut busting squirrels attack a small child. Presumably because it’s the best damn scene in the entire freaking movie. Of course the ones that attacked the small child were CGI, no…