Author: Karl Smallwood

Though Boeing is now synonymous with aeroplanes and jet travel, back in the 1950’s the company was haemorrhaging money like they’d been stabbed by King Midas. The only money the company was making was due to their many military contract. However, they thought they could change their fortunes with the Boeing 707. All they had…

If you’re currently scratching your head wondering who the hell Tiny Tina is, then you’ve missed out on one of the finest gaming experiences of recent times, Borderlands 2. In a nutshell Tiny Tina is what you’d get if Deadpool had a lovechild with the pre-Reddit internet then raised it on nothing but cartoons, Wu-Tang…

Chances are, you’ve never actually seen a pneumatic tube based mail system, however, you’ve almost certainly seen one on TV. Like that episode of the Simpsons where Marge gets a job in the power plant and Homer sends all her paper work into the tube, where it disappears forever, never to be seen again. The…

The argument of what to do with the toilet seat after you’ve marked your territory has raged since a man first left it up and his wife then punched him in the testicles for his thoughtlessness. Ever since that moment, men and women have been locked in a constant battle about what the hell to…

Cardinal Mezzofanti, or to give him his full and more awesome title, Cardinal Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, was an Italian man of god who should absolutely get a sainthood and the fact he doesn’t already is just proof that God hates awesome people. As you’ve probably guessed from the title, Cardinal Badass was a veritable master…

Over in the UK in late 2011 the police were a little confused about how a guy they’d placed under police mandated curfew was repeatedly being arrested outside of the home they’d literally confined him to using modern technology. The hilariously named Christopher Lowcock had been charged for several serious charges, including possession of a…

Donald “Lofty” Large, despite being the owner of a nickname so non-threatening whispering into the wind is a way to communicate with kittens. Is one of the most bad-ass soldiers the SAS has ever seen, yes, that SAS. The same SAS where they measure a man’s worth in his own sweat and tears. If you’re…

The only way the words “bull fighter” could be manlier is if you somehow managed to cram the word “tiger” in there somehow. It’s a job where your entire pay check is based on your ability to annoy and then avoid being gored by a creature that weighs as much as a small car with…

Sometimes a simple script isn’t enough to properly convey a character, so it’s up to the actor to make them come alive. On some occasions, this involves being their own writer, and improvising all their dialogue on the spot. Here are ten of the best examples.

Superman is one of the worlds most famous and enduring Superheroes, and why wouldn’t he be? He’s got a body that looks like it’s been carved from titanium covered granite, a chin you could park a jet on and eyes so beautiful, staring into them is considered an effective cure for cancer. However, it’s for…

It’s probably safe to say that for anyone reading this there was a persistent rumour or urban myth about someone, or something in the neighbourhood you grew up in. In every neighbourhood there is one rumour that persists over almost every other. That a Chinese takeaway or other comparable service provider is catching and cooking…

The emo fringe is the hairstyle equivalent of wearing a Nazi uniform to a costume party. You’re trying to show people that you don’t care what they think about you by spending way too much time making yourself look like an idiot. That said, it’s stupidly popular among kids and teenagers who hate their lives…

The Titanic is an iconic, unforgettable part of pop-culture, even though like 20% of kids today don’t even think it was a real, actual thing that happened. But hey, kids are stupid so we’ll let that one slide. Though today we know a whole bunch about the Titanic and its watery resting place, have you…

Men being funnier than women is a joke so common and overused it doubles as penicillin. Male comedians enjoy more fame, money and far less people telling them to slit their own throat on Twitter. When scientists got around to actually testing this theory they found that in their small sample and test, it was…

Throughout the Simpsons several decade long run, one factor has always remained constant, they’re supposed to be the a-typical American family, they fight, they watch TV and the father figure is a violent alcoholic who tries to strangle his own son on a bi-weekly basis. However, if you actually read into the show and how…

Music is subjective, however, money is the easiest measure of success, you can write the most intricate and epic song in history, however, if it doesn’t sell a million copies, history and most importantly, Wikipedia, isn’t going to pay attention. So you’d probably expect that one of the best selling groups of all time would…

There are but a few rules when it comes to making fun of people, never give what you can’t take and don’t pick on a guy with glasses, unless that person is Bono. Yes, Bono seems to be a veritable magnet for hate. Negative words seems to gravitate towards his ever increasingly large head and…

My Name is Earl is a TV show in which an ex-skateboarder (yeah, the guy who plays the main character used to be a professional skateboarder and can still bust some pretty sick moves) realizes that his life sucks because of karma, so he decides to right all his wrongs by correcting his wrong-doing to…

Google street view is a tool provided completely free of charge by the ever awesome global mega-company that is, Google. With it you can view almost any street on the planet as if you were stood in the way of oncoming traffic and were trapped in a time bubble where people were stuck living a…

The Big Bang Theory is a show about a bunch of socially inept scientists who can’t talk to women yet at the same time all manage to somehow woo women so attractive they make Greek Gods develop bulimia. While the main focus of the show was the adventures of these men of science and them…

A diary is a small journal a person keeps in which they note their innermost thoughts, what they think of their neighbors, which boys they’d like to kiss and the location of all the bodies are common themes found within diaries. Though most people will stop updating them by the age of 13 or will…

Ever wondered why people mimic the accents of foreign people when they speak to them? Science knows. Science always knows.

Every day, more and more people hate Justin Bieber both for his music, and his very existence. As it turns out, he doesn’t deserve hate either way. Even if you’re not into sugary-pop songs, there are plenty of valid reasons to respect the man.

The Avengers film was so insanely popular and well received the cast could walk into a random person’s house and slap their child and there’d be an eighty percent chance the parent would ask them to sign the bruise. As the cast were charged with the mammoth task of bringing one of the most popular…