It’s only a year now until the 2016 US election, and that can only mean one thing: gaffes galore. Over the past few months, the hopeful candidates have been travelling the length and breadth of the country and sticking their feet in it at every possible opportunity. Here are some of the most painfully-dumb things…
Author: Morris M
From the outside, life as a terrorist seems pretty simple. Grow a crappy beard, start shouting hateful slogans and then spitefully kill some innocent people. Easy, right? Wrong. Far from living out their lives as the bad guys in an action movie, it turns out terrorists have to do a whole lotta grunt work to…
We all know the ancients used to sacrifice people. Some practices, like the Aztec removal of a victim’s heart, are today infamous. But this barely scratches the surface of the gruesome rituals our ancestors used to perform. Over the past few years, a number of important discoveries have shown our forebears were even creepier than…
Sex is weird. How weird? Ask anyone who’s spent time browsing through Amazon’s store of erotic literature and they’ll tell you: deeply weird. Despite being experts on it for the last two million years or so, we humans are still finding new and bizarre things out about our most fundamental urges. Think you know all…
Let’s face it: most of us have ordinary lives. Even those of us with awesome job titles like astronaut, professional bear wrestler or Internet list writer probably spend more time eating Doritos and watching TV than we do divesting cheerleaders of their underpants. But then there are the handful of people for whom “ordinary life”…
The Exorcist, Psycho, Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Evil Dead … the official list of must-see scary films is imprinted in every horror buff’s brain. But what about the smaller films: the obscure, made-for-TV, or just plain unpopular ones? Glance away from the A-list of horror and you’ll find a treasure trove of underrated classics guaranteed to…
When we heard the word “politician”, most of us probably think of adjectives like “dull”, “boring”, and “hypocrites”. The one we probably never think of is “badass”. After all, most congressmen are just lazy rich guys, right? But it seems not every politician got that memo. Across the US, Europe, South America, and the Middle…
Adolf Hitler, Chairman Mao, Joseph Stalin … we tend to remember the names of the worst dictators, if only because we can’t believe anyone could ever be so cheerfully inhuman. But how many of us know that there’s a second-tier of despots; a sort of B-League for insane tyrants? Here are ten evil dictators you’ve…
Most of us understand that discrimination is a bad thing: if you deliberately act like an ass toward someone just because of their race, gender, or sexuality, you’re officially pond scum. But not everyone who engages in discriminatory practices picks such obvious targets. Sometimes, it turns out that we like to hate on people for…
Every time someone finds a lost puppy or snags a local lottery win in December, the media breathlessly describes it as a “real-life Christmas miracle.” In other words, stuff that happens every day of the year suddenly becomes news just because it happens near the holidays. So you can forgive us for feeling a wee…
It’s the festive season, and that can only mean one thing. No, not peace, love, goodwill, or even commercialism, but controversy. Every year, fundamentalists, radical atheists, and the media sharpen their knives and prepare to carve all the fun out the holidays with a whole lot of arguing. And sometimes, that arguing goes beyond mere…
For most of us, Christmas is meant to be a time of peace, happiness and goodwill. However, it doesn’t always work out like that. For all we like to think we’ll pass Christmas in comparative comfort, occasionally fate likes to intervene in a deeply unpleasant way. Here are ten Christmases that were transformed by a…
It’s Halloween Week at TopTenz! To celebrate, here are ten people who unwillingly (and horrifyingly) turned into cannibals. In some cases, they were forced. Other cases, it just kind of happened. In all cases, the victim was scarred for life, even if that life only lasted a few hours longer.
With Left-Handers Day come and gone, we started to wonder if being a righty is all it’s cracked up to be. There are two sides to the argument, and both shall be presented. Today, a righty explains why he would never want to be a lefty. Coming Saturday: the rebuttal.
In the good old days, a witch hunt involved complex stuff like a media circus, false police reports and maybe a burning pitchfork or two. Nowadays all you need is an internet connection and a hatred of justice. Yeah, for all its obvious uses, it turns out the internet and social media are really, really…
We all know Rome was a weird place. After all, people went everywhere in togas, had sex with their sisters and spent their free time watching Russell Crowe fight tigers. But what most of us don’t know is just how perverted a place it really was. And I don’t just mean for the Emperors and…