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.
Browsing: Misc
Sometimes we are at a loss for where a top 10 list should go and that means we toss it here. Sure, some lists defy categorization, but Miscellaneous is a category, right?
Sigmund Freud is, depending on who you talk to, either one of the greatest psychological minds in history, or a perverted phony who made up entire theories to “explain” why babies lust after their parents. The answer, as usual, is a little bit of both, as Freud was a deeply complex man, as these various factoids about him prove.
The idea of zombies, a creature that once died but is now alive again, but this time brainless and murderous, is a timeless premise. As such, it’s not just in video games and movies where you see them. They’ve been seen throughout history in various forms, sometimes in real life (allegedly.)
If you’re a fan of the television show 30 Rock, you may be familiar with…
My how time flies! 2013 is now officially more than half over. Now that we…
Onions are like a cruel joke from god, they’re an inanimate object incapable of feeling…
Silly pranks are usually reserved for children and viral videos of random people screwing with each other. The power players of the world don’t bother, right? They’re too busy being powerful, right? WRONG. The’re just as silly and screwy as the rest of us, and here;’s proof.
Celebrities like to project a sanitized image and so we often don’t realize that they…
Other than the fact that they existed, pretty much everything Hollywood and TV has taught you about Native Americans is purest fiction, drummed up by racist white people desperate to demonize the people that already lived on the lands that they wanted. Hopefully, we can set at least a few records straight with this article.
We all remember JFK’s “Ask Not” speech, and Chuchill’s “We Shall Never Surrender” speech. But many other powerful speeches are often overlooked, probably because they were never given. They only exist on paper and in an alternate universe where circumstances allowed their author to get in front of a microphone and talk.
We all know the names of the great minds of history: Newton, Einstein, Edison, Franklin,…
Rowan Atkinson will likely never live down the accident prone dumbass called Mr Bean he…
Do run-of-the-mill guns and bombs bore you? Are you sick of the same old “mild firepower” that most harbingers of death bring to the table? Then maybe these pointlessly powerful weapons are more your fancy. Don’t just pierce your enemy’s heart and slowly drain their life away; make their entire body explode instead! It’s more sporting that way.
Though Boeing is now synonymous with aeroplanes and jet travel, back in the 1950’s the…
In the good old days, a witch hunt involved complex stuff like a media circus,…
Far form just being a bunch of rocks, ancient Stone Age sites are filled with beauty and wonder. How did our ancestors, armed with nothing but basic tools and their hands, create such wonders? We may never know for sure, but we can at least gawk at the results of their handiwork.
The argument of what to do with the toilet seat after you’ve marked your territory…
The new future King of England is here! But in 2013, does it even matter? Why, of course it does! Despite having no real authority, England without its Royal Family would be like eating chocolate cake without the frosting: technically possible, but far more boring. Here are ten reasons why the House Of Windsor should endure forever.
Cardinal Mezzofanti, or to give him his full and more awesome title, Cardinal Giuseppe Caspar…
In the movies, a case of mistaken identity is oftentimes wacky and whimsical. In real life however, it’s usually far less so. In fact, in many cases it’s downright tragic. Here are ten examples of what really happens when we think one person is somebody completely different.
Over in the UK in late 2011 the police were a little confused about how…
If truth is stranger than fiction, then documentaries have an innate power that fiction films…
Donald “Lofty” Large, despite being the owner of a nickname so non-threatening whispering into the…
Movies can feature some ridiculous crimes, featuring the most over-the-top, elaborately planned executions imaginable. And yet so often real life comes along and trumps it, with crimes so weird and off-the-wall that even Hollywood couldn’t think of them.