The fairly new Twitter account @Movie_goofs exposes plot holes in movies we know and love from the perspective of someone who just. Doesn't. Get it. Not only are the misunderstandings funny, but the responses from people who want to set him straight are priceless as well.

Seriously?! It was the one moment where it became clear that it was a movie about time travel -that last scene was a warning. And apparently no one paid heed.

— Sally Lansdale (@wislanscraft) August 1, 2018

 
The account is run by a computer programmer named Sean, who explained to The Daily Dot how he was inspired by IMDb critics who didn't understand the movie, and how his Twitter account attracts other people who don't get the joke -meaning they think that @Movie_goofs is serious. He never breaks character when responding to them, but only offers more "plot holes." However, there are plenty of followers who run with the joke.

It was a common name back then. For all intents and purposes, of the equivalent of Jim.

— Bigshotprof (@thebigshotprof) July 31, 2018

This is one Twitter feed that you'll want to check in on regularly.  

Not sure of source but oh my god????? pic.twitter.com/7z87zRoUzO

— Kirsten Howard (@emotionalpedant) July 30, 2018

Be sure the sound is on when you watch this Twitter video. We don't know who edited it, but they deserve a salute. You can see the rest of the original video here. -via Digg 

How would you handle this disaster? Redditor nerdy_J said a friend's kid did this to all the cans in the pantry. They were lucky that the labels were still there at all. Do you know what's in your cabinets well enough to figure out what's in the cans? Tomato paste, tomato sauce, corned beef, and tuna are pretty easy. I hope you store the cat food in a different place. Some folks at the post shared what they did back when they got unlabeled canned food free.

When I was a kid we were really poor and would volunteer to take food from local grocery stores to the local food pantry. Legally, the food pantry could not accept cans without labels, so rather than throwing them out we would take them home. We all got pretty good at guessing what was in a can by how it sounded when you shook it. We would also make “mystery can soup”. Basically get a cheap chunk of roast and then start opening cans: vegetables went in the soup, fruit went into a bowl for fruit salad and cat/dog food/mystery meat would go to the cats.

That plan gets a wrench thrown in when you open a can of tamales or chow mein, but those can be refrigerated for a while. I am reminded of a Girl Scout camp out where we all brought a can of our favorite soup and threw them all in a pot together. The real problem with your canned goods shelf is that you keep too much stuff around that you really don't want to eat. I once bought one can of French onion soup because I like it, but the hassle of preparing a couple of slices of French bread and melted cheese meant I never prepared it. Yesterday I checked and found the can expired four years ago!

Hummingbird tongues are super weird. They are so long that when not in use, they are coiled around the bird's skull. They are forked at the end, and each fork curls up into a not-quite-closed tube. The birds use these weird tongues to dip into flower nectar at speeds up to 18 times a second. In 1833, scientists proposed that hummingbirds drink by capillary action, but that has been disproven. Margaret Rubega and Alejandro Rico-Guevara set out to study the exact mechanics of how hummingbirds drink. That involved building glass flowers and teaching hummingbirds to drink from them. Then a high-speed camera revealed what their tongues did.

As the bird sticks its tongue out, it uses its beak to compress the two tubes at the tip, squeezing them flat. They momentarily stay compressed because the residual nectar inside them glues them in place. But when the tongue hits nectar, the liquid around it overwhelms whatever’s already inside. The tubes spring back to their original shape and nectar rushes into them.

The two tubes also separate from each other, giving the tongue a forked, snakelike appearance. And they unfurl, exposing a row of flaps along their long edges. It’s as if the entire tongue blooms open, like the very flowers from which it drinks.

When the bird retracts its tongue, all of these changes reverse.

The tongue acts like a tiny pump, pumping tiny bits of nectar into the tiny bird. Ed Yong gives us an explanation of what happens when a hummingbird drinks at the Atlantic (with video). The original scientific paper is more technical, but it contains diagrams of hummingbird tongues. -via Metafilter

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Crew members Danielle and Graeme of the Queensland Ambulance Service in Australia reported a detour they took on the way to deliver a patient to hospice care. From the Facebook post:   

A crew were transporting a patient to the palliative care unit of the local Hospital and the patient expressed that she just wished she could be at the beach again.Above and beyond,the crew took a small diversion to the awesome beach at Hervey Bay to give the patient this opportunity – tears were shed and the patient felt very happy.
Sometimes it is not the drugs/training/skills – sometimes all you need is empathy to make a difference!

It's not the first time the ambulance service has granted a last wish. The top-rated comment underneath from Darren Booker is also worth sharing.

Years ago a fellow crew member and I had a situation where the patient was taking her last ride home. She asked to see the beach one last time. After going tthe beach and opening the rear door, we asked her if would like an ice cream, to which she replied yes with a giggle of delight. A short time later the hardly licked ice cream fell to the floor. The patient had passed away. As she lay there still smiling at the last view that she ever saw, we had a minutes silence for her. Although the memory is an old one, it is still vivid. Great work by this crew, well done guys and girls.

-via Buzzfeed 

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Every able bodied person does important stuff many days out of the year, and some of us even spend time creating, innovating and educating ourselves in our own ways.

But the stuff we do is nothing when compared to the stuff Elon Musk does during one of his glorious days of Muskitude, so who are we to question him when he says we'll have manned missions to Mars by 2025?

But as this Commit Strip comic shows there's always at least one genius out there who thinks they know better than Musk and NASA combined, and yet he can't seem to move out of his mom's basement...

-Via StareCat

These days the United States is truly a nation divided, with Democrats and Republicans at each other's throats, civil unrest causing people to clash in the street and white supremacists openly stirring the pot with their hate speech.

So until the turmoil dies down you may want to refrain from sharing these hilarious maps created by Yanko Tsvetkov because they may cause further complications in your life.

Or maybe you like sticking it to people who walk around acting like their s#%t don't stink, if shock value in an easy to share color map suits your needs then these maps from Yanko's Atlas Of Prejudice: The Complete Stereotype Map Collection are for you!

See 12 Hilarious Ways To Break The USA According To Prejudices here

Gordon Ramsay developed his gruff attitude after growing up in the home of an abusive, alcoholic father, watching his brother struggle with drug abuse and working his way up through some of the toughest kitchens in the world.

Little Gordon Ramsay, on the other hand, was apparently just born an angry jerk, and if he keeps yelling at his mom like that she might stuff little Gordy in a 400 degree oven until crispy!

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This silly little series by YouTuber hospitalityjobs was posted in 2008, which means little Gordon Ramsay is now a punk ass teenager...I wonder if all that rage stunted his growth?

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The kid's got the mouth of a sailor but he's a pretty good little actor, and he even made an appearance as full sized adult Gordon on the cooking competition show Hell's Kitchen. Pretty cool kid! Here's part 3:

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-Via Laughing Squid

When babies cry and keep their parents up night after night it can seem like the end of the world, especially if you're running on but a few hours of sleep.

But don't let it get you down- remember that your child will grow out of the infant stage in time and may grow up to be a super person if you teach them to be a caring and patient person like you.

Or, as this strip by Sunny Street Comics shows, you can launch the baby into space on a rocket and hope they become superheroes on another planet! (Please don't launch your babies into space, they're needed here on Earth.)

-Via Geeks Are Sexy

Just hearing the phrase "a girl and her robot" conjures up images of sci-fi adventure and bonding between human and cybernetic lifeform, and it makes for a great prompt no matter the mode of expression.

Artist Simon Stålenhag created a series of illustrations based on the premise "a runaway teenager and her yellow toy robot" that serves as their travelogue as they make their way through an alternate post-apocalyptic 1990s:

The artist and author, who hails from Stockholm, Sweden, bases The Electric State on "a runaway teenager and her yellow toy robot," an unlikely pair that travels the West Coast in the aftermath of a massive technological meltdown, which has apparently resulted in brutal warfare between monstrous 'battle drones' and sheepish humans controlled by individual Virtual Reality helmets.

Simon's upcoming release The Electric State will be an artbook like no other- a visual guide that lets the viewer's mind tell the tale behind each fantastically realistic scene, as we wonder when the meltdown began and what 2017 would look like in Stålenhag's State.

See Girl And Her Robot Travel Through Wastelands In Alternate 90s USA In Chilling Illustrations here

Most of the time when we post singing birds here, it's because we find it cute and remarkable that they know an entire song that's familiar to us. This time, it's because this bird and pianist make beautiful music together.

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An adorable and talented white-faced cockatiel named Poko songs the theme to My Neighbor Totoro while his human accompanies him on piano. -via Laughing Squid

Neatorama is proud to bring you a guest post from history buff and Neatoramanaut WTM, who wishes to remain otherwise anonymous.

When the Lewis and Clark Expedition made its way through the Pacific Northwest circa 1805, the expedition’s team saw an alien landscape the likes of which no one had ever seen before. Vast stretches of land that had no topsoil whatsoever. A dry waterfall that was miles across. Enormous holes carved out of hard volcanic basalt bedrock. Huge boulders in the middle of an otherwise desolate flat prairie. Gravel bars that resembled those seen elsewhere in small creeks, but that were miles long and hundreds of feet high. These and other similar anomalies presented one of the world’s premier geologic mysteries, a mystery that would confound geologists and other scientists for more than a hundred years.

The Dry Falls, 3.5 miles wide. Photograph courtesy of Tom Foster at hugefloods.com

Today we know the cause of these geological enigmas –megafloods- the like of which the earth had not known since its creation. The flow of a megaflood was more than ten times the combined flow of all the rivers on earth, and these megafloods occurred perhaps as many as a hundred times before ceasing due to climate change.

All evidence indicates that these megafloods, known today as the Lake Missoula Floods, occurred between 11,000 and 19,000 years ago. The largest such flood, identified by the depth of its sediments, is estimated to have occurred about 15,000 years ago, tearing across far western Montana, far northern Idaho, eastern Washington, and northern Oregon en route to the Pacific Ocean.

Adventurous travelers often end up in really strange and interesting places, and travellers who roam the world with an explorer's mindset discover a different side of their destination typical tourists don't get to see.

If you travel like an explorer do the internet a favor by wearing a GoPro camera so you can share the sights with us all, like this guy did when he went kayaking through the abandoned MV E Evangelia cargo ship near Costinesti, Romania.

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-Via Laughing Squid

Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook.

Alan Hale MacKahan was born on March 8, 1921 in Los Angeles, California. He was the son of two actors. Alan's father, Alan Hale, had been a legendary journeyman supporting actor in over 200 films, both silent and talkies. His mother, Gretchen Hartman, was also a screen actress. Under the name Grace Barrett, she was a silent film actress in the 1920s. Alan thus grew up around show business personalities (he was a classmate of Mickey Rooney and the two remained lifelong close friends).

Alan caught "the bug" early and started acting at the age of 10. Alan made his Broadway debut in Caught Wet in 1931 (the show ran for less than two months). He was to appear in five or six more plays in his checkered career, before devoting himself full-time to films and later, television. His film debut came in 1933 in Wild Boys of the Road, where he was billed, but was edited out of the film's final release.

After being educated and graduating from Blacke-Fox Military Academy, Alan soon began a steady career as the classic "working actor" in motion pictures. Alan appeared in scores of other films before world war ii, including Dive Bomber (1941) with Errol Flynn, Time Out for Rhythm (1941) with Rudy Vallee and The Shores of Tripoli (1942) with Harry Morgan.

It was probably during this period that Alan, to supplement his income, also found work as a vacuum cleaner salesman. While it is known that Alan did sell vacuums, no specific dates for this alternate employment are given.

In 1943, Alan married Bettina Doerr, who was to have four children with him- Brian, Chris, Lana and Dorian. Alan and Bettina were to be married for 20 years, until 1963. During World War II, Alan enlisted and served in the U.S. Coast Guard. After the war, in 1946, Alan signed a contract with Monogram Studios, Hollywood's "bargain basement" studio, where he proceeded to churn out dozens of films.

Take a trip through Muscle Beach at sunrise with the world's smallest drone. Robert McIntosh brings us an amazing continuous shot that draws you in as it zooms out.

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While watching this, I bet you started to wonder how he did this. It becomes clear when you watch the raw video that was taken that morning.

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That was before it was reversed and stabilized with ReelSteady for Adobe After Effects. But in some ways, the raw video is more impressive. I especially liked the part where the drone approached Jim Morrison. -via reddit