Develop a close bond with your pet and you'll swear they understand the words coming out of your mouth, as if they learn human languages simply by living amongst us.
And as they develop a deeper understanding of our speech patterns they start to take notice of certain bits they like and bits they don't like.
Food related words make them come running, praise makes them purr, and direct orders are seen as a threat to their freedom, which causes them to switch into rebel mode as demonstrated by Luigi the cat.
Every type of gun imaginable can be found in homes across North America, but explosive ordnance like rockets and grenades are hardly ever seen, much less used, outside of the battlefield.
So the odds you'll ever need to know how to survive a grenade blast are slim to none, however the odds all the curious minds out there are now dying to know how to survive a grenade blast "just because" are great.
Didn't feel like watching the entire video for answers? Here's the strategy in a nutshell:
As they explain above, the shrapnel (or fragments) from the grenade is the most dangerous part, not the blast itself. So, if you see one fall to the ground near you, it’s time to hit the deck. Turn and face away from the grenade, get at least 15 feet away, then lay on your stomach with the flat parts of your feet pointing toward the grenade. That will significantly reduce the chance of shrapnel hitting you, and if it does, there’s a chance it will hit the soles of your shoes, not your flesh. Also, if you see one fall into the water you’re swimming in, get out—don’t dive deeper. In that case, the shrapnel won’t get you, but the pressure created by the blast will compress your lungs and do some serious damage.
Everybody knows sandwiches are best eaten fresh, but sometimes we get distracted, fill up on other foods or forget we made dinner plans with someone from our Improv group and our sandwich ends up neglected and uneaten.
Then when we try to eat it anyway we discover it's dry (or soggy) and tastes like crap, so imagine what a sandwich eaten a year later would taste like...*barf*
Despite the disgusting nature of this premise Andy George of How To Make Everything felt he needed to know what it would take to make a sandwich edible after a year.
So he spoke to an expert on what makes food rot, then set about pickling, smoking, dehydrating and salt curing the makings of a year-old sandwich.
I'm always on the lookout for fresh new nicknames for stuff, and the Twitter account @CorrectNames has proven to be a treasure trove of alternate names for stuff like milk (cereal sauce), water (snowman blood) and manatees (marshmallow seals).
So stop using the same old boring nicknames for stuff and find new names for the same old stuff at @CorrectNames, and you'll have a bright future full of fun new names for stuff!
Jack Black is no stranger to the music scene, and even though he's more commonly known for his screen time in movies and TV shows his band Tenacious D proves he's truly a star of both stage and screen.
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So what's next for the veteran actor/musician/comedian? According to the videos he has been posting on Instagram lately Jack is ready to conquer the world of Lip Sync Karaoke, which is to singing as mime is to clowning- silent.
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Jack has posted many more really rad lip sync videos to his Instagram, including Sabbath's The Wizard, Little Room by The White Stripes and this rousing rendition of PJ Harvey's Dress.
The Burger King who stars in the fast food chain's commercials gives people the creeps, and he has been known to act like a creep when he's hopped up on Whopper Sauce and Chicken Fries.
But, as much as he dresses like a pimp and acts like a greedy pig, at least the Burger King has never demanded Prima Nocta privileges from newlywed customers, and water is free and available any time in his restaurants.
So before you dismiss the Burger King as a creep watch this minimal animation short by AOK and see how bad the King of Burgers could be if he acted more "kingly"! (NSFW language)
It's surprising how many electronic devices considered toys contain components so high tech they can be used for purposes well beyond playtime, and some can even be used for the advancement of science.
Take the Game Boy camera for instance- this "monochrome, 2bit, 128×112 pixel CMOS camera" was released in 1998 for use with the Nintendo Game Boy, and back in those pre-smartphone camera days it was considered pretty decent.
Twenty years later a master's student in Astronomy and Instrumentation at Leiden University named Alex Pietrow figured out a way to use the Game Boy camera to photograph celestial objects:
Pietrow gives tours of the Leiden University’s Old Observatory in the Netherlands, which was in use from 1860 to the 1970s and still houses its original telescopes. One perk of this job is that he can use the antique telescopes there for personal observation. Naturally, he set to work attaching his Game Boy Advance SP, along with its camera to an antique telescope, built in 1838.
Physically attaching the Game Boy to the scope was the biggest challenge of the build, since the camera doesn’t have a standard shape to fit into an eyepiece or normal photographic equipment, much less something built nearly 200 years ago. To compensate for this mismatch of parts, he squeezed the GameBoy into a mount meant to hold a phone, and lined it up after quite a bit of trial and error.
As seen in the photos above, the results are low-resolution, but spectacular for what they are. Due to a cloudy sky, the setup was first tested on a nearby church tower’s clock, which can be seen below next to a modern photo of it. In later photos he was able to photograph Earth’s moon, complete with craters.
Another photo seen here even allowed him was even able to pick out two of Jupiter’s moons, pointed out via red arrows in one of the images. The other dots in that photo are due to photographic noise caused by light pollution, which is a factor in any city.
When children build castles in the sand their construction is often accompanied by a story telling where the structure is from, who lives there and what's happening inside the sand structure.
It's a tradition among sandcastle builders that dates back thousands of years, and yet these stories of warfare, death and destruction sadly never change, because if the waves don't destroy the castle the crabs surely will.
This amazing looking CGI short entitled "Chateau de Sable" was created by students Quentin DELEAU Lucie FONCELLE, GOUDAL Maxime Julien PARIS and Sylvain ROBERT from ESMA.
People are adding geeky themes to their homes more than ever before, with superhero motifs being the most popular by far, but along with the trend comes repetition and boredom since many DIYers lack imagination.
This tutorial from DudeMom shows how to add fabric panels and a new paint job to an old dresser and make it look totally super, or if you'd rather buy than DIY the Super Hero Ceiling Fan Blades seen at the top of the post may be more your speed.
When military leaders draw up plans for operations meant to help them win a battle, if not the war, their plans are ideally designed to have maximum impact on the enemy with minimal friendly casualties.
However, these operations have a lot of factors involved that need to come together perfectly for the plan to succeed, so if there's a question of failure or repercussions they're likely to pull the plug.
The Nazi invasion of Switzerland seemed inevitable during World War II, and Switzerland even raised the draft age to 60 just to make sure they could defend against a Nazi invasion.
But in the end Hitler clearly felt the backlash from the German people for attacking a neutral country would be too great, and the rest is history!
This info packed video from Top Tenz discusses potentially impactful military operations that were scrapped at the last minute, revealing how wartime military operations can shape history whether set into motion or not.
I thought Slave Leia costumes had been done to death until I saw this extra sexy version by Bearded Leia cosplay, which features the shaggy dog of the gender swap world and his handler.
The best part about this cosplay isn't the beard, or the fact that Bearded Leia is comfortable enough with his body that he's down to wear a golden bikini at a Con. No, the best part by far is that totally tubular Jabba the Hutt balloon sculpture!
Some people freak out when a clogged toilet threatens to overflow and pour poopoo water all over the bathroom floor, but before you reach in there by hand to remove the clog here are a few handy no mess techniques for unclogging a toilet.
The first technique is presented by One Good Thing by Jillee, who shows us the "Secret Plumber's Trick" to Unclog A Toilet- warm water and dish soap.
The other technique comes to us from South Korea, where they have come up with an ingenious way to unclog a toilet without a plunger- by using a sticker that seals the bowl and lets the clogger pump that clog away.
This one is strictly do not try at home unless you've got one of those South Korean toilet stickers, but it sure looks like a cool method for dealing with a clog!
Forced perspective is a simple way to add your own creative touch to a photograph, and since forced perspective pics are best taken with a partner they're also a simple way to bring two photo fans closer together.
When oil painter Alya Chaglar asked her daughter Stefani if she'd like to play with her food she lit up, but Stefani must've had a hard time understanding how mom holding up a piece of food and taking a pic equalled fun- untile she saw the pic.
Then she really got into the spirit of the project, her pose and facial expressions matching the food and flower dresses her mom used forced perspective to dress her up in, and the pics are gloriously adorable.
Emotion is one of the main differences between the top two sci-fi franchises- Star Trek is the more logical and cerebral of the two, while Star Wars is full of visceral and emotional elements that Vulcans may not comprehend.
Therefore fans expect to have all the feels while watching a Star Wars story unfold, and our deep connection to the characters gives the writers a galaxy full of ways to tug at our heartstrings.
KFC seems to rotate between keeping their brand identity classic and coming up with silly and totally original ways to stand out in the fast food crowd, with their funny and unique ad campaigns winning by a mile.
They cast Norm MacDonald, Vincent Kartheiser, Jim Gaffigan, Rob Lowe, Billy Zane and George Hamilton (among others) to play The Colonel, teamed up with DC to create a two issue Colonel Corps comic, and now they've launched their new Zinger chicken sandwich into space.
To be exact they launched the Zinger into the stratosphere (about 60,000 to 80,000 feet above the surface) inside a bucket-shaped satellite that has a mechanical flag waving arm and plays a cassette of the Colonel talking about chicken.
