All moms are cool in the sense that they gave us life, fed us, nurtured us and helped us grow up to be an adult, but the kids who had the really cool moms knew it and flaunted it.
They weren't embarrassed to be dropped off at school by their moms, weren't afraid to have their moms chaperone the school dance, and didn't mind their moms popping in to say hi during a sleepover.
In fact, having a cool mom actually made some kids more popular, since their fellow students felt sure some of that coolness would rub off if they hung around the cool mom's kids long enough.
People aren't attending ice skating shows like they used to, but in their heyday the ice shows were the only place to see showgirls skating elegantly, guys in drag performing pirouettes, and the incredible ice skating duo Darlene and Jinx.
Back when ice shows were red hot there were three main names that attracted crowds: Holiday On Ice, the Ice Follies and the Ice Capades.
Each show featured a variety of ice skating acts, ranging from Olympic skaters showing their stuff to stunt performers to showgirls skating around looking pretty.
But the kids were there to see the gonzo acts like Commander Robot, who was featured in the Ice Follies show back in 1969:
And while the ice shows have gone out of style with the youngsters it's easy to see why kids and adults alike were eager to score a ringside seat to see talented skaters like Jonny tearing up the ice.
Hawaii seems like the last place goths would like to hang out, with their pale skin and dark clothing, but it seems Hawaii has its fair share of goths just like everywhere else in the world.
But what's cool about the goths of Hawaii is they've adapted their style a bit to fit the tropical locale, sort of a "vampires on vacation" look.
Broadly's Jessica Machado spoke with a few of the goths who call Hawaii home about the slowly dying scene and their hopes for the future:
"If this was a different place, like Germany, then goths would be all you'd see at a goth night," said Nocturna. "But here, you just don't have a very big crowd. It's kinda fading; they're not interested. I mean, people are, but they're really young and I don't know how to get them out."
"For me, this is not a phase," said Nocturna. "I've been doing this forever. I still have my collection of records, and the thing that keeps me going is that I get to play it on the radio."
But some goths refuse to accept the dwindling state of the scene and are hell-bent on reviving it. Nephilim Halls, a small collective of millennials who were bummed when goth-friendly clubs like Pink Cadillac and 1739 shut down in the mid-aughts, put together a website in 2011. For the past four years, it's served as a sort of ongoing goth newsletter to keep communication thriving and the community apprised of what events are left. And when Nocturna started focusing on bigger--and more infrequent--stuff two years ago, they decided to throw events themselves, including Kore and Vortex.
The IKEA company proudly supports recycling programs around the world, and their stores have recycling bins set up for stuff like batteries, light bulbs and plastic bottles that shouldn't be tossed in the trash.
They also sell replacement parts for all kinds of furniture, so people can fix up their old stuff instead of simply tossing it out, and they use recycled materials to make many of their items, including their iconic blue and gold FRAKTA bags.
When it comes to upcycling the FRAKTA bag is king, because those who think outside the bag have been turning the FRAKTA into everything from sneakers to dust masks to thongs. It's the most uncomfortable pair of underwear in the world, but it's totally recyclable and only costs a buck!
Ask the average person who or what is humanity's greatest threat and most people will have something different to say, and their opinions may have changed since the 2016 election.
But most of the people polled will respond based on something they read or what they've been told instead of just giving a heartfelt response, which is the only appropriate response to that question.
Because, according to this Loading Artist comic, humanity's greatest threat is the heart, and not in the figurative sense of our love or emotions destroying us all but literally, because THE HUMAN HEART IS A MONSTER!
For most of us mom was our comforter, therapist, soother, teacher and defender when we were too young to understand what was going on, an island of comfort in a sea of madness.
Mother of four Stephanie Vandewalker recently put her motherly skills to work as hail the size of golf balls pounded her minivan while she was waiting for her oldest child to get out of school.
Stephanie's children were really shaken up as the hail beat down and broke the back window, and even though she was just as freaked out as they were Stephanie tried to keep them calm by telling them "We're gonna be OK, don't worry":
I was outside of the elementary school waiting to pick up my first grader, and just as the bell rang the sky started assaulting us with giant hail balls of doom. The hail storm came out of nowhere, and we are very thankful none of the kids had been released from school before the hail began falling. The Honda Odyssey is battered and broken, but the kids are all safe.
(Note: the clip at the beginning of the video should actually be at around 7:22)
Our childhood memories involve going to a friend or relative's house and hanging with the folks we love (or are forced to hang out with), so they often include snapshots of the stuff we found visually interesting in the home.
For crafty upcycler Emily Seilhamer those snapshots from her grandma's house include one key (lime green and yellow) element- the wallpaper her grandma had hanging in the kitchen.
Emily loved this wallpaper so much she decided to snag it when the house was remodeled and sold, but instead of shoving it in some memory box somewhere she turned it into a vintage style dress.
Now she can walk around proudly with her childhood memories on her back, knowing the dress she made isn't some tacky piece of upcycled trash- it's beautiful and looks like something her grandma would have worn in the 60s.
The Simpsons have presented some incredibly strange and stupid ideas over the years that we laughed at while watching and joked about with friends after the episode was over.
But the internet made it entertaining and lucrative to recreate ideas presented on The Simpsons in real life, thus theories like this one involving Bart linking ten megaphones together are now seen as a challenge:
Kevin Kohler, aka The Backyard Scientist, decided to test Bart's theory of the linked megaphones to see if he could break every window in his neighborhood with the force of his voice. So he linked up 10 megaphones and screamed through the one on the end, just to see if the writers were onto something with this theory.
Did Kevin's chain of megaphones have the same destructive power as Bart's did in season 8, episode 25 of The Simpsons? Tune in and find out!
If you want to catch people while they're making funny facial expressions they have no control over you have to catch them while they're doing something that makes them react involuntarily- like eating something spicy.
Mexican photographer Josef Ibarr has chosen the habanero pepper as his face-inducing spicy substance of choice, because it never fails to make his subjects scowl, squirm and squeal.
Once they've been given the chile treatment Josef shoots one of the most honest portraits possible of these pain-wracked people, showing them the spicy face they never get to see.
The neon colored pop culture dreams of the 80s are alive and well today, and that totally radical decade is still inspiring artists and creators to explore what could have been with their creations.
If you're looking to add some retro flavor to your collection then you've gotta check out the tees available at the NeatoShop and get an awesome new old look for less!
When a cultist heads out to join a Satanic order but ends up hailing some guy names Stan you know some really stupid stuff is about to happen, like ridiculous rituals and some goofy plan involving a goat.
But nobody ever said cultists were bright, 'cause if they were they wouldn't be praying to dark and dangerous gods who want to devour them or torture them for eternity! Heed this visual warning by Gunshow Comics and leave the cult life alone!
Imagine you're driving down a crowded street in the suburbs of Seattle when you see a small plane drop out of the sky and crash in a ball of flames in front of you.
You'd probably flip the hell out, maybe call a friend and tell them about what you just saw, but would any of them really believe you?
Probably not, but thanks to his dashcam Guangting Li was able to capture the incredible scene on video as a Piper PA3 crashed on the streets of Mukilteo, Washington.
The single-engine Piper PA3 had just taken off from the nearby Paine Field, around 30 miles north of downtown Seattle. According to the FAA's description to local news, the plane started losing power just after takeoff and the pilot couldn't restart the engine.
Faced with a no-win scenario, the pilot saw a clear and open emergency runway in the form of Harbour Pointe Boulevard and took the plane down. While around 9,000 people lost power in the area, that there were no injuries speaks to the fact that the pilot made the right call.
And in the 20s and 30s the decadence of the Art Deco era was reflected in the designs of luxury automobiles like the 1936 Delahaye 135 Competition Court Figoni et Falaschi Coupe (above) or the 1932 Auburn V12 Boattail Speedster.
And while these big and beautiful cars seem bulky and horribly inefficient by today's standards could you imagine the look on your neighbors' faces if they saw a 1925 Rolls Royce Phantom sitting in your driveway! *drool*
Most actors have a woeful tale to tell about a role they turned down that wound up being a major career boost for another actor, and these role refusal regret stories have one thing in common- the role was in a great movie or TV show.
Tamzin Merchant and Gillian Anderson have a role refusal regret story in common involving a little show called Game Of Thrones, in which Tamzin played Daenerys Targaryen for the unaired pilot.
But how were they to know Game Of Thrones would become one of the biggest TV shows of all time?
This video by Looper reveals some of the A-list stars who refused work in Westeros, and even though Gillian Anderson's career wasn't affected by the pass many of the others on the list could've used the boost!
Queen Elizabeth is a very capable woman who makes a great role model for feminism, but she's also 91 years old and therefore cannot do some of the things she used to enjoy in her younger years.
But there's one thing the Queen of England still loves to do which may surprise you- she still loves to drive.
The Queen has a stable of fine automobiles waiting for her whenever she feels like cruisin', including a posh Jaguar and her personal favorite the rugged Range Rover.
And even though she's getting up there in years Elizabeth isn't some mechanically inept "granny driver"- she first discovered her love of driving while "serving as a mechanic in the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service during the last few months of World War II".