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Guys Display Their Speed And Agility By Punching A Bear Trap Before It Closes

Macho men like to perform feats of strength so they can show off how manly they are, and they constantly feel the need to prove their physical prowess is over 9000 so they don't drop a rank in their bro pack.

But losing face in front of your macho friends is preferable to losing a hand while trying to do something stupid like punching a bear trap, a lesson which ol' Dieter here learned the hard way.

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He bearly missed it, and now his arm looks a bit grizzly...meanwhile Uncle Punchy pulled the trick off without a hitch!

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-Via Boing Boing


Breathtaking Self Portraits By Croatian Photographer Isabella Bubola

Portaiture is an art form that seems like it would have its limitations- a limited number of poses and facial expressions, a finite number of filters that don't make the flesh look funky, and few original tales to tell with a portrait.

But Croatian photographer Isabella Bubola's self-portraits prove portraiture is forever, with an infinite number of ways for a photographer to tell a new tale, as she shares a unique view of her world so we can see her in her raw form.

Isabella's hauntingly beautiful self-portraits allow us to get close enough to see the sweat on her brow and the flakes on her dry lips, but the veil of mystery that surrounds her keeps us from hearing her scream.

See more self-portraits from Isabella Bubola at JazJaz


Pilot's Phone Is Sucked Out Of Plane, Keeps Filming All The Way To The Ground

If you've ever wondered what it would look and feel like to plummet out of a plane without a parachute but you value your life too much to attempt it in person then have I got a video for you!

It was inadvertently shot by Blake Henderson of Westmoreland, Tennessee, who was flying a plane while shooting aerial footage of another plane when the camera was sucked out the window.

Somehow Blake's Samsung Galaxy S5 survived the 1000 foot drop and kept recording the whole time, creating a motion sickness inducing video that'll make your head spin.

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-Via Laughing Squid


Coffee Is An Acquired Taste

Coffee, much like beer and whiskey, tastes like crap the first time it hits your tongue, and just like whiskey it burns on the way down and makes you wonder why you wanted to try that foul beverage in the first place.

But then you start to feel the effects and the attraction to that caustic liquid finally makes sense, and according to this comic from The Awkward Yeti some people fall so deeply in love with coffee they want to marry it.

Personally, I prefer to keep my relationship with coffee strictly friends with benefits...

-Via Geeks Are Sexy


Translated Names Of American States And Canadian Provinces

There's a steady stream of state-related posts being shared on the internet every day, and many of them are interesting or entertaining in their own right because America is fifty states worth of strange.

But Expedia Canada's map of The Literal Translation of Places in Canada & the United States is the most entertaining, informative and shareable map I've seen in a long time.

Who knew Illinois translates to "speaks normally", Nebraska is "flattened water" or that Texas means "friend"? I sure as heck didn't, but now I do!

See full sized map here

-Via Simplemost


The Hidden Dangers Of Wearing Flip Flops All The Time

Most SoCal residents feel flip flops are an essential part of a casual wardrobe, but I prefer sneakers or boots and wouldn't be caught dead in flip flops, which makes me an oddball compared to the SoCal norm.

I'm also an oddball because I've never fallen down stairs because my flip flops got stuck on a step, nor have I developed fallen arches, hammertoes or had bacteria eating away at my toes:

A study by the University of Miami’ mobile flip-flop lab found that flip-flops have significantly more bacteria than traditional shoes, especially when worn in public restrooms. Fungal infections and Staphylococcus can make their way into microabrasions or burst blisters in your feet, which would quickly end your beach plans.

And don't even get me started on all the blisters, corns, toenail fungus, bone spurs, plantar fascitis and bunions that can be caused by wearing flip flops too often- that's why I'm proud to be flip flop free!

See According To Doctors Here Are 8 Health Risks Of Wearing Flip Flops here


Why You Shouldn't Leave Your Buddy In Charge Of Shooting The Vacation Pics

Vacation photos are a visual reminder of our adventures abroad and a fun way to share what we saw on our travels with our friends and family, but if you want good pics of your trip you've gotta shoot them yourself.

Now you may be tempted to let a friend do the shooting when you travel abroad with your buddies, but if you're friends with a guy like illustrator James Nathaniel keep the camera to yourself- or you may end up with some really strange vacation photos.

James says he was trying to bring out the group's inner children by enlarging all the heads in their vacation photos from their trip to Southern France:

"I like to make me and my friends into kids by making our heads bigger in photos, one of the most important things about growing up is remembering how and when to act like children,"

See more from This Guy Was Responsible For Vacation Pics, His Friends Probably Didn't Expect This... here


When TV Worlds Collided And Fans Got Way Too Excited

Fans are always obsessing about what it would be like if their favorite pop culture characters came together in a TV show crossover episode, but due to licensing restrictions and greed this almost never happens.

Back in the 80s and 90s it was a bit easier for pop culture franchises to come together, so we got to see Sabrina the Teenage Witch on Boy Meets World, Fresh Prince's cousin Hilary paid a visit to Blossom, and Urkel hung out with the Tanners on Full House.

Fans were naturally very excited about these crossover events, and it became a bit of a trend for TV shows to have a crossover event, even if it made no sense.

But do you know which TV crossover event made more sense than any other TV crossover ever?

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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles appearance on Power Rangers In Space, now that was pure television magic!

See 7 Times TV Worlds Collided And We All Got Way Too Excited here


Watch A Train Plow Straight Through A Semi-Truck Trailer Stuck On The Tracks

It's a scene straight out of an action flick- a semi-truck stuck on the tracks as a train going too fast to stop comes barreling towards it.

We expect certain things to happen when we watch this scenario play out, but as you can see in this video shot in Locust Grove, Georgia, trailers don't explode when they're hit by a train, despite what Hollywood would have us believe.

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The truck driver wasn't hurt in the crash and the trailer was full of candy, so in a way it was like a great show and a massive piñata smashing for any kids who happened to be walking by at that moment.

-Via The Wrap


The World's Oldest Unopened Bottle Of Wine

The old adage "wine gets better with age" should be followed up with a "but only if..." to clarify the real rules of aging wine, so people who buy into the adage don't go looking for ancient bottles of wine to open.

Apparently you can drink a properly aged bottle of wine over 200 years after it has been bottled, but as Josh Jones of Open Culture shows us the world's oldest bottle of wine (circa 350 AD) definitely isn't drinkable:

A 1.5 liter “glass vessel with amphora-like sturdy shoulders” in the shape of dolphins, the bottle is of no use to its owner, but no one is certain what would happen to the liquid if it were exposed to air, so it stays sealed, its thick stopper of wax and olive oil maintaining an impressively hermetic environment. Scientists can only speculate that the liquid inside has probably lost most of its ethanol content. But the bottle still contains a good amount of wine, “diluted with a mix of various herbs.”

The Römerwein resides at the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer, which seems like an incredibly fascinating place if you happen to be passing through. You won’t get to taste ancient Roman wine there, but you may, perhaps, if you travel to the University of Catania in Sicily where in 2013, scientists recreated ancient wine-making techniques, set up a vineyard, and followed the old ways to the letter, using wooden tools and strips of cane to tie their vines.

-Via Boing Boing


Two-Sentence Horror Stories That Will Succinctly Make Your Skin Crawl

You don't have to write an entire novel or short story to scare someone's pants off, and true masters of horror can make our skin crawl with a few words, much less an entire sentence.

But the freaky folks who contribute to the subreddit TwoSentenceHorror are proving that a two-sentence long story is the easiest way to get into somebody's head without using a power drill.

After all horror isn't about gimmicks, monsters or bodily dismemberment- it's about the psychological effects words and imagery have on the human mind, and nothing leaves a mental scar quite like a good tale of terror.

See 10 Two-Sentence Horror Stories That'll Give You The Chills here


Scenes From The Pop Culture Apocalypse

Pop culture iconography is something that will live on long after people have forgotten what the corresponding storylines were all about, becoming symbols of the past prized for their visual appeal.

And, as digital artist Filip Hodas shows us in his awesome artwork, the symbols of pop culture look really cool whether they're shiny and new or wasting away in a post apocalyptic world.

Filip's artwork features well known icons such as Pac-Man, Bender and Hello Kitty as apocalyptic ruins, where they live on as shelters and symbols of hope in an otherwise bleak and barren landscape.

And while most of these icons look a whole lot worse for wear they retain the visual appeal that made them so popular before the world fell apart.

See Artist Turns Pop Culture Into Apocalyptic Ruins here


Justifiably Forgotten Milton Bradley Board Games

As an avid board gamer I'm constantly amazed by how many great games are out there, and whether they're simple enough for kids to play or so complex adults have a hard time playing the great games keep on coming.

But back in the board game dark ages stores were full of games that were neither fun to play nor good looking, and companies like Milton Bradley would just slap a licensed character on the box and call it a day.

Did anybody ever ask for a Do The Urkel, A Day With Ziggy or Where's The Beef? board game? Hell no, and yet Milton Bradley made them anyway, and judging by the Urkel game's board layout MB also made kids hate their parents for buying them such a garbage game. 

And speaking of garbage- what kid wouldn't want to play a game called Town Dump? And what could be more fun than a safe family board game about safety? It's a safe bet many copies of Let's Be Safe! found their way into town dumps across America...

See 14 Justifiably Forgotten Milton Bradley Board Games here


This Brazilian Tattoo Artist Specializes In Ugly Tattoos

A bad tattoo is a bad decision made visible, which the victim gets to wear for the rest of their life, and it's typically not something the customer can foresee happening, since tattoo parlors don't hang fail pics on their walls.

But the odd ducks who go to 26-year-old Brazilian artist Helena Fernandes for one of her signature skin art originals know exactly what they're about to get- a really ugly tattoo.

Helena hand crafts her endearingly ugly tattoos at her home studio Malfeitona in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, and her fans proudly sport the tatuagens peba (literally "trash tattoos") she lovingly applies to their skin.

See more of Helena's Ugly Tattoos at Bored Panda


Why We Should All Be Eating Adult Lunchables

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Lunchables weren't exactly what you'd call a healthy lunch when they first came out, and many kids who brought Lunchables to school were still hungry afterwards, unlike those of us who brown bagged it or ate a hot lunch.

But the concept behind Lunchables is solid, and as adults we often eat food much worse than Lunchables on a daily basis, so maybe it's time to let the Lunchables back into our lives- after an adult makeover.

Skillet's Claire Lower makes a great argument for why we should start making adult Lunchables, but first the rules of Lunchables:

  1. The contents within must require no cooking, and must be able to be eaten as-is without further prep, preferably without utensils.
  2. The various foods within must be able to be combined with every other food contained within the Lunchable in a pleasing way, the only exception being the optional dessert, which should be consumed last. (And should, preferably, be an Oreo cookie or a fun-size Snickers bar.)
  3. The food stuffs within must be compartmentalized neatly, and in a way that almost whispers to the consumer “Hush now, you are safe. There is order in this world after all.”

And here are some of Claire's tasty ideas that will make you want to buy a bento box and start bringing your own adult Lunchables to work every day:

  • Salami + rounds of crusty bread + shards of Parm + grapes
  • Grilled chicken chunks + mini pita + hummus + sliced grape tomatoes
  • Fancy crackers + sliced figs + the sharpest of sliced cheddar
  • Mortadella (fancy bologna with attitude) + American cheese (yell at me) + Ritz crackers (yeah, yell some more)
  • Rice crackers + cooked, cold shrimp (or that fake Krab meat) + cucumber slices + wasabi paste + packets of soy sauce

-Via Skillet


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