The folks at How It Should Have Ended have made bank by rewriting our favorite films. Here they take on The Last Jedi, which means this video is full of spoilers for a film you should have seen by now. But it's not just the ending that gets re-written. All the elements are changed in one way or another, to make them more logical, to make them fit in with our preconceived notions, or to make them just plain funnier.
They added one very important element that we expect from all Star Wars films in that someone got their hand cut off. That's a pure staple that The Last Jedi overlooked. "Shut up, Carl, nobody asked you!" -via Tastefully Offensive
We are only interested in figure skating for two weeks every four years. Then suddenly, we all become experts in the sport. While we wait for someone to fail, we critique their costumes and marvel at the jumps and spins and whatever else they do so well.
[figure skater does something]
me: “THAT’S AMAZING”
announcer: “And that’s really going to cost her, you just can’t be making those sloppy mistakes at this level”
If we are going to be critics, we may as well learn something about what we're watching.
If you tune in to any broadcast of a figure skating competition, it can seem like the announcers are speaking a different language. But all you need to know is that because there are only a certain number of edges and a certain number of ways a skater can land a jump, there are only six recognized jumps in competitive figure skating: the toe loop, the salchow, the loop, the flip, the lutz, and the axel.
These six jumps are generally divided into two groups. “Edge” jumps — the loop, the salchow, and the axel — rely on the power from a skater bending her knee to jump off the ice. “Toe” jumps — the toe loop, the flip, and the lutz — rely on skaters using their toe pick to launch themselves into the air.
In competition, each jump is worth a certain number of points based on their difficulty level, with the toe loop worth the least and the axel worth the most. The elite women figure skaters perform triple jumps (three to three and a half revolutions), while the medal contenders on the men’s side regularly hit quads (four revolutions). Read on for a rundown of each jump.
Abby and Brittany Hensel are conjoined twins who share a body. Specifically, they each control half of their body, and learned at a very early age to work together in perfect sync in order to walk and do all the other things people with two arms and legs each do. The Hensel twins had their own reality TV series on TLC a few years ago. What's happened since then? Abby and Brittany graduated from college in 2012 and got a job as math teachers for fourth- and fifth-graders.
While students may think they are going to get two different perspectives, Abby and Brittany are in perfect sync. While they are do not share any brain connections like the Hogan twins, they are very good at completing each other's sentences. They are receiving one salary, with half the funds going to Abby and half to Brittany.
Samurai who were dishonored and became ronin usually spent their time in exile roaming around the countryside looking for purpose and redemption, but the oddly-named samurai Jason stuck around the lake of crystal like his life depended on it. He also let his dishonorable discharge twist him up inside, becoming a psychotic slasher who no longer valued human life and who protected the lake of crystal as if it were his own personal kingdom of death....
Add a feudal Japanese twist to your horror tee collection with this The Samurai Slasher t-shirt by Vincent Trinidad, it's a cut above the rest of the geeky mashup tees out there and it'll make your fellow horror fans scream with delight!
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Indecision wasted this guy's entire weekend. It's a situation in which rationalization would do wonders. I read the first two panels and thought, "How convenient, if your life goals are to relax, watch a film, and play video games." Seriously, that's the life goals of a lot of people. It sure beats being paralyzed by procrastination. This comic is from Gone Into Rapture. -via Geeks Are Sexy
Despite the good they're built to represent many churches are downright scary places, especially the older and creakier ones that look more like a horror movie set than a place of worship.
But creaky or not there are few churches creepier than St. George's church in the Czech Republic, a dilapidated old church parishioners refused to step foot in after the roof fell in during a funeral in the 1960s.
Hoping to bring the church back to life Czech sculptor Jakub Hadrava figured out a way to make the long abandoned church into a tourist attraction- by adding a bunch of creepy hooded figures and turning it into an art installation.
Now the church has the creepy look, the creepy and deadly backstory and a bunch of creepy sculptures of hooded "ghosts" hanging around, doesn't get much creepier than that!
A group of prospectors that included Shaaw Tláa, along with her brothers and common-law husband, discovered gold in the Klondike in 1896. She was the first of many women who became part of gold rush history. Others made their way north to take advantage of the gold rush for riches, freedom, and adventure in a time where few women had control over their own lives.
Without Shaaw Tláa there would be no Klondike Gold Rush, and of course, no Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park. In 1896, Tláa, a Native American woman also known as Kate Carmack, was traversing remote lands in Canada when her team discovered gold at Rabbit Creek. This event acted as the catalyst for what would become one of the largest gold rushes in American history.
Other women made their way to the Klondike and made a fortune providing goods and services to the gold miners or as journalists chronicling their adventures. Read about five such pioneering women at Attn.
It seems odd that someone would make a list of times SpongeBob SquarePants went too far, because his bizarre jokes and slapstick brand of comedy seem to go too far on every episode.
But apparently WatchMojo went through every episode of SpongeBob to show us that the wacky cartoon about a little burger flipping buffoon sometimes goes even farther than too far, the skits becoming a bit too unsettling.
There was the time Squidward got off on murdering papier mache versions of SpongeBob, the time Plankton wore Sandy's discarded "pelt" as a suit, and the time SpongeBob popped Mrs. Puff, making her unable to puff up again- which made her want to murder him.
These episodes made me crack up, but the target audience's parents were probably less than thrilled to find their kids watching such sick and twisted toons!
Winemaking evolved from the natural fermenting process, which was discovered in nature. Brewing beer was a step further, but it took an entirely new process to produce distilled spirits. In other words, it took a still. And that was developed by Persian alchemist Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan in the 8th century, during the Islamic Golden Age. Jabir rose to the position of alchemist to the caliph, and his writings on chemistry became famous. Among other accomplishments, he coined the word "alkali," and invented the alembic on order to make spirits.
An alembic is a liquid-filled container placed over a heat source. Connected by a tube to another vessel, it allows vapors from the heated substance to pass through the tube, condense along it, and drip into the other container. That condensation, which is the essence of the distilled material, became known as the “spirit.” Since alcohol has a lower boiling point than water, heating wine in an alembic still causes alcohol to evaporate first, separating it from the water. Jabir made his still of glass or pottery, while later iterations were made of copper.
Jabir’s discovery was the key to producing higher-proof liquor. But he didn’t become a bartender extraordinaire. Instead he noted that distilling wine could create a flammable vapor, which he called “of little use but of great importance to science.”
The spirits were used as fuel and an antiseptic, but a later alchemist and physician used it for medicinal purposes. Read about him, as well as Jabir and the history of distilled alcohol at Atlas Obscura.
People say "you're never too old..." about things most seniors don't want to do, but when it comes to cosplaying the cliche is true, because you're never too old to dress up like one of your favorite pop culture characters.
Just ask Shirley Chua from Singapore- Shirley is 70 years old yet she started cosplaying as Chun-Li from Street Fighter and her other favorite characters in 2011, right after she told her son "Mama would like to cosplay".
Since then Shirley has embraced the art of cosplay and even loves to make her own costumes, and as you'll see in this video from The Good Guyde she fits in with the Con crowd just as well as any young cosplayer.
Mark your calendars for March 23, because that's the first issue date for the new forever stamps from the US Postal Service featuring Fred Rogers. The beloved host of the PBS show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was a TV innovator, and is fondly remembered by Generation X, who grew up watching the show. The stamp dedication ceremony will be held at WQED’s Fred Rogers Studio in Pittsburgh, March 23 at 11AM, and it is open to the public. If you can't make it, the ceremony will be live-streamed on Facebook. Afterward, you can request stamps from your local post office, although it may be some days before they are available everywhere. -via Laughing Squid
The food you get at a restaurant tastes different than homemade by design, because why would you pay restaurant prices for food you can make at home?
This difference in flavor often come from the chef adding way more salt, fat or spices than you would ever add at home, but sometimes restaurant flavor is the result of a simple cooking trick like pressing a dimple into your burger before cooking it.
This video by Bright Side reveals 14 Cooking Secrets Used By Restaurant Chefs, including the secret to cutting the perfect slice of cake (hold knife under hot water before cutting) and how to pick the perfect lemon (the thinner the peel the more sour the lemon).
Kids are going to run into subjects that are difficult for them, whether it's math, reading, history, or whatever. Anything we can do to give them a little push toward feeling better about those subjects will steer them in the right direction. Sure, they may be failing now, but there's gotta be something there to praise. This is the latest comic from Lunarbaboon.
Ask anyone to name a movie about the winter Olympics and chances are that Cool Runnings is the only one they can think of. The 1993 sports comedy was very loosely based on the Jamaican bobsled team that participated in the 1988 Olympics in Calgary. The concept alone was enough to hang a movie script on, and the result was quite funny. It was the final John Candy movie released before his death in 1994. Let's learn some more about Cool Runnings.
8. Two big name actors turned down two of the lead roles.
Denzel Washington and Eddie Murphy turned down the roles of Chatrice and Sanka due to the fact that they weren’t offered enough.
7. There’s actual footage from the 1988 Winter Olympic games in the film.
Some of those moments you see caught on camera are actual shots of the racers as they were back in the 80’s.
Hyrule has dealt with many tragic events and evil villains in its time, but the worst by far was the awful incident with the equally awful name- the Great Cataclysm caused by Ganondorf. The Great Cataclysm was triggered when that jerk Ganondorf entered the Sacred Realm and snatched the Triforce, and if it weren't for the small but legendary hero Link the land of Hyrule would still be dealing with the chaos and destruction unleashed by Ganondorf's evil act. And you thought ocarinas were only good for playing sweet little songs!
Wear your love of video game history on your chest with this Great Cataclysm t-shirt by Adam Works, featuring a fantastic looking design that'll blow your fellow gamers' minds!
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