Hollywood movie titles are often changed for other nations, to more accurately reflect the understanding of the film in a different culture. But when you re-translate those titles back into English, the changes often leave English speakers scratching our heads. There's a reason behind each one, but your guess about that is as good as mine. Some are better than the originals, like the many films of the Fast and Furious movie series as they are titled in Japan, which are more descriptive of the movies. 

The Fast & The Furious in Japan is Wild Speed
2 Fast 2 Furious in Japan is Wild Speed X2
The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift in Japan is Wild Speed X3: Tokyo Drift
Fast & Furious in Japan is Wild Speed MAX
Fast Five in Japan is Wild Speed Mega Max
Fast & Furious 6 in Japan is Wild Speed Euro Mission
Furious 7 in Japan is Wild Speed Sky Mission
The Fate of the Furious in Japan is Wild Speed Ice Break

The YouTube channel Abroad in Japan and the Twitter account Bomb Arrow have plenty of these title translations.

Bad Japanese Movie Title #45: "Vacation" is "Oh! Idiot Vacation Family" #japanesemovietitles pic.twitter.com/yrPGEhXsl8

— Bomb Arrow (@Bomb_Arrow) June 27, 2017

See the funniest of American movie retitled for Japan at Uproxx.

The Resolutioners are out there, they're in our restaurants ordering salad and skipping carbs, they're in the clothing stores buying "goal pants" that are a size too small, but mostly they're in the gyms trying to burn off the pounds.

These takers of vows see every New Year as a chance to restart a good life and be reborn, and like a sweat-drenched phoenix they rise through sets of squats and run for their lives until the thrill wears off around February.

If you've ever wondered what kind of muscle menagerie you can expect to see if you head to the gym in January then these strange comic strips from SIR Artwork will fill you in, and may put you off New Year's resolutions forever!

See These Comics Perfectly Describe Everything Wrong With Gyms In January here

One of the greatest chase scenes ever was filmed in the 1968 movie Bullitt. Steve McQueen, as police Lieutenant Frank Bullitt, is pursued by, and then pursues, organized crime figures bent on killing him in a 1968 Mustang GT. Two cars were used for the movie: one was so damaged that it was sent to be scrapped, the other was sold to a private owner. But Steve McQueen wanted the car for himself, and traced it from owner to owner, trying to buy it back. In 1977, the car's owner indicated he would never sell the unique vehicle to anyone, and McQueen gave up. Almost forty years later, Sean Kiernan revealed to a friend that he had inherited the car from his father, and maybe they could use it to finance a movie project. They brought in Kevin Marti to authenticate the vehicle.    

“I walked in to see the car,” he said, “and thought, ‘Here’s another car that looks like the Bullitt.’ I went over, looked at the VIN on the tag, and immediately, my emotions flipped from skepticism to ‘Oh, my god, it’s real.’ ”

Marti marveled at the modifications made for the movie. Underneath the rockers, three metal tubes were clumsily welded perpendicular to the car’s center line for camera mounts. There were holes cut in the trunk for the cords that ran from a generator to power the cameras and lights. Even tape residue remained—on the tachometer to mark the redline, and on the floor, presumably to secure the seatbelts and wires. “Ninety-eight percent of the original car is there,” he said. “It’s an incredible artifact.”

Meanwhile, Chad McQueen, the movie star's son, was also looking for the Bullitt car. Read the incredible story of one Mustang over its 50-year life at Hagerty. -via Metafilter

PS: Ford is reissuing the model in 2019.

Epic NPC Man (previously at Neatorama) takes a cockeyed look at the nuts and bolts of gaming, using real people instead of computer graphics. In this video, he explores the moment after the player has fulfilled his quest to rescue the damsel in distress. She's been the prisoner of the villain for ten years. Our hero escorts the fair maiden to her home, but now what? Will he marry her and live happily ever after? Will he gallantly consider her freedom and happiness as his only reward? Will he at least get a kiss? Let's find out.

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Remember, this is a video game, in which the player controls the action. The player is a gamer, so his priorities might be different from whatever you, the viewer, would like to see. -via Geeks Are Sexy

We find a high-speed chase scene thrilling, especially when it goes off the rails. The moment when a car goes airborne is often the most memorable part of the entire film. That how generations of Evel Knievel fans and Dukes of Hazard viewers were created. Some movies went the extra mile to give us that thrill, whether it was a dangerous and complicated stunt or enhanced in post-production. Some are exciting, some are tragic, and some are just plain funny. Remember when Jake and Elwood drove off a bridge in The Blues Brothers?  

It’s one of the more ridiculous car chase scenes out there but it’s insanely funny for that same reason. Not only are they able to stop the car before going off the unfinished bridge, but then Elwood manages to back up, somehow send the car into a backflip, and then go sailing over the Neo-Nazi-carrying car that’s hot on their tail. And then of course the insanity transfers to the Nazi car when it goes off the bridge at full speed and then proceeds to fly over the city while it’s somehow still falling from a much greater height than it started at. Ah yes, the insanity of comedy is great.

Relive five of the most memorable airborne car scenes in movies, with video evidence, at TVOM.

The Odd Cat Sanctuary in Massachusetts focuses on finding homes for odd cats: feral, disabled, neglected, elderly, or otherwise hard to place cats. They heard about Maya, a cat with a chromosomal abnormality that was headed for euthanasia at another shelter. Maya has a flattened snout and vision issues, but the more you look at her pictures, the cuter she becomes. The sanctuary placed Maya in a foster home, and now she has a forever home where she lives the life of a normal house cat and is quite pampered. Maya is also doing her part for other cats by being the unofficial face of the Odd Cat Sanctuary and drawing attention to other cats who need homes. See more Maya at her Instagram page.

(Image credit: meetmayacat)

The following is an article from The Annals of Improbable Research, now in all-pdf form. Get a subscription now for only $25 a year!

Research about physics, phonetics, and expulsion
compiled by Bertha Vanatian, Improbable Research staff

(Image credit: Mojpe)

Pressures Generated During Nose Blowing
“Pressures Generated During Nose Blowing in Patients With Nasal Complaints and Normal Test Subjects,” Peter Clement and Hana Chovanova, Rhinology, vol. 41, no. 3, 2003, pp. 152-158.

The authors compared nasal resistance and pressures generated during breathing and nose blowing in patients with chronic sinusitis, septal deviations and a control group consisting of normal test subjects. The chronic sinusitis group generated pressures during nose blowing that were significantly higher (898 daPa for the left side and 913 daPa for the right side) than in the other two groups. The decongestion didn’t change the generated pressures very much. Pressures generated during nose blowing with both nostrils closed are much higher than pressures generated during nose blowing with one nostril open.

Werewaldo by Scott Sherwood

Kids have been searching for Waldo for decades, and some of them have actually spotted him only to lose track of his whereabouts again when he moves to another location. But as much as kids have always wanted to catch Waldo, if only just for bragging rights, they're lucky they never did- or things might have gotten hairy. Spending too much time on the road changes a man, and when a hideous wolfen creature began stalking the spooky woods Waldo was hiding in his bright striped shirt and hat made him easy to find. Waldo was lucky to have survived that encounter, but after the wounds healed he noticed he was different, more aggressive and less concerned with hiding, and then he began to black out during the full moon...

Show people why they're lucky they never caught Waldo with this Werewaldo t-shirt by Scott Sherwood, featuring a howling good design that'll make people grin wherever you go!

Visit Scott Sherwood's Facebook fan page, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more horrifyingly good designs:

View more designs by Scott Sherwood | More Funny T-shirts | New T-Shirts

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Any time there is a lot of snow on a hillside, there's a possibility of snow rollers. This is a natural phenomenon that looks like how you start a snowman by rolling up a bunch of snow. They can sometime form into big wheels, like the snow roller above. They can also look like carpet rolls, or big boulders, or small balls.  

Whether or not nature can be anthropomorphized is a matter for debate. However, one’s first reaction is, inevitably that it must have been a person or persons unknown who took the time to gather a handful of snow and then slowly and carefully roll it until it became too large to push anymore. Yet a brief inspection of the snow around reveals no footprints.  So how were they created? There is science behind this magical and mysterious apparition.

When the top layer of a thick blanket of snow begins to melt and become heavy on the side of a hill, it might begin to roll o itself. As the glob of snow rolls down the hill, it gathers up the snow beneath it like in the game Katamari Damacy. The effect is quite eerie when you consider it all happening without human intervention. It's not real common, because conditions have to be just right, but there is plenty of photographic evidence at Kuriositas.

(Image credit: Flickr user Washington State Dept of Transportation)

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Cats have a firm sense of private property, but it only pertains to themselves. A cat sees something, it will take something. "I found it, it's mine now!" You know, like the seagulls in Finding Nemo, just quieter. Enjoy this compilation of all kinds of cats taking all kinds of things for themselves. -via Tastefully Offensive

When tools get old and rusty they end up sitting in the back of our garage or tool shed for years before they're thrown out like trash, but where some see rust and decay artist Cindy Chinn sees character.

So Cindy uses these discarded old tools as an artistic medium, using a plasma torch to hand cut fun winter scenes into rusty shovel heads and a little light welding to put the whole scene together.

Cindy's tool-based sculptures aren't limited to snow shovel heads, she's also known for creating artwork out of saw blades, rakes and trowel heads, and the scenes on each one match the medium.

But seeing as how it's winter, and some people are becoming mighty tired of clearing snow right about now, these wintery snow shovel scenes seems like the most appropriate series for the season!

See I've Made Some Whimsical Winter Scenes From Old Snow Shovels here

You might think you're weird because you have trouble falling asleep, but insomnia is way too common. To know how to fix it, you have to know what's causing the problem. And to understand the problem, we need to learn something about sleep itself.

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You already knew about caffeine, but who knew that bacon and eggs for a late super could interfere with sleep? taking time to wind down is a problem for me. When it's already the wee hours of the morning when I finish work, and I know I'll be back up at five, who wants to take time to wind down? That's because I don't have trouble falling asleep; I just having trouble finding time for sleep. -via Laughing Squid

We all want to feel special, and we also long for others to acknowledge how special we are and recognize the qualities that make us unique in the world, in other words acknowledge what makes us one-of-a-kind.

You know what else is unique and one-of-a-kind? A snowflake, and even though some people have tried to use snowflake as a derogatory term we know it's really a compliment and an acknowledgement of our unique beauty.

And there's something else you should know about "snowflakes"- we can be ice cold as needed, and if you try to diminish our specialness we'll cut ya! Figuratively speaking, of course...*wink*

-Via JHALLCOMICS

The picture may not be any help, but you can see the video of this creature at Imgur. The moving picture will eventually reveal the type of animal to you, but try out your detective skills by guessing what it is during the first ten seconds or so. Were you correct? Me, neither. -via TYWKIWDBI

The idea of wearing a heated jacket used to fill me with dread, since wearing one seems like a good way to end up electrocuted or killed by a flaming jacket.

But heated jackets are completely safe to wear, and people who live in extremely cold areas swear by them, claiming they're like wearing a warm hug all day long.

Host of What's Inside? and fun dad Dan Markham loves his heated jacket, and yet he was willing to slash it open and show us how it works for the sake of science, and Dan convinced me they're not so dangerous after all.

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-Via Laughing Squid