It's only one minute and six seconds long. In those 66 seconds, a lot happens. This plot is all over the place and moving constantly.
Allegedly, the events take place in Russia. This immediately rings true, but I'm at a loss to explain why I think that. I don't think that it's just the Russian text in the tweet where I first saw the sequence.
Whether this is real or just a slice of security camera footage, I can't wait to see the sequel, preferably directed by Michael Bay
Literary TikToker (I'm going to just assume that's a thing for the kids these days, just like wearing an onion on your belt is for my generation) Lizzy imagines a scenario in which different incarnated fiction genres meet for their regular bookclub. They have decidedly firm opinions about the relative quality of themselves.
Notably absent is Alternate History, who was probably too busy accusing competitors of using Alien Space Bats, and Science Fiction, who is still world building instead of plot writing. Western's kids took the car keys away and can't get to the meetings anymore.
A Soju Bomb is a cocktail which mixes beer with soju, a Korean grain-based liquor with a very high alcohol content. Simply stirring the liquor into the beer is totally inadequate. The real Soju Bomb experiece begins with balancing the shot of soju over the beer glass on a pair of chopsticks. Knock hard on the table on which it sits to jar the shot loose. To fully prepare your brain for this experience, use something heavy, like your skull. Get your head nicely tenderized so that the booze has pain to numb.
If your shot does not fall in, try again and again, as many times as necessary, to mix the drink. The more times that you hit, the more motivation you gain to complete the drink.
The tabloid Daily Star tells us about this Dutch driver who noticed that another driver on the highway had passed out while still at the wheel. Her car continued to roll forward, more or less straight. It had done some damage, but she probably would have been seriously hurt if the car hit a solid object head-on.
So Temmermans guided his own car directly in front of the wayward Volkswagen and slowed until it hit him at a fairly low rate of comparative speed. He brought both vehicles to a halt. Once they stopped, he immediately ran to check on the woman.
This isn’t some children’s game. These aren’t friends killing time at a slumber party. These fighters are playing for keeps. They want to win. That’s why you can expect the upcoming Pillow Fight Championship pay-per-view event in January to be intense.
Steve Williams, the CEO and founder of the PFC organization, tells Reuters that most of his competitors come from combat sports and will act accordingly. They are using specialized pillows that won’t hurt their opponents, but nonetheless will be swung with skill and ferocity.
Embedded below is a video of one such fight. The action starts at the 0:41 mark.
I don't know the rules of PFC, but I could see how it could work with a point sparring system.
Let us not doubt that the gentleman in this video was, in his best Samuel L. Jackson voice, expressing his exasperation at the number of snakes on the road. Who he is and where he is remain a mystery, but not his reckless courage.
Some people on the Internet are saying that this man picked up hundreds of snakes to toss them off the road. I think that dozens is a more likely count, although a number higher than zero is too many snakes to pick up without absolute certainty that they are nonvenomous.
Why does the do this? Let me speculate:
To rescue the snakes from getting run over by cars.
Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand, is built on a rocky coastline, so there's not a lot of flat land available for real estate development. Many luxury homes are built on steep cliffsides, which makes them difficult to access. To help, some of these wealthy owners have constructed private incline cable cars. The Guardian reports that the city of 215,000 people has an impressive 152 such private lifts.
There used to be more such cable cars--300, in fact. Then safety regulations required demolishing many of them. For some homeowners who kept their cable cars, they're indispensible because their homes are otherwise inaccessible.
On the fourth date with my now-wife, we reached the point in the evening in which it was time for me to give my impression of the braying of a donkey.
What was the result? Well, let's just say that there was a fifth date after that.
I accomplished this despite not being a vocal artist, let alone one as masterfully skilled as Rudi Rok. This Finnish actor and director can deliver the goods on so many animals in precise detail. His thirsty dog even has the subtle clicking sound of a dog in need of water. His physical acting skills greatly contribute to these impressions.
Here at Neatorama, we seek to not only entertain our readers, but also inform them. The pursuit of scientific knowledge is a worthy goal for its own sake. Therefore let us pause from our usual fare of cat videos and oddly-cooked burritos to examine the dynamic field of biomechanics. Specifically, let's look at how breasts move about while women run on treadmills.
In a 2018 article in the Journal of Biomechanics, Elisa s. Arch and her colleagues noticed that previous studies of breast movement during athletic activity focused on the movement of the nipple. This is understandable, as the nipple is easy to track. But it is inadequate if one wishes to examine the flow and sway of breasts in three dimensions. Their research required six women to run on treadmills wearing tracking bras, such as the one you see photographed above. As a result, the researchers noticed that larger breasts tended to move more than smaller breasts and that most motion did not occur at the nipples, but at other areas of the breasts.
But clearly, as Deidre E. McGhee and Julie R. Steele argue in their 2020 article "Breast Mechanics: What Do We Really Know?", there is a great need for futher research and observation. Let the march of scientific progress continue.
When I bought my first adult bike two years ago, I gritted my teeth and settled on a Huffy Cranbook. It was good enough, since it had a single gear, coaster brakes, an upright rider position, and the capacity to take cargo racks.
At the time, I didn't know that omafeits existed. Omafiet is the Dutch word for "grandma bike." The YouTuber Not Just Bikes explains how they are magnificently designed for practical, everyday use.
The omafeit has everything my Huffy does and so much more: a complete chain guard, a step-through frame, a coat guard, a heavy-duty cargo rack, a frame lock, and a dynamo for a headlight. The omafeit is a simple, rugged assembly of steel parts that's ideal for everyday transportation.
That's why I think it would also be an ideal vehicle for a post-apocalyptic lifestyle. There's no point in owning a vehicle that requires frequent maintenance or specialized parts. It's not as energy efficient as a road bike, but it's more efficient than a fancy bike that you have to walk away from because a gear slipped and the underdwellers have caught your scent.
First We Feast passes along this excellent idea for Thanksgiving. Yes, the dinner event itself is important. But friends and relatives may be staying much longer, so a more informal snacking option can be helpful. A charcuterie board with a selection of meats, cheeses, and fruits can keep your guests occupied while you labor in the kitchen.
To impress your visitors, make little roses out of circular slices of salami. The top of a wine glass offers a workspace and mold. Layer the slices in concentric circles until they meet at the top. Then carefully flip your glass over to present a pork flower.
Unless you are celebrating INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY or are just sloppy at typing, you use upper case and lower case letters more or less according to standardized rules when writing or typing in the English language.
Historically speaking, though, this is a fairly modern invention. Many languages do not use different cases, including languages that use varieties of the Latin alphabet. Why? YouTuber The Generalist Papers explains in a recent video.
The origin of the difference lies in whether Romans were writing Latin on stone or paper. Modern Latin alphabet letters can be found in ancient Roman inscriptions, but what we call lower case letters began in how Latin was written with ink on parchment.
Later, during the Carolingian Renaissance (that's the reign of Charlemagne and his immediate successors), monks began copying manuscripts using large block letters at the beginnings of passages. When Italian Renaissance scholars discovered these different writing styles, they adopted them, believing incorrectly that they were proper Roman writings, not debased medieval writing systems.
But The Generalist Papers is just getting started. He takes us on to the physical arrangement of printing presses and then to fairly recent standardization of capitalization rules by English grammarians. English written civilization then culminated in the publication of the novel Shatnerquake.
The last bit is more of my opinion than that of The Generalist Papers, but I think it's intellectually sound.
It's not just a video that dogs can respond to. The DogPhone system allows dogs to initiate a video phone call with their human by squeezing a soft toy.
Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, a professor of "Animal-Computer Interaction" at the University of Glasgow, developed the DogPhone with the assistance of Zach, her black labrador retriever. When Zach squeezes the ball, the dog's laptop triggers a video call to her. When Hirskyj-Douglas calls Zach, a ringing tone informs him that he has an incoming call. If he squeezes the ball, the call opens.
Hirskyj-Douglas explains to The Guardian that her goal for the DogPhone is to create a technology that animals can control. Animals, she argues, should have choices about how they interact with humans.
How would you make a modern street corner look like it was from in 1930? To find out, Insider talked to Rena DeAngelo, a master set designer who works at Eclectic/Encore Props. This company provides props and scene design for television and movie productions for many historical pieces that you've seen, such as West Side Story.
DeAngelo has astonishingly detailed expertise in her field, addressing every visual aspect of a historical scene. It's a lot more than just finding the right cars for an era. The license plates on those cars are essential, too. The signs around a city are important, but DeAngelo also ensures that the materials used to create those signs and the fonts used on them are historically accurate. Watch and learn how much thought goes into the creation of scene that may last for only seconds on the screen.
In this video, Felton describes Thailand's contribution to World War I in Europe. Eager to prove to the great powers that Thailand was a modern nation, King Vajiravudh ordered the assembly of a military expeditionary force to France to participate in the final stages of the war, followed by the occupation of a portion of western Germany after the armistice.
