Many Otakus think anime girls would make great girlfriends, because they're powerful and beautiful, with plenty of magical charm and cute little voices that can make a raging bull stop and smile.
But if these anime girls existed in the real world they would be virtually undateable, and any Otaku who made a play for them would instantly regret their decision.
Jealous boyfriends would rage when they're forced to watch as their anime GF falls on top of their male "friends" in suggestive ways over and over again, because that's how clumsiness is portrayed in anime.
The new BF would also have to deal with the brooding and sinister ex, who still somehow has a hold on that seemingly innocent little anime girl despite having tried to once tried to kill her.
But, as this comic by JHALL shows, the worst part about dating an anime girl would be the quest to find something to talk about, because they might be kick-ass warriors but they definitely aren't known for their conversational skills.
There are a bunch of "best of" movie lists released at the end of every year, but the ones I always find most fascinating are the lists put together by film directors.
Their insight and exposure to many obscure movies makes their picks a cut above the rest, and since TV shows are becoming more like movies every day their lists are starting to include their TV show picks too.
Green Room
Creator of the edgy and compelling TV series Mr. RobotSam Esmail picked an even mix of movies and TV shows for his top 10 list:
"OJ: Made In America"
"Arrival"
"Horace and Pete"
"Black Mirror"
"Game Of Thrones"
"The Lobster"
"Atlanta"
"Manchester By The Sea"
"Green Room"
"Everybody Wants Some"
Julieta
Meanwhile Jonathan Demme (of The Silence of the Lambs fame) chose films with more personal storylines about people with complicated lives:
And comedian/film director Mike Birbiglia presented a list that seems to reflect his personality- part comedy, part touching drama, part documentary, all extremely enjoyable to watch:
11 faves (sorry, amazing year for movies, and there are a ton more I loved)
“Moonlight” “Hell or High Water” “Captain Fantastic” “20th Century Women” “Manchester by the Sea” “Tickled” “Weiner” “Sausage Party” “Where To Invade Next” (2015/16) “Pop Star” “Black Mirror” (S. 3 episode 4 “San Junipero”— I will fight people on this.)
We took all those strange food products on the store shelves for granted back in the 80s and 90s, never knowing those neon colored decades would be seen as the heyday for funny foods.
But now that Holiday Spice Pepsi, Hidden Valley Pizza Ranch dressing, Pop-Tarts Crunch cereal, Chicken Tonight and Nestle Bug Pops are no longer sold in stores people are starting to wonder if they were just a figment of their imagination.
It's arguable whether life is a little more bland without these funny food products, or if we're better off without these freaky foods dancing in our bellies.
But there's no denying the world is better off without that Chicken Tonight theme song dancing through our heads!
In the comics a building owned by a supervillain has a suitably evil-looking exterior so there's no mistaking who the building belongs to, but in the real world buildings aren't built to look evil- or are they?
Polygone Riviera-Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
Perhaps architects who read comics when they're kids have their designs influenced by comic art, or maybe they simply decided dark and foreboding is the best way to make their building stand out.
The Max Planck Research Institute for Experimental Medicine- Berlin, Germany
Take a tour of the world's most sinister looking structures via the subreddit /r/evilbuildings and see what people really mean when they say "chillin' like a villain".
People often wonder where the animosity between He-Man and Skeletor began, since they've been at each other's throats for as long as anyone can remember, so here's a little history lesson for the curious. It all began on the playground at Eternia Elementary School, when young Skeletor was bullied by a super strong little kid named He-Boy. Young Skeletor was a big fan of those rocking horse type things on the playground, and he would sit there for hours gently rocking back and forth. One day He-Boy decided to play a little trick on Skeletor by winding the spring super tight, so whoever sat on it next would launch straight into the air. Long story short- Skeletor didn't notice the spring, sat on the thing and went flying through the air which, by the way, is the first time he yelled "MYAH!" too...
Share the untold story of the MOTU bunch with this Masters Of The Playground t-shirt by Ed Harrington, it's the playful way to show the world what your favorite skull-faced villain looked like as a little tyke!
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The doctor kept telling Hank he needed to start exercising or his heart would give out, so Hank began to weigh his options. On the one hand he would definitely live longer than Dale, or Bill for that matter, no matter how much strain he put on his heart, but on the other hand that wasn't saying much. So he decided to do what was best for the family and start working out, but he wasn't about to join some prissy Austin-style gym to get in shape. Hank needed to stick with what he knew, so he welded a bar to two ten gallon propane tanks and started lifting 'em like there was no tomorrow. Soon Hank's pro-pain propane exercise regimen had given him bulging biceps and the figure he had when he played football for Arlen High, but it also drew the attention of one Nancy Gribble...
Exercise your right to wear awesome tees by wearing this Propane Fitness t-shirt by BazNet, it's sure to make you feel like the king or queen of the hill while you're hitting those weights!
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It's hard to say no to a stray dog begging for food on the city streets, and even though people can come up with all kinds of reasons why they shouldn't give a buck to a homeless person they can't deny a stray dog if they're animal lovers.
And, as the guy who shot this video in Bangkok, Thailand discovered, sometimes donating food to a stray means you're helping feed her family of pups as well, which we can all agree is a win-win-winwinwinwin situation!
Don't you hate it when Cthulhu's Witnesses show up at your door while you're in the middle of an eldritch ritual?
It's like they know you're a faithful follower of Nyarlathotep and they're just itching to argue about which deity is superior, as if ol' Squidface could take down Crawling Chaos!
But, as this Optipess comic shows, Cthulhu's followers are an extremely loyal bunch, and they don't even mind if he chews on them a little as long as he's happy...which is an emotion he doesn't understand.
Some kids are so conscientious they can't stand to hear about anything being wrong, broken or out of order, even if the broken thing is the clock attached to the Palace of Westminster in London.
When 8-year-old Phoebe Hanson learned Big Ben was going to be out of commission for up to three years as part of a $42 million clock mechanism repair job she, like many Londoners, dreaded the impending silence.
So she wrote to the BBC with a solution- she offered to stand in for the clock and shout "BONG!" until the repairs are done.
Her heartwarming letter earned her a return letter from the BBC, who had this to say about her idea:
“Re. Big Ben’s Bongs (lack of).
Dear Miss Hanson,
Thank you for your letter and your very imaginative idea about what to do when Big Ben falls silent for repairs early next year. Some of the cleverest and most important people at the BBC are scratching their heads, wondering quite what to do.
Once before, when Big Ben fell silent for repairs, we played different birdsong every evening. The listeners loved that. Then the people behind Tweet of the Day (that’s on each day just before 6 in the morning) stole our idea… so we can’t do that again.
I must say I was very much taken with your idea… and we have passed it on to those who make the decisions. As you know, the Bongs are live… and (you may not know this) the beginning of the Westminster Chimes (the bit that goes BimBom BimBom BimBobBimBom before the first BOOONNNGGGGGGGGGG!) is always at a slightly different time (which is why you sometimes hear someone accidentally talking when they start). It depends on things like temperature and atmospheric pressure and stuff like that.
So it would be quite a task for you, doing the Bongs: you’d have to rush in after school each day (and at the weekend), rush home for tea, homework, a bit of chillin’, then a quick sleep. And then – here’s the hard bit – you’d have to rush back again at midnight, because there are live bongs again before the midnight news. That’s an awful lot of work for someone who is still quite young. I know I wouldn’t like to do all that.
Thank you very much for writing to us. I’m very impressed that you listen to Radio 4. I wish my two children did.
Have a spiffing Christmas and a stupendous and lucky 2017.
Roger Sawyer. Editor: PM, Broadcasting House, iPM – BBC Radio 4″
Maybe they should swap it out for one of those jumbotron screens?
People show love for their significant others in many different ways, and for artists there's no better way to show love than with a drawing or painting.
Comic artists have a similar drive to show love with art, but their chosen artform also allows them to add words to the doodles, to paint a more complete picture of their affection.
Saratoga Springs-based artist Catana has been producing comic strips based on her relationship with her bearded beau that reveal how deeply she feels for this dude, and her affection may be considered stalking in some states.
And when her boyfriend posted these Catana Comics online they immediately went viral, which is either because people relate to their love or they find Catana's antics highly amusing!
Walnuts are one hard nut to crack, so people use a hammer, rock or mallet to crack them open and get at the delicious meat inside, and when they find a good nutcracker they stick with it.
A villager from Shaanxi province, China thought the "mallet" his friend gave him in the early 80s was the perfect walnut cracking device, until he saw it on a government flyer- and found out it was actually a hand grenade.
Finding out his mallet was actually a Chinese Type 67 defensive hand grenade came as quite a shock to the man, who quickly gave it to the local police so he wouldn't get in trouble.
But he would have been even more shocked had it gone off in his hand while he was bashing walnuts!
They say dogs are innocent just like every other animal on Earth, and some even claim all dogs go to heaven, but those devout dog lovers have never met Mr. Pickles- the hellhound with a heart of pure evil. Mr. Pickles looks like a normal dog on the outside, and he maintains a low profile while he carries out the wishes of his dark master, but ask anyone who has visited his lair and they'll tell you- Mr. Pickles is a psycho pooch and a stone cold killer. Oh wait, you can't ask anyone who has visited his lair, because they're all dead...
Show some love for your favorite hellhound with this Pickles Comics t-shirt by Anderson Green Devil, it's one wicked way to stay on that hellhound's good side!
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K-2 security droids aren't perfect creations, despite what their makers might claim, and in the end they're only as sane and loyal as their programming dictates, so if their AI goes haywire there's no telling what they might do. But there must be something more to the recent rash of Imperial security droids going rogue, like a trick cooked up by those devious Rebels to undermine the glory of the Empire. That's why the Emperor has never relied on these security droids to get the job done, because you don't win wars with droids- you win them with Force and superior firepower.
Take your new favorite droid star with you wherever you go by wearing this Rogue Droid t-shirt by Dan_Hoogkamp_Art, it's K-2SO cool!
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Some people believe their dogs understand everything they say, while others claim dogs only understand facial expressions and emotional responses, but most animal behaviorists agree the truth is a combination of the two.
Dogs can understand words their humans say to them repeatedly, and they begin to associate things like mealtime, praise and admonishment with those words, the most popular being the praise "good dog".
Redditor JavaReallySucks posted a pic of his adorable dog before and after being called a good boy, to illustrate the way his dog's face lights up after being praised by his master.
The photographic exercise seemed like fun so others took to shooting before and after praise pics of their pets, which worked really well with the dogs while the cats continued to not give a crap one way or the other.
In the quest to make video games more immersive and perfect the art of virtual reality a gamer's paradise was built called MarioWorld, where players could actually feel the bricks breaking under their fists and feel the Goombas squishing under their feet. This virtual world was unlike any built before it, because MarioWorld contained androids instead of 3D holograms, and people began shelling out their life savings in order to experience the future of gaming firsthand. But a glitch in the system nicknamed BW53R threatened to tear the whole place down, and soon the Goombas and the Koopas would be doing the squishing...
Show the world what the future of VR gaming looks like with this MarioWorld t-shirt by NibiruHybrid, it's so cutting edge your fellow gamers will think you're a time traveler from the future!
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