The period between Christmas and New Year's Eve has to be the least productive week of the year, since many people go in to work and sit there like a holiday husk even though their minds are a million miles away.
It actually seems fairly pointless to make people work during that week, so employers should take note of this Unearthed comic by Sara Zimmerman and dedicate the last week of work to watching cat videos!
-Via Geeks Are Sexy
Nothing brings actors together like co-starring in the same motion picture, and it's not uncommon for movie stars to meet on the set and become fast friends after months of filming.
But I'm pretty sure James Franco and Bryan Cranston didn't actually become good buds until they appeared on First We Feast's Hot Ones and ate atomic chicken wings.
Cranston and Franco are comedy gold in Why Him?, proving they make one hell of a double act, but after watching them tackle this hot wing challenge they could also hit the road as competitive eaters!
-Via IndieWire
Most people don't own a high visibility vest unless their job or hobby demands it, and if they don't own one they'll never know how many places that brightly colored safety garment can take them.
Because, as David Allegretti and his pal Sean discovered, the hi-viz vest is the key to entering restricted areas, and people won't think twice about letting you in while you're wearing that vest.
David and Sean's hi-viz vests got them into the movies for free, allowed them to amble around the zoo and even got them a front row spot at a Coldplay concert, because they looked like they were on the job.
Here's what David had to say about the hi-viz vest experience:
“There’s just something about uniforms that garner an almost naive trust. People trust uniforms. Most of us obey the word of those clad in uniforms”
“All in all, the experience had just proved…that you’ll never know if you don’t try”
“I guess if I could give you one piece of advice, it would be this: Go get yourself a hi-vis vest. And that’s all you need to know about life”
-Via design you trust
In the quest to find new and exciting ways to combine snacking and drinking people have come up with some clever and delicious combos, but these wine and cheese shots are just plain wrong.
They were created by Brandi Milloy of PopSugar Foods, but whether she made them as a way to get revenge on her former wine club or simply because gross foods go viral is anybody's guess.
It's also unclear whether she really thinks drinking red wine out of a shot glass made of cheddar cheese is a heavenly experience, but she's really good at acting like she enjoys it!
In case the thought of drinking red wine out of a cheddar cheese tube didn't leave you feeling completely grossed out here's the original video to finish the job.
-Via BuzzFeed
He wants to be the fastest one by MoisEscudero
There's only one Sonic, and yet every other hedgehog in the world naturally assumes they can become just like him if they discover his secret. Some think it's the gold rings, so they start stockpiling shiny things. Others believe it's his shoes and gloves, so they get a kind human to make them a pair of each so they can properly channel Sonic's style. Of course, none of these tricks actually work, but one little guy thought he'd pull out all stops and make the tranformation total- by painting himself blue. This seemed to work for a bit, as he felt like he was running faster than any hedgehog had run before, but then he became ill and realized he'd just covered himself in lead-based paint, and his super speed was nothing but a hallucination...
Share the secret to Sonic's super speed with the world by wearing this He Wants To Be The Fastest One t-shirt by MoisEscudero, it's stylish, adorable and sure to earn you a geeky fashion high score!
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Star Wars the Lean Years by Stephen Brian Phillips
Everyone's favorite space opera has come back in a big way over the last few years, but for decades the stars of the show were living lean and barely scraping by due to a lack of studio interest caused by the prequel catastrophe. Let down and left behind by Lord Lucas, the main cast was forced to seek employment on the mean streets of Coruscant, where they learned how good they had it during those original trilogy days.
Show the world what your favorite sci-fi stars did while in-between wars with this Star Wars the Lean Years t-shirt by Stephen Brian Phillips, it's a hilarious design that's sure to make your fellow fans smile.
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The Batcave is supposed to be one of the most secure, well hidden and safest places on the planet, a base of operations where Batman can sip tea and use his Batcomputer in peace.
But, despite his best efforts to keep the location a secret, the Batcave has been raided by at least a dozen different villains, and Batman has been forced to carve out a few new Batcaves around the city since Bane broke in.
When Bane literally broke the Bat in the Knightfall story arc he did so inside the Batcave, after breaching Wayne Manor's defenses with a frontal assault, to prove a point- Batman's
After Knightfall all kinds of characters from the Rogue's Gallery started finding their way into the Batcave including Two-Face, who simply toyed with the caretakers, and The Joker, who left Alfred short-handed.
But the strangest Batcave break-in title goes to Doctor Hugo Strange, a guy so obsessed with Batman he tried to kill him and take his place, and even built an exact replica of Wayne Manor and the Batcave as a Bat-trap.
Hugo drugged Batman and brought him into the replica, then he threw on his own Batsuit and the surreal Bat-vs-Bat battle began!
Batman got the better of Dr. Strange and actually killed him, which is when he discovered it was actually just a robotic version of the mad Dr. being remotely controlled by the real Hugo- from the real Batcave.
The fake food hustle is still going strong in countries around the world, and the targets of the scam are usually poor people in third world countries who can't afford to do anything about being ripped off.
But these fake food scams are typically small operations selling products that aren't necessarily deadly when ingested, and many more fake food incidents are simply urban myths spread to keep people on their toes.
However, a two and a half ton shipment of "Best Tomato Rice" was intercepted in Nigeria and is currently being tested- because the rice may be nothing but grain shaped pieces of plastic:
Lagos customs chief Haruna Mamudu said the fake rice was intended to be sold in markets during the festive season.
He said the rice was very sticky after it was boiled and "only God knows what would have happened" if people ate it.
It is not clear where the seized sacks came from but rice made from plastic pellets was found in China last year.
"Whoever made this fake rice did an exceptionally good job" says the BBC's Martin Patience, "on first impression it would have fooled me. When I ran the grains through my fingers nothing felt out of the ordinary. But when I smelt a handful of the "rice" there was a faint chemical odour."
Customs officials say when they cooked up the rice it was too sticky - and it was then abundantly clear this was no ordinary batch.
NEW EDIT- The debate is over and the verdict is in- the plastic rice is normal rice contaminated with microorganisms:
Speaking at a press conference yesterday, a senior official with the NAFDAC said levels of bacteria, including Coliform, found within the rice were “above permissible limits,” and that the product was unsuitable for human consumption. On its own, this bacteria isn’t usually harmful, but its presence is an indicator of other contaminants, such as microorganisms that dwell in fecal matter, disease-causing bacteria, viruses, and parasites.
Speaking at the same press conference, a Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) official said he had acted on “credible intelligence” that “large consignments of plasticized rice were...to be shipped from the Far East to Africa.” He added that the NCS would intensify patrols to prevent further batches of tainted rice from entering the country’s borders.
Troublingly, intelligence reports suggest that several tons of this dangerous rice are still lying in wait in warehouses in neighboring countries.
Read That 'Fake Plastic Rice' in Nigeria was actually something much more depressing here
EDIT- This story has been confirmed to be false, thanks to A. DeBusk for sharing this information:
On 24 December 2016, Nigeria's Ministry of Health announced that tests on the "plastic rice" had revealed the rice was in fact not plastic:
In [a] statement, Yetunde Oni, acting director-general of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), who briefed minister, was quoted to have said that preliminary findings by the agency failed to validate the claim by the NCS.
“Following the reports on the seizure of ‘alleged plastic rice’, NAFDAC team of inspectors led by the Director Ports Inspection Directorate(PID) and Director laboratory services visited the Area Comptroller’s Office, Ikeja, Lagos and drew samples from the seized consignment for laboratory analysis,” Oni said.
“The products were in 25kg pack size with no NAFDAC number, batch details and manufacturing details of address of manufacture and date markings.
“The following preliminary tests and results were found to be in conformity with the specification for rice: Floating — negative, cooking — normal, odour — normal, colour- off-white rice grains , moisture -13.0 , pre-ashing — normal.” -Via Snopes
-Via Boing Boing
Fans like to imagine what it would be like if two pop culture universes intersected, bringing their favorite franchises together in an awesome movie or TV show that makes their geeky dreams come true.
Licensing restrictions and greed tend to keep these crossovers from actually happening, but there are quite a few geeky franchises out there that already exist in the same universe, even though many are unaware of the connection.
The TMNT and Daredevil seem like they're from totally different worlds, but they share an origin story- because the canister that left Daredevil blind and gave him powers is the same one that transformed four little turtles into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Transformers and G.I. Joe are about to cross over in the movies, but they've existed in the same universe from the very beginning- they're both owned by Hasbro, they had cross over story arcs in the comics, and both animated series' were produced by Toei Animation.
Spielberg and Lucas worked together on the Indiana Jones series so they naturally had a few crossovers, namely a kid in a Yoda costume appearing in E.T. and those E.T.-style aliens seen at the senate meeting in Star Wars: Episode I- The Phantom Menace.
Read 17 Seemingly Unrelated Movies You Had No Idea Existed In The Same Universe here
We get to know certain characters and products by name and start calling them by that name from then on, forever referring to round oat cereal as Cheerios, frozen waffles as Eggos and cotton swabs as Q-Tips.
This shows how important it is for a product to have a good brand name, but the name that sticks is often a later version of the original, such as Cheerioats losing the "at" and becoming Cheerios.
Eggos started out as Froffles, a fun combination of "frozen" and "waffles", and Q-Tips were originally called Baby Gays- which the company changed so they could market the swabs to adults as well.
A lot of people call every cola "Coke", but oddly few call colas "Pepsi" even though the two companies are the top of the soft drink industry, which may have something to do with how easy it is to say "Coke".
Still, it's probably best Pepsi chose to use a brand name rather than their original name "Brad's Drink", which just doesn't have the same ring to it.
And speaking of having a ring to it- social media apps must have a snappy name, something that's memorable and easy to slip into conversation, like Twitter, Instagram or Snapchat.
But would Instagram have become as big if it was called "Burbn"? And would Snapchat have succeeded with the original name "Pictaboo"? Burbno and Pictaboo.
See 33 Things That Were Originally Called Something Completely Different here
Most cops are trained to spot drug users and visually identify what they're on based on how they act, identifying signssuch as track marks and burns, and the look of their face and skin.
But nothing gives a drug user away like their eyes, because drugs tend to do funny things to a user's pupils.
Amphetamines, cocaine and marijuana enlarge the pupils, and smoking pot also tends to make your eyes bloodshot red, while opioids like heroin constrict the pupils.
But can you actually tell which drugs someone is on simply by looking at the size of their pupils?
Vice visited a bunch of nightclubs in Berlin and snapped pics of people's eyes so they could see if the pupil test is a myth or the ultimate identifier of a drug user.
Their photos show you really can't tell what will happen to a user's pupils once they've taken drugs, because other factors like epilepsy, cataracts and sensitivity to light can affect the pupils as well.
Which is why medical professionals from the Charité Hospital in Berlin say the bottom line on the pupil theor is this:
It's absolutely not possible to tell what drugs someone has consumed by looking at their pupils.
-Via Vice
2016 was a terrible year for nightly news watchers because it seems like something horrible happened on a daily basis, leaving us longing for a slow news day.
But hidden among the horror stories were those spirit lifting bloopers, which weren't well received by the networks but made for a great year-end clip compilation. (NSFW language)
Seeing as how there were so many live TV fails and news bloopers in 2016 YouTube channel News Be Funny Videos had to make a second video to contain all the cringeworthy moments! (NSFW language)
-Via Esquire
Shiniest by ChocolateRaisinFury
Fantastic beasts such as the Nifflers and Erumpnt tend to have a fetish, which is some activity, object or substance they value greatly and love to indulge in whenever they get the chance. For the Nifflers there's no activity more entertaining or satisfying than stealing shiny stuff, and they will cram their pouches full of every shiny bauble they come across in their journeys. So when Captain Mal had to make an emergency landing in old New York and made the mistake of leaving his bay door open long enough for a Niffler to spot all the shiny stuff he had inside he unknowingly added one sneaky new member to the crew of the Serenity...
Add a touch of fantastic imagination to your geeky wardrobe with this Shiniest t-shirt by ChocolateRaisinFury, it's the adorable way to bring your new favorite movie and old favorite TV show together in the cutest way possible!
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Rogue One has proven to be just what Star Wars fans needed at the end of this crummy year, and the final version of the film that made it to the big screen seems to have satisfied even the pickiest fans.
Believe it or not 40% of the original film was reshot, which means the original version of the film presented in the trailers may have been quite different than the one released in theaters.
But one thing is for certain- at least 46 shots shown in the trailers were cut, so film editor Vashi Nedomansky created a video essay to show us all the scenes that were left on the cutting room floor. (may contain spoilers)
ROGUE ONE - 46 SHOTS NOT IN THE FINAL FILM from Vashi Nedomansky on Vimeo.
-Via Laughing Squid
According to the movies in the Aliens franchise Ripley was pretty much the only human who truly stood a chance against the xenomorphs, and even she couldn't tackle an entire brood of those nasty aliens.
But Ripley had neither an army nor the Force at her disposal, and if you want to exterminate aliens for good you need to call in Darth Vader and his hand picked 501st Imperial legion, known as Vader's Fist, to crush those bugs.
This amazing fan art by illustrator Guillem H. Pongiluppi gives us a glimpse of what a war between Darth's Imperial legion and the xenomorphs would look like, and now I'm sad that we'll never get to see this movie!
-Via Nerd Approved
