Some Nervous Nellies and Anxious Andrews let their fingers tap-tap-tap away whenever they're feeling the least bit anxious or nervous- and that tap-tap-tapping drives me up the wall.
I will admit that I've tapped out a RUSH song or three when nervous, and I'm no stranger to using pencils as drum sticks when sitting around in class, but I also know when to stop tapping away.
Because, as this Pain Train Comic shows, incessant tapping can cause the human animal to revert to beast mode, and you won't like those hairless apes when they're angry!
Tracing languages back to their roots can be an interesting way to see how the world's languages have developed and evolved over time, but the tracing of language lineage does not make for an exciting read.
So to spice the subject up a bit illustrator Minna Sundberg, author of the webcomic Stand Still, Stay Silent, created this beautiful Tree Of Languages infographic, so we can trace our tongues back to their roots in style.
Rick and Morty is at once brilliant and moronic, totally brand new yet somehow really familiar, and even though the show has moved far away from creator Justin Roiland's original concept that has proven to be a good thing. So what, you may ask, was Justin's original concept?
The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti, which was meant to troll Universal Pictures and "poke fun at the idea of getting cease and desist letters", original title Back to the Future: The New Official Universal Studios Cartoon Featuring the New Doc Brown and Marty McFly. (NSFW)
As you'd imagine the short is raunchy and very NSFW, but it also serves as a great example of how a concept, however crude, can become something great if you selectively breed that concept into a champion.
Shredding stuff and watching stuff get shredded can be very satisfying in many ways, and if I owned an industrial shredder I'd be way too tempted to throw my stuff in there just to watch it all get ground to bits.
So it's a good thing the PressTube channel exists to satisfy our shredding needs, plus they often shred materials we never would have thought of and strange stuff we don't have lying around our homes- like gold slime!
The water wars are heating up on grocery store shelves around the world, as waters from different regions battle it out for your bucks claiming you can taste the difference in quality and price.
But Scottish comedian Brian Limond doesn't think we should pay for pricy water, and in this clip from Limmy's Show he blows the lid off the water industry by showing us where we can get all the wet stuff we want for free- the tap. Contains NSFW language.
Very few actors stay in the business of show for their entire lives, and even many Hollywood lifers have been known to take a year or ten off to pursue interests other than acting.
But the most interesting cases are those actors who become pop culture icons then disappear from the spotlight never to be seen on stage again.
Actors have been known to transition into a new career as a lawyer, teacher or salesperson, which make sense considering their acting skill set, but going from playing the Red Power Ranger to fighting fires makes Austin St. John a real life superhero!
And lastly there's Little Mikey, the hungry kid in the Life cereal commercials who became a legend, an urban legend that is:
When a baby name is trendy it spreads through neighboring families like a virus, making the kids with truly original names stand out in a classroom full of Taylors, Logans and Zoes.
Those names are so 2015, and yet people were still drawing names from pop culture like crazy in 2016, although there was also a huge resurgence in biblical names, with Noah and Elijah winning by a mile.
Then again Elijah could have been inspired by Elijah Wood, and Liam is probably inspired by Liam Neeson, with Emma (Stone/Watson/Roberts), Olivia (Munn/Wilde) and Mia (Goth/Farrow) topping the list for girls.
Julie Gerstein of BuzzFeed took information from the Top 5 Baby Names By State For Births In 2016 released by the Social Security Administration and used it to create colorful maps that prove parents are uncreative from coast to coast.
Animals don't have to pretend to be cool or put on airs when they're hangin' with their buds because they were born too cool to care, and they look cooler just sitting there not posing for a pic than any human ever could.
This inherent coolness makes groups of animals automatically look like members of a hot new band, and when you photograph the pack you've got the makings of a super slick album cover for the hottest album of the year.
The best thing about an animal band is they will play for food, but when it comes to trashing hotel rooms they're much worse than their human counterparts- because their room destruction involves way more fecal matter.
It's a great time to be a science fiction fan, because with all the new sci-fi franchises being created and all our old favorites coming back better than ever we'll never run out of great stuff to watch and read and play!
If you're a big fan of sci-fi you'll want to share your love of those far out science fiction stories with the world, and the best way to do that is with an amazing NeatoShop t-shirt or hoodie!
Our sci-fi lovin' futures are looking mighty bright
Wild animals have been known to act strangely when they meet a human, putting on a little show meant to either welcome or intimidate their new acquaintance.
It's hard to tell what this little owl was thinking when it played peek-a-boo with Michael Stephenson at the Bridlington Birds of Prey and Animal Park near East Yorkshire, England, but Michael was thinking that tiny owl was the cutest thing he'd ever seen.
Michael was honored to have been chosen for such a sweet game of peek-a-boo, but for all he knows the little owl was trying to scare him off by popping up and unleashing its super intimidating stare upon him. Nice try little guy!
Teasing the family pets can be fun, especially when they act like little punks all the time, but if you're going to tease your pets at least have the decency to capture the whole thing on video, so we can all have a laugh at their expense!
Six years ago Andrew Grantham took the joy of teasing the family pet to a new level of ridiculousness on his YouTube channel Talking Animals with this video entitled "Ultimate Dog Tease".
In it Andrew imagines what his dog would say when Andrew teases him about giving his treat away to the cat, and needless to say this is one of the funniest and most important videos ever posted on the internet.
Have you ever found yourself so strapped for cash you've considered doing something drastic, like committing a crime, visiting a loan shark or selling one of your organs on the Black Market for some quick cash?
Most of us find ourselves so strapped for cash it stresses us out from time to time, but things usually work themselves out before we do something we'll regret.
However, I've always wondered how much I could get for a kidney or an eyeball if I was forced to sell, or how much my family can get for my heart when I die, and it turns out these organs are worth a lot more than I thought.
A kidney can fetch $200,000 on the Black Market, and 75% of Black Market activity involves kidney sales so you could say it's their all-time best seller.
Your corneas are worth a pittance in comparison, a mere $24,400, and surprisingly the heart is worth a little over half a kidney (around $119k).
At that price you'd be better off selling bone marrow- that stuff's worth about $23,000 per gram, and your body must have quite a few grams of marrow to spare, right? *wink*
The new teen drama series Riverdale has given the crew from Archie comics a well-deserved update, and the creators even managed to make the characters edgier without turning the show into an emo mopefest.
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And with the addition of a murder mystery, a drug dealing biker gang and Archie getting it on with his high school music teacher it quickly becomes obvious this ain't the Riverdale Archie crew you're used to.
Cole Sprouse plays Jughead on Riverdale, and when he's not acting he's buzzing around the real world taking some seriously cool photos, which he kindly shares with us on his Instagram page.
And these behind-the-scenes shots with the totally retro vibe seem like the perfect way to promote the return of Riverdale for season 2!
Animals may not understand the concept of Surrealism, but they make the perfect subjects for surrealist artwork because they're instantly identifiable no matter how much the artist mutates their natural form.
Dutch painter Femke Hiemstra places animals into strange and fantastic situations in her paintings, and even though the situations may be scary and dangerous her subjects are still animals after all, so they're born survivors.
After staring at an assortment of Femke's paintings the viewer is sure to have some wild and wonderful dreams, only instead of sugarplums the cats, foxes and squirrels will be doing all the dancing!
Beer used to be too common and lowly an alcoholic beverage to be judged in the same way as wine and fine spirits, but the craft beer revolution has turned beer into a beverage suitable for snobbery.
When you belly up to the bar for an ice cold pint of beer you may encounter one of the nineteen types of beer snobs, from the picky Sampler to the snooty Barrel Baron who only drinks barrel aged brews.
To me the worst kind of beer snob is the Glassware Obsessive snob, who judges you by the type of glass you pour your beer in to and rubs beertenders the wrong way...just drink the friggin' beer and SHUT UP! *scowl*
