Scarecrows and crows are sworn enemies, and as you can guess by their name scarecrows are created in order to scare crows away from the crops, which means the scarecrow's life depends on them keeping the farm crow free.
But what is a scarecrow to do when their terrifying appearance no longer scares the birds? They can't just hang around hoping the crows will go away, they've got to get creative and find ways to make those crows leave the farm for good...
Many people like to go out the day after Thanksgiving and grab their Christmas tree, so they have a full month to enjoy it before unceremoniously chucking it in the trash the day after Christmas.
But the problem with having your tree up for that long is your pets have a full month to plot how they're going to climb, shred, pee on or otherwise ruin your beautiful tree, leaving you with a new project- protect the tree from your a-hole pets.
Sometimes a simple fear-based deterrent will work, like surrounding your tree with vacuum cleaners (preferably ones that are plugged in and ready to go), but depending on the pet you may have to go to extremes to protect your tree.
When a hungry bear sets his mind to stealing food from humans he doesn't give up until he gets it, a fact to which campers who have woken up to find their food supply devoured can attest.
Because bears are so keen to raid our coolers, freezers and trash cans companies now make products they claim are bear proof, but how do we know they'll actually live up to their claim?
Well, the makers of the bear-proof trash can featured in this footage shot by a homeowner in Monrovia, California can use the video to show their product in action- and prove even three bears working together can't crack it open!
The Draculaz, or as they're more commonly called the Drac Pack, have rarely been seen together since Count Von Count started counting how many rats Nosferatu ate for breakfast, which upset him since he was supposed to be on a tomato juice cleanse. But now they've decided to put all their differences aside and tour once again, playing their miserable yet hypnotic music for a new generation of kids with far too much fresh blood pumping through their veins. The Draculaz are hoping this tour will land them a record deal and an international tour, so they can gain a new herd of fans willing to bleed for their favorite vampire band...
Support your favorite band of bloodsuckers with this Vampirez-Dracula Days t-shirt by Dicky The Darkwraith, featuring a monster mashup like you've never seen before!
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It's starting to feel a bit nippy on Eternia right about now, and even though the planet's extra yoked denizens tend to run hot even they need to shield their bulging muscles from the cold. But Skeletor seems to have some sort of magical aura protecting him from the cold, and yet the one part of his body that always gets cold is his bony head, so he has taken to cinching up his wicked wizard's hood when his teeth start to chatter. However, he may want to consider cutting some eye holes in that thing or he'll never see He-Man coming!
Dress appropriately geeky for the season with this Hoodie Weather t-shirt by Ed Harrington, it's sure to make people grin wherever you go!
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The holidays can get a bit nutty even if you don't have a large family and a gang of in-laws flying in from all over the country, but no matter how crazy the holidays get for humans they're far more horrible for sentient walnuts.
They can walk, they have faces and arms and sometimes they can talk, too, and yet people still use their nutcrackers on them, cracking them open and devouring their tasty meat like they would any ordinary non-walking walnut.
The thing is- ordinary walnuts don't emote while they're being cracked open, and they can't scream...
Nutty Christmas is a cracking good animated short created by Ringling College of Art and Design students Kyoyoung Na and Yoon-Sun Hyun which will definitely get you in the spirit of the season!
Groot really digs listening to stone cold grooves on Peter's walkman, and he dances like a leaf in the wind which makes everyone aboard the Milano happy. But his dancing is starting to interfere with Drax's duties, since the big guy just loves to watch baby Groot boogie, and Rocket films these boogie sessions and sell the clips online so he gets distracted by Groot too. But whenever Peter tries to get the little guy to stop dancing he looks into those sweet little beady eyes and his heart melts, which is the same way baby Groot got Peter to lend him his walkman!
Spread the guardians love wherever you go in the galaxy with this Awesome Dance vol2 t-shirt by TaylorRoss1, it's one totally groovy design that will make people smile wherever you go.
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Despite the problems it creates on the return trip I can't travel abroad without visiting a local record store and buying an LP or ten, and these records become both new additions to my collection and mementos of my trip.
But it can be hard to find record stores in every town I visit, even with a little help from the internet, which is why I'm super jazzed about Discogs new global record store mapping project called VinylHub.
VinylHub features an interactive map that lets you find a record store near you no matter where you are in the world, and their goal is simple:
Our mission is to document every physical record shop and record event on the planet. With your help, we can create an accurate listing of all record shops & record events, useful to diggers and travelers everywhere.
The secret to losing weight is there are lots of secrets to losing weight, so you just have to discover what works best for your body type and try to stick to the plan.
My body type works best with a high protein diet, so if I cut the carbs and increase my lean protein intake I can lose weight without much effort at all. Other people can eat all the carbs they want and still lose weight, but sometimes it's the little changes that make all the difference.
Did you know the smell of vanilla can help you resist the temptation to eat too many sweets?
The study was done in St. George Hospital in London, and researchers found those who wore vanilla-scented patches lost more weight than those wearing no patch or a lemon patch. Researchers believe the sweet smell of vanilla helped appease the need for something sweet, and participants who smelled vanilla were less likely to overeat sweets.
It also helps to use common sense and keep your portion sizes smaller, stop eating when you're full and prepare less food so you don't overeat, but strangely dimming the lights can actually help you lose weight too:
Researchers found dimming the lights lengthened the eating time, suggesting a more relaxed atmosphere increases satisfaction and decreases how much food you eat. While this study was in a restaurant, dimming the lights in your own home could have the same effect on food intake.
Have you ever looked at the plastic food containers in your kitchen, and more specifically the lids to those containers, and thought there might be more to them than you know?
Well if you've had that thought specifically about those Glad containers with the raised circular section on the lid you were on to something- because they're made to hold containers for sauces and condiments.
Twitter user mamagraciee blew the internet's collective mind when she showed the lids being used to hold sauce and condiments, giving us all an aha moment and changing our food containin' lives forever.
And even though this is clearly genius to include in the lid of a plastic container Glad only advertised this function on the packaging of their To Go Lunch line, which is why many of us were unaware of its use until now.
Have you ever wondered where your dog would go, and what they would do, if they were let off the leash for a day and allowed to roam freely around the city?
If you adopted a stray dog then your pooch probably knows the neighborhood around your property pretty well, since strays don't lose their drive to roam, but where exactly would they go?
A Japanese woman named Keiko from Shirahama prefecture wondered why her adopted dog Sacchan had become curiously fat, hearing reports from neighbors who'd seen Sacchan at the train station and the supermarket.
So she wrote a letter to a Japanese TV show asking them to help her solve the mystery of what Sacchan does all day, but their investigation hit quite a few snags since Sacchan was on to their little scheme.
In the 80s there was one game that munched more quarters than all the rest- Dragon's Lair, the animated adventures of Dirk the daring that gave you one chance to make the right move or it was game over. Dirk's adventures were fun to watch, and great to play through once you'd memorized the moves, but to learn them all you had to keep feeding rolls of quarters into the machine. Which is why most kids were content to watch someone else play Dragon's Lair rather than losing their allowance to that greedy game...
Show some love for the animated quarter muncher that captured the hearts of all 80s kids with this I Have A Quarter t-shirt by Crocktees, featuring a killer design that's sure to give your fellow arcade addicts some serious flashbacks.
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Westerns always feature a saloon where characters do all kinds of typical Old West type stuff like gamblin', drinkin' and carousin', and they all feature those swinging café doors that look right but don't do much in terms of security.
So maybe you've wondered- how did Old West saloons lock their doors at night?
Considering all the robberies, bandit raids and shootouts that take place in Westerns those doors hardly seem practical, but in real life all that stuff didn't happen very often- and most saloons didn't have café doors.
But the ones that did typically had another standard door mounted on the outside of the entrance, so the café doors could entice customers in during the day and the real doors could be locked up tight at night.
And, in case you were wondering, here's why so many saloons in the Old West had café doors:
Café doors were actually practical for many reasons. They allowed ventilation in a small enclosure that was filled with folks smoking cigars and home-rolled cigarettes. The bidirectional hinges were handy for cowboys who both entered and exited carrying heavy saddlebags (unlike automobiles, horses don’t come equipped with locking storage containers in the rear, and there was always the danger of some low-down sidewinder stealing from you while you were inside getting your drink on). And those abbreviated doors shielded the church-going “proper” passersby from having to view the liquor, gambling, and spitting (spittoons were as common then as ashtrays would be later) going on inside.
Archers of myth and legend were able to do some incredible tricks with their arrows, such as splitting another arrow in half or shooting an arrow so it changes direction in mid-air, tricks that few real life archers are able to replicate.
But Lars Andersen has some mythical-level archery skills, and he's trying to get the bards to write tales about him by proving he has mastered the art of the turning arrows.
In this incredible video Lars Andersen demonstrates how arrow direction can be manipulated to pull off archery feats that seem impossible but Lars finds to be "quite easy", claiming "all experienced archers should easily be able to learn this". Looks crazy difficult to me!
Movie monsters typically resemble real-life animals in some way, or in the case of movies like Kong: Skull Island they look just like giant-sized versions of real critters, making them terrifying in a more realistic way.
Viewers assume movie monsters screech, scream and roar like their normal-sized cousins, so filmmakers keep their voices pretty much the same, but according to scientists these creatures would make a sound like you've never heard before.
This video by The Verge examines the sound that should be coming out of a giant movie monster's mouth with a little help from paleontologists Dr. Thomas Williamson, David Weishampel and Dr. Stuart Sumida and biology professor Philip Senter.
