6 Pro-Gay Marriage Arguments for Fighting With Crazy People. New York just legalized gay marriage in time for Pride Week, a cruelly timed challenge to monogamy for all the naked float dancers expecting a very different kind of happy ending.
Civil rights and referendums go together like peanut butter and K-Y Jelly, and most politicans have the moral courage of a starving cockroach, but in a double rainbow miracle, they noticed a majority of New Yorkers think two loving adults should share a life together, unless they are the stars of The Bachelor, in which case, they are force-fed spiders. Us Weekly. More you than me, to be honest.Happiness is not recognizing anyone on the magazine covers Some ask, "Why is gay marriage such an important issue right now? " The 5 Least Romantic Keys to a Happy Relationship. Any old talk show psychologist can give you the business about date nights and fetish gear to keep the spark alive.
That's Talk Show Psychologist Tips For Romance 101. But it takes a ballsy renegade to have the guts to let you know that saving a relationship might be about imagining the most romantic solutions possible -- then doing the opposite. The Awful Secrets of 25 Famous Cartoon Characters. Cracked.com - America's Only Humor & Video Site Since 1958.
5 Mind Blowing Ways Your Memory Plays Tricks On You. Everybody will tell you that memory can't be trusted.
When they say that, of course, what they mean is other people's memories can't be trusted. We don't like to think that everything we know about the world is based on a deeply flawed and illogical storage system. We're not talking about being bad at matching faces with names here. Science has found that your memory is basically a pathological liar, just making it up as it goes along. For instance ... Other People Can Manipulate Your Memory With Repetition There was quite a stir recently when it turned out that a growing number of people believe the President of the USA is a Muslim. But according to the Pew Research Center, for almost 20% of the people they polled, those memories have been trumped by the mere act of hearing commentators assert that Obama is a Muslim, over and over and over. Obama, posing with a statue of the famed Imam Ali bin Superman.
They call it the "Illusion of Truth" effect. 7 Terrifying Things They Don't Tell You About Pregnancy. Thanks to sitcoms, romantic comedies and our mother's cuss-filled horror stories, we all know pregnancy is no walk in the park. In fact, pregnancy can cause some horrible, horrible things, like inny belly buttons temporarily turning into outies and ugly-people-making. And then there's the stuff from a horror movie. 5 Movie Fan Theories That Make More Sense Than the Movie. At some point, we've all seen the finale of a TV show or movie and thought, "I could have written a better ending than that.
" (We're still bitter about 24 not ending with Jack Bauer exploding from all the accumulated urine in his body, like our write-in campaign suggested.) That's why there is a thriving culture of fan theories that flood the Internet in anticipation of every show, movie or book. Though these theories turn out to be wrong approximately 100% of the time, we like to point out the ones that really do seem to improve on what the actual writers came up with. Tell us the below movies or series wouldn't be improved if it turned out... (To watch Cracked improve Star Wars, click here.) In the world of Harry Potter, Neville Longbottom is the resident doofus. 5 Scientific Ways To Make Water Do Magic. Science has proven that much of the universe is made up of badassery.
You can find it all around you, including in something as simple as water. You just need to know the tricks to unleash it. So here are some badass things you can do with water that seem to cross the line between science and magic. The 6 Weirdest Jobs in China. There are some jobs every country has (cook, farmer, prostitute) and some jobs bred from unique cultural conditions in certain countries. 25 Common Items that Will Baffle Future Archeologists Article. The 5 Most Depraved Sex Scenes Implied by 'Harry Potter' The Harry Potter series has sold billions of dollars worth of books, movie tickets and DVDs because it's one of those rare series that children can enjoy but won't make adults want to gouge out their eyes.
Author J.K. Rowling had a way of throwing a bone to the grown-ups here and there by slipping in sly little adult references along the way. 5 Crucial Lessons Learned by Watching Kids Play Video Games. Watching my kids play video games is like watching a virgin fumble around with his first prostitute. You just want to put down the camera, strap on your dildo hat and say, "No, look, you do it like this. " For a long time, I thought that they just sucked at gaming, and grounding them for in-game deaths obviously wasn't working. But the more I analyze their suck, the more I'm realizing that it's not their fault. It's the games themselves. And watching how the kids play -- and what they refuse to put up with -- will tell you everything you need to know about the future of gaming.