background preloader

Cracked

Facebook Twitter

5 Reminders We Could All Use Right Now. #2.

5 Reminders We Could All Use Right Now

It's Totally Fine to Not Have an Opinion Comstock Images/Comstock/Getty Images. 25 Amazing Life Hacks You Won't Believe You Didn't Know. 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person. 6 Books Everyone (Including Your English Teacher) Got Wrong. #3.

6 Books Everyone (Including Your English Teacher) Got Wrong

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 4 Tips for Fixing Up Your New Home (That's Clearly Haunted) 6 Images of Kids Too Insane to Be Real (That Totally Are) #3.

6 Images of Kids Too Insane to Be Real (That Totally Are)

The Zipline Kids. 6 Baffling Old-School Video Game Commercials. In the 80s, video games were still new to the public and the game companies were still trying to figure out how to ease us into the technology. From their early ads, it appears they decided the best way was via batshit insanity. Nintendo Australia/New Zealand Ad When Nintendo brought the NES to the US they rolled out about the most run of the mill ad ever: just a kid, the games and an announcer announcing how awesome it all was.

6 Lies About the Human Body You Learned in Kindergarten. When we reach the age of 2, we start to have a few questions about our bodies.

6 Lies About the Human Body You Learned in Kindergarten

At first they're simple. "Will that toy fit into the wet hole in the middle of my face? " But as we mature, the questions become more complex and too numerous for any reasonable human being to answer. 6 Personality Quirks You Didn't Know Were Medical Conditions. Everyone has an odd quirk or two that they think applies only to them. We hate to break it to you but, according to science, you aren't special.

Every small tic or strange habit or pet peeves that anyone has are actually scientifically documented conditions, with widespread sufferers and often devastating results. So read on, and have fun playing House as you diagnose yourself and your friends with these afflictions. 8 Insane Ways Parents Are Politically Brainwashing Children. It used to be that the only thing kids had to worry about were cooties, homework and closet-monsters, but those innocent days are over.

8 Insane Ways Parents Are Politically Brainwashing Children

There's a war, dammit. A culture war. Soon the red states and the blue states are going to erupt into the kind of hot purple mess previously only experienced by Prince's bedmates and Grimus's toilet. 7 Insane Ways Music Affects The Body (According to Science) The world is chock full of ear hurt that some people willingly refer to as music.

7 Insane Ways Music Affects The Body (According to Science)

The Jonas Brothers, Lady Gaga, Conway Twitty; they all produce high quality records and 8-tracks for our enjoyment whether we like it or not. But music--even terrible music--has a stunning amount of power over our bodies. For instance science says music can... The 5 Ballsiest Con Artists of All Time. Let's give the devils their due. Yeah, they've screwed over thousands of innocent people. But some of them had balls the size of hot air balloons and for that, we must salute them. Charles 'The Ponz' Ponzi is, quite simply, one of the greatest swindlers in American history. The originator and copyright holder of the piece de resistance of his career, the "Ponzi Scheme," Ponzi also boasted old-timey movie star looks and a smirk that could charm the pants off of the Pope. The 6 Most Disturbingly Evil Birds. Birds are the most majestic creatures on Earth -- we plaster them on our cars, flags and coins.

The 6 Most Disturbingly Evil Birds

You see them soaring up there, and think they're above all the petty savagery down here on the ground. Well, it turns out they're dicks. Golden Eagles Will Drop Your Ass The golden eagle is perhaps the most revered bird in the entire world. It is the national bird of five countries and has been featured on the coat of arms of nearly a dozen others. 4 Cliché Movie Moments Explained by Psychology. There are certain rules that extend across nearly every movie universe which we as an audience have to accept.

4 Cliché Movie Moments Explained by Psychology

Bad guys will always attack one at time, high school girls will always date a guy they fundamentally hate and pedestrians will never end up in wheel wells during car chases. While the rules may seem completely divorced from reality, some of the more staggering clichés actually have science on their side. 6 Family Circus Cartoons Improved with Dick Jokes. A year ago, I designed a robot whose only purpose was adding jokes to Family Circus cartoons.

6 Family Circus Cartoons Improved with Dick Jokes

Most robotic engineers told me I was crazy. They said things like, "You're only taping a smile onto cancer," or "I knew this day would come -- my robots are penetrating me. " But I didn't stop. Family Circus has been shitting in the mouth of comedy for 51 years and we need to fight back. That's where PG-13 comes in. PG-13 is a sophisticated and outrageous joke-writing A.I. leashed by the Motion Picture Association of America's PG-13 rating system.

3 Steps to Not Sucking at Air Travel [CHART] 14 Bizarre Scenarios That Are Way Too Common in Stock Photos. #7.

14 Bizarre Scenarios That Are Way Too Common in Stock Photos

25 Common Items that Will Baffle Future Archeologists Article. 10 Movies That Famous People Don't Want You to See. Hey, remember The Star Wars Holiday Special, which George Lucas has basically begged you to never watch? It turns out there are a whole bunch of movies that the stars have been trying to hide from everyone, mainly because they're afraid someone will make fun of them.