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What are your top 5 websites besides reddit? : AskReddit. 20 Must-Own Books to Teach You Manly Skills. Whether you want to learn to play poker, fish, tie a bow-tie (pfft), or mix a martini, there's a book out there for just about everything. Sure, YouTube videos can teach you how to do anything these days, but nothing beats lounging in a leather club chair with a good book. We've hand picked 20 Man Books that'll teach you the basics. Check em out... The Man’s Manual There are some essential manly tips that for some reason other books seem to overlook. Self-Defense For Modern Times Studying martial arts teaches discipline, keeps you in peak physical condition and makes you pretty bad-ass, but sometimes it’s hard to imagine how breathing exercises can prepare you for real world situations.

Details Men’s Style Manual It’s not that guys don’t care about looking good—we just don’t like to spend a lot of time or energy on fashion. Brocabulary: The New Man-i-festo of Dude Talk ESPN Gameday Gourmet Male Grooming: Fabulous Tips on Looking Great Hold on to Your NUTs: The Relationship Manual for Men. 7 Uses for Your Outdated iPad. Buffon's Needle. 35 Creative Ways To Recycle Wooden Pallets. From storing items, beds or coffee tables to window boxes, shoe cabinets or comfortable rockers, a wooden pallet is anything but waste timber. Since lots of companies are dependent on fiber from wood recycling, why not to try to gain all the benefits for your home? Perfect for a lounge area in the balcony or a lovely corner in the garden, wooden pallets can be combined, remodeled and fixed up in practical desks, chairs, bookcases, tables and beds. Have a look on the gallery below and you will find many ideas of pallet furniture.

If you decide to do it by yourself, our advice is to use basic tools and pallets; the standard recommendations for recycled wood pallets are 24 x 24 or 30x 30 – buy it from here. Don’t miss: 20 Patios Perfect for Your Garden and 45 Delightful Outdoor Dining Area Design Ideas If you are passionate about reducing the amount of trees being cut down, then you will understand our call to recycle and reuse old pallets instead of manufacturing new products. Or 30 x 30. 2012 Internet Memes: The 50 Best, Funniest Memes of 2012 (Page 3)

Gymnasts are, as a group, athletically awesome freaks of nature who will spend hours swinging around a PVC pipe, vaulting straight up into the air with no net, and doing backflips on and off a beam that's about three inches wide. Hell, some of them even make twirling a ribbon look cool. They're a crazy-focused group who pursue perfection at all costs, and when they don't get it, they are not impressed. McKayla Maroney, as you may have heard, was not impressed with her performance in the individual vault competition at the the London Olympics this year. After leading the "Fierce Five" US Women's team to an All Around gold medal, she performed a nearly flawless first vault in the individual competition. The ass-plant not only broke McKayla's 33-vault landing streak in competition, it dropped her into second place, and earned her the runner-up prize of silver medal.

Hey, silver! On the podium, staring up at some other chick wearing her medal (bitch.) Top 10 Everything of 2012. Terry pratchett. Douglas Adams Quotes (Author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) 18 of the most memorable speeches from sci-fi and fantasy films. It's summer blockbuster season, filled with massive explosions and eye-popping special effects. But never forget that nothing can get the heart pounding or blood pumping better than words—especially when they're in the form of memorable speeches given in some of sci-fi and fantasy's greatest movies. We've found 18 memorable and often inspiring movie monologues that really hit a nerve with audiences. (We'll leave those TV shows speeches for a future list.) Check them out below! V for Vendetta—V's Televised Speech The revolution will not be televised—or will it? Noted anarchist V (Hugo Weaving) went to the small screen to spread his word to the nation.

Troy—Achilles' Speech Achilles (Brad Pitt) was a cocky son of a gun who really wanted to take the Trojans down a peg or two. The 13th Warrior—Norse Prayer Final battle scenes in war movies always pull at the heartstrings, especially when you already know the outcome. The Matrix Reloaded—Morpheus' Speech "Zion! Avatar—Jake Speaks to the Na'vi. 5 Psychological Experiments That Prove Humanity is Doomed. Cracked.com's new book is now on sale. What follows is one of 22 classic articles that appear in the book, along with 18 new articles that you can't read anywhere else. Psychologists know you have to be careful when you go poking around the human mind because you're never sure what you'll find there.

A number of psychological experiments over the years have yielded terrifying conclusions about the subjects. Oh, we're not talking about the occasional psychopath who turns up. The Asch Conformity Experiment (1953) The Setup: Solomon Asch wanted to run a series of studies that would document the power of conformity, for the purpose of depressing everyone who would ever read the results. Subjects were told that they would be taking part in a vision test, along with a handful of people. The Result: Questions the subjects were asked were like the puzzle shown here: All they had to do was say which line on the right matched the one on the left. ... and make sure you conform to it perfectly. C. The 5 Most Spectacular Landscapes on Earth (That Murder You) Mother Nature is an evil bitch that wants us dead. We know this, we accept it, we try to burn one plant a day as petty revenge against her for it and we move on with our lives. But sometimes her traps are so unsubtle, so obviously, blatantly designed to do nothing but murder human beings in the most awful ways possible that we can't help but stand and applaud her sheer balls.

In that spirit, here are five of Mother Nature's more vicious bear traps: #5. Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park -- Madagascar Olivier Lejade The Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park is a protected UNESCO world heritage site, but this park doesn't need any tollbooths, rangers or even a tall, spiked fence. WikipediaSometimes the Earth gives a freebie to the World of Warcraft design team. Biologists call the area a bio-fortress. National GeographicSometimes a forest of daggers just isn't enough. Olivier LejadeSo yeah. Marco ZanferrariSometimes the formations produce Yes album covers just to mess with you. #4. Dominica-weekly.