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5 Terrible Situations for the Socially Awkward Man
You probably know how to function in society. You know how to talk to new people, how to order food in restaurants, and you know exactly what time you're supposed to show up at parties. I'm here to let you know that there's an entirely separate class of people that doesn't know all of those things.
The 7 Most Needlessly Terrifying Pieces of Heavy Machinery
If you never dreamed of driving a huge tank fitted with a giant chainsaw while growing up, then congratulations on having been a well-adjusted kid.
The human body can do amazing things. If you need proof, just type "parkour" into a search engine. But every so often, we're told a story so remarkable that it's almost impossible to believe it.
The 6 Most Bizarre Medical Hoaxes People Actually Believed
The music industry spends millions trying to chart trends, isolate demographics and generally predict the necessary ingredients for a No. 1 single.
6 Musicians Who Accidentally Crapped Out Masterpieces
If you're like us, you might sometimes have a problem with complex tasks, like trying to drive an ambulance and send a text message at the same time.
7 Basic Things You Won't Believe You're All Doing Wrong
There is an adage popularized in academia and which has since seeped into the cultural lexicon that says, "There are no stupid questions." Sadly, this saying lost the majority of its advocates right around the time the Internet took off and everyone realized their tolerance for stupidity was grossly over-pledged.
6 Baffling Internet Searches for Medical Advice
5 Soviet Space Programs That Prove Russia Was Insane
The thing about the Iron Curtain is that we'll never fully know what crazy shit went on behind it during the Cold War. And that's too bad, because the little hints that leak out really make it look like these people just did not give a shit .
Almost every successful person working in Hollywood sticks to his or her thing that they like. You would never see, say, David Fincher doing slapstick gross-out comedy, or Michael Bay directing a Jane Austen-type movie (unless, maybe, if the Little Women were also fighter pilots). But sometimes these folks, with their well-defined comfort zones, lend a hand to movies so bizarrely out-of-character for them it's like they only did it to say, "There, I can do other stuff too.
8 Famous Movies Made by The Last Person You'd Ever Suspect
It doesn't take a cinema genius to catch that most of Martin Scorsese's movies feature violent sociopaths.
6 Artists Whose Weird Fetishes Defined Pop Culture
If you want to motivate people, you don't rely on logic and reasoning.
8 Historic Symbols That Mean The Opposite of What You Think
Every artist "steals" a little, whether they realize it or not. For instance, we talk about how some musician was "influenced" by music they grew up with, even if sometimes that influence consists of outright stealing and/or barely remixing a classic. That's just the way it works.
The 5 Most Famous Musicians Who Are Thieving Bastards
Being a movie villain is not easy. Nobody respects your work, everyone loves your sworn enemy, and cheers if he straight up murders your ass. Of course, the villains deserve it, right?
9 Famous Movie Villains Who Were Right All Along
Even in gun-crazy America, most of us aren't shooting things as part of our day-to-day routine. So most Americans actually know very little about guns.
5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)
Let's pretend for a moment that zombies are real (as if half of you weren't already daydreaming about that very thing). Have you noticed how most zombie movies take place only after the apocalypse is in full-swing?