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Unusual Bathroom Signs. Unusual Bathroom Signs Posted by Editor on Sunday, April 27, 2008 · 88 Comments Here’s a nice refreshment on the typical boring bathrooms signs you see everyday. Scootin' Through The USA. 6 Insane Discoveries That Science Can't Explain. We like to feel superior to the people who lived centuries ago, what with their shitty mud huts and curing colds by drilling a hole in their skulls. But we have to give them credit: They left behind some artifacts that have left the smartest of modern scientists scratching their heads. For instance, you have the following enigmas that we believe were created for no other purpose than to fuck with future generations.

The Voynich Manuscript The Mystery: The Voynich manuscript is an ancient book that has thwarted all attempts at deciphering its contents. It appears to be a real language--just one that nobody has seen before. Translation: "...and when you get her to put the tennis racket in her mouth, have her stand in a fountain for a while. There is not even a consensus on who wrote it, or even when it was written.

Why Can't They Solve It? Could you? Don't even try. As you can imagine, proposed solutions have been all over the board, from reasonable to completely clownshit. Our Guess: Odd News, funny news, strange news. Bobbi Kristina suffering from 'irreversible brain damage,' grandmother says Bobbi Kristina suffering from 'irreversible brain damage,' grandmother says. AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com. Awkward Family Pet Photos. Georgie March 20th, 2014 He was always a forward thinker.

(submitted by Michael) Ratso March 5th, 2014 So, that’s who’s been giving you advice. (submitted by Kenneth) Mini Skirts Kids these days. (submitted by Sarah Smith) Recreating The Awkwardness December 20th, 2013 “After a successful Ugly Christmas Sweater Party, I thought it would be fun to recreate my infamous Awkward Family Pet Photo moment with Howard the cat, circa 1981. (submitted by Vicki) The Aristocrats December 4th, 2013 “At a family friends home for Thanksgiving dinner who deals in high end antiques for a living. (submitted by Diane) NEWS of the WEIRD - Current News. LEAD STORY -- Noise Is Golden The Formula One circuit is generally thought to attract fans as a showcase of motorcar technology and racing skill, but organizers of the Australian Grand Prix (the first of the 19 races on the annual circuit) threatened a lawsuit in March against Formula One management because the races should also be showcases of noise.

Formula One has softened cars' power this year in order to make breakthrough achievements in fuel efficiency, but that also tamped down Formula One's "trademark ear-shattering roar," according to a Business Insider report. Fans are less likely to buy tickets, the organizers fear, if they lose the deafening, 100-decibel vroom that is a "visceral element of the fan experience. " [BusinessInsider.com, 3-20-2014] The Championship Brackets -- Most Commandments Violated: James Chatten, 46, pleaded guilty in January to several Commandment violations stemming from a July incident at the Christian Horizons church in Peterborough, Ontario.

Oops! More bad tattoos: Tattoos that just arnt good tattoos! Ugliest Tattoos - Funny Tattoos. Bizarre Websites On Which You Can Kill Time With Style - Smashing Magazine. Ink That Stinks -- Home to the World's Worst Tattoos. Top 10 Strange Phenomena of the Mind.

Humans The mind is a wonderful thing – there is so much about it which remains a mystery to this day. Science is able to describe strange phenomena, but can not account for their origins. While most of us are familiar with one or two on this list, many others are mostly unknown outside of the psychological realm. This is a list of the top ten strange mental phenomena. We have all some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time – of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances – of our knowing perfectly what will be said next, as if we suddenly remember it! – Charles Dickens Déjà vu is the experience of being certain that you have experienced or seen a new situation previously – you feel as though the event has already happened or is repeating itself. Déjà visité is a less common experience and it involves an uncanny knowledge of a new place.