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In This Online Group, People Post Stories Of People Doing Whatever They Want Despite Their Unfortunate Circumstances. The world has been one heck of a ride lately.

In This Online Group, People Post Stories Of People Doing Whatever They Want Despite Their Unfortunate Circumstances

50 Times Designers Got Praised For Their 'Opposite Of Bad Design' Ideas. Power Sanding a Jawbreaker Just for Fun. When life gives you snowflakes… 50 Times People Spotted Something 'Mildly Interesting' And Documented It For The Internet To See. If you think that the word ‘mild’ is drab, boring, and pretty ‘meh,’ then you couldn’t be more wrong.

50 Times People Spotted Something 'Mildly Interesting' And Documented It For The Internet To See

As the incredibly popular ‘Mildly Interesting’ community on Reddit will show you, mild is actually wild! The subreddit, which boasts a whopping 18.6 million members and keeps growing as though being watered and cared for by the best digital gardeners on Reddit, is a magical place dedicated to (yup! You guessed it!) Mildly interesting stuff. How people had fun in the pre-digital era. For bonus points, see if you can spot the celebrity.

How people had fun in the pre-digital era

50 Items That Have Withstood The Test Of Time. Origami crane informs Nendo's overhaul of Japan Airlines amenity kits. Nendo has completed a comprehensive makeover of all of Japan Airlines' in-flight amenities, from meal trays to slippers and earplug wrappers, which draws on the lines of a paper crane.

Origami crane informs Nendo's overhaul of Japan Airlines amenity kits

The revamp is based on the national carrier's logo – a traditional crest known as a tsurumaru, in which a crane forms a circle with its outstretched wings. This motif is extrapolated into a more minimalist, red origami bird that, according to Nendo, acts as "a symbol of peace, prayer and the spirit of hospitality". Its graphic folds are referenced throughout the entire line of products, with a tag attached to accessories such as eye masks, slippers and pillows nodding to the shape of its pointed wingtips. A similar red band resembling an inverted bookmark is also wrapped around the rolled-up napkins that hold the cutlery, while the paper crane's triangular head is referenced in the folded corners of blankets, tablecloths and napkins.

Unknown Number Starts Sending This Guy Toad Pics Without Any Context, Hilarity Ensues. When your phone beeps and there’s a random number that wants to connect, you either go into fight or flight mode and block the person or go with the flow and see what happens.

Unknown Number Starts Sending This Guy Toad Pics Without Any Context, Hilarity Ensues

Sometimes it’s super annoying, rarely it’s exciting, and often it’s just plain freaky. Except when the random number starts sending you pictures of toads. 16 Times People Overdid Halloween Decorations And Got The Cops Called On Them. Nature Lovers Find Abandoned Fort In Forest That They Start Building Up, One Day Find A Mystery Box Inside And Decide To Open It. If you’re an outdoors kind of person, you’ll definitely agree that there is much to be found in the forests.

Nature Lovers Find Abandoned Fort In Forest That They Start Building Up, One Day Find A Mystery Box Inside And Decide To Open It

Besides actual nature, there is always a chance to stumble upon something with a greater story, like lost trinkets or rusty bullets that found themselves there decades if not centuries ago. Well, sometimes the finds are much bigger than this. Some time ago, a group of nature-loving friends, who have recently been nicknamed the Forest Folk, were wandering through the forest and found a fort that someone started building, but never really finished. They thought it was cool and decided to pick up where someone else left off in building the fort. 50 Times People Couldn’t Believe Their Luck In Thrift Stores, Flea Markets And Garage Sales (New Pics) It would be harder to find a greater temple to human creativity than the thrift store.

50 Times People Couldn’t Believe Their Luck In Thrift Stores, Flea Markets And Garage Sales (New Pics)

Places where unneeded items are abandoned are so often a stop for so-called bad ideas, from hardly-useful inventions to rejected art and clothing that was never in style in the first place. But these items haven’t found their final resting place… they’re just waiting to be found by people who they truly speak to. To quote a saying that the Facebook group Weird Secondhand Finds lives by, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. A Miniature Bohemian World. A Miniature Bohemian World. This isn't happiness.: Archive. Instagram photos and videos. This isn't happiness™ (Back in the USSR, Lara Vychuzhanina), Peteski. 30 Times Things Were Completely Transformed By Powerwashing. Cleaning is satisfying.

30 Times Things Were Completely Transformed By Powerwashing

There's just nothing better than restoring something that has been neglected back to its former glory; and the dirtier it was, the better it feels. And what gets grimier than the things that get left outside? Faced to deal with the elements - the rain, the mud, the smog and pollution of our filthy world, these objects seemed beyond rescue, doomed to decay in a fetid morass of crud and muck. Enter the powerwasher. Mattel Is Releasing a Day of the Dead Barbie Doll. At restaurants like Tavern on the Green in New York and Arnaud’s in New Orleans, diners sitting down for formal meals are seen complimenting the waiter on their coffee.

Mattel Is Releasing a Day of the Dead Barbie Doll

Just a few moments later, they’re informed it wasn’t the “gourmet” brew typically served, but a cup of Folgers Instant coffee that had been “secretly switched.” The surprised patrons then heap praise on their duplicitous waitstaff. This scene and others like it played out hundreds of times in television commercials throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s. Variations date as far back as the 1950s, and some commercials—like Chevrolet's now-infamous 2017 spot that depicted amazed onlookers marveling at the car company's numerous J.D. Clever Design Turns Ordinary Cups Into Liquid Galaxies When Something Is Poured Into Them. Would you like to impress your guests with a drink that not only tastes heavenly, but looks it too?

Clever Design Turns Ordinary Cups Into Liquid Galaxies When Something Is Poured Into Them

These beautiful sake cups, individually handmade by Japanese artist Hiromi Sato, turn into tiny galaxies when filled with a clear liquid, and they have proven to be so popular that they sold out immediately. Image credits: Hiromi Makie Nikki Each stainless steel tumbler is unique, and are made by painting and repainting with lacquer, before being finished with gold dust. It is the gold that gives the shimmering, star-like quality to the cups, which are known as “Chuu COCORO,” or “Space Heart.” Image credits: southwest_0095 Image credits: Lexus. If War Movies Used Little Kids to Make Sound Effects. 30 Times People Couldn’t Believe Their Luck In Thrift Stores (New Pics) 30 Times People Had Awful Taste But Executed Their Ideas Flawlessly. 30 Simple Yet Genius Ideas That Should Be Implemented Everywhere. Genius New ‘Food Cubby’ Kitchen Tool Keeps Food From Touching And Parents Are Loving It.

30 Times People Had No Idea What They Were Looking At, But The Internet Knew What It Was Right Away (New Pics) 50 Hilariously Inappropriate Playground Design Fails That Are Hard To Believe Were Approved. 50 Times Libraries Surprised Everyone With Their Creativity And Sense Of Humor (New Pics) 50 Epic Design Fails That Are So Bad, We Can’t Believe They Actually Happened (New Pics) Bad Signs, Cont. Bad Signs, Cont. Why didn’t I think of that?! So simple! (Hat tip: Secret Scissorhead @NamelessCynic on the electrical tweeting device)