The first pilots crossing the Atlantic, crash landed on bogland in the western tip of Ireland. During their flight they came into free fall twice above the ocean. They lost the hood of the ‘cockpit’ and went trough snow and rain at 3500 m altitude, soaking and freezing them completely.
Pedi people (a tribe in South Africa)…
Pedi people (a tribe in South Africa) wear Scottish kilts. Citing oral history, the use of kilts dates to 1879. They say that’s when the tribe lost a battle because its warriors thought kilted Scots leading a British army were women and held their fire until realizing their mistake too late.
Asian Supermarkets are Wrapping Products in Leaves Instead of Plastic to Wrap Products
Our world is pretty sharply polarized these days, but if there’s one thing we can agree upon, it’s that we all need to be doing whatever we can to reduce waste. The single biggest thing we can do? Eliminate our dependence on plastic.
More and more businesses are jumping on board with sustainable and recyclable products and packaging, and here’s another great idea that will hopefully spread across the globe.
Posted by Perfect Homes Chiangmai on Tuesday, April 2, 2019
The photos in this article come to us from a supermarket in Thailand that has ditched plastic wrapping for their produce in favor of leaves. This means that more plastic that would be discarded to end up in a landfill is being eliminated from the environment.
Posted by Perfect Homes Chiangmai on Tuesday, April 2, 2019
These photos come from a place called Rimping Supermarket.
Posted by Perfect Homes Chiangmai on Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Posted by Perfect Homes Chiangmai on Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Posted by Perfect Homes Chiangmai on Tuesday, April 2, 2019
I love this idea! Let’s keep our fingers crossed that it catches on everywhere (here me, Kroger??)
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Remember That the Bell-Ringing Shame Nun Septa Unella from “Game of Thrones?” She’s a Smokeshow in Real Life.
Because the people on Game of Thrones are not real and are actually played by a special subset of superior humanity called “actors” and “actresses,” the impression the show may have given you of Septa Unella is not actually reflected in her daily life.
The smallfolk are dirty, so very dirty.
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Unlike the dour Septa Unella, all actresses are gorgeous, with pretty much no exceptions. That’s a great example of sexism, since John C. Reilly is a famous actor and he looks like a mountain goat. But the point here is that Septa Unella is a beautiful woman when going by her human name, Hannah Waddingham.
@davidfynn @thedebbiekurup #15secondshakespeare I nom @davidwalliams @MazzWoman @LouiseDearman pic.twitter.com/rHtjutAmWu
— Hannah Waddingham. (@hanwaddingham) September 20, 2015
She’s not constantly following Queen Cersei around ringing a bell to call the peasants’ attention to her sins, and she’s not always wearing a baggy habit.
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As the Daily Caller writes in words that are much more frank and weird than necessary: “The Actress Who Plays Septa Unella in ‘Game of Thrones’ Is Actually A GORGEOUS SMOKESHOW.” Nice, real classy. (They should have gone with Lord of Bones, right?)
Photo Credit: Twitter, @hanwaddingham
It just goes to show you can never judge an actor’s appearance based solely on a role they played.
Photo Credit: Twitter, @hanwaddingham
Who knew?
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20 Bootleg Products That Are Ridiculously Bad
Sunbucks? Star Wart? Detos?
These products really all exist. And they’re here for us to laugh at…
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10+ Women Share The Worst First Dates They’ve Been On, and Guys Should be Ashamed
Fellas, fellas, fellas… this is just embarrassing.
Seriously, be better than these guys (which isn’t a high bar AT ALL).
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15 Inconveniences That Are Basically Level 1 Bad Guys
Remember when you played video games as a kid (or even more recently, if you’re like me), there was always the Big Bad Guy that you had to beat who was almost impossible to beat.
Before you get to that Big Bad, however, there’s a series of less difficult sub-bosses to get through, who each get progressively harder as you progress towards the last boss. So, the Level 1 boss is basically just a minor inconvenience.
What is the real-life equivalent?
The 13+ people below have some suggestions, and it’s hard to argue!
#1. Everyone knows.
Kid tries to punch me and take my food then cried when his hand aches from hitting the bone in my back. Everyone know that if you wanna hurt a man, you need to kick the crotch.
#2. People.
People who stare at you and make you look away.
#3. A goose at the park.
That goose at the park that I tried to do karate at when I was five
#4. Slow and go.
The guy who does a “slow and go” at a 4 way stop when you were there first.
#5. That won’t stop.
A fly that won’t stop bugging you
#6. That little mini-stumble.
The curb that’s one inch higher than you expected so you do that little mini-stumble thing
#7. Back in middle school.
The Hall Monitor from back in middle school. The parking meter checker for adults.
#8. A thief.
Workplace lunch thief
#9. Not the grapes.
People who steal/eat grapes from the supermarket
#10. That dude.
That dude who keeps asking the introvert why he doesn’t speak
#11. Someone you could easily punt.
Kids from rough neighborhoods that try and rob you. Btw, by kids I mean like <13, so someone you could easily punt across the fucking moon.
#12. Just ants.
Generic ants. Not bullet ants or anything; just ants.
#13. 200+ followers.
A middle schooler making fun of you for not having 200+ followers
#14. The kid who won’t share the swing.
In the first year of elementary school, just after the tutorial, there’s a kid who won’t share the swing and keeps it all recess.
#15. Seeing you in doubles.
The alcoholic threatening to beat you up while not being able to stay on their feet and always swinging to the left/right of you because he’s seeing you in doubles.
If only every defeat was so easy!
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This French Theme Park Trained Some Crows to Keep the Place Clean
Theme parks all tend to have a few elements in common – plenty of rides, souvenir shops, food stalls, and, of course, an abundance of birds hopping around trying to pick up any food that falls to the ground.
Now, Puy du Fou, a theme park in Les Epesses, France, has decided that if birds are going to be hanging around begging for leftover popcorn and discarded funnel cakes, they might as well earn their keep. To that end, they’ve trained a small contingent of rooks as staff – they get paid in treats to clean up garbage and cigarette butts from the grounds.
Image Credit: Puy du Fou
Rooks are in the same family of birds as ravens and crows, highly intelligent and trainable animals. The ones at Puy du Fou pick up litter and place it in a bin in exchange for a treat – the team of 6 birds have been working hard since August 13.
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It sounds a bit out there, but the amusement park is far from the first company to give it a go. Dutch startup Crowded Cities started training crows to gather cigarette butts using a vending machine-like device that offers peanuts in exchange for trash, and the experiment is going well.
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If it continues to work with no detrimental effects to the crows (from handling tobacco), we could see a broader implementation of the idea worldwide – maybe nature can help us clean up nature, even though we’re the ones who soiled it in the first place.
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Costco’s $6,000 Doomsday Food…
Costco’s $5,000 Doomsday Food kit gets your family through year one of the apocalypse. The kit is delivered as two pallets of boxes that together weigh 1,800 pounds. To keep neighbors in the dark, Costco promises everything is “packaged discreetly.” The some products expire in 30 years.
While filming “2001: A Space Odyssey”….
While filming “2001: A Space Odyssey”, the director Stanley Kubrick was so worried that an alien encounter was imminent that he took out an insurance policy incase aliens were discovered before his movie was released which he believed would have ruined his storyline.