When the artist, Melanie Willhide, got her stolen laptop back, all her files were deleted by the burglar. Data recovery experts were able to recover some of them. The photos were corrupted, but she decided to exhibit the work. The show was titled after the burglar.
A new type of hallucination…
A new type of hallucination has been identified by a team at the University of Derby: an ‘inverted hallucination’ is one where you can’t see something that is really there.
When two dolphins in a Beijing aquarium…
When two dolphins in a Beijing aquarium got plastic stuck in their stomachs, vets called in the then tallest man in the world, herdsman Bao Xishun, to reach his long arms in and pull the plastic out.
Christmas dinner in a can
In 2013 tech retailer GAME released an affordable £2 ($2.64) Christmas dinner in a can for hardcore gamers who spend their Christmas playing games online and don’t want to leave their chair.
15 Times Newspaper Copy Editors Probably Regretted Not Taking a Closer Look
Most of us expect the news to be at least revised and edited. When headlines like these 15 pop up, though, you almost hope the editors were out to coffee when things went to print – because that’s better than thinking they saw these and didn’t think there was a problem!
15. I mean, as do teenagers.
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14. This had to have been a purposeful play on words.
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13. Alert the media.
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12. Including the people who wrote this headline.
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11. You’d have a whole other problem if they did.
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10. Yes. In fact that’s what it’s typically called.
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9. What were they expecting to find?
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8. Someone was really out to lunch.
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7. And therein lies the rub.
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6. As opposed to…?
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5. Maybe change at least one of those.
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4. You won’t believe this, but that’s why we build them!
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3. Did they tell you that themselves?
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2. And they’re bugs that fly!
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1. Now THAT’S a story!
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As a writer, I can’t cringe hard enough! Gah!
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Mall Santas Share Their Favorite Stories from Their Holiday Jobs
You have to be a special sort of person to take a job as a mall Santa during the holidays. For one thing, you have to look the part! Also, dealing with kids (and their parents’ expectations!) for hours every day can’t be the easiest task – especially when the season already has people stressed out.
If you want to know why they do it (or at least how they get through it) here are 15 stories that make the experience a little more real.
15. A kid that’s going places, for sure.
Not a Santa, but I have been a Mrs. Claus for the last few years and I always ask the kids what they want while we do our crafts.
My favorite was this 4-5 year old girl that told me she wanted “one of those loud horns”. She made a gesture like she was using those canned air horns and she made a little horn sound. She said she wants to use it to wake up her baby brother when he naps in the daytime so he “knows what it’s like.”
14. It’s best to be specific.
Not a santa but an elf.
I read a letter (maybe I shouldn’t have) from a child who asked for a dolphin, specifically not autistic. Not sure if he had had a bad experience with disabled dolphins or what but he was about 6 years old .
13. Well, Santa tried.
My 3 year old son asked Santa once for “a baby rhino” Santa told him that “The baby rhinos mama would be very sad to lose her baby though”
Then my son said, “okay, well I’ll take the mama too, maybe she can sleep in my moms bed”
12. Lol, yikes.
Many years ago a small girl would not tell her mother what she wanted for Christmas. Mom told me the problem and I was to tell her after the kid jumped off my lap. The little girl hopped up and told me she wanted some make up and some tits…. ok now I have to tell mom.
11. That Santa probably had some *thoughts*.
My sister asked Santa for “Black Men” for Christmas. She meant “Men in Black.”
10. I bet he had a baby sibling.
Not me but my dad
a kid asked for his moms milk he was like 7
9. This is so incredibly pure.
I was an assistant manager for a mall Santa with Noerr Programs. There was a special needs 20-something black guy that would come by nearly every day. He easily weighed more than 250 pounds so we did eventually convince him to sit next to Santa instead of on his lap. Every time he had to remind Santa what he wanted for Christmas. His list was Home Alone on DVD, Straight Outta Compton on DVD, and Prince’s 1999 album on CD. Santa was awesome and brought him the Prince CD a few days before Christmas.
8. It’s always the younger sibling you have to watch out for.
Yesterday the big sister asked for a pet mouse, the little sister asked for a snake.
7. That’s not as weird as it is sweet.
Not a mall santa my friend was one. He said that the weirdest thing he heard from a kid was a husband for his mom.
6. This is tough.
I worked in Russia as “Snow Maiden”. This is a Christmas character here, Santa Claus granddaughter. One of the children in a wheelchair asked to walk again. It was hard.
Upd. For people’s, who wanted funny answer. In my practis was a boy, who wanted a girlfriend. He was 5-6 years.
5. Being a parent is hard.
Was a Santa at a party last week. A kid asked for a whistle that she could blow at night to wake her mom up and scare her when she was sleeping.
I said “No, that would put you on the Naughty list, let your mom sleep you little gremlin.”
Mom laughed.
4. Smart kid.
My uncle was a Santa and he told me that one year a kid asked for a coffee maker because he wanted to start his own Starbucks coffee stand instead of a lemonade stand. Apparently business was not very good as a lemonade stand but he noticed a lot of adults drink coffee, so he’d make coffee.
That kid is probably a millionaire now.
3. Bread is life.
A piece of toast.
2. You sit on a throne of lies!
For me to “stop upholding this charade”
1. Did your dad tell you to say that?
There was a joke a radio host told that I heard about 10 years ago or so and there was a mall santa and this kid, and the kid wanted a tonka truck that had a hitch or crane/hook or something, and when it comes time to tell santa what he wants the kid says “I want a truck with a hooker”
I couldn’t do it, I don’t think!
Have you ever played Santa? What’s the best/worst thing that ever happened to you when you did?
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These Great Facts Might Make Your Day a Little Bit More Interesting
I need some good brain food to get through the day sometimes.
Know what I’m saying?
Well, I have just what you need! A great set of facts for you!
Let’s begin!
1. The world’s smallest park.
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2. Wow, that’s fascinating.
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3. The name game.
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4. Roly poly.
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5. I’m not even gonna try.
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6. Nazi hunters.
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7. But…why?
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8. Interesting…
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9. The demon cat.
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10. They’re everywhere.
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Have a great day, a great week, and a great month!
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Best Friends of Nearly Eighty Years Are Now Stirring up Trouble Together in the Same Nursing Home
My best friend and I have been BFF for just over three decades at this point, and while neither of us is getting out of this friendship anytime soon, eight decades still seems like a long way off.
For Olive Woodward and Kathleen Saville, though, the decades might have seen them following their own paths, but those roads have wound around and come back together again eighty years on – at the same care facility.
Inseparable since the age of 11, #OliveWoodward and #KathleenSaville went to the same school, lived on the same street and married coal miners. When their husbands died, they moved in together. Now, the besties spend their time making “mischief” at the #BerryHillPark senior living home. Link in bio for more on their story.The pair met when they were just 11, at primary school in Nottingham back in 1941. They were neighbors, as well, and grew up best friends.
They married men who worked at the same company and lived on the same road as adults, as well, and staying close through all of life’s ups, downs, and the daily stuff in between.
After 35 years of marriage, Kathleen’s husband died in 1989. She lived on her own for many years afterward before moving into Berry Hilly Park, a care home in Mansfield.
Had the best day laughing with this pair. Best friends for 78 years and now reunited in a care home in Mansfield, & enjoying mischief making together again #besties #friendshipgoals #OliveandKathleenrock pic.twitter.com/mJacZNuk2r
— Nicola Gilroy (@nicolagilroy1) December 3, 2019
Olive was married 50 years before her husband died, and she too lived alone for a while…before joining her best friend in Berry Hill Park.
Now 89, the pair are the oldest women in the facility (though they’re sure they don’t look a day over 63, and we agree!).
“I’m so glad Olive is here now,” Kathleen confided to Bored Panda. “We’re like giggling schoolgirls, and we still put on our lippy and get dressed up. We always say to each other ‘if you’ve got it, flaunt it.’”
A pair of lifelong friends have moved in to the same care home together almost 80 years after they first met.
Kathleen Saville and Olive Woodward, both 89, became friends as 11-year-old schoolgirls in 1941https://t.co/acxgoWt4zh@BBCNews #ageingwell pic.twitter.com/nUg10wvWoL
— Bev Matthews RN MSc (Healthcare Ethics) #NHS (@BevMatthewsRN) December 5, 2019
The women also admit to “knocking the staff into shape” and to racing the managers around just for fun. They love to laugh together, and age isn’t going to stop them having a good time.
They’re definitely #goals! Just 50 more years and I’ll be there myself (at least I hope so), and I can’t think of a better way to spend my golden years than raising cane with my bestie!
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This Is Why Dogs Kick Their Feet After They Poop
If you’ve ever had a dog, there’s a good chance you know what I’m talking about: your dog sniffs around, sniffs some more, turns in circles, then finally finds the perfect (and apparently only) spot in the yard to do their business.
Afterward, they move a few inches and then kick their feet backward, sort of covering the mess with dirt and flying grass.
Even though dogs have been domesticated for a very, very long time, they still retain some behaviors from the days before they were man’s best friend – they were once wild animals after all. It is innate instinct that drives around 10% of dogs to kick at the ground after going to the bathroom.
Dogs are territorial as a species, and are always sensitive to other dogs encroaching on their territory (it’s also why they bark out the window when another dog takes a stroll past, or – GASP – wanders onto “their” lawn).
Pooping sends a message to other dogs that the property has been claimed, and by kicking up dirt afterward, they stir up the scent that, along with pheromones released from glands on their feet, creates a strong and distinct smell. A “this is mine” sort of smell.
Other dogs then take the kicked-up grass as a clue that they’re treading on stinky, owned ground.
The pheromones actually smell stronger than the pee or poo, and can alert dogs to other things, like food trails or potential danger.
Experts warn against interrupting your dog during the ritual, claiming that doing so can make your dog feel vulnerable and confused.
So, just stay out of the way (and hope your lawn-obsessed neighbor isn’t watching your dog toss around their new grass seed. Oops.) and let nature take its course.
There’s no way to stop (or speed up) evolution, you know, so just give you pooch a pat and thank them for their vigilance.
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Grýla the Troll Eats Naughty Children on Christmas in Iceland
If you’re a bad kid who finds coal in his stocking instead of gifts, well…consider yourself lucky. If you lived in Iceland, you just might have been eaten by a troll instead.
Human-eating trolls feature heavily in many Icelandic myths, and during jól (Christmas season in Iceland), a Christmas troll named Grýla comes down from her mountain cave to gather all of the naughty children.
Then she hauls them back home to her lazy, nagged husband to turn into a holiday stew.
Stories of her antics have been around since at least the Middle Ages, and, according to experts on local mythology, Icelandic trolls are typically stupid but dangerous giants who actively hate Christianity and Christians. Early folk used them to explain rock formations (legends would claim they were trolls turned to stone).
Sometime in the 13th century, the general word for a she-troll – grýla – became the name of a specific troll who ate children around the holidays.
Which only goes to prove that, even hundreds of years ago, people needed a way to keep their kids in line at Christmastime.
A. Bambi WendtLike all trolls, Grýla is gross and huge, but she might also have 15 (or 40) tails to hold her many bags of naughty children, 300 heads with 3 eyes each, eyes on the back of her head, long ears, a beard, black teeth, and/or hooves – all depending on who tells the story.
So, I mean, they agree that she’s super ugly and scary, which is the point.
Despite her looks, Grýla is the mother of the 13 Yule Lads, who visit on the 13 days of Christmas, and she owns a cat called Jólakötturinn, who devours people who didn’t get clothes for Christmas (because they didn’t work hard enough).
As with Santa Claus, Grýla is a cautionary tale used to get children to behave, not a creature adults believe in themselves.
You can see her depicted in statues and other artwork all over Iceland – even in airports – and you won’t have any trouble seeing why Icelandic kids are probably very, very nice when the season is upon them.
I’m inspired to be a little kinder myself, even!
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