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Humans often experience ‘illusions of control’ over events we cannot actually change. While psychologists in the past thought this meant we evolved to be deluded, some neuroscientists now think these false beliefs are our brain’s rational response to an uncertain and unpredictable world.
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Doomscrolling is the act of obsessively checking online news for updates, especially on social media feeds, with the expectation that the news will be bad, such that the feeling of dread from this negative.
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South Korea is the second leading consumer of Spam. Spam was introduced in Korea during WWII, and it was “godsend” for people in Korea and Japan who were starving as result of the war. Koreans view Spam as a delicacy and it is a popular gift item for the Lunar New Year.
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Psychologist George Stratton wore glasses that turned the world upside down for 8 days. By the third day his brain had adjusted the image to feel right side up and normal. Once he took the glasses off his normal vision looked inverted for hours.
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The reason why the snowman is abominable, is because of a mistranslation by a journalist. The local name for the creature was “metoh-kangmi” which translates to “man-bear snow-man”, but the metoh part was mistranslated as filthy which got later changed to abominable.
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In Japan, when you buy a car, you have to prove you have somewhere to park it. Under Japan’s 1957 Parking Law on-street parking is actually generally banned.
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I’m fully prepared to cry when I sit down for a Pixar movie at this point. It’s just part of the experience. We all know it’s true.
Pixar promises three things: 1) real, humanized characters dealing with 2) real, relatable issues in a 3) fully fleshed out, detailed world.
That said, I hope you’re ready to cry over symbolic artwork and 10 other details from Pixar movies that you may not have noticed before.
Pixar’s 2018 short, Bao, written and directed by Domee Shi, tells the story of a lonely Chinese-Canadian mother experiencing empty nest syndrome. She receives an unexpected gift when her steamed bun (baozi) comes to life, a la the Gingerbread man.
“Bao” is a play on words. 包, pronounced “bao”, is Mandarin Chinese for “dumpling.” However, this pronunciation is shared by 宝, meaning “treasure” or “baby”, and 保, meaning “protect” or “defend”. See what they did there?
Image Credit: Pixar
Have you ever wondered why all of Boo’s lines from Monster’s Inc (2001) sound so real and natural?
Mary Gibbs, the actress who voiced Boo, had a difficult time staying put in the recording booth to perform her lines, so the crew decided to follow her around with a microphone and record her as she played. They were able to cut and piece her lines together for the final draft using random things she said and noises she made while playing.
Image Credit: Pixar
In Pixar’s Up (2009), the animators were very intentional with how they designed Carl and Ellie, and their home. All of Ellie’s items are rounded, to reflect her round head and (I’m assuming) soft, inviting personality.
All of Carl’s objects are square to match his square jaw, and more stubborn, stoic, rigid personality.
Image Credit: Pixar
Once again, in Pixar’s Up the animators utilize every detail on screen to help tell the story. In the top shot we see Carl and Ellie as a young, newly married couple. Ellie stands atop a hill, beckoning to Carl, as she did when they were kids. The sky is bright and hopeful. In the background we see what looks to be a clock tower and their quaint town.
In the second image the roles are reversed. Now Carl stands atop the hill, beckoning to Ellie (who will soon be leaving us). The sun is now setting, the day will soon end. In the background we see their quiet town has become a large, metropolitan city.
This displays the passing of time while also foreshadowing the fact that Carl will soon find himself alone, in a house surrounded by newly built skyscrapers and continuous construction. Crying yet?
Image Credit: Pixar
In Coco (2017), as audience members, we initially don’t know the extent of Miguel’s skill with the guitar. He even admits to Héctor, he’s never performed for people before.
However, once Miguel gets past his initial stage fright, he shows everyone just how talented he truly. In fact, if you watch his hands as he plays in this movie, you will notice he playing the actual chords to the songs he’s performing. Talk about detail!
Image Credit: Pixar
In Inside Out (2015) Riley’s clothes become less joyful and more muted as she becomes more and more distraught. And it makes sense, because that’s what we do as real people! We use clothes to express how we’re feeling.
Just one more example of how Pixar animators use every inch of the screen to help tell the story.
Image Credit: Pixar
In Toy Story 3 (2010), when Woody peers past the door, we can height measurements of Andy’s toys on the doorframe.
Just this little detail hits us right in the feels, because it’s such a small detail but so real. Just like Andy’s mom has measured Andy over the years, she’s also measured his most treasured toy friends.
Image Credit: Pixar
In Toy Story 4, Mr. Potato Head is voiced posthumously by his original voice actor, Don Rickles (who passed away in 2017.)
The Pixar team sorted through decades of Rickles’ voice over sessions, outtakes for other films, theme parts, toys, etc. to create a performance for the fourth movie.
Some might find this creepy, but I think it’s really meaningful that they spent the time to make Mr. Rickles a part of the film, rather than just hire a new actor.
Image Credit: Pixar
This one might be sad depending on how you think about it. No, this isn’t a shot from Toy Story, it’s actually a segment from WALL-E (2008). But who do we have here? None other than our favorite dinosaur toy, Rex!
It seems that toys really can live forever, provided nothing destroys them. But if Rex is here, where are all his friends? What happened to them? Is he all alone? Why doesn’t he reveal his sentience to WALL-E? This Easter egg might actually raise more concerns that the animators intended…
Image Credit: Pixar
In Incredibles 2, we see Helen Incredible alone in her fancy hotel room, phoning her family. Behind her is a rather large painting. Things could just be fancy hotel art, but let’s be real, this is Pixar we’re talking about.
If you take another look, you’ll see this painting is a metaphor for the Incredible family in this moment. It illustrates Helen’s current distance from her family. She’s left her husband to take care of the family while she takes cares of crime.
Image Credit: Pixar
In Incredibles (2004), we’re given a glimpse into the past. We see that Mr. Incredible’s original suit was blue while Elstagirl’s original suit was red.
What color do you get when you mix red and blue? Violet. What’s the name of Mr. and Mrs. Incredible’s first child? “Violet.” (D’aww!)
Image Credit: Pixar
Would you like a tissue? *sniff*
As much as I hate how it messes up my mascara, it feels good to cry over something that has truly touched my heart.
When you becomes invested in these characters and their world, those little details that you hadn’t noticed before make it that much more special.
At the same time, it’s all those details coming together that draw you into the story in the first place.
What’s your favorite Pixar movie? Let us know in the comments!
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One of the most fun parts of life is how we are completely unable to guess, for the most part, the things that are going to not only catch on with people, but endure.
Our world is constantly changing, updating, and the people who live in it are adapting as well as we can (some faster than others), so that’s probably why these 12 things haven’t aged well.
At all.
Sex and the City.
There’s legit an episode where Samantha encourages someone to go to a party because ‘Harvey Weinstein will be there’.
Gross.
Plus everyone is whiny and crap.
In my country, parents use(d) to tell their children “eat all of your food or there will be bad weather tomorrow” (to avoid leftovers).
Today we have overweight children and a climate crisis…
My “not needing” to buy new underwear for 10 years.
I didn’t know cotton breaks down!
Now I have to admit to my wife she was right
I exchanged emails with a few of my elementary school teachers when they left the school mid-way through the year.
I emailed my favorite teacher often, and I’d ask him about how the new school he was at was etc.
A few years later, I found out he was jailed for child molestation. 13 year old me sent an email to him asking how prison was at the time.
My siblings never let me forget.
Kony 2012.
Anyone else remember that?
The dude ended up getting arrested for being naked in public.
Glee.
Well, the teacher in charge of Glee Club isn’t nearly the great teacher he was made out to be. His behavior around the kids was creepy (inappropriate dance routines, pressuring them into wearing less clothes than they were comfortable with (worse, because the girl had an eating disorder and was very insecure about her body), that sort of thing). His relationship with a fellow teacher was portrayed as ‘relationship goals’, but was in fact not that healthy either.
Then there were a few comments about bisexuality that really wouldn’t fly today, and they weren’t shown to be ignorant either.
And there was an episode about a school shooting, that didn’t go over well, one might consider it tone deaf, what with how quickly everyone got over the scare (there was no actual shooting).
Finally, in the first season, Quinn, the cheerleader, was pregnant. She was big on saving yourself until marriage, and had convinced her boyfriend the baby was his, through some biologically impossible idea. What actually happened, was that another jock got her drunk and slept with her. It was never addressed how shady that was, especially with her being president of the abstinence club and already having a BF, so it was clear he wouldn’t stand a chance with her sober.
Said jock was played by Mark Salling, and was portrayed as being very into sex. That feels a bit weird, knowing now that he was arrested for possessing kiddie p and killed himself before it could go to trial.
Unvaccinated kids.
The “Special barbecue sauce” scene from The Cosby show.
The large American flag (made in China) on the town green’s flagpole.
It was less than 2 months old and already in tatters.
My comment from a few years ago on a YouTube video where I said “How could a virus take down an economy? Lol”
Damn that comment aged poorly.
Bill Cosby wrote a book titled Come On People.
So, yeah…
Teachers saying you would not walk around with a calculator in your pocket.
Or the entire teaching style of teaching kids to memorize stuff they could look up in five seconds.
A few teachers understand students have access to the internet and instead teach them better ways to utilize the tools and creative thinking and problem solving
but sadly it seems most teachers still just teach kids to memorize stuff they can look up in five seconds
I’m sure I could think of a bunch more things to put on this list if I had the time!
What would you add? Tell us in the comments!
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If you’re not into the kinds of tales that send weird chills down your spine, then you may never have heard about the mysterious Mothman who appeared in Point Pleasant, West Virginia back in the 1960s.
In November of 1966, two couples spotted a winged, man-shaped monster near the “TNT area,” a collection of abandoned bunkers where explosives were stored during WWII. The local newspaper reported on the events, and suddenly, more sightings began popping up.
Image Credit: Tim Bertelink
When nearly 50 people were killed in a bridge collapse the following December, more than a few Point Pleasant residents believed the Mothman could have caused the tragedy.
The mysterious creature’s popularity endured with the help of a 1975 novel by John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies, which also spawned a 2002 movie adaptation starting Richard Gere and Laura Linney.
While the bulk of the sightings happened back in the 60’s, some are still reporting close encounters today. The creature has inspired a statue, a museum, and an annual festival that all bring tourists (and tourism dollars) to the small, West Virginia community.
Now, director Seth Breedlove is tackling the history of the Mothman in his documentary, The Mothman Legacy. In it, he investigates the history and legacy of the creature and also interviews more recent eyewitnesses to its appearance.
Breedlove appears to be a bit hooked on the topic, as he also directed The Mothman of Point Pleasant back in 2017, which focuses on the more historical accounts, along with the bridge catastrophe.
The latest documentary, bolstered by author and expert Jeff Wamsley, who has written two books on the subject, doesn’t try to solve or disprove the mystery, but instead seems to almost celebrate the enduring urban legend.
You can watch it on Amazon Prime or YouTube.
It’s fascinating viewing any time of the year, and for any mood.
That said, if you’re looking for something delightfully mysterious and spooky, this should definitely fit the bill.
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Looking at these photos gave me flashbacks of awful food I’ve had to endure in the past…and one incident in particular…
Let me set the scene for you: I was around 12-years-old and I spent the night at my friend Greg’s house up the street. The next morning, his mother INSISTED I sit down for breakfast with the family because she had a real treat in store for us.
Guess what? IT WAS NOT A TREAT.
I’m still not sure how you mess up scrambled eggs but she managed to do it and they tasted like some kind of alien life form. I ended up feeding mine to the dog underneath the table while no one was looking. That is a true story.
Anyway, here are some gross meals that might make you never want to eat actual food ever again…
This is really not cool…just sayin’…
TIL my roommate leaves the plastic on the crab… from shittyfoodporn
I’m very confused…
Just a thought…
Going to need a lot more cheese sauce to choke thay turkey down from shittyfoodporn
You should be ashamed of yourself!
People love cold pizza, so why not cold sauce and cheese in a tortilla? from shittyfoodporn
You are definitely a high roller.
What did you do to deserve this?
Quite possibly the worst excuse for cake ever. from shittyfoodporn
And I really don’t want to.
You’ve heard of the pizza roll, the pizza bagel, and the pizzadilla. But have you considered…pizza grits from shittyfoodporn
It’s not great, but…
Get it out of my face!
Question: did anyone throw up after they ate this?
Spaghetti with sour cream as sauce because I didn’t want to open a can of spaghetti sauce. Plus a big squirt of buffalo sauce, garlic powder, salt, and then bacon bits cause from shittyfoodporn
You spent a lot of time on this, didn’t you?
You’re a real wizard in the kitchen.
Forgot to set a timer on my Red Baron pizza. Was supposed to go in for 16 minutes, not half an hour. from shittyfoodporn
I think I’d rather go hungry than eat any of those dishes…just sayin’…
And now we want to hear from you.
In the comments, tell us about some really bad meals you’ve eaten before. And share some photos too if you have them! Please and thank you!
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