You Won’t Believe These 10+ Wonders of Nature Really Exist

There are some pretty strange sights in this world, and with how far technology has advanced, sometimes it’s tough to tell what’s real and what’s fake. But we assure you everything on this list is untouched by photoshop.

So, enjoy the following 12 pictures of nature’s most remarkable wonders.

1. This looks like an iguana head, but it’s really a rock.

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2. “My dog’s nose is healing from a cat scratch.”

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3. A chameleon shedding its skin.

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4. Panda Picasso.

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5. Sequoias never cease to amaze us.

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6. Looks like a baby dragon.

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7. These two-faced animals.

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8. This baby falcon weighs less than a bar of chocolate.

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9. These mountains are totally hidden by smoke.

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10. This waterfall is shaped like a woman wearing a dress.

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11. A rare black serval.

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12. Hitching a ride on a friend.

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September 20, 2018

15 Photos That Prove All Families Are Crazy

Families know how to make each other laugh. That’s what makes them great. We hope these photos of families being crazy together remind you of fond memories with your own family.

1. “My mom fell asleep in a mall.”

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2. “My mom decided to put this in the toilet and I don’t know why. Now I have constipation and nightmares from this thing.”

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3. “My wife is pregnant and she thought it would be funny to take a picture of our dog’s feet looking like they were her’s…”

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4. “I had my sister watch my cat for a couple days, and these are all the updates she sent me.”

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5. “I asked my sister to dry my pants while I got dressed and I came across this.”

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6. “My parents left these frames empty for too long, so I decided to fill them.”

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7. “My boyfriend decided to take my dog to the beach today for some ’quality’ time together.”

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8. “My little brother worked at my shop with me today, and I convinced him that brick mopping is a thing.”

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9. “My girlfriend was born without a nail on her finger.”

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10. “A chubby Spider-Man bumping bellies with my dad in Spain”

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11. That’s a good parent.

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12. “I’m buying a car from my dad for $2,500. This is how I’m giving him the money tomorrow.”

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13. “My dad had a mop bucket, a sticker, and a vision.”

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14. “My dad was dog-sitting my dog, and sent me this.”

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15. “So I found my brother sunbathing…”

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September 20, 2018

Can You Believe People Followed These 5+ Crazy Fashion Trends Back in the Day?

Decades ago, people did all sorts of crazy things that we now know to stay away from. I’m talkin’ things like carrying radium around in their pockets! Or going to the dentist and not expecting anesthesia. Heck, they used lead and asbestos when they built their houses!

Fashion seems like it would be a safe spot compared to radium and asbestos, but many antique fashion trends were just as dangerous – if not more so.

Considering how conscious we are of what we put on and in our bodies today, it’s wild to hear about the poisons with which people used to get pretty intimate. Check out some of the harrowing examples below.

#8. Crinoline

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Sure, wearing a giant dress that contained a hoop might seem romantic now, but it was less so to women who didn’t realize how large their gown actually was before they stepped too close to a fireplace…

#7. Toxic dye on fabrics

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This beautiful dress, dyed “Paris Green” contains arsenic and copper sulfate — the same combination that was later used to kill mosquitoes and wallpaper people’s houses. Yikes.

#6. Ornate hairstyles

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You’ve seen the pictures of pre-Revolutionary France — the ones where Marie Antoinette looks like a superhero just because she can hold her dress and her hair up at the same time? Well, the hairstyles were not only heavy and awkward, they could attract bugs and rodents looking to nest.

Women would wear the same style for days, and sleep wearing large metal cages to keep themselves infestation free.

Seriously.

#5. Killer makeup

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Think your makeup is bad because it comes from animal byproducts? Well, at least you don’t live in a time when women were expected to have porcelain white skin — even if it meant using lead powder that caused everything from major skin issues to hair loss to intoxication that could lead to death.

Oh, and just for fun, some types of blush contained arsenic.

#4. Corsets weren’t just for wedding dresses

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The first corsets weren’t made from pretty ribbons. They were metal, then wood, and finally a slightly more comfortable whalebone. They often seriously deformed women’s skeletons, displacing their internal organs. Some women began wearing them in childhood and never stopped, not even during pregnancy.

#3. Foot binding

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In China, foot binding was a popular tradition among the wealthy until it was banned in 1911. It resulted in feet shaped like a lotus and women who were so crippled they couldn’t walk without assistance.

There are pictures of this out there, if you want to go looking.

#2. The highest heels

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High heels are another form of torture that some women still refuse to give up — though the tallest stilettos of today have nothing on the chopines from Italy. They were invented so women wouldn’t have to walk in the muddy streets, but soon spiraled out of control, forcing them to need a servant’s hand if they wanted to walk anywhere.

Easy to fall and split your head? Yes.

#2. The pregnancy girdle.

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As someone who is closing in on her eighth month of pregnancy, this one seems totally insane — a tight, restricting girdle worn during pregnancy. These “maternity belts”, designed to hide the pregnancy as much as possible, were heavily boned and zippered, tight to the point of being uncomfortable at best.

I’ll keep my yoga pants and leggings, thank you very much.

#1. Eyes shining…with poison

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The toxic properties of belladonna were well known, but noble European women still dropped a distillation of it into their eyes to cause their pupils to dilate and their eyes to seem “brighter.” Many of them suffered severe eye problems and even blindness because of the practice, but it didn’t stop others from continuing to use the drops.

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September 20, 2018

These 6 Popular Words and Phrases Actually Came from Television Shows

Words and phrases are easy to take for granted. With the exception of some new slang, the words we use most often have been around since before we were born. But some might not actually be as old as you think.

These 6 common words and phrases prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that television is a part of our culture that can never be erased. While some of these might be obvious, I’m guessing others will be a complete surprise.

Either way, let’s get into it!

#6. “Cowabunga!”

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If you think this comes from “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” well…you’re not right. The surfer slang actually hails from the 1950s and a children’s show called Howdy Doody that used it as a (totally inappropriate) fake Native American language.

#5. “Spam.”

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How did the name of a canned meat product come to mean unwanted mail? The meat (?) was invented during the Great Depression, but it wasn’t until 40 years later that “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” started singing about it incessantly, and for some unknown reason, computer nerds picked it up in the early 1990s.

#4. “Har-de-har.”

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This classic, sarcastic and totally fake belly laugh is thanks to Jackie Gleason and “The Honeymooners,” also from the 1950s.

#3. “Poindexter.”

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While for some of us, this word is synonymous with “nerd,” it actually comes from a show that was super popular in the late 1950s — “Felix the Cat.” In the show, Poindexter is the cat’s glasses-wearing genius nephew, and was supposedly named for the lawyer of the series creator.

#2. “Sorry about that.”

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You’ve probably used this one more than once, but did you know it was made popular on the 1960s show “Get Smart”? There are also other lines from the show that might sound familiar including “missed it by that much” and “the old so-and-so trick.”

#1. “Five-O.”

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You’ve probably used this phrase to refer to the police at some point in your life, but you’ve likely never stopped to think about why. It comes from “Hawaii Five-O,” because the police force in the show was named in honor of Hawaii being the 50th state.

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September 20, 2018

12+ Adults Reflect on the Silly Things They Were Scared of As Children

When you’re a kid, the world can be a pretty scary place — shadows, noises, and pretty much anything else you see and hear once your parents leave the room for the night. As adults, it’s always funny to look back at the things that frightened us so badly and how tame they seem now that we’re grown up.

…Except running up the basement steps before the monsters grab your heels. You never outgrow that.

And if I’m being really honest, many of these 15 childhood fears still sound pretty terrifying to me.

#15. I thought I was going to die

“Chucky Cheese. That giant rat used to scare the fuck out of me. Once he jumped into the ball pit and I thought I was going to die.”

#14. Bloody Mary

“Mirrors. That fucking bloody Mary thing, dude.”

#13. I freaked out every time

“My mother had a small metal turtle that’s legs wobbled when the wheels, under its belly began to roll. This would have been way before batteries, since she was born in 1918. Anyway, her German family had huge Christmas trees that were always decorated to the 9s. They even had under the tree Christmas scenes and little towns. One of the towns had a mirror lake, and this small turtle, maybe five inches long, obviously disproportional, would sit in the mirror pond. This turtle moved with my mom, when she married and became part of our family tradition. The turtle would be unpacked each Christmas, so it could repeat decades of mirror pond sitting. For some reason, my family members enjoyed rolling this turtle toward me, on kitchen floors, wherever. I freaked out every time. Even my maternal grandmother did this to me. I now have the turtle, but he’s beached, so to speak.”

#12. Into people’s cat flaps

“When I was about 4 I asked my dad why he was sealing up an old cat flap, I was to young to know the word ‘drafts’, so I spent about a year terrified there were bands of feral giraffes wandering around England sticking their heads randomly into people’s cat flaps.”

#11. As I fled

“My grandpa had one of those “Uncle Sam Wants YOU!” Recruitment posters. It hung up in his downstairs workshop, and nothing scared me like seeing that face and that finger pointing at me.

I would have nightmares of a dismembered torso chasing me through my childhood home, a grizzled war-ravaged bearded screaming “I WANT YOU!” As I fled.”

#10. Thanks, Mom!

“The dark, and it still does. Thanks mom!”

#9. I was terrified

“The movie Spirited Away. I was terriffied of Yubaba and No-Face. Also, the scene where Chihiro’s parents transform into pigs haunted me for years.”

#8. Grocery store milk coolers

“I used to be afraid of the workers behind the milk coolers in the grocery store. I can remember grabbing a milk for my mom, and seeing people walking around back there, and I was completely disturbed by it.”

#7. Everything would go dark

“Car washes.

Loud, claustrophobic, weird smells, everything would go dark… some scary shit right there.”

#6. Mind the gap

“The gaps between boards on a pier.”

#5. Letting it yell at me

“The drain in the bath tub.

I’d use my hand to make all the water drain quietly, instead of letting it yell at me.”

#4. To this day

“E.T. When he screamed after being found in the closet it really freaked me out. Then the scene where he turned ghostly white traumatized me. I still can’t watch E.T. to this day.”

#3. Extremely unsettled

“The X-files theme songs used to get to me..it was only until recently in adulthood that I was able to hear it and not get extremely unsettled.”

#2. That one scene…

“The scene in Pinnocio when he became a donkey.”

#1. The Devil

“Flushing the toilet. For some reason, I was convinced that the devil could come out while it was flushing.”

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September 20, 2018

Can You Solve 5 Of History’s Best Riddles?

You know a riddle is good when it stands the test of time. People have been scratching their heads over these for years and years. Think you can solve them?

No matter what, just have fun with them, and wipe your brow when you come out the other side.

#5. Gollum’s Riddle.

“Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.”

Continue reading for the answer!

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September 19, 2018

12+ People Share Their Favorite Paradox and Why They Think It’s Awesome

A paradox is defined as a “seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.” Does this sound familiar to you? If not, don’t worry, because Redditors are here to tell you all about their favorite paradoxes.

And in this case, we’re all better for it.

#15. Design conundrum.

“Maybe not a true “paradox”, but a great design conundrum:

Prescription pill bottles must be: 1) Easy for older people with arthritis to open 2) Difficult for small children’s hands to open.”

#14. A weird mathematical result.

“Less of a paradox and more of a weird mathematical result: Braess’ paradox. Basically, by opening new lanes and roads to improve traffic conditions, you can actually worsen the congestion. The mathematical example in the article explains it well; basically if you have two moderately efficient routes, and you create a new connection which gives an alternative, more efficient route, everyone is going to start using this one and it’s going to make things worse, even for the people still using the original route!”

#13. They would have to be crazy.

“I really want to date someone, but not someone crazy. Someone would have to be crazy to date me. From catch-22.”

#12. Simple and sweet.

“Don’t take instructions from me.”

#11. When groups are combined.

“Simpson’s Paradox: when a trend appears in several different groups of data but disappears or reverses when groups are combined.”

#10. Don’t go there.

“No one goes there because it’s always crowded.”

#9. A problem in logic.

“Paradox of the Court.

“The Paradox of the Court, also known as the counterdilemma of Euathlus, is a very old problem in logic stemming from ancient Greece. It is said that the famous sophist Protagoras took on a pupil, Euathlus, on the understanding that the student pay Protagoras for his infrastructure after he wins his first court case. After instruction, Euathlus decided to not enter the profession of law, and Protagoras decided to sue Euathlus for the amount owed.

Protagoras argued that if he won the case he would be paid his money. If Euathlus won the case, Protagoras would still be paid according to the original contract, because Euathlus would have won his first case.

Euathlus, however, claimed that if he won, then by the court’s decision he would not have to pay Protagoras. If, on the other hand, Protagoras won, then Euathlus would still not have won a case and would therefore not be obliged to pay.

The question is: which of the two men is in the right?” (from wikipedia)”

#8. In that case…

“For this job, forget everything you learned in college.”

“But I never went to college.”

“Oh, well in that case, you’re not qualified enough for this job.”

#7. Extremely surprised.

“The unexpected exam. A professor says there will be an exam next week, and it will be a surprise: they won’t be able to deduce the exact day. The students reason that it can’t be on Friday, since if all the other days have been exam free, it won’t be a surprise anymore. So it must be Mon-Thu. But then it can’t be Thursday, by the same logic. Proceeding similarly the students deduce the exam can’t happen at all, and are thus extremely surprised when it happens on Wednesday.”

#6. Unambiguous proof.

“It’s not a paradox, but it is named the Fermi Paradox, so I’ll use it.

From anywhere on Earth, anywhere you look, there is unambiguous evidence of an intelligent civilization. You might have to look hard for it if you are in the middle of the ocean, but look up and you’ll see orbiting satellites and a telescope will prove they aren’t natural. Or look around you and see plastic, etc.

The Fermi Paradox asks ‘with two trillion galaxies in the observable universe, and quintillions (millions of trillions) of Sun-like stars, why don’t we see unambiguous proof of other technological life?’

Edit: This kinda exploded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDPj5zI66LA&feature=youtu.be is an excellent video discussing this, from Youtuber Isaac Arthur, who is one of the rare breed of actually good Youtubers. He has a minor speech impediment but you’ll get the hang of it fast.

Highly, highly recommend binge watching his entire channel the next time you have a long weekend.”

#5. More, not less.

“Jevon’s Paradox. If humans come up with a more resource-efficient way of doing something, it results in more of the resource being consumed, not less.”

#4. Experience.

“You need experience to work and you only get experience by working.”

#3. Infinite length.

The Coastline paradox. Despite being seemingly easy we can’t really measure the length of coastlines. If you start really going into every curve and turn you end up with a nearly infinite length.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox

#2. Who wrote the music?

“Bootstrap paradox.

So this guy has a time machine and he is a big fan of Beethoven so he goes back in time with all of Beethoven’s sheet music to get it signed. He asks around and no one has heard of Beethoven not even his family. Beethoven doesn’t exist. He can’t bear the thought of a world without Beethoven so he copies down all of the sheet music and gets it published.

He becomes Beethoven and time goes on.

But who wrote the music.”

#1. The linguistic challenge.

“Non-Serious The Pudge Paradox – whenever you play against a Pudge he always seems to be killing it but, conversely, when a Pudge is on your team he always seems to suck.

Serious The liar paradox: “This statement is a lie”. I like the linguistic challenge it brings up.”

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September 19, 2018

Use These 13+ Questions to Get to Know Someone Better

In this day and age, it’s easy to feel like we know everyone around us thanks to social media. But that can’t compare to getting to know someone through face-to-face interactions. So, what one question could help you get to know someone quicker?

Well, these 13+ people are here to weigh in with their advice – take it or leave it.

#15. The absolute truth.

“If you could ask the universe one question and get the absolute truth, what would you want to know?”

#14. A bit of humor never hurt anyone.

“Can I see your browsing history?”

#13. A more genuine answer.

“My boyfriend is an assistant manager at a bookstore. So when he is giving interviews for jobs, instead of asking someone what their favorite book is, he asks them what book did they hate. First of all no one ever expects that question, everyone is used being asked their favorites. So you get a more genuine answer instead of a scripted one. Also I think you can tell a lot from a person from what they dislike.”

#12. More interesting conversation.

“My hometown was small, but I enjoyed growing up there. How about you?”

Asking where they grew up and their experiences usually opens the door to a wider, more interesting conversation.”

#11. That told me a lot.

“When I was still dating my husband, I asked him: “If you could see one measurement or statistic over everyone’s heads, what would you want it to indicate?” And his answer was: “How happy they are.”

I feel like that told me a lot about the kind of person he is.”

#10. The dream…

“I ask about their dream vacation.”

#9. If you had the money…

“If you had the money to quit working, what would you spend tomorrow doing?”

#8. An intergalactic voyage.

“If you could take five non-replaceable personal artifacts on an intergalactic voyage, what would you take?”

#7. Quirky but fun. Also, don’t pick mine.

“What character do you use in Mario Kart?”

#6. Find their passion.

“What are you passionate about? I’m passionate about whiskey and distilling, but also about pushing others to find their passion.”

#5. What scares you?

“Maybe not the most important but definitely useful. I usually try to find out pretty early on if anything scares or weirds the person out. For example, I’d say something like “Man, I couldn’t get into (show) because I can’t stand seeing people bleed. It sucks when a little thing ruins the whole show for you.” They’ll usually respond with something like “Oh, right? I hated (other show) because I can’t handle creepy children! They just freak me out too much.” Then I mentally file that away for later so that I don’t decide on Creepy Children Attack 3 for our next movie night or outing. Nothing is an evening ruiner like putting on Moana when someone’s grandma just died or something.”

#4. Some drama.

“Ask them about their relationships with others in their lives (in general). If they say that everyone in their life is toxic and full of so much drama, then there is a good chance that they may come with some drama.”

#3. I love this question.

“How do you spend your time? I love this question because “what do you do” is so work-centric, and many people don’t work (whether their choice or not).”

#2. What would you regret?

“If you were to die tomorrow what would you regret not having told someone?”

#1. What would you choose?

“Once I read over there a ice breaking question: “If you have to choose between a well paid work in europe or going to mars, what would you choose?”

It seems a pretty stupid question, but if you focus in what questions the people ask back usually tells a lot of things. What they choose is not so important, but usually the people will start asking questions like:

But how dangerous is to go to mars?

Can I come back?

Can I have children and a family in mars?

Can I take my dog with me?

For how long is the work?

How much I will be making?

How many hours/days I have to work?

Its a good work? What I have to do?

And that questions tells a lof about if they are focused on family, on work, if they are adeventoruos, if they already have a life plan established and a lot of things – just try to read between the lines.”

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September 19, 2018

You Will LOL at this Wine and Eggs Diet from the 1970s

There are too many weird diets out there in the world…that’s a fact. They didn’t start in the ’70s and they certainly won’t be ending anytime in the near future. I mean, anyone can write a diet and start telling people to follow it. Health often doesn’t have much to do with why people start recommending one thing or another, either. Doctors and nutritionists haven’t changed too much over the past several decades when advising on what sorts of foods humans need and in what quantities, but there’s always some new fad running around that makes people wonder if we’ve all been doing it wrong.

If you love steak, eggs, and wine, then this diet – recommended by Vogue – is going to seem like everything right.

Let’s take a look.

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For breakfast, you get 1 hard-boiled egg, 1 glass of dry white wine, and coffee. So, getting coffee is nice. It could help sober you up from drinking the wine on a mostly empty stomach.

For lunch, you get 2 more hard-boiled eggs, 2 glasses of white wine, and more black coffee. You’re definitely tipsy now, and if you don’t live alone, the smell of the eggs digesting has probably run your partner out of the house.

For dinner, you can include a 5 oz steak and finish off your bottle of wine, plus indulge in more coffee if you want/need it. No way you’re sober, and without any fiber in sight, you’re probably not willing to venture too far from your toilet, anyway.

Which is exactly what most people who replied on Twitter latched onto, with varying degrees of hilarity.

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Diane McMartin, a writer at The Kitchn tried the diet (no word on for how long), and was surprised at the (presumably unintended) results:

“Maybe it was the wine, or maybe the lack of food, but I legit felt sad by the end of the day. Weepy, even. Like, as I was sitting in bed reading, waiting until it was acceptable to go to sleep because I was so exhausted, and I could have burst into tears at any moment.”

So, that’s not great. I’m sad enough without having an upset stomach and a fuzzy head by bedtime.

As far as the experts, they have weighed in on this, and I’m sure you’re not surprised they find the whole thing ludicrous. Julie Stefanski, a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics, went off for the The Daily Meal:

“If an intermittent fasting regiment went on a drinking binge in a henhouse, you’d pretty much have this diet. This random menu (I don’t even want to call it a diet) provides 1103 calories with43% of those calories coming from the alcohol calories in the wine!”

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There are some days when drinking your calories seems like a good idea (and some days when it actually is) but trying to keep up with this for more than twenty-four hours is obviously a disaster in the making. The next time I raise a glass of dry Chablis, I’ll remember the poor women back in the day who gave it a shot because Vogue said so.

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September 19, 2018

This Guy is the Master of Low-Budget Cosplay and it’s Absolutely Hilarious

Cosplay is pretty popular these days. For the unfamiliar, it’s a hobby built around crafting costumes of your favorite characters from pop culture. Cosplayers can spend a small fortune getting all the details of their costume just right, and the best of them even enjoy a degree of celebrity status and some even make money doing it!

If you’re a lover of geek culture, but don’t have the kind of money that top-level cosplayers invest in their outfits, fear not. Thai cosplay enthusiast Anucha “Cha” Saengchart, the mastermind behind Low-Cost Cosplay, can show you exactly how to create epic (read: “hilarious”) costumes, practically for free! Check out some of his best works below.