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Monday June 17, 2019. 07:17 PM
Casino dealers told Vice what kind of customers they don't like: ones who call them bad names, throw chips and cards at them, watch pornographic videos on their phones while playing at the table, go to the bathroom without washing their hands then handle chips and cards,...
What a fantastic idea, a sinking ship simulator! This seems like an incredible way to get much needed high-stress training before you really need it! Only the Senior Service could have an HMS Excellent that truly, truly lives up to its name.
The Action Lab Man starts this video by pinning his hand between a large neodymium magnet and a bunch of 1943 steel pennies. He repeats the demonstration with a Stretch Armstrong toy in place of his hand and sharp screws and hardware in place of the pennies. Spoiler alert:...
Yesterday for Father's Day we went to the GameHaus Cafe in Glendale, California. Your town likely has a place like this - you can rent a table and play games from a large library. (GameHaus has about 1,500 games.) Our favorite game of the day was Cryptid. It's a game of...
Among other wild artworks, Shanell Papp created this incredible crocheted human body titled 'Lab (Skeleton).' The piece was displayed on a gurney and the organs can be 'dissected.'
The National Sound Library of Mexico has found an audio recording of what is most likely painter Frida Kahlo reading her essay 'Portrait of Diego' in the early 1950s. It was recorded for the pilot episode of radio show El Bachiller. From The Guardian: The episode featured a ...
A platform is important, but nothing says more about a candidate than their dog. Quartz shared this list of 2020 Presidential candidates and their dogs. I can not imagine surviving this world without a dog. The Democratic field for the 2020 presidential election is...
Someday I will have a VW bug again. I learned a lot of trivia from this video. My first car was a 1970 in faded yellow with the slap-stick transmission and a 1600 engine. Käfer more appropriately translates as 'Beetle,' but I'll always think of it as 'the Bug.'
Rick Wiles, host of the racist and anti-semitic 'Christian' media outlet TruNews, reveals that meatless burgers are “plant-based alternatives to meat and dairy products, is part of a satanic plot to alter human DNA so that people can no longer worship God.” Listen up: ...
In this delightful crowd-pleaser shown at a 1998 Microsoft conference, right around the kickoff of the federal antitrust case against the company, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer take on the characters of Doug and Steve Butabi. Too bad they couldn't get Steve Jobs to play...
A politician in Pakistan broadcast a press conference last week, complete with furry ears and wet nose. Someone left the cartoon cat face-tracking filter on. 'Yesterday, while covering a press briefing held by KP's Information Minister Shoukat Yousf Zai, a 'cat filter' was...
The tree thought to have inspired Theodor Seuss Geisel's 1971 book The Lorax has fallen down. The Monterey Cypress tree stood for 80 to 100 years at Ellen Browning Scripps Park in La Jolla, California, Geisel's home for almost 50 years. From CNN: Tim Graham (of the San...
From June 9-12, Fox News commissioned pollsters Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company (R) to survey 1,001 representative Americans; the poll concluded that if the election were called today, Sanders would beat Trump by 9 points, 49%-40%, as would Biden; Warren would beat...
Municipal broadband is pretty much the telco monopolists' worst nightmare: it's a cheaper, faster alternative and it's the only internet service that customers express high levels of satisfaction for, so it's no wonder that telcoms lobbyists have convinced 26 states to ban...
Pulled over for tailgating, Lancaster County President Judge Dennis Reinaker gets out of his vehicle, advances on the cop, belligerently demands he explain himself, then orders him to 'check the registration on this plate soon, mister.' Reinaker is sent on his way without a...
A San Diego valedictorian took the opportunity to shred apart adults at her school in her commencement speech. San Ysidro High School's graduating senior Nataly Buhr called out her guidance counselor for leaving her to 'fend for herself,' the school's office staff for their...
With the quick-fix appeal of video games and their own cell phones, it can be tough to keep kids focused on supposedly 'educational' toys. And while it may seem counter-intuitive to fight tech with more tech, we're all in when it comes to the Toybox 3D Printer. We're not...
Artist Damon Belanger's 'Shadow Art' installations are making the rounds on the internet and for good reason, they're terrific! Using grey paint designed for concrete patios, he first created these street art pieces on commission back in 2016. They're a permanent...
More than a million coins were stacked to form the world's largest penny pyramid. It weighs 6,363 pounds and took 3 years to construct. This is the last video showing the construction of the New World Record Penny Pyramid according to the Guinness Book of World Records. This ...
The last time I wrote about Ebola, there were 117 confirmed related deaths along with the 35 deaths likely related to the most recent outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Roll forward eight months and more than 2,100 people have been infected and 1,400 are now dead...
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