‘Depths Of Wikipedia’: This Page Is Dedicated To The Weird Side Of Wikipedia And Here Are 30 Of The Best Examples
Interview With AuthorBorn on 15 January 2001, Wikipedia has forever changed the ways we consume knowledge as nothing was out of reach anymore. It made it possible to solve trivia if you had access to wifi, it made us consume thousands of random facts, names, dates and places we won’t ever need, it helped us to make a fierce impression on a first date, and served as a holy grail of all of our high school Powerpoint presentations.
Still today, it’s our go-to source for learning stuff we don’t even bother to double-check, and it’s the place you stumble across a whole Wikipedia page dedicated to the life of your random-ass neighbor.
But something as big and influential as our beloved digital encyclopedia has to have something so much more going on we don’t see. Luckily, thanks to the ‘Depths of Wikipedia’ Instagram page, we now are able to dive deep beneath that iceberg and see all the weird and wonderful things published on there. “Wikipedia is Weird!” states the page’s slogan, but trust me, it gets way weirder than that. Get your snorkels ready, we’re about to dive deep!
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This Is A Good One
In Turkey there are actually view windows for that s-721da317...86bbc8.jpg
Some people are still just smart-asses after all.
Load More Replies...i live in the area and the term is growing to national interest. some designer also made a desk "umarell" which you can buy and keep on your desk so that he watches you while you work. https://www.superstuff.it/prodotto/umarell/?lang=en
Don’t get me wrong when you read this; he’s actually a really nice guy. But our landlord is an “Umarell” every time he has repairmen come in to work on the house we’re renting from him. Next week is going to be the downstairs A/C and duct work. He’ll be in his element. BTW, he’s a retired John Deere franchise owner. So no, he does not have construction, HVAC, electrical, painting (inside or out), or plumbing experience. But he sure likes to “supervise” any professionals in those fields that he hires (who have confided to us in the past that they just smile and nod and wait for him to decide to get back in his truck and “leave them to it”, so they can actually get their work done).
In Protest, A Guy Made A 10 Hour Film Of Paint Drying Just To Force The Film Classification Committee To Watch It
I partially work with quality control of films. Not for censorship but still, I have to focus on every frame of a film for its length, this.....meditative......film I'd be the one to watch all ten hours.
Oh, sorry, I was about to comment that I found this a very good idea.
Load More Replies...One of the best things about this film are the reviews. One of my favourites: This movie is the second coming of Jesus Christ. The film perfectly poetries society as its finest and you can truly feel the world and forget you are watching a movie. The characters feel like my best friends and the betrayals strike hard and fast leaving me in shock. You want the paint to succeed but you learn that life is;t always fair. The ending truly brings me to tears when the paint fulfills his purpose. I wish I could forget watching this masterpiece just to experience it for the first time. This needs to be watched by everyone from children to the elderly. Lastly, the score and music just leave me star-struck. It perfectly matches the tone of the movie and I always find myself listing to it. In conclusion, this film is a masterpiece of its era this deserves more than a 10/10 I look forward to seeing this film in the hall of fame.
I remember making a comment "at least it's better then watching paint dry." They said, well at least with paint, there is always a little wonder to find out if turns out the same colour on the tin.
why is a rating censorship Without it some filmmaker could make a film called Cuties slap pictures of cats on it and some unsuspecting parent would put it on only to find that thes cats kill with extreme gore. Ratings at least give you an idea about what you might see and whether it is appropriate fro kids.
You do know the BBFC is not exactly liberal or possessing common sense and most examples aren't as easy and clear cut as yours, right?
Load More Replies...These people can actually answer a person who says they would rather watch paint dry that they have.
Revenge Bedtime Procrastination
Yeah, you can go to sleep now, and before you know it you'll have to wake up and go to work. Or you can stay up and do something interesting instead.
True. We get up for work regardless of our bedtime
Load More Replies...Ah yes, this explains why I fell asleep at 11:40pm and woke up at 3 am and now reading bored panda at 5 am
Well crap. I thought I just did that because there are not enough hours in the day...
I think "revenge" is an inaccurate description for this. Revenge on whom or what? I think "compensatory bedtime procrastination" would be better. But I'm a language nerd
To find out more about the creator of this weird and wonderful corner of the internet, Bored Panda reached out to Annie Rauwerda, a 21-year-old neuroscience student at the University of Michigan. Annie told us that there was no lightbulb-over-the-head epiphany when deciding to create “Depths Of Wikipedia.”
“It was early quarantine (the stage when everyone was attempting new projects) and I was working on a page of my friend's quaranzine. I wanted to piece together Wikipedia excerpts into some virtual art.”
And They Were Roommates
Archeologists : "-These two women were buried together... - Well, they must have been twin sisters".
Load More Replies...I always wondered why they felt compelled to reference it. It's not like anyone writes "Aunt Maude liked to ride the D and volunteer at the community gardens"
To me that could be a ladies' man who likes different women all the time.
Load More Replies...And...all over the world. At a time when men were killed for being gay, this was the only thing they could do. BTW..... they did this to women, too. "Elderly spinsters" were often survived by their "companions", the implication being that the companions were hired help when in fact they were partners.
Horrifying to say, but this still happens: https://www.advocate.com/world/2016/5/27/12-countries-will-kill-you-being-lgbt
Load More Replies...Person could have been asexual, not wanting to settle down, preferring to co-habit or any other number of reasons for not marrying. It's a very outdated view of people who never married. My mother told me that Kenneth Williams the famous actor wasn't or had never married so therefore he must have been gay because other actors his age were onto their second or third marriage by then.
Lol I'm 99% certain Kenneth Williams was gay and it's not because he never married
Load More Replies...Ah, thank you Rench. That explains a few mysteries for me.
Load More Replies...And yet what if the person wasnt gay but never married like a lifelong libertine playboy?
Then no mention of his marital status would be made, in the same way you wouldn't mention other 'flaws' (I'm not saying being a playboy is necessarily a flaw but at the time in question it would have been seen as such).
Load More Replies...We're All Guilty Of That
Oh god yes. Books 🙈 . I even have bought books that read to me piling up .
Oooo, I am a Tsoundoku master of top level and I wear a sash of all the colors of books I haven't read.
I've got a book about learning to fast-read on my pile... Maybe that's a good start...
Though for me, the Kindle Tsundoku is unread samples rather than purchased books. I was pretty bad pre-Kindle with buying paper books I never read. Some, I started but didn't like enough to continue. Plenty of them, though, I bought thinking I wanted to read them, but got onto something else and never picked them up. Now, I make myself read the sample before buying the book. I have very few unfinished books on my Kindle.
Load More Replies...Strangely enough one of my stacks is manga. So that's a Tsundoku. The rest is just a pile.
If you have piles of just about anything else, you're a hoarder, but piles of books means you're a reader—even if you never get around to reading them.
Abibliophobia: The fear of running out of books to read. Yes, it's a thang!
Kafka
I read a biography on him which included a lot of his letters and accounts from his friends. The impression you get is that he was trying realllllllllllllllllly hard to create the idea he was some troubled, poverty stricken bohemian arty type to PR his writing. The reality seems to be that he was a womanising, booze loving, lazy kid from a fairly wealthy family.
Letter to his father was quite remarkable too. A lot of young people or abused ones should read it as a catharsis.
Load More Replies...i get the feeling people find me repulsive as well, especially when they tell me "you are absolutely repulsive".
The metamorphosis in Metamorphosis wasn't the guy who turned into a cockroach, but his parasitic family that he had supported prior to his transformation. When he finally died, they packed their s**t and ran out on the rent, and took a train to a better life. Mom looks happy, Dad got a job, and little sister has gone from a zitface insecurity to a lovely young woman ready to bag a rich husband.
Load More Replies...The author said she ended up having a ton of fun collecting Wikipedia screenshots and she was shocked that there was no Instagram dedicated to it. “I spent many quarantine evenings hunting for weird Wikipedia articles. Now, I get a lot of great submissions!”
Annie believes her fascination with all things internet is because she “didn't have many screen time limits during my teenage years and as a result became very entrenched in the internet,” she said and added: “I love collaborative sites like Reddit and Wikipedia—they have so many hidden gems!”
Planned Procrastination— When The Only Time You Can Find Motivation For A Task Is When You’re Under A Tight Deadline. student Syndrome Has Similarities To Parkinson’s Law, The Old Adage That The Work Expands To Fill The Time Allotted (Save It Til The Last Minute And The Job Will Only Take A Minute)
Me too and it was always those assignments I did the best too. I won a creative writing award and a scholarship for an essay I wrote in 30 mins right before it was due.
Load More Replies...Exactly how I wrote my 193 page Masters Thesis in 10 weeks, even though I had a year and a half to plan for it (125 pages of original content, the rest were appendices, bibliography, title pages, illustrations, dedication, table of contents, etc). Subject approved early February. Research rest of February and through March—-with one week off to cleanse my brain because of some of the more disturbing subject matter. Initial rough drafts of each chapter initially submitted early April, then returned with suggestions, rewritten and resubmitted until finally approved beginning of May. Final draft submitted and approved mid-May, a week before graduation. (Then, of course, came the formatting for the printing and binding of copies for the university library, my family, and myself, which lasted into summer. But the actual researching and writing took 10 weeks.)
Also known as "Collecting F***s to be given; right now I don't have enough".
Yes all that and if you so mch as breathe near me during that last minute I put into the task,YOU WILL F*****G DIE.:)
This is how my niece functions. I have stopped trying to advice her differently because this is how she thrives.
Planned procrastination: It's not just for students anymore, says this retired lawyer.
Guilty as charged. To be fair, I had to let my mind roll the ideas around in order to formulate what I was going to write. I always paid attention in class. I always took notes. I did my research. But I almost never did an outline or first draft, and never got lower than a B. Graduate school was the complete opposite. I nearly lived in the library, and got the same grades.
Rigged, I Knew Josh Would Win
Same! It is such a fun story and had such a wholesome ending!
Load More Replies...I saw this on the news. They all agreed to let him win the day. Very sweet.
The version I saw stated that since Joshes are honorable men, none would strike a child, therefore leaving the child as the last Josh standing as the rest fell to noble combat.
Load More Replies...I found out about this when my Leadership teacher told us! It was so funny to find out about!
Relates To The Concept Of Automaticity: The Ability To Do Things Without Occupying The Mind With Low-Level Details
It freaks me out when I do this. I'm sure I was probably driving properly, but I don't know! I'm just at my destination
It only bother me when I've passed some traffic lights and couldn't remember what colour they were.
auto pilot. I've headed to work with my son when we were supposed to go shopping. He just looks at me and says "uh..dad? where are we going?"
Working night shift, wake up in my driveway, glad the car knows it's way home.
Me too! A few times the car took me to the old house, and took me to shopping instead of home.
Load More Replies...I do this. Especially to go to work. I jump in the car and go on autopilot. No thinking involved to get to my destination. I get there with no recollection of how I got there, but no accidents or traffic violations either. Almost like muscle memory.
Thank you Elizabeth I did not know that could happen. Good to know.
Load More Replies...It always freaks me out when this happens. And trying to think of landmarks or lights that you've passed...and being unable to do so!
I was guilty of this very often.... In fact, once I looked down, saw the steering wheel and realized I was the Driver... You'll be relieved to know that I no longer drive....
I'm VERY relieved. My husband drives an 18 wheeler, and ... doesn't care for ppl like this!
Load More Replies...When asked what was the weirdest thing she has come across on Wikipedia, Annie said that there are so many good ones. “Some that come to mind are Tourist guy, List of films that most frequently use the word 'f**k,' Roadkill cuisine, and Timeline of the far future.”
And when it comes to using Wikipedia in her daily life, the creator assured us she definitely uses it. “Protecting open-access information is so vital. You should definitely start editing if you don't already,” Annie said and added that “it's such a rewarding and impactful hobby, and we need more people with diverse perspectives in editing.”
April Fools Lore
Why y’all downvoting it’s a joke Edit: no longer downvoted it was at -1 before
Load More Replies...The BBC used to do some great April fools pranks, some were just plausible enough to make you question it. Now they are just obvious and boring.
Reality has become too close to a joke and the line separating truth from satire is thinner than a spider's web. Plus, the second the BBC even *think* of doing an April Fool prank they get accused of Fake News (well, duh!) and calls to have the licence fee revoked because how dare they not say everything about the current government is wonderful and amazing and the best and... gah! Populism has ruined humanity.
Load More Replies...I sat and watched this with my Mum and Dad - we'd just got our first TV, I was 10. So funny!!
One feature this program had was the narrator was the most famous, well-respected news announcer in the country at the time. I believe his name was Richard Dimbleby. He was the Walter Cronkite of the U.K. This added So much verisimilitude to the broadcast.
My favourite one was the flying penguins that go to to jungle in winter. I also really liked the one about the library that was built upside down due to a photocopying error.
Obsessed With The Complexity Of The Chart On The Third Slide
In Malay, we have "Sayang, sayang sayang? Sayang sayang sayang!" This translates to "My lover, do you love me? I love you very much!" [my love,] [do you love] [me {ie, your lover}?] [I {your lover}], [love {very much}] [you {ie my lover}]
Finnish version: -Kokko, kokoo koko kokko kokooon. -Koko kokkoko? -Koko kokko. -Ok, kokoon koko kokon kokoon.
So this sentence is confusing even if it's not "obscured" by the homophones. "City bison [that] City bison bully [also] bully City bison".
A french one is : "Si ton tonton tond ton tonton, ton tonton sera tondu". (If your uncle shaves your uncle, your uncle will be shaved).
And: Le ver vert va vers le verre vert (the green worm goes to the green glass)
Load More Replies...In Dutch: “Als voor nog niet begraven graven, graven gravengraven graven, graven graven gravengraven” (If counts dig count graves for counts that are not yet buried, then counts dig count graves)
Or “to en tom aten tomaten tom at en to vrat” (To and Tom ate tomatoes, Tom ate [decent] and To not so decent)
Load More Replies...Or maybe this: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj_sKjfm7DxAhVmUd8KHTg0DakQwqsBMAF6BAgFEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D60lx-Ys__cs&usg=AOvVaw1-Wp-nzia3lotkrSvNVCW7
This Is The Deepest Stuff I’ve Heard In A While
There's great YouTube videos. Choose "excavator recovery" and/or watch anything by LetsDig18 =).
Load More Replies...The Ever Given saga ruined excavators for me. I just can't see one without thinking of those two men and their little earth mover who were first on the scene at the Suez Canal
The source of the quote, Denis Healey, British Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The pile (possible plural) is the enemy of the a-hole
Load More Replies...Aside from “Depths of Wikipedia,” Annie runs two more cool projects, “Depths Of Amazon” and “Depths Of Craigslist.” “My best friend Hajin and I teamed up to foray into more 'depths.' Wikipedia will always be closest to my heart, but it's been fun to look at other weird corners of the internet.” Hajin and Annie also recently started the Depths of Wikipedia podcast, which you can listen to right here.
Filling My Exam Answers With Swag
But SWAG is done by an expert in the field, so their guess is better than yours.
Load More Replies...My teachers called it "educated guess". (I'm not a native speaker, I believe it's a widespread term?)
Which is why Bill Nye has all that swag without having to do a lot of SWAG
reminds me of GOMSAT. In medicine, there are essentially five levels of evidence. 1 is the best (systematic reviews of controlled trials), 5 is "expert opinion" - or, as my professor called it, "GOMSAT: good old men sitting around a table"
Just Gals Being Pals
Financial independence is extremely important for any person. It is difficult to live as a human without that.
Often something most women did not have without a man. Even these women referenced probably had the money due to inheriting it from their fathers. Sometimes I get tired of working & taking care of myself but it could be worse- relying on someone else for you survival can be difficult especially if the person you rely on is terrible person
Load More Replies...Were they those wealthy patrons from "The Adventures of Picasso"?? :D ("Sugar, Alice!")
Load More Replies...For women financial independence is essential especially in that era. Menbthenband now use money to control women we need to change mens control of the economy
There was a weird tradition in Albania that allowed a single woman to live on her own provided she made a vow of chastity and started dressing and acting like a man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_sworn_virgins
Just Like Crabs In A Bucket Block The Escape Attempts Of Other Crabs, People In A Group May Attempt To Sabotage The The Most Talented Group Member Out Of Envy And Spite
Referenced in Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett. It's also covered by the attitude "they think they're better than they are" - note, this doesn't mean "they think they're better than ME", but rather "we come from the same background, how DARE they think they're better than me". Stops people improving their lot in life by sheer peer pressure. And a lot of it (as mentioned in the novel) is *inside our own heads*
Yep, his books are a goldmine of little facts. I first learned the term from Unseen Academicals.
Load More Replies...In Hungarian we have a phrase for that as well: "Let the neighbour's cow die, too."
In Polish we call it “gardener’s dog” - one that can’t eat the food and won’t let others eat it.
In Spanish, too. "El perro del hortelano" is also an old well-known theatre play by Lope de Vega.
Load More Replies...No that's another thing, only vaguely related. Yours is "High trees catch most wind" in many languages, or "sticking out above the trimline".
Load More Replies...My father also referred to it as Dog in a Manger, so I do too.
Load More Replies...More by the pettiness of humans, since crabs can't really do anything about it with their small brains while we have no such excuse.
Load More Replies...This is common today here where it's one of two ways. "I can't have it so neither can you." (IE: also "I suffered so you will suffer as well") or the "I got mine so Fk you!" version (IE: "Why should I pay into your healthcare" etc.) Very prominent in the conservative mentality.
Dilbert Principle
Dilbert, especially the old ones, are too accurate for how the business world works.
Yeah, before Adams got all weird and Trumpy
Load More Replies...The Peter principle - the original theory - is more common, I think. It's where employees who are competent are promoted... until they reach a position they are not competent in, and stop there. This happens even when everyone involved means well, but tends to create bad managers - simply because they were good at the previous job which required completely different skills.
When Incompetent People Can’t Understand Their Relative Incompetence
There was a study published in Psychology Today that linked the Dunning-Kruger Effect to most Trump supporters and explained their willingness to follow him. The Effect basically means that someone is too stupid to know they are too stupid and too stubborn to admit they are wrong even when presented with the truth.
In modern times this is mostly applied to flat earthers when they explain why 'science proves the flat earth'.
Doesn't everybody have at least one colleague who's right there on the peak?
The bad computer doesn't know it's a bad computer. The stupid human refuses to believe it's a stupid human.
I have this problem. I watch the olympics and think, I can do that. Except when I watch Simone Biles.
Those young ladies can bounce all over the place from all angles, speeds and heights. I fall on my face putting my socks on in the morning.
Load More Replies...There are a lot of people like this around. Following the biggest example. Orange Trump
This Could Be Us
Anyone else immediately think of Doctor Who before reading the explanation?
It is. On "mass hysteria". "Selon un livre de 1844 citant un manuel médical non identifié, une religieuse d'un couvent français vivant au Moyen Âge a inexplicablement commencé à miauler comme un chat, poussant rapidement les autres religieuses du couvent à miauler. Finalement, toutes les religieuses miaulaient ensemble pendant un temps conséquent, chaque jour, dans l'étonnement le plus total de la communauté. Le phénomène se poursuivit jusqu'à ce que la police menace de fouetter les religieuses." ""One began to meow then the others followed. It stopped when the police threatened to wip them."But maybe rye-ergot? And Europeeans nuns and friars are famous for their booze too.
Load More Replies...When A Thing/Concept/Word You Just Learned About Suddenly Seems To Crop Up Everywhere
When you buy a new car and suddenly that model with the same colour is everywhere :)
That's why racists/homophobes... have a tendency to see "THEM" everywhere.
Oddly enough, it can be found on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Load More Replies...dude there was this guy in my middle school who just f****n hated me but then when we moved onto high school i never saw him again.... until my first homecoming assembly in 10th grade (this year. last year's hoco was cancelled due to covid). he grew out his hair like an afro and now i see him everywhere
And with actors. For a while there, it seemed that William Shatner was in every program.
I have always wondered if there was a term for this!!!! Thank you! 😂😜👍
In 2003, A High Schooler Named Mike Rowe Had His Website Cease-And-Desisted By Microsoft. Eventually, After Media Attention, The Tech Giant Gave Him A Settlement Including A Trip To Microsoft Tech Fest And An Xbox
Well damn I would have given up my site too they really rewarded him
If he had a good business plan, barely --- but as he had none, it's pure loot.
Load More Replies...I remember this! They sent him a low-ball offer of $10 at first, and when he made a counter-offer, they sued him for trying to hold the domain name hostage and extort money from them. He finally got a large settlement, which he used to fund his University education and then donated the rest to a children's charity.
Well, I guess announcing that Mike Rowe was soft didn't help with the ladies.
There's an American vocational-education activist whose site is "Mike Rowe Works." At some point Microsoft must have just given up.
Yup, Michaelsoft Binbows. A now defunct computer shop in Japan. Here's the story of one guy who tracked it down https://youtu.be/yDzAAjzbV5g
Load More Replies...Your Life Is A TV Show
I'm hoping for an Easily Excitable Panda Syndrome, though I have no idea what the symptoms would be.
Load More Replies...Going Out With A Bit
The only time I say a gun is unloaded is when it is taken apart.
Load More Replies...'They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-' General Sedgewick didn't actually finish the word. All his men were behind cover
Now, to be fair to John Sedgwick, he wasn't an elephant, so he wasn't wrong.
I guess he isn't using it anymore, so... Have at it.
Load More Replies...Well, General Sedgewick was right. Unfortunately, they were aiming at *him*.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again: Terry Kath should have checked the chamber.
pfft he didn't think a round was in the chamber? The slide would be locked back.
The Popemobile
The centuries of child abuse and exploitation of vulnerable people is totally cool though apparently.
I prefer to think of the vehicle as the "Peadoenablermobile"
Load More Replies...Why is Bumble getting downvoted? Truth. All abusers have to be identified and prosecuted.
Yes, but I don't think that's why Bumble Bee is being downvoted. Perhaps folks are objecting to Hollywood celebrities being in the same category as church members who abuse a position of trust, like police, doctors, etc.: https://www.tuckerssolicitors.com/abuse-position-trust-sexual-offences/
Load More Replies...If anything the Pope should embrace it by calling himself the Papal Crusader!
Especially after meeting Spiderman this week, they could join forces.
Load More Replies...The Vatican like every thing else in life is filled with contradictions.they are not unique
Young And Rebellious
You specially get this after reading a lot web novels, light novels, manga and watching anime. Then you start believing that your right eye is special and there's a dragon sealed in your right arm. Most of this is just a way of entertaining yourself, a form of play-fantasy.
Perfectly harmless unless you actually do legitimately believe you have some kind of special power.
Load More Replies...I came to the comments just to say that -- it means wise fool.
Load More Replies...For a pretty amusing representation and explanation, play the visual novel STEINS;GATE. :]
Very Important Chart!!!in The Streets, In The Sheets, Etc.
I’ve been staring at this for twelve minutes and still have no idea how “in the streets, in the sheets” fits in.
A truffle dog in the streets, a truffle hog in the sheets? Like, I'm good in company (well trained), but alone I lay in bed and pig out? 😄
Load More Replies...But what about flies? They are not in the charts i'm flyly disapointed! Truffle flies beat them both, they only select ripe ones.
Why downvote? Fly truffle hunting is real and efficient, and flies only choose old ones. It's a particular fly called, oddly, truffle fly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillia_tuberiperda
Load More Replies...I have a tendency to believe this to mean "Talk is cheap, the proof is in the eating of the pudding, and not just in the making of it." Guys talk big on the street, but get shy quick when they get with a real woman.
Explained By Multiple Theories— Alcohol, Increased Familiarity (Mere Exposure Effect), And Having Fewer And Fewer Options (Commodity Effect)
Do Not Knit Your So A Sweater Without Making Them Sign A “Pre-Knitual Agreement!”
I've been thinking about learning to knit. Do you think 8 years is a long enough relationship to eventually gift my other half a knitted sweater (probably be looking at 10 years by the point it's made!)
I've been married for 12 years, with him for 16 and I'm not even sure I should give him the sweater I've been working on for 5 years (other projects, bitterness towards the brioche stitch and knitting ennui have contributed to me just now getting the body done) or save it for our 2 y.o. to eventually fit it.
Load More Replies...We have an old belief in finland that tells you never to knit for any other man but your husband. I think they knew about this centuries ago.😀
I'm a hand knitter, and it takes a while to make a sweater. Honestly, the love and attention I put into sweaters...I keep them all for me. I deserve that love and attention. Everyone else gets a scarf or a hat. LOL!
I used to believe this one, when I made things for boyfriends as gifts, the relationship seemed to dwindle and die, so I stopped doing it. Had been with my current boyfriend for 3 or so years and he asked for one, I made it and he proposed a few months later, took me 40-50 years to break the curse, but since we're happily married and he still adores the sweater, I believe I have!
I have NEVER heard of this superstition. And hang around with knitters. ( male and female) Ok I once knitted two jumpers for myself. Have not noticed that I broke up with myself. * one very difficult but I loved it. 1 simple to get me over the omg I can't do this with the first one.
Do Not Knit Your So A Sweater Without Making. Is tgis just shitty english?
Are You In Your Prime? Single? This Is For You!!!
When you are geek but also try to be sexy (no offense to geeks)
Load More Replies...Other way around ^-^ Aussie six sounds like sex, kiwi one sounds like sux
Load More Replies...Now, sexy primes are returning to the wild after being presumed extinc for many years. We are the virus.
RIP Pluto 1930-2006
"There are only 3 continents and not even Columbus can convince us otherwise" - your ancestors in 1493 ^_^
Load More Replies...I’ll never understand the “planet forever” crowd. Nothing has changed about Pluto except for the list it’s on, and the list is simply more detailed because we’re learning more and more about the solar system. If we’d known Pluto’s size and makeup when we discovered it, it never would have been called a planet in the first place. If Pluto is a planet, then so is Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris. Now, if you think that all of those objects should also have been called planets instead of making a new category, fine. But either Pluto and several other objects are dwarf planets, or we have more than 14 planets in the solar system.
Dudes Rock
I'm always playing tonsil hockey with my exceptionally close socialist brothers. TOTALLY fraternal, I swear.
Back When I Was A Kid We Killed Waaaay More Bugs With Our Cars
I never thought about it but yes, I don't see squished bugs on my windscreen like I used to on my parents windscreen when I was a kid :(
could it be more aero dynamic cars so the air flow now carries them over the top?
That was why the parallel study was conducted. The fact that sticky traps and sweep nets provided very similar results to the windscreen counts helps validate the hypothesis.
Load More Replies...I could be wrong but could it be that the places we now drive have all been so plowed over for construction that we just are not driving where the bugs are anymore.
I've got to wonder if car design has something to do with it. I have two cars, one is a 1986 Mustang, the other is a 2019. The 86 accumulates far more bugs because of the fact that the windshield is angled far more steeply, and the newer car has some kind of coating that water flows off easily. I don't even use my wipers much unless it's raining really hard.
Around the 1990s, the "bubble car" became ubiquitous, being far more aerodynamic. Bugs don't strike bubble cars' windshields.
Wind tunnels making cars more aerodynamic. At speed, bugs just... skim over the car, not going splat.
The aspect of this that always concerned me was the role of vehicles in reducing the numbers of insects: if there's 50 million cars in a country and they each kill 1000 insects a year, that's 50 billion poor insects. One country, one year...eek!
The Dude Abides
Thinking About The Oldest Cat Ever Recorded Who Had The Absolute Best, Booziest Life
Museum Fatigue
Oh i hate going on vacation with my mother: MUSEUMS MARATHONS. I do love museums but i usually don't visit 4 on a day when i travel alone lol. Her favorite town in the world is Firenze, because the museums are fighting back.
The German Man Who Got An Absurd Amount Of Hospitality And Media Attention When He Got Off Of A Flight In A Small Town In Maine And Thought He Was In San Francisco!!! There’s A Lot To Scroll Through (10 Slides) But It’s Such A Good Story!
And then in 2021, 6 french guys who wanted to cheer their national football team during the Europa Cup ended in Bucarest instead of Budapest. History repeat itself. LOL Poor (bad in geography) guys
You'd think that a city with sufficient German influence/roots to have an Oktoberfest, that he'd rather quickly find someone speaking enough rudimentary german to set this straight?!
Instantly Cuter
Wholesome
I may or not have participated in guerilla gardening more than once. I will not admit or deny to any actions, but let's just say that there is an abandoned lot near a city park that was once used for an illegal dump that is now full of wildflowers.
I want to picture guerrillas in sun hats and overall planting a garden.
I Would Rather Cry In A BMW
so it is something like happy with poor guy or unhappy with rich guy?
Perhaps more like "I'd rather be unhappy with a rich guy than happy with a poor guy."
Load More Replies...The Week-Long Traffic Jam In China Which LED To Locals Charging Stranded Drivers Astronomical Prices For Water And Food
No information about toilet facilities? I wonder about people stuck in elevators and Pierce Bros man's character, Harry, at the end of Dante's Peak, too.
Roadrage happens mostly in flowing traffic. When everybody's stranded, how can you be mad at others?
Load More Replies...i remember reading about this on the news and seeing the pictures. nightmarish!
Flipping The Bird
Models Of The Body Which Show Body Parts Proportional To Size Of Their Region In The Brain. Larger Body Parts Mean There’s More More Cortical Space Devoted To That Body Part’s Movement (For The Motor Map) Or Sensation (For The Sensory Map). They Look Like Nightmarish Little Gnomes!!!
In all the models I've seen the feet are bigger tho (explaining why there's so ticklish I suppose!). This may be more updated?
The Safer The More Daring
This is well-known in automotive safety; people in a rickety car with failing brakes tend to drive more timidly than those with all safety features, and people drive faster on straight roads. See e.g. city roads getting obstacles put back after they were removed to make it safer (but accident rates went up). Same with planes (specifically, Cirrus planes that have a parachute for the whole plane), having better features seems to lead pilots to take unsafe decisions (like take off with dodgy weather coming up).
Language Is Weird
Ok wow I'm an aspiring writer always looking for ideas/inspiration and this sentence has GRABBED me. I need to expand on this. Maybe a poem. Or a novella...
Is also used as the title of a documentary about rural communities losing their cohesion. Lemme check, "Sleep furiously, 2008".
Lenin Was Bald, Stalin Was Hairy; Krushchev Was Bald, Brezhnev Was Hairy; Gorbachev Was Bald, Yeltsin Was Hairy - And Putin Is Practically Bald, So Medvedev Had To Win
Andropov? Gorbachev didn't succeed Brezhnev; he was the last choice after an incredible succession of selected leaders all went and dropt ov.
I really like this kind of facts! I look sometimes at the website "spurious correlations", it's very funny. It's fun but its also very educational to show how easy it is to correlate things that are not related at all(like politicians often do) but seems related on graphics. chart1-60d...f-jpeg.jpg
Infinite Monkey Theorem
Wanna know how many monkeys it took to do the maths? Hang on...
Load More Replies...David Ives has a short play called Words Words Words about this. It's hilarious.
Basically, the physicists' response to the biologists' observation that life in the universe is incredibly unlikely. Related to the anthropological problem, a supposed refutation that the nature of the universe proves the existence of God by supposing an infinite number of universes.
Is also the title of a UK radio programme with (the inevitable) Brian C*x, "The infinite monkey cage".
OK we agree he's a d**k, but BP censor algorithm, you don't have to censor his name!!
Load More Replies...Sounds Fishy
Love English! Guaranteed to piss off anyone trying to learn, and stump those that speak it as their only known language!
Where Is “Any” Key?!!!
I noticed a subtle change to some programs for a while that said 'Press a key to continue', I always pressed 'a'. Doesn't seem to happen anymore...
Your Honor, It Wasn’t Me!!!
And now he's saying just that in a Cheetos ad with Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher.
Potato Paradox
At first, you got 1 orange bubble in 100 (100-99=1) At day 2, statistically two orange bubbles in 100 (100-98=2) But the number of orange stayed the same, so we divide by 2 to get one buuble on the one side again and... *poof* - 98/2=49 on the other side. Those together are 50 (kg) (a bubble is a kg)
Load More Replies...Kuai Kuai Culture
Mans Done Nothing, Free My Boys
Funny thing is, the bear bro wouldn't even know why the hell have the humans captured and detained him! And they won't even let it eat!
If they feed them they'd return, so no. The lesson is, "stay away from unnatural structures". THere's no reason to go explain the bear the reason, because well you can't reason with a bear.
Load More Replies...And to a polar bear, your child is a walking pork chop.
Load More Replies...Pink, Purple, And Blue Lighting
Could you imagine if this happened in real life? A Bi person walks into the room and the lights change colour! That would be fecking awesome! I wonder if other sexualities have their own lighting...
Just Thinking About It
Understand this is based on a syllogism example that said: All men are mortal, a crab is not a man thus, it is immortal"
Fools
Icon!! This Is One Of The World’s Many Unsolved Mysteries!! I Like To Imagine The Mad Pooper To Be A Fit, Middle Aged Mom Who’s Crying Laughing While Pulling Down Her Lululemons To Take A Dump In This Random Family’s Lawn For The Fourth Time That Month, Willing To Do Truly Anything To Escape The Monotony Of Her Suburban Life
Hate to be *that* person, but would this have been taken equally lightly had the Mad Pooper been a man, exposing himself to children while defecating on private property?
That 'Yeah... Sorry' made me laugh! But I would hate to be the recipient of this kind of behaviour.
At my former job we had a phantom pooper that would massively poop next to our back door every year when spring started. We started telling each other it was finally spring cause the phantom pooper has arrived. Then one year someone puked on the poop before we had a chance to clean it up. One of my coworkers ran inside and yelled, “HEY EVERYONE! ŠOMEONE PUKED ON THE SH!T”. Thankfully no customers were there since we had just opened for the day.
Former National Geographic Photographer Charles O'rear Took The Photo On Film While On His Way To Visit His Girlfriend, Later Selling It As A Stock Photo Titled "Bucholic Green Hills" In 1996
Kind of. Microsoft have edited to look like it does above
Load More Replies...It's all blissful until the trade federation tanks come over the hill.
Wasn't the original picture from somewhere in California? I know it was taken by a Nat Geo photographer and completely unedited.
It's Cute
I have both. Won't say out loud which I prefer, but let's just say that right now I have 3 dogs and 2 teenagers living in my house and leave it at that.
So Cool
I think this is superseded by whoever it was that googled "Machu Picachu" (rather than Machu Picchu) and was not disappointed (try it :)
A Neural Disorder Which Causes People To Believe That Everyone They Know And See Is The Same Person Wearing Disguises
More like The Chameleon, enemy of Spider-Man: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chameleon_(Marvel_Comics)
Load More Replies...The Escalator Effect
Tfw The Boys Are Back In Town
"My boyfrien'ds back and you're gonna be in trouble." The song is sung by at least three voices, suggesting at least three boys are back in town.
Boops Boops
The Smell Of Rain Has A Name, And It’s Caused By A Substance In The Dirt Named Geosmin Which Is Released When Raindrops Hit The Ground
Old Person Smell
It's a cabbage-like smell. One of our doctors contributed to a study about it. Their results led to a possible explanation being that the elderly tend to eat their vegetables softer (due to dental conditions), meaning the veg was boiled for longer, meaning less nutrients but maintaining the fibrous composition. The way the stomach digests the veg results in a change the way the food is processed by the body, creating a change in chemical balance of the body's natural oils.
A Lot Of Richards Living There
Send This To Someone With Nice 5318008
My mom said this was the main form of entertainment back when she was in high school (mid to late 1980’s)
She was right. Calculators were smarter than all of us and were respected for that.
Load More Replies...In france we used to type 11794591 X 3 and return it. 35383773 reversed is ELLEBESE. Meaning "she's f**kïng" or "she fück" miswritten.
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meat!
My dog would have barked really loud "It's raining meat! Hallelujah! It's raining meat!" while dancing under the meat shower, trying to grab it before it touch the ground. (yes i can see it in my head doc)
I'm adopting "Kentucky meat shower" as an alternative to "dumpster fire" or "cluster f#ck." "Well, that was just a total Kentucky meat shower."
The Science Behind This Is Shoddy At Best, But It Is Pretty Notable That A Number Of Correctional Facilities (Not To Mention Kendall Jenner’s Living Room Wall) Have Been Painted This Color
Ghost Mall
Sherman Oaks Galleria (since rebuilt) was one of the 1st and most famous indoor malls (Fast Times At Ridgemont High). Yet whenever I went there, it was nearly empty. Other malls were far busier. Since rebuilding with a movie theater and higher end restaurants, but only about 5 retail stores, it has been doing well.
Following A Win In 1985, Japanese Baseball Fans Took Part In A Tradition: Player Lookalikes Jumping Into A Canal. But No One In The Crowd Looked Like A White Player, So Fans Threw A Colonel Sanders Statue Into The Canal. This Caused The Fabled Curse Of The Colonel Which Is Said To Have Brought About An 18 Year Losing Streak!!
Hm
Good Fun Fact To Tell People On Car Rides
Oceanic Feeling
Oh i experience often another kind of Oceanic feeling, when it drizzle all day and the wind slap my face with cold water spines while walking. Not as great as the other one.
i try to avoid that feeling because it can get really frightening sometimes.
In America We Actually Call ≡ The ‘Freedomburger Menu’
Very Important Image
How a battery is relevant as a scale? Everybody knows that the universal scale is the banana scale.
Only found out a few years ago that I’d been clipping them the wrong way for years
Stay Noided
i remember a game called "Avoid the Noid"... damn that laughter was annoying
Just in case someone out there doesn't get it, when your pizza gets stuck to the top of the box, you get a noid (annoyed). Dominos used to insert a little pastic tripod that looked like a stool for Barbie. Now, everyone just makes their boxes out of corrugated cardboard, instead of the much thinner, but also less resource-intensive and MUCH easier to dispose of cardboard.
English Triple Contractions
Shortened version of 'forecastle', the front deck of a ship
Load More Replies...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forecastle#:~:text=The%20forecastle%20(%2F%CB%88fo%CA%8A,with%20the%20sailors'%20living%20quarters.
Still Got It
Love The Guy Who Said “Some Men Play Golf, I Dig Tunnels”
Where do i sign to join the club? i'm a DEEPly involved hobby tunneler, some dogs play fetch, i dig tunnels! 20190203_1...c7e275.jpg
The digging fluffy ball is an organic device, meat powered, that is used to dig huge holes in various types of soil, whether the owner of the land agrees or not. Current researches seems to prove that the more the owner of the land disagree, the more this device is efficient. 20190203_1...fd854b.jpg
Is there a duchy of Portland in the U.K. or something, or is the Duke of Portland just a case of Oregonians being Oregonians?
Can’t Stop Thinking About The Pet Food CEO Rumored To Have Eaten Cans Of Dog Food At Shareholders’ Meetings
I Am Once Again Thinking About The Penguin Who Fell In Love With A Cardboard Cutout Of An Anime Character And Became So Obsessed That He Needed To Be Separated From The Character In Order To Eat
For how many months did BoredPanda put the gay penguins parenting a rock at the top of my feed?
It Has A Name!
Technically Just As Correct As North-Up. At Least One Study Suggests That The Prevailing North-Up Convention Has Influenced People To Think Of North As “Good” And South As “Bad.”
Never really though about the saying 'Things are going south' before this moment!
The problem: Apart from the sparsely populated polar and mid-lattitudes of the Southern hemisphere, the global South IS poor and therefore also has cheap real estate. Did anyone who referred to this as "bias" ever consider that the removal of the bias is simply due to disorientation, or, in this case, the focus on wealthy but relatively insignifant Australia?
Lo-Fi Girl
Important Images
It Does Look Ridiculous
Pass By Catastrophe
I remember hearing often, that if your roommate died, you would get all As for that semester. I didn't test the theory :)
Love The Part About Local Legend Mike Who Won A Competition Nine Years In A Row Due To His Ability To Produce Collosal Amounts Of Saliva (He Reports That He Requires Two Suction Cups At The Dentist)
They are obviously easier to eat than Jacobs Cream Crackers, can't even get 3 of those down in a minute!
So Sad
Why Things Are Cute To Humans
Mainly yes, because the left column is extremely creepy.
Load More Replies...Actually, I must admit that I think my cat got more beautiful when she grew up. I don't know, but there have been studies that the scheme doesn't affect all people in the same degree ... I also find newborn humans incredibly ugly, but usually don't tell proud parents that their newborn will need a year or two to grow out of being THAT ugly ... wouldn't be polite, but true, it would be.
