Odds and sods I look at regularly, just because they amuse me. I hope they do the same for you. Incidentally, I found this page’s title on Greg Ross’s Futility Closet (it’s somewhere on this page) in a mini-article which also includes the delightful sentence in Icelandic: Barbara Ara bar Ara araba bara rabbabara. Ross points out that this, “besides being fun to say, is spelled with only three letters. It means “Barbara, daughter of Ari, brought only rhubarb to Ari the Arab.”
Fark.com RSS » So Time magazine has a write-up in its Money section titled "Adulting Guide"….oh. It doesn't mean that? Fine, carry on [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Whale vomit beer [Sick]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I decided to make the switch from pads to tampons. My boyfriend ended up having to show me how to apply them. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, my fiancé and I are house-sitting for my future in-laws for the next 3 weeks. They left a bible in both bedrooms, along with printouts of an article denouncing the "sin" of premarital sex. They're such complete whack-jobs, I wouldn't be surprised if they've set up hidden cameras everywhere too. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "A man broke his arm diving through a Costa Coffee shop's window after mistaking schoolchildren shouting and banging trays for a terrorist attack." Geez, try the decaf next time [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » 11 Surprising Facts About ‘The Room’
Tommy Wiseau’s unexpected cult hit is known as “the ‘Citizen Kane’ of bad movies.” [Link]
Futility Closet » Podcast Episode 107: Arthur Nash and the Golden Rule
In 1919, Ohio businessman Arthur Nash decided to run his clothing factory according to the Golden Rule and treat his workers the way he’d want to be treated himself. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll visit Nash’s “Golden Rule Factory” and learn the results of his innovative social experiment. We’ll also marvel at metabolism and puzzle … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Tropical storm Bonnie forms in the Carolinas. Tropical storm Clyde due to arrive soon [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Have we made a massive breakthrough in schizophrenia treatment? Yes we has preciousss [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Let us ponder the great sculptures in history: Michelangelo's David, Rodin's Thinker, two girls taking a selfie outside city hall in Sugar Land, Texas [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » This Room-Sharing Service Wants to Be Airbnb for Older Travelers
The Freebird Club caters to clients ages 50 and older. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Driver upset at cornhole tournament smashes over boards sending players jumping for their lives. Is that one point or three points? [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this quick preening [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » On second thought, maybe building an oil pipeline through an ancient Indian burial ground isn't a great idea [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Thanks Kentucky, you really show us how to honor our veterans who died [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » All-women sex club opens, offering burlesque, body shots and bondage for bi and bi-curious clients. Yes, Fark is your personal erotica site [Giggity]
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Fark.com RSS » Millennials who live at home are victims of "false stereotypes," claims millennial who lives at home [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » There's drunk, and then there's picking a fight with your own reflection drunk [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Young women seeking sugar daddies for tuition, rent. Captain Obvious seeking new hat [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » "I regret helping to make kale cool" [Silly]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, my boss wrote me up for saying "pissed" in front of a client. This is the same boss who nearly pissed himself laughing when a client made an extremely off-color Holocaust joke a few weeks ago, in front of half the department. FML [Link]
FMyLife » yamblam5 says FML
Today, it's been months since I graduated university. I still haven't managed to land a single interview. Meanwhile my brother recently woke up from a week long bender, realized he had no money for weed, went out, and 4 days later landed a well paid sales job 15 minutes from home. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » 25 Facts About the Indy 500
On this week's List Show, John Green shares some facts about one of his favorite subjects—the Indy 500! [Link]
Mental Floss » Making Linseed Oil Paint From Scratch
Watch this painter make paint the old-fashioned way. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » WHO rejects call to postpone Brazil Olympics… I don't know, you tell me [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » The Best Amazon Deals We Found This Week
As a recurring feature, we share some amazing Amazon deals we’ve turned up. These items were the ones that were the most popular with our readers this week, and they’re still available. [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, my mom was "that" customer at the local drive-thru. She slipped into attention whore mode and bitched the guy out for not giving us extra fries. He said she didn't ask for any, which was true. Instead of apologizing, she swore at him and floored the gas, sending our drinks spilling all over me. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » HALO character look-alike charged in bank robbery [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Man high on marijuana calls police to inform them he's been shot in the buttocks, when in reality it was just a dog bite. And also tells them that Dave's not here [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Woman hospitalized with serious spinal injuries after freak river fishing accident [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Hmmm i need a new trick to show my audience. I've got it I'll pull a playing card out of my nose. That will shock the heck out of them [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » And because it's a slow news weekend here is a Plymouth man named Paul Farrer who thinks he looks like The Walking Dead's Daryl Dixon (with pic) [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Today marks the anniversary of one of the longest, largest, and deadliest battles in human history; the 100th anniversary of the battle of Verdun [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » "All they need to do is enter an amount less than £30, touch the device on the pocket containing your wallet and money can be automatically transferred out of your account. It's that easy" [Scary]
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Mental Floss » 13 Fun Facts About ‘The Muppet Movie’
When The Muppets made their feature film debut in 1979, the result was pure magic. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Senior class surprises fellow graduate by flying his mother in from Nigeria and why is there so much dust in here? [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » Remember Tailhook? Apparently someone else realized the value of using tail to hook sailors [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Having learned nothing from the recent incident at Yellowstone with the baby bison, woman brings a baby deer into a police station because she thinks it's been abandoned [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » It is absolutely unlawful to recreationally violate shrimping; and international concealment of fish, well that is right out [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Your prom maybe had a little of this and a little of that like this timelime …. MOST likely NOT .. .but being a Farker at least you can dream [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Donkey nappies made mandatory in Kenyan town to protect road tarmac from dung [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » This is what you get you wankers, now the anti-porners are after you for pulling your pud too much [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Your MadLibs headline of the week: [2-year-old] shot after man [pours] [juice] on [prom-bound] woman's [head] [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this warrior cat [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: The Talk [CSB]
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Fark.com RSS » Well, this is awkward [Creepy]
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Fark.com RSS » The next industrial revolution is happening in southeast Asia [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » 3 Quick Tips for Spotting Fake Weather Pictures
With a little bit of experience and a keen eye for detail, it’s easy to see a bogus weather image a mile away. [Link]
Weird Universe » Central Premonitions Registry
The Central Premonitions Registry was established by Robert Nelson in New York in 1968 (following the establishment of a similar agency in the UK the year before). It provided a place where people could send in premonitions or predictions about the future. These would then be filed away for future reference, to see if they came true.
The Registry claimed … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » What's wrong with being a single woman? [Giggity]
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Weird Universe » To Gleep, Or Not To Gleep
Many times, outsiders seeking to chronicle the language of a tribe are lied to. I suspect this was the case with this 1963 article on campus slang. While many of the terms are well-documented, I can find no online references to the act of "gleeping" and suspect some researcher was getting his leg pulled.
Or maybe the reporter felt it … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Cliven Bundy only pawn… in game of life [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » The riot police in Cleveland won't be wearing body cameras during the GOP convention because why would they want to do that? [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » For sale: sex slaves. Seller: ISIS [Sick]
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FMyLife » jnp414 says FML
Today, my house key jammed inside the lock, which would've been annoying even if I hadn't been desperately running from my neighbor's psycho pitbull at the time. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, my brother "borrowed" my car and keys without asking me. He came back 4 hours later, alone and pale faced. It took half an hour of questions, interrogation, and finally threats before he admitted that my car is sitting in a ditch a few miles away, probably totaled. FML [Link]
FMyLife » ideserveit says FML
Today, I was cuddling with my boyfriend after a fight. I told him the reason I was so irritable is because I'm on my period. He yelped in disgust and nearly fell out of bed. Good to know I'm dating a man-child. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Militiaman who calls himself the "Picasso of machine guns" was arrested for trying to smuggle one to members of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » Doctor does five years of research to find out why American healthcare is so f*cked. "Most doctors don't know how much they're paid to see a patient" [Facepalm]
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Mental Floss » Watch Weird Al Perform 'Word Crimes' Live
"You'd better slow down and use the right pronoun." -Weird Al [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 2016 should be an "average" hurricane year [Florida]
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GraphJam » The Only Reasonable Explanation
Graph by: (via Bite) Tagged: argument , best of week , disagreement , morons , Pie Chart Share on Facebook
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Fark.com RSS » "I wanted to try the new experience. I've never been a mascot before. Not much people taking pride in North, why not take the opportunity? It went pretty good. First game versus Kip Peak, we kicked butt" [Spiffy]
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Mental Floss » Awe-Inspiring Footage of a Lightning Storm in Slow Motion
Researchers at the Florida Institute of Technology recorded a lightning storm at 7000 frames per second. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Police in Spokane, Washington would like to tell the vandals who smashed watermelons on cars in the middle of the night to knock it the fark off and stop wasting perfectly good watermelons [Dumbass]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I was so tired, I passed out at work in the middle of a call. All because my neighbor's car alarm kept going off every 3 minutes all through the morning. It was still going when I left for work. If you see a news story in a few days about a whole neighborhood beating a guy to death, … [Link]
FMyLife » Rescheduled says FML
Today, after waiting months for an appointment with a doctor who specializes in the disease I have, I showed up at his practice, only to find the cops executing a search warrant. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » No, Texas, you cannot execute a man based solely on the testimony of a witness "hypnotized" by police [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Police officer gets all his ducks in a row, helps them cross the street at a busy intersection [Cool]
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Mental Floss » Commitment Rings Keep Your Partner From Watching TV Episodes Without You
Soon, you won't have to worry about your partner sneaking in episodes without you. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Coming up at the top of the hour it's Livingston Stapler Company Presents. Join us for two hours (or maybe even more) of diverse music hosted live by a farker (9PM AKDT/10PM PT) [Live]
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Fark.com RSS » Study ranks most hate filled colleges in the country based on tweets. What did we learn? Women should avoid Southeast Missouri State U., there are a lot of racist doctors in Little Rock and Husson University *really* doesn't like the gays [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Police launch hate crime investigation after pork sausages are thrown into Finsbury Park Mosque [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Please do not leave your children at the gorilla enclosure at the zoo. They might fall in [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » "I'm Muslim, don't panic" T-shirt wearer hospitalized by three obvious reasons [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » While ($freedom_of_the_press–) { suppress($journalism) } [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Rarely can this tag be used with such confidence [Ironic]
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Mental Floss » 10 Globe-Spanning Facts About Amnesty International
Amnesty International started with a British newspaper opinion piece published on May 28, 1961. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 'Mexican Hater Judge' to unseal 150 pages of Trump University lawsuit documents [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Forty years ago tonight, just outside Austin, Pink, Don, and Wooderson were putting together a party at the moon tower. Alright, alright, alright [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this sailing Grandma [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » How 'The Force Awakens' Remixed 'A New Hope'
What's Rey's full name? "Rey Mixer." Hmm. [Link]
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