“Rattlesnake venom destroys tissues and causes crippling paralysis, sometimes leading to death. When Santa Cruz homeowner Thomas Scott encountered such a deadly predator in his garage, he took defensive matters into his own hands. However, unlike mammals, reptile reflexes remain deadly after death. In fact, they can still bite and deliver a killing dose of [...]
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“Why on earth would someone pay hundreds of dollars to fly halfway across the country for the pleasure of being abducted by thugs, handcuffed in a basement for hours, and forced to pee into a Gatorade bottle? GQ made Drew Magary go find out.“ After watching and being inspired by David Fincher’s ‘The Game’, Adam [...]
You’re guess is as good as ours. I’m just impressed the guy at the top didn’t smash his face against the concrete deck. [via @BobsBlitz]
Ever since Gary Busey’s stupendous Hobbit lecture took the world by storm, his YouTube channel, The Busey Zone (YES REALLY), hasn’t put out anything that great — especially nothing to rival him selling pizzas back in 2010. Until now. [via deathandtaxes]
Lost in the debate on health insurance among our fair politicians in Washington, DC is the reality that getting sick in America — even with health insurance — can bankrupt a family. When we debate health care policy, we seem to jump right to the issue of who should pay the bills, blowing past what [...]
“When a physician removes a child from a woman, that is the largest organ in a body. That’s a big thing. That’s a big surgery. You don’t have any other organs in your body that are bigger than that.” — Mary Sue McClurkin, Alabama GOP lawmaker, suggesting either that human organs have personhood status or [...]
So, Jerry Seinfeld is collaborating with hip-hop artist Wale on his next album because Wale is a big Seinfeld fan and Seinfeld’s wife is a big Wale fan, apparently. I guess Jerry was looking for something to do now that his web series is on a brief hiatus? I’m fairly certainly this will be the [...]
When it comes to Gary Busey, you’re guess is as good as mine. Here he is explaining what Hobbits are. Like this: “Imagine havin a team of hobbits come with you to clean cockroaches out of a house. They’d be gone in thirty minutes.” Or this: “Can’t tell the boys from the girls, which must [...]
Here is every national anthem in the world, combined. The piece begins with the national anthem of Uruguay, Himno Nacional de Uruguay, which is commonly regarded as the longest in the world, and usually runs between four and seven minutes in performance. Seven seconds later, the anthem of Guatemala (Himno Nacional de Guatemala, colloquially known [...]
