Harry Houdini - The Great Escape Artist - "Houdini befriended famous author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was a devoted believer in Spiritualism after having lost his son in the war. The two great men exchanged many letters, debating the truthfulness of Spiritualism. In their relationship, Houdini was the one always looking for rational answers behind the encounters and Doyle remained the devoted believer. The friendship ended after Lady Doyle held a séance in which she claimed to channel automatic-writing from Houdini’s mother. Houdini was not convinced. Among other issues with the writing was that it was all in English, a language Houdini’s mother never spoke. The friendship between Houdini and Doyle ended bitterly and led to many antagonistic attacks against each other in newspapers. Houdini began to expose the tricks used by mediums. He gave lectures on the topic and often included demonstrations of these tricks during his own performances. He joined a committee organized by Scientific American who analyzed claims for a $2,500 prize for a true psychic phenomena (no one ever received the prize). Houdini also spoke in front of the U.S. House of Representatives, supporting a proposed bill that would ban telling fortunes for pay in Washington D.C. The result was that even though Houdini brought about some skepticism, it seemed to create more interest in Spiritualism. However, many Spiritualists were extremely upset at Houdini and Houdini received a number of death threats."
Meme - "Jordan Tierney @jordantyranny: a lot of paleoart includes size comparisons with humans for scale... but this is by far the most inscrutable one yet. *human hugging giant penguin*"
Meme - Eden Ivy: "To all the white people since i aint got no valentine or no girl im givin yall an infinite n word pass. hard r included. use this status as proof."
The University of North Texas Really Didn't Think This Through - "What do you see in this picture? A plain white mug with the letters UNT on it? Then you probably haven’t spent much time on the internet. If you were ruined just like us, you would clearly see: CUNT."
John Cole on Twitter - "A friend got his employment reviews back and was told he was performing with "calculated mediocrity" and I think that is the most amazing phrase"
Meme - "My crush turn to me down. At school"
"Ima send you $20 to your debit card. Buy all the girls in your class ice cream and don't buy her one"
"Ok"
"She gone learn a life lesson tomorrow"
"Ok thanks dad"
Meme - "When you're in the Facebook slammer but you can still use messenger"
Meme - "Movie you like:
Tomatometer 97%, Audience Score 91% - I knew it was gonna be good!
Tomatometer 86%, Audience Score 15% - Ha! The critics say its great so its great
Tomatometer 35%, Audience Score 99% - Audience score is all that matters
Tomatometer 41%, Audience Score 7% - People dont know anything. I'll just form my own opinion
Movie you dont like:
Tomatometer 97%, Audience Score 91% - Ha paid reviews and shills
Tomatometer 86%, Audience Score 15% - Ha. The Audience agree this is trash.
Tomatometer 35%, Audience Score 99% - Ha, The critics agree this is trash.
Tomatometer 41%, Audience Score 7% - I knew this was trash all along."
Vinyl Back Mat | Funny Doormat | Go Away, Come In Ambigram - "Finally! A doormat you can use to greet your guests depending on your mood (or the kind of people who come knocking)! This doormat has been uniquely designed to read "Come In" from one angle and "Go Away" when turned around. If you are expecting friends and family then welcome them otherwise send the un-friendlies packing by using the correct angle as a "If you disturb me you shall be hurt" sign. Useful. Very useful."
Meme - "Through God, all things are possible" - Nick Vujicic
"DO 10 PUSH UPS RIGHT NOW!"
Elouan 🈲 on Twitter - "- T’es libre demain ?
- Bah oui on est en 2022 pas en 1800 mdrrr"
Meme - "Feeling sexy, might post some trashy memes later *man in trash can*"
Meme - "My favourite part of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses is the part where Saladin Chamcha says that Indians lack the moral refinement for a true sense of tragedy and therefore cannot really understand the idea of Shame. I told my father about this, and he, being a professor in linguistics and mass communication said that it's sorta true, and that the closest word the subcontinent languages have to tragedy is "Shoka Geetha", which literally translates to 'Sad Song', with Shoka meaning sadness caused by a death of a loved one something simmilar and Geetha/Geeta/Gita/Gata being used in South Asian Literature to mean song, as nearly all of south asian knowledge was verbally passed down through songs and poetry."
"A few days earlier, he had been to see an Indian dramatization of a story by Sartre on the subject of shame. In the original, a husband suspects his wife of infidelity and sets a trap to catch her out. He pretends to leave on a business trip, but returns a few hours later to spy on her. He is kneeling to look through the keyhole of their front door. Then he feels a presence behind him, turns without rising, and there she is, looking down at him with revulsion and disgust. This tableau, he kneeling, she looking down, is the Sartrean archetype. But in the Indian version the kneeling husband felt no presence behind him; was surprised by the wife; stood to face her on equal terms; blustered and shouted; until she wept, he embraced her, and they were reconciled.
‘You say I should be ashamed,’ Chamcha said bitterly to Zeenat. ‘You, who are without shame. As a matter of fact, this may be a national characteristic. I begin to suspect that Indians lack the necessary moral refinement for a true sense of tragedy, and therefore cannot really understand the idea of shame.’"
Meme - "So then I formatted a 1.44Mb floppy to make a boot disk, copied over Autoexec.bat and Config.sys to it, removed all the drivers I didn't require, restarted the machine, and BAMM! I finally had enough memory to run Doom. Yeah I'm wild, I know."
Meme - "On her Tinder bio: like Lord of the Rings."
When you take her top off: "I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired this."
When you put on the condom: "Give it to us, raw and wriggling.""
Meme - "My woman has to be like fine wine"
"It must be 12 years old and locked in the cellar?"
"What?"
"What?"
QI - Quite Interesting - Posts | Facebook - "There is an international standard for how to make tea (ISO 3103). Ireland objected to the protocol on 'technical grounds' as it didn't include the step of warming the pot.
Martin Luther King Jr monument in Boston sparks debate - "The 20-foot tall, 40-foot wide "The Embrace" statue was unveiled Friday on Boston Common, where King gave a speech on April 23, 1965, to a crowd of 22,000. The statue was inspired by a photograph of King and Scott King which captured them hugging after he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. The art piece, designed by Brooklyn-based conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas, only features the couple's arms during the embrace and not their heads, which has sparked criticism and mockery online. While some people defended the sculpture, others described it as hideous or disrespectful, with social media users posting memes saying it resembled a sex act. Seneca Scott, a community organizer in Oakland, California, and cousin of Scott King, told CNN the statue was insulting to his family. He previously described it as a "masturbatory metal homage" in an essay published by Compact Magazine. "If you can look at it from all angles, and it's probably two people hugging each other, it's four hands. It's not the missing heads that's the atrocity that other people clamp onto that; it's a stump that looked like a penis. That's a joke," Scott told CNN."
Meme - "Obi-Wan Kobe, the All-Galactic basketball player, has a basketball-key shaped living room floor. Kobe wishes to cover the rectangle with Italian marble, at $175 / ft2 and the semi-circle with ebony wood at $75 per ft2. Find the cost of this project if tax is 9.5%."
Meme - "If this is a rock bottom, then I wanna be there."
"Photos of Kanye West's new wife Bianca Censori"
"Wow he's really hit rock bottom huh?"
"This Rock bottom you are talking about. Where do i find it?"
Demand has surged — not slumped — for Kanye West's Yeezy sneakers, one CEO says - "Adidas last year dumped Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and his once hugely popular Yeezy clothing and sneaker brand because of his antisemitic remarks. But the controversy has seemingly spurred demand for the shoes. Yeezy sneakers currently are among the top three sellers on Impossible Kicks, a large online reseller of high-end sneakers and clothing that has 17 store locations in the United States."
Meme - "I knew a guy who worked in a morgue, and when he was new to the job his coworkers encouraged him to prank the boss by getting on a slab in one of the drawers to jumpscare him when he pulled him out. So he strips off, lies on the slab, and the coworkers cover him up, slide the slab away and close the door. Thing is, inside the storage there are no walls between the slabs, so he's lying there in the dark with all the corpses becoming increasingly anxious. After about 5 minutes the corpse next to him says "cold in here isn't it?", and he tried to sit up so fast he nearly knocked himself out. It was his boss on the slab next to him."
Meme - "Welcome friends. My name is Celeborn"
"His Quenya name is Teleporno"
"Seriously, stop telling everyone."
"No"
Meme - "Did you know that my husband Celeborn died thousands of years ago?"
"She's lying. I'm standing right here."
"Sometimes I can still hear his voice."
Meme Rita Ora @RitaOra: "Dropping my new song monday if this get 100,000 retweets 1,381 RETWEETS 498 FAVORITES
By the way my Twitter got hacked somebody is threatening to release new music I've worked really hard on. Nothing comes out until I'm ready."
(ROBIN) on Twitter - "the first thing our new hire did was fix a bug that's been bugging him forever as a user prior to joining. he then breathed a sigh of relief and submitted his two weeks' notice. wtf??"
Meme - "A 100% un-ironic sign posted by management at the restaurant I work at. One of the employees wrote on it and got chewed out"
"That Don't Require Effort
Being on time
Work ethic
Effort
Body language
Doing extra
Being prepared
Attitude"
"All of this Requires EFFORT"
Effort doesn't require effort!
Meme - "Complains there are no jobs for college grads. Majors in 12th century English poetry"
The Myth of "Consensual" Sex | Know Your Meme - "The Myth of "Consensual" Sex is a LOL Jesus-style image macro based on a stock photograph of a couple lying on a bed together alongside a photoshopped cutout of Jesus with the caption asking the viewer "isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?" Due to the humorous juxtaposition of Jesus objecting to a couple's mutually consensual relationship, the image has spawned a series of photoshopped parodies depicting other social situations in which Jesus stands out as the sole opposition to an otherwise agreeable situation."
Getting to know Singapore's Chief of Army by jumping out of a plane with him - "With the lessons of COVID-19 under BG Neo’s belt, NS is therefore necessary." When you have a national religion, everything somewhow justifies it. Or maybe he means Singapore needs a ready pool of pre-paid low cost labour to deploy for whatever they want or need, which is why it needs NS - it's not really about national defence
Percentage of Europeans Who Are Willing To Fight A War For Their Country - "74% – Finland
73% – Turkey
62% – Ukraine
59% – Russia
58% – Kosovo
55% – Bosnia and Herzegovina
55% – Sweden
54% – Greece
47% – Poland
46% – Serbia
41% – Latvia
39% – Switzerland
38% – Ireland
38% – Macedonia
38% – Romania
37% – Denmark
29% – France
28% – Portugal
27% – United Kingdom
26% – Iceland
25% – Bulgaria
23% – Czech Republic
21% – Austria
21% – Spain
20% – Italy
19% – Belgium
18% – Germany
15% – The Netherlands...
Europe is the continent with the fewest people willing to fight a war for their country. Globally, an average of 61% of respondents in 64 countries said they would. Morocco (94%), Fiji (94%), Pakistan (89%), Vietnam (89%) and Bangladesh (86%) had the highest percentage willing to fight. The country with the fewest people willing to go to war was Japan, with just 11% of respondents saying they would fight."
Interestingly, Palestine is 56% and Israel 66%
Belgian soldiers and police 'held orgy' during Brussels lockdown - "Soldiers and police officers in Brussels held an orgy while the city was in lockdown over fears of a Paris-style attack by Islamist extremists, according to Belgian media reports. Two female police officers and eight soldiers are said to have engaged in group sex at a police station in the Brussels neighbourhood of Ganshoren while colleagues hunted for terror suspects. The police station was near Molenbeek, where anti-terror raids had been taking place. Police spokesman Johan Berckmans told De Standaard that 15 to 20 soldiers slept at the station for two weeks during the operation in November so they did not have to travel far at the end of their shift. “When they left, they organised a small party to thank the police in the area”"
Chinese bride goes viral for seating her ex-boyfriends at the same table at her wedding - "at least five men can be seen sitting at a table labelled “table for ex-boyfriends,” at which two women are also seated. Although no backstory was given regarding the women, some social media users have speculated that they could be the partners of two men at the table. The bride’s supposed ex-boyfriends do not appear to be interacting with each other in the clip. One of them can be seen filming the event with his phone, while another can be seen holding a bottle of wine. The others appear to be looking around or staring at their food. Some Weibo users were hesitant to believe the authenticity of the clip and speculated that it could have been a joke."
Meme - "Fat acceptance activist on NZ news is so big they had to put her interview window in landscape mode."
Meme - "Hello. It is us. Big tech corporation. We just updated our website to remove loved features and make the Ul and customer experience worse for no reason. But here's some clean and pleasing to eyes artwork of happy people doing happy things so it's alright."
Meme - "The rest of the world when they see frogs
They are not for eating!
The French when they see frogs
What about their legs? They don't need those."
Google engineer laid off via email after working there for 20 years calls it a 'slap in the face' - "Google stopped being Google circa 2010, and here we're just seeing the end game of a decade-long slide towards becoming 'just another corporate' – so sad, but also probably inevitable."
Big Tech Is Still 20% Bloated Even After Layoffs, BofA Says - Bloomberg - "Technology companies have been cutting costs to shore up profits amid slowing revenue growth as demand that was turbocharged during the Covid-19 pandemic fades. So far, the layoffs have claimed more than 100,000 jobs since 2022."
From January
Meme - "Warning, sociable dog! Those who do not flee will be cuddled to death. Peanut
Ken MacLeod on Twitter - "Basically, English is what happens when Vikings learn Latin and use it to shout at Germans."
Meme - "Statistics Dont Lie
Average Duration of a Phone Call
Boy to Boy 00:00:59
Boy to Mum 00:00:50
Boy to Dad 00:00:30
Boy to Girl 01:23:59
Girl to Girl 05:29:59
Husband to Wife 00:00:03
Mum to Married Daughter 10:50:59
Wife to Husband 14 Missed Calls"
Facebook - "the setting off of flares from ships at the stroke of midnight is supposedly a maritime tradition observed in many parts of the world including the Eastern Anchorage off East Coast Park for as long as I can remember. Not anymore... I did some quick research and realised that the firing of flares off the coast of Singapore was now... you guessed it... illegal. I found a notice originating from the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore reposted by the Maritime and Port Authority on 28 December 2022... So, flares from ships having been fired during a ten minute window at the first few moments of every new year for the last forty years have not caused any issues to air navigation for an Aerodrome that has essentially the same incoming flight path for same amount of time but in 2021, it was decided that they are now dangerous and will be declared illegal? And so, a longtime tradition witnessed by many but yet still unknown to some is killed. And we will never be able to make a photograph like this again in Singapore. Happy New Year Singapore, please treasure what you have and make as many photos as you can, because you never know when it will be taken from you."
Man Shaves 1.7 Seconds Off 2-Hour Flight By Standing Up As Soon As Plane Lands
Meme - "To make a tv show you need one banana-shaped man and one-orange shaped man. let me explain
*Seinfeld and George from Seinfeld*
*Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street*"
I don't recognise the others
The city in Pakistan where church, mosque and temple stand side by side - "In the Pakistan city of Jacobabad, founded by Brigadier-General John Jacob, an officer of the British East India Company, places of worship belonging to three different religions are located side by side. A Hindu temple, Christian church and Muslim mosque are all adjacent to one another."
So much for Uniquely Singapore
Ross Hill, Sringamani Hill & Dargah Konda- Communal Harmony in Vizag - "As a unique testament to communal harmony, and the peace-loving nature of Vizagites, there are three picturesque hillocks each with its own distinctive religious significance along the channel that leads to the inner harbor. There is The Venkateswara Temple on the ‘Sringamani Hillock’, The Ross Hill Church on the ‘Ross Hill’, and The Baba Ishq Madina Dargah on the ‘Dargah Konda’. Each of these shrines has added to the glory and history of Vizag. They are the finest examples of communal harmony and are witness to the growth of small-town into what Vizag is today. While the Dargah is about 700 years old, the temple is more than two centuries old. The Ross Hill Church too is more than a century old…emphasising the quintessence of spiritualism, that ‘all religions are but the branches of the same tree’."
Aka Visakhapatnam
Dogs aren't allowed to bark at Toronto dog park anymore - "Take a little stroll to St. Andrew's Dog Park near Spadina and Adelaide and you'll notice some newly installed signs asking owners to cut the noise."
Dogs allowed to bark again at Toronto dog park after signs removed by city
Frances Emerson's answer to What did you do as a child that you hid from your parents? - Quora - "he and his brothers would go out in the back yard and throw knives at each other to practice catching them, like they’d seen in video games. (I’d seen nicks in my knives, but had assumed, with annoyance, that they’d used them bushwhacking.) But there’s a little more to this story. After high school, he went to Alaska to work in the fisheries for the summer. When he wasn’t working, he’d go exploring in the woods. There was a couple who had broken up who also worked there. The girl had taken a shine to my son, and although my son did not reciprocate, her ex was insanely jealous. One day, my son was out trekking in the woods and sensed someone following him. He turned around, and there was the angry boyfriend, who immediately threw a knife at him. Reacting instinctively, my son caught it. As a mother, hearing this story elicited two responses. First, I was absolutely stunned that my boys would engage in such a dangerous activity. Secondly, I sure would have liked to have seen that fellow’s face."
NZ Police Caught That Wanted Facebook Troll - "a police appeal for information as to [Samuel Evan Lake]’s whereabouts went #viral after Lake – or someone purporting to be him – responded to their Facebook felon request in the smarmiest way possible [“I need to get a new mugshot”], to which the Police Force’s social media manager replied, “Come see us and will arrange at no cost.” Returning serve, the supposed Lake account responded, “If only they were as good at finding me as they were with comebacks,” before changing his profile picture to a doctored version of mugshot, his face substituted for the steely, blue gaze of Derek Zoolander; his neck tattoo left intact. In an apt twist of what I guess you’d call ‘Fate’, Christchurch Police appear to have upped both their detective and banter game overnight, posting their “thanks to everyone for their help locating Mr LAKE in Wellington tonight!” – their endeavours soon after outdone by whoever had the time and wherewithal to create a Sam Lake tribute account."
Meme - Trashboattheog: "Your a bitch btw
I bet your one of those fucking trannie loser abominations also
That's why you deleted my message huh"
The first non-scam DM I got in ifunny, I thin,. People are weird.
Meme - "And they won 1st place in the costume contest *2 men whose beer bellies form a woman's cleavage*"
Meme - "I am gunna tell my kids... these wires went to the fridge, for the ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard dispenser. *RCA cables - audio left, audio right, video wires*"
Meme - Hyster: "Do not indulge in stunt driving or horseplay." *forklift going off ramp and over barrels*
Meme - steeve again @steeve_again: "Sometimes I'm kept awake thinking about how Americans call the liquid they put into their cars gas"
Meme - "When you spend 3000 years in hypersleep traveling to a distant star only to wake up at the destination and be greeted by a full human civilization because they invented a faster spaceship 1000 years after you left."
