Move over, Banksy! Twitter user Dokter Bertho snapped this picture of the world's most perfect graffiti ever:
This must be the best graffiti ever! pic.twitter.com/nWwlGgZe64
— Dokter Bertho (@DokterBertho) March 24, 2014I'd add "ink drips" to the list! (Yes, it's probably not the original - We've seen variations floating around the web for a while).
Redditor Galactus177 posted this picture and said, “For no reason whatsoever, my brother-in-law made this for his kid. An amazing picture was born today.” I’ll agree that it is an amazing picture, but what does he mean “For no reason whatsoever”? I can think of many reasons!
Because it’s awesome.
Because his kid loves it.
Because it’s fun.
Because he/she will consider his/her Dad to be the greatest ever.
Because it makes a great picture.
Because robots.
France is doing pretty well, so I don't know what Captain Picard is facepalming about. Perhaps instead the graphic designer responsible for the logo was expressing personal frustration at his own team.
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"girlfriend pregnant, wife knows, must sell, lawyer wants money."
Can't say it better in 9 words or fewer! Brevity is the soul of wit and the essence of a great classified ad. We don't know whether the man has sold his Harley Davidson motorcycle, but if this ad couldn't do it, nothing will! Via Dumpaday
Redditor Elephantastronaut1 started working at NASA and posted a gallery of fantastic photos on imgur about her experience so far. This one above, of a serving of shrimp cocktail to eat in space, caught my eyes. She wrote "Actual astronaut food. The is a shrimp cocktail, said to be a delicacy in space due to it being spicy."
Why do astronauts crave spicy food? Blame the Charlie Brown effect, said Michele Perchonok of NASA's food science program. Perchonok explained to The Salt blog at NPR (blogged about on Neatorama a while ago):
Why this sudden interest in hot peppers? Part of the reason may be that after arriving in space, astronauts lose their sense of smell, which largely governs the pleasurable taste of food. An example of this is coffee. "If you hold your nose and sip your coffee, you're getting just a bitter liquid," says Hunter.
Why do astronauts lose their sense of smell, and what's this got to do with a preference for fiery food? No one is sure, but there are some plausible ideas.
Michele Perchonok leads NASA's food science program. She says one possibility is what happens to the fluids in your body in a weightless environment. On Earth, gravity tends to drag those fluids downward, toward your feet. In space they go everywhere, including to your head, so after arriving in space, you begin to look like a cartoon character.
"We call it the Charlie Brown phase, because their faces have gotten more round," says Perchonok. Round, because they are retaining fluid in their heads. "And as they retain fluid, they also feel like they have a cold or they're congested, and again they're not smelling as much."
Tumblr user hkirkh noted that his local municipal utilities decided to "improve the looks of their building." The princess may be in another castle, but the money's definitely in public utilities (you'd understand if you see my utilities bill!)
Portuguese designers Sebastião Teixeira and Cesária Martins love retro games and 8-bit visuals, so they decided to bring a little bit of that into today's fashion.
After a night of intense video gaming, the duo had a dream of sexy women in pixelated lingerie. The next day, they started designing the world's first 8-bit underwear: Pixel Panties, with the catchy slogan "made with squares, fit for round bottoms."
Teixeira and Martins started an indiegogo campaign that got funded, so their 8-bit fantasy is becoming a reality!
Indie seller Active Apparel created these parody designs of Disney princess and other characters that serve as exercise motivations. Include such gems as:
When a barista asked Imgur imagineworlds and a friend what art they'd like on their hot drinks, they requested Dear Leader Kim Jong-il and Outstanding Leader Kim Jong-un to adorn the drinks.
As imagineworlds stated in the post, and you can clearly see in the pictures, the barista was super excited to be commissioned to create great art worthy of the peerless leaders, bright suns of the 21st century that are the generals who descended from Heaven.
Some things are just beyond help. A nameless husband left this desperate call for help at a local craft store, spelling "Help Me Wife Won't Leave" with letters used as wall decor. He is presumed lost forever.
Your hairdo is irrelephant! This hair stylist was tusked with a jumbo hairstyling project and the result is simply elephantastic! (What? You don't like elephant puns? Tusk tusk!)
Sometimes, you've just got to have that extra oomph to escape suburbia.
Redditor GingesBananaNut posted this photo to imgur of this gas station in Peachtree City, Georgia, "a small suburban city that's mostly home to retirement home and new families with babies," where 100 octane racing fuel is available side by side with regular gasoline at about $7.54 per gallon.
Racing fuel isn't ubiquitous but it's not impossible to find, either (there are about four dozen gas stations in California that carry it, according to this Google Map).
Sir, your crotch is on fire. Photo: CFP
If being poked by hundreds of needles or massaged by snakes are too tame for you, here's the next hot thing (literally!) in weird medical spa treatment: fire therapy.
And as the name clearly suggests, the treatment involves setting yourself on fire. Brian Ashcraft of Kotaku reports that the fire therapy involves placing a "fire rope" made from some 20 different Chinese herbs on the victim's, er patient's body. After covering the rope with a plastic wrap, two wet towels are placed on top. Then, alcohol is poured on top of the towels and an attendant set the whole thing on fire!
Just to be safe, the attendant is nearby with a wet towel to extinguish the flame in case the patient feels that the fire is too hot.
The procedure could be used in various parts of the body:
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These brightly colored, beautiful creatures look as if someone carefully designed their markings. There are thousands of sea slug species known in the world, and many likely remain undiscovered. Each sea slug has both male and female reproductive organs and releases eggs into the water in clusters, which can contain thousands of eggs.
Sea slugs consume plankton and decaying matter on the ocean floor and algae on rocks and coral reefs. Because they essentially clean the ocean waters, sea slugs are an important part of the marine environment.
The fact that they remain motionless much of the time makes the animals easy prey for lobsters, crabs and other sea creatures. Sea slugs are often caught by humans for food, and also for traditional medicine in eastern cultures, some of which believe that they have healing properties.
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