Three Pennsylvania men are facing more than 1,400 counts of allegedly having sex with multiple animals.

According to CBS News Pittsburgh,  Terry Wallace, 41, Marc Measnikoff, 34, and Matthew Brubaker, 32, have been arrested. While serving a search warrant, police found a large volume of homemade videos. The Clearfield County District Attorney’s Office stated a 16-year-old boy living on the property at Mouse Lane told state police the men were all having sex with animals. 

The suspects allegedly forced the boy to hold the animals down while the men performed intercourse repeatedly for a period of about four or five years. He also described a “v” shaped pen that was designed to specifically be used to facilitate the sexual activity, according to the police report.

The animals included dogs, horses, a cow and a goat.

The boy described his horrid living conditions in the trailer park that he shared with his father, where he had no access to electricity and collected rainwater so that he could take showers.

Clearfield County District Attorney William A. Shaw Jr. said there are currently no allegations of the boy being sexually molested and that authorities have no reason to believe that he was. “Right now, we don’t believe the juvenile was sexually victimized,” Shaw said.

The teen is currently in protective custody. The State Police and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are caring for the animals and preparing to move them to a safe place.

In Pennsylvania, engaging in any form of sexual intercourse with an animal is penalized as a misdemeanor of the second degree. They face a maximum of two years in prison and a $5,000 fine for bestiality, although they may face a harsher sentencing taking into account the alleged crimes committed against the boy and the prolonged period of time that the criminal activity took place.

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It all began a little more than five years ago when Dan Stevenson and his wife Lu, who live nearby, grew fed up with the decline in Oakland’s Eastlake neighborhood. The corner of 11th Avenue and East 19th Street was a rough part of town, and repeated calls to the city’s public works department had failed to improve the situation. In a last-ditch attempt to elevate the energy in the area, the couple purchased a 60-centimeter stone Buddha statue from a hardware store and placed it on the corner across the street from their home.

“The corner was constantly being filled up with mattresses and couches and junk, and there was some drug usage, a lot of graffiti, people just standing around doing nothing—just depressing,” said Stevenson, who epoxied the statue to a rock to discourage vandals.

The statue had a remarkable effect, however. People stopped leaving garbage and, gradually, the local residents began cleaning up the accumulation of detritus from the area. The drug dealers and prostitutes moved elsewhere to ply their wares, and the graffiti, once removed, didn’t return.

“I would have stuck Christ up there if he would have kept the mattresses off,” said Stevenson, who claims no religious affiliation and asserts that he has little enough faith in humanity. “I don’t care who’s doing it.”

What happened next was even more unexpected. After about a year of gradual improvements to the once-notorious corner, people began to leave behind items of a different sort—flowers, fruit, even coins as Vietnamese immigrants living in the area began to visit the statue with offerings.

After a time, with Stevenson’s blessings, Buddhists members of the local community began to act as caretakers, sweeping and cleaning the area, and building a platform for the statue to sit upon. “In our religion, Buddha is not supposed to be on the ground,” said regular visitor Cuc Vo.

As more people joined in, the renovations grew more elaborate. The statue has since been painted, and a small wooden shelter constructed. Sutras sound from tiny speakers behind the Buddha, which has been joined by an image of Guanyin and other figures and decorations as the shrine has expanded. A small camera has even been added to keep an eye on things.

Initially, not everyone living nearby was pleased with the new addition to the neighborhood and the regular morning visits by local Buddhists, despite the obvious positive impact the Buddha statue has had on the corner. After a series of complaints the city authorities said they would dismantle the shrine, but supporters launched a vigorous campaign to save the landmark and eventually the city relented.

The carefully maintained monument is now visited by local Buddhists and other residents on a daily basis, bringing fruit, flowers, and other offerings. A sign has even been added, bestowing a formal name on the shrine: Phap Duyen Tu, Vietnamese for “tranquility.”

Since 2012, crime in the area has seen an 82 per cent decline, according to police statistics, with robbery reports falling from 14 to three, aggravated assaults from five to zero, burglaries from eight to four, narcotics from three to zero, and prostitution from three to zero. “I can’t say what to attribute it to, but these are the numbers,” said a police department official.

“It’s become this icon for the whole neighborhood,” Dan Stevenson said. “There’s a lot of people that are not Buddhist that really come and just talk in front of him, they walk their dogs, they stand there—it’s a place where people meet and talk. It’s just cool.”

“He’s a popular little guy,” Stevenson continued. “He’s got a Facebook page. He’s got a Twitter account. He’s more connected socially than I am. He’s a great little guy, I guess. But it’s amazing, an amazing thing.”

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Watchmen – Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

Watchmen is Moore’s ultimate masterpiece, a triumph of the deconstructionist and superhero genre.  The story begs the questions of what would happen if superheroes were real.  Who would be superheroes?  What kind of personal problems or motivations would make somebody dress up in a colorful outfit and fight criminals?  And what would happen if a TRUE superhero, one who had ACTUAL powers, existed in real life?  Summarizing the story of Watchmen is incredibly challenging.  To keep things as brief as possible, it is about a group of vigilantes and one superpowered god-like figure who find themselves in the middle of a conflict that could end the lives of millions of people.  Moore used the superhero genre to explore ideas of personal identity, postmodernism, and the role of power in society.

The characters, particularly the Objectivist street vigilante Rorschach and Doctor Manhattan, a scientist with god-like powers and control over matter and energy, have become touchstones within the superhero community, even though they have never been used outside of their original series.  Watchmen was also responsible for jump-starting the weakened comic book industry in the late 80s alongside the seminal The Dark Knight Returns.  It is also responsible for inadvertently changing the tone of comics to being dark, gritty, and violent for nearly a decade by cheap imitators.  The 2009 film adaptation ofWatchmen was both highly successful and incredibly controversial as it was disowned by Moore and changed the comics legendary ending.  Despite the film, Watchmen remains Moore’s crowning achievement and easily one of the greatest series in comic book history.

Punisher MAX – Garth Ennis

As part of the traditional Marvel Universe, The Punisher was always severely toned down as the company attempted to market him to kids as a hip action hero with a ton of cool gadgets. But when Marvel finally brought the character into its mature MAX line with writer Garth Ennis, the spandex costume and goofy sidekicks were replaced with a devastating arsenal of weaponry and a cynical, sociopath-like attitude towards others. Punisher was dead on his feet when the team behind Preacher were brought in to reinvigorate the character – and they turned him into a force to be reckoned with.

In this series, a much older Frank Castle lives in a realistic world where superheroes don’t exist and the villains are drug dealers and sex traffickers. During Ennis’ 60-issue run, Punisher shot and stabbed his way through countless law-breakers. The personal ramifications of his one-man war on crime, meanwhile, left him emotionally crippled and incapable of having anything that resembled a normal life.

Ennis added supreme depth to a character who was normally nothing more than a walking, talking cliché. Though you can still label this book as part of the superhero genre, it’s more akin to a blood-soaked crime title. 

Fables: Legend In Exile – Bill Willingham

Fairy tale characters find themselves in exile in New York following the conquest of their country by dark forces – so far, so generic fantasy novel. What sets Fables apart is the fact that these are not the virginal princesses, gallant princes and cutesy cuddly animals of your bedtime stories, but bitches, bastards and creeps who have let the big, bad city go to their heads. Romping through taboos rather than fields of daisies and establishing a few nice crimes and puzzles along the way, this is every bit as compelling and gritty as its superhero competitors. And it’s not every day that you use the word “gritty” about a story starring – among others – Snow White

Y: The Last Man – Brian K. Vaughan

At the beginning of this series, every last man and male animal on Earth drops dead, more or less simultaneously. Except, that is, for a guy called Yorrick and his pet monkey. Why have they been spared? What do they do now? And how are they going to survive in a world where half the population’s gone and half the remaining half have gone a little nuts? The story that results is massive in scope but also intensely personal, taking in gender politics and geophysical realities but, in the end, coming down to a small group gathered around a boy and a monkey, with one of the most moving finales we’ve ever read.

Marvels – Kurt Busiek & Alex Ross

The story provides a look at the most memorable comic book moments from Marvel’s history through the eyes of a news photographer named Phil Sheldon. To see these characters from the prospective of the average man made these heroes look more like gods than simple comic book stars. It was a novel concept, but no matter how great Kurt Busiek’s scripts were, none of that would have mattered if the artist wasn’t up to the task.

Thankfully Alex Ross absolutely owned every page. His fully-painted work added to the characters’ respective mystiques. Readers witnessed Spider-Man battle the Green Goblin, the Fantastic Four take on Galactus, and the X-Men reveal themselves to the public in photo-realistic style. Imagine a marriage between Jack Kirby and Norman Rockwell. To be honest, the Marvel heroes have never looked better.

Preacher – Garth Eenis & Steve Dillon

Vertigo has been responsible for some of the most creatively daring comics to ever hit the mainstream. None of them, however, come close to being as blasphemous and dangerous as Garth Ennis’ Preacher.

A small-town preacher becomes possessed by the offspring of a demon and an angel, and sets off in search of the absentee Almighty to take issue with His management of the world. Garth Ennis’ bloody, twisted and sickly funny religio-Western epic is full of brutality, mutilation and the drunken ramblings of a mad Irish vampire, but it’s also – deep down – a love story that says all of creation can go hang as long as love has its chance. Huh. Despite the castrations and perversions and maulings, despite the Saint of Killers’ glowering menace, Ennis might just be a big softie after all.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns – Frank Miller

Despite the best efforts of creators like Neal Adams and Denny O’Neil, by the 1980’s Batman was still closely associated with the camp and silliness of the Silver Age and the 1960’s TV series. Leave it to Frank Miller to remind Bat-fans how dark and brooding the Caped Crusader can be.

The Dark Knight Returns was born out of Miller’s realization that he was now older than the superhero he idolized as a boy. He presented Bruce Wayne as an aging recluse in a world where most heroes had given up or gone to ground, only for him to be spurred back into action by the spiraling state of Gotham and the yearning in his heart. Together with a new, female Robin, this hulking, grizzled Batman set about striking fear into the hearts of criminals once more.

Like much of Miller’s work on this list, The Dark Knight Returns was hugely influential. It offered a bold new take on Batman and inspired a wave of “grim and gritty” imitators. ts influence can be seen on many other interpretations of Batman, including The Dark Knight Rises and the upcoming sequel to Man of Steel sequel.

The Sandman – Neil Gaiman

Comic books haven’t always been embraced by the mainstream. Back in the ‘80s, they were the horrible secret youngsters kept underneath their mattresses and away from parents. Then, as companies began experimenting with different genres and making these books more mature, comics slowly started getting noticed by a larger section of society. Eventually in some circles, they were hailed as fine modern literature. And the book that led this charge was Neil Gaiman’s Sandman.

Focusing on Morpheus, the god-like master of dreams, Sandman presented audiences with complex narratives and characters that were simultaneously divine and tangible. Along with his siblings, known as The Endless (which included Death, Delirium, Destruction, Destiny, Despair, and Desire), Dream (Morpheus’ alias) travels to different dimensions and time periods as his struggles often find him exploring the relationship between humans and reality.

Gaiman made sure that no two tales were alike. One story could feature a run-in with Shakespeare while the next could take place in the heart of hell. And with literary allusions and rhythmic poetry filling every page, Sandman was unlike anything that the comic book medium has seen before or since. It’s high-art conceived by a man who positively shattered an entire medium.

From Hell – Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell

No. Not the movie starring Johnny Depp, which is an insult to the genius that is From Hell. Alan Moore is the most iconic writer that’s ever walked the face of the planet. He is considered the father of the graphic novels genre and is unsurpassed to date. From Hell chronicles the tale of Jack the Ripper. There has been many a book about the infamous serial killer, but this one is different. It explores the world through the eyes of ripper himself, and jumps to everyone who’s affected by him. Moore creates complex characters and sets them in gritty, unapologetic, uncensored London. He also draws in the major writers of that era and the political scenario. Grotesquely beautiful, a must read.

MAUS – Art Spiegelman

A book that can win over even those who think that any story told with drawings must be for kids. Art Spiegelman tells the story of his Holocaust-survivor father over two breathtakingly powerful volumes, alternating between the story of his life during World War II and his later years in the US. The book’s conceit has the Jews drawn as mice, the Nazis as cats, Americans as Beagles and so on – but it’s the human stories that come unflinchingly through that give this work its power, both in the tragedies and trauma of mankind’s darkest hour and in the smaller tribulations of a survivor’s later life.

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Casually Explained: Making New Friends 

OJ Simpson Pranked On ‘Who Is America?’

Man trapped in elevator for 41 hours (timelapse)

NBC picked the wrong time for returning to their regular scheduled viewing

Frenchman saves American couple from scammer in Paris.

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Terrifying video captures audio of Florida shooting – AOL

How to get a good night’s sleep – VOX

RFID theft is real, protect your credit cards from scammers. These RFID-blocking sleeves give you peace of mind without adding much weight to your wallet – Amazon

This Is What it Means if Slow Walkers Make You Furious – Tonic

The memoir by Steve Jobs’ daughter makes clear he was a truly rotten person whose bad behavior was repeatedly enabled by those around him – Business Insider

How the Dutch Do Sex Ed In the Netherlands, kids learn about sex and bodies starting at age 4 – The Atlantic

First Apple Computer Goes Up For Auction, Expected to Fetch More Than $300,000 – Gizmodo

These are the cheapest Michelin-starred restaurants in the world – USA Today

How To Find and Free Your Creativity – 5 Minutes

Sabrina Janssen Is The Biggest Tease You’ll See Today – Yes Bitch

The Best Scammers Of 2018, Ranked – Mashable

Rare 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO sold for world-record $48.4 million – Fox News

Lingerie For Men Is A Thing Now Because Of Course It Is – Daily Wire

Kourtney Kardashian shows off that booty – Drunken Stepfather

Lock and unlock your door with your phone. Give keyless entry to family, friends, housekeepers and other home services without worrying about lost or copied keys – Amazon

This Tiny Packing Hack Might Save Your Ass On The Road – Thrillist

Dad Shows What Would Happen If Kid’s Drawings Became Reality – Sad And Useless

Jordyn Jones’ Insta Bikini Game Is Strong – G-Celeb

The Negatives Of Early Retirement Life Nobody Likes Talking About – Financial Samurai

Two Young Punks Target The Wrong Old Man – Leenks

A Japanese Scientist Explained How Fasting Prolongs Youth and Won the Nobel Prize for His Work – Bright Side

Demi Rose Mawby Posing in a Red Bikini! – BB Blog

The Spartan Way: Manhood Is a Journey – The Art Of Manliness

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A fairytale ending

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We need more awesome people like this in the world

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Someone’s in trouble

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Captain Multitask: Drunk-friend holder & passionate kisser

A 92-year-old woman reunited with her son yesterday in North Korea after 68 years apart. They were separated during the Korean War

Online shopping just got real

Pimple Popping Cake!

And that Timmy, is how yogurt is made

via Gfycat

Let the man dance!

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We love talking about the things we are good at. Very few talk about the real shit that fucks with us- the stuff we hide from everyone. We try to mask it by lifting weights, making more money, buying more possessions, etc. It’s there in the insecurities, fear, lies and self-doubt that we find our real self. There and only there do you grow. 

Don’t be afraid of people judging you- fuck them! A lot of people can’t handle the truth about themselves, trust me, I know. I struggled with that for many years. Own your shit! Those people you are trying to impress have just as many issues as you do, they just hide it better than you do. 

Stop trying to impress others! Worry only about impressing yourself!

– David Goggins

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If you have children and talk to them about danger (which you should), tell them that if someone is ever attempting to take them they should yell “you’re not my mom/dad!” That way, passers-by know it’s not just a kid having a tantrum

My mom taught me this along with having a password if one of her co-workers ever had to pick me up for an emergency or whatever. Once my grandpa came to get me and it wasn’t planned, I asked him the password and he didn’t know what I was talking about. I wouldn’t go with him for 20 minutes until he called my dad and got the password.

New college freshmen, get to know your professors early on. In your later years, good relationships with professors can lead to recommendations, research, and job opportunities.

I got to know one of my profs, then became research assistant for him during undergrad, and was offered a master’s with great scholarship. Thing is you don’t need to kiss your profs ass. Just sit in front of class, ask intelligent questions and nod when you see him. Point is to just let him know you exist. 

If you’re thinking about getting a tattoo, get it done in Henna first: It will force you to live with the design and location past the honeymoon stage and show you how comfortable you are with it in your day to day life

Always keep one extra day off from your vacation schedule to adjust back to daily life

Or, be like me and get back to work at noon on the day you return. Then, continue hating yourself as you’ve always done.

If you have an option in high school/college, join the debating team. Public speaking and thinking on the spot are two of the most crucial skills to learn in life. You’ll notice the difference in your day to day interactions

If you are near a university’s campus in spring, check near the dorms for items that the students leave when they break up for summer. Many don’t want to take home larger items if they live far away from campus, so you could pick up some nice stuff that was left on the curb for trash.

In Madison WI the big move out day is August 15 and it is affectionately called “hippie Christmas” 

When flying, put a tag with your info inside your bag, not just outside. Any tag on the outside can come off. Also, when a bag gets lost, the airline will open it to try to determine who it belongs to.

Learn to do — and enjoy — things by yourself. You’re going to miss out on a lot of fun if you keep waiting for someone else to accompany you

Took up archery for a while. Guess what? I met a bunch of people who were in to archery.

Don’t let people guilt you for not visiting them. They’re not visiting you either

I always feel guilty when people say, “I miss you, you should really come visit me in [city that’s a several hour drive away].” It always eases my mind when I remind myself that this person is equally capable of visiting me and isn’t doing it either.

For those of you going to college for the first time this month: GO TO CLASS! No matter how hungover, tired, or busy you may be, being present is the most important factor in succeeding in your first year as you adjust to living independently. Missing class is a slippery slope to failing out

The first time you need a certified birth certificate for a child, order 5 copies instead of one. You’ll be glad you did over the next 18 years

Do the same thing for marriage certs, death certs, etc.

As a manager, don’t let your pride cloud your judgement when someone has a better idea than you on a decision. It’s an improvement on a course of action, not your character

“Being a leader doesn’t mean having all the answers, just the ability to recognize the right ones when they come up.”

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György Dózsa

History has taught us that committing high treason is a sure fire way to get tortured and executed in the most excruciating ways. Of course, this isn’t a problem if you actually manage to succeed in overthrowing a ruler or monarch, but those who fail are made an example of in the worst ways possible. Such was the case of György Dózsa, a Hungarian soldier of fortune who led a peasants’ revolt against the kingdom’s nobility in 1514. Despite achieving some early decisive victories against the Hungarian army, the revolution was eventually suppressed with force and Dózsa captured.

He was condemned to sit on a heated smoldering iron throne with a heated iron crown on his head and a heated scepter in his hand (mocking at his ambition to be king). While Dózsa was suffering, a procession of 9 fellow rebels, who had been starved beforehand, were led to such throne. In the lead was Dózsa’s younger brother, Gergely, who was cut in three before Dózsa despite Dózsa asking for Gergely to be spared. Next, executioners removed hot pliers from fire and forced them into Dózsa’s skin. After pulling flesh from him, the remaining rebels were ordered to bite where the hot iron had been inserted and to swallow the flesh. Those who refused, about 3 or 4, were simply cut up which prompted the remaining rebels to do as commanded. In the end, Dózsa died on the throne of iron from the damage that was inflicted while the rebels who obeyed were let go without further harm.

Richard Roose

In February 1531, Richard Roose worked as a cook to Bishop John Fisher when he was accused of having poisoned a dinner meant for the Bishop. As it turned out, Bishop Fisher had no appetite that day, so the food was only eaten by his guests, two of whom died. The rest suffered from the side effects for the rest of their lives.

After his arrest, Richard Roose claimed he’d only added a laxative to the meal as a practical joke and had no intention of harming or killing anyone. He was not believed, and was sentenced to death by boiling. He was repeatedly lifted and lowered into a cauldron of boiling water until until he died.

According to a contemporary account, the sight of this never before seen form of torture and the sounds of his screams caused pregnant women to faint and have to be carried away.

Alcaide Melec

Alcaide Melec was a Moroccan governor under emperor Moulay Ishmael in the early 18th century. In addition to being charged with being one of the chief rebels in a rebellion incited by one of the emperor’s sons, the empress was angry over his beheading of one of her cousins. The emperor sought out a carpenter to administer his idea of a just punishment – sawing Alcaide Melec in half.

He was taken by mule to his place of execution, a public square, where thousands of his relatives and members of his tribe were gathered. To their horror, Alcaide Melec “was strapped onto a board, and placed upon a sawbench, his arms and legs fastened.” The executioners started to saw him from the head down, but the empress’s sons demanded they begin from the groin and move upwards, otherwise he would die too quickly. Under the terrible screams of Melec and his relatives, thus began his execution. Once they had sawed him up to the navel, they pulled out the saw in order to commence from the other side. Melec is said to have been still conscious, asking for some water. His friends, though, thought it best to hasten his demise and shorten his sufferings, and the executioners went on, sawing him from skull to navel so he fell apart. In the process, chunks of flesh were ripped out by the saw’s teeth, causing blood to splatter everywhere, thus making the execution quite unbearable to watch.”

Peter Stumpp

Known as the Werewolf of Bedburg, Peter Stumpp was accused of, and confessed to (under torture), being a serial killer and cannibal and having killed and eaten 14 children, among others. He claimed to be a practitioner of black magic from a young age, and to have received a magical belt from the Devil, which allowed him to transform into a wolf when worn. He was also accused of engaging in incestuous relationships with his daughter and a relative, for which they were also sentenced to death.

One of the most brutal on record, the execution of Peter Stummp and his daughter and mistress occurred on October 31, 1589. From Wikipedia, “he was put to a wheel, where “flesh was torn from his body”, in ten places, with red-hot pincers, followed by his arms and legs. Then his limbs were broken with the blunt side of an axehead to prevent him from returning from the grave, before he was beheaded and his body burned on a pyre. His daughter and mistress had already been flayed and strangled and were burned along with Stumpp’s body. As a warning against similar behavior, local authorities erected a pole with the torture wheel and the figure of a wolf on it, and at the very top they placed Peter Stumpp’s severed head.”

Leaders of the Munster Rebellion

The Munster rebellion was a movement by followers of Anabaptism to establish a theocracy in Munster, Germany. The three leaders of the rebellion were Jan van Leiden, Bernhard Krechting and Bernhard Knipperdolling. After the siege and fall of Munster, the three men were captured, charged with heretical and treasonous crimes, and sentenced to death.

On the day of their execution, January 22, 1536, the men were attached to a pole, secured by spiked collars around their necks, and one by one, had the flesh ripped from their bodies with burning hot tongs. Their sentence required a full hour of torture before their tongues were ripped out, and they were finally killed by a “burning dagger” plunged into their hearts. Each of their bodies was placed in a metal cage and hung from the steeple of St. Lambert’s church in Munster. Their remains were displayed there for decades before finally being removed. The cages still hang there today.

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Will Hunting had it right 21 years ago 

What The Most Expensive Steak On Earth Tastes Like

Saito: The Sushi God of Tokyo

Claire Makes Homemade Ice Cream Sandwiches

The Condemned – In the heart of Russia, in a forest larger than Germany, where winter temperatures drop to -40 degrees, 7 hours from the nearest city, lies a prison home to 260 men, responsible for nearly 800 murders, Penal Colony 56 is unique: a prison exclusively for killers

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How to Fall 35,000 Feet And Survive – Popular Mechanics

A universal way to solve problems, from a mathematical genius – Quartz

The best pre-workout on the market. Gives you that extra kick to power you through your workout – Amazon

The Perilous, Secret World of Steroids for Female Bodybuilders – Mel Magazine

Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence, study reveals. Impact of high levels of toxic air ‘is equivalent to having lost a year of education’ – The Guardian

The Most Important Skill For Interacting With People – Thrive

Don’t buy another toothbrush until you read this – Quip

A damn fine collection of bewbs and awesomeness – Leenks

9 year old commits suicide after coming out as gay to his classmates – AOL

Who Is the Most Powerful Supervillain? – i09 

Couple Couldn’t Conceive Because They’d Been Having Sex the Wrong Way for Four Years – Newsweek

The creators of the Nintendo 64 GoldenEye have officially ruled: Oddjob is cheating – AV Club

JFK’s Very Revealing Harvard Application Essay – The Atlantic

The Daily Awesome – Awesome Galore

This is the bowl that will change the way you eat cereal – Amazon

Remember Jewel? Her Boobs Still Look Great! – Mr Skin

Aubrey O’Day Makes A Hot Comeback – Yes Bitch

Trump Accuses Google of Suppressing Positive News About His Presidency – WSJ

I went from cornerback for the LA Rams to a long prison sentence. Here’s what I’ve learned about reform – Fox News

Crazy Woman Alienates Friends, Family, Former Fiancee in Her Quest for a Kardashian-Style Destination Wedding – The Blemish

Inside the Underground Market Where Bodybuilders Find Illegal Steroids – MIC

Cute girl’s bra can barely contain her – Ehowa

An exclusive look inside the world’s most expensive school, where tuition fees are more than £87,000 a year – Business Insider

Kristin Cavallari Slip at the 2018 iHeartRadio MuchMusic Video Awards! – The Slip

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Shots fired

Israel Adesanya launches a tornado of death against his opponent

Tank Abbott demolishes John Matua and mocks his corpse shortly after

Paul Daley finishes Lorenz Larkin in brutal fashion

Mike Tyson – Right Hook Body & Uppercut KO

Renzo Gracie: ‘Sakuraba Breaking My Arm Was The Worst Pain I’ve Ever Felt in my Life’

“In my life, I always believed that if I had an injury, I would never give up,”  “If that happened in the fight, in the old times, people would keep fighting in the ring. But they stopped the match. In reality, my whole life, I thought I would do that in that situation. I would never tap. But you can never be 100 percent sure until that moment arrives and you feel that pain. That was the most pain I ever felt in my life, but I was happy I went through that, even though it hurt a lot. I was smiling the whole time. It was the moment I found out my mind was stronger than my body.”

Floyd Mayweather parrying Conor McGregor’s offense

Floyd Mayweather Defensive Genius

Mirko Cro Cop & Fabricio Werdum Training

A slam can change the tide of a fight real quick!

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In speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the West, men of the State which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual. I ask only that what every self-respecting American demands from himself and from his sons shall be demanded of the American nation as a whole. Who among you would teach your boys that ease, that peace, is to be the first consideration in their eyes-to be the ultimate goal after which they strive? You men of Chicago have made this city great, you men of Illinois have done your share, and more than your share, in making America great, because you neither preach nor practice such a doctrine. You work yourselves, and you bring up your sons to work. If you are rich and are worth your salt, you will teach your sons that though they may have leisure, it is not to be spent in idleness; for wisely used leisure merely means that those who possess it, being free from the necessity of working for their livelihood, are all the more bound to carry on some kind of non-remunerative work in science, in letters, in art, in exploration, in historical research-work of the type we most need in this country, the successful carrying out of which reflects most honor upon the nation.

We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been stored up effort in the past. A man can be freed from the necessity of work only by the fact that he or his fathers before him have worked to good purpose. If the freedom thus purchased is used aright, and the man still does actual work, though of a different kind, whether as a writer or a General, whether in the field of politics or in the field of exploration and adventure, he shows he deserves his good fortune. But if he treats this period of freedom from the need of actual labor as a period not of preparation, but of mere enjoyment, he shows that he is simply a cumberer of the earth’s surface, and he surely unfits himself to hold his own with his fellows if the need to do so should again arise. A mere life of ease is not in the end a very satisfactory life, and, above all, it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world.

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I preach to you, then, my countrymen, that our country calls not for the life of ease but for the life of strenuous endeavor. The twentieth century looms before us big with the fate of many nations. If we stand idly by, if we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then the bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world. Let us therefore boldly face the life of strife, resolute to do our duty well and manfully; resolute to uphold righteousness by deed and by word; resolute to be both honest and brave, to serve high ideals, yet to use practical methods. Above all, let us shrink from no strife, moral or physical, within or without the nation, provided we are certain that the strife is justified, for it is only through strife, through hard and dangerous endeavor, that we shall ultimately win the goal of true national greatness.

– Theodore Roosevelt

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by Andrian

1) Assume comfort in any interaction.

Our brain is an incredibly complicated instrument. Our relationship with it, is a love-hate one. We think we have control over it but usually something unconscious dictates our actions.

In most of our social interactions, we find it difficult to feel comfortable among strangers because our brain tries to protect us from exposure.

This however isn’t helping us when trying to be social and meet new people, is it?

This is why assuming comfort is so powerful. Commanding your brain to feel that you already know the person you are about to meet puts you in a position of advantage. It increases the chances of people showing interest in you and consequently even liking you.

2) Pay attention to people’s feet when you are approaching them.

Interrupting people when they are in the middle of an important conversation is one of the most annoying things to do. It shows that you have zero knowledge of social dynamics which will lead to unpleasant social situations.

When you approach a group of people while in a conversation, pay attention to their bodies. If they turn only their torsos and not their feet, it means they are in the middle of an important conversation and they don’t want you to interrupt them.

If they turn both torso and feet, it means you are welcome. This is extremely important, because the right timing in such situations may put you in a position of advantage, especially if the conversation was boring for both sides.

3) Whenever you have an argument with someone, stand next to them and not in front of them.

We’ve all been in situations where out of nowhere the conversation started escalating.

Unless you love drama, I would suggest you to avoid these situations. You might have the best argument in the world, but usually people get irritated when they feel they are wrong.

So, whenever you feel that the argument you have with another person (especially friends – it’s not cool to fight with friends) creates tension, move next to them. You won’t appear much of a threat, and they will eventually calm down.

4) Whenever you need a favor, open with “I need your help.”

Admit it. We all love to get others to do stuff for us. Either because we are lazy, or because we really need some help to complete a task.

Social dynamics show that when it comes to platonic relationships, nobody really likes an asshole. So whenever you need a favor, start your sentence with “I need your help.”

In most cases, people will accept your request and help you out. This occurs because we don’t really like the guilt of not helping someone out and we do like to be the one who is capable of helping.

5) If you want people to feel good, give them validation. Rephrase what they just told you.

We love validation. Most of our actions are the outcome of our need for validation. So what is the best way to get people to like you? Give them what they need of course. A simple example, is when you are in a conversation with another person and he says something really important for him. After he finishes, rephrase what he just said in your own words. This will make him think that you are a good listener and that you are really interested in him. It makes him feel he is the center of attention. That’s validation right there.

6) If you want to get a positive response from someone, nod while you talk.

This one is extremely powerful and also a bit manipulative especially if the person is suggestive. So use it with your own responsibility and in an ethical way. Getting a positive response from someone is usually what we want. Whether it is making a sale, or promoting a viewpoint, we always want people to get on board. Nodding while you try to deliver your message is a powerful way to get the person to agree with you. People usually like mimicking, so they will most probably nod back while you talk. This will subsequently communicate to their brains that they have to agree with you.

7) Want to see if someone is paying attention to what you are saying? Fold your arms.

Usually when we are in the middle of a conversation and especially if we talk about something very important to us, we get lost in our talking and rarely pay attention to whether the other person is following or not. So instead of losing time talking to a person who is distracted and might not even be interested in what you are saying, do this. Fold your arms while talking and see if the other person follows your move. If the other person is observing you and pays attention, they will most likely mimic you.

8) Having trouble remembering names? Repeat the other person’s name during the conversation.

I suck at remembering names. I usually don’t even listen to the other person when he says his name the moment we get introduced to each other. So usually, I ask a friend to introduce himself to the person so I can listen to his name. But then I forget it again. Awkward. Remembering names is very important because we feel important when someone mentions us. So the moment you meet someone repeat his name. Example: “Hi my name is Alex” “Nice to meet you Alex. So, Alex how do you know John?” And continue to repeat his name throughout the conversation.

9) If you ask someone a question and they only partially answer, just wait. They will keep talking.

This is a very common situation when you don’t know the other person that well or your question wasn’t clear enough. If they finish the answer without providing a full answer, just wait. Stay silent and keep eye contact. If the tension becomes unbearable, raise your eyebrows. It puts a bit of pressure on them but it communicates that you show interest. It also sub-communicates that you are a person that usually gets what he wants.

10) People usually focus on the emotion and not on the subject.

This is very useful in public speaking but also in building rapport with an acquaintance. Whenever you introduce yourself to new people, most probably they have already heard what you are about to say. Well that’s not a problem. Even if you want to talk about the most boring topic in the world, make sure of one thing: Always try to evoke emotions. From my experience the 3 emotions that you want to evoke are: • Excitement • Laughter: Everyone likes to laugh • Intrigue: Leave a little mystery so the other person has to invest energy to hear more. Don’t be purposely distant, but avoid verbal diarrhea.

There are many techniques to turn a boring conversation into an exciting and intriguing one, but here are a couple of my favorites:

• Pause: A lot of the time when we want to keep someone’s attention, we tend to talk really fast, but this subcommunicates neediness and nervousness. A well-placed pause can create tension that makes your words have more gravitas.
• Tone and Inflection: No one finds monotone exciting. Switch up your tone of voice from deep for declarative statements, to high inflection when you want to leave them guessing.
• Paint pictures and compose symphonies in their mind with sensory details: When telling a story, take the person you’re talking to on an emotional journey by describing the colors, sounds, textures, tastes, smells, and how they made you feel. This will cause their mirror-neurons to fire off, making it easier for them to imagine actually being there with you.

So if you want to be memorable, focus on the emotion behind the words. People may forget what you say, but they will never forget how you make them feel.

11) Confidence is more important than knowledge.

Two young candidates walked into the interview office to apply for the same job. The first one had a Phd, two Masters and a Bachelor’s degree. The second one had just a Bachelor. The first one was kind of shy, didn’t talk much, his body language was turned inward. The second one had an upright posture, was looking the interviewers directly in the eyes, showed a lot of interest in the job and his answers where emitting confidence. We don’t have to tell you who got the job.

12) Fake it until you make it.

No one became an expert on anything over night. However, the learning process in everything you do is accelerated by commanding your brain to think what you want it to think. In simple words. You are what you believe you are. • You are confident if you believe you are confident • You are attractive if you believe you are attractive • You are extrovert if you believe you are extrovert If you want to look deeper into this idea look up two words. Neuroplasticity and brain rewiring.

13) Pose in a Power Stance.

This is similar to the previous point, but more concrete than a mantra or belief. Go stand in the mirror, put your hands on your hips, thrust your pelvic forward, pull your shoulders up, back and down, open your chest, tilt your head up, and force the biggest smile you can possibly manage to fit across your face. Even if you consciously know you’re just faking it, your brain can’t tell the difference, and will release endorphins to match your body position. This can feel silly, but it really works.

14) If you want to be persuasive, try and reduce the use of the words “I think” and “I believe.”

I don’t really feel the need to elaborate on this one. Obviously these words do not evoke confidence and the other person will most probably not take you seriously. Change them to ‘I know’ and ‘I will’ instead.

15) A clean and organised environment affects your mood, productivity, and others perception of who you are.

How many times have you waken up without any motivation at all? How many times have you started working on something without being able to get focused and inspired? Next time this happens, take a look around you. Is your environment clean and well-organized? If not, take some minutes to clean it up and put everything into place. You will feel refreshed and reborn and productivity will spark immediately. But not only that, you will come across as caring and punctual, two highly esteemed traits. Why do think most of the big companies pay so much attention to creating the best working environment for their employees? They know what makes them happy and how it affects their productivity.

16) Want to find out which people are close to each other within a group and who is perceived as the leader?

Pay attention to who is looking at each other when everyone in the group laughs at a joke. People instinctively look at and agree with the person they feel closest to within the group.

17) Whenever you call a person you want to meet, show excitement!

Always have this in mind. Excitement is contagious. Why do you think the music video from Pharrell Williams – “Happy” got so many views and so many people were talking about it?

People love excitement! It is like an escape from their boring lives. Never forget that.

(You can mirror this and show disappointment if somebody let’s you down, making them painfully aware of their hurtful actions.)

18) Want to build rapport and gain respect? Match body language.

This is quite a common topic among body language experts and works well if you want to gain respect from a person that has high value.

Example:

You are in a social situation where a person has higher value among others within the group. He is the center of attention and he totally enjoys it. How do you match his value? By befriending him!

If you want his respect and attention the best thing to do when you approach him is to match his body language and speaking patterns. If he has open body language and he talks with excitement and joy, don’t go there with crossed arms and with an attitude of negating his words.

Approach him with the same amount of excitement and show openness and interest.

19) When someone insults you, either ignore him or mock him. Never lose temper. Always control the frame.

Haters are everywhere. The more you feed them with hate, the stronger they become. Never lose your temper. This is a great example of how to deal with a hater. Enjoy!

19) Stand up straight, have warm hands and always keep eye contact.

• Keep a straight posture and walk like a born leader. This sub-communicates confidence and others will respect you automatically.
• Keep your hands out of your pockets. If you don’t know what to do with them, it is better to fold your arms rather than keep them inside your pockets.
• Keep your hands warm. If you have a warm hand when you shake somebody’s hand, you immediately become a more desirable person to get along with. Secret Tip – wash your hands with warm water often to keep them warm or take cold showers.
• You have heard this a thousand times. Here is the 1001st. – never lose eye contact! Losing eye contact is like losing your confidence. One cool trick when first meeting someone is to focus on their eye color and smile at the same time. The eyes are the gateway to the soul, and taking the extra second to gaze shows you are confident and present. (Be sure to move your eyes away periodically, a constant stare will creep people out.)

20) The Benjamin Franklin Effect.

The Ben Franklin effect is a psychological finding:

A person who has done someone a favor is more likely to do that person another favor than they would be if they had received a favor from that person. Similarly, one who harms another is more willing to harm them again than the victim is to retaliate.

This is an unbelievable finding. In social situations, you can hack this by making someone do something small for you, then asking for your true favor. It’s such a small favor that they will say yes, and due to cognitive dissonance their brain will rationalize that they must like you enough to do you a favor in the first place. This is also called the foot-in-the-door effect.

21) Don’t be afraid to touch another person.

Touching someone on the shoulder or their knees creates an emotional and physical bond. Especially during moments of joy, laughter and excitement touching positively reinforces these traits. If you’re uncomfortable with touching, remember 12, fake it until you make it.

22) Use the door-in-the-face hack.

The opposite of foot-in-the-door. Make an unreasonably large request that will most likely be turned down (but if it isn’t then that’s even better!), and follow up with your true intended, more reasonable request. The other person will be more likely to agree to the second request.

23) Always frame a request as a choice.

No one likes to feel pressured into doing something they don’t want to do. By subtlety rephrasing a request, you can make the person feel like they came to the decision on their own terms.

Homeless people who say things like, “it’s up to you if you want to donate or not” end up making more money than those who simply ask for money. The same is generally true for bands that offer “pay what you want” payment structures for their music. They know you can easily download their music for free off the internet, so they encourage you to pay what you feel is right.

24) If you work in a bar or in customer service of any kind…

Put a mirror behind you at the counter. When an angry customer approaches you, he will have to see himself in the mirror and will most probably calm down. Nobody likes ruining his image.

25) Chew gum if you are nervous.

Evolutionarily speaking, our brains assume that if we are eating then we aren’t in any immediate danger, so the fight or flight response is weakened.

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How does dating work in Saudi Arbia?

Saudi culture is very gender-segregated, from restaurants to banks, a lot of places have both family sections and men’s sections. There’s even a women-only mall in Riyadh. Kindergartens are mixed, but from first grade onward, there are separate boys and girls schools. That’s why people get creative about how to get in touch with the opposite sex. Back in my day, a popular method was to put your MSN ID on the side of your car and go for a cruise around town in the hope that a girl would spot it and contact you on her own.”

Another popular method was the Bluetooth chat. “If the MSN ID trick didn’t work out, you could always go to a cafe, sit in the men’s section, turn on your Bluetooth, and hope for someone behind the wall in the women’s section to see your phone. Then they’d connect to it, and the two of you could text.” All while trying to determine how attractive the other person was solely by their emoji usage.

“In a mixed area like the food court at a mall, a guy might also write his phone number on the back of a McDonald’s receipt and then crumple it up and drop it on a fine lady’s tray or on the floor next to her table. If she’s interested, she can pick it up and unfold it and text him, or she can reject him by flicking it off the table.”

Nowadays, people mostly use Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. That takes all the desperate, horny spy action out of courtship. But that may soon change, as Saudi Arabia has already banned Facebook’s chat function, and is considering banning the site altogether because they think it might be turning people gay.

Why don’t car companies ever make a throwback model, wouldn’t an exact remake of say a 69 Corvette sell really well? 

It would not be possible to make an exact stylistic remake that meets modern safety and emissions standards. Just as one example: the “A” pillar is the name for the piece of metal that frames the windshield and attaches to the roof; here’s a picture showing the various roof pillars.

About ten or fifteen years ago, the people who do safety testing on cars (IIHS, NHTSA) noticed that rollover accidents tended to result in more deaths and serious injuries. They found that this was happening because car roofs tended to deform and collapse in rollovers, smashing directly into the heads of the passengers. So, they came up with a standard for how strong a roof has to be, and implemented crash tests to evaluate this. Automakers realized pretty quickly that one of the easiest and cheapest ways to make a roof stronger is to make the “A” pillar a lot thicker. And that’s why modern cars have such thick “A” pillars compared to older cars.

If you want to drive a car that looks old but has modern features, there is hope: some people will restore old cars and replace the original parts with modern ones. This process is called resto-modding. Generally, people perform resto-modding with an eye to improving performance: using modern powertrains, modern suspensions, modern brakes, etc. A resto-modded classic car probably won’t do any better in an actual crash, but your ability to avoid getting into a crash in the first place would be greatly improved vs. the original, un-modified car.

Even though I’m a thousand times their size and infinitely more powerful, why aren’t insects terrified of me?

They feel no fear. They’re incapable of it. Insects are basically biological robots that follow very simple instructions – eat, shit, reproduce, and if something gets close, run or fight.

They don’t think before doing things, just like how your computer doesn’t think when following your instructions. They just do things.

As a 22 year old , what should I start doing/stop doing to make sure my body isn’t falling apart by the time I’m 40 or 50?

Stop tanning. Start moisturizing. Brush your teeth twice a day, every single day. Eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. Make a conscious effort to frown less. Stand up straight. Make and keep friends. Feel yourself up at least once a month so you know which lumps are normal and which lumps are not. Lift weights. Eat less crap. Get all the sleep. Stop smoking. Control stress.

Stress can manifest itself many ways and hurt your health.

Try to learn not to give a shit. we all struggle with that, but the sooner you can, the better. a lot of the exercise/hobby recommendations help with stress.

Mental health and physical health are directly connected

Take up yoga. It works the body and helps calm the mind.

Read a book. Don’t give a shit if it’s fiction or not. Take your mind places it’s never been. This counts as exercise.

Don’t dwell on negativity. It really does mess you up. Don’t stay in situations you aren’t happy in. They age you faster than anything else.

Why does sleeping for 8 hours feel like only 5 minutes?

Because you are not conscious. How did you feel before you were born? What was the passage of time like before you were conceived? The exact same phenomena will occur to you after your death.

Why is it that men “get back to their senses” after ejaculation?

The horny feeling is controlled by your limbic system. It orders the body to redirect as much blood as it safely can to the genitals. The higher thought processes areas of your brain, such as the prefrontal cortex, have minimal supply of blood and oxygen going to it. The rest of your mind is pretty much in stasis. When you orgasm, the lmibic system releases it’s control, and blood immediately goes back to the rest of the body. You regain your higher level thought-processes and all is back to normal.

It’s 2018. Why do printers still suck so much?

You’re probably buying garbage inkjet printers. Laser printers are cheaper than ever and work great.

Even if the laser printer costs more at purchase time, long term it is much cheaper. Buying original cartridges, ink is 5 to 20 times more expensive than toner. ( Per page). Laser printers are scary because cartridges are 2-3 as much as ink cartridges but print 10-30 times more pages.

Laser printers print faster. The worst laser printers print better than the best inkjet printers.

Laser printers bond the toner to the paper, which means if the paper gets wet, the toner doesn’t run. ( Ink will generally run if wet ).

Anything but the cheapest laser printers can easily print thousands of pages a month.

Most modern laser printers come with network connectivity, so you can print from your laptop without connecting a wire to the printer.

I’ve found that laser printers generally come with higher quality printer drivers. ( On windows I only ever use the “add printer wizard ” drivers. )

The only two caveats to laser printers are :

1. Drums are expensive, on non-brother printers, I’ve found the drum usually lasts a very long time.
2. Color laser is expensive ( but prints beautifully ). Although the cost of color laser printers has gone down a lot over the past few years

Caveman Recommends: Brother HL-3170CDW Digital Color Printer with Wireless Networking 

Why is it that I find my reflection somewhat attractive but dislike how I look in most photographs/videos?

Your face is mirrored. You are accustomed to looking at your face in the mirror and have grown to like that look on the account of you seeing it every day when you look into anything reflective. But as soon as you look at your face in a photograph (which is how you really looks) your brain notices that something is wrong and you don’t like it as much. You like your face mirrored; you don’t like it as much when you suddenly see it right way around.

Why does time seem to be moving faster as I get older?

When you’re 5 years old a year is 20% of your entire life. A pretty big chunk. When you’re 50 years old, a year is just 2%. In a way, a person who lives to be 100 has lived half of their life at just 25 or so years old. Also, as you get older, there are fewer and fewer things which are truly NEW to you. When something is new, you pay attention, you remember every detail, and your memories are more fully padded out by that new experience. When something is old-hat, you gloss it over and don’t write it into your memory in nearly as much detail.

As a result, your memory becomes filled with the memories of new experiences, which in a typical lifespan will be weighted heavily toward when you are younger. The obvious remedy to this problem is to actively seek out new experiences as you age. If time seems to be flying by, it’s not because you’re having fun; it’s really because your mind is bored by all the repetitive stuff you’re doing.

The Director of a film (or a play, or a television show episode) is the person responsible for the creative vision of the piece. They create a concept from the script (which may or may not be something concretely found in the script, it may be metaphorical or tangential) and from the concept lead the design and production team towards a collaborative vision. Once rehearsals/filming have begin, the director blocks the piece (i.e. tells actors where to move), provides objective and subtextual support to the actors (i.e. tells them why they are saying the things the writer wrote) and ensures that the visual style and setting are within the original vision or concept parameters.

In film, they also work closely with the DP, first story-boarding the script, and then, once on set, making sure that each shoot is framed, blocked and shot per their vision. Including ALL design aspects, from the color of the walls to the type of purse a character might wear.

In essence they are the Captain of the ship. A lot of my notes below can also be laid at the feet of bad writing, but in film (less so TV and theatre) directors have a great deal of oversight on the writing, so they are typically held accountable if the writing is terrible.

A film which has been directed badly will usually (but not always, the problem with a collaborative art form, which is what film is, is that there are many, many chefs in the kitchen. However, since the director tends to get the credit when everything works, they also tend to get the blame when it doesn’t)–usually show the following flaws:

1. Incoherent story telling. You don’t know what is happening. Or why it is happening. Or who it is happening to. Sometimes things are just blatantly implausible.

2. Cliche or trope ridden dialogue/shots/events. You feel like you’ve seen all of these things before. All the characters are stereotypes, all the plot points unfailingly predictable. Note: cliches, tropes and stereotypes can all be used well. But bad directors tend not to.

3. Bad dialogue. Dialogue that is forced and unnatural. Dialogue that is too on-the-nose. People telling other people things instead of doing things. People explaining how they feel ad nauseam. Dialogue spoken only to allow for the plot to push forward, leading us to:

4. Coincidental plotting, or plots hole you could drive a freight train through (not the small inconsistencies that almost every movie has, but HUGE giant massive oh-my-god-this-movie-is-broken plot holes). Coincidental plotting is when everything that has to happen for the plot to move forward does, without any effort on the part of the hero (or the bad guy).

5. Bad acting. Directors are responsible for getting a performance out of their actors, so even if the actor can’t act (one reason why casting is important) the director is still the one people are going to hold responsible for any painful moments on screen (this is less true in TV and theatre).

6. Over or under designed. Over designed is when the concept/vision of the piece becomes more important then any other element. Think 300: Rise of an Empire or Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (not-at-all-oddly, both Frank Miller graphic novel adaptations, where the look was where the design team started with). Tim Burton is also a well-known director who can go to far with his vision/design to the point of over balancing the movie. Under designing is when there is a lack of design and the production feels (usually) cheap or not-thought-through. Good design elevates the narrative, supports the characters and provides visual clues to the audience about what is happening–excellent design can comment on and complement the action, enhancing the entire experience.

7. Movies/TV only: bad editing. Either because there were technical difficulties during filming and the needed shots weren’t gotten (or a director wasn’t prepared and didn’t get the shots they needed), and therefore the editor is attempting to make up for missing and/or bad shots; or because the editing itself is just bad. Odd cuts, odd shots going back to back, odd audio issues. Various other things. While most early directors at a studio on a movie won’t have any say over the final cut, most editing issues are from a lack of footage (which is the director’s issue), not bad editing. OR a director who does have final cut approval and shouldn’t, which is where you got a three-hour movie that should have been 2 hours and 10 minutes max.

8. Poor production value. An overall feel that the movie wasn’t cared for (this isn’t about money, this is about time and support). Usually shows in bad lighting, bad audio, bad set dressing, bad costumes–just an overall sense that these things weren’t considered important or there wasn’t time to pay attention to them.

A film, tv show or theatrical play is an immense, multi-part beast, and the Director is the one that tries to tame it. To varying degrees of success. Every director probably has one (or many) bad movies to their name, as its how we all learn. The more telling test is not if they directed a bad movie, but if people wanted to work with them again. And, sometimes, the love of the thing they are creating can shine through the worst movie and make it, somehow, good (think Sam Raimi’s original Evil Dead).

– daijobu16

A crazy ass bitch in Canada has launched a tirade against her friends and family after blaming them for the cancellation of her dream wedding.

The unbelievable story went viral after shots of the bride’s ridiculous rant were posted online, showing her slamming guests for refusing to give her $1500 to attend the wedding.

The bride, Susan, took to Facebook to announce the cancellation of her wedding four days before the event, blaming guests for not funding her Kardashian-style event.