Random Absurdity

A recent study conducted by The University of Westminster has found that watching horror films can burn as many calories as washing windows. This news has been greeted with open arms by the millions of people worldwide that find themselves driven to washing windows in a desperate attempt to...

A 44-year old American mother of two children says she breastfeeds her dog because she can and it makes her feel like a better mom. I say, “WTF?????” According to an article published in a UK magazine, Terri Graham says she was pretty much devastated when she couldn’t breast...

Cannonballing into an ice-covered pool might make for an awesome stunt if everything works out, but there is a lot more that can go wrong than can go right. For starters, the ice could break away in an uneven fashion, slice yourself open and watch as your vital fluids...

You’ve heard of the two-headed sheep but a sheep born with an upside down head? UK Farmer Allan McNamara, who owns the unique wool making beast, says it’s definitely the real deal. After it’s birth, McNamara took the sheep to the vet to make sure it wasn’t in pain...

Is it a bird? A plane? Wait, no… it’s The Crosswalk Vigilante. Tired of seeing dangerous intersection in his or her hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the unnamed doer of good has been painting crosswalks before city crews can get there all because the people asked. And the hero of...

Once again, the world’s favorite prison dance troop are wowing the masses with their choreography, this time taking on South Korean pop star, PSY, and his global hit “Gangnam Style.” Previous hits by the prisoners in Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, who’s warden has replaced tradition jail exercises...

Technically speaking, being fair skinned, at least historically had been not only acceptable but desirable  In the middle-ages, darker skinned people were deemed to be of the working class, outdoors-men  that acquired their tan by working in the fields, crops and with farm animals. The higher classes, doctors, scientists and perhaps even politicians,...

Enjoy breathing helium to obtain that high… pitched voice that comes out when you then talk whilst exhaling the rare gas? Well think again because scientists are saying that we are about to be struck by a helium shortage. Professor Tom Welton of London’s Imperial College warns that because...

Johnathon Livingstone Seagull has nothing on this guy. A French tourist was filming the San Francisco sunset when a seagull swooped down from the sky and stole her camera. Luckily for her, the feathered friend didn’t drop the device which was still recording. Instead, the bird flew with the...