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Thursday, January 10, 2013

WTF!



1. This woman who tried to ride an escalator in a wheelchair.

Source: newkidsonmycock11

2. This dude planking on a McDonald's sign.

Via: kylesfuckingtumblr

3. This person wearing whatever this is.

Source: blackkokaine

4. This woman who couldn't fit in her theater seat.


5. This cheetah woman and her kin.

Source: scrotumcoat

6. This person in a cow costume.

Via: fuckyeahloldemort

7. This woman who is also maybe a witch.

Via: peetaah.me

8. This woman taking a selfie.

Source: duosion

9. This woman who tucked her tatas into her pants.

Source: okaythatwasfunny

10. This woman wearing these tights.

Via: thisurge

11. This woman wearing a cat coat.

Via: katlee3

12. This person walking their computer.

Source: caiticornia

13. This bro who is also maybe a witch.

Source: carrier71

14. This dude planking on a tiger.

Source: peterfromtexas

15. This girl with super big hair.

Source: meme-meme.org

16. This kid eating pizza with chopsticks.

Source: goodbyeforeverfatty.com

17. This cheese model.

Via: canadumb

18. This girl blow drying her teeth.

Source: keepingupwiththekardacheyennes

19. This parent carrying a child.

Via: pricklylegs

20. This woman eating a block of cheese.

Via: ratchetmess

21. This granddaughter.

Source: suicideyear

22. This kid who brought his Xbox to prom.

Via: lyingrock

23. This girl just doing her homework.

Via: otherbully1

24. This person who wore these Crocs for this long.

Via: pi4nobl4ck

25. This girl eating her own fist.

Source: kevinjonassvirginity

26. This guy riding the bus.

Via: seesectionc

27. This dude getting lunch.

Via: thisisnthappiness.com

28. This man in this koala mask.

Via: theinternetaccordingtoadrian

29. This woman wearing this Sarah Palin t-shirt.

Via: notofficialmerch

30. This grandma.

Via: notsufferingfrominsanity

31. Her.

Via: milesjai

32. This person with these toenails.

Via: memewhore

33. This kid at the grocery store.

Via: memewhore

34. This guy who shaved his chest like this.

Via: spiritualboner

35. This dude.

Via: tyleroakley

36. This girl wearing a Doritos bag in her hair.

Via: luisstacks

37. This grandma at the grocery store.

Via: jaidefinichon.com

38. This dude at Starbucks.

Via: tyleroakley

39. This girl who is also a cat.

Via: shorturl

40. This woman at Burger King.


41. This McDonald's wizard.


42. And Paula Deen.



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elizabethmargaretban hour ago


#20 is so me, LOL! #18, I get the hunch I'd do that…

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Funny, but don't mess with Paula.

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Carrie Teter5 days ago


buzzfeed do you always disregard your title? it says 43 when in fact its 42. same with your polar plunge pictures!

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danh306 days ago


9 takes the prize! Stretchy pants pulled up over Ur Tatas in public is just white trash at it's finest! Although there were some very close runners up!

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22) I suspect he actually married his XBox.
23) Books are sexy, yo!

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ZarMaza week ago


Hey doesn't it say “43 people you won't believe actually exist”? But there are 42 pictures…

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You ask me, they didn't burn nearly enough male witches back in the 1600's. They're out there.

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benderr22 weeks ago


I started to squeak, whinny, snort, lose breath when I got to #31. Then I was totally deflated at #33 because “Amy” (Gretchen) was so much *not* in ecstasy that she committed suicide earlier this very month. It really should be taken out of the list. It's not fun… it's not funny.

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I was thinking the same thing about #33 — But I didn't know she had killed herself! So sad!

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jeann42 weeks ago


I almost lost my lunch on the “toe nails” in the music section… have a hang nail w/ that CD? LMAO

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username7892 weeks ago


this dude getting lunch - can't tell if he doesn't have another music player or if he's just trying to live large… literally

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Gosh. 6. Kinda reminds me off Octavia Spencer, anyone else agree? 20. Is nasty. 18. Cute but dumb. 31. Rasputia off “Norbit”, “How YOU Doin”. 23. Looks 'alright'

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Wednesday, January 09, 2013

We are raising a generation of deluded narcissists


We are raising a generation of deluded narcissists


By Dr. Keith Ablow

Published January 08, 2013

FoxNews.com




Are we raising a generation of deluded narcissists?

Survey: College students think they're 'greatest...

The 'Hooked up' Generation


A new analysis of the American Freshman Survey, which has accumulated data for the past 47 years from 9 million young adults, reveals that college students are more likely than ever to call themselves gifted and driven to succeed, even though their test scores and time spent studying are decreasing.

Psychologist Jean Twenge, the lead author of the analysis, is also the author of a study showing that the tendency toward narcissism in students is up 30 percent in the last thirty-odd years.
This data is not unexpected. I have been writing a great deal over the past few years about the toxic psychological impact of media and technology on children, adolescents and young adults, particularly as it regards turning them into faux celebrities—the equivalent of lead actors in their own fictionalized life stories.

On Facebook, young people can fool themselves into thinking they have hundreds or thousands of “friends.” They can delete unflattering comments. They can block anyone who disagrees with them or pokes holes in their inflated self-esteem. They can choose to show the world only flattering, sexy or funny photographs of themselves (dozens of albums full, by the way), “speak” in pithy short posts and publicly connect to movie stars and professional athletes and musicians they “like.”



We must beware of the toxic psychological impact of media and technology on children, adolescents and young adults, particularly as it regards turning them into faux celebrities—the equivalent of lead actors in their own fictionalized life stories.



Using Twitter, young people can pretend they are worth “following,” as though they have real-life fans, when all that is really happening is the mutual fanning of false love and false fame.

Using computer games, our sons and daughters can pretend they are Olympians, Formula 1 drivers, rock stars or sharpshooters. And while they can turn off their Wii and Xbox machines and remember they are really in dens and playrooms on side streets and in triple deckers around America, that is after their hearts have raced and heads have swelled with false pride for “being” something they are not.

On MTV and other networks, young people can see lives just like theirs portrayed on reality TV shows fueled by such incredible self-involvement and self-love that any of the “real-life” characters should really be in psychotherapy to have any chance at anything like a normal life.

These are the psychological drugs of the 21st Century and they are getting our sons and daughters very sick, indeed.

As if to keep up with the unreality of media and technology, in a dizzying paroxysm of self-aggrandizing hype, town sports leagues across the country hand out ribbons and trophies to losing teams, schools inflate grades, energy drinks in giant, colorful cans take over the soft drink market, and psychiatrists hand out Adderall like candy.

All the while, these adolescents, teens and young adults are watching a Congress that can’t control its manic, euphoric, narcissistic spending, a president that can’t see his way through to applauding genuine and extraordinary achievements in business, a society that blames mass killings on guns, not the psychotic people who wield them, and—here no surprise—a stock market that keeps rising and falling like a roller coaster as bubbles inflate and then, inevitably, burst.

That’s really the unavoidable end, by the way. False pride can never be sustained. The bubble of narcissism is always at risk of bursting. That’s why young people are higher on drugs than ever, drunker than ever, smoking more, tattooed more, pierced more and having more and more and more sex, earlier and earlier and earlier, raising babies before they can do it well, because it makes them feel special, for a while. They’re doing anything to distract themselves from the fact that they feel empty inside and unworthy.

Distractions, however, are temporary, and the truth is eternal. Watch for an epidemic of depression and suicidality, not to mention homicidality, as the real self-loathing and hatred of others that lies beneath all this narcissism rises to the surface. I see it happening and, no doubt, many of you do, too.

We had better get a plan together to combat this greatest epidemic as it takes shape. Because it will dwarf the toll of any epidemic we have ever known. And it will be the hardest to defeat. Because, by the time we see the scope and destructiveness of this enemy clearly, we will also realize, as the saying goes, that it is us.



Dr. Keith Ablow is a psychiatrist and member of the Fox News Medical A-Team. Dr. Ablow can be reached at

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/08/are-raising-generation-deluded-narcissists/#ixzz2HWPcoA56

Tuesday, January 08, 2013

Fake mission to Mars leaves astronauts spaced out


Fake mission to Mars leaves astronauts spaced out

Trip to Mars in pretend spaceship on Moscow industrial estate affects sleep, activity levels and motivation of six-man crew
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The Guardian, Monday 7 January 2013 14.59 EST

Members of the Mars500 crew relax on the fake spaceship in Moscow. Photograph: AFP


As the cheerless skies and grim economy sap all will to return to work, take heart that even on a trip to Mars, it is hard to get out of bed in the morning.

The drudge of interplanetary travel has emerged from research on six men who joined the longest simulated space mission ever: a 17-month round trip to the red planet in a pretend spaceship housed at a Moscow industrial estate.

Though chosen for the job as the best of the best, the would-be spacefarers spent more and more time under their duvets and sitting around idle as the mission wore on. The crew's activity levels plummeted in the first three months, and continued to fall for the next year.

On the return leg, the men spent nearly 700 hours longer in bed than on the outward journey, and only perked up in the last 20 days before theyclambered from their capsule in November 2011. Four crew members suffered from sleep or psychological issues.

"We saw some problems," said Mathias Basner, of the University of Pennsylvania, who studies the effects of sleep-loss on behaviour. "There were no major adverse events, but there could have been if the stars were aligned in a certain way."

The $10m (£6.2m) Mars500 project, run by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems, launched, metaphorically, when the hatch to the mock-up spaceship closed behind three Russians, two Europeans and a Chinese man in June 2010. The men spent the next 520 days in windowless isolation. Their only contact with the outside world was over the internet and by phone lines that carried a delay of up to 20 minutes, to mimic the time it takes radio waves to reach Mars from Earth.

Throughout the mission, the men endured daily medical, physical and psychological examinations, to help space agencies learn how humans cope with the stress, confinement and limited company that astronauts will face on future voyages. The crew fought boredom by watching DVDs, reading books and playing Guitar Hero on a games console. Mission controllers faked a fire and a power outage to keep them alert.

The ESA selected the crew from thousands of highly qualified applicants, and put them through a year of intensive training. But despite embodying "the right stuff" that underpins the astronaut corps, the men struggled with the tedium of the mission.

"The monotony of going to Mars and coming back again is something that will need to be addressed in the future. You don't want your crew hanging around doing nothing," Basner said.

On a real mission, sedentary astronauts would be at greater risk of bone and muscle wastage.

According to the study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, some crew members fared worse than others. One began living a 25-hour day, and quickly fell out of routine with the others. "If you live on a 25-hour day, after twelve days it's the middle of the night for you when it's daytime for everyone else," Basner said.

Another crew member slept at night but took ever longer naps during the day. Taken together, the two men spent a fifth of their time, or 2,500 hours, asleep when the rest of the crew were awake, or vice-versa. "That cannot be good for mission success, because mission-critical tasks will be scheduled for the day," Basner said.

A third crew member slept so badly he suffered chronic sleep deprivation and single-handedly accounted for the majority of mistakes made on a computer test used to measure concentration and alertness. "He was falling apart in terms of his attention system," Basner said. In a second study, not yet published, the team describes a fourth crew member who was developing mild depression.

"Only two of the men adapted well to the mission. Of the other four, there was at least one major reason for concern, where we would ask, should we really send someone like this on a long mission," Basner said.

For the 17 months of the mission to nowhere the crew had control over the amount of exercise they took, their meals, and the levels of ambient lighting. The right lighting is crucial to keep people on a regular sleep and wake cycle.

Improved lighting to mimic day and night could help some astronauts cope with long missions, but the results point to a need for tests that can spot astronauts who are vulnerable to sleep disorders, Basner said.

Steven Lockley, a neuroscientist who specialises in sleep medicine at Brigham and Women's hospital in Boston, said the study raised concerns about long-term space missions.

"Having some of the six crew members with different schedules, and different amounts of sleep, would likely make for poor team performance and increased risk of accidents and injuries in a real-life situation," he told the Guardian.

Astronauts on a trip to Mars would probably face even worse problems if they spent time on the surface of the planet, because the length of the Martian day is slightly longer than an Earth day. "The deleterious effects on sleep, performance, psychological health and physical health would likely have been much worse had the subjects been required to live on a 24.65-hour day," Lockley said.

Thursday, January 03, 2013

It's About Time



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I have been thinking a lot about Time recently—mostly because I have so little of it under my own control. Don’t get me wrong; it’s nice to be busy. However, when something you value becomes scarce, it also becomes incredibly precious.

So here are a few somewhat-connected (at least in my mind) perspectives on Time, and how it affects our work and our organizations. I’ve chosen to focus in particular on how well-managed organizations (and effective individuals) allocate their work activities using Time as a major sorting mechanism.

One of the most classic ways of thinking about organizations and hierarchy is to separate their activities into three broad categories:

1. Doing (the day-to-day, short-term activity focused on producing products or services that create value for customers). Time frame: days, or at most weeks.
2. Managing/Coordinating – the task of overseeing the Doers, and of short-term planning. Time frame: weeks, or perhaps months and quarters.
3. Leading/Strategizing – the longer-term, direction-setting role of “senior management.” Time frame: sometimes the next quarter, but more importantly the next several years, or even decades for larger organizations.

Those three levels of focus led to the traditional image of the organization as a pyramid, since historically there were always many people involved in the Doing, fewer doing the Managing, and even fewer providing long-term direction-setting.

Obviously, most large organizations have far more than three levels of hierarchy today; some of the most bureaucratic ones (both public and private sector) have as many as twelve to fourteen layers of responsibility and decision-making scope (that's one reason it takes them forever to resolve issues and change direction!).

That model worked reasonably well for centuries; it reflected the realities of the Roman Army, the Catholic Church, and industrial corporations as they grew up in the mid-1800’s. The model grew out of a stable world, where the task of leading was essentially looking in a constant and very predictable direction, out towards the horizon. The task of Managing was then largely one of translating long-term direction into short-term assignments, and the task of Doing was one of following directions from above.

Now, of course, the world has become far more dynamic and unpredictable; and technology has introduced massive automation into the Doing and Managing levels of responsibility. The classic pyramid has broken down. Many of the Doers today are not on assembly lines; they are knowledge workers who are solving problems, creating new products and processes, and thinking for themselves.

And because information technology makes it so easy for the senior executives among us to track daily production, product shipments, and revenues, it can actually seduce them to become too focused on today, and to forget that their job is to look beyond the horizon—to explore the future, and to launch long-term projects that will change what the Doers are doing five years from now. Let the Doers and the Managers deal with today and even tomorrow.

Clearly, the most common reaction to this new state of perpetual and unpredictable change has been to dissolve the hierarchy, to remove levels in the bureaucracy, and to enlarge decision-making authority (and responsibility) up and down the organization.

In one sense this is all to the good; today in many ways each of us operates at all three of these levels in our own individual work. We define our own Strategies; we Manage our own activities (we create To-Do lists, we set priorities, we coordinate our work with our peers); and we “Do” everything ourselves as well (often including specialized tasks that others could do for us far more quickly and inexpensively than we can do ourselves).

While flat organizations sound wonderful in theory, I am convinced that our confusion between short-, medium-, and long-term responsibilities is creating most of this chaotic “busy-ness” we all complain about. We don’t know how to separate our time commitments among Strategy and Planning, Managing and Coordinating, and just plain Doing.

I certainly know that lately I have personally been spending too much time doing, and not enough planning and priority-setting.

If I am going to be my own CEO and my own Manager, then I have to get much clearer about my purpose, my plans, my priorities, and my commitments (as much to myself as to my clients). And I have to become more disciplined about the way I spend my time every day. It’s way too easy to let the urgent drive out the important.

This note is thus a public commitment to getting better “organized.” I’m going to work hard to spend my precious time and energy on only three kinds of activities:
1. Meeting commitments I have already made;
2. Creating new commitments that meet my purpose and priorities;
3. “Green time” for brainstorming, exploring, and renewing my purpose

What do you think?