Showing posts with label Amazing. Show all posts
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Monday, October 26, 2015

10 Craziest Tattoos Ever!

Tattoos have been a part of human cultures for ages, growing from a tribal tradition into a contemporary art form.

Most people strive to come up with unique tattoos that artistically express an idea or image that they identify with – indeed, there are many beautiful tattoos out there and artists that have worked hard to make tattoo art a mainstream, accepted genre.

Every now and then, however, you’ll come across a tattoo so crazy that it makes you think “What the hell were they thinking?!” as you stare in disbelief and wonder how someone could choose to ink themselves with such a crazy or ridiculous tattoo.

Here are the top 10 craziest tattoos of all time:

Dolphin’s Rostrum


Lots of tattoos utilize parts of the body and incorporate them into a design as part of their concept. This cringe-worthy dolphin tattoo incorporates what seems like this guy’s stump of an arm as the dolphin’s rostrum (beak). This tattoo, as disturbing as it is, at least gets its wearer points for its use of an otherwise pointless stump. However, in terms of visual appeal, this tattoo represents a new level of animal cruelty.

Fully-tattooed Body


Neither this hardcore woman nor her fully-tattooed body are young anymore. It probably took her years to cover her body (no need to show any more, grandma!) in what looks like a very intricate floral design. While perhaps beautiful, this “gesamstkunstwerk” of tattoo art is very shocking in terms of the time, money and pain involved. Important to note: this is probably the first pair of fully tattoo-covered granny boobs you’ve ever seen. And – hopefully – the last.

Woman’s Cranial Tattoo


Here’s our tattoo-loving granny again, in a close up. What’s most messed-up about this woman’s cranial tattoo is not that it covers her entire shaven head, but that it depicts a colorful floral design that features ejaculating penises instead of flowers! What exotic species of vine is this? Way to keep it classy, grandma!

Tongue Tattoo


Didn’t know that you could tattoo your tongue? Well, you can. Why you would is still a mystery, though. Let’s hope that the pain of sticking your tongue out for hours on end and having it punctured by a needle was worth the peek-a-boo surprise factor of this crazy tattoo.

Gaping Hole in Head Tattoo


Cranial tattoos seem to be gaining in popularity these days, usually curving around the ear. This ridiculously ugly one, however, seems to depict its wearer’s brains inside a bloody, gaping hole in his head. What it actually depicts is the fact that he has no brains.

Cat Man Tattoo


This unbelievable tattoo teaches us all a very important lesson: what looks very cool as a Halloween costume should always be permanently tattooed on your face.

Getting a new tattoo? Miami Ink’s tattoo guide will give you tons of ideas for unique, popular tats that won’t make you cringe.

Goblin Tattoo


Clearly, this guy had three distinct goals in mind when he decided to tattoo his face like a goblin, to scare small children, to avoid being hired for any kind of gainful employment and to never have sex, ever again.

Woman’s Public Area Tattoo


This portrait of an anime-style baby with claws/stumps for hands would be disturbing even if it wasn’t tattooed on this woman’s public area – where it takes on even creepier connotations. The baby’s genitals are cleverly “hidden” by the same underwear that the woman herself wears. Just imagine: taking a girl home from a club and discovering this piece of pubic art in bed. Yikes!

The Lizard Man


Aside from the tattooing of reptilian scales on his entire body, Erik Sprague – AKA “The Lizard Man” – in his mission to transform himself into a lizard has performed body modifications including teeth-shaving, sub-dermal silicone transplants and tongue bifurcation surgery. Yeesh! If there is any redeeming quality to this disturbing story, it’s that Mr. Sprague at least makes a living form his weird appearance, as a carnival freak.

Tattoo Allsorts


This guy’s head is a shocking example of what can be called a “tattoo allsorts” combining portraiture, tribal tattoo and various other styles into one hardcore cranial scrapbook of ink.

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Sunday, June 14, 2015

The Most Amazing Coincidences In Human History (3)

The world is full of weird occurrences. Here are a few of the most mind-boggling, jaw-dropping coincidences ever recorded in human history. You won't be disappointed.

Lincoln and Kennedy


Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters. Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. Both wives lost their children while living in the White House. Both were shot in the head.

Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln. Both were succeeded by Southerners. Both successors were named Johnson. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

Both of their assassins were known by three names. Both names are comprised of fifteen letters. Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse. Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater. Booth and Oswald were both assassinated before their trials.

Derp


A blurry photo of a man stealing a wallet in a store ran on the bottom of the front page of the December 14, 2007 edition of Idaho's Lewiston Tribune. Above it was an unrelated photo of a man painting a business. Readers noticed both men were wearing the same clothes and speculated that he could be the same man. He was, and was quickly arrested.

Worst Drivers Ever


In the entire state of Ohio in 1895, there were only two cars on the road, and the drivers of these two cars crashed into each other.

Cursed Lincoln


Robert Todd Lincoln, the son of Abraham Lincoln, was with his father when he passed away. But he also, coincidentally enough, was an eyewitness to the assassination of President James. A Garfield in 1881. He was Garfield's Secretary of War.

About 20 years later, in 1901, Robert Todd Lincoln was at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, at the invitation of then President William McKinley. McKinley was assassinated that day.

After this event, Robert Todd Lincoln turned down any future invitations by Presidents to events, fearing that his association led to their deaths.

Eleanor Rigby


Eleanor Rigby was released by The Beatles on August 5, 1966. McCartney in an interview said that he originally came up with the idea of Father McCartney but figured it was inappropriate to use his dad's name, so looked in the phone book and found McKenzie.

Ultimately, the name Father McKenzie was used in the song's lyrics. McCartney came up with the name Eleanor from actress Eleanor Bron and Rigby from a store in Bristol named Rigby Evens Ltd, Wine Spirit Shippers.

In the 1980s, a grave was discovered in St. Peters Parish Church in Woolton, Liverpool, with the name Eleanor Rigby on it. A few yards from Eleanor's grave lies another tombstone with the last name McKenzie on it.

The cemetery is located near the spot where Lennon and McCartney first met, and the two spent a lot of time in the cemetery sunbathing as teenagers.

Timur's Curse


A warlord and nobleman who controlled a vast swath of Asia during the 14th century, Timur Tamerlane was renowned as a military tactician whose warfare killed nearly 17 million people. He was also a celebrated patron of architecture and the arts.

In 1941, Joseph Stalin sent a team of archaeologists to open Timur's tomb in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, much to the alarm of local residents and Muslim clergy. Upon opening Timur's coffin, the team discovered an inscription: Whoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.

Within a matter of hours, Adolf Hitler's troops invaded Russia and an estimated 26 million people died as a result. In 1942, Stalin ordered Timur's remains to be reinterred back in Samarkand in accordance with Islamic tradition. Shortly after that, the German army surrendered at Stalingrad, ending their military campaign against the Russians.

Foul Ball(s)


During an August 17, 1957 game, Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Richie Ashburn hit a foul ball into the stands that struck spectator Alice Roth, wife of Philadelphia Bulletin sports editor, Earl Roth, breaking her nose. When play resumed Ashburn fouled off another ball that struck her while she was being carried off in a stretcher.

Winning Numbers


On June 6, 2009, two men in China picked the same winning seven-digit lottery number. Though they were hundreds of miles away from each other, they bought their tickets at the exact same time, down to the second.

The Khan of Khans


Twice in seven years, in 1274 and 1281, the Mongols under the leadership of Kublai Khan could have almost certainly conquered Japan, but each time the invading fleet was turned back by a typhoon.

Saturday, June 13, 2015

The Most Amazing Coincidences In Human History (2)

The world is full of weird occurrences. Here are a few of the most mind-boggling, jaw-dropping coincidences ever recorded in human history. You won't be disappointed.

The King's Double


In Monza, Italy, King Umberto I went to a small restaurant for dinner, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, General Emilio Ponzia-Vaglia. When the owner took King Umberto's order, the King noticed that he and the restaurant owner were virtual doubles, in face and in build.

Both men began discussing the striking resemblances between each other and found many more similarities. Both men were born on the same day, of the same year, March 14th, 1844. Both men had been born in the same town. Both men married a woman with same name, Margherita.

The restaurateur opened his restaurant on the same day that King Umberto was crowned King of Italy. On July 29 1900, King Umberto was informed that the restaurateur had died that day in a shooting accident, and as he expressed his regret, he was assassinated by an anarchist in the crowd.

Sacagawea


In their exploration of the Western United States in 1804, Lewis and Clark were using Sacagawea as an interpreter. Before they crossed the Rocky Mountains, they had to secure horses for their journey in order to survive.

The local Indian tribe didn't trust Lewis and Clark and Sacagawea was forced to talk with the Indian chief. At first, the chief was unmovable, but things changed when they realized they were long lost siblings. Sacagawea was taken as a slave from a neighboring tribe at a very young age.

It completely changed the direction of the talks and Lewis and Clark's party of 40 people got their horses.

Deus Ex's Prediction


The developers of the 2000 video game "Deus Ex" left the Twin Towers out of the New York skyline in game due to texture memory limitations. The developers justified that the towers were destroyed by terrorists early on in the game's storyline.

Saved


When a Nebraska church exploded in 1950, not one of the fifteen choir members who were supposed to be there got injured. Why? They all got held up for different reasons and were running late for practice.

This Man's Life...


Frane Selak, a Croatian music teacher, began his unlucky streak in 1962 on a train going from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik. The train inexplicably jumped the tracks and fell into an icy river killing 17 passengers. He managed to swim to shore suffering from hypothermia and a broken arm.

A year later, while on an airplane, its door flew off and he was sucked out of the airplane. The plane crashed and he woke up in a hospital. He was found in a haystack. In 1966, he was on a bus that went off the road and into a river. Four people were killed, but he only suffered minor injuries. In 1970, his car caught on fire and he stopped it and got out just before the whole car blew up.

In 1973, Selak was driving another car when a faulty fuel line sprayed gas all over the engine and flames blew through his air vents. His only injury was the loss of most of his hair. In 1995 he was hit by a bus, but only sustained minor injuries.

Finally, in 1996, he was driving on a mountain road when he went around a bend and saw a truck coming right at him. He ran his car through a guardrail and jumped out to watch his car blow up 300 feet below him. In 2003, Selak bought a lottery ticket for the first time in 40 years at the age of 74 and ended up winning 1 million.

The Duke's Bad Luck


Archduke Ferdinand of Austria's assassination spiraled into World War I. What many people don't know is that the initial assassination attempt failed when the bomb blew up the car behind Ferdinand's. However, one of the Black Hand terrorists managed to complete the mission when he went to a shop for lunch... and ran into Ferdinand himself.

Like Father, Like Son


J.J. Thomson won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for showing that the electron is a particle. His son, George Paget Thomson, won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for showing that the electron is a wave.

Jackson's Luck


In 1835 an unemployed house painter named Richard Lawrence tried to assassinate then U.S. president Andrew Jackson. He produced a pistol and fired at Jackson, but the gun did not go off. A scuffle ensued, with the 67-year-old Jackson beating the offender with his walking cane.

Lawrence then pulled out a second pistol and fired, but this gun also did not go off and bystanders wrestled him to the ground. Both guns were later test fired successfully on the first try and appeared to be in fine working condition.

Thursday, June 11, 2015

The Most Amazing Coincidences In Human History

The world is full of weird occurrences. Here are a few of the most mind-boggling, jaw-dropping coincidences ever recorded in human history. You won't be disappointed.

The Cursed Taxi


In July 1975, Erskine Lawrence Ebbin was knocked off his moped and killed by a taxi in Hamilton, Bermuda. It was the same taxi with the same driver, carrying the same passenger, that had killed his brother Neville in July the previous year. Both brothers were 17 when they died, and had been riding the same moped in the same street.

The Hollow Coin


During the Cold War, Russian spies used hollow coins to pass messages to each other in America. One spy accidentally used his hollow coin as actual currency, and it ended up in the general population.

The coin was found when it was given to a paperboy, who discovered the message in the hollowed out container when he dropped it and it split open. There was a message written in Russian code, so the boy handed it over to the authorities. The government spent years trying to decode the message, with no luck.

Eventually, a Russian spy named Reino Hayhanen defected to America, and in the process of handing over Russian secrets, the spy was asked about the coded message in the hollow coin. The man translated the message, and it turned out to be intended towards him all along.

Shakespeare


Anne Hathaway's husband, Adam Shulman, has an uncanny resemblance to William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare's wife was also called Anne Hathaway.

"The Girl From Petrovka"


British actor Anthony Hopkins had landed a leading role in a film based on the book "The Girl From Petrovka" by George Feifer. A few days after signing the contract, Hopkins travelled to London to buy a copy of the book.

He tried several bookshops, but couldn't find a copy. Waiting at Leicester Square underground for his train home, he noticed a book apparently discarded on a bench. Incredibly, it was "The Girl From Petrovka."

Two years later, in the middle of filming in Vienna, Hopkins was visited by George Feifer, the author. Feifer mentioned that he did not have a copy of his own book. He had lent the last one containing his own annotations to a friend who had lost it somewhere in London.

Stunned, Hopkins handed Feifer the book he had found. "Is this the one? With the notes scribbled in the margins?" It was the same book, indeed.

Bill Morgan


An Australian guy named Bill Morgan was declared dead for 14 minutes and was revived. To celebrate his survival, he bought a scratch card and won a $27,000 car. The news reporter asked him to reenact the scratch card moment to capture it on camera, so he bought another card and won a $250,000 jackpot in it.

Twins


On Christmas Eve 1994, two cars collided near Flitcham, England. The drivers were twin sisters who were delivering presents to each other. Their names were Lorraine and Lavinia Christmas.

Eclipse


The sun and moon appear to be of same size because of an astonishing coincidence. The moon is 400 times smaller but 400 times closer. This makes eclipses possible. Also, complete eclipses wont be possible forever as the moon is slowly drifting away from Earth.

Wikipedia


Someone edited professional wrestler Chris Benoit's Wikipedia page to include the death of his wife 14 hours before police discovered her body. It turned out an Internet troll had edited the page just for fun.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

The Strangest Sports Venues

Duel In The Desert


The Carrier Classic isn't the only outdoor basketball game in recent years. The Suns and Nuggets played the first outdoor game in modern NBA history in 2008 at Indian Wells Tennis Center in California, a 77-72 Denver victory marred by poor shooting, gusty winds and frigid desert temperatures.

Squash At Grand Central


How do you make one of the Professional Squash Association's most significant events more attractive to spectators? Bring it to the masses. The J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions is annually held at New York City's Grand Central Terminal in a specially constructed four-walled glass court inside Vanderbilt Hall.

King Of Grass vs. King Of Clay


The above image is not a trick. Tennis stars Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal really did play a 2007 exhibition match in Mallorca, Spain, on a customized half-clay, half-grass court designed to determine which of the two players was the best all-surface player. Nadal won a tightly contested three-set match much to the delight of the Spanish fans in the crowd.

The WNBA Takes Center Stage


Kicked out of Madison Square Garden as a result of the 2004 Republican National Convention, the New York Liberty seized the opportunity to find a new venue that would bring some rare mainstream attention to the WNBA. They hosted the Detroit Shock at historic Radio City Music Hall, a venue that was especially unusual because seating there allowed fans to watch the game from only one side of the court.

Two Teams, One End Zone


A football game between Northwestern and Illinois at Wrigley Field seemed like a natural fit in 2010, but organizers failed to take into account the lack of space between the back of one end zone and the ivy-covered outfield wall. As a result, only the other end zone could be used for offense due to safety concerns, an embarrassing gaffe for the Big Ten but one that also made the game memorable.

The Boys Of Winter


The popularity of hockey in outdoor football stadiums has steadily increased since Spartan Stadium hosted Michigan and Michigan State in 2001, but the signature event has become the NHL's Winter Classic held annually on New Year's Day. And no Winter Classic has piqued the interest of fans quite as much as the sight of the Philadelphia Flyers and Boston Bruins squaring off on the field and famed Fenway Park in 2010. Bruins fans went home satisfied: Their team won 2-1 in overtime.

Golf On Glaciers


Golf is hard enough in picturesque 70-degree weather, so imagine how much more difficult it is when you introduce arctic conditions. That's the challenge each March in Greenland at the World Ice Golf Championships, which is played with a fluorescent orange ball and with glaciers and icebergs replacing sand traps and water as hazards.

The Carrier Classic


Michigan State and North Carolina will pay tribute to the military by playing a basketball game on an aircraft carrier on Veteran's Day in San Diego. The two teams will don camouflage jerseys with U.S.A. on the back of them, and President Obama and thousands of military personnel will be in the audience. If it's sunny out, the game will take place on the flight deck. If not, it will move a level below into the air plane hangar.

The Great Wall Marathon


Hitting the wall isn't just a figure of speech at this grueling annual marathon. A quarter of the scenic 26.2-mile route takes place on China's famed Great Wall itself, and every runner must ascend about 3,800 stone steps to reach the finish line. The course record belongs to Spaniard Salvador Calvo, who won the 2007 race in 3 hours, 23 minutes, 10 seconds.


Tennis On a Helipad


The most memorable points Andre Agassi and Roger Federer ever played against one another didn't come at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open or any other Grand Slam. None of that compared to the sight of the two tennis superstars trading ground strokes 700 feet above Dubai's Jumeirah beach in a February 2005 exhibition on the helipad on the roof of the seven-star Burj Al Arab hotel.

Source: Yahoo.com

Monday, October 10, 2011

The Legendary Star Wars Heroes

The Acklay


I feel like I’m betraying geeks the world over by putting anything from the prequel films at #1, but the Acklay – largest of several vicious arena beasts from Episode II – was created when George Lucas specifically requested a cross between “a praying mantis and a velociraptor.” If you can conceive of a more impressive predator without your head exploding, you’re probably an alien yourself.

The Sarlacc


Jabba the Hutt is understandably pissed when his Rancor gets put down, but luckily he’s such a bad mofo that he knows an even BIGGER hole with an even WORSE monster to throw people into. Chew on that, Jedi! No, wait, Get chewed on BY that, JERKI! Haha! That’s totally what I’d say if I were Jabba.

So like…anyway…the Sarlacc is a huge, slimy, tooth-lined, freudian orifice out in the desert, lined with squirming tentacles and a snapping CGI beak it spontaneously evolved one day. If that’s not grotesque enough, it supposedly takes over a thousand years to digest its prey and somehow keeps them alive the entire time, an adaptation that makes absolutely zero biological sense but sounds pretty damn ominous. Peripheral Star Wars literature delves into all the disturbing details, with victims going steadily insane as tentacles drill through their flesh in a literal living hell. You have to wonder, though, if Jabba had even MORE back-up monster-holes to execute his prisoners. Increasingly horrible ones. Would you ever even want to see a worse hole than the sarlacc pit? I sure would, but I’m just like that I guess.

The Rancor


Slimy crime boss Jabba the Hutt lives every man’s dream; alien bounty hunters taking his orders, half-naked alien women on leashes and a giant button to drop anyone he doesn’t like down a hole. A hole inhabited by a slobbering, hulking, ravenous flesh-eating beast. With its toothy pug face, reptilian skin and creepy oversized hands, the Rancor is as elegantly simple as a monster can get…the sort of nondescript scaly whatsit we all knew crept out of the closet and watched us sleep when we were five. Luke Skywalker’s encounter with the Rancor is one of the original trilogy’s most suspenseful battle scenes, but best remembered for its almost comical finale – once the beast is crushed under a falling gate, his portly human keeper breaks down sobbing like he just lost a puppy.

The Wampa


Appearing in The Empire Strikes back in only brief glimpses, the Wampa is the dominant predator of the frozen planet Hoth, a huge and hungry cross between a polar bear, a yeti and a mountain goat. What makes this shaggy brute an especially abominable snowman is its habit of hanging prey upside down and still alive from the ceiling of its icy lair, apparently keeping a larder of the freshest meat possible.

Space Slug


When Han and Chewie open fire on the troublemaking Mynocks, the entire slimy “cave” begins to tremble. Leia already notes that the ground is awfully squishy, and you know that nothing good is ever squishy in outer space. The cave is, of course, a living thing – an impossibly vast organism originally referred to only as the “space slug.” The scene is a brief diversion with no impact on the storyline, but the imagery of a spaceship narrowly escaping a gargantuan set of alien jaws is one of the most memorable moments in science fiction cinema, even if it was rather obviously a hand puppet. According to a 2007 Star Wars comic, these monstrosities are properly known as “Exogorths.” Could there possibly be a more suitable name? That thing is PRECISELY what the word “Exogorth” brings to mind.