Post interesting, creepy or weird wikipedia articles here. Thy to give a bit of information about the article instead of just a link. Bonus points for whoever can find the most useless article. Here we go:
The Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion was a television signal hijacking in Chicago, Illinois, on the evening of November 22, 1987. It is an example of what is known in the television business as broadcast signal intrusion. The intruder was successful in interrupting two television stations within three hours. Neither the hijacker nor the accomplices have ever been found or identified.
Polybius is a supposed arcade game featured in an Internet urban legend. According to the story, the Tempest-style game was released to the public in 1981, and caused its players to go insane, causing them to suffer from intense stress, horrific nightmares, and even suicidal tendencies. A short time after its release, it supposedly disappeared without a trace.
Florida Snow You really wouldn't think it considering it's going to be about 33 celcius in two hours but it does happen from time to time. One of the two times I've seen snow in my life was December 23, 1989; I vividly remember being held and seeing little flurries in Tampa. Other time was in D.C. but that's not important, the important thing is snow is crazy rare and when it happens here everyone kinda looks at each other like the ground will burst open and we'll see hell frozen over.
The earliest commercially published upside-down map was McArthur's Universal Corrective Map Of The World, published by an Australian Stuart McArthur, in 1979, which sold 350,000 copies and is considered the original.
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Anyway thanks for the interesting pages you posted.
In November of 1983, a NATO military training exercise brought the world closer to a nuclear Armageddon, perhaps close even than the Cuban Missile Crisis
Hm, I can't think of any interesting/unique articles atm, but something cool in wikipedia:
Go to a random wikipedia article, and click on the first link that isn't in italics or parentheses. Keep doing this for every article you get to, and eventually you will land on Philosophy, or possibly science.
On June 08 2012 00:35 marttorn wrote: Hm, I can't think of any interesting/unique articles atm, but something cool in wikipedia:
Go to a random wikipedia article, and click on the first link that isn't in italics or parentheses. Keep doing this for every article you get to, and eventually you will land on Philosophy, or possibly science.
Myself and an old roommate of mine used to play Wikipedia Golf. You randomly pick 2 seemingly unrelated Wikipedia articles, and try to get from the first page to the second page in the shortest amount of clicks. Lower score wins.
I.E. Miley Cyrus and the U.S. Moon Landing.
How many related pages does it take to get from one to the other?
One of the things that will always stick in my mind thanks to Wikipedia is the Tsar Bomb. Some of the figures in relation to power and general statistics (the bomb breaking windows 900km away) are reaaaaaaaaaally impressive.
So the article posted in the OP about the wiki article max headroom and polybius, are they real? And if they aren't real, how much of the science wiki articles are real? Cause wiki is my go-to site for physics and chemistry research.
On June 08 2012 01:09 sharky246 wrote: So the article posted in the OP about the wiki article max headroom and polybius, are they real? And if they aren't real, how much of the science wiki articles are real? Cause wiki is my go-to site for physics and chemistry research.
They're real. The events surrounding them are probably erroneous/exaggerated, but they both happened.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism This is some very messed up torture. It's also a cool sounding word. This sounds is pretty messed up. Not for the weak stomach.
i think wasting time on wikipedia is the best waste of time in many senses. like it's time-consuming AND it stimulates your thinky bits and maybe your tingly bits. and it's showing off to people behind you that you are literate and such a fact-based reasonable person! also you can tell your boss that you're doing research. wtf best thing ever. this thread will consume delightful hours of my life and i can't wait. starting on first article now!
Yeah, I heard that ''The Dillinger Escape Plan'' rolled dice to determine their time signatures for certain songs.
Dilinger is sick. I actually discovered this whole thing from a band called "The Books" they had a song called Aleatoric with tons of random sounds and voiceovers from random stuff and it was so cool I was forced to check out it's meaning. There was another band(the name escapes me) that supposedly just had some old radios set to random AM channels and then pressed record.. I heard it a few times.. was pretty intense.
I spent many hours reading about scram jets at collage. I don't know why but i was and still am fascinated by them. Maybe due to the general simplicity of the idea or what but i think it is cool!
On June 08 2012 02:29 intrigue wrote: i think wasting time on wikipedia is the best waste of time in many senses. like it's time-consuming AND it stimulates your thinky bits and maybe your tingly bits. and it's showing off to people behind you that you are literate and such a fact-based reasonable person! also you can tell your boss that you're doing research. wtf best thing ever. this thread will consume delightful hours of my life and i can't wait. starting on first article now!
"In South Korea, it is commonly believed that sleeping in a closed room with an electric fan running can be fatal. According to the Korean government, "In some cases, a fan turned on too long can cause death from suffocation, hypothermia, or fire from overheating." The Korea Consumer Protection Board issued a consumer safety alert recommending that electric fans be set on timers, direction changed and doors left open. Belief in fan death is common even among knowledgeable medical professionals in Korea. According to Yeon Dong-su, dean of Kwandong University's medical school, "If it is completely sealed, then in the current of an electric fan, the temperature can drop low enough to cause a person to die of hypothermia."[205] Although an air conditioner transfers heat from the air and cools it, a fan moves air to increase the evaporation of sweat. Due to energy losses and viscous dissipation, a fan will slowly heat a room."
Man like a year ago, i had no internet, and I was bored since i couldn't login on steam for a reason, and I realize i had polybious installed (the version that is on the website) i was about to play it when my internet come back, thanks goddddddddddddddddddddd. :D
In the category of shit blowing up, there's the 1883 Krakatoa eruption. Of particular interest is the diagram of the island before and after. The animated GIF of the evolution of the islands is also interesting.
List of unusual deaths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths Kept me busy for a while, but I skipped ahead to more recent times. The more recent ones may have been recorded (public event/figure, etc.) and online if you're like me and way too curious.
On June 08 2012 02:29 intrigue wrote: i think wasting time on wikipedia is the best waste of time in many senses. like it's time-consuming AND it stimulates your thinky bits and maybe your tingly bits. and it's showing off to people behind you that you are literate and such a fact-based reasonable person! also you can tell your boss that you're doing research. wtf best thing ever. this thread will consume delightful hours of my life and i can't wait. starting on first article now!
On June 08 2012 01:09 sharky246 wrote: So the article posted in the OP about the wiki article max headroom and polybius, are they real? And if they aren't real, how much of the science wiki articles are real? Cause wiki is my go-to site for physics and chemistry research.
The max headroom story actually happened. I don't know anything about the video game however.
Most of the articles are based on primary/secondary sources, so most are accurate. Wikipedia should not be your only source you cite, especially for things in the scientific community.
A torture device that makes your screams sound like a bull and ECT.
When I read this about The Unit 731, I really started to just.. shiver. That people actually did these really insane and absurd things to prisoners are just.. it's undescribable. I sat there reading what they did in the prisoner camps, and I can't go into detail due to its cruelty, but it's just insane.
Also the Brazen Bull. I've seen that in a couple of movies and that one was not funny for sure. Imagine lying in a couple of 100degrees celcius warm bed made out of steel, not being able to move and actually feel your skin just falling off as if you were a snake. It's unimaginable..
Luckily, the world has become a slightly better world, even though many cruel things still are going on around the globe.
There are books that.. well. Japans wartime activities in eastern Asia were only rivaled (and not entirely surpassed) by the German ones. But there's much love in the world and while it is important to never forget atrocities (more so for ones that remain an open wound) it is more important to remember to love and find wisdom. Or you could just go to the testicle festival.
I learned a good game on Wiki. Click on random article on the home page. Now in less than 10 hyperlinks on that random page get to Adolf Hitler... haha he's so popular why not?. expert mode is to get to him in less than 5 hyperlinks
I was reading through this and came to the Exploding head syndrome article. I have this shit, I never knew what it was but now I do. Thanks!
Amazing, 'There is no known cure'. Interesting but, how they say, to syndrome doesn't exactly do what it says on the tin. My sympathy I've had periods of sleep paralysis before.
Lots the mass hysteria ones are good, I've an interest in forteana and this is one of my favs:
Man, this is so true. The better i get the worse i realise i am, and then when i hear my -diamond-platinum friends talking about their understanding of the game it makes me cringe so bad, even though i know i was the same at their level.
I feel like you only realise how bad you are at this game when you get to mid masters, and i say that as a mid masters player, so maybe i am still over exaggerating my skill ^^
I always found it fascinating the control the guy in the picture shows in regards to pain. He seems to be in some sort of meditating state, its amazing what one could do when they focus on something.
"As he burned he never moved a muscle, never uttered a sound."
Just saw the video on you-tube again. It gives me such a weird feeling to watch, hard to describe, sadness is only part of it.
Some stuff I remember from my numerical analysis math course that our prof showed us.One is kinda tragic but I found it pretty interesting and funny,I remember that course the most from that semester. As far as I can tell the articles don't go to deep into the math that caused the shit storms but I guess you can find it somewhere for yourself on the internet if you search.The lectures that I have with these examples and detailed explanations are all in Croatian so I doubt its going to be much of a use for most of you. Errors are serious business yo.
I was reading through this and came to the Exploding head syndrome article. I have this shit, I never knew what it was but now I do. Thanks!
I found this article reading a similar list of wikipedia articles posted on reddit a while ago. I have the exact same thing happen to me, but only on 5 or 6 occasions tops since I was a kid.
I always though it was normal since it happened very rarely, and never talked about it. It's a loud BANG of sorts, hard to describe like an explosion but only in your head and almost like it's more the kind of sound an airplane makes when it breaks the sound barrier. It's a weird sensation, you open your eyes at once and freeze, heart pumping and all. I also get the feeling that something absolutely horrible happened, it always takes a few seconds to calm down.
I noticed it only happens when I'm almost asleep, and only if I'm laying on my left side, never happened when I sleep on the right side which is the side I usually sleep on.
Did you notice anything about your body position, or something recurent when it happens?
I was reading through this and came to the Exploding head syndrome article. I have this shit, I never knew what it was but now I do. Thanks!
I found this article reading a similar list of wikipedia articles posted on reddit a while ago. I have the exact same thing happen to me, but only on 5 or 6 occasions tops since I was a kid.
I always though it was normal since it happened very rarely, and never talked about it. It's a loud BANG of sorts, hard to describe like an explosion but only in your head and almost like it's more the kind of sound an airplane makes when it breaks the sound barrier. It's a weird sensation, you open your eyes at once and freeze, heart pumping and all. I also get the feeling that something absolutely horrible happened, it always takes a few seconds to calm down.
I noticed it only happens when I'm almost asleep, and only if I'm laying on my left side, never happened when I sleep on the right side which is the side I usually sleep on.
Did you notice anything about your body position, or something recurent when it happens?
I can't remember exactly how long ago it was when it happened to me last time, but around 10 months at the most (I moved to a new apartment 10 months ago and it has happened here).
I haven't really paid attention to details during the events, but I will from now on. The only thing I can remember happening each time is the loud bang, waking up, heart racing and being terrified for a few seconds. The sound is similar to an underwater bomb in my case, at least that's how I remember it.
Similar to your case, it happens when I am just about to fall asleep or soon thereafter (pretty hard to say ).
I've always just assumed it was from a dream or something.
Wikipedia is so awesome. It's like a time machine sometimes; you go into wikipedia to check out one thing, find an interesting link in the article in which you find 3 new interesting links, etc, and BOOM! All of a sudden you realize that it's 4 AM and you've travelled 6 hours into the future. It's a one way time machine though, can't go back with it.
On June 08 2012 22:15 Gareth wrote: if you click the first link of ANY SINGLE wikipedia article (Not in parenthesis) you'll get to philosophy within 15 webpages.
Found that kind of interesting especially the fact that he left ciphers which were never decrypted ;d
Assuming there was ever a pattern used to encrypt them. If only the first party is able to 'decrypt' it, it's considered gibberish :D
Watched a rather interesting TV show in which they found an individuals deceased step father who had matching hand writing that was nearly 100% identical with the Zodiac Killer, aswell as the mask he allegedly wore when he stabbed the two kids in the park. They send the mask off to the FBI but the FBI refused to give them any kind of information on what they discovered.
On June 08 2012 22:15 Gareth wrote: if you click the first link of ANY SINGLE wikipedia article (Not in parenthesis) you'll get to philosophy within 15 webpages.
Not trying to be the religious type, but you supposedly can go to an wiki article and get to "Jesus" in some amount that I forget, but it was like 5-10 links, by choosing the links (not just the first one).
Funnily enough, if you check the link just above that post about philosophy (the Finnish sharpshooter), it takes exactly 15 pages (counting the original one).
The greatest climber in history. There was a National Geographic article about him. His body is so used to climbing that he climbed mountains (don't remember which one) on a pack of trail mix. Nothing else. He also went up mount Everest WITHOUT Bottled oxygyn, a feat some doctors thought impossible.
On June 09 2012 00:35 Krowser wrote: Check out this guy.
The greatest climber in history. There was a National Geographic article about him. His body is so used to climbing that he climbed mountains (don't remember which one) on a pack of trail mix. Nothing else. He also went up mount Everest WITHOUT Bottled oxygyn, a feat some doctors thought impossible.
I always seem to end back to searching up animals on wikipedia. Something about us humans being so advanced yet animals find a way to put us in our place. That and I have a inate fear of snakes + the picture in the bottom of the anaconda page just creeps me out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunectes_murinus
Very interesting story, but notice the four campers who had the most mysterious injuries
"Notably, the bodies had no external wounds, as if they were crippled by a high level of pressure"
were found under four meters of snow, which I would think perfectly explains their injuries. However, the whole situation is still bizarre, how they cut out of their tents and walked into the extreme cold shoeless and with practically no provisions. I can only assume it was due to hysteria brought on by extreme hypothermia.
this would be totally terrifying: [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome
wikipedia is so amazingly comprehensive, you can really find anything there. sure, not all of it is 100% factual, but it's about the quest for knowledge, not about what is always necessarily absolutely truth
On June 09 2012 03:31 sorrowptoss wrote: I'm not sure if this has been posted yet, but this one is very very good. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death
South Korean urban legend.
This could be a way to keep electricity use down. If you leave a fan or air conditioner on all night, it will add up in costs. Then multiply that by thousands of people.
Or its just an easy way for the media to give a cause of death or something rather then wait for a report or if the person is a political figure or someone famous it may be a way to avoid saying they died from a drug over dose and not tarnish their reputation. Just some ideas on it.
"There is speculation that this was done in order to conserve energy usage by the Korean population" Silly me for skimming through it and then reading the entire article. I always like to play the detective though, keeps me entertained.
Very interesting story, but notice the four campers who had the most mysterious injuries
"Notably, the bodies had no external wounds, as if they were crippled by a high level of pressure"
were found under four meters of snow, which I would think perfectly explains their injuries. However, the whole situation is still bizarre, how they cut out of their tents and walked into the extreme cold shoeless and with practically no provisions. I can only assume it was due to hysteria brought on by extreme hypothermia.
Although this was not confirm there is a theory that I believe is that they where camping close to a nuclear bomb test site and the fallout from the bomb killed them. Also they probably cut the tent due to the heat of the radiation to try to cool themselves off. Radiation can do a lot of crazy shit.
Very interesting story, but notice the four campers who had the most mysterious injuries
"Notably, the bodies had no external wounds, as if they were crippled by a high level of pressure"
were found under four meters of snow, which I would think perfectly explains their injuries. However, the whole situation is still bizarre, how they cut out of their tents and walked into the extreme cold shoeless and with practically no provisions. I can only assume it was due to hysteria brought on by extreme hypothermia.
Although this was not confirm there is a theory that I believe is that they where camping close to a nuclear bomb test site and the fallout from the bomb killed them. Also they probably cut the tent due to the heat of the radiation to try to cool themselves off. Radiation can do a lot of crazy shit.
It's possible, but interestingly enough the symptoms of extreme hypothermia are also feelings of being extremely overheated and a general loss of sanity. Plus, I don't believe fallout from old nuclear test sites would cause people to feel physically hot. While I'm sure the radiation would be bad for you, I don't believe you'd feel it, after all you don't feel hot after you get an x-ray.
On June 08 2012 00:47 Radel wrote: Myself and an old roommate of mine used to play Wikipedia Golf. You randomly pick 2 seemingly unrelated Wikipedia articles, and try to get from the first page to the second page in the shortest amount of clicks. Lower score wins.
I.E. Miley Cyrus and the U.S. Moon Landing.
How many related pages does it take to get from one to the other?
Operation Northwoods A plan in the 1960s, during the Cold War, by the U.S. government to commit acts of terrorism against its own civilians and blame it on Cuba using false evidence in order to launch a war campaign. Sound familiar?
Operation Northwoods was a series of false-flag proposals that originated in 1962 within the United States government, and which the Kennedy administration rejected. [2] The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or other operatives, to commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities and elsewhere. These acts of terrorism were to be blamed on Cuba in order to create public support for a war against that nation, which had recently become communist under Fidel Castro.[3] One part of Operation Northwoods was to "develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington."
Operation Northwoods proposals included hijackings and bombings followed by the introduction of phony evidence that would implicate the Cuban government.
wikipedia is so amazingly comprehensive, you can really find anything there. sure, not all of it is 100% factual, but it's about the quest for knowledge, not about what is always necessarily absolutely truth
I read somewhere that wikipedia is actually usually more accurate that most encyclopedias, whether or not thats 100% true i dunno.
wikipedia is so amazingly comprehensive, you can really find anything there. sure, not all of it is 100% factual, but it's about the quest for knowledge, not about what is always necessarily absolutely truth
I read somewhere that wikipedia is actually usually more accurate that most encyclopedias, whether or not thats 100% true i dunno.
First read about it on cracked.com. Basically says there were other cosmonauts before Yuri Gagarin, but they never made it back to Earth and their deaths were covered up by the USSR. Again, it's a conspiracy theory.
wikipedia is so amazingly comprehensive, you can really find anything there. sure, not all of it is 100% factual, but it's about the quest for knowledge, not about what is always necessarily absolutely truth
I read somewhere that wikipedia is actually usually more accurate that most encyclopedias, whether or not thats 100% true i dunno.
you read that on wikipedia?
I read in a (paperback) book that wiki is more reliable because articles are updated immediately, as print encyclopedias basically get outdated the moment they're published, and the sheer volume of information simply cannot be printed. Which is why some of these companies are moving towards online editions.
Interesting facts from that book: If you chart the number of articles created, you'll notice a sudden surge literally overnight. Someone decided to use a bot to create a bunch of pages about villages and towns using information readily available from the CIA factbook. The objective was to create an article with simple information to get started, then the residents themselves will furnish more information.
Don't trust everything though. Professors don't really like quoting wikipedia because sources may be dubious. Example: There was this interesting, novel idea that I found, the link led to a paper published by an individual from India, in the African Journal of Biotechnology. If that isn't dubious enough, reading the article showed that it was total crap. That said individual probably edited the article in order to promote himself...
Another fun game (not sure if it has been mentioned) is to randomly pick an article and see how many clicks it takes you to get to Hitler. More often than not this can occur in 7 clicks or less. Usually much, much less.
I think there's another thing where randomly picking an article and then clicking on the second link on that and every page thereafter (excluding the definition or the word/page you're on) will almost always get you to the philosophy or mathematics (can't remember which) page eventually.
This is, of course, only for when you're bored out of your fucking mind.
Another fun game (not sure if it has been mentioned) is to randomly pick an article and see how many clicks it takes you to get to Hitler. More often than not this can occur in 7 clicks or less. Usually much, much less.
I think there's another thing where randomly picking an article and then clicking on the second link on that and every page thereafter (excluding the definition or the word/page you're on) will almost always get you to the philosophy or mathematics (can't remember which) page eventually.
This is, of course, only for when you're bored out of your fucking mind.
Its philosophy as long as you click the first link that is not in paranthesis (), then you will end up on philosophy, and it is always (assuming that the article you start with has some decent reference).
wikipedia is so amazingly comprehensive, you can really find anything there. sure, not all of it is 100% factual, but it's about the quest for knowledge, not about what is always necessarily absolutely truth
I read somewhere that wikipedia is actually usually more accurate that most encyclopedias, whether or not thats 100% true i dunno.
you read that on wikipedia?
I read in a (paperback) book that wiki is more reliable because articles are updated immediately, as print encyclopedias basically get outdated the moment they're published, and the sheer volume of information simply cannot be printed. Which is why some of these companies are moving towards online editions.
It's the nature of errors that is different between the two. Print encyclopedias are more likely to be wrong due to out-of-date information. That is, at some point in time, it was accurate, but is no longer so. Wikipedia's errors are more likely due to either deliberate trolling/vandalism, or just dumbasses who don't know what they're talking about. Both are easily corrected, though edit wars can still happen.
wikipedia is so amazingly comprehensive, you can really find anything there. sure, not all of it is 100% factual, but it's about the quest for knowledge, not about what is always necessarily absolutely truth
I read somewhere that wikipedia is actually usually more accurate that most encyclopedias, whether or not thats 100% true i dunno.
you read that on wikipedia?
I read in a (paperback) book that wiki is more reliable because articles are updated immediately, as print encyclopedias basically get outdated the moment they're published, and the sheer volume of information simply cannot be printed. Which is why some of these companies are moving towards online editions.
It's the nature of errors that is different between the two. Print encyclopedias are more likely to be wrong due to out-of-date information. That is, at some point in time, it was accurate, but is no longer so. Wikipedia's errors are more likely due to either deliberate trolling/vandalism, or just dumbasses who don't know what they're talking about. Both are easily corrected, though edit wars can still happen.
Well, wikipedia can lock popular/controversial articles (eg Iran) so random people can't edit it. Trolling still occurs but can be pretty easily reset due to the ability to restore to older versions.
This has been my WTF article of choice for a while now
"The collapse unleashed an immense wave of molasses between 8 and 15 ft (2.5 and 4.5 m) high, moving at 35 mph (56 km/h), and exerting a pressure of 2 ton/ft² (200 kPa).[6] The molasses wave was of sufficient force to damage the girders of the adjacent Boston Elevated Railway's Atlantic Avenue structure and tip a railroad car momentarily off the tracks. Nearby, buildings were swept off their foundations and crushed. Several blocks were flooded to a depth of 2 to 3 feet (60 to 90 cm)."
Apparently some people have gotten so good at Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon that the only way they can challenge themselves now is to do it with mathematician Paul Erdős at the same time. Why does this even exist?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whangamomona Murt "Murtle the Turtle" Kennard (2005–present) The local garage owner fought off strong competition from former president Kjestrup and a cross-dresser called "Miriam" to become the 4th President. He was re-elected in 2009 by one vote. He was re-elected again in 2011 by a landslide.
Just read the entire page about him. When I was reading his 'letters', I imagined Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter reading them :S
As for this thread, awesome way to waste my time reading countless articles lol. *Clicks on every suggestion*
Usually for me it starts off innocently enough, looking something specific up and then it turns into clicking almost everything blue until you find yourself going from the history of exploration to the dinosaurs, somehow!
Interesting obituary page. They forgot to mention that, after Bertrand Russell was reported to be dead by the Japanese press and it turned out he was not, they asked for an interview and he had his wife answer them that since he was dead, he was hardly in a position to agree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whangamomona Murt "Murtle the Turtle" Kennard (2005–present) The local garage owner fought off strong competition from former president Kjestrup and a cross-dresser called "Miriam" to become the 4th President. He was re-elected in 2009 by one vote. He was re-elected again in 2011 by a landslide.
What?
lol, I live near there. The whole 'republic' thing is just a piss take. The real question is what series of links leads one to Whangamomona?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whangamomona Murt "Murtle the Turtle" Kennard (2005–present) The local garage owner fought off strong competition from former president Kjestrup and a cross-dresser called "Miriam" to become the 4th President. He was re-elected in 2009 by one vote. He was re-elected again in 2011 by a landslide.
What?
lol, I live near there. The whole 'republic' thing is just a piss take. The real question is what series of links leads one to Whangamomona?
Clicked on it while reading about those micronations, had a look again and seems they also had a goat as president.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whangamomona Murt "Murtle the Turtle" Kennard (2005–present) The local garage owner fought off strong competition from former president Kjestrup and a cross-dresser called "Miriam" to become the 4th President. He was re-elected in 2009 by one vote. He was re-elected again in 2011 by a landslide.
What?
lol, I live near there. The whole 'republic' thing is just a piss take. The real question is what series of links leads one to Whangamomona?
Clicked on it while reading about those micronations, had a look again and seems they also had a goat as president.
Early in WWI, there was a temporary truce to celebrate Christmas. During the break in combat, soldiers from opposing climbed out of the trenches to play football with one another. Afterwards, they went back to killing each other for a few years.
While escorting Convoy PQ-13 in March 1942, she and other escorts were in combat with German Narvik-class destroyers. She hit and sank the German destroyer Z 26, and then launched a torpedo attack. One of her torpedoes had a faulty gyro mechanism possibly affected by the icy waters. The path of the torpedo formed a circular arc, striking the Trinidad and killing 32 men.
Man, this is so true. The better i get the worse i realise i am, and then when i hear my -diamond-platinum friends talking about their understanding of the game it makes me cringe so bad, even though i know i was the same at their level.
I feel like you only realise how bad you are at this game when you get to mid masters, and i say that as a mid masters player, so maybe i am still over exaggerating my skill ^^
This isn't true, I'm a silver player and I refuse to use a keyboard, it just slows me down. Last night flash played and won a game without a keyboard. All you gold + players can call me a noob for not using a keyboard, but now that the best player in the world doesn't use one I think a lot of players owe me an apology.
Man, this is so true. The better i get the worse i realise i am, and then when i hear my -diamond-platinum friends talking about their understanding of the game it makes me cringe so bad, even though i know i was the same at their level.
I feel like you only realise how bad you are at this game when you get to mid masters, and i say that as a mid masters player, so maybe i am still over exaggerating my skill ^^
This isn't true, I'm a silver player and I refuse to use a keyboard, it just slows me down. Last night flash played and won a game without a keyboard. All you gold + players can call me a noob for not using a keyboard, but now that the best player in the world doesn't use one I think a lot of players owe me an apology.
Man, this is so true. The better i get the worse i realise i am, and then when i hear my -diamond-platinum friends talking about their understanding of the game it makes me cringe so bad, even though i know i was the same at their level.
I feel like you only realise how bad you are at this game when you get to mid masters, and i say that as a mid masters player, so maybe i am still over exaggerating my skill ^^
This isn't true, I'm a silver player and I refuse to use a keyboard, it just slows me down. Last night flash played and won a game without a keyboard. All you gold + players can call me a noob for not using a keyboard, but now that the best player in the world doesn't use one I think a lot of players owe me an apology.
Not so subtle troll.
Why does anything sarcastic or satirical have to be a "troll?" It was meant to be a joke.
This is extremely creepy.. If anyone missed this, it's worth the read.
On topic: Wow, that is odd. Maybe one day the current Russian government will release what really happened there, sounds like some sort of secret nuclear experiment or maybe the hikers found something they weren't supposed to see.
Man, this is so true. The better i get the worse i realise i am, and then when i hear my -diamond-platinum friends talking about their understanding of the game it makes me cringe so bad, even though i know i was the same at their level.
I feel like you only realise how bad you are at this game when you get to mid masters, and i say that as a mid masters player, so maybe i am still over exaggerating my skill ^^
This isn't true, I'm a silver player and I refuse to use a keyboard, it just slows me down. Last night flash played and won a game without a keyboard. All you gold + players can call me a noob for not using a keyboard, but now that the best player in the world doesn't use one I think a lot of players owe me an apology.
Not so subtle troll.
Why does anything sarcastic or satirical have to be a "troll?" It was meant to be a joke.
This is extremely creepy.. If anyone missed this, it's worth the read.
On topic: Wow, that is odd. Maybe one day the current Russian government will release what really happened there, sounds like some sort of secret nuclear experiment or maybe the hikers found something they weren't supposed to see.
Man, this is so true. The better i get the worse i realise i am, and then when i hear my -diamond-platinum friends talking about their understanding of the game it makes me cringe so bad, even though i know i was the same at their level.
I feel like you only realise how bad you are at this game when you get to mid masters, and i say that as a mid masters player, so maybe i am still over exaggerating my skill ^^
This isn't true, I'm a silver player and I refuse to use a keyboard, it just slows me down. Last night flash played and won a game without a keyboard. All you gold + players can call me a noob for not using a keyboard, but now that the best player in the world doesn't use one I think a lot of players owe me an apology.
Not so subtle troll.
Why does anything sarcastic or satirical have to be a "troll?" It was meant to be a joke.
This is extremely creepy.. If anyone missed this, it's worth the read.
On topic: Wow, that is odd. Maybe one day the current Russian government will release what really happened there, sounds like some sort of secret nuclear experiment or maybe the hikers found something they weren't supposed to see.
Cracked is a lot of fun, but whever I see an article I already know about something about, I spot half a dozen factual inaccuracies, omissions, or misconceptions. There's some good stuff, but be careful about taking it too seriously. Half the time the article disagrees or takes significant liberties with the sources they manage to site.
Man, this is so true. The better i get the worse i realise i am, and then when i hear my -diamond-platinum friends talking about their understanding of the game it makes me cringe so bad, even though i know i was the same at their level.
I feel like you only realise how bad you are at this game when you get to mid masters, and i say that as a mid masters player, so maybe i am still over exaggerating my skill ^^
This isn't true, I'm a silver player and I refuse to use a keyboard, it just slows me down. Last night flash played and won a game without a keyboard. All you gold + players can call me a noob for not using a keyboard, but now that the best player in the world doesn't use one I think a lot of players owe me an apology.
Not so subtle troll.
Why does anything sarcastic or satirical have to be a "troll?" It was meant to be a joke.
This is extremely creepy.. If anyone missed this, it's worth the read.
On topic: Wow, that is odd. Maybe one day the current Russian government will release what really happened there, sounds like some sort of secret nuclear experiment or maybe the hikers found something they weren't supposed to see.
Cracked is a lot of fun, but whever I see an article I already know about something about, I spot half a dozen factual inaccuracies, omissions, or misconceptions. There's some good stuff, but be careful about taking it too seriously. Half the time the article disagrees or takes significant liberties with the sources they manage to site.
O for sure Just a different spin from this whole 'silencing witnesses' or Nuclear Accident thing.
"The roughly-triangulated origin of the Bloop is approximately 950 nautical miles (1,760 km) from the more precisely-described location of R'lyeh, a sunken extra-dimensional city written of by H. P. Lovecraft in his famous short story The Call of Cthulhu.[9][10]"
Antartic Ice calving my ass. The stars just came a little too close to aligning is all. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
Ironically, that cracked page does not account for the severe chest wounds. May it be that a big agressive bear decided to use those victims as a punching bag ? or a pillow ?
Man, this is so true. The better i get the worse i realise i am, and then when i hear my -diamond-platinum friends talking about their understanding of the game it makes me cringe so bad, even though i know i was the same at their level.
I feel like you only realise how bad you are at this game when you get to mid masters, and i say that as a mid masters player, so maybe i am still over exaggerating my skill ^^
This isn't true, I'm a silver player and I refuse to use a keyboard, it just slows me down. Last night flash played and won a game without a keyboard. All you gold + players can call me a noob for not using a keyboard, but now that the best player in the world doesn't use one I think a lot of players owe me an apology.
Not so subtle troll.
Why does anything sarcastic or satirical have to be a "troll?" It was meant to be a joke.
This is extremely creepy.. If anyone missed this, it's worth the read.
On topic: Wow, that is odd. Maybe one day the current Russian government will release what really happened there, sounds like some sort of secret nuclear experiment or maybe the hikers found something they weren't supposed to see.
Cracked is a lot of fun, but whever I see an article I already know about something about, I spot half a dozen factual inaccuracies, omissions, or misconceptions. There's some good stuff, but be careful about taking it too seriously. Half the time the article disagrees or takes significant liberties with the sources they manage to site.
Definitely. As much as I enjoy reading Cracked articles, the very matter of fact tone and presentation of only one viewpoint lends it a little more credibility than it probably should. That being said, I guess we'll never know for sure what happened there because the article said the records were destroyed [citation needed].
4 September 2006: Steve Irwin, known as "The Crocodile Hunter", was stung and killed by a stingray while filming an underwater documentary entitled Ocean's Deadliest.
On June 08 2012 00:47 Radel wrote: Myself and an old roommate of mine used to play Wikipedia Golf. You randomly pick 2 seemingly unrelated Wikipedia articles, and try to get from the first page to the second page in the shortest amount of clicks. Lower score wins.
I.E. Miley Cyrus and the U.S. Moon Landing.
How many related pages does it take to get from one to the other?
We used to call it The Hitler Game
Can you get to Hitler in 5 or less links?
Dirt... yes dirt... can get there...
Why did I spend so much time on this ;_; But I got there in 3 clicks!
This thread, man, this thread. I was supposed to be asleep 2½ hours ago.
Ohhh yeah I totally remember that game! These are so fun haha, I think the most common one is being able to get to philosophy no matter what, and oftentimes exceedingly easily too. But Wikipedia Golf sounds cool too :3
Sometimes when I feel sad by Roger's being old and slower and much less dominant/clutch/what have you, I look at Federer's career statistics and feel a little better. But then I also remember that he isn't what he used to be based on that formidable resume ;; seriously though, that stat sheet is monstrous.
I was reading through this and came to the Exploding head syndrome article. I have this shit, I never knew what it was but now I do. Thanks!
Omg I have this too! I have been meaning to ask my doctor I get the flashes of light when im falling asleep and one time a bang. It also makes my heart rate so through the roof
I was goofing around on Wikipedia before op happened to post this and was reading some serial killer pages, particularly Albert Fish and John Wayne Gacy. Funny to see reading through the responses that other people here have been looking at them too.
Currently going through the weird wikipedia articles link. This is gonna take all day. Wikipedia is great.
Hehe studying for my exam and didn't know this had it's own page. Good for the title alone (and the rest if you are interested in law stuff) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppercorn_(legal)
Young boy punished by school for using fork/spoon differently, luls ensue
I will never understand why people think an issue as tiny, unimportant as THAT requires so much attention. Not on your half, OP, but from the school. The school shouldnt care as long as the kid isnt shoving shit up his nose or something crazy.
AHHHHHH FINALLY I find what that shit was "Dunnin-Kruger" fuck me man I couldn't remember what it was called. I spent like an hour reading through this whole thread lol...
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