Good Things in the World

[Teelie]

Puts things in perspective.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Watch teenagers get hilariously confused about the internet in the 90s

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"Kids these days", every person who ever grew up said about the people younger than them who hadn't grown up yet. Kids just don't know how we had it. They don't know what it's like. They don't know that the Internet was a confusing place that was mind numbingly slow and that it wasn't everywhere. Seriously, teenagers today have no clue.

TheFineBros had teenagers—these aren't babies!—watch a commercial about the Internet in the 1990s and their reactions are priceless. You'll notice how stunned they are at the simple things like how big the computer was, laugh at how impatient they are at the video being too long and more. Kids these days, man.

This is the definition of hilarious, everyone loves the generation gap. I still remember when the net was born and it's younger years. Also this video makes me feel old

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Dog uses catapult contraption to play fetch with itself

I don't know who is smarter. The dog owner (apparently, an engineer) who built this catapult to allow his dog to play fetch with itself or the dog who knows how to use the contraption so perfectly that it can keep itself entertained when its owner is busy. Either way, they're both genius.

Load the catapult up. Pull the lever. Chase the ball. A dog's life is good.

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This dog must have hours of fun with this thing

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

This Kid Will Blow Your Mind With His Piano Skills

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And then every so often, America's Got Talent stops being a misnomer. Meet Adrian Romoff, who has the body of a nine-year-old and the prodigious piano talents of a who knows what?

Howard Stern and Howie Mandel are mystified by his talents, Scary Spice I don't understand when she talks but she seems very into it, and Heidi Klum has dealt with artsy bastards twice as precocious and half as talented as this cute little guy. It isn't that he's unrealistic about his options, or his abilities, it's more that he is not unrealistic about those things, which is disconcerting in anybody but especially weirdos.

I don't know what Adrian Romoff does all day, but I do know that he will be going to college when he is eleven, just like Doogie Howser or a particularly scarring episode of Highway To Heaven. And while I think it might be tough to spend more than a week with him, between the unnecessary corrections and general unblinking weirdness, I can definitely see following this kid for at least the rest of 2014.

THe kid has mad skills tickling the ivory

 

[redmarvel]

I don't usually read newspapers. But there's one column in the Toronto Star that I look up on-line at least once a week. "The Fixer" column is to help people get the help they need to get things fixed. Mostly "city" problems, like pot holes, street lights, and so forth, but sometimes they try to get people to adopt cats, or help an abused pony, or things of that nature.

I like to know that someone is paying attention to the "little problems".

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Bored Teens Hire a Mariachi Band to Follow Their Principal Around

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Leave it to a group of Bored Teenagers to execute a generally harmless but perfectly diabolical prank on their high school principal.

The pre-paid mariachi band was apparently waiting for Santa Barbara High School principal John Becchio when he arrived at his office at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday.

Video of the prank shows Becchio (he's the one dressed up as Friday Night Light's Coach Taylor) trying to act casual while a four-man band respectfully, but determinedly followed him down a school hallway, softly playing the whole time.

The band actually only followed Becchio around for an hour, but if nothing else the video proves that the children really are our future—at least our future in decent pranking.

School administrators loved it too, posting the video to its YouTube page and putting out an official statement saying, "It was a senior prank that delighted students and staff."

http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/25692144/students-hire-mariachi-band-to-follow-principal

Now that's a damn good senior prank, kudos to those youngsters

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

These Kittens Want to Know: "Turn Down For What"

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[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

This Is the Most Devoted Nicolas Cage Prank Ever Pulled

Nicolas Cage is an American treasure and the target of this Nicolas Cage-themed prank should consider themselves lucky.

Imgur user Timbo57 documented the labor-intensive prank, which involved hundreds of tiny Nicolas Cage heads and one very devious prankster. He blanketed his friend's house, replacing all the photographs with Nicolas Cage, sticking Nicolas Cage ice cubes in the freezer, and filling his socks with handfuls of Nicolas Cage. He even stuck a photo in the battery compartment of his friend's remote.

The end result is a prank that keeps on giving. With any luck, his victim will be haunted by Cage's wide range of terrifying facial arrangements until the day he dies.

http://imgur.com/a/Hcop2

Haha this is great

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Man saves squirrel's life by giving it CPR

This cute little squirrel has a pool repairman to thank for saving its life. When the little critter was found floating in a pool in Phoenix, Rick Gruber, the pool guy, resuscitated it back to life by performing a little bit of CPR. After a few minutes of pumping its lungs, the squirrel was breathing again.

But Gruber didn't stop there. He waited an hour for the squirrel to get back to full strength, encouraging the furry guy every bit. First, there were twitches. Then the eyes opened and finally, the squirrel was back and ready to roam the Earth again. Hopefully, it avoids pools in the future.

As for why Gruber did it? Gruber told CNN:

"I would do it for anybody: a rodent, a dog, a cat, anything,"

A good man.

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What a nice guy

 

[Teelie]

This Is the Most Devoted Nicolas Cage Prank Ever Pulled



Haha this is great

The worst part is those used to be Cage-free eggs.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Haha it is a good prank

 

[Teelie]

I'm posting about the Seattle shooting for one main reason: The man who took the shooter down did it without using a gun. Only a can of pepper spray and a choke hold. We should have a "Badasses in the news thread."

He stopped the guy without requiring deadly force and prevented more people from being shot by Ybarra.

The suspect, Aaron Ybarra, was not a student at Seattle Pacific University, police told reporters Thursday night — but the man who stopped him was.

Local media have identified Jon Meis, a 22-year-old engineering student, as the hero. He is known to be quiet, gentle and outdoorsy.

Seattle Police Assistant Chief Paul McDonagh said the suspect was armed with a shotgun, knife and rounds of ammunition when he opened fire at the university’s Otto Miller Hall.

Meis was armed, too, with a can of pepper spray, which he used to subdue the suspect as he was trying to reload the shotgun. He then put him in a choke hold and took him to the ground, the Seattle Times reported.

Washington Post

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

That is awesome

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

This kids letter home from camp is simply amazing!

I think we are looking at a future world leader here folks

 

[SuperFerret]

There was also a bill to give sex offenders a green plate but for some reason it didn't pass and I think that is an even better idea!

There are too many stupid people out there for this to be even remotely a good idea.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Son Keeps Childhood Promise, Gives Dad '57 Chevy for His 57th Birthday

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When he was 8, a boy from Kentucky promised his dad that he would buy him a '57 Chevy Bel-Air for his 57th birthday. His father had grown up as one of seven children in a poor family. Although he talked about his dream car often, he never expected to own one. Watch what happened when he realized that his son, now an adult, had followed through on that long-ago promise.

"Belairboy" explained on Reddit that he actually purchased the Chevy 2 years ago, after "pulling 60 hour work weeks over 6 days a week for a few months" at his factory job. He stored it in his unused garage and kept it a secret until the promised day finally arrived.

"My dad has been everything to me, he is not my biological father but he IS my father. But this man in this video, my DAD my FATHER, was the best thing that ever happened to me and my mom and I hope I can be a fraction of the man that he is," he wrote, as if everyone watching the video wasn't already crying.

If that doesn't bring a smile to your face and/or choke you up a bit I feel bad for you

 

[BestGirl]

The fact that the man isn't even his biological father makes it yet more touching. See, guys, raise a kid that's not your own and you'll get a car for your 57th birthday!

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

This burger has 17 different types of beef in it

I mean, I don't even think I could name 17 different types of beef and yet one delicious, blood thickening burger will have all that in between its buns. Totaling in at over 2,500 calories and costing more than 40 bucks, the Holy Cow burger is basically like sandwiching an entire cow. With that much beef, you can't really go wrong, right?

The burger will be sold on Father's Day at Red's True BBQ in Manchester and Leeds UK. What's exactly in the beeftastic burger?

Carpaccio beef and olive

21-hour Texas-smoked brisket

Juicy Lucy (melted cheese hidden inside a 100% steak burger)

A Parmesan and Jacob's cracker-crusted pattie made of pulled oxtail and pulled ox cheek with diced slow-smoked ox heart and ox liver

Jalapeño and dill pickle relish

Thickly sliced mustard-pickled tongue

Unholy sticky beef jus

Pulled 12hr smoked beef rib

Blackened Wagyu rib eye steak

Beef bacon

Red's Dirty sauce

Chargrilled red onion ring

All that in a pretzel bun. And lest anyone think they forgot about a drink and fries, the burger will come with "a beef tomato consommé-based Bloody Mary with jerky shards and thrice cooked beef dripping-fried chips with a pulled beef Ragu dipping sauce." Knowing that this exists, there's no other way to celebrate Father's Day.

http://truebarbecue.com/blog/the-holy-cow-fathers-day-special-burger/

Beeftastic! I must insist any Hypesters in the UK to go and eat this and regale us with the experience

 

[Teelie]

And I just had a heart attack merely looking at it. Thanks alot DJ.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Service Dog Gets His Own Yearbook Photo, Right Next to His Human

Taxi Benke's photo is easy to spot in the 2014 yearbook from San Antonio's Hector Garcia Middle School: He's a dog.

For the past four years, Taxi has been helping Rachel Benke, 14, with a seizure disorder that has plagued her since birth. Rachel was completely nonverbal and ate mostly baby food until the age of six, when she got two brain surgeries that changed her life.

"She started eating, started talking, started learning. We were told she would probably never be able to read, and now she's reading Dr. Seuss books by herself, and some chapter books," Rachel's mom, Teresa, told Today.

The surgery also reduced the frequency of her epileptic seizures, which used to happen as many as 200 times a day. But they're not completely gone, and that's why she needs Taxi.

The dog can tell Rachel is going to have a seizure more than an hour before it happens, giving her enough time to warn her family or teachers. He's already saved her life at least twice: once on a trampoline, and once in a swimming pool.

Taxi is a regular fixture at the middle school, going to class with Rachel every day. Her mom joked last year that he should have his own photo in the yearbook.

And now he does.

The photo is especially meaningful to the Benkes because the school district hasn't always been supportive. When Rachel was elementary school, the principal considered Taxi a distraction, and her mom had to file a complaint to keep the dog there.

"It's been fun, and it's been even more fun watching [Rachel] get excited about it. Three years ago this wouldn't have even registered for her," Teresa said.

http://www.today.com/pets/guide-dog-lands-spot-yearbook-next-girl-he-takes-care-2D79784040

That's an awesome story

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Forget about pets and cartoons and embrace this glorious rabbit burger

A delicious rabbit patty—ground with dried fig and apricot—covered in melted sheep cheese, quick pickled red onion, mesclun salad dressed in a Dijon vinaigrette and stacked with vermouth braised pear. If you've never tried rabbit meat before this is a good way to start, it's wabbit season!!

http://pornburger.me/2014/06/05/the-hare-club-for-men-burger/

I want this in my life now

 

[Schlosser85]

This burger has 17 different types of beef in it

http://truebarbecue.com/blog/the-holy-cow-fathers-day-special-burger/

Beeftastic! I must insist any Hypesters in the UK to go and eat this and regale us with the experience

How would you even go about eating that? Unless you have a dislocatable jaw like a snake.

 

[Destructus86]

Watch teenagers get hilariously confused about the internet in the 90s

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This is the definition of hilarious, everyone loves the generation gap. I still remember when the net was born and it's younger years. Also this video makes me feel old

It was so hilarious. And makes me think of how fortunate I was to get to see so many changes so early in my life. I'm 35. I mean...i've seen the rise and fall of CD's. I used to watch movies on VHS...and then there was DVD and blue-ray and now we are headed towards the rise of streaming media. I was there when video games actually became big. I was alive when almost no one knew what an "internet" was and saw it grow.

It's just AMAZING to me to think how much change i've seen in a mere 35 years.

 

[Teelie]

CDC reports teen cigarette smoking at 'lowest level since survey began'

Violence is also down, despite the seeming surge of bullying.

New statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that cigarette smoking rates among American high school students have fallen to the lowest levels since the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey began in 1991.

The National Youth Risk Behavior Survey is a product of the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), an initiative from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) designed to monitor trends in health risk behaviors among high school students at national, state and local levels.

These priority health risk behaviors include:

Unintentional injuries and violence
Sexual behaviors contributing to unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV infection
Tobacco
Alcohol
Other drug use
Unhealthy dietary behaviors
Physical inactivity
Obesity
Asthma.

This data is provided by national, state and large urban school district surveys that are conducted among high school students every 2 years.

The 2013 YRBSS report featured the participation of more than 13,000 American high school students across 42 states and 21 large urban school districts. Participation in the survey was voluntary and responses were anonymous. The questionnaire could also be modified by states and large urban school districts as required.
Smoking and violent behaviors are becoming less common among US teens
The results of the 2013 survey found that teen smoking is now down to 15.7%, which means the US has met the national Healthy People 2020 target of lowering high school-age smoking to 16% or less. However, although cigarette smoking has fallen in this group, other national surveys have registered increases in e-cigarette use and water pipe smoking among adolescents.

The YRBSS did not detect a change in smokeless tobacco use among teenagers but did note that a previously acknowledged decline in cigar use among male high school seniors had slowed, standing now at 23%.

Violence also exhibited signs of decline among teenagers in the YRBSS. The percentage of students who had been involved in a physical fight at least once during the past year has fallen from 42% in 1991 to 25% in 2013.

Fights on school property, meanwhile, have halved in the past 2 decades. In the 1993 YRBSS, 16% of high school students had been in a fight on school property during the previous 12 months, while just 8% had in 2013.

However, findings on risky sexual behaviors were more mixed. The survey results show 4% drops in the percentage of students who are currently sexually active (38% in 1991; 34% in 2013), but also in the percentage of sexually active students who use condoms (63% in 2003; 59% in 2013).

Obesity-related behaviors also demonstrated varied results.

The YRBSS recorded that the percentage of adolescents who spend 3 or more hours a day using a computer (not for school work) has nearly doubled over the past decade, from 22% in 2003 to 41% in 2013.

However, the percentage of students who watch 3 or more hours of TV on an average school day has decreased from 43% in 1999 to 32% in 2013.

Also, soda drinking saw a significant decrease. In 2007, 34% of high school students drank soda one or more times a day, but in 2013, just 27% of high school students reported doing this.

The 2013 YRBSS was also the first survey to capture statistics on high school students texting or emailing while driving. Nationwide, 41% of teenagers who currently drive reported texting or emailing while driving.

"It's encouraging that high school students are making better health choices such as not fighting, not smoking, and not having sex," says CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden. "Way too many young people still smoke and other areas such as texting while driving remain a challenge. Our youth are our future. We need to invest in programs that help them make healthy choices so they live long, healthy lives."

Medical News Today

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

That's great news, I'm a smoker myself but part of me wishes I had never started. The other part of me loves it