Lane violation

And the world's most dangerous bowler award goes to...
(Nice bowling shoes, BTW.)


And when you're bored on the job... a little game of tic-tac-toe. Another reassuring example of your tax dollars at work.

When you’re bored at work from r/funny

"There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt." -- Erma Bombeck

Chances with wolves

You can't be too careful these days... an apparently nice dogeroo shows what he's made of, escaping a three-pack of wolves in Italy's Abruzzo National Park.


And why are these wolves running alongside the highway? Trying to stay warm?

"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight." -- Orison Swett Marden

Night at the improb

Never in your wildest imagination could a musical mashup of 80s hair/metal band Ratt and Marvin Gaye possibly work, could it? Well prepare to be surprised. (And this mashup of Elvis Presley's "Burning Love" and Van Halen's "Jump" is pretty good, too.)


And street photographer Pao Buscató has earned himself a reputation for capturing moments that feel impossibly coincidental.

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"Fate laughs at probabilities." -- Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

Planes, trains, and automobiles

Another perk of flying coach -- in-flight laundry service.


Or the thrills of traveling winter roads, which in this nerve-racking case is a bus narrowly avoiding a car on a snowy road thanks to pro driving.




And finally, watch a train roll through the desert for an hour, which is just as relaxing and scenic as it sounds.

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." -- Lao Tzu

Perfect placement

Presumably plastered person seems ticked off that his mirror-self won't get out of the way. Ridicularious.


And this extremely lucky woman narrowly escaped certain doom by doing absolutely nothing.

They say ignorance is bliss from r/nevertellmetheodds

Finally, Russian digital artist Igor Lipchanskiy humorously imagines his place at the edges of iconic album covers.

A post shared by Igor Lipchanskiy (@igor.lipchanskiy) on Feb 26, 2018 at 11:21am PST

"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains." -- Alfred North Whitehead

Wholly holey

With glazed eyes and glazed old-fashioned in hand, Donut Squirrel says, "The only kind of nuts I needs is do-nuts."


And an Insider look at how Krispy Kreme doughnuts are made at their Burbank, California doughnutorium. Why not order a whole bouquet of them?




Finally, you might want to try a "pietrait", a dessert decorated in drastic detail from Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin.

A post shared by 🥧 Pies Are Awesome 🥧 (@thepieous) on Jan 11, 2018 at 11:44pm PST

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food." -- George Bernard Shaw

Sliding in safe

Lucky motorcycler loses control on the freeway and somehow manages to slide under a moving tractor-trailer.


And this poor man's version of Evel Knievel miraculously walks away from an idiotic bit of daring stuntery.

I'm not gonna do the math of this stunt, WCGW? from r/Whatcouldgowrong

"You can never plan the future by the past." -- Edmund Burke

Track stars

Professional artists and kids drew the same still life scene while wearing eye tracking glasses, and there were some interesting differences.


And a series of found-object charts that you might find quirky and insightful.

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"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." -- Henry Ward Beecher

Let it flow

A storm left over from former Cyclone Gita swept across New Zealand recently, damaging buildings, knocking out electricity, and causing flooding. It also triggered a bizarre natural phenomenon known as granular flow -- essentially a raging river of rocks.

(If you're interested, geologist Dave Petley explains this freaky and frightening phenomenon over at the Landslide Blog.)


And tougher to fathom in retrospect, who would have imagined this way back when?

No one could have imagined... from r/funny

"Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown." -- Stephen Gardiner

Widdershins

Inner monologue plays out in "A Chair at the Beach", a subtly ridiculous two-minute short film. Four stars for quirkiness.


And are the dots in this make-you-dotty optical illusion going side to side, up and down, or 'round and 'round?

2 dots oscillating? Vertically or horizontally? Or 2 dots orbiting? Clockwise or widdershins? Or 2 diagonal pairs of blinking dots with no "motion" at all? Or something else!? from r/illusionporn

"The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself." -- Ernest Hemingway

A million in one

See if you can withstand the seizure-inducing breakneck experience of watching one million famous film frames flash forward in five minutes. Recognize any?


And thankfully, a still image, a cat playing behind the TV.

My wife just texted me this picture of our cat playing behind the TV from r/funny

"There's no thief like a bad movie." -- Sam Ewing

Feathered mysteries

Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A: Don't know, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't to play an operatic aria on a keyboard.
(Earned her a spot on "America's Got Talent", anyway, which I thought was for people.)


And a chattering of starlings go to bed in less than a minute.

How 40,000 starlings go to bed in less than a minute. from r/NatureIsFuckingLit

"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." -- Chinese Proverb

Overextended

This guy must seriously regret his attempt to demonstrate this minivan's sliding door safety feature.

And watch this trucker nail an impossible right-hand turn while hauling a 200-foot turbine blade.

Finally, an interesting map visualization that shows the best car route from the center of the U.S. to every county in the nation.

"Choices are the hinges of destiny." -- Edwin Markham

Plot twist

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What the heck just happened? Craziest convenience store CCTV footage you'll ever see.


And not at all surprising, parking in front of a liquor store.

Parking in front of a liquor store from r/pics

"The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one." -- Erma Bombeck

Dishing it out

Pizza tossing to the extreme from gifs

Pizza tossing to the extreme. And a couple of efficiently-poured beers to go with it. (Thanks Mr. G.)

German engineering at its finest....

"Show me a nation whose national beverage is beer, and I'll show you an advanced toilet technology." -- Mark Hawkins

Fight or flight

Slugfest to hugfest, it's tough to explain how or why this brawl on a Sydney train ends in sudden friendship.


And painfully obvious, taunting a bull with flaming horns... WCGW?

Taunting a bull, WCGW? from r/Whatcouldgowrong

"Because of a great love, one is courageous." -- Lao Tzu

Incompatible interface

Apple lovers -- would you use this 1980s PC version of Siri?


And some historical perspective that's not a parody... check out The Titanic compared to a modern cruise ship. (thanks mr. g)

The titanic compared to a modern cruise ship from r/Damnthatsinteresting

"Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory." -- Franklin Pierce Adams

Improv hour

Attempted break-in goes very off the rails very, very early.


And you'd probably be extra jittery if Christopher Walken opened a coffee shop.

"No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness." Sheik Abd-al-Kadir