Entries Tagged as 'ftw'

Sunday, November 12th, 2017

Inside Japan’s Tricked-Out DIY Disco Truck Culture

Driving down a highway in Japan can be an intriguing experience, especially if you came across the tricked-out vehicles from their DIY truck culture. The subculture is called dekotora and it’s where long-haul drivers add custom graphics, lights and swag to their vehicles on an insane level. And it’s not cheap, some dekotora customizations cost [...]

Saturday, November 11th, 2017

Girl Leaves Voicemail After a Breakup Where She Cries like a Supercar

Breaking up with someone is never easy, it’s never painless and often one party will call the other and try to reconcile and make up, because surely it must’ve all been some kind of mistake. Which is exactly what this girl attempts to do to her ex-boyfriend, and she’s also clearly upset while she’s doing [...]

Thursday, November 9th, 2017

Hilarious Sketch Acts Out A Video Conference Call in Real Life

Video conferencing is about as enjoyable as it is successful—anytime you and your coworkers have to partake in one you just know it’s going to be full of frustrations and annoyances. Acting those out perfectly, and upping the cringe factor by doing it in real life, is comedy duo Tripp and Tyler, in this amusing [...]

Wednesday, November 8th, 2017

My Strange Addiction Parody: This Poor Guy is Addicted to Saying ‘YAAAAASS’

There are many things the human mind and body can get addicted to, but perhaps the most annoying, for both the addicted person and anyone within earshot, is an addication to saying “YAAAAASS!” That’s what’s happened to poor Michael Rizzi, who one day was laughing at other people saying it on Tumblr, the next found [...]

Tuesday, November 7th, 2017

Let Your Mind be Blown with this Animation On Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) isn’t probably something you’re totally familiar with, but that’s OK because this animation will teach you all about it in a way that won’t have you too confused. OK maybe just a little bit. The video was created for the Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research.

Monday, November 6th, 2017

Honest Trailer For Jaws Points Out the Real Monster in Spielberg’s Classic

Honest Trailers take on the blockbuster that started them all, Steven Spielberg’s classic movie about a great white shark terrorising a small town, Jaws. But they argue that the shark isn’t the real monster in the movie, instead that falls to the sinister Mayor Larry Vaughn—and they have a point.

Thursday, November 2nd, 2017

Father vs. Daughter Beatboxing Battle

Nicole Paris and her dad are both pretty damn skilled in the art of beatboxing, but like most things, it’s much more interesting when some rivalry is introduced, so they go head-to-head in a beatbox battle to see who comes out victorious. After dad kicks things off Nicole chimes in and it’s pretty much neck-and-neck, [...]

Tuesday, October 31st, 2017

Repetition and the Illusion of Truth

YouTube channel Veritasium looks at the illusory nature of truth, specifically about something called cognitive ease, which is the idea that we tend to prefer concepts that are both familiar to us and simple to understand. He also looks at how repetition plays a part in our understanding of what we believe to be [...]

Monday, October 30th, 2017

Meet Billy Mitchell the Man Who Beat ‘Pac-Man’

Back in July 1999 Billy Mitchell did the seemingly impossible, he beat Pac-Man by getting the perfect score of 3,333,360 points. It meant he had to complete 256 levels of the game and play for over 5 hours straight without dying once. It also meant he “broke” the game, because when you hit level 255 [...]

Friday, October 27th, 2017

Dashcam Catches Policeman Busting Some Sass To Taylor Swift

The Dover Police Department have released the first in their new series called DashCam Confessional, and this inaugural video features Master Cpl. Jeff Davis busting some moves and showing off some serious sass to Taylor Swift 2014’s summer smash hit “Shake It Off”—he even got a shout out from Ms Swift on twitter for his [...]

Thursday, October 26th, 2017

Comedian Ethan Klein Shows You How to Make Modern Art

Comedian Ethan Klein from YouTube channel h3h3 productions took a trip to New York City’s Museum of Modern Art and was inspired to make a video showing people how, if they wish, they too can make some modern art. As well as demonstrating how you can become an artist (put something behind glass) the video [...]