If it wasn’t enough that the notorious Mexican drug cartels have desecrated the country with violence and warfare, they’ve now taken to exploiting the country’s oil reserves too. VICE News reports on what’s happening, as 10,000 barrels of crude oil are stolen from Mexico’s state-run oil company Pemex a day. All this is done through [...]

Mirages are a common occurrence for people who have spent days on their own in the desert with no food or water, but the guy in this advert has a different kind of hallucination than just a watering hole. He instead sees a parade of women in skimpy lingerie who proceed to dance around and [...]

Over in Japan they have what’s known as cuddle cafes, but if that sounds too cutesy for you, they also have Yakuza-sponsored prostitution rings, catering to the population who are just seeking recreational fun rather than serious relationships, and it shows in the fact that hardly anyone is having babies which means Japan has more [...]

If you thought that sandstorm chase from Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol was pretty good, then prepare to be blown away with this alternate take on it. Youtuber MemeMaster420 has crafted his own, improved, edit of the scene, adding in some animation and putting Darude’s track “Sandstorm” over the top.

Even the most grizzled, hardass, jaded rock star can have a soft spot for Katy Perry. It’s the sort of stuff you wouldn’t believe if the rockers in question weren’t caught on camera saying it, revealing to the world that yeah, it’s OK to have a secret thing for some total trashy pop songs. We’re [...]

Vin Diesel popped in to British radio station Capital FM and while there sung a cover of Sam Smith’s ‘Stay With Me’—and it was a thing of beauty as Vin’s grizzled voice reaches for those high notes and low ones—and fails, teaching the young Smith the REAL art of singing.

A couple of Australians decide to prank call someone who calls himself a “private investigator”, who’s actually a car salesman, and it escalates pretty quickly into a war of words between them – Maybe these guys are doing a public service by outting these crazy people hidden in our midst. Or maybe we’d all go [...]

Australian model and DJ Ruby Rose’s short film “Break Free” explores gender roles and what it’s like for people who don’t conform to typical identities that fit neatly into male or female. In the video she transforms from a blonde into a man. She starts off in a blonde wig and full makeup before reaching [...]

Micro Machines cause some micro carnage in this stop-motion short, which was mostly shot in-camera with a custom camera rig so that the world of these mini cars was elevated to epicness. The cars duke it out, trying to defeat each other by dropping oil, exploding their opponents up and other high jink tomfoolery. Yee [...]

If you’ve ever wondered how North Korea got to be the secretive, repressed, communist nation it is today this video does a great job of explaining its complex history, detailing the events that lead to the tragic state that exists at the very fringes of world politics.

Feeling sprightly today? Like the world’s your oyster and nothing can get you down? Well it’s time for a reality check as this video looks at the devastating medical, environmental, and humanitarian consequences of an all out nuclear war. It’s pretty grim stuff as you’d expect, so all the more reason for the world’s leaders [...]