Neil Hilborn – Living With “OCD”

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Neil Hilborn is a poet with obsessive compulsive disorder and his performance at a poerty event took the internet by storm and has racked up over 7 million views since it was posted late last year. It’s a heartbreaking performance about falling in love, and through repetition and theatrics, Hilborn paints a painful but beautiful image of being in a relationship while dealing with OCD.

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The Best Cinema Dialogue of All Time

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In movies, good dialogue is right up there with the best of entertaining filmmaking, whether it be arguing, bickering, threatening or subtext-filled bantering. In this video from Cinefix they look over what they consider to be the best dialogue of all time. Naturally there had to be a Quentin Tarantino in there, and they pick Pulp Fiction which arguably has the best dialogue in any movie ever.

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Lunch Atop A Skyscraper: The Story Behind The 1932 Photo

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As far as images of construction workers goes, the famous black and white photo taking during construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, New York City is probably the most well known. It’s insane to think here was a bunch of workers taking a lunch break on a steel beam 800ft in the air. The fact that they look so casual while doing it points to how fearless they were.

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How Cars Went from Boxy to Curvy

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It’s something most people, even those who don’t drive, have noticed—cars in the 1970s had square, boxy designs while those made in the 1990s are much curvier. Basically something happened to cars in the 1980s where the angled edges gave way to smooth curves, but why did that happen? What prompted it?

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Terminator 2 as a Toy Commercial

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Terminator 2 is pretty much one of the greatest action movies ever, full of iconic scenes and quotable lines of dialogue—but imagine, if you will, that instead of being an action movie for the ages James Cameron’s 1991 movie was instead a toy commercial. And the toy it was for was an actual, and hopefully friendly, T-800 Arnie. WAAAANT!

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Guy Photoshops Himself Singing into Stock Photos

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Stock photos have really come into their own in the age of photo and video editing software, as it means the straight-laced poses of the models can be used very creatively. And that’s what’s happening in this video by MysteryGuitarMan who has placed himself singing in stock photos, making for very amusing results.

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A Guide to Commentating on Medical Advice Videos

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Comedian Erik Hoffstad’s latest bout of advice from his Internet Comment Etiquette series which humorously looks at how to comment online takes on the tricky and opinion-fuelled area of medical advice. Anywhere which involves discussion of Obamacare is going to make tempers flare, so Erik shows the right way to leave a comment so full of hatred it could crack a computer screen just by reading it.

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Drunk Aussies Who Stopped Robbery Give Hilarious Morning TV Interview

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A couple of drunk Aussies in swimwear and flip flops stopped a robbery they chanced upon at a gas station by taking the keys out of the robbers’ getaway car and chasing them away. As such they became viral stars and heroes in their homeland. But their fame didn’t end there because they then appeared on morning TV and gave a uniquely Australian and hilarious interview.

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GoPro Takes a Fascinating Look at Japanese Street Racing

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Customizing race cars is a pretty popular hobby for a lot of people in Japan, who take to the streets at night to race around at high speed. GoPro delve into this after-dark culture to meet the unique characters who ride around in some truly insane vehicles.

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Here’s What Happens If You Get Too​ Close To A Neutron Star

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It’s probably unlikely that you’re going to get anywhere near a neutron star, but let’s just say you did because interstellar travel was suddenly made possible. You would then probably want to know what a safe distance was in terms of being close to one and would what happen should you get too near.

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The Many Movies The Simpsons Has Paid Tribute To

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The Simpsons is know for its quick-fire, blink-and-you’ll-miss it gags and one industry they love paying tribute to with these is the movies. In this awesome supercut put together by Vimeo user cgmzz, 27 (there are many more) of the films the series has referenced are pointed out, along with the scenes they’re parodying.

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