Tag: weird

Change isn’t always a bad thing (although when the pages didn’t look quite like I was expecting them to, the way they HAVE looked for the past seven and a half years, I did do a double-take of sorts and check to make sure I had typed the utility company’s web address correctly and ...

I was in the bathroom wielding a stick of incarnadine Tom Ford. My boyfriend was waiting (im)patiently in the living room, as boyfriends do. I emerged minutes later as a more brightly coloured version of myself. Boyfriend did a double-take and looked visibly shocked. This was not the response I&r...

Cricket is always a serene sport when viewed from a distance as a spectator, because all the action happens quite a long way at the pitch, a very neat and tidy rectangular strip of grass situated in the middle of an oval, a playing field which vastly exceeds the dimensions of a soccer or football fi...

Tom Devlin’s Monster Museum — Boulder City, Nevada For the horror movie lovers, Tom Devlin’s Monster Museum is located in Boulder City, Nevada. Devlin is a professional props and special effects designer who decided to open a museum to showcase his personal collection ...

Are you a history buff? Well, think again. History is full of surprising and shocking truths that many of us wouldn’t believe are actually true. From bizarre events to unbelievable coincidences, there are some facts that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew. In this...

The American Falls part of Niagara Falls encountered a temporary closure in 1969. This was merely a redirection of water from the American Falls to the Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side of the border, not a complete shutdown of Niagara Falls. This was done as part of an effort to repair the Ameri...

You are standing at the front of the room, leading a writing warm up to a class of thirty-six fifteen-year-olds who run the gamut of locked-in to fully asleep to grinning at their phone to raising a hand to go the bathroom because “they locked the bathroom by the lunch room” to drawing o...

The other morning I woke up to a bunch of notifications on my phone telling me how much money I had made overnight. I couldn't believe it. Thousands of people are using this simple method to earn income passively. I was able to make over $2,000 per day just by following some surprisingly straigh...