I hope you know how lucky you are <3
Also a lot of legally blind people use the internet both privately and professionally and are independent people who don't rely on their partners for everything.
It's 2023/2024 and Steve Buscemi is now more attractive than Mickey Rourke
"Dark Histories" has some disturbing ones, as it is usually about strange events or Indeed murders, but the descriptions of the episodes allow you to weed through it, and leave those ones out.
I really enjoyed the ones about "Gef the mongoose" or the disappearance of the man who invented the first moving pictures. It goes deep into the history and times surrounding the stories which is very cool, so its main focus is history and society.
Why does this have so many down votes? Am I missing something?
I really mistrust any picture I see online now. It's scary I think. I'm still not convinced about this one.
It's the "hee, hee" I am pretty sure. I also automatically read it in a MJ singing voice.
The flower duet. Used in countless movies: https://youtu.be/8Qx2lMaMsl8?feature=shared
I am reading All the Lovers in the night. I am not sure what I think yet. It's very well written, but I think I have to finish it to form a proper option.
On my long commute I usually listen to:
We can be weirdos: Dan Schreiber from "No such thing as a fish" interviews some interesting people about their odd (and often supernatural) experiences.
Dark Histories: A very thorough dive into a specific crime case or strange event from history. The host really goes deep into the subject which is cool.
No such thing as a fish: most people know it I assume.
Loremen: a little like Dark Histories, but on the funny side, about folklore and history.
My mate bought a toaster: people getting interviewed about their Amazon purchase history. It's pretty funny.
They were "shh" back in the day, but with time they have become more of a place for activity for the community. When I was a kid in the 80s and early 90s they were definitely more strict with keeping quiet, especially in the reading halls. Library history is actually quite interesting, and the whole development of the library as a key element in building and supporting democracy and community, is worth looking into.
I tried, I really tried, but when he was about the get a bj from the odd tv lady, I had to tap out. My eyes started crying before my brain registered my emotional state.
Do Men Enter Bathtubs on Hands and Knees So Their Balls Hit the Water Last?
An enlightening testicle investigation.
The bathroom is a mysterious place. What goes on inside varies for everyone, or maybe it doesn’t; we simply do not know. The question has prompted some discussion in the past, and I suspect it will continue to do so until we are all under 24-hour government surveillance, at which point the answers will be known by those with access to the government’s live feed. But for now, with the door closed, we can only suspect and ask questions. Here’s one: Do men enter the bathtub on their hands and knees in order to ensure their balls hit the water last?
Interesting question, I hadn't thought about that. I assume they mean dingos.
"Australia’s Indigenous community has had a long relationship with dogs, dating back to the dog’s ancestor, the dingo. Dingo fossils in Australia date back thousands of years, and the first British settlers in 1788 recorded dingoes living with Indigenous Australians"
And dingos are a dog breed
In an extinct Australian Aboriginal language, Mbabaram, the word for "Dog" is almost exactly the same as the English word for "Dog". The similarity is a complete coincidence.
...the Mbabaram word for "dog" was in fact dúg, pronounced almost identically to the Australian English word...
Ron’s Place
A man’s death revealed his secret masterpiece—his rented home, illegally transformed into a classical villa. What happened next questions how we define art.
Mysterious Circumstances
Was the death of Richard Lancelyn Green, the world’s foremost Sherlock Holmes expert, an elaborate suicide or a murder? David Grann reports, from 2004.
Was the death of Richard Lancelyn Green, the world’s foremost Sherlock Holmes expert, an elaborate suicide or a murder?
The Strange & Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit
For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal. To the spooked locals, he became a legend—or maybe a myth. They wondered how he could possibly be real. Until ...
I spent seven years at Snapchat. I thought things would be different.
After seven years at Snapchat, I finally learned the truth about why our most important apps seem destined to disappoint us
Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can
Titan meets Titanic
History was made on July 10, 2021, when Stockton Rush and his team at OceanGate reached the Titanic, at a depth of 4,000 metres.
An article about the Titan from 2021 History was made on July 10, 2021, when Stockton Rush and his team at OceanGate reached the Titanic, at a depth of approximately 4,000 metres, in Titan, the only submersible of its kind
When Ben Leyland’s mum said she was in trouble, he had no idea she was about to be exposed for sending hundreds of abusive tweets about Madeleine McCann’s parents – or of the tragic end to her story
A glimpse of the suburban grotesque, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney.
A glimpse of the suburban grotesque, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney
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I went to the bar, and along with my drink I was given all kinds of snacks....
.... To my surprise, the peanuts started saying really nice things about my hair and outfit.
It turnes out they were complimentary nuts.
Castles in the Sky - A hidden diary, a love story, and a mystery.
While renovating a house in San Francisco, a couple discovered a diary, hidden away for more than a century. It held a love story—and a mystery.
When writer Christina Lalanne bought an old house in San Francisco, she was sure it had a story to tell. What she didn’t expect was that the story would come to her in actual words.
The long read: A new wave of scientists argues that mainstream evolutionary theory needs an urgent overhaul. Their opponents have dismissed them as misguided careerists – and the conflict may determine the future of biology
A new wave of scientists argues that mainstream evolutionary theory needs an urgent overhaul. Their opponents have dismissed them as misguided careerists – and the conflict may determine the future of biology
My family's slave
She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.
"She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was"
The Watcher
A New Jersey family bought their ideal home. But according to the creepy letters they started to get, they weren’t the only ones interested in it.
The true story behind the Netflix tv show: A family bought their dream house. But according to the creepy letters they started to get, they weren’t the only ones interested in it.
The Body in Room 348
After a murder at the Elegante Hotel in Texas stumped local police, investigator Ken Brennan looked at the case with fresh eyes. Mark Bowden on what he found.
The corpse at the Eleganté Hotel stymied the Beaumont, Texas, police. They could find no motive for the killing of popular oil-and-gas man Greg Fleniken—and no explanation for how he had received his strange internal injuries.