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The 12 Most Unintentionally Disturbing Christmas Ads Christmas is the biggest shopping holiday of the year. So it's no surprise that companies spend every December absolutely bombarding us with ads full of cheerful, wholesome, uplifting messages to capitalize on all that goodwill and turn it into something useful: money. And then there are the ads that seem to want nothing to do with cheer and goodwill, but rather to unsettle you someplace deep in your soul, so that you will never be "right" again. No that's not fake. Every picture tells a story, and this one only gets worse the more you think about it. Coca-Cola's Sprite Boy Coca-Cola had been brutally pimping Santa out for years by the time this ad came out in 1948. Two things: Nipples, and Santa has hung himself. First, let's not skirt the issue -- you can clearly see her nipples right through her shirt, and this was a boot polish ad in 1956, when even admitting you had nipples was a federal crime. Whatever the explanation, Merry Christmas, kids! But you know what's even worse?
Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia | Beautiful Places to Visit - StumbleUpon The stunning Plitvice Lakes National Park lies in the Lika region of Croatia. The park is surrounded by the mountains Plješevica, Mala Kapela, and Medveđak, which are part of the Dinaric Alps. The 16 blue-green Plitvice Lakes, which are separated by natural dams of travertine, are situated on the Plitvice plateau. Waterfalls connect the lakes, and the tallest waterfall is Veliki Slap at 70 meters (230 feet) tall. The Plitvice lakes area boasts a large variety of interesting and colorful flora and fauna. Visitors can enjoy walking and hiking the many pathways and trails, or exploring the lakes by boat.
8 Stupid Amazon Products With Impressively Sarcastic Reviews Everybody is a comedian these days, and the Internet has given us all an enormous stage. Maybe the best example is a supposedly comedy-free site like Amazon.com. The deal is, anybody can write a review, on any product, whether they have bought it or not. So it's just a matter of finding a baffling/ridiculous/useless product and watching the Internet's sarcasm run wild. The "Guardian Angel" Acupuncture Device Link Yeah, I know, sex toy jokes, right? Bizarrely so: By the way, the product description claims it's a Korean acupressure device. All right, I guess there was room for at least one good sex toy joke. Wheelmate Laptop Steering Wheel Desk This is a laptop desk that attaches to the steering wheel of your car, which is all that really needs to be said. I should point out that, when we're done laughing at the stories of people mixing cocktails and eating chili while driving, there are some people who might actually get some use out of this when their car is safely parked.
Teenagers draw on animation film to highlight plight of child soldiers | Society Untold Stories by Zoom Animation on YouTube Dili Diey, 25, fled to England from southern Sudan as a boy soldier and now lives in Huddersfield. "Count yourselves lucky to be at peace in Kirklees. Killing someone haunts you for the rest of your life," he tells a group of young people from four Kirklees schools. Diey's harrowing story features in the animated film, Untold Stories, part of a new campaign, Books Not Bullets, to highlight the plight of child soldiers. "Dili's story shocked us," says Janita Rauf, 14. As part of its annual event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, Kirklees Museums and Galleries, part of Kirklees council, asked children from four schools to come up with a campaign inspired by Richard Oastler, who in the 1830s successfully campaigned for shorter working hours for child workers in Huddersfield's mills. "The children were from different social, economic and ethnic backgrounds. • Untold Stories is being shown at Huddersfield Art Gallery until 2 April.
Invisible Children Music USDA Inspector General: meat supply routinely tainted with harmful residues In Meat Wagon, we round up the latest outrages from the meat and livestock industries. Oh, you wanted those burgers without harmful residues! Sorry, the USDA’s meat-inspection service can’t really help you on that score. Next time you’re at an eatery whose sourcing practices you don’t trust, avoid the veal. The report focuses on the USDA’s system for keeping hazardous chemical residues–”veterinary drugs, pesticides, and heavy metals”– out of the meat supply. How is the agency doing at this critical task? The problem is not trivial, as the report makes clear: Residues of drugs, pesticides, and heavy metals differ from microbiological pathogens like E. coli, Salmonella, and Listeria Monocytogenes, which the public more readily associates with food safety. In fact … “In some cases, heat may actually break residues down into components that are more harmful to consumers.” Evidently, the problem is worst of all for meat from animals raised on dairy farms. As for veal …