It turns out some of the most awesomely portrayed jobs in movies require almost no training whatsoever and can be done by almost any old jackass who walks in off the street.
Dogs were probably useful as hell on the battlefield way back when. With the advent of artillery, you'd think they'd be retired from combat situations. Of course, you'd be totally wrong.
Writers and directors aren't exactly corporate experts and often don't even know what an average office job is like. That's why they've come up with these weird misunderstandings of how companies work.
It's obvious Hollywood wants us to think it cares about the fragile environment. But when it comes time to getting just the right shot, wiping out a big hunk of ecosystem is considered a small price to pay.
Ah, the holidays: A time to give thanks, spend time with family, eat good food, light your neighbors on fire, rub engine oil in grandma's eyes, get drunk, fight a bull and dress up in a white tuxedo to ward off the furious ghosts of fish.
It turns out that a lot of what BBC dramas tell you about sex in history is just a fanciful cover for sex lives that didn't differ that much from our own.
In the old days, concepts like safety, animal rights and sanity weren't as well-defined as they are now. And while there's no question that we treat animals better today than we did a few decades ago, sometimes what's good for the animals is bad for the field of insanely badass photography.
Sometimes the TV show, movie or video game that best represents a year isn’t necessarily the best show of the year. Cracked.com’s editors are more than happy to tell you why.
At any point during an economic downturn, there are always obvious signs of the recession. But during these times, there are less-noticed but totally bizarre indicators that things are bad.
More often than not, it seems smugglers just say 'Screw it,' stuff a hippo under their shirt so that it's kinda out of sight and enter the airport security line whistling. Because what could go wrong?
